In the kitchen, Shao Anhong is responsible for cooking, Shu Ran and Shu Yutian are responsible for selecting vegetables and running errands, and Fu Yiqing is responsible for cutting vegetables.

Everyone is busy.

Rare liveliness in the villa.

Shu Yutian picked out the yellowed vegetable leaves, and said casually, "Your mother and I are going to give you a surprise, so that you don't let Coach Fu tell you about our coming to City B for the New Year, and you plan to give us both a surprise?"

Shu Ran couldn't help but think of the oolong incident at the airport just now, and couldn't help but glance at Fu Yiqing with a smiling look.

The latter, receiving her smiling gaze, shrugged his shoulders and continued chopping vegetables.

Shu Yutian naturally discovered the subtle interaction between the two, he frowned slightly, and couldn't help coughing lightly, "By the way, Ranran, tomorrow is your birthday, what birthday gift do you want?"

Shu Ran didn't have time to answer, and the words were snatched away by Shao Anhong, "Haven't you already bought everything?"

Shu Yutian: "I can buy it again, or send it again next year." ”

I don't know if it's because she hasn't gotten along with her parents for too long, Shu Ran suddenly has a feeling that her parents have also become noisy.

Seeing that the two were getting farther and farther apart, Shu Ran hurriedly interrupted, "Mom and Dad, you haven't officially visited City B yet, have you?"

The two nodded.

Shu Ran and Fu Yiqing looked at each other, only to hear Fu Yiqing take over the stubble, "This is just right, tomorrow after the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, I will drive you to visit the lantern festival in City B." ”

Shao Anhong: "Lantern Festival?"

Shu Ran nodded, "Didn't they say that the taste of the New Year has become weaker and weaker in the past two years, and it happened that the Lantern Festival was held in the year when 'There is a Street' built, and it is said that it is a lantern festival, but in fact, everyone takes something to set up a stall to buy and sell things, in the final analysis, it is just to be lively." ”

Hearing this, Shao Anhong and Shu Yutian came to their senses.

Shao Anhong: "This activity is good. ”

The next day, after the four had a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner and celebrated Shu Ran's birthday, they went to "There is a street".

At first, Shu Ran was very resistant to going out, but under Fu Yiqing's persuasion, she wrapped herself tightly and went out.

The outside temperature reached minus 15 degrees, and the Shu couple shivered as soon as they went out.

"Although there is heating in the north, it is too cold outside. Shao Anhong was so cold that she couldn't speak, "Hurry up and go shopping, go back quickly after shopping." ”

However, after walking less than five steps, Shao Anhong turned around, "Forget it, let's go, it's too cold." ”

She was just about to go back, but was pulled by Shu Yutian again, "It's rare for the family to go out shopping, how boring are you not going?"

In the end, Shao Anhong still got into the car, she hugged herself hard, "I'll go back to the car and wait for you after a while." ”

Shu Ran and Fu Yiqing in the front row glanced at each other, and the corners of their mouths always kept rising.

They came early, and the various stall owners hadn't come yet, so Shao Anhong quickly got back to the car and waited to return to the villa.

Shu Yutian didn't plan to go back, he followed Shu Ran and Fu Yiqing, looking at them with a strange look from time to time, and then retracted his gaze before they were about to find out.

The number of people gradually increased.

Shu Ran's afterglow caught a glimpse of the air gun, and he was playful for a while, holding the air gun, aiming at the balloon is a shot.

However, the balloon did not change in the slightest.

Fu Yiqing chuckled and was about to pick up the air gun in her hand, but saw her get out of the way with a serious face, "I can do it." ”

He simply went with her, standing aside and waiting for her to make a move.

Shu Ran raised the air gun, her left eye was closed, and there was laughter and laughter around her, which was very lively, Shu Ran stood still, not disturbed by the outside world at all, and just squinted her eyes to prepare for the aiming work.

Fu Yiqing couldn't help but be attracted by her seriousness, so she actually had a dangerous aura that did not belong to her age.

Accompanied by two "bang" sounds, there were two more piercing balloon bursts.

The dangerous aura on Shu Ran's face disappeared without a trace in an instant, she smiled at the end of her eyes, and her face had a lively and vivid expression, and her smile was dazzling.

Fu Yiqing was stunned for a second before he reacted, and Shu Ran succeeded.

The boss was also shocked, and said while taking the doll bear, "Little girl, you are really amazing." ”

Shu Ran smiled a little proudly, took the doll and thanked the boss.

"Coach Fu, Dad, we ......" Before the words fell, Shu Ran was horrified to find that her father was gone, "Dad?"

She turned around, where was there any trace of her father Shu Yutian as far as her eyes could see?

Fu Yiqing turned around and found that there were dolls paraded in the middle of the road, so he said, "Don't worry, just make a phone call." ”

Shu Yutian on the other end of the phone said that he looked at the small goods on the side of the road for a while and there was no trace of them, and at that time he happened to see two people with backs very similar to them walking by, and after walking for a while, he found that he recognized the wrong person, so now he had to go back to the car and wait for them.

Shu Ran came out to shop for her parents, but they were all out of interest in shopping, and Shu Ran's thoughts were gradually occupied by their hearts.

After going back, I turned on the TV, and the familiar host of the Spring Festival Gala was involved in my ears, and the Shu couple sighed with satisfaction, "It's better to be at home." ”

Shu Ran was not interested in the Spring Festival Gala, so she sat on the sofa with her parents for a while, and then went back to the room.

When I came out of the shower, I found two special New Year's wishes.

One of them is from the champion squad.

The other members except Shu Ran all posted an identical video and gave Shu Ran a special touch.

With great curiosity, Shu Ran clicked on the video.

On the ice, Zhu Hongzhe was skating, with lyrical music, and there was a melancholy atmosphere on his expressionless face.

Shu Ran soon discovered something odd.

But before she could understand the reason, Chen Lecheng also joined the performance, followed by Wu Xincheng and Shen Yu.

Normally skating requires skating to make the most of the entire rink, but now, the four of them each take up a third of the ice rink.

Could it be that they wanted to use this performance to wish her a happy birthday?

Shu Ran felt that this was very likely.

Although she hadn't seen them for a long time, they chatted in the group every time, and they didn't forget to mention Shu Ran, and they would bless Shu Ran during the New Year's holidays, and they also cared about Shu Ran's retirement and when she would come back.

Each of them has much better grades than Shu Ran, after becoming famous, they still remember themselves and regard themselves as friends, there may be many friends who can share hardships and hardships, but there are very few friends who can share wealth and prosperity.

As teammates, they genuinely hope that she can fulfill her long-cherished wish on the ice.

As friends, they also sincerely wish her health and happiness.

Although she had seen through their purpose, Shu Ran was still very moved.

At the end of the music, Shen Yu was seen slowly withdrawing from the field, and the other three slid to the edge, followed by a black liquid falling from the sky.

Shu Ran in front of the screen looked confused.

This...... What do you mean?

The smooth ice did not allow the ink to accumulate, and the ink rolled away immediately.

Then, Shu Ran was surprised to find out.

Four big black words were left on the white ice - Happy Birthday.

It turned out that they skated only to destroy the surface of the ice with skates.

Although they had already guessed their purpose, I have to say that this trick was something that Shu Ran had never thought of, so the surprise purpose they wanted was well achieved.

"Happy birthday and happy new year, Shuran!"

In the huge ice rink, the blessing voices of the four of them seemed a little faint.

Shu Ran's vision was soon blurred by tears, and the tears accumulated in her eyes were not to the point of tears, only to hear an angry roar sounding in the video without warning.

"Who made you do this!"

Chen Lecheng instantly smiled and said in horror, "Teach ...... Coach?"

Wu Xincheng couldn't help but shake his shoulders and reacted quickly, "It's him." ”

Chen Lecheng also followed suit, "It's him." ”

The coach, who had not seen anyone and only heard his voice, looked at Shen Yu, who subconsciously followed the flow of his gaze, and before he could say a word, he was choked by saliva and coughed violently.

That look, it doesn't seem like helping Zhu Hongzhe exonerate, but it is a real hammer for Zhu Hongzhe's incriminating evidence.

The video ends here.

The little emotion in Shu Ran's heart was made to cry and laugh by the later play, and she couldn't help but ask in the group with some curiosity, "So how happened to Zhu Hongzhe in the end?"

Chen Lecheng: "It's okay, it's just a fat beating." ”

Zhu Hongzhe: "That's it?"

Chen Lecheng: "Actually, the first person to betray you was not me, it was Wu Xincheng, I was just forced by the situation." ”

After a few minutes, they thought that the typing and chatting speed was too slow, so they turned on the video chat mode of group members.

Shu Ran was amused by their conversation.

The laughter spread outside the door, and Fu Yiqing, who was originally going to chat with Shu Ran to ease her mood, lowered her eyes and stared at the hand on the doorknob for half a second, and soon the sound of Shu Ran joking with her friends came from inside.

The big stone hanging in Fu Yiqing's heart fell completely, he chuckled and withdrew his hand, turned around and went back to the room.

It was already forty minutes after a few people in the room had finished gagging.

Chen Lecheng was defeated by Zhu Hongzhe, completely defeated, raised his hands and surrendered, "Okay, okay, I'll help you clean up the ice, okay?"

Zhu Hongzhe: "It's pretty much the same. Wu Xincheng: And you, come over to help when the time comes. ”

Wu Xincheng was still struggling, and hurriedly changed the topic, "Shu Ran, when are you going to return to the team?"

As soon as the voice fell, the video chat group was completely silent.

Shu Ran could even hear how lively the environment the four of them were in.

The first to break the embarrassing atmosphere was Chen Lecheng, who grinned and smirked, "Wu Xincheng, don't you want to escape!"

Wu Xincheng didn't seem to realize what the situation was now, and repeated again, "Shu Ran, did you hear that? Two months later, the World Team Championships will be held, and this year will be ......."

I didn't hear Wu Xincheng's voice for a while, and Shu Ran also found that Shen Yu had quit the video chat group, and he was probably going to give Wu Xincheng a lesson in human sophistication again.

Regarding the fact that she had decided to return, Fu Yiqing asked her to keep it a secret from the outside world.

The reason for this is that she has not been training for almost a year and has not returned to her previous best values.

Keep it secret until at least the 2024-2025 season of the National Championships.

Shu Ran was about to turn the page of the topic vaguely, but Wu Xincheng's voice came out of the earpiece again, "Shen Yu, don't talk to me privately, I know what you are all afraid of, but there are only two months left in the World Team Championships, Huihui is injured, Jiang Wanru is preparing to retire, the women's singles needs two people to participate, and now there is still a lack of one, if no one can be found, then this World Team Championship, the national team will be forced to abstain." ”

Shu Ran's heart instinctively tightened, but she felt that this was Wu Xincheng tricking herself.

Can't you find a single player in the women's singles to compete?

After a period of silence, Chen Lecheng finally spoke, "Shu Ran, since your injuries have healed, why don't you come back to help?"

Zhu Hongzhe: "Don't say something that you don't have, don't be morally tied ......"

"How can there be no one in the women's singles?" Shu Ran asked, "I remember that there should be four players who will be promoted to the senior group after Wu Huihui." ”

Chen Lecheng: "I don't know about this. ”

After this episode, the atmosphere is a little cold.

After the video chat, Shu Ran replied to several players on the same team about the New Year's greetings, and asked about the situation in the team by the way.

Only then did I know that in the two years since she left the team, the team has undergone earth-shaking changes.

Jiang Wanru is about to retire, and Wu Huihui is also riddled with injuries.

The women's singles player who has been confirmed to be able to participate is Chen Jiahe, who was promoted to the senior category last year.

Although Du Yi, the younger sister who was promoted to the second half of the previous year, has a tendency to catch up with the senior sisters, she has always been high or low, because the teaching resources of a certain club are good, so she withdrew from the national team to represent the club in that place.

The rest of the people did not hear that they were going to compete.

This reminds one of the legendary athletes who retired from the Winter Olympics.

Shuran.

Even Shu Ran herself thinks so.

Maybe the team was waiting for her answer.

But if that's what she thinks, then the first person they notify must be ......

A golden light seemed to flash in Shu Ran's head.

She muttered to herself, "Coach Fu." ”