Chapter Seventy-Four: The Lottery for Appearance
The last memory of Chinese New Year's Eve stayed on the countless phone calls wishing Shu Ran a happy birthday.
Shu Ran was afraid that Fu Yiqing would be bored, so she pulled Fu Yiqing to video with her family.
Needless to say, Shu Ran's parents are already familiar with Fu Yiqing, but Shu Ran's grandparents, grandparents and other big families have never seen Fu Yiqing, but they have seen him on TV, so they are no strangers to him.
Fu Yiqing changed from his initial interest to a shallow smile from time to time.
Although there are only two people in the villa, Shu Ran and Fu Yiqing, Shu Ran feels that this year's Chinese New Year's Eve is particularly lively.
The next day is the beginning of the Spring Festival for ordinary people, the first month, but for Shu Ran, it is the beginning of training.
For this World Championships, Shu Ran is really not sure.
Originally, in the top 12, she had a lot of help for me to enter, but now, not to mention giving her country two women's singles places in the Winter Olympics, whether she can help herself get this one place is very hanging.
If you don't have a solid heart, you can only fill it with training.
Dr. Ho said that Shu Ran can train for another three hours a day, but she should pay more attention to rest during this period.
Berus, who learned of Shu Ran's situation, came to call on the same day.
"Shu, why didn't you tell me?"
Shu Ran looked at Fu Yiqing in surprise, not many people knew about her injury at the moment, except for Fu Yiqing, it was impossible for Beilu to learn about it from anyone else.
Sure enough, Fu Yiqing said softly, "The free skating still needs to be changed, so I contacted him last night." ”
Shu Ran looked apologetically at the person on the other end of the video, "Sorry, Belus, I just don't want too many people to worry about me." ”
A touch of distress flashed in Bellus's eyes, "It's okay, Barrow has his plans, and it was the right decision not to let too many people know, so how far have you practiced now?"
She looked embarrassed, "Not very good. ”
"Barrow, you hold up your phone and let me see how far she is now. ”
Shu Ran and Fu Yiqing glanced at each other, and then understood what the other party meant.
Fu Yiqing played the music, and Shu Ran was about to slide the free skate program to Beruus.
After Belus saw it, he unexpectedly showed a dissatisfied look, "Well, the regression is a bit big. ”
Shu Ran couldn't be clearer about his current strength, and his heart sank.
But listening to Belus on the other end, he said, "Fortunately, I listened to Barrow's description last night, and I immediately changed some of the actions of "Song of G Strings", the video has been recorded, but the music part still needs to be modified, Barrow, you let Shelly (Qin Liubei) change it again." ”
Shu Ran's surprised eyes were both happy and moved, "Teacher Belus, I don't know how to thank you, but at this time, all I can say is thanks." ”
Belus smiled, "I believe that even if I am not your choreographer, just an ordinary retired athlete, I will help you, no athlete wants to see someone else experience such an empathy once." ”
Because they know too well the depressing feeling of not being able to do anything when they are hurt, and even facing the crisis of retirement.
Fu Yiqing hugged Shu Ran's shoulders and said in a deep voice, "Belus, thank you." ”
Berus raised his eyes in surprise, "Why do you even say that?" He suddenly seemed to understand something, and shook his head, "Barrow, although I know what you're planning, I'm glad you treat me as a friend, and it's my honor to help a friend." ”
Belus hung up the call and sent the video he had recorded to Fu Yiqing's mailbox.
The changes in the song of the G string are very important, and Shu Ran feels that these movements can help her save a lot of physical strength.
She was about to get back on the ice when she suddenly turned her head again, "What did Belus mean by your plan?"
Fu Yiqing: "He doesn't know about the gambling contract." ”
Shu Ran looked at him in surprise.
"As you think, no one knows about the gambling except us and Quentin, so the responsibility on your shoulders is much heavier than you think. ”
Shu Ran scratched the tip of her nose with her index finger, and then smiled, "How can you tell me at this time?"
Fu Yiqing shrugged his shoulders, "As you can see, the setbacks you have suffered now have made you grow a lot. ”
Shu Ran couldn't laugh or cry.
Shu Ran watched the video three times before practicing on the ice.
After getting off the ice, Shu Ran was also watching videos to practice arm movements, trying to make her body remember these movements.
The original version of "Song of the G Strings" was more difficult, and because it was necessary to express the softness of classical music, the difficulty of expressiveness of movements that were too difficult only increased.
Although the difficulty of the revised "Song of G Strings" has decreased, as long as Shu Ran does not make too many mistakes at that time, the final free skate score will easily squeeze into the top 12.
If before the revision, the difficulty composition was used to increase the beauty of art, then after the revision, the difficulty of the program was skillfully resolved with artistic expression, and the key to success returned to artistic expression.
Time is fast, and there are only ten days left until the World Championships in the blink of an eye.
Except for the open training two days in advance, Shu Ran's formal training time is only one week.
Shu Ran's Weibo has received a lot of cheering private messages from ice fans, although there are not many, but it makes her full of strength.
During the lunch break, Qin Liubei tore up the training schedule on Shu Ran's training blackboard and pasted pictures marked with numbers one by one.
Shu Ran had just eaten and was eating, when she threw the question to Xu Jingyu, "What is your boyfriend doing?"
Xu Jingyu originally wanted to get the certificate with Qin Liubei during the Spring Festival, but Zhu Xinhui urged the two of them to come back to train with Shu Ran, so the matter of getting the certificate was repeatedly shelved, and the two decided to wait for the offseason, so Shu Ran only used her boyfriend to describe Qin Liubei.
Xu Jingyu: "I don't know, I was mysteriously alone in the study a few days ago, and I don't know what I'm doing." ”
"It's analytics. Fu Yiqing walked up, "This is the last analysis before the World Championships. ”
Shu Ran found out that Qin Liubei had also printed photos of some of the players.
Shu Ran was glad that Qin Liubei printed photos instead of their names, you must know that so many contestants usually recognize people by combining the national flag and Roman characters, if you transliterate Chinese characters, Shu Ran may only know one or two contestants.
In the time that Shu Ran was glad for, Qin Liubei was already ready.
Pictures of the 12 contestants were posted on the blackboard.
In addition to the 9 players excluding Shu Ran in the last analysis, 3 players have been added.
"Among the many new faces, I think there are three players who have the potential to be dark horses, and one of them is her. Qin Liubei pointed to one of the fair-skinned little girls with blonde hair, "Nadilova, a Russian player, is only 16 years old. ”
Shu Ran vaguely had a slight impression of this name, and then listened to Fu Yiqing say, "She is the player who jumped out of the quadruple jump?"
Qin Liubei snapped his fingers, "That's right, it's her." ”
Shu Ran didn't dare to underestimate this little player.
"This. ”
Qin Liubei pointed to an Asian-looking girl, "Qiao Zhenlingna, a Japanese player, also 16 years old, just promoted to the adult group, and this Zhang Ziqing, a Canadian player, 17 years old, the three of them all have one thing in common, their results are very unstable, up and down." ”
"So my prediction is that one of these three will be in the top 10, and the probability of two little dark horses in one race is too low, and it has not appeared in previous competitions. ”
Fu Yiqing nodded, "So if Shu Ran plays normally, it is certain that he will enter the top 12." ”
Qin Liubei: "Well, so Shu Ran, you don't have to worry about it at all, as long as you have the right mentality." ”
After listening to their analysis, Shu Ran's mood relaxed a lot.
The day before the game, in order to prevent being photographed by reporters, Fu Yiqing specially invited Dr. He to come to the villa to show Shu Ran's feet.
After the other party kneaded and investigated, he was surprised with some relief, "To my surprise, fortunately nothing happened, it seems that you can have no worries about the game in four days." ”
The worry in Shu Ran's heart completely dissipated.
Shu Ran's open training was scheduled for the first day, and she trained as usual without much change.
The day of the competition has finally arrived.
The men's singles short program ended a few hours ago, perhaps it was Shu Ran's words on Chinese New Year's Eve that untied Zhu Hongzhe's heart, and he performed exceptionally well today.
In addition, Gencang Yu did not participate in this World Championships due to injury, Zhu Hongzhe won the first place in the short program, which can be said to be his best result ever.
Chen Lecheng finished eighth.
The Chinese team performed particularly well today, which made the Chinese ice fans who came to the stadium excited.
Despite Shuran's poor GPF performance last time, the Russian leg of her Grand Prix series in Russia made a good impression on Russian ice fans, and there were a few Russian spectators in the audience today who were holding Chinese flags to cheer for Shura.
But more Russian spectators still carry their national flags, after all, last Olympic champion Samantha is Russian and she has not yet retired.
Wu Huihui and Jiang Wanru saw Shu Ran in a daze and stepped forward to greet her.
Since the last GPF race, the three of them haven't seen each other for a while.
It's just that before I have time to reconnect after a long absence, I have to pack up my mood and prepare for the game.
Wu Huihui shook her fist at Shu Ran and cheered, "Senior sister, I believe you can." ”
Shu Ran smiled lightly, "You are the same." ”
Jiang Wanru's strength is not as good as a year, but Wu Huihui is different, she is still young, as long as she gets the 20th place, plus Shu Ran's 12th place, she will just win two places for the team.
A total of 35 people participated in the competition.
The short program is grouped according to points, Shu Ran is in the penultimate group, Wu Huihui and Jiang Wanru are in the second and third groups respectively.
Then all the players have to go in and draw lots to determine the order of appearance.
Shu Ran, Wu Huihui and others sat together and waited for the draw.
Wu Huihui tilted her head as if she couldn't see Shu Ran, and lowered her body to look at her.
Shu Ran blinked and asked "What's wrong" with her eyes.
Jiang Wanru couldn't help but ask her what she was looking at.
Wu Huihui's brows tightened, "Why did you lose weight during the New Year? Jealousy made me bald!"
Jiang Wanru and Shu Ran looked at each other and smiled.
"Shu Ran!" someone behind him shouted in non-standard Chinese.
Shu Ran turned her head to look and found that it was Jennifer.
Shu Ran was glad that she still remembered the promise she made last time, and said busily, "I said I wanted to give you a gift last time, I brought it this time, and I will have someone send it to you after the lottery is drawn." ”
Jennifer's eyes lit up, and she looked like she had obviously forgotten about it, "You're so nice, but what if I didn't bring any gifts?"
Shu Ran smiled, "It's okay, that's what I promised you." ”
The two continued to chat, and then Efitinia also arrived, although several people were not very familiar, but there was Shu Ran, the middleman, and after a few casual chats, they quickly became a chatter.
But I heard a female voice sound, "The lottery has been drawn." ”
They stopped chatting, and Shu Ran looked back at the source of the sound, just in time to meet Chen Yuqi's friendly gaze, and Shu Ran smiled back.
Then he looked behind Chen Yuqi, only to find that the person who reminded him of the draw was Samantha.