"Of course I didn't doubt it." Feng Quan said without hesitation. "If I don't even have that confidence, I'll just quit."

Hearing this, Xia Rina smiled knowingly and continued: "Then can I understand the 'bad' state you showed in the match before today's final as a performance of deliberately hiding your strength?" ”

"Well, your statement isn't accurate, but it's not too much." Feng Quan shrugged his shoulders and said.

"Oh? So can you tell me the most accurate answer? Charina asked.

Feng Quan: "Actually, I didn't mean to hide my strength, after all, their strength is not as good as mine. The reason why I didn't be strong before the final was just to create the illusion that 'I'm not in good shape and they have a chance to win'. ”

"Hehe, I don't know if you ever thought that if you do this, will many Chinese people who pay attention to your grades feel worried?" Xia Rina covered her mouth and chuckled.

After thinking for a moment, Feng Quan said, "I really haven't thought about this. The reason why I had reservations about my previous fights was just that I hoped that my opponents wouldn't lose confidence before the finals began, otherwise it would have been boring to win the title without pressure. ”

"As for the concerns of the Chinese people about me, it has nothing to do with me." Feng Quan spread his hands and said nonchalantly: "In my opinion, people who will worry about my championship prospects are skeptical of my ability. ”

"Although there is some truth in your opinion, aren't you worried that what you just said may make many Chinese people feel unhappy and become your 'black fans'?" Xia Rina smiled slyly.

"To be honest, as a professional athlete, I really want to have as many fans as possible, because that will not only give me a sense of accomplishment, but also make me more money. But for those who have doubts about my strength, I don't need to care about their feelings at all. ”

"One thing I know very well is that I'm not a handsome guy even in the athletes' circle. So I had to win one championship after another on the track and field; Only by scoring one goal after another on the football field can I attract and impress more Chinese people to become my fans. ”

"I believe that as long as I can continue to win championships and score more goals in the future, the fans who believe in me will never leave me." After a slight pause, Feng Quan continued: "As for those guys who are going to become black fans just because I say a few words that make them feel heartbroken, I just want to say one thing to them: I don't care what you like. ”

After that, Feng Quan first said goodbye to Xia Rina, and then politely declined the interview requests of several other national TV stations, and then went directly in the direction of the athlete's exit.

…………

In an executive suite at Holiday Inn Nord Stream.

Since CCTV Sports' interview with Feng Quan was conducted in the form of live broadcast, every word Feng Quan said in the interview with Xia Rina was also transmitted back to China as soon as possible.

At the end of the interview, Feng Quan said to the "black fans": "I don't care what you like." At that time, Mr. and Mrs. Feng Weiguo invariably smiled knowingly. Because they know very well that their son is such a stubborn character.

At the same time, Lao Cui, who lost the bet because Feng Quan successfully won the championship, has a very difficult face to see at the moment. After all, the taste of being slapped in the face in public is not so pleasant.

At this time, Xu Jingxin sprinkled a handful of salt on Lao Cui's wound again.

"Haha, let everyone laugh. This stinky boy in our family, he always talks nonsense without a broken mouth, and when he comes home, I must educate him well. ”

As soon as the words fell, Xu Jingxin looked in the direction of Lao Cui and continued: "Brother Cui, if that kid makes you unhappy, don't take it to heart." That kid loves to talk nonsense all day. ”

Hearing this, Lao Cui almost rolled his eyes in anger, and said in his heart: "Your son didn't make me angry, but you were about to make me angry." ”

Although he was very unhappy in his heart, Lao Cui, who lost the bet, was really embarrassed to refute Xu Jingxin directly, and had to "knock on the side" and said: "It's okay, I'm such an old person, and I can still see like a child." ”

Although Lao Cui's words sounded very "atmospheric", how could Xu Jingxin not hear his words. However, just when Xu Jingxin was about to "fight back", he was preempted by Shen Gang, the youngest in her husband's team.

"Oops!? I guess the sun is going to come out of the west tomorrow morning, right? When did our big brother Cui become so generous? Shen Gang said in a weird manner.

If Xu Jingxin squeezed himself like this, Lao Cui might be able to endure it a little, who said that he not only lost the gambling contract, but also ate the banquet invited by others. But instead of Shen Gang, who usually doesn't give himself face as a "big brother", Lao Cui is really a little unbearable.

"The surname is Shen, what do you mean by being a special kid? If you don't go against me, you feel bad, right? Old Cui Teng jumped up from the sofa and said with an angry face.

Although Lao Cui was disrespectful to himself, but seeing that the other party was angry with him, Shen Gang not only got angry but said with an innocent face: "Lao Cui, you must have misunderstood." Didn't I just 'praise you' for your progress, how can I mean to go against you? ”

Lao Cui: "What the hell are you, you're just quibbling." I'm such an old person, can't I hear good words? I knew in my heart that I wasn't treated very well when I was in the workplace. Can ......"

Before Lao Cui could finish speaking, he was interrupted by Shen Gang: "It's good that you know it yourself." But why don't you look for the reason in yourself, why are you not welcomed? ”

"Humph! Are you embarrassed to ask me to find the reason? Because my skills are better than all of you, you were jealous of me, so you deliberately didn't vote for me when I was elected class president last year. Old Cui said angrily.

Wen Yan: Feng Weiguo, who had not spoken before, finally couldn't help but speak: "Okay, Lao Cui." If you don't go to work, you can't blame others, and if you want to blame, you have to blame yourself. After the old squad leader retired last year, the section leader was ready for me to take over the position of squad leader. But I didn't want to do it, so I recommended you to the leader. It's a pity that when Li Duanchang thought of your stinky temper, he vetoed it at that time. ”

"Humph! I already knew that the guy surnamed Li didn't look down on me. Lao Cui said unconvinced.

"Old Cui, you are wrong. Li Duanchang, that's protecting you in disguise. He knows very well that you are a good hand at work, but your stinky temper is not good for even the smallest squad leader. Lao Zheng, the eldest in the team, spoke.

"Just a small squad leader, what can't I do." Lao Cui still said unconvinced.

As soon as Lao Cui's words fell, Shen Gang immediately said loudly: "Just because you can't even lead an apprentice, you are not worthy of being a squad leader at all." After a pause, Shen Gang continued: "If you are not old and confused, do you remember the name Shen Jianguo?" ”

"Do you know Shen Jianguo?" Old Cui asked in surprise.

"He was your first and last apprentice, and then he became a crippled man with a crippled left leg thanks to you." After a slight pause, Shen Gang continued: "His other identity is my third uncle. ”

Sixteen years ago, Lao Cui, who had just passed the age of establishment, could be regarded as a "celebrity" in his section, but he had an extremely distinct two-facedness, or more accurately, he was a double-edged sword in the hands of the section leader.

On the one hand, whenever it is difficult to maintain some machinery in the section, as long as Lao Cui is present, the problem will be basically solved. It is precisely because Lao Cui's own maintenance skills are superior to others that he gradually has a kind of arrogance of "no one is as good as me". In addition, Lao Cui is not a good temper, so whenever the workers make mistakes when cooperating with his work, or move a little slowly, he will be ridiculed or even humiliated verbally. After a long time, more and more workers are reluctant to work with Lao Cui.

However, many difficult maintenance tasks in the factory require at least two workers to work together to complete. So, in order to prevent Lao Cui's "double-edged sword" from being wasted, Shen Jianguo, who had just graduated from the technical school of Nord Stream Iron and Steel Company and was assigned to the factory, became Lao Cui's apprentice.

Although Lao Cui does not "hide" his skills in teaching maintenance skills, on the other hand, Lao Cui's requirements for his apprentices are also extremely strict. Therefore, even if Shen Jianguo makes a small mistake in his work, it will attract ridicule and even abuse from Lao Cui.

Lao Cui's high standards and strict requirements did make the young Shen Jianguo make rapid progress in maintenance skills. However, the experience of often encountering "verbal violence" at work still caused Shen Jianguo a lot of physical and mental damage. Moreover, because Shen Jianguo's parents are also very traditional workers, when they learned about their son's happy experience in the factory, instead of being able to stand on Shen Jianguo's position to help him psychologically counsel, his father still thought: "What is the point of scolding you?" When I first started working, if I made a mistake, my master would beat me. ”

Shen Jianguo's work was not very smooth, coupled with his parents' incomprehension, finally caused him to suffer from severe insomnia. Moreover, Shen Jianguo, who is a little introverted, doesn't "dare" to advance his parents, so every day's work is a torment for him.

You must know that there are all kinds of dangers in the process of repairing machinery, so you must be extra careful when carrying out maintenance operations, otherwise a little carelessness may endanger your life. Therefore, Shen Jianguo, who is tormented by insomnia, works every day is equivalent to fighting against death.

In the winter of Shen Jianguo's second year of work, he and Lao Cui were arranged to change the wheels of a 150-ton crane.

Because of the long-term insomnia, Shen Jianguo will be in a trance from time to time at work.

This time, just when Shen Jianguo and Lao Cui were about to change the last wheel and change the station, Shen Jianguo was not paying attention and fell off the crane. Although Shen Jianguo, who was blessed with great fortune, miraculously picked up a life after falling from the crane more than ten meters high, he still became a disabled person with a lame left leg forever after lying in the hospital for more than half a year.

Although Shen Jianguo did not "push" the responsibility on Lao Cui's head afterwards, his classmates who were assigned to the factory at the same time knew the ins and outs of the whole thing very well and spread it in private.

Because of this, when Shen Gang said that Shen Jianguo was actually his uncle, Lao Cui suddenly lost his temper like a deflated ball.

After a long time, Lao Cui, who had been entangled for a long time, walked in front of Shen Gang with difficulty, and then slowly lowered his proud head.

"Xiao Shen, please take me to say sorry to your uncle."

Immediately afterwards, Lao Cui, who looked extremely embarrassed, slowly came to Feng Weiguo again.

"Old Feng, I apologize to you for those words I said this afternoon. Also, we lost our bet. ”

With that, Lao Cui took out 1,000 yuan in cash from his wallet and handed it to Feng Weiguo, and then walked out of the room quickly towards the elevator.

…………

Although it was already more than 10 o'clock in the evening, several coaches in charge of sprinting of the Chinese track and field team gathered in the room of head coach Feng Yong to discuss the list of participants for the preliminaries of the 4x100m relay event.

"Director Feng, I think for the sake of insurance, it is better to choose the four people who participated in the final of the London Olympics last year." Long Fei, the head of the sprint coaching team, said.

Director Yuan, who was in charge of the relay training, continued: "I also agree with Director Long. Although the overall strength of our men's sprinting has improved rapidly in recent years, there is still a big gap between our strength and super sprinting powerhouses such as Jamaica and the United States. So, we weren't strong enough to send four people in the preliminaries to qualify for the finals. ”

"However, I think Xiao Xie (Zhenye) should be given a chance to show his strength in the preliminaries, after all, his improvement this year is very obvious." Liu Jianjun expressed his different views.

"Xiao Liu, of course, it's okay to give more opportunities to young players. However, what if Xiao Jie, who participated in the World Championships for the first time, became nervous on the field of competition, which affected the results of the whole team? After a slight pause, Director Yuan continued: "You must know that Feng Quan broke the world record again this afternoon with a terrifying time of 9.36 seconds. If we can't ensure that we will enter the 4x100m final, I am afraid that the people of China will not agree. ”