The next day, July 16th.

Ye Qin glanced at the wall clock on the wall when he woke up, at 5:15 in the morning, after adapting to the time difference in Italy, the habit of perennial training and life made him wake up automatically at this time.

Feeling that his body was still a little sore, he was still a little sore, and he wanted to continue to sleep for a while, and it was already more than 12 o'clock when he returned to the hotel last night, and it was almost 1 o'clock after a simple wash. Disrupted his usual rhythm of going to bed on time at 11 o'clock at night, coupled with the fact that he had three games a day yesterday, the intensity was high, and his body had not been able to fully recover.

The hurdler Liu Lilu in the bed next door slept soundly, the men's 110-meter hurdles competition was a preliminary round today, and the other party slept early last night to recuperate, and when Ye Qin came back last night, the other party did not react much.

Yesterday, I don't know if it was because of the intensity of the game, or because I remembered Nie Fangping, I couldn't sleep well all night. After waking up, in addition to the sourness of the body, the mind was also a little dizzy.

After tossing and turning in bed for a while, I wanted to sleep but couldn't sleep, so I just got up and went to the bathroom to wash up, and the person finally woke up a little.

The breakfast time arranged by the hotel in the residence had not yet arrived, and after sitting quietly in the hotel lobby for a while, Ye Qin simply left the hotel and went for a morning jog along the quaint streets of Grosseto.

Grosseto is quiet in the morning, with few pedestrians on the streets, giving it a different kind of tranquility.

Along the street, Yechin had a close-up look at the historical Cathedral of Grosseto and St. Francis, and in the center of the city there was another St. Petersburg Cathedral, which was spoken by the Italian interpreters and staff of the delegation when he first arrived in Grosseto, and there were many monasteries and churches outside the city.

In addition to churches, there are palace-like buildings, various squares full of medieval European style, monuments, and much more.

When I arrived in Grosseto before, I noticed some places, but I didn't see them up close as Yechin did now. Occasionally, passing through some stone-paved streets that I don't know what kind of stone, looking at the streets with few pedestrians, I really feel like I am in ancient Italy and Europe.

Although the city of Grosseto is the local capital, and the buildings have a sense of historical age, the whole place is really not big, and Ye Qin feels that it is not much different from Xiushui County.

Yechin trotted all the way, and it didn't take long to arrive at the central hospital in Grosseto.

I didn't pay attention to it last night, but when I arrived today, I found that it was a three-story building, which was relatively new compared to some other buildings with a sense of historical age, but it looked like it should be decades old.

Ye Qin entered the hospital, and began to estimate that he should encounter the nurse on duty or the doorman and the like to block the question, although he has worked hard in English, but he is not particularly fluent, when he was on the road, he thought for a while, how to deal with other people's inquiries.

As a result, after entering the hospital, probably because the time was too early, only two white nurses who were lying on the window and drowsy seemed to look at him and did not react much.

Ye Qin went directly to the hospital, followed the memory of last night, and after searching for a while, he finally found the ward where Nie Fangping was.

Standing outside the ward, Ye Qin saw Nie Fangping lying on the bed through the perspective glass on the door, and originally wanted to enter the door to see if Nie Fangping was better today, but when he got to the door, he stopped for some reason.

Just like Nie Fangping has never considered Ye Qin, Ye Qin actually vaguely feels in his heart that he may have less and less time with Nie Fangping in the future, he will be in his third year of high school next semester, and the college entrance examination will be over by this time next year, and then he will leave Xiushui and enter the university campus.

Different from when he had just stepped into high school, after running all over the country in the past few years, and going abroad several times, Ye Qin is no longer as cautious about looking at himself and the whole society as he once was, he can find his own position and have the confidence to deal with some things, but at this moment, he just didn't expect that the sudden unexpected change still made him a little depressed.

In the more than a year that the master and apprentice have been together, they have become more and more compatible, and Nie Fangping's appearance has replaced an important role that should appear in his life to some extent.

In childhood and adolescence, this character was a grandfather or an uncle, and at this stage of adolescence, there was no doubt that it was Nie Fangping.

The first time I went to Nanxiu Market alone for training, training on the track and field, I was accidentally discovered by Nie Fangping, the first nutritious meal given to him in the canteen, and waited for him to appear on the playground after class every day to start training, and went to the field management center, this old man who had always been resolute and silent in his eyes bowed his head and begged.

A lot of things have infiltrated his life so quietly and silently unconsciously. The old man on the hospital bed seemed to have become more white in more than a year, and the muscles on his face relaxed in his sleep, and he could still see deep forehead lines and vertical lines on his eyebrows.

"Coach, hurry up and get better!"

He stood outside the quiet door for a long time, and it was not until there were more and more people coming and going around the corridor that Ye Qin quietly turned around and left.

Still following the road he had come, Ye Qin trotted all the way. There are more and more pedestrians on the road, I don't know whether it is a local resident or a tourist who gets up early to go shopping, in a strange city, in a strange country, such a morning run is a completely different experience for Ye Chin.

Especially when Nie Fangping was lying on the hospital bed at the moment, Ye Qin had an indescribable feeling of emptiness in his heart.

It's a bit like going back to the feeling of running around in that small village in Shangyun a year or two ago, no one seems to care what he's doing, but he knows it.

From the day he stood on the runway, he knew.

I ran around for a while, and because several buildings were more similar, I ran the wrong section in the middle. But the direction of the road is still not wrong, I paid a little attention and returned to the hotel where I stayed.

At this time, the weather was almost completely cool, and the players of the hotel team who had a game this morning had already gotten up, washed up, and were having breakfast in the hotel restaurant.

After a while, they will go to the arena, start a series of warm-ups in advance, and then check in the program to prepare for the game and so on.

Ye Qin followed the players of the other teams to sit in the dining room and began to eat breakfast, except for Liu Lilu in the same dormitory, he quietly went out in the morning and came back quietly, without being noticed by anyone. After the other players on the team saw Ye Qin, they met a few times and nodded to him kindly.

Not long after, the team leader Zhou Bin also appeared in the restaurant yawning, the bags under his eyes were slightly heavy, and after seeing Ye Qin, he was a little surprised:

"Ye Qin, you still have a game tonight, and you still have to make sure you rest during the day. Coach Nie is not here today, if you go to the arena at that time, you can come with Coach Xu or a few other coaches. If you want to go to see Coach Nie, you can also tell Coach Xu, and he will let someone take you there. ”

In the morning and afternoon, Zhou Bin has a lot of things to do as a team leader, and he will also appear on the field as much as possible to stare at some games, so as not to have problems and need to communicate with the officials of the organizing committee.

"Well, thank you for your guidance!"

After breakfast, Ye Qin went back to the room directly, did not follow him to the arena, nor did he go to another member of the team, Xu Gui, to arrange for him to go to the hospital to visit Nie Fangping again, but lay down on the bed again and began to sleep.

He could feel the exhaustion of his body, the slight soreness of his muscles, and although his brain was a little clearer after the morning run, he was still a little sleepy.

At this moment, Ye Qin knew very well that he was not in the best condition.

Some people may think that they have won a silver medal in the men's 400m yesterday and have also won a ticket to the Olympic Games, so they can relax today.

Even if the men's 200m final tonight is not satisfactory, no one will blame him, and after the intensity of three races in one day yesterday, there will be a few who are in spirit and state the next day.

But Ye Qin didn't want to give up, as long as he wanted to race, he wanted to run seriously and run with all his might!

The coach is not there, and he needs to adjust these things himself.

When training in Zuohai City last summer, Nie Fangping told him that track and field athletes are often lonely, and at some point, you will feel that you have no one to rely on, and you need to face it alone. Face life, face the field, face the competition.

Thou shalt be strong and fearless.