After listening to the coach's arrangement, Wu Ying pursed her lips and was unhappy.

She secretly found Tang Huai, twisted, flattered, and asked carefully: "Coach, didn't we say okay, let me partner with Brother Yi to participate in the mixed team competition?" Why was the last chance given to Fan Qingwan? ”

Tang Huai looked at her obliquely: "Who told you about it?" I was saying it was up to you to be decided. ”

Wu Ying was anxious, and specially took out something from her arms and gestured: "Ah yes, haven't I behaved well enough?" I won a gold medal, a gold medal in the World Cup! That doesn't prove my strength and ability in the mixed team competition? ”

Tang Huai didn't expect her to be quite well prepared, and scratched her head at the moment: "Yes, you won the gold medal of the mixed team, but this gold medal has moisture, and the departure door was faulty at that time, so you saved your physical strength and maintained a better state." We won't have this kind of convenience at the Beijing Winter Olympics. ”

Wu Ying's chest rose and fell, and her face turned red: "You still don't trust me?" Your words don't count! ”

Her hand holding the gold medal trembled slightly, and tears rolled in her eyes.

"Hey, don't be like this, they're all big girls, can you be reasonable?"

"Okay, then be reasonable, where am I not as good as Fan Qingwan? Keketuohai's skills competition, did she win the first place in the team? Did she compete in the mixed team event at the World Cup? Did she win a gold medal in the mixed team? ”

"This ......"

Tang Huai was depressed, this girl was too good at changing concepts.

The reasons she said were only beneficial to herself, but in the women's group individual competition data of the usual team training and international competitions, she is obviously not as good as Fan Qingwan!

He responded like this, and Wu Ying was unhappy again: "That's all old yellow calendar, and people have already improved!" ”

"Old? The test match at the end of 11 is considered an old calendar? ”

"That's right, the competition in November 2021, last year's thing, and now it's 2022!"

The two of them are entangled endlessly, the only thing Tang Huai can be pleased with is that Wu Ying's character is good, and he has the hard work to never admit defeat and give up if he does not achieve his goal, if he is replaced by a stuffy gourd where Fan Qingwan can only pout and get angry, I am afraid it will not be easy to do.

He decided to coax the girl again: "In this case, let's call everyone together in the afternoon and redivide into groups, and this time we will listen to everyone's opinions." ”

"Okay!"

Wu Ying's face suddenly brightened, she felt that she was very popular in the team, whether it was Wu Lihan or Zhang Zhiwang, she should have voted for her, and there was high entropy, that stinky boy should have to partner with her......

As a result, Tang Huai held a meeting in the afternoon to talk about this matter, not to ask for everyone's opinions at all, but to come over with a small box: "Regarding the situation of men's and women's grouping, some comrades feel that I am too subjective in this way, and I think about it carefully, and it is true, under the condition that everyone is of equal strength, all factors should be considered......

When he said this, his eyes swept over everyone's faces, and then he picked up the box in a shy, "Why don't we draw lots and let God decide how to group them." ”

The smile on Wu Ying's face froze, she was specifically looking for someone to canvass for votes at noon, and it was all in vain after working for half a day.

Tang Huai looked at her deliberately: "What?" Don't want to regroup? Reluctant to have high entropy, right? Then forget it......"

Wu Yingyi gritted her teeth: "Don't!" Draw lots, draw lots, at least half the chance! ”

Now she doesn't hide it anymore, and openly expressed her idea of partnering with Li Changyi.

Fan Qingwan looked at her, with a pair of beautiful eyes that implied displeasure.

Everyone knows that Li Changyi is a little faster than high entropy, and partnering with Li Changyi is likely to mean winning the gold medal, and even if he can't get the gold medal, there is a high probability of getting a medal.

But high entropy is not necessarily, at least partnering with him, and facing competition with Li Changyi.

Fan Qingwan is originally a stubborn character who refuses to admit defeat, how can she be willing to give in to this kind of thing?

Tang Huai also saw that she was not happy, so she immediately announced the grouping principle: "According to the principle of strong combination, Wu Lihan and Zhang Zhiwang will carry forward their style and will not participate in the mixed team event." The specific grouping is on the collocation of Wu Ying, Fan Qingwan and Li Changyi, and high entropy. ”

Wu Lihan and Zhang Zhiwang knew that their current situation was the same as that of the Chinese team, and forcing them to participate in the mixed team would cause the Chinese team to lose a chance, so they had no opinion.

After Tang Huai confirmed the approval of all parties, he slowly took out two ping pong balls, and he planned to write the letters A and B respectively.

Among them, Li Changyi represents A, high entropy represents B, Wu Ying and Fan Qingwan draw table tennis balls one after another, and whoever gets the corresponding letter will be in a group with whom.

It was a very simple way to draw lots, but Wu Ying suspected that there was fraud, so she grabbed the table tennis ball and came over to study it, it was indeed two ordinary balls, and the shape and touch were exactly the same, so she put her mind at ease.

Tang Huai took out a marker pen and handed it to Wu Ying: "Come on, come on, the letters are also written by yourself." You write it first, and let Fan Qingwan write it herself. ”

"Good! Then I'll write A! I write and smoke by myself, and I will definitely be able to become a partner with Brother Yi! ”

With a big stroke of her pen, she wrote letters like ghost drawings, and Tang Huai handed over the box and asked her to throw it in with her own hands.

It was a three-plywood patchwork camera obscura, with a hole dug into the top, and only one hand could reach in.

After Wu Ying put the ball into the box, Tang Huai turned around and asked Fan Qingwan to write the letter B on the other ball and put it in the box.

Then he began to shake the box for a while: "Okay, the whole process is open and transparent, which of you draws which ball is considered God's will, you can't regret it after drawing, come on, who will draw first?" ”

At this moment of deciding one's own fate, the more people with great expectations, the greater the psychological burden and the more hesitant they are to act.

Just when Wu Ying stretched her neck and rubbed her fingers to grab lots, Fan Qingwan moved first. She scrambled to reach into the box first.

"Oops, I'll ...... first"

The box mouth is very small, although Wu Ying wants to fight, but there is no way to be a step too late.

Fan Qingwan didn't pause, and casually took out a table tennis ball with an expressionless face.

Everyone's eyes were focused on the small ping-pong ball, and it turned out to be the letter "A" written by Wu Ying just now.

"Ah, it's over......"

Wu Ying sat on the stool with a lonely and depressed expression.

Tang Huai shook the box and came over: "Hey, are you still smoking?" ”

Wu Ying pushed away angrily: "Pump your head, just two balls!" ”

She stared at the table tennis ball, the letters on it were written by her, she couldn't be wrong, it seemed that God had prevented her from being on the Olympic stage at the same time as Li Changyi.

In fact, how did she know that there was no problem with the ball, and there was no problem with the lottery process, it was Tang Huai's hand that moved the box.

There was a partition inside the box and a paddle switch on the base.

When Wu Ying released the ball, the partition was on the left side, and when Fan Qingwan released the ball, the partition slid to the right side, so that the middle of the two balls was always blocked by the partition, no matter how Tang Huai shook it, it was not mixed together.

And Tang Huai greeted Fan Qingwan in advance, asking her to catch the ball first, Tang Huai cooperated with the switch of the base, so that Fan Qingwan could catch the ball corresponding to Li Changyi, and there was really no need to catch the remaining ball.

Even if Wu Ying wanted to catch it, in order to avoid the partition mechanism of the box being punctured, Tang Huai would directly turn the box upside down, as long as the ball was out, who would think about checking whether there was a problem with the box?

The reason why he took such pains was actually to maintain a stable relationship within the team and avoid bad moods from interfering with Wu Ying's preparation mentality.

After all, in order to achieve the goal of "floating, rising, and playing" in the Winter Olympics, he must come up with the most secure combination of winning gold.