On September 13, 2015, the training venue of the National Table Tennis Center.

As soon as I entered the training hall, I saw a short and chubby middle-aged man standing at the door of the venue, with a few children standing beside him, his hands clasped in front of his chest, with a serious face, it was Ding Mao, the head coach of national table tennis.

No one dared to make a mistake in front of him, including Jing Xing and Zhao Yuan, who were about to be late, hurriedly and honestly entered the team and waited for him to speak.

"We have a few new team members, let's get to know each other, and bring more new players to train in the future, especially one named Su Nian, post-00, who is currently the youngest member of our team, and will take care of her more in the future."

He was also curious about the youngest player who entered the team this year, and when he heard that he was not yet 15 years old, he turned around and beckoned to Su Nian, "Su Nian, come."

Su Nian was looking at Jing Xing who was hiding in the crowd, he didn't seem to have finished eating, he was still holding a bun in his hand when he came in, and he seemed to be startled when he saw Coach Ding, hiding in the crowd and quickly stuffing the bun into his mouth, and the flesh on his cheeks bulged out with the action of swallowing, like a crayon Xiaoxin.

Hearing Coach Ding call his name, Su Nian hurriedly walked to his side, everyone looked at Su Nian, and thought in unison, "It's so small, your face is so round~"

"Hello brothers and sisters, I'm Su Nian, from H Province, 15 years old this year", with a milky voice, the voice instantly hit the hearts of the brothers and sisters.

"Okay, welcome, welcome", a loud cheer suddenly erupted in the crowd, everyone looked back, it turned out to be Li Liang, who was looking at Su Nian with a simple smile, he and Su Nian were both from the H provincial team, the same coach, can be said to be the closest brother and sister, Su Nian did not come before he received several calls from Yang Qiguang, and asked him to take care of the little sister more.

Li Liang's cheers seemed to break everyone's strangeness to Su Nian, and the sister of the women's team beckoned to Su Nian and motioned for her to go to their team.

Su Nian looked back at Ding Mao, and his round eyes seemed to be asking Ding Mao if he could go.

Ding Mao sensed the girl's question, smiled and said, "Go", turned to the new team members beside him and said, "You guys should go together." ”

"Hey, don't say it, this little girl looks really cute, but I don't know how to play?" Zhao Yuan watched Su Nian run into the team of the women's team, and called her sister crisply, causing laughter and laughter from the women's team, and slapping the absent-minded Jing Xing with his arm.

Jing Xing glanced at Zhao Yuan, "You want to know, don't you know if you have a fight with her in two days", seeing that Ding Mao had already left, he walked to his training table as he spoke.

Jing Xing's heart is basically 99% of the little white ball, and for him, not everyone in the second team is worthy of him to remember their names and appearances.

Every year, the national team will come to new players, but every year there will be a lot of people, some of them are not able to go up and are returned to the provincial team, some are unable to endure the hardships and quit the team by themselves, and some are old enough to play the main force and have no choice but to quit the team, come and go, he doesn't want to bother with that thought, and when Su Nian is qualified to stand in front of him, he will naturally know.

Su Nian watched Jing Xing leave straight away in the crowd, she could see that Jing Xing didn't care, "It's okay, one day I will stand in front of you and officially introduce me to you." ”

Summer 2016.

"Huh~Huh~", Su Nian held on to the table and gasped, she had practiced her serving skills thousands of times according to the coach's requirements, and she couldn't straighten her waist by maintaining the same position for a long time.

After entering the national team, Su Nian's talent really surprised everyone, her forehand ability is unique in the women's line, she is small, but her explosiveness at the moment of hitting the ball is full of explosiveness, which makes many coaches shine.

But Su Nian knows that these are far from enough, after she entered the national team, she knew how big the gap between herself and the main force was, not only technology, but also training intensity, Jiang Yungu, the opponent who defeated her in the national youth competition, had entered the national first team and began to focus on training, not to mention Jing Xing, who has become the fifth in the men's line, and got the P card of the Olympic Games, although it may not be on the field, but it is already the dream of most athletes to go to the Olympics.

The huge gap will not make Su Nian despair, she is waiting for the opportunity, she knows that only if she trains harder and grows faster, can she seize the opportunity, quickly walk in front of Jing Xing, and formally introduce herself to him.

It was already dark, and there were almost no people in the stadium, Su Nian glanced at the corner, Jing Xing was still practicing with his coach.

After coming to the national team for more than half a year, she realized that there is no so-called purple microstar from the sky, all of Jingxing's achievements are played by himself, he practices almost every day until the lights go out in the stadium, and his hard work is also famous in the national table tennis where everyone works hard.

But even if there were only two of them left in the stadium, Su Nian didn't go to Jing Xing to chat, because he seemed to be too focused on his ball, Su Nian was not good at bothering him, and another reason was that Su Nian always gambled in her heart, she wanted to let Jing Xing know herself on the field, and she was very strong in table tennis.

So for most of the year, she has become familiar with everyone in the national table tennis team with her cute appearance and big grinning personality, including Ding Mao, the head coach of the national table tennis, who will touch her head and encourage her when she sees her, but there is almost no communication with Jing Xing.

"Alas~", Su Nian looked at Jing Xing, who had no distractions, sighed softly, shook the sweat on his head, didn't want to think about these things, tried to straighten his sore waist, packed his bag, and slowly walked out of the stadium.

Jingxing's coach Shen Luo looked at Su Nian's back and said to Jingxing: "The new little girl is really hardworking, almost every day she is the last one to leave the women's team, if we weren't in the stadium, I don't know if she would be afraid in the stadium alone, she is still so young, less than 16 years old." ”

Jing Xing didn't speak, Shen Luo glanced at him strangely, "It's also weird, Su Nian has been here for more than half a year, and she gets along well with everyone in the team, seeing that everyone is a brother and sister who is sweet and sweet, but it seems that she doesn't dare to talk to you, are you murdering her?" ”

Jing Xing stopped the ball he was serving, raised his head and frowned and said, "What am I doing with her, and I haven't made contact", Jing Xing also felt strange, obviously he was very popular in the team, but the new girl who looked like a small group just didn't talk to herself, and she didn't look fierce, it should be that there was no chance to communicate with her, and maybe she would deal with it when she had the opportunity in the future, but this idea was thrown away by him after a turn in his mind.

"Still practicing? If I don't practice, I want to eat pancakes and fruits", Jing Xing also felt tired, he wiped the sweat on his head, turned the racket in his hand, and asked his coach.

"Let's go, it's long overdue, we should have grasped the intensity of training every day, your body will be unbearable if you train too much", Shen Luo is a former member of the national team, and after retiring, he stayed directly in the national table tennis as a coach, Jing Xing is the first apprentice he brought, and he feels a little bit like being a father and a mother for this 18-year-old disciple, and he can't help but care about all aspects of his Jingxing every day.

After a pause, he muttered that Jing Xing, who was taking inventory of things one by one, "I don't know how delicious the pancakes and fruits at the door of the stadium are, I have to eat them every night", he was also very speechless to his disciples, everything was good, he just liked to eat pancakes and fruits outside the training base, and it was uncomfortable not to eat them every day.

Jing Xing didn't answer this question, and before he came to BJ, he didn't know that pancake fruit would become his must-eat supper every day, and it had become the most delicious snack in his heart.

The two of them turned off the lights in the stadium as they spoke, discussing the problem of today's training and slowly walked outside the base, and the street lights at night shone on them, leaving a long shadow.