The Gold is Yours, You Are Mine

Jian Changnian reluctantly followed her to the edge of the playground.

"What's the matter? Tell me quickly, I have to go back to class."

Yan Xinyuan was still cheerful: "Don't worry, I won't tell other people that you replaced someone else in the competition that day. I watched your whole game on the spot. I think you have great potential and are a good seed for badminton... "

Jian Changnian looked at him with a strange look. This feeling is like walking on the street and suddenly someone comes up to sell you martial arts cheats, saying that you are a peerless martial arts wizard.

Although she is not very talkative, she is not stupid.

Yan Xinyuan also noticed it, scratched his head and smiled awkwardly.

"By the way, I haven't introduced myself to you yet. I just said that my name is Yan Xinyuan. I am the former head coach of Guoyu. I have just been transferred to the Binhai provincial team. I would like to recommend you to participate in this year's provincial team training. If the results of the training are good If so, you can stay."

Jian Changnian looked at him, and the word "you" with a question mark almost blurted out.

"Why, doesn't it look like it?"

Jian Changnian nodded, then shook her head.

"Like selling leaflets on the street."

Yan Xinyuan laughed heartily.

When he was in the national team before, no one really said that about him.

"Don't believe me, if I'm not the coach, how can I find you through your friend, besides, if I'm a liar, your school leaders won't let me in."

Jian Chang looked at him suspiciously.

"You... are you really the head coach of the national team?"

"Hey, the former is now the head coach of the Coastal Province team."

Seeing that she was still a little skeptical, Yan Xinyuan simply told all about how he found her.

"An old friend of mine is a physical education teacher from Jiangbei No. 2 Middle School. After a little inquiry, I found your friend, Zhou Mu from Chengnan No. 1 Middle School. I went to see her yesterday, and she told me your name and school."

"Your friend said that you like playing badminton very much. Although it is not kind to tell me about your name and school, she still hopes that you can make good use of this opportunity. I also think you are a good badminton seedling, so Want to try it out."

Although Yan Xinyuan had a smile on his face, what he said was very sincere, and it was hard for Jian Changnian not to be moved.

Just the word "badminton" is enough to make her fall in love.

What's more, the person standing in front of him is the former head coach of the national team.

The national team, that is the national team.

Jian Changnian remembered the games she had watched, it was the first time she was so close to her dream.

After all, he was still a young man, and the thoughts in his heart were all displayed on his face.

"You...you are really from the national team, then you have seen..." Jian Changnian talked about a lot of athletes she likes in one breath.

"Why haven't I seen him before? I brought him out..." Speaking of the old team members, Yan Xinyuan was so spittle flying, chatting with her back and forth, very happy.

Jian Changnian was also happy, and frowned.

Yan Xinyuan heard her say so much, and she could tell that she really liked badminton, otherwise she wouldn't watch their games repeatedly, and she was even familiar with the technical characteristics of which athletes are good at.

Yan Xinyuan had an intuition that he did not find the wrong person.

"I can see that you like playing badminton very much. Even your skills are learned by watching TV and imitating their playing methods. training."

When the opportunity was in front of her, the initial excitement passed, and Jian Changnian had some self-doubt again. Although she had not received professional training, she also knew that most of the athletes in the national team were trained from childhood of.

She is fifteen years old.

"I... can I really?"

Leaving school and taking an unknown career path is indeed a decision that needs to be carefully considered.

In his career, he has trained many young and promising players, and there have also been many who gave up halfway.

Yan Xinyuan thought about it for a while, but still felt that he should tell her all the possible things that might happen in the future, so that she could make this choice by herself.

"How should I put it, not every good seedling can become a professional athlete. Being an athlete is very hard. Most athletes start training at an early age, giving up their studies, leaving their families and friends, going to strange places, being isolated, and living in daily life. After training hard day after day, in order to maintain good physical fitness and state, many ordinary people can’t eat the food that ordinary people can eat, and taste the simple happiness.”

"They can't fall in love as ordinary people want to fall in love. Competitive sports require them to concentrate on nothing else. Especially female athletes, because of the decline in physical function caused by childbirth, there are not a few who are eliminated from the competition."

"But it's not the most difficult, because you will find that after you have given so much time, energy, money, sacrificed your health, given up your studies, and your family, what you can get, the root and the effort It is not directly proportional, and it is even possible to get nothing. And the professional players who can really stand on the highest stage are only one in ten thousand."

Yan Xinyuan told the cruel and **** truth, which poured cold water on the young boy's budding dream.

Jian Changnian hesitated, gritted his teeth, and remained silent for a long time.

That's all said here, let me say a little more.

Yan Xinyuan continued: "Participating in the training camp is only the first step on your career path. As I said just now, most athletes are trained from an early age without foundation. It is difficult, which means you have to pay more than others. It takes ten times, a hundred times and a thousand times of effort to catch up with them."

"There are probably more than a hundred people from the whole province participating in this training camp, and we only keep four."

Jian Changnian's heart trembled, such a high elimination rate can be said to be extremely harsh.

"I don't understand, if it's as difficult as you say, why..."

Yan Xinyuan knew what she wanted to ask, so he took out the letter of introduction from his jacket pocket and handed it to her.

"Because the journey to your dream is always full of thorns and thorns, and the end of the road must be full of flowers. If you fail, you may regret it, but if you work hard, you will not regret it."

Jian Changnian looked at the thin cowhide envelope in front of her, her outstretched hand stopped in mid-air, and then she took it back.

A trace of disappointment flashed across Yan Xinyuan's eyes.

When he was about to put the envelope back, Jian Changnian gritted his teeth again, wiped his sweaty hands on the hem of his trousers, and held the letter of introduction with both hands, as if holding a piece of treasure.

A gratified smile appeared on the corner of Yan Xinyuan's lips.

"There is my phone number in the envelope. If you decide to go before next Friday, call me."

The class bell rang.

Yan Xinyuan was also about to leave, but before he took two steps, he was stopped again.

"Well, Coach Yan... Do you need money for the training camp?"

What is the problem?

Yan Xinyuan couldn't help laughing: "There is no registration fee, just the food and accommodation fees."

Jian Changnian squeezed the envelope tightly: "How much will it cost?"

"For three months, it's 1,500 yuan. What's the matter? Is there any difficulty? If there is any difficulty..."

Yan Xinyuan looked back at her, just about to speak.

Jian Changnian shook her head: "No...I'll go back and discuss it with my family, and I'll give you an answer before next Friday."

"Okay." Yan Xinyuan thought for a while, but didn't say much.

After all, 1,500 yuan is really not that much for an ordinary family, but he didn't expect that Jian Changnian's family would be so poor.

He walked away, and with a narrow smile, he turned around and said something.

"By the way, I haven't told you yet. Your opponent in Jiangbei last time, that Xie Shi'an, is one of the main players of the Binhai provincial team."

Xie Shi'an.

Suddenly, I heard the name again.

Jian Changnian was taken aback suddenly, and smiled wryly.

No wonder it is so powerful, it turns out to be the main force.

But do they still have a chance to fight again?

For this thousand and five hundred yuan, how long does grandma have to do farm work, how many pairs of shoe soles does she have to pay, and how many chickens and ducks she sells to save it all.

Just thinking about it like this made Jian Changnian's eyes a little sour. She rubbed her eyes and decided to go to class first.

Before evening self-study, Jian Changnian took some time to call Zhou Mu at the public phone booth in the school.

When Zhou Mu heard her voice, he hesitated: "That... I'm sorry... I told him your school class..."

Jian Changnian was actually not angry, but just wanted to tease her, so he purposely remained silent for a few seconds.

really.

There was a hurry, and the voice was eight degrees higher.

"Don't be angry! When he came to school to look for me, he was with the teacher, and I also saw his coaching certificate. I wouldn't give it to a stranger! I just think..."

Having said that, Zhou Mu's voice lowered again.

"You don't like your school, and you are always bullied there, why not do something you really like."

Jian Changnian's heart warmed, and she couldn't help laughing.

Zhou Mu screamed immediately.

"Wow! You, you, you... you're cheating on me again!"

"Okay~ I'm not angry."

"It's good that you're not angry, so are you going to the training camp?" Zhou Mu lay on the bed in the dormitory to answer the phone, turned over and said.

"I haven't figured it out yet. There will be a three-month training camp. I can't take such a long vacation. Moreover, Coach Yan also said that there are more than one hundred people participating in the training camp this time, and only four will be left in the end."

"It's completely closed for three months, so I can only suspend school. I think the probability is not much worse than the college entrance examination." Zhou Mu sighed softly.

"Hmm..." Jian Changnian responded in a low voice, but didn't answer.

"But I think this is also an opportunity. Think about it, you like playing badminton so much, no one is playing with you, you just play against the tree and the air at the entrance of the village, and you won a ball from that provincial team, Xie Shi'an Well, it's enough to show that you have this talent, otherwise Coach Yan wouldn't have come here to find you."

That being said, practical reasons have to be considered, and parents must agree to suspend school.

Jian Changnian rubbed the center of his brows, and sighed in his heart.

"I'll go home this week and discuss it with my grandma."

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Jian Changnian, who returned to the dormitory after evening self-study, just entered the door, and Yuanyuan was full of cynicism.

"Yo, isn't this our badminton star back?"

It seems that Yan Xinyuan's coming to find her has spread throughout the campus.

Jian Changnian had something to worry about, ignored her, and took a basin to wash up.

When she came back from the public bathroom, she heard voices from inside through the door.

"Just her? If she can play professionally like that, I would already be a world champion."

"That's right, she's so poor, she doesn't urinate to take care of herself, isn't that what she is?"

"That Coach Yan, is it real or not? If it's true, I'm afraid I have to go to the ophthalmology department."

Since the fight with them last time, these people seized the opportunity to deliberately tease her. Either the homework they wrote was lost in the dormitory, or the clothes hanging on the balcony ran downstairs for no reason. Or it's like now, with yin and yang in front of the face and cynicism behind the back.

Every time she plucked up the courage to resist, the other party intensified, because she was sure that she was helpless in this school, and no one would believe her even if she reported to the teacher.

Jian Changnian didn't think she was a fragile person, but on this night, she pretended to have too many things in her heart, and all the grievances came to her heart at the same time. After taking a few deep breaths, she suppressed the soreness in her eyes, opened the door and walked in.

Seeing her coming back, the few people who were chatting together just now dispersed and returned to their own bed.

"Sleep, sleep, there is class tomorrow morning."

Jian Changnian didn't say anything, put down the basin, lay down on the bed, covered her face with the quilt, and closed her eyes.

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On the bus home on the weekend, Jian Changnian didn't say much all the way, Zhou Mu poked her arm.

"What's wrong with you, you don't look happy?"

"No, we've arrived at the station, let's go." Jian Changnian forced a smile, took the lead and got out of the car.

Zhou Mu's house is on the side of the road not far from the entrance of the village, and her family has to walk about one kilometer further along the yellow dirt road until it reaches the foot of the mountain.

Jian Changnian pushed open the door: "Grandma, I'm back."

The yard was quiet, only the neighbor's little dog barked a few times as a response to her.

The gate of the fence where the chickens and ducks are kept open is probably out to release the ducks.

Jian Changnian breathed a sigh of relief, put the bag in the back room, went back to the yard to fetch water to wash his hands, and planned to cook first.

Unexpectedly, before she entered the kitchen, the neighbor saw that the courtyard door was ajar, so she drove the ducks in.

"Chang Nian, are you back? Why don't you go to the clinic to see your grandma, she fell down yesterday while picking up firewood..."

Before the neighbor could finish speaking, the water basin was overturned and Jian Chang ran away.

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"Grandma, grandma, are you okay?" Jian Changnian ran for two miles in one breath, broke into the bathroom dripping with sweat, didn't care to calm down, and saw grandma lying on the innermost bed hanging water at a glance. Straight forward.

Seeing that she came back, surprise welled up in the eyes of the old man, struggling to get up.

"Xiao Nian... Nian Nian is back, she hasn't eaten yet, grandma will cook for you when she goes back..."

"Grandma!" Jian Changnian put her face on her chest, hugged her, her eyes were flushed, "Don't move, the water hasn't finished hanging yet, I'm not hungry, what's wrong with you, you fell Is it heavy?"

"It's okay, it's just that the mountain road is slippery, and I accidentally sprained my foot while picking up firewood."

Grandma touched her head lovingly.

"Good boy, I made you worry."

Jian Changnian sniffed, still hugging her grandmother and refusing to let go, her eyes fell on her gauze-wrapped feet.

"Grandma, let's go to the hospital."

It just so happened that a bottle of liquid was transfused, and the village doctor came over to take a look. Jian Changnian stood up straight and grabbed the other's arm with both hands.

"Doctor, doctor, is my grandma really okay?"

The village doctor looked at the old man lying on the hospital bed, hesitant to speak.

Behind Jian Changnian, grandma shook her head slightly.

The village doctor helped her up and said, "It's okay, just sprained her ankle, just infuse her with fluids for a few days to reduce inflammation, and then I'll prescribe some medicine for internal and external application, and drink it on time when she goes back."

"Okay, okay, I'm sorry to trouble the doctor." Jian Chang couldn't help bowing to the person, and finally let go of her hanging heart a little.

"Come with me to get some medicine."

The clinics in the village have limited conditions, and a curtain separates the places where medical consultation, medicine collection and injections are given.

The doctor fiddled with the abacus while writing on the prescription pad.

"I prescribed some medicine for activating blood circulation and removing blood stasis for her. It hurts her muscles and bones for a hundred days, especially for older people. Don't do heavy physical work, otherwise the root cause of the disease will fall."

"Seventy-eight-five dollars all together."

Jian Changnian rummaged through his pockets, but only found twenty yuan, which was the unused living expenses last week.

She carefully put twenty yuan on the table, and mumbled: "Doctor, I... I don't have enough money right now, wait for me to go back and get it."

As soon as the words fell, a bony hand stretched out tremblingly, picked up her two ten-yuan bills, and put a stack of ten-dollar bills, the largest denomination was five yuan, and some coins.

"Doctor, here is the money."

Jian Changnian quickly helped him up: "Grandma, why are you up?"

"It's over, let's go home."

"But your feet..."

"It's okay, I can go, if you stay here for one night, you will be charged for one night's bed..."

Grandma struggled and limped forward while chattering.

"There are also chickens and ducks at home, which have to be fed every day, and the grass in the field should also be removed, and the firewood we picked up has not been cleared away."

Jian Changnian's eyes felt hot, and she walked up to her grandmother and squatted down.

"Grandma, I'll carry you on my back."

"Ouch, you can't carry it on your back."

"Don't worry, I promise I won't fall you." Jian Changnian cheered up and smiled, and patted the muscles on his arms.

Seeing that grandma was still a little hesitant, Jian Changnian grabbed her legs without saying a word, and carried her on her back.

Although Jian Changnian is not very old, she has been doing farm work since she was a child, and her strength is not small, not to mention that her grandmother is not heavy. The burden of life has been weighed down over time, and she has already become skinny.

She carried her grandmother on her back and walked steadily step by step.

Looking at their backs and the pile of colorful bills on the table, the doctor hesitated again and again, and chased them out to stop them.

"Well, if you feel uncomfortable, you must come to the bathroom as soon as possible."

Jian Changnian turned around with a grateful smile on her face.

"Well, thank you, doctor."

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When she got home, Jian Changnian was busy making a fire and cooking. Grandma refused to go into the house to rest and insisted on helping her, so she had to move a chair and put it in the yard, and let grandma do some light work such as choosing vegetables.

She put the washed rice into the pot, mixed it with water and covered it, and lit the fire in the stove. The dry branches and pine cones crackled, and the light of the fire made her face turn yellow, and her forehead was clouded. There was a fine layer of sweat beads.

Jian Changnian wiped the sweat on the back of her hand, then went to the firewood pile at the door to pack the firewood that grandma picked up yesterday.

Dead branches and the like can be used now, and some wet firewood has to be placed in the yard to dry for a few days.

She picked and picked from the pile of firewood to see if there was any wood that could be used as a walking stick, but after searching for a long time, she couldn't find any suitable wood, so she decided to forget it after thinking about it, and went to the mountain to have a look tomorrow.

"Xiao Nian, the rice seems to be ready." Grandma said.

"Hey, here we come."

Jian Changnian carried the stacked firewood into the stove, ran out to fetch water from the well to wash her hands, and went in with the dishes her grandma had chosen.

There was a sound of spatulas colliding, and grandma felt distressed and relieved when she saw her little figure standing busy in front of the stove.

Not long after, the smell of food wafted out.

Jian Changnian went into the room to set up the dishes, and then came out to help grandma.

"Grandma, let's go, let's eat."

After eating, Jian Chang wanted to wash the dishes, while her grandmother was doing needlework in the house. Seeing that the zipper on the outside of her schoolbag was broken and fastened it with a pin, she planned to mend it for her, so she took out all the books inside.

So when Jian Chang read into the room, she saw her grandma trembling slightly as she looked at the torn and taped book.

"Grandma..." She called softly, her face was hot, and her steps were as heavy as lead.

The old man turned his head, his eyes were red.

"This...how did this happen?"

"I... I accidentally broke it myself."

Jian Changnian didn't want her grandma to worry, so she had no choice but to bite the bullet and say.

Grandma held these tattered books in trembling hands, and her voice was trembling.

"How do I usually teach you, take good care of every needle and thread, don't leave rice in the eating bowl, replace things after they are used up, the opportunity to learn is hard to come by, you...why are you... so disappointing!"

Jian Changnian was afraid that she would get angry again, so he quickly knelt down and grabbed grandma's knee, with tears in his eyes.

"Grandma, I'm sorry, don't be angry, I didn't mean it, I won't dare next time, I won't dare."

After all, she has been raised since she was a child, just like she loves her grandmother, and her grandmother will only love her more.

The old man looked at her for a while, his cloudy eyes were filled with tears, and he suddenly stretched out his hand.

Jian Changnian subconsciously closed her eyes, and tears welled up.

Grandma just touched her face lightly to wipe away her tears, Jian Changnian buried her face in grandma's palm and lay down on her lap.

The old man touched her head, his voice choked up.

She knew that Xiao Nian was a good child, because her family was very poor, so since she was sensible, she had always been frugal, and she was reluctant to waste every penny, so why would she tear up books.

"Xiao Nian, grandma... I'm sorry, but if grandma is more capable, you can go to high school..."

Jian Changnian sniffed, just hugged grandma, didn't raise her head, trying to make her voice sound lighter.

"Thanks to my grandma, I can grow up so big, and what's the matter with the technical school, others are still studying, so I can make money!"

"It's always right to read more books, just like your mother..." When the old man said this, he seemed to think of something, paused suddenly, turned around, and patted her head lovingly.

"When grandma can walk on the ground, she will go to the town to find a job. She can sew, mend, wash clothes, and clean up. Xiao Nian has grown up, and she can no longer eat and dress like she was when she was a child. From now on, There are a lot of places to use money, and grandma saves a little for you."

Jian Changnian shook her head, she had already thought clearly.

"Grandma, I'm not a child anymore. From this week on, you don't have to give me so much living expenses anymore. I won't go home on weekends. I can find a part-time job and earn some money."

She was afraid that her grandma would disagree, so she finished talking like a cannonball, and even told a white lie.

"Grandma, don't stop me. This is a kind of exercise for me. I will have a social job sooner or later. Second, I have already found a part-time job."

Fortunately, grandma always believed in her words, so she didn't ask too much, otherwise she wouldn't be as good as Zhou Mu in telling falsehoods to be true, making up hype.

The night in the countryside was peaceful and quiet, except for the chirping of insects, only a few barking dogs were occasionally heard.

The light bulbs in the bedroom are all old, and they were not bright at first, and they became more dim after being covered with a thick layer of dust.

Jian Changnian sat at the desk and read her homework, rubbed her eyes, turned her head, and saw that grandma had fallen asleep, and she was still holding the needle and thread.

She walked over lightly, took out the needle and thread carefully, put it on the table, looked back at grandma again, confirmed that she was asleep, and then took out the letter of introduction from her pocket. With it, not in the schoolbag.

Jian Changnian smoothed out the creases of the paper, read each word carefully, gritted her teeth, and was about to tear it up, but she couldn't bear it.

She sighed lightly, folded it again, and locked the letter of introduction together with her budding dream into the dark professional book.