Chapter 23 2. The first date

After "Meet 98", Xie Xingfang just disappeared from my life without a trace, and there was almost no chance to contact her again.Although I was also selected for the national team in 2000, everyone knows that I only entered the national team "on the sidelines". It is enough for me to worry about whether I can practice well and whether I will be scolded by the coach the next day. I'm very nervous.Because the coach didn't like naughty athletes like me, I was always punished by the coach when I first joined the national team.I feel that if I don't practice well, I will be eliminated in a few months, and I will go back to Fuzhou with a backpack.So I lived in fear all day long and was extremely nervous.

Until 2003, I could see her almost every day, but she didn't know that there was a pair of eyes watching her silently. After those few years of hard work, I began to slowly occupy the main position of the men's singles, so the situation has improved a lot, and my voice has become a little louder.At this time, everyone is in the same team and they are all teammates, so they won't feel shorter than others, and Ah Fang is no longer so far away, and they can say hello, chat and so on naturally.Until this time, God seemed to remember me, the "forgotten" child again. At the end of 2003, we came to Jinjiang, Fujian again to prepare for the second year's Tangyu Cup.I am from Fujian, and I am very familiar with Zhang Hanmin, the director of the Jinjiang Base Zuchang Gymnasium.Our dormitory is on the fourth floor, and his family lives on the third floor.Jinjiang is not a big place, and the location of the gymnasium is relatively remote, and it is not easy to take a taxi when going out.So sometimes, Zhang Hanmin would drive a motorcycle and take me out to do shopping, go to the supermarket and so on.

Chinese New Year is approaching, and the team decided to hold a party, with performances by everyone and a lucky draw.That time Xie Xingfang won a mobile phone in the lottery, and her luck turned into my luck.She told her teammates that she wanted to change her dad to a handwritten one.After I heard this, I volunteered and said, "Okay, I'll change it for you. I'll talk to the owner of the mobile phone shop. It's a new one anyway. If it's a big deal, I'll post some money." She hesitated, and said, "Then Ok." So, I went to Zhang Hanmin again, and I said, "Drive me on a motorcycle and take me out to find a mobile phone store." Seeing that I was so active in talking about Luo Afang, he understood.Therefore, Zhang Hanmin should be the first person in the world to know that I started chasing Xie Xingfang.After switching back to the mobile phone, I can naturally ask her for the phone number.This is a big step for me, at least not hovering in place anymore.

At that time, Brother Zhang (Zhang Hanmin) always called Xie Xingfang "Sister Qiuxiang" jokingly.Sometimes, such as after training or on Sundays, I will go to KFC with Brother Zhang to buy food and come back.One day, I said, "Let's go, let's go to KFC to pack some food." After shopping, we walked to the third floor and passed his door. He said, "Why don't we go, I packed it for someone." Brother Zhang joked again: "Hey, give it to sister Qiuxiang." Athletes are relatively simple.I didn't want to be too obvious at first, I just wanted to be nice to her.Slowly, everyone in the teammates could see that I took special care of Xie Xingfang.At the end of the training camp, I also decided to end this "ambiguous" period.So, one day I sent a text message to Ah Fang, asking her out for dinner, and especially emphasized "just the two of us".

Hey, that's right, I remember I borrowed Brother Zhang's motorcycle.In movies, we often see boys driving a motorcycle to take girls out for a ride, and the girl leans on the boy's shoulder, as if she wants to follow him without hesitation, how romantic it is.But with the current conditions, it's not romantic.Brother Zhang's motorcycle is not a particularly cool one, but a neutral one that can be ridden by both men and women.I don't care.I was very happy that day, and I drove Ah Fang to find a Japanese restaurant.This is our first date. When I sat down, I suddenly found myself so nervous that I didn't know what to say.Anyway, I know, I definitely can't just say "I'll chase you" without thinking.We chatted for a long time like this, and halfway through the meal, I asked jokingly: "Oh, do you have a boyfriend now?" She said: "No, what's wrong?" I said: "Then..." Anyway, I hinted a little bit, and seemed to be joking, and I said, "I don't have a girlfriend either." I was smiling on the surface, but my heart was beating drums all the time.Looking back now, the image of a "diaosi" comes to mind.

After this meal, our text messages became frequent, and we were no longer ordinary teammates.Although the badminton team has always been more open-minded about the love of players, which can be regarded as humane, but because they are young, they are still somewhat afraid.If I was bumped into by someone in Jinjiang, I wouldn't feel anything, just a meal.But when I went on the first date after returning to Beijing after the training camp, I was really nervous. But in the end, he really complied with that sentence—whatever he was afraid of.After returning to Beijing, I asked Ah Fang to go out, and she was also afraid of meeting acquaintances.We agreed that I would first go out and take a taxi and park it near the Temple of Heaven apartment, which should be a place that no one would pay attention to, and then tell her to come out and get in the car.As soon as we got in the car, we asked the driver to turn around and were about to go to dinner. A teammate who seldom called me suddenly called me.He asked: "What are you doing?" When I heard it, I felt strange, because "there is a ghost in my heart", I said: "Why not, I'm in the car, ready to go out for dinner." He asked again: "Are you with me?" Who will eat together?" I was dumbfounded when I heard that.This person is Cai Yun, he doesn't usually look for me, why are you asking me this now?I replied: "Ah... with my teammates." He smiled on the phone and said, "It's okay, you can go and eat!" I thought to myself, it's over.I'm one of those people who has no talent for lying.But I didn't tell Xie Xingfang at the time, I didn't want her to be nervous too.From then on, even if many people in the team didn't know that I was with Xie Xingfang, they knew that I must be chasing Xie Xingfang.