The next day, July 16th.

When Ye Qin woke up, he looked at the wall clock on the wall. At 5:15 in the morning, after adapting to the time difference in Italy, his daily training and life habits made him wake up automatically at this time.

Feeling a little soreness and fatigue in his body, Ye Qin pulled the quilt and wanted to continue sleeping for a while. It was already past 12 o'clock when he returned to the hotel's base last night. After a simple washing, it was almost 1 o'clock. It disrupted his usual rhythm of going to bed on time at 11 o'clock in the evening. In addition, three games a day were played a day, which was very intense and his body had not fully recovered.

The hurdle player Liu Lilu in the next bed was sleeping soundly. Today was the preliminaries of the men's 110-meter hurdles. The opponent went to bed early last night to calm down. By the time Ye Qin came back last night, the opponent did not react much.

I don’t know if it was because of the intense competition yesterday, or because I was worried about Nie Fangping, so I couldn’t sleep well all night. After waking up, I was not only a sour feeling in my body, but also a little drowsy.

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

The breakfast time arranged by the hotel in the resident site has not yet arrived. After sitting quietly in the hotel lobby for a while, Ye Qin simply left the hotel and ran a morning jog along the quaint streets of Grosseto.

Grossetto was quite quiet in the early morning, with few pedestrians on the streets, and there was a different sense of tranquility.

Along the street, Ye Qin looked at the Basilica of Grosseto and St. Francis, which were full of historical vicissitudes, and there was also a Basilica of St. Petersburg in the city center. When he first arrived in Grosseto, Ye Qin heard the Italian translator and staff of the delegation talk about it, and there were many monasteries and churches outside the city.

In addition to churches, there are also buildings similar to palaces, various squares, monuments, etc. full of medieval European styles.

I noticed some places when I arrived in Grosseto, but I didn’t look at them as close as Ye Qin now. Occasionally, I passed by some streets made of stones and looked at the rare streets of pedestrians. I really felt like I was in ancient Italy and Europe.

Although Grosseto is the capital of the local area and its buildings have a sense of historical age, the entire place is not very big. Ye Qin thinks it is actually not much different from Xiushui County.

Ye Qin trotted all the way, and without taking a long time, he arrived at the Grosseto Central Hospital.

I didn't notice it last night. After I arrived today, I found that it was a three-story building. Compared with other buildings with a sense of history, it was quite new, but it should have a history of decades.

Ye Qin entered the hospital and began to expect that he would encounter obstacles such as nurses on duty or doormen's security guards. Although he had put in English, he was not very 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 it was too early, there were only two sleepy white nurses who were lying on the window. They seemed to have glanced at him without much reaction.

Ye Qin went directly to the hospital and followed the memories of last night, searching for a while, and 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. He originally wanted to enter the door and see if Nie Fangping had improved today, but when he arrived outside the door, he stopped again for some reason.

Just as Nie Fangping has not considered Ye Qin, Ye Qin actually vaguely felt that he might spend less and less time with Nie Fangping in the future. He will be in his third year of high school next semester. The college entrance examination will be over at this time next year, and then he will leave Xiushui and enter the university campus.

Unlike when he first entered high school, after running around the country and going abroad several times, Ye Qin is no longer as careful when looking at himself and the entire society as before. He can find his own position and have the confidence to handle some things well, but at this moment, he just didn't expect that a sudden unexpected change still made him feel a little depressed.

Over the past year when the master and apprentice were together, they had become more and more co-starred. Nie Fangping's appearance has to some extent replaced an important role that should appear in his life.

In childhood and adolescence, this character is grandfather or uncle, and in teenager stage, it is undoubtedly Nie Fangping.

It was the first time he went to Nanxiu Market to train alone. He was trained on the track and field field. Nie Fangping accidentally discovered that the first nutritious meal he gave him in the cafeteria. He waited for him to appear on the playground after class every day to start training and went to the field management center. The old man who had always been resolute and silent in his eyes lowered his head and begged for help.

Many things unknowingly penetrated into his life silently. The old man on the hospital bed seemed to have become more white for more than a year. When he was sleeping, his face muscles could still be seen with deep head-up lines and vertical lines between his eyebrows.

"Coach, get better quickly!"

He stood outside the quiet door for a long time, until more and more people were coming and going around the corridor, and Ye Qin quietly turned around and left.

Still following the way he came, Ye Qin jogged all the way. There were more and more pedestrians on the road. I don’t know if they were local residents or tourists who got up early to go shopping. In strange cities and strange countries, such morning jogging was a completely different experience for Ye Qin.

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

It feels like I was back to the small village where I was running in the cloud a year or two ago. No one seemed to care what he was doing, but he knew it himself.

He knew from the day he stood on the runway.

I ran around for a while, but because several buildings were similar, I ran a wrong section. But the direction of the road was still correct. After paying a little attention, I returned to the hotel where I was stationed.

At this time, the weather was almost completely cold. The players in the hotel team had already gotten up this morning and had breakfast in the hotel restaurant after washing up.

They will go to the stadium later, start a series of warm-ups in advance, and then check the program to prepare for the competition, etc.

Ye Qin sat in the restaurant with other players from the team and started breakfast. Except for Liu Lilu in the same dormitory, he quietly went out in the morning and came back quietly, without anyone noticing. After seeing Ye Qin, other players in the team had met with him several times, and nodded to him kindly.

Soon, the leader Zhou Bin appeared in the restaurant while yawning. The bags on his face were a little heavy. After seeing Ye Qin, he was a little surprised:

"Ye Qin, you still have a game tonight, so you have to ensure a rest during the day. Coach Nie is not here today. If you go to the arena, you can come with Coach Xu or several other coaches. If you want to see Coach Nie, you can also tell Coach Xu that he will take you there."

There are many games in the morning and afternoon. Zhou Bin, as the team leader, will also appear in the arena as much as possible in some games, so as not to have problems, and need to communicate with the officials of the organizing committee, etc.

"Well, thank you for Guidance Zhou!"

After breakfast, Ye Qin went back to the room, did not follow him to the stadium, nor did he go to the team to ask another coach Xu, who was arranged to visit Nie Fangping in the hospital, but instead lay on the bed and started to sleep.

He could feel the fatigue of his body and the astringent muscles. Although his brain became a little clearer after the morning run, he was still a little sleepy.

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

Maybe some people think that they had already won a men's 400-meter silver medal yesterday and also received an Olympic ticket. Today, they can relax.

Even if the men's performance in the 200m final tonight was not satisfactory, no one would blame him. After the intensity of the three games a day, there were still a few people in spirit and condition the next day.

But Ye Qin didn't want to give up. He had to go to the competition, so he wanted to run seriously and go to the run with all his might!

The coach is not here, he needs to adjust these things by himself.

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

You must be strong and fearless! 8)
Chapter completed!