Chapter 119 Coming of Age Ceremony
However, this kid has no other results except football games. Now there are a lot of things to recommend. For example, reporting past results is a big trouble, and there are also parents’ concerns. No matter what, Lao Liang couldn't help but feel his head explode when he thought about this.
However, I didn’t go to the provinces or cities to cry out for money because of the time constraints.
Fortunately, the requirements of competitive schools are not that high. You can reach level two in sprinting and long-distance running. Those who have experience in team events should be very popular there.
My daughter is quite reliable in this matter, and she did not recommend the wrong person.
The sun had come out and the light was very good. Lao Liang also entertained the students, ate soy milk and fried dough sticks, and then took Zhou Zhi to shoot "slow freestyle".
This time Zhou Zhi had more tricks. He followed the instructional videos he had studied, starting with kicking, sideways, and gradually added movements. He also filmed assisting and pulling with Yan Xiao.
In the end, I did it myself and took some pictures of normal swimming styles.
In fact, there is also a set of breaststroke movements, which were developed only in later generations. There are some butterfly stroke movements in the movements, but Zhou Zhi has never swum out of the butterfly stroke, so he has not shown it to anyone.
Lao Liang and Zhou Zhi were filming there, and the friends were learning on the side. They were all water-based that had been cultivated in the Chishui River for a long time. By the time they finished filming in the morning, people like Yan Xiao and Fang Wenyu were already good enough. I used freestyle swimming to swim back and forth in the long pool.
This effect made Lao Liang very satisfied, and he became more confident in using this method as a promotion project to popularize freestyle.
After that, there will be no more thoughtful things. We will grab a few swimming team masters and professional things will eventually have to be left to professionals.
Two weeks before the start of the school year, the school notified the twenty students participating in the study tour to arrive at school in advance to participate in training and study.
The gap between Jiachuan Middle School and the provincial key schools is obvious. Zhao Shangzhong’s requirement for his students is to win without losing face.
But even with such low requirements, the Zhao Shang Center is still not at a loss. Fortunately, the advance team of teachers who went to the province to participate in exchanges during the holidays have returned, so we can strike while the iron is hot and start a small stove for the children in advance.
The happiest thing should be Jiang Shuyi, who can get to school early without any problem, and no longer has to stay alone in Rongshan.
The four people in the liberal arts class are all familiar with each other, but Zhang Lu is relatively shy. He seldom communicates with Zhou Zhi except studying. He and Zhou Zhi also talk more about the Three Kingdoms and football games.
Zhang Lu finally stayed in the liberal arts class. He had the same idea as Mu Ruyun, which was to use his score advantage in mathematics to squeeze into college first.
This study tour is all free of charge, and even includes lunch and dinner for this "pre-training", where we all sit at a round table and eat stir-fries.
This alone shows that Zhao Shangzhong attaches great importance to this study tour.
Three days before the start of school, Zhao Shangzhong also organized a mobilization meeting with the students to cheer everyone up.
Of course, Zhao Shangzhong did not crush his friends to death. After the symposium and mobilization meeting, he gave everyone the last two days of vacation.
Just then, Yan Xiao rushed over. Should we do that coming-of-age ceremony you mentioned?
Yes... Only then did Zhou Zhi remember that this was included in the previous arrangement.
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Not far from the woods behind the playground road, you will see a thick steel pipe by the river. It is used to transport natural gas from Sichuan to Lutianhua, Sichuanhua and Chitianhua. of pipelines.
The pipeline has a 90-degree turn on the edge of the Hongshui River. It crosses the Hongshui River through two tall bridge piers to the other side, and then crosses the Xishui River, which is what Jiachuan people call it. The Gaodong River connects to Ma Street and leads to Sichuan Tianhua in Rongshan Town.
Finding the steel pipe in the woods, the friends jumped on it and started walking along the steel pipe to the other side of the river.
This is just a "auxiliary road". The diameter of the steel pipe is more than one meter, and the bottom is the ground. The surrounding trees are higher than the steel pipe. Except for boys, girls are not afraid either.
They were all classmates, and this time there were Liang Hong and Zhang Lu in the team, as well as several other boys who were also sent on study tours.
The steel pipe has always remained horizontal, but the terrain along the river is steep. After the steel pipe extends for a while, it gradually begins to distance vertically from the ground below. Soon, the "bridge deck" becomes higher. over the surrounding tree canopy.
At this point, they have entered the starting point of the coming-of-age ceremony on the Steel Pipe Bridge. The girls Zhang Xinyi, Jiang Shuyi, Ye Xin, and He Yongmei no longer dare to go forward.
Although the diameter of the steel pipe is more than one meter, because it is in the shape of an arc, only the top thirty centimeters, which are relatively horizontal, can be placed.
Although there are guardrails on both sides, the guardrails only reach the bend of the legs and are welded with thin steel bars. Not only are they short, they are also very sparse.
If you bend down to support it, not only will it be inconvenient to walk, but your eyes will inevitably look downward, which is even more scary.
Although it is still the wet season, the vertical distance between the steel pipe and the river is still seven or eight stories high. On the empty river, the visual effect of relative height is higher than that of tens of meters. Be shocked.
Fortunately, there is a process of gradually getting higher here. The boys briefly discussed the formation and began to move forward.
Yan Xiao and Fang Wenyu took the lead, Yang He, Mu Ruyun and the other boys were in the middle. Wei Fei, Zhang Lu and a few cowards were in the rear, and Zhou Zhi was in charge of the rear, acting like a "screaming duck" .
When the team was all set off, a figure suddenly appeared in front of Zhou Zhi.
"I rely on Sister Hong! This place is already higher than the tree!" Zhou Zhi was frightened by this: "What you did just now was very dangerous!"
"Also, this is a boy's thing, you Why do you want to get involved?" "Why can only you boys walk on the steel pipe bridge?" Liang Hong expressed dissatisfaction. “Don’t the aunts from the opposite side often walk here when they go to the city to pick up dung and sell vegetables?”
This is true. People in the village opposite often regard this place as an important transportation facility and walk there every day. The maids and sisters in the village do this as easily as gymnasts do on the balance beam.
You can even pick vegetables and carry them in a basket.
But that is a skill that people have practiced since childhood, and it is different from the group of people on the bridge now.
"Sister Hong is so powerful and domineering!" Zhou Zhi gave a thumbs up: "Women are not inferior to men!"
Liang Hong also held a wooden stick in her hand and kept hitting the steel pipe. and the guardrail on the side, shouting to Wei Fei in front: "Hurry up the plane! Look, we're already a long way ahead! Dilly-dallying What?! If you don’t leave, I will stab you..."
Wei Fei had no choice but to move forward cautiously: "No, Sister Hong, please let me take my time..."
As we moved forward, the river bank began to sink, the steel pipe got higher and higher from the ground, and soon entered the most dangerous and terrifying section.
The scenery under the bridge has become much smaller. At your feet are the paths, stones, and some tree crowns along the river.
The reason why this section is the scariest is because if you walk to the river and fall off the bridge, you will fall into the water, and you may still survive.
If you fall from here, you will fall directly to the stone and die.
Wei Fei's feet were already weak: "Hong...Sister Hong..."
Liang Hong banged on the pipe to encourage Wei Fei: "Don't look down at the plane! Look up and look ahead. Zhang Lu’s back! Then you won’t be afraid!”
"I'm right behind you, don't be afraid, I can reach out and catch you."
In fact, Liang Hong herself was afraid, but the team spirit made her know that what her companions need now is positive encouragement, which made her follow Zhou Zhi, who was behind Liang Hong, glanced at Sister Hong again.
The essence of sports and group activities is here.
“Come on, plane, the big white peaches in Lijiang Village across the way are ripe now!”
“That kind of peach can stick to your fingers even if you touch a packet of sweet water. Because it breaks when touched, we can’t sell it in the city. We can’t eat it here at the bridge.”
"Really?!" After hearing this, Wei Fei began to feel that he could do it.
“Look up at the other side!” Zhou Zhi shouted: “Did you see those dots on the trees behind the bamboo forest?”
Wei Fei was wearing glasses, so he couldn’t see clearly: “You bitch You really don’t want to coax people?”
“When have I ever coaxed people?” People? The peaches over there have white flowers and are called July peaches. They are nourishing in June, nourishing in July, and sweet in August. "
"Although they are on the market in July, they are still on the tree. The ones left until August are the most delicious.”
"Oh, please hurry up on the plane!" Even Liang Hong became anxious now and turned on the "Yuck Duck" mode: "No hurry, all the big peaches have been robbed!"
"That's it, sell it. There’s so much to sell, and there’s so much to eat, so as long as we go there, we might not need to spend any money..." Zhou Zhi spoke from behind.
Wei Fei's pace involuntarily quickened: "No wonder Mr. Ji is so anxious to leave... Hey - wait for us -"
Soon we arrived at the third step of the steel pipe bridge. A serious test - the bridge pier.
The steel tube bridge has two huge red sandstone pillars standing high as bridge piers, made of strips of stone, one on each side of the river, in the shape of a flat cylinder.
The steel pipe came here and turned an arc, drawing a semicircle around the bridge pier, and then continued to stretch to the other side of the river.
The guardrail did not turn, and the steel pipe under the feet turned into a sparse thin iron ladder. Angle iron was used as the ladder, and one bar was separated by more than half a meter. If a person falls from the middle of the two poles of the ladder, it will be one point. No problems at all.
Tens of meters down the iron ladder is the rocky river beach.
When people get here, they have to squat down, grab the handrails with both hands, climb up the iron ladder step by step, climb to the bridge pier, and then climb up the iron ladder on the other side. Steel pipe, keep going.
During this process, you have to stare at the iron frame beneath you and the river beach dozens of meters below the iron frame, which is quite exciting.
After working in the previous life, Zhou Zhi and his colleagues went online in the Shaanxi support system. When climbing Huashan Mountain, they experienced a long sky plank road. The kite turned over. Several brave colleagues retreated. The past two also turned pale. They asked Why is Zhou Zhi not afraid? Zhou Zhi smiled and said that he had experienced such excitement several times when he was a child.
Although the height of the Huashan Plank Road is much higher than that of the steel tube bridge, the wooden planks under your feet, the thick iron chains in your hands, and the cliffs to rely on give people a sense of security that is far stronger than crossing the bridge piers.
Walking on the steel pipe bridge, in the hearts of teenage boys in Jiachuan, means that from now on, they will have the courage to fear danger, the courage to overcome fear, and the confidence to challenge difficulties.
The coming-of-age ceremony for the boys in Jiachuan is not something that can be accomplished easily.
(End of this chapter)