Li Dai felt that the envelope containing money in his hand suddenly became as heavy as a thousand pounds.

"What's the situation? How could someone give me money? What did Zhu Feng's father just said? It seemed to mention the national team?" Li Dai's mind suddenly paused.

"Uncle Zhu, you just said that you would let Zhu Feng join the national team? What's going on?" Li Dai continued to ask.

"Coach Li, I know there are people above you who can speak in the national team and have the ability to get my son Zhu Feng to the national team. Please help us..." Zhu Feng's father continued.

"I have someone above?" Li Dai suddenly laughed: "Uncle Zhu, I think there must be some misunderstandings here, right? I am an ordinary coach from a small place like Yuzhou. Who can there be above!"

"Coach Li, please refuse!" Zhu Feng's father pointed to the envelope and continued: "I know that these are definitely not enough. You must use money when you go to Beijing to operate. Just tell me how much you need, and I will send it to you tomorrow."

"No, Uncle Zhu, you must have misunderstood. I don't have that great ability to bring athletes to the national team." Li Dai waved his hand immediately and asked back, "By the way, where did you hear that I have someone above?"

"It's all like this in the table tennis team." Zhu Feng's father continued: "They said you know a lot of people in the capital, many of whom are officials, and they can speak in the General Administration of Sports."

"This is all about it!" Li Dai smiled self-deprecatingly: "If I really had that ability, I wouldn't have to stay here anymore. I'd have been to the national team long ago."

"Aren't you just in the national team before?" Zhu Feng's father continued: "They said that you are back to the provincial team now to get a job at the grassroots level. When you return to Huajing, you will definitely be promoted."

"There are still such rumors? I feel that I have no place to make sense!" Li Dai was a little helpless. He felt that he was being praised for no reason.

"Uncle Zhu, you really misunderstood. I really don't have that ability." Li Dai thought for a while and continued to explain: "And I was with the national track and field team, not the national table tennis team. If I were a track and field athlete, I would still be able to recommend them, but I really can't do anything about table tennis players."

Li Dai said, handing the envelope containing 10,000 yuan back to Zhu Feng's father.

However, Zhu Feng's father felt that Li Dai was thinking that the money was low and refused to help. He did not take the envelope, but said, "Coach Li, this is my little intention. I know it is definitely not enough. I still have it here. Wait for me and I will come back tomorrow!"

"No, I didn't mean that. I really don't have that much ability." Li Dai held the envelope and forced it into Zhu Feng's father's hand.

"I understand, I understand!" Zhu Feng's father seemed to have a sudden realization, and then turned around to say goodbye.

...

Li Dai originally thought this was a simple misunderstanding, but someone had rumored it and the matter passed. But what he didn't expect was that the next night, he returned to the dormitory and just opened the door, but he saw another envelope on the ground. He knew it was stuffed into the crack of the door.

Li Dai opened the envelope and said that this time it was not money, but a bank card, and there was a note inside. The note read "Coach Li Dai, please accept it with a smile", and there were six numbers behind it, which were obviously the password of the bank card, and the signature was Zhu Feng's father.

"Why are you here again?" Li Dai felt very helpless and also a little angry. He looked at the corridor outside but did not see Zhu Feng's father.

"As an athlete, I don't train well and work hard to improve my level. I just want to think about some evil things. Well, I'll go find Zhu Feng, return the money to him directly, and scold him by the way!" Li Dai thought of this and walked towards the athlete's dormitory with an envelope.

As a coach, Li Dai lives in a single dormitory, while Zhu Feng lives in a double dormitory as an athlete.

Li Dai came to the athlete's dormitory building, asked about which room Zhu Feng lived in, and walked over directly. He knocked on the door and someone immediately opened the door.

"Coach Li! Why are you here?" The person who opened the door was also a player of the table tennis team, so he recognized Li Dai.

"Does Zhu Feng live here?" Li Dai asked fiercely.

"You are looking for Zhu Feng, he hasn't come back yet." The other party replied.

"It's already 8:30, why haven't you come back yet? Have you gone to the Internet cafe? Or have you gone out to play?" Li Dai frowned slightly.

Self-discipline is a necessary quality for professional athletes. Strict work and rest time is also part of "self-discipline". Generally speaking, athletes' rest time cannot exceed 10 o'clock in the evening at the latest. If you sleep too late and don't have enough rest time, it will definitely affect the normal training the next day. Many athletes already go to bed at 9 o'clock in the evening.

Including the washing time before going to bed, the athlete should return to the dormitory at 8 o'clock in the evening. If there is no special situation, if the athlete has not yet met the dormitory after 8:30 pm, the athlete will obviously be a little too self-disciplined.

Hearing Li Dai’s doubts, Zhu Feng’s roommate immediately explained, “Coach Li, don’t get me wrong. Zhu Feng must not go out to play. He should change to practice equipment in the training room now! Every night, Zhu Feng will practice for himself, and he must practice until almost nine o’clock before he comes back. Otherwise, you come in first and sit and wait, and I will call him and ask him to come back early.”

"No need." Li Dai waved his hand: "It's not far anyway, so I'd better go to the training room to find him."

...

"I practice more every night. It seems that Zhu Feng is also a very hard-working athlete! This kind of hard-working athlete uses some evil methods to give money to the coach in order to join the national team. This really surprised me." Li Dai thought about it and walked to the training room.

The lights in the training room were still on, and you could see the figures shaking from afar. Li Dai walked into the door of the training room and saw Zhu Feng sweating proficiency on a piece of equipment at a glance.

"I'm really training here." Li Dai looked at Zhu Feng's sweaty look and couldn't help but increase his favorability.

As a coach, you will definitely like hard-working athletes. Li Dai thought that Zhu Feng did not train seriously and wanted to take shortcuts to the national team, but now it seems that Zhu Feng is not such a person.

"Maybe there will be some hidden secrets!" Li Dai thought about it, and he thought he should not draw arbitrary conclusions first.

At this time, Zhu Feng saw Li Dai who had just walked into the door, and he immediately stopped the training at hand.

"Coach Li!" Zhu Feng got off the fitness equipment.

Li Dai took out the envelope from his pocket and handed it to Zhu Feng with a cold face.

Zhu Feng took the envelope with an awkward expression, looked at Li Dai carefully, and asked tentatively: "Coach Li, isn't it enough?"

Li Dai was so angry that he didn't laugh.

"What do you think?" Li Dai's tone was extremely cold and silent. He continued, "Your father is confused, are you confused too? Do you think the selection of the national team is a joke? Do you have to make it by spending money?"

"I..." Zhu Feng looked a little struggling: "I just wanted to try it, they all said, there are people above you."

"Haha, even if there are really people above me, I won't help you, at least I won't help you for the sake of money." Li Dai took a deep breath and continued: "Don't forget your identity. You are an athlete. If you want to join the national team, you should use your strength instead of taking some wrong paths!"

"I'm sorry." Zhu Feng lowered his head: "I don't want to do this either, but I'm afraid I won't have a chance. I'm already 20 years old this year. If I can't be selected for the national team again, I will never have a chance in my life."

For the selection of the national table tennis team, 20 years old is indeed an elderly athlete. In the national table tennis team, many well-known players who can be named by ordinary people are selected into the second team of the national team at the age of fourteen or five. Those who are selected into the national team at the age of eighteen or nineteen are already relatively old. If they are over 20 years old, the value of training may be lost for the national table tennis team. Many first-line players, if they cannot continue to maintain good condition at the age of six or seven, will probably choose to retire.

So if Zhu Feng is young in other sports, he can still be considered a new star. However, in the talented table tennis event, he is about to lose the qualification to be selected for the national team because he is too old.

However, Li Dai did not sympathize with Zhu Feng. He said, "This is not the reason for you to use evil ways. If you do this, you are not only insulting me, but also insulting yourself and your athlete's identity."

"I'm sorry." Zhu Feng apologized again, and he obviously knew that he had done something wrong.

"Actually, your strength is one of the best in our provincial team. Even if you are not able to enter the national team, you can still prove your strength in the game. You are still an excellent table tennis player. Although you cannot enter the national team and you cannot participate in international competitions, you can still participate in domestic competitions. Domestic table tennis competitions are more cruel than international competitions. Is it even bigger? You can also participate in club competitions. As the first in the provincial team, you should be at the club to play in the Table Tennis Super League. There should be no problem!" Li Dai continued.

"Coach Li, you don't understand that joining the national team is my dream and the dream of our family of three generations." Zhu Feng seemed a little excited, and he continued: "In fact, our family is also a table tennis family. When my grandfather was young, he also worked as a table tennis player. At that time, he was a soldier. He also represented the army and participated in the first National Games."

"The first National Games? That's old enough!" Li Dai said.

Li Dai studied in school. He knew that the significance of the first National Games was extraordinary. It can be said that it was the first National Games that laid the foundation for domestic sports. The system of various domestic sports was established after that. If there were no the first National Games, the domestic sports industry might have been like India, just playing cricket with pleasure, but achieved nothing in international competitions.

Zhu Feng continued: "In that era, there were almost no professional athletes, and no professional coaches. My grandfather was also sent by the army to participate in the National Games because he played well in table tennis. After the National Games, although my grandfather did not get a ranking, he was invited by the national table tennis team."

"But my grandfather was an active soldier at that time, so he gave up going to the national table tennis team, and this incident made my grandfather regret it for life, because two years after the National Games ended, our national team won the gold medal and the men's team's gold medal for the first time at the 26th World Table Tennis Championships."

Li Dai nodded. Although it was more than half a century ago, the honor of the first World Table Tennis Championships team gold medal is enough to make people worry about it for life. That time, the national team kissed the Swethlin Cup for the first time. It was something that every national team member would remember for the rest of his life and be proud for the rest of his life!

However, Zhu Feng's grandfather missed...

Li Dai felt that if it were him, he would definitely regret it for the rest of his life.

Zhu Feng continued: "Entering the national team is my grandfather's knot in his life. Later, he began to train my dad. My dad entered the amateur sports school at the age of seven and started learning table tennis. He was selected into the city youth team at the age of nine, entered the city sports team at the age of twelve, and became an athlete of our provincial sports team at the age of fourteen. At that time, our whole family thought that my dad would definitely be selected into the national team."

"But just before the national team came to select a person, my father had tuberculosis. Although he was cured in the end, he left behind sequelae. He often had problems with breathing and excessive exercise, pneumothorax will also occur, so his athlete's path has been cut off from then on."

Tuberculosis, known as tuberculosis in ancient times, has been a serious infectious disease that causes death for thousands of years. Many celebrities in history have died of tuberculosis.

Since the 1950s, drugs that can fight tuberculosis have been continuously discovered, and the epidemic of tuberculosis has been controlled. In China, this disease has not been cured until the 1980s.

In that era, the incidence of tuberculosis in China was about 710 per 100,000. At that time, more than 300,000 people died of tuberculosis every year. It was not uncommon for Zhu Feng's father to be infected with tuberculosis.

Tuberculosis is a contagious chronic disease. Even with current medical technology, tuberculosis will cause calcification in the lungs after it is completely cured, which will definitely affect the respiratory system. In the past, when medical technology was not yet developed, there were more sequelae.
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