Return To 1977 Chapter 504: Jumping platform
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Since we met by chance today, let’s swim together.
Swimming tickets are certainly no longer an issue.
Hong Yanwu and his group of five did not even have to wait outside to bask in the sun. In the eyes of many envious eyes, they directly followed "Lao Diao" into the large iron gate of the swimming pool in advance, and each began to change clothes.
The men's and women's changing rooms of the "Taoranting Swimming Pool" are two transparent rooms in the north and south. There are entrances and exits in both directions. The black roof and light green rooms look like imitation Soviet-style buildings.
The space inside is very large. There are wooden benches in the middle of the room, which can accommodate at least hundreds of people changing clothes at the same time.
There are many small windows around the house similar to ticket booths, which are places where clothes are stored.
At that time, it was not like the swimming pools that came later, where everyone could have an independent locker. People must pack their changes of clothes and store them in these clothes storage windows.
After receiving the clothes, the staff inside will store them on rows of shelves, and then give the corresponding number plates to the person who deposited the clothes.
This method is of course very inconvenient.
First of all, you must bring your own small bag, and secondly, shoes must be mixed with clothing.
At that time, most of the clothes were mesh bags, and there were no plastic bags. Clothes were easily stained, and after a change of clothes was packed, they would become wrinkled when worn again.
We had to queue up in the end. At the beginning, everyone will come in at once, and in an instant, chairs and windows for storing clothes will become scarce resources.
Needless to say, in this era of lack of public morality and order, lonely people and honest people naturally suffer the most.
They are a vulnerable group, and they are often pushed to the end due to small groups that frequently join in, and they have to be delayed in the locker room for as little as 20 minutes.
Ahem, but there’s nothing we can do about it, it’s the same everywhere. Moreover, this was already the best swimming pool accessible to ordinary people at that time.
As for Hong Yanwu, he has never had to worry about queuing, and he has rich experience in changing clothes. He has his own way of separating shoes and clothes.
That is to bring a few more newspapers, take off the shoes of three people, wrap them in newspapers, and put them in a net bag. Then tie the net bag for shoes and the net bag for clothes together so that the clothes will not be stained by the shoes.
However, the two "princesses" didn't know these tricks. Even if they didn't have to line up today, they stayed in the locker room for a long time and didn't come out.
If he hadn't known that there was no toilet inside, Hong Yanwu would have thought they had fallen into a latrine.
In the end, thanks to "Lao Diao", he found a female colleague to help take care of the clothes, so he helped these two people store their clothes.
Otherwise, even if they wait another half an hour, the two of them may not be able to coordinate the relationship between shoes and clothes on their own.
After they finally came out, Zhou Manna and Ye Xuan's faces turned blue.
This is not entirely because they changed into swimsuits and stayed in the cool locker room for too long and got cold.
Actually, it was more because they were frightened by the unimaginably dirty water in the swimming pool as soon as they stepped out of the disinfection pool.
This year's "Taoranting Swimming Pool" has a total of six swimming pools. The first thing you see when entering are two mushroom pools on the left and right sides.
This is for children and is usually the starting point for young children to learn swimming.
The water in each pool is only fifty centimeters, and each has two mushroom-shaped water fountains. Water flows down from the mushroom plane, similar to the effect of a small waterfall.
To the south of Mushroom Pond are two standard-sized swimming pools side by side.
The depth of these two standard pools increases from north to south. From 1.05 to 1.4 meters, for beginners.
Although these two pools are divided into male pool and female pool. But there are still many underage boys who are mixed into the female pool, and their age makes the staff too lazy to pay attention to them.
So usually, the south side of the two pools is where parents take their younger children to play, while the north side where there is a stone pier platform becomes a place for older children who have some swimming skills to have fun.
It is often seen that some underage men enter the water in various unbelievable ways, and conflicts often occur for this reason.
In short, the two mushroom pools and the two beginner pools are overcrowded places. You can touch others by moving your arms and legs slightly, but you can't swim away at all. It's like a dumpling pot. How can the water quality be better?
In fact, the water in the pool is all green, extremely chaotic, and the water temperature exceeds body temperature. If people enter the water, they will feel warm. Especially in the two standard pools, you can see a lot of mud-like floating objects on the surface of the water.
The murky water that so many people swim in is really incomparable to the clear and clear swimming pools of privileged units. Thinking about what the short, fat black man said about someone peeing here just now, it made the two girls sick at the sight of it.
But fortunately there is a clean holy land in the swimming pool, which finally saved the expectations and perceptions of the two girls.
That is to the south of the two shallow pools, separated by iron railings, there is a deep water area that only few people visit.
The color of the pool water here maintains the pure blue color and low temperature of the Arctic Ocean glaciers all year round, giving people the feeling of an unpolluted sea. It is reminiscent of the most famous cold drink brand in Beijing.
There are also two swimming pools. A standard competition pool, 50 meters by 25 meters, with a water depth of two meters. The other is a diving pool of the same size but with a depth of five meters. There are three-meter, five-meter, seven-meter and ten-meter diving platforms on the shore.
The two girls were so excited when they found out that they immediately ran over happily and said, "It's so clean! It's great!"
It was only then that Hong Yanwu understood the doubts in his heart.
It turns out that Zhou Manna and Ye Xuan did not swim in the internal swimming pool where they usually go this time, but came here specifically for the formal diving platform in the deep water area of the "Taoranting Swimming Pool".
Speaking of which, this was all Xuan Ye’s idea.
Dear me, she just watched the movie "Water Hibiscus" with Zhou Manna, and she was very attracted to the heroine's beautiful posture when entering the water.
I was intrigued when I heard someone else say that there is a diving platform for regular competitions at the Taoranting Swimming Pool. She had to beg for nothing and drag Zhou Manna to accompany her.
She also added an extra layer of fun to this trip, to experience the lives of ordinary people in depth. So they didn't even take their parents' car. They bought tickets and took the bus.
But I didn’t expect that the gap between romantic feelings and reality is so big.
Not to mention that the buses along this route were extremely crowded. They were so angry about the swimming tickets that they almost lost their wallets.
What I didn’t expect was that even if I saw the deep water area, I still had to pass a level.
Because the big sign hanging on the gate of the deep water area not only states that the water temperature is "11 degrees today", it also clearly states that entrants must have a "deep water certificate."
For many southerners, this system may have never been heard of, but it is a long-term regulation implemented by the Beijing Sports Bureau for public swimming pools.
To this end, public swimming pools across Beijing will conduct rigorous tests from time to time.
There is no limit on swimming style and time. You must swim 200 meters before a deep water certificate can be issued. You will also need to pay a certain fee if you pass the exam.
This double restriction has resulted in the deepwater certification certificate with an English letter "R" printed on a white background becoming a special identity certificate for a few people.
Generally speaking, men's are sewn on their swimming trunks, and women's are sewn on the left breast of their swimsuits. Even though they look a bit like sportswear LOGOs, this thing is much better than Nike and Adidas.
Because it not only represents the owner's ability, but also represents the ability to enjoy the pure blue and low temperature of the deep water.
Of course, it is this system that makes the deepwater area a "special zone" visited by only a small number of people and maintains better water quality.
Speaking of which, this is Zhou Manna and Xuan Ye’s luck again. Although the two of them know how to swim, where do they have a deep water certificate?
Thanks to Hong Yanwu's guidance, they were able to enter the deep water area and had no time to rejoice.
But then again, from the swimming pool we were accustomed to to the diving platform we stepped on for the first time, the world has become taller and more difficult. Some things are far less beautiful than imagined.
Based on the actual abilities of the two girls, standing on the three-meter platform is enough to scare them. They barely dared to look down, let alone look far into the distance.
Because they didn’t know until they got up there that the feeling was definitely not the same when looking at the platform from the ground. When you look down from the top, you have to add your own height.
To be honest, if it hadn't already started and they were afraid of being laughed at by the people below, the two girls might have been able to climb down again along the same path.
As for the end, although they restrained their panic and timidity, they held their noses and jumped straight down. However, the extremely non-standard posture when entering the water also caused them great suffering.
The process of being photographed is almost exactly the same, there is a "bang" sound, the rough waves first slap hard and then cover it!
The icy water is like needles, it really makes your scalp numb and your whole body tingles!
When they climbed up the escalator to the shore, the two girls were both red and swollen, could not straighten their waists like shrimps, and were trembling.
In fact, the pain and cold are easy to describe, but the grievance is really unspeakable.
They all felt that they had been humiliated. Unexpectedly, they mustered up the courage to jump off one after another, pinching their noses to maintain the dignity of the people's soldiers on the Great Steel Wall, but they ended up in even more embarrassing embarrassment.
Thanks to Hong Yanwu's foreknowledge, he waited for them by the pool and helped them up from the pool one by one with his strong arms very considerately. Otherwise, they might not have the strength to go ashore, and even if they did, they would probably fall on the wet ground.
On the other hand, what the two girls didn't expect was that Hong Yanwu and Chen Liquan were extremely good at diving.
Not only did both of them choose to jump from the highest ten-meter platform, they were also able to do a twist and turn, and their postures when entering the water were very stunning. Moreover, their freestyle movements are extremely concise and crisp, with very little splash under their feet.
It can be said that both his body shape and skills are comparable to those of regular divers, which simply achieved an effect that shocked the entire audience.
Even the lifeguards wearing sunglasses in the deep water area couldn't help but give a thumbs up, saying that the professional diving team did not "dig" them away, which was simply blind and burying their talents.
So much so that when they dived, not only did no one dare to jump with them anymore. It also attracted many people standing outside the iron fence in the deep water area, whistling and clapping. This is really on par with the treatment of sports stars.
All of this left Zhou Manna and Ye Xuan dumbfounded, and they could only feel envious.
Especially when Hong Yanwu and Chen Liquan emerged from the dazzling blue foam. They walked ashore along the escalator amidst the dazzling sunshine and loud noises. Black water droplets rolled down from their European sculpture-like figures. , when the rough ground was spread into pieces, that absent-minded smile simply gave people an illusion.
The sky seemed to shake as they emerged from the water...