The Gold is Yours, You Are Mine: Chapter 14 peers
As soon as Xie Shi'an pushed through the crowd and squeezed in, he heard a male voice say, "That's it? What about the Binhai Provincial Team? If you're from the Binhai Provincial Team, I'm from the national team."
Jian Chang Nian put her hands on her knees and panted heavily. Even if they were two-on-one, it would be difficult to gain an advantage.
Zhou Mu's physical strength was even worse, and he was exhausted after a round.
"Chang Nian, Chang Nian, you work hard, I can't do it..."
If I knew this earlier, why bother.
Jian Changnian turned her head and made a fierce eye shot. If eyes could kill, Zhou Mu would have been killed by now.
"Hey, how about I say, let's not play this second game." The boy opposite pointed at Zhou Mu with his racket.
"There are so many people, how ugly it is to lose, I can't bear to make my sisters sad, can't I, how many brothers?"
A group of people behind him burst into laughter.
The person who said he couldn't do it just now was provoked, Zhou Mu blushed and said: "Don't think about it! We won't surrender! We will definitely win you in the second round!"
"Yo, the tone is not small."
Jian Changnian looked back at Zhou Mu, and whispered in a comforting tone.
"Stop talking nonsense with him, this man is a scoundrel."
Rogues play ball, naturally they use a rogue style of play, not only serves tricky and weird, but also fouls at will, either stepping on the line or hitting the net, but because there is no referee in wild ball, everyone turns a blind eye and closes one eye, seeing It's just as if I didn't see it.
Zhou Mu was so angry that he was half dead, and he gritted his teeth hard to support himself. Seeing her like this, the opponent intensified his efforts, and a smash came straight at her.
The white feathers flew over like a meteor, and Jian Changnian hesitated for a moment. This kind of thought often appeared during training games.
Can I catch this ball?
It was during this hesitation that the badminton flew past her shoulder and hit Zhou Mu's chest firmly.
Zhou Mu let out a cry, the racket fell to the ground, and his eyes turned red all of a sudden.
When Jian Changnian turned her head, she saw her face turning blue and white, biting her lip as if she was about to cry.
Her heart suddenly picked up: "I'm sorry, I..."
Zhou Mu didn't say anything, but from her eyes, Jian Changnian could understand a trace of disappointment.
"Why, are you going to cry?" The boy turned the racket in his hand, looking indifferent.
"Girls can just stay on the court and be a cheerleader. What kind of ball do you play? Really. Your Coastal Province team is a waste recycling center, right? Why do you only collect some useless vases, no wonder the results have not improved."
"pardon."
A cold voice came from the crowd.
When Jian Changnian looked back, her eyeballs were about to fall out.
What is she!
Looking at Zhou Mu again, he almost couldn't close his jaw in surprise.
"Yo, here comes another one, who are you?"
Xie Shi'an walked slowly to them and said coldly.
"Binhai province badminton team player, Xie Shi'an."
The boy snorted disdainfully: "Here comes another one. If you want me to say, birds of a feather flock together and people are divided into groups. A trash teammate is still a trash."
Xie Shi'an still had no expression on his face: "Lend me the racket."
"Ah, oh oh, good."
Zhou Mu's sluggish brain took several seconds to realize that this was what he told himself, and he quickly passed the racket to someone.
Xie Shi'an took the racket in his hand and turned it around. It was a bit light, but it was barely usable.
"Whether it's trash or not, you'll know after one fight."
Jane Changnian opened her mouth: "That..."
Xie Shi'an glanced over lightly, as if saying "It's really useless".
Jian Chang was discouraged after reading it all at once, and felt a little depressed. Not to mention that he didn't help Zhou Mu, he seemed to be ashamed of the Binhai provincial team.
One of the boy's buddies ran over and whispered something in his ear, and the boy's expression suddenly became a little hesitant.
Xie Shi'an walked up to her and put on a defensive posture.
"You're with me."
"Ah? Me? I can't do it..." Jian Changnian almost jumped up like a cat whose tail was stepped on.
"If we can't win today, you and I, Coach Yan, and the Binhai provincial team will all be trampled and crushed. Those who lose it by themselves will find it back for me."
After knowing her for so long, this was the first time that Xie Shi'an had spoken such a long word to her.
Jian Changnian looked at her back, she was tall but also very thin, but for some reason, she suddenly felt a sense of trust that she could defeat any opponent.
"I... I'm afraid of dragging you down."
Xie Shi'an finally turned around and took a look at her.
"I'll be the main attacker, just keep an eye on the ball in the second half."
The two boys on the opposite side were still thinking about something. Jiang Cheng said that he was not big, but he was not small. Xie Shi'an often played wild ball in this park in the early years, and many of them were familiar with her.
"Is she really from the Coastal Provincial Team?"
"It's true, I even participated in the national competition."
Xie Shi'an, who heard their whispering, smiled contemptuously.
"Why, don't you dare to hit? Persimmons only pick soft ones? Why don't you do it together, and I'll hit two with one."
When the boy heard her words, he immediately rolled up his sleeves.
"Don't worry, who is afraid? Just kidding, I will be afraid of you, come on, let's two on two, give you a chance to compete fairly."
"If you lose, apologize to them for what you said just now, and apologize to the entire Coastal Province team."
When she said this, she didn't even lift her eyelids, she looked calm and breezy, and she didn't pay attention to them at all.
The boys laughed angrily, not realizing that the crisis was approaching at all: "Okay, if I lose, I will not only apologize to you, but I will also kneel down and shout three times that I am a rookie, okay? But if you lose—"
The boy rolled his eyes around her.
Xie Shian twitched the corner of his lower lip leisurely: "If I lose, you can do whatever you want, don't win two out of three rounds. Trouble, one round, 21 **** will determine the winner."
***
It was difficult for her and Zhou Muer to fight each other. Although Xie Shi'an came, the opponent also came with another person. It can be seen that they have similar skill levels and cooperate very well.
On the other hand, she and Xie Shi'an were a temporary team. Although Xie Shi'an was already desperately saving the ball, he fell into a disadvantage at the beginning of the game.
Another ball landed, and the opponent had already led by eight points.
Xie Shi'an was panting slightly, with fine beads of sweat oozing from her forehead, she turned her head and took a deep look at Jian Changnian.
"Why didn't you catch the ball just now?"
Jian Changnian held the beat, her palms were covered with cold sweat, she clenched her lower lip with some self-blame.
"I...I can't handle it."
"Although the opponent has advantages in height and physical fitness, we are not their opponents if we hit high and long shots, but they can't beat us if we play fast breaks and quick kills. If you continue to play like this, you can really go home. Don't come out and take With the name of the Pomeranian team, it is embarrassing everywhere."
Although he knew that Xie Shi'an was a bit cold and arrogant, Jian Changnian inevitably felt uncomfortable when he was pointed at his nose and scolded.
The voices of the surrounding crowd buzzed into his ears.
There is Zhou Mu's voice.
"Chang Nian, you catch the ball! What are you doing in a daze!"
There are also some other people who don't know and watch the fun.
"Calling her a waste is too flattering, isn't she worthy of playing professionally at this level?"
"Stop hitting, come down, come down."
…
Jian Changnian clenched the racket tightly, her eyes were slightly red, as if she was in a transparent glass cover, facing all directions and all kinds of gazes from all directions.
She opened her mouth, wanting to say that she is not a waste, but only managed to utter one word: "I..."
Before the words were finished, a slash ball with a tricky angle flew towards him. Xie Shi'an ran over quickly with his eyes and hands, and killed him with a backhand. The badminton hit the racket and made a crisp sound. In front of the head, it seemed to have slapped her loudly.
Jian Changnian wakes up like a dream.
Xie Shi'an stood in front of her with a firm back: "You don't hit people in the face, and you don't hit the head when you hit the ball. Your ball is really disgusting."
The boy on the opposite side laughed and said, "It's fine if you can win or not."
"Honestly, I'd get my hands dirty playing with someone like you, but since you've said that—"
Xie Shi'an paused for a moment, observed the opponent's movements, predicted the ball's landing point, took off in parallel, and smashed back sideways. The speed was so fast that Zhou Mu rubbed his eyes, but he didn't see it clearly. How did the ball fly over? I only heard the boy on the opposite side yell, his glasses fell to the ground, and he took a few steps back covering his face.
Xie Shi'an's lips curled up into a wanton smile.
"No retaliation in return."
Zhou Mu applauded loudly for her.
A knowledgeable golfer sighed: "Hey, how good is this golf?"
Xie Shi'an won a goal, turned around and changed defense with her.
"See, their level is average, I really don't know how you lost to this kind of people..."
Although her mouth was unforgiving, her actions just now firmly protected her.
Jian Changnian wanted to thank others: "That..."
Xie Shi'an has already turned his face away: "Why do you think so much when playing, you have to catch the ball if you can catch it, and you still have to catch it if you can't catch it, you have to think so much about every ball, so just stop playing. "
When she said this, she spoke very fast, before Jian Changnian's mind could react, she heard a sharp shout.
"Careful, defensive, left-hand side."
Jian Changnian subconsciously slid out and picked back a ball that was about to hit the ground.
Zhou Mu caressed his heart and let out a sigh of relief, it's okay, it's okay.
The opponent's reaction speed was also very fast. She rushed to the net and wiped the ball back. Jian Changnian played the ball well, and the opponent's movement was also expected by Xie Shi'an. She jumped to the net and directly forehanded Slashing, the badminton brushed past the boy's head like a shooting star and landed on the ground in the backcourt.
At this point the score has been tied.
The boy's face was hot, and he didn't know if it was blown by the wind of the ball, or he was panicked.
Xie Shi'an looked up at him, and said two words with his thin lips: "Trash."
The boy blushed and was about to hit him with a slap: "You..."
Xie Shi'an didn't take a step back, and stared at him coldly: "Why, if you can't hit the ball, are you going to hit someone?"
With so many people watching, the boy put down the beat in his hand, pointed at her, gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, okay, let's continue."
Xie Shi'an returned to the backcourt and assumed a defensive posture.
She glanced at Jian Changnian who was also waiting for the battle. She was swallowing her saliva non-stop because of nervousness, her hands were tightly clutching the racket, and the clothes on her back were more than half wet with sweat.
Xie Shi'an turned his face away, and said lightly: "The ball just now was well laid."
After being scolded for so long, and suddenly being praised, Jian Changnian still couldn't recover, scratched his head and smiled embarrassedly.
"It's you who seized the opportunity."
Xie Shi'an said blankly again: "Don't be too happy, defend yourself well, just don't hold me back."
"Okay!" Jian Changnian, who won the ball just now, was also shocked. She knew that she couldn't help the opponent, so she could only concentrate on staring at the opponent and tried her best to defend and create opportunities for Xie Shi'an to counterattack.
"Here we go, right."
Almost as soon as Xie Shi'an finished speaking, Jian Changnian moved. She was small, but her movements were light and agile, and she picked up a ball that was about to hit the ground with lightning speed.
"Chang Nian is great! The speed is so fast!" Zhou Mu shouted loudly for her, and the crowd almost jumped up.
There were also voices of admiration from the crowd of onlookers.
"Not bad, the ball was saved."
"Girls play against boys. Boys still have advantages in height and physical fitness. It's really good to be able to fight like this."
Xie Shi'an was still staring at the opponent's movements, not daring to relax a bit, but the corners of his lips were slightly raised: "It was a good fight."
A smile finally appeared on Jian Changnian's face.
The score was overtaken, and the two boys on the opposite side looked at each other and nodded.
"Hit that Xie Shi'an, suppress her performance, and the other one is nothing to worry about."
In the following time, the two of them frequently sent some high **** to Xie Shi'an, suppressing the top of her head, causing her to have almost no chance to breathe. The score between the two sides was very tight, and soon came to 20:20.
It's match point.
Panting heavily, Jian Changnian looked at Xie Shi'an's motionless back. Most of her back was wet with sweat, and her tied-up hair was also a little messy due to strenuous exercise. His hands are still steady, his side face looks like a delicate sculpture by an Italian painter, and the corners of his tightly pursed lips reveal a bit of firmness.
"For the last goal, while they suppressed me, they will also attack your weakly defended right half. Whether you can win or not depends on it."
Jian Changnian nodded, with a solemn face, she swallowed, and quietly wiped the cold sweat from her palms on the hem of her trousers.
The most nervous one was Zhou Mu outside the arena. He was so alive. The last round was a multi-shot. Zhou Mu was counting the number of shots while scratching his hands to worry about them.
"10, 15, 20..."
In this round, both sides had high-light operations, which caused the crowd to exclaim, and Jian Changnian couldn't care less. All she could think about was Xie Shi'an, who was running, jumping, and trying to kill the ball, and her sentence.
"Why do you think so much when you are playing? If you can catch the ball, you still have to catch it. If you can't catch it, you still have to catch it."
The badminton flew over like a meteor, Xie Shi'an was too far away to save the ball, and saw that the badminton was about to hit the ground.
Jian Changnian gritted his teeth and said these words silently, leaped over, put his left hand on the ground, swung his right hand to scoop up a ball that was about to hit the ground, and then fell to the ground sideways.
Regardless of the pain in her body, she followed the ball closely with her eyes, and everyone held their breath.
Zhou Mu clasped his hands and prayed for them: "Pass, pass, pass..."
The ball flew crookedly over the net, and Jian Changnian's eyes lit up: "Xie Shi'an!"
A wanton smile appeared on the corner of Xie Shi'an's lips: "Here we come."
Jian Changnian's save was very timely and by accident, the angle was very weird, the boy on the opposite side could barely pick the ball over, before they could return to defense.
Xie Shi'an stretched his long arms, stepped onto the net in two or three steps, and smashed the ball hard with a standard forehand diagonally. The moment he jumped up, the sun poured on her body, and the white sportswear was covered by the wind. After blowing it up, the hair fluttered lightly, and the whole person was so dazzling that it was glowing.
For some reason, Jian Changnian inexplicably remembered an ancient poem he had read: Young man in fresh clothes and angry horse.
Xie Shi'an was looking at the left half of the area where they had no time to return to defense.
Jian Changnian held her breath nervously.
The white feathers fell to the ground.
Zhou Mu was the first to burst into cheers: "We won! We won!"
There were sparse applause from the crowd.
When the ball hit the ground, Jian Changnian lost all strength, dropped the racket to the side, sat on the ground, and showed a relieved smile.
Zhou Mu rushed over and hugged her, laughing and shouting: "Ahhhhh, you are amazing! I just said you can do it."
Jian Changnian was dizzy from her shaking her head: "Okay, okay, give me a hand..."
Hearing the commotion here, Cheng Zhen, who was not far away, also ran over after hearing the news: "Well, you left me there to play chess with Grandpa Li, and came to play badminton by yourself, and you won't bring me..."
For Xie Shi'an, this was just one of the most insignificant games she played in her career.
She didn't see much excitement when she won, as if it should be so, she was just a little thirsty, so she snatched the mineral water bottle from Cheng Chengzhen's arms, unscrewed it and drank it: "What the hell, you don't know how to play chess, don't you?" Can you play badminton?"
"I don't like to hear your words. Have you never eaten pork or seen a pig running? Anyway, I can see that you two have played golf for so many years."
Having said that, Cheng Zhen, who was belatedly aware, finally realized that Xie Shi'an was the only two people who were always inseparable today.
"Hey, where's Miss Yuchu? Why are you the only one out to play today?"
Xie Shi'an wiped the water stains on the corners of his lips, and threw the empty water bottle to him: "She's gone home."
As early as the moment Cheng Zhen appeared, Zhou Mu's eyes were glued to him. Jian Changnian stretched out his hand to wait for her to help him, and it had already stopped in mid-air for a long time. How could Zhou Mu remember it? ran over.
Jian Changnian helplessly shook her head, well, let's get up by myself.
When she stood up holding the badminton racket, she heard Zhou Mu saying to them, "Senior Cheng, what a coincidence, I can meet you here too."
Cheng Zhen scratched his head: "You are?"
The expression on Zhou Mu's face was a little shy, and he looked at his toes shyly: "I'm Zhou Mu from Class 1 and 3 of Senior High School. You forgot that you helped me carry my luggage on the day I signed up."
When Cheng Zhen heard her mention the day when school started, he vaguely remembered it, but he really didn't remember her name and appearance.
"Ah, I remembered. Hello, junior, hello, junior."
Xie Shi'an turned his head slightly, curled his lips and smiled, which was caught by Jian Changnian. It turned out that she had a pretty smile.
Sensing that someone was looking at him, Xie Shi'an returned to his usual cold, pulled-to-die expression.
"Here, return the racket to you."
Holding the racket, Zhou Mu sensed that they wanted to leave, and dragged Jian Changnian, the tool man, to stand in front of him, blinking his eyes: "I am Chang Nian's friend, and Chang Nian is Xie Shi'an." My friend, you are also Xie Shi'an's friend, in other words, the four of us are friends now! Let's have a meal together!"
Xie Shi'an hadn't agreed yet, but Cheng Zhen was a simple-minded, cheerful master. Seeing that she had said so, and she was a school girl, she immediately agreed.
"Okay, okay, I have nothing to do anyway, and I'm a little hungry, Shi'an, are you hungry..."
Just as Xie Shi'an was about to answer, out of the corner of his eye, he caught sight of the boys who were playing with them and were about to sneak away while they weren't looking.
She turned her face away, raised her chin slightly, and called people to stop: "Hey, the one over there, didn't they say they want to apologize if they lose?"
Zhou Mu also reacted and echoed her: "That's right, don't deny it, if you lose, you want to leave, how can there be such a cheap thing."
Under the watchful eyes of everyone, the boy neither advanced nor retreated, his face flushed and he clenched his fists.
"You guys... don't bully people too much!"
"Is this called bullying too much? All right, you go. If you go, you won't be a man."
Xie Shi'an seemed to say something lightly, but in fact, he stabbed the boy's fragile self-esteem again.
The onlookers burst into laughter.
"That's right, words don't count, what kind of man are you?"
"I told you guys, don't embarrass us male compatriots, go back and practice again, it's fine if you lose to a girl, and you still want to deny it."
…
The boy's face turned blue and white, like a five-color paint plate was overturned, very beautiful.
Jian Changnian couldn't hold back a burst of laughter.
The boy gave them a hard look, and due to the pressure of the surrounding public opinion and Xie Shi'an's words of "not a man", he had to bend down and bow his head: "I'm sorry, I have no eyes, okay?"
"Isn't there another sentence that you are a disheveled dog? Shout, you are a disheveled dog, why don't you shout?" Of course, Xie Shi'an would not let him go so easily, so he took the time to say something.
The boy's face turned into a pig's liver: "You...!"
"This is what you promised yourself."
The boy looked up at the people around him, blushed, lowered his head and whispered, "I'm a vegetable dog."
"What? Louder, I can't hear you—" Zhou Mu put his hands on his ears exaggeratedly.
The boy growled angrily: "I'm a disheveled dog, I'm sorry, I have no eyes, you guys are strong! Come on!!"
Xie Shi'an shrugged: "That's about the same."
When the boy led a group of people away in desperation, he looked back at them again, his eyes were so vicious, and he said in a low voice.
"Xie Shi'an, I remember you, just wait and see."