Chapter 239 Who Didn’t Bring an Umbrella? (Two in One)
"Awei, remember to come over to play basketball tomorrow. We'll play a full game then!"
"Okay, let's go, Brother Bo."
Friendships between boys develop so quickly that after one game, Fang Wei became familiar with all the members of the basketball club. Even though he couldn't remember many of their names, this didn't stop them from playing and having fun together.
Playing basketball is not entirely about skills. Just like drinking and playing games, there is also so-called "sportsman character" in playing basketball. Even if the skills are not so good, but people have good sportsman character, everyone likes to play with him.
Not to mention that Fang Wei not only has good sportsmanship, but also has pretty good skills.
When Fang Wei was playing ball, the two girls had nothing to do, so they sat on the lounge chair nearby and watched him play.
Xu Cailing knows a lot about basketball and she enjoyed watching it;
Liu Zhiyi doesn't know much about basketball, but he still enjoys watching it;
Watching him running, passing, jumping and shooting on the court, he displayed his youth and charm to the fullest, making the girls' mouths unconsciously rise and their eyes sparkle.
Of course, being handsome and being admired are the key. There are also a few guys on the field who have good skills, but it’s a pity that the two girls never even took a look at them.
When a serious girl watches a game, who cares about your skills?
Seeing that Fang Wei had dispersed, Xu Cailing and Liu Zhiyi stood up and walked towards him.
There were beautiful girls watching the game here, and the guys on the field naturally noticed them. Usually there were no girls here, but Fang Wei brought two with him, and they were both so beautiful! It was really enviable!
"Finished?"
"We're done, let's go and have dinner."
"Here, your watch."
Xu Cailing handed him the watch and cell phone he had taken off.
This watch was given to Fang Wei by Wen Susu on his birthday last year. It wasn’t too expensive, just over 800 yuan, but it was definitely much better than the 18 yuan watch Fang Wei bought himself when he just entered junior high school.
Fang Wei also takes good care of it and usually carries it with him. Although he can check the time with a mobile phone now, he is still used to checking the time with a watch, which makes time feel more concrete.
"It's 6:45, and there are still 25 minutes left for class..."
"Hurry up and eat! Hurry up and eat! I'm starving!"
"... You two were hungry and you didn't go eat first."
"I'm still waiting for you!"
"Stupid, next time when I finish running and go play ball, if you don't eat first, you can go home and take a shower first, so you don't have to wait until the evening to go home and take a shower."
"Oh, that's right! Why didn't you say so earlier?"
"That didn't occur to me at the moment."
"Are you going to take a shower or not? You're sweating and stinking."
"Really? My sweat doesn't stink, okay..."
Fang Wei lifted up his clothes at the chest and sleeves and smelled them. Apart from the normal smell of sweat, there was not much of a smell.
Whether sweat smells or not depends on each person's physical condition. Some people smell sour all over when they sweat, while some people rarely have sweat odor.
Fang Wei certainly didn't stink, but the two girls liked to call him "stinky Fang Wei" and "stinky Fang Wei", which made Fang Wei angry. He wiped the sweat from his face and was about to rub it on the sweet and soft girls. Only then did Xu Cailing and Liu Zhiyi giggle and run away in panic.
Coming to the sink next to the cafeteria, Fang Wei washed his hands and face, then wet the small handkerchief Liu Zhiyi gave him with water and simply wiped the sweat off his body, as if he had attended a physical education class. He would wash again after school.
There are a lot fewer people in the cafeteria at this time, but there is still a lot of food at the windows. The aunties and uncles who serve the food have become particularly generous.
"Uncle, I, I need a little less rice!"
Finally, before the uncle served the rice, Liu Zhiyi said this. Upon hearing this, the uncle knocked some of the full spoonful of rice off and put it into her plate.
After getting the meal, they went to get three bowls of soup, and the three of them found a place to sit with a fan.
"Haha! There's so much meat in the dinner! Auntie's hands aren't shaking anymore!"
"Fang Wei, I'll give you some food..."
"...More?"
"A few more bites."
"Come on then."
Liu Zhiyi scooped two spoonfuls of the extra rice for Fang Wei. Probably a little more than a bowl like this would be enough for her, and there were also plenty of dishes.
Those who come to the cafeteria to eat now are all students who live in the dormitory and take a shower before eating. There is only one bathroom, and there is no hot water supply at night. People in a dormitory with eight people always have to queue up to take a shower, which takes an especially long time in the girls' dormitory.
Xu Cailing asked curiously, "It's almost seven o'clock now. Your basketball club plays until so late. Do they still have time to eat and take a shower?"
"Haha, you have no idea about boys' speed!"
Fang Wei said as he ate, "It will take about seven or eight minutes to take a shower. You can put your dirty clothes in the tub and wash them after evening self-study. Then it will take ten minutes to eat. In other words, if time is tight, you can finish these things in less than twenty minutes."
"…Is it true? Do they not have to queue up to take a shower?"
"On a hot day, many boys just take a cold shower, wearing shorts, and shower together on the small balcony. There's no need to queue."
"Outrageous!"
"Then do you want to find a club to join? I think it's quite interesting." Fang Wei thought for a while and asked.
"No."
Liu Zhiyi shook her head. She had no interest in joining any clubs. It could be seen that clubs were mainly for social purposes. She didn't like the few clubs in the school. If there were any writing clubs or literature clubs, she would be a little interested, but she didn't want to join them. Writing was a very personal thing, and she preferred to do it secretly like this... bah, and write books quietly.
"I would like to join, but I have to go to the city team for training after class in the afternoon, so I don't have time." Cai Ling said.
"Well, that's okay."
Fang Wei nodded and said, "Then after we finish running, you two should go home and take a shower, then come and watch me play basketball, and then we can have dinner together. How was my basketball performance today?"
"Yue~! So conceited!"
……
The sunset glow in the sky gradually faded away, and the lights in the classroom were lit up. Walking from the direction of the cafeteria towards the teaching building, all I saw were these bright windows.
Fang Wei returned to the classroom and took his empty bottle to the water dispenser to get some water. Zhao Yueting, who had already washed up and had dinner, also came to the classroom. She was taking down the empty bucket from the water dispenser and putting a heavy new bucket of water on it.
"Let me do it."
"Eh? Are you done playing ball?"
"You know I play basketball?"
"I took a shower and had dinner, and when I was walking on the track field, I saw you playing basketball on the court over there. You didn't see me, did you?"
"...Sister, I'm playing basketball, I don't have time to look around."
"Is that the basketball club recruiting over there?"
"correct."
Fang Wei easily took the bottle of water from her hand and placed it on the water dispenser.
"I just joined the basketball club."
"?? You betrayed the society!"
"What the hell...your club hasn't been established yet. There's no conflict in joining a few clubs. How's the plan for your detective agency going?" Fang Wei asked her while getting some water.
"I haven't asked the teacher yet. I'm thinking about what kind of specific activities should be organized if it is established." After Fang Wei finished taking the water, Zhao Yueting also bent down with an empty cup to take the water.
Fang Wei was not in a hurry to leave. He stood there drinking water and waiting for her.
"Help students find their missing meal cards?"
“…This is too lame!”
"Otherwise, what earth-shattering case do you want to commit?"
Fang Wei said with a smile: "Isn't that what all detective agencies do? They help people find lost cats and dogs, or investigate relationship disputes or something like that."
Not to mention domestic detective agencies, those abroad are basically the same. It sounds mysterious, but in fact, there is nothing special about the industry. Apart from catching the third party, they can only catch the fourth, fifth or sixth mistresses. Situations like the police begging detectives for help can only appear in novels and TV dramas.
It's true that Zhao Yueting is a very rational girl, but sometimes she can be quite immature, always thinking about doing something earth-shattering to prove herself.
"That's lame. My detective agency doesn't do that. Do you have any good suggestions?"
After she finished taking the water, Fang Wei filled up the half-drunk cup again and walked and chatted with her back to their seat.
"I don't have any suggestions. It's impossible for you to run a detective agency in high school. Not to mention that the teachers won't agree, there won't be many activities and time for you to run it, except for helping classmates find meal cards."
“…I’m not looking for a meal card!”
"But after you get to college, your detective agency might still have some future. Do you want to apply to a police academy or something like that?"
"how do you know?"
"You are allowed to reason, but I am not allowed to reason?"
Compared to his answer of 'guessing', this 'reasoning' answer made Zhao Yueting more satisfied.
The girl turned around with great interest and asked curiously, "Tell me more! I really want to apply to the police academy!"
"That's right. In the future, you will definitely have many like-minded classmates who like reasoning like you in the police academy. At that time, your detective agency can start with knowledge and training, such as reasoning knowledge, observation skills, code breaking and criminal psychology, and then consider case simulation and reasoning practice. Maybe in the police academy, you can also come into contact with some real cases, so that your club will be meaningful."
Fang Wei's suggestions and analysis made Zhao Yueting's eyes light up. She was indeed good at doing things, but she was far inferior to Fang Wei in the operation and management of such a community.
Obviously, it was she who came up with the idea of setting up a detective agency, but now it seems that her idea was not as thoughtful as Fang Wei's.
When her father often told her that she was too naive about many things, she refused to accept it and thought that she was at least the best among her peers.
It was not until she met Fang Wei and spent the past two days with him that she realized that she was far inferior to him in terms of knowledge and thinking. Growing up, there were almost no peers who could make her feel such admiration, and Fang Wei was one of them.
Zhao Yueting became interested and happened to talk about college, so she asked him curiously:
"So what university do you want to go to in the future? What major do you want to study?"
"Economics and finance, maybe."
"...This is so boring. Why don't you apply to the police academy like me? I think you have a great aptitude and will definitely be a good candidate for a criminal investigation in the future!"
"..."
Why does this sound so familiar! Just now someone said I was a basketball player!
"It's time for class. Teacher Liang is outside the window..."
"...!!"
Fang Wei lowered his voice to remind her, and Zhao Yueting quickly turned back.
After a while, she secretly raised her eyes and looked out the window. Where was Teacher Liang outside? !
"Okay, you lied to me, there is no teacher..."
Zhao Yueting was about to turn around to teach him a lesson when she suddenly discovered that Teacher Liang was standing next to Fang Wei at some point.
When their eyes met, there was some innocence in both of them.
Teacher Liang pushed up his glasses and said, "Zhao Yueting, are you looking for me?"
"...Yes! Teacher, I want to ask you, um, doesn't our school have clubs? I want to set up a detective agency, is that okay?"
"No."
"..."
Seeing the girl's frustrated look, Fang Wei felt uncomfortable trying to hold back his laughter.
……
Taking advantage of the time for evening self-study, Teacher Liang called out all the temporary class leaders who had just been selected in the afternoon and held a brief meeting in the corridor.
It's nothing more than some long-winded notes and responsibilities of various positions.
"Fang Wei."
"Here I am."
"Our class hasn't arranged the duty roster yet. Please take some time to arrange it in the next two days. Then you can go to the water supply room to get bottled water every morning. Let the boys take the empty buckets and bring back two new buckets of water." "Okay."
"If there's nothing else, you can go back."
Several class leaders were about to go back to the classroom, but Zhao Yueting, the deputy class leader, had no tasks to do. The bored girl asked:
"Teacher Liang, what about me?"
"…Study hard and set a good example! Stop gossiping all the time."
"……it is good."
Zhao Yueting and Fang Wei were about to go back, but Teacher Liang suddenly thought of something and called them back.
"Wait a moment, Fang Wei, go and call Liu Bo out."
"it is good."
Fang Wei didn't know what Teacher Liang was going to say, so he went in and called out Liu Bo who was doing the questions.
"You three all participated in math competitions in junior high school, right?"
"Liu Bo and Zhao Yueting performed well in the competition and both won third prize in the finals. Fang Weiwei also has great potential."
Fang Wei: “…”
There is no need to say this, teacher. Really, there is no need to say this.
"Subject competitions have always been a major focus of our school. Every year, our school has a group of students who perform well in subject competitions, get extra points in the college entrance examination, and are even directly admitted to prestigious universities."
"You three have all been involved in academic competitions, so you must know all this, so I won't go into details."
"High school subject competitions are much more difficult than junior high school, but they are also an opportunity for you who have special subject expertise. If you want to continue to develop on the road of competition, I suggest that you join our school's competition team to strengthen your training and learning."
"Competition team?" Fang Wei blinked.
This thing was not available in Baitan Middle School before. As expected, a competition group is indispensable in No. 1 Middle School, which has more abundant teaching resources.
Unlike ordinary exams, subject competitions are special exams that go beyond the scope of textbooks. They often require contestants to supplement a large amount of knowledge and have strong thinking, learning and logical abilities, or talent in short.
The pressure of taking the path of subject competitions is much greater than that of ordinary academic examinations, but the rewards are also quite generous. Students who can achieve excellent results in competitions are basically the "top students" that major universities are vying for. The best among them can get the admission qualifications to major prestigious universities, and the lesser ones can also get considerable extra points in the college entrance examination.
It sounds tempting, but the threshold is also outrageously high. Not to mention the contestants who make it to the finals, which contestant who makes it to the semi-finals doesn't have the best test scores in the subject in his or her school?
Different from students like Fang Wei who rely purely on self-study and hard work to participate in competitions, Liu Bo and Zhao Yueting are very familiar with such "competition groups" and "competition classes". Not only did they have them in their previous schools, but they also received special competition training after class.
"What are the competition groups?" Zhao Yueting asked.
"For subjects like mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, and information technology, our school has corresponding competition teams. There is also the New Concept Composition Competition for Chinese, which is more flexible. There is no dedicated competition team, but there will be instructors to provide training."
Teacher Liang continued to introduce in detail: "At present, I am the instructor of our first-year math competition team. Considering that the three of you have a foundation in competition, I thought you could continue to develop in this direction."
"Can I join the physics competition group?" Liu Bo asked.
When Liu Bo spoke, Fang Wei and Zhao Yueting couldn't help but look at him. After all, their buddy spoke so little on weekdays, and it was a bit strange to hear him speak such a long sentence all of a sudden.
"physics?"
Listening to Liu Bo's words, Teacher Liang was stunned: "Didn't you participate in a math competition before, and also a physics competition?"
Liu Bo: "Yes. I am better at physics than math. I had my appendix removed during the semi-finals, so I didn't go."
Fang Wei, Zhao Yueting, and Teacher Liang: "..."
Fang Wei had anticipated this. After all, during the two days they had sat at the same table together, he noticed that Liu Bo mostly did physics questions, while mathematics was just a tool he used to study physics.
Zhao Yueting and Teacher Liang were more shocked. What kind of person is this! You, a physicist, participated in a math competition and won the third prize in the finals?!
"Cough cough."
Teacher Liang felt a little sad and regretful. He thought Liu Bo’s favorite subject was mathematics, and suddenly he felt resentful that he had given it to him in vain.
"If you want to join the physics competition group, of course you can."
"Then I will join the physics competition group."
"…It's not a choice between the two. You can choose both and participate in both the math competition group and the physics competition group. Liu Bo, you have a good talent for math. You can try to delve more into this area. Mathematics and physics are inseparable, and it will be very helpful for you to study physics."
"Ah."
"So, we'll both participate?"
"Ah."
Seeing Liu Bo agreed, Teacher Liang finally breathed a sigh of relief. He was really afraid that Liu Bo would look down on mathematics.
Mathematics competition can be said to be the most difficult, longest-standing, most competitive, and most mature of the five major subject competitions.
Physics competitions require great difficulty in thinking and knowledge, and have certain requirements for mathematical ability. Although physics competitions are not as intense as mathematics competitions, colleges and universities recognize physics competition results no less than those of mathematics.
On the road of competition, interest and talent are equally important. Talent is the hardware and interest is the fuel. Only when the two are combined can you go far enough on this road.
As the instructor of the competition team, it is an achievement and honor for Teacher Liang when his students achieve good results. For a student like Liu Bo who obviously has a very high talent for mathematics, Teacher Liang is unwilling to let him go easily, even if his interest in mathematics is not as great as that in physics.
"Then Fang Wei, Zhao Yueting, it should be okay for the two of you to join the math competition team, right?"
"no problem!"
Although they both won the third prize in the finals, Zhao Yueting also understood that there was a big gap between her and Liu Bo, after all, the latter's major was not mathematics.
She is different. She has been good at math since she was young. This subject tests thinking and logical abilities. She has also loved math since she was young. She could finish all the math games like the Nine-square Grid when other children were still scratching their heads.
Her family also discovered her talent in mathematics, so they enrolled her in many training classes and also found many instructors inside and outside the school.
For Zhao Yueting, learning mathematics has never been a headache. On the contrary, she enjoys the process of solving problems and making deductions. The only thing that gives her a headache in her studies is the things she has to remember and memorize in the liberal arts subjects.
It's not that she has a bad memory, in fact, she has a very good memory, but smart people have a 'bad habit', which is that they like to be lazy. She is always used to looking for patterns and the most convenient way like learning mathematics, but many things in the humanities have to be memorized by rote. She gets a headache when she thinks about memorizing these things boringly, and she doesn't like the humanities very much.
But to be honest, human evolution over tens of thousands of years is, to a large extent, a process constantly driven by "laziness".
It can be said that the advancement of technology, whether it is the invention of the steam engine or the popularization of AI technology, is aimed at liberating humans from heavy labor and allowing them to have more leisure time.
Compared with the two of them, Fang Wei would not dare to say that he is very talented in studying.
The progress and achievements he made in learning in this life are mainly attributed to his change in mentality, solid foundation, and more mature thinking.
In fact, human intelligence is not static. If one does not think or study for a long time, his brain power will degenerate sooner or later. Only by continuous learning can one raise his upper limit.
Even though there is a ceiling for intelligence, for most people, it is far from reaching the point where they can reach that ceiling.
Through constant study and thinking, Fang Wei's achievements have reached a level that he had never reached in his previous life. Now, in the eyes of others, he is considered a talented person.
Precocity is not necessarily a good thing. Only by gaining growing wisdom as you grow older can you go far enough.
"Teacher Liang, when do our competition group's classes usually take place?" Fang Wei asked.
“Let’s start from next week.”
Teacher Liang said, "From now on, the first class of the evening self-study on Tuesdays and Thursdays will be the class time for our math competition group. I will notify you once we decide which classroom to hold the class in."
"it is good."
"Now that you have been exposed to high school mathematics, you should be able to keep up, right? What do you think of my daily teaching methods?" Teacher Liang took the opportunity to conduct a survey.
"Hehe, I just feel that it's explained in too much detail and it sounds a bit slow..." Zhao Yueting scratched her head and said tactfully.
Listening to the girl's words, Teacher Liang said with a smile: "Don't think I'm being long-winded. Not every student in the class has a solid foundation like you. If you learn quickly, I can allow you to do some exercises on your own in math class, but they must be math-related and you must pay attention to classroom discipline."
"Thank you, Mr. Liang!"
"Okay, let's go back to study."
Fang Wei and the other two then returned to the classroom to study.
Even though the school has just started, there are still homework assignments for each subject.
In addition to regular classes and study, he also joined the basketball club and now has joined the math competition team. Fang Wei feels that his high school life is about to become busy.
……
As the bell rang, the evening study session ended.
The teaching building became bustling with activity. Students who were preparing to go back to the dormitory went downstairs, but they were crowded at the entrance of the corridor.
"It's raining~it's raining~what should I do? I don't have an umbrella!"
Xu Cailing, who had just come down from upstairs, holding her schoolbag, spoke to Fang Wei excitedly.
"…Why are you so happy when you don't have an umbrella on a rainy day?"
"Hahaha! You haven't tried walking in the rain in the city at night. Did Fang bring an umbrella for you? Let's hold it together!"
"Of course I brought it. There's no place to put books in a schoolbag, and you usually put an extra umbrella in your schoolbag."
"Next time definitely!"
"You must have forgotten!"
As Fang Wei spoke, he opened the zipper of his schoolbag and took out a folding umbrella from it.
Seeing Liu Zhiyi, who was also holding a schoolbag and had nothing on her hands, Fang Wei blinked and asked, "You didn't bring an umbrella either?"
"I brought...a schoolbag, but no umbrella."
Liu Zhiyi wanted to say that she brought an umbrella, but she clearly saw Fang Wei and Cai Ling sharing an umbrella, especially on such a rainy "romantic night", how could this be possible? !
The girl's mind raced, and she quickly covered her small schoolbag and shook her head to indicate that she didn't bring an umbrella.
"You really didn't bring an umbrella? I remember you put an umbrella in your schoolbag when you packed it that day?" Fang Wei looked strange.
"No, no! I took it out and forgot to put it back..."
"..."
Feeling a little guilty being stared at by Fang Wei, Liu Zhiyi simply turned his head away and stopped looking at him.
Seeing Xu Cailing remained silent and was watching the rain leisurely as if nothing had happened, Liu Zhiyi blinked his eyes. Is there a possibility... Cailing actually brought an umbrella too? !
Damn it! Isn't it said that good sisters can break metal with one heart and unite against external forces without internal friction?
Seeing Cai Ling like this, Liu Zhiyi felt more at ease. He would never take out the umbrella. He held the schoolbag tightly in his arms, fearing that Fang Wei would snatch it away for inspection.
Fang Wei was suspicious, but when he saw that the two girls seemed to want to borrow his umbrella, he had no choice.
"Let's go."
"hey-hey."
Seeing Fang Wei no longer pursuing the matter of the umbrella and walking ahead, the two girls, each with their own hidden thoughts, looked at each other:
[Zhiyi, you really didn’t bring an umbrella?]
[Cai Ling, I don’t believe you didn’t bring it!]
[I really don’t!]
[I don't believe it!]
"Why are you still standing there?"
"Coming, coming~"
The two girls then quickly followed.
Fortunately, the rain was not heavy, just a drizzle.
Fang Wei opened the folding umbrella in his hand, and the two girls squeezed under his umbrella, one on the left and one on the right.
In school, Xu Cailing and Liu Zhiyi were still quite reserved and didn't dare to get too close to him, for fear of being misunderstood by classmates and then rumors spreading, which would require them to meet his parents... bah, call his parents.
It was not until they walked out of the school, passed the most crowded and lively area at the school gate, and arrived at the slightly dim street that the two girls let go of their reserve at the same time, stretched out their arms and hugged him, their two soft and delicate bodies pressed tightly against Fang Wei.
"Hey hey...! How can I walk with you like this?"
"It's raining so hard! My arms are soaked!"
"Me, me too!"
Fang Wei looked at the rain which gradually subsided and fell into deep thought.
Can you give me a reason that makes sense to me?
I don’t know if God heard the girls’ voices or just couldn’t bear it anymore, but after the rain stopped for a while, it really got heavier this time, hitting the umbrellas with a crackling sound.
"Ahhhh——!"
"so big!!"
“Hurry up, hurry up!!”
“I’m going to be soaked soon!!”
In the misty rainy night, three people snuggled under an umbrella and ran wildly...
(End of this chapter)
