Chapter 248: Two Laps of Stealing (Two in One)
After the seven-day holiday, I returned to my busy study rhythm.
Many students are listless after just returning from the holiday. Including the previous military training and the holiday, they have not had formal classes for almost half a month. Many students are still not used to the sudden transition back to their original life.
"ε=(ο｀*))) Oh, I'm so sleepy..."
Zhao Yueting, who was sitting at the front desk, came to the classroom. She didn't even open her schoolbag. She just hugged it in her arms like a pillow, leaned back with her eyes closed, and used Fang Wei's desk as a backrest. She looked very tired.
"Hey, hey, hey! You're going to crush my book!"
Fang Wei hurriedly held onto the tabletop as the pile of books was about to fall down.
Zhao Yueting looked back, then moved her chair and adjusted her sitting position.
"Don't you think your table is moved too forward? Look, my space is only that wide, but yours is that wide!" Zhao Yueting stretched out her arm and compared.
"Be more serious, my place is not much wider than yours, they are the same."
"Look, you protrude much more than Liu Bo's table!"
Liu Bo, who was working on a question, stopped writing, thought for a while, then moved forward towards Qi Fangwei's desk.
Zhao Yueting and Zeng Youqing: “???”
"Move back a little, move back a little."
"That's enough. I can't go out for a while. You are so small, why do you need to sit in such a wide space?"
"It's too crowded, so suffocating!"
Fang Wei had no choice but to return to her the little space that he had secretly occupied before. The main reason was that there were too many people in the classroom, and the rows of seats seemed crowded.
Seeing Fang Wei pulled the table back a little, Liu Bo had no choice but to pull the table back to its original position.
Fang Wei went to get some water with the empty cup, and when he turned around, he saw Zhao Yueting turned around and rummaged through the papers and homework he had piled on the table.
"What are you doing? I haven't done anything wrong. Why are you searching my house?"
"Where's your math paper? Lend it to me so I can copy it!"
"You didn't do it?"
“I didn’t have time to do it!”
"..."
If you didn't do it, you didn't do it! Don't use "not having time to do it" to beautify it!
Anyway, it was just a homework paper, so it didn't matter if she wanted to copy it. Fang Wei just took it out and gave it to her for emergency use.
"What did you do during your seven-day vacation? You were catching up on your homework during evening study last night, and you haven't finished it yet?"
"I don't know what I've done. I feel like I haven't done anything, but time has just flown away. And you can't blame me. I already had an insane amount of homework! Weren't you also catching up on your homework during evening study yesterday?"
Zhao Yueting answered Fang Wei while copying.
It can be seen that she is quite experienced in copying homework and would not copy all the answers. Moreover, the homework she did not do was exactly the subject she was best at, mathematics. After taking a glance at the questions and finding that she could do them, she simply copied Fang Wei's answers to save trouble.
"Then I'm different from you. I did a lot of things during my vacation."
"What's the matter?"
"It's a class reunion."
"what!"
Zhao Yueting stopped writing, turned around and asked curiously: "You guys are also having a class reunion?"
"also?"
"Yeah, we also had a class reunion! So what did you guys do?"
"It's okay. We didn't do anything. We just went to the beach to have a barbecue, play games, and chat."
“…!! So rich?”
"So what did you guys play?"
"We just booked a karaoke room and sang together."
"Then we have to book a big private room, right? Will it be expensive?"
"No, it's very cheap during the day, and we didn't buy any drinks, we just sang, and there were only about ten of us."
"That's it."
"Are there many people going to the beach for a barbecue?"
"Well, the whole class is here."
"...!!"
Zhao Yueting felt a little envious and shocked after listening to this. She knew that Fang Wei was the class monitor in junior high school, and she was also the class monitor. Class reunions must have been organized by the class monitors. In comparison, her appeal was so different from Fang Wei's!
Somewhat unconvinced, but also somewhat helpless: "It seems that your class is still united. I called for a long time, but few people went. The teacher didn't go either. I don't want to organize it next time..."
"Haha, our teacher is here. He took a five-hour boat ride from Shanghai."
"Got it. Don't talk to me anymore. I need to finish my homework. Thank you."
Zhao Yueting made a goodbye gesture to him and didn't want to talk to him about organizing a class reunion anymore!
While she wasn't paying attention, Fang Wei secretly moved the table forward a little bit...
The front table... isn't it used to make use of space?
After thinking for a while, Fang Wei turned around again and said, "Hey, Yu, can you move the table back a little?"
"Brother Wei, it's not that I don't want to, but there's no room left for me!"
"..."
……
After entering October, Fang Wei could feel that the pace of lectures by teachers of various subjects was faster than that in September. From helping the freshmen to adapt to the pace of high school, the pace of lectures in No. 1 Middle School officially became intense.
There is no way to avoid this. The better the high school, the more like this it is. Many times the competition is not about who teaches better, but who can compress more review time.
Basically, no new lessons are taught in the entire year of senior year. All the textbook knowledge is taught in the second year of high school. Starting from the make-up classes in the summer vacation between the second year of high school and the third year of high school, every day is a cycle of reviewing, doing papers, discussing papers, and mock exams until the college entrance examination.
There are not so many mock exams in the first year of high school, but there is a monthly exam every month, except for the freshman September that just ended.
The time for the first monthly exam has also been set. It will be in the last three days of October. After the exam, the first parent-teacher meeting in high school career will be held in early November. Through this exam, a comprehensive assessment of the students' adaptation level and academic performance after entering high school will be made.
Needless to say, its importance is obvious. After this monthly exam, the original ranking of entrance examination scores may undergo a huge change.
It is foreseeable that there will definitely be many students with good junior high school grades whose grades decline sharply after entering high school, and there will definitely be students with average junior high school grades who make rapid progress after entering high school.
Fang Wei was fine with this. He was balanced in all subjects, so it didn't matter even if his liberal arts were slightly weaker than his science. It was hard for liberal arts to have a big score difference in such an exam.
Liu Zhiyi was much more anxious. Her main worries came from mathematics and physics. Even compared with many of her classmates, her performance in these two subjects was not bad. But compared with herself in junior high school, she already felt obviously struggling and often began to encounter questions that she could not solve.
Fortunately, there was Teacher Fang Wei who would teach whatever she didn't understand. This made Liu Zhiyi feel much more at ease. She really liked listening to Fang Wei explaining the questions to her.
Fang Wei spoke softly, and very slowly. The two of them could lie on the table together, with their arms touching. She would stretch out her finger and point, "I don't know how to do this," and then he would pick up a pen and teach her attentively how to do it.
How to describe that feeling? It was as if she was bullied by the question, and he could stand in front of her to help her get revenge and beat up the question. Liu Zhiyi liked it so much.
Sometimes, when there weren't so many questions she couldn't answer, she would secretly ask Fang Wei to explain some questions she could answer. At this time, she could secretly shift more attention away from the questions themselves and put it on him.
Xu Cailing doesn’t have to go through so much trouble, she can just look around and find a lot of questions she can’t answer!
But even though there were so many questions she couldn’t answer, Cailing wasn’t anxious. Long live passing!
After all, she has more important things to deal with right now than studying.
"Thump, thump, thump! Look!"
On the sofa, Xu Cailing opened her schoolbag, took out a small notebook and a certificate similar to a school card, and handed them to Fang Wei and Liu Zhiyi.
It was lunch break time, and the three of them, as usual, brought their lunch boxes to the canteen to get food and ate at home.
Fang Wei put down the lunch box in his hand, and took the small notebook handed to him by Cai Ling while eating.
"what is this?"
"Hey, my first-level athlete certificate!"
"Huh? You're done so quickly?"
"Yes, Teacher Lin went to the Municipal Sports Bureau to apply for it for me and got it for me. He just gave it to me this morning."
The so-called first-level athlete certificate is officially awarded after obtaining a ranking in official competitions at the provincial, municipal or higher level and meeting the technical indicators of a first-level athlete, and after submitting the application materials for approval.
The previous Xuanzhu City Middle School Track and Field Championship was an official competition jointly organized by the Municipal Education Bureau and the Sports Bureau. Cai Ling won the double championship in the women's events with a time of 11 seconds for the 90m and 24 seconds for the 83m.
Not only did her ranking score meet the requirement, but her technical score also met the requirement. After Teacher Lin helped her submit the application materials, she successfully obtained the National First-Class Athlete Certificate. Once the certificate was issued, Cailing became a true first-class athlete.
Compared with the second and third level athlete certificates, the first level athlete certificate is considered to be something with some value. The title sounds impressive, and you can also declare to the outside world that you are a real athlete.
But there is no salary or subsidy...
Going up further, there are athlete champion and international athlete. These two certificates are even more valuable. They are basically athletes from provincial teams and above, and they have salaries, subsidies and benefits.
Of course, the most crucial thing is that after Cai Ling obtains the first-level athlete certificate, she will meet the threshold for high-level admissions in the future college entrance examination. High-level admissions require at least a first-level athlete certificate, followed by individual admissions, and a second-level athlete will suffice. There is no requirement for unified admissions, and she can just take the special talent examination normally.
If you can work hard and get the sports champion, it will be even better. As long as your academic performance is not too bad, you can go to any famous domestic university with high-level admissions! Especially after the successful bid for the Olympic Games in the past two years, high-level athlete students are also very popular. The willingness of major famous universities to recruit high-level athletes is no less than that of excellent subject competition students.
Fang Wei put down his chopsticks, swallowed the food in his mouth, cleared his throat, and recited aloud the words on the certificate. Liu Zhiyi beside him also listened with a smile.
"National First-Class Athlete Certificate! Issued by Jiangsu and Zhejiang Provincial Sports Bureau!"
"Name: Xu Cailing!"
"Gender: Female!"
"Events: Women's 100-meter sprint, Women's 200-meter sprint!"
"Results: Women's 11m first place, 90 seconds; Women's 24m first place, 83 seconds!"
"Competition name, competition location, competition time...certificate number...!"
"We hereby present the National First-Class Athlete Certificate. Congratulations to Xu Cailing for becoming a glorious National First-Class Athlete!"
"Hahaha, there's no such thing as that!"
Xu Cailing burst into laughter as she listened to this, as if the certificate was awarded to her by Fang Wei. The girl was extremely happy to hear his exaggerated tone of praise.
Liu Zhiyi on the side also clapped his hands, and the small living room became very lively.
"Work hard! I believe our Cai Ling will soon return with a national athlete's certificate!"
Fang Wei smiled and closed the certificate in his hand and handed it to her. Xu Cailing took it and hit him angrily and amusedly: "It's not as easy as you say! My technical performance is not even up to the level of a master!"
"Isn't that fast? You worked hard to run the 11 meters in under 7 seconds, and you worked hard to run the 24 meters in under seconds. For you, it's just a little bit short!"
"Stupid, stupid, this is so difficult!"
Having said that, the girl was still very happy about Fang Wei's "overconfidence" in her. Only he would believe in her so unconditionally.
"So how many first-class athletes are there in your class now?" Fang Wei asked knowingly.
"It's just me, hehe~!"
"Too strong! Our Cai Ling!"
"Oh My God!"
Xu Cailing covered her eyes and didn't want to listen, otherwise she would be too proud.
When applying for the athlete level certificate this time, Teacher Lin of course did not only apply for Cailing. He applied for all the athletic students with good grades in the class. However, except Cailing, the others were basically only second or third level athletes. It would be slightly helpful for the college entrance examination and slightly better than nothing for the sports major.
It is no wonder that Teacher Lin values Cailing so much. After all, she is not only the only first-level athlete in the school, but her results are also very close to those of a master. If she works hard, she has a good chance.
"What about this, what is this?"
Fang Wei picked up the card that Cai Ling had just taken out. It was similar in style to the school card and also had a rope hanging on it.
"It's the city track and field team member's ID card, which is required when entering and exiting the training base." Cai Ling has now officially registered as a member of the Xuanzhu City Track and Field Team. She will go to the training base for training every evening after school. Unlike the provincial team's rigorous all-weather training, the city team is more flexible and will take into account the athletes' studies.
The card has the city track and field team's logo and pattern, as well as Xu Cailing's photo and name, and her current identity:
"Xuanzhu City Track and Field Team Youth Group Women's Team 1! In your city team, is there any distinction between Team 2 and Team 3?"
"Hmm~"
Xu Cailing nodded, puffed out her chest proudly, and prepared to welcome the storm of praise.
A girl's expectations will never be disappointed.
Immediately afterwards, Liu Zhiyi burst into applause, and Fang Wei exaggeratedly said, "Too strong! Too strong! Our Cai Ling made it to the first team as soon as she joined the city team!"
“Hahahaha… Oh my, don’t do that!”
"No, I have to take a picture to commemorate it first."
Fang Wei got up and went into the house and took out the camera that Wen Susu had given him.
He bent over and half-crouched in front of the coffee table. Xu Cailing was sitting on the sofa. She was so shy and blushed because of his flattery that she quickly raised her hands to cover her face.
"No shots, no shots!"
"It's a major event after all. When you were little you wanted to be an athlete, and now you really are one! Here, pick up your certificate."
Xu Cailing had no choice but to listen to him. She held her first-level athlete certificate in front of her chest with one hand and made a sweet (＾－＾)V~ sign next to her face with the other hand!
With a click, the photo is taken.
Fang Wei has been giving little sense of ritual and surprise in life like this since the girl’s memory. No matter it is her birthday or the successful achievement of some small goal, there is always someone around her who can share her joy in time.
Even though her family didn't have much money in the past, Xu Cailing never felt that she lacked anything. She felt really happy to be able to be childhood sweethearts with Fang Wei and to have him grow up together.
After calming down and finishing the lunch in the lunch box, the three of them leaned back on the sofa, put their feet on the coffee table, covered themselves with a small quilt, and began today's lunch break.
Perhaps thinking that she would go to the city team for training starting this afternoon and would not be able to run, eat, or attend evening self-study with Fang Wei, Xu Cailing was particularly unrestrained during her lunch break today.
She quietly opened her eyes and glanced at Zhiyi who was leaning on Fang Wei's right. Seeing that she was asleep, Cai Ling tightened Fang Wei's arm. Just like when they were riding the subway before, she secretly put her little hand into Fang Wei's warm palm, and then inserted her delicate fingers into his fingers, interlocking their fingers...
dong dong dong-
Although it wasn't intense exercise, the girl felt her heart beating very fast.
As Fang Wei gently held her little hand, a sweet and warm current flowed from her palm to her arm and then into her heart.
"Hmm~"
Xu Cailing couldn't help but let out a tingling nasal sound that only she could hear clearly. She tightened her legs and pressed closer to him, then she fell asleep contentedly...
Fang Wei also narrowed his eyes slightly and took a look.
If I wasn't sure that it was Cailing lying on the left, I would have thought that it was Zhiyi lying on the left!
As the saying goes, "birds of a feather flock together"! When did you learn to be so sneaky?
……
After the last class in the afternoon, Fang Wei went to the stairs to wait for them as usual.
Although Xu Cailing was going to the city team for training soon, Liu Zhiyi was still waiting at the door of Class 5 for Cailing to come downstairs together.
"Woo! Zhiyi, I'm leaving!"
"Well... Cailing, don't worry, I will take good care of Fang Wei."
"I don't believe it. You must have secretly done a lot of things with him while I was away."
"How, how is it possible!"
"Hey, I've put my badminton racket here with you. You can go play with Fang Wei, but you can't let him use my racket to play with other girls."
"Yes, then take it down and give it to Fang Wei. It will be convenient for him to put it in the classroom."
"That's fine... He won't use my racket to play against Zhao Yueting, right?"
"Then let's beat him together."
"Well, I don't dare to leave him alone."
Liu Zhiyi thought for a moment and then asked, "Then Cailing, do you want to have dinner with us before going over there?"
"No, there's no time. I'll go to the training base and eat there for free."
"Ok."
"Zhiyi...you are smiling so happily."
"I don't!"
"Ahhh!"
Xu Cailing was anxious but had no other choice but to tickle Liu Zhiyi. The two girls then went downstairs laughing and making noises.
Xu Cailing and Liu Zhiyi already knew each other's feelings for Fang Wei. Apart from agreeing to face the danger of foreign invasion together, the rest of the situation was up to each of them. After speaking frankly that night, even if they liked the same person at the same time, it would not affect their friendship. On the contrary, such frankness made them understand each other more deeply.
But girls are still stingy in this kind of thing. Even if they have agreed to compete fairly and advance and retreat together, they still hope that the person they like can like them a little more. They don’t need a lot, just a little bit more will do...
After all, they didn't want to completely defeat the other party to obtain all the ownership of Fang Wei. After all, including Fang Wei, they were very good friends to each other and couldn't bear to see the other person sad.
Fortunately, Fang Wei never expressed anything or made any choices. His greedy look played into the girls' hands. Otherwise, if Fang Wei really said one day, "I like Cai Ling (Zhi Yi) more, please keep your distance from me in the future", it would be a disaster! !
After going downstairs and seeing Fang Wei, the two girls approached him together.
"Hey, put the racket here!"
"...Are you going to the training base now?" Fang Wei took the racket back to the classroom and put it away.
"Yes, Teacher Lin is waiting for me at the school gate. I have to go there quickly."
"Is he driving?"
"No, it's not far, we can walk! You guys go for a run, I'm leaving first!"
"Call me if you need anything."
"Got it! Remember to pick me up after your evening study!"
"O, o."
After making the agreement, Xu Cailing tightened the backpack on her shoulders and trotted towards the school gate.
After Cai Ling left, Fang Wei was left with only Liu Zhiyi by his side.
Fang Wei looked back at her, and she blinked and looked up at Fang Wei.
The two were speechless for a moment. Perhaps they were infected by the girl's feeling of stealing. Even Fang Wei felt a strange feeling of stealing arise in his heart after Cai Ling left.
"Why are you looking at me like that... Cai Ling just left."
Liu Zhiyi was defeated, her face slightly red, and she avoided Fang Wei's gaze.
"...No, that's really weird!"
"You're weird, you're weird, you're obviously the weirdest!"
Liu Zhiyi raised her hand and hit him unhappily, then ran to the school road and started running happily.
She didn't need to look back, she could tell from the sound of footsteps that Fang Wei had caught up with her. He soon ran to her left and was jogging side by side with her.
Unlike Cai Ling who is always chattering, even when she and Fang Wei are alone, she rarely speaks if there is nothing to do, because she needs to save enough energy to digest many small emotions.
The campus is beautiful under the setting sun in the evening. The sunset glow in the sky looks like cotton that is lit, fluffy and gorgeous.
At this time, the campus radio played melodious music at the right time, and the notes drifted with the evening breeze, flowing in every corner of the runway.
Thinking back to the first time she ran with him to the beach to watch the sunrise three years ago, Liu Zhiyi never expected that she would persist in doing something she hated, running, for three years.
Sweat quietly seeped out of the girl's forehead, slid down her delicate cheeks, and dripped onto the track, leaving small wet marks, which were wiped away by the evening breeze in an instant.
Liu Zhiyi was panting heavily, and beneath her thin summer school uniform, her chest, which seemed to have grown with a sense of accomplishment, rose and fell with the rhythm of her running.
The setting sun fell on her sweaty collarbone, and the girl's face flushed. Her steps became slower and slower, and heavier and heavier. Finally, she couldn't help it and stretched out her little hand and placed it on Fang Wei's arm, and was half-carried by him to run.
"Hu-hu-hu-"
“No… I can’t take it anymore…”
"Huh...how many laps have you done? Why...do I feel so tired today?"
"Ah? You don't know how many laps you ran?"
Fang Wei said angrily and amusedly, "It's the seventh lap now. Just hold on for another half a lap and run three kilometers! I was wondering how good you were today. It turns out you were so confused that you didn't even know how many laps you ran, right?"
"Seven, seven laps?!"
It would have been better if Fang Wei hadn't said it. After he said it, Liu Zhiyi felt that all the strength in his body was instantly drained.
On weekdays I only run five laps at most. I have never tried running almost three kilometers in one breath like this!
"Hold on, hold on! There are only less than 200 meters left! If you finish this half lap, you will have completed the three-kilometer breakthrough!"
"Huh...huh..."
Now that things have come to this, Liu Zhiyi has to keep running even if he doesn’t want to.
After finally finishing the last half lap, the girl slowed down her pace, staggering, and put her hands on her hips. She felt her legs were so sore that she first squatted down and then sat down on the grass next to her.
"Don't sit down right after running, stand up."
"Huh...huh..."
Liu Zhiyi waved his hands, indicating that he had no strength.
But she didn't even need to stand up by herself. Fang Wei grabbed her little hands, put his feet on the tips of her shoes, and with a gentle pull, he easily pulled her up.
"You're so bad... Huh... You ran so many laps without telling me..."
"So I thought you were going to break the record today. Look, you really did break the record. Are you feeling better?"
"My legs are so sore..."
"Don't sit down yet. I'll give you a massage later."
"it is good……"
"Take two slow laps."
"Um……"
Walking slowly beside Fang Wei, Liu Zhiyi fumbled in his pocket, took out a handkerchief, folded it neatly into a small square, and then wiped the sweat from his face and neck.
Although Fang Wei did not run as hard as she did during the three kilometers, he still sweated a lot. Liu Zhiyi asked him again, "Fang Wei, do you want to wipe the sweat off your face?"
"Okay."
Fang Wei stopped and lowered his head slightly to face her.
Liu Zhiyi was stunned for a moment, then she raised her hand with a red face, holding the small handkerchief she had just used to wipe the sweat off Fang Wei's face and neck.
"Are you going home to take a shower later?"
"I'll wash it in the evening..."
It was a rare opportunity to spend such a long time alone with him, and Liu Zhiyi didn't want to waste it.
The girl pointed to a corner with few people.
"Let's go over there and you can massage my legs."
(End of this chapter)
