Chapter 116 Chen Xin issues a challenge

"Dad, I'm going in." At the school gate, Shi Qiu Shui waved goodbye to Shi Yue in a sweet voice.

Shi Yue nodded: "Go ahead, go to class, Dad will pick you up after school."

When Shi Qiushui turned around and was about to enter the school gate, he paused and turned back to remind him, "Dad, don't forget to come over later today~"

Shi Yue: "I know, I know. You have to practice the relay race tonight. You told me yesterday, and I remember it. You and your partners should practice well. I'll pick you up with popsicles tonight."

Shi Qiushui's face immediately lit up with a bright smile, and he said cheerfully, "Then I want some pudding!"

Shi Yue: "Okay, okay, I'll buy some puddings for you and your partners, okay?"

Shi Qiushui: "Yeah! Dad, you have to remember to buy six!"

She counted on her fingers for Shi Yue: "One for me, one for Zhao Ran, one for Xiaopang, one for Xiao Taozi, one for Xiong Jie, and one for Cao Juan. Although Xiao Taozi and Cao Juan aren't participating in the relay race, they're coming to cheer us on, so we can't forget them. You need to buy a total of six little puddings!"

Shi Yue: "Okay, don't worry, your dad will definitely make all the arrangements for you."

“Thank you, Dad!”

Shi Qiushui waved to Shi Yue and trotted off to the classroom. As soon as she entered and took her schoolbag off her shoulder, Fatty Xiao pulled a chair over to her. "Xiaoqiu, Xiaoqiu, the latest news: the class next door has also signed up for the relay race!"

Shi Qiushui stuffed his schoolbag into the drawer, looked up at Xiaopang with a strange look, and said, "What's wrong? Just sign up for Class 1."

The events for each class are the same. If their class can sign up for the relay, then of course Class 1 can also sign up. She doesn't understand why Xiaopang is surprised by this.

Xiaopang: "Oh, no! Do you know who is in the relay race?"

"Who is it?" Shi Qiu Shui asked in confusion.

She really didn't know who was in the relay race.

Xiaopang: "The one participating in the relay race in Class 1 is Chen Xin!"

Shi Qiushui: "Chen Xin?!"

Xiaopang nodded: "Yes!"

He scratched his curly hair and said, "Although I don't know who the remaining three people in Class 1 are who will participate in the relay race, Chen Xin is definitely one of them! I heard Chen Xin say it when I passed by their class just now!"

"What?! Chen Xin from Class 1 is also going to participate in the relay race?!"

As soon as Xiao Taozi stepped into the classroom, she heard Xiao Pang's words. She didn't even have time to put down her schoolbag before trotting over and said, "Xiao Pang, did I hear you correctly? You just said that Chen Xin, who is half of the team, is also going to participate in the relay race?!"

Xiaopang: "You heard right, Chen Xin wants to participate in the relay race!"

Xiao Taozi snorted heavily and said, "This Chen Xin is so annoying! Not only does he bully Cao Juan, but he also wants to participate in the same project with Xiaoqiu and the others!"

Shi Qiu Shui was not as excited as Xiao Taozi. After all, the project was there, and there was no reason for Chen Xin to participate without her signing up.

Besides, Chen Xin might not know that Shi Qiu Shui and the others had signed up for the relay race.

Shi Qiushui gently patted Xiao Taozi on the back and said, "Xiao Taozi, don't be angry. If he participates, then he participates. Anyway, whether he participates or not, the championship will definitely be ours!"

She looked at Xiaopang: "Xiaopang, do you have the confidence?"

Xiaopang nodded without hesitation: "Of course, the championship will definitely be ours!"

He is very confident.

Seeing them like this, Xiao Taozi also became excited. She clenched her fists and said, "Come on, Xiaoqiu and Xiaopang! Win the championship at the sports meet and piss off Chen Xin and the others!"

Shi Qiushui: "Hmmmm!"

After Zhao Ran and Xiong Jie arrived, Xiaopang repeated the fact that Chen Xin was also going to participate in the relay race. Zhao Ran was better, with no expression on his face as usual, and seemed not to be affected by this matter.

But Xiong Jie was different. He excitedly said, "Chen Xin really signed up for the relay race?!"

Xiaopang: "Of course."

Xiong Jie: "Great! I finally have a chance to take revenge openly! This time at the sports meet, I'm going to make him cry while watching us win the trophy!"

If we talk about the grudge between Xiong Jie and Chen Xin, it was actually only the fight that day. But wasn't Xiong Jie beaten by his mother because of the fight that day? Xiong Jie's butt has not fully healed to this day, and Xiong Jie blamed it all on Chen Xin.

Xiong Jie was rubbing his hands in anticipation, as if he had already seen Chen Xin being left far behind on the day of the sports meet, unable to catch up no matter how hard he tried, and in the end could only watch indignantly as he received the championship trophy.

Looking at Xiong Jie, who suddenly lost his focus and started grinning foolishly while talking, Shi Qiushui said: ...

She raised her hand, tapped Xiong Jie on the forehead, and said, "Then we have to get the trophy first!"

Xiong Jie was woken up by Shi Qiushui. He touched his head in pain and said awkwardly, "Hey, Boss, I know."

Shi Qiushui: "It's OK as long as you know it!"

She glanced at Xiong Jie and said, "If you want to win the championship, you must first make sure you don't make any mistakes."

Among their four-man relay team, Xiong Jie made the most mistakes!

Every time he took the baton, he always missed the right moment and would rush out before the other person could give it to him steadily, causing him to drop the baton. When he was asked to pass the baton to someone else, he would just casually shove it into the other person's hand, which made it easy for the other person to drop the baton as well.

Because of him, Shi Qiu Shui and the others changed the order of taking the baton several times.

Initially, Xiong Jie was in the second leg, but because he kept making mistakes, he was moved to the fourth leg. However, because he was not as fast as Zhao Ran in running, it was not appropriate for him to be the last leg to sprint. Shi Qiushui and the others discussed it and moved Xiong Jie to the first leg.

Xiong Jie also knew that his inconsistent performance was giving Shi Qiushui and the others a headache. He sniffed awkwardly and said, "Hey, well, don't worry, Boss. I'll definitely practice hard tonight and try not to make any mistakes."

Shi Qiushui: "As long as you practice seriously, even if you make mistakes, we won't blame you, as long as you don't lose your temper."

Xiong Jie's biggest problem is not that he makes mistakes, but that he is impatient.

Shi Qiu Shui and the others had only practiced a few times, but every time Xiong Jie made a mistake, he would get angry and lose his temper. Fortunately, Shi Qiu Shui was there to suppress his temper and teach him a lesson. Otherwise, Zhao Ran and the others would have kicked Xiong Jie out of the relay team because of his temper.

Xiong Jie touched his head and said, "Well, Boss, I'm sorry. Actually, I never mean to lose my temper. I'm just a little anxious..."

Shi Qiushui: "We are not in a hurry yet, why are you in such a hurry?"

Xiong Jie: "I, I'm just afraid that you'll get anxious, afraid that you'll think I'm not good enough and won't take me with you, I..."

Shi Qiushui patted Xiong Jie on the back like a little adult and said, "Don't worry, although you were... but since we have accepted you and made you a member of the relay team, we will not abandon you easily. You can kick it out. Don't worry about it anymore. Just practice well with everyone."

Xiong Jie nodded and promised earnestly: "Don't worry, Boss, I will definitely practice hard in the future."

This time he was obviously more serious.

After school, Shi Qiushui brought the relay team trio and two spontaneous cheerleaders, Xiao Taozi and Cao Juan, to the playground.

At this moment, although the school has been dismissed, there are still many students on the playground. They are all students who have stayed behind voluntarily to practice the sports competition items. They are in groups of three or five, or they are practicing with equipment and coordinating with each other, or they are helping to point out problems after one of them is practicing.

The appearance of Shi Qiu Shui and the other three on the playground was not at all out of place.

Shi Qiushui: "Xiao Taozi, I'm going to take them to warm up first. Go to the office and see if the physical education teacher is here. If he is, can you lend me his stopwatch?"

Xiao Taozi simply agreed: "Okay!"

She turned around and quickly ran towards the physical education teacher's office, while Shi Qiu Shui took Xiong Jie to do warm-up exercises.

The physical education teacher said that before doing strenuous exercise, you must warm up first, otherwise you will get injured!

After completing the warm-up exercises carefully and running a simple lap to make sure his body was moving, Shi Qiu Shui was ready to start formal practice with his partners.

But before the formal practice, she was still missing one thing, that was the physical education teacher's stopwatch.

She stood at the edge of the playground and looked in the direction of the physical education teacher's office, trying to find Xiao Taozi's returning figure, but unfortunately, she saw nothing.

Shi Qiushui muttered, "Strange, why hasn't Xiao Taozi come back yet?"

The playground is not far from the physical education teacher's office. Xiao Taozi has been there for a long time, why hasn't he come back yet?

Shi Qiu Shui vaguely sensed something was wrong and was about to go to the office to find Xiao Taozi when he saw Xiao Taozi running towards him from the direction of the office.

When she ran closer, Shi Qiu Shui saw that her angry little face was red, as if she had just been angry with someone.

Shi Qiushui: "Xiao Taozi, what's wrong with you?"

Xiaopang came over and asked, "Xiao Taozi, why did you take so long? Did something happen?"

Xiao Taozi said angrily: "I just ran into Chen Xin in the physical education teacher's office!"

"Ah? You met Chen Xin?" Cao Juan became nervous when she heard the name.

Although she knew that Chen Xin was not as scary as she thought after the last incident, the experience of being bullied by Chen Xin in the past still left some shadows on her.

She nervously held Xiao Taozi's hand and said, "Xiao Taozi, are you okay? Chen Xin is not..."

Little Taozi could see Cao Juan's worry, patted her soothingly and said, "I'm fine, Chen Xin wouldn't dare bully me!"

Shi Qiushui: "Then what happened to you?"

Xiao Taozi: "I'm angry because Chen Xin wants to snatch the stopwatch from me!"

She got angry when she talked about this. She glared and said, "Just now, the PE teacher was about to give me the stopwatch, but Chen Xin came over and told the PE teacher that they also wanted to use the stopwatch. The PE teacher said that he had already lent me the one he had, and he didn't know where he put the other one, so he needed to look for it. He asked Chen Xin to wait, but Chen Xin didn't want to. He said that I should give him my one first, and he would use it for a while and return it to me when he was done."

Before Xiao Taozi could finish, Xiong Jie was already upset. He waved his fist and said, "Why? Why did Chen Xin ask you to give him the stopwatch? Everyone has to use the stopwatch, why should he use it first?"

Xiao Taozi: "Yes, that's what I said!"

Shi Qiushui: "Then, after you told Chen Xin this, what did he say?"

Xiao Taozi: "He said that because they run fast, they will finish in a short time and won't need the stopwatch anymore, so he can give it to me."

Xiong Jie exploded again: "No, what does he mean? Does he think we are not running fast enough? We are running very fast too. The stopwatch will run out soon!"

Shi Qiu Shui patted Xiong Jie, signaling him to shut up and listen to Xiao Taozi first.

Xiao Taozi: "I also said that we could run fast and would finish the time quickly. Then Chen Xin burst out laughing, as if I had said something ridiculous! He laughed for a long time, and his classmates who followed him were also laughing. Then the physical education teacher couldn't stand it anymore and asked me to go back with the stopwatch."

Xiong Jie was furious again, his face flushed red. "No, what does Chen Xin mean? What's so funny about him? We run very fast! What does he mean? Does he look down on us? Does he think we can't run fast enough?!"

Now, not to mention Xiong Jie, even Shi Qiu Shui and Zhao Ran felt a little unhappy.

Although Chen Xin didn't say anything, it was obvious that he looked down on them!

Xiong Jie: "Who does Chen Xin think he is? He looks down on us and those people in his class. What do they mean? Do they still think they can win the championship in this sports meet?!"

As Xiong Jie finished speaking, a voice came from behind him, "Why can't our class win the championship?!"

The voice sounded particularly familiar to Cao Juan. She didn't even need to turn around to know that the person speaking was Chen Xin.

Sure enough, she turned around with everyone else and saw Chen Xin leading three classmates towards them.

When Cao Juan saw Chen Xin appear, she subconsciously shuddered, but then she felt the back of her hand getting hot. She looked down and saw that it was Shi Qiu Shui holding her hand.

Cao Juan: "Xiaoqiu..."

Shi Qiushui: "Don't be afraid."

Cao Juan nodded: "Yes."

She knew that there was nothing to be afraid of Chen Xin, so she was not afraid.

Shi Qiu Shui stood in front of Cao Juan worriedly, blocking Chen Xin's view.

She raised her head and asked Chen Xin, "What are you doing here? Do you want to bully our classmates again?"

She waved her fist in the air and said, "Didn't the beating you got last time hurt enough?!"

Seeing Shi Qiu Shui swinging his fist, Chen Xin's mind immediately flashed back to the memory of being beaten last time. The place where he was beaten last time began to ache slightly, and he subconsciously shrank his body.

But then he realized that this was still in school.

He puffed out his chest in a boastful manner, stiffening his neck and saying, "This is school! Our school rules prohibit fighting. If you dare to hit me, I will tell the teacher!"

After saying that, Chen Xin felt that telling the teacher was a bit cowardly and did not suit his temperament, so he added, "You are the monitor of your class, you can't disobey the school rules!"

Shi Qiu Shui glanced at him contemptuously and said nothing.

But she didn't fight back. After all, Teacher Cai had told her last time that if she fought again, she would no longer be the class monitor.

Chen Xin was originally timid, afraid that Shi Qiu Shui would disregard school rules and attack him, but after finding that Shi Qiu Shui did not move for a long time, he became arrogant again, as if he had found a way to control Shi Qiu Shui.

He tapped his cheek and said to Shi Qiushui in a sly tone, "Hit me, if you have the guts, hit me. Didn't you just say you were so powerful? You still want to beat me up, come on? Hit me if you have the guts, then?"

Shi Qiu was so angry that her teeth were itching. She clenched her fists and rushed towards Chen Xin.

Chen Xin didn't expect that even though he said he was going to complain, Shi Qiu Shui still dared to attack him. He was immediately scared and screamed. He ran to the side while yelling.

Shi Qiu Shui did not chase after him.

She didn't really want to beat Chen Xin, but she wanted to scare him because of Chen Xin's provocation.

Chen Xin hid behind his classmates and shouted, "Who are you? You're the monitor of Class 2. Why do you hit people so easily? Are you so brutal?!"

Shi Qiu Shui gritted his teeth and said nothing, just raised his fist silently.

Chen Xin immediately shut up and retracted his head.

Seeing that he was scared, Shi Qiu Shui put down his fist.

She frowned and asked, "Chen Xin, what on earth are you guys doing here?! Are you here to fight?!"

Chen Xin poked his head out and said, "What do you mean by fighting or not? We are not as barbaric as you!"

Shi Qiushui: "Then what are you doing here?"

"Ahem." Seeing that Qiu Shui no longer clenched his fists, the man behind Chen Xin stood up and said seriously, "I'm here to challenge you."

"Declaration of war?!"

Shi Qiushui, Cao Juan and others spoke in surprise.

Chen Xin: "Yes, it's a challenge! Aren't you guys going to participate in the relay race too? Do you dare to compete with us?"

Shi Qiushui: "What are we competing in? A relay race?"

Chen Xin: "Yes, let's see who can run faster at the sports meet! Do you dare to compete?!"

Before Shi Qiushui could say anything, Xiong Jie responded, "Let's compete. Why wouldn't we dare? You'll definitely lose anyway!"

Chen Xin looked at Xiong Jie and laughed contemptuously: "That's not necessarily true. There are women in your team!"

Shi Qiushui rolled his eyes: "What's wrong with being a woman? I am a woman, you can't beat me."

Chen Xin was speechless for a moment, then he said stubbornly: "I can't beat you, but you definitely can't run as fast as me."

Shi Qiushui: "Then let's compete!"

She was inspired by Chen Xin and decided to teach Chen Xin, who looked down on them, a lesson!

Chen Xin: "It's a deal then! Let's compete on the day of the sports meet!"

He rolled his eyes a few times and said, "But if we just compete like this, there's no reward. If we win, we win, and if we lose, we lose. It's meaningless."

Shi Qiushui frowned: "What do you mean?"

Chen Xin: "Well, let's have a competition between our two teams. When the result is known, the losing team will be ridden by the winning team!"

He glanced at Shi Qiushui provocatively: "So, do you still dare to compete with us?"

Shi Qiushui: "Dare, of course I dare not!"

Chen Xin: "Are you sure? Don't think we'll let you go just because you're a girl. When the time comes, even if you're a girl, we'll still ride you. Don't cry and say you don't want to!"

Shi Qiushui: "Humph, who are you looking down on?!"

Chen Xin: "So it's settled then?"

Shi Qiushui: "Okay!"

Seeing that she agreed, Chen Xin grinned.

He felt that no matter how nice Shi Qiu Shui's words were, she, a girl, could not compare to them, the boys, so Shi Qiu Shui and her relay team were bound to lose.

He had already thought it through. When they won, he would let Shi Qiushui be his big horse. He would ride Shi Qiushui in front of the whole grade. No, not the whole grade, the whole school! He would ride Shi Qiushui in front of all the students in the school and make Shi Qiushui lose face completely, in revenge for the beating he had received from Shi Qiushui!

Shi Qiu Shui glanced at Chen Xin, and with just one glance, she guessed what Chen Xin was thinking.

However, she wants to slap Chen Xin in the face with facts!

Let Chen Xin know that the beauty he imagined is just a beauty in his imagination!

Shi Qiu Shui was too lazy to pay attention to Chen Xin who was immersed in fantasy, and turned back to Cao Juan and the others.

She, Cao Juan and a few others were whispering to each other.

Chen Xin didn't know what they were whispering about, but he was not interested in knowing what Shi Qiu Shui and the others were whispering about. Anyway, his goal today was to make Shi Qiu Shui agree to his challenge. Now that Shi Qiu Shui had agreed, he achieved his goal and left with the classmates who came with him.

Shi Qiu Shui muttered to himself, what was he talking about?

She's muttering about tactics!

Although Shi Qiu Shui and the others had taken this relay race seriously before, Chen Xin's declaration of war made them take the competition to a higher level of seriousness.

Xiong Jie's blood was boiling, and he said excitedly: "Boss, tell me, what should we do?! Should we put nails in their shoes, or secretly trip them during the game, or..."

Shi Qiushui immediately gave Xiong Jie a slap on the face: "What are you talking about? Would your boss, like me, be someone who would resort to such shady tactics?!"

Xiong Jie rubbed his forehead: "Then, what tactics do you want to talk about, Boss..."

Shi Qiushui: "Serious tactics!"

She said seriously, "My strategy is to target the other team from three aspects. The first is to assess their strength. I'll leave this to Xiao Taozi and Cao Juan. You can secretly observe the strength of the players in Class 1 who are participating in the relay race and see how they compare to us. The second is to strengthen ourselves. This mainly involves training Xiong Jie. As long as Xiong Jie performs well, there will be no problem. The third is to deceive the other party. We can find out their strength, and of course they can also find out ours in return, so we must be careful when we practice and pay attention to whether there are people with Chen Xin around."

Listening to Shi Qiu Shui's words, the expressions of the children gradually became serious.

Shi Qiushui: "Do you understand what I mean?"

Several children said in unison: "I understand!"

Shi Qiushui: "Okay! Let's take action!"

"Xiao Taozi, you and Cao Juan quietly go to Chen Xin's side. Xiong Jie, come over here and coordinate with Xiao Pang to connect the forces. Zhao Ran, help keep an eye on the area!"

"good!"

The kids acted quickly, as if they were catching a spy, very serious.

When Shi Yue came to pick up Shi Qiu Shui from school, he was frightened by the serious looks of these children.