The final whistle blew and the score was fixed at 73:80.

The east side stands erupted in cheers, with cheering sticks waving in a sea of ​​bright red.

Through the gaps between the cheering sticks, Lin Chaoxi saw the players in his class huddled together. They had finally won an impeccable, fair victory. Perhaps because the victory was so hard to come by, Matt Zheng even kept covering his face, refusing to show his expression, and it was unknown whether he was crying or not.

As for Class 1, due to miscalculation and the disappointing performance of their captain, their players had already lost interest in the game. However, under the leadership of Hanamaki, they fought to the end and kept the score within 10 points, which was already very difficult.

But they are still students, and they are only in their teens. After the final whistle, the teenagers seemed to have lost their backbone and all hung their heads in despair.

Only Huajuan remained calm. He patted his teammates on the shoulders one by one to encourage them. Although he looked very young, he had a strange leadership quality when he got serious.

After Hua Juan comforted the players from her class, she was about to go take a shower and change clothes with them, but the referee stopped them. The referee teacher said something, and a group of players started arguing with him again. Chen Chu wanted to speak again, but was stopped by Hua Juan.

Lin Chaoxi was leaving the stage. Seeing this, she couldn't help but stand up and gestured to Huajuan from a distance. Huajuan shook her head, indicating that she was fine and let them go first.

Lin Chaoxi had no choice but to continue to quietly leave the stands with Pei Zhi and Lu Zhihao. However, because Pei Zhi was too eye-catching, the word "silently" only lasted for a dozen seconds before it ended.

Matt Zheng quickly jumped to the stands and grabbed Pei Zhi: "Transfer student, no, Brother Pei, Brother Pei, you were so good at pretending just now, I'll treat you to skewers at noon!"

He had just finished playing basketball and was covered in sweat. Pei Zhi was a little dazed by the hug, and Lin Chaoxi took two steps back due to the suffocation.

"Chaoxi baby, come along too." Matt Zheng turned to look at her.

Hearing this, Pei Zhi also looked over with a questioning look in his eyes, but Lin Chaoxi didn't know whether the question was about "lunch" or "baby".

Pei Zhi: "Can I leave the school at noon?"

Lin Chaoxi breathed a sigh of relief and was about to answer "Sure", but Zheng Matt said first, "Of course, Chaoxi baby used to buy milk tea for me when I left school!"

Lin Chaoxi looked at his classmate who was enjoying himself and felt very regretful and desperate. He should have let Chen Chu pin him to death on the court.

Pei Zhi thought for a moment and said, "Shall we go eat wontons?"

He was referring to the store they often visited when they were young. Lin Chaoxi nodded quickly: "Sure, Lao Lu will order Huajuan later?"

"No problem." Lu Zhihao said.

Pei Zhi then rejected Zheng Tianming: "Sorry, we don't want to eat barbecue anymore."

"Wife, can't you really take me with you?" Zheng Tianming looked at her pitifully.

Lin Chaoxi was simply horrified. Where did this "wife" come from? Today's junior high school students are really scary.

Lin Chaoxi interrupted him quickly: "Can you change your clothes first? You will catch a cold."

"Chaoxi baby, are you caring about me?" Zheng Tianming's eyes lit up. "I'll go now!"

Zheng Tianming blew her a kiss, jumped off the stands and rushed directly to the locker room, with abnormal excitement.

Pei Zhi was still wearing the hood of his sweater. He turned his face towards her and looked at her seriously.

"He might have a calling disorder when he gets excited," she began to talk nonsense seriously.

Pei Zhi's clear eyes showed a look of confusion.

"Be careful he doesn't call you husband!" Lin Zhaoxi reminded Pei Zhi seriously with a serious expression.

Pei Zhi: ...

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Xilin Wonton Shop is located deep in an alley outside Anning Experimental Junior High School. At noon, the place is filled with smoke and people are flowing. The tables are filled with bowls of wontons in clear soup. The soup base is made from bone soup that has been boiled overnight, and the wonton skin is crystal clear, and the meat filling is tender and juicy.

After the Jin Cup that year, it was Lao Lin who first brought them here.

Pei Zhi loves wontons very much. Although he didn't show anything when eating them, they came here every day for lunch during that period to report.

They had four children, so they ordered four different kinds of stuffing and took turns to try different flavors. But soon after that, Pei Zhi left, and they didn't seem to come to eat there much anymore.

Lin Chaoxi didn't actually experience the time after Pei Zhi left, but now, she sat down at the table with her friends again, and everyone's faces changed from childish to youthful and sunny. She still felt very emotional.

"Shrimp, shepherd's purse, dried shrimp, pure meat."

The waiter came to take the order, and Pei Zhi ordered four flavors of wontons as usual. The sense of ceremony is still very important.

but……

"Two each." Pei Zhi added.

Huajuan was shocked: "Is there nothing to eat abroad? Did you order too much???"

"No wontons." Pei Zhi paused, "Besides, is one bowl of wontons enough for you?"

Huajuan then realized that they had grown up and were in the developmental stage. They were no longer elementary school students who could only eat a bowl of wontons.

Lu Zhihao raised his hand weakly: "Actually, there are only 20 in two bowls, I may not have enough..."

"I'll give mine to you. I can't finish it." Lin Chaoxi said subconsciously.

At this moment, the three young men all looked at her.

Lin Zhaoxi: “What…what are you doing?”

"I think you can do it?" Huajuan asked a little confused.

Lu Zhihao: "Don't be hungry. Last time you had dumplings with us, you ate three plates by yourself."

Pei Zhi was a little surprised, but still asked gently and considerately: "Do you need me to order another bowl?"

"No... no need..." Lin Zhaoxi wanted to cry but had no tears.

——

I don’t know why, but after ordering and joking around, the distance between us seemed to have shortened a lot.

Huajuan and Pei Zhi's relationship has been getting closer. He began to ask Pei Zhi about his life abroad from time to time, and specifically asked about the miserable parts.

Pei Zhi was calm as always. He said that studying was not difficult and life with his grandfather was even more peaceful. However, the old man could not eat spicy food and the chef did not know how to cook it, so he was very resentful about not being able to eat wontons and hot pot.

“Let’s have hot pot that night,” Huajuan suggested.

"Master, your hot pot is really good." Lu Zhihao said, "Shall we go to Master's house tonight?"

Pei Zhi nodded: "I will go see Master first when I come back."

They said, and looked at her together.

Looking at these three greedy children, Lin Chaoxi couldn't bear to tell them that Lao Lin's hotpot was delicious, it was just that he knew which brand of soup base was the most delicious.

Unable to bear destroying Lao Lin's image, Lin Chaoxi silently turned his head and looked out the floor-to-ceiling window, and then was shocked.

A handsome face was pressed against the French window, smiling at her with a bloody mouth. The man's ears were full of toothpicks. Who else could it be but classmate Zheng Tianming?

"How are you guys? Are you okay?" Pei Zhi just asked this question.

"We're fine." Seeing classmate Zheng Matt outside the window, Lu Zhihao said heartlessly, "But Pei Zhi, you don't know that when you were away, Lin Chaoxi really liked this psychopath!"

Lin Chaoxi stared at Lu Zhihao. She didn't know how Lu Zhihao could sell her without any psychological pressure.

"She would really buy milk tea for that psychopath!" Huajuan also said.

"Running around and copying homework for a psychopath!" This is Lu Zhihao.

"We persuaded him, but he said psychopaths are super handsome, like Oguri Shun!" Hanamaki continued.

The two of them were telling the truth and complaining in front of Pei Zhi.

Lin Chaoxi no longer had the strength to resist. He buried his head in his arms and said with a weak breath: "Don't... don't say anything... I'm already... done..."

Pei Zhining's gentle voice rang in her ears: "How come it's so fast?"

Lin Zhaoxi's ears couldn't help but turn red, and she buried her head a little deeper: "Before, I didn't have any competitors, and I was very lonely, so I just... just acted a little bit... Now that Pei Zhi is back, I have to study hard."

"Yeah." Pei Zhi replied.

"What is the first step?" Huajuan was a little bit surprised.

"Wait... go find Teacher Ma first to get the qualification for the Mathematical League competition..." Lin Chaoxi answered forcedly.

"What if she doesn't give it to me?" Huajuan said, "Teacher Ma is really... biased."

"No?" Lin Zhaoxi suddenly raised his head, "Do you still remember Vice Principal Zhang?"