“The road ahead is difficult, but the future is bright.”
Xia Tong was completely stunned by these words, which echoed in her ears over and over again like the morning bell and evening drum.
This was the first time that a stranger had given him such sincere and profound encouragement and blessings.
What's more, this person is a member of the league's staff! It turns out that being recognized by others feels so good!
Xia Tong felt the blood in his body begin to boil, and he had endless power at his disposal. He suddenly raised his hands to cover his burning cheeks, trying his best to control his facial expression which was completely out of control.
"Xia Xiaotong, if you want to laugh, just laugh. It's scary if you do this." Shi Ya was amused by his clumsy actions.
Xia Tong couldn't hold it anymore, and the corners of her mouth curled up wildly.
"Someone praised me! He said I have a bright future! He he he - he won't stop me from attacking Wang Ling! Right!" He was so excited that he stomped his two short legs on the ground frequently.
"Yes, yes, he is on our side now." He Youjin said with a smile, looking at Lin Mingfei with interest.
Lin Mingfei took the cup and poured coffee with a calm expression, as if he was not the one who set the trap and acted so arrogantly just now.
"Hey Zero, to be honest, I thought at first you would just close the door and release Zhou Yanjun, and not let them go unless they kneel down and apologize!" He Youjin said.
"Come on, I'm the captain of the team, not a gang boss." Lin Mingfei rolled her eyes at him, her tone disdainful: "Besides, we're all civilized people. Wouldn't it be better to talk things over with him? Look, the results of talking things over have been great."
He Youjin: "...I believed your lies, and you call that reasonableness—"
Lin Mingfei came back with the mug in hand and chuckled, "You're throwing a tantrum, I'm trying to be reasonable."
He Youjin: "...Lin Mingfei, you are a piece of shit!"
"Oh, but if this happened two years ago, Zero would have done just like you said, locking the door, drawing the curtains, and tying them up in bundles." Shi Ya smiled and said, "As expected, people grow up and mature."
"So what's the result now?" Zhou Yanjun looked around, confused. "Why do they look so grateful?"
"Maybe they were touched by the aura of forgiveness that shone from me. After all, I didn't make any excessive demands. I just asked them to arrange a training match with Sabertooth." Lin Mingfei tilted her head and emphasized, "Help us."
"Ask Sabretooth for a training match?" several people exclaimed in unison.
"Definitely not in the near future." Lin Mingfei took a sip of coffee and said lazily, "But before going on the field, you must meet the strongest opponent. Knowing yourself and your enemy will ensure victory in every battle." He glanced around and squinted: "Really? Don't you plan to fight Sabretooth with real weapons before the league starts? Are you planning to go in blindly?"
A group of people shook their heads like rattles.
"No, mainly because I didn't expect... there would be a chance to meet Sabertooth." Shi Ya sighed softly, "After all, even the Nine-headed Bird didn't want to arrange a training match with us!"
"Well, whether they make an appointment or not, this is their official business." Lin Mingfei said slowly.
"Yes, with official pressure, Sabretooth will definitely give them this face. I think the deal made by Zero is quite good." He Youjin put his hands on his hips and said, "It's a blessing in disguise! Xia Xiaotong?" He winked at Xia Tong.
Xia Tong let out a long sigh and laughed, "Life is really full of ups and downs."
Very interesting.
In the afternoon, Xia Tong was taken to Polaris's private training equipment room by Lin Mingfei.
The members of Team P have just started rehabilitation, mainly doing aerobic exercises in the morning. They don't come to the equipment room very often. Lin Mingfei simply put the things inside in order, cleared an area, and then dragged a whiteboard over.
"What are you doing?" Xia Tong put her hands behind her back and looked around curiously.
"I'll train you and teach you how to do two things at once." Lin Mingfei raised his eyebrows mysteriously. He took out a long hemp rope from the pile of equipment, replaced the fixed lock on one end that was fastened to the wall with a "click", held the other end himself, and took a few steps back.
"Do you know how to jump rope? It's the kind where you jump through one end and then out the other end." He raised his arm and swung the rope. A piece of white cloth was tied in the middle of the thickest part of the hemp rope, and it hit the floor neither lightly nor heavily, making a regular "pa pa" sound.
"I didn't jump over it!" Xia Tong said, "Then I'll try!" He moved to one end of the rope in small steps. The bangs on his forehead were blown by the wind from the rope. He first stretched his head out, then leaned back, and swung back and forth several times like rocking a boat, but he still didn't dare to rush in.
"I don't dare." He looked at Lin Mingfei as if asking for help: "I'm so afraid of getting hit. It must be very painful to hit someone with this rope!"
"It's not that bad actually." Lin Mingfei said, "Then listen to my commands. If I tell you to go in, you go in. If I tell you to jump, you jump. Don't hesitate! If you hesitate, you will lose."
Xia Tong: "Okay!"
Although he was still very afraid of the fierce hemp rope hitting the ground, he firmly believed that listening to Lin Mingfei would not be wrong! So when he heard Lin Mingfei shout "Enter!", he gritted his teeth and plunged his head into the gap between the hemp ropes!
"Jump up!" Lin Mingfei shouted, "Go!"
Xia Tong jumped up on the spot. He felt the strong hemp rope swinging accurately under his feet. Then he rushed out of the rope loop in three or two steps. The rope rose again behind him. The feeling of successfully dodging was unexpectedly extraordinarily easy and light!
"It's fun!" He turned and smiled at Lin Mingfei: "Come again!"
"Okay." Lin Mingfei smiled.
Xia Tong learned quickly and nimbly moved back and forth in the rope loop several times. He was tripped twice and hit twice. He was a little out of breath and a little painful, but it was all still within the tolerable range. He gradually mastered the skills, and after more than ten minutes, he was able to jump around skillfully without getting hit.
"Hey hey hey!" He said proudly, "I'm awesome, Zero!"
"Not bad." Lin Mingfei nodded approvingly. He put down one end of the rope, took out a marker, and quickly wrote more than ten lines of arithmetic problems on the whiteboard. They were all addition, subtraction, multiplication and division of two to three digits, the kind that required thinking for a while before giving the answer.
"Now I'm going to increase the difficulty." He said to Xia Tong: "While jumping rope, tell me the answers to these questions."
Xia Tong was stunned: "Huh?"
Lin Mingfei didn't give him time to hesitate. She picked up the rope and swung it, "Come on, first one, one hundred and sixty-eight divided by three minus fifteen!"
Xia Tong's forehead was buried in the rope loop, her eyes still fixed on the whiteboard: "Uh ah - that... forty-one!"
"Snap" the rope hit his little butt.
"Ouch!" Xia Tong screamed, his face wrinkled. He covered his butt and rushed out a few steps, turning his head to look at Lin Mingfei in frustration. However, Lin Mingfei remained calm and said nothing more. She swung the rope again: "Come again!"
"Two hundred and ninety-two divided by two plus seventy."
"That... two hundred and sixteen—ouch!"
"Ninety-nine times three minus three!"
“Ouch, ouch!”
"If you don't jump up, you'll turn into barbecued bamboo shoots!"
“QAQ!!”
......
Forty minutes later, Xia Tong curled up on the floor, rubbing her ankles and her little butt, with a look of despair on her face.
Lin Mingfei brought over two bottles of room-temperature mineral water, knelt down and sat beside him, laughing softly: "Does it hurt so much?"
"Hmm..." Xia Tong whimpered. To be more precise, his whole body was in pain. The rope was dancing and even his little face was hit, making a "PIAPIA" sound.
Lin Mingfei unscrewed the bottle of mineral water and handed it to him. Xia Tong sat up from the ground, took it with his legs crossed, and drank a lot of it with his head tilted back. He drank so fast that his collar was wet with the leaked water. It took him a long time to catch his breath.
"The pain is secondary. The main thing is... the main thing is that I'm exhausted." He lowered his hands and head, pinching the mineral water bottle with his fingers, making a "crackling" sound. "How come I can't even do such a simple thing... I get hit with the rope when I do arithmetic, and I forget about arithmetic when I jump!"
"Hmm..." Lin Mingfei said thoughtfully, "Have you ever seen a TV show with animal acrobatics?"
"What?" Xia Tong asked in confusion.
"There's a fluffy, long-haired puppy inside. You do math with it, and then it picks the right number of dog biscuits." Lin Mingfei said, "The level of completion is very good."
Xia Tong stared at him for two seconds, her mouth gradually trembling into a wavy line: "Brother...you said I'm not even as good as a long-haired puppy!"
"Oh no!" Lin Mingfei didn't expect him to understand it this way. She was stunned for a moment and hurriedly waved her hands and said, "What I mean is, it's just training. You will get it with more practice!"
Xia Tong: "Woo woo! You all can do two things at once, even a puppy can do two things at once, but I can't!"
Well, this example is so inappropriate. Look at this little thing, he didn't want to cry at first, but was persuaded to cry.
Lin Mingfei was speechless, wanting to bang his head twice. He lowered his eyes and pondered for a while before speaking again, "Actually... you know what, Xia Xiaotong? You can't do two things at once because you're a very focused person. Teachers really like kids like you who are so focused. What teachers hate most are those students who try to do two things at once: draw little figures in class, pass notes, and constantly look out the window to see if there's a teacher patrolling."
Xia Tong fluttered her eyelashes twice, trying to understand what he said.
"so what?"
"So... children who focus on their studies usually do very well, and people with good academic performance will definitely have no problem learning other things, huh." Lin Mingfei raised her eyes solemnly, and patiently wiped the water stains on Xia Tong's lips and chin with her thumb. Her eyes were soft and deep.
Xia Tong said "emmmm" for a while, and suddenly as if something had clicked, her big eyes narrowed into slits.
"Brother, so you were forced to become a professional player because of your poor academic performance?"
"......" Lin Mingfei's mouth twitched: "Huh?"
Xia Tong eagerly grasped his arm and shook it: "Hmmmm?"
Lin Mingfei slowly turned her face away: "No, I just don't like studying."
Xia Tong: "Oh..."
Alpha numbly and stubbornly tried to save face: "It's not because I can't learn it!"
Xia Tong became energetic again, patted her butt and stood up: "Okay!"
Lin Mingfei: "...You don't seem to believe it."
Xia Tong: "I believe it, I believe it! Whatever my brother says is what it is!"
Lin Mingfei: “…”
I feel like I’m being treated perfunctorily!
The author has something to say: Lin Mingfei: I was careless and exposed my true nature as a poor student.
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