Chapter 202
Cui Yujie collapsed, pointed at her nose, and looked at the sports committee member Ji Shengkang in disbelief: "Me? You want me to run 3,000 meters?"
But because she felt guilty, she didn't dare to say she would not run away.
At this time, the broadcast on the rostrum was already shouting, "Students who are participating in the 3,000-meter long-distance race at 9:30, please come to the track in the playground and prepare." It was shouted three times in a row.
When the counselor saw the class monitor, deputy class monitor, and physical education committee member gathered together talking about something, he also walked over and asked what happened.
Cui Yujie immediately said, "It's not Jiang Ning. It will be her turn in the 3,000-meter race soon. I've been looking for her all morning but couldn't find her. It looks like she's going to fail soon."
The counselor frowned when she heard this: "What's going on? Doesn't she know that there will be her event at the sports meet today?"
Cui Yujie's eyes flickered. After all, she was still young. Although she took advantage of Jiang Ning's absence to complain confidently, the counselor was a graduate student who had been in Peking University for six or seven years. Peking University was indeed a place where there were many talented people, but he had also seen a lot of scumbags, scoundrels, politicians, and democratic pioneers. He understood one thing very well, that is, good grades did not mean mental maturity.
When he got Jiang Ning's registration form, he felt something was a little strange, so he asked Cui Yujie, "Did Jiang Ning register on his own?"
But at that time he didn't think about registering for the event without telling his classmates. He just thought Jiang Ning was good at running, so he signed up for all the running events for himself.
It’s not that there are no athletes who sign up for the full three plus one event, but it’s usually just the 100-meter sprint plus the less strenuous events like the long jump and the high jump, followed by a 100-meter relay or a 400-meter relay.
Jiang Ning did what she did, signing up for the 3,000-meter, 800-meter, 100-meter hurdles, and 400-meter relay in just two days. These events are almost all physically demanding and have almost never happened before, because human energy is limited. The school sports meet is different from the Asian Games and Universiade, which last for more than half a month and leave enough time for athletes to rest and recover their strength. It is very difficult to complete such intensive and high-intensity exercise within two days.
Now that Jiang Ning was not around, he knew something was wrong, and asked Cui Yujie sharply, "Did Jiang Ning know that she was going to run today?"
Cui Yujie was a freshman after all. She argued with a twinkling look in her eyes, "Of course I know! There's a sports meet today, who doesn't know? Even if she's not attending the sports meet, she's at least in school, right? I've been looking for her for so long, but I can't find her!"
She did not directly answer the question about Jiang Ning's participation in the sports meet, but instead focused on the fact that Jiang Ning was not at school during the sports meet.
This is also what the counselor is confused about. If Jiang Ning didn’t know about this, why wasn’t he in school?
It was meaningless to think about this now. He asked the sports committee member Ji Shengkang: "How did you plan to solve this matter just now?"
Ji Shengkang said, "Jiang Ning is not here, so the women's 3,000 meters cannot be left vacant. I just suggested that Cui Yujie run first. Cui Yujie only signed up for the 200-meter sprint tomorrow, so it won't affect her events tomorrow. Jiang Ning still has two events tomorrow, so when she comes back, she can run tomorrow by herself."
The instructor nodded and said, "This is also a good idea." He urged Cui Yujie, "The women's 3,000 meters is about to start. Hurry up and put on your number cloth and go to the track to gather."
Directly make the final decision.
She dared to refute the sports committee member, but she did not dare to refuse the counselor, even the young graduate student. After all, she felt guilty about the matter.
She reluctantly pinned Jiang Ning's number on her chest and walked towards the track that had already been prepared, with tears in her eyes.
At this moment, there were dark clouds above her head, with lightning and thunder. She was in a very bad mood, but she didn't dare to cry out for grievance or say anything. She could only walk slowly to the runway.
The classmates in the class don’t know clearly which classmates are participating in which project. After all, everyone only cares about their own project. Who cares about what project others have signed up for? On both sides of the runway, I saw classmates from my own class and department, holding up colorful flowers in their hands and shouting loudly: "Go Mathematics College! Go Mathematics College!"
Shen Xinlan and the others didn't know that Cui Yujie was so selfless and signed up for the 3,000-meter race. They were all very surprised and shouted excitedly: "Come on, Yujie! Come on, Yujie!"
Liu Yan was even more surprised.
After more than a month of contact since the beginning of the school year, Liu Yan has already roughly understood Cui Yujie's personality. She is a self-centered and somewhat selfish person. She also feels that she is a native of Beijing and is superior to outsiders like them. She is also a top student at Peking University. She usually thinks highly of herself and takes it for granted that she is bossing others around. She didn't expect that she would sign up for the 3,000-meter race. It seems that she had misjudged her. Also, those who can be admitted to Peking University have already stood out among thousands of students. Cui Yujie may be a little arrogant, but her moral character is still good.
Zhang Min and Yu Qianqian had already returned from the toilet. When they saw Cui Yujie standing on the women's 3,000-meter track, she, who usually never paid attention to Cui Yujie, smiled with her white teeth showing. Her eyes curved into crescent shapes, and she shouted in a naturally hoarse voice, "Yujie! Come on! It's up to you to bring honor to our School of Mathematics!"
Zhang Min is about 168 cm tall and weighs about 120 to 130 kg. She is a little chubby, but people who see her don't think she is fat. They just think that she has a perfect figure. She likes to laugh very much, and when she laughs, her eyes become crescent-shaped, giving people the illusion that she is easy to get along with.
She is indeed easy to get along with, as long as you don't get into trouble.
She and Yu Qianqian looked at each other, and the smile in Zhang Min's eyes became even more cunning, and she even winked at Yu Qianqian.
Yu Qianqian also patted her chest with lingering fear.
She still has 1,500 meters to run in the afternoon. If she runs 3,000 meters in the morning and another 1,500 meters in the afternoon, she will be completely exhausted.
Cui Yujie was still searching the crowd to see if she could find Jiang Ning or someone to run away from her. She looked at Zhang Min and said, "Zhang Min, you're tall and have long legs, why don't you run!"
Zhang Min secretly rolled her eyes and said with a smile, "I'm too lazy to even get out of bed, and you want me to run? Do you think I can run?"
In the entire dormitory 401, the laziest person is Zhang Min. She would rather lie down than sit, and would rather stand than sit. The first thing she does when she returns to the dormitory every day is to lie down on the bed, then sigh comfortably, and then take out a book and read it while lying on the bed.
Jiang Ning and the others washed the sheets and clothes. She slept on the lower bunk and piled all her clothes in a large basin under her bed. After accumulating them for a week, they put them all in the washing machine to wash at once. When the weather got cold, she was less fond of changing clothes because she felt that she didn't sweat and her clothes wouldn't get dirty.
At this moment, the running time has arrived. The teacher who shouted the command, holding up the starting gun, shouted loudly: "Women's 3,000-meter long-distance race, get ready..." With a loud 'bang', the girls standing on the starting line all rushed out.
Some girls know that long-distance running requires moving at a constant speed and that they need to accumulate strength and save energy for the final sprint. Other girls want to leave others behind at the beginning and then slow down and run slowly later.
Cui Yujie is the average type, neither fast nor slow.
But she doesn't have the physical strength.
One lap of the track at the May Fourth Playground is 400 meters. She was able to run the first lap, but by the second and third laps, she felt as if her legs were filled with lead and were extremely heavy.
By the fourth and fifth laps, she felt pain in her throat and lungs when she breathed, and she felt dizzy and almost fainted.
By the sixth lap, she was already at the end of the field.
Other people who signed up for the 3,000 meters all signed up voluntarily. Only those who dared to voluntarily sign up for the 3,000 meters must have some basic knowledge of long-distance running and be confident enough in their physical strength.
Only Cui Yujie completely shot herself in the foot. When she was running the last lap, all the girls in the field were making their final sprint. When they reached the finish line, she still had one lap to finish. She wanted to stop running and pretend that she had finished, but everyone around the track was cheering for her enthusiastically.
Zhang Min even shouted loudly: "Cui Yujie! Come on! There's only one lap left! Come on and finish it!"
The people around were all shouting: "Come on! Persevere! Perseverance is victory!"
"Classmate, well done!"
She was the only one left on the track, and her legs seemed to no longer be her own.
After running 3,000 meters, she burst into tears.
All her classmates thought she was crying because she came in last.
The girls who usually thought she was arrogant and looked down on others changed their opinion of her when they saw that she actually signed up for the 3,000-meter race. Some of them waited for her at the finish line, supported her, and gave her water. When they saw her crying, they all came over to comfort her: "Yujie, good job! The fact that you can finish the race is the best!"
Cui Yujie cried even louder.
There was still an 800-meter race left in the afternoon, and she felt that her legs were no longer hers. TT
Jiang Ning, where are you? Come back soon!
Putting on makeup and styling your hair is a very time-consuming task.
Especially in this era, people particularly like to perm people's hair. No matter what style you want, the first thing to do is to perm your hair. If you don't perm your hair, it feels like the style is incomplete.
Jiang Ning's hair is now longer, shoulder-length. It is easy to go bald if she ties her hair up. Jiang Ning is still very concerned about the issue of baldness, so most of the time, her hair is loose. Only when she eats or runs, she will loosely tie her hair into a small bun at the back like a sparrow's tail, and take it off after eating.
This medium-long hair cannot be tied up, so it is easy to curl it into a lamb-like shape.
Jiang Ning has thick, dense hair. Because her hair is original and has never been permed or dyed, there are a lot of new short hairs growing on the top of her head.
The stylist simply referred to the styles of several female stars wearing suits at the Cannes Film Festival in the past two years, and curled her slightly frizzy short hair one by one, straightened it, and combed her hair back as a whole, and then let it fall naturally on both sides. One side was tucked behind her ear, and the other side was combed back to form a large arc curl in front of her forehead, revealing her entire delicate face. She wore a black suit on the top and a flowing black slit leg-revealing long skirt on the bottom.
In her previous life, when Jiang Ning was in high school, someone had her quilt and clothes soaked with water in winter. She had few clothes and had no clothes to change into. Later, whenever it was cloudy and rainy, her knees would ache slightly and she felt very uncomfortable. Therefore, she rejected ALEX's flowing long skirt and asked him to find her a pair of suit trousers.
It was not until nearly evening that the three people's looks were finalized, and the producer and Director Yu took them out for dinner.
Grandpa Jiang and Song Peifeng accompanied Jiang Ning patiently, watching her decide on one look after another. Each look, with the help of the stylist, made her look even more radiant.
The pride in Grandpa Jiang’s heart is beyond words; that radiant girl is his eldest granddaughter!
Cui Yujie finished running 3,000 meters in the morning, and the morning sports meeting was basically over. They returned to the cafeteria to have lunch, took a break at noon, and continued the sports meeting in the afternoon.
Cui Yujie kept patrolling the playground, looking for Jiang Ning, but there was no sign of her. Still no sign!
She wanted to order other girls in the class to run, but there were not many girls in their School of Mathematics, and almost all the girls in their class were gathered in their dormitory. Moreover, all the out-of-town students who were admitted to Peking University were proud girls who had fought hard among tens of thousands of students across the province. Except for those who were born with a weak character or were cowardly students who were suppressed and PUAed, how many of them did not have a little pride in their hearts? How could they listen to the orders of a vice-class monitor?
She had already forgotten that she had signed up for these projects without Jiang Ning's consent. She just hated Jiang Ning in her heart. It was clearly her project, but she disappeared and asked her to run it for her. When she came back in the evening, she...
Damn, she didn't dare to get angry with Jiang Ning. She felt guilty when she thought about facing Jiang Ning.
What can I do? Continue running the 800 meters in the afternoon.
Zhang Min was almost laughing to death in private.
If there were WeChat groups now, she, Yu Qianqian, Shen Xinlan, and Liu Yan would have a small group, and the small group would be full of her making fun of Cui Yujie and complaining about Cui Yujie.
How could they not understand at this point? "It must be that Cui Yujie registered these projects for Jiang Ning privately without her consent. Otherwise, would Cui Yujie run the errands for Jiang Ning? She must be kidding!" Zhang Min laughed so hard that her stomach hurt.
Liu Yan frowned and was still a little bit unbelieving: "Not really? She dared to report to Jiang Ning without Jiang Ning's consent?"
Jiang Ning doesn't look like someone who is easy to bully.
Zhang Min smiled and said, "Given her personality, if she hadn't done it, she would definitely not do it for someone else, do you believe it?"
Liu Yan asked: "Does Jiang Ning know about this?"
Zhang Min smiled and said, "Did she dare to tell Jiang Ning about this? Jiang Ning didn't behave strangely in the past few days. I'm sure she didn't know. If she knew, would she let Cui Yujie go without saying anything?"
She felt that with Jiang Ning's personality, she would definitely not let Cui Yujie off. Although Jiang Ning was always smiling and easy to talk to in the dormitory, Zhang Min just felt that Jiang Ning was not someone to be trifled with.
Whether a person is easy to mess with or not can be felt from her attitude when she speaks and does things. Jiang Ning is a person who is never influenced by others. Although she looks smiling, she actually has a very tough personality.
"If Jiang Ning didn't know about this, then where did she go today?" Liu Yan was more inclined to believe that Jiang Ning knew about this and deliberately did not show up today. The counselor also thought so.
Zhang Min shrugged and said, "How should I know? But isn't she always out of sight? Apart from sleeping time, when do you see her in the dormitory? When she comes back at night, you can ask her and she will know."
As a result, Jiang Ning did not come back at night.
On the first day of school, Jiang Ning did not sleep in the dormitory. They knew that Jiang Ning either had a house in Beijing or had relatives there. They did not find it strange that Jiang Ning did not come back. They just thought that Jiang Ning went to a relative's house.
Normally, someone would come to the school dormitory to conduct irregular room checks at night, but today and tomorrow are the Peking University Student Sports Meet, and there are no classes, so no one came to check the dormitories at night. Even if you reported it, it would be useless because the sports meet happens to be on Saturday and Sunday, and Jiang Ning usually does not live in the dormitory on Saturdays and Sundays.
Cui Yujie, who had never done such a strenuous exercise before, ran 3,000 meters and 800 meters one day. She ate a quick dinner at night and fell asleep on the bed. When she woke up the next day, her legs ached as if they were cramping. When she went down the stairs, her calves were spinning and shaking in pain. Her calves and thighs also hurt.
She really couldn't run the 100-meter hurdles in the morning, but she still had a 200-meter sprint to run.
She spoke to the counselor with a sad face and aggrieved look.
The instructor frowned and asked, "Is Jiang Ning not back yet?"
Cui Yujie's brows were knitted into knots: "No, she doesn't come back at weekends!"
Why didn't she think of this before? She just thought that the school was holding a sports meet and she must be in school.
She complained to the counselor that Jiang Ning had signed up but had a blank on the application.
The counselor was indeed a little unhappy. He now thought that Jiang Ning knew that Cui Yujie had registered her, and then she deliberately disappeared without saying a word.
There is no collective consciousness at all.
But he was still not sure what was going on, so he just asked Liu Yan to help run the 100-meter hurdles in the morning.
Liu Yan was simply complaining: "My sister ran over the hurdles, but how can I jump over such a high hurdle?"
Cui Yujie quickly advised her: "Hey, you have long legs, you will definitely be able to cross it, it's only 100 meters, you can finish it quickly."
Liu Yan retorted: "You said it was easy, why don't you run? You said your legs hurt and asked me to run? Then my legs don't hurt?"
Cui Yujie was so upset by her that she said aggrievedly: "If I don't have to run 200 meters later, I will do it myself."
It is true that the two events conflict, although the times are not at the same time, but it may not be possible to run the 100-meter hurdles right after finishing the 200-meter run.
As a class leader, Liu Yan is easy to talk to, responsible, and has a strong sense of collectivism. The instructor called her by name, so how could she not run? However, she still said, "Counselor, I'm not shirking my responsibility. I'm also in the 400-meter race this afternoon. I can't replace her in the 400-meter relay. Whoever signs up should run!"
The class monitor, sports committee member, counselor and others all looked at Cui Yujie.
Cui Yujie's heart skipped a beat and she stammered, "You...why are you looking at me? Jiang Ning signed up herself, why should I run for her?"
Liu Yan patted Cui Yujie's shoulder and said in Mandarin with a Northeastern accent: "Why are you running for her? Don't you know what's going on?" Then she sat on the sit-up mat on the ground beside her: "I will run for you in the 100-meter hurdles in the morning, but you have to run the 400-meter relay in the afternoon. Come on, girl."
In the afternoon, Cui Yujie wanted Liu Yan to run for her. Liu Yan patted her calf to relax her muscles and said, "Are you stupid? I'm the second runner! How can I run for you?"
Zhang Min had already finished throwing the shot put and was lying on the sit-up mat: "Don't call me, I definitely won't run!"
Seeing Cui Yujie looking at her pleadingly, Shen Xinlan smiled sweetly and said, "I'm the first runner!"
The third runner was another girl in the class, not from their dormitory.
Looking for Yu Qianqian. Yu Qianqian ran 1,500 meters yesterday, and her legs are still shaking today. When she saw Cui Yujie looking at her, she quickly hid behind Zhang Min, letting Zhang Min's broad and thick back cover her petite and short figure. She muttered softly, "With my small arms and legs, no matter how fast I move, I can't beat you guys with long legs."
So, Cui Yujie, whose legs were aching so much that they were about to cramp, could only run 400 meters by herself.
Even though she is forced to do this, as long as she is a member of the Beijing University, she will have a desire to win. As long as she is on the stage, she has to run with all her might and cannot lose. She has a strong desire to win, and she can only run as hard as she can when she is running the crucial fourth leg!
So, over the course of two days, Cui Yujie ran the 3,000-meter, 800-meter, 200-meter and 400-meter relay races by herself.
After the sports meet, she felt like her legs were useless.
Cui Yujie was exhausted, but the other people in the dormitory were not. After a day's rest, Yu Qianqian had basically recovered. In addition, she had already prepared for the long-distance running in the sports meet and had practiced for half a month. Unlike Cui Yujie, she had not prepared for the long-distance running at all.
Kyoto University has a rich campus activities, and Kyoto University students do not only study on weekends. Every weekend night, movies are shown in the Kyoto University auditorium, both foreign and domestic. Occasionally, if there are some special events in the country, they will be broadcast live on TV.
The sports meet was over, but Zhang Min and her classmates were still excited. They had been studying at Peking University for so long and had not had a good time to relax, so Zhang Min suggested going to the auditorium to watch a movie in the evening.
This proposal was unanimously agreed upon by all the girls in the dormitory except Cui Yujie.
Cui Yujie's legs hurt as if they were cramping. Even dinner had to be brought up by Liu Yan. But they were going to the auditorium to watch a movie in the evening and she didn't want to be left alone in the dormitory. She just dragged her trembling legs in pain and followed them to the auditorium to watch a movie.
Anyway, when they got to the auditorium, they just sat down and watched.
Because they had to get up early the next morning to do their styling, Jiang Ning and his crew stayed at the big hotel that the crew had booked long ago for the film festival.
The process of the Popular Film Wanhua Film Festival is basically like this: admission opens in the afternoon, everyone has dinner together in the evening, and the awards ceremony takes place in the evening.
Jiang Ning entered the venue in a low-key manner wearing a suit and dress, following the crew of "White Snake". As the highest-grossing film crew this year, the crew of "White Snake" was nominated for multiple awards including Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Film, Best Photography, etc. It is one of the films with the highest chance of winning awards this year, and is also one of the most dazzling leading roles in today's film festival.
As soon as the "White Snake" crew came on stage, the surrounding flash lights never stopped. Because it was held on Sunday, fans who voted for the "Audience's Favorite Actor/Actress Award" surrounded both sides of the red carpet. People kept shouting: "Ming Yue! Ming Yue!"
"Gu Yunzhou! Gu Yunzhou!"
Gu Yunzhou is the name of Jiang Bai's character in "The Commander of Imperial Guards". This character is currently the most popular character in this TV series. After all, who doesn't want a handsome guy who is indifferent to the whole world, has a desolate heart, but only loves you, is loyal to you but cannot express his love for you, and has excellent martial arts skills?
These people were all fans who had voted for Jiang Bai. Now, they were watching the newly dressed Jiang Bai up close. His exquisite and handsome appearance and his indifferent and aloof temperament made the fans scream and shout, "Jiang Bai, I voted for you! Jiang Bai, I also mobilized my whole family to vote for you!"
"Jiang Bai, I love you!"
"So handsome, so handsome, so handsome!"
The lively scene was no less lively than that of fans chasing stars in later generations.
The male actors in the crew of "Party A and Party B" are also very popular, especially since he is a native of Beijing and has many supporters. But he is a movie star after all, and has only filmed movies so far. Unlike Jiang Bai, after the movie was released, he recently appeared in a hit TV series, and he is the most popular second male lead in it. The audience base ranges from old ladies in their sixties and seventies to children of seven or eight years old, and they all know him and like him.
It was the first time that Jiang Bai had his name called so loudly by so many people and was loved by so many people. He felt a little bit unbelievable and a little happy as he showed a shy smile and waved to those who were calling his name and the name of his character. The fans who were stunned by the shy smile on his face screamed even louder, shouting his name at the top of their lungs and stretching out their hands to shake hands with him.
For a moment, his popularity overshadowed the female lead of "White Snake", not to mention Jiang Ning who was walking low-key among the crowd.
The popular film Wanhua Film Festival was broadcast in the form of a live broadcast. Except for college students who were participating in the sports meeting, basically everyone who paid attention to the film industry was watching the live broadcast of the Wanhua Film Festival. Even people who were not interested in the film industry sat in front of the TV to watch it because they wanted to see their favorite actors and stars. In addition, it was the weekend and there were already many audiences. The ratings of the Wanhua Film Festival's live broadcast channel continued to rise.
After walking the red carpet, everyone entered the inner venue. Tables of banquets had already been prepared. The invited actors, directors, investors and people in the circle all found their respective seats and sat down. Jiang Ning's seat was with the "White Snake" crew. The director team and the female lead were at one table, and Jiang Ning and Jiang Bo, Tong Jingang and other supporting actors, known or unknown, were at another table. The director also specially arranged the seats and moved Jiang Bo and Jiang Ning's name tags to their table. At the dinner, everyone clinked glasses, toasted each other, and kept greeting and toasting people they knew but at different tables.
The producer of the "White Snake" crew knew a lot of people. He brought Director Yu, the female lead, Jiang Bo, and people from the film and television industry and investors to greet and toast. There were almost always people around him.
Tong Jingang, who is very outgoing, was also around Director Yu and the others, like a butterfly, talking to people all over the place, handing out business cards, recommending himself, and at the same time collecting other people's business cards.
When they finished dinner, it was almost seven o'clock. Well-trained waiters came over to remove the exquisite plates on the table and replaced them with tea. The Wanhua Film Festival's award ceremony also began.
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