Balloon
The night wind was cold, and the cries of the vendors around seemed to fade away.
Zhou Hui looked at Lu Xiye and said angrily, "Lu Xiye, I don't allow you to be with them. Come here."
"Psycho." Lu Xiye didn't bother to pay attention to her. He turned to Jiang Zhizhi and Li Rongrong and said, "What are you two standing there for? Come on, are you still here watching them fight?"
As he spoke, he headed straight for the exit on the other side of the park.
"Lu Xiye!" Zhou Hui jumped up in anger.
In the past, Lu Xiye always stood on her side like his brother. But after the fight with Wang Wei in class, he not only ignored Wang Wei and Zhou Qi, but also ignored her. He was like a completely different person.
She was so angry that she almost died.
Li Rongrong didn't want to get involved in these people's troubles. Seeing Lu Xiye leaving, she hurriedly pulled Jiang Zhizhi to follow.
Jiang Zhizhi looked at Xu Jiaojiao. Before she could speak, Xu Jiaojiao said, "Go away. This is none of your business."
After saying that, she turned and walked to Wang Xing's side.
It was obvious that she was going to accept the challenge.
"Let's go, Zhizhi." Li Rongrong knew that Jiang Zhizhi had a good relationship with Xu Jiaojiao before, but now Xu Jiaojiao was different from them. Her world was one that they would not and did not want to enter.
Jiang Zhizhi didn't say anything and was silently pulled away by Li Rongrong.
"Lin Jing, why are you still standing there? Come here quickly." Lin Jing and his sister were the only ones left in the center. Wang Wei shouted and tried to pull him over.
Lin Jing glanced at the dejected Jiang Zhizhi in front of him, then looked at the tense situation on both sides. He suddenly suggested, "It's New Year's Day today, it's not good to fight and kill. How about we have a competition to decide the winner?"
"Contest?"
"There is a gun shooting balloons in front. There are two teams from No. 1 Middle School and No. 4 Middle School. Each team will shoot thirty shots. Whoever hits more balloons wins." Lin Jing said.
Zhou Qi smiled with interest, "This is quite interesting. Wang Xing, do you dare to compete?"
"Why not? If you lose, you will have to call me boss when you see me in the future, and your people in Dongxin District will have to run away with their tails between their legs!" Wang Xing said disdainfully.
Zhou Qi said, "If you lose, you and Xu Jiaojiao will have to kneel down and kowtow three times whenever you see my sister."
"Ha. It's a deal." Wang Xing agreed.
Seeing that he agreed, Zhou Qi suddenly strode towards Jiang Zhizhi. Before anyone could react, he pulled her back to the center and said, "Jiang Zhizhi, you be the referee."
"Zhizhi!" Li Rongrong hurriedly ran back and glared at Zhou Qi, "Hey! What are you doing?"
Zhou Qi looked at Jiang Zhizhi and smiled, "You are Xu Jiaojiao's friend, but you are also from No. 1 Middle School. I believe you can judge impartially."
Seeing that Zhou Qi actually pulled Jiang Zhizhi back, Lu Xiye frowned, stopped, and looked over here.
Jiang Zhizhi pursed her lips and said, "Okay, I will judge impartially."
Zhou Hui was unwilling, "Brother, she is Xu Jiaojiao's friend, why do you believe her?"
Jiang Zhizhi has been very popular in No. 1 Middle School recently. Not only is she ranked first in the grade, she has also been named the school belle. She gets furious whenever she thinks about this.
She should be the school belle. How can Jiang Zhizhi compare to her?
"Let's go." Zhou Qi ignored Zhou Hui's shouting and pulled Jiang Zhizhi towards the stall in front where they were shooting balloons with guns.
The others followed quickly.
Li Rongrong saw Lu Xiye had also returned, and hurried to his side, followed him over, and angrily complained, "This guy is so annoying. He started to make advances on Zhizhi right away, and even before that, he inexplicably caught up with her halfway and wanted to claim her as his godsister. It's so inexplicable."
Lu Xiye didn't respond to her and his face looked very ugly.
Ten dollars for thirty guns. Both sides paid ten dollars each and got a gun and thirty rounds of bullets.
Wang Xing from No. 4 Middle School picked up the gun himself, but Zhou Qi didn't do it himself. He looked at his men and asked, "Who among you has the best shooting skills?"
Wang Wei quickly stepped forward and said, "Brother Qi, let me do it. I'm a very good shooter!"
"Okay, I'll give it to you. If you lose, I'll break your legs." Zhou Qi seemed to be joking, but it was full of deterrence. Wang Wei, who took the gun, was frightened and silent.
Wang Xing taunted him, "Why did you send your little brother? Are you afraid you won't be able to hit the target?"
"Do I need to do it myself to deal with you?" Zhou Qi said disdainfully.
Wang Xing's face turned pale for a moment, and he gritted his teeth and said, "You'll have a chance to cry later."
He grew up playing with guns, so there was no way he could lose against this kind of balloon.
"The game begins."
Wang Xing sneered and pointed his gun at the balloon.
"Bang bang bang bang bang..." After a burst of shooting, the colorful balloons exploded one by one like petals.
He fired ten shots first, hitting nine balloons.
There was only one accident, it brushed past the balloon nearby and failed to break it.
But breaking nine out of ten is already very impressive.
Wang Wei didn't expect Wang Xing's shooting skills to be so good, and he suddenly became nervous.
"What? You don't dare to fight?" Seeing Wang Wei's nervous look, Wang Xing felt very proud. He already felt that he had won.
Everyone looked at Wang Wei, and Wang Wei had no choice but to bite the bullet and shoot.
"Bang bang bang bang bang..." Ten bullets were fired, and only seven hit the target.
It would be good for a normal person to hit seven, but Wang Xing hit nine.
Wang Xing laughed and fired ten shots in a row again.
This time he hit eight, for a total of seventeen.
Wang Wei was sweating profusely. He had hit eight balloons before, but that was only the first time. He was not sure if he could perform well this time.
Zhou Hui was so angry when she saw Wang Wei's panic that she cursed anxiously, "Wang Wei, if you dare to lose, I'll let my brother kill you!"
She absolutely could not bear to be humble in front of Xu Jiaojiao in the future. If she lost, where would she put her face?
Zhou Hui kept talking without saying anything, and once she spoke, Wang Wei was even more afraid to shoot.
He looked at Zhou Qi tremblingly, "Brother Qi, why don't you get someone else? I'm afraid I can't fight well..."
But at this moment, none of Zhou Qi's men dared to stand up. After all, Wang Xing's shooting skills were so good that they had no confidence in winning.
"Let my brother fight. My brother's shooting skills are amazing!" Lin Yingying pulled Lin Jing and ran to Wang Wei.
When Wang Wei saw Lin Jing coming over, he felt as if he had been pardoned. Without waiting for Lin Jing's consent, he quickly handed the gun to him and turned around and ran away.
Lin Jing looked at his sister helplessly, then subconsciously looked at Jiang Zhizhi.
As the referee, Jiang Zhizhi was looking at him.
His heart trembled and a suspicious blush appeared on his face.
In fact, he made this suggestion after seeing Jiang Zhizhi's reaction and knowing that she didn't want the two sides to fight.
Jiang Zhizhi is Xu Jiaojiao's friend, she shouldn't want Xu Jiaojiao to lose, right?
However, being looked at like this by Jiang Zhizhi, he also... didn't want to lose.
Suddenly, his expression became firm and he raised the gun with one hand, "Bang bang bang bang bang..."
Ten bullets were fired and ten balloons burst.
"Wow!"
Everyone was shocked.
It would be fine if he could hit the target every time, but he actually shot with one hand.
Lin Jing is usually inconspicuous in school, but he is so good at this!
With a total record of 17, he quickly caught up with Wang Xing.
Wang Xing looked at Lin Jing in surprise. In an instant, the pressure was on him again.
It's not like he hasn't hit the target every time he shoots.
But at this moment, can he calm down and do it?
Wang Xing took a deep breath, raised his gun again and started aiming.
This time, he seemed much more cautious. He did not fire continuously like before, but fired one shot at a time. He shot eight times in a row and hit the target all of them.
Yes! As long as he stays calm, he can hit the target every time he shoots!
"Bang!" Another shot and the balloon exploded.
Wang Xing raised the corner of his lips proudly. Lin Jing had already hit the target ten times. It was impossible for him to hit the target twenty times in a row.
As long as he hits the target with this shot and Lin Jing misses the target with another shot, he will win.
"Bang!"
The gunshots were followed by cheers.
But the cheers came not from No. 4 Middle School, but from No. 1 Middle School.
He missed.
Nine out of ten shots hit the target, for a total score of twenty-six.
It was Lin Jing's turn again.
"Come on, Lin Jing, hit the target ten times in a row again! You can definitely do it!" Zhou Hui quickly waved the flag to cheer him on.
The others also started shouting.
Lin Jing looked at Jiang Zhizhi silently.
Jiang Zhizhi's expression was still so calm, and he couldn't tell whether Jiang Zhizhi wanted him to win or lose.
Her calm dark eyes seemed to hide an unfathomable secret, a realm beyond his reach.
But at this moment, he could feel a sadness, which was the sadness in Jiang Zhizhi's eyes.
Why sad?
Isn't that a good ending? A peaceful resolution to the fight.
Lin Jing's eyes flickered. Yes, he could resolve this conflict in a peaceful way.
Thinking of this, he raised his gun and shot.
“Bang, bang, bang…”
The sound of the gunshots was like his heartbeat.
He fired nine shots in a row, and all nine hit the target.
He deliberately missed the last shot.
The total score is twenty-six.
"draw."
Jiang Zhizhi said these two words lightly, even with a hint of impatience in her tone, and turned away.
It seems like I'm tired of everyone here.
Everyone looked at each other.
"Zhizhi, wait for me!" Li Rongrong hurriedly chased after him.
Lu Xiye also followed.
"Tsk, that's boring. Brother, let's go too." Zhou Hui said, and left to the other side of the park.
As soon as Zhou Hui and Zhou Qi left, everyone from No. 1 Middle School followed them.
When Wang Xing saw the people from No. 1 Middle School leaving, he also left with Xu Jiaojiao.
For a moment, only Lin Jing and his sister were left.
"Yingying, did I do something wrong?" Lin Jing didn't understand. He had caused the two sides to reach a draw, so why did Jiang Zhizhi look like that?
"You must be wrong." Lin Yingying blinked her big eyes and said angrily like a little adult, "If you had hit the target with your last shot, we would have won!"
He was shooting clay with perfect accuracy a few days ago, but today he couldn't even hit a balloon.
"Little sister, this is your prize for shooting the balloons..."
The shopkeeper handed two rabbit dolls to Lin Yingying, and Lin Yingying smiled happily again.
*
On the way back, Jiang Zhizhi lowered her eyes and looked at the cross bracelet on her wrist without saying a word.
Just now at the Changyin Lake, she looked at Xu Jiaojiao, hoping that Xu Jiaojiao would stop interfering in the affairs of these people. Xu Jiaojiao knew what she meant, but still walked to Wang Xing's side.
She didn't choose her.
In fact, this kind of thing happened many times in the previous life. Jiang Zhizhi also advised Xu Jiaojiao not to associate with those people in the previous life, but Xu Jiaojiao never listened once.
At that moment just now, she seemed to have returned to that time in a trance.
How could she be so naive as to once again dream of changing others?
People can only be chosen and cannot change. If she insists on changing, she will only repeat the same mistakes.
Just like in her previous life, she had given so much to Jiang Guozhong. She knelt on the ground and begged bitterly, hoping that he would not marry her to that cripple. But all she got was curses and ridicule, not even a little concern.
She silently took off the cross bracelet on her hand.
She can't save anyone, nor can she change anyone. In this life, she just needs to take good care of herself and her mother. She won't ask for anything else.
After getting off the tricycle, Cheng Yuping parked the car in the community's carport, and Jiang Zhizhi was waiting for her outside.
Although she told herself not to care, she still felt a tightness in her chest, as if something was blocking it and making it hard for her to breathe.
"Auntie, I'll take Jiang Zhizhi out for a while."
Before Jiang Zhizhi could react, Lu Xiye appeared out of nowhere, grabbed her and ran out of the community.
She was dragged by him and forced to run, "Lu Xiye, what are you doing?"
Lu Xiye didn't answer her, but just ran forward with her.
The wind was very cold at night. Jiang Zhizhi was gasping for breath as the cold wind blew in mouthful by mouthful.
But gradually, she felt her body warming up, and her chest, which had been blocked, became unblocked because of her deep breaths.
"Lu Xiye, where are you taking me?" Her gloomy mood calmed down and she struggled to stop.
"Don't ask, just follow me."
He continued to drag her forward, and under the dim street lights, he panted and exhaled breaths of hot air.
Jiang Zhizhi looked at him. After running for a while, sweat broke out on Lu Xiye's forehead. His originally honey-colored skin seemed to be even darker under the street light.
Looking at him from this angle, he seems to have grown up a little compared to when he was in elementary school, and his profile looks more upright and handsome.
And his long, dark eyelashes are so beautiful that it's unbelievable.
"Swish!"
Jiang Zhizhi was staring in a daze when Lu Xiye suddenly slipped and fell headfirst into the snow.
"Ah!" he cried.
Jiang Zhizhi subconsciously tried to grab him, but was dragged down by him.
The two of them fell straight into the thick snow in the roadside flowerbed.
"Lu Xiye! You're crushing me to death!"
When he fell, Lu Xiye rolled over and pressed Jiang Zhizhi underneath.
Although he hadn't grown up yet, he was 1.68 meters tall and weighed at least 100 kilograms. Jiang Zhizhi, a little piece of paper weighing more than 70 kilograms, was almost suffocating under his weight.
"You deserve it. Who told you to pull me? If you hadn't pulled me, you wouldn't have fallen with me!" Lu Xiye smiled gloatingly, looking despicable.
But his face, even with such a cheesy smile, is still so handsome.
"Jiang Zhizhi, why are you pulling me?" Lu Xiye suddenly stopped smiling and looked at her seriously.
Her miserable appearance as she fell in the snow was reflected in his beautiful eyes.
Jiang Zhizhi looked at him in a daze, thinking of her and Xu Jiaojiao, and then of her and Lu Xiye. She knew it was impossible, but she still did it.
This doesn't seem like something a reborn, mature adult would do.
"Because I'm stupid."
She smiled.
"Because I'm a big idiot!"
But I couldn't help crying.
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