35 Sports Day Special Project (Part 1)
Yuan Xiao’s busy schedule did not affect the program. While the fifth public performance was being recorded, the new episode of "Idol·Unnamed" was also released on time.
The difference is that this episode of "I Don't Want to Be" did not broadcast any stage performances, but instead inserted a special project for the trainees' summer sports meeting.
When planning, a special project recording was added to the schedule. The staff proposed a lot of proposals for a spring picnic and a group visit to the zoo. In the end, it was Yuan Xiao who made the final decision:
How can a male idol’s youth be without sports meets?
There were twenty-five people. Jiang Tong, who had not yet fully recovered from his injury, followed Gu Yuchen and Yuan Xiao to act as referees for the competition. The rest of the people were divided into four groups, each with six people.
After so many days, most of the trainees have a good idea of each other's athletic abilities. People like Yan Fan, who have good coordination, and Jin Zeyu, who have strong physical strength, have immediately become the objects of competition.
Yu Le was the first to turn around and hang onto his brother Yan Fan’s neck, screaming passionately in the crowd: “I’m bound to my brother Yan first, I’m first——!”
Yuan Xiao, who came over to announce the rules, shouted twice but failed to stop the trainees' heated discussion. She reflected in her heart whether she seemed too good-tempered recently and not intimidating enough.
Gu Yuchen, who was standing next to her and was extremely sleepy, couldn't help but open his eyes and smile. He directly reached out and took the microphone from Yuan Xiao's hand and clapped it twice.
The speakers in the practice room made a loud "buzz" sound, which allowed the children to calm down a little from the strange excitement of finally being able to escape from the practice room for a short time.
"...At least listen to what projects are there before you form a team."
Since it is for the recording of a variety show, the boys' sports meet will not be as rigorous as the Olympics. Most of the events are fun, including team three-legged race, dribbling, water competition for floating platforms, etc. Registration is free, and the team earns points according to the ranking. In the end, the team with the highest accumulated points wins.
As for the rewards——
"Hotpot!!!!" Yu Le screamed and cheered, hugged Yan Fan's neck and shook him back and forth. The other trainees were almost as excited. For a moment, the practice room looked like a monkey mountain in a zoo. Yuan Xiao had to pat the microphone again.
She added: "But still no spicy hotpot." If you get a photogenic acne breakout, you're doomed.
Avery raised her hand high and asked enthusiastically: "Sister Xiaoxiao, are we going out to eat?"
Although the cafeteria can also do it, looking at the trainees' bright and expectant eyes, Yuan Xiao nodded: "Okay, you can choose the store yourself."
"yeah--"
Although Yuanxin Canteen does not overly control their diet, people can still become depressed even if they always eat very healthily. Sometimes they just need some unhealthy junk food that is high in oil and salt to make themselves feel better.
As soon as the reward was announced, the four teams began to gear up, vowing to shed their last drop of blood for the only hot pot meal in the next few months.
Finally, the day of the sports meet recording arrived. Early in the morning, a bus came to the company to pick up the trainees to go to the sports meet venue. Because there were water events, it was definitely unrealistic to record in the company building. The program crew booked an indoor gymnasium with a swimming pool and took various protective measures in advance.
The mentors were not on the bus, they took another bus to meet them at the stadium. There were only trainees and a few photographers on the bus. They were free and extremely excited, jumping up and down like birds out of a cage.
If there were people on the road at this moment, they might be able to take a picture of a disco bus.
At this moment, the comments on the show are half funny and half worried:
"Look at what Yuan Xiao has adjusted for our child."
"Don't be so excited, babies. Will you still have the energy for sports later?"
"Teacher, is that Yu Le who is jumping up and down as if there are nails on his seat? Teacher, this is not right, isn't it?"
The venue was not far from the company, and it took more than half an hour to drive there. As soon as Yu Le got off the car, he started to follow Yan Fan, massaging his shoulders and legs, like a little dog, making his brother laugh and cry.
"You're exaggerating."
"Not an exaggeration." Yu Le wished that his brother Fan would start warming up right now, and then lead him to kill everyone in a while. Even Jin Zeyu, who was standing next to him, got out of the car and stretched, would attract his vigilant eyes.
Yan Fan slapped himself on the forehead: This kid is hopeless.
Well, let's just think of it as hot pot. As he followed Yu Le into the stadium, he took off the rubber band from his wrist and bit it in his mouth. In order to make it easier to exercise, he gathered his long hair into a high ponytail.
The camera was focused on his beautiful face after he tied up his long hair, and the comments became enthusiastic:
"Shashashasha beauty beauty beauty."
"The great Nuwa completed his mission."
"I wish to eat meat and vegetables for my whole life in exchange for having this face in my next life."
"I suggest that Yuan Xin apply for the World Heritage status for Yan Fan's face."
It was already very hot at this moment. The trainees were all wearing white T-shirts issued by the company with a huge logo printed on the back. It was only a short walk from getting off the bus to the air-conditioned room. Some of the well-known heat-sensitive people had already started to sweat on their foreheads and sped up to get into the venue.
As soon as he entered the room, he saw Yuan Xiao, Gu Yuchen, and Jiang Tong already standing in the hall waiting. The fastest trainee braked suddenly and returned to his normal state in a second: "Xiao... Sister Xiaoxiao."
Yuan Xiao looked at these pretentious little monkeys with eyes as calm as water. After more than half a year of training as the chief producer, her realm has been sublimated.
Yuan Xiao turned around and glanced at the makeup team that followed, asking them to keep an eye on the trainees' makeup, as it was not easy to do makeup in the summer.
When everyone arrived, Yuan Xiao picked up the card, looked at the densely packed words on it, then decisively turned around and handed it to Jiang Tong.
You've grown up, it's time to help your boss share the work.
A cue card and a microphone fell from the sky. Jiang Tong turned around in horror and asked Yuan Xiao with his eyes: Are you serious?
Yuan Xiao's eyes were kind and full of trust: You can do it.
Gu Yuchen witnessed such a transaction right under his nose. He watched the show with great interest and did not interrupt the plans of the two people next to him at all.
Yuan Xiao didn’t really want to be lazy... Well, she did a little, but she mostly wanted to leave the limited variety show shots to Jiang Tong, whose ankle had just recovered to the point where he could walk, and so he couldn’t participate in the sports meet.
The cue cards contained some simple rules of the game, as well as the old sayings such as "Friendship first, competition second". When read out by Jiang Tong in a calm tone, there was an inexplicable sense of humor.
Twenty-four trainees lined up neatly in the venue, ready to go. The first item was dribbling.
The sports events designed by Yuan Xiao and the planning team are basically team events. Dribbling and running require two people in a group. A team can be divided into three groups. They stand back to back, holding the ball between their bodies and relaying back and forth. The game is timed, and the one who takes the shorter time gets points.
This activity also requires skills. It would be relatively easier for two people of similar height to exert more strength. Yu Le has grown a lot in the past six months with the help of Yuan Xiao. Now, including his hairstyle, he is only two centimeters shorter than the tallest Jin Zeyu.
The child was in the growth period, and sometimes his bones ached from growing so much at night. The physical training teacher did not require him to lose fat or gain muscle excessively at this stage, so he and Su Chen were at the bottom of the endurance list among the crowd.
The strategy of their group is to lead the others with the top four, and provide one-on-one support. All sports events involving two-person teams involve him and Yan Fan, so it's no wonder that Yu Le is a little flattering.
Yan Fan pushed his hair forward to prevent it from being caught by the ball. The program crew prepared volleyballs, which were quite heavy and not easy to catch. He and Yu Le tried to cooperate and decided to use the most classic posture of hooking their arms back to back.
Pei Zijin, who was also preparing in the next group, helped them put the ball into the right position. Yu Le smiled and nodded to his elder brother.
"Just run sideways for a while, and make sure to use your back." Yan Fan instructed.
There is only one chance to time the game, and you are not allowed to use your hands. If the ball falls, you have to go back to the starting point and run again. It doesn't matter if you are slow, as long as you don't make mistakes.
There were no audiences for the special project recording, but there was no need to worry about the lack of effect. The twenty familiar trainees were worth five thousand ducks, each one noisier than the other. The program PD had to give the whistle to Yuan Xiao and Gu Yuchen to control the progress of the competition.
Yuan Xiao looked at the whistle and then at Gu Yuchen: "Teacher Gu?"
By the way, "Can you show us your lung capacity as a singer?"
Gu Yuchen had no idea what to do about his boss' sudden laziness, so he had to resign himself to his fate and stood up from the audience to the middle of the trainees to maintain order. With a whistle hanging around his neck and a stopwatch in his hand, he really acted like a referee:
"Beep - all right, all right, everyone take your positions. Who's the first group to go up?"
According to the order of drawing lots, it was Yan Fan and Yu Le's group, Su Chen and Avery's group, Pei Zijin and Jin Zeyu's group and another group. The first group to go on stage was at a disadvantage, but there was nothing they could do. Yan Fan was good in every way except that he was always unlucky. Every time he asked the team leader to draw the lots, it was like the sky was falling.
The two were ready at the starting point, and when the whistle sounded, they rushed out quickly.
Although it was the first group, fortunately there were no dangers along the way. The ball slipped several times and finally got stuck in Yan Fan's waist and stumbled across the line.
Yan Fan was afraid that Yu Le would fail, so he held his arm tightly all the way, and almost strangled the child's joints. As soon as he crossed the finish line, he rolled to the side holding his arm and whimpered.
Yan Fan hurried over to check, luckily nothing happened, someone was just acting like a spoiled brat.
While Jin Zeyu was shouting "Come on!" loudly, he did not forget to secretly summarize his experience with Pei Zijin. The camera did not let go of the two of them. In the post-interview evaluation of the two of them who won the first place in the first event by the inserted trainees, they were unceremoniously described as "cunning and treacherous".
Jin Zeyu readily accepted this, "I just want them to know that the two years of extra rice that the brothers ate was not in vain."
Pei Zijin nodded in agreement with a smile beside him.
Yan Fan and his team unfortunately came in second, while Su Chen's team was last in the group and lay there like a salted fish. No matter how passionately Avery encouraged them, it was of no avail.
"Why are you, a foreigner, so enthusiastic about hotpot?" Su Chen felt like he was kidnapped when he stayed in the second leg-binding running team. The team members were holding him on the left and right, and they were actually planning to carry the little curly-haired boy away from the ground.
This posture was a bit embarrassing, but Su Chen couldn't resist because he was served the food, so he had to let it go and only expressed his protest verbally.
"First of all, I'm not a foreigner. Secondly, my Italian ancestry also allows me to pursue delicious food." Avery is full of energy. He carries half of Su Chen's weight in one hand without changing his expression. He plans to lead the team to charge directly from the center and complete the counterattack.
Su Chen's smile became a little hopeless, and he secretly made up his mind that next time he would put pineapples on the pizza Avery ordered.
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