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The midterm exam results won't be available until Tuesday, and classes will proceed as usual on Monday.
Students who have become accustomed to exams have become numb to the expectation of grades. The only thing that makes them a little excited is the upcoming sports meet on Friday. It's not that the students love sports so much, but that their mundane and boring school life will finally have a bright spot. They won't have to go to class or study that day, which is a rare treat.
It's something to look forward to, just like a sudden power outage in a school's evening study room.
So on Monday afternoon, the sports committee member Gong Jianzheng organized everyone to bring glory to the class by reporting any sports they were good at. Apparently, the prizes were pretty good, which made the whole class burst into laughter.
Li Wei had a certain sense of honor. She did some calculations and found that she didn't have any special skills. She originally thought that in high school, everyone would be a top student from junior high, and there would be more bookworms. Plus, some girls were overweight. Maybe someone like her could make it big and do a lap or a pole jump, and have some fun on the sports field.
The results don't seem to be very good. The only consolation is that there are few girls in their class, so each girl will have to take on at least one task.
Li Wei thought about it again and again, and discussed it with her deskmate Lin Xiao. Lin Xiao's sports skills were also average, but she signed up for the 100-meter dash as her specialty, reasoning that it was quick, and once she reached the finish line, she could at least get a little exposure on the track and field.
Li Wei felt it wasn't a good idea to compete for exposure by signing up for the 100-meter dash with Lin Xiao, but she was really mediocre at everything. That evening, she discussed it with Luo Dayi, who decided on the 200-meter sprint.
Huh? Isn't that a bit long? What if we come in last place? The embarrassment won't just be from one end to the other; the exposure will be much higher than Lin Xiao's. It might even be exposed from the first year of high school to the third year. What's the point of her studying then?
Luo Da gave an authoritative affirmation: "It's okay. With just a few small fry like the girls in your class, you can't be that bad."
"The girls in your class are nothing but trash. I'm not competing with the girls in my class, I'm competing with the entire first-year girls. Don't embarrass me!"
Luo Da thought for a moment and comforted Li Wei: "Actually, there are more boys than girls in our school. Generally, boys don't care how fast girls run, they only care how gracefully they run. Even if you run slowly, it won't be too embarrassing. But if you want to get good results, I can borrow a stopwatch for you tonight and time you to see how you do. That will give you a rough idea of whether you can run in the front or the back. How about that?"
Luo Da felt that Li Wei's physical strength had improved significantly after six months of training. Her grades shouldn't be too bad.
Li Wei thought this was a good idea, a precautionary measure. Knowing her own level beforehand allowed her to be more targeted. Otherwise, she might end up like Lin Xiao, only pursuing exposure and ending up at the bottom of the rankings. That would be quite embarrassing.
"Okay, but where are you going to get that stopwatch? Does the martial arts school have any?" If you're going to do it, you have to hurry, otherwise you'll have to submit it by tomorrow morning, or you'll be too late.
Luo Da quickly finished his homework: "I'll go borrow it from Lao Pan. You hurry up and finish yours. Let's go to school together and practice on the playground."
Now Li Wei's desk, which was originally hers alone, has been moved to the living room window. The reason is simple: if it hadn't been moved, Luo Da would have had to squeeze into her small room with her, and he would definitely come over every day to eat dinner and do his homework.
Li Wei stopped writing: "I'm not going. I'm not some kind of sports fanatic. Making it so formal would be embarrassing for people to see." The problem is, it would be shameful to be slow.
Luo Da glanced at Li Wei: "Then let's go after dark. It'll be pitch black, and nobody will recognize anyone."
Li Wei nodded as she wrote, as long as no one saw her crawling there, everything was fine.
That evening, Li Wei changed into a light, sweat-wicking, and breathable pinkish-purple tracksuit and went to the school playground with Luo Da. Luo Da had called Teacher Pan, who lived near the school, beforehand. Teacher Pan brought Luo Da a stopwatch and took his son out for a walk.
Li Wei looked around and saw that there were quite a few people out for a walk in the evening, but most of them were teachers, while most of the students were still having evening self-study sessions.
Luo Da had Li Wei do some warm-up exercises, and then had her run a lap around the school's 400-meter track as fast as she could.
Holding a stopwatch, he went up to the stands, whispered a few words to Old Pan, and then came down. Li Wei hurriedly went up to him: "How's it going? Any chances?" she asked, sounding a little uneasy.
Luo laughed and said, "Old Pan said it's not bad, we're firmly in the middle, and if we play well, we can easily be in the top few."
"Huh? Really? So fast?" Li Wei felt like her dream had come true. Could it be that she could finally make a name for herself on the sports field?
Luo Da couldn't bear to discourage Li Wei, but he couldn't help but look down on the girls' grades: "It's not that you're fast, it's that they're too slow, which is why you've become an athlete."
Luo Da knew Li Wei's little secret. Back in elementary and middle school, he had seen the rest of the group of people bring back several notebooks as prizes at the sports meet. She never accepted them, but would secretly look at them, seemingly envious.
Now that we've finally seen a glimmer of hope, how could I not be happy?
Based on her results, Li Wei decided to register for two events at once, the 200 meters and the 400 meters, so she could have a good time! She finally got her chance! Haha!
At the strong request of Li Xiaoming, the future little flying man, Luo Da will act as his sparring partner. He will go to the martial arts gym to practice hard these two days and strive to make a name for himself and make a name for himself after being outdone by Li Lin and Zhou Xiaoyan all these years... Oh no, Zhou Xiaoyan didn't sign up for those two programs too, did she?
During the break the next day, Li Wei went to find Zhou Xiaoyan in Class 5 of Grade 1 for the first time since she started high school, just to ask her what events she had signed up for at the sports meet. Zhou Xiaoyan sighed and said, "I originally wanted to sign up for the 200-meter race, but I got my period today. It's always the fifth day, so it's inconvenient. I didn't sign up."
Li Wei was secretly pleased, and quickly patted Zhou Xiaoyan with a smile: "This is a big deal, you need to take good care of yourself, hehe..."
Li Wei didn't recognize any of the others. Ignorance was bliss, so she wasn't worried. However, when she saw Gong Jianzheng counting the number of people, Li Wei was surprised to find that Qin Ling had reported the same number as her. Considering that Qin Ling was much taller than her, she was a little worried. This strengthened her resolve to intensify her training. Even if it was slow, she had to train hard before the competition. It would surely have some effect.
Recently, Luo Da's training volume has decreased significantly, mainly due to the reduction in training from his third senior brother. He has been practicing the rest of his training on his own according to the master's instructions before he left. The intensity has not been as high, and the training time has also increased significantly.
According to Luo Da, his third senior brother is leaving next week. These past few days he's been wandering around having fun, looking like a hooligan. He's wearing a floral shirt, sunglasses, and a tattered straw hat, driving a beat-up Jeep—he doesn't look like a respectable person at all.
Although Luo Da disliked Smiling Tiger, Tiger is still Tiger, and he can be quite useful in crucial moments. For example, in the incident where his secret relationship with Li Wei was exposed, his third senior brother stood firmly on the right side and supported him without wavering, which warmed Luo Da's heart for several days, until he was ambushed and slapped with a bruise—
Now that he's leaving, I feel a bit lost. I had planned to spend a few happy days with my third senior brother, but he refused without hesitation: "You better go to class and study hard. If you don't do well and end up a bachelor, that's because you're stupid. I don't want to be blamed for that!"
So Luo Da decided to discuss with Li Wei how to show his respect to his third senior brother, to make him happy before he left, so that all the time he had spent teaching him would not have been in vain.
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