Chapter 148
The 200-meter race for the third-year junior high school student that Ye Jiayin participated in was scheduled for the afternoon, with only two hours between the preliminaries and the finals.
Su Miao waited obediently at the finish line with a towel and a water bottle. She was so excited in the morning that her voice was a little hoarse from shouting.
Fortunately, the classmates in the class have already gathered at the competition venue, and their voices are still loud, not inferior to those of other classes.
Ye Jiayin's spiked shoes are older than others because she often wears them for training.
Since other students don’t have many opportunities to train normally, many of them bought new shoes for this sports meet. It is said that old shoes are more suitable for competitions than new shoes. Su Miao has never participated, so he doesn’t have much practical experience.
Ye Jiayin won second place in the final. She was very satisfied with this result. After all, her focus was on tomorrow's 1000 meters.
Knowing that Ye Jiayin had signed up for two running competitions, Su Yuanzheng specially bought two pig's trotters that night, one for braising and the other for making clear trotter soup, to maximize the benefits of nourishing the body.
Braised pork is often eaten, but pig trotter soup is rarely made.
Merchants selling pig's trotters usually only do simple processing, so after buying them, you need to carefully clean the hair on the trotters.
If you are roasting or braising the pig, you can singe the hair, but this is not possible when making pig trotters. You have to use small pliers to pick out the pig hair bit by bit.
Soak the kidney beans half a day in advance, cut the white radish into pieces, and prepare the ginger, onion and garlic.
Put the pig's trotters into a pot with cold water, add cooking wine, scallion segments and ginger slices. When the water boils, skim off the foam and blanch until no more blood foam is produced.
Take out the pig's trotters and wash them clean. At this time, most of the meaty smell has been removed.
Put the pig's trotters in a small clay pot and add water. Put the pig's trotters with the bone side facing down. It is best not to let the skin and flesh side touch the wall of the pot to avoid sticking to the pot when the fire is high.
Add ginger slices and scallion knots to the pot, and remove the scallion knots after the water boils.
Boil over high heat for twenty minutes first so that the soup will appear milky white.
After adding kidney beans, simmer on low heat for half an hour, then add radish and simmer for another half an hour. The time must be sufficient to stew the pig's trotters until they are soft and rotten.
At the last moment, add salt to season and then turn off the heat of the small stove. Sprinkle with a handful of chopped green onions and add a slightly spicy and fragrant sauce and you are done.
Today's pig's trotters were very popular. Everyone at the table was showing off. Ye Han was comforting himself while eating, saying that pig's trotters were nutritious and would not make people fat.
Ye Han said to his daughter, "Jia Yin, have a good rest tonight and do well in the competition tomorrow. Don't let your uncle Yuan down with such a big table of food."
Ye Jiayin gnawed on a pig's trotter and said incoherently, "Don't worry, Uncle Yuan. I'm full of strength now and I'm very confident that I can win the championship."
Su Yuanzheng chuckled: "You don't have to win the championship, the most important thing is not to get hurt. I still remember when Miaomiao was playing tug-of-war in elementary school, everyone was fine, but she fell and broke her forehead. I was scared."
Oh! So he was applying his own experience. His daughter, who scored zero in sports, made him think it was very dangerous for girls to participate in sports games.
Ye Han looked at his very strong daughter, who had been climbing walls and climbing roofs with the boys in the compound since she was a child, and seemed to have never worried about it.
In the women's 1000m race the next day, Ye Jiayin was indeed in the first echelon from the start, and began to accelerate after half of the race.
He controlled the rhythm and breathing very well, and the gap between him and his opponent gradually widened. In the last lap, he was even 100 meters ahead of the second place.
Just when Su Miao thought he was sure to win the championship, the traditional running-up event began.
In the last 300 meters or 200 meters of a long-distance race, many runners are exhausted.
At this time, classmates will run with them beside the track and cheer them on.
At this time, Su Miao, who had somehow joined the running team, was panting and taking steps with legs that felt like they weighed a thousand pounds.
No! Hey everyone, there are still 400 meters left and you're already joining us? Is that a foul? Will it affect the other runners?
Why don't you just not run away! Seeing how calm Sister Jiayin is, she doesn't need anyone to accompany her at all!
How do you manage to run and shout "Come on!" at the same time? Don't you run out of breath?
Su Miao was stuck in the group of runners, gasping for breath. There were people all around him, and he couldn't get out, so he could only move forward.
Finally, the classmates next to her saw that she really couldn't go on, so they held her arms on both sides and carried her to the finish line.
It was like his life was about to end. Su Miao felt that even though he didn't participate in the competition, it was better than participating.
Amidst the cheers, he handed the towel and water bottle to Ye Jiayin with trembling hands.
"Sister Jiayin...drink some water..."
Ye Jiayin, who was breathing a little quickly, was also stunned when she saw Su Miao's pale face. Why did she look more like the contestant?
"Miao Miao, what's wrong with you?"
The two classmates who were carrying her said, "Su Miao ran with us and she's exhausted. If we hadn't carried her, she would have collapsed."
"Oh, she's young, two years younger than us, so it's normal that she's not as strong as us."
"Oh, that's right. Su Miao is usually so mature that I almost forgot she is two years younger than us."
"Su Miao, it seems that you can only succeed in literature, not martial arts."
Su Miao could not hear the chattering of her classmates. All she could hear was the thumping of her own heartbeat.
Ye Jiayin said: "Miaomiao, you've worked hard, drink some water and take a rest."
So in the end, it was Su Miao who drank Ye Jiayin's water after all. A big gulp of boiled water went into his mouth, which slightly soothed the burning in his throat.
She also wiped her own sweat with the towel and gave her all the care from her classmates.
It seemed that after this incident, Su Miao's relationship with his classmates became closer. As expected, people are always more willing to sympathize with and get close to the weak.
The monitor went out to buy an ice pack and placed it on her head through a towel, saying sympathetically, "How pitiful! It feels like smoke is coming out of your head. You'll have military training after your freshman year. How are you going to get through that time?"
Su Miao shuddered. The military training had to include standing at attention under the scorching sun, crawling forward with difficulty in the muddy ground, and carrying out a long ten-kilometer march in the early hours of the morning... These were all nightmares from her previous life.
Ye Jiayin also realized the seriousness of the matter and patted Su Miao's shoulder seriously.
"Miao Miao, you can't live without regular exercise. Having a strong body is the foundation of learning and development. Don't worry, leave it to me. I will make a detailed exercise plan for you and strive to train you well within six months."
She knew that Ye Jiayin never spoke empty words, so Su Miao felt tired before she even saw the plan.
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