Chapter 27
There is a total of two weeks of preparation time between the first performance task announcement and the official stage. Three days before the performance, the mentor team will call all the trainees to the studio to examine the practice progress of each group of programs.
"Keep going, Comrade Xiao Yu! The camp leaders will be coming for an inspection in a few days. We can't slack off on the mission given by the higher-ups!"
Seeing that the day of the examination was approaching, Lu Yiyang, who was once the king of examination papers, simply stopped eating in the cafeteria. Every day, he held a bottle of Lao Gan Ma in his left hand and a take-away box in his right hand. After entering the practice room, he would sit down and start eating without any care. When he opened his mouth, he sounded like a village director who had just arrived in the countryside.
While mixing purple cabbage and white cabbage with spicy sauce, he gave instructions on the dance moves of several teammates. He had a special preference for Chu Yu and would cheer him up every day.
"Persistence is victory! Unity is strength!"
Chu Yu had a weak physique with a debuff, and was exhausted from dancing every day. In addition, he had not been getting enough sleep for several days. His brain gradually reached the point where it would automatically shut down regardless of whether there were humans within a mile radius. He was so busy controlling his limbs every day that he had no energy to control his brain.
When there are no humans around, he closes his eyes and falls asleep; when there are humans around, his thoughts fly and he reads randomly.
[Red is destruction! White is nothingness! Orange is anger! Black is destiny!]
Lu Yiyang: "...and it rhymes?"
With Luo Jiayu away, Chu Yu could only practice the moves he taught him over and over again according to his memory. His childhood friend was quite impressed by his talent in dancing, and the adapted dance was more like a cool, handsome and graceful version of elementary school gymnastics than a dance.
He learned unexpectedly fast and could start working on the details after just a few dances. His rapid progress amazed Teacher Zhao, who had been reading parenting manuals without success, and a large number of people in the practice room.
How does this work? Why is he so powerful?
He was very surprised.
——Then Chu Yu practiced a few more times and found that the previous hallucination was not an illusion. Several movements were really similar to the third set of national primary school students' radio gymnastics "Sail of Hope" and the third set of national middle school students' radio gymnastics "Dancing Youth" that they did when they were young. They were almost taken out as they were, with some changes added and then put together again.
No wonder he learned so quickly, it turns out he had skipped it before.
How could his childhood friend be so wicked!
It's not very harmful but it's extremely insulting!
Tired of doing radio gymnastics, Chu Yu rubbed against Lu Yiyang, who was already having a good time, and accepted the purple cabbage mixed with spicy sauce that he fed her. Then, her face wrinkled up because of the overly plain taste of the raw vegetables.
There are actually ingredients in this world that even hot sauce can’t save. It’s such a waste of Lao Gan Ma.
Xue Liu was tired from practicing, so he sat down next to Lu Yiyang and shared the same plate of vegetables with spicy sauce with him. He then whispered to Chu Yu to correct some of his mistakes in exerting force.
Except when facing Lu Yiyang, Xue Liu was polite and gentle to all trainees.
Chu Yu felt like she was sandwiched between the two of them, just like a tiger mom and a cat dad with a turtle son sandwiched between them. Everything about her was weird, so she would try to hide whenever she could when she saw them in the same frame.
But for some reason, the two regular students in Class A seemed to particularly like to drag him, who was lagging behind in Class F, to act together, and they also liked to cue him in the practice room or other places where there were cameras.
For example, it is now almost two o'clock in the morning, and their group has finally finished the collective rehearsal. After some adjustment, Chu Yu's movements and standing position among several teammates do not seem so abrupt. The task is completed, and everyone can finally go off work.
According to the program team's practice, after each day's practice, the contestants must "check in" in front of the camera before leaving and express their thoughts on today's training. These will be broadcast as highlights after the main feature of the current episode.
Seeing that several teammates in front of him finished their check-in speeches one after another, packed up their things and left towards the door, Chu Yu, who was so sleepy that his head was nodding like a chicken pecking at rice, could not think clearly. He subconsciously took a step forward as if to follow the large group in front, and then was carried back.
Chu Yu was so sleepy that he almost needed a pillow handed to him so that he could lie down. Before he could react, two pairs of hands, one on the left and one on the right, pushed him to the middle, and the camera was thrust in front of his eyes. His eyelids, which were about to close, were frightened and opened half a centimeter.
What a situation.
Xue Liu and Lu Yiyang stood on either side of him, one with a smile on his face and the other with sparkling eyes, and they said in the same expectant tone: "Come on, Chu Yu, say something."
"?"
If I remember correctly, his personality when he goes out has always been a cold and aloof mute with a mouth.
He remembered that he had not spoken many words since he entered the camp. He would not be anthropophobic except when he was with that stupid dog, but he probably said no more than twenty words in front of other people.
So why push him out?
Chu Yu faced the camera in a state of panic, filled with fear and trepidation, but her face showed no trace of it at all. Her eyes were still half-closed, her expression was still motionless, and she looked dead, as if the sky was falling and she would only say "6".
"Uh, I think everything is fine."
Everything is fine. I feel sleepy, tired, numb and annoyed. Every second of practicing the dance feels like a year. If you round it up, his life span will increase directly to that of an immortal.
Destroy it.
"I'm having fun practicing."
[I'm in good spirits, I'm in good spirits, I'm in good spirits, I'm in good spirits, what's wrong with me? ]
Who is taking this crappy class? Why can't I go to a nursing home even though I'm 19?
"...Everyone is working very hard. Hmm." Chu Yu quickly curled the corners of his mouth to show politeness, but because of embarrassment, he quickly turned his mouth down again, and then realized that this seemed even more impolite.
So he rolled his eyes at himself and took a deep breath.
I can't stand it anymore. The gears of fate aren't turning, and the chains of life are about to fall off.
[Forget it, forget it. The boat has already hit the iceberg. It will capsize naturally when it reaches the bridge.]
Xue Liu took a step to the side so that the camera wouldn't capture the scene of him almost laughing out loud.
"Come on, make a sign to end it."
The two men acted as protectors on each side, sandwiching Chu Yu in the middle. The cool guy facing the camera had a dark and screaming expression on his face, and he made an eggplant gesture coldly to the camera.
"Well! Well said!" The foolish Lu Yiyang stretched out a hand towards Chu Yu. Chu Yu nodded half asleep and half awake and stretched out his hand, giving him a half-dead handshake.
"come on!"
"come on."
[Did I speak well? What did I say?]
[Forget it, if he says yes then it’s okay. He can’t lie to me, right?]
While Xue Liu was pulling his sleeves and signaling him with his eyes to stop laughing so wildly, Lu Yiyang reached out and rubbed Chu Yu's head, making the sleepy Chu Yu look even more confused.
Why is it that the longer he has been in the camp, the more people like to rub his head?
Chu Yu returned to the dormitory in a daze. Just as he took out the key and inserted it into the lock, the dormitory door was opened from the inside out, revealing Luo Jiayu's face, which was as sleepy as his, but he still stubbornly kept his eyes open a crack.
The main lights in the room were off, and the occasional light snoring of his roommate could be heard. Only the night light on the head of his upper bunk was still on. It could be seen that Luo Jiayu climbed down and opened the door as soon as he heard his approaching footsteps.
Chu Yu: "...There's no need for you to wait that late."
Luo Jiayu shook his head and waved at him again. Perhaps because he was too sleepy, he no longer had the energy to form words. Chu Yu observed his body movements and asked, "What do you want to talk to me about?"
Luo Jiayu nodded.
Luo Jiayu pointed toward the corridor outside again, and looked meaningfully at the dark dormitory behind him.
"Everyone is asleep, shall we go out and talk?"
Luo Jiayu nodded happily.
In fact, the sleepiness had almost dissipated by now, but Luo Jiayu seemed to be addicted to this kind of dumb communication that relied on hands and eyes without using words. He repeatedly made gestures to test Chu Yu's understanding of Luo Yu.
"...It's too stuffy inside. Do you want to go out and chat in the breeze?" Chu Yu was speechless. "Why do you have so many things to do?"
Luo Jiayu praised the puppy and nodded.
"Aren't you sleepy?" Chu Yu tilted her head and covered her mouth with her hands as she yawned softly. "I'm almost dead sleepy."
Luo Jiayu took out a mint candy from his pocket like magic and put it into Chu Yu's palm. After a moment, he took out a bag of barbecue from behind his back. He had just bought them with his heat value despite the system's tearful persuasion.
Even the midnight snack is ready.
Chu Yu was stunned.
Luo Jiayu blinked hard, trying to block out the sleepiness that occasionally surged in his mind. He pointed at the bag of barbecue and smiled a defenseless, foolish smile: "Let's eat and talk?"
Chu Yu looked down at the fresh barbecue sprinkled with cumin powder and chili powder, then looked up at his childhood friend's face, then turned back in the direction they came from: "Let's go."
A minute later, the two men squatted beside the curb, one guarding one side of the street lamp, and they huddled together to eat skewers with expressionless faces, looking like two street urchins.
It’s been a while since I’ve had barbecue, and the delicious taste of the oil and salt mixture is so comforting.
Chu Yu held a skewer of grilled chicken wings in his left hand, raised it towards the streetlight, and examined it for a while before sighing, "Wing Gate."
He raised another bunch of roasted potato chips in his right hand, looked at them again under the streetlight for a while, and then sighed, "Potato gate."
The next second, a large hand snatched away the grilled chicken wings and potato chips. Luo Jiayu, who had successfully snatched the two skewers, didn't seem to be fully awake yet. However, he still pointed the tips of the skewers at himself and said, "Luomen."
"..." It's not the first time that Chu Yu has been acting like a jerk. Chu Yu narrowed her eyes and asked, "What on earth is it that you have to tell me tonight?"
"Oh." As if he just remembered it after being reminded, Luo Jiayu first handed the skewers back to Chu Yu obediently, then waved stealthily, indicating Chu Yu to hand over his ear.
After Chu Yu followed Luo Jiayu's instructions and moved closer, he heard the most terrifying words he had heard so far:
"Do you want to form a CP with me and sell gay stuff?"
Chu Yu slowly turned his head and looked at Luo Jiayu, who had a pure and sincere face. He was silent for a moment, then slowly lowered his head and carefully put the skewers in his hand back into the thermal plastic bag on the ground.
I won’t eat anymore. It was a Hongmen Banquet, and it was so scary.
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