Lin Yingtao was combing her hair in front of the mirror in the sink, and it was done in a few strokes. Duchamp was watching from the side and said, "Yingtao, you are really good at combing your hair now!"
They sat side by side on a bench in the school's grove. Lin Yingtao took out two beef cubes from her pocket and shared them with Dushan. Lin Yingtao said, "I have combed my hair for several years."
She took out her MP3 player, sorted out the earphones, and gave one to Dushan.
Just last night, Lin Qile took the time to transcribe all the hot tapes at home into MP3 using his father's method.
She had just finished running, and the wind from the woods made the sweat on her forehead and behind her ears feel cool.
Du Shang turned his head and looked at Lin Yingtao's slightly red cheeks after running. Lin Yingtao closed her eyes and was breathing slowly.
"Even Hot has disbanded." Duchamp said suddenly.
Lin Yingtao opened her eyes and nodded at him.
"I feel like you seem to be happier these two days, Cherry," Duchamp said.
"Ah?" Lin Yingtao asked.
Duchamp saw her like this and laughed.
"Really. When you first came from South Campus, you seemed so tense. Cai Fangyuan and I were talking about how we thought you might not be happy at this school!"
Lin Yingtao didn't understand what he meant for a moment.
But with good friends around, it shouldn’t matter if you don’t understand a sentence or two.
"Maybe it's because we go to school together again!" said Lin Yingtao.
Dushan nodded vigorously.
Lin Yingtao lowered her head and fiddled with her MP3.
In addition to the English recordings, her MP3s are all songs transcribed from old tapes, including Andy Lau, Black Panther, A-Mei, Jay Chou, and Jolin Tsai.
When Duchamp saw the name Leonard Cohen, he exclaimed, “Wow!” “Foreigner!”
Lin Qile cut through the songs one by one, and when she came to Stefanie Sun's songs, she cut through "03_天黑黑". Duchamp said, "I want to listen to this song!"
Lin Qile said in a very good mood: "But I want to listen to something else... Let's listen to Nature!"
The physical education class was over. When Lin Qile returned to the classroom, she happened to see several boys surrounding her deskmate Huang Zhanjie, not knowing what they were doing.
Lin Qile walked up to him and said, "I'm going over there."
When several boys heard her voice, they raised their heads reflexively, and all dispersed with laughter. Only Huang Zhanjie was left sitting there, his face flushed red. He held a closed comic book in his left hand and a pencil in his right hand. He stood up slowly and gave his seat to Lin Qile.
During the self-study class, Huang Zhanjie suddenly whispered, "Cai Fangyuan!"
When Cai Fangyuan heard the noise from the front, he quickly turned around.
Huang Zhanjie was afraid that someone around would see him, so he stuffed the comic book into his physics textbook and handed it to Cai Fangyuan's desk.
Cai Fangyuan asked him with his mouth: "Have you finished writing?"
Huang Zhanjie nodded quickly.
Cai Fangyuan hid the book in his schoolbag and secretly gave him a thumbs up.
Lin Qile sat aside and watched the entire criminal process of the two of them.
Lin Qile told Yu Qiao that Cai Fangyuan and Huang Zhanjie were up to something.
Yu Qiao had just come back from outside with several forms in his hands. He checked the forms and said, "Really?"
He walked towards the podium and patted Cai Fangyuan on the back of his head as he passed by. "Let me have a look at it later," Yu Qiao said to Cai Fangyuan.
"For the school sports meet next week," Yu Qiao stood on the podium, holding a pen, and said to the students sitting below, "The boys' events have almost been signed up. Are there any girls who would like to sign up for an event?"
All the girls in the audience laughed and no one wanted to report it.
At this time, the classroom door opened, and the group of people who had been studying in the Little White Building came back. As soon as Jiang Qiaoxi entered the room, he met Yu Qiao.
Yu Qiao looked down at the audience and asked, "Women's 1,500 meters, is there anyone who wants to sign up?"
A boy in the audience started to make a noise: "Yu Qiao, come down and ask. Are you sincere when you ask on stage?"
Huang Zhanjie gloated over the misfortune and secretly told Lin Qile: "Yu Qiao will have to ask the girls one by one whether they want to sign up for the project."
"No, right?" Yu Qiao said lazily on the stage. He picked up the pen and said, "Then, let's choose Lin Qile!"
Lin Qile was sitting below, his eyes suddenly widened.
Before Jiang Qiaoxi returned to his seat, he suddenly looked up at Yu Qiao.
"Oh, no," Yu Qiao had just written half of his name, "Lin Qile, you want to sign up for the 800-meter race, right?"
"I'm not signing up." This was the first time Lin Qile tried to raise her voice in front of the whole class, and her voice was a little shaky.
Yu Qiao smiled and said, "What? You want to apply for both? Sure, no problem."
If it was at the Qunshan Power Plant Primary School, Lin Qile would have left his seat, grabbed Yu Qiao and kicked him, and then crossed out his name. But now he was in the Experimental High School, in the provincial capital, and was still taking self-study classes, surrounded by new classmates who he had only known for a month, and Lin Qile felt uneasy.
We signed up for the remaining sprint events one by one. Yu Qiao asked again, "There's one more, this basketball event, is there anyone who wants to sign up?"
The girls were very reserved and just smiled and shook their heads.
Yu Qiao took a pen and wrote on the paper: "No one has applied, so, it's Lin Qile!" There was another burst of laughter, and he finished filling it out. For the first time, he completed the task easily and went to the office.
Lin Qile was very angry the whole way home. She lowered her head in grievance and said nothing.
Du Shang sat beside him and said anxiously: "Yu Qiao, what on earth did you do?"
Yu Qiao looked back at Lin Yingtao in the front row and was also puzzled: "I didn't do anything..."
Cai Fangyuan gloated: "Yu Qiao, your hard of hearing is too fake. Learn more from your grandmother."
It was past seven in the evening, and Jiang Qiaoxi was still taking a night class in the competition class. The teacher was explaining a question on the stage, and Jiang Qiaoxi looked up at the blackboard, his eyes wandering, obviously distracted.
Cen Xiaoman said from the side: "Jiang Qiaoxi."
Jiang Qiaoxi turned to look at her.
“Winter camp is coming up,” she whispered, “Are you nervous?”
Jiang Qiaoxi asked: "What is a basketball babe?"
Cen Xiaoman was stunned.
Feilinger was sitting in the front row. When he heard Jiang Qiaoxi's words, he turned around.
"I don't know." said Cen Xiaoman.
Felinger stammered, "Just... the cheerleaders for our school's basketball games."
"Why do you ask that?"
During the morning reading the next day, Lin Qile was informed that he had to go to the tennis hall to rehearse the formation of basketball babes in the afternoon. Lin Qile was very reluctant, but the teacher in charge said that he could find a girl from his class to replace him.
Lin Qile was very confused. She was not familiar with the girls in her class, so how could anyone take her place
The "times" have begun to "call" again.
During the break, Lin Qile stood in the team doing exercises. Unconsciously, the discussions and laughter around him became less and less, although Lin Qile himself did not understand why.
Feilinger and Cen Xiaoman were still standing behind her, also very quiet. Sometimes when Lin Qile turned back, she would see Feilinger looking at her with a strange look. Feilinger's eyes met hers, and he would immediately avoid her, which made Lin Qile very confused.
During class, Yu Qiao poked Lin Qile's back again and again with the butt of a ballpoint pen. Lin Qile was annoyed by him and covered his ears and refused to pay attention to him.
During the afternoon activity, Lin Qile left her seat with a heavy heart and went downstairs. She thought she was done for, she was so unlucky, she was going to be embarrassed again, she didn't even know what a basketball babe was, she was going to be embarrassed in front of these students from the provincial capital experimental middle school again.
Since coming to the provincial capital and the Experimental High School, Lin Qile has been trying to be a normal and good student. In the past, she loved to make a fool of herself, to show off, and to be different from others. Now she loves to study and do homework, and only indulges herself a little when she is with her friends.
Lin Qile stood on the lowest step on the first floor of the teaching building.
She suddenly realized that Yu Qiao had done nothing wrong.
It's just that she went through some things and she "shed" a layer of shell without realizing it.
Coming out of the tennis hall, the first and second year high school girls who were participating in the school's basketball rehearsal followed their leading teacher, crossed several streets on campus, and walked towards the auditorium.
On weekdays, both male and female students in the school wear loose and baggy sportswear, covering themselves from head to toe. At this moment, the girls who were selected as basketball babes wore light pink belly-exposing vests, miniskirts and small boots, and they trotted all the way to catch up with the team to the auditorium.
It was Cai Fangyuan who first saw her at the entrance of the school supermarket. He exclaimed in surprise: "Oh my god! Lin Yingtao!!"
Yu Qiao was on the basketball court. He threw the ball in his hand and walked to the sidelines. He held onto the net and suddenly whistled loudly into the distance.
Lin Yingtao turned back from the team and looked at her friends. Lin Yingtao's eyes bent down and she smiled.
Jiang Qiaoxi stood at the corridor on the second floor of the small white building, leaning his elbows on the railing and looking down. He saw Lin Yingtao's combed hair swaying back and forth, a narrow waist showing under her vest, and a pair of thin white legs under her miniskirt.
Lin Yingtao was fastening the belt of her skirt as she walked, and it seemed that the button was broken.
A junior who just started to learn about competitions in the first year of high school asked, "Senior Jiang, is that senior with big eyes the one who wrote you a love letter before, Lin Qile?"
Jiang Qiaoxi still looked down at her.
The teammate behind her reached out to help Lin Yingtao buckle her belt. Lin Yingtao stopped, and the girls of the same age immediately surrounded her.
Suddenly, Lin Yingtao raised her head and saw Jiang Qiaoxi.
Jiang Qiaoxi looked at her. There was confusion and astonishment in Lin Yingtao's eyes until she fastened her belt. Then the girls followed her gaze and looked up, and suddenly they all saw Jiang Qiaoxi.
The young teacher in charge shouted in front: "Let's go! Stop looking at the handsome guy!"
The girls burst into laughter and pulled Lin Yingtao into the auditorium.