The final whistle blew and the score was fixed at 73:80.
Cheers erupted from the stands on the east side, and the cheering sticks were waved into one piece, which was bright red.
Through the gap between the cheering sticks, Lin Zhaoxi saw the players in his class huddled together, and they finally received an impeccable and dignified victory. Probably because the victory came so hard, Zheng Mate even covered his face all the time, refusing to show his expression to others, and didn't know if he was crying.
As for Class 1, because of the miscalculation and the frustrating performance of their captain, their players have long been unwilling to fight. But their team is still under the leadership of Hanamaki, fighting to the end and keeping the score within 10 points is not easy.
But they were still students, and still in their teens. After the final whistle sounded, the teenagers seemed to have been taken out of their hearts, and they were all downcast.
Only Hanamaki was very calm. He patted the shoulders of the team members one by one to encourage them. Although he had a tender face, when he was serious, he still had a strange charisma.
After comforting the players in her class, Hanamaki was going to take a shower and change clothes with them, but the referee stopped them. The referee teacher didn't know what to say, and a group of players started arguing with him again. Chen Chu wanted to speak again, but Hanamaki stopped him.
Lin Zhaoxi was leaving the stage, seeing this scene, she couldn't help standing up, and gestured to Hanamaki from afar. Hanamaki shook her head, signaling that she was fine and let them go first.
Lin Zhaoxi had no choice but to continue down the stands silently with Peizhi Lu Zhihao. But because Pei Zhi's classmate was too eye-catching, the word "moment" only lasted for a dozen seconds before it ended.
Zheng Mate ran into the stands in three steps and two steps, and hugged Pei Zhi: "Transfer student, no, Brother Pei, you pretended so well just now, I will treat you to a skewer at noon!"
He had just finished playing, and his body was covered in sweat. Pei Zhi was a little dazed by the embrace, and Lin Zhaoxi was so smoked that he took two steps back.
"Come and join us, too." Mat Zheng turned to look at her.
Hearing this, Pei Zhi also looked over, with a questioning look in his eyes, but Lin Zhaoxi didn't know whether the question was about "lunch" or "baby".
Pei Zhi: "Can I leave school at noon?"
Lin Zhaoxi breathed a sigh of relief, and just as she was about to answer "Yes", Zheng Matt jumped in first, "Of course, Baby Chaoxi used to help me go out of school to buy milk tea!"
Lin Zhaoxi looked at the cheerful hedgehog student, regretful and desperate, he should have been pressed to death by Chen Chu on the court just now.
Pei Zhi thought for a while and said, "Shall we go eat wontons?"
He was referring to the shop they used to go to when they were young, Lin Zhaoxi nodded hurriedly: "Okay, wait for Lao Lu to order the flower rolls?"
"No problem." Lu Zhihao said.
Pei Zhi rejected Zheng Tianming: "Sorry, we don't eat barbecue anymore."
"Honey, can you really not take me with you?" Zheng Tianming looked at her pitifully.
Lin Zhaoxi was terrified. Where did this "wife" come from? The current junior high school student is really scary.
Lin Zhaoxi hurriedly interrupted him: "Can you change your clothes first, you'll catch a cold."
"Is Zhaoxi baby caring about me?" Zheng Tianming's eyes lit up, "I'm going now!"
Zheng Tianming blew a kiss at her, Fei also seemed to jump off the stands, and rushed directly to the locker room, abnormally excited.
Pei Zhi was still wearing a sweater hat, turned his face a little, and looked at her seriously.
"He may have a name disorder when he is excited." She began to talk nonsense seriously.
A look of incomprehension appeared in Pei Zhiqing's eyes.
"Be careful that he calls you husband!" Lin Zhaoxi seriously reminded Pei Zhi with a serious expression.
Pei Zhi: ...
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Xilin Wonton Shop is located deep in an alley outside Anning Experimental Junior High School. At noon, it is smoky and full of people. Bowls of clear soup wontons are placed on the table. The soup base is made of bone broth that has been simmered overnight, while the wonton skin is crystal clear, and the filling is tender and juicy.
After being promoted to the Cup that year, it was Lao Lin who brought them here the first time.
Pei Zhi loved wontons very much. Although he didn't reveal anything when he ate them, they had to come here to report every lunch during that time.
They happen to have four children, and they will order four different kinds of meat, and everyone will exchange different flavors. But not long after that, Pei Zhi left, and they didn't seem to come to eat much.
Lin Zhaoxi didn't actually experience the period after Pei Zhi's departure, but now, she sat down at the table with her friends again, and everyone's faces changed from childish to youthful and sunny, she still felt very moved .
"Shrimp, shepherd's purse, Kaiyang, pure meat."
The clerk came to order, and Pei Zhi ordered four flavors of wontons as usual. The sense of ritual is still very important.
but…
"Two copies each." Pei Zhi then added.
Hanamaki was shocked: "Isn't there anything to eat abroad? Did you order too much???"
"There are no wontons." Pei Zhi paused, "Besides, is a bowl of wontons enough for you?"
It was only then that Hanamaki realized that they had grown up and were in the development stage, and they were no longer elementary school students who could only eat a bowl of wontons.
Lu Zhihao weakly raised his hand: "Actually, there are only 20 bowls for two bowls, I may not have enough..."
"I'll give you mine, I can't finish it." Lin Zhaoxi said subconsciously.
At this time, the three teenagers looked at her in unison.
Lin Zhaoxi: "What... for what?"
"I think you can do it?" Hanamaki was a little puzzled.
Lu Zhihao: "Don't be hungry, last time you ate dumplings with us, you ate three plates by yourself."
Pei Zhi was a little surprised, but still asked gently and considerately: "Do I need another bowl for you?"
"No... I don't need it anymore..." Lin Zhaoxi wanted to cry but had no tears.
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For some reason, after ordering and joking, the distance between everyone seems to be much closer.
The relationship between Hanajuan and Pei Zhi has always been closer, and he began to ask Pei Zhi about his life abroad, and he only picked out the tragic ones.
Pei Zhi is always calm. He said that studying is not difficult, and living with grandpa is even more peaceful, but the old man can't touch spicy food, and the chef can't cook it, so he is very resentful that he can't eat wonton and hot pot.
"That night hot pot" Hanamaki proposed.
"Master's hot pot is very good." Lu Zhihao said, "Shall we go to Master's house tonight?"
Pei Zhi nodded: "When I come back, I need to see Master first."
After they finished talking, they looked at her together.
Looking at the three greedy children, Lin Zhaoxi couldn't bear to tell them that Lao Lin's hot pot was good, but he knew which brand had the best soup base.
Not wanting to destroy Lao Lin's image, Lin Zhaoxi silently turned her head, looked out of the French window, and was shocked.
A handsome face was pressed against the floor-to-ceiling window, smiling at her with a bloody mouth, and the visitor's ears were full of toothpicks, who else could there be except Zheng Tianming.
"How about you, are you okay?" Pei Zhi happened to ask this question.
"We're alright." Lu Zhihao saw Zheng Matt outside the window, and said heartlessly, "But Pei Zhi, you don't know, when you're not around, Lin Zhaoxi likes this crazy guy so much!"
Lin Zhaoxi stared at Lu Zhihao, she didn't know how Lu Zhihao sold her so without psychological pressure.
"She will really buy milk tea for that psychopath!" Hanamaki also said.
"Still running back and forth, copying homework for psychopaths!" This is Lu Zhihao.
"We persuaded him, but he also said that the psycho is super handsome, like Shun Oguri!" Hanamaki continued.
The two poured beans out of bamboo tubes and complained in front of Pei Zhi.
Lin Zhaoxi didn't have the strength to resist any more, she buried her head in her arms, and said angrily, "Don't...don't say it...I'm...already..."
Pei Zhining's gentle voice rang in her ears: "Why did it get better so quickly?"
Lin Zhaoxi's ears couldn't help turning red, and she buried her head a little deeper: "I didn't have any competitors before, so I was very lonely, so I just...casually entered secondary school... Now that classmate Pei Zhi is back, I have to study hard."
"Yes." Pei Zhi replied.
"What's the first step?" Hanamaki was incredulous.
"Wait... go to Mr. Ma first to get the qualification for the number league competition..." Lin Zhaoxi replied forcefully.
"What if she doesn't give it?" Hanamaki said, "Ms. Ma is really... partial."
"No?" Lin Zhaoxi suddenly raised her head, "Do you still remember Vice President Zhang?"