The Mid-Autumn Festival holiday is only three days and it’s over in the blink of an eye.
There weren't many people when Xie Huai and Jiang Xu arrived at the classroom. Xie Huai lay down and fell asleep again, and didn't wake up until the morning self-study class.
During morning self-study, Yao Wenjing told everyone who came into the classroom that registration for the annual autumn sports meet had begun and every class must participate.
The entry form is with the sports committee member. You can just go and register for the event you want to participate in. The registration deadline is this Friday. Someone must go for each event. If a project is not fully staffed, you will probably have to go anyway.
Only students in the first and second year of high school can participate in this kind of sports meet, as the third year students have to prepare for the college entrance examination.
Because their school no longer has the division between arts and science classes, each class has about half boys and half girls, which is considered fair for this kind of sports meet.
After the morning self-study session, class representatives began to collect Mid-Autumn Festival homeworks. Xie Huai handed in all of them. Everyone else was shocked, and the teachers smiled with relief.
Hao Xuexi turned around and looked at Xie Huai in shock: "Brother Huai, have you finished all your homework?"
Xie Huai didn't think this was anything to be alarmed about. Wasn't this what happened every day in junior high school
Xie Huai said, "Hmm," and said, "I've written them all."
Lu Yi also ran over and patted Xie Huai on the shoulder. The force was not too strong, but rather very light. However, Xie Huai still frowned in pain.
"Brother Huai, you have really changed," Lu Yi sighed, "You started to listen carefully in class, and did your homework seriously. You even stopped skipping classes on Mondays. As a brother, I am very pleased."
Xie Huai: “…”
However, after hearing this, Xie Huai realized that he really did not skip class. He glanced at Jiang Xu who was reading a book with his head down, and suddenly smiled, not knowing what he was thinking about.
Thanks to Lu Yi's reminder, he plans to continue skipping classes from next week. He definitely won't really skip classes, but as for why he's doing this...
There were two math classes and two English classes in the morning. Xie Huai listened very carefully. The math teacher and the English teacher would intentionally or unintentionally pick him up to answer questions. To their surprise, Xie Huai could really answer them.
Xie Huai hadn't attended classes seriously for a year. Logically speaking, it was impossible for him to understand the key points of a year's knowledge so quickly. Either he had good grades in junior high school and laid a good foundation, and with some tutoring, it wouldn't be too difficult for him to answer these questions.
Or maybe Xie Huai was just pretending to have poor grades.
But based on some information they knew, they were certain that Xie Huai could not be the second case, so it could only be the first case.
The math teacher returned to the office and told the other teachers what had happened in his class.
Many of the teachers here have taught Yao Wenjing's class and know that Xie Huai really doesn't pay much attention in class.
When they heard that Xie Huai had changed so much, smiles appeared on their faces.
"Teacher Yao, even the top students in your class may not be able to answer the question I gave. If Xie Huai works harder in the future, it will be no problem for him to get into 985 and 211." The math teacher sighed repeatedly.
Yao Wenjing also smiled: "Xie Huai is usually quite well behaved, I believe he can do it."
Xie Huai didn't know that he had become the person that the teachers often mentioned recently, and he and Jiang Xu slowly walked towards the cafeteria.
Last week the school announced a new schedule, which staggered the lunch break times for first, second and third year high school students, so the cafeteria isn’t too crowded now.
"what did you eat?"
Xie Huai walked towards the noodle window: "I want noodles."
Jiang Xu followed behind Xie Huai, and Xie Huai turned around and asked: "You want to eat noodles too?"
Jiang Xu replied lazily: "Yeah."
Xie Huai said nothing. This window was selling pea noodles, which were more expensive than the noodles at other windows, so not many students were queuing here.
Xie Huai swiped his school card twice. Jiang Xu stood behind Xie Huai. He stared at the back of Xie Huai's neck and his Adam's apple rolled.
Jiang Xu lowered his eyelashes and asked Xie Huai: "You invited me?"
If it were in the past, Xie Huai would definitely say, isn’t this nonsense? Can he really eat two bowls
Now it can be put...
"Can't you please?" Xie Huai turned his head and raised his neck slightly to look at Jiang Xu.
Jiang Xu is 189cm tall and Xie Huai is 183cm tall, a difference of six centimeters. If Xie Huai wants to look Jiang Xu directly, he can only raise his head slightly.
Jiang Xu laughed out loud: "Okay."
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After school in the afternoon, Lu Yi and his friends came to ask Xie Huai and Jiang Xu if they wanted to play basketball.
Xie Huai hadn't touched a basketball for a while and was eager to try. After hesitating for a few seconds, he agreed.
"Okay." Xie Huai nodded.
Lu Yi then shifted his gaze to Jiang Xu.
Jiang Xu said "hmm".
"Okay!" Lu clapped his hands, "Let's go, let's go to the basketball court."
It was just after school and there were not many people on the basketball court. Jiang Xu took a detour and went to the school store to buy a few bottles of water.
Lu Yi and his friends were very touched.
"Thank you, Brother Xu." Lu Yi pretended to cry, then took a big gulp.
Xie Huai took the lemonade handed over by Jiang Xu, took a sip and asked Lu Yi: "Who are we fighting?"
"No. 24 Middle School." Lu answered while taking out his cell phone to send a message asking why they hadn't arrived yet.
"Can our school let people from other schools in?" Xie Huai's academic performance was not very good before, but he still knew the school rules and regulations, so how could he let people from other schools in
Lu Yi shook his head: "How can that be possible? Our school has a basketball team, and their school also has one. They will represent Jiangcheng in the competition. The leaders of the two schools discussed it and let them practice together when they are free."
Lu Yi explained: "There are my junior high school classmates in there. I ran into them a few days ago and made an appointment with them."
Someone asked, "Hey, who is the captain of our school basketball team now?"
Lu Yi looked at Xue Hao in shock: "You don't even know this?"
"Very, very famous?" Xue Hao blinked, looking innocent.
"Lin Yichen." Xie Huai said a name.
Jiang Xu glanced at Xie Huai indifferently without saying anything.
Xue Hao immediately remembered the name: "Lin Yichen, the one who transferred to our school and kicked out the captain of the previous basketball team within half a month?"
Lu nodded: "Yes, it's him."
"Isn't he a senior in high school? Is he still playing basketball?" asked Hao Xuexi.
Lu Yi's face was full of admiration when he talked about this: "He has excellent academic performance, and he will probably be admitted to the university without taking the entrance exam. He doesn't care about these things at all."
"Let's not talk about him anymore," Lu Yi changed the subject, "Let's discuss how we should fight first."
Before we could come to any conclusion, people from No. 24 Middle School had already arrived.
Xie Huai looked at a familiar face inside and narrowed his eyes.
The man also noticed Xie Huai, paused, and seemed a little flustered, but soon became calm and walked towards them.
Xie Huai sneered, turned his eyes away from the man, turned around and walked to the side.
As he walked, the person opposite saw that the person who had just been blocked by Xie Huai was Jiang Xu.
Jiang Xu who kicked him on the back that day.
He slowly clenched his fist, veins bulging from the back of his hand.
The teammate next to him noticed that he was in a bad mood: "Yuan Tao, what's wrong with you? Are you feeling unwell?"
Yuan Tao looked at Jiang Xu, loosened his fingers, and slowly raised the corners of his lips: "I'm fine."
Jiang Xu also noticed Yuan Tao, but he didn't expect that the person beaten by Xie Huai that day was from No. 24 Middle School.
But he didn't care. He was just worried that Yuan Tao would deliberately retaliate against Xie Huai.
So when the two sides were playing, Jiang Xu would stare at Yuan Tao from time to time.
As it turned out, Jiang Xu's worries were correct.
In the second half, Yuan Tao intentionally or unintentionally used his body, which was stronger than a pig, to bump into Xie Huai.
He almost bumped into Xie Huai several times. Xie Huai reacted very quickly and didn't let Yuan Tao touch him. But Xie Huai knew in his heart that Yuan Tao did it on purpose. He probably wanted to get back all the face he had lost in front of Xie Huai.
Jiang Xu frowned, made a gesture, and switched positions with Xie Huai. Despite this, when Xie Huai received the ball from Lu Yi and jumped up to shoot, he was still tricked by Yuan Tao.
Yuan Tao suddenly stretched out a foot, and Xie Huai stepped on it when he fell down. His foot twisted, his center of gravity was unstable, and he fell heavily to the ground.
At that moment, Xie Huai felt a pain he had never felt before. He hissed, and the pain from his ankle to his thigh was so excruciating.
Jiang Xu's pupils suddenly shrank, and he rushed over with a cold face and kicked Yuan Tao in the abdomen, kicking Yuan Tao, who was dozens of pounds heavier than him, several meters away. Due to inertia, Yuan Tao fell backwards and fell heavily on the guardrail of the basketball court. There was a loud noise, and a hole was made on the guardrail by Yuan Tao.
Xie Huai was almost unconscious from the pain, but he still pretended to be fine.
The next second, he was picked up by Jiang Xu.
Xie Huai was stunned for a moment, then suddenly reacted: "Jiang Xu, what are you doing? Put me down."
Xie Huai struggled in Jiang Xu's hands but couldn't break free.
"No." Jiang Xu's tone was tougher and colder than ever before.
He was suppressing his anger.
Lu Yi and the others also reacted. All the classmates who had come to watch them play basketball rushed over and surrounded the twenty-four people, all with angry looks on their faces.
Lu Yi gritted his teeth, took out his cell phone and called the dean. After briefly explaining what had happened, the dean asked them to keep an eye on the students from No. 24 Middle School and not let them leave. He would be there right away.
Lu Yi turned around and said to Jiang Xu, "Brother Xu, take Brother Huai to the infirmary first, we will handle this."
Jiang Xu carried Xie Huai towards the school clinic without looking back.
"Are all of you from No. 24 Middle School sick? You're bullying others just because you can't win the game?" someone cursed.
Lu Yi grabbed Yuan Tao by the collar, lifted him up, and cursed, "You idiot, wait until you get expelled from your school."
Yuan Tao was a little scared of Jiang Xu and Xie Huai, but he was not scared of Lu Yi: "Oh, just him, or you?"
Yuan Tao knew that at most he would be punished for this matter and the school would not expel him, not to mention that he had to represent their school in the competition.
Lu Yi suddenly smiled and said slowly: "Do you know who the principal of our school is?"
"He's Xie Huai's uncle."
Yuan Tao was stunned.
Lu Yi straightened Yuan Tao's collar and said in a light tone: "Then do you know who the principal of your school is?"
"He's Xie Huai's uncle."
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(End of this chapter)