The last event of the afternoon was the men's 5,000 meters, which was also the highlight of this sports meeting. In addition to the students who were crowded around the track, the school leaders also sat on the rostrum one by one, preparing for the closing ceremony and award ceremony to be held later.
What's even more rare is that Zuo Yuxi, who is very busy and hard to invite, actually took the initiative to ask to attend again! The students just thought that the leader was idle, but the school was really nervous. No one could guess why this flower of Qingzhou was so interested in a small sports meeting. Not only did she come to the opening ceremony, but she also wanted to attend the closing ceremony.
Something must be wrong when it is out of the ordinary. The principal sat next to Zuo Yuxi, smiling along while racking his brains to figure out her intentions. If he knew that Zuo Yuxi came here just to cheer Wen Liang up, his eyes might not fall out, but he could still spit out blood to show his support.
Wen Liang was in the third lane. Although the two runners in the lanes next to him had premature gray hair and acne on their faces, they were muscular and strong, and they looked like they made a living from sports. They just happened to sandwich him in the middle. Wen Liang never hesitated to speculate about others with the greatest malice. The first thing he thought of was that once they started to merge, as long as the two of them controlled the rhythm well, with their physical fitness, they could easily block him behind.
Thinking this in his heart, Wen Liang still gave the two of them a friendly smile. Friendship comes first, competition comes second! Unexpectedly, the two strong men turned their heads away quickly as if they were stabbed, and the embarrassment on their faces was faintly visible.
Wen Liang was surprised. Damn, is this really bad luck? At the same time, his mind moved. He looked up and saw Gu Wenyuan sitting in the crowd on the platform more than ten meters away. His arrogant face had a cold and mean smile.
Bang!
The starting gun sounds!
Wen Liang deliberately rushed out slowly. Sure enough, Shao Baitou heard the gunshot and rushed out a few meters, but when he saw Wen Liang lagging behind, he immediately slowed down. The same thing happened to Huachong. He kept the same pace and blocked Wen Liang firmly in front of him. He could even hit Wen Liang's arm when he swung his arm. This kind of harassment and flanking tactics are common in large-scale track and field events, but unless Wen Liang and Gu Wenyuan have a grudge, no one would be so stupid as to play this trick in the school sports meeting.
Gu Wenyuan has made up his mind to make Wen Liang look bad today. If he wants to get first place, he can just dream on!
With his physical condition with few gray hairs and acne, he should have been in the first group long ago, and it should not have been difficult for him to maintain the leading position from beginning to end. However, in order to hold back Wen Liang, he slowed down his pace and obviously gave up on the final result.
Now that he had found out the two men's intentions, Wen Liang was not in a hurry. Five thousand meters required a total of twelve and a half laps, and what was actually being tested was not speed but endurance. He only needed to maintain a constant speed in the first few laps, and it would not be too late to sprint in the last thousand meters.
After a round, the premature grayhead and the acne saw that Wen Liang was not very fast and did not show any special performance, and their disdain immediately showed on their faces. The two looked at each other, as if to say, this kind of stuff is not worthy of Gu Wenyuan's high price, and he even specially found someone to arrange them together. It's really easy to make money from rich people!
Round after round, the battle situation did not change much. When they reached the fifth round, passing the third squad camp, Ma Gang and others could not help but shouting: "Come on, Wen Liang, charge, hurry up and charge forward!"
Ren Yi even jumped onto the table, swung his clothes, and yelled something. Ji Su stood alone at the edge of the track. From a distance of several meters, he could see the sweat on Wen Liang's face. His fingers were tightly twisted together, and his heartbeat was getting faster and faster.
By the sixth lap, Wen Liang couldn't wait any longer. The three people in the first group had already opened up a distance of more than ten meters. When passing under the rostrum, he suddenly shifted his body to the outside and accelerated suddenly, trying to overtake from the outside lane. Although Shao Baitou was a little careless, he was a sports student after all, and he usually did such things. He had been prepared for Wen Liang's move. He exerted force on his feet at the same time, and his tall body moved to the right. Acne cooperated with him tacitly and rushed to fill the empty space.
The two guys were still blocking his way!
Wen Liang's breathing stagnated and he had to slow down, otherwise he would have bumped into the two men's backs. If he was fake-falled by these two and got some skin broken, he would have no chance of winning the match.
This scene happened to be seen by everyone on the rostrum. Zuo Yuxi frowned slightly, and the principal's heart immediately began to beat. Thinking of the previous few days, this young lady almost hit Lin Zhen's car in anger for Wen Liang. He finally figured out her intentions and winked at Hua Xique on the side. Hua Xique understood and ran down to find two physical education teachers to whisper a few words. So on the seventh lap, Wen Liang saw two teachers waiting outside the track. When the three passed by, a senior physical education teacher shouted: "Du Tao, Song Yi, run your own way well, do you hear me?"
The premature gray hair and acne pretended not to hear and kept their original formation unchanged. Wen Liang breathed a sigh of relief. In fact, he had just intentionally let the teachers see that something was wrong, so that no matter what he did next, it would not be considered as intentional trouble.
On the eighth lap, Wen Liang accelerated again and swayed his body to the outside lane. Shao Baitou thought he was repeating his old trick, so he stepped sideways and tried to block the way. However, he suddenly felt pain in his heel, and he was unable to stop and fell straight out, his face brushing against the plastic track for a long distance. Huachong's heart skipped a beat, and before he could react, Wen Liang hit his shoulder without leaving a trace, but the force was so great that he almost fell to the inside of the track at the same time as Shao Baitou. Fortunately, there was grass inside, so at least he didn't get hurt.
The audience nearby was suddenly in an uproar. Some students ran over to help the two people away. The two physical education teachers who had just shouted looked at each other, blew the whistle to calm the noisy students, and announced that it was an accident and the game would continue.
Gu Wenyuan's face in the stands turned pale again!
In the ninth lap, Wen Liang accelerated all the way into the first group. The students in Class 3 shouted until their throats were hoarse. Their emotions also infected the students around them, who followed suit and cheered for the contestants in their respective classes. The radio station's manuscripts were one after another, "You are the heart, you are the dream, you are the spirit, you are the glory, Wang Jie from Class 9, the finish line is at your feet!"
Wang Jie gritted his teeth and immediately surpassed one person, going from the last to the second to last!
"Persistence, perseverance, endurance and hope, strength, faith, hard work and tenacity, you are the pride of our Class 5, Luo Shun, keep going!"
Luo Shun gritted his teeth and stepped from the third group to the second group!
"No matter how high the Alps are or how dangerous the Himalayas are, they can't stop you from moving forward. We love you, Class 4 Yang Sen!"
Yang Sen gritted his teeth and left Wang Jie from Class 9 behind him, temporarily escaping the fate of being last.
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Wen Liang maintained a steady pace, still accelerating to overtake one opponent after another. He entered the top three in the tenth lap and ranked second in the eleventh lap. However, the student who ranked first did not show any signs of fatigue and had a strong sense of rhythm, so it was difficult to overtake him.
Wen Liang was about to grit his teeth and try to overtake him again when a cry of critical realism rang out over the radio:
"The wind is roaring, the horses are neighing, gentleness is roaring, gentleness is roaring..."
Wen Liang almost couldn't catch his breath, and the person running with him couldn't help but burst out laughing, and his steps slowed down. Wen Liang seized the opportunity to catch up, and the student behind him roared: "Wen Liang, you are despicable and shameless!"
It turned out that this brother recognized him. No wonder he was laughing so happily just now. Wenliang was in a good mood. He gave his middle finger behind his back, ran as fast as a flying horse, and was the first to cross the finish line amid the cheers of the three groups of relatives and friends.
Ren Yi and the others rushed forward like hungry tigers, directly pressing Wen Liang to the grass, and one by one they pressed on him to form a pyramid. Poor Uncle Wen had been exhausted in the past few days, and he could not bear such roughness, and he screamed for help. In the end, Ji Su could not bear it anymore and drove the boys away, otherwise the biggest hero of Class 3 would have died heroically before he stepped onto the podium.
Ye Yuting generously gave Wen Liang a hug, and Uncle Wen took the opportunity to whisper in her ear: "Teacher Ye, these seven projects almost exhausted me to death, you have to compensate me..."
Ye Yuting was in a good mood. She waved her hand and said in a heroic manner: "Tell me, what compensation do you want?"
"Hey, let's talk about this in private!"
Wen Liang's expression was a little obscene. Ye Yuting didn't know what she was thinking about. Her ears turned red. She glared at him fiercely and turned around and ran away.
The score statistics were soon released. Class 3 won first place in the grade with an absolute advantage of 75 points. Ye Yuting took the pennant and prize from the principal, which made the students of Class 3 cheer. Wen Liang won the first place in seven events with a total score of 35 points and became the individual champion. Zuo Yuxi personally presented the prize, which was a Panasonic Walkman. For high school students of this era, it was worth a lot!
After receiving the prize from Zuo Yuxi, their fingers touched lightly and their eyes intertwined. Almost at the same time, they recalled the award ceremony for the top ten Communist Youth League members half a year ago. It was a similar scene and two similar people, but this time the situation was completely different.
Looking back over the past six months, it really seems like a dream!
It was nearly six o'clock when the closing ceremony ended. Wen Liang had just walked out of the school gate when he saw Zuo Yuxi's car parked on the side of the road. He walked over and sat in the passenger seat. Before he could say anything, Zuo Yuxi's red lips sealed his mouth. The nimble and smooth tip of his tongue probed in, and they lingered in the pursuit of spirit and desire.
After a while, the two separated, panting. Wen Liang scratched her nose and said, "Look at how anxious you are. There are students here. What will you do if you are discovered?"
Zuo Yuxi smiled charmingly: "If you find out, then find out. At worst, I won't be the deputy director of the Education Bureau. Let's see who dares to gossip about me!"
This was the first time Zuo Yuxi expressed her willingness to give up everything in the officialdom for the sake of their relationship. Wen Liang knew that she was just emotional and didn't take it seriously. He smiled and asked, "Where are we going now?"
Zuo Yuxi's face suddenly became serious, and he said, "Go to Qingzhou Hotel. Wen Huaiming is back from Shunyi, and things are a bit tricky!"