Jiang Ning's countless attacks before created his "heroic" image in Xue Yuantong's mind.
"Want to play around?" Xue Yuantong blinked.
"Yes, I'm here." Jiang Ning nodded.
"Really?" Xue Yuantong's eyes suddenly curved, a hint of spirit overflowing from them.
She refused the 100 yuan Jiang Ning gave her and said:
"Give me a 50 note. I know you have one."
Jiang Ning said happily: "I remember it very clearly."
This 50 yuan was the leftover change from the owner of the vegetable stall when I went to buy vegetables last time.
Xue Yuantong took the banknote and said, "Don't you want to see who I am?"
Although Bai Yuxia was paying attention to Wu Xiaoqi and the others smashing the sand pots, she had been by Xue Yuantong's side, so she naturally noticed what Xue Yuantong was doing.
"Xue Yuantong wants to smash the sand pot?"
Bai Yuxia was about to persuade her, but Chen Siyu said:
"Xue Yuantong, you don't want to go out and play, do you?"
Sister Chen Siqing reminded: "Calm down, don't think it's easy to hit just because you see others hit it."
She really didn't want Xue Yuantong to lose money. Xue Yuantong was Jiang Ning's good friend, sitting in front of and behind them.
Jiang Ning often explains questions to Chen Siyu and other students, which is a great help to them and their grades have improved a lot.
"That's right, Zhuang Jianhui is very good at playing basketball, so he didn't lose money, and Wu Xiaoqi from our class..." At this point, Chen Siyu didn't know how to describe it.
Bai Yuxia continued, "It's impossible to judge with common sense."
"Yes, yes, Wu Xiaoqi is a special person."
At this point, Wu Xiaoqi and Zhuang Jianhui continued to throw balls and smash cans in the crowd.
However, part of the trap in the game of sand pot smashing is to take advantage of human greed.
It is no exaggeration to say that 90% of people choose to continue playing after winning money, hoping to win more money, and finally fall into a vicious cycle of losing and winning.
The owner of the sand pot stall kept rearranging the sand pots.
After a few times, Zhuang Jianhui's chances were gone.
Lin Zida came over and said, "20 yuan lets you play seven or eight times, it's worth it."
Zhuang Jianhui thought the same thing: "Not bad."
Due to his family background, he received a good education and had solid basic qualities, so he was rarely addicted to such small games and was able to stop in time.
"Shuyan, do you guys want to play?" Zhuang Jianhui asked.
"No." Ding Shuyan shook her head.
Instead, Li Shi stepped forward with her long legs and said, "I'll play two games."
…
The twin sisters took turns persuading Xue Yuantong to give up the urge to play ball, as that would only lead to her being cheated out of money.
Xue Yuantong knew that they meant well, but she had her own considerations.
Xue Yuantong has seen Jiang Ning's claw machine, it is simply invincible!
Every catch is accurate.
She firmly believed that Jiang Ning, a great magician, could easily win this kind of game.
Besides, Jiang Ning always keeps his word. Since he has promised, if he fails to do it, Xue Yuantong can use this as an excuse to ask Jiang Ning to compensate her.
For example, he is not allowed to travel far tonight.
It seems that no matter what the result is, Xue Yuantong will never lose!
What reason is there not to play
She's super smart.
Xue Yuantong was very confident: "Don't worry, I have a secret weapon."
Bai Yuxia: "What secret weapon?"
"You'll know once I smash the jar."
…
After struggling for several minutes, Wu Xiaoqi finally succeeded in losing all his 10 yuan.
The boss wiped his sweat and said, "Damn, this guy is like a lunatic."
Others smashed the cans while standing, but he smashed them while lying down.
It just so happened that his mother had very high skills. She spent 10 yuan and placed the jars for him more than ten times. The other party almost made back her money just from the labor costs.
The boss has been working in many places and cheating people for several years, but this is the first time he has encountered such a weird thing.
Wu Xiaoqi stood up, his back was covered with dust and he looked very embarrassed.
He ignored her and walked out holding the basketball.
Shen Xu shouted, “Wu Xiaoqi, your back is covered in dust.”
In order to sell small commodities, Shen Xu traveled to various classes all year round, and he could call most of his classmates by name.
However, Wu Xiaoqi did not even turn his head, leaving everyone with only a lonely and proud back:
"It's not dust, it's a medal of glory."
Chen Xu: "I am special."
…
The two basketball experts left the stage, and the remaining guests began to smash the cans.
Perhaps Wu Xiaoqi gave everyone hope, and more people were willing to smash the jars.
It’s just that the performance is mostly bad, and the boss is just given money for nothing.
Li Shi handed the boss a 10-yuan note:
"Let's play a round."
When the people around saw a tall girl appear, they all looked at her.
In real life, good-looking people can easily attract other people's attention no matter what they do.
Many people who originally intended to play ball also gave up the opportunity.
Chen Siyu said: "She looks very powerful."
She was talking about Li Shi.
Chen Siqing agreed: "It feels very impressive."
At the same time, Xue Yuantong set off.
She looked at the crowd of people in front of her, thought for a moment, and decided to go around it.
"boss."
Xue Yuantong was very generous today and took five chances.
As soon as the boss saw Xue Yuantong, who looked like a child, he began to feel happy.
A grown man can't smash the jar, so what is a little girl doing here
Isn't it just giving money away for free
The boss's wrinkles appeared from laughing.
"There's still a spot available, go play."
Xue Yuantong held the ball and stood near Li Shi.
Before Li Shi smashed the jar, he tilted his head and looked down at Xue Yuantong.
Her current height is 174cm, which is more than 20 centimeters taller than Xue Yuantong who is 153cm tall.
Looking at this little girl, Li Shi recognized her. She was the top student in No. 4 Middle School and also a good friend of Jiang Ning.
"Can you?" Li Shi asked curiously.
Xue Yuantong said: "It's OK."
"Well, let's play together." Li Shi said.
After saying that, Li Shi raised the basketball. She was ready to replicate Zhuang Jianhui's path and win the top jar. If she really achieved her goal, she would definitely be able to brag about it in her small circle.
Compared to showing off limited edition luxury goods, showing off your real skills is really amazing.
Chen Siyu shouted: "Tongtong, come on!"
Chen Siqing: "We believe you!"
"Keep working hard!"
The twins' cheers attracted many people to look at them, all with surprised expressions.
Twins are relatively rare in real life, let alone a pair of good-looking twins.
Xue Yuantong slowly raised the basketball, imitated the basketball playing posture on TV, threw it forward, and shot the basketball out.
Then everyone saw that the basketball drew an arc, passed by the sand can, and rolled towards the curtain behind.
The twins' cheering stopped abruptly.
Bai Yuxia couldn't bear to watch it anymore.
Chen Xu: "So strong!"
Lin Zida clapped his thigh happily.
Even the boss was confused.
Xue Yuantong had a tense face and pretended to be calm, but her red ears revealed that she was not as calm as she appeared.
The contestant next to him, Li Shi, smiled and said:
"You're kind of amazing, huh?"
Lin Zida said, "It's rare to see this, Li Shi, come and show us one."
"Let me show you." Li Shi threw the basketball in his hand.
The basketball flew out and brushed past the top jar of the sand jar pyramid, which was also empty.
Li Shi looked embarrassed.
Lin Zida stopped talking.
Xue Yuantong praised honestly: "You are also very good."
Shen Xu shouted, “We are at the same level, stop flattering each other.”
Li Shi glared at Shen Xu who was watching the excitement. She knew this vendor and he often came to their class to sell goods. However, the quality of the goods he sold was too poor and she looked down on them.
"Boss, give me another ball." Li Shi handed over the money.
Xue Yuantong has a total of five chances to continue playing.
The two started smashing the sand jars again, but this time, Li Shi performed normally and had no time, but he used too much strength and knocked over 6 jars, and got no reward.
Xue Yuantong also performed normally and knocked down 6 jars.
Li Shi looked at the little guy and felt competitive.
She asked the boss for the basketball again, as Xue Yuantong had not used up all her five chances.
The basketball was thrown and the can fell, but still nothing was found.
Bai Yuxia looked at Xue Yuantong's actions. That was not playing ball, that was throwing money away.
Bai Yuxia's family is well-off, but she can't stand playing like this. She can buy very expensive snacks, but she can't accept wasting money.
"Jiang Ning, don't let Xue Yuantong play with you later." She added.
Chen Siyu: "Yes, it makes me sad to see it. Every ball costs money."
Jiang Ning said calmly: "It's okay, let her play as much as she wants, as long as she has fun."
Chen Siyu: "But I'm not happy when I lose money."
Jiang Ning said meaningfully: "In a game, there are winners and losers."
However, Bai Yuxia only saw Xue Yuantong always losing, and Li Shi, who was also playing ball, also kept losing.
Lin Zida said happily: "It's too bad."
Zhuang Jianhui said seriously: "It's not that I'm a rookie, this game is really difficult."
He came to this conclusion after going up there and experiencing it.
Zhuang Jianhui plays basketball all year round. With the basketball in his hand, he can basically shoot wherever he points.
Even so, it still depends on luck to be able to smash just two jars.
However, they don't mind spending money, nor are they after the 500 yuan bonus; they just think it's fun and play it.
Xue Yuantong used up all his five chances, and Li Shi also used five chances, but got nothing.
Li Shi was born into a merchant family. She was spoiled since childhood and has a non-believing personality.
After all, at the age of fifteen or sixteen, one is young and energetic.
She is different from people like Ding Shuyan and Zhuang Jianhui who come from families like that.
Li Shi bid a hundred yuan: "Boss, keep going!"
The boss happily took the money and wrote it down with a ballpoint pen. He liked this kind of customer the most. Once they started to compete, they would really keep playing.
He once met a customer who emptied his wallet of only three thousand yuan!
Xue Yuantong was ready to withdraw. She felt very sad after losing fifty yuan.
Fifty yuan is enough for her to buy a lot of vegetables, and pork is only ten yuan per pound.
Jiang Ning walked up to the boss and said, "Let her play the one that costs one hundred yuan."
Xue Yuantong waved his hands quickly and shouted anxiously: "I don't want to play anymore."
Jiang Ning smiled and asked, "Are you happy throwing the ball?"
It will definitely make you happy. Knocking down the neatly arranged cans and creating chaos gives you a primitive pleasure of destruction. What's more, after you're done smashing them, there are people who will put them in order again, so you don't have to do the trouble yourself.
How can I not be happy
Although she was happy, Xue Yuantong didn't want to play, so she lied:
“Not happy.”
Jiang Ning said: "I'll be happier if I play more."
He looked gentle.
When Xue Yuantong saw Jiang Ning's gaze, he suddenly felt at ease and calm.
Although she often resisted in front of Jiang Ning, she was more often obedient than Jiang Ning, even she didn't notice it.
Jiang Ning paid the money.
Li Shi is still waiting for Xue Yuantong. Seeing her return to the competition, she said:
"I thought you didn't want to play anymore."
Xue Yuantong: "Jiang Ning helped me continue."
After that, she said solemnly: "I will be serious from now on."
Li Shi said: "I also recharged 100 yuan, let's compare?"
Competing with the top student in the grade, or even the top student in the entire city, is really exciting.
It would be a happy thing if I could surpass her in this aspect.
"Let's compete, but I know you will definitely lose." Xue Yuantong was extremely confident.
Li Shi: "Okay."
A new round of sand-smashing has begun.
One ball, two balls...
Chen Siyu felt so distressed when she saw them giving money to the boss.
"Bai Yuxia, let's try to persuade Jiang Ning." She thought Jiang Ning might be too drunk.
Bai Yuxia frowned, she felt something was wrong. In her impression, Jiang Ning should not be the kind of person who would lose money so easily.
But she couldn't understand why Jiang Ning watched Xue Yuantong lose all the time.
"Could it be that he plans to win it back in the end?" Bai Yuxia had this thought in her mind.
Immediately, she denied it again, saying it was impossible. It was too difficult to win back the lost money.
Jiang Ning has already spent 150 yuan. Even if he can accurately knock down only one jar every time, he still needs three chances to barely make back his investment.
But that was simply impossible. Even though Zhuang Jianhui and Wu Xiaoqi were so good at basketball, they still couldn't change the outcome of losing money.
Bai Yuxia had only seen Jiang Ning beat people up, but had never seen him play basketball, so she guessed he wasn't very good at it.
She guessed so.
Ding Shuyan on the other side was exceptionally quiet, with a pair of eyes as calm as water, staring at Xue Yuantong on the field.
She is waiting.
…
Li Shi lost 8 goals in a row and Xue Yuantong lost 9 goals in a row.
The audience around were enjoying the show. Li Shi was beautiful and tall, and her curves when she pitched made the men who were watching reluctant to leave.
Moreover, from another evil perspective, if you cannot win the favor of a beautiful woman, then seeing her in trouble is also a good thing.
At the same time, the onlookers felt regretful and couldn't help but wonder if they could attract the attention of the beauties and develop an ambiguous story if they had superb skills in smashing sand pots.
Xue Yuantong calculated the remaining one chance and looked at Jiang Ning.
Jiang Ning gave her a warm look.
Xue Yuantong understood immediately. Jiang Ning meant that he wanted her to finish the whole thing from beginning to end.
Xue Yuantong relaxed a little, a look of joy on her brows. She threw another ball, and this one was particularly satisfying.
But the ending wasn't very good, only 5 cans were knocked down.
"You have to renew your subscription." Li Shi said.
Xue Yuantong raised her little face, not caring at all:
"I'm done warming up."
Li Shi: “???”
Are you kidding me? I threw 15 balls, lost $150, and now I'm done warming up
It’s not that the warm-up is over, it’s that all the money has been lost, right
The boss beguiled me cheerfully: "Do you want to continue playing?"
Chen Siyu looked anxious, she stood on tiptoe and shouted:
"Xue Yuantong, I'll treat you to some snacks!"
Li Shi said, "Are you ready to leave?"
For her, losing some money doesn't matter.
"It doesn't count as leaving." Xue Yuantong said.
She sought help from outside the court: "Jiang Ning, it's your turn."
Jiang Ning handed the boss 10 yuan: "Give me one ball."
The boss was in a better mood, because when he saw the two men interacting just now, he knew that there was a relationship between them.
They do this kind of business and they like this the most.
Girls often lose money, and boys become unconvinced and come to fight back, only to end up losing even more. Men care more about face than women and are more easily impulsive.
"Just play once?" asked the boss.
"Well, once first." Jiang Ning said calmly.
The boss beguiled him, "One time may not be enough, come twice and your chances of winning will be greater."
Jiang Ning did not reject his "good intention", he said:
"That's what you said, give me another goal."
The boss felt it was okay, and it was not bad to earn an extra 10 yuan.
Xue Yuantong left the position of smashing the sand pot and was replaced by Jiang Ning.
Li Shi joked: "Jiang Ning, are you going to help Xue Yuantong get back his face?"
She absolutely did not believe that Jiang Ning could do something that even Zhuang Jianhui could not do. How could Jiang Ning do it
This is not something that can be accomplished simply by passion.
Jiang Ning said: "Just play around."
After Xue Yuantong left, Chen Siyu quickly found Xue Yuantong:
"Jiang Ning will play two games later. Don't let him play anymore. I'll treat you guys to a meal."
Jiang Ning and Xue Yuantong lost 170 yuan, which was terrible.
Chen Siyu and her sister only have about 300 yuan for living expenses per week.
Xue Yuantong agreed immediately: "Okay, I'll only let him play two games."
Chen Siyu finally let go of the worry in her heart.
The next step is to wait for Jiang Ning to finish losing.
Bai Yuxia stared at Jiang Ning.
Lin Zida asked doubtfully, "Does Jiang Ning really want to win it back for Xue Yuantong?"
Zhuang Jianhui said: "After losing so much, he must want to win it back. More than a hundred is not a small amount of money for ordinary people."
"Strange, Jiang Ning is not that kind of person unless he is absolutely sure." Lin Zida and Jiang Ning usually chat in the corridor, talking about games and other topics.
In his impression, Jiang Ning was a very calm person who was never disturbed.
Zhuang Jianhui said: "People have many sides."
The implication is that Lin Zida had made a mistake.
Many people were paying attention to Jiang Ning. Everyone knew that he was here to get back the face of the little girl just now.
"Haha, do you have that ability?" Many people thought so.
Everyone has seen how difficult it is to smash a sand pot.
They can't do it, and they don't want to see others do it.
Want to win
What are you thinking about
Shen Xu, who had originally decided to play ball, decided to give up when he saw that the probability of losing was too high.
In full view of the crowd, Jiang Ning held up the basketball.
He looked calm and exerted a little force with his fingers. The basketball spun under his fingertips, as stable as a globe.
Zhuang Jianhui: "There are some things, but not much."
Li Shi: "You plan to use a spin ball."
Jiang Ning: “Yes.”
"Spinning the ball won't work." Li Shi said, Zhuang Jianhui had just demonstrated it.
Jiang Ning said: "Try it."
As soon as he finished speaking, he flicked his fingertips lightly, and the high-speed spinning basketball suddenly flew out!
It actually formed an arc in the air.
The basketball hit a pyramid-like pile of sand cans.
Those firmly standing sand cans suddenly exploded, and the basketball ran over them directly.
Cans flew everywhere, and the concrete floor was in chaos.
Everyone was shocked.
Li Shi quickly counted the fallen cans: "1, 2, 3..."
Xue Yuantong outside the field shouted excitedly: "No need to count, they are all down!"
She jumped up with joy: "I told you, Jiang Ning is amazing."