When Sun Jichao saw Cheng Ran appear, his face became obviously uncomfortable.
Liu Ying was also a little embarrassed. After dinner, everyone sat in the living room, starting from the sofa, and placed a circle of chairs around it to form a circle. Cheng Ran felt nostalgic and intimate when he saw this atmosphere. In another situation, would there still be such circles in the commercial communities of the future? A group of children sitting together telling ghost stories, unsolved mysteries, and talking about astronomy, geography, history and humanities, instead of holding iPads and mobile phones and burying their heads in games? The world of the future is changing rapidly, and everything is rapidly changing beyond recognition.
Fortunately, all of this is happening right in front of me.
Yu Xiao quickly asked Cheng Ran to testify, "Cheng Ran, tell me, did we go to the Internet cafe yesterday? Yao Beibei said she saw us! You were just reading at home!"
"Reading a book," Yao Beibei sneered. Apparently, no one cared whether Cheng Ran was reading a book or not.
Cheng Ran roughly understood why the atmosphere was silent when he came just now. He waved his hand and said, "You guys continue chatting. I just came to see you..."
As he said this, Cheng Ran looked around at everyone. Yang Xia glared at him, and when his eyes met Jiang Hongshao's, the latter nodded slightly. He had to admit that even with his current perspective, Cheng Ran also admitted that Jiang Hongshao would definitely be the type that would bring disaster to the country and the people in the future. However, some details further confirmed his judgment. This girl, Lao Jiang, was really mysterious and extraordinary...
On weekdays, the children of the compound gathered at Liu Ying's house, and I didn't see any decorations at home. It seemed that they had cleaned the house again, and the glass was spotless, just like the general cleaning done once or twice a year. Liu Ying's mother worked in the Education Bureau, and her father was a businessman. They cooperated so well to improve the relationship between their children and Jiang Hongshao. It should be that among Jiang Hongshao's relatives, or even direct blood relatives, there must be a senior official in the Municipal Education Bureau, a leader in the Industrial and Commercial Bureau, etc.
But it doesn't matter... it's not important to her.
Then he really stood aside, watching everyone chatting... Wang Yuran, who was with Sun Jichao, looked at Cheng Ran, who had an old grudge against his good friend, and for some reason he felt a little uneasy, because he found that Cheng Ran's eyes seemed familiar.
It was a bit like the look in his eyes when he admired the model he had spent a month putting together. Or it was like a person sitting in a theater, watching a classic play. There was always a kind of transcendental enlightenment, but Wang Yuran did not tell anyone about this discovery.
After chatting for a while, we suggested playing some games that test our reaction, which also involved some intelligence games.
The first thing we play is that everyone counts one by one. Once the number reaches a multiple of three, we clap our hands, and the speed becomes faster and faster. Whoever fails to clap when the number reaches a multiple of three, or hesitates, will be punished by having a white paper strip stuck on their arm.
After a few rounds, they changed the game to "Counting to Sevens". When counting to multiples of seven or numbers containing seven, they would clap their hands. If anyone made a mistake, they would be punished by having a note pasted on their hands.
In succession, some people had their forearms covered with paper slips. Yu Xiao was given five, but he was not the one with the most. Xie Dong was given seven. Among the children of the government compound, Wang Yuran was given one, Sun Jichao was given one, and Zhou Bin was given two. Their faces looked a little unhappy. Even Yang Xia was given one. Others were more or less affected. Jiang Hongshao and Cheng Ran did not receive a single ticket.
Just now, Jiang Hongshao was really good at the game. She was not stumped by either counting to three or seven. Her tolerance was too high. Although Cheng Ran was not stumped, he did not encounter levels as frequently as Jiang Hongshao, so he was not given a ticket. People thought that his strength was about 40%, and more was luck. However, Yang Xia, Liu Ying and other girls still looked at Cheng Ran a few more times.
Even Yao Beibei, who wanted to humiliate Cheng Ran, had to turn her firepower toward other people.
Sun Jichao saw these changes and felt a little unwilling. He said, "How about we play English relay? For example, we start with the letter "P" and say words with "P". Everyone takes turns to say it. The one who fails to say it will be eliminated and the next person will take over until the last person."
This is Sun Jichao's strong point. Just imagine if he can be the last one standing, he will be the best among the crowd.
Many girls present were also good at English and agreed immediately. Sun Jichao looked around and said that he would start with the letter "B". He first said "balloon", Yang Xia followed with "bake", and then clockwise, everyone's crisp voice rang out, "banana", "ball", "banker", and when it was Cheng Ran's turn, he said "beautiful", Jiang Hongshao said "bankruptcy"...
Most people read the English words in the textbooks of that year, which are all within the vocabulary of the textbooks, but Jiang Hongshao's vocabulary is obviously beyond this range.
When it came to the third round, most of the boys from the Huatong Company compound had been eliminated. Xie Dong, Zhang Xin, Liu Kehong, Zhou Bin, and Yao Beibei were eliminated one after another. When Yang Xia read out "baptism", Liu Ying and another girl were eliminated because they could not continue.
Yu Xiao, on the other hand, remained strong. His English grades were already good. But after racking his brains to answer the last word, he looked at Cheng Ran with a resigned but extremely surprised look when he answered "barrak (barracks)".
Most of the vocabulary that students learn in junior high school have been spoken by others, and many of the words are unknown to most people. The person who speaks them can only add a free translation, while the person next to them immediately looks up the dictionary to check and make sure that no one is making it up.
Wang Yuran fell in front of Sun Jichao's "battlement (defense wall)", and Sun Jichao died in front of Cheng Ran's "beaon (signal light)".
After Jiang Hongshao said "beanstalk", Yang Xia finally withdrew from the three-way competition, leaving only the duel between Cheng Ran and Jiang Hongshao.
Yang Xia was unable to answer, and felt a little disappointed in her heart, because deep down, she didn't want to show weakness in front of Jiang Hongshao. But when she was still unable to calm down her confused mood, Cheng Ran immediately filled her place and quickly read out the word "bashful".
Yang Xia quickly turned her head to look at Cheng Ran, unable to hide the surprise in her eyes.
The living room of Liu Ying's house was silent. After Cheng Ran added the free translation, Liu Ying finally reacted and continued to look up the dictionary. Then he raised his head, his eyes full of disbelief, "bashful means "shy"... That's right."
When Yu Xiao looked at Cheng Ran at this moment, he was just watching him riding his horse at full speed like a knight, leaving the dust far behind.
"Barbarous means barbaric and brutal." Jiang Hongshao's voice rang out.
Cheng Ran responded, "Banter means to mock."
Jiang Hongshao looked at Cheng Ran, and raised the corners of her lips slightly, "Brazen, how shameless."
Cheng Ran frowned: "brashness, rude and thoughtless."
The crowd of onlookers almost overturned the table. What is going on? Why are you two signing in a monologue? Do you think we exist or not
Sun Jichao, who was originally conceited in this aspect, was dumbfounded and dazed, feeling that he had suffered a thousand points of damage. Who had just proposed to carry out this project... This was like moving a mountain to smash him.
Not only was he humiliated, but everyone in the living room was in a state of confusion.
In fact, some of the words are not complicated. The main reason is that at this stage they have basically not been exposed to them in textbooks or extracurricular English reading materials, and the vocabulary of the two people in front of them is simply too overbearing.
Jiang Hongshao was still acceptable, she was a transfer student, and anything that happened to this girl was not surprising. But what on earth was Cheng Ran, such a sudden evil? Was he possessed
Jiang Hongshao's gaze changed, as if it no longer had the clear and graceful look that she had just had at the party. The corners of her eyes slightly raised, and the angles became as sharp as a knife. She stared at Cheng Ran with sharp eyes. The two of them were still fighting back and forth, but in the eyes of others, they were like two swordsmen, with murderous intent in every move and blood splattering everywhere.
"Bungle, failed." Cheng Ran raised his hands, "I have run out of words, I can't answer the next one, I lose." This girl is so competitive!
"Marvellous." Jiang Hongshao's sharp eyes also disappeared, as if they had never appeared. She smiled guiltily, "I can't answer either, so let's just call it a draw."
At this point, winning or losing doesn't seem to matter anymore.
Yu Xiao rushed over, staring at Cheng Ran with an expression of shock that was hard to describe, and then started to ruffle his hair. "You, how can you be so awesome! When did your English become so good!"
"Cheng Ran, you are good. You didn't show off. You did it on the spur of the moment. Ah... Did you guys collude to leak the questions?" Yao Beibei looked at Cheng Ran from head to toe with a sour look. Someone also looked at Sun Jichao in response to her words.
Sun Jichao was so angry that he wanted to spit blood. He colluded with Cheng Ran!
Seeing the same puzzled looks from the group, Cheng Ran knew that he might have touched their pride. After all, no one could accept that someone who performed much worse than them would suddenly behave like this. He understood and said, "It's a coincidence... Before coming here today, I was thinking about expanding my vocabulary, and I happened to look at the page starting with B in the dictionary... I still remember it clearly, but I'll only use it today. I'll probably forget it completely in a few days...!"
There was something regretful about that look.
Who cares if you will forget it completely in the future! Some people are like cats and dogs scratching their hearts. You just read one page and remember it, and you can still remember it so fluently? You are so smart, why don’t you use it to study before!
Sun Jichao wanted to hit himself on the head. What was he thinking? Why didn't he just start with the letter P, or any other letter, but not B? Who came up with the stupid idea to play this game
After reacting, it seems to be me again...