The sports meeting lasted three days with vigour.
The javelin competition was over on the first day, and Yu Sheng was rummaging through tomato-flavoured potato chips in Jin Linkun’s school bag, just in time for the class monitor to come over to ask for help in a hurry.
Out of nowhere, for some unknown reason, they were invited to eat roast sausage by their substitute English teacher. Duan Lei chewed it with great relish, and raised his head when he heard this: “Aren’t all the projects filled?”
“Don’t mention it.” The class monitor pressed his forehead, “In order to protect the students’ experience of watching and participating in the competition, the school mercifully forbids national rank 2 athletes and above from participating in this event, to prevent the unilateral bullying of innocent students.”
The sports committee who had just finished the 5,000-metre race, and happily won the first prize, interrupted in surprise: “When did that happen?”
Class monitor: “Just now, when you ran a 5,000-metre for the second time.”
Sports Committee: “…”
There are quite a few athletes from the National rank 2 and above in No. 3 High School. To participate in the competition is to ruthlessly harm the young hearts of innocent ordinary students. Especially after the sports committee who was ahead of the 2nd place by an entire two laps, actually ran backwards while encouraging the second place: “Come on, raise your legs, you can do it!”
This kind of arrogant attitude directly caused the second place to run out of breath, and he still hasn’t recovered yet.
The sports committee was heartbroken for a while: “In this case, don’t I have the right to fight for the honour of the class?”
“Not necessarily.” The class monitor patted him on the shoulder, “Have you ever done hurdling?”
Sports Committee: “No, I think I will just knock down the bar and hug the ground.”
The class monitor nodded, and confidently filled him into the vacancy on the hurdling: “Okay, now you have the right to fight for honour for the class again.”
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After totaling up, the three thousand metres still fell on Yu Sheng who was idle and had nothing to do.
“Just try your best, our class’ points are enough.”
The class monitor was afraid that Yu Sheng would continue to sprint like last year, so he promised in advance: “Sheng-ge, you should treat this as taking a walk, or a stroll.”
Yu Sheng nodded: “OK.”
He agreed very readily.
During the real competition, the class monitor sat on the sidelines, looked at Yu Sheng who passed the second half lap amidst the enthusiastic cheers of Class 7, and tugged at Duan Lei next to him: “Is what Sheng-ge just said right?”
“Yes, but you have to see who runs with you.”
With the sausage in his mouth, Duan Lei pointed the way for him: “Just now I overheard that Mr. Jin said that he would compete with Sheng-ge to see who can run faster.”
To be honest, he didn’t quite understand Jin Linkun’s modus operandi.
After all, the monitor of the class next door had just jogged with his girlfriend for 800 metres, he was coaxing her softly to not force her, but just to do her best.
As a result, when he turned his head, a gust of wind rushed past him.
The other contestants who were caught temporarily to make up the number were infected by this atmosphere, and could only grit their teeth and run forward. After a while, they lost the confidence and motivation to chase on, and supported each other to slow down.
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“Look.” The director of the education department selectively ignored the little rabbit and other rabbits in front of him, nudged the principal with relief, “Everyone has become much more united.”
The people behind fell way back as Yu Sheng ran onto the other lane, allowing Jin Linkun, who was running on the inner circle of the lawn, to sneak onto the track.
He knew what Jin Linkun was doing, he thought about saying no, but after thinking about it for a while, it was actually unnecessary.
After all, running is good for exercising cardiorespiratory strength.
And the feeling of having someone shoulder to shoulder when running like this is really much better than usual.
That feeling of not worrying about anything, just sprinting forward in one breath.
The air after the rain was a bit cooler than usual, the temperature was neither too hot nor too cold, and there was a whistling wind while running.
Lying on the runway last year, Lao He sat next to him and pressed on his shoulders: “There are always people who are not good enough in this world, there are things that are not happy enough. There are many hurdles that you feel that you will never be able to overcome, it stops you, hurts you, hurts you so much.”
The homeroom teacher, who is usually not serious, lowered his head and smiled patiently at him: “As your teacher, I can promise, it won’t stop you forever.”
For some reason, while running, Yu Sheng suddenly remembered the kiss in the movie theatre.
Jin Linkun’s hand quietly reached out to prop up the armrest that was stuck between his elbows for him.
Three kilometres, a standard field with a lap of 400 metres, seven and a half laps.
Yu Sheng stepped on the line earlier than Jin Linkun, and stopped a few steps to step onto the grass, panting for breath while holding his knees.
The boy in charge of scoring hurriedly pressed the stopwatch, reported his timing, and stopped Jin Linkun who was about to leave after crossing the line: “Student, wait a minute, we need to record the timing, which class are you in…?”
“Not in any class.” Jin Linkun also painted, wiped off his sweat and smiled at him, pointing to Yu Sheng, “I am that little classmate’s family member.”
The boy in charge of scoring: “…”
Unable to stop immediately after running, Jin Linkun took Yu Sheng’s arm and walked forward half a lap.
“No need.” Yu Sheng was very tired from sprinting, he had already recovered, “It’s not tiring at all.”
Jin Linkun patted him on the arm: “Let’s take a walk and experience the feelings of other students. They haven’t crossed the finishing line yet.”
Hearing Jin Linkun asking him to “experience the feelings of other students”, Yu Sheng turned his head, almost wanting to record this sentence to set as an alarm for the innocent summer camp students to wake up to in the morning.
It must be the fastest and most effective way to ignite the anger of the students and start an extremely efficient day.
The two of them didn’t need to talk, Jin Linkun guessed what his boyfriend was thinking, coughed lightly and raised the corner of his lips: “People always have to improve… Are you really not tired?”
Right now, his breathing and heartbeat are still a little fast. He hasn’t run for a long time, and he didn’t feel it just now, but now his body feels a little sore.
Yu Sheng was also out of breath, but he was used to not taking it too seriously, so he shook his head: “Not tired, it’s much easier than kissing.”
Jin Linkun: “…”
The little girl at the side mustered up her courage and ran over, ready to deliver water: “…”
Yu Sheng didn’t even realise that a girl wanted to chase him, and didn’t think there was a problem with what he said. He was still carefully comparing the difference between the two kinds of exercise on the increase in heart rate: “What’s wrong?”
“Nothing.”
Jin Linkun looked at him, rubbed his forehead, and finally couldn’t hold back his smile: “It’s good, really.”
…He doesn’t know why he made this person so amused.
Yu Sheng raised his hand and laughed, and the man leaning against his shoulders once again hesitated for a while between beating him up or forgetting about it, but he was still too lazy to do it, and took a piece of paper to wipe the sweat from his temples: “Alright, but why are you wiping your sweat on my shirt?”
The kid’s tone was quite impatient, and he took off his glasses, and took out a glasses cloth from his pocket, wiped it clean, and put it back on his face.
Jin Linkun managed to suppress his smile, took a deep breath, and patted Yu Sheng’s head: “It’s okay, just practise more and you’ll get used to it…”
After finally making it through to the National Day holiday, Cen Rui and Liang Yifan, who came to the No. 3 High School to find their friends, found out where they were and went all the way to find them. They just happened to see Sheng-ge lift his leg and kick Kunshen to the side of the field.
Liang Yifan: “It’s very satisfying.”
Xia Junhua nodded: “Very refreshing.”
“Life is finally complete.” Cen Rui breathed a sigh of relief, “I always feel that something is missing around me these days…”
Friends came from afar after the sports meeting was over. Jin Linkun invited their old friends from the summer camp to have a meal.
He was the only host, and Ding Zhengjiao couldn’t help looking for someone: “Where’s Sheng-ge?”
“Sheng-ge is doing exercises, he doesn’t allow us to watch.” Cen Rui was well informed, and quickly picked up the chicken in the Kung Pao chicken, “The ninth set of radio gymnastics. They are doing it tomorrow. Sheng-ge will be leading the exercises tomorrow, and their class will have a competition.”
Just thinking about that scene, Liang Yifan shuddered unconsciously, and the desire to survive quickly rose: “I don’t want to watch it, so don’t bother me.”
“Where’s your courage?” Cen Rui hated iron for being weak, “Didn’t say it back then? That as long as you knelt down, you would be able to scare Sheng-ge into forgiving you?”
Liang Yifan stood firm: “Only under normal circumstances. Sheng-ge leads the team to do radio exercises. Do you think this is a normal circumstance?”
Although the summer camp had been over for a long time, Yu Sheng was still there in their minds. Several people discussed for a long time, but no one dared to go to watch the spectacular scene of Yu Sheng leading the exercises.
It’s normal for Jin Linkun to chat and send messages, but he still doesn’t talk much when he really sits with other people. He eats and occasionally laughs and chats with them.
“Kunshen, how are you doing lately—forget it, just look at your outrageous 727 score, and we can guess how you’ve been lately.”
Xia Junhua asked half a sentence, then filled in the answer himself, sighed extremely depressed: “Our form teacher stimulates us with you every day, how can we score like this?”
The difficulty of this exam is too high, and there are many questions, the overall score has dropped sharply, and the gap is wide enough.
Not all high schools in their province participate in it, which directly made Jin Linkun’s score of 727 50 points higher than the second place.
Jin Linkun has been taught a lot by Yu Sheng recently, and he also knows how to be mindful of his classmates’ emotions. He was going to humbly say that it was just luck, but it turned out that Yu Sheng came over after practising.
Yu Sheng came late, so he heard Xia Junhua’s sentence “How could we score like this?” He pulled out his chair and sat down: “Don’t blame him, he skipped a few steps in mathematics and physics, he just needs to go back and correct it.”
Jin Linkun: “…”
Xia Junhua: “…”
“The further you are, the more clear-headed you will be.”*
*(chinese saying: 近朱者赤，近墨者黑, directly translated to be “Close to vermilion is red, close to ink is black”)
In the silence, Liang Yifan had expected it a long time ago, lying on the table dying: “Sheng-ge, if I can beat you up, I would have jumped up and hit your knees.”
Although chatting and contacting each other every day, they actually haven’t seen each other for a long time.
Cen Rui first made a fuss about doing something meaningful, then finally the group of people found a cool bar, one of them ordered a glass of colourful cocktails, and in front of him was a set of hand-copied maths papers carefully arranged by the maths teacher of H High School.
Xia Junhua, held the paper and sighed: “Assistant group leader, we shouldn’t have given the initiative to you.”
“Be serious.” Kong Jiahe pushed his glasses and put on the headlights. “This set of papers is internal information, and copying is not allowed. I copied it by hand. Give it to me when you finish it, I need to destroy it.”
Cen Rui didn’t want to ask the question at first, but he was inexplicably awed when he heard the words: “Is it so powerful?”
Such things as “secret volume” and “internal information” will always have an extraordinary attraction for students who are still struggling for grades.
The first offline gathering after the summer camp turned into a few people sitting in a dark corner of the bar, each with a glass of wine and a headlamp, tasting wine while doing practice papers.
Yu Sheng really couldn’t stand this kind of nonsensical appearance, so he forcibly refused the headlight, and Jin Linkun also turned down the headlights.
The two of them are crowded together, and their arms will touch each other once a while.
Jin Linkun simply withdrew one arm and put it behind Yu Sheng.
Cen Rui sat with his head buried in the paper for a while, touched Liang Yifan’s elbow, causing him to look up.
Jin Linkun supported Yu Sheng with one hand, and from the perspective of the people next to him, it was as if he had directly wrapped him in his arms.
Yu Sheng didn’t seem to have any special reaction either. The sofa is too soft, and he felt a little tired after sitting on it for a while, so he simply leaned back on Jin Linkun’s shoulder.
Shoulder to shoulder, Jin Linkun gently smiled, dropped his gaze and glanced at Yu Sheng, then lifted his arm around him, and stroked his hair.
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Very natural movements.
Even they as outsiders felt as if these two should have been like this from the beginning.
“Who remembers the incident when Sheng-ge beat Kunshen on the rostrum?”
One set of questions in H high is worth ten sets, and after finally finishing one paper, Xia Junhua was so tired that he couldn’t help but lose his mind when he moved his wrists: “It seems like a lifetime ago.”
Liang Yifan didn’t even want to look up, so he buried his head and continued to work on the question: “Don’t be so emotional, it’s not you who receives Kunshen’s show of affection every day.”
Cen Rui held his chin: “Speaking of which, how did you get chosen by fate…”
“All right, all right, don’t talk.” Ding Zhengjiao still looked like a team leader, lowered his voice to reprimand this group of students who were still distracted in their studies, “Look at Sheng-ge, as a humanities student is better than you guys in advanced maths and is able to do it faster than you guys.”
Everyone was reprimanded, motivated, and continued to do the rest of the questions.
This set of papers is much more comprehensive than the entrance examination papers. Yu Sheng hasn’t finished reviewing some of them. After Jin Linkun finished his own set, he turned to discuss the remaining questions with him in a low voice: “Auxiliary lines are drawn on the side. In fact, the solution is simpler than this.”
He explained it seriously, and wrote down the steps in detail on Yu Sheng’s test paper.
Although it is still obvious that he can’t find the key point, and he skips some crucial steps while talking, it can still be seen the direction of his workings.
As Yu Sheng listened, his gaze unconsciously fell on Jin Linkun’s hand.
The hand holding the pen has clear and clear knuckles, and when it is slightly bent, it reveals a very quiet and stable force
Jin Linkun finished talking about his solution: “Your solution is actually pretty good, I didn’t think of it just now.”
Yu Sheng’s habit of doing questions is completely different from his. He mainly focuses on the key points. Sometimes a few theorems are used in a row, which can basically be concise and clear enough for people to understand immediately after explaining them. There is no need to mark the angles in the middle of the calculation.
Jin Linkun looked at his paper and pondered carefully: “This kind of score is easy to score, and the calculation is also simple…”
His voice paused, and he lowered his head subconsciously.
Yu Sheng’s left hand fell and covered the hand he was holding on the side.
Jin Linkun was silent for a while, couldn’t help smiling and shifted his weight to his right hand, turned his left hand over, and let that hand rest on his palm.
“I think the set of papers brought by Lao Kong is very good. It has examined several details that I didn’t pay attention to.”
Ding Zhengjiao was still seriously discussing the topic. Seeing that several people around him were distracted, he tapped on the shoulder one by one: “What’s the matter? What’s the matter with you?”
Cen Rui tapped his head twice: “I think the headlamp brought by Lao Kong is very good.”
Ding Zhengjiao was at a loss: “Why?”
Liang Yifan fumbled for a while, then flicked on the headlights: “Look, we are the brightest light bulbs in this bar.”*
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T/N: I agree with Liang Yifan, I feel like the brightest light bulb reading this too. I think we can all light up the entire universe with our combined brightness right?
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Update: 2 days later~
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