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Chapter 43 Who's Who's Partner (1)
Is that your partner?Why don't you go up and claim it?I'm afraid that others will treat you as a cover, right? Seeing how capable they are, I can't tell who is right.

In early May, the badminton competition for middle school students kicked off. This is an event worth paying attention to and looking forward to in G City, which has a deep badminton soil.At this time, the black July is less than a hundred days away, and it is said that the time of senior three students is like gold, and they should no longer participate in such activities.However, at a time when City G is being regarded as a key demonstration city for national quality education, the school also hopes that the nervous senior high school students can combine work and rest, so they acquiesced.

The cross-school doubles team was a pioneering initiative of the competition that year, aiming to promote exchanges between schools.In fact, there are not many student partners from different schools participating in the competition, and the cross-school mixed doubles is even rarer.

Ju Nian once delivered a letter for Chen Jiejie, and said to Wu Yu, "Why don't you partner with her? If that's the case, she will be very happy."

At that time, Wu Yu was carefully affixing transparent tape to the frayed part of the head of his racket. This was the one that Ju Nian gave him a few years ago.

"I'm partnering with you, don't you like it?" His doubts were like mist.

Ju Nian recalled what Wu Yu once said, "You said it too, it's two different things."

Wu Yu laughed and said, "Can I find someone who has a better understanding than you?"

Ju Nian didn't make a sound.

tacit agreement?used to be.But is it still the same now?

Regarding the growing silence of the Orange Year, Wu Yu asked more than once.

"Ju Nian, did I do something to make you unhappy?"

If they really have a tacit understanding, why can't they even see through this?
The race schedule was sent to each participant one week before the official start.The first stage is divided into groups, and the second stage adopts an elimination system.Ju Nian took a closer look at the mixed doubles arrangement. She and Wu Yu were placed in Group B, and there were not many familiar names among the opponents. Han Shu did what he said and signed up for the mixed doubles, but his partner turned out to be Chen Jiejie.

Han Shu and Chen Jiejie are in Group D, at least they won't meet until the end of the group stage.

Although Chen Jiejie signed up, she is not keen on the competition.She told Ju Nian that she would not have participated if she hadn't hoped that she might be able to get rid of her family's tight supervision for a moment by taking the opportunity of the competition.

"It's okay to be eliminated early, and then I can be the audience of you and Wu Yu." Chen Jiejie said.

Ju Nian didn't think they would be eliminated early, even if Chen Jiejie thought so, her partner might not have planned to do so.Ju Nian rejected Han Shu's suggestion to sign up together. I don't know if he will be slanderous when he sees her among the contestants.

In front of others, Han Shu didn't show any abnormality. When someone suggested that he could consider a more favorable partner, he said with a smile: "The competition is just for fun. It doesn't matter whether you win or lose by adjusting your mood. "

The day before the competition, before dinner, Ju Nian received a call at home.

"Hello, who is it?"

"I."

When Ju Nian heard the voice, his scalp went numb with fright.Seeing that my father went out to buy cigarettes, my mother was cooking in the kitchen, and there were only her and Wangnian, who was concentrating on watching cartoons, in the living room, I broke my heart.

"Uh, you... hello, welcome to that, that voice station, this phone... well, it's an electronic voice service, please leave a message after hanging up... no, after the busy tone..."

After speaking a short paragraph, she almost pulled out her hair in a hurry.

The other party was silent for a few seconds, then hung up the phone vigorously.Ju Nian didn't know if he would really leave a message.

After finishing dinner smoothly, washing the dishes has always been her job, and the water in the faucet is still running, but Wang Nian is vigorously harassing her. After a while, she uses a virtual submachine gun to shoot, asking her sister to be shot and fell to the ground in pain. After a while tiptoeing to play with the washed dishes, Ju Nian was exhausted.

At this time, Dad called her in the living room, as if to say that there was her phone number.

Ju Nian was trying his best to save his hair from Wang Nian's grasp, so he responded in the kitchen, "Oh, come here."

Before she had time to wipe off the water on her hands, her mother also walked in and urged: "Do everything slowly, others are waiting."

Ju Nian didn't dare to talk back, and walked to the phone, just in time to hear his father say to his mother: "This kid is just like his father, he is very polite, and sometimes he thinks he is too polite."

Ju Nian's heart skipped a beat, that guy's lingering spirit would never end.

Seeing her hesitating, her mother couldn't help but scold her: "Lost? Dean Han's son called to ask you about the badminton competition. Children of the same age, why do you miss so much?"

Ju Nian didn't say a word, and picked up the receiver on the small coffee table.

The other party said: "Hello, Voice Station."

Ju Nian responded vaguely.

Han Shu immediately lost his temper.

"It's fine if you're stupid, but it's a bit too much to think that you represent the IQ level of normal people. Is there a voice station like yours, how come I haven't seen someone like you, from the beginning to the end, you are lying. What will you do?"

Although Dad was reading the newspaper and Mom bowed her head to knit a sweater, Ju Nian knew that their ears were pricked up. Of course, she couldn't be rude in front of a classmate who was too polite.

She said, "Oh, thank you."

"You can say it clearly if you don't want to partner with me, and I'm just asking casually. But why do you say you don't have time? So what if you just say that you have an appointment with that vocational school?"

Ju Nian was worried that the microphone would leak out, so he quickly covered it with his hands.

"Then what do you say?"

"What did I say? I hate you for lying to me the most! Treat me as an idiot or something, did you tell the truth from the beginning to the end?"

……

Ju Nian didn't know that things would rise to such a height.

"That's fine, whoever you like to partner with is your freedom. If you want to lose or humiliate yourself, there is no way..."

"Oh, then I won't delay you, thank you."

"What did you say... how dare you hang up the phone!"

Ju Nian said in a soft voice: "It's okay, you can be busy, goodbye."

The phone returned to its place, and Ju Nian was a little worried that he would call again.

"Are you in the same class as Han Shu?" Dad raised his head from the evening paper and asked.

"Uh, the class next door."

"I thought you didn't know each other very well."

Ju Nian didn't know if his father's eyes were scrutinizing.Her parents are particularly cautious and conservative when it comes to matters concerning men and women. If they are a little careless, they are afraid they will be reprimanded as "not serious". Therefore, when they mention the issue of the opposite sex in front of them, Ju Nian is especially careful, lest they say the wrong sentence .

"Acquaintance means acquaintance. I'm not very familiar with him. I don't usually talk. It just so happens that he also signed up for a badminton competition. The school's physical education teacher in charge of this matter asked him to tell me some precautions that were not written in the schedule." Ju Nian was not red-hearted. Don't jump to say, Han Shu didn't wrong her, she is just a liar.

Dad glanced at her again, and continued to bury his head in the newspaper: "Han Shu is fine, stay away from other messy boys."

Ju Nian nodded obediently, her father has always had a very good impression of Dean Han's family, this is an indisputable fact.

Fortunately, the phone didn't ring again that night.

In order not to affect learning, the badminton game compresses the game cycle as much as possible.Every day at [-] o'clock in the afternoon, the participating students will go to the designated competition venue under the organization of their respective schools. Although the schedule is tight, they are all lively young people. They feel that the sky is wide and wide when they don't have to go to class, so not many people feel tired. .

In the mixed doubles group round robin, Wu Yu and Ju Nian played quite smoothly. Compared with many male and female players who made up a temporary match, they practiced together from the first day they held the racket. After several years, tacit understanding is a natural advantage .After breaking into the finals easily, he entered the knockout round of the top 6 with 1 wins and [-] loss.

Ju Nian didn't have high expectations for this competition, and she was quite satisfied with the result, but Wu Yu said that if they really entered the top three, since it was a large city-level competition, it might be possible for Ju Nian to enter the college entrance examination bring advantage.

His physique is inherently special, and he can't usually see anything, but in such a tight competition schedule, he feels tight.

In the [-]-to-[-] knockout round, Ju Nian found that Wu Yu was not in good condition, and his face began to turn pale after running too intensely.During the break, Ju Nian repeatedly told him that winning or losing really doesn't matter, you don't need to fight so hard, you can make it all the way to the knockout round, even if you lose right away, there is nothing to regret.Wu Yu nodded when she heard it, but she was still determined to return to the arena.

The players who can enter the top [-] are not weak. The two of Ju Nian qualified second in Group B, and they met the first player in Group A.The two high school seniors from No. [-] Middle School had plenty of physical strength and had an advantage in height. They played very hard in this game. In the third round, relying on their opponent's mistakes, they managed to win the game with a very small lead.

On the day of entering the top eight, Ju Nian made up an excuse to have a good celebration with Wu Yu.It was too hard for them to win this match, especially Wu Yu, she was almost worried that his body would not be able to bear it.Fortunately, they won, and Ju Nian also became the second pair to enter the quarterfinals in the mixed doubles in which students from No. [-] Middle School participated.

The day of the [-]-to-[-] match was a special day, because in this match, their opponents were Han Shu and Chen Jiejie.

In addition to the mixed doubles, Han Shu also signed up for the men's singles, and won No.3 in the men's singles that ended earlier.Ju Nian didn't know his true level, but men's singles has always been the single event with the largest number of applicants and the most intense competition in the competition. He can get this ranking, and according to his usually perfect personality, he still has two brushes. .Although it is quite surprising that he chose Chen Jiejie as his partner, even if Chen Jiejie is slightly weaker, he should not be underestimated.

The venue for that game was set to be in the Badminton Hall of G University. The referee had asked the pre-match players to sign in on the radio. Ju Nian signed her name behind Han Shu. She accidentally looked at the auditorium and found Dean Han. The couple also came to see their son's game in person.They were sitting in the first row, Han Shu was warming up on the side of the field near them, Han's mother was distressed to wipe the sweat of her precious son, and Dean Han was always earnestly saying something.

Ju Nian came directly from the school, and she and Wu Yu made an appointment to meet on the field half an hour earlier, but the broadcast asking the contestants to sign in had already rang for the second time, and he hadn't been seen yet.Wu Yu was not a person who was not punctual, and what made Ju Nian even more uneasy was that Chen Jiejie didn't show up either.

As usual, if the announcement rings for the third time, the contestants who have not signed in will be deemed to have given up automatically.Less than 10 minutes before the official start of the game, Ju Nian took the initiative to ask the referee's seat, and immediately went to look for it, to see if the missing person was delayed on the way.In view of the fact that there are very few precedents where one person is absent from both sides of the mixed doubles, the referee made an exception and gave an extra 10 minutes.

(End of this chapter)