Hunter and Hussar

Chapter 73 Kangaroo's Misunderstanding

I finally felt the same way as Ye Ruiyang.In the past, he always said that once the team he supported lost, he would be unhappy for several days in a row, and he didn’t want to watch any sports news. As long as there was CCTV5 on the TV, he would immediately change the channel, and sometimes even uninstall all the sports apps in his mobile phone. I'm afraid to see the news and comments about the team's loss again.That's how I am now.Losing this time was really useless, and on Wednesday, I still lacked motivation. I didn't want to go to physical education class, and even wanted to sneak out to the playground to do exercises.Normally, my roommates would occasionally ask me about the ball game with Mi Le, but these few days I declared that I was going to sleep as soon as I went to bed, and I didn't give them a chance to talk about this topic.

Fortunately, we have more and more homework, and we can relax a little bit by stuffing ourselves into the homework, at least we won't always think about that "cloud piercing arrow".

I started running away again.But where can I escape?You are no longer alone, and you still have responsibilities to bear.On Wednesday afternoon, the coach personally came to the class to find me.This year marks the 110th anniversary of the school. On this Friday, the school will hold an open-to-the-world club tour throughout the afternoon to warm up for the school celebration held the day before the National Day.Each club will have a booth in the playground, so come up with at least one game or interactive project.She naturally gave the task to the captain, and of course I had to agree.But I don't want to think about this kind of thing, and this year's recruitment is so bleak, there are only a handful of students in the school who like football, what kind of attractive activities can they come up with?

At a loss, they had to drag Mi Le and Ye Ruiyang to find Boss Yue for help.It was indeed a wise move to give her the position of president. She slapped her chest and said that it was all on her. This reliable look was our "timely rain".After complimenting her sincerely and sternly, I also patted my chest and said that if there is anything that can be of use to us, just use it.In the past, I was always lazy and felt that doing physical work was too tiring.Now that I think about it, moving things and carrying shelves is really simple, but when I have to use my brain, I feel at a loss.

On Friday, our impression of Yue Yin switched to "Zhi Duo Xing".She commanded us well and didn't ask us to move anything, just a table, two stools and a mini goal for training, and only her schoolbag.We set up tables and chairs in the activity area of ​​the club, and she ordered Mi Le to place the goal on the turf of the playground, and asked me to put a sticker on the ground seven or eight meters away from the goal.

She sat in a chair calmly and watched us finish the work, then took out a express box from her schoolbag.We couldn't help but "wow" when we saw what was in the box.It was a blue and white bookmark, and on the top was our exquisitely designed team logo, a chasseur riding on the city wall.In the middle is "Cazador" written in cursive script and "Chaser" written in regular script. The color is fresh and elegant. At the bottom is our jersey. The jersey number on each bookmark is different, including our 18 players. All numbers and printings.And the back of the bookmark surprised us even more. In the middle is a pattern corresponding to each of us.Mine is the castle in Chess, Ye Ruiyang is the pink ice cream cone, Xuexue, Mu Zheng and Xu Mu are the guitar, bass and drums respectively, and the sunglasses that Xu Mu often wears are specially added on top of the drums.Brother Chuan's is an oracle bone inscription, and Mi Le guessed from the pattern that it says "Li".Obviously it is a red lantern, Yan Xi is the fox in "The Little Prince", and Zhao Rui is the orchid in a pot of Chinese painting.The only thing that confuses me is Mi Le, whose pattern is black tiles, white walls and small bridges.Fortunately, Ye Ruiyang asked the question for me who wanted to ask but didn't dare to ask. Yue Yin told us that she and Mi Le's hometown are in the same place, and Xiaoqiao Liushui's family is the scenery of their hometown.

The students were not left behind either, although she didn't spend much time together, she still figured out a lot of things.Xiao Qi is a majestic lion, Ah Hui is a solid city gate, and Luca is naturally a jumping kangaroo.She didn't forget to make one for herself, the jersey number is 0, there is no printing, and the pattern on the back is exactly what the three of us expected-it is her big dog Evan.What moved us even more was that she also made a bookmark for Taotao with the number 24, and the pattern on the back was a twinkling star. No. 0 and No. 24 are "limited editions", and there is one and only one.

Yue Yin took out bookmarks marked with numbers 3, 5, and 23 and gave them to us respectively, saying that it was a reward for the three of us doing coolies, and gave me bookmark number 24, asking me to remember to give it to Taotao after the game with the branch school.Then, she told us that there are two activities of the football club today.One is shooting. Each student who comes to the booth has three chances. As long as he can kick the ball on the sticker into the small goal twice, he can choose a bookmark at will.The second is to answer the questions. She prepared a bunch of small questions about football, all of which are popular, such as how many yards a penalty kick is from the goal, how long is an official football match, and which countries are Messi and Ronaldo from? Players, what is the name of the only Chinese Super League team in our province-there was this team at that time.Everyone draws randomly, and if they answer correctly, they can take away another bookmark.

I have to say that Boss Yue is really great. He made unique "peripherals" for everyone without spending much money. He also used this event to promote the school team and football.We submissively asked her to continue sitting on the stool, and Ye Ruiyang specially made her a cup of tea, and asked her to drink while watching us entertain the students who came one after another.

"When we were recruiting newcomers, there were very few people, and everyone liked to ignore them." Sitting on a chair, she was full of ambition, "I must find the venue back today." Sure enough, our stand has many guests this time .The teammates of the team were also in place one after another. Yue Yin divided the bookmarks in half and asked them to be in charge of the "shooting area", while the three of us stayed in the "answering area" with the boss.In fact, it was the two of them who worked, and the booth could only accommodate two people, and it would be a bit crowded if there was one more.Moreover, I really don't know how to greet the guests, let alone not only my classmates who came here this time, but also teachers, parents and people from other schools.I'm always a little afraid to look strangers in the eye when talking to them with a serious face.Mi Le and Ye Ruiyang were busy, I was embarrassed, but I couldn't intervene.After trying to squeeze out half a sentence, the students who came to the booth didn’t hear it. They talked to them in their own way. Nothing can hurt confidence more than this situation.Frustrated, I couldn't stand or sit, and I was quite lost.

Yue Yin seemed to have noticed my strangeness, stood up and handed me a bookmark, and asked me to go to the booth of the Literature Society to give it to my sister.It didn't come in handy at all, and I was even more sad.She smiled and said that the football club has a surplus of manpower, but the literature club may be short of manpower, so she asked me to help my sister.

I went there ashamed, and asked for an extra bookmark No. 23 before I left, because I thought I might meet Meimei.In fact, there were not too many people at the booth of the Literature Club, and a few students took turns to sit in the class, which happened to be busy.My sister is resting, so I gave her the bookmark.I didn't see Meimei, so I asked my sister about it.

"This seems to be the third time you have come to ask me if there is such a person." She frowned, "But tell me what is his name anyway? You don't even know the name, and you can't tell what he looks like. How can I find it for you?"

"There are only so many people in the Literature Club. If you look for them one by one, you will definitely find them." I looked at her wrongedly.Although I really don't know Meimei's name, I certainly remember what she looks like, but I can't describe it for some reason.In fact, I have never been very good at describing the appearance of girls. Sometimes I always feel that it is a bit impolite to say or write.I am a boy.

"Do you like her?" My sister suddenly smiled, and pinched my face habitually, "My God, my Wei Wei has a crush on a girl!"

"No, no, no!" I hurriedly broke free, as if explaining to the grade director who caught me, "How can I have a girl I like?"

To be honest, I never thought about being in a relationship at all, and I didn't expect anyone to like me.

"Oh?" She smiled cunningly, poked my cheek with her finger, "Wei Wei doesn't like girls, does that mean he likes boys?"

"I-no-yes!" The voice was very low, but dragged on for an extremely long time, in order to express his solemn protest against her, "you know how to bully me."

I turned my head away from her.

"Don't be like this. What's wrong with liking boys? You will support any kind of elder sister..." She leaned over resolutely, making an inch.

"I simply..."

"team leader?"

A rather familiar voice sounded just right.My sister and I saw Luca appear in front of the booth, and the two students from the literary club who were in charge of the booth also looked at him curiously.

"Are you Luca? Welcome." My sister greeted him, and Luca nodded politely.

"He is my cousin. If he bullies you in the team, you can tell your sister, and she will help you deal with him." My sister replaced two members, sat on the stool in front of the booth, and pulled me to sit down up.

"Hmph, I don't know who likes to bully people the most." I muttered softly, and my leg was twisted.

"Captain, you are very good to me." Luca said each word, and his sister was amused by his serious expression.

"Luka, have you visited the football club's booth?" I asked.

"Not yet. Captain, I'm going right away..." Luka turned around to leave when he heard that, but his sister stopped him and said that I would tear her down and drive out the people from her club.I was really just asking casually, who knew Luka was so obedient.

Luca stayed here for a while at the literary agency, and the three of us played games designed by our sisters and the others.It is also a lottery to answer the questions. Each lottery is the classic beginning or end of a literary work. Let everyone guess the author or the title of the book based on them. If you guess four questions correctly, you can get the magazine of the Literature Society.I looked through the titles for a long time, and only guessed three: "One Hundred Years of Solitude" (my sister told me its beginning), "The Stranger" (the beginning of this novel is really unforgettable after reading it) and "Old Man Goriot" (I read it carefully during the summer vacation).Luca scratched his head and turned all the notes over and over again, almost exactly the same as us in the English test.Seeing his embarrassment, my sister said that she should just ask the questions.

"Listen well, the first question." She dug out her excerpt from her schoolbag, "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife." (It is a universally acknowledged truth that rich bachelors always marry a wife.)
What is she talking about?I looked blank, and Luca's eyes widened, as if my sister spoke an alien language.

"I, I don't make (know)." Luca panicked and connected the words together when speaking Chinese.

"Pride and Prejudice. The first sentence of "Pride and Prejudice". It was written by Jane Austen." My sister announced the answer with a smile.I do know about Jane Austen, but I haven't read a single book.

"Aren't you a bully? Girls only read this book, of course boys don't know about it." I complained on behalf of Luka, but the result was that my sister twisted her leg even harder.She threatened to slap me for any more nonsense, and told me that I was arrogant and prejudiced, and that I didn't understand neither Jane Austen nor girls.

Now that I think about it, those words were indeed biased.But I said it so naturally that it didn't carry a hint of arrogance.

"Second question. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."

This time I understood. "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times." A classic sentence, but I don't know which book it is from.

"A Tale of Two Cities! Charles Dickens! I haven't read it, but I only know it!" Luca's emerald eyes flashed, and he was about to jump for joy.His tongue also tied up when he was happy.

"That's right, Wei Wei has memorized it. The Chinese translation of Dickens's novel is A Tale of Two Cities." Knowing that I couldn't answer, my sister gloated at me, "The third question! To be, or not to be , that is the question." (To be or not to be, that is the question.)
"That's easy. Hamlet. William Shakespeare." Luca smiled even more.This question is very simple. I also know that it is Shakespeare's "Hamlet". I even know that this sentence is neither at the beginning nor at the end.

“He was still sleeping on his face and the boy was sitting by him watching him. The old man was dreaming about lions.”

This sentence is quite simple, and I can understand it roughly.If you guessed right, it should be Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea"?In my impression, the ending is that the old man is dreaming of a lion.Luca really said Ernest Hemingway and The Old Man and the Sea, and her sister nodded approvingly.

Obviously I guessed it right, but I didn't say it.

The fifth question has not come out for a long time. My sister has turned over the excerpt several times by herself, and it seems that she is "at the end of the day" (I didn't say this word, otherwise it might have been cleaned up).Luka waited unhurriedly, and I urged her to get worse. She finally said the question, and stepped on my shoes by the way. I don't know who learned this little trick from.

"How many roads must a man walk down, before they call him a man?"

I know this, it is a song, Xuexue sang it to Mi Le specially a few months ago.I am very satisfied, my sister was pushed to the limit by me, so I can only make up the number with the lyrics.

"Blowing in the wind. Bob Dylan!" Luca said, making a few strums on the guitar.My sister smiled and handed him the magazine.I snorted and said how could I use the lyrics as a title, and I received two "double clicks" on my shoes, and she said I was uneducated.

"You've read quite a few books." My sister boasted excitedly as she flipped through Luca in the magazine.

"I read very little English. The main language is German. Oh, Captain, there is something (poetry) written by you! It turns out that the captain is still a poet (poet)!"

Of course I am not a "person of affairs" anymore, and I am not qualified to call myself a poet, but I still couldn't help laughing.Luca is so serious no matter he is reading or talking, and his eyes blink, which is really cute.

"By the way, Luca, are there any famous writers in your country? Can you recommend them?" My sister handed him the pen and the excerpt.Luka stuck out his tongue mischievously, blushed and wrote a few crooked names in the blank space: Franz Kafka, Stefan Zweig, Rainer Maria Rilke, and a Peter Handke, none of which I knew. [1]
"Huh? I heard from Wei Wei that you are from Australia. Why are you here?" My sister was very surprised.

"Europe (Australia)? No. I'm from Austria." Luca smiled at us cheerfully and explained word by word, "sterreich. Ou (Austria) Austria."

My sister looked at me suspiciously about my IQ, and said that she would report to my parents and ask them to enroll me in an English cram school.Luca was not offended, and said that many foreigners would make mistakes. In English, Austria (Austria) and Australia (Australia) are indeed very similar, and it has become a classic joke.

When I go back to the booth, I have to settle the score with Ye Ruiyang.He was the one who misheard, and I was the one who was blamed.Mi Le said that the two of them talked for a long time on the afternoon of the recruiting day, and they didn't know what the hell they talked about, and they didn't even know which country they were from.

When Luca went back later, he would be extremely embarrassed when he saw those bookmarks with kangaroos printed on them.

After telling the truth, Luca told me not to care about this misunderstanding. His father is not from Austria, and he often changes places to go to school. He has not stayed in Vienna for a long time.I don't know if he was trying to comfort me.The three of us chatted for a while and learned that Luca would stay in China for a year.His Aunt (don't expect to be able to figure out whether it is his aunt or aunt) settled in China. The family has a lot of affection for China, and he is also quite interested in Chinese history and culture, so he came here to study.My sister asked him why he didn't go to an international school, and he said that our school is closer to the daily life of Chinese students.

You are really young people. How close are our lives? There are endless classes and homework every day.However, although he didn't have much contact with Luka in the past month, he didn't seem to complain about these things.According to Le Ben, who was in the same class as him, Luca was well-behaved in class and sat upright in class.In fact, Luca is a child similar to us. He laughs happily when he is happy, and keeps silent when he is unhappy.Sometimes I always feel that he is quite like me in some ways, only a little younger than me.

[1] The four writers are Franz Kafka, Stefan Zweig, Rainer Maria Rilke and Peter Handke.

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