Bamboo horse fell from the sky

Chapter 18

Two days passed in a blink of an eye.

Thursday was a sunny day, the tile-blue sky was blown clean by the wind, there was not a single cloud, and it was open and clear at a glance.There was a lot of people around, and the warm atmosphere seemed to add fuel to the weather, making it more restless and fiery.

The colorful flag was blown loudly, Yu Ran raised his head to look at the bulging flag surface, and held the class flag with a bit more strength.

At the moment, the radio on the playground is playing "March of Athletes" passionately. In front of the queue is the runway, which is scorched by the sun without any cover, with gusts of heat rising continuously, and the smell of the plastic runway lingers in the nostrils.

"Everyone will follow the drumbeat of the music later, pay attention to alignment! Eyes should look straight ahead! Align to the right!" Fang Xiaoyan's voice came from the little bee, passed through the queue, and got into Yu Ran's ears.

"Do you hear me? Look at me." Yu Ran held the class flag and raised an eyebrow at Shen Chi.

"Understood." Shen Chi gave him a thumbs up: "Looking at you."

At this time, the bgm in the playground audio suddenly changed, and at this moment.Fang Xiaoyan stepped on her high-shoes and swung a big sun umbrella from the right side of the team to the front row.

"Are you ready?" Fang Xiaoyan walked over with light makeup on her face.

She has high cheekbones, thin lips, and a fierce face, but she cleverly avoids this shortcoming when she puts on makeup. With the light apricot floral dress, she looks much gentler than usual.

It's a far cry from yesterday's appearance of waving a bamboo stick to whip a math problem on the blackboard.

She held up the parasol and handed it over Yu Ran's heads, exposing herself to the sun, Yu Ran also saw her taking turns to block the sun for many students in the class before.

I only heard Teacher Fang's complaints and kept jumping out: "The sun is really hot today, and people are peeling from the sun. Tsk, I told Xiong Bin earlier that it will open a few days later, look at this Sun, look at this wind, it's really tormenting."

After complaining, she asked again: "Is it uncomfortable? When you leave later, I will call a few male teachers to bring you two boxes of ice water. Just credit your Director Xiong's account and squeeze him out."

Yu Ran was overjoyed when he heard it, so he couldn't stop nodding.

"As soon as you hear a bad idea, your lingering energy is the most exciting. Hurry up and stand up for me. If you don't go well, give me a lecture on the blackboard next week." Fang Xiaoyan slapped the lingering light head.

The bunting phalanx ahead has begun to move, and it will be their turn soon.

Fang Xiaoyan raised her voice and reminded loudly: "Everyone, pay attention to aligning front, back, left, and right, and be careful not to fall! Did you hear that?"

"heard it!"

The tidy responses rose high with the wind and floated far away.

Although the opening ceremony was tiring, everyone felt happy when they thought that they would not have to go to class for the next two days.

Yu Ran and Shen Chi walked very closely, and the queue in Class [-] was also quite neat. The sound of footsteps merged into one, and the school leaders on the rostrum nodded repeatedly.

The students on both sides of the queue were holding balloons with couplets on them. They let go at the same moment, and the colorful balloons rose against the wind and flew towards the blue sky.

Shen Chi tilted his head slightly, looking at Yu Ran who was waving the class flag, the corners of his mouth unconsciously curled up.

He slightly bent his eyes, his thin eyelids half-hid his soft gaze, his thick eyelashes quivered slightly, casting blue shadows under his eyes.

His expression was a little indescribably gentle, like a scorching afternoon in the fourth grade. Yu Ran took advantage of Shen Chi's catch-up sleep after class, and smiled and took out a small rubber band to tie a pair of playful pigtails for Shen Chi, but he just did it. Halfway through, Shen Chi grabbed his hand violently.

Shen Chi, who was lying on the table at that time, also smiled like this.

The smiles of the teenagers were shining brightly under the sun, and the youthful vigor rushed to their faces.The flowing time seems to have imprinted this moment. Looking back after a long time, such pure happiness will still be the most precious memory of the teenagers.

The wind in the sun whizzed past the ears and hair, and I don't know when the next shoulder rub will be in the future.

*

"My mother!"

Remnants howled and rushed to the table in the rest area.

During the opening ceremony, all the students were exposed to the scorching sun for more than an hour, and the afterburn had already been insane from the heat.

His hair was soaked with sweat and his bangs were in locks.Sweat was pouring into the eyes, the slightly protruding eye tails were flushed, and the corners of the forehead were covered with bean-sized beads of sweat, which kept sliding down delicate arcs.

"Holy shit, shit, shit, it's so fucking hot!"

The boy's t-shirt was already drenched, and it stuck to his skin, outlining the lean arc of his back.

Shen Chi panted and glanced at him, his fair face was flushed with heat, as if bright pink watercolor had bloomed on the white paper.

The redness spread quietly along the neck to the fingertips, wrapped in dampness, touched the corner of the mandible that was still burning, and wiped away a drop of sweat that would not fall for him.

"Here we come." Shen Chi's usually clear voice was a little hoarse now.

"What's coming?" Yu Ran raised his eyelids and looked at him wearily.

"Director Xiong's wool."

Yu Ran suddenly got up and looked back, and saw Fang Xiaoyan and two male teachers walking towards here holding several boxes of water.

"Damn it, Teacher Fang, my eternal God." Qin Ke stared blankly on the ground, so moved that tears streamed down his face.

Sure enough, in just 2 minutes, these dozens of bottles of water were coaxed and snatched by the students.

Class monitor Xu Yatang sat on the chair next to her and stared at the classmate holding the water. Suddenly, she raised her finger and pointed at the tall man a few meters away and shouted: "Hey! That 1.8 meters, it is you! You have filled a bottle What are you going to do with two bottles? Two bottles at most per person! Drink so much and run to the bathroom in the teaching building later, you won’t die from the heat.”

After she finished speaking, she stepped forward and pulled away the boy who had snatched the water several times in front, took a few bottles and distributed them to the girls behind who didn't get a bottle of water.

Yu Ran took a bottle of water, but didn't finish it, he was afraid that if he drank too quickly, he would have a stomachache.

Zhuo Xiayang sat on a small bench next to him, with his broad back leaning against the edge of the table, holding a small pink fan in his hand to blow the air.

Shen Chi seemed to think of something when he saw the small fan in Zhuo Xiayang's hand, turned around and left for a few minutes, and when he came back, he had a bigger fan in his hand.

He held it in his hand and blew on the back of Yu Ran's neck, almost making Yu Ran jump up in fright.

"Fuck, what the hell."

When he turned his head, the cool wind hit his face.

So the displeasure on Yu Ran's face was instantly extinguished, leaving only a face full of comfort.

"What kind of fan are you, the wind blowing is so cool, and there is still water mist."

"You can add water to it. I just borrowed some ice water from someone else."

Yu Ran felt comfortable all over, and gave a thumbs up to Shen Chi: "You are still the best."

The class rested for half an hour. After everyone recovered, Xu Yatang looked down at the phone screen, then pinched the headset that Fang Xiaoyan gave her to her little bee and turned around to remind: "At ten o'clock, there will be a 100-meter preliminaries for men's group A and women's group A." The high jump preliminaries. Everyone, pay attention to the announcement on the radio, and ask me in time if you have any questions."

Yu Ran pricked up his ears to listen, then stood up and squeezed to Xu Yatang's seat: "Squad leader, can I take a photo of the schedule?"

Xu Yatang handed him the watch, and Yu Ran clapped it quickly, then returned it to her.

"Let me see..." Yu Ran sat back and zoomed in on the picture he just took with his fingers: "400 meters...01:30 in the afternoon."

"Shen Chi."

"Huh?" Shen Chi heard Yu Ran calling him, and raised his head from the phone: "What's wrong?"

"3000 meters at 02:30 pm."

Shen Chi gave him an OK: "I'll give you the first place."

Yu Ran "cut": "What do you mean take it for me, is it for the class? The layout is small."

"That's right." Qin Ke went to Zhuo Xiayang's side to rub his small fan: "Brother Chi, get it for us, it's about the same as getting it for me, and if I round it up, I'll get it."

"Brother Ran, do you think I am big?"

"Shut up you."

*

There are not many games in the morning, and the exciting key events are arranged in the afternoon. Yu Ran stays in the base camp to spend time, and occasionally goes to cheer for the students in the class. The time of the morning is fleeting.

Near noon, Xu Yatang suddenly found Yu Ran and told him about running with him.

"Accompanying you?" Yu Ran was stunned: "Why don't I know about this?"

"Didn't Shen Chi mention it to you?" Xu Yatang was also stunned. "Yesterday, I saw that there was still no room behind Shen Chi on the escort list. I asked him, and he said he knew. I thought he would look for you."

Xu Yatang showed the list to Yu Ran while talking: "Because of the weather and the 3000-meter event itself, the purpose of accompanying the runners is to help the athletes in time. Because the competition venue does not allow people other than the referees and accompanying runners to enter, In case something happens to the athlete, the accompanying runner can detect it in time.”

"Of course, you don't have to follow the whole process, you just need to focus on your own athletes."

Yu Ran was stunned, wondering why Shen Chi didn't mention this matter to him.

Or... did he find someone else?

Xu Yatang paused for a moment, and then said in a low voice: "It seems that there are not many students in our class who are close to him. I think he has always been close to you. Would you like to think about it?"

After finishing speaking, she added: "Of course, this kind of thing is not forced."

"I....."

"No need." A familiar voice came from behind his ears, Yu Ran looked back and found that Shen Chi was standing behind drinking water covered in sweat.

At this time, Qin Ke rushed over sweating profusely, panting heavily, his face was flushed by the sun: "Brother Ran! Our class came second in the high jump!"

Yu Yan hasn't reacted yet: "High jump?"

"It turns out that the high jump boy suffered from heat stroke, so Brother Chi stepped in temporarily. There are also two sports students among the contestants. Brother Chi is really awesome."

Yu Ran suddenly looked at Shen Chi, only to find that Shen Chi's eyes were on Xu Yatang.

"He has 400 meters in the afternoon, don't bother him. I can run by myself without anyone to accompany me."

Xu Yatang understood: "Okay, got it."

"Wait." Yu Ran raised his hand to interrupt them, the corners of his lips pressed down, "You haven't asked me any opinions yet."

Shen Chi lowered his eyes and met Yu Ran's shining eyes, and the sudden tremor in his heart quickly spread to his limbs and bones.

Yu Ran suddenly smiled, and his icy expression quickly turned brighter. He raised his hand and patted Shen Chi on the shoulder, raised his eyebrows and asked, "What? I underestimated you, Brother Ran?"

"It's only 3000 meters." He looked at Shen Chi and said, "So, if I run first in the 400 meters, how about I accompany you?"