Chapter 283 The Duel between Xixi and Zhusheng
Sunday evening.

Ying Chanxi and Xu Youyu went to school in the afternoon.

Li Luo stayed at home and was pulled into the piano room by Yan Zhusheng for love teaching. He did not come out until the evening, when he put on his schoolbag and went to school.

When passing by the playground on Houde Road, Li Luo glanced at the figure on the playground, paused, and grabbed Yan Zhusheng.

Yan Zhusheng looked in the direction Li Luo was looking with a puzzled look on his face, only to find that Ying Chanxi and Qiao Xinyan were playing badminton on the playground.

"You guys are going to start the competition tomorrow, right?" Li Luo said, "It looks like they are training. Do you want to join them?"

Yan Zhusheng shook his head: "I don't need it."

"Then let's go over and take a look." Li Luo said, and then said to Yan Zhusheng, "Go to the canteen and buy a few bottles of drinks?"

"Oh." Yan Zhusheng nodded, "I'll go buy it."

Seeing Yan Zhusheng walking obediently towards the canteen, Li Luo walked into the playground and came to the sidelines of Ying Chanxi and Qiao Xinyan.

At this time, the lawn on the playground had been divided into several areas by students in the badminton club, and the corresponding badminton nets had been set up.

Ying Chanxi and Qiao Xinyan were warming up on one of the courts to get their feel for the game.

Because Ying Chanxi had his back to the entrance of the playground, he did not notice Li Luo's arrival.

Li Luo also greeted Qiao Xinyan silently from a distance, signaling her not to say anything.

It was not until Li Luo approached the sidelines and Ying Chanxi bent down to pick up the ball that he quickly came behind Ying Chanxi.

"Xinyan, why are you laughing so happily?" After picking up the ball, Ying Chanxi saw Qiao Xinyan on the opposite side trying to hold back her laughter, and immediately looked surprised.

Then she noticed Qiao Xinyan's gaze and turned her head subconsciously.

"Hello." Li Luo greeted her with a smile from behind.

"Ah!" Ying Chanxi was frightened by this guy. Because he just turned around, he didn't stand firmly. After losing his balance, he fell to the side.

"Hey hey hey!" Li Luo saw this and quickly put his arms around her back, hugging her to prevent Ying Chanxi from falling to the ground, "Are you okay?"

"You scared me to death!" Ying Chanxi blushed and hit him angrily, "You are so childish. You are so old, and you still play this kind of trick."

"You're 16 this year, not yet an adult, so it's okay to be a little childish." Li Luo laughed and helped Ying Chanxi up. "How was the fight?"

"Xixi is very powerful." Qiao Xinyan on the opposite side said with a smile, "I don't think I can beat her."

"I'm just trying to get a feel for it." Ying Chanxi said, "Get used to it today so that you don't have to adapt when you go on stage tomorrow."

"I thought you wouldn't care too much about this kind of competition." Li Luo said in surprise, "Are you going for the championship?"

"It's not as exaggerated as you say." Ying Chanxi rolled his eyes at him, "I just don't want to be eliminated too early. Otherwise, it would be too embarrassing for me as the class monitor."

"Xixi, that's not what you said just now." Qiao Xinyan scratched the net and said with a smile, "You said you wanted to fight with Zhu Sheng on the court and try to..."

"Stop talking!" Ying Chanxi quickly jumped onto the Internet and reached out to cover Qiao Xinyan's mouth. Qiao Xinyan quickly ran away laughing.

At this time, Yan Zhusheng just came back from buying a drink. He walked over to Li Luo and asked in confusion, "I think I heard you guys talking about my name?"

"Nothing." Li Luo said with a smile, "I'm just cheering for you guys participating in the competition."

"Oh." Yan Zhusheng handed a bottle of drink in his hand to Li Luo, then walked to Ying Chanxi and patted her shoulder, "Xixi, drink a drink."

"Oh, thank you Zhusheng." Ying Chanxi took the drink and was about to unscrew the lid, but the next second, she suddenly thought of something. While Yan Zhusheng was handing the drink to Qiao Xinyan, she trotted over to Li Luo and stuffed the drink in her hand over to him, "I can't unscrew it, can you help me?"

Li Luo looked at Ying Chanxi, then at Yan Zhusheng, and then smiled: "Okay."

After easily unscrewing the lid, Li Luo handed the drink to Ying Chanxi. She saw a hint of joy in her eyes. She took the drink happily and drank it in small sips.

A smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, as if he had learned to use a new skill, and he felt a little proud in his heart.

But after Yan Zhusheng came back from handing the drink to Qiao Xinyan, he saw that the drink in Li Luo's hand had not been opened yet.

So she unscrewed her drink and handed it to Li Luo: "Drink it."

As she spoke, she took the bottle from Li Luo's arms and drank it herself.

Ying Chanxi had just taken two sips of his drink when he saw this scene and fell silent.

Li Luo and Yan Zhusheng retreated to the outside of the court while drinking their drinks and watched Ying Chanxi and Qiao Xinyan continue playing badminton.

I have to say that Ying Chanxi is really amazing.

On the one hand, the only time that the vast majority of students at the Affiliated No. 1 Middle School get in touch with badminton is during their weekly physical education classes.

So everyone's technical level is actually about the same.

Unless you are someone like Yan Zhusheng who has loved playing badminton since childhood, your true level may sometimes depend entirely on who serves.

If those with slightly better skills can catch a few balls for each other, that's considered pretty good.

People like Ying Chanxi, who not only knows how to catch the ball, but also knows how to occasionally dunk the ball and think about where to hit the ball, are already very impressive.

On the other hand, since the start of school, Ying Chanxi would be woken up by Li Luo almost every morning and go for a morning run in the school playground together.

In addition, Ying Chanxi's physical fitness was not bad to begin with. She had even made it to the finals in the women's 100 meters in the school sports meet.

Now with the support of daily morning jogging training, my physical fitness is much better than that of ordinary girls.

What a pity... When Xu Youyu was in the first year of high school, Li Luo didn't even know her.

Otherwise, I really want to see the senior sister's style on the court.

However, given Xu Youyu's personality, he probably won't sign up for the competition.

After briefly getting a feel for the craft in the evening, the four of them returned to their respective classes for evening self-study.

The next day, Monday, after the last class in the afternoon, the badminton and table tennis competitions officially began.

The evening games last from five to six every evening.

Half an hour was reserved for the last participating students to go to the cafeteria to have dinner.

Li Luo was not very familiar with the other events, but as for the women's badminton competition, Li Luo looked at the schedule received by Yan Zhusheng and got a general understanding of it.

It’s different from a class basketball game which starts with a knockout round.

There are a total of 64 people who have signed up for badminton. The competition will last for two weeks. The first week is the preliminary round and the second week is the knockout round.

In order to take into account everyone's participation in the competition, the preliminary round is not a single-elimination system, but a Swiss round format.

You get one point for each game you win, and only people with the same points will be drawn to play together.

Everyone participates in one game every day, for a total of five preliminary rounds. In the end, 32 players who win three or more out of five games advance to the knockout round.

"Why are there exactly 64 people?" Li Luo looked at the schedule handed over by Yan Zhusheng and asked curiously.

"It seems that there were only about 64 people who signed up at the beginning." Yan Zhusheng said, "Then the badminton club managed to attract a few more people, so the total number was ."

"No wonder." Li Luo nodded, then asked, "When will you go on stage today?"

"The first game is on court 8." Yan Zhusheng pointed to a badminton court nearby as he walked to the playground. "Huanhuan is playing the first game on court 7, Xixi is playing the second game on court 3, and Xinyan is playing the second game on court 4."

At the entrance of the playground, students came and went to watch the game.

After Li Luo and Yan Zhusheng met up with Ying Chanxi and the others, they took the lead and walked towards Yan Zhusheng's No. 8 court.

In addition to women's badminton, men's badminton, as well as men's and women's table tennis competitions were also held simultaneously.

In comparison, there are far fewer boys who sign up for badminton. Most of them either participate in basketball games or sign up for table tennis.

There are more girls playing badminton.

In the badminton competition of Affiliated No. 15 Middle School, in order to make the game proceed faster, the Swiss round is decided by one game, and one game only has points.

Whoever gets 15 points first wins.

Under such circumstances, Yan Zhusheng won the game easily as soon as she came on the court, leaving no chance for the girl on the opposite side at all, and ended the game directly with 15-0.

Ying Chanxi, who was watching the game nearby, blinked, then turned to look at Li Luo and couldn't help asking, "Has Zhu Sheng practiced this before?"

"Well... I haven't practiced it professionally." Li Luo smiled helplessly, "It's just that Aunt Yuan likes playing badminton, so she has played a lot since she was a child, so she is quite good at it." "What should I do?" Qiao Xinyan whispered in Ying Chanxi's ear, "Zhu Sheng is so good, how can you beat him?"

Ying Chanxi glared at her unhappily, puffed his lips and said sullenly, "I didn't say I was going to beat her up, don't talk nonsense."

"Yesterday you were the one who said..."

"Shut up." Ying Chanxi quickly covered Qiao Xinyan's mouth and told her not to say anything more. "You've been getting worse and worse lately, always talking nonsense."

Two girls were playing together.

After watching Yan Zhusheng's match, Li Luo looked at Xu Yinghuan next to him. He won 15-9, which was quite smooth.

Soon, it was Ying Chanxi and Qiao Xinyan's turn to compete.

"Li Luo, let's go to the bathroom." Xu Yinghuan hugged Yan Zhusheng's arm and said to him, "Let's buy some drinks."

"Got it." Li Luo waved his hand and followed Ying Chanxi and the others to courts 3 and 4. He watched them go to sign in, and then he heard a familiar voice in his ears.

"You're here to watch Gao Yuqin's game, too?" Lu Wei from Class 7 looked at Li Luo suspiciously, then snorted, "Why do you always haunt me?"

Li Luo glanced at him, somewhat speechless: "...You actually said that, what can I say?"

"Haha." Lu Wei curled his lips and then said, "I haven't congratulated you yet?"

"Congratulations on what?" Li Luo was a little speechless at this man's train of thought.

"Congratulations on not running into us in the basketball game." Lu Wei laughed arrogantly, "You didn't dare to play with us in physical education class last semester. You were lucky this time and didn't run into us in Class 7. If you have the chance to meet us in the future, you will regret it."

"Brother, how about we talk less?" Li Luo picked his ears helplessly, feeling that his normal painting style was being distorted.

Fortunately, at this time, Liu Shaowen and Xie Shuchen also rushed to the sidelines and greeted Li Luo.

"Li Luo, you are here too."

"Would you like to watch the monitor's game?"

Li Luo nodded, pointed at Ying Chanxi on the field, and then said to Lu Wei: "I'm serious, brother, you should open your eyes and look at other girls. Why do you have to cling to Gao Yuqin?"

"Huh, you don't understand." Lu Wei crossed his arms, "I made an appointment with her this time. If we can win the basketball championship, she will go out with me during the Labor Day holiday."

Li Luo curled the corners of his mouth but didn't say anything.

Xie Shuchen next to him spoke first, and said with a smile: "You think too much. It won't be too late to talk about this when we meet our class."

Lu Wei raised his eyebrows and realized that the two were from the same class. As a member of a parallel class, he felt a sense of responsibility. He straightened his chest and battled with Xie Shuchen with even greater momentum.

Seeing this, Li Luo quickly slipped to the sidelines, took the drink that Yan Zhusheng brought back, and handed it to Ying Chanxi who was about to go on stage.

"Thank you." Ying Chanxi happily took the drink and took two small sips.

Li Luo took the drink back, covered it with the lid for her, and then said with a smile: "Come on, try to beat Zhusheng later."

"Humph, you're just talking." Ying Chanxi said this, but he was actually quite happy in his heart. He narrowed his eyes and asked, "Then if Zhu Sheng and I fight later, who will you support?"

"Of course I do..." Li Luo was just talking when he saw Yan Zhusheng coming over to him, curiously listening to his answer, so he immediately said, "Of course I support both sides. I will support whoever is behind in the score."

Neither of the two girls heard the answer they wanted to hear the most, but they still nodded reluctantly in satisfaction.

Soon, the physical education teacher called on the players from both sides to come on stage.

Ying Chanxi and Gao Yuqin walked onto the court and played against each other with rackets in hand.

I have to say that Gao Yuqin played badminton quite well. She had a very tense match with Ying Chanxi.

But in the end, Ying Chanxi was more skilled and won the game 15-11.

At the moment of victory, Liu Shaowen and Xie Shuchen clapped happily. Xie Shuchen even came up to Lu Wei and made faces, which made Lu Wei very angry.

But after the game, Ying Chanxi did not share his joy with his classmates. Instead, he ran to Li Luo, put his hands on his hips and raised his chin, with an expression that looked like he wanted to be praised.

"Very impressive." Li Luo said with a smile, "It looks like there should be no problem in winning the preliminary round."

"Hmm~" Ying Chanxi took the drink from Li Luo and took a big sip.

On the other side, Qiao Xinyan also finished the competition and walked back a little frustrated. It seemed that she had lost.

Upon seeing this, Ying Chanxi hurriedly hugged her best friend's arm and comforted her softly.

Fortunately, it was just a badminton game, and it didn’t mean you would be eliminated just by losing one game. Qiao Xinyan recovered quickly and went to the cafeteria to have dinner with everyone.

On the way, Li Luo ran into Zhao Rongjun holding a table tennis racket. He immediately approached him with a surprised look on his face and patted his good brother on the shoulder: "You signed up for table tennis secretly?"

"What do you mean by sneaking around?" Zhao Rongjun was speechless when he saw Li Luo, "I'm just signing up normally."

"You're participating in a basketball game and signing up for table tennis at the same time. You're really busy." Li Luo said with a smile, "Did you win?"

"Won."

"Okay, okay, we should celebrate now. Will you treat us tonight?"

"roll."

……

Studying in high school is very hard.

The three major ball games in April became one of the few entertainment activities for the students of Affiliated No. 1 Middle School to have some fun amidst their busy schedule.

Among the several ball games, the one that attracted the most attention was not basketball, but badminton.

And one thing to highlight is that it is mainly the women's badminton competition.

As for basketball games, at most the participating classes come to watch.

But for the women's badminton match, even the sophomores and juniors in high school would like to come over for a stroll after dinner and watch the girls' skillful badminton skills.

Especially in mid-April, when the temperature had risen to over 20 degrees, the girls began to change into short-sleeved school uniforms.

It's quite hot during the game, so many girls will roll up their school pants to reveal their fair and slender calves, which is a feast for the eyes.

Among them, the most eye-catching ones are naturally the two girls Yan Zhusheng and Ying Chanxi.

Especially after the news of their participation in the competition gradually spread, as time went on, every time they had a competition, the surrounding venue would be surrounded by huge crowds of people.

Among them are many seniors from the second and third years of high school who came here because of its reputation.

After studying hard, watching badminton matches of pretty girls is also a rare way to relax.

But this made Li Luo suffer a lot.

Every time in the middle or at the end of a competition, Ying Chanxi and Yan Zhusheng liked to run to Li Luo to praise him and take the drinks from him.

After this happened many times, some people noticed something was wrong and wondered why this guy kept showing up?

Moreover, both Ying Chanxi and Yan Zhusheng seemed to have a close relationship with him.

You will find out if you ask around a little.

Oh~ one is my deskmate and the other is my cousin.

Then the next second, many people were filled with indignation, wondering if this bastard had saved the world in his previous life?
Li Luo was being stared at by this group of people, and he really felt uneasy when watching the game.

After the fourth day of competition, Ying Chanxi and Yan Zhusheng both advanced to the fifth round with four wins.

Among the total 64 contestants, there are only four people who have won four games.

When the draw was held in the evening to decide the players for the fifth day, Ying Chanxi and Yan Zhusheng were very unlucky and drew each other.

After seeing the draw result, Li Luo immediately felt the two girls' gazes on him, so he coughed twice and said, "You have all advanced to the next round now. Tomorrow's game will be a friendly match. Just play casually."

"Oh." Yan Zhusheng had no expression, just nodded.

Ying Chanxi also nodded, but it was unclear what he was thinking in his heart.

The news that Ying Chanxi and Yan Zhusheng would face off in the fifth round tomorrow spread quickly throughout the school.

(End of this chapter)