100. Smoke and rain
"Yan Xiaopang, are you okay, do you want me to take you?" Yuan Chang squeezed in front of Yan Qi from the crowd preparing to set off, and said with a wicked smile.
"No, you run well. "How dare Yan Qi let him take it, then it doesn't run like a Ferrari pulling a broken 28 bicycle behind him?
"Then I won't wait for you," Yuan Chang said with a grin, his eyes were extremely confident, "I'll invite you to the restaurant after taking the head!"
"Okay, I'll point all my fingers at you. "Yan Qidao.
"Hey, you two don't take anyone else seriously. Someone next to him interjected, "Wu Wuke also participated." ”
"Hey, Wu Shi, you also participate. Yan Qi greeted this person.
“…… What about your eyes?!" Wu Shiyi roared.
…… You have forty-six brothers and sisters in the martial arts family, and you can't remember exactly, so you blame me?!
As soon as the whistle blew, everyone quieted down and stood on the starting line on the runway of the Ascending Field, which was about to begin, and the spectators on the sidelines were very excited, but they all listened with bated breath, and then they heard a sky-shaking gong sound of "duang", and the students who participated in the long-distance run rushed out like wild horses off the leash, first running through a straight road, and then rushing out of the Ascendancy Field, following the instructions that had already been inserted according to the route signs towards the gate of the college.
The audience shouted in unison, and after watching the contestants run out of the take-off field, there was a sense of emptiness in the face of the empty field, but fortunately, there were some performative fun competitions that were about to begin, such as two-person three-legged race, blindfolded long jump high jump, etc., to pass the long waiting for the winner's return.
A large number of students wearing clothes embroidered with the words "Splendid Academy" ran and poured into the streets, and the residents in the vicinity were no strangers to this situation, because Splendid Academy would come to such a scene every year, and everyone knew that it was the students holding a competition, and they all willingly let the road open, and some stood on the side of the road to applaud and cheer for the students, and even ran along.
In fact, this is also a means for the academy to expand its popularity and influence, so that students can run around the streets wearing clothes embroidered with the name of the college, which is no different from doing live advertisements.
Yan Qi ran onto the street in the noisy pile of students, Yuan Chang jumped forward and disappeared from the gate of the academy as soon as he walked out, Wu Yue also rushed to the front, after the time of a cup of tea passed, the distance between the students has gradually widened, in order to prevent the students from stealing and playing tricks, the academy has a student supervising the competition at every other section of the road sign along the way, each contestant must take a voucher from these supervisors, and when they reach the finish line, they must check whether the voucher is true and whether the number is enough to be counted in the results.
Yan Qi ran unhurriedly at a constant speed, along the glazed Zhilan River all the way to the west, the sky was a little cloudy, like the azure pigment that had not been evenly smeared on the top of his head, and the stone road under his feet was shining with water, reflecting the white walls and black tile roofs, and a large group of red, purple, blue and white hydrangeas poked their heads out of the branches and branches, nodding and swaying slightly. The light rain is flying, and the spider silk is cool and cool on the face, the moisture touches the skin, soaks the pores, and feels extremely transparent and moisturizing from the body to the heart.
It's a good season.
The smoke and rain are like ink, and the flowers are better than the snow.
No wonder everyone likes to be contaminated with red dust and can't stand the years outside the world.
Yan Qi walked through the narrow stone road and alleys, flanked by quiet high-walled deep courtyards, and the shadows and branches of the trees poked out of the walls, with years of self-appreciation and self-pity. This alley is too long, this loneliness is too much, so that the rain and smoke can't dissipate, and it is thickly intertwined in the depths of the cold alley, blurry, and people can't see the end.
Yan Qi ran into the rain and mist, and three thousand worlds in a drop of water scattered on his face.
The last time I ran in such rain was many years ago. There were no white walls, no shadows of flowers, only the overwhelming gray and rancid stench, with dead branches and knots above her head, cold soil and mud under her feet, she ran aimlessly, unable to tell whether she was alive or dead.
And then she really died.
He fell into the mud and wrapped himself in dead leaves.
The sky he saw before he died was the color it is now, blue, gray, white, and evenly formed into a face of whom.
She asked the face: Why?
It's a pity that she didn't wait for an answer, because she died, and with her eyes open, the rain fell in it, making her look like she was crying.
Yan Qi ran out of the long alley, in front of him a group of willows and flowers, the next street is the red mansion green pavilion with ridges and ridges, the girl in the blue shirt and red sleeves in the carved railing pinched the handkerchief to enjoy the street rain, and the moon cave window next door floated out of the lingering plum blossom cavity, and she muttered and sang the concubine who didn't know whether it was true or not.
Someone chuckled and whispered in the window, as if he was coquettish, and as if he was **, a grand blooming Xifu begonia covered half of the window hole, and suddenly a crimson sweat towel embroidered with entangled acacia flowers was thrown out by someone and was hanging on the begonia branches.
"Bad guy, don't you get it back with me......" A coquettish laugh sounded, followed by a ringing sound.
There was one more person at the window, with his hair scattered and his movements lazy, leaning out half of his body to fold the begonia branch hanging with a sweat scarf, and the rain fell on the white silk robe, smearing a little azure.
Breaking off the flower branches, there was one less cover, Yan Qi met this person's face, and this person also saw her, smiling slightly, and his eyes were presumptuous, as if he was extremely interested in everything, and as if he didn't care about anything.
This person squeezed his eyes at Yan Qi, and his figure disappeared into the window.
Yan Qi was sure that he had run the wrong route after a stick of incense, and turned out of the darkly fragrant street, unable to see any of the students of the Splendid Academy. When I turned my head and looked up at the stone archway on the shelves at the entrance of the small street, I saw that the words "Taoqian Street" were engraved.
"The peach blossoms are shallow and deep, like even deep and light makeup. The spring breeze helps the intestines to break, blowing off the white clothes......"
The plum blossom cavity floated out far away.
Taoqian Street is the gathering place of the famous Qinglou Chu Pavilion in Beijing, and it is impossible for the Splendid Academy to set the running route here.
The ten-mile race is not a long time for Yan Qi, the circumference of the Tengfei Field is 400 meters, and she has to run ten laps almost every day under Wu Changge's instructions.
Soon detoured on the way back, occasionally overtaking one or two male contestants who were also turning back, the distance of the men's race was twenty miles, and most of the people were exhausted by this time, Yan Qi saw several male students who were on the side of the road and stopped panting with their buttocks, it was difficult for female students to see, but Yan Qi was sure that Wu Yue was running ahead of him.
When rushing into the take-off field with a few male students, Yan Qi saw that Wu Yue had reached the finish line, Yuan Chang Wu Tingwu Eleven, and several boys all arrived early, laughing and laughing to themselves, the audience applauded all the students who had the courage to participate in the long-distance run, whether they were in the class or not, they all warmly greeted each other, Yan Qi ran gloriously across the finish line in this overwhelming applause, Yuan Chang gave her a thumbs up in that room: "With you, Yan Xiaopang!"
Wu Yue came up and handed Yan Qi a scarf, his breath had not calmed down, and there was a slight regret on his face: "I only got the fourth, the women's leader is Xie Fei, and my ninth sister got the second." ”
"Yes, you're just starting school and you're going to finish fourth. "Yan Qidao.
With the voucher in his hand, Yan Qi went to the referee to be checked, and the results were counted, and one was missing.
"The one missing Luoying Street," the referee stared at Yan Qi with a scrutinizing gaze, "Did you take a shortcut?"
"I ran the wrong route," Yan Qi replied truthfully, "passing through Taoqian Street." ”
The referee's eyes couldn't help but widen: What is Taoqian Street for, put it aside for the time being--is this little fat man stupid? People are all thinking about shortcuts, why does she take a long detour? That Taoqian Street is at least a mile away from Luoying Street...... But even so, she was able to reach the fifth place in the women's group, and the speed was really not slow. It's a pity, one less slip, no matter how fast you run, this achievement can't be counted, the hard-pressed little fat man, eleven miles, ran in vain.
Running for nothing is running for nothing, and you should lose weight. Yan Qi could see it, and walked with Wu Yue to the audience where the class was.
When he walked to the sidelines, he met Wu Changge, who was standing there with his arms crossed, glanced at Yan Qi lightly, and said, "I hope you haven't forgotten my words, the sandbags on your legs are not allowed to be taken off except for eating, sleeping and bathing." ”
"What about trusting each other?" Yan Qi tugged up on his trouser leg, revealing the corner of the sandbag.
Wu Changge ignored her anymore, and Yan Qi continued to walk towards the audience, not noticing that Wu Yue was still petrified in place.
After the completion of the long-distance running event, the competition of the whole college is almost over, and finally the top three awards for each project will be awarded, and credits will also be awarded, the first prize will be awarded a box of good pine smoke ink, the second place will be a knife per person to refine the jade version of Xuan, and the third place will be two lake pens per person.
The final announcement is the collective results, and the rankings obtained by all the students in the class who participated in the competition are converted into points, and the class with the highest overall score will also be rewarded. It is said that the collective rewards are different every year, last year was the final "ticket" of the comprehensive martial arts competition, this year - "three days of verdant mountains!" The girls in the plum blossom class who won the first place in the collective results of the first grade of the embroidery academy were suddenly happy.
Not to mention eleven or twelve-year-old girls like them, even their senior brothers and sisters rarely have the opportunity to go to distant places outside of Kyoto on weekdays to play and stay overnight, for such an era, travel is the most anticipated and favorite entertainment in addition to feasting and gatherings, curiosity and freshness are always the common characteristics of human beings regardless of age.
The plum blossom class and the classes that won the first place in each grade received envious, jealous and hateful glances from classmates from other classes, including the two of Yan Wu's girls, staring at Yan Qi's fat face with hatred.
"The family has never invited her to hire an archery master, who did she learn archery from? She is so fat, how can she run ten miles? I heard that she was allowed to join the Zongwu Society--how is this possible! I don't believe it! Is she a goblin? I have never seen her cry or laugh since I was a child, and I heard that goblins don't have seven emotions and six desires, they all have a stone heart, you say, what else can she be if she is not a goblin?!"
Miss Yan Wu was furious in her room, dropped a red glazed plum bottle, poured half a pot of rose tea, and was still so angry that she was panting, and she was looking for something to smash in circles all over the house.
The girl gold satin and silver silk hurriedly came up to comfort, and the gold satin said: "Girl, don't be angry, if you want to go out to play, just say to the eldest master, the eldest lord loves you so much, and when it comes to the day of rest, he will take you out to play, why bother squeezing into one place with a big gang of people?"
But it's just to play with a large group of people to be lively! The gold satin failed to enter the master's heart, and the master's heart became more and more angry, and he walked to the bed, lifted the jade pillow and was about to throw it on the ground, so panicked that the gold satin and silver silk hurriedly jumped up and hugged it, "The girl keeps her hand, this jade pillow is rewarded by the master, but I don't dare to break it......"
"It's just that I was rewarded a few years ago, and if I break it, my father will give me a new one!" Yan Wu girl broke away from the two girls, and threw the jade pillow to the ground fiercely, "pop" There was a crisp sound, and it fell apart, and the evil breath in Yan Wu girl's chest was evacuated a little.
"I don't care!" she gritted her teeth and said, "I just don't want Yan Qi to participate in that three-day tour of the verdant mountains!
The spoiled Yan Wu girl has always dared to hate, dare to speak, dare to say and dare to do.
Besides, the whole Baochun House is her mother's world, and there is no need to think about it at all.
However, she forgot that Mr. He, who was her mentor, had always been respectful in Baochunju, so he was not among the shields, and when the gold and silver silk gave her advice, Mr. He was picking flowers in the no-man's corner of her back window.
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The travel day is set for April 18 to April 20, and before that, students still have to calm down and go to school as usual.
In addition to the athletic meeting in April, there is actually nothing else or something that can be called a big event, there are a few families in the middle of the birthday and red and white ceremonies, the adults of the Yan family will take care of the etiquette, and the children go to school every day without panic, eat and sleep. The long house has the largest population, and occasionally brothers and sisters quarrel and quarrel with each other, which is also lively to listen to, but the Yan Wu girl, who is the most idle on weekdays, has been very safe in recent days, and she is nothing more than walking around the garden at home to practice dance, and she has not seen the thorns of Yan Liu's girl, and she rarely comes to the second room to give Yan Qi a cold eye.
However, there will always be some bumps and bumps in life - they are really bumps and bumps, such as Yan Wu girl fell to the ground when she walked on the road and went back to shout that her feet hurt, and she had to rest at home for two days As soon as I got up, I saw that there was a big hole, and I searched all over the house inside and outside, but I couldn't find anything to break the glass;
Originally, everyone didn't care about these things, until later, there were so many girls who vomited and diarrhea and had a high fever, and heard that there was always some unfairness in the yard at night, and there were black things flying over and flying over, some said it was a black cat, some said it was a black fox, and even said that it was a ghost passing by.