Is your opponent a woman?

Han Cang was stunned in place, the English girl was about 175 cm tall, well-proportioned, with a bunch of ponytails, chestnut hair, and eyes as blue as seawater.

"Funny, right? My opponent is a woman? Han Cang asked.

So the interpreter reconfirmed with the staff of the organizing committee, and the other party nodded, and then shrugged his shoulders, looking at the meaning, it seemed that this was the arrangement.

The little brother of the translator sweated on his forehead, and told Han Cang embarrassedly: "She is indeed your opponent, this challenge is originally for the public, so anyone can participate, and it is inevitable that there will be a mixed situation of men and women." ”

Han Cang was a little speechless when he heard this, and he didn't know what to say, but his opponent seemed to see that he had doubts about himself, so he walked over and said a word, but Han Cang didn't understand, and the translator on the side hurriedly apologized to the British girl.

"What did she just say?" When the girl was far away, Han Cang asked.

The translator said with an embarrassed face: "You just behaved too ungentlemanly, this is the United Kingdom, not our country, that girl thinks you don't respect her, saying that you are sexist, if you don't have a proper attitude, she will directly report your behavior to the organizing committee." ”

Han Cang looked confused when he heard this: "Funny, right?" What does this have to do with sexism? When have you ever seen a male and female player compete? This... It's not at all..."

The little brother translator was also very helpless, spread his hands and said: "This is the rule set by the organizing committee, not by me, and your opponent is weak and anti-opposition, isn't it a good thing?" It's going to be easier for you to win the game. ”

Han Cang felt speechless, so he had to sigh, the other party could never understand his thoughts, for professional athletes, victory is important, but they often crave a truly valuable champion, not those virtual titles.

Han Cang and the translation brother came back, and from a distance Zhang Wenlin and Xu Bin, they could see that the faces of these two people were not quite right, and Manager Zhang hurriedly stepped forward and asked, "What's wrong?" What's wrong? ”

When he learned that Han Cang's first-round competitor was a British girl, Xu Bin's mouth gradually cracked, not to mention how happy he was, and he just took advantage of the topic to play and said to Xiao Zhan:

"See, a little girl has just arrived in the UK, and it's a foreign girl, this trip is not in vain, we have to hurry up, don't fall behind."

Zhang Wenlin was annoyed when he heard this, and asked, "Xu Bin, what do you mean?" This is the arrangement of the organizing committee, and it is not set by us, why are you talking so ugly? ”

Xu Bin took it for granted and retorted: "Originally, it was because it was arranged by the organizing committee, so I said that it was sent to the door, don't be embarrassed, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity..."

Zhang Wenlin: "You ......"

Han Cang and Xiao Zhan, who were standing on the side, exchanged a helpless look, and then they both smiled, these two manager-level leaders were just like mad dogs, they were about to quarrel as soon as they met, and the two translators were far from the two regional managers in terms of administrative level, and they didn't dare to persuade them at all.

Fortunately, the organizing committee read out Xiao Zhan's name and interrupted their quarrel in time, another translator hurriedly led Xiao Zhan to report, Xu Bin looked at Zhang Wenlin proudly, the latter was so angry that he simply turned a blind eye and turned his head to chat with Han Cang:

"Is your opponent really a woman?"

Han Cang nodded.

Zhang Wenlin couldn't help sighing, gritted his teeth and said: "This challenge is real, even if both men and women sign up, why don't you divide into groups, alas, it's really ......."

After a while, Xiao Zhan came back, but what was surprising was that his face was worse than Han Cang's, but when he asked, he found out that his first-round opponent was actually an uncle in his fifties.

Xu Bin's face turned green on the spot, and Zhang Wenlin on the side couldn't be more happy, and immediately counterattacked: "Alas, I said Manager Xu, after a long time, you took the company's money and came to the UK for retirement?" Playing badminton with an old British uncle, don't you think it's a bit of a bully? ”

The corners of Xu Bin's mouth twitched, he was so angry that he couldn't speak, Xiao Zhan on the side expressed his helplessness, and secretly said to Han Cang: "You are lucky, you know that it is better to find a British girl as an opponent......"

However, at this moment, the translation brother reminded Han Cang that his game was arranged at the front, and it would start in less than half an hour, so he hurried to prepare.

So Han Cang followed the translator brother out of the hall and walked towards the second floor of the stadium, and Zhang Wenlin also hurriedly followed, leaving Xu Bin's group to continue to wait in the hall.

……

This stadium is the indoor sports center of the University of Manchester, the area is very large, ascending to the second floor, they came to a room as big as a hangar, which was arranged with ten courts, under the leadership of the translator, Han Cang came to the No. 2 venue, only to see that the British girl named Renee also came, preparing for the game.

"Come on." Manager Zhang patted Han Cang on the shoulder and said.

So Han Cang walked into the field with his bag on his back, put his things away, took out his racket, and walked towards the referee.

The translator was afraid that Han Cang wouldn't understand, so he also followed, in fact, it was completely unnecessary, because after playing so many games, Han Cang was very familiar with the process, and there were very few places to really use language to communicate, and most of them could be expressed through body language.

The referee wanted to toss a coin, holding a coin, pointing the front to Han Cang, and the reverse side to the British girl, which means that Han Cang wants to be positive and the other party wants to be negative.

Soon the coin was tossed, and the reverse side was up, and the British girl kicked off, only to see the corners of her mouth slightly raised, and then shook her head and left.

The two sides entered the field, according to the usual practice, first played a few balls to warm up, so Han Cang simply sent a shot of the backcourt ball, the British girl shot back, hit the high ball, the two sides pulled more than a dozen shots, and a few balls actually hit out of bounds, but because it was a warm-up, Han Cang chose to save the ball.

This indoor venue is not particularly standardized, the ground is plywood splicing pavement, in fact, there is no way, because it is a temporary requisition of the university's indoor stadium, it is impossible to transform people's venues into professional courts, and who will pay for this money? These are not big problems, the key is that it is summer now, if you don't open the window indoors, then you must turn on the air conditioning, but this indoor stadium is not a professional badminton hall after all, so the cold air of the air conditioning is blown directly from the fresh air system on the ceiling, forming an air flow above the court, which has a certain impact on the high and far ball.

The referee signaled that the warm-up was over, and both sides stood in their respective receiving areas, ready to start the match.

0-0, the British girl serves.

This girl sent a short ball, and her grip and serving posture were very similar to those of male players, which couldn't help but remind Han Cang of Wen Xiaoya.

Han Cang replied to pick the backcourt, this is his usual routine, and he will do it until he finds out the details of his opponent.

But what people didn't expect was that the British girl retreated near the bottom line, and when she was about to hit the ball, the raised racket was put down again, the shuttlecock fell to the ground, and the sideline referee spread his arms to signal the ball out of bounds.

"Isn't it, you lose points as soon as you come up?" The translator said nervously.

Zhang Wenlin on the side waved his hand disapplausively: "Oh, you just take your time, how can Han Cang lose..."

After experiencing the selection match at the headquarters of Shengli Company, he has a more comprehensive understanding of Han Cang, and losing the ball is nothing to Han Cang, and he will definitely be able to achieve a score overtake in the end.

Zhang Wenlin was full of confidence in Han Cang, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but show a smile.