The instinctive desire to survive drove him to keep improving. A month later, under the separate guidance of Coach Liu and Coach Hu, he mastered the basic boxing, legs, footwork, and knee skills, after which, he began to slowly integrate into the boxers of the professional team, under the guidance of Coach Zhang and Ma Long, he carried out punch and leg combinations and some confrontation training such as defensive counterattack and reaction training, he could clearly feel the changes that had occurred in his body, be diligent in sports, move forward steadily, and make his heart become peaceful. The sense of accomplishment he felt at the club diluted some of the pain and existential anxieties that came from school, and he desperately needed it.

His hard work and dedication have also earned him the respect of many of his fellow students.

During his studies, he had never met the club's founder and head coach "God of War" Jin Tianya, and Wang Gang told him that the head coach went to the boxing gym in Thailand to train with Sitthichai. As he spoke, Wang Gang opened WeChat, found the head coach's WeChat, entered his circle of friends, and clicked on a photo, he was shirtless, sweating profusely, wearing black gloves, and Sitthichai, who was shirtless, revealing eight bulging abs, and wearing the iconic VENUM fight shorts with orange pattern on a black background, standing in the middle of the ring and looking ahead.

In the month of continuous improvement of Pengqiang Club, he became more and more familiar with the fighters of the professional team, made many new friends, and at the same time, unexpectedly met his old friends. It was a Sunday afternoon, he walked into the club, and actually saw Bai Sumei, he looked at Bai Sumei, and after Bai Sumei saw him, she was also looking at him in shock. This was the first time he had seen Bai Sumei since she led Dongfang Zhou to apologize to him outside the classroom of Shenzhen University.

"You're practicing martial arts here?" Bai Sumei asked as she looked up and down at the club's training uniform on his body.

"Yes." Tang Long replied.

"How come I haven't seen you here before."

"I've just arrived. Did you sign up too? ”

"I didn't sign up, I came to see them." Bai Sumei pointed to Ajie and the other five children who were warming up in the No. 2 training hall and said.

"Visit them?"

"Yes, I am their friend and their relative."

"How?" Tang Long became more and more confused.

"It's a long story, let's talk again!" Bai Sumei said.

Bai Sumei stayed at the club and watched Applejack and them train, sometimes helping them take photos and videos. After the training, Bai Sumei called Tang Long, took the five children to a Hunan restaurant next to the club, found a large round table with ten seats and sat down. The waiter brought a pot of tea, put a large plastic bowl of water for washing dishes, and handed Tang Long a menu.

"Ladies first." Tang Long handed the menu to Bai Sumei.

Bai Sumei pushed, and saw that Wang Gang insisted on handing her the menu, so she took it and asked Tang Long:

"What do you want to eat?"

"Whatever, just order it......" Tang Long said rubbing his palms under the table.

Bai Sumei nodded, turned her head and asked the children:

"Little ones, are you tired today? Craving something? Tell my sister! ”

Children, look at me, I'll look at you, I guess I haven't thought about it yet, and I can't say what I want to eat for a while.

"Applejack, what do you want to eat?" Bai Sumei looked at Applejack and said.

"Hmm...... Well...... Let's stir-fry the meat at the farmhouse! Applejack said.

When the other children saw Applejack order, they each gave the name of the dish they wanted to eat, and Bai Sumei carefully ticked the menu with a pencil. Her fingers are slender and she is painted with red nail polish.

The five children trained all day, consumed a lot, and as soon as the food was served, it was caught up with chopsticks after a while. Xiao Yue kept telling them to eat slowly, don't rush, there are still many dishes behind. And she only filled half a bowl of rice in the bowl and chewed it slowly.

Tang Long lowered his head and quickly finished three bowls of rice. Two adults and five children, thirteen dishes were eaten cleanly. After eating, drinking a little tea, and chatting with the children for a while, Satsuki took her mobile phone to the cashier counter to buy the bill and left the restaurant. On the side of the road, Bai Sumei called a BYD taxi, opened the front door, rolled down the window after getting in, looked at Tang Long and said:

"Come on, it just so happens that I'm going back to Shenzhen University too."

After Tang Long got into the car, Bai Sumei waved goodbye to the children.

"Take a good rest at noon, you guys are the best, come on!" Bai Sumei clenched her fists and shook it at the children in front of the car window.

"We'll do our best, goodbye, sister." Applejack said.

The other children follow Applejack's words and say goodbye to Bai Sumei.

Wang Gang led Tang Long and the five children to the dormitory, the children were full of food and drink, very happy, laughing and chirping along the way.

The car was filled with the mellow and intoxicating smell of osmanthus perfume that he liked very much, and he looked at Bai Sumei's long hair and slender arms, and was a little confused.

"Literary and artistic young people go to learn free fighting, is it possible that they want to cultivate into both civil and military skills?"

"I didn't think that I had to be both civil and military, mainly to sharpen my will and exercise my body."

"Because of being a card girl, I have come into contact with many professional boxers, who may not read much and do not have a high level of education, but they are toned and calm, confident and optimistic. It's a good thing to practice martial arts, it's much better than smoking, drinking, clubbing, playing games, and scrolling through WeChat. ”

"That's right!" Tang Long nodded.

"Especially playing games and swiping WeChat, the descendants of Yan and Huang have become low-headed people. The more than 300 years of rule since the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs made the scholars bow their heads, and the Confucian style and righteousness were gone. It was not until the founding of New China that the Chinese people really stood up, straightened up, and raised their heads. And now, he bowed his head again. Bai Sumei said.

"Yes, it's really sad that people willingly lower their heads and let their smartphones dominate their minds instead of looking up at the stars."

"Hegel said: A nation has a group of people who look up to the stars, and they have hope."

"Think about it, but it makes a lot of sense." Tang Long said.

"If it's okay, let's find a café and sit down!"

"Okay."

"There's a café downstairs in the Arbor Pavilion in my dormitory, and I often go for drinks."

Tang Long wanted to know some information about Dongfang Zhou from her mouth, but she didn't say a word about Dongfang Zhou. And for a while, he didn't know how to stir up the topic.

The car quickly turned into Shenzhen University and came to the side of the arbor pavilion in the girls' dormitory. Tang Long and Bai Sumei walked together towards the small café, which had two floors, and there were several tables at the door, and there were two men and two women and four foreigners sitting on their tables, and on their tables were a few bottles of imported beer. The dormitory building where international students live is not far away, and many international students come here for coffee. Bai Sumei took Tang Long up the stairs and came to the second floor. There are not many guests on the second floor, and there is a large bookshelf full of books. Under the floor-to-ceiling glass windows, there are several wooden tables, and a boy with black-rimmed glasses sits by the window, looking down and reading Chuck Palahnik's novel "Fight Club". An Nami's singing voice rippled in the small space, rubbing softly against the roots of her ears.

The waiter came, Bai Sumei ordered a cup of black pearl milk tea, and Tang Long ordered a cup of freshly squeezed apple juice. The soft night hung outside the glass window, the light of the street lamp floated on the shadow of the tree like golden coffee foam, and groups of students passed by the café and walked to the Guimiao Temple behind, which was the most lively at this time.

"Have you been here before?" Bai Sumei asked Tang Long,

"Nope." Tang Long said.

This is the first time he has been alone with a girl to drink and chat with Shenzhen University. He was so close to her, he was nervous, his heart was beating faster, and when he noticed that his fingers on the table were shaking, he quickly put his hands under the table. He didn't know what kind of reaction Dongfang Zhou would have if he ran into him and Bai Sumei together.

"How does it feel?"

"Well, it's okay."

"Okay, let's talk about what you want to know, because I know you're just as curious about what happened between me and these kids like the other fighters at the club, and if I don't make it clear, it's going to be misleading."

Tang Long looked downstairs through the floor-to-ceiling glass window, and then stared at Bai Sumei.