As the time approached noon, more and more people began to come in and out of the competition venue. The door opens and closes, bringing in the coolness from outside. The air conditioning inside the house is also less effective.
Many people in the audience had already bought lunch and started eating. The aroma coming from all directions made Tao You's stomach make constant protests.
She bent over and clutched her stomach with her hands, hoping to make the sound quieter.
——If I had known better, I would have brought all the supplies distributed last night.
She opened her schoolbag. In addition to a pack of napkins and a test paper folded into tofu cubes, there were only empty snack bags with no residue left. Even the water in the cup had been consumed.
——I really want to eat meat, sweet and sour pork ribs, fried chicken, big stick bones, beef tenderloin with hot pepper...z.
Pictures of various delicacies kept popping up in Tao You's mind, and he couldn't stop swallowing his saliva.
"I didn't expect that I could buy such delicious barbecue in such a remote place."
"That's right, if this was driven into the city, it would definitely explode."
She suddenly turned around when she heard the sound, and saw three people gathered around behind her, eating the steaming barbecue covered in barbecue sauce with relish.
"Gudu."
Tao You's eyes widened when he saw it, and he swallowed his saliva in frustration.
"Did you make this sushi yourself?"
"I bought it from the sushi restaurant next to my house. I went to buy it just before I came here. It's delicious. It tastes better when it's freshly cooked in the store."
"Then I have to go to the store to try it when I get back."
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Tao You turned his head and looked to the other side. The sushi rolled into a long strip was wrapped with a layer of seaweed, with pickled radish, cucumber, crab meat and sausage in the middle. Another rectangular box contained two layers of small sushi, made of salmon. Corn, crab meat, fried shrimp, avocado...
Before I finished reading here, the familiar aroma of vegetables came from the other side.
"What dishes did you buy? I have hot and sour potato shreds and Kung Pao chicken."
"I bought vinegared cabbage and stir-fried green beans, and brought you milk tea."
"Why did you buy it so fast? There were too many people in line. I grabbed the last piece of pepper beef tenderloin, tomato scrambled eggs, and pot-roasted pork." The three of them placed the dishes they bought on chairs and sat side by side on the floor. ,"eat together."
Tao You lowered the corner of his mouth and watched them eating eagerly, his mouth moving a few times unconsciously.
She raised her hand and looked at the time. She didn't know when the lunch boxes ordered by the organizer for all schools would arrive.
"The fifth group match of Group C of Field 1 is over." The voice of the referee of Field 1 echoed in the competition venue, "The preliminaries of the men's team competition, all the games of Group C are over."
Amid the cheers from the audience, Field 1 was quickly cleared, the camera machines were turned off, and the staff gathered on the sidelines to do the final work. Only the games in Fields 2 and 3 were still going on. Everyone's attention also focused on these two venues.
The fourth game of the third group is going on in field three. The player on the field is Xu Yanxi, the captain of the No. 1 Middle School tennis team.
Hong Xiqi disappeared when Gu Yi came off the field after playing two games. She even took her schoolbag full of snacks with her, and she didn't know when she would come back.
Tao You picked up her phone and scrolled up and down the chat page with Hong Xiqi. There was no reply to the message and phone call she sent her five minutes ago. She stood up, stretched, and supported her waist with her backhand to move her stiff bones.
"Xiao Youyou, where are Xiao An and the others?" Hong Xiqi swung her schoolbag straps and jumped back, but she only saw Tao You. Other seats were empty except for the schoolbags placed there.
Tao You sat back in her seat, as if she had seen her savior. She said feebly, "They went to buy lunch. You finally came back. Is there anything to eat? I'm almost fainting from hunger."
Hong Xiqi put down her schoolbag, rummaged through it, took out a pack of compressed biscuits and two pieces of chocolate with only half left, and handed them to Tao You, "That's all that's left. You fill your stomach first, the game will be over soon."
Tao You was very hungry, so he didn't pick anything and ate whatever he got.
, until the smell of meat wafted from behind, she remembered that Hong Xiqi had taken several meat buns from Fatty Xiao that morning.
"Qi, didn't you grab several meat buns this morning? Are there any more?" Tao You asked, patting his chest, stretching his neck, and swallowing the biscuits with difficulty.
Hong Xiqi was about to put her schoolbag between the two of them, then changed the direction of her arms in mid-air, turned the schoolbag to her other side and put it down, and then said, "Oh, you said that, that. Eat, you're done. .”
"Have you finished eating?!" Tao You gestured with the size of the buns with his hand and said in surprise, "Have you finished eating all four of these big buns?"
"Well, I'm done eating." Hong Xiqi blinked, stared ahead, and nodded.
Tao You still didn't believe it and asked again, "Are you alone?" She looked Hong Xiqi up and down.
"Oh, alone, hiccup." Hong Xiqi asked and answered, and finally hiccupped.
——Eating four meat buns bigger than your face alone? So hungry? Is watching the game so exhausting? During the time he disappeared, he didn’t reply to messages or calls. He just went to eat steamed buns alone?
It's not that convincing yet.
Tao You slowly chewed the dry biscuits in his mouth, glanced in the direction of Chang San, thought of something, chuckled to himself, and then said, "Are you so hungry? You didn't eat enough this morning? Then how much will you remember tomorrow morning?" Eat something."
"Yeah, I will be full tomorrow morning." Hong Xiqi nodded in agreement while rubbing her half-full belly.
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"Hey, meat buns." After finishing the game on Court 2, Wang Ming and the others followed Coach Tan to the gathering on Court 3, and became interested in the warm meat buns in Gu Yi's hand.
"It looks pretty good. Where did you buy it? From the hotel?" Wang Ming sat down on the other side of the bench, took out a dry towel from his bag and wiped the sweat on his face. "I didn't buy it when I had breakfast. Seeing such a big bun. Give me a bite, I'm starving."
Gu Yi took another bite of the bun, and the juices inside the meat filling overflowed and seeped into the white dough outside, making his mouth water.
"No." Gu Yi swallowed what was in his mouth, licked his oily lips, shook his head and said, "That's it, I don't even have enough to eat."
Wang Ming pointed to the remaining intact bun in the bag at Gu Yi's hand and said, "Don't you have another one? You're not stingy."
"No more." Gu Yi calmly put the remaining bun into his schoolbag, zipped up the bag and held it in his arms. He leaned back on the chair, waved to Wang Ming, and continued to concentrate on eating the bun. .
After wiping the sweat off his body, Wang Ming took out the soaked towel from his back, hung it on the back of the bench to dry, put on his coat, picked up his phone and stood up.
He pointed at the bun in Gu Yi's hand and asked, "Then tell me where you bought it. I'll buy it myself."
As if he was afraid that someone would ask about the bun again, Gu Yi stuffed the rest into his mouth in three or two bites and chewed slowly.
He looked at Wang Ming with slightly raised eyes, a glint of pride in his eyes, and said vaguely, "Can't buy it."
"A gift from someone else?" Wang Ming guessed. When Gu Yi snapped his fingers, he gave up and poured the remaining half bottle of water into his stomach to satisfy his hunger.
Coach Tan put his hands in his pockets and kept pacing back and forth between Court 3 and Court 2, taking out his cell phone from time to time to reply to messages.
"Coach Tan, when are you going to eat?" Wang Ming asked in a drawled voice while eating a small piece of chocolate brought from other team members.
Coach Tan turned around, looked at the time, and said, "The meal will be delivered at 12:00, there are still fifteen minutes left, it will be here soon."
"Don't be listless, we are still broadcasting." He reminded the imageless people sitting on the benches.
Gu Yi patted his belly, grinned at Coach Sun who was standing behind the bench, and said, "Coach Sun, what dishes will we have in a minute? Those spectators eat so well."
"Then you can be a spectator and buy whatever you want. Don't worry, the food will not be bad." Coach Sun blew open the tea leaves from the cup and took a skillful sip of the hot tea.
Gu Yi was relieved when he heard the words 'food is about the same' and burped playfully, "Then I'll eat some later."
"You've already eaten two buns, and you're still hungry?!" Coach Sun gestured with his fingers, and was surprised by Gu Yi's bottomless pit appetite, and sighed, "It's good to be young."
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"Forty-five to fifteen."
The fourth game was coming to an end, and it was about to be a two-player game. Song Yimian slowly opened his eyes.
After taking a breath, he took out the thermos cup placed on the side of his schoolbag, took out a cup of soy milk soaked in hot water, and took a tissue from his pocket to wipe away the water droplets on the outside of the soy milk.
"Song Yimian, what are you doing? It's your game soon!" Coach Tan finally sat down, and when he saw Song Yimian standing up and walking away, he shouted anxiously.
Song Yimian stuffed the soy milk into his pocket, stood still and turned around and said, "Be right back." It was considered a greeting.
He walked straight towards Tao You's position.
As he passed the auditorium, many people inevitably looked at him.
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"Aren't you going to compete? What's wrong?"
Tao You swallowed the last piece of biscuit and glanced at the captain who was still playing.
Seeing that the final double match was about to begin, what was he doing here if he didn't warm up on the sidelines and get ready to play?
"Who will you partner with in doubles later?" Tao You asked curiously.
Song Yimian moved his hand in his pocket and replied calmly, "Captain."
"Are you hungry?" Song Yimian lowered his eyes and saw the empty biscuit packaging bag in Tao You's hand. Without waiting for her to answer, he took out the warm soy milk and handed it to her, "The biscuits are hard to swallow. Drink some soy milk to make it smooth."
