The next morning, halfway through breakfast, some team members were still yawning and going downstairs one after another. Coach Tan received the news and left in a hurry without going to the competition venue with the team.
At the same time, the head coaches of various schools also left.
Especially the coach from No. 13 Middle School who strode away, the expression on his face was as cold as the cold air outside.
The team members were all curious. They kept eating breakfast and gossiping in low voices with their friends.
Today's game hadn't even started yet, and all the coaches were called away. Coupled with the similar serious expressions on those coaches' faces when they left, I knew that nothing particularly good was going to happen.
"Those who have finished eating, go to the lobby and stand for a while to digest yourself, or wait in the car. Don't just sit here, and give your place to the players who have just come down to eat." Coach Sun shuttled among the players of No. 1 Middle School. The same sentence was repeated between positions.
Tao You woke up on time one minute before the sound in his head, and spent another fifteen minutes getting Hong Xiqi up together. When he came down to eat, there were not many people in the restaurant, just in time to catch the first wave of breakfast dishes. The most abundant time.
There were so many delicious foods when they woke up early in the morning, and the two of them happily ate their breakfast.
After listening to Coach Sun's words, he consciously cleared the plates. Before leaving, he went to the food selection table and took away two tea eggs, a meat bun and half an apple.
After coming out of the restaurant, the two of them did not stay in the lobby for long. Instead, they leaned against one of the stone lions at the gate to bask in the sun.
"Xiao Youyou," Hong Xiqi bit the half-frozen apple with great enthusiasm, "Coach Tan and the others were called away so early in the morning, could it be the incident in No. 13 Middle School... Bar?"
Before she could finish her words, other contestants who had finished eating came out to bask in the sun while waiting for the bus.
Hong Xiqi's voice was loud. They also heard the three words "Thirteenth Middle School" in her mouth, and they all pricked up their ears and waited for her next words. Did something big happen last night that they didn't know about? !
Thirteenth middle school?
What's going on in Thirteenth Middle School again?
Why is this year's competition so nonstop...
I thought it would be boring without a game this morning, but it looks like it won’t be the case anymore...
If they hadn't been social gangsters like the aunts who could chat with strangers for a long time just by grabbing a bag of peanuts and melon seeds at the entrance of the village, they would have really wanted to unpack the snacks and go up to exchange a few words with Hong Xiqi.
But Hong Xiqi stopped talking. She tilted her head and glanced at the contestants who were pretending to stretch. She took the last bite of the apple and made a clicking sound, and then pursed her lips tightly.
Why did she have the illusion that she was standing at the entrance of the village chatting with Tao You.
Before the conclusive facts came out, it was better for her to say less about this kind of thing. If it was passed around by them...she didn't want to be the unlucky guy who took the blame in the end.
Those people waited for a while without waiting for the next step. Their ears twitched in unison, and when they glanced sideways, they happened to meet Hong Xiqi's squinting eyes.
"Ahem."
"Have you brought your water bottle?"
"Okay, okay, how did you eat for breakfast? I'm so full, now let's move around."
"Me too, me too."
"What time did you go to bed last night? Did you sleep well?"
"...We are in the same room..."
"..."
Those people turned their backs, bent down, raised their legs, and stretched their hands in even more exaggerated movements, and the words they spoke seemed to be specifically meant for certain people.
Hong Xiqi silently pulled Tao You further away, making sure those people couldn't hear their chat, then took out the stuffed meat bun wrapped in paper towels from her pocket, took one bite, and her mouth burst with juice. She shook her head contentedly.
"Xiao Youyou, do you think what I said is right?"
No matter how fierce the morning sun is, it still can't stop the overwhelming feeling
Chill all night long.
Tao You faced the sun, half-squinted his eyes lazily, pulled up the scarf at the collar, put his hands in his pockets and shrugged, "I looked when I went out this morning, and the people in the rooms next to it were not seven. The winning ones are the members of No. 3 Middle School.”
"So, the sound you heard last night must be from one of these two schools."
Hong Xiqi had no spare hands, so she stamped her foot, "Let me tell you. The braided guy in No. 13 Middle School moves very fast."
"Today, those students from No. 7 Middle School in the elevator were chatting so happily. But when they saw us entering, they all shut up. They were pulling each other, looking at each other, and kept glancing at us. They really looked at us. blind."
"It's obvious at first glance. And they came down from the upper floor, but the upper floors are basically the rooms of the staff, referees, and organizers, except for the extra players and coaches who are arranged In the room upstairs."
"So many of them came down from upstairs early in the morning..." Hong Xiqi said, looking at each other with Tao Huqi, and suddenly smiled, "These people in No. 7 Middle School are quite cunning. If you knock on the door so early, aren't you afraid that the person in charge hasn't woken up yet?"
There are more and more people at the gate, and buses are arriving in an orderly manner and queuing up at the gate.
Tao You sipped his saliva, and after struggling to smooth down the egg yolk that was stuck in his throat, he patted his chest twice, "What the people from No. 7 Middle School did upstairs this morning is just a guess on our part. Tan The specific reason why the coach and the others were called away will have to wait until he comes back. We must not speak out confidently about things that we have no evidence for, let alone things that we are not sure about."
Hong Xiqi nodded in understanding, but then curled her lips, "But now apart from this, there is nothing else that would make all the coaches go to the meeting early in the morning. People from No. 7 Middle School are so busy early in the morning. , maybe other people have also seen it. Even if we don't say it, others will go out and talk nonsense, and those people in No. 7 Middle School may be eager to publicize their great deeds. "
Tao You put another tea egg into his schoolbag, then turned around and handed Hong Xiqi a mint candy, "Let's not talk too much. Others can say whatever they like, at least this way they won't be found in the end."
"In this way, we will pretend not to know anything for a while and wait until Coach Tan comes back." Tao You chewed up the mint and swallowed it, staring at the pebbles on the ground, "I guess we'll wait. Before we could tell it ourselves, Coach Tan would come to us first."
Hong Xiqi rubbed her chin and nodded, "Well, just the braided man and the team members who followed him... Tsk, it would be weird not to drag us in. After all, they don't know who brought them in now." Just pay it forward."
"Being stabbed by one's partner...Tsk, tsk, tsk, this feels so uncomfortable."
Hong Xiqi suddenly had an idea, "Will they think it was us who told the truth, and then come to trouble us? After all, we didn't agree to work with them, so we are the most suspicious now..."
It's really possible...
What is this all about...
"What's so uncomfortable? What suspicion? What are you talking about? Is there some new suspense drama?" Gu Yi suddenly appeared behind the two of them with the same meat bun in his mouth.
Tao You reflexively picked up his schoolbag and threw it back.
"Ah!" Gu Yi raised his head and took a step back.
"...I'm sorry." Tao You put away his schoolbag and apologized, "It wasn't hurt, was it?"
Hong Xiqi was so frightened that the last bite of the bun stuck in her chest and she couldn't get it off, so she coughed several times.
"You bastard, why are you talking behind the scenes? Where did this problem come from?" Hong Xiqi frowned in discomfort, seeing Gu Yi rubbing half of his face in a pitiful manner, "You deserve it."
Tao You's bag was made of canvas. Gu Yi didn't feel much pain on his face at first, not even redness or swelling, until he saw that his hand holding the bag was empty, and most of the bag fell to the ground, stained I couldn't eat the sewage, so I felt a faint feeling on my face.
It really hurts, "Oh~ my buns..."
"Get in the car first." Song Yimian just walked out of the hotel. Seeing Gu Yi's face full of regret, he just glanced at it twice and waved to Tao You and the others.
After getting in the car, Hong Xiqi couldn't wait to share what she saw and heard with Song Yimian and the other two.
"Here I go, this braided man is really determined to cause trouble." Gu Yi yawned and peeled an orange. He overslept in the morning and almost finished all the delicious food when he went downstairs. Even the buns were snatched from the plates of other team members.
Hearing Hong Xiqi's passionate description, he complained in cooperation, "The people in No. 7 Middle School are more ruthless than us. As soon as the front foot agrees, the back foot reports. They still have some brains, don't you think so, Brother Mian?"
Song Yimian put down his schoolbag and sat down on his seat. When he saw other team members getting on the bus, he did not answer Gu Yi's question directly, "Just wait and see what happens. Don't rush to talk now."
"Song Yimian, do you know what Coach Tan is going to do?" The team members who got on the bus did not sit down in a hurry, but stood in the aisle and asked.
There was always a sixth sense that told him that Song Yimian and the other four knew something about Coach Tan's departure.
"Yes, yes, I heard from the members of No. 3 Middle School that it seemed that someone from No. 7 No. 1 reported the incident to No. 13 No. 1."
"Report? What are they reporting?"
"Then I don't know. Song Yimian, do you know?"
Gu Yi and Hong Xiqi looked at each other, turned around and covered each other's mouths tightly to prevent the other from leaking even a word.
Seeing this action of the two men, several team members seemed to understand something and wanted to dig deeper for effective information.
Song Yimian fastened his seat belt on his waist, looked at the expectant eyes of several people, opened his mouth lightly, but said nothing.
Several people leaned forward, waiting anxiously.
Several more team members came up from behind, and the aisle was blocked, so I found an empty seat in front and sat down to catch up on my sleep.
The few people waited anxiously and glanced at Tao You who had closed his eyes. They changed their minds and turned to ask Gu Yi, "Gu Yi, do you know?"
Gu Yi's eyes widened, and he felt the hand on his mouth cover his mouth even harder. He could hardly breathe, sobbed and shook his head, "Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu... .”
Unspeakable...unspeakable...
Hong Xiqi pushed Gu Yi's big hand away and said, "What did the Thirteenth Middle School tell the people from the Seventh Middle School last night? We don't know anything. Stop asking. Just go and talk to yourself." Take your seat and you’ll find out when Coach Tan comes back from the meeting. No need to rush, just read more about the information distributed yesterday and prepare for today’s game.”
Gu Yi wanted to rescue him urgently, but it was too late. He looked at Hong Xiqi's little mouth and kept talking from beginning to end.
Tao You and Song Yimian looked at each other helplessly and closed their eyes in tacit understanding.
"last night?!"
"What do you really know?!"
"Tell me, tell me, what do you know?"
Several team members pestered Hong Xiqi and refused to leave easily.
Hong Xiqi, who had realized that she had let slip something, pressed her lips tightly into her mouth, refusing to say another word.
It wasn't until Coach Sun got on the bus and yelled rudely that the team members surrounding Hong Xiqi and Gu Yi dispersed.
