DF Chapter 17

Chapter 17 A Little Unbearable

Chapter 17 A Little Unbearable

The marathon league is a race held annually in Jingjiang, mainly for high school students, college students, and people in society. There are three times a year, in the spring, summer, and autumn seasons. The social events are not limited to the place of origin, while high school and university events are only open to students in the city.

The main route of the marathon league is the island route around the Jingjiang coastline. This is a tourist event held by the Municipal Sports Bureau. Awards are given to the top 50, and the bonuses for the top three are quite substantial. It is extremely popular outside and attracts many tourists to watch the race every year.

This time, taking advantage of the summer, the municipal government allocated a lot of bonuses for the city-wide high school student marathon league. The first place will receive a bonus of 30,000.

Last year, Xu Lijing and Song Yi both wanted to participate, but their ages did not meet the standards. The marathon is an endurance sport, and high school students under the age of seventeen are prohibited from participating. Moreover, the high school league is the shortest and simplest route in all competitions. The only thing to consider is whether you will suffer from heatstroke in the hot weather.

This year, the ages of several people have met the standards. Song Yi contacted Xu Lijing some time ago, and both of them were willing to participate. Today, after receiving the news, they immediately came to remind her.

Xu Lijing took the flyer handed over by Song Yi and asked Zhang Jing, who was beside her, “I remember that our school also has bonuses for award-winning students who participate in the marathon league, right?”

Zhang Jing nodded, “Indeed, this is a selling point for school enrollment. Every year, the school encourages everyone to participate, and the school will reward an equal amount for winning a place.”

Equal reward, that is, how much reward is obtained in the marathon competition, the school will reward the same amount.

Hearing this, Song Ji’an raised her head from the computer and also took a flyer, but at the same time, Sheng Jia, who didn’t know when she came out of the back kitchen with a drink, also reached out.

Their hands touched together, and Song Ji’an let go and smiled, “Sheng Jia, are you participating?”

Sheng Jia first put the drink on the table, then carefully took the flyer and looked at it. Finally, she nodded and returned it to her, “The time is on the weekend, I will participate.”

Song Ji’an bit her straw, seemingly thinking for a moment, and also said, “I also want to try, I haven’t run a marathon before.”

Several people discussed the route and supply points of this run for a while. In the end, they decided that everyone present would sign up. The store manager sister, who was sitting at the front desk, listened with great interest and quickly said: “Are you all participating? Then I will just go to the supply point on the roadside to set up a stall and cheer for you by the way, right? What do you want to drink? I will secretly freeze it in the freezer for you in advance.”

After hearing this, Song Yi joked, “That’s great. After we drink the sister’s loving special drink, we will be as fast as lightning and bring the trophy back to you?”

The store manager sister was coaxed to smile, “Okay, okay, if you can really win the award, you can order the most expensive ice cream in the store.”

Several people cheered and quickly read the route completely again, and agreed to ride bicycles together to check the route again a week in advance this weekend. Even Sheng Jia stood beside them and listened silently.

While everyone was discussing enthusiastically, Song Ji’an turned her head and asked Sheng Jia in a low voice: “Then will you go together this weekend?”

Sheng Jia shook her head without thinking.

A trace of disappointment appeared in Song Ji’an’s eyes, “I also wanted us to go together and ride a small electric scooter.”

As she said that, she leaned back like a thief, and said in an even lower voice: “Then I will go to check the points this weekend and draw a more detailed map, and bring it to you next Monday.”

Sheng Jia looked down at her and said very seriously, “No need.”

She had grown up in Jingjiang since she was a child. She had walked every street and alley in Jingjiang, from south to north, from east to west, and she knew them by heart. When she was a child, she had no one to take care of her and was afraid of going home, so she always wandered outside alone. In Jingjiang, she never needed a map. She only needed to take a look at the marathon route to know which places she would pass through.

But after thinking about it, she still didn’t explain this matter to Song Ji’an, and turned around and went back to the back kitchen after speaking.

Song Ji’an sighed silently, staring at her back until she couldn’t see her anymore before turning her head back, but the eyes staring at the notebook screen were a little absent-minded.

Suddenly, the phone in her pocket vibrated. She took it out with little interest. When she saw that it was a message sent by Sheng Jia on the lock screen, she was a little stunned and quickly opened it to check.

Sheng Jia: I am already familiar with the marathon route.

Song Ji’an couldn’t help but smile, and the little emotion just now disappeared immediately.

What a familiar Sheng Jia-style proud flavor, just like when she first met Sheng Jia, she said lightly how she had prepared early to deal with Xu Lijing.

And Sheng Jia would actually explain it to her privately, it was really rare.

Song Ji’an immediately typed a reply on her phone.

Song Ji’an: So that’s how it is! No wonder you don’t need to go!

Song Ji’an: [Affirmation from a kitten.jpg]

Xu Lijing, who was sitting beside her, saw her typing quickly and poked her waist, “Who are you chatting with?”

Song Ji’an hid her phone secretly as if her little secret had been discovered, and said with a smile: “It’s nothing, where did you guys talk about?”

Sheng Jia in the back kitchen saw Song Ji’an’s face smiling again through the gap in the curtain, and didn’t continue to look, nor did she look at the message on her phone.

She told herself that she still needed Song Ji’an’s friendship now, and she always had to give her a little hope of seeing the progress of their relationship.

But no matter what the brain said, it couldn’t change the fact that her hand was faster than her brain and sent the message out, just because she saw Song Ji’an’s frowning, disappointed eyes, and felt a little unbearable again.

Objectively speaking, Song Ji’an is a very good person, a confident and generous girl, perhaps no normal person would be so willing to let the gloom gather in her eyes.

Sheng Jia lowered her eyes and looked at her rough, calloused hands, and didn’t continue to think about it.

She didn’t know if she was in the ranks of normal people, but at this moment she hoped that she could be more ruthless when facing Song Ji’an in the future.

–

What came before the marathon was the monthly exam results.

The results of the monthly exam generally come out within a week, and the time for this result to come out was Thursday.

But the homeroom Teacher Liu was beaming when she distributed the papers this time, obviously something good had happened.

“Our class did very, very well this time,” Liu Yidong said with a smile: “The first and second and fourth places in the grade are all in our class, and the average total score of the six subjects has maintained the first place in the grade.”

As soon as her voice fell, anxious classmates quickly asked: “Teacher, how many of our six subjects have an average score that exceeds the next class?”

Liu Yidong scolded with a smile, “I was about to say it, why are you so anxious?”

“This time, the average score of four subjects in our class exceeded the second class next door, congratulations to everyone.”

The class was quiet for a moment, and then everyone let out a earth-shattering cheer.

“Quiet, quiet, I still have something to finish,” Liu Yidong knocked on the podium, and after everyone’s excitement passed, she continued: “The school held a meeting yesterday and decided to conduct a commendation for each monthly exam in the future, and award scholarships to outstanding individuals and outstanding students. There will also be mock exams in the future, and this time there are 20 students in our class who have entered the top 50 in the grade, and they can all receive scholarships, and our class ranking will also allow our class to receive a reward.”

Hearing this, Zhang Mingyue asked curiously: “Has our school made a fortune?”

Jingjiang No. 1 High School is a public high school, funded by financial allocations. If you say it’s short of money, it certainly won’t be too short, but it won’t be so generous to give so many people and classes scholarships, and it will be given after every monthly exam. Even if you calculate it casually, you know that this is not a small amount of money.

Under the efforts of Principal Lu Jing and Vice-Principal Qi Zhiyuan, everyone loves their alma mater very much and has a strong sense of belonging, but they also know the characteristics of these two people very well. Now the school is in a period of expansion, and the two of them are so stingy that it is absolutely impossible to easily take out such a large amount of money to encourage senior high school students.

Liu Yidong has always had a good relationship with the class, like friends. Hearing this, she secretly closed the doors and windows before saying in a low voice: “There is a sponsorship, specially used to reward outstanding talents in our school. The principal and them will also talk about this at the monthly exam meeting, but you asked, so I will reveal the bottom line to you in advance. It is a very large enterprise, and they will also give priority to selecting outstanding graduates from our school for future work.”

“Wow.”

“Which company is it?”

This time, facing everyone’s inquiries, Liu Yidong no longer leaked secrets, but started distributing test papers with a smile, preparing to start explaining the test papers.

When Sheng Jia got her report card and six test papers, she saw the words “first in total score” on it. On the surface, there was nothing, but she still breathed a sigh of relief in her heart.

This time, the second place belonged to Song Ji’an who transferred, the third place was Su Zhaolin, and the fourth place was Meng Yeran. Except for Song Ji’an who intervened, the ranking of the top few basically did not change.

The total scores of Song Ji’an and Su Zhaolin in the 14th line were only one or two points apart. Even Sheng Jia this time barely kept the first place, only five points higher than Song Ji’an in second place.

The next class was physical education class, and there was also a large class break in the middle, which was equivalent to having nearly 80 minutes of free activity time. The students in the class went downstairs sporadically, and most of the discussions in their mouths were about the mysterious enterprise that sponsored the generous donation this time and the fact that they won the second class in the first battle.

When the students in the class had almost gone down, Song Ji’an, who was habitually waiting for Sheng Jia, put down the pen for doing the questions and looked back at her.

But this time, Sheng Jia had already cleaned up the desk and was also looking at her.

Before Song Ji’an could speak, Sheng Jia slowly asked, “The mysterious enterprise, is it your family?”