DF Chapter 24

Chapter 24 Sheng Jia has always been this kind of person, she has never changed.

Chapter 24 Sheng Jia has always been this kind of person, she has never changed.

Su Zhaolin’s matter was resolved on the third day.

It turned out that Teacher Fang’s mediation ability was no less than that of a psychologist. She had a long and earnest talk with Su Zhaolin’s sister.

Probably many things are clearer to the bystanders than to the person involved. Su’s sister’s excessive emphasis on her instead made her lose her rationality when facing Su Zhaolin, fearing that she would be hurt.

But that day, Su Zhaolin accepted the suggestions of several people, and after talking with her sister frankly, she gave the two a chance to change the way they get along.

Her sister promised her that she would reduce her probing and give her more freedom.

These promises made Su Zhaolin’s heart blossom. After thoroughly confirming that her sister had really let go of her control and would ask her opinions more in her daily life, she immediately asked Sheng Jia and others to go out to dinner.

This was to express her gratitude.

Her family troubles had troubled her for a long time. Now that she had finally reconciled with her sister, nothing could stop her happy heart these few days.

These two days were the weekend, and it was also the time when Song Ji’an and the others had agreed to explore the marathon route together.

Although Sheng Jia had declared long ago that she would not go, Song Ji’an and Xu Lijing still came to Greenery Cafe early in the morning.

The cafe owner knew about her unsociable personality, but after so many days of getting along, she had long regarded them as her younger sisters. She herself had a bold personality, so she waved her hand and let Song Ji’an and Xu Lijing take Sheng Jia away, and this day was counted as her paid vacation.

Sheng Jia was once again abducted out of the cafe by the two of them, one on each side. At this time, she was even too lazy to struggle, as if she was already used to it.

In fact, it wasn’t just them who came today. The time when various schools were vying for marathon places had long passed. Most of the students who were sure that they could participate were taking advantage of these two days to familiarize themselves with the route.

Song Ji’an and Xu Lijing had carefully analyzed the advantages and disadvantages of each school, and felt that their Jingjiang No. 1 High School did not have a great advantage.

This was both an advantage and a disadvantage. The fact that they didn’t have an advantage meant that other schools didn’t have an advantage either, but it was indeed a bit difficult to determine a winner.

This was also the reason why they decided to call Sheng Jia no matter what.

Sheng Jia knew all the marathon routes like the back of her hand. If Sheng Jia was willing to familiarize herself with the route with them, it would definitely save a lot of time, and maybe she could know in advance what paths to pay attention to on the road.

These were the only two days that several schools could scout the route in advance. For the high school marathon league, all schools in Jingjiang defaulted that the school would not participate in the preparation for the competition, but only provide logistical support, and everything would be done by the students. Then there was no need to mention that four or five years ago, they would specially give a day off for everyone to practice.

Song Ji’an’s little electric scooter was parked outside the door. As soon as she and Xu Lijing pulled Sheng Jia out of the door, they immediately took out a crown that they didn’t know where they had found and put it on Sheng Jia’s head. After putting on the physical tall hat, they immediately put on the verbal tall hat for her.

“Sheng Jia, you are the person in our school who knows the most about marathons, you are the most sensible person in the world, you are the idol we admire, you are…”

“Can you shut up?” Sheng Jia interrupted Xu Lijing’s affectionate reading, and took the note from her hand. The praise for Sheng Jia on it was like a torrential river, to the extent that it could make people die of embarrassment on the spot.

Song Ji’an stood beside her and nodded like a chicken pecking at rice, and quickly followed her words and said to Xu Lijing, “That’s right! Look at you, you didn’t read it with any emotion at all!”

“It’s my fault,” Xu Lijing replied, “Give me another chance.”

Sheng Jia: …

Sheng Jia lowered her head and glanced at the draft paper in her hand, and said expressionlessly, “This is your handwriting, Song Ji’an.”

Song Ji’an touched her nose and laughed, “That’s not important.”

“The most important thing is that we sincerely invite you to come out! For this, we even prepared a vehicle that can definitely match you, to show our sincerity!”

Sheng Jia glanced at the familiar little electric scooter, raised her chin, and the expression on her face only had two words: That’s it?

Song Ji’an leaned against the white car and raised her hand to shake it a few times, enthusiastically like a TV commercial salesman.

“Don’t look at this as a simple little electric scooter. In order to match you, we specially made some modifications. Look at what’s different about this mirror,” Song Ji’an patted the My Little Pony toy added to the mirror.

Xu Lijing cooperated extremely well and pressed the head of the My Little Pony, and saw that after the tails of the two toys buzzed, they spun at high speed like a whirlwind, blowing out a gust of hot air.

Sheng Jia: …

Sheng Jia’s eyes were opened, Sheng Jia was speechless, and was so speechless by this unique design.

Song Ji’an and Xu Lijing looked at each other, and Song Ji’an quickly read out the words she had thought of long ago, “Don’t look at it now that it’s blowing hot air, you can put ice cubes in the heads of My Little Pony, and what comes out later will be cold air!”

Sheng Jia: “Then where are the ice cubes?”

Song Ji’an answered awkwardly: “It was used up by Xu Lijing and me on the way here.”

Sheng Jia: …

Xu Lijing quickly added, “But that’s not important! We can replenish it later!”

“Anything else?”

Song Ji’an: “Look at this seat cushion again.”

Song Ji’an’s little electric scooter has always had a soft leather seat cushion, which is very comfortable, but today, in order to cool off, they added a layer of ice cushion on the seat cushion, or a water ice cushion. Sheng Jia last saw this kind of ice cushion in a pet product pushed by a certain platform. It is said that it is very popular in the pet community this summer.

She lowered her head and lifted the water ice cushion, and sure enough, she found the words of a certain pet company on the trademark.

“What does it feel like to sit on this cushion?” Sheng Jia asked.

Song Ji’an answered sincerely: “You can feel the waves under your butt, it’s very interesting.”

Sheng Jia looked at her, “Anything else?”

“Nothing,” Song Ji’an bit her lip, “In order to invite you out, we prepared a little hastily, is there anything else you need?”

Sheng Jia met her wet eyes and sneered in her heart.

Then she picked up the helmet on the electric scooter and pressed it on Song Ji’an’s head, and said in a low voice, “Then let’s go.”

Song Ji’an’s ears were covered by the helmet, and Sheng Jia’s voice seemed a little hazy. She adjusted the posture of wearing the helmet before sitting in the front seat and greeted Sheng Jia, “Come on, come on.”

Sheng Jia’s gaze turned to Xu Lijing. Xu Lijing patted a black little electric scooter beside her and grinned at Sheng Jia, “Don’t worry about me, I have one too.”

After the three of them sat down, they quickly drove towards the marathon route. When they arrived, they found that most of the Jingjiang No. 1 High School students who had grabbed the spots were already waiting there.

The students who signed up the most this time, besides the physical education students in the third grade, were actually the students in Class One and Class Two. Probably because of Song Ji’an and Su Zhaolin’s mobilization, the two classes had been competing a lot during this period of time, and when they heard that so many people from Class One were going to participate, Class Two also followed.

Some of those who had already familiarized themselves with the route had already started to scout the route, and most of the rest were students from Class One and Class Two who trusted that Song Ji’an could invite Sheng Jia and trusted Sheng Jia. This was a very large team.

Being stared at by so many eyes for the first time, Sheng Jia didn’t panic. She still maintained her usual expressionless appearance, and had Song Ji’an carry her along the coast, while explaining to them which roads to pay attention to for safety, which roads were damaged, and even which side of these marathon roads to run on to shorten the distance.

The number of people following behind was actually only a dozen or so, but the visual effect seemed a bit mighty.

“Sheng Jia, how many marathons have you participated in before?” Song Ji’an couldn’t help but ask.

Sheng Jia hadn’t counted carefully. Her eyebrows frowned slightly, and she only vaguely reported a number, “Five or six times, maybe.”

However, she ran in social events, which didn’t limit age and had basically the same route. After she was twelve years old, her figure stretched out, and she would come to try it every year. Three or four times she won a medium-to-high bonus, probably fluctuating between 10th and 30th place.

After all, social events were different from high school student events. Even professional athletes would come to participate, and the number of people was at least three times more than the high school student league. It was already very difficult for her to win a place.

After running a lot, she became familiar with it. Sheng Jia had long been familiar with these roads.

“That’s amazing,” Song Ji’an said, “With you this time, I think our school will definitely win. Hey?”

She was talking when she was startled by the bumps under her feet. Sheng Jia’s tightly frowned brows didn’t relax, and she only pointed to the road ahead, reminding: “This is one of the main roads of the marathon, but it’s in the downwind direction and is basically negative distance from the beach. Even if it’s cleaned every day this season, sand will still blow onto the road surface, causing it to slip, so you need to be especially careful.”

“A few days ago, there was a car accident here, and some small cracks appeared on the road surface. If it hasn’t been repaired by the day of the marathon, you’d better avoid it in advance.”

Song Ji’an nodded, and the voices of the several small group leaders they had temporarily selected came from the voice chat.

The finish line of this marathon was at Fajin Temple. Halfway through, they needed to pass through a section of mountain road. It wasn’t a very high mountain, just a few small hills, only a few dozen meters high. In order to facilitate travel, the government built asphalt roads in the middle of the mountain road, which together with Fajin Temple became a scenic section along the coast.

Sheng Jia suddenly remembered that Fajin Temple seemed to have a monkey called Danggui. When she came to worship some time ago, the caretaker inside pointed to the back and said that the mountains were Danggui’s.

Those mountains should be these mountains.

Sheng Jia subconsciously looked at both sides of the asphalt road, but didn’t see Danggui’s shadow in the bushes.

There would be supply points along the way, but in order to prevent damage to the natural environment of these mountains, there were no supply points inside the mountains, only supply points on the side of the road at the exit and entrance of the mountains.

There was still a week before the competition started, but preparations had already begun early. The cool sheds and tables for supplies had already been set up. The businesses sponsoring this competition were very active. There were not many times when they could set up free spots in the city, especially this scenic road that many people had been visiting recently. Setting it up one day earlier meant one more day of advertising for themselves.

Even though they were just simply scouting the route, the merchants, who had long figured out the action trajectories of the students over the years, still brought their sponsored products, all kinds of snacks, for free.

After Sheng Jia led the Jingjiang No. 1 High School team through the entire marathon route, she and Song Ji’an rode the little electric scooter back to the stalls at the entrance of the mountain.

There was a sweet and rich fried potato ball supply here. The two had come out early, and one was explaining and the other was leading the team. They had long been hungry, and when they passed by here, they both set their sights on this snack.

Yes, coincidentally, Sheng Jia and Song Ji’an both loved to eat fried potato balls.

The opportunity for them to discover each other’s secret was very funny. When entering the mountain entrance, the aroma floated to their noses. Sheng Jia’s explanation paused, and Song Ji’an’s speed also subconsciously slowed down a bit. After they reacted, one accelerated the explanation speed, and the other accelerated the speed. The journey that originally took more than 20 minutes ended in 15 minutes. The two seemed to have reached some kind of silent agreement.

After the end, they didn’t mention this matter. Sheng Jia got back on the electric scooter, and Song Ji’an just took her directly over. On the way here, both of them looked quite nervous and serious.

Mainly nervous that the potato balls would be gone.

After all, it smelled so good.

But fortunately, when they arrived, there were still a lot of potato balls. The two immediately ate them by the roadside, regardless of their image.

When they finally finished eating one serving, Song Ji’an couldn’t help but laugh.

She had to admit that she and Sheng Jia were getting more and more tacit, but it was a little too cute to be so tacit that they could come to grab snacks together without saying a word.

Of course, Sheng Jia would definitely not admit that such a childish person would be herself.

“After I finish eating, I’m going back to the cafe,” Sheng Jia threw the trash into the trash can and said after looking at the time, “I’m going back to work part-time in the afternoon.”

“But the cafe owner gave you a day off today,” Song Ji’an stretched out her hand to her, and Sheng Jia subconsciously grabbed her hand and pulled her up from the ground, and asked, “Does the cafe owner say that I have a paid day off, so I must do so?”

Sheng Jia was not used to owing others anything, let alone the cafe owner.

She was working to earn money, not to play, and she had her own principles. She didn’t even want to take this morning’s salary.

Song Ji’an was slightly stunned, and then reacted. Indeed, Sheng Jia had always been this kind of person, and she had never changed.

The reason why she contacted Song Ji’an in the first place was because she felt that she owed Song Ji’an.

But after the two had been getting along for a long time, Song Ji’an had gradually forgotten about this matter in Sheng Jia’s and her intimacy.

A trace of annoyance appeared in Song Ji’an’s eyes, and she looked at Sheng Jia expectantly, “Then why didn’t you reject us when we insisted on asking you to come out today?”

Sheng Jia didn’t answer this question. She just took the initiative to get on the electric scooter, “I’ll drive back.”

Song Ji’an sat behind Sheng Jia and sighed slightly, “I’m sorry, did I do something that made it difficult for you again?”

“No, I’m willing to come out with you.” Sheng Jia said slowly, “Because Xu Lijing and the others are quite nice to me, and I want to repay them.”

But her words didn’t make Song Ji’an happy, but instead made her even more worried.

In fact, at this moment, a sentence was lingering in her heart, but she was still hesitant to say it.

——Then these days, your kindness to me, your concessions and tolerance to me, is it also because you want to repay me?

She shouldn’t have said such insecure words.

For some reason, she still didn’t ask this question.

At the same time, the little electric scooter that the two were about to start was blocked by a furry, grinning obstacle.

“Oh my god, how can there be monkeys in the mountains!” the stall owner said in surprise.

Sheng Jia supported herself with her legs and looked at Danggui, who had jumped in front of her.

Danggui obviously still recognized her. After tilting its head and looking at her, it moved over and grabbed her trouser leg.