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Her Mountain, Her Sea - Chapter 10

Published at 13th of May 2022 06:44:49 AM


Chapter 10

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Chapter 10 – Shoes

The autumn sports meeting of Nanlin No. 1 High School took place not long after the midterm exams. The sports meeting of their school was quite large. Every year, teachers and students participated together, and many parents also came to watch it.

After the tense mid-term exam, that kind of sports helped some students who failed to get good grades, allowing them to quickly participate in group activities and temporarily forget the cruel reality.

The sports committee member was a tall, dark-skinned boy who liked to play basketball. Two days ago, he was still wailing about the bad midterm exam results. Hearing the headteacher mention the sports meeting, he immediately got excited. The exam results were thrown aside. Resurrected, holding the printed item list and asking the people in the class one by one, urging everyone to participate in the competition.

He was cheerful and funny and he was well-known in the class. All of the projects were allocated, and at least one person participated in each project. In the end, no one was willing to go to the women’s 3,000-meter long-distance race.

The sports committee found a few girls and those few shook their heads and refused.

“Hei Pi, my small body can’t run 800 meters. I would collapse on the spot!”

“I can skip rope, I can’t stand running, I can’t run!”

“Don’t look at me, I have already chosen 1,500 and it is impossible to run another 3,000.”

“Hey, don’t ask me, I’ve been chosen by you for the high jump. I can’t even jump. When the time comes, I will break my leg. Why do I need to run!”

He stared at the back table and shook his head in defeat. he walked past them and ran to the group of girls behind.

“Oh, Luo Zhengli, you have not chosen a project yet. One person has to have at least one project, everyone has to choose.”

One girl said, “I just had my periods, my stomach hurts, can I not participate?”

Hei Pi: “That won’t work. No one has chosen the girl’s three kilometers. Who will do it?”

“It doesn’t matter if boys have three kilometers, why do girls have them too!”

“Yeah, I can’t run down four hundred meters.”

The last few people chose the skipping rope or throwing shot puts but the three kilometers were still vacant.

“Didn’t Chi Tang and You Yu miss the election? Let Chi Tang go. She used to fight with people. She should be able to run. And You Yu, was she not in a remote mountain village before? She must be able to run.” Luo Zhengli said.

His eyes lit up when he heard this, “Yes, You Yu is sure to endure hardships, not as squeamish as you.”

“You are squeamish!”

The sports committee member smiled and ran quickly, ran to the table of You Yu and Chi Tang, put one hand on the edge of the table between the two of them, put down the schedule, and asked expectantly: “You Yu, our class is in the women’s 3,000-meter event. No one chose it, so you and Chi Tang are the only ones left. Can you or Chi Tang do a three-kilometer distance?”

You Yu raised his head and agreed, “Yes, I will do three kilometers.”

Chi Tang just stopped writing and frowned upon hearing this, “You just agreed?”

You Yu looked at her doubtfully: “What’s the matter?”

Chi Tang: “I will do it if others don’t want to do it?”

You Yu: “It’s okay, I can run.”

Chi Tang was upset, threw her pen, and stared at the Hei Pi in front of her.

Hei Pi was taken aback by her. She could joke about everything she said to other people before.

He didn’t say a word and he let go of the edge of the table and hesitated: “Follow me. You Yu is very good. She can run every sport run. She will win honor for our class.”

You Yu paused and asked her, “Or do you want to run three kilometers?”

She remembered that Chi Tang insisted on finishing every PE class.

Hei Pi quickly agreed: “If you want to run, then you run three kilometers together, I will remember your two names.”

Chi Tang: “Run a fart, I’ll jump long!”

Hei Pi: “Fine, your long jump.”

After writing them down, he quickly slipped away.

As a result, after class was over shortly after Chi Tang left, Hei Pi slipped over and said to You Yu: “I’d like to inform you that you have to wear running shoes or sneakers suitable for running shoes. Prepare yourself.”

You Yu paused, “Okay, I see.”

You Yu bought a pair of white rubber shoes and put them washed under the bed.

Luo Zhengli went back to the bedroom and saw it, and said casually: “She finally bought shoes. I think she didn’t change her pair of cloth shoes for half a semester. The smell was so stinky!”

You Yu was not in the bedroom, but Chi Tang had just come back. When she heard these words, she took a bottle of water in her hand and drank two mouthfuls of water, and then threw the remaining water at Luo Zhengli’s feet. The water in the bottle splashed Luo Zhengli. It was all over her bed, and her bed was wet.

“Ah-you! You are sick!”

Chi Tang walked over a few steps, raised her foot, and kicked the side of her bed.

You Yu did only have a pair of cloth shoes. She didn’t change and wash them. The shoes would smell if they were worn for a long time. Luo Zhengli said it in the dormitory before, yelling about why someone’s shoes stunk so bad.

Something was smelling, but You Yu knew immediately that she was talking about herself. After that, she washed her shoes at least twice a week, and every time she came back at night to wash them and put them outside to dry, and then wear them the next day.

If the weather was fine, the shoes were of course good. If it rained, they couldn’t dry overnight and the shoes would still be wet the next morning. You Yu would wear them to class for the day.

It had been rainy for a while, Chi Tang was in a particularly bad mood, looking at the puddles on the road was not pleasing to the eye.

“Luo Zhengli, you look at your shoes, you have worn your shoes for a month and put them under the bed without washing, and you still care about others. Are you disgusting?”

Chi Tang swept all the shoes under her bed and threw them out.

When You Yu returned to the dormitory from the teaching building, she passed by the field and saw a figure jogging inside. The figure was familiar.

“Chi Tang.”

Chi Tang was wearing headphones, and the loud electronic music almost broke through her eardrums, making her unable to hear the outside world.

You Yu stood there and waited for her to run nearby before shouting again: “Chi Tang, why are you running at this time?”

Chi Tang didn’t hear but she saw You Yu, took off her earphones, and asked, “Going back to the dormitory so early today?”

Then she walked towards her and went back to the dormitory with her.

The two returned to the dormitory, and You Yu found that the dormitory was quiet. Nobody spoke. Luo Zhengli sat on her bed and wrote notes, her eyes were red and swollen as if she had cried.

Chi Tang’s expression was cold, she didn’t talk to anyone, and went straight to wash.

The next morning for self-study, the students all ran to eat breakfast. You Yu went upstairs after eating and suddenly heard someone talking in the stairwell above, it was Wang Jiaoyang, a classmate in their class.

You Yu remembered him. When Chi Tang had just become her deskmate, Wang Jiaoyang had come to talk to Chi Tang several times, but Chi Tang had ignored him, so he slowly stopped going.

He said in a bad tone: “My girlfriend Luo Zhengli said you bullied her, what’s the matter?”

Chi Tang stood in front of him, stopped by him, her expression was not very good, “You talked to Luo Zhengli? Then you are a perfect match, brain disabled and mentally disabled.”

Wang Jiaoyang held back his anger: “Be careful when you speak. I won’t hit a woman, but I warn you, don’t go too far. Next time, see if I will hit you!”

Chi Tang sneered, “If you don’t hit a woman, I will hit a woman, and I will warn you. If your stupid girlfriend inexplicably targets You Yu next time, I will not throw her shoes, I will just throw her.”





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