Chapter 36: Lu Ran VS Lin Shu
"You... what are you waiting for me to do?"
"You seem to hate me so much that you don't want to see me."
Lin Shu said in a very serious tone.
Jiang Nuan swallowed her saliva, thinking that this is her own home, what is there to be afraid of!
"Yeah! Don't tell me you still think you're likable?"
"Why? You said you wanted me to come to the door and apologize to Coach Jiang in person, and I did it. Then what else could I do to make you unhappy?"
Lin Shu stood there and asked.
Jiang Nuan remembered that when he left home, Lin Shu seemed to have some sad eyes.
"What kind of grievance do we have, how about we talk about it tonight?"
"become!"
Jiang Nuan also felt that it was very tiring to hide from the other party like this, or to be upset with the other party.
"Okay, say it." Lin Shu returned to Jiang Nuan's chair and sat down. He was clearly the one who was accused by Jiang Nuan, but how could he look at this guy's imposing manner.
"First of all, I don't like you doing things to girls!" Jiang Nuan touched his wrist.
"Oh..." Lin Shu nodded and touched his mouth, probably smiling, "You girls are really careful, I was teasing you at the time, but I wouldn't really twist your wrist."
"You're kidding me? I'm still in pain!"
It hurts just thinking about it.
Lin Shu spread his hands: "Okay, this is my fault, I'm sorry. I sincerely apologize to you."
His gaze fell on Jiang Nuan's wrist, and he added: "I didn't notice that your wrist was so thin at the time. It was an accidental injury."
"That's right. I don't like your attitude of competing with Lu Ran either. On the field, and our fencing field is always changing, we don't know what will happen in the next second. Since the referee has made a verdict, he thinks that In the last battle between you and Lu Ran, your initiative and aggression were not as good as Lu Ran's, so it was decided that Lu Ran won. You can either appeal or win him in the next game. , Don't you feel that you are narrow-minded?"
Lin Shu frowned, but he didn't look like he was going to be angry.
"Did you say that because you like Lu Ran?"
"I...I like Lu Ran?" Jiang Nuan looked at him with round eyes, "Oh...Did you think I went to Haichuan University with him...is there a misunderstanding? He is my father's student. , and live upstairs in my house, we must be familiar with each other, but I must be my own intuitive feeling that you are not broad-minded enough."
Lin Shu lowered his eyes and smiled.
There are so many meanings in this smile that Jiang Nuan couldn't sort it out for a while.
"Well, what you said makes sense. I've been immersed in the unbalanced force of that sword and can't get out, and it's not a good thing.
Thank you for speaking up. " Lin Shu replied.
Jiang Nuan was a little surprised that this guy didn't justify himself at all.
"Is there anything else that I dissatisfied with you?"
"And... your attitude towards girls."
As soon as Jiang Nuan finished speaking, Lin Shu showed a surprised expression.
"There's still more? I have so many things that don't please you."
Jiang Nuan nodded.
Lin Shu showed an expression of giving up treatment, waved his hand and was said, "You continue, you continue."
"You don't have much respect for girls. When you were watching the game at Haichuan University that day, you must know that the girl who gave you eggs to put on your eyes likes you, right?"
"so what?"
"If you like her, you should treat her well and cherish her kindness to you. If you don't like her, don't give her unrealistic expectations, don't let her give you so much but you don't intend to give her It's selfish to respond."
Jiang Nuan's mind suddenly remembered the Lu Ran who turned and left in front of Lin Mixia that night, the Lu Ran who was standing in the corner of the playground and had a showdown with Zhou Yan.
"Maybe being surrounded by girls makes you feel very fulfilled, but your attitude will hurt the person you really like in the future, and it will also hurt these girls who think they can have the opportunity to be with you. I know very well that you I didn't intend to give them a chance at all. Vanity lets you enjoy them in silence."
Lin Shu looked into Jiang Nuan's eyes and exhaled after a long time.
"You'll hurt me if you're so sharp."
"Then I won't say it." Jiang Nuan lowered his head.
She also felt that she was too direct.
But... euphemism is not her specialty!
"No, if you don't say it, who will tell me this. Is there anything else?" Lin Shu asked again.
"No." Jiang Nuan shook his head.
"Look, you said something so sharp and straightforward that hurt my self-esteem, and I didn't come forward to twist your wrist. Do you think I'm really that annoying?"
After expressing his dissatisfaction with this guy, Jiang Nuan really felt that the person in front of him was not so annoying anymore.
"Then let's get to know each other again. Hello, I'm Lin Shu from Haichuan No. 1 Middle School." Lin Shu stretched out his hand towards Jiang Nuan, "I promise not to twist your wrist from now on."
"Hello, I'm Jiang Nuan from the High School Affiliated to Nanshi Normal University." Jiang Nuan stretched out his hand, and Lin Shu held it.
"Your hands are so small."
"Where is it so small!"
When Lin Shu held her, she realized that his tiger's mouth had grown into a cocoon, which showed that he must be very diligent in his sword practice.
"It must be considered small among the girls who practice swords."
Lin Shu opened the door and walked out.
Jiang Nuan closed the door and exhaled.
The next morning, after Jiang Nuan and Lu Ran went for a morning run, they went to Coach Shen's place.
Coach Shen looked at Jiang Nuan very seriously, and the other children who were learning swords here were also standing not far away, wanting to approach but not daring to approach.
"Jiang Nuan, you can do it! You are obviously the daughter of Coach Jiang, but you came to us. Are you here to steal the teacher? So that the students brought by your father can beat us all in the club league?"
"No... My dad didn't let me practice swords before..." Jiang Nuan's voice was as low as a mosquito humming.
"Jiang Nuan, since you're leaving here to 'Huaifeng', as your former coach, I have to remind you not to lose face. In this summer's National Middle School Fencing Championships, if you don't have a decent result, I'll really beat you up."
"Yes, Coach Shen, I remember it."
"Go... When you play, we will still cheer you on." Coach Shen's voice was filled with reluctance towards Jiang Nuan.
"Thank you Coach Shen. A teacher for one day, a father for life!" Jiang Nuan sniffed.
"Then you didn't kowtow to me when you entered, and you held your head high when you left."
Jiang Nuan had a feeling of being "expelled from his teacher's door", and walked to the door with a sadness in his arms.
He Zheng held the mask in his hand and followed behind her.
"Hey, Brother Nuan, are you going to cry?"
"Okay, He Zheng, I'm going to leave here, you don't need to call me brother anymore."
"Okay, Jiang Nuan. I just want to tell you that although fencing doesn't have a place to practice like basketball and football, if you think that few high school students are good at fencing, then you are wrong. I have been to the whole country. Those in the middle school championships know that there are so many talented people there, it's more like a thousand troops crossing a single-plank bridge than the college entrance examination." He Zheng, who is usually not very serious in class, rarely showed such a serious expression.
All of a sudden, the image has become tall and handsome, and he is a lot more handsome.
"Well, when I leave here, you'll be the one to take control. Don't be ashamed during the game." Jiang Nuan lightly beat the opponent with his fist.
"Shame? Dude, when did I feel ashamed!"
"Who was the one who was slashed to the ground by a sword last year?" Jiang Nuan asked back.
"It's not ashamed to be hacked to the ground by Lu Ran." He Zheng smiled.
Jiang Nuan left under He Zheng's eyes.
At this time, in the Huaifeng Fencing Club, the 16- and 17-year-olds were doing warm-up exercises.
Xu Zitian reluctantly pressed Lin Shu's leg, while Lu Ran was beside him, pressing Mu Sheng's leg.
Lin Shu whispered, "Lu Ran, do you know what color Jiang Nuan's pajamas are?"
Mu Sheng, who was pressed by Lu Ran's leg, immediately showed a difficult expression and secretly shouted "not good".
Xu Zitian's silly hat asked, "What color is it!"
Mu Sheng really wanted to hang him up and beat him.
"Pink, printed with SpongeBob SquarePants." Lin Shu said with a smile.
Mu Sheng frowned, because Lu Ran's hand on his shoulder almost crushed his bones.
"I shook hands with her yesterday. Her hands are very small. I didn't expect to be able to hold the sword so firmly on the field."
Mu Sheng really wanted to kick this Lin Shu to death.
If you don't speak, no one will treat you as dead!
"Ah-" Mu Sheng groaned, suspecting that his waist would be crushed by Lu Ran.
In order to save himself, Mu Sheng had to speak, he thought that he must give Lu Ran a chance to repair Lin Shu.
"Look, time is very precious... It's better to take advantage of the good air in the morning, you two come to a game first, let us feel the atmosphere, observe and learn." Mu Sheng said.
"Okay! You've just started practicing, you don't have to listen to the nonsense of the coach for a long time!" Xu Zitian finally didn't demolish Mu Sheng's stage, thank God.
Lu Ran left Mu Sheng, walked to the seat, picked up the face shield, and clearly wanted to compete with Lin Shu.
Lin Shu smiled, came to Lu Ran lazily, lowered his voice and asked, "Lu Ran, do you like Jiang Nuan?"
Lu Ran didn't answer him, but picked up his sword, pressed the tip of the sword with his fingers, and walked to a kendo.
Lin Shu also picked up his mask, put it on, and walked across from Lu Ran.
The atmosphere instantly changed from being loose at the beginning to being tense and chilling.
Other trainees and athletes who were warming up were nearby.
Lu Ran raised his finger and pointed at Mu Sheng, Mu Sheng swallowed his saliva and came to the vicinity of Kendo, signaling "prepare".
The gestures of the two standing there were standard to the model level, and the sense of strength that was about to break at any time made everyone present nervous.
With Mu Sheng's "start", the two rushed towards each other, as if they were about to smash each other into pieces.
The speed was too fast, and to determine whether there was a light on the metal clothes, Mu Sheng could only express "interaction", and no one scored.
But with this sword, the speed and explosiveness displayed by both sides have stunned the audience.
What followed was a confrontation full of gunpowder. Lu Ran's slashing seemed to be a single simple attack, but the ingenious angle and the big stride raid made it difficult for Lin Shu to defend, and he lost a point first.
Immediately, Lin Shu started a fast-paced attack, constantly intimidating Lu Ran, but was blocked by Lu Ran, followed by a defensive counterattack, Lin Shu gritted his teeth and took a risky fake move to lead Lu Ran to shoot, and finally stabbed Lu Ran in the shoulder to score.
The two went back and forth, extremely thrilling, five or six swords came down, and Mu Sheng, who was temporarily the referee, was about to forget to score.
At this time, Jiang Huai and a few coaches came over and found that this murderous practice match had already started, and they all looked at each other in dismay.
"Mu Sheng, what's going on?" Jiang Huai asked.
"That...they...they didn't want to waste time and started fighting."
Mu Sheng held back and said: Oh my master, they fought for your daughter!
It is estimated that Jiang Huai never thought that her daughter would be so hot in her life.
"...What's the score now?"
"Well, it should be five to five..."
Just as he was talking, Lu Ran swayed the opponent with a neat fake move that would split Lin Shu in half, and then changed the rhythm and hit Lin Shu's waist directly.
This series of movements looked smooth and neat, the fake movements were too real to be real, the audience applauded, but coach Jiang Huai frowned slightly.
"Why is Lu Ran a little emotional?"
"Well, it's six to five... Lu Ran is one sword ahead... The rest of the master, you're the referee, I'm nervous when I see it!"
Mu Sheng quickly retreated behind Jiang Huai, for fear that one would accidentally become a target for the two of them.
Although Lu Ran's sword was full of emotions, this emotion did not make him lose his calm completely, he quickly pressed Lin Shu's pace, and he was about to push Lin Shu to the end, but Lin Shu took every step of the way, showing his superb Jiang Huai was worried that Lin Shu would suddenly counterattack, but Lu Ran deliberately seized the moment Lin Shu counterattacked and struck back with a thrilling sword, hitting Lin Shu on the shoulder.
There was warm applause from all around.
The score progressed to 14-12.
Mu Sheng's back and palms were full of sweat.
When the last sword of the practice match came, Lin Shujian slanted sharply but was murderous. He was about to hit Lu Ran's left chest, but Lu Ran avoided it sideways, and Mu Sheng's eyes were about to pop out.
Immediately after Lu Ran turned from defense to attack, he changed his steps three times in a row, cross step followed by long lunge, cross step and cross step. He seemed to be stabbing but suddenly stopped and pulled his arm back. The moment he started, a sword slanted westward and hit Lin Shu on the shoulder, scoring a strong score.
Lin Shu took off the mask and shook his arms vigorously, but he never threw the mask out.
He clamped his face guard and stroked his sweaty hair back.
In this practice match, the level of the two of them is too high, and the people watching around them are both admirable and afraid, because meeting either of them on the field, there will be a kind of fear of "this is the end".
Lu Ran took off his mask and adjusted his breathing. He was still the lonely one, but he didn't expect him to go in Lin Shu's direction and stretch out his hand to him.
Lin Shu was a little surprised, Lu Ran patted Lin Shu on the shoulder, his voice was low but powerful.
"Yes, I just like her."
The moment he let go, he heard Jiang Nuan's clear voice: "What - you guys are finished! I haven't seen it yet!"
Lin Shu smiled and walked towards Jiang Nuan, making a gesture of hugging her, but Jiang Nuan avoided it.
"You guys... why don't you compare again?" Jiang Nuan looked in Lu Ran's direction.
Lu Ran lowered his head, took a bottle of mineral water, unscrewed the cap and drank half of the bottle.
Mu Sheng covered his eyes and thought to himself: Compare again, do you think the duel is not exciting enough?
"I lost to Lu Ran, are you happy? I lost two points." Lin Shu said with his sword in hand.
"Ayo, you still admit that you lost, it's rare."
At this time, Jiang Huai said, "Jiang Nuan, you go to warm up and then change your clothes. There are a few senior sisters here, you can practice with them and let us touch your bottom."
At this time, Lin Shu smiled: "Coach Jiang, you let these beautiful senior sisters fight against Jiang Nuan, isn't that stingy?"
A few girls who were one or two years older than Jiang Nuan laughed: "Don't worry, we will show mercy to the little junior sister."
At this time, Lu Ran walked past them and said, "Jiang Nuan is the one who destroys the flowers. Coach Jiang, you'd better find a boy to accompany her to practice."
"No way, Lu Ran. Our little junior sister is really so powerful? But yes, it was also taught by our coach Jiang since childhood. The basic skills must be good. Why don't I try the skills of the junior junior sister."
A girl about eighteen years old moved her wrist and looked at Jiang Huai.
"Chen Lu, you can accompany Jiang Nuan to practice a game."
Chen Lu blinked at Jiang Nuan: "Little Junior Sister, I'll wait for you."
Chen Lu is a local college student who has just been a freshman, but in the National Youth Fencing League last summer, she made it to the top 16 in the country.
This match made the whole club full of interest.
Lin Shu stretched his back and said, "What a pity!"
"What a pity?" Chen Lu asked Lin Shu with a smile.
Lin Shu was originally good-looking, and had a sweet mouth and could talk. He called him "Little Fairy" who was younger than him. Chen Lu, who was two years older than him, was called "Miss Sister", and he said, "Miss Sister, your hair is so beautiful, It's a pity to scramble up for fencing."
Although he knew that this kid was just talking, Chen Lu listened happily.
"I originally wanted to practice with Jiang Nuan. Lu Ran was too suffocating, so he counted on Jiang Nuan to cleanse my soul, hahaha."
Chen Lu said half-jokingly, "Do you like our little junior sister? Do you want me to be merciful?"
Lin Shu touched his nose, and there were stars in those peach blossom eyes: "Miss, Jiang Nuan looks white, her brain is not very bright, and she looks a little lacking, but her fake moves are very powerful. "
"Oh, yes, thank you." Chen Lu usually participates in many competitions and has rich experience. She can imagine that Jiang Nuan's basic skills must be good, but how much lethality is to be evaluated.
Several other coaches also came to watch the game.
Chen Lu turned his face to the side, and saw Lu Ran sitting on a chair on the sidelines, turning his face to look at Jiang Nuan who was warming up.
He lowered his head and screwed the cap on the water bottle.
Jiang Nuan changed into the fencing suit, and just passed by Lu Ran's side, she was gently pulled by Lu Ran.
"Huh?" Jiang Nuan lowered her head.
Lu Ran only said one sentence: "The shoelaces are too long, and it's easy to step on them and trip over them for a while."
"Oh." Jiang Nuan knelt down on one knee, stuffed his shoelaces in, then got up and went to the kendo in the center.
"So excited!" Xu Zitian shook his head.
"You are so excited!" Mu Sheng rolled his eyes at him.
"Don't you have a...a sense of a battle for the throne?"
"Where did the throne come from here?"
"It's our 'Huaifeng' competition for the first place in the women's saber!"
"...You have read more about Water Margin."
Chen Lu looked at Jiang Nuan opposite with interest. She was two years younger than herself, and she had no competition experience since junior high school.
The lack of experience in the competition will make the girl in front of her lack the ability to adjust the mentality of the game, as well as the prediction of the opponent and the depth of the counterattack.
It was not long before the National Middle School Student Fencing League in the summer vacation. Chen Lu did not think that Jiang Huai, who was a father, would be able to send his precious daughter to the top 32 in the country.
Jiang Nuan's heart slowly settled down.
Lin Shu took the face shield, came to Lu Ran's side, and said with a sideways face, "Let's make a bet."
Lu Ran didn't speak.
"If Jiang Nuan wins Chen Lu, I'll go and confess after training today."
Lu Ran's expression turned cold.
"If, before the end of today's training, you can find another person other than you in your club to beat me, I will shut up today and won't confess to Jiang Nuan."
"Her evaluation of you is still very pertinent." Lu Ran said lightly.
"Oh? How did Jiang Nuan evaluate me?"
"She said you were insane."
After speaking, Lu Ran walked away, leaving Lin Shu alone there, thinking a little sadly.
"Why am I crazy?"
On the kendo in the center, the match between Chen Lu and Jiang Nuan has already kicked off.
The speed of Chen Lu's first strike was quite fast. Jiang Nuan seemed to be suppressed by her senior sister's aura, but she steadily blocked Chen Lu's every strike.