ARIWATM Chapter 048

Jiang Man was filled with joy and thought that Jiang Xuan had come to talk to him!

A little excited.

This cousin of his has been like the moon surrounded by myriads of stars¹眾星拱月 (zhòng xīng gǒng yuè): lit. myriads of stars surround the moon; (metaphor) to crowd around or revolve around somebody. Synonym: 眾星捧月 (zhòng xīng pěng yuè), lit. all the stars cup themselves around the moon (idiom, from Analects); fig. to view sb as core figure; to group around a revered leader; to revolve around sb. since he was a child, however, he is particularly indifferent, ice-cold, seems to have no interest in anyone, only others come to him, when has he ever seen him take the initiative to go to other people, therefore, Jiang Man is very satisfied now, when exactly did he get the love of his second cousin, he was so happy that he was almost flew up!

This is among their brothers, but it’s the first time, if the big brother finds out, he’ll be furious for days, it must be known that the big brother loves Jiang Xuan the most.

When Xuan walked up to Jiang Man, Jiang Man was expecting his second cousin to encourage him to compete well or something.

Jiang Man thought beautifully in his heart, and then he called out to Jiang Xuan in high spirits: “Brother Xuan!”

Jiang Xuan nodded coldly, didn’t encourage Jiang Man, nor did he say a word of nonsense to him, but looked at Lin Zimao next to Jiang Man.

Lin zimao looked at him, smiled and said: “Senior Jiang Xuan, have a good game, go for it.”

Originally, Jiang Xuan was angry that Lin Zimao liked Jiang Man, but for some reason, Lin Zimao’s smile always had a kind of magical power for him, when he smiled, Jiang Xuan’s world was filled with sunshine, and all the haze that had shrouded his body just now disappeared.

After being encouraged by Lin Zimao, Jiang Xian squeezed into the middle of Jiang Man and Lin Zimao without a trace, then naturally made an expression of waiting for the game to start, and solemnly urged Jiang Man to warm up, he was really too much of an eyesore here.

“You’re still haven’t warm up?”

Jiang Man, who had just been neglected, was in a depressed mood, but now suddenly being cared by his cousin, he was immediately revived with full blood, and jumped up and down excitedly right away to warm up.

He talked to Jiang Xuan as he warmed up!

Jiang Man said happily: “Brother Xuan, I’ll jump as high as you can later!”

Jiang Xuan thought to himself that he couldn’t be outdone by Jiang Man: “Then I’ll always be one centimeter taller than you.”

Always pressing him down, Lin Zimao’s eyes would be on himself, Jiang Man aroused his fighting spirit.

Jiang Man: “Aren’t you here to encourage me?”

Jiang Xuan unperturbedly said: “Strike encouragement is also encouragement.”

Jiang Man realized something: “I feel like I shouldn’t have joined the competition.”

Jiang Xuan: “It’s not too late to withdraw now.”

Jiang Man: “No, I’ll be your strongest competitor.”

Jiang Xuan stood beside Lin Zimao while talking to Jiang Man, with only a fist’s distance between them.

At this time, Jiang Man continued to warm up as if he had been injected with chicken blood, keeping his body warm.

Lin Zimao asked Jiang Xuan in a low voice: “Senior, it’s not my fault if we get photographed at school.”

You came here on your own initiative.

Jiang Xuan said with a stern face: “Is it Jiang Man?”

Lin Zimao: “What?”

Jiang Xuan reminded him: “Didn’t you like Jiang Man’s face?”

Lin Zimao looked at him with confusion: “Jiang Man’s face is not as good as you, I don’t like him.”

At this very moment, it was as if Jiang Xuan’s heart was filled with honey, for a moment he didn’t know how to express it with his expression, so he could only be expressionless: “Oh.”

Lin Zimao doesn’t like Jiang Man, Jiang Man’s face is not as good-looking as his own.

Jiang Xuan thought to himself, fortunately, he has been working hard to take care of his skin recently, the pile of skin care products he just bought in the bathroom are still useful.

Jiang Man came back from warming up, and asked them: “What are you guys whispering?”

Jiang Xuan replied immediately: “Nothing, the competition has started.”

Everyone’s attention was focused on the competition, of course, a small number of people were still staring at School Grass Jiang’s face, as well as Lin Zimao, who was next to School Grass Jiang.

Although Lin Zimao is very famous in the Mecha Academy, he is not as popular as Jiang Xuan in the whole school, standing next to Jiang Xuan didn’t attract much attention, he was only regarded as Jiang Man’s friend, after all, he was standing next to Jiang Man before.

Jiang Xuan, who tried hard to suppress the corners of his mouth, ushered in his first high-jump attempt.

The referee in charge of recording directly adjusted his height jump to two meters.

Jiang Xuan stood at a certain spot, pressed his legs, ran up, and then took off, a perfect backward leap, he passed easily.

As Jiang Xuan gently landed on the soft cushion made of special materials, there was roaring applause that only the champion deserves.

The other contestants who are still hovering around 1.8 meters have mixed feelings: “…”

Can’t School Grass Jiang still let people live!

Beautiful, have a good figure, this backward leap style is also very flawless and impeccable, he is simply not human, okay?

There were so many fanboys and girls at the venue, it’s simply constantly comparing oneself to others will only make one angry²人比人氣死人 (rén bǐ rén, qì sǐ rén): constantly comparing oneself to others will only make one angry (proverb); If you compare your lot to others, you will only torture yourself.!

Lin Zimao looked a little lazy standing there, but he actually watched it very carefully, he also watched other people’s high jumps, but he didn’t watch it as seriously as when he was watching Jiang Xuan.

“When is the next round?”

Lin Zimao is not very clear about the rules of high jump, he has never participated in a sports meeting.

Jiang Xuan prefers to stand with Lin Zimao, wishing he could just directly adjust it to the highest level, and then the two of them would stand together and wait for the championship.

Jiang Xuan: “Just wait for them to jump to the height I just attempted and then continue, this saves a lot of time.”

Lin Zimao suddenly realized: “So that’s how it is.”

It’s only been one round of jumping, he regrets not taking a hologram of his jumping action just now.

a little regretful.

At that moment, Jiang Man was wandering around them: “Brother Xuan, I also jump two meters.”

Jiang Xuan said to Lin Zimao: “Why don’t I give it another go?”

Lin Zimao’s eyes lit up: “Is it possible?”

Jiang Xuan: “I won’t adjust so much next time.”

Jiang Man: “Lin Zimao, Brother Xuan, it’s almost my turn!”

Lin Zimao: “Then you can jump two more rounds, that backward leap is very beautiful, it’s very similar to the fish jumping over the dragon gate³魚躍龍門 (yú yuè lóng mén): a fish leaping over the dragon gate—have passed a competitive examination; an ancient Chinese myth and legend, also known as 鯉魚跳龍門 (lǐ yú tiào lóng mén), carp jumping the dragon gate, to make a significant advance in one’s career (idiom); to get one’s big break. According to ancient legends, the Yellow River carp will become a dragon if it jumps over the dragon gate; In the metaphor, promotion, and so on, are so prosperous; It is also a metaphor for advancing against the current and working hard. in my imagination.”

Jiang Xuan: “It’s all right, I’m just average.”

Jiang Man: “I’ll also use backward leap in a while.”

Lin Zimao: “It’s very unusual, you see, some people use straddles, it’s so ugly.”

Jiang Man: “…I also use backward leap.”

Are they even listening to me?

No, when did they become so familiar, just now they just nodded and greeted each other coldly.
Jiang Man also jumped over the pole with a standard backward leap, Jiang Xuan and Lin Zimao applauded perfunctorily.

In the next round, Jiang Xuan raised the height again, but this time the height he added was just so-so.

Everyone thinks it’s not that School Grass Jiang is Jiang Yan has exhausted his talent⁴江郎才盡 (Jiāng láng cái jìn): Jiang Yan has exhausted his talent (idiom); fig. to have used up one’s creative powers; to have writer’s block; one’s imaginative power and creativeness have dried up; Originally pointed out that Jiang Yan had few literary titles and no good lines in his poems in his later years; (metaphorical) loss of talent., afraid that he won’t be able to jump over, that’s why he adjust it like this, right? As a result, he adjusted it a little bit next time, and jump over, and the next time it was the same, he jump over again.

Before they knew it, there were only three people left competing for the championship, second and third places.

Every time Jiang Xuan jumps a height, Lin Zimao’s eyes became brighter, after the second time he started taking pictures.

Jiang Man asked Lin Zimao: “I’m pretty good, aren’t I? Do you think I can surpass my brother?”

Lin Zimao cold-heartedly said: “No, he’s better.”

Jiang Man: “Didn’t you just say you weren’t here to watch my brother compete?”

Lin Zimao: “Isn’t this because I just realized that he’s better looking.”

Jiang Man: “So who did you come to see in the first place?”

Lin Zimao: “Just looking around.”

Jiang Man said sadly: “Hey, I knew it, eventually everyone would be attracted to my brother.”

Lin Zimao symbolically comforted him: “You’re not bad either, you can take the second place.”

Jiang Man: “When will my brother not be in front of me?”

Lin Zimao: “Wait for him to graduate?”

Jiang Man almost cried in anger: “You’re so good at comforting people.”

Lin Zimao: “So-so, so-so.”

Next, Jiang Man failed to challenge the new height, regrettably took the second place, while Jiang Xuan is still challenging the new height!

Before jumping, he whispered to Lin Zimao: “Lin Zimao, I broke the record, you’ll buy the mousse cake from the last time tonight.”

Lin Zimao was slightly taken aback: “Um? Okay.” A little surprised, it seems that something is wrong, but it seems to be normal.

Then, Jiang Xuan broke the record.

There’s a lot of cheering in the field.

Lin Zimao was a little confused, why did Jiang Xuan specifically tell him to buy cakes?

Is it because he wants to eat with the person he likes at night?

He remembered that last week Jiang Xuan ran out to get a haircut in the middle of the night.

Unexpectedly let him do such a thing!

Jiang Xuan knows that he will not be able to jump over the next round, so he stopped challenging.

Jiang Man ran forward to hug his brother and celebrate for him, everyone came forward to congratulate Jiang Xuan, but Jiang Xuan looked for Lin Zimao’s figure in the crowd, and realized that he wasn’t where he was, he didn’t know where he had gone.

Lin Zimao went back to the base camp where his class rested gloomily, Su Ran finally caught him.

Su Ran stuffed a small flag with the words Mecha Maintenance class two into his hand: “Where have you been hiding.”

Lin Zimao: “Just walk around the field.”

Su Ran dragged him away: “Come with me, Wang Yi’s 400-meter sprint is about to start, cheer him on.”

Lin Zimao let out an oh and followed him away.

The afternoon game starts at half past one.

After Lin Zimao took a lunch break in the classroom, he changed his clothes and went to the schoolyard to warm up.

He’s running the 3,000 meters today.

After searching for a long time, he didn’t see Jiang Xuan’s figure, but saw Ji Chen, who was also standing on the runway.

Ji Chen was surrounded by a few classmates, he also saw Lin Zimao, and walked towards him.

Ji Chen said with surprise: “I didn’t expect you to participate in the 3,000 meters.”

Lin Zimao said: “I signed up for both 5,000 meters and 15,000 meters.”

Ji Chen: “…Me too.”

Lin Zimao smiled: “Good luck, Senior Ji.”

Ji Chen felt offended by his words!

Thinking about Lin Zimao’s mecha level, he won’t be a great runner too, right?

Fuck, suddenly want to quit the game.

The referee calls out Ji Chen’s name, and he went over to register.

Lin Zimao drank water to moisten his throat, at this moment, a man bumped into Lin Zimao, the water in his cup spilled on his neckline, and fell to the ground with a clang.

The other party apologized without any sincerity: “Oh, I’m so sorry, didn’t notice it.”

Lin Zimao tugged at his wet sports coat, glanced at him displeasedly, and said: “You did it on purpose.”

The other party said: “I’ve apologized, why are you like this? Why did I do it on purpose, I just bumped into it by accident.”

Lin Zimao unbuttoned his sports coat, bent down to pick up his water cup, checking to see if it was broken, then covered it, and handed the coat and water cup to Su Ran beside him in a very smooth manner.

Su Ran: “…” I’m the squad leader, not a babysitter!

The students who were forcibly pulled over by Su Ran to watch the competition, thinking about the last military training when Lin Zimao was also hit, and then Jiang Zhe and others were beaten by him until they were in pain for several days.

Lin Zimao grabbed the troublemaker by the collar with one hand, narrowed his eyes at him, and said: “Didn’t anyone tell you not to bump into people indiscriminately?”

The troublemaker shamelessly said in a low voice: “Hit me if you dare!”

Lin Zimao let out a soft snort, and then let go of his collar, the troublemaker thought he was being cowardly, and was about to taunt him, but then he saw his hand somehow lift up and brush against Lin Zimao’s handsome face.

Lin Zimao looked behind the troublemaker, covered his left cheek in aggrieved manner, and said: “Senior Jiang, he hit me.”

LMAO, poor JM, be aware that you’re just a lightbulb here.

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  眾星拱月 (zhòng xīng gǒng yuè): lit. myriads of stars surround the moon; (metaphor) to crowd around or revolve around somebody. Synonym: 眾星捧月 (zhòng xīng pěng yuè), lit. all the stars cup themselves around the moon (idiom, from Analects); fig. to view sb as core figure; to group around a revered leader; to revolve around sb.
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  人比人氣死人 (rén bǐ rén, qì sǐ rén): constantly comparing oneself to others will only make one angry (proverb); If you compare your lot to others, you will only torture yourself.
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  魚躍龍門 (yú yuè lóng mén): a fish leaping over the dragon gate—have passed a competitive examination; an ancient Chinese myth and legend, also known as 鯉魚跳龍門 (lǐ yú tiào lóng mén), carp jumping the dragon gate, to make a significant advance in one’s career (idiom); to get one’s big break. According to ancient legends, the Yellow River carp will become a dragon if it jumps over the dragon gate; In the metaphor, promotion, and so on, are so prosperous; It is also a metaphor for advancing against the current and working hard.
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  江郎才盡 (Jiāng láng cái jìn): Jiang Yan has exhausted his talent (idiom); fig. to have used up one’s creative powers; to have writer’s block; one’s imaginative power and creativeness have dried up; Originally pointed out that Jiang Yan had few literary titles and no good lines in his poems in his later years; (metaphorical) loss of talent.