The salty life in Life of Pi

Chapter 75 That's it? That's it? ?

Wu Xianyu still knew his limits and let Lin Miaomiao go after playing for a while.

Touching her still slightly wet earlobe, Lin Miaomiao felt that she had no strength at all, and her face was terribly hot. She kicked Wu Xianyu, feeling very unconvinced.
"You cheated, it doesn't count"

"All is fair in war. If you lose, you lose. You can win it back next time if you have the ability."

Wu Xianyu turned his back to Lin Miaomiao. He was very angry after playing around just now and now he didn't dare to face Lin Miaomiao.

The two of them stopped talking for a moment, and the room fell into silence. Lin Miaomiao turned on the TV, lay on the sofa, and played with the two cats.

Time passed by little by little, and the sky outside the window gradually darkened.

Wu Xianyu got up, heated up the lunch dishes, put a pot of hand-rolled noodles, rinsed them with cold water, put the leftovers on top, and the two of them ate everything up.

When Wu Xianyu returned to school, Lin Miaomiao no longer felt the food she ate outside was tasty.

But Wu Xianyu was also a bit troubled, as there weren’t many things he could cook, and most of them were his favorites. And the gluten pancake he made last time was actually a semi-finished product combined with his own cooking.

"It seems I have to look at the recipe, otherwise I will be broke sooner or later."

Just as he was thinking about where to get some recipes, Jiang Tianhao waved his hand in front of Wu Xianyu.
"Salted fish, salted fish, wake up"

When Wu Xianyu looked at him, Jiang Tianhao smiled and said

"There will be a basketball semi-final this week, you can come and watch it then."

“No, not interested.”

Wu Xianyu refused outright. He thought he would rather spend his time looking at a few more recipes.

"Forget it, I shouldn't have invited you. I should have gone directly to find Miaomiao. If she came, would you not follow her?"

Jiang Tianhao was too lazy to persuade Wu Xianyu and had already made up his mind to invite Lin Miaomiao tomorrow.

Monday, during the break, in the corridor of Class 6, Grade 2.

"Ah? Basketball game, why did you ask me to go? I might as well spend that time doing more homework."

Jiang Tianhao looked at Lin Miaomiao who was holding Mai Ju's arm with a shocked expression. He looked at her for a long time and said seriously:

"I don't care who you are, get off my good friend Lin Miaomiao right now"

"Bah, psychopath"

Seeing Lin Miaomiao like this, Jiang Tianhao felt that this was Lin Miaomiao, and he quickly spoke

"No, Miaomiao, don't you think you have nothing to do with the statement of writing more questions?"

"People also say that when you meet someone after three days of separation, you should look at him with new eyes. How long have we been separated into different classes? Can't I be a good student? Besides, you have already failed me in several exams."

As she spoke, Lin Miaomiao raised her chin proudly. Jiang Tianhao felt tired. What was he going to do? Oh, yes, invite them to watch the basketball game. He quickly shook his head to get rid of the idea that he was not as good as Lin Miaomiao in grades.

"Let's not talk about anything else, let's just talk about whether you guys will come to watch the basketball game or not."

Lin Miaomiao looked at Mai Jue, who was very decisive and shook his head directly.
"don't go"

"If Mai Jue doesn't want to go, then I won't go either. Haozi, why do you want us, who don't watch football, to go?"

Jiang Tianhao's shoulders slumped and he sighed.
"Because our basketball team doesn't have many spectators right now, you may not know, but we have already made it to the semi-finals."

“Then I really don’t know.”

"Ugh"

With a sigh, Jiang Tianhao leaned on the balcony railing, looking helpless.

"I didn't expect that so many girls who came to watch basketball games were actually Qian Sanyi's fans. After he got into trouble, almost no girls came to watch him. After the girls were gone, the boys who originally came for the girls were gone too. In addition, Qian Sanyi's fans squeezed out the real fans, resulting in not many people watching the games in our school now. During the previous game, when the opposing players entered the stadium, they almost thought they had come to the wrong place. There were not many spectators in the stadium, so even if we won, we didn't feel any sense of accomplishment."

"Oh, I see"

Lin Miaomiao nodded, and then asked Jiang Tianhao
"How many people can you invite if you invite them one by one? Besides, we don't understand the game and we don't know how to cheer for them when we go there."

“You have to give it a try.”

Hearing Jiang Tianhao say this, Lin Miaomiao felt that he was quite pitiful and nodded in agreement.

"Okay, I'll go take a look for your sake."

"Hey, I knew you would agree to me. By the way, call Xianyu along too."

Hearing this, Lin Miaomiao narrowed her eyes instantly, holding Mai Ju's arm and looking at Jiang Tianhao

"I see. Did you fail to invite Xianyu last night, so you invited me today? Not bad, you are using the art of war."

"Thank you for the compliment. I'll go back first. The competition will start after school on Friday."

"Okay, I get it"

Looking at Jiang Tianhao's back, Lin Miaomiao also sighed.

"I didn't expect that our school's basketball industry suffered such a big blow. No one watched it anymore. Haozi had to invite everyone one by one."

"It will take a long time for him to invite everyone one by one, and even if he invites a few people, it will be even more embarrassing when we see them at the scene."

Mai Ju’s words made sense, but Lin Miaomiao knew that someone must have a solution, so she let go of Mai Ju’s hand and returned to her seat in the classroom.

"Think of a way to help Haozi. His second year of high school is about to end, and he will quit the basketball team in his third year. This will probably be his last time playing for the school."

Lin Miaomiao looked at Wu Xianyu. Although this man had a dirty heart, he had a lot of ideas. Never mind whether they were crooked or not. Just tell me whether they were ideas or not.

Touching his chin, Wu Xianyu began to think about what methods could be used to get students to voluntarily walk into the basketball hall. The characteristics of students as a group are very obvious. Compared with people in society, they are much simpler, more impulsive, and have sharp edges. So there are many methods that can be used.

Wu Xianyu stroked his chin and looked at Lin Miaomiao who was waiting for his next words, with a slight curve at the corner of his mouth.

Seeing this familiar smile, Lin Miaomiao's face froze. She felt a chill on her back and shrank back unconsciously.

But Wu Xianyu waved with a smile on his face, motioning her to put her ear closer. Lin Miaomiao swallowed, and silently said "family, family" in her heart before she carefully put her ear closer.

There were girls several rows behind me, and I quickly pressed the shutter. I was a little dissatisfied with the finished film. Although the focus was right, there were too many people in between, which was a bit of an eyesore. But that's okay, the quality of the candid photo is already pretty good.

Just tonight, in the elite middle school forum, there were a few active posts with a reply saying, "Haha, this is the elite middle school forum, there aren't many people, just like your basketball games, even dogs don't watch, a bunch of nerds."

Occasionally, a few day students saw this reply and immediately picked up their phones to start a cyber argument, which eventually developed into a passionate interaction in the school group.

You know, cell phones are something that cannot be collected in school. There are always a few people who bring them secretly. When I saw a person in the group arguing with a group of scholars, saying "I don't even watch the basketball games in elite middle schools", he made more than a hundred people in the group blush. No matter how his own people attacked him, even to the point of personal attack, the other party was not fooled, but added another point of criticism, "Is the quality of people in elite middle schools like this?" Later, it developed into "Is this it? Is this it? "In the end, the other party only sent a "?" When seeing the question mark, I don't know how many people were so angry that they couldn't sleep.

The next day, Wu Xianyu looked at Lin Miaomiao, who looked listless and even had dark circles under her eyes, and couldn't help asking her

"What are the results of the battle?"

Lin Miaomiao looked around cautiously and lowered her voice to the lowest level.

"The results are good. Last night I had a heated debate with a group of people in the largest group in school. I guess those people were very angry. In the end, they even attacked me personally. I was a little angry at first, but when I thought about this as a mission, I didn't feel anything anymore."

"Good, keep it up these few days, but don't be as harsh as last night. Just tease from time to time. Go to bed when it's time to go to bed. You must have stayed up for a long time last night."

"Hehe, it's OK. The main thing is that I feel pretty good. I feel very peaceful when I sleep. I think it's a good way to relieve stress."

Looking at Lin Miaomiao, whose eyes were emitting a strange light, Wu Xianyu shuddered. Damn, this is not a good development. What if the box is opened in the future? He quickly dissuaded

"No, just use it this time, and cancel the account when you're done with it. Don't use it again, and don't rant about other people online. It's insulting anyway, and it's not nice."

Lin Miaomiao smacked her lips, feeling a little regretful, but she also knew that this was not a good habit. This time it was an extraordinary situation and extraordinary measures had to be taken. However, she could not forget the words that Wu Xianyu had taught her. It was the first time she discovered that a punctuation mark could make people's popularity soar.

Although Wu Xianyu's idea was very crooked, it was very effective. Not long after, Mai Judu told Lin Miaomiao that she heard her classmates discussing how their school was mocked and stepped on by others last night. Many people were still very unhappy. If there was anything wrong with their own school, they could just say it themselves, but it was not someone else's turn to point fingers.

Although some people are indifferent to this, it does not matter. The basketball court can accommodate only a few people.
However, when school was over on Friday, Lin Miaomiao still felt a little guilty. She hid timidly beside Mai Ju, afraid that people would know that she had done it.

Wu Xianyu felt a little daunted watching the crowd, and quietly asked Lin Miaomiao
"What have you been doing these days?"

"I didn't do anything. I just sent a question mark from time to time. I didn't even read their reply. I just sent a question mark when I remembered it."

Wu Xianyu looked at Lin Miaomiao and was a little impressed by her. She was a naturally argumentative saint.

Mai Ju was also told by Lin Miaomiao what she had done. At this time, she also had a stern face and dared not say a word.

The three of them took a few quick steps, not daring to discuss this in front of so many people. It would be troublesome if a gifted person could hear their conversation.

Jiang Tianhao and other members of the basketball team who had been warming up in the basketball hall in advance thought that only a dozen people would come to watch the game after hearing the bell. However, the door of the hall was never closed from the moment it opened. People kept pouring in like a floodgate. In the end, all the seats were taken and some people even had to stand to watch.

The two basketball teams that were warming up were dumbfounded, especially the opposing team. Someone who had a good relationship with Jiang Tianhao came over and asked carefully,
"Haozi, if we win, we won't be unable to leave this stadium, right?"

"It should be. Not really, it should be."

The man looked at Jiang Tianhao with an expression of disbelief, and finally had to resign himself to his fate and leave, but his morale was obviously not as high as at the beginning.

Jiang Tianhao also knew about the mockery he had received these past few days. Everyone on the basketball team was holding their breath. Even Qian Sanyi hadn't attended training for a long time. They wanted to vent their anger today, but they didn't expect so many people would come to watch the game.

Jiang Tianhao unconsciously scanned the stands, looking for someone. He felt that this method was somewhat familiar, but there were too many people, and Jiang Tianhao couldn't find the two people at all. He simply continued to warm up, and his feel became more and more hot.

Wu Xianyu looked at the basketball court, which was already too crowded to fit in, and shrugged at the two girls behind him.
"Why don't we go home? The three of us are not a big deal."

"Then send a message to Haozi, and let's go back."

Lin Miaomiao didn't want to break the appointment, but now the door was full of people, and they looked like they would not be able to leave even if they won.

Not only these three people thought so, many people who hurried over also left helplessly after seeing this situation. Not long after they turned around and walked away, they saw the principal and Lao Zhao walking towards them with their hands behind their backs, and the direction they were heading was also the basketball hall.

The three of them stayed away from her. After all, Lin Miaomiao still felt a little guilty.

When Lin Miaomiao got home, she opened the door and found Wang Shengnan was back. Her eyes lit up and she hugged him without even putting down her schoolbag.
"Mom, you're back"

“It’s not too hot even if you get up and drive.”

Wang Shengnan didn't seem to be in a good mood. She was holding a trash can and throwing various things into it.
"Look at this piece of bread. There's only one piece left. Does that mean it can't be eaten? If you don't want to eat it, then don't eat it. Why don't you put it in the refrigerator? Now it can't be eaten. And who are you going to wash the dishes in the sink for?"

Lin Dawei followed Wang Shengnan with a look of embarrassment and was nagged. Seeing this, Lin Miaomiao tiptoed to leave, but was stopped by Wang Shengnan.

"Miao Miao! You are not a good person either, come and take a look, come here"

Wang Shengnan took Lin Miaomiao to her room and pointed at the snack residue under the desk.

"Is your mouth leaking or what? Why do you eat half of it and the floor and the other half? Some of it you take a bite of and then put back in. Do you want more?"

"No more"

"Just waste it."

"Then I still want it."

"You still want it even though it's covered in mold?"

Lin Miaomiao looked at Wang Shengnan speechlessly. She should decide whether she wanted it or not.

At this time, Lin Dawei walked to the door and kept exchanging glances with Lin Miaomiao, indicating that she should just listen and not talk.

Seeing this, Lin Miaomiao gave up struggling and silently accepted Wang Shengnan's saliva attack.

When Wu Xianyu, who was downstairs, went out, he couldn't help but shrink his neck when he heard Wang Shengnan's penetrating voice. All mothers in the world are the same.

Finally, Wang Shengnan led the family to start cleaning. Lin Miaomiao touched her stomach and realized she was so hungry. She had eaten outside before coming back.

"Ding--"

The phone rang. Lin Miaomiao picked it up and saw that it was from Wu Xianyu. It was a picture. The background was in his kitchen. There was a golden and crispy pancake in the pan, and there were side dishes on the plate next to it. The following was the message he sent:

Salted Fish: Oh, what should I do if I make too many hand-pulled pancakes at home? I can’t finish them all by myself.

Lin Miaomiao quickly replied to the message

Meow Meow doesn't eat fish: Wait for me, I'll be there soon

After sending the message, Lin Miaomiao picked up the full trash can and shouted to Wang Shengnan who was still busy.

"Mom, I'm going to take out the trash."

(End of this chapter)