[Net King] The Star of the Palm

Metropolitan conference semi-finals.

Lin Xinglan didn't join the big troops, and went to a nearby convenience store to buy drinks and snacks, intending to reward the troops.As soon as I came out of the convenience store with two large bags of things, I heard a loud crash from the road ahead, I was startled, and ran over in a hurry.People around said that in order to hide from the cat, a taxi hit a utility pole on the side of the road, and the whole car overturned!

Fortunately, the people in the car were fine. The passengers were three students in black uniforms, who were sitting on the side with their shoulders slumped.Lin Xinglan hurried forward and asked while taking out her mobile phone: "Are you injured? I'll call an ambulance for you."

Several people immediately stopped her: "No, no, we're fine!"

One of them was also a little worried: "Kamio, let's take a look."

Lin Xinglan frowned: "Shoulder hurt, student, you are gasping for pain, your companions can see it."

Several people shook their heads, got up and left in a hurry.

Lin Xinglan tilted her head, wasn't the direction they were going to be the venue?And carrying a tennis bag, it is estimated that he is the player who participated in today's competition.However, both arms are injured, and the game situation is not expected to be too optimistic.

She was walking around with two big bags, and just arrived at the competition venue, a boy with orange hair came to meet her, his eyes lit up suddenly when he saw her, and he grabbed her hand: "Lucky~ I met a beautiful woman. It is an honor to serve you, madam."

Lin Xinglan stared blankly at the grasped hand. Was she... being molested?

The young man leaned forward with a smile: "Hello, I'm Qingchun Qianshi, a third-year student at Yamabuki Middle School, how about you beauty?"

"I don't need to introduce myself to you." Lin Xinglan pulled away his hand calmly, took half a step back and turned away, "Goodbye."

Qianshi Qingchun held her back: "Don't go, meeting is fate, I invite you to drink Fanta~"

"Hmm, hum." Lin Xinglan smirked twice, and before she could speak, she heard a familiar voice calling her, "Senior!"

Taocheng Wu Dian'er ran over: "Senior, why did you come here? The coach and the minister thought you had something to do and asked me to come to you. Who is this? Is this senior's friend?"

Lin Xinglan: "Taocheng, he's teasing me."

"Hey? Hey?!" Taocheng Wu immediately pushed Qingchun Qianshi away and protected Lin Xinglan behind him, "You dare to molested our manager! Are you looking for a fight!"

Qianshi Qingchun was still grinning: "Don't be like this, I just want to make friends with this young lady."

"Okay, I have nothing to lose, Taocheng, let's go quickly, and help me carry my things."

Lin Xinglan dragged Taocheng Wu away, leaving Qianshi Qingchun sighing in place: "I really just want to make friends."

When Lin Xinglan and Taocheng Wu passed by a competition field, Lin Xinglan suddenly stopped and pointed at the people on the field: "Those few..."

"What's wrong, senior?" Takeshi Momoshiro followed her gaze, "Oh, it's Fudo Peak. Senior hasn't seen our opponent in the regional competition, so I don't know him."

Lin Xinglan shook his head: "Didn't I ask this and that person, isn't he one of the people who just had a car accident?"

Takeshi Momoshiro was surprised: "A car accident?! I'll take a look, senior, go first!"

"... By the way, didn't you come to help carry things?"

It wasn't until Lin Xinglan arrived at the venue that he realized that Qingxue's first match was over, and all the opponents had abstained!

Kikumaru Eiji was curious: "Didn't Taocheng come to pick you up? Why is it only you? Haven't you met?"

Lin Xinglan shook his head while distributing fruits to everyone: "No, Taocheng ran to cheer when passing by the Fufufeng competition venue just now. A few team members had a car accident and the situation is not going well. Taocheng is very worried, so I will first coming."

Eiji Kikumaru: "A car accident?!"

"...Your reaction is exactly the same as Taocheng's. It was a small car accident." Lin Xinglan added, "There is no bloodshed or death, and there will probably be no sequelae, but it will only temporarily affect the action."

Bu Er Zhou Zhu raised his chin and said inscrutablely, "Taocheng is very concerned about Fudo Peak."

Echizen Ryoma took a sip of Fanta: "Because Momoshiro-senpai likes Captain Fudomine's younger sister."

Lin Xinglan: "So Taocheng is now Fudo Peak's son-in-law? You guys are so gossip. Here, Tezuka-kun, I'll give you an apple."

Tezuka Kunimitsu: "...Thank you."

other people:"……"

Aigaku's final opponent is Yamabuki Junior High School.

Lin Xinglan asked Qian Zhenzhi: "This Shanbuki Middle School, if I remember correctly, isn't it our final opponent last year?"

Gan Zhenzhi pushed his glasses: "That's right. Last year we narrowly won."

Lin Xinglan looked at the old man with white beard on the coach chair over there, frowned and bit his lips: "That smiling old man is very sinister."

Qian Zhenzhi nodded: "He is a very strategic and wise man."

"Who are you to praise him? That's the opponent!" Lin Xinglan poked him, and couldn't help sighing after poking him, "If our coach is smarter, the game wouldn't be so hard."

Coach Ryuzaki: "...I heard it."

Qingxue had two doubles matches, one win and one loss. Takeshi Momoshiro played as the number three singles player. When he saw his opponent, he yelled out: "You are the one who molested our manager!"

other people:"……"

Lin Xinglan: "..."

Qianshi Qingchun saw Lin Xinglan in the Qingxue team at a glance, scratched his head and smiled: "So you are the manager of Qingxue, Lucky~ I will treat you to a teppanyaki after the game~"

Lin Xinglan's black line: "...No need."

Everyone in Qingxue: "!"

How dare you tease me in person!Do you dare to look at the face of our Minister Tezuka!It's all frozen!

——Then Taocheng won.

In the second singles match, Echizen Ryoma played against Yamabuki's Akutsu Jin, the one who came to the school to provoke him two days ago.

Qingxue finally won the championship with difficulty and won the championship of the Metropolitan Tournament, and advanced to the Kanto Tournament!

After the Metropolitan Conference, the second intramural ranking competition will begin, and the results of the intramural ranking competition will directly determine the main selection for the Kanto Contest.

Lin Xinglan couldn't help much, and he wasn't willing to accompany Gan Zhenzhi to collect data, so he was free.She is idle, and someone is idler than her.

Lin Xinglan was absent-minded all day today. At 05:30 in the afternoon, she left the club early for the first time, and then at the school gate, she looked at Qianshi Qingchun who was standing opposite and smiled speechlessly: "You have been blocking me for three days in a row, and the Kanto competition is about to begin." Are you free, Mr. Qianshi!"

Qian Shi Qingchun shook her head: "I've been very busy recently, but I still have to spend time with my girlfriend."

Lin Xinglan narrowed his eyes: "What did you say?"

"I said girlfriend~" The sudden ringtone of the mobile phone interrupted Qingchun's words, and he made an apologetic gesture to pick up the mobile phone, "Hey, coach, ah, I'm outside, with my new girl, You saw it during the Capital Conference. Now I don’t have time and don’t want to go back, what?! Don’t, don’t, don’t burn my beauty album, I’ll go back immediately!”

He turned his head and said: "I have to leave first, I will come to you tomorrow!"

The voice has not fallen and the person has disappeared.

Lin Xinglan: "...you don't need to come here anymore, I thank your ancestors for eighteen generations!"

Just after she finished speaking, her cell phone rang: "Mom."

It was not Mother Lin who called, but my aunt: "Xing Lan is me. Your mother asked me to say sorry to you, and I can't go back to celebrate your birthday with you today. She had a fever two days ago, which turned into acute pneumonia. I didn't say it because I was afraid you were worried."

Lin Xinglan asked eagerly, "How is Mom doing now?"

"It's much better now, but my throat is down and I can't make a sound, and I'm a little weak. It will be better in a few days."

Lin Xinglan nodded: "You tell mom, I'm fine, let her recuperate well."

"Ah."

After Lin Xinglan hung up the phone, she silently squatted down against the corner with her head in her arms.

This time of year is basically the saddest time for Lin's mother.Although he didn't say it, the reflexive depression and even uncomfortable illness are proofs.

June 6th seemed to be a date to curse Lin's mother, and it was a death call.

She shouldn't have been born that day, she shouldn't even have been born.

In this way, it will not become a burden and pain for the mother, it will not become a permanent scar in her heart, and it will not be a thorn in the eyes of other children.

Tezuka Kunimitsu came out of the school and turned a corner, and saw Lin Xinglan in such a state, he was silent for a moment and asked, "What's wrong with you?"

Lin Xinglan raised his head slowly, with a pitifully flattened mouth and watery eyes: "Tezuka-kun..."

Tezuka Kunimitsu admitted that he was shamefully...mooted: "What happened?"

Lin Xinglan supported the wall and stood up: "Tezuka-kun, treat me to a cake."

The commercial street at six or seven o'clock is the peak period of people flow, and the intersection is even more crowded.

In the innermost part of the dessert shop, various cakes were placed on the table. Kunimitsu Tezuka drank the juice slowly, watching Lin Xinglan eating cakes one after another, first black forest, then blueberry cheese, Strawberry cheese, then tiramisu, and finally chiffon cake.

Lin Xinglan swallowed the last bite, raised his hand and called to the waiter, "One more of each!"

The waiter smiled sweetly: "Okay~"

Tezuka Kunimitsu: "...Are you hungry?"

Lin Xinglan poked at the residue on the plate: "Does Tezuka-kun know why I left early today?"

Tezuka Kunimitsu shook his head expressionlessly.

Lin Xinglan let out a long breath: "Today is my birthday. My mother said that she would come back to celebrate my birthday with me today. This is the first time she said that since I was a child. You don't even know how happy I am, but... I should have guessed it earlier, I don't blame my mother, it's not her fault. Actually, it doesn't matter, anyway, I have never had a birthday, I don't care about this time, but I still hope..."

What she hoped for, she couldn't say.

Because she didn't know what she was hoping for.

"Happy birthday."