Years old

The morning of group activities is always extremely busy. After the students have almost arrived, Tang Cheng looks for their class bus. Xu Chang and Shi Yuzheng load the pieces of drinking water into the car. The sports drinks I bought last night were divided into drawstring backpacks, filled with tissues, and distributed to the players when they were ready.

The girls got into the car in a team, leaving the front row for a few people who are prone to motion sickness, tidy up their things, and began to urge each other to put on sunscreen.Qin Di shirks that he is afraid of allergies, but everyone knows that he has delicate skin that turns red when exposed to the sun, and Wang Churan took the lead to hold it down, surrounded by several people, and sprayed it with anti-allergic spray for a long time. Two points above white, the whole person is shining.

The six seats in the last row were just enough for the six boys to sit. Qi Songyan purposely sat on the second from the right, leaving Qin Di the seat by the window and out of the sun.Qin Di came over after spraying the sunscreen, and found that there was no room to choose. She looked back at the girls in the front row who were motion sick, and walked over to sit down.

Before the car started, he plugged in his earphones, looking like he was isolated from the world.Qi Songyan felt that something was wrong with him, and he couldn't tell what was wrong, so he could only silently not bother him.

Qin Di closed his eyelashes amidst the cheerful laughter in the carriage, Qi Songyan's arm was sticking to his side, and a clean fragrance hit him, and he suddenly recognized that it was the smell of soap, a very old brand, He often uses it to wash his handkerchiefs.He sniffed the familiar fragrance, but his mood became even more unsettled.The tense nerves were like his shoulders struggling to retract, and he could not relax for a moment. After a sleepless night, he fell asleep in a daze due to the resistance of his body and the shaking of the bus.

The dream was gray and white, chaotic in time and space, but there were dark shadows under his feet, and he was spinning around in place, restless and helpless, like a trapped animal.When they were woken up, everyone in the front row had already stood up and prepared to get off.Qi Songyan looked at him with concern, took off one of his earphones: "Do you feel uncomfortable?"

He rubbed his hot eye sockets and shook his head.Qi Songyan picked up the packed backpack and followed him to get out of the car.

It is rare to have such clear and windless weather in spring in the north. The cold spring has just passed, and there are green mountains around the flat square.All the classes lined up neatly in two columns. The principal and all the teachers congratulated all the second-year students under the monument of the young eagle spreading its wings.The students clenched their fists and took the oath, and their voices shook the valley.

Director Zhang led the team to the entrance of the north slope of the main peak, took a short rest and prepared for the competition.The south slope of the main peak is gentle and the vegetation is more abundant. Many landscapes such as plank roads, small bridges, and rest pavilions have been built. Usually tourists come from the south slope.The north slope is steep, except for the ups and downs of a few small slopes, the other routes are almost straight up and down, which is more suitable for exercise.Although the competition time is shortened on the North Slope, it is a test of physical strength and endurance.All the students have to climb the mountain, but the group participating in the competition started first.Although the girls were told in advance to dress as warmly as possible, Qi Songyan, the four of them wore thick sweatpants with bare legs and a non-fleece sweater, and only drank a small bottle of glucose to replenish energy before getting off the car.

The contestants gathered at the entrance of the mountaineering, and everyone expressed their sighs about the need to silence the narrow and steep mountain road.Li Mingxuan set up a pergola to look around, and said without love, "This road is too narrow. We have a hundred or so of us going up together, let alone whether we can climb it or not, we will be able to squeeze and fly at the beginning."

Shi Yuzheng warmed up by twisting his wrists and ankles, and asked Qi Songyan, "Sports Committee, what's your strategy for a while?"

"The opening is indeed a bit dangerous. Let's try to protect the girls and don't rush too much."

Wang Churan immediately put forward his opinion: "No way, men and women earn points separately, you must climb faster than girls, and you will drag down the overall score with us."

Qi Songyan looked at Qin Di, but Qin Di didn't know what he was thinking, and wandered away from them.He withdrew his gaze and gathered the people in the middle, and said in a low voice: "I didn't plan to use sprinting to score points. Mountain climbing is different from running. It must be getting slower and slower. While you girls are still physically strong, I will take you as long as possible." , if we can’t keep up, we will divide into echelons, but at least two people form a team.” He glanced at Tong Chenxing, who was leading the team next to him, and added: “Class [-] is also here, let’s help each other as much as possible.”

His words were arranged very well, and the four girls who were originally worried were relieved a lot.Director Zhang carried a set of eight red rubber bracelets, and clicked on the class name to confirm that the contestants were in place.When class [-] was called, Qi Songyan raised his hand and said "here" loudly, and a burst of laughter suddenly burst out from the team on the far right.

Even Qin Di came to his senses and turned his head to look.Yu Nan was pinching a girl's waist with a blushing face, feeling everyone's eyes coming together, and then hiding behind her.Everyone's eyes turned to Qi Songyan again, but he acted as if nothing had happened, he took the bracelets and handed them out one by one.

Maybe the bottle of glucose started to take effect, Qin Di felt itchy all over, rolled up his cuffs, but was dragged back by Qi Songyan who passed by him.He didn't speak or look at him, and rolled up his cuffs higher.Qi Songyan watched him for a while, then led the team to the mountain entrance.

The gun rang, and the players from all classes swarmed forward. Although everyone was still cautious and there was no serious competition, they all held back their energy in secret, holding their elbows and refusing to give up.The two teams of the [-]th class and the [-]th class are advancing steadily at the back of the middle.Tong Chenxing approached Qin Di a few times to ask him why he was in such a bad state today, but Qi Songyan didn't wink at all, and just followed Qin Di's side, never leaving him.Qin Di dodged calmly, and he followed calmly. The three of them walked on a straight path, and Wang Churan complained from behind: "Why are you walking on such a narrow mountain road?" Zigzag! Makes me dizzy."

Qin Di stopped and glanced at Qi Songyan, then lowered his eyes again, his legs were still moving, but the sea of ​​consciousness was in sedation, only the irregular gray stone steps that were sometimes high and sometimes low and the trees receding on both sides were in his eyes.

At the beginning of the journey, they walked quite easily, and the girls in the two classes even talked and laughed like an outing.When the stream gradually disappeared and the vegetation was not so lush, everyone began to pant slightly, and sweat appeared on their foreheads.

Qin Di saw "666 meters" written on the road sign, and remembered that Li Shuai mentioned that the mountain was about 1500 meters above sea level, so according to calculations, they had already walked almost half of it.He had never climbed a mountain before, and the highest slope he had climbed was just the small hill in the park, so he had no idea about it, and felt that his physical strength should be enough at the moment.

Going up, there was a clear distance between the teams. They passed by a few classes resting in place, and saw girls squatting on the steps along the way and refused to leave.When they took a short rest on a platform, no team caught up in those 2 minutes.

Some of the girls were leaning on the railings, some were sitting on the boulders, they had long since lost the energy to talk and laugh, and under Qi Songyan's instructions, they wiped off their sweat as soon as possible to prevent the wind, and dared not drink water.Tong Chenxing felt the pulse of the two girls, and cast a questioning look at Qi Songyan.Qi Songyan patted Wang Churan on the shoulder and asked, "Mei Ran, can you still keep up?"

Wang Churan's face was covered with sweat, and he pointed to the road sign and said, "It's not that it's only over 1500 meters...how did it take so long to go from 666 to 800..."

"The road signs indicate the altitude. The higher you go, the more ups and downs the road becomes, and the steeper it is, it will be more difficult to walk behind."

"Qi Songyan, let's be honest... we can't keep up anymore. Now that the distance has widened, we don't have many people in front of us. You boys should come out as soon as possible."

The few of them exchanged glances in silence, Li Mingxuan stuffed the empty bottle into his backpack, and ordered a few boys from class [-] and said to Qi Songyan, "Don't talk about them, we... can't keep up anymore. You, Shi Yuzheng, and Tong Chenxing are long-distance runners, so your endurance is better. The ones who can compete with you are the ones in Class [-] and Class [-]. Otherwise, you go first... We will take the girls for a while. Let go." He was panting heavily, and the sentence was interrupted several times before he could finish.

Qi Songyan looked at Tong Chenxing, and Tong Chenxing snapped his fingers at Qin Di who hadn't said a word since he went up the mountain: "Are you okay?"

In fact, Qin Di is not very good either, he can feel his physical strength is losing rapidly, and the scorching breath is stuck in his chest, and he can't spit it out or swallow it.But he nodded anyway, brushing his sweaty bangs away from his forehead.

"Okay, Xiaoxuan, the four of you will take eight girls, and if you can't keep up, you will be divided into teams. Is there enough water?"

"Enough, let's go."

Several girls also stood up one after another and urged Qi Songyan and the others to continue going up.

At first, Qi Songyan could still see them who were far behind when he turned his head, but as they marched, the distance widened, and the two echelons were completely separated at 1000 meters from the road sign.And they passed by two small teams. Several athletes who had met each other at the sports meeting were also exhausted by the mechanical climbing movements, and they could only be overtaken by them.

Although the four of them also increased the frequency of rest, the time was tightly controlled.It's just that the road seems to have no end, every time Qi Songyan pointed to the end of his vision and said to them: "It's there, climb up and you'll get there, just keep going." But when you climb up, there will be a new end in front of you.

Shi Yuzheng couldn't stand it anymore, lying under the 1300-meter road sign, his chest heaving violently.Tong Chenxing sat down to help him massage his legs, but after sitting down for a while, he felt that he couldn't stand up either.Sitting on the steps, he took off his sweat-soaked autumn clothes and put on his sweater jacket again.

Qin Di didn't dare to sit down, and didn't even dare to look down. His brain felt dizzy for a while, and his heart violently moved his temples. Every time he beat, his whole body would tremble.Qi Songyan went down a few steps, squatted beside them, and helped Shi Yuzheng up to lean on Tong Chenxing's back.

"Da Zheng, try to get up and stand for a while, or you will faint if the blood doesn't flow for a while."

"Brother, you are really my brother, aren't you tired?"

Qi Songyan let out a hot breath: "I'm tired too, but I can still stand up, and you can too. Come on, stand up for a while."

"I can't do it anymore... Mountain climbing is okay. I really can't compete with the intensity of the game... Just let me fend for myself..."

Tong Chenxing took a sip of the sports drink, and pushed him: "I just swore an oath, the falcon tried its wings, and I'm not afraid of difficulties, so you admit it?"

"To tell you the truth, I only turned eighteen in September, and I'm still...a baby..."

"You can send a big star, just get up and take a few steps to get there." Qi Songyan tried to pull him off Tong Chenxing's back, but he stuck it tighter than a plaster, and kept shaking his head.

Tong Chenxing sighed, and shouted to Qin Di who was standing there: "Qin Di! Can you still go?"

Qin Di seemed to be awakened from a dream, looked at him in confusion, nodded after a long time, turned around and walked forward in a daze.

Tong Chenxing became anxious, and pushed Qi Songyan: "Leave us alone, you go and chase him. He has a very good heart, but he is stubborn. If it doesn't work, you have to restrain him, and you can't let him do anything. Die. Did you hear that?"

Qi Songyan said emphatically: "Okay." Standing up and running after him, Tong Chenxing found that he could still run, and leaned against Shi Yuzheng and closed his eyes in resignation.

Qin Di only heard the word "go", so he walked, the stone steps were not smooth, and the mountain wind rising from nowhere made him crumbling.The sound of hurried footsteps approaching from behind, he wanted to turn back, but was held by a warm hand in the next second.Qi Songyan stepped up two steps, looked back at him who was stunned in place, and smiled softly at him in the wind