Sunday evening.

Ying Chanxi and Xu Youyu went to school in the afternoon.

Li Luo stayed at home and was pulled into the piano room by Yan Zhusheng for some love teaching. He didn't come out until evening, put on his schoolbag and went to school.

When passing by the playground on Houde Road, Li Luo glanced at the figure on the playground, paused, and grabbed Yan Zhusheng.

Yan Zhusheng followed Li Luo's gaze with a puzzled look, only to find that Ying Chanxi and Qiao Xinyan were playing badminton on the playground.

"Will you start the competition tomorrow?" Li Luo said, "It looks like they are training. Do you want to go over and join us?"

Yan Zhusheng shook his head: "I don't need to."

"Then let's go and take a look." Li Luo said this, and then said to Yan Zhusheng, "Will you go to the canteen and buy a few bottles of drinks?"

"Oh." Yan Zhusheng nodded, "I'll buy it."

Seeing Yan Zhusheng obediently walking to the canteen, Li Luo walked into the playground and came to the sidelines where Ying Chanxi and Qiao Xinyan were standing.

At this time, on the playground lawn, several areas have been divided by the students of the badminton club, and corresponding badminton nets have been placed.

Ying Chanxi and Qiao Xinyan were doing warm-up training on one of the courts, trying to find their touch.

Because Yingchanxi was facing away from the entrance of the playground, Li Luo's arrival was not noticed.

Li Luo also silently greeted Qiao Xinyan from a distance, signaling her to keep quiet.

Until Li Luo approached the sidelines, just when Ying Chanxi bent down to pick up the ball, he quickly came behind Ying Chanxi.

"Xinyan, why are you smiling so happily?" After picking up the ball, Ying Chanxi saw Qiao Xinyan on the opposite side holding back a laugh, and suddenly looked strange.

Then she noticed Qiao Xinyan's gaze and turned around subconsciously.

"Hello." Li Luo greeted her from behind with a smile.

"Ah!" Ying Chanxi was startled by this guy, and because he had just turned around, he lost his footing. After losing his balance, he fell directly to the side.

"Hey!" Upon seeing this, Li Luo quickly put his arms around her back and hugged her, preventing Ying Chanxi from falling to the ground. "Are you okay?"

"You scared me to death!" Ying Chanxi blushed slightly and hit him angrily, "You are so childish, you are so old, you still play such tricks."

"I'm 16 this year. I'm still underage. What's wrong with being childish?" Li Luo laughed and helped Ying Chanxi up. "How did you do?"

"Xixi is very powerful." Qiao Xinyan on the opposite side said with a smile, "I feel like I can't beat her."

"I just came here to try out the feel." Ying Chanxi said, "Get used to it today so that you don't have to adapt when you play tomorrow."

"I thought you wouldn't care too much about this kind of competition." Li Luo said in surprise, "Are you going to win the championship?"

"It's not as exaggerated as you said." Ying Chanxi rolled her eyes at him, "I just don't want to be eliminated too early. Otherwise, as the squad leader, it will be too embarrassing."

"Xixi, that's not what you said just now." Qiao Xinyan pulled the net and said with a smile, "You said you wanted to compete with Zhu Sheng on the court to try to..."

"Stop talking!" Ying Chanxi rushed to the Internet and reached out to cover Qiao Xinyan's mouth. Qiao Xinyan quickly ran away laughing.

At this time, Yan Zhusheng happened to come back from buying a drink, walked to Li Luo, and asked doubtfully: "I seem to have heard you guys talking about my name?"

"It's nothing." Li Luo said with a smile, "I'm just cheering for you guys to participate in the competition."

"Oh." Yan Zhusheng handed a bottle of drink to Li Luo, then walked to Ying Chanxi and patted her shoulder, "Xixi, have a drink."

"Oh, thank you Zhusheng." Ying Chanxi took the drink and was about to unscrew the lid, but the next second, she suddenly thought of something. While Yan Zhusheng was passing the drink to Qiao Xinyan, she trotted to Li Luo and held her hand

He stuffed the drink in it and said, "I can't unscrew it, please help me."

Li Luo looked at Yingchan River, then at Yan Zhusheng, and then smiled: "Okay."

After easily unscrewing the lid, Li Luo handed the drink to Ying Chanxi. A hint of joy flashed in her eyes, and she happily took the drink and drank it in small sips.

There was a smile on the corner of his mouth as he learned to use new skills, and he felt a little proud in his heart.

But after Yan Zhusheng returned from delivering the drink to Qiao Xinyan, he saw that the drink in Li Luo's hand had not been opened yet.

So she opened her drink and handed it to Li Luo's mouth: "You drink."

With that said, she took the bottle from Li Luo's arms and drank it herself.

Ying Chanxi had just taken two sips of the drink and fell into silence when he saw this scene.

Li Luo and Yan Zhusheng retreated to the sidelines while drinking drinks, watching Ying Chanxi and Qiao Xinyan continue to play badminton.

I have to say that Ying Chanxi is indeed quite powerful.

On the one hand, the only time for most students in the No. 1 Middle School to come into contact with badminton is during weekly physical education classes.

So everyone's technical level is actually about the same.

Unless you are someone like Yan Zhusheng who has loved playing badminton since she was a child, everyone's true level may sometimes depend entirely on who serves.

Those with slightly better skills will be considered very good if they can catch a few balls from each other.

And someone like Ying Chanxi, who can not only catch the ball, but also occasionally spike the ball and think about where to hit the ball, is already very good.

On the other hand, since the start of school, Ying Chanxi has been woken up by Li Luo basically every morning and followed for a morning run on the school playground.

In addition, Ying Chanxi's physical fitness was not bad before, and she was even able to run into the finals of the women's 100 meters in the school sports meet.

Now with the training blessing of running in the morning every day, my physical fitness is much better than that of ordinary girls.

What a pity... When Xu Youyu was in her first year of high school, Li Luo didn't know her yet.

Otherwise, I really want to see my senior sister on the court.

But with Xu Youyu’s character, he probably wouldn’t sign up to compete.

In the evening, after a brief search for the feel, the four of them went back to their respective classes for evening self-study.

The next day, Monday, after the last class in the afternoon, the badminton and table tennis competitions officially started.

The game every evening lasts from five o'clock in the evening to six o'clock in the evening.

Half an hour was reserved for the last participating students to go to the cafeteria for dinner.

Li Luo didn't know much about other events. As for the women's badminton competition, Li Luo looked at the schedule received by Yan Zhusheng and got a rough idea.

It’s different from the knockout rounds that start as soon as the class basketball game starts.

There are a total of 64 people registered for badminton, and there is a total of two weeks of competition. The first week is the preliminary round, and the second week is the knockout round.

In order to take care of everyone's participation in the competition, the preliminary round is not a single-elimination knockout format, but a Swiss round.

Winning a round will earn you one point, and only those with equal points will be drawn to play together.

Each person participated in one game every day, and participated in a total of five preliminary rounds. In the end, 32 players who won three or more games out of the five rounds advanced to the knockout rounds.

"How come there are exactly 64 people?" Li Luo looked at the schedule handed over by Yan Zhusheng and asked curiously.

"It seems that there were only over fifty people who signed up at the beginning," Yan Zhusheng said. "Later, the badminton club tried to recruit a few more people, and we finally got 64."

"No wonder." Li Luo nodded, and then asked, "When will you play today?"

"The first game on court 8." Yan Zhusheng was walking on the way to the playground and pointed to a badminton court nearby, "Huanhuan is the first game on court 7, Xixi is the second game on court 3, Xinyan

Second inning on court 4."

At the entrance to the playground, students coming to watch the game were coming and going.

After Li Luo and Yan Zhusheng met Ying Chanxi and the others, they took the lead in walking towards Yan Zhusheng's No. 8 court.

In addition to women's badminton, men's badminton and men's and women's table tennis competitions are also held simultaneously.

In comparison, there are far fewer boys signing up for badminton. Most of them are either participating in basketball games or signing up for table tennis.

There are more girls in badminton.

In the badminton match in Appendix 1, in order to make the game faster, the Swiss round is determined by one round, and each round only has 15 points.

Whoever gets 15 points first wins.

Under such circumstances, Yan Zhusheng won the game neatly as soon as he came on the court, without leaving any chance for the girls on the opposite side, and ended the game 15-0.

Ying Chanxi, who was watching the game from the side, blinked, then turned to look at Li Luo, and couldn't help but ask: "Has she ever practiced bamboo sheng before?"

"Well... I don't think I have practiced specifically." Li Luo smiled helplessly, "Aunt Yuan prefers to play badminton, so she has played a lot since she was a child, so she is relatively good at it."

"What should I do?" Qiao Xinyan whispered in Ying Chanxi's ear, "The bamboo sheng is so powerful, how can you beat it?"

Ying Chanxi glared at her angrily, puffed out her mouth and said dully: "I never said I would beat her, don't talk nonsense."

"It was obviously you who said it yesterday..."

"Shut up." Ying Chanxi hurriedly covered Qiao Xinyan's mouth to tell her not to say more, "You've been getting worse and worse lately, always talking nonsense."

Two girls were fighting together.

After watching Yan Zhusheng's game, Li Luo looked at Xu Yinghuan next door. He won 15-9, which was pretty smooth.

Soon, it was the turn of Ying Chanxi and Qiao Xinyan to compete.

"Li Luo, let's go to the toilet." Xu Yinghuan hugged Yan Zhusheng's arm and said to him, "We'll buy some drinks by the way."

"Got it." Li Luo waved his hand and followed Ying Chanxi and the others to the courts No. 3 and 4. He watched them go to sign in, and then heard a somewhat familiar voice coming from his ears.

"Are you coming to watch Gao Yuqin's game too?" Lu Wei from Class 7 looked at Li Luo suspiciously, then snorted coldly, "Why are you always so haunted?"
To be continued...