Chapter 8 Nanhu Cup Basketball Match

  It wasn't until Chen Chufan had explained all the abnormal situations that would happen to himself that it was almost time for lunch.

  "I'm telling you, Chen Chufan, I feel like all your abnormalities are good things!" Yang Tao said after some thought. This behavior of thinking before speaking was absolutely rare for Yang Tao, so Chen Chufan felt honored, but still had to refute what needed refuting.

  "How did I not see where it improved? Mysteriously fell into the lake, mysteriously ran into the music room, and now mysteriously even plays chess better than Lao Da! I only feel shocked, didn't think anything was good!" Chen Chufan replied with a gloomy face. "Not to mention being criticized in the school-wide bulletin, but also have to write a self-criticism, and deduct scholarship money. Why don't you just take it all?"

  "What's wrong with you, classmate? Who said you jumped into the lake? We're discussing what happened after you survived the jump. Look, you somehow ran to the music room and got close to the school flower, something others can't even ask for! You went back to the dorm and played chess with Lao Da, your chess skills are better than his now, that means your intelligence is improving! Is there some magical effect from the South Lake water?" Yang Tao and Meng Wei exchanged a glance and nodded in unison.

  "Hey, you're not serious, are you?!" Chen Chufan cried with laughter.

  "Alright, I was just joking and you actually believed it!" Yang Tao said with a face of annoyance. "You really thought you were possessed by a ghost! Everything can be explained easily. You came out from Old Xiao's place, heard some bad news, and people would naturally feel a bit dazed. When people are in a daze, anything can happen. Maybe you just randomly found a classroom to hide in. As for hiding in the music room and running into the school flower, that's just your good luck! And as for your chess skills, you didn't play before, it doesn't mean you're not good at it! Besides, you solved a broken situation, who knows if it was just a blind cat hitting a dead mouse! What are you being so proud of? You think just walking around South Lake once can turn you into a Super Saiyan?"

  "After finishing, Yang Tao added. "By the way, none of you feel hungry, do you? I'm starving! No time to chat with you about supernatural events here, I'm going to eat now! The cafeteria won't have food later."

  Chen Chufan pondered Yang Tao's words, the more he thought about it, the more reasonable it seemed, and it should be so! Moreover, Chen Chufan also felt his stomach growling with hunger, so he didn't plan to investigate this topic further. He simply replied: "Then hurry up and go buy some, and bring a portion back for me too."

  At this time, Meng Wei, who had been silent beside him, also said: "Mine too!"

  "What's wrong with you guys? Think I'm easy to bully or something! The cafeteria is just downstairs, don't know if we should go eat together! Why do I always have to bring everything!" Yang Tao spoke out in protest.

  "You think I want you to bring it for me! Last time, I asked you to bring me a meal, and you ate all the meat in the stir-fried green peppers, leaving only some green peppers for me. I didn't even say anything about that! Now I really can't go to the cafeteria, or else I'll be surrounded again!" Chen Chufan said with frustration.

  "You can't just stay at home because you're afraid of being surrounded! This afternoon is the Nanhu Cup, aren't you going?" Yang Tao said with a smirk.

  The Nanhu Cup is an annual basketball competition held at MinDa University, where each department sends a team to compete in a knockout tournament, with the champion receiving a substantial cash prize. As it's an inter-school competition, it's not that formal, divided into two halves of 20 minutes each. The opponent for each match is determined by drawing lots before the game starts among the captains of each department team.

  Meng Wei, Yang Tao and Chen Chufan are all members of the school basketball team. Meng Wei is a mainstay, while Yang Tao and Chen Chufan are substitutes due to their height and skills. Although they are substitutes, Yang Tao and Chen Chufan have opportunities to play in almost every game because the other older students have been worn out by smoking and drinking and can't last a whole game.

  "Let's talk about Nanhu Cup again, anyway I don't dare to go to the cafeteria!" Chen Chufan said hesitantly. He really didn't want to give up on Nanhu Cup.

  "Then why don't you go to the cafeteria to eat, Old Big!" Yang Tao saw that Chen Chufan indeed had a legitimate reason, so he turned his head and asked Meng Wei.

  "Save your strength!" A single sentence made Yang Tao roll his eyes, but in the end he still grumbled about how unfair it was to have to make friends with them as he took out three lunchboxes and headed out the door to buy food for the two of them.

  At the same time, in the girls' dormitory of the music department, Han Xiaoxi was persuading Ye Siying to accompany her to watch the Nanhu Cup basketball game.

  "Xiaosi, just accompany me! The Nanhu Cup basketball game is only once a year!" Han Xiaoxi actually didn't like watching basketball that much either. She just liked to be where the crowd was, wherever there were people, she'd squeeze in.

  "I said I wasn't going to go! This morning, I heard that boy play the piano and when I got back, I suddenly felt inspired, so this afternoon I want to practice piano." Ye Siying said with a straight face, but in fact, she had other thoughts in mind. Maybe that boy would go to the music room again in the afternoon, if she didn't go to practice piano and missed him, it would be too regrettable.

  "Practicing piano is not going to work! Today's the day of our music department's soccer match, and as the school flower of the music department, you have to go watch the game in person, it'll be super motivating!" Han Xiao Xi still wouldn't give up, continuing to persuade her.

  "Motivate them, it's all up to you now. With our beloved Han Xiaoxi taking the lead, how dare they slack off?" Ye Siying was completely unmoved by Han Xiaoxi's tactics.

  "I'm no match for you, where's the charm I have in their eyes compared to yours?" Han Xiao Xi said with some resentment.

  "What's wrong with you? Classmate Han Xiaoxi, you have to face your own charm, believe me, in the eyes of those guys, your charm is even greater than mine! Nowadays boys all like girls like Lin Meimei who are gentle and lovely!" Ye Siying was cheering for Han Xiaoxi.

  Han Xiaoxi looked down at her own chest, which could be fully covered with an A-cup bra, and said dejectedly: "Can a girl with A-cup breasts compare to one with D-cup breasts in terms of charm? When I jump up and down on the sidelines, my chest doesn't even move! How can that be compared to you, who just walks around and shakes everything, making those guys get all riled up like they've been injected with chicken blood?"

  "Han Xiao Xi! You're being a rascal again!" Ye Si Yue's thoughts were really going to drive her crazy, and she loudly shouted in a very unladylike manner.

  Ye Siying's shout directly woke up the other two women who were taking a nap, one of whom propped herself up and yawned, saying: "I'm telling you two little girls to have some public morals, okay? Can't you see someone is sleeping here?"

  "Hey, you'd better clarify who the target of your anger is! It's obviously Xiaosi who has no public morals, okay?! Don't drag me into this, I'm innocent!" Han Xiaoxi said pitifully.

  Yeh Si-yue was so speechless at what Han Xiao-xi said that she simply ignored her and walked out of the dorm room after tidying up her clothes, "I'm going to practice piano."

  "Ah!" Han Xiaoxi let out a deep sigh, and turned to the two women on the bed. "Two lovely sisters, would you like to accompany me to watch the Nanhu Cup?"

  In the end, the two women lying on the bed couldn't stand the disturbance and agreed to Han Xiaoxi's shameless request. The three of them tidied up a bit, left the dormitory, and rushed straight to the school basketball court.

  The basketball courts of the university are mainly concentrated in the playground near the East Second Gate. The entire playground is divided into 4 tennis courts with nets, and all the rest are basketball courts, as many as eight. The Nanhu Cup competition also usually starts with sixteen teams at the same time. When Han Xiaohui arrived at the basketball court with two women from her dormitory, although the game had not started yet, it was already very lively. Basically, the players of each department team had all arrived and were warming up by shooting hoops on the court.

  After much hesitation, Chen Chufan finally changed into the basketball uniform of his new team and appeared on the court with Meng Wei and Yang Tao. Fortunately, everyone was focused on today's game, and no one paid too much attention to Chen Chufan. This also made Chen Chufan relax a bit, and he started doing warm-up exercises with the others.

  The members of the judging panel finally arrived, and the team leaders from each department went to the chief judge's place to start drawing lots. The leader of the history department was a senior who had been around for four years, and as soon as the draw began, he rushed over, grabbed a piece of paper randomly from the box held by the judge, registered it on the judge's notebook, and then returned to the history department's camp.

  "What's going on with the captain?!" The team members swarmed up to ask.

  The old bird smiled and boasted, "Ah! We drew the A-numbered venue. What a great location, right next to the road! If everyone performs well, maybe the beauties passing by will be attracted by our impressive appearance! Haha, that's why my character is good, the sign I grabbed is good too! With my character, I estimate that A1 is either the Foreign Language Department or the Music Department!"

  "My god, you still say that guy has good character! A1 is a law student, what a bunch of nonsense!!" Just as Lao Niao's words fell, Yang Tao shouted out beside him.

  Because the Law School of North University of Nationalities does not have various legal departments, there are many people in the Law School, and it is easy to choose players. Therefore, the Law School is a well-known strong team among the basketball teams of various departments of North University of Nationalities, with 2 players being the main force of the entire school team.

  "Captain, you didn't wash your hands after playing video games last night, did you?! What kind of hand odor is this?! The strongest team was defeated by a casual grab from you!" The people around him complained.

  The old bird's face was somewhat unsightly, having just boasted about his good character, yet he had drawn the strongest team. However, the old bird was indeed an old bird, and his abilities far surpassed those of these freshmen and sophomores. He glared with his eyes wide open and shouted loudly: "Look at you all, what a sorry state! I'm telling you, even if we're weak, we can't be weak in spirit! What's wrong with the Law School? The Law School brothers will go up there and trample them!" With that, he led the way, striding forward to venue A with great momentum.