Chapter 91: The Water-Selling Girl (Part 2)

  The location of Guofa University Basketball Court is very good, the intersection of girls' dormitory, canteen and teaching building is here, so it's always lively at any time.

  In front of the girls' dormitory, there is a row of trees blocking the view, but because the girls' dormitory is located in a relatively high position, the second floor and above are very good vantage points to watch the ball game. Often, girls who stay in their dorm rooms will stand by the window, eating snacks while watching the boys play basketball, occasionally shouting out and making various flirtatious teasing laughter that makes the boys feel itchy in their hearts.

  Girls alone facing boys is one thing, but in the dorms where they feel very safe, once they get together, they are no more conservative than the boys who hold midnight talks, or even more reckless.

  High school girls' dormitory, spring heart fluttering, university girls' dormitory, spring love fluttering. This is not a fabrication, generally boys can't imagine the many lewd, low-level and boring scenes that often take place in girls' dormitories, which are more numerous than those in boys' dormitories.

  A university is a place where the whole campus is filled with the smell of hormones, if the basketball court is next to the girls' dormitory, this must be a holy land that boys are very enthusiastic about.

  The university is very large and has several basketball courts, but generally when students refer to going to the basketball court, they are referring to this one next to the girls' dormitory.

  Ma De brought a basketball, Li Luoye followed them to the basketball court, at this time there were already quite a few people, they could only fight for the court and found several other boys from the School of Management to play three-on-three.

  Li Luyou and Ma Di did not play, Qin Nan, Sun Yangqing and Liu Ziyue all played generally, anyway it was also blind play.

  Apart from Li Luyu, there are a few people in Madrid who are quite high, he was on the school team in high school, but his level at Guofu University really wasn't good enough, so he played less and only recently started going to the basketball court more often.

  "Where is the person?" Li Lu looked around from east to west, and saw two girls sitting together with white foam plastic boxes containing mineral water and drinks. They looked very ordinary and unremarkable, not like something Madrid would be interested in.

  "You've been coming every day recently! Wait and see, I'll show you my skills." Ma De said with a proud smile.

  A basketball came flying over, Li Luoyu caught it with one hand and threw it out with a swing. The person who received the ball didn't notice and surprisingly didn't catch it, exclaiming in shock: "What a big arm strength!"

  "By the way, you don't play basketball much, what a pity, it's a waste of your height and build." Madrid looked at Li Luyu, Li Luyu's height was of course no match for those over 2 meters tall centers, but such a figure was not bad in Guofu University, as long as he wasn't one of those muscular meatballs on the school team, nobody could stop him from playing ordinary basketball.

  "My dunk is no problem." Li Luyu only played basketball in junior high school and high school for physical education exams, and college physical education classes also required shooting hoops. Li Luyu could still cope with it, and with his current jumping ability and reaction ability, even if he was not very good at playing basketball, it was still easy to jump high and slam the ball into the hoop.

  "Madrid smiled, 'I can too.'"

  Li Luyu and he burst out laughing, during the second semester of high school, Madrid borrowed a DV from the photography club, Li Luyu found a ladder, several people took turns climbing up the ladder to jump down and dunk, Li Luyu and Madrid succeeded, Qin Nan captured Sun Yangqing jumping down and getting hurt badly, Qin Nan was so scared that he didn't dare try again.

  Although the National University is strict, for this group of geniuses who are already superior to ordinary people in intelligence, they still have too much spare energy. Making trouble out of nothing is also a daily habit. The consequence of the big dunk was that Sun Yangqing could take the school doctor's certificate and ask for leave with a clear conscience, lying in the dormitory for a week, watching cartoons for a week.

  "Here we go..." Madrid got excited and immediately pulled Li Luyu to replace Sun Yangqing and Qin Nan.

  Ma De Li still didn't have the courage to go up and strike up a conversation, not even daring to go over now to buy water, making people think he had ulterior motives. He wanted to appear as if he was sweating profusely, looking like he needed to drink water before going over.

  Li Luyu followed Madrid's line of sight and saw a girl in white clothes and white skirt, although she was very far away, Li Luyu could still see her clearly.

  The girl was wearing a rare long skirt, and she looked very quiet and elegant. She wasn't extremely beautiful, not as pretty as An Zhi Shui or An Nan Xiu, but Li Luoyu thought she looked quite comfortable to be around, not jarring to the eyes, like a small flower by the roadside.

  "Not bad." Li Luoye patted Madrid's back.

  Madrid proudly pushed Sun Yangqing and Qin Nan who were still standing on the basketball court, telling them not to stare, lest they reveal their secret.

  "You're too timid." Liu Ziyue burst out laughing, "Normally you're quite capable, why not just go ahead and ask for a relationship or something?"

  Madrid kicked him.

  "Isn't she the one who's been popular online recently?" Li Luoyu slapped his thigh, remembering that someone had taken a photo of this girl and put it online, causing quite a stir. Many people thought that such a girl was hard to come by, and some even said it was hype, but Guofu University students knew it wasn't hype - the basketball court's water-selling girl was a tradition.

  "I sent it up," Madrid admitted.

  "You're crazy, this kind of attention is no good for her and neither for you." Li Luoyu shook his head, caught the ball and threw it at Madeleine.

  "I didn't think much of it at the time, but after the photos were posted online, I started to feel more and more comfortable... Ah, now I regret it." Ma De's actions attracted many students from the National University who had not known about this girl before to come watch the basketball game. Isn't this just increasing his own competition?

  Li Rouyou sighed. This girl wasn't particularly beautiful, but the male-to-female ratio at Guofu University was also quite unbalanced. Girls with a bit of charm were scarce commodities.

  An Zhishui was a campus belle, but unfortunately, her notorious reputation spread far and wide. With beauty in front of them, there were still a few who dared to rush forward without fear of death. After those few sacrificed themselves, there were no more successors.

  Pay attention to this water-selling girl, her movements are much more captivating than the stillness of the water.

  Li Ruyu couldn't help but feel a little proud of himself, thinking that he had managed to gradually get closer to An Zhi Shui, and was even more charming than those self-proclaimed charmers.

  "Be serious, put in some effort..." Liu Ziyue yelled loudly as Li Rouyu passed the ball and hit him on the thigh.

  Li Luyu quickly focused his mind, he knew that if he wasn't careful and lost control, even a basketball might knock someone down, let alone dare to confront anyone, because as soon as he swung his arm, others would be blown away by him.

  After a while, Li Luyu felt tired, the accumulated strength in his body couldn't be exerted, and his energy was always stifled halfway through. That suffocating feeling settled in his chest.

  "Enough......" Li Rou was panting, really wanting to grab a basketball and jump high, slamming it into the hoop, or punch a sandbag dozens of times.

  In fact, there is no sandbag that can withstand his full-strength outburst of strength.

  "Go buy some water." Madrid was excited and had already sweated a lot.

  Li Luoyu also followed in the past, now really want to drink water.

  Madrid posted the photo of the water-selling girl online, which didn't do her any harm either. At least she sold water faster than others. When Li and Madrid passed by, there were only five bottles left in the box. Liu Ziyue and the others followed closely behind, just in time.

  "Five bottles, how much?" Madrid wiped his sweat, somewhat awkwardly.

  "Ten yuan." The girl was sorting out the change, smiling sweetly, "Take it yourself."

  Madrid paid the price, terrible, wearing a football shirt, clothes were still lost on the ball rack.

  "I have it in my pocket." Li Lu took out 100 yuan from his pocket and handed it to Ma De, who also took the opportunity to chat with him for a couple of sentences while finding change.

  "It's so expensive! Let me see if I have enough change." The girl lowered her head to count her money.

  "I..." Sun Yangqin was about to say he had some spare change when Qin Nan pulled him over.

  "Next time then, I see you're always playing basketball here lately," the girl said with a smile to Madrid.

  Sun Yangqing was shocked, it turned out that they were intentionally using large denomination bills. How could these people be so clever? It's just that he reacted slowly himself.

  "He's been busy these past few days, probably can't make it. How about this, you leave a phone number and I'll have him send someone over." Li Rouyu was used to facing An Zhi Shui's frequent hesitations, but helping out Ma De Li was quite clever of her.

  The girl glanced at Li Luyu and smiled, "It's okay, next time."

  Disappointed in Madrid, the phone didn't arrive, they refused to give it, is it because I'm not important?

  Li Rouyou patted his shoulder in comfort, and he and An Zhi Shui had twisted and turned for so long before confirming their friendship.

  At this time, someone ran over and picked up the foam box without saying a word. He took out five bottles of water and threw them away, then threw down the foam box and glanced at Li Luoyu and several others with a slanted eye.

  "You're so silly, you were just thinking about flirting and now you don't even have water to drink." The person laughed loudly while holding a bottle of mineral water.

  Madrid was exposed, and his face couldn't hold up anyway. Moreover, he was really thirsty, but the water had been snatched away. He got angry and said, "What's with your idle chatter? We've already bought this water!"

  "Has the money been paid?" The man sneered and pointed at the 100-yuan bill in Madeleine's hand.

  "You didn't pay either." Li Luoyou stretched out his hand and snatched the mineral water bottle over.

  "What do you want to do?"

  "What's going on..."

  "Go look for trouble..."

  The two groups of people suddenly became agitated and started pushing and shoving each other, with voices growing louder.

  "What are you doing?! Stop fighting here...!" The girl got angry, "I won't sell water to you anymore!"

  The man who was fighting for water gave her a push with his hand, and the girl couldn't resist it at all. She fell to the ground in an instant.

  Madrid watched as his favorite girl was pushed by someone, and his anger could no longer be suppressed. He rushed up and punched the man's cheek.

  "Put your hands up!"

  "Kill him!"

  Two groups of people started fighting, Liu Ziyu was still laughing at first, but then he suddenly kicked the person next to him to the ground without making a sound. Sun Yangqing and Qin Nan followed suit, each finding someone nearby to fight, while Ma Deli singled out one person.

  Li Luoyu rushed in, saw the remaining two rushing towards him, and without saying a word, walked over to them, letting their fists hit his arm, stretched out his hand to grab the two people and threw them aside, like an eagle grabbing small chickens, one by one throwing away the remaining three people.

  The girl saw a group of guys much bigger than her fighting, and she was so angry and anxious that she stood aside, trembling all over, on the verge of tears.

  "This is a basketball court, is this where you fight? Li Luoyu secretly thought it was going to be bad, normal girls wouldn't like boys who are so prone to fighting, Madrid's hopes were probably dashed."

  "It was your people who made the first move!" The man who had been hit first got up, dazed, and looked at Li Luyu, then retreated a few steps. With such a build and strength, fighting him would be pointless.

  "Keep your mouth clean!" Li Luyu's attitude towards her own mother was one thing, but she couldn't tolerate others having a dirty mouth either. "What did you just say?!"

  "Zhao Jingyang!" The man didn't fear trouble either.

  "Zhao Jingyang, you guys did something wrong, just apologize and that's it." Li Luyou said bluntly, although Madrid was the first to make a move, he didn't think Madrid was in the wrong. Pushing someone else's good girl to the ground like this, if Madrid didn't hit him, others would.

  "Who are you? You say it's our fault, then it's our fault. Wasn't this thing the one who started it first?" The onlookers were too many, and as a student, he had to save face a bit, not easily apologizing. Zhao Jingyang pointed at Ma De Li, his voice getting higher and higher, not losing momentum.

  "Mind your mouth!" Li Luyu opened Zhao Jingyang's hand, sneering: "How did we strike first? You pushed her to the ground first."

  "Hey, was it a heroic rescue or what?" Zhao Jingyang burst out laughing. "I pushed her to the ground, I apologized to her, what's it got to do with you guys?"

  "Of course, it's our business now. She is the girl he likes, and seeing the girl he likes being pushed down, who can bear it? Now there is no relationship, but in the future, it may be me calling her sister." Li Luoyu simply said what was on his mind. This way, the water-selling girl would definitely not like to provoke unnecessary trouble with boys, but if she understood that things were caused by her and this boy acted out of a desire to protect her, then her feeling would be different.

  When a girl you like is bullied and you impulsively take action, it's completely different from being a troublemaker, the former is more likable.

  Madrid is in a predicament, now having no relationship with others, Li Luyu can't even call his sister-in-law, it's really hard to see that Li Luyu has this kind of skill in hitting the snake with a stick, and he's afraid of being blamed, so he secretly took a look at the girl.

  The girl was anxious and angry, with tears about to come out. Hearing Li Rouyou say this, she was stunned for a moment, looked at Ma Delei, blushed, and quickly avoided Ma Delei's gaze.

  "If you hadn't snatched my water first..." Zhao Jingyang came up with another excuse.

  "Stop saying these useless things and apologize." Li Luyu was usually reasonable, but now it's clear that there's no need to reason with the other person.

  "What if I don't apologize?" Zhao Jingyang glanced at the onlookers and suddenly gained confidence, "Want to fight?"

  Li Luoyu was feeling annoyed in his heart, earlier when playing basketball he felt stifled and uncomfortable, earlier when he lost a few people, he also held back more than half of his strength, now he really had the urge to beat the guy in front of him into a pig head.

  "This brother... I just heard you say that the basketball court is not a place for fighting, so let's play a game. Whoever loses apologizes." A two-meter-tall flat-headed tall man walked out, "School basketball team Luo Ke Di."

  Li Luyu took a glance at Luo Ke Di, he knew that this guy had made a big splash in last year's National College Basketball Championship and was also the main force of China's team in this year's Shenzhen Universiade.

  "Alright, since the basketball court isn't a place for fighting, let's play some ball. Three on three or five on five, whichever you prefer." Zhao Jingyang said with confidence as he took a step closer to Luo Ke Di, having also taken a glance at Li Lu and his friends, who were completely just messing around and not even close to being their match.

  It wasn't until several people in Madrid noticed that they had just gotten into a fight. Now looking at the other side, each of them was over 1.8 meters tall. The one who was kicked to the ground by Liu Ziyue didn't seem very conspicuous, but now he was bouncing up and down, obviously with great elasticity, maybe he was also a good player.

  Compared with Li Luyu, this group of people is nothing, they are a bit neglected, but when Li Luyu is out of the way, these five people become very eye-catching.

  "This Luo Ke is obviously a rascal, Li Lu sneered, 'How are we going to play, whatever we want?'"

  "Of course." Luo Ke was confident, these five people were his chosen ones this year, he knew their strengths and weaknesses. The tradition of the school basketball team was to help those in need, as the most popular student organization in the entire university town, Guangfu University Basketball Team couldn't afford to lose face no matter what.

  "You're the school basketball team!" At this time, who still didn't understand what kind of people they were. Sun Yangqing glared at these basketball team members who seemed to be making fun of them.

  "They're just substitutes for practice, and like you, they haven't had any professional basketball training." Luo Ke smiled, the National University basketball team was one of the top teams in the country, a strong contender that vied for the top three spots in the national college basketball league every year.

  Because China's famous schools all have special recruitment for sports talents, and those who are physically and intellectually gifted also gather in these schools, the top universities' basketball teams in China are very strong. Just like this year's Universiade Chinese basketball team, there were players from Tsinghua University, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, and National Taiwan Normal University.

  The substitutes of Kokufu University are actually the players who play against other schools in the university town, and only formal players will appear on the field during major matches.

  Such substitutes are not ordinary students who play basketball casually.

  "We each choose one person, a duel." Li Luoyu turned his head to look at several people, no matter if it was five versus five or three versus three, there was no way to fight.

  "Li Rouyu..." Qin Nan was somewhat worried and lowered his voice, "Let's go together, we're not afraid of being laughed at."

  "Who's afraid of losing? Losing is just losing, what I'm afraid of is that you won't even dare to go up. Can't let you go alone," Madrid said nonchalantly, but was a bit worried about being beaten badly and being seen by that girl.

  No one wants to lose face in front of the girl they like, but if Li Rouyu goes on stage alone and is ridiculed for being incompetent, Madrid's heart will be even more unbearable.

  "Don't worry." Li Rouyu seemed completely unconcerned, "I'll take the lead."

  "How are you going to play?" Luo Ke pointed at Li Luoyu and a few others, "Have you thought it through?"

  "Let's play basketball." Li You pointed at the basketball hoop, "Just like this one."

  Zhao Jingyang and a few others looked at each other in dismay. Such things may be common in the US, but there aren't many college students in China who can dunk, let alone this group of substitute players.

  "Since you brought it up, why don't you show us first? You can't just not know yourself and then call them out..." Luo Ke smiled, "This little cleverness won't do. If you can't do it, I'll declare you losers and have you apologize sincerely."

  "Who do you think you are, saying we lost?" Sun Yangqing was furious. He wasn't afraid of some school basketball team captain, no matter how glorious or impressive he was. The students of Guofu University weren't ones to easily submit to anyone.

  "Not convinced? You and I compare then." Luo Ke's enemy stretched out his hand and poked Sun Yangqing's chest a few times.

  Sun Yangqing slapped open Luo Ke's hand and was about to rush up, anyway it was a loss, fighting a round, even if the fight was lost, it was better than being ridiculed on the court.

  "If you lose to me, you'll have to bring your people and apologize properly." Li Rouyue grabbed Sun Yangqing, poking his chest with the same posture as Luo Ke's.

  "Be careful, don't move!"

  "Dare to move our captain!"

  "If you can play, I'll also perform for you guys in a bit." Luo Ke accepted the challenge. He wouldn't care about a normal student's provocation, even if the other was a bit taller and had better jumping ability, but what about his hardware? He was 20 centimeters taller than Li Rouyou after all.

  "Alright." Li Ruyu smiled, "Let's see who can make more consecutive shots."

  This is purely physical labor, and those who can continuously dunk are fewer than those who can dunk.

  Lu Ke's opponent also burst out laughing, it was very likely that this guy was a seedling who could make consecutive shots, his physical strength must be good, and physical strength is extremely important in playing basketball. If Li Luyu performed well, he wouldn't mind recruiting him into the basketball team, smoothing over this thorn, and training him properly might just make him useful.

  Li Luyu grasped the basketball and arrived at the court.

  A fight broke out over here, and many people have already gathered to watch, the playground has emptied.

  Li Luoyou looked around and saw that everyone was holding their phones ready to take pictures. This kind of photo wouldn't bring him any trouble.

  "Li Luyu, go for it!" A few people in Madrid saw that Li Luyu actually went on stage without any hesitation, although they were a bit surprised, but they gained confidence, knowing that Li Luyu was not someone who bragged and humiliated himself.

  Li Ruyu is dribbling the basketball.

  Dribble!

  Jump!

  Li Luoyu did not jump up on the three-point line, but chose a very conservative position on the free throw line.

  His tall figure flashed through the air, his legs striding across the sky!

  He didn't dunk with one hand!

  Li Luoyu jumped high into the air, his hands tightly grasping the basketball.

  "Boom!"

  A loud crash, the basketball was slammed heavily into the hoop, like a yellowish-brown light shadow jumping between the court and the hoop.

  Li Luoyu tightly grasped the basketball hoop, barely mitigating the enormous impact force brought by his body.

  "Rustle..."

  The basketball hoop emitted an unbearable sound.

  Li Luoyu fell to the ground.

  "Snap..."

  The glass on the basketball backboard shattered with a loud crash, and shards of sharp glass fell down.

  Li Luoyu directly dunked the basketball board into pieces!

  The entire stadium was silent, watching this stunning scene.

  Rokkaku's strength is unbelievable, what kind of power can create such an effect? Rokkaku knows that even with his own explosive force, he cannot shatter these backboards made to international standards!

  Is he Wilt Chamberlain, who was called the basketball emperor in last century?

  Is it Darryl Dawkins, the Chocolate Thunder of the 80s, infamous for his backboard-shattering dunks?

  O'Neal did this three times when he was with the Magic in the 90s! Look at him, it's O'Neal, not Li Ruoyu!

  Recently, at the Boost Mobile Elite 24 game in Venice Beach, California, USA, high school senior and top-ranked power forward Mitch McGary shattered a backboard with a dunk but was also cut by falling glass.

  Li Luyu stood there steadily, the weak basketball unable to withstand the tremendous impact force, finally bursting open and becoming a deflated piece of trash. The shattered glass fell down noisily, hitting Li Luyu's body, but he was unscathed.

  Li Luyu was not as calm as he seemed, and at the moment he landed, he cursed. The pent-up power in his body from playing basketball earlier burst out uncontrollably, and the consequences were already barely within his control.

  The people around the basketball court were still staring with their mouths open at this incredibly destructive scene, and it wasn't until much later that they erupted into thunderous applause.

  "Cow!"

  "Great!"

  "It's been filmed, it's been filmed! Sister, this video will go viral once it's uploaded!"

  Li Ruyu walked towards Luo Ke's enemy.