SAYE [Run Freely]

Chapter 19

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The second Gu Fei agreed to play in this basketball competition, Jiang Cheng could perceive that the degree of Lao Xu's excitement was no less than as if Gu Fei had passed the entrance examination into Beijing University.[1]

After the class was dismissed in the afternoon, he called the five team members that he had hand-picked to his office.

Jiang Cheng gave them a glance, finally, he could fit the names to their faces for Guo Xu and Lu Xiaobin.

"No subs?[2]" Wang Xu asked, "Only the five of us playing the entire time?"

"Just see for yourselves if there are any suitable substitute players among your classmates," Lao Xu said. "The team's captain is..."

When Lao Xu uttered those words, his eyes subconsciously flitted over to Gu Fei, however, Gu Fei put his thumbs down nonchalantly and then pointed at Wang Xu: "Him."

Wang Xu promptly looked up, a face flaring with reluctance: "Yah, I'm no good... I don't want to be the captain, so annoying, ugh."

Jiang Cheng wanted to laugh from just looking at his appearance, your acting is really shitty.

"Then Wang Xu it is, you guys can start practicing tomorrow." Lao Xu took the basketball off the table and passed it over to Wang Xu, "This is a good ball. I went to look in the equipment room of our gymnasium earlier, and all the balls there were pretty bad so I bought this one for you - a new and good ball will definitely be used in the game as well; we have to also use a suitable one for practice."

"Thank you, Xu Zong." Guo Xu took the ball from Wang Xu's hand and bounced it on the ground twice.

Jiang Cheng observed his movements, not bad, although he felt that it was not that impressive, he could play, at the very least.

Wang Xu looked quite smug, he should also be able to play and perhaps thought he could play pretty well. The other person, Lu Xiaobin, hadn't spoken a word the entire time. He was the tallest, about 190cm with a visual assessment and he was quite robust, just like a wooden plank door - pretty good.

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Substitute players were easy to find. Though this was a humanities class, there were many male students, and Captain Wang Jiuri (Xu) needed only to call the few 180cm's in the back row - complete.

Many people wanted to participate, after all, they did not need to attend the self-study class, and could go and play ball.

Lao Xu had helped them reserve a court already; just by seeing his energetic air, Jiang Cheng was honestly tired for him: a chaotic class in a rotten school, grades that wouldn't increase and a physical education system with this moral integrity, however, the point was that even with all those, Lao Xu was still brimming with enthusiasm.

"I'll take a look at all your levels first." Wang Xu held the ball with the swag of a captain as he stood in the middle of the basketball court.

"How many times over have we played together," someone said. "What levels are there still left to see huh?"

"We must know each other well!" Wang Xu pulled a long face, repeatedly looking at Jiang Cheng who was crouching to the side of the court. "Jiang Cheng, how about you give it a try first since you just transferred here, I'm not too clear about your actual level."

"Mm," Jiang Cheng stood up and took off his jacket. "What do you want done?"

"Get the ball past me," Wang Xu threw the ball over and then arranged himself in an interception stance.[3]