Chapter 50: The Basketball Team That Nobody Likes

  Lin Xiaoyu saw a table set up under the teaching building, with a poster hanging on it that read "School Basketball Team Recruiting New Students". Lin Xiaoyu had been thinking of joining the basketball team anyway, so she walked over to the table to ask for information and sign up.

  There were three boys sitting at the registration desk, one of whom was Lin Xiaoyu, who had seen him before. He was the school team player who played one-on-one with that dark-skinned freshman on the day he watched the school team practice. Lin Xiaoyu still remembered that the number on his school team jersey was No. 7.

  Lin Xiaoyu walked up and politely asked: "Excuse me, is the basketball team's registration here?"

  The person next to No. 7 of that school team was chatting with another friend, seemingly getting more and more excited, without hearing Lin Xiaoyu asking him in front of him.

  Lin Xiaoyu politely asked again, and this time the school team's No. 7 heard it. The school team's No. 7 saw Lin Xiaoyu asking and reminded his friend.

  The person next to No. 7 of that school team turned around somewhat reluctantly, looked at Lin Xiaoyu and said in a cold tone, "What's the matter?"

  Lin Xiaoyu endured the urge to retort, and repeated what she had said for the third time: "Is the basketball team's registration here?" This time Lin Xiaoyu didn't use polite language like "excuse me" again, because she felt that this person's attitude wasn't worth her being polite.

  "Didn't you see what's written on this poster?" The person said with a bit of impatience. This person was a member of the basketball team, named Jiang Bo. Usually, Jiang Bo liked to slack off during training, and today he was unlucky enough to be assigned to handle new student registrations for the basketball team. He was extremely unhappy about it, and if not for this task, he would have gone to the internet cafe with his friends to play games. So Jiang Bo had been greeting new students with a black face. As a result, many new students felt disgusted by him, but since he was an upperclassman and a member of the basketball team, they didn't dare to offend him easily, so they could only fill out the forms silently and leave.

  Lin Xiaoyu was the one who disliked this attitude the most. He said coldly, "Then how can we sign up?"

  That person didn't even glance at Lin Xiaoyu, casually tossing a form on the table and saying, "Here, fill out this form. Everything is written on it, you can take a look yourself."

  Lin Xiaoyu looked at this person with a very bad attitude, and a burst of anger rose in her heart. She thought to herself, what's the point of playing on the same team as someone like him? So Lin Xiaoyu didn't pick up the form, let out a cold snort, and walked away directly.

  As Zhang Jialin watched from the side, he felt that his teammate's attitude was really impolite, but since they knew each other, Zhang Jialin didn't say anything. Suddenly, Zhang Jialin thought the boy who came to sign up looked familiar, as if he had seen him somewhere before. After some thought, Zhang Jialin remembered that it was the boy who sat next to the girl who had impressed him during basketball practice. Zhang Jialin hadn't expected this boy to come and sign up for the basketball team too; apparently, he was a new first-year student, and judging from his height, which was similar to Zhang Jialin's, he should be quite good at playing ball. Unfortunately, the boy didn't even look at the form before storming off in anger, probably giving up on joining the basketball team.

  Zhang Jialin couldn't help but glance at his teammate who had driven that boy away.

  Lin Xiaoyu ran to the school's small shop and bought a can of Sprite, gulping down the entire can in just a few mouthfuls. After finishing the whole can of Sprite, Lin Xiaoyu felt that the refreshing sensation had dissipated a lot of the anger she had just felt because of that basketball player who didn't even know basic manners.

  Lin Xiaoyu thought of that bastard's attitude and felt annoyed. Whether it was playing basketball or fighting, that kid's appearance wasn't even his own opponent. Lin Xiaoyu slowly calmed down her emotions and saw a trash can at the corner of the stairs. Lin Xiaoyu looked around and found no one there. So Lin Xiaoyu took the empty drink can as a basketball and threw it into the trash can with force from a distance of over ten steps away.

  Just as Lin Xiaoyu thought the can she threw would accurately enter the trash can, a figure suddenly appeared from the stairs and blocked the trajectory of the flying can.

  "Ahh!" A girl's cry rang out, followed by the sound of an empty can rolling on the ground.

  Lin Xiaoyu saw that the thing she had thrown into the trash can had hit a girl on the head, and hastily walked over.

  "Sorry, sorry. I didn't think anyone would be passing by here at this time...... Sorry about that, are you okay?" Lin Xiaoyu bent down to look at the girl who was squatting and covering her head.

  "What's wrong with you, can't you throw trash properly? Don't you have any quality? Are you trying to hurt people on purpose......" The girl raised her head and a string of words shot out like a machine gun. Lin Xiaoyu's head was buzzing from listening."

  "Sorry, I didn't mean to. Are you okay?" Facing such a girl, Lin Xiaoyu could only apologize in a low voice, after all, she was the one who was wrong first.

  That girl stared at Lin Xiaoyu with her big eyes, and another round of machine gun-like words came out of her mouth: "You said I didn't have a problem, being hit by this empty can on my head, it hurts me to death. Luckily, this is an empty can, if there was still drink inside, my head would have exploded! Even if it didn't explode, those drinks would have spilled all over my head and clothes, what could I do? And if...

  Lin Xiaoyu really didn't expect that this girl with two small braids, looking lively and pretty, would be so fiery, scolding people without even a pause. Such a person shouldn't waste their talent on acting in comedy sketches, Lin Xiaoyu thought it was a pity.

  "What are you looking at? You've already hurt me and now you're trying to make excuses. Help me pick up the things I dropped on the ground, and this time I'll forgive you. But if there's a next time, you'll be in trouble..." The girl with two small braids saw Lin Xiaoyu staring at her and launched into another barrage of words like firecrackers.

  Lin Xiaoyu didn't dare to talk back, and quickly bent down to help the girl with a sharp tongue pick up the things that had fallen earlier. While Lin Xiaoyu was helping the girl pick up her things, she found a form, and after taking a rough look at it, she realized it was a recruitment form for the school basketball team's manager position. Lin Xiaoyu didn't expect this girl to also be on the basketball team, and couldn't help but feel lucky that she hadn't signed up for the basketball team herself. She thought to herself that if she had joined the basketball team, she would have to face people like this every day, and she would probably go crazy. Lin Xiaoyu suddenly felt a bit of gratitude towards the boy with the bad attitude, thinking that if it weren't for him, she might be spending her days in misery on the basketball team.

  Lin Xiaoyu picked up all the things that the girl had dropped on the ground, tidied them up and handed them over to her. She was still apologizing profusely, Lin Xiaoyu didn't dare to provoke this fiery girl again.

  "Alright, you can go. I'll forgive you this time." The girl's words made Lin Xiaoyu feel as if she had just heard a judge declare her not guilty, and she immediately disappeared into the school corridor like a wisp of smoke.

  The girl with two braids couldn't help but burst out laughing when she saw Lin Xiaoyu's figure disappear like he was running away. If Lin Xiaoyu were to see the girl's appearance at this moment, even if you killed him, he wouldn't dare believe that the lovely and gentle-looking beautiful girl in front of him would be the same savage girl who had just scolded him until his face turned red.

  "That boy is really cute, he was scolded by me to the point of almost jumping off a building. However, that boy looks really handsome, but what's the use of being handsome? Who says handsome guys can't be scolded? Besides, it's his good fortune to be scolded by this beauty like me." The girl with braids thought proudly in her heart. This girl with braids indeed has a stunning appearance, and when she walks on the street every day, she always becomes the focus of boys' attention.

  PS: This is a true experience, but with some modifications. On a certain day in a certain month of a certain year, I was scolded by a beautiful and elegant-looking girl because of a discarded can. The scene was so embarrassing that even I don't dare to recall it. Hehe, so I'd like to remind everyone here: take care of the environment, don't litter, and don't offend beauties (words of wisdom are free (^_^) Haha...

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