Chapter Fifty-One: Refusing the Basketball Team

  It's the weekend again, and Lin Xiaoyu is thrilled to think that tomorrow is a holiday, so she can practice guitar with Yi Li and others. Lin Xiaoyu is now very dedicated to practicing guitar, at home she holds a wooden guitar given by Yan Nan to practice, in class she draws guitar strings on a book to practice fingerstyle, her days are quite fulfilling, Lin Xiaoyu's guitar skills have also improved greatly, and she has already gotten rid of her original identity as a noise maker.

  "Xiao Yu, Xiao Yu." Yan Nan shouted on the third floor corridor to Lin Xiao Yu downstairs. Lin Xiao Yu smiled and turned around to greet her. Yan Nan loudly called out to Lin Xiao Yu outside her classroom door, completely ignoring her classmates who were staring at her in surprise.

  Yan Nan, this girl, although now dressed up as a quiet and beautiful girl, still has not changed her bold and true personality. Lin Xiaoyu really likes Yan Nan's dare-to-be-different kind of girl, becoming good friends with her makes Lin Xiaoyu feel very happy, because Yan Nan lets Lin Xiaoyu know many things that Lin Xiaoyu had never touched before, such as rock music. To a large extent, it was Yan Nan who created a lot of fun for Lin Xiaoyu. By the way, Lin Xiaoyu's nickname "Noise Maker" was given by this mischievous girl Yan Nan.

  Yan Nan rushed downstairs with a bag slung over her shoulder. She walked up to Lin Xiaoyu and smiled, "Xiaoyu, you really aren't wearing your sports shoes today? Isn't the basketball team's selection this afternoon?"

  As soon as Lin Xiaoyu heard the basketball team, he thought of that boy with a bad attitude and that savage girl in his mind. He couldn't help but feel a lump in his heart. He smiled bitterly and said: "I didn't sign up, I don't want to join the basketball team anymore." Then Lin Xiaoyu simply told Yan Nan about what happened when he went to sign up that day.

  "What, there's such an annoying person in this basketball team." Yan Nan felt very indignant after hearing Lin Xiaoyu's words and shouted to go find that girl who scolded Lin Xiaoyu, to give her a lesson. Even daring to scold the little Yu he liked, this made Yan Nan even angrier than if she had scolded him himself.

  Lin Xiaoyu hastily grabbed Yan Nan's hand and said: "Forget it, I was wrong first, I won't join that basketball team anyway."

  Yan Nan saw that Lin Xiaoyu was no longer joining the basketball team, so he smiled and said: "Okay, then I won't go to participate in the selection of that basketball team manager either."

  "Manager selection? Xiaonan, did you sign up for that?" Lin Xiaoyu was a bit surprised to hear that Yan Nan had signed up for the manager selection.

  "Yes, I thought you were going to join the basketball team, so I went to sign up for the basketball team's manager, that way we can be together all day." Yan Nan said with a slightly red face, she really hoped Lin Xiaoyu could understand what she meant.

  Unfortunately, Lin Xiaoyu's response made Yan Nan a little disappointed. Lin Xiaoyu didn't think deeply about the implication of Yan Nan's words. Lin Xiaoyu said to Yan Nan: "Then I'll accompany you to attend the manager's selection, I'll cheer for you."

  "Big fool, big idiot, foolish Lin Xiaoyu." Yan Nan silently scolded Lin Xiaoyu in her heart. She had already made it so clear, how could this wooden head still not understand? Yan Nan looked at Lin Xiaoyu with a hint of resentment.

  "You don't even join the basketball team, what's the point of me going to be a manager?" Yan Nan recalled that day when she went to sign up for the basketball team manager form, those boys on the basketball team were so enthusiastic about her attitude, almost serving tea and water, and patted their chest to guarantee that they would definitely be selected as the manager. This treatment was really heaven and earth compared to Lin Xiaoyu's treatment when she went to get the registration form.

  "Oh, where are we going now?" Lin Xiaoyu asked Yan Nan where he wanted to go and play since class had just ended and it was still early.

  Lin Xiaoyu was very grateful to Yan Nan for his friendship. Fortunately, Lin Xiaoyu didn't say the words in his heart out loud, or else Yan Nan would probably go crazy. Lin Xiaoyu took Yan Nan's sincere love as friendship, which is probably the most hurtful unintentional sin under heaven.

  "Huh? Where to go? Let's go eat KFC, you still owe me that meal from last time. It just so happens I'm very hungry now, and I'll make sure to eat a lot of your treat. You're going to be bleeding badly." Yan Nan said with a pleased expression, her face showing an indescribable cuteness.

  "Not really, you're so heartless. Be careful or I'll eat you into a big fat woman." Lin Xiaoyu teased Yan Nan.

  "Don't worry about this, the one thing I'm worst at in my life is getting fat. My mom has bought me so much food to try and fatten me up, but I still can't get any fatter." Yan Nan made a cute face at Lin Xiao Yu.

  "Alright, let's go, I'm hungry too." Lin Xiaoyu and Yan Nan walked together towards the school gate.

  In the basketball court of Experimental Middle School, a new student basketball team selection is underway. The selection method is to let the freshmen form groups of five and play practice matches against the old players of the school team, allowing the coaches to assess the strength of the freshmen and select new players.

  Guo Hui was standing on the sidelines, holding a stopwatch and intently watching the players on the field. However, his expression looked somewhat dissatisfied at this time.

  The players on the school team were all substitutes, but their strength was still much higher than that of these high school freshmen who came to participate in the selection. Among this batch of new students, there were a few with good ball skills, but compared to Xiao Haifeng's strength, they were several levels weaker. Bian Guohui could only shake his head secretly in his heart for these new students who came to participate in the selection.

  Ban Guohui had been waiting for the arrival of that boy who once represented Feicui City Fourth Middle School's junior high team and defeated him, but when he saw the list of names on the registration form and the number of people who had arrived, it was already full, and that boy did not appear on the basketball court, which made Ban Guohui feel a little surprised.

  Was the boy not signed up for the basketball team selection? Did he not know about the registration or did he not want to join the basketball team? Bo Guohui kept thinking in his heart.

  Logically, that boy should have known about the basketball team's recruitment news. To let him know, Bian Guohui even specially found his own team members to set up a table at the bottom of the high school building, so that the new students in high school could know about signing up for this matter. That boy shouldn't not see it. Is it possible that he no longer plays basketball? No way, he was still here watching our team's training that day. If he didn't like basketball, he wouldn't have come to watch the training, and he watched for a long time, so he must still like playing basketball. But why didn't he join the basketball team? Bian Guohui's mind kept thinking about the problem of that boy not coming to participate in the new student selection.

  Bian Guohui would never have thought that it was because of his players' poor attitude towards new recruits that the enthusiasm of that boy to join the basketball team was extinguished. If Bian Guohui knew about this story, I estimate that the player with a bad attitude would not have any good fruit to eat.

  "Alright, even if you don't come to the selection, I must have you join my basketball team, unless you're not a student at Experimental Middle School." Bian Guohui made a secret decision in his heart. Bian Guohui recalled that after learning about the outstanding new student at his school, he had gone drinking with his old friend, the principal, and after having a few more cups, Bian Guohui had patted his chest and guaranteed his friend that Experimental Middle School's basketball team would definitely achieve good results in the next two years. As soon as Bian Guohui thought of the promise he made to his friend, he was determined to get the boy into the basketball team, no matter what conditions.

  "Come on, come on, I'll add a bit more wasabi for you... Haha..." Yan Nan smeared all the wasabi seasoning onto Lin Xiaoyu's chicken pieces with a mischievous grin.

  "Xiao Nan, do you want to kill me with spiciness? It's not good for you if I die from it... Who will pay the bill later if I die from it... Don't put so much..." Lin Xiaoyu watched as Yan Nan generously poured hot mustard onto her food, and she was sweating bullets.

  "Haha, I don't want to kill you with spiciness, I just want to see the real-life version of Ouyang Feng. The one from 'A Kid from Tibet'." Yan Nan's beautiful eyes sparkled with a sly glint.

  "Spare my life, heroine." Lin Xiaoyu said with a helpless expression.

  At this time, Lin Xiaoyu was sitting in KFC with Yan Nan, happily eating food one bite at a time. Lin Xiaoyu had no idea that a strict coach had made up his mind to dig her out and pull her into the basketball team that gave Lin Xiaoyu a headache.