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CH 047 COMPETITION
Jiang Chen came back after making the phone call, only to find that Huo Bo had arrived and Pan Liuyi had already left.
“Why were you on the phone for so long?” Shen Xu said, “Hurry up, let’s go in!”
The three of them changed on their skates together and slid in.
Apart from his initial jerkiness, Jiang Chen quickly regained the feeling of skating back, while Shen Xu and Huo Bo were even more at ease, attracting the attention of many people as soon as they entered the rink.
After a few rounds of warm-up, Shen Xu proposed challengingly: “Let’s have a match? Loser will treat the rest to dinner.”
Jiang Chen and Huo Bo looked at each other and nodded. The three of them skated to the outer circle tacitly, and after silently counting one, two, three, they set off at the same time like arrows.
Huo Bo took the lead, Jiang Chen followed closely behind, and Shen Xu followed closely behind Jiang Chen. The three of them were so close that they were almost neck and neck. In a casual competition between friends, they skated with the atmosphere of a professional competition.
The movement here quickly attracted the attention of other people on the ice skating rink. Some people stopped directly, skating to the outfield to concentrate on seeing who lost and who won. Some people couldn’t help cheering:
“Little brother in white! Come on!”
One person yelled out, and the scene became more heated in an instant, and the others couldn’t hold back anymore, shouting:
“Little brother in black! You are the most handsome!”
“The handsome guy in white is the most handsome! He must be number one!”
“The little brother in black is the most handsome and coolest!”
“Little brother in white clothes, you are so handsome!”
Under the two waves of competing cheers from the girls, most people stopped and watched their game with great interest.
However, on another ice rink adjacent to it, only the expressions of several teenagers were not as pleased.
Someone snorted coldly: “How pretentious.”
Someone ridiculed: “The ice rink has almost turned into the personal rink of the three of them. If they are so good, why not book the ice rink and hold the Olympic Games here.”
Someone also said angrily, “Why don’t we also go to the ice rink over there, this kind of garbage competition that only competes for speed, we would crush them if we go over.”
The young and energetic boys wanted  nothing more than to rush over to interrupt the competition over there right that instant. One of them couldn’t get a word in and seeing that He Qianjian had remained silent the whole time, turned to him and asked, “Qian Jian, what do you think…..” But seeing He Qianjian’s expression, his voice paused, and after a while, he asked carefully: “Qian Jian? Are you okay?”
It wasn’t until the other people heard this that they realized that He Qianjian hadn’t spoken all this time. They all looked over and saw his ugly expression and couldn’t help but be concerned.
He Qianjian stared closely at Jiang Chen who was on the opposite ice rink, and the darkness in his eyes could hardly be concealed: “I’m fine.”
Someone followed his gaze, comprehended instantly, and said, “These bunch of bumpkins have never seen anyone who can really skate. How about we go over and show them what it’s like?”
“Okay!” A sweet-looking girl also looked over without blinking, her voice sweet and soft: “Let’s go there, it’s lively over there, I want to go and have a look.”
He Qianjian’s already dark face became even darker in an instant. He had been pursuing this woman for nearly a month, but her attitude towards him was no different from that of others. She was soft and cute but that was it. He thought she treated everyone like this, but he didn’t expect she would show such a strong interest after just seeing Jiang Chen and the others.
Someone asked: “Eldest Young Master He? Are you going?”
The girl didn’t wait for them, and skated out: “I’ll go check it out first!”
The gloom in He Qianjian’s heart almost overflowed, he gritted his teeth and said, “Let’s go.”
…..
Amidst the cheers, the three ended the match. There was not much suspense in the ending. Huo Bo was first and Shen Xu was last.
Shen Xu, who was the last, was very unconvinced: “Those people really have no vision. Why do they only say that white clothes and black clothes are handsome! Don’t I look handsome in yellow clothes!”
Huo Bo: “What’s for dinner?”
“Sichuan cuisine?” Shen Xu thought for a while, and said, “This is near Xu Ji, or we can go to Xu Ji to eat Cantonese cuisine.”
Huo Bo: “Okay.”
Jiang Chen smiled but when he looked up and saw the menacing approaching new arrivals, the smile in his eyes faded. Huo Bo and Shen Xu also saw that this group of people was coming towards them, and both their smiles faded as they looked at the new arrivals.
Skating at the front of the group was a smaller girl. She stopped in front of the three of them with a smile on her face, but her gaze was only on Huo Bo: “Your match just now was amazing! I have never skated so fast before, can you teach me?”
Shen Xu nudged Jiang Chen, and said in a low voice, “I thought this group of people were looking for a fight, who knew it’s because she got her sights on Huo Bo.”
Jiang Chen’s eyes landed on He Qianjian, meeting the other’s eyes. He Qianjian let out a cold snort in his heart, skated to the front, and said, “Everyone has paid for skating here, but the three of you occupied the entire skating rink yourselves, don’t you think it’s too overbearing.”
Shen Xu sneered: “The three of us occupied the skating rink? Aren’t you standing here?”
The faces of the teenagers behind He Qianjian changed, and one of them said, “You don’t understand human language? We’re talking about the three of you competing just now, occupying the entire rink and disturbing others.”
“Which others?” Shen Xu looked around curiously, his eyes falling on the face of the person who spoke and then moved away, and said: “Apart from the three of us, is there anyone else here? Besides me, is there someone else who speaks like a person?”
Hearing the word “person” that he specially emphasized, the young man was so angry that he took a half step forward, but was pulled by the person behind him, the person said: “It seems that you skate well, since you don’t admit to taking up the space, let’s compete in a game. We will not bully the few with more, three to three, whichever team has the most players in the top three, the other team will get out immediately, how about it?”
The speaker bit the three words “get out” very hard, and in an instant, a tense atmosphere spread.
Shen Xu nodded: “Okay, when you get out, remember to go around the perimeter, so as not to occupy everyone’s space.”
They were all young and energetic teenagers, and they couldn’t wait to compete as soon as they laid down their challenge.
The people who were waiting outside the rink to watch Jiang Chen and his friends had already stood up and were about to come in to continue playing. But seeing that they were about to compete again, they had no choice but to sit down again.
Huo Bo whispered something to Shen Xu, and Shen Xu skated to the bar area, gestured his chin to the audience area, and skated back.
Before the competition even started, someone in the audience area cheered loudly with a drink in hand: “Little brother in white! The milk tea is delicious! You must be the first this time!”
“Brother in black! Oolong is as icy as you, and no one knows how to skate like you!”
“Little brother in yellow, you are super cute! Come on!”
Jiang Chen paused, and turned to look at Huo Bo and Shen Xu. Shen Xu smiled triumphantly, while Huo Bo rolled his eyes with a dark face.
“What happened?”
“I asked him to treat the people waiting to have a drink as a fee for occupying the venue. I don’t know what he said to them.”
“I’m wronged okay, people just see that we are handsome, and spontaneously want to cheer for us.”
“Enough out of you.”
The three talked and laughed and skated to the starting point. He Qianjian looked away coldly, grabbed the boy next to him, and whispered something.
Game start.
Huo Bo still took the lead, but unlike last time he didn’t narrow the distance with Jiang Chen and Shen Xu out of fun before, this time he completely left the group of people behind, and Jiang Chen and Shen Xu still followed closely behind.
In the match just now, the three of them were just joking around, and naturally it wasn’t treated seriously. To the audience it seemed to be a very close match, but all three of them knew that if Huo Bo showed his full strength, although the result would not change, this game would definitely end early.
But the other team didn’t know that Huo Bo had only exerted less than five points of strength before, and the three of them chased after Huo Bo with all their strength, yet they still couldn’t touch the corner of Huo Bo’s clothes, so they could only grit their teeth and fight for the second and third.
However, the second and third were not so easy to win. In the last game it was because Jiang Chen hadn’t skated for a long time, so his body was in the warm-up period. Now that the warm-up was over, he would naturally only skate faster and better than before.
Shen Xu was similar, he was the slowest among the three, but because he was short and nimble, he had always been the fastest skating around corners, almost every distance he fell behind could be caught up by turning corners, and so he firmly maintained the third position.
The race they discussed was three laps, and at this time two laps had already been skated. Seeing the three people who were far ahead, the expression of one of the opposing team changed, and he took out something from his pocket, throwing it towards the corner.
Jiang Chen had been paying attention to all the movements on the rink, especially the boy who just talked to He Qianjian. When he saw him throwing something, his expression turned cold and he slowed down. He was just about to turn around to alert Shen Xu when he saw He Qianjian walk over here from outside the rink.
As He Qianjian got closer and closer to him, Jiang Chen heard a strange yet familiar voice:
The cold mechanical voice said: “The distance is ten meters, nine meters, eight meters…..affirmative to exchange the key at fifty meters with the key in your hand?”
He Qianjian: “Affirmative.”
“The exchange was successful.”
Jiang Chen froze, Shen Xu had already caught up, and said, “Jiangzi, what’s the matter?”
“It’s nothing.” Jiang Chen suppressed the shock in his eyes, and said, “I just saw that the group of people behind threw a key at the last corner of the last circle. You should be careful later when bypassing it.”
“Damn it.” Shen Xu said, “This group of people are too shameless.”
Jiang Chen speeded up: “Be careful.”
When Shen Xu and Jiang Chen got closer, Huo Bo had already completed three laps and was the well-deserved number one.
At this time, Jiang Chen and Shen Xu also skated to the last corner. When they passed the key chain, Shen Xu bent down, picked it up, and threw it back. The person following close behind was the one who threw the key, and soon everyone heard a bang sound, followed by shouts and cursing.
Jiang Chen and Shen Xu skated to the finish line on the ground, and the other three also supported the injured person and skated over, they were all furious.
One person rushed over and pushed Shen Xu hard: “What did you mean by that!”
Shen Xu had been on guard for a long time, and only slid back a few steps before standing firm. He then pushed the other back without showing any weakness, and said with a sneer, “You don’t know what I mean? You can’t even keep your own keychain safe, why blame others for the fall?”
“You f**king slandering——”
“Am I? Go ask your friend to see whose door that key can open.”
The angry young man paused, turned to look at his injured companion, and was about to ask, when He Qianjian stepped forward and said, “Who does that key belong to? We don’t know and we can’t prove it now, but you threw it back, causing someone to be injured, and everyone has seen it with their own eyes.”
“So, no matter who owns the key, the injured one is our people.” He Qianjian’s eyes swept over Shen Xu and Huo Bo, and finally landed on Jiang Chen, and said coldly: “How are you going to explain that to us?”
Shen Xu: “Who are you? Why should I explain to you?”
The young man behind He Qianjian couldn’t bear it anymore, rushed out and said, “F**k you, I’ll smash your mouth!”
Jiang Chen and Huo Bo stepped in front of Shen Xu, and the people on the other side also skated up next to He Qianjian, the atmosphere suddenly on the verge of breaking out in a brawl.