Chapter 4 Hot Pot
"What?" Fu Xiao shook hands halfway and was stunned for a moment.
"Canyon. Du Ruofei?" It was a bit unpleasant, Fu Xiao cursed.
"This is Zhang Suiqi's" He Yuqi pushed up his glasses, a cunning light flashed behind the lenses.
"Guan Shan Du Ruo Fei" Zhang Sui broke open the disposable chopsticks and picked up a steamed dumpling. "The poem talks about passing through many passes like the flying general Li Guang"
"And we will sweep across the canyon like the flying generals of KPL!" He Yuqi said teasingly, pretending to be very passionate.
Zhang Sui didn't care about the sarcasm in He Yuqi's voice. He chewed steamed dumplings and said vaguely, "Fei Liu deserves it. Can't I pay tribute to him if I can't keep up with him?"
"Fei Liu?" The guard Mei Changsu from the TV series? Fu Xiao decided not to point out the fundamental errors in Zhang Sui's poetry.
"Flying Cow!" Zhang Sui swallowed the dumpling, "Don't you watch KPL?"
Fu Xiao shook her head. Playing games occupied her monotonous and tense after-school life. She had heard about some anchors and the KPL professional league, but she didn't know much about them, and she didn't have time to watch games or live broadcasts.
"This is the first person in the professional arena of Honor of Kings!" Zhang Sui opened his phone and looked for videos. "Wait a minute!"
Then, Fu Xiao, who originally dreamed of Mixue Bingcheng, spent half the afternoon listening to Zhang Sui introduce various KPL teams to her and recommended several anchors to her.
It was already past five o'clock when he walked out of Shaxian Snacks. Fu Xiao had two more live streaming apps on his phone, and more than a dozen anchors and professional players were added to his watch list.
The three brothers and Fu Xiao agreed to meet in the square in the evening. But Fu Xiao didn't want to go home.
The pain caused by the college entrance examination results seemed to be covered up by the rising sea water, and was revealed when the sea water receded. It turned out that it was carved on the stone tablet, not painted on the surface of the sand.
She hesitated for a while, and finally sat on a stone pier in the square and made a phone call.
"How did you go in the exam?" She heard her breathing quicken but said in a relaxed tone, "Zhutou, I promised to call you as soon as possible to report. I've been waiting all afternoon."
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It's not that urgent, a small voice inside said. She felt that she was vaguely afraid of knowing that others did better than herself.
Xu Yang is the boy in her back seat. He fights with her every day and looks like a pig's head. His hair was in pieces, but very clean, probably because of the bright eyes behind it.
He always claimed to be Fu Xiao's "brother" and would bring her an extra cup of milk tea. Everyone knows that they have a good relationship in the class and are good buddies who talk about everything. But Fu Xiao knew that there were too many things she hadn't told him.
For example, she actually knew how to choose C in the second multiple-choice question of the Model 3 Physics Paper, but she just pretended not to know how to ask for advice so that she could find an excuse to talk to him a few more words; for example, she actually likes to have short hair, but But she told him that she cut it short because she was studying and would grow it longer in the future; for example, she fell in love with the brown tea fragrance he bought. A small cup of milk tea from a different brand, but she actually drank a large vat of fruit tea from Sweet Storm next door; for example, Lagou and he agreed to go to the same university and continue playing games together after they went to college, but in fact they didn’t just want to play games together. Akatsuki couldn't say why, but maybe her heart palpitated because of the earthy smell brought by that brief finger touch.
Really useless, she thought.
"720" The voice on the other end of the phone brought him back to reality. "Hey, my parents are in a hurry to contact relatives to report the good news. I didn't bother to call you to tell you."
"Congratulations!" Fu Xiao felt as if his mouth was moving on his own.
"I signed up in the class group, I thought you saw it"
"I haven't watched the group this afternoon," it replied mechanically.
"What about you?"
"I didn't do well in the exam. I may not be able to get into A University. It's 60 points lower than expected."
"." There was silence on the other end of the phone for a second. "It's okay. There are quite a lot of 211 and 985. University A is just a name. If you want to study finance, there are many nationally ranked schools that are better than it."
But you won't be there anymore, Fu Xiao thought, she would rather such words of comfort and high emotional intelligence did not come from his mouth. Has he forgotten the hook he pulled with her?
"Yeah, it's okay. You go ahead and do your work. I want to eat." Fu Xiao's brain took back control from his mouth and hung up the phone after saying goodbye. For the first time, she felt that her throat was so dry. It was as if someone had taken an awl and re-cut the marks on the stone tablet.
She opened the class group and saw her classmates reporting scores to each other, some doing well and some doing poorly. Looking at those cartoon expressions of crying and laughing, I feel as if my pain is not completely felt by no one, but I feel strangely comfortable.
She forced herself to join the discussion, pay attention to other people's emotions, and finally responded to greetings from several good friends, feeling much better.
It was half past six in a blink of an eye, and there were more and more people in the square. The days in summer are very long, and the sun does not set so early, but the neon lights turn on early. There are vendors setting up stalls, children wearing roller skates, aunts dancing in the square, couples sipping candy, and there are many places in the distance. The audition stand that had been set up was very lively for a while.
It turns out that not everyone in the world gets their college entrance examination scores today. Maybe college entrance examination scores are not the best thing in the world? Fu Xiao took a deep breath and walked toward the audition stage using his legs that were gradually regaining their strength.
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"Boss, are you going to have hot pot tonight?" A sleepy, fat boy with a round face poked at the door of the apartment, blocking the boss's way in.
The young man wearing glasses lost all the arrogance he had in his father's office just now and looked at his team members with a smile.
"You kid, you eat and eat all day long, and you talk about eating as soon as you wake up."
"I'm just saying, look at this pig, it eats, sleeps, and eats." The boy behind him is completely the opposite - he is tall and thin, as if a bamboo pole has become a spirit.
"I just finished the rankings this morning! 140-level jungle!" The round-faced boy protested, "Have you ever seen Shang Ning at eight in the morning!"
"I've never seen that before." The young man known as the boss rubbed his head and said, "We usually don't call it early morning at eight o'clock in the morning."
A few young men started to wash up while playing around. The unstandardized game life made their work and rest time chaotic. Li Xiwen took off his glasses and wiped them, looking at them with blurry myopia, hesitating a little.
Although he insisted with his father that he "must stick to the dream of e-sports", he also understood that such days of staying up all night, alternating day and night, and not necessarily being able to manage every meal, how could he be considered "e-sports"? What about "Competition"?
At best, they are just a group of people playing games.
In the blink of an eye, everyone finished cleaning up, and a few people sat in the largest private room of the hot pot restaurant downstairs.
"Boss, you're so cool today." The thin monkey's name is Wang Bintao. He plays mid lane in the team and is very eloquent.
"We have had more luxurious food before! I think back then, when we played in KPL." The round-faced boy immediately became interested.
The boy next to him immediately slapped him on the shoulder and shook his head to signal him to stop talking.
"It's nothing," Li Xiwen snorted, "You let him say it, you let him say it"
"See if Lin Yuhang can win the championship for a lifetime?"
"No" Lin Yuhang stopped knowingly and changed the topic on a whim. "Qin Han, why didn't your girlfriend come today? Isn't it the weekend?"
The handsome boy who just interrupted Lin Yuhang's face darkened, and he suddenly regretted slapping this guy.
"We had a quarrel," he said shortly.
Three seconds of silence.
"Which pot you won't pick up and which pot you won't pick up, it all depends on your level," Shouhou concluded awkwardly and hilariously.
"What's the matter?" Li Xiwen asked, "Do you want the boss to enlighten you?"
Qin Han shook his head. He always spoke very little.
OK.
Li Xiwen sighed secretly in his heart.
You can guess it without saying it. It is common for people who do this to have no time to spend with their families or girlfriends, and it is reasonable for people to complain a little. Besides, there is no money yet.
The hot pot was brought up, and when he looked at the steaming red oil pot, his heart did not feel any warmer.
"Actually, it's right not to need guidance from the boss." Lin Yuhang excitedly put the mutton into the pot and said in a confused manner, "If he figured it out on his own, would he still be a bachelor for 30 years?"
"Hahahahahahahahaha" everyone laughed. Only Li Xiwen angrily thought about why the hot pot was not ready yet, and he must quickly gag this person.
Lin Yuhang's favorite meat was cooked, and Qin Han ordered the tofu skin, Slim Monkey's favorite mushrooms, and the new confrontation Lu Wu Xiao and support Lu He were very shy and never said what they wanted to eat. , seems to be less talkative than the cold-faced handsome guy Qin Han, but Li Xiwen is sure that they will become more relaxed children after they get to know everyone. After eating several rounds, everyone gradually became full and started to cook the last dish. Li Xiwen suddenly wished that he was the one who could be gagged.
"If you want anything else, please order more. You're welcome." He felt something was stuck in his throat. “Maybe we won’t have such a grand dinner in the future.”
Although the tone was relaxed, everyone's movements slowed down significantly.
"What do you mean?" Qin Han was the first to speak. There was no panic in his tone, he was very calm.
"Well, our finances may be a little tight."
"Since the beginning of this year, our savings have almost reached the bottom. Some people don't want me to continue doing this."
Seeing the astonishment on everyone's faces, Li Xiwen quickly added, "But the daily expenses can still be maintained, even if it is a little tighter, the salary may not be on time"
Everyone was silent for a while.
"It's normal," Lu He said suddenly. He was just 18 years old when he first arrived. He was a player Li Xiwen poached from the national server Luban master list. He was thousands more powerful than the second-placed player, Fault. "Although I have only been here a few days, I also know that we make money by collecting bonuses ourselves. If we haven't received the bonuses yet, of course we have no money."
Everyone looked at each other. This kid is just too young. There are so many people who want to win the championship. Why should it be you? Will those who never win the championship starve to death?
"I don't care," Lin Yuhang replied, "I just want to win back the KPL at every opportunity. Boss, I am the same as you."
"If you had the ability to fight back, would you play in the national competition here?" Thin Monkey narrowed his eyes. "He's just a player that even the minor leagues don't care about."
"You!" Qin Han and Lu He quickly jumped up and hugged Lin Yuhang. He was very tall and it was no joke to give him a hug.
"If you had the ability to fight back, would you be here with me -" Shouhou's face turned red "- with me, a third-rate jungler who also had no competition in KPL and was squeezed into the middle by you?" The thin monkey became more and more aggressive as he talked, but it was obvious that the target of his attack was no longer Lin Yuhang.
"Then what are you still doing here!" Lin Yuhang shouted, "Go back to your hometown! Come and enjoy Lao Li's hot pot!"
"Enough!" Li Xiwen expected that there would be some unhappiness, but he did not expect that things would develop in this direction. Lin Yuhang sat down panting, Qin Han let go of him, while Lu He on the side was still holding his arm fearfully.
"I have a question," Wu Xiao said. "Boss Li" was suddenly called that. Li Xiwen felt a lot more confused.
"If the salary is not paid in full, is it against the regulations?"
"That's right, social security and everything else will be paid in full." He usually chatted with the team members. This was the first time he felt like discussing treatment issues with "employees" in such a formal way.
The sky was getting dark, and someone outside the window turned on the high beam, which made Li Xiwen a little lost in thought.
He didn't know if there was anyone in such a big city who was dreaming of unrealistic dreams like him, whether he could go from a championship-less coach who was kicked out of the league to a championship coach. He didn't know if this road would have an end.
1. Just take a look at the version strength and other aspects of the parallel world’s King of Mobile Games and professional leagues.
2. There is no prototype, and there may be some familiar plots from the real league, but these are all necessary elements in e-sports.
3. There is no prototype for the protagonist, but the story will be based on or pay tribute to the players in KPL. If there is, I will say it clearly in the chapter. If it is not mentioned, it means that it is really not considered and it is just a coincidence. Thank you all for your support~please give me more opinions~please encourage me!
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