basketball craftsman

Chapter 49 V.62: Speculators

After the third round of the quarter-finals in late October, half of the city's winter league teams were eliminated and there were only eight teams left. These eight teams not only entered the fourth round of the winter league, but also qualified for next year's national summer league. Qualification for tryouts.

After school on Monday afternoon, Ling Lan came to the school basketball hall early. After defeating Lin Cheng No. [-] Middle School, the Xiangshan Middle School basketball team became famous and became a well-known "basketball tribe" in the surrounding urban areas; today I came to the school basketball hall More students watched training than ever before.

"Wow, there are so many people..." The students standing outside the basketball hall looked at a small number of figures in the stands and exclaimed, "Our school's basketball team did a good job this year!"

"That's right!" The students in the stands were all talking about their basketball team, "Where did I go to watch the match against Lin Cheng No. [-] Middle School the day before yesterday, it's so exciting!"

Ling Lan walked into the basketball court and saw that the number of students in the surrounding stands doubled and she was not too surprised. Instead, she was curious to see the players sitting around on the floor of the arena. Ling Lan walked over and asked, "What are you doing?" What? We haven't done warm-up exercises yet, we're going to start training!"

"Ah, Sister Hua is here!"

Li Ying hurriedly stood up from the floor with a roll of newspaper in her hand and said, "Sister Hua, hurry up and prepare torches and gasoline!"

"Torches and gasoline?" Ling Lan took the newspaper from Li Ying's hands and the second monk was puzzled, "What do you want those things for? This is... the school newspaper??"

"It's Xiangshan Monthly!" Shi Qianqian coughed twice and said solemnly, "I have applied for half of the page in this issue to report on the basketball team!"

"..." Ling Lan felt something was wrong when she heard Shi Qianqian's words, and she immediately opened the front page of the daily newspaper, and she was shocked: a big silhouette on the page was a photo taken during the match with Lin Cheng No. [-] Middle School, In the photo, three of the five members of Xiangshan Middle School are facing away from each other, but Brother Fengyun's movements are extremely handsome.

"Oh my god!" Ling Lan was stunned for a long time looking at the photos on this page, "Qianqian, you are reporting Lin Cheng No. [-] Middle School, right? Can't you choose a photo of us scoring a goal?"

"Oh, sister Hua, don't complain about this!" Li Ying couldn't stand it anymore and stretched out her hand to turn to the second page, "This is the most outrageous place, go find torches and gasoline!!"

Ling Lan stared at the super-sized headline on the second edition and looked like an idiot: Xiangshan Middle School's massacred seed team Lin Cheng No. [-] Middle School advances to the quarterfinals!
"Oh my god, Kuang Tu..." Ling Lan slapped the newspaper on her face and asked idiotically, "Qianqian, don't you know the actual score?"

"I know!" Shi Qianqian immediately raised his hand and said, "We beat Lin Chengyi by 3 points!"

"It's 2 points, Mrs. Shi, or it's because Hai fought hard to grab the rebound..." Yang Hao sat aside and covered his face to remind, Ling Lan felt her head was caught in the door and asked with a desperate look: "Who saw the torch and Gasoline is gone...give me a fire and burn this newspaper..."

"Hey, hey! Don't, don't..." Shi Qianqian hurriedly comforted Ling Lan, and Ling Lan put away the newspaper and said helplessly, "Qianqian, in the report of the basketball game, the winning side should be within 5 points. Use 'narrow victory' to describe it, 5-10 points can be called 'small victory', 10-15 points can be called 'Lick', 15-20 points can be written as 'big victory', as for the 'mad slaughter' you used... ...at least win by 25 points or more, okay?"

Shi Qianqian nodded her lips half-understood, Lily of the Valley read the report in the newspaper hastily, then walked slowly to the side wall and posted the new schedule on it:

Southern District Group A: Xiangshan Middle School 2_________________ North District Group A: 9 County College
South District Group B: Guhe Middle School 14________________ North District Group B: 10 Baihua High School
South District Group C: Xiaogan Middle School 12________________ North District Group C: 16 Youtanhua Senior High School

South Group D: Fenghuang Municipal University High School 24_________ North Group D: 17 Huang Jinshan Middle School

The players next to him all came up to gather in front of the schedule. Yang Hao rubbed his chin while looking at the schedule on the wall and said, "Everyone, we have reached the quarter-finals in the city...the next match will be against the seeded team in Group B of the Southern District Furukawa Middle School."

"Baihua High School has also entered the quarterfinals." Ouyang Yuchen pushed his glasses and said, "They are the big dark horses in the northern district... Speaking of Zhang Wenjun and Linglan..."

"This is not something we are concerned about." Ling Lan said without changing her eyes, "Our top eight teams in the South District, Furukawa Middle School, Xiaogan Middle School, and the High School Attached to Phoenix City University are all first-class and strong enemies."

"Yes." Ye Fan nodded and said, "If we can beat Furukawa Middle School in the next round, we will be able to enter the Southern District Finals and face the real basketball giant Phoenix City University Affiliated High School. This is a great deal for each of us. an unprecedented challenge."

Lan Lie nodded in agreement, he was extremely eager to challenge the giant basketball team that had snubbed him on the court, Chen Chaohai looked at the schedule and said: "Our next round of competition will be held in two weeks, next week the South District will be Xiaogan Middle School and Let’s go watch the match at the High School Attached to City University.”

Linglan nodded and said, "It's necessary... Watching the games of really high-level teams will be very helpful for us to beat Furukawa Middle School."

"Yoxi!" After hearing this, Li Ying jumped and ran to the basket. The morale of the players was also high and continued training. He took out his mobile phone from his pocket by the wall and opened the email: Wenjun... Although I can't help being confused when I see you, I don't even know why I avoided your request for dating, but now I love basketball as much as you do. You changed me with basketball, made me strong, brave and trustworthy... But, now is really not the time to accept your confession, because you and I have more important tasks, come on Wenjun... by Lan

Ling Lan silently pressed the send button after writing the email, and then completely deleted Zhang Wenjun's contact information... She didn't want to be affected by such emotions. Ling Lan received a call when she just closed the phone. Is it really good to lightly press the switch off and put it in your pocket?Ling Lan immediately wavered about her actions: Now it seems that she is so heartless, even if she didn't agree to Zhang Wenjun's confession request, at least she can't even be a basic friend?

Thinking of this, Ling Lan hesitated, and took out her mobile phone to turn it on again: she could never get rid of that memory in her heart.Ling Lan opened the missed call and was taken aback: The call just now was not from Zhang Wenjun.

"Unfamiliar call?" Ling Lan walked out of the gate of the basketball court and called back the phone as if she had misunderstood the person. After a while, she answered Ling Lan and said, "I'm sorry that the phone ran out of battery just now. May I know who you are?"

"Excuse me, is it Hua Linglan, the basketball manager of Xiangshan Middle School?"

A middle-aged man's voice came over the phone, Ling Lan didn't know him and asked, "I am, what can I do for you?"

"Oh, hello, hello." The person on the other end of the phone changed his tone and said, "I am the person in charge of Wancai Investment in Fenghuang City, and my name is Zhou Caisheng."

"Wancai Investment?" Ling Lan asked standing by the flower bed, "Mr. Zhou, do you have anything to do with me?"

"Of course." On the other side of the phone, he said in a friendly tone, "I intend to sponsor your Xiangshan Middle School basketball team, and provide you with custom-made jerseys and funds. If it is convenient, I will send someone to pick you up and talk about it in detail."

"Ah?" Ling Lan replied dumbfounded when she heard that, "Is that so... I really appreciate that..."

"Then please wait for 10 minutes and someone will contact you."

After the call ended, Ling Lan took her mobile phone and ran back to the basketball gym overjoyed to tell the players about it, everyone, look at me and see you don't know what to say.

"It's sponsorship!" Ling Lan clapped her hands and said, "A commercial company offered to sponsor our basketball team! In this way, we don't have to worry about uniforms, equipment, food and drink!"

"But is this okay?" Ouyang Yuchen adjusted his glasses and said, "We're just a team in the high school league, if we get in touch with a commercial group... I'm afraid it's not good to cause trouble?"

Ling Lan shook her head and responded, "No, no, everyone, the reason why business groups came to us to offer sponsorship is because our Xiangshan Middle School basketball team entered the top eight in the city! This is something to be encouraged, and here comes the call!"

Ling Lan hurriedly took out her mobile phone and walked aside. Zhou Caisheng Yingren had already left the school just now, Ling Lan turned around and asked, "You guys continue training, let's go there together."

"Oh..." Shi Qianqian stood up and followed. The team members looked at the backs of Linglan and Shi Qianqian, not knowing whether they were happy or worried; Linglan and Shi Qianqian took a car to a commercial building near the city center , followed the receptionist to a conference room on the left side of the hall, where Ling Lan was sitting in front of the conference table, Xie Xie was excited.

After a while, a middle-aged man walked into the conference room, saw the two of them, sat down on the opposite seat and asked, "I am Zhou Caisheng, the person in charge of Wancai Investment, who are you Hua Lily of the Valley?"

"I am!" Lily of the Valley immediately raised her hand and said, "Hi, hello, I am Hua Lily of the Valley."

"I'm Shi Qianqian..." Shi Qianqian gave a brief introduction, and Zhou Caisheng nodded and said, "Student Hua Linglan, it's really great that your Xiangshan Middle School can enter the city's quarter-finals in this year's Phoenix High School Basketball Winter League. excellent."

"Hehe, that's an honor." Ling Lan asked with a grin, "My goal is not just that, the championship of the winter league is the ultimate goal of our Xiangshan Middle School participating in this winter league!"

(End of this chapter)