lemonade

Looking at Fu Yue who took a big mouthful of powder, looking at Fu Yue who squinted his eyes to express his satisfaction, looking at Fu Yue who was sweating slightly after eating and wiping with a paper towel.

"Is it delicious?" Xu Zheng asked.

Fu Yue swallowed the powder in his mouth and nodded again and again: "You really don't want a bowl? This one is authentic enough."

Xu Zheng hesitated, torn between "eating" and "not eating" for a long time, before saying, "Then I...try."

"Really?" Fu Yue asked, "What flavor do you want?"

Xu Zheng estimated the portion: "I want the original, the smallest portion is fine."

Fu Yue said in a loud voice: "Add a small portion of original snail powder at table [-]!"

Clerk: "Okay! Please wait a moment."

Fu Yue was [-]% full, so he started to eat stinky tofu. While eating, he introduced it to Xu Zheng. Deep-fry until golden brown. When eating, pour onion and ginger and sauce to eat. It tastes crispy on the outside and crispy on the inside.

Xu Zheng listened quietly, and when he finished speaking, his face was expressionless: "Today I decided to try snail powder, and I will never want to try food that I have never eaten before. Even if you say it is delicious, I will not eat it." will eat."

Fu Yue's mind was completely seen through, and he was not embarrassed: "You can try snail powder, that's already very good."

The clerk put the original snail powder in front of Xu Zheng: "The snail powder is just made, please use it slowly and be careful not to burn it."

"Thank you." Xu Zheng took out his chopsticks, lowered his head slightly, and took a cautious breath. It was still the strong, solid, and somewhat suffocating smell of sour bamboo shoots fermented through a special process.

Fu Yue looked at Xu Zheng nervously, wishing he could personally teach Xu Zheng to accept this new food, but unfortunately there are some things that can't be taught just by wanting to teach them.

"Just try a bite of noodles." Fu Yue suggested, "If you can accept it, then eat something else." For example, sour bamboo shoots.

Xu Zheng frowned slightly, and stopped dawdling. He picked up two pieces of powder with chopsticks, bit them off, and tasted the taste carefully: "It's okay, acceptable."

Fu Yue raised his eyebrows with joy, and successfully pulled Xu Zheng into the snail powder pit. He watched Xu Zheng stretch his brows, slowly finished the whole bowl of noodles, and said, "What else do you have that you haven't eaten, I think You can try it in the future.” Even the boss-level snail powder is accepted, and other foods should not be worth mentioning.

"Hmm..." Xu Zheng's throat smelled of snail powder. He drank a large glass of water, but it didn't get better. "Let's go, go back tonight and have an early rest."

They got into the car, occasionally talked a few words on the way home, and soon returned to Wangjiajingyuan.

When the elevator reached the sixteenth floor, Fu Yue asked, "Want to see Lemon? I haven't seen you for a few days, little guy, and I miss you all the time."

"Lemon misses me, how do you know?" Xu Zheng smiled.

"I guessed it." Fu Yue was not without reason, "Lemon has been meowing for the past few days. She obviously doesn't need anything. She must be missing you."

Xu Zheng walked to the door of Fu Yue's house: "True knowledge comes from practice."

The door opened, and Lemon had already been squatting at the door waiting. Seeing Fu Yue, she gave a "meow", saw Xu Zheng behind Fu Yue, "meowed" several times, moved to Xu Zheng's feet, and pawed at Xu Zheng's feet. his pant legs.

"Look, I just miss you." Fu Yue looked at the lemons rubbing against Xu Zheng's side, and he also had some lemons, both Xu Zheng and lemons, so sour.

Xu Zheng picked up the lemon and smoothed its fur. After smoothing it for a while, he put the lemon down and said, "I'm leaving."

Lemon, who wasn't comfortable enough, let out a "meow" angrily.

"Aren't you going to come in and sit down?"

"No, put away your things, go to bed early, and get up earlier tomorrow." Xu Zheng squatted down again, touched the angry lemon, and walked home.

Fu Yue closed the door, picked up Lemon and continued to smooth his hair: "Lemon, Lemon, your father Xu doesn't love you enough, you have to be sure, it's father Fu who treats you well."

Lemon got tired of staying in Fu Yue's arms for a while, and jumped to the ground to lick his paws. Fu Yue laughed, even cats do this.

The unavailable is always in a commotion, and the favored have no fear.

Tomorrow, tomorrow.

The biological clock is normal. Fu Yue got up according to the usual time, brushed his teeth and washed his face. Today he is a little excited and very energetic.

After changing into the marathon clothes, putting on OA shoes, and bringing the competition items packed last night, I went to find Xu Zheng.

There is no other reason, Xu Zheng's mentor really helped him plan everything, and even asked Fu Yue to eat breakfast at his house.

Xu Zheng also changed his clothes. The two wore the same royal blue short-sleeved style. The design was simple and the fabric was smooth and close-fitting.

Breakfast was set on the dining table, one banana and three high-calorie cookies for each person, Xu Zheng asked, "Are you ready?"

Fu Yue was full of energy: "I've been ready for a long time."

"Set off."

The two arrived at the starting point of this year's half marathon in H City - Orson Sports Park, which included Huanhu Road, Ten Mile Promenade, Academic Technology Exchange Center, Fanhua Street, Film and Television City and other attractions in the middle, and finally turned back and returned to Orson Sports Park, complete the entire half marathon.

They came early, but many people in Orson Sports Park are already preparing. The women's marathon clothing is orange. From a distance, a piece of sapphire blue and bright orange contrast each other, which is very vivid.

Fu Yue thought it was nothing at first, but he was pushed by Xu Zheng to step on it twice before, and he also felt that there was no problem after halfway through the run, but when he saw the huge crowd, he became a little nervous.

Xu Zheng noticed it and asked, "Are you nervous?"

The overall situation is the most important thing. For the sake of the army, Fu Yueyou also said that he did not: "No!"

Xu Zheng posted the contestant's number and said softly, "Don't be afraid."

Fu Yue stretched his waist: "Well... I will run with you later, but if your speed exceeds my ability to accept, I may not follow." They were all divided into area C. When you can run together.

Xu Zheng: "Don't force it, there is no pressure for you to finish the race."

Fu Yue nodded fiercely: "Let's go warm up and stretch."

Xu Zheng said, "Okay."

They finished the preparatory exercise very carefully, making sure that the whole body was stretched out. The players were almost there, and there were still 10 minutes before the start of the game.

Beside them was an old man about 50 years old. The old man had his back straight, his hands above his head, and he was smiling silly. Looking forward, it turned out that the old man's wife was taking pictures of him. His wife Take a good photo, put your phone in your pocket, and raise your fists to your head—come on!

The old man did the same thing, encouraging himself: "Come on!"

The family members have to be cleaned up, and the wife can no longer stay, and has withdrawn from the competition venue.

The old man followed his wife until he couldn't see him anymore, then he looked at the nearest Fu Yue and said, "Young man, please do your best."

Everyone gathered here for a common goal, Fu Yue replied cheering, and then looked at Xu Zheng.

"Come on." Xu Zheng clenched his fist and raised it in the air. Fu Yue bumped his fist and said, "Come on together!"

"There are still 15 seconds!" The host of Area C held the microphone and shouted: "Everyone is ready!"

When counting down to ten seconds, everyone couldn't help shouting together: "Ten, nine, eight, seven..."

The heartbeat gradually accelerated, and the spirit became more and more concentrated. Everyone looked ahead with bright eyes, and everyone was waiting for that second, the second when they opened their legs.

"...Three, two, one!"

At [-]:[-], there was a "bang", and the starting gun sounded on time.

Everyone ran out with their legs and stepped through the gate. At the beginning, the contestants maintained a row and set off together. They all looked at the forest road in front of them. All kinds of crowding and overtaking, heat, sunshine, speed , Running, pacers of different speeds - rabbits lead the way easily, and several running groups also run tightly together without dispersing.

According to the previous training strategy, Xu Zheng and Fu Yue started to press down on the speed, and slowly adapted to the slightly wet track and outdoor climate, avoiding being collided and squeezed by the huge team of players and consuming unnecessary physical strength.

Spread your legs, swing your hands, look forward, and your heart beats faster.

The spectators who were left outside Simon let out deafening cheers, shouts, and cheers. The weather is fine today, the sun is not strong, the wind is blowing the fallen leaves, there are fellow travelers around, and the goal is in front of them, so it is very good.

After running through the transition zone between Forest Park and Huanhu Road, the flow of people gradually dispersed, and the front and back lines became longer. Fu Yue and Xu Zheng gradually began to speed up, overtaking some people around them, and being overtaken by some people.

In front, a 1.9-meter tall boy was running, and suddenly a 100-yuan bill floated out of his pocket, blown by the wind, and rolled backwards lightly.

"It's money lost! Young man! It's money lost!" An old man shouted, "100 yuan!"

At first, 1.9 meters didn't realize that it was calling him, so he continued to stride forward, and something even more funny happened. A piece of 50 yuan floated out of his trouser pocket, and then several pieces of one yuan floated out. .He noticed it himself, and glanced back.

The people around said, "You lost your money." "Hurry up and pick up the money!"

1.9 meters shook his head cruelly, shouted: "No more, no more!" and continued to stride forward.

No contestant cared about the few pieces of paper money, everyone just laughed and continued to run forward. A handsome rabbit picked up the money, took a 1.9-meter sound shadow, and waited for it to be returned to him after the game.

Fu Yue looked funny too. When he was running a marathon, he still had some money in his trouser pocket and lost it while running. It was really a sense of joy.

The road around the lake is beautiful, with green trees and birds singing, lake and water, and several volunteers stood by the roadside, shouting cheers and other words of encouragement to the contestants.The contestants are not only Chinese, but also contestants from many other countries, with white skin, black skin, and yellow skin. At this moment, in this occasion, tolerance, freedom and equality are absolutely indispensable. Those who do not see their backs, or those who are struggling to move forward at the end, enjoy the same breeze.

Fu Yue followed Xu Zheng, with the same frequency, he took his left foot, he also took his left foot, left-right, left-right, one-two-one, left-right-left.

With Xu Zheng around, it doesn't need to follow the rabbit, it just needs to follow Xu Zheng. They have cooperated for so many days, and Xu Zheng's speed is the most perfect and most suitable for him.

After running five kilometers, a drink and food supply station appeared in front of him. Xu Zheng ran to get two small bottles of energy drinks, and continued to run forward, avoiding the water drinking brigade that swarmed in afterwards.

When he reached a corner ahead, Xu Zheng stopped, gave Fu Yue a bottle of energy drink, and said, "Don't drink too much."

Fu Yue gulped down half of the drink.

Xu Zheng also drank some, and asked, "Is it okay?"

Fu Yue nodded.

Xu Zheng continued to run forward, and after only a few steps, he stopped abruptly, clutching his chest, and frowning.

Fu Yue quickly supported him, and said eagerly, "Are you all right?"

Just as Xu Zheng was about to speak, the nausea surged up again. He poured all the remaining energy drink into his stomach and shook his head.

Fu Yue looked at his appearance of wanting to vomit but couldn't vomit, so he helped him, saying incoherently: "Are you okay? Why don't you run away, is it because you can't stand the snail powder you ate yesterday? I'm sorry, Xu Zheng. It is my fault……"

Xu Zheng knew what was going on with him. He wanted to vomit very much. The result of continuing to run would be to vomit in the next part of the journey. To exert subjective initiative must follow the premise of objective facts. Yes, he was very unwilling, but He made a decision in an instant, he stopped Fu Yue's words: "It's okay, I won't run away, you, keep running."

The players around ran over one by one.

Fu Yue was very guilty. He had completely attributed Xu Zheng's nausea to the bowl of snail noodles last night. He kept saying, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry..."

Xu Zheng smiled and said quickly: "Fu Yue, it's not your fault, keep running forward, if you really feel sorry for me, try to run to the top [-] and give me the trophy."

Fu Yue gritted his teeth: "You wait for me at the finish line, and I will definitely give you the trophy."

"I'll wait for you at the finish line, just run the full distance, don't force it." The nausea surged up again, and Xu Zheng tried his best to suppress it.

"It's a deal!" Fu Yue took a deep look at Xu Zheng, then turned and ran forward.

There is no turning back.

They lost a little time here. If Fu Yue wants to win the trophy, he can only make up for that time, and then continue to speed up.

Fu Yue speeded up slowly, and while regaining his heart rate and breathing just now, he thought in his heart that the men's 100-meter half-marathon last year seemed to take one hour, 34 minutes, and 52 seconds.

And his best time is 36 hour, 22 minutes and 2 seconds, and it took about [-] minutes to talk to Xu Zheng just now.

He was originally a salted fish, and his initial goal of participating in the half-marathon was to finish the race. Later, he was slowly dragged by Xu Zheng. He didn't even think about raising his goal a little bit. Suddenly, he had one more person who seemed distant. The unattainable goal—a trophy, a trophy for Xu Zheng.

This means that Fu Yue has to change from a salted fish to a flying dragon, run into the top [-] of the men's group, and jump over the dragon's gate to have a chance of winning.

There is a billboard in front of it, with a sentence in English written in large red fonts - Nevercomplain!

Just go all out and charge forward!

What you want, what I can reach, are picked for you.

Splitting the shackles, throwing away the burden, I will go forward bravely, at the end with you, on the journey of a lifetime.

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The author has something to say:

Losing money while running is a real thing.

(Don't ask me how I know ==)