Return to 2002: Freestyle Superstar

Chapter 5 A deal with a beautiful woman at the same table

In 2002, Internet cafes did not restrict the entry of minors. As for the year when the regulations were promulgated, Chen Ran could not remember exactly.

In short, in any Internet cafe in this era, if you go into any one, you will see groups of underage students playing "Legend" crazily. There are also many young people from society, and the whole room is filled with smoke.

Chen Ran naturally didn't come here to play "Legend", he needed to check some information.

Baidu has appeared in this era, and there are no unscrupulous advertisements. It is the first choice for many netizens to check news.

However, it was too noisy in the Internet cafe. This group of "legendary" players were killing each other until the sky was dark. They would spit out sweet things from time to time and kept saying the "three-character national curse", so Chen Ran simply put on a headset.

During the four years of college in his previous life, Chen Ran had participated in a tennis club and had some understanding of the classification of tennis matches.

What makes tennis unique is that all valuable tennis competitions in the world, whether for adults or youth, are organized by the ATP (Professional Tennis Association) and ITF (International Tennis Federation).

This also means that both adult and elite youth players will aim to participate in these events to gain points and bonuses.

The Chinese Tennis Association and local sports bureaus will also host some tennis competitions with the intention of promoting tennis. However, because there are no points, the attraction is limited, and only some local Chinese players will participate.

Here comes the key point. Any organization will increase its presence within the scope of its power.

Although there are no points for competitions hosted by the Tennis Association and local sports bureaus, you can apply for athlete certificates, such as national-level athletes and provincial-level athletes.

There's a lot of moisture in here.

Some people are really capable, and some people are just pretending.

For example, Chen Ran's classmate Jiang Jie really stood out from the province's junior high school sports meeting with real skills and was recognized as a provincial athlete.

But there are also people who are not that strong, but because they chose the right track, they won a ranking in an event that was not very popular, and were recognized as national or provincial athletes and recommended to key high schools or universities.

Tennis, for example, is a low-volume sport.

More than ten years later, Li Na won the Grand Slam. People learning tennis were springing up all over China, and the number also showed explosive growth.

In this era, not many people learn tennis, and most of them are in the circle.

Some are the children of athletes, some are the children of amateurs with good economic conditions, and some are the children of officials in the sports bureau. Many will choose this relatively spacious track.

However, this situation generally only occurs in first- and second-tier cities. For example, Chen Ran’s hometown of Dongzhou City is only a third-tier city and has not yet been exposed to this level.

Chen Ran skipped the team project and only looked at the personal project.

Those who finish in the top four in youth competitions in various provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities are considered provincial athletes.

Ranking among the top four in a national youth competition is a national-level athlete.

As for the higher level, there are athletes and international athletes. The former are recommended to key universities and the latter are recommended to 985 universities. However, this is not what Chen Ran should be concerned about at the moment.

At this time, a piece of news jumped into Chen Ran's sight: the Ningzhou Youth Tennis Championships will be held soon, and young people are welcome to sign up.

Organizers: Chinese Tennis Association and Ningzhou Sports Bureau.

The top four teams in the competition will be certified as provincial athletes.

Ningzhou City is right next door to Dongzhou City, a quasi-first-tier sub-provincial capital city, and the drive only takes one and a half hours, with buses running every 20 minutes, enough for a round trip in one day.

“Sign up this weekend!”

“There’s a competition next weekend!”

“The registration fee is 200 yuan!”

Chen Ran cursed secretly, the registration fee is really damn expensive, and it will probably attract many people who are short of money.

In China today, there may only be some universities with tennis teams, and it is unlikely that either junior high schools or high schools will have tennis teams.

Many students are unlikely to be exposed to tennis before college, so those who sign up are in their own name, not in the name of the school.

Therefore, this news seems to be recruiting tennis enthusiasts across the country, but in fact the circle is very small. It must be the children of some insiders participating to compete for the certification quota of the four provincial athletes.

Chen Ran quietly opened the attribute panel. The technical attribute was 53 points, and the potential value to be tapped was 15 points. As for the mental attribute, it was 62 points, and the potential value was 16 points.

The technical attribute is 60 points, which is the watershed between amateur and professional.

Most people find it difficult to cross this threshold due to limitations in coaching level, training conditions, and their own talents.

The system prompts you that the more potential value you have left, the higher the upper limit of each attribute will be.

This is like a student who can score 100 points on the test, and his normal performance is around 95 points, while a student who can score 90 points on the test can only perform at around 85 points.

Chen Ran clicked on the physical attributes, which included various sub-items such as strength, explosion, speed, reaction, endurance, flexibility, etc.; and clicked on the technical attributes, which included serve, return, forehand, backhand, net, and anticipation; Mental attributes include tactics, concentration, toughness, key goals, etc.

"In the remaining few days, we must seize all the time to train." He studied carefully for a while, then closed the attribute panel, took out the pen and small note he carried with him, and wrote down some precautions needed when registering. In the small note.

After doing this, Chen Ran clicked on the portal website again and silently browsed some news.

These simple and simple pages, which I haven't seen for a long time, made Chen Ran look at them with gusto.

After a while, Chen Ran felt that time was almost up, so he decisively turned off the computer, paid the bill at the bar, and returned to school.

When he passed by the school canteen, he bought a bottle of Coke and a bottle of Nongfu Spring.

Chen Ran originally wanted to buy two bottles of Coke, but he remembered the path he was going to take. Even if he was possessed by the system, he would still stay away from these fat house happy water.

It is now 01:30 in the afternoon, and there is still half an hour before class. The school loudspeaker starts to play songs. Probably considering that the high school entrance examination is approaching, the radio station specially ordered "One Thousand and One Wishes" by 4 in love. .

I have many dreams in my heart
The future is about to start shining

No matter how high the sky is, so what
Standing on tiptoe is closer to the sun
Make my thousand and first wish

One day happiness will always listen to me
……

In his previous life, when he was in the third grade of junior high school, every time Chen Ran heard this song on the school radio, he would always feel a surge of emotion, full of infinite longing for the future and dreams. I think other students would feel the same way.

The people in the student union obviously know how to request songs.

After Chen Ran returned to the classroom, he saw that the beautiful girl at the same table seemed to be tired from doing the questions, and she was lying on the table lazily.

After he sat back in his seat silently, he said in a low voice: "Zhou Jing... you can lend me today's math homework."

This innocent deskmate had no doubt that he had it. He just thought that the other party wanted to learn from it, so he handed the completed homework directly to Chen Ran.

Without saying a word, Chen Ran picked up the homework handed to him by his beautiful deskmate and started copying it.

"Ah..." Zhou Jing covered her mouth with a look of surprise on her face, "Are you copying my homework?"

Chen Ran took out the Coke he just bought and handed it to the girl, whispering: "Help me, I will be very busy recently."

"You..." Zhou Jing opened her eyes wide and took on the attitude of a class cadre, "The high school entrance examination is coming soon. No matter how busy you are, you must put your studies first. Teacher Yu said that you are very smart, as long as you work hard, It’s not impossible for Dongzhou Middle School.”

"How likely do you think I am?" Chen Ran asked, "It's less than a month before the high school entrance examination, and it's not just the beginning of the third year of junior high school."

Zhou Jing was at a loss for words, but she comforted her softly: "Even if there is only a slight chance, you have to try your best. Besides, Chen Ran... there is much less homework now than before. On the eve of the high school entrance examination, I basically focus on reviewing."

Just because there is less homework, I can copy it quickly and can cope with the teacher.If there is still a lot of homework, I won’t bother to copy it!

Chen Ran shook his head and sighed softly: "You don't need to comfort me. I don't know this about myself. With my grades... I'm still an ordinary high school if I do my homework, and if I don't do my homework, I'm still an ordinary high school. Why waste time? ?”

"Then what you said to the teacher this morning..." Zhou Jing blinked, with a look of curiosity on her face.

The 16-year-old girl in her prime, who looked like a role model just now, now has a look of gossip on her face.

Chen Ran said mysteriously: "I do have something going on outside, but I can't say it now. You will know after a while. For the sake of my deskmate, do me a favor. I will give you a different trick every day. Sprite, Fanta, Orange, Gatorade, all are fine."

Zhou Jing's fair and beautiful face blushed for a while, and she whispered: "We are at the same table, so there is no need for drinks..."

"That won't work. I can't let people help me... in vain. I feel bad." Chen Ran almost blurted out "free prostitution", but fortunately he reacted quickly enough.

In this era, Internet culture has not been popularized. Especially when talking to a junior high school girl, it is too rude to use the word "whoring" in your words.

"That's fine, but mineral water is fine. Drink less sweet drinks, as you may gain weight easily."

"Okay, I'll have a bottle of Wahaha in the morning and a bottle of Nongfu Spring in the afternoon. It's a deal."

"Okay!" Zhou Jing nodded and said with bright eyes, "But you have to promise me that you will tell me what you are busy with outside in the future."

A girl's curiosity is actually only in the moment. After a while, she probably won't be interested in knowing.

"Okay!" Chen Ran responded.

Zhou Jing seemed to have remembered something, and took out a delicate hard-cover notebook from her desk: "Chen Ran, you are my deskmate, and you were the first one to write this classmate."

Girls like to do these sentimental things.

Chen Ran picked up the pen and started writing, filling in basically some of his own information.

When writing about his dream, he hesitated. He originally wanted to write about being a "professional tennis player", but then he suddenly felt something in his heart and wrote, "I want to be a free and unfettered person, with physical and mental freedom, time freedom, and financial freedom." , freedom of work”.

Finally, there was a blessing. Chen Ran showed off his artistic talent: I hope you will be away for half your life and still be a young man when you come back.

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(End of this chapter)