I just want to be a salted fish quietly Chapter 172

(Father Ling) continued to probe, “This car doesn’t look cheap. To lend it to you to drive, she must be your girlfriend, right?”

“No, we’re just good friends!” Lin Xian didn’t notice anything and answered truthfully.

Good friends?

(Father Ling) sized up Lin Xian, and the more he looked, the more pleasing he found him. The only drawback was his young age.

Thinking of this, he asked with a smile, “Young man, what’s your name? Let’s play chess sometime!”

“Lin Xian!”

Chatting was one thing, but Lin Xian’s driving speed was not slow.

Plus, (Zijinshan Residential Area) itself wasn’t far from the academy, so he only took seven or eight minutes to reach the school.

Parking the car at the school gate, Lin Xian smiled, “Old sir, we’re here.”

“Thank you, young man!”

(Father Ling) got out of the car and said thanks.

“Alright, I’ll be going then!”

Watching the BMW drive into the campus, (Father Ling) walked towards (Jin University) while pulling out his phone and dialing a number.

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After parking the car, Lin Xian hurried to the sports field.

At this moment, the school sports field was bustling with noise and excitement.

Conversations, broadcast announcements, and cheers mixed together, making it incredibly lively.

As soon as he arrived at the sports field, (Qi Jia) grabbed him and quickly walked towards a section of the track, saying, “Young Master Lin, are you trying to infuriate me?”

Lin Xian explained apologetically, “Teacher Qi, I’m sorry. I really didn’t mean to. I was too engrossed in chess and forgot the time.”

“Stop talking nonsense, go change your clothes quickly!” (Qi Jia) led him to their class’s gathering spot.

(Qi Zhenzhen)’s eyes were a little red, and she angrily shoved a set of sports uniform into his arms.

“Is it that serious? I’ll treat you to a meal another day!” Lin Xian comforted her.

Hearing this, (Qi Zhenzhen) extended two fingers and said, “Then you owe me two meals!”

“Young Master Lin, stop dawdling!”

(Qi Jia) urged from the side.

Finding an empty classroom nearby, Lin Xian quickly changed into his sports uniform.

Returning to the sports field, he shoved his clothes into (Ling Youyu)’s arms, pinched her cheek, and instructed, “Help me watch my clothes!”

“Oh, oh!”

The little girl held the clothes and nodded seriously.

“Please, 100-meter sprint participants, enter the field and prepare!”

At this moment, the broadcast sounded, and Lin Xian quickly walked towards the sports field.

A sports meet is all about participation. The girls by the sports field and in the stands weren’t really there to watch the competition; they simply wanted to see handsome boys.

As for the participating boys, they wanted to use this opportunity to show off.

Lin Xian just wanted to run casually, preferably to be eliminated in the preliminaries, so he could slip away in the afternoon.

But the moment the starting gun fired, he felt something was wrong.

Holy crap!

It turns out he wasn’t the only one with that idea!

There were ten people in this group, and eight of them wanted to slack off. The remaining two genuinely wanted to run well, but unfortunately, their strength wasn’t enough.

After being the first to reach the finish line, Lin Xian looked at the latecomers and raised an eyebrow, “Brothers, your acting is too exaggerated!”

A boy wearing glasses grinned wickedly, “Go for it, man, we’re going to rest first!”

Damn it!

A university sports meet, 100-meter sprint in 14.5 seconds, and you can make it to the finals? Can you believe that?

Lin Xian sighed helplessly. It seemed he wasn’t shameless enough.

The timekeeper was a student council member, who was now trying to suppress a laugh, saying, “Are you a freshman?”

“How do you know?” Lin Xian raised an eyebrow.

“You can tell by the acting!”

This is…

Lin Xian even suspected he wasn’t attending (Jin Cai) but rather a drama and film academy.

But since he made it to the finals, he might as well run properly. There was no point in slacking off now.

The finals also had ten people, five of whom were sports students.

Lin Xian felt it was a good opportunity to test the difference between his physical fitness and that of professional sports students.

Taking a deep breath, Lin Xian tensed his body, fully focused.

The moment the starting gun fired, Lin Xian, like a cheetah, instantly shot forward.

“Lin Xian, go!”

“Go!”

“Wow, so handsome!”

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By the sports field, the girls from Finance Class 1 cheered continuously.

Even (Ling Youyu)’s face was red, nervously staring at him, her small hands tightly clenched into fists.

One hundred meters isn’t far, just over ten seconds.

Unfortunately, he only got second place.

The first place was a dark-skinned sports student, over 1.85 meters tall, who fully utilized the advantage of his long legs.

However, Lin Xian was already satisfied. He was only 0.4 seconds behind the first place.

It indirectly proved that his physical fitness was not much worse than that of a sports student.

The sports student who won first place said in surprise, “You’re good, man!”

“Not bad!”

Lin Xian smiled modestly, then turned and returned to his class’s gathering point.

Back in Finance Class 1, seven or eight bottles of water were immediately offered to him.

Seeing the drinks in front of him, Lin Xian couldn’t help but be slightly stunned.

Zhang Kai, who was beside him, saw this scene and looked a little envious, excitedly saying, “It seems I need to perform well too!”

“Heh heh!”

Lei Hongguang sneered, “Naive! Do you really think those girls are giving water because Brother Lin got second place?”

“…”

Zhang Kai paused, then became dejected.

Sun Jiacheng pouted, “Why are you speaking such blunt truths! You talk too much!”

After the 100-meter race, it was followed by the 200-meter and 400-meter races.

Lin Xian had already roughly tested his physical fitness in the previous 100-meter sprint, so he just needed to slack off for the rest.

This time, his acting was good. He slacked off the whole time and was eliminated in the preliminaries.

(Qi Jia) stared at him, a little speechless, “This is a bit too fake, isn’t it?”

Mainly because he got second place in the 100-meter race, but then was eliminated in the 200-meter preliminaries?

Who would believe that!

“Competition second, friendship first, it’s about participation!” Lin Xian quipped.

Hearing this, (Qi Jia) said no more.

At this moment, (Ling Youyu) walked forward with her short legs, stammering, “Ph…ph-ph-phone!”

“Thanks!”

Pinching her face, Lin Xian took his clothes and pulled out his phone.

(Tang Ping)!

Seeing the caller ID, Lin Xian’s heart rejoiced, and he quickly answered the call.

It seemed (Tang Ping) had some leads!

The call connected, and (Tang Ping) wasted no words, getting straight to the point: “Mr. Lin, (Liao Yingqi) became very emotional after learning that (Liao Jie) was looking for her. She has been asking me about (Liao Jie) all day, and seems very eager to see him. What should we do now?”