We ordinary people also need to fall in love.

Late October is the perfect time for students' physical fitness tests, as the weather is neither too cold nor too dry.

Li Mubai carefully completed a set of warm-up exercises, after all, he was going to run 1,000 meters today, and he didn't want to get cramps halfway through.

call out--

The teacher blew a whistle to gather the students from both classes together.

"Boys will be tested first, then girls." The teacher glanced at the two classes. "Boys from both classes will run together."

"Holy crap, I'm going to be exhausted from all this running!" Wang Rui muttered under his breath.

"Hehe," Zhao Feng pulled a bottle of mineral water out of his pocket and shook it smugly, "Luckily I bought water in advance. A child who has no one to care for him must learn to treat himself well."

There were nine boys in total from the two classes, which was the liberal arts class. They stood on the starting line one after another, each making their final preparations.

"Teacher, what time is considered passing?" Yang Kun asked, raising his hand.

"The passing score is four and a half minutes, but don't take any chances. Run as many seconds as you can," the teacher reminded you.

Li Mubai stood on the third track. He glanced at the girls standing on the grass beside the track, chatting in twos and threes.

Xie Shu was among them. She didn't say anything, but she clenched her fist and raised it slightly towards him, as if to say "Go for it!"

He nodded slightly, suppressing his nervousness. There was no need to run himself ragged; it wasn't a competition, and running fast wouldn't give him any extra points on the college entrance exam.

Therefore, given his physique, running under four and a half minutes shouldn't be difficult for him.

"Brother Chicken, don't fall too far behind later." Zhao Feng bent down to tie his shoelaces and glanced at Yang Kun.

"Heh, I'll kill you later." Yang Kun sneered.

"On your marks—get set—"

"Has anyone ever said that the starter's drawn-out tone really makes the people on the track nervous?" Li Mubai thought to himself.

"run!"

Contrary to expectations, the boys maintained a steady pace, with Li Mubai in the middle of the group, adjusting his breathing.

After half a lap, the gap gradually widened, with Jiao Yong in first place and Li Mubai in third, closely following Zhang Hao.

The last lap is usually a push, and Li Mubai was preparing to speed up when he suddenly heard a series of hurried footsteps behind him.

A figure rushed up beside him, walking quickly, but soon slowed down. It was Li Jiahang.

He charged forward with great momentum, but clearly lacked staying power, and was overtaken again by Li Mubai on the bend.

In the final 100 meters, Zhang Hao suddenly accelerated, overtook Jiao Yong, and crossed the finish line first.

"Three minutes and forty-five... three minutes and forty-seven... three minutes and fifty-five..."

Zhang Hao hunched over, his hands resting on his knees, and panted for a while before slowly straightening up.

He looked up and glanced at the edge of the track, wanting to find someone to show off to. His eyes swept around, and his lips suddenly twitched.

Here, electrolyte water.

Li Mubai took the water Xie Shu handed him, unscrewed the cap, and took a small sip. His heart rate hadn't completely calmed down yet.

"Why don't you speed things up a bit?" Xie Shu asked.

"It'll be too tiring to speed up any further." Li Mubai smiled. Three minutes and fifty-five seconds, just enough for a good score.

"Lazy," Xie Shu said softly, her left hand resting on his school uniform jacket. "Want to rest a little longer?"

"No need, I've recovered." He took the coat from her and then took the coat she had taken off, draping it over his arm.

"Damn it..." Yang Kun was bending over, panting heavily. When he straightened up, he saw this scene. "I'm so envious. Why didn't any girls bring me my school uniform or water?"

Zhao Feng looked him up and down: "Bro, you have a good foundation. It would be even better if you were a little thinner."

"Really?" Yang Kun subconsciously touched his double chin. He had lost some weight when school started, but he had unknowingly gained it all back recently.

"He's got baggy, he'll definitely be a handsome guy once he loses weight." Zhao Feng patted him on the shoulder.

Yang Kun stroked his chin, as if seriously considering the suggestion.

"Hey~ Li Mubai." Chen Qiuhe stood on the track, stretching her ankles as she called out to him, "How far did you run?"

"Three minutes and fifty-five."

"Only three minutes and fifty-five seconds? Watch me easily surpass that."

Li Mubai smiled but didn't reply.

He looked at Xie Shu on track number three. She was looking down at her shoelaces, her hair hanging down and covering half of her face.

"come on."

Xie Shu raised his head, and the corners of his mouth curved slightly.

"On your marks—get set—go!"

Running early and resting early, Li Mubai and Xie Shu sat down together on the stands by the track, watching the people running on the track.

"So, as long as the average score of half of the subjects in Class 3 in the midterm exam exceeds that of No. 3 Middle School, you will have the opportunity to go on an autumn outing?" He turned his head and asked her.

"Yes," Xie Shu nodded, "but the location hasn't been decided yet."

No wonder he saw several students from Class 3 take out their notebooks and start memorizing after the physical test.

"Why doesn't Class 18 have this kind of benefit?"

"Do you want to go?" Xie Shu tilted his head slightly to look at him.

"Of course I want to," Li Mubai said. "First, I wouldn't have to sit in a classroom to attend classes; second, I could go out with you openly and honestly."

Xie Shu thought for a moment, then slightly curled the corners of her lips: "Then go and suggest it to Teacher Zhong."

Li Mubai's expression froze instantly. Proposing this to Zhong Jianjun seemed like walking into a trap.

"Keep up the good work, Xiaobai," Xie Shu encouraged him earnestly. "Then we'll go on an autumn outing together."

Li Mubai pretended to think for a while, then said, "Then I'll go talk to Teacher Wu and ask him to treat everyone equally and cancel Class 3's autumn outing."

"No," Xie Shu shook his head, "Very bad."

The two joked back and forth, while the autumn wind blew slowly, swirling up and setting down a few fallen leaves by the track.

Xie Shu's hair was lifted by the wind, gently brushing against Li Mubai's cheek. He raised his hand and brushed the strand of hair behind her ear, then saw the tip of her ear turn red little by little.

"There are still about twenty minutes until get out of class ends. Want to listen to music together?" She turned to look at him, her hair falling down to cover her ear tips.

"You brought your phone?" Li Mubai asked, somewhat puzzled.

"No." Xie Shu pulled a palm-sized MP4 player from his pocket; it looked quite new. "I have this."

"Is this... yours from before?" He sounded uncertain. With cell phones around, who still uses MP4 players these days?

"No, I just bought it recently."

Xie Shu took out another pair of headphones, which looked brand new, but when he opened them, they turned out to be wired.

Xie Shu then pulled out a pair of earphones from his other pocket, the white wires neatly wrapped around them.

Without asking any further questions, she gently inserted one end into his right ear, then sat closer and placed the other end to her own ear.

The music flowed out slowly; it was Jay Chou's "Rice Fragrance." The intro was like a summer breeze, but summer had already passed.

"Li Mu Bai, will we always be together in the future?"

"Yes, it will. It definitely will."

She was very close, almost touching his arm.

The wind swept in from the other end of the playground, carrying the dry scent of autumn grass and trees; before we knew it, it was almost late autumn...