Of course, Chen Qiang would not take back the registration fee of 50 cents to buy food. As he insisted, the middle-aged loser could only sign up for Chen Qiang.

When the middle-aged loser handed the registration form to Chen Qiang, he still said something like "It's hard to persuade the damn guy."

Chen Qiang just smiled faintly and did not make any more excuses. He wanted to be low-key. Today, he signed up for the National Games selection as a coachman, which was already very noticeable, so Chen Qiang simply left without saying a word.

...

The young man who signed up in Chen Qiang's car was named Zhou Songling, who was a student at St. John's University.

St. John's University is nicknamed "Harvard of the East". It was the most famous university in Shanghai at that time, Fudan University, Tongji University, and Jiaotong University, which were the top universities in later generations, but they were not as good as St. John's University at that time.

St. John's University is a church school, and church schools have started physical education relatively early, so St. John's University has the best athletes in the country. In the first national sports meeting in the old China, students from St. John's University won various championship lists. Later, the East China Games were also held by St. John's University.

This time, many students from St. John's University also signed up for the selection of the national athletes in Shanghai. Zhou Songling was one of them. The project he signed up for was high jump.

With one week left before the trials, contestants who signed up for the competition have also begun to step up their training, and the playground of St. John's University is even more crowded.

Zhou Songling came to the playground and happened to see several familiar friends gathering together on weekdays. Zhou Songling immediately walked forward.

"When I went to register yesterday, I encountered something new! What are you guessing it?" Zhou Songling said mysteriously.

"How can you guess this? Zhou Songling, don't keep it a secret, just say it!" someone next to him said.

Zhou Songling coughed dryly and cleared his throat, and said, "I went to China Stadium to register yesterday. I called a car in the middle of the journey. I only saw it after I finished registering. The coachman who took me to was also signing up!"

"What? You said the coachman signed up for the National Games? You are not teasing me, are you! I don't believe it!" Someone immediately objected.

"I can swear to the sky, what I said is true! You don't know. The person who registered for me at that time knew that it was a coachman, and he was clamoring to return the registration fee to him." Zhou Songling said confidently.

"Although both scholars, farmers, industry and commerce can sign up for this National Games, and even if you are a peddler, I really didn't expect that someone really believed in registering. This coachman is also quite honest!"

"Zhou Songling, such a straightforward coachman, you didn't know him. If you do his car, you will definitely not charge you more money!"

Everyone started to tease.

Someone asked, "Zhou Songling, what project are you applying for when you are talking about the coachman?"

"100m sprint." Zhou Songling paused and continued: "And he only ran 100 meters, not 200 meters or 400 meters. He said himself that he could only run and guide and not turn corners."

"I won't turn a corner? Hahaha... I'm still here to participate in the national athletes? I don't think others can't turn a corner, but his brain can't turn a corner! Could this coachman be a bad brain, right?"

"It must be because his brain is not good. If he is good at it, he should know that he is a coachman who has not been trained at all. How could he be able to pass us college students!"

"Maybe the coachman thinks that 100 meters is just rushing forward. I bet he must not know what a squat start is!"

"No, a coachman, how can he know how to start in a squat style?"

Everyone joked again.

At this time, Zhou Songling spoke to a person beside him, "Cui Linhai, if you meet that coachman, you will make a lot of money. I guess you can lead him twenty or thirty meters!"

The young man named Cui Linhai shook his head: "If you don't know how to run sprinting, if you run 100 meters, it will not be easy to run well with weak opponents. When you lead too much, you will subconsciously feel that you run very fast, but in fact your opponent is too weak. On the contrary, if your opponent is very strong, it will stimulate your potential and make you run faster."

"That's right. This selection competition is ranked according to the results. Only the first place in the total score can get the quota for the National Games. In this way, whoever is in the same group as the coachman will suffer a loss and will be slowed down." Someone responded.

"Cui Linhai, I heard that you can run to 12 seconds now, isn't it true? I remember the 100-meter championship of the last National Games, which was to run to 12 seconds. In this way, can you win the national championship!" Zhou Songling continued to ask.

Cui Linhai smiled and did not answer, but his expression was accustomed.

Cui Linhai said: "The national championship is a future, but I am determined to win this Shanghai team's selection match! I am not without opponents in this Shanghai. I heard that Li Yongping from Hujiang University has his best result in nearly 12 seconds. There is also a freshman named Liu Yuanzhi from Tongji University, who is also very strong."

...

A week passed quickly, and the weekend came in a blink of an eye. This was also the day for the Shanghai team selection match of the National Games.

Early in the morning, the Chinese Stadium was filled with people. In addition to the contestants, there were many citizens who came to watch the competition.

The groupings of contestants have been posted at the bulletin board at the gate of the China Stadium. The athletes stopped here to find their own groupings.

Chen Qiang also came to the China Stadium.

He was going to participate in the trial competition today, so he didn't pull the cart, which was equivalent to giving himself a day off. Not only that, Chen Qiang did not start work yesterday, with the purpose of preserving his physical strength.

If it is a high-level competition, just one day of rest is definitely not enough, and the rest of a day is not enough to recover to the best state. However, this low-level selection competition is enough to give Chen Qiang a day of rest.

Chen Qiang walked to the bulletin board and quickly found his name.

"In a group of five people, I'm in the fifth group. There are Cui Linhai, Liu Shanjie, Zhang Yuan, and Du Kun in the same group. I don't know these people. But it doesn't matter who the opponent is. Anyway, I have to get the first place in the overall score."

Chen Qiang is now a little lucky that he was assigned to the fifth group, rather than the first group.

The selection competition is ranked according to the results, so the more the players who appear later, the more advantage they have. The players who appear early will definitely not know the results of the players who appear later, but the players who appear late will know the results of the players who appear first. The later the players who appear, the more information they have in the competition.

If Chen Qiang is assigned to the first group, then he can only go to run once, because he doesn't know what the talent contestant is. If Chen Qiang reserves something and the contestant behind him takes the lead, Chen Qiang will be eliminated.

On the contrary, if Chen Qiang appears later, then he can master the results of the previous players. With Chen Qiang's experience, as long as he gives him some of the results of the players as a reference, he can estimate the results needed to advance. When he is on the court, Chen Qiang can still leave some room to hide his weaknesses.

...

Zhou Songling, Cui Linhai and other students from St. John's University also came to the bulletin board.

"Cui Linhai, look, Li Yongping from Hujiang University is in the second group, Liu Zhiyuan from Tongji University is in the eighth group, you are in the fifth group." Zhou Songling pointed to the bulletin board and said.

Cui Linhai looked at the bulletin board and said, "I saw that I don't know anyone in the same group as me. Liu Shanjie, Zhang Yuan, Du Kun, and Chen Qiang."

"I don't know you either, wait, what did you mean by the last name just now?" Zhou Songling asked suddenly.

"Chen Qiang. What's wrong? Do you know this person?" Cui Linhai asked.

Zhou Songling immediately replied: "I remember that coachman is called Chen Qiang! You shouldn't be in the same group as that coachman!"

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Chapter completed!