As Jia Ling ran with all her might, she muttered to herself. She was afraid that she would forget the words that she had just memorized with great difficulty, so she needed to strengthen her memory. Sweat flowed down from her forehead to the tip of her nose. It was a little itchy, so she used her sleeve to wipe it away. She thought that she had wiped it clean. During this period, she felt that her lips were very dry. She unconsciously stretched out her head to lick her lips and tasted a salty taste. It must be the smell of sweat. She had not sweated so much for a long time.
Finally, under her persistence, she finished running uphill and reached a flat place. There was a pavilion in the middle, but she could not stop. The second leg was still far away.
"Why is it so long?" Jia Ling shouted in her heart. She felt that she had run a full kilometer, but in fact, she had only run half of it.
After she turned a corner, the second leg, Li Cheng, stood at a corner and waited for her. "Did you hear it clearly?"
Li Cheng asked eagerly. When they were shouting just now, he was asked to wear headphones by the staff. The headphones completely covered his ears, and it was full of disco music. Even he, who couldn't dance, wanted to twist his body when he heard it. He couldn't hear what Jia Ling and Zheng Kai were shouting, and he couldn't even hear what the staff members around him were talking to him.
"I heard it clearly." Jia Ling slowed down and walked over. When she said that she heard it clearly, she seemed to be a little uncertain. Oh, right, what was it in the fourth verse?
"Zhang Laosan, let me ask you, where is your hometown?
My home is in Shanxi. There are still three hundred miles to cross the river. "Jia Ling said breathlessly, and Li Cheng repeated it.
Jia Ling suddenly wasn't very sure about the rest of the content. She knew what it meant, but she couldn't say the specific words. As she recalled, she said, "Zhang Laosan, let me ask you, what is your home?"
Seeing that she was going to continue, Li Cheng was stunned. "It's so long?" And it did not sound like she was going to sing it. Could it be that Jia Ling wanted to finish singing a song?
Save me! Li Cheng shouted in his heart. Please don't be a song. He was originally tone deaf. Singing a happy birthday song without going out of tune was his limit. If there was really a song, he probably wouldn't be able to remember the lyrics. However, he didn't want to be a burden to the entire team.
After Jia Ling said that, she realized something was wrong. She muttered to herself, "It doesn't seem to be suitable for anything."
This gave Li Cheng a fright. If she made a mistake in the first part, how was he going to play the rest of the game? No matter how hard he tried, it would be useless. He could only hope that Jia Ling would be able to develop her brain quickly and remember what the correct word was. Although he didn't know how to sing, he knew how to read. The director didn't ask him to sing. Therefore, the key was not important. The words were the most important. He could only memorize them by rote.
However, although he was prepared to memorize it by rote, Jia Ling kept spinning in circles on the spot. He just couldn't remember what the "what" was.
Jia Ling could only think of the latter part. She vaguely remembered that there seemed to be something like "doing business" or "planting crops" in the lyrics, but she couldn't think of a coherent word. She was so anxious that she scratched her head.
She had this habit since she was young. Whenever she was anxious, she would scratch her head. Her thick hair since she was young was almost bald under her constant scratching.
Li Cheng saw that she was about to scratch her head off and finally couldn't help but say, "Why don't you go back and ask again?"
It was better to spend more time to pass on the correct message than pass on the wrong message, right? The former would be tiring for Jia Ling alone, while the latter would be tiring for all of them. Although he felt a little sorry for Jia Ling, it was better for Jia Ling to work hard alone than for everyone to do useless work. Li Cheng was choosing the lesser of two evils.
"Ah?" Jia Ling was a little dumbfounded. Actually, it wasn't a big deal to go back and ask again. The key was that this road was really too far. It was already difficult for her to make this trip. How much effort would it take to run back?
What if she didn't have the strength to run back after arriving? Jia Ling continued to rack her brains, but she just couldn't remember. She clearly remembered the first few sentences, but she just couldn't remember what the latter part was. As she thought about it, she repeated, "What are you doing?"
Li Cheng was also very helpless. How would he know what to do? If Jia Ling asked him, who should he ask? He couldn't run to ask Zheng Kai, right? If that was the case, the director would definitely not let them pass. If that was the case, the lead singer position would slip away in vain.
Jia Ling really couldn't remember what the latter part was. She steeled her heart, rolled up her sleeves, gritted her teeth, and stomped her feet. She thought to herself, If I have to run, then so be it. I'll just treat it as losing weight. It's not easy to come here, so I can't just be a burden. This is a team project, isn't it?
"Then I'll go back again?" Jia Ling held the small red silk banner in her hand and asked Li Cheng. Li Cheng was about to cry. He was about to kneel down and beg Jia Ling. He remembered what he had just heard: "… Doing business … Planting crops …"
At this time, almost half of the time had passed. Li Cheng helplessly looked back at the staff beside him. "It's over."
The time it took for Jia Ling to go back and forth was enough for the people behind her to finish the whole race. Therefore, if they wanted to win, each of them had to use twice their usual speed. However, speed alone wasn't enough. Jia Ling had already spent so much time on the road. What if she couldn't hear clearly again when she went back this time?
Or perhaps she had finally heard it clearly, but had forgotten it on the way back?
This kind of thing had happened before. Although the old saying often said that people couldn't fall in the same place twice, the fact was that people often made repeated mistakes. For example, when he was in school, he often wrote the English word sread as sraed. The teacher told him N times, but he still made the same mistake reflexively. Even now, when he saw the word, he still hesitated whether he had written it wrongly. He was worried that Jia Ling would be the same. Once she made a mistake, she would always remember the mistake and forget the correct answer. If Jia Ling didn't bring back the correct answer this time, then this game couldn't continue because there was no time for her to run again. ,,,,.
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