He Ximeng angrily swatted away the alarm clock and reluctantly got out of bed. He suddenly remembered a stack of homework left in his schoolbag. He Ximeng quickly abandoned the lingering warmth of his dream, ate, washed up, bid farewell to his mother, and rushed out. 138 Reading Net
He Ximeng rode his bike to school, intending to borrow homework from Tang Xiaotang again. To his surprise, a neat pile of homework for all subjects was stacked on his desk.
Zhang Tianai smiled and made a "please" gesture to He Ximeng, who didn't stand on ceremony.
Putting aside English and Chinese, he started copying the math homework...
After finishing the homework, it was a day of painful torment.
He Ximeng was definitely not taking the college entrance examination. But he had to attend classes.
So, for classes he really didn't want to listen to, He Ximeng started writing the story of "Pirates of the Caribbean." In the last world, Jill had forced He Ximeng to help revise scripts quite a bit, so he had a deep impression of the general outline.
The only inconvenience was that Jill used English when writing scripts.
He Ximeng hesitated at first, whether to write in Chinese or English, but thinking that he might develop on the other side of the ocean in the future, he directly chose English.
Cui Tianci woke up and found He Ximeng engrossed in writing. He asked what he was doing.
"Writing a novel!"
"Holy crap! Really? You can write novels? Come on, let me take a look..."
He Ximeng was indifferent and handed over the few pages of the "Pirates of the Caribbean" story for Cui Tianci to "appreciate."
As a result, when Cui Tianci saw it was in English, his face fell: "Brother, can you translate it into English for me first?"
"Fatty... you're the one who's going to follow me to the other side of the ocean in the future... You can not learn anything else, but you must learn English well! Otherwise, how will you communicate with foreigners in the future, and how will you help me negotiate contracts?"
He Ximeng put on a look of heartbroken grief, totally bamboozling Cui Tianci.
"So, I need to strengthen my English learning?"
"Absolutely! Sleep less in class and study more! Math and physics, for classes you can't grasp, you can use them to learn English..."
"That makes sense! But I don't know where to start!"
He Ximeng casually picked up an Oxford English Dictionary from the side: "See? Start from 'a' and go all the way to 'z.' Try to memorize all the words in this dictionary... Just like memorizing three hundred Tang poems, you won't be able to write poetry but you'll be able to recite it... it's all the same principle!"
"By the way, your English is so good? Did you memorize a dictionary too?"
"Of course! When I was in junior high, my mother, with a bamboo cane in one hand and candy in the other, succeeded in making me memorize it once... It was all tears and blood..."
Under He Ximeng's brainwashing, Cui Tianci dazedly opened the ten-centimeter-thick Oxford English Dictionary... Ten centimeters thick...
Thus, one writing English novels and the other memorizing English words, the two of them found solace in their hardship and endured until school ended.
After the school bell rang, He Ximeng stretched his limbs, picked up his backpack, and headed for the basketball court, with Cui Tianci and Zhang Tianai following behind...
Third Master was "busy" again today and would arrive at the court later. He had already informed He Ximeng in advance to lead the teammates in training.
Everyone was accustomed to Third Master's style. They started with some simple drills according to Third Master's previous training methods, and then moved on to scrimmages.
It was called training, but in reality, it was more about playing. Most of the improvement came from playing, which was why the Zhongzhong basketball team could never break through the dominance of Huipu Middle School.
Now that He Ximeng had arrived with "excellent experience," he naturally couldn't adopt the previous free-range training methods.
Before the training officially began, He Ximeng gathered all the teammates and briefly explained the focus of today's training.
"Today, we're going to change the original training mode and replan it. The training will last for an hour and a half. The first half hour, we'll focus on physical fitness. The middle half hour, we'll focus on fast breaks. The last half hour, we'll have scrimmages."
"Ah? Then we'll only have half an hour to play?" Ming Hanfei lamented.
"That's right!" He Ximeng said without hesitation. "We used to play too much and had too little time for basic training. The national competition's grassroots matches and the eastern regional matches adopt a format of two games a day. That means one game in the morning and one in the afternoon, which requires high physical fitness from the players! Therefore, physical fitness is actually the crucial factor for strong teams to stand out."
"Secondly, a characteristic of the national competition is that most of the scoring is concentrated on drives to the basket. And the best way to drive to the basket is to play fast breaks... This means that on offense, we need to play fast breaks, and on defense, we need to defend against opponents' fast breaks... Whether it's offense or defense, we heavily rely on fast breaks. And fast breaks consume a lot of physical energy..."