I have few friends, but many childhood sweethearts.

Chapter 159. The Olympic Opening Ceremony
On August 8th, the Beijing Olympics, which the Chinese people had been looking forward to for many years, arrived as scheduled.

However, because he dislikes traveling in crowded places, Xu Qingfan ultimately did not choose to attend the opening ceremony in person.

At 8 p.m. sharp, Xu Qingfan, Xia Xiaoxiao, Lin Wanning and Zhang Yiyi gathered at the secret base.

The coffee table in the living room was covered with fruit and snacks, the air conditioning was set to a pleasant 24 degrees Celsius, and each of them was covered with a blanket, lounging lazily on the sofa.

On the television, a little girl in a red long dress is singing "Ode to the Motherland".

The five-star red flag flutters in the wind.

How loud the victory song is!

Singing praises to our beloved motherland

【Towards prosperity from now on】

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Xia Xiaoxiao watched for a while and then realized something was wrong. She put her water glass back on the coffee table and pointed at the TV, saying, "Why doesn't her lip movements match the lyrics? Isn't this a live broadcast?"

"Huh? Really? Why is that, Brother Qingfan?" Lin Wanning listened carefully and found that the lyrics and lip movements didn't match up.

Everyone turned their gaze to Xu Qingfan. Even Xiaobai, who was lying on the wooden floor, turned its head to look at him, its anthropomorphic dog head gesturing for him to speak quickly.

"What's so surprising about that? For such a large-scale live broadcast, they would definitely lip-sync to avoid any accidents. They would pre-record the songs and then just lip-sync during the live performance!" Xu Qingfan explained.

"what?"

"But this is..."

Xia Xiaoxiao wanted to say, "How can the Olympics be faked?"

"It's all the same. Like the Spring Festival Gala, and many celebrity concerts, they all lip-sync," Xu Qingfan said with a smile.

"And with so many people there, it's already impressive that she wasn't nervous at all," he added.

"Okay." The girls refocused their attention on the television.

Xu Qingfan recalled more details. The little girl was exposed by professionals for lip-syncing less than 24 hours after she became famous, and was criticized by netizens who followed the crowd.

To be able to perform with emotion and confidence on a stage in front of thousands of people at the age of six or seven is no easier than singing.

Unfortunately, people only remember the lip-syncing, but few realize that it was from this song that China truly began its rise.

However, Xu Qingfan is still realistic when it comes to reality. The commercial poster endorsement he signed with Liu Xiang four years ago expired last month. Zhong Wenqing originally wanted to continue to pay a high price to renew the endorsement contract, but he stopped him.

Xu Qingfan said in a very high-sounding manner that Liu Xiang's value would definitely skyrocket after the Olympics, and we can't keep thinking about taking advantage of others. Let's wait until the Olympics are over to renew his contract!

Although Zhong Wenqing felt something was off, he still agreed with his opinion.

Xu Qingfan gave Zhong Wenqing a list of several athletes who would soar to great heights this year, urging her to find a way to sign them. He then stopped paying attention to what happened after that.

The opening ceremony lasted for an hour. After the stage lights were turned back on, the three women patted their slightly numb thighs and took turns going to the toilet.

"Brother Qingfan, please help me up, my legs are so numb!" Lin Wanning had only stood up for a short while when she collapsed towards Xu Qingfan because of the numbness in her thighs.

Xu Qingfan subconsciously opened his arms and pulled the girl into his embrace, making fists to pat her thighs. "Who told you to stare so intently? Why don't you change your position?"

"Hiss~ Ah~" Enjoying Xu Qingfan's massage service, Lin Wanning let out a comfortable moan.

"The opening ceremony was really good!" Lin Wanning said coquettishly as she heard the toilet flush.

After the opening ceremony came the boring and long athletes' entrance ceremony. The three girls went to the toilet and sat back down on the sofa, but lost patience after watching for only a short while.

"When will it be the Chinese team's turn to enter?" Xia Xiaoxiao asked, yawning.

"What the hell? I don't even understand the order in which they appeared." Xu Qingfan shook his head and poured some black tea into Zhang Yiyi's empty cup.

Zhang Yi smiled sweetly at him and said to everyone, "Hide and seek, at home, everyone!"

"Okay, okay, hide-and-seek, hide-and-seek!" Lin Wanning held the third of the Yuanlang egg roll he had eaten in his hand and nodded frantically.

"I'm fine with anything," Xia Xiaoxiao said, glancing at the TV and then at the three of them.

"Let's play rock-paper-scissors. No one is allowed to leave the yard. The game is limited to the house. The loser is the first one to be caught!" Xu Qingfan made a rock-paper-scissors gesture.

"rock-paper-scissors!"

"rock-paper-scissors!"

"Hehe~ Brother Qingfan, you lost, you go first!" In the second round, Xu Qingfan threw scissors, and the three girls seemed to have planned it all together and threw rock.

"I'll catch you, no hiding in dangerous places! Thirty seconds countdown!" He shielded his eyes with his elbow, pressed his face against the door, and counted down, "Thirty, twenty-nine."

"Wait a minute, Brother Qingfan, please wait a minute!" Lin Wanning called out.

"What's wrong?" Xu Qingfan turned around.

“Xiaobai will follow us, Brother Qingfan, you take it out!” Lin Wanning said, pointing to the pine dog lying on the ground.

"Row."

"Awoo~" Despite its best efforts to resist, Little White was ultimately no match for the strength of the crowd and was tied up in the yard.

"The countdown has restarted: thirty, twenty-nine."

The three clapped their hands and smiled knowingly. Lin Wanning pointed upstairs, while Xia Xiaoxiao shook her head, pointed to the gym next door, mouthed "Let's split up," and quietly went inside.

Seeing this, Lin Wanning and Zhang Yiyi remained silent and went upstairs hand in hand.

"Three, two, one!"

After Xu Qingfan finished counting down, he turned his head around, and the once lively living room was instantly empty.

"He's hiding in the TV cabinet and he didn't even close the door properly!" Xu Qingfan noticed something was wrong, squatted down and pushed open the cabinet door, only to find it completely empty.

Xia Xiaoxiao revealed a smug expression after hearing the noise; she had deliberately opened the cabinet door before leaving.

Xu Qingfan, still unwilling to give up, opened several cabinets nearby, but there was still no one there.

The newly purchased house was furnished relatively simply so that residents could move in as soon as possible. The first floor has a living room, kitchen, toilet, and exercise room, while the second floor has three bedrooms, with an additional toilet in the master bedroom.

Seeing no place to hide on the first floor, Xu Qingfan walked around for a moment before going up the stairs to the second floor.

Little did anyone know that Xia Xiaoxiao, hiding behind the curtains, was already pounding with nervousness at the sound of footsteps. Only after confirming that Xu Qingfan had left did she triumphantly walk out of the living room and pat the spot where Xu Qingfan had just been counting down.

Apart from the master bedroom, the doors to the other two rooms on the second floor were open. He walked straight to the master bedroom and opened the closed door.

The master bedroom was unsurprisingly empty, but the bathroom door was tightly closed, so there was no doubt that the two of them were hiding inside.

"Can't you be a little more creative? Hiding in the toilet again." Xu Qingfan laughed as he approached, only to find that the door was locked from the inside by the two of them when he reached out to open it.

"You guys can't play like this! Don't lock the door, come out now!" Xu Qingfan knocked on the toilet door.

Before he could say anything more, he heard the triumphant laughter of three girls downstairs. Xu Qingfan immediately realized that he had fallen for a diversionary tactic.

"Hahaha~ Brother Qingfan, you're so stupid!"

"We hid in the smallest bedroom and ran downstairs as soon as you went inside!"

"Brother, keep catching them!"

The three girls laughed so hard they were doubled over, feeling proud of being able to tease Xu Qingfan.

"Laughing so happily, I'll catch you first!" Xu Qingfan reached out and flicked Lin Wanning's ahoge (cowlick), then closed his eyes again and leaned against the door to count down.

"Hehe~ Let's run!"

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The hide-and-seek game lasted for nearly an hour, but since there weren't many places in the house to hide, it lost its fun after a while.

The four sat back down in front of the television. Lin Wanning wiped his sweat with a tissue and said, "Why haven't we seen the Chinese athletes' delegation yet? It's almost ten o'clock!"

Because they had been drinking tea, the three women didn't feel sleepy, but sitting in front of the TV waiting for the Chinese team to appear was too boring.

"Xu Qingfan, I'm hungry!" Xia Xiaoxiao said, rubbing her stomach.

"No, aren't there snacks on the table?"

"I want it hot!"

"So many requests! What do you want to eat?" Xu Qingfan glared at Xia Xiaoxiao and then turned to ask the two of them.

"Anything is fine, we can order KFC delivery!" Lin Wanning said after thinking for a moment.

"Mmmmmmm!"

Seeing that the three of them looked like they wanted to eat, Xu Qingfan had no choice but to take out his phone and order takeout for them.

"One family bucket, three strawberry sundaes, and one serving of Original Recipe Chicken, that's all, thank you." After giving the address, Xu Qingfan could wait for the KFC deliveryman to bring the food to his door.

Unfortunately, his mental age isn't twelve. If he could have eaten KFC or instant noodles whenever he wanted when he was a child, he can't imagine how high his happiness index would have been.

KFC's home delivery service claims to deliver within 30 minutes to a distance of 3 kilometers, and charges a flat delivery fee of nine yuan regardless of the distance.

Because their location was only a little over a kilometer from KFC, the delivery driver called him back in about ten minutes after he ended the call.

Xu Qingfan took the money with him and soon returned with a fragrant and spicy KFC.

The cola was still a 1.25L bottle of Pepsi, and since no one wanted to drink it, Xu Qingfan had no choice but to put it in the refrigerator to cool off.

After putting on disposable gloves, the three girls couldn't wait to grab some fried chicken and start eating. Now, watching TV, the entrances of the various national delegations, which weren't very interesting to begin with, suddenly seemed much more engaging.

It was almost 11 o'clock, and the KFC was already completely empty, with even the remaining bones being gnawed by Xiaobai.

The three women leaned against each other, looking drowsy. Xiaobai, who had returned to the house, was already fast asleep.

The sound of "Chuan Na" coming from the television was like a shooting star piercing the night, and the three girls who were still dozing off suddenly opened their eyes wide.

"The Chinese delegation has arrived! Finally, the Chinese delegation has arrived!"

Yao Ming led the way, holding the five-star red flag high, followed by thousands of Olympic athletes participating in the Games. The cheers at the scene were deafening, and viewers in front of their televisions could barely hear the commentator.

"I wish we could be volunteers here too!" Lin Wanning looked at the many children younger than her who were with the delegation and felt envious.

“There’s a chance! When the port city hosts the Asian Games, we can go and be volunteers!” Xu Qingfan said, thinking about the Asian Games two years later.

"Okay!"

After the Chinese delegation entered the stadium, there wasn't much else to see, so Xu Qingfan turned off the television.

The three girls diligently cleaned up the trash on the coffee table, while Xu Qingfan was responsible for cleaning the tea-making tools.

After calling their families to let them know they were safe, the four of them squeezed into the first-floor bathroom to brush their teeth and wash up.

"Goodnight." Xu Qingfan finished brushing his teeth first, patted the three of them on the shoulder, and was the first to return to his room on the second floor.

Goodnight, Brother Qingfan!

"good night!"

One of the bedrooms on the second floor was furnished in a boyish style, which seemed to have been deliberately left for him by Zhang Chunxue or Zhang Yiyi.

Seemingly because of the positive impressions they had built up over the years, the parents were completely at ease letting Xu Qingfan temporarily act as their guardian.

For example, when they went on a trip to Guilin last time, he was in charge of leading and arranging the trip for several girls, and no adults accompanied them throughout the entire trip.

Actually, as long as you don't take unlicensed taxis, don't stay in small hotels, and don't go to places without streetlights or surveillance cameras at night, there aren't that many dangers.

Besides, everyone is still young, so parents won't think about early romantic relationships.

Xu Qingfan returned to his room, picked up the remote, adjusted the air conditioner to 16 degrees Celsius, strong, and high fan speed, then kicked off his slippers and comfortably crawled into the air-conditioned blanket.

I wish this carefree life could last forever.
As he pondered, he slowly closed his eyes and soon fell into a deep sleep.

(End of this chapter)