As soon as I heard that Meng Yufan and Xu Dong were teammates, Dad Yang became interested.
He was restless even in a wheelchair, craned his neck like an old tortoise waiting to turn over and asked, "Xiao Meng, you and that old Xu's grandson are teammates? So which of you is more powerful?"
Meng Yufan said truthfully: "Uncle, he and I are both forwards. But I am a small forward and he is a power forward. We have different roles and different directions of expertise. There is no difference between who is strong and who is weak."
Basketball is a five-player team sport. In this 90-foot-by-50-foot arena, everyone has their own position and cannot be directly distinguished from each other.
Dad Yang is very sorry to hear that, in his expectation, his son-in-law should kill the Quartet as soon as he comes on the court, dunking and dunking to the basket and breaking it...
Yang Xiao knew nothing about basketball before, and when he heard two unfamiliar terms, he asked curiously, "Power forward? Small forward? What's the difference?"
Meng Yufan first explained it in professional language: "Theoretically speaking, a power forward is a defensive type, grabbing rebounds, blocking positions, and defending, and mainly fights on the inside. A small forward is an offensive type, attacking, breaking through, and mainly fighting on the outside. …”
When he talked about his profession, his eyes were shining, and he was dancing like a child.
But Yang Xiao... didn't understand.
Meng Yufan simply gave the most straightforward example: "Let's put it this way, in "Slam Dunk", Sakuragi Huadao is a power forward! And Rukawa Kaede," he patted his chest, "is a small forward. !"
Yang Xiao: "... Liuchuanfeng, you?"
Meng Yufan puffed out his chest in a beautiful manner: "Yes!"
Yang Xiao turned to look in the other direction of the basketball court again: "... Sakuragi Huadao, he?"
Meng Yufan nodded: "Yes!"
Yang Xiao thought to herself, the appearance of the "Flower Maple" in front of her is still in line with the girl's fantasy; but the "Sakuragi Huadao" over there is too... "unmatched in appearance", right
Xu Dong is two meters tall, with long hands and feet, and is even stronger than Meng Yufan. He was dark-skinned and had high cheekbones, and he walked like a mobile cannon.
As soon as the mobile fort entered the door, he noticed the familiar tall man on the side of the arena.
That figure, that looks, that little gesture—if he wasn't insane, wouldn't tm be his teammate Meng Yufan? ? ?
Xu Dong never imagined that he was just pulled over by his grandfather to participate in a workers' sports meeting, and that he would bump into his good brother who lives opposite him!
And most importantly, who is the girl who is standing opposite Meng Yufan and is talking to him with her head raised
Because of the distance, Xu Dong could not see the girl's appearance. Meng Yufan, relying on his tall stature, completely shielded the girl in his shadow, and Xu Dong had never seen that cautious look.
The two of them wore the same red and white AJ sneakers at their feet. When talking, there would be some intimate little gestures from time to time, which were natural and harmonious. If Xu Dong didn't know in advance that Meng Yufan was a single dog, he would have mistaken them for a couple.
… They should be sisters and sisters from relatives, right
However, Fanzi's relative is really good, slender and tall, with a pair of straight and slender legs hidden under jeans, which is particularly eye-catching.
Xu Dong unconsciously got into his own thoughts, and planned to wait for the game to end, let Fanzi help him match up, and introduce...
"Dongdong, why are you stunned?" Beside him, Grandpa Xu slapped his grandson's arm heavily and said in a loud voice, "Come, come with me, say hello to the elders, and recognize people."
After finishing speaking, Grandpa Xu has already strode towards the direction of the Yang family.
Xu Dong was about to get to know that young lady, so he hurriedly sorted out his clothes, raised a self-confessed handsome smile, and followed directly.
Approaching, Xu Dong could see the appearance of the young lady.
If I had to describe it in one verse, it would be skin like... uh... eyebrows... uh... eyes like... uh... In short - what a bum!
She stood there gracefully, her eyes were clear, and she could not see a trace of shyness. The corners of her mouth were slightly raised, within a polite range, her smile was not deep, but it made people intoxicated for no reason.
She just smiled so lightly, Xu Dong felt that she was already floating. As if his 200-pound body didn't exist, it rose higher, higher, higher, higher along with his soul...
"Come on, Dongdong, Grandpa will introduce you." Next to him, Grandpa Xu's straightforward voice came, "This is your Grandpa Yang's daughter, Yang Xiao. You can just call her Auntie Xiaoxiao."
Yang Xiao: "..." Yang Xiao said embarrassedly, "I don't need 'Auntie'? Actually, I'm not a few years older than this little classmate..."
Grandpa Xu insisted: "The generation can't be messed up! Xiaoxiao, my dad and I are good brothers. If you call me uncle, then my grandson will definitely call you auntie."
Xu Dong: "..." He looked at the young and beautiful Yang Xiao, and he couldn't say the words Auntie stuck in his chest.
But the real shock is yet to come—
"And this one." Grandpa Xu suddenly pointed to Meng Yufan who was standing aside, "This is Auntie Xiaoxiao's boyfriend, just call him uncle!"
Yang Xiao: "…"
Xu Dong: "..."
Xu Dong's soul floated up to the sky, and fell to the ground with a snap.
He cried out: "—Uncle?"
What uncle, where is the uncle from? ! Isn't Shigeru a single dog? No, Fanzi is his buddy, why did he rise for no reason? ?
Only Meng Yufan was still out of the situation and didn't notice the gaffes of the people in front of him.
He scratched his head and smiled happily at Xu Dong: "Hello, nephew. I'm sorry, I came out in a hurry today and didn't bring a red envelope."
…
The whistle sounded.
The basketball flew high into the sky, Meng Yufan and Xu Dong jumped at the same time, raised their arms to grab the brown-orange ball.
The competition often happened in an instant. Xu Dong, relying on the length of his arms, grabbed the basketball and quickly ran towards the blue team's basket after landing.
Meng Yufan followed closely behind, using a pressing method of man-marking, and tried several times to grab the basketball from Xu Dong's hands.
The two of them trained on the same team for five years and knew each other's abilities inside out. But today, Xu Dong seemed to have swallowed the potion of Hercules, and the offensive was so violent that it opened and closed, and several times his elbows would hit Meng Yufan's face.
If he switched to a regular game, Xu Dong would definitely get a yellow card from the referee.
But in this competition for employees' families, the referee was the eldest sister of the administration department. After blowing the whistle, she went to the sidelines to chat and play sweaters, and she didn't care what fouls were committed or not.
And the onlookers off the field could not see the doorway at all. Their attention was on the two young boys, and no matter who had the ball, everyone clapped and shouted.
Because the blue team and the yellow team each have a professional athlete, almost everything from defense to offense is done by the two of them. In this kind of game, there is no distinction between forwards and defenders. I saw two people running around the field with the ball, playing from front to back, and then from back to front.
And the other eight people on the field, like dogs being walked by the old man, ran after their buttocks foolishly, unable to even touch the ball.
The score on the field was 38 to 31 - Meng Yufan was 7 points behind Xu Dong.
Dad Yang kept sucking in the air-conditioning and muttering: "Go on, Xiao Meng, come on!! Snap him! Snap him!! Snap him!"
Yang Xiao's head hurts because of her father's arguing, but her attention is now on the field, her eyes are firmly locked on Meng Yufan's figure, and she runs with him on the field.
Regular basketball games have complicated rules and are divided into two halves. Each game has two quarters. There is a rest period between quarters, and there are substitute players off the court waiting to play at any time.
But this employee family game adopts a brand new rule, or a rule created by the employees - whichever team gets 50 points first is the winner.
Xu Dong holding the ball is another smash.
It's a pity that Xu Dong was exhausted, and the sweat on his body pooled into a stream that kept flowing down. His legs were shaking and his hands were shaking.
At the same time as he dunked, Meng Yufan jumped up to grab the ball—blocked!
The basketball missed and hit the backboard, and then quickly popped out. The boy grabbed the basketball, quickly retreated with the ball, and ran towards the other basket.
When the other yellow team members saw it, they immediately rushed to surround him. Even if Meng Yufan's personal ability is strong, he is suddenly surrounded by four people, he can no longer move.
In an instant, he made a decision - he suddenly took a step back, jumped up with his legs, and threw the ball directly from beyond the three-point line.
The basketball crossed an amazing arc in mid-air, fell steadily, did not touch the board, the frame, or the net, and went straight through the hoop - a three-pointer! This is already the fourth three-pointer made by Meng Yufan today.
After the ball was thrown, the score gap was reduced to four points.
However, Meng Yufan's physical strength was basically exhausted.
Regardless of the small size of the basketball court and the short duration of a game, it is a very physically demanding sport. Sprinting, assaulting, defending, scoring goals, each is a collision of physical fitness and physical fitness.
In regular matches, there are substitutes waiting off the court, but it is not easy to gather ten people in the staff competition. How can there be any substitutes? Meng Yufan and Xu Dong have been fighting on the court for so long, and the two of them have long been at the end of the game, and the battle situation has fallen into a stalemate for a while.
Just then, the halftime whistle sounded, and the break finally came.
Xu Dong glared at Meng Yufan and turned to leave. Meng Yufan stopped him panting and asked inexplicably, "Xu Dong, why are you so angry today?"
Xu Dong said, "Can't I be angry?" Xu Dong said more and more, "Fanzi, do you consider me a brother? You lied a few days ago and told me that there was no match for you. In a blink of an eye, you are taller than me. Generation, still want me to call you uncle?!"
Only then did Meng Yufan know that Xu Dong was angry about this. However, Yang Xiao is really not his girlfriend - their relationship is difficult to define, but between normal boyfriends and girlfriends, there must be no one paying money to the other, right
Meng Yufan didn't want to talk about this, so he could only change the subject: "Xu Dong, if you want to call me uncle, you can call me dad."
"Go away!" Xu Dong pointed his middle finger, "Seeing the real chapter on the court, Lao Tzu's score is higher than yours now."
Meng Yufan: "Don't blow it, how can you play the second half now? Just your physical strength, charge for two hours and play for three minutes."
"Better than you." Xu Dong snorted, raised his chin and glanced at Yang Xiao who was on the sidelines. The girl's long ponytail swayed behind her head, holding a towel and water bottle in her hand, and her eyes looked at Meng Yufan's direction with concern. Xu Dong was sour, sour, more sour than the smell of sweat on his body, "Little virgin, I guess you've been charging, haven't you been on the scene yet?"
Meng Yufan: "!!!"
Meng Yufan's pure virgin heart was hurt with great precision.
His face flushed instantly, and he stammered: "I... We are serious in love, how can anyone just think about doing bad things when they are in love."
"Bad thing? You call that a bad thing?" Xu Dong whistled triumphantly and patted his shoulder, "You are such a good baby! If you two break up in the future, you will never even kiss on the lips, is it you? Your girlfriend will also give you a three-good student award in recognition of your never doing 'bad things'?"
"… "
Meng Yufan went off the stage in a dizzy, mind full of those words that Xu Dong said.
Yang laughed when he saw that he was hanging his head and didn't speak in a sullen manner, thinking that he was too tired. She hurried to meet him, took his hand, and helped him to sit down on the sidelines.
Meng Yufan only felt that his whole body was terribly hot. He poured a bottle of mineral water on the towel and covered it directly on his head, but he didn't cool himself down.
Standing beside him, Yang Xiao saw that his chest was heaving, his face was red, and even his exposed arms and palms were hot.
Even his father and mother Yang noticed his discomfort.
Dad Yang thought he was under too much psychological pressure, so he quickly said, "Xiao Meng, I was just joking when I said I would let you come back with a trophy! I think your teammate is also quite good, so you can just play, don't hurt yourself. ."
Yang's mother also echoed.
Meng Yufan was so tall that even if he sat down, he was like a hill. Yang Xiao was standing in front of him, very close to him, as long as he lowered his head slightly, he could see the boy's wet eyes.
Yang Xiao raised her hand and gently placed it on his shoulder. She could clearly feel that under the palm of her hand, the over-exercised muscles were tense and twitched from time to time.
Her heart softened instantly.
"You've worked so hard." She leaned over and comforted him softly, "It doesn't matter if you don't get the trophy or the MVP."
"No," Meng Yufan looked up at her, his Adam's apple rolled, and made a promise, "there will be trophies, as well as MVPs. Just... If I get these, can you give me a reward?"
Yang Xiao didn't take this small request to heart at all, and agreed very readily: "What reward? Bonus? Sportswear? Or do you want to buy another pair of basketball shoes?"
"Neither." Meng Yufan stretched out his arms around her waist and asked cheekily, "If I win the MVP, sister, can you give me a kiss?"