Yang Xiao suspected that Meng Yufan was tricking her, but she had no evidence.
It's really strange, she clearly planned to "break" with him, but she made such a bet in a confused way. … what is this, a sharp turn
Yang Xiao really couldn't figure out whether Meng Yufan was really stupid or fake.
The two got into the car, and Yang Xiao sent Meng Yufan back to the dormitory.
On the way back, Meng Yufan's WeChat kept beeping non-stop. The boy took a look at it, typed a few words, and stuffed it back into his pocket glumly.
Yang Xiao asked, "Whose news?"
In fact, she had already guessed it in her heart.
"It's Xu Dong..." As expected, Meng Yufan said the name, "He said why I disappeared suddenly, and he didn't even take my bag, and asked me where I went."
Yang Xiao: "How did you respond?"
"Tell him the truth." Meng Yufan turned to look at her and said shyly, "I told him that I eloped with you."
"..." God tm eloped!
Yang Xiaoxiao's feet flicked, the accelerator fluttered, and he almost rear-ended.
After a few seconds, Xu Dong sent a new message, but this time it was a voice message. Yang Xiao asked Meng Yufan to turn up the volume and listen again.
Xu Dong's rough voice sounded in the small carriage: "Huh... Forget it, you can run away when you run away, and you don't need to come back." It sounded like Xu Dong was sending a message while walking, and his voice was a little out of breath. "The city management came, the game was forced to be suspended, and a host was taken to understand the situation... I also left, the ball was too boring, and the hands on the opposite side were too dark."
His tone sounded the same as before, still the same carefree look, Yang Xiao really wanted to praise him as an actor.
Xu Dong's voice continued to come from the loudspeaker: "Fanzi, let's meet in the dormitory at night, I have something to tell you."
This definitely doesn't sound like a good thing.
Yang Xiao immediately told the people next to him: "Don't meet him tonight, I'll talk about it tomorrow. Take a good rest today, keep your spirits up, and use your brains not the size of a Chihuahua to figure out the whole thing, tomorrow morning. Don't be led away by him when confronting him."
Meng Yufan listened to her very much. She asked him not to see him today, so he obediently disappeared. He also pressed the record button and said into the microphone, "Xu Dong, it's inconvenient tonight. I'll go to the dormitory tomorrow to find you."
This time, Xu Dong paused for several minutes before sending a message. Meng Yufan was startled by Xu Dong's roar, which was enough to shatter the window.
"Fuck Shigeru!!!! The speed is too fast!!! Why don't you go back to the dormitory tonight? Okay, awesome, then I won't bother you! But do you know how to do it? , do you want me to send you some teaching materials to see?"
Yang Xiao: "…"
Meng Yufan: "…"
The boy didn't understand at all, and asked blankly, "I just said I won't go to see him tonight. Why does he think I won't go back to the dormitory? Where else can I go if I don't go back to the dormitory? What are the teaching materials?"
Yang Xiao couldn't answer, so he could only say awkwardly and perfunctorily: "... good boy don't need to know this."
But she decided in her heart: even if Xu Dong was fine, she would not allow her dog to play with such a lewd and pornographic friend!
…
Meng Yufan has always been big-hearted. He usually sleeps on the pillow and has no dreams until dawn. But that night, because he was thinking about the wild ball, he tossed and turned and didn't sleep well all night, and he got up after six o'clock the next day.
He really doesn't want to believe that Xu Dong is deliberately deceiving himself. They have known each other for five years. How much has the two experienced together in the past five years? They practiced, ran, cooperated, and were scolded by the head coach after getting into trouble... When they submitted their application for insurance research, they had imagined the bright future of stepping into the CBA together and playing for the same team.
Therefore, even if Yang Xiao put the evidence in front of him, he didn't want to believe that he saw the wrong person.
Just after 7:30, there was some movement in the opposite bedroom.
Meng Yufan, who had been waiting behind the door, opened the door immediately, just in time to bump into Xu Dong who was going out.
Unlike Meng Yufan, who was well-dressed, Xu Dong casually wore a set of pajamas, with slippers under his feet, his hands hanging in the air, and the appearance of knocking on the door.
Xu Dong was taken aback for a moment, then smiled: "Fanzi, are you back so early? I wanted to knock on the door and try my luck."
He decided that Meng Yufan was not going home last night, so seeing Meng Yufan dressed so neatly early in the morning, he took it for granted that he had just returned from outside.
Meng Yufan didn't chat with him, but said straight to the point: "Xu Dong, I have something to tell you."
Xu Dong nodded casually: "Okay, I just happen to have something to tell you."
Now is the time when the sports students get up to train. People come and go in the corridor, and they will say hello when they pass by.
Xu Dong looked around and whispered, "Enter your dormitory, don't say it in the corridor."
Meng Yufan let the dormitory door open and let him in.
Their dormitory conditions are very good, and after they are promoted to graduate students, everyone is assigned a single room. Meng Yufan's dormitory is filled with a five-story shoe cabinet that he bought online. A dozen pairs of limited-edition AJ sneakers are placed on four floors. Every sports student who enters his room will stop in front of the shoe cabinet for a long time. Made countless sour and envious sounds.
But today, Xu Dong didn't stay in front of the shoe cabinet, he went directly to the inner room to make sure that the doors and windows were closed.
Meng Yufan said: "Xu Dong, yesterday's game..."
Before he could finish speaking, he was interrupted by Xu Dong.
"Fanzi, that's what I'm talking about." Xu Dong smiled, "You left early yesterday, and I didn't have time to give you something—come here, this is your share, take it."
I saw Xu Dong took out an envelope from his trousers pocket, which was bulging and looked like a heavy stack.
The moment he took out the envelope, Meng Yufan had already guessed what was in the envelope.
But he still stubbornly refused to believe it.
The big boy of 1.9 meters stood there, his eyes fell on his most trusted teammate, and slowly, word by word, asked: "...What's in the envelope?"
"Don't you know if you open it yourself?" Xu Dong said.
But Meng Yufan did not reach out.
It seemed that as long as he didn't answer the envelope, things could come to an end. Nothing happened yesterday, and their friendship was still the same as before, without any change.
But Xu Dong couldn't wait any longer.
He unfolded the envelope directly, reached in - and took out a stack of banknotes.
Bright red, roughly counted, there are seven or eight of them.
That's money, it's really money, it was Meng Yufan's reward for going to the "friendly game" yesterday.
Xu Dong looked into his eyes, and said in a tone that pretended to be indifferent: "Although the game ended early, the boss is still very generous, and the money is given as usual. Well, accept it."
Meng Yufan's eyes were stinged by the stack of pink banknotes, and at this moment, he couldn't help but escape. The five-year trust collapsed the moment Xu Dong took out the envelope, Meng Yufan clenched his fists and looked at his classmates and friends in disbelief.
"Didn't you say it was a friendly match??" Meng Yufan asked in a low voice, "What do you mean by this money, do you think I'm easy to cheat?"
"How could I lie to you?" Xu Dong frowned and said, "Didn't your family cut off your living expenses, so you've been working part-time recently? I think you have a new girlfriend, and it will definitely cost more, so if you have a new girlfriend, you will definitely spend more. If there is a chance to make money, I will think of you." He paused, and then added, "I know what kind of temper you are, if I directly say that you can play with money, you will definitely not be happy, so you can only play first and then play."
"First cut and then play" - this is Xu Dong's view on this matter.
Meng Yufan thought this was absurd: "Xu Dong, do you know the rules of our team?! All players in the team are not allowed to go out to play wild ball without permission. May be fired!!"
He looked at Xu Dong as if he was looking at a stranger.
"There are also many kinds of wild balls, so there is no need to put them on the line." Xu Dong frowned and looked at him, as if he didn't understand why he was so angry, "Going to the park to play street basketball is also considered wild ball; , is also considered a wild ball; ... In essence, yesterday we played with a few rich second-generation players for a while, just like Wang Ocong hired someone to play e-sports with him, is this illegal?"
Meng Yufan went mad: "Of course it's illegal!! We not only played basketball with the rich second generation yesterday, our game yesterday was broadcast live on the Internet, and there was even a banker sitting in the banker, and there were tens of thousands of dollars in the gambling pool!! This is Gambling!! It’s gambling!!”
"... What?!" Xu Dong's eyes widened and his pupils shrank. "Someone bet on football yesterday?" He also looked shocked. He walked around the dormitory with his hands behind his back, his expression changed, and he kept saying, "Sorry, Shigeko. I thought yesterday was a very ordinary wild ball game. I really didn't know that someone was sitting behind the bank to gamble. Yesterday, the rich second generation was my first contact. They were introduced by my previous boss. Come here, I didn't know they were playing so dirty behind their backs..."
"Former boss?" Meng Yufan interrupted him, "Isn't this your first time playing field ball?"
His question was like a sharp blade, separating the last layer of cover between the two.
The room suddenly fell silent, Meng Yufan's eyes were chasing Xu Dong's eyes, and Xu Dong was just like him, staring at each other without giving an inch.
"What answer do you want to hear?" Xu Dong whispered, "I'm sorry for disappointing you—of course this isn't the first time I've played field ball, I've played maybe..." He laughed, as if he thought it was What a funny joke, "...a dozen times. If it's less, seven or eight hundred at a time, if it's more, it's more than a thousand. But it's no fun for me to fight alone. It's their own business, so I want to pull you in, thinking that we have a tacit understanding and can cooperate, and you just happened to be short of money recently, didn't you?"
Meng Yufan didn't know what else he could say, so he moved his lips: "Just for this amount of money, what? If the coach finds out, you will be punished... And, besides, the CUBA qualifiers are all over the place. It's about to start, didn't we agree that we would join the starting lineup together, if we take the punishment, we can only be a substitute..."
"Is it known by the coach?" Xu Dong looked down at him and said lightly, "Are you going to tell Lao Wu Tou?"
"Of course not! But..."
"You said to be in CUBA, to be the starter?" Xu Dong suddenly burst into a burst of laughter, the kind of hysterical laugh as if he had heard the most interesting story in the world, "Do you know, we have already studied it. , According to the regulations, this year is our last year to be eligible to participate in CUBA! But there are 18 people in our team, five forwards, five!! Have you really never thought that let's not talk about the chief, maybe even Can’t even be a substitute?!!”
He spoke faster and faster, and his voice became higher and higher, and finally shouted these words almost in a self-sacrificing way.
Meng Yufan looked at him in disbelief, and at this moment, Xu Dong became something he had never seen before.
He's crazy, he's pathetic, he's completely out of his mind.
"Meng Yufan, I'm not the same as you!" How long had Xu Dong not called him by his full name, as if from the first day of school, Xu Dong had hugged his neck and called him Fanzi. "You are a real rich second generation, have you experienced any setbacks in your life? You haven't! Your biggest setback is just that your parents cut off your living expenses! And me, do you know what I have experienced? My parents are Ordinary people, it's not easy for them to confess to me as a sports student, do you know that?! You said that when you were eight years old, your parents hired a foreign teacher to play with you. As for me, I was in junior high school for the sake of physical fitness. In school, the family gave the coach 80,000 yuan, which is my dad's salary for a year!"
Xu Dong pointed to the shoe cabinet at the door: "It's amazing to have so many AJs, isn't it? A pair of limited editions are several thousand or even tens of thousands. You see, besides you, who in our team can afford such expensive shoes? You have stood on the finish line for all of us since you were born. Even if you are not selected for CUBA or CBA, you can go home and inherit the family business! But for us, we can only go all the way down to those township enterprises , Go to those wealthy villages and towns in Fujian and Guangdong to play! Isn't that still wild
"CUBA has hundreds of teams across the country and thousands of basketball players, most of whom are still in college and younger than us! Even if we enter CUBA, we may not be able to win the championship or become the MVP. They will definitely be spotted by those scouts! Last year, the year before last, CUBA's star players were all swept away in the CBA draft, and didn't they end up as wild ball players?... I'm planning ahead and finding a way out for myself, what's the matter? Right?!!" Xu Dong asked him, "Tell me, what's wrong with me?"
Meng Yufan's answer was to take a step back, then another step back, until he was one meter away from Xu Dong.
He didn't know how to describe how he felt at the moment. … is it a disappointment due to seeing the wrong people? Actually not. The former Xu Dong was not like this. They fought side by side for five years. At the very beginning, Xu Dong also gave him a look, and there was nothing in his eyes except basketball.
But since when did Xu Dong change
"Of course you're wrong." Meng Yufan's voice was not loud, but it was slow, firm, and powerful. Every word he uttered echoed in the small dormitory. "You haven't even started the charge yet, and you've already figured out a way out. Do you just want to be a deserter?"