December 25th is a special day.
For thousands of merchants, this is the day when the year-end promotions and double holidays are coming, and they can make a lot of money; for countless young couples in the world, it is a day where they spend a lot of money and have a big meal, and then find a comfortable hotel. The day of rolling the sheets; and for the members of the Huacheng University basketball team, this day is a crucial day for the last game of the CUBA qualifiers!
"What 'critical day'..." In the indoor court, Huang Xiaoke said listlessly while completing the shooting task, "The preliminaries are based on points, and our points are long enough for us to qualify! If you want me to say, our last game You can completely save your stamina, just hang around until the end of the time! No matter whether it wins or loses, we can all advance anyway.”
His proposal aroused the echo of many players.
cuba is divided into three main parts: provincial preliminaries, divisional competitions and national competitions. The qualifiers are held in the last three months of each year. The top two teams in the qualifiers are automatically promoted to the next year's divisional competition, and the top four of the four divisional divisions are promoted to the national competition... Every year, they have to play each year. People are tired and horses are tired, and no amount of energy is enough.
As soon as Huang Xiaoke's words fell, a stern scolding from the martial arts coach sounded behind them: "Huang Xiaoke! You are itchy again, aren't you?! What are you doing, is the arena a place for you to do it?? "
Huang Xiaoke was so frightened that he was singled out by the assistant coach and ordered to run 50 laps around the basketball court.
He didn't dare to resist, who made him owe it
"Okay, everyone else stops, gather!" Coach Wu whistled and called over a dozen players on the field to him. Huang Xiaoke also tried to get close, but was kicked on the butt by Coach Wu. Let him run honestly.
Huang Xiaoke let out a hoot and continued to run in circles amid everyone's laughter.
Seventeen boys about two meters tall stood in two rows with their heads held high. Coach Wu looked proudly at the "soldiers" he brought out, and said with relief: "Yes, tomorrow is the last game of the preliminaries. Even if we have the advantage of the game, we must not slack off! - Let me give you a little bit of a breakdown. News, tomorrow, a big man is coming."
"Big man?" "What big man?"
A dozen pairs of eyes looked at each other, and curiosity was written on everyone's face.
"Could it be..." Someone exclaimed in surprise, "Could it be a scout?!!"
Scouts, as the name suggests, are hunters who discover outstanding seedlings on the field. Their work is similar to that of scouts, but scouts are active in the streets, while scouts appear on the sidelines of the game.
"... whimsical." Coach Wu snorted, "A small regional qualifier, do you think scouts will come?"
Well, the old warrior is right. Scouts rarely appear on the CUBA arena, and they are usually seen in the last few games of the national competition.
"Coach, who else can be called a 'big man'?" Captain Liu Fangzhou asked the question in everyone's heart.
"This person is not only a big man, but also a big man who is closely related to you." Coach Wu rarely saw a two-pointed smile, the silver whistle on his chest was shining, he no longer sold off, and directly gave the answer, "—it's Feng Mutually."
"What?! Feng Xiang is coming?"
"It's Captain Feng!"
"Fuck, Senior Brother Feng!!!"
Feng Xiangkuo is a star player who came out of their Hwaseong University. There are not many young players who are recommended by scouts to participate in the CBA draft every year. There are even fewer players who can really enter big clubs and participate in the first-level league. There are fewer than three a year. Feng Xiang is like the open-hung male protagonist in the novel of the starting point. He was picked up by scouts before graduating from his undergraduate degree. He entered the Hwaseong men's basketball team with a high profile as the top pick in the draft. He played for five years and won the MVP for two years!
It is no exaggeration to say that Feng Xiang is the idol of all the members of the Hwaseong University basketball team. These men are chasing stars, even more exaggerated than girls.
The eyebrow on Feng Xiang's left is "broken eyebrow", and a conspicuous white scar divides the entire eyebrow in two, making him more arrogant and unruly. It is said that he once beaten his opponent with 1 to 2 on the field, and was surrounded and beaten after the game, which left a scar on the brow bone.
Huang Xiaoke has already planned that in order to welcome the arrival of the idol, he will shave the middle of his eyebrows bald tomorrow! !
As soon as his plan was spoken, Liu Fangzhou immediately evoked merciless ridicule: "Fuck you, you idiot fan, after chasing stars, do you think you can get closer to your idol by shaving your eyebrows?"
Huang Xiaoke blushed with shame, and said loudly, "I'll shave mine, I'm happy!"
The players burst into laughter, and the entire basketball team was filled with a kind of restless enthusiasm. Everyone was in high spirits, ready to welcome the arrival of their idols.
However, when everyone was discussing this matter lively, there was one person with a lot of worries, even the smile on his face surfaced, nodding and applauding along with everyone, obviously his mind drifted elsewhere.
And this person is Meng Yufan.
"What's the matter with you?" Xu Dong, who was on the fringes of the team, noticed his absent-mindedness. Xu Dong hesitated for a while, or asked in a low voice, "Are you in a bad mood?"
"Ah?... Oh, no, I'm thinking of something else." Meng Yufan shook his head perfunctorily, and walked to the basket next to him with the basketball in his arms.
Xu Dong followed and asked, "You have been very distracted recently. Do you think Coach Wu and several other coaches couldn't notice it?"
"… "
"What's wrong?" Xu Dong asked. "You scored a few goals in the first game, and the coach immediately replaced you in the second half. If you continue to be like this, what will happen to you in the next game?"
Meng Yufan stubbornly refused to speak.
Xu Dong didn't bother to go around in circles with him when he saw that he didn't have enough oil and salt. He raised his right hand, made a circle on his left wrist with his fingers, and asked Meng Yufan, "Is it because of 'this matter'?"
Meng Yufan was startled and blurted out, "How do you know?"
"Everyone in the team knows it." Xu Dong said helplessly, "You put on a small rubber band not long ago, and you didn't even take it off when you took a shower after training. Everyone suspected that you broke up, but they didn't dare to ask you directly for fear of irritating you." He asked in a low voice, "You and Yang Xiao..."
"—We didn't break up." Meng Yufan interrupted him immediately, "There are indeed some problems between us, but it is absolutely impossible for us to break up."
He bit the word "absolutely impossible" very hard, but the more certain he was, the more Xu Dong suspected that the two had already stood on the edge of a cliff.
Sibling love is inherently difficult, especially since one of them is already working and the other is still in the ivory tower, so the conflict of ideas will only increase. If one party is "tired", then the relationship can be shattered at any time.
He was so stubborn, Xu Dong couldn't say anything more, he could only pat him on the shoulder and silently wish Meng Yufan a smooth relationship in his heart.
After Xu Dong left, Meng Yufan dragged an entire basket of basketballs, mechanically standing outside the three-point line, shooting one after another. He was distracted and cranky, and the ball he threw naturally missed the mark.
All fifty basketballs in a basket were shot, and only 12 out of 12 actually made the basket—and his normal three-point shooting percentage was at least over 60 percent.
He was so bad, so bad, so bad.
The boy looked at the orange-red basketballs rolling around in the basketball court, and a deep sense of frustration welled up.
He can't even hit the basket now, how can he hit Sister Xiaoxiao's heart
…
The moon was setting and the sun was rising, and in a blink of an eye, it was the day of the game.
The game is scheduled for the afternoon. The players have made an appointment with Coach Wu. After the game, they will not go to dinner, sing K, or go back to school with the bus to rest. They have already made arrangements for Christmas Eve, and they want to go with their girlfriends. Spend time together!
Coach Wu didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He looked at the dozen or so boys in front of him, feeling like he was looking at a dozen pigs preparing to serve cabbage.
Coach Wu asked: "Okay, since you have your own arrangements, then I won't force it." He suddenly frowned and asked suspiciously, "...any one of you explain to me, what's going on with your eyebrows? ?"
I don't know what kind of behaviorism these little boys are doing, but more than half of them have shaved off their left eyebrows! The originally straight and rough eyebrows were cut off in the middle, turning into weird "broken eyebrows".
Huang Xiaoke covered his eyebrows subconsciously and looked at Liu Fangzhou, who also covered his eyebrows.
Huang Xiaoke winked: "Captain, what a coincidence?"
Liu Fangzhou coughed: "Ah... what... what a coincidence."
Huang Xiaoke tsk tsk: "I didn't see 'what a coincidence', this is obviously 'really fragrant', right?"
Coach Wu looked at the group of star-chasing idiots under his hands, and felt that his face was about to be lost. He looked and looked, only Meng Yufan gave him peace of mind: Meng Yufan's eyebrows were long on the brow bone, not broken, not cut, not too small.
"It's very calm, Meng Yufan." Coach Wu patted him on the shoulder vigorously, praising him, "Knowing that Feng Xiang is coming to watch the game, you can still be so calm, not bad!!"
Meng Yufan has been wandering around the world, and only then did he "wake up" and sighed blankly: "...What, Senior Brother Feng is coming?"
Coach Wu: "..."
Okay, he thought Meng Yufan was the most worry-free one, but now it seems that he is the most worry-free one!
In this game, Hwaseong University has the home field advantage. In addition to cheering them on, Feng Xiang personally came to the scene, and another purpose was to go back to his alma mater to see and visit his former teachers and coaches.
Feng Xiang is a well-known rising star player in the CBA industry. He led the Hwaseong team to win the CBA championship last season. His style of play has a distinct personality, he is bold and uninhibited, and he has attracted a wave of fans. Well-informed fans knew in advance that he was going back to his alma mater to watch the game, so he stayed outside the basketball court early, holding the high-priced tickets bought from scalpers, and couldn't wait to meet his idol.
Holding a pale yellow ticket, Yang Xiao squeezed into the crowd, hearing all the talk about Feng Xiang. Yang Xiao not only knows Feng Xiang's height, weight, and jersey number shooting percentage, but also how many of his former girlfriends are now in the window period...
Those who shared these gossips were the two young girls behind Yang Xiao. The two of them were fully armed from head to toe, wearing masks and carrying huge camera bags.
It is worthy of being a famous "traffic athlete" in the circle. This battle is not much better than that of young students in the entertainment circle.
One of the station sisters noticed the pale yellow ticket in Yang Xiao's hand, her eyes lit up, and she immediately came over to chat.
"Sister, are you holding an infield ticket?"
"...Ah?" Yang Xiao was stunned. He only heard that there are infield tickets for concerts. How can there be infield tickets for a basketball game
It turned out that because of the large number of spectators in this game, an "internal staff viewing seat" was specially set up, and each team member could receive three cards and give them to their relatives, friends and lovers. It is said that Feng Xiang will sit in this area when the time comes.
The price of infield tickets is very high, but it has always been in a state of high price and no market. Who would be willing to resell the tickets given by the team members to outsiders
Sister Zhan asked enviously, "Sister, who gave you this ticket?"
Yang Xiao smiled and replied, "My boyfriend."
These four words frankly circled on the tip of her tongue, and when they landed, they were crisp and loud, with pride and pride that she didn't even notice.
Before she could digest this emotion, there was a sudden commotion from the crowd—
In the distance, a tall and proud man walked quickly. He was wearing a long, loose-fitting down jacket with the zipper wide open, revealing his muscular body tucked under his tracksuit. He did not wear a peaked cap, nor did he wear a mask, sunglasses, or any other accessories that could cover his face, so he calmly exposed himself to the sight of all the audience.
He is very tall, far above the height of ordinary people. He approached step by step, and the crowd automatically gave way to both sides like sea water being separated.
- It's Feng Xiang.
"Meet again, everyone." His tone was familiar, not like he was talking to fans, but like he was greeting friends he had known for many years. He tilted his head and raised his chin in the direction of the stadium, "I'll go first, let's see you inside."
After all, he was escorted by the security guard and left along the VIP passage.
Because the crowd was crowded, he and Yang Xiao were once very close. Even if they just passed by, the aggressive smell of cologne on his body spread quickly.
It was also at that moment that Feng Xiang's eyes just swept across Yang Xiao's body, and the four eyes were relatively short for only a second. The man raised his eyebrows at her and showed a slightly playful smile.
... Yang Xiao finally understood why Feng Xiang became a "traffic athlete".
Because he is really charming.