When we were teenagers, before we became famous, everyone called each other nicknames in the ball club.
He is frustrated, Jiang Yang is a thief, Wu Wei is indifferent, Fan Wencong is a peddler, Lin Lin is the boss, Chen Anan is called Anmei because her name looks like a girl... and so on. There are several teachers in the ball club, and they are all taught by different teachers. He and Jiang Yang are the most talented among He Lao's apprentices. It is often said that Mr. He found six apprentices, and finally found two children with good aptitude when he closed the mountain. Among them, Lin Yiyang was the most talented, and he found them by himself.
Everyone likes to compete in domestic professional competitions at the age of thirteen.
After that, if they get the rankings, especially the champion and runner-up, they will joke with each other and call them "Master".
Jiang Yang won the championship first, it was Yang Ye. When it came to Lin Yiyang, I had no choice but to condescend to add the word "small", who made the last word of the two senior brothers have the same pronunciation and different characters
"Why are you playing nine balls?" Lin Yiyang asked Jiang Yang.
Jiang Yang is a snooker player. It is a bit strange to teach a group of apprentices to play nine balls.
"It's my apprentice, but Anmei is teaching. Anmei has turned nine balls a few years ago. This time, there is something at home, so I can't come early. Let me bring the children over earlier."
"Isn't it April?" Lin Yiyang remembered correctly, Wu Wei and Yin Guo played at that time.
"Junior and youth groups are in March." Wu Wei answered for Jiang Yang.
"Oh." Lin Yiyang continued to drink beer.
The children on the sofa are eagerly looking forward to chatting with the little uncle.
"You guys are talking, I'm going down to eat."
Lin Yiyang returned to the room, put on his winter clothes, put on sneakers on his bare feet, took the keys and wallet, and walked straight through the living room. It's just that at the end, when he saw the children staring at him, he couldn't bear it too much, and waved his hand as a farewell.
The door was closed.
He was in the corridor, slowly, walking downstairs.
Two minutes after leaving the house, it was still the ramen restaurant. He had a very good memory, remembering the noodles that Yin Guo ate that night and what ingredients were added. At this time, there were not too many people, the boss was free and sat opposite Lin Yiyang.
They have known each other for a year.
Lin Yiyang can speak Japanese, and the boss can speak English. They complement each other and have a very happy chat every time.
"The girl you brought last night is very beautiful." The boss said.
Lin Yiyang picked up the noodles with chopsticks and smiled.
"She is the person you want to know when you first meet." The boss is in his forties and has experienced it.
He didn't deny it.
"When was it? I mean, when did we meet?" the boss asked.
"That night, the night I slept here."
The boss immediately recalled: "Blizzard."
That night, the city was full of blizzards.
He sent Yin Guo back to the hotel, and then came back to the apartment, only to find that he didn't bring the key to the apartment. The two sisters in the apartment were trapped on the other side of the city and never came back.
Fortunately, a kind boss took him in and let him sleep here for one night in the shop.
A girl that he wanted to know at first sight, the only one in twenty-seven years.
That night, Lin Yiyang helped her carry the suitcase to the hotel gate, Yin Guo bowed to him earnestly and thanked him, that look was so cute. That night, he slept in this ramen restaurant, and the image of her bowing and thanking was repeated in his mind.
The circle of friends is really a good thing.
What Yin Guo didn't know was that when she applied to add him as a WeChat friend, Lin Yiyang had just entered the subway platform.
Seeing that the first thing she posted on Moments was the registration introduction for the Open, he realized that the cue on the three suitcases did not belong to his younger brother, but to his older sister. He was afraid that there was no signal in the subway and he would not be able to get out, so he stayed at the entrance for a full hour. During that hour, he obtained all kinds of information about her in the circle of friends.
What she didn't even know was how many game reports and videos he had watched of her on the bus from Washington, D.C. back to New York.
She is a... how to describe it
If Lin Yiyang himself is a player who follows his heart, then Yin Guo is a master of stability who doesn't make any mistakes and seems to lose his personal emotions when he goes on the court.
How many times has this been broken in exchange for the game
He could even imagine her daily training, being suppressed by masters, repeatedly training her psychological quality on the spot.
In the past, Lin Yiyang has always been called a talented player by the teachers of the ball club.
But in fact, his favorite player is Yin Guo.
You know she has talent, but you can see more how much work she has put into it. No matter where this kind of player goes, they will be given the warmest applause because they are "worth it".
Everyone will congratulate you sincerely, because you deserve it.
Ten long days.
Lin Yiyang read all the information about her sports career.
Yesterday, in order to meet Yin Guo, he changed his ticket three times, and finally found a free time to invite Meng Xiaotian to that cafe for coffee. But when he really saw Yin Guo appearing in front of his eyes, he didn't know how to start.
I can't say, I've watched all your games, from childhood to adulthood, and even read all the posts of fans gossip.
It can't be said that you have two games that are as exciting as the highlights of the big competitions. In that state, if you replace your opponent with me, I dare not say that I can beat you.
Not to mention, your brother Meng Xiaodong and I met many times in the arena, and each won and lost, so he was considered a natural enemy. You ask him, he must remember me.
In the end, Lin Yiyang didn't say anything, just watched her walk into the cafe from the sunlight.
Seeing her stop in surprise, watching her stabilize her mind, she walked slowly to the coffee table, hung her backpack obliquely on the back of the chair, watched her take a seat, and then pushed over a menu: "Look what you want to eat What?"
It's easier to ask her to eat than to chat.
…
Lin Yiyang retracted his thoughts, and continued to eat noodles.
"Last night, you were here, and you didn't even say a few words to her." The boss smiled.
"I used to... talk with a knife and hurt a lot of people. Especially when using a mobile phone, I can't see my face when I speak, and I am afraid of more misunderstandings."
Of course, face-to-face isn't much better.
The conversation on the subway last night was like a scene of a blind date that was forcibly introduced.
"Actually, I just met, and I don't understand yet," he added.
To put it bluntly, Yin Guo didn't understand him.
The past, present, and future should have no intersection at all.
The owner of the noodle shop seemed to understand Lin Yiyang's state very well, and said with a smile: "My wife is my high school classmate. For a long time, I didn't learn to talk to her normally. Later, she told me that she was wronged at that time. , think I hate her," the boss took a plate of wasabi octopus from the guy and put it in front of his noodle bowl.
The boss finally taught him: "Say your truest words, she will feel."
***
Yin Guo is in the ball room, practicing with Su Wei.
I don't know what I was thinking today, I missed one after another, and was teased several times by Su Wei, asking her if she spent the spring night with the person who won the regional championship last night, so that she lost her energy. At first, Su Wei said a few words, but Yin Guo still smiled and said nothing. After being teased more times, she had to clarify that the relationship between herself and Lin Yiyang was very ordinary.
Even, Yin Guo thought that before last night Lin Yiyang hated him a little bit.
Of course Su Wei didn't believe it.
In order to prove her words, Yin Guo showed Su Wei their WeChat chat.
Clean and clean.
In all the chat records, she has a good temper. She introduces herself in long paragraphs, shows her favor frequently, and tries to make friends with her. But all the conversations ended with Lin Yiyang's cold reply, either "You're welcome", or "It's easy to say", or just threw an emoji to end the conversation.
Especially in Washington, she thanked him for entertaining her cousin with a cold expression of "easy to say". She was really hurt at the time. After ten long days, we didn't exchange a single word.
If you can pretend to be affectionate in this way, and think that others are interesting to you, then you will feel too good about yourself...
"I take back what I said before." Su Wei handed her the phone, "Have you offended him?"
It's also thanks to Yin Guo's good temper, if Su Wei herself, she would have given up.
Yin Guo smiled helplessly: "I offended you a little that night when we first met."
Su Wei was also tired. She suggested that the two of them rest for ten minutes together, put down their clubs and go out for a while.
Yin Guo sat alone on the billiard chair, idly flipping through WeChat, and suddenly realized that he hadn't seen his Moments yet.
She quietly opened—
Nothing, not a single post.
He is a man with no circle of friends.
***
Lin Yiyang leaned against the wall of the ramen shop, took out his mobile phone, and opened Yin Guo's WeChat window.
He carefully studied all the conversations between the two of them, from adding friends to last night, he didn't miss a single one. What should I say? He pressed a finger on the empty decanter and turned it round and round, thinking.
Outside the door, Jiang Yang, who was wearing a black padded jacket, walked to the edge of the steps, squatted down, and waved to Lin Yiyang who was in the store. Through a glass door, the boss is asking: "Looking for you?"
"Yes," Lin Yiyang put his mobile phone in his pocket, put down the meal fee, put on his coat hastily, and pushed the door out.
In the cold wind, he jumped up two steps.
"I asked the coach to come and take the kids back to the hotel first." Jiang Yang tilted his head and pointed to the right. "It doesn't matter. There is a ball room nearby. Let's go and start a game. When brothers and sisters meet, there must be a meeting." look."
Lin Yiyang wanted to refuse.
But for some reason, maybe he was thinking about how to send a message to Yin Guo just now, which caused him to be in a good mood, at least much better than when he woke up in the morning.
He nodded without saying a word, and walked shoulder to shoulder with Jiang Yang to the block on the right.
Jiang Yang took out an electronic cigarette, opened the lid, inserted a small cigarette in it, heated it up, and took a deep breath: "To be honest, you have admired me since I was a child. In our group, only Wu Wei It’s okay to study alone, it’s no surprise that he can study until now, but no one expected you to survive until today.”
Jiang Yang smiled: "Back then, we both counted backwards, right? There are almost forty people in the class, can you rank thirty?"
"Junior high school? Almost." He recalled.
There are very few children in the ball club who have good grades. At that time, some of them couldn’t go to school. Parents opened it and chose another way to send it to the ball club. And the environment, directly into the industry. Lin Yiyang himself did not do well in junior high school.
After quitting the ball club in high school, he was stimulated and studied day and night. In addition to making money is reading, suffering is really suffering.
Including the past three years when he came to study abroad, what kind of work has he not done
In the first year, I was not allowed to work, so I just followed the Chinese bus and worked illegally everywhere to make money...
Making money is not easy, even Wu Wei talked about him, it would be great to go to a cheap school, but he insisted on going to an expensive school, but he muttered twice and stopped talking. Because Wu Wei also knew that this was part of his anger.
Lin Yiyang put his hands in his trouser pockets and looked up to see the cars coming and going in the distance.
In the past ten years, he has worked hard because of a sentence from his mentor at the time: You, Lin Yiyang, don't even have a family. If you leave this golf club and don't have a club, you are nothing.
Now, he's standing right here. Whatever you want is what you want.
If you can pick up the club and put it down, you can live no matter what.
"It's not easy these years, right?" Jiang Yang looked at himself as a junior.
Lin Yiyang turned his head and smiled easily: "Will there be any difficulties for me?"
Still the same as back then.
Jiang Yang was amused, took another puff of his cigarette, and patted him on the shoulder: "That's right, for us little Yang, there is nothing we can't handle."
Lin Yiyang squinted at the electronic cigarette in his hand. Jiang Yang got his idea, took out a pack of cigarettes he just bought from the pocket of his padded jacket, and stuffed them with a lighter together with him: "I'll switch to smoking, I'm quitting smoking."
Lin Yiyang lowered his head, tore off the plastic film of the cigarette case, and felt that it was boring, so he stuffed the film, cigarette case, and lighter back into Jiang Yang's pocket.
"Why?" Jiang Yang smiled, "It's not like you anymore."
"How many years have you not seen me?" Lin Yiyang asked back.
While the two were talking, they entered the ball room.
When the boss saw Lin Yiyang, he smiled and turned around, took a large ice bucket, filled it with seven or eight bottles of beer, put the ice bucket in front of him, and pointed to a billiard table inside.
Lin Yiyang picked up the ice bucket, walked to the table he often went to, put down the bucket, opened the wine without picking up the clubs, and took a sip: "You can drink whatever you want here, smoking is not allowed, put yours away—"
He wanted to say, e-cigarette like a motherfucker, hold back.
"Pick a club." He tilted his head, pointing to the clubs on the shelf.
Lin Yiyang raised his head, took another sip of wine, put down the bottle, saw that Jiang Yang had picked out the club, and he was not picky, so he picked up the one on the far right.
Jiang Yang arranged nine balls in a diamond shape on the blue table.
Lin Yiyang found the white ball, and heard Jiang Yang casually asking, "Last night, I saw that Wuxiang posted something."
Lin Yi raised his hand and stopped.
"What girl? What country? What kind of skin race?"
Lin Yiyang pointed to his dark pupils: "Chinese."
The white ball was bouncing in his hand, and he said again: "I just met, it's not as mysterious as what Wu Wei said. Besides," he bent down from the side of the table, put the white ball on the line of scrimmage, "he It doesn’t necessarily look up to me.”
"So unconfident?" Jiang Yang smiled unexpectedly, pointing to the white ball, meaning to let Lin Yiyang kick off, "People need to know their strengths and make use of their strengths. For example, you, of course, are the most labor-saving in seduction, little brother."
Lin Yiyang rolled his eyes at the other party, didn't speak any more, bent down, and straightened the cue.
Aim for the white ball.
With a strong right hand, the white ball was knocked into the air, and the table full of colored balls was knocked away with a slap. With the continuous sound of falling into the bag, there were only three billiard balls left, and finally even the nine balls rolled into the bag in front of Jiang Yang, and fell in response.
The No. 9 ball went straight into the pocket.
With one shot off the tee, he won the first round.
Jiang Yang whistled.
Lin Yiyang stood up straight, picked up a bottle of wine and took a sip, staring at the only two colored balls left on the table, pondering. What news should I send? Chatting with a girl... Do you want an emoticon first
The author has something to say: I changed Jiang Yang to Jiang Yang, I think it looks better written, after all, it is one of the protagonists (this is a group play).
ps, I read a few comments and asked about dunzu. Let me explain here. The nickname dunzu was written in the second chapter in the earliest version. Later, I didn’t want to appear so early, so I came to modify and replace it the next day. At that time Wu Wei was called Wu Suowei, and it was also changed to Wu Wei.
Some readers did not catch up, and readers who were more punctual than the serialization all saw the setbacks and Wu Suowei of the serialization at that time.
Then ps, the heroine's perspective in the first chapter, and the male protagonist's perspective in the second chapter. Now that the second chapter is all written, try to go back and read it, it will be very interesting.
By the way, I just met him, and I don't have much affection. In fact, you don't need to over-interpret him. . He also just wants to know, wants to understand...