Wei Ruxia likes to be with her grandmother. On weekends, Luo Tang didn't ask her out. Instead, she went to the school gymnasium to participate in the pre-league training of the basketball team.
The campus on Saturday was very quiet. Occasionally overtime teachers and resident students passed by. Luo Tang went straight into the gym with a bag on his back.
Before entering the door, the sound of basketball hitting the basketball court and basketball shoes rubbing the ground came out, adding some vitality to the quiet campus.
Luo Tang's appearance was conspicuous, and as soon as he entered the door, the basketball players who were training looked over. The boy is dressed in casual long clothes and trousers, with a tall and slender figure, with headphones hanging around his neck, a fair face and a cold temperament.
Wang Ye was guiding everyone to practice. When he saw Luo Tang coming in, he smiled and waved: "Luo Tang is here, come here."
Everyone on the basketball team knew that Wang Ye had found a foreign aid, but they did not expect Luo Tang. Although Luo Tang has an aloof personality and does not like to show off, his existence is particularly eye-catching, and it is difficult for everyone to not know him.
Luo Tang walked over, Wang Ye patted him on the shoulder, and introduced to everyone: "This is Luo Tang, everyone has seen it, he often plays basketball here. I'll ask him to take over Lai Qing's position. Li Haoshu, Play with him."
As soon as Wang Ye finished speaking, the tall boy standing in front of him responded. He is tall and strong, with white skin, single eyelids, and a handsome appearance. He looks very sunny.
After listening to the coach's words, Li Haoshu glanced at Luo Tang with no emotion. He turned around and said to Wang Ye, "I know the coach."
After the arrangement, Wang Ye clapped his hands and said, "Okay, let's go to training!"
As soon as the order was given, the team dispersed. Wang Ye turned around and said to Luo Tang, "Go and change your clothes, and I'll see your cooperation."
Originally, Wang Ye was worried that Luo Tang would not be able to cooperate despite his basketball skills. After watching them play two games, Wang Ye not only felt relieved, but also felt more and more that Luo Tang was a good basketball player.
He has a higher probability of scoring three-pointers than Lai Qing, and he has been adjusting himself to adapt to Li Haoshu's actions. Even the other players don't need to make any adjustments, he can quickly integrate himself.
Wang Ye watched two games, his heart changed from being relieved to happy, he got up and left the gym, went to the office to get a computer to record his practice.
The training within the basketball team is very systematic. Although everyone has their own habit of playing, in general the fixed training pattern remains the same, and Luo Tang integrates very quickly.
But this fixed training pattern gradually became irregular after Wang Ye left.
Li Haoshu's pass affected the pass of the person next to him, and finally to Luo Tang's place, the distance from the rebound was even longer. He noticed this change, and when the second goal was missed, Luo Tang raised his eyes and looked at Li Haoshu in front of him.
The basketball circled around the hoop and eventually escaped the hoop and fell to the ground. The sound of basketball slapping the court sounded, "bang bang bang", and finally stopped in Li Haoshu's hands.
Li Haoshu grabbed the basketball with one hand, looked at Luo Tang, frowned, bit his teeth, and threw the basketball towards Luo Tang.
"Can you fucking play basketball!?"
He is a tall man, and this time he used 100% of his strength. If this basketball is over, he will definitely be injured.
When the players exclaimed, the basketball arrived in front of Luo Tang, only to see that he did not change his face, and reached out and patted the basketball aside. The basketball was turned sharply by the force and fell to the ground with a loud bang. At the same time, Luo Tang took a long leg and rushed in front of Li Haoshu. At the moment when no one could react, he kicked Li Haoshu's chest. Jeremy Li didn't react, he took a staggering step back and fell to the ground. Luo Tang came over to crush him, put one knee against his chest, grabbed his collar with one hand, and raised his fist.
"Try another one." Luo Tang said.
The whole process of Luo Tang's overwhelming Li Haoshu was fast and smooth, his expression was calm and calm, and there was not much change at all. Even when he spoke, his voice was like a bottomless lake, not even the tiny ripples blown by the wind.
Speaking of which, Li Haoshu was taller than Luo Tang. But at the moment, he was so crushed by Luo Tang that he couldn't move at all. Body and strength are not directly proportional, and now his strength is no match for Luo Tang.
Everyone in the team knew that Li Haoshu didn't like Luo Tang. First, Wang Ye's praise for Luo Tang made him uncomfortable, and secondly, Li Yawen, who he liked, liked him. He couldn't get used to Luo Tang's light-hearted look being praised by others, he thought he was pretending to be coercive.
However, all this is nothing compared to participating in the league.
Li Haoshu is a sports student. He has already entered the third year of high school this year. The results of this league will determine his grade for choosing a university next year. He can't make mistakes at this juncture.
The next player, Liu Renxiu, who has a good relationship with Li Haoshu, looked at this scene and said to Li Haoshu, "Li Haoshu, you caused these two mistakes, please apologize."
He weakened the conflict between Li Haoshu and Luo Tang to the point that Li Haoshu did not admit his mistake, so that Li Haoshu would not be dignified because he was involved in other aspects.
Li Hao looked at Luo Tang with his neck stubborn, and after a while, his eyebrows gradually loosened, and the back of his head hit the ground.
"sorry."
I'm sorry to say that this is not too big or not small, and the tone is light.
Luo Tangyao glanced at him, and let go of his hand with a faint chuckle in his throat.
If it weren't for Wei Ruxia accompanying him to the basketball game, he wouldn't even bother to do it today.
Grandma spent the weekend with Wei Ruxia at home, and on Monday Wei Ruxia went to school before returning home. After two days of living with someone, Wei Ruxia was still a little uncomfortable when grandma left. But before her grandma left, she told her that she could go to her house for the Spring Festival during the winter vacation, and Wei Ruxia was looking forward to the winter vacation.
It was mid-November. After the mid-term exam, and after school on Friday afternoon, Wei Ruxia accompanied Luo Tang to Mucheng to participate in the basketball league.
Mucheng is not far from Ancheng, only half an hour by high-speed train. Except for Luo Tang, the members of the basketball team were all parents. Wei Ruxia didn't care about this. When she was standing in front of the train station waiting for the train, she looked back at the green-skinned train that was slowly opening on the track behind her.
Luo Tang stood in line behind her, watching Wei Ruxia standing facing him, leaning to one side, looking behind him. He glanced at the smile in Wei Ruxia's eyes, and then looked back.
"Want to sit?" When Luo Tang turned around, the green leather train had a small tail left, and gradually drove away from their sight.
Ancheng has developed rapidly, and now the green train is basically abandoned, and only the high-speed rail is running. The car Wei Ruxia saw just now was not for people, but for goods.
Looking back, Wei Ruxia raised her eyes and glanced at Luo Tang, she nodded and said, "My mother told me that when she left Ancheng, she was on this kind of slow train. It ran like a little old man. , but along the way you can see the scenery of most of the country, the weather is from cold to hot, from wet to dry, it is amazing.”
Wei Ruxia seldom mentioned her mother. When she saw the green-skinned train today, she thought of her for some reason. When I was with Luo Tang, I felt more relaxed than before, and I said so much without knowing it.
"I've never sat, and I want to sit and watch."
After finishing speaking, Wei Ruxia smiled at Luo Tang again. Somebody here said that the car was coming. Wei Ruxia turned around and got into the car with the team.
Luo Tang followed behind Wei Ruxia, and before getting on the train, he raised his eyes and glanced at the green-skinned train that had long since disappeared from sight. The weather was fine today, and the evening sun shone on the tracks, covering the thick, cold and hard tracks with a layer of warmth.
Mucheng is more northerly than Ancheng, and the climate is cooler and drier. The basketball league is held in the gymnasium in downtown Mucheng, and the players of various college basketball teams are arranged to stay in hotels near the basketball stadium.
As soon as we arrived at the hotel, the league staff arranged for everyone to have dinner. Luo Tang and the other players were taken to familiarize themselves with the venue, and they had a game tomorrow morning.
Luo Tang and the others went to get acquainted with the venue, Wei Ruxia went back to the room to pack up, and also walked out of the hotel to the gymnasium.
In November, Mucheng was much colder than Ancheng. Wei Ruxia wore long trousers and pulled up the collar of his jacket, revealing only his high nose bridge and heroic eyebrows.
When she went, Luo Tang and the others were almost over. Afraid of disturbing Luo Tang's training, she simply didn't go in, but stayed at the entrance of the basketball hall and waited.
It was already eight o'clock in the evening, and the stadium was quite quiet. Occasionally, a small group of people would pass by, all of them participating in the basketball league.
The basketball players were not short, and Wei Ruxia also saw that there were a few standing out from the crowd that looked two meters tall. Being tall is a talent, but it also has shortcomings. Relatively speaking, coordination is not very good.
Wei Ruxia didn't understand basketball, she was just thinking about it herself. While thinking about it, Wang Ye's voice came from the basketball hall.
"That's it, rest early tonight to keep your spirits and stamina full."
When Luo Tang was going out, she saw Wei Ruxia standing under the magnolia tree not far away. She was wearing dark clothes, hiding in the night, with only a small face, white and eye-catching.
After Wang Ye made arrangements, everyone disbanded, and Luo Tang got up and walked towards her.
Luo Tang had just finished playing the ball, and his body was still full of heat. The heat on the boy's body had a surging sense of blood. It was refreshing and clean. After feeling it, it made others feel refreshed.
He was wearing a jacket and basketball shoes and shorts underneath. Wei Ruxia glanced at his slender calf and asked, "Aren't you cold?"
"It's not cold." Luo Tang just finished exercising, he didn't sweat much, but his body was still hot. He looked around and said, "Would you like to go?"
It's only eight o'clock, and I can't sleep when I go back, so I might as well go out for a walk. And before the game, you should also maintain a pleasant body and mind, and you should relax when you need to relax.
"Okay." Wei Ruxia jumped down from the small steps beside the magnolia tree and followed Luo Tang.
This gym is very big. There are Mucheng Botanical Garden and Mucheng Park nearby, and it has been turned into a big garden. There are not many people near the basketball hall, but if you walk forward, you will encounter citizens who are walking.
The wooden city is dominated by hills and is considered a mountain city. The road was well-paved, but the terrain was up and down, and it was like climbing a mountain. They walked along the path beside the gymnasium wall, the sidewalks were paved with tiles, and the obsessive-compulsive disorder looked very comfortable.
Behind the high wall next to it is the Mucheng Botanical Garden. While talking to Luo Tang, Wei Ruxia looked up at the plants poking out from behind the high wall.
The terrain is uneven along the way, and the high wall is sometimes high and sometimes low. The branches and flowers on the other side of the high wall can sometimes be touched by reaching out, and sometimes they may not be able to get by jumping.
"Which school are you playing tomorrow morning?" Wei Ruxia looked up at the branches in the botanical garden, chatting with Luo Tang one after another.
Luo Tang walked beside her, the shadows of the two were pulled closer and farther by the street light, and they were very close. He stepped on the floor tiles, buried his chin under his collar, and responded lightly, "Mucheng No. 1 Middle School."
I ran into the host when I first came here, and he was a great host, so it will be more difficult to play tomorrow morning.
After Luo Tang finished speaking, Wei Ruxia who was beside her did not respond. She suddenly quickened her pace and trotted. When Luo Tang looked up, Wei Ruxia was jumping up and reaching for the branches in the botanical garden by the high wall.
There were clusters of lavender flowers blooming on the branches. The girl was tall and light, and had a good jumping ability. However, the branches were too high, and her jump was only enough for a leaf.
Wei Ruxia held a leaf in her hand and fell to the ground.
The terrain of this place is a little high, and the wall is as high as hers, and the branches are on the wall, and it is even higher. She looked up and saw that this was the only place in the vicinity that had this kind of flower.
Wei Ruxia stepped back, ready to run again to take advantage of it. But as soon as her back foot stepped back, she leaned against a person's chest. The two were close to each other, and a pair of arms were wrapped around her waist. She only felt that her waist was being hounded, and Wei Ruxia's legs were off the ground.
She was picked up by the whole body, the top of her hair touched the branch, the branch poked her slightly, and she looked back at the boy who picked her up from behind.
The young man raised his head slightly, Qing Jun's face glowed with cold light under the street lamp, but his eyes that were always as deep as a cold pool were filled with warmth.
He hugged Wei Ruxia, facing her gaze, the boy's breath was steady, and a smile flashed in his eyes.
"Pick it." Luo Tang said.
Wei Ruxia laughed, her brows and eyes curled with laughter. She stretched out her arms, broke the branches, and then took the two branches and the flowers on them and was put down by Luo Tang.
As soon as her feet landed, Wei Ruxia glanced around. There was no one. She felt relieved and looked down at the flowers in her hands.
Luo Tang looked at her and smiled and asked, "Do you like Hibiscus?"
Compared with the name Hibiscus, Wei Ruxia prefers to call it Infinity Flower.
"Yeah." Wei Ruxia responded, reaching out and touching the hibiscus flower, "My hometown is very cold in winter, and there are not many flowers and trees that can be supported outside. There is an endless flower forest on the hillside in our town. Look at it. Going to Infinity Flower is like seeing our hometown."
The winter temperature in Dongzhen reaches minus 30 to 40 degrees, and it is difficult for flowers and plants to survive. In winter, the townspeople wrap them in straw to keep them warm. Wei Ruxia has watched the endless flower forest grow up since she was a child. The endless flowers are endless, symbolizing the vigorous vitality and the place where she once grew up.
There are many kinds of flowers and plants here in Ancheng, but the Infinity Flower is insignificant. Wei Ruxia has never seen it in Ancheng, but did not expect to encounter it in Mucheng.
Looking at Infinity Flower, and thinking of the green leather train he saw in the evening, a closed place in Wei Ruxia's heart seemed to be broken. Something gurgled out of it, making her a little inexplicable.
She pursed her lips, raised her head and smiled at Luo Tang, and said, "Let's go back, we have to rest early."
She obviously had something to say, but held back. Luo Tang did not ask any further questions, but nodded in agreement.
Ancheng No. 1 Middle School did well in this basketball game. After the game on Sunday afternoon, the players packed up and returned to Ancheng. Everyone gathered at the entrance of the hotel, waiting for the bus to take them to the high-speed rail station.
Wei Ruxia was carrying a backpack, holding a glass bottle in her arms, with water in it, and two hibiscus branches with flower bones.
After two days of exchange and understanding, the team members also got to know Wei Ruxia. Before I knew her, I only heard of her going to the art class to block people, thinking she was a fierce and brave little sister. But after getting to know her in the past two days, I found that she is a gentle and easy-going person, and she is very comfortable to get along with.
"Isn't this Hibiscus? The city flower of Mucheng. What are you doing with this?" The team's center, Liu Renxiu, is a little brother with wheat-colored skin.
"Well." Wei Ruxia glanced at him with a smile, and said, "I want to take it home and plant it."
Infinity flower has a particularly strong vitality, and a branch can grow into a tree.
"Amazing." Liu Renxiu praised, looked at Wei Ruxia and said, "You are really thoughtful. Did you pick it in the botanical garden?"
Wei Ruxia was about to answer when Luo Tang, who was standing beside her, suddenly said something.
"I picked her up on the high wall of the gym in my arms."
The smile on Liu Renxiu's face stopped, and several players next to him looked over, glanced at Luo Tang, and glanced at Liu Renxiu. Liu Renxiu looked at Luo Tang, coughed dryly and then stopped.
Seeing that they suddenly stopped talking, Wei Ruxia said, "The wall is very high, so we superimposed the height."
Next to him, Liu Renxiu laughed again, looked at Luo Tang and said, "Well, I know, I know."
When I returned to Love's apartment with Luo Tang, it was already five o'clock in the afternoon. Luo Tang played basketball all day, but Wei Ruxia didn't talk to him. At the door of the house, Wei Ruxia and Luo Tang said goodbye and prepared to go home.
"Give me one." Luo Tang stood beside Wei Ruxia, looked at the glass bottle and hibiscus flower branch she was holding, and said something.
"Do you want to plant it?" Unexpectedly, Luo Tang was interested in hibiscus flowers. She smiled, and generously took the branch that looked better to support and handed it to him, "This one is very good."
The water from the glass bottle was soaked under the flower branch, and it was wet. When Luo Tang took it, his fingertips were also wet. He looked at the half-wet flower branch, his dark eyes under his long eyelashes raised slightly and met Wei Ruxia's gaze.
"homesick?"
She was standing at the door of the house now, but Luo Tang asked her if she was homesick. When Wei Ruxia listened to his words, the smile on his face gradually disappeared and then expanded again.
"It's a little bit." Wei Ruxia was not hypocritical, she looked at Luo Tang and said in a relaxed tone: "But it's pretty good here, there are grandma, classmates, and a good friend like you. Now there are infinite flowers, you can watch Home is where you go to Infinity Flowers."
Listening to her words, Luo Tang waved the hibiscus branch on his hand, pointed to his own yard, and said, "I planted it there."
The direction he stretched out his finger was exactly where Wei Ruxia could see from the bedroom window. Wei Ruxia's heart numb, looking at the boy's slightly raised chin, as if some emotion climbed up her cheek.
Wei Ruxia's face became hot, she smiled and said, "Okay."
Separated from Luo Tang, Wei Ruxia returned home with the bottle. She has to put things down first, and then go out and plant flowers. She opened the door of the house, and when she looked up, she saw Wei Zishan sitting in the living room.
Since she came, Wei Zishan seldom appeared in the living room. He originally looked out the window, but when he heard the door open, he looked back.
Wei Ruxia saw the haggard look on his face and the red blood on his eyeballs, and a bad premonition gradually filled her heart.
"Your grandma's medical examination results are out." Wei Zishan said.
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Tangtang: The point is to hold, hold her and pick it.