"The reaction is very fast!" The tall man stepped forward again and cut off Huo Ran's forward path when he wanted to lay up from the left.
Huo Ran continued to dribble, and the basketball kept switching between his left and right hands through his crotch.
Pass it to me!
Kou Chen stood by and watched. When he was about to speak, Huo Ran suddenly shot. His right hand hooked the ball from under the tall man's left arm. The ball was thrown from behind him and flew diagonally to the basket from below.
"Fuck," the tall man slapped his hand back and couldn't stop the ball. He turned to look at the ball that had already fallen into the basket, "Is this the heirloom of your high school basketball team?"
"What's wrong?" Huo Ran smiled.
"Jiang Cheng also played this trick, did you have a captain surnamed Liu or something before, and played like this," the taller said, "Is this the way your school basketball captain used to play the dog?"
"I don't know," Huo Ran said with a smile, "I've only seen Jiang Cheng's game video, maybe it's not."
When a group of people started to warm up and shoot at the basket, Kou Chen walked up to Huo Ran and asked in a low voice, "I have a question."
"Huh?" Huo Ran took off his jacket.
"Jiang Cheng transferred to another school, right?" Kou Chen said.
"Yes." Huo Ran nodded.
"And what about Liu?" Kou Chen asked.
"Liu Yi was from Zhou Haichao's class," Huo Ran said, "and then immigrated with his family."
"What about you?" Kou Chen looked at him.
"What am I?" Huo Ran also looked at him.
"Every captain left without graduating, what the fuck... what a curse," Kou Chen frowned, "What about you, do you have any plans to transfer schools or go abroad?"
Huo Ran was stunned for a while, and couldn't help smiling: "You have a strong ability to summarize, hurry up and take off your clothes."
"What do you want to do?" Kou Chen folded his arms to his chest.
"You don't play..." Huo Ran stopped halfway, stared at his hand, and then spoke again after a while, "What are you doing? Take it off! Tonight I'll let you taste how good your Uncle Huo is."
"It's not human." Kou Chen couldn't help laughing, he took off his jacket and threw it onto the stand.
"I can't kill you." Huo Ran cooperated with him to continue acting, and he was in a good mood when he had the ball to play.
"Really, you haven't answered me yet, you won't go abroad if you don't transfer?" Kou Chen asked again worriedly after taking off his jacket, moving his arms and legs.
"I won't go abroad if I don't transfer schools," Huo Ran said. "Eight generations of my ancestors are here. No matter what school I transfer to, I don't have the money to go abroad."
"Your family's conditions are not bad, can't you go abroad?" Kou Chen asked.
"Why am I going abroad? I failed the final exam last semester in English," Huo Ran said. "How come your family's conditions are so good, why don't you go abroad."
"I have failed in English since junior high school," Kou Chen said.
The two couldn't stop giggling.
"Go away," Huo Ran turned around after laughing, "don't talk to me, I don't want to be infected."
Kou Chen smiled and said nothing, rubbing his hands on his face.
"What are you doing?" Huo Ran looked at him, "Come here and warm up."
"Do I have dog hair on my face?" Kou Chen frowned, "As soon as I put my clothes in my pocket, I feel hair on my face."
Huo Ran walked over and stared at his face for a while, and pinched a long hair from his nose: "Is this the girl's hair?"
"Which girl has such hard hair," Kou Chen clicked, "This is my handsome hair."
"Your handsome hair is so long?" Huo Ran was a little surprised.
"Go and touch it well in the afternoon, just grab a handful, you can come down with 800 sticks as long." Kou Chen jumped, ran to the basket, caught a ball he didn't know who made it, turned and hooked with a backhand. Now, the ball is in.
"I haven't seen you before, is that Huo Ran?" someone asked.
"Yes." Kou Chen nodded.
"Huo Ran has never brought a classmate here before," the man said, "I can finally cooperate with my own people today."
"My new team members are still in the basic training stage." Kou Chen said.
"Have you fought before?" the man asked. "You're not a novice at this technique."
"Not much." Kou Chen said.
As long as Kou Chen is not single-mindedly pretending to be aggressive, he will be a person who is easy to communicate with. After a few balls back and forth, a group of people will become familiar with him.
After the people are all together, the team starts to play.
"Give me another defender," Huo Ran said, "Old Sixth?"
"Okay." The one called Lao Liu nodded, then waved at a big man next to him, "Little center, plus Lao Luo, it's all together."
Kou Chen looked at the big man. Ten seconds later, Huo Ran called the man "Little" again, and he was sure that the sixth man was not talking about "Little Center", but this big man was called Little... This is What magical nickname
"Do you want tactical arrangements?" Kou Chen asked Huo Ran.
"Play whatever you want and cooperate depending on the situation," Huo Ran said. "There are three on the same team on the opposite side, and you have the opportunity to interrupt their cooperation."
"Yeah." Kou Chen nodded.
"Lao Liu took the ball to Kou Chen." Huo Ran said.
"Okay." Old Six nodded.
"Brother Huo Ran," Xiao Xiao said, "Am I still a basketball player?"
"I'll give you the rebound." Huo Ran said.
Kou Chen was shocked to see that he was half a head taller than him, how could he be a little over 1.9 meters tall, and couldn't help but ask, "How old are you, child?"
"Fourteen." Little Novel.
"Ah!" Kou Chen coughed.
Huo Ran laughed beside him: "Be surprised, brother Kou Chen."
An uncle took the ball and stood on the center line.
Xiaoxiao jumped the ball with a strong guy who was similar to him on the opposite side.
Did not touch the ball.
The ball was photographed by the strong man next to another thin man wearing the same clothes. These are from the technical school next to them, and three of them are wearing team uniforms.
The skinny got the ball and quickly rushed to the basket.
But just after two steps, a figure flashed past him like an arrow, and stretched out his arm to steal the ball from his hand.
Then he shouted: "Kou Chen!"
Only then did Kou Chen realize that it was Huo Ran. He turned his head and ran to the basket. Huo Ran passed the ball very high. He rushed to the three-point line and jumped up to catch it.
When he took off, he saw that someone behind him had followed him a step away, so he threw the ball without waiting for the landing.
The ball went in.
"Damn it! Yes, yes." Several of the other team members gave him a thumbs up in surprise.
"Score." The uncle leaned against the scoreboard with a cigarette in his mouth, said in a dull tone, and turned the page of the scoreboard.
"It's awesome." The sixth man came over and bumped into Kou Chen's shoulder.
Kou Chen was stunned for a while and then smiled. He had never played basketball of this kind of improvised teammates, and he didn't know how to communicate, but he thought it was very interesting that the sixth boy bumped into him.
Huo Ran patted his hand when he ran past him: "Good shot."
The game continued, and the thin man served the ball and passed it to the strong man.
When Xiaoxiao went up to block, it was unsuccessful. He directly hit Xiaoxiao to the side and scored a layup.
After a few rounds, Kou Chen discovered that this way of playing, there is really no cooperation at all. It is not practiced together every day, and there is no cooperation. Moreover, there is no referee, the rules are general, and there are no obvious fouls. Everyone doesn't count.
Basically, everyone splits up to perform individually. When they can’t perform, they give the ball to their teammates, or when others can’t perform, they respond in time and start their own performance.
Kou Chen had never seen Huo Ran play. Usually, Huo Ran arranged practice matches between other old players and new players, and he never played.
Today was the first time Kou Chen saw his state of play.
like a flash of lightning.
Defensively and offensively as agile, almost no one can stop him when he dribbles to the basket.
But he usually passes the ball to Kou Chen when he has a chance.
"You vote yourself." Kou Chen said.
"You hit better than me," Huo Ran said. "You don't know, I have a record of missing two free throws in an official game, and several times."
"Then why are you the captain?" Kou Chen asked.
"I can get the ball in your hand, but you can't touch mine." Huo Ran took the out-of-bounds ball thrown by the audience in the stands and prepared to serve from the sideline.
Kou Chen quickly touched the ball: "Look."
Huo Ran looked at him, a little bewildered.
"I met it." Kou Chen whispered.
"...Don't make me laugh," Huo Ran curled the corners of his mouth, suppressed his smile, and lowered his voice, "Pass the ball back to me, and you will hit the baseline for a three-pointer."
"Well." Kou Chen glanced at the scoreboard, they were four points behind.
Huo Ran bounced the ball over, Kou Chen took it, and someone from the other side came to intercept it immediately.
Kou Chen dribbled the ball to the midline, glanced at Huo Ran, and saw that Huo Ran had already passed the other side and the two closed the door to defend, his arms stretched out, palms back.
He rushed forward immediately, followed by a meal, and without waiting for the defender's center of gravity to return, he rubbed the ball near the man's hand and passed it out: "Come on!"
Huo Ran tilted his head slightly, caught the ball with a copy of his hand, and rushed forward with the ball without any pause.
This kind of tacit cooperation in the chaos made him suddenly a little excited when he caught the ball that Huo Ran gave back on the baseline.
"Fuck!" he yelled.
Xiaoxiao grabbed the rebound and passed it to Lao Liu, who passed the ball to him again.
At this time, the opportunity for the three-pointer had been missed, and the opponent's defense was in place, and Kou Chen was suddenly depressed.
"Cut!" Huo Ran didn't know when he cut to the opposite side of him, and together with Lao Luo, resisted the opponent's person.
This shot can last for two seconds at most. Kou Chen took off without hesitation, and the ball was shot, drawing an arc almost parallel to the backboard and falling into the basket.
"Damn it," Lao Luo shouted, "you can get in here."
Kou Chen raised his eyebrows and said nothing.
"Damn it," Huo Ran ran past him with a smile, "the mental quality is really fucking good."
Halfway through the second half, a few more people came, but they couldn't make up the two courts, so Huo Ran and Kou Chen replaced them and sat in the stands to rest.
"How is it?" Kou Chen sat next to Huo Ran.
"What?" Huo Ran was drinking water.
Kou Chen put his arm on his shoulder, hugged him, and whispered, "I'm playing well, right? Captain."
"Well," Huo Ran handed him the water, "drink?"
"Just one umm and it's over?" Kou Chen took the bottle and took two sips.
"It's awesome." Huo Ran smiled and looked at the people on the court.
Kou Chen didn't speak, just stared at his profile.
"What's wrong." Huo Ran glanced at him.
"You have a small layer of fluff on your face." Kou Chen said.
"...You have it on your face too." Huo Ran turned to look at him, "Who doesn't have one?"
"Guo Zijian doesn't have anything like that. He has too many pimples on his face." Kou Chen took out his phone and took a picture of Huo Ran's face. "Is there any on my face? Look, is that so?"
"You're naive, aren't you naive? What kind of little fluff do you see on your face when you're playing?" Huo Ran glanced at his own face on the screen. "Yes, you also have such little fluff."
Kou Chen laughed: "Am I so cute?"
"...Yes." Huo Ran glanced at him.
"Probably," Kou Chen looked at his phone, "you said I was cute."
"Usually you're too cool and handsome," Huo Ran said, "others won't notice that you're cute."
"I-fuck," Kou Chen glared at him, "you're too good at talking."
"No way," Huo Ran said, "emotional intelligence is so high."
Kou Chen sat in the stands, leaned against him, and laughed for a long time.
Huo Ran didn't go home after the game, and went directly to Kou Chen's house.
Kou's father and Kou Xiao were not at home, only Kou's mother was there. When they came back, they immediately stood up: "I'm going to your second aunt's house."
"Why?" Kou Chen asked, whistling again, "handsome—"
Shuaishuai ran down the stairs on the second floor. Halfway through the run, he was so excited that he jumped over the railing. Then he turned over and slipped on the ground several times before he got up.
Huo Ran hugged it and rubbed his head hard.
"She asked the tailor to make clothes at home today, and I went over to measure it and make a coat," said Mama Kou, "Aunt Wang went to buy food, she will make you what you want to eat later, and I ate it at the second aunt's place. ."
"Oh." Kou Chen nodded.
"You two hurry up and take a shower first, don't catch a cold this sweat." Kou's mother went out.
Huo Ran was stunned: "how did she get there, it's quite foggy outside."
"My second aunt's house is right in front of the eighth building, walk for two minutes," Kou Chen hung on his shoulder from behind and pushed him up the stairs, "Come on, let me show you my room. "
Kou Chen's room was quite large, and it was much more tidy than Huo Ran's room. There were no spare parts and tools.
The main thing is that the furnishings are very simple, a bed, a bedside table, a wardrobe, a floor lamp, a coffee table and a bean bag under the lamp, and a notebook next to it.
Shuaishuai followed into the room, jumped onto Kou Chen's bed and lay down.
"Go down." Kou Chen said.
Shuai Shuai obediently got up and jumped out of bed, and jumped up again after a second.
"It's not stupid at all." Huo Ran said with a smile.
Kou Chen threw himself on Shuaishuai, buried his face in its hair and smelled it: "Well, it's still delicious, I'll let you lie down for five minutes."
"Can you play?" Huo Ran picked up a Rubik's cube on the bedside table.
"Do you know how?" Kou Chen turned over and lay down on Shuaishuai's body.
"I know how to play one side," Huo Ran slowly turned the Rubik's cube. "I played it when I was a child, and I could play one side. If you want six sides, you can remove it and press it back again."
"Throw it here." Kou Chen stretched out his hand.
Huo Ran threw the Rubik's cube over.
Kou Chen caught the Rubik's Cube with one hand and began to move it with his fingers.
"Is it so awesome?" Huo Ran looked at him, "Five seconds with one hand?"
"Fuck you," Kou Chen laughed, "you're bragging about it for me, I'm not pretending."
"Then..." Before Huo Ran finished speaking, Kou Chen shook the Rubik's cube at him. He took it and looked at it, "It's better than me."
"It will take at least forty or fifty seconds for all resets," Kou Chen sat up, "I'll show you a show."
"Well." Huo Ran handed the Rubik's cube back to him, staring at his hand.
Kou Chen messed up the Rubik's Cube, looked around in a circle, then cleared his throat and muttered in a low voice, "BIU~ Start."
Huo Ran held back and did not laugh out loud.
Kou Chen's fingers are quite long, especially when turning the Rubik's cube, swish swish swish.
Judging from the level that Huo Ran needs one minute to play single-sided, his speed is very fast. Huo Ran estimated in his mind that he read the second, maybe a little more than thirty seconds.
"You can continue to practice at this speed, and you can compete." Huo Ran said.
"I'm not interested," Kou Chen lay back on Shuaishuai and patted the bed next to him, "I've been playing this game for many years. Since I was a kid, I've only played at this speed, and it's a fart race."
Huo Ran glanced at Shuaishuai's big, fluffy dog's belly, something he had always wanted to experience. After Kou Chen gave him his seat, he lay down next to Kou Chen and carefully placed his pillow on Shuaishuai's. on the stomach.
"Are you comfortable?" Kou Chen asked.
"Yeah." Huo Ran responded. When Shuaishuai was panting, his head would sway up and down slightly, which was amazing.
"I liked to lie down like this when I was a child, do nothing, read, study, and practice the piano..." Kou Chen raised his hand, scrambled the Rubik's cube again, and quickly turned it with his fingers.
"BIU~ Begin," Huo Ran gave him an order in a low voice when he started to reset for the third time, "I thought you were okay and went out to fight with the children."
"Fight too, but don't keep fighting," Kou Chen said while turning the Rubik's cube, "Is it too tired to take a rest?"
Huo Ran laughed and sighed for a long time.
Kou Chen didn't speak any more, he turned the Rubik's cube again and again, Huo Ran looked at his hand, in a trance there was a kind of quietness that he would only have when he was alone in the suburbs.