"Loving you is a lonely heart, I don't understand the meaning of your smile, I can only be like a sunflower silently insisting on ...... at night" The alarm clock of "Lonely Heart" woke me up from my sleep.

I slowly got out of bed, opened the window, lit a cigarette, and a cold wind rushed towards me. It's December, and winter is coming.

Although the winter in Yangjiang is not colder than in the north, it is still bitterly cold at this time. I slowly exhaled a puff of smoke, and as soon as I smoked it, my body gradually felt warm. The quiet and cold morning brought me more peace of mind.

Since graduating from college, I have rarely done what I like to do, getting up early and waiting for the bus to crowd the subway every day, and being busy with all kinds of codes every day. Fast-paced life, slow-paced heart, I can't remember myself who was full of expectations for life at that time.

After changing into a set of sportswear, I picked up the yellowed basketball and walked to the basketball court downstairs in the community. I haven't touched this basketball for many years, and when I walked to the basketball court, I realized that the air inside this basketball had leaked.

Damn it. I happily wanted to come over early in the morning to play a game, but the basketball was still leaking, which was really a defeat. There are two basketball courts in our community, and both basketball courts are empty and deserted.

It's no wonder that in such a cold morning, and it's a weekend, who wants to leave the warm bed and run to the basketball court to be abused. Just as I was about to leave, a middle-aged man with a basketball and sports equipment came to the basketball court.

The man is strong, but not very tall, about 175 in height. A short flat head, but the face is full of traces of time. I put down the basketball in my hand and trotted over to the middle-aged man.

"This big brother, let's play together, my ball is out of breath and can't bounce. ”

The middle-aged man nodded to me. I hadn't pitched for a long time, so I didn't even touch the net for several shots at first. And almost every ball shot by the middle-aged man next to me was a "whoosh" and went straight through the basket.

I gave the man a thumbs up: "Great, great." ”

The man smiled and said, "You're not bad, your shooting posture is standard, and you dribble the ball beautifully." You probably haven't played in a long time. ”

Indeed, since I came out to work, I have rarely encountered basketball, and I think that when I was in middle school, I dreamed of becoming a professional basketball player.

Since just pitching was too boring, I proposed a bullfight to the middle-aged man. The middle-aged man nodded and agreed without thinking about it, but he made a request, that is, whoever loses will pay for water.

The rule is a best-of-three game, eleven balls in a game, and whoever reaches eleven balls first wins.

"Boy, just wait to buy water. You won't be my opponent if you look like this. The man said to me smugly.

"It's okay, it's just fun, let's get started. ”

In the first game, the man was beaten 11:5 by me, and in order to give him a little face, he simply let him win in the second game. By the third game, I had him on guard, and although he hit me in the chest with his toned body, I lost to me when he was exhausted.

"You kid didn't play badly, why is your physical strength so good. The man said to me panting.

I secretly said in my heart: Isn't this nonsense, Lao Tzu was the captain of the basketball team when he was in high school, although his skills are not as good as those of the professional ones, but I am also well-known in my spare time. I used to work in Shenzhen, and when I couldn't wait for the bus at this station, I often ran a few kilometers to wait at another station. You still want to compare with me.

"Big brother, don't you break your word, what about asking for water?"

The man gave me the ball, then took another hard breath and said, "Don't worry, isn't it just a bottle of water? ”

"Gatorade. ”

When the man went to buy water, I sat down on the stool next to the basketball, picked up my phone and looked at it, and a familiar name appeared on the screen of my phone.

It was Mo Zhenzhen who sent me a message:

"Xiuwen, I'm getting married, will you bless me?"

I read this message back and forth, over and over again. Is she getting married? Did she leave me and meet someone better?

I remembered the night she broke up with me, she packed all her things and came up to me and told me she never wanted to live like this again, that she couldn't stand me like this anymore. We had a fight that day, and she didn't tell me why, so I slapped her angrily, and she left the rental house where we had lived together for more than two years in tears.

We broke up without warning, we didn't have too much arguing with each other, and we didn't have any problems. The day before we broke up, we were still planning our future life, but after such a short day, we separated.

I couldn't think about it anymore, I didn't want to think about it anymore, I didn't know what was wrong with me, I didn't know what was wrong with her. I just stared at my phone, my sweat and the cold weather made me feel cold, and I unconsciously sneezed.

The middle-aged man handed me the water and stuffed the tissue in his hand to me.

"Young man, wipe your sweat, don't catch a cold. Don't think you're a superhero just because you won a game against me. ”

I took a sip of the water and wiped my sweat again.

"Thank you. I said to the man, but at this time, I couldn't raise any mood to communicate with the man next to me, and my mind had already floated in the message Mo Zhenzhen sent me.

The man seemed to notice that something was wrong with me, and he sat down next to me and said to me, "What's the matter, I won once, and I became cold?

I smiled wryly and said to him, "No." ”

"Then rest for a while, and do it again later. ”

I lit a cigarette and handed him another cigarette: "Don't fight, there will be things to do later." ”

The man nodded to me, and then said to me, "I see that your kid is playing well, leave a contact information." Come back next time.

I stood up, smiled at the man and said, "No need, I live here anyway, and I have a chance to meet it." I'll leave first if I have something to do, so you can play slowly. ”

"It's fine, but the next time you meet me, you'll be the one to drink water. For this man who refused to admit defeat, I smiled silently in my heart. Not to mention, this man is still quite interesting.

"Looking forward to it, don't let me beat you up again next time. ”

"I'll play here every morning and evening, and I'll be here when you come. ”

I waved at him with my back to the man and walked out of the court.

The middle-aged man also shouted to me who was walking away: "Young man, you have to think about everything." Human life is like learning scriptures from the west, and the road is full of monsters. ”

Who knows, maybe you will meet a male or female banshee? a beautiful female banshee or an ugly female banshee?