In Beijing in December, the sky is gray and the air is filled with annoying suspended particles. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Lu Zihao stood on the small balcony of the rental house, looking at the white expanse through the glass, feeling that his future was like the scenery outside the window, chaotic and dirty.

This is the sixth year he has been in Beijing, and after six years of no improvement, he finally ushered in a chance to change his fate, and at the cost of divorcing his wife who had been with him for seven years.

Lu Zihao left the small balcony and returned to the house, he looked up at the clock.

It was already more than 4 o'clock in the afternoon, Xu Qian should have led the two children back, and he reached out and turned on the air purifier placed at the door.

At this time, the sound of the door opening was heard, and a woman wearing a mask took the hands of two boys and entered the door.

She held a child in one hand, and a bag of vegetables hanging from her arm, leaned against the door with great difficulty, pushed the two children in, and then entered the door and took off her shoes.

"Yo, I'm back so early today, the fog is too big, I can't find my way, right?"

When the woman saw Lu Zihao, she pulled up her slippers and put the dishes in the kitchen, and took off her mask and said to Lu Zihao.

She is Xu Qian, Lu Zihao's lover, who works in an early education institution in Beijing.

The salary is not high, but I leave work early every day and have time to take care of my family.

She and Lu Zihao's two four-year-old sons also happen to be able to study at this early education institution.

"No, haven't been too busy lately. That one...... What do you eat at night?"

Lu Zihao looked a little speechless and stopped.

"Braised eggplant, meatball soup with greens, and beef in sauce. ”

Xu Qian didn't seem to notice her husband's unnatural expression, and made dinner in the kitchen with great interest.

For this family of four, who are a little struggling to make ends meet, tonight's dinner is quite hearty.

Lu Zihao saw his two sons playing in the living room, walked up and slipped into the bedroom with one hand in hand, took out a basketball from under the bed and handed it to the brothers, and then left the bedroom and closed the door.

He walked to the kitchen door, leaned against the door, looked at Xu Qian, who was washing and chopping vegetables, thinking about the sweetness and bitterness that the two of them had experienced in the past few years, and what they were going to say next, he couldn't help but have mixed feelings, and he didn't know how to speak for a while.

"Zihao, if you have anything to say, just say it. ”

But Xu Qian spoke first, she said while washing the vegetables, the water was boiled to the maximum, and she washed it very hard.

Lu Zihao bit his lip and said, "Xiaoqian, we... Let's get a divorce. ”

Xu Qian's work in her hands did not stop, she was silent for a while, and said one word: "Oh." ”

In the kitchen, you can only hear the sound of running water washing over the leaves.

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Xu Qian actually knew in her heart that Lu Zihao had a problem recently.

Sometimes he was full of spring breeze, sometimes he was stunned, sometimes he was elated, and sometimes he sighed.

This is not like what a father of two children should look like, but more like a young man who has just fallen in love.

And Xu Qian and Lu Zihao have been married for seven years.

A few days ago, Xu Qian happened to hear a colleague say that she saw Lu Zihao walking with a fashionably dressed young woman.

Xu Qian asked Lu Zihao about this that night, but Lu Zihao did not hide it, saying that the woman was a teacher at the High School Affiliated to Huaqing University and the leader of the school's basketball team, and he knew him when he was in the national team before.

Hearing the three words of the basketball team, Xu Qian faintly felt in her heart that there would definitely be a problem.

Lu Zihao has a glorious past, he was once a rising star of the Chinese men's basketball team, and he was the youngest and most promising player in the men's basketball team.

Seven years ago in the summer, he was preparing to travel to the United States for an NBA training camp, and several NBA teams had already thrown him an olive branch for tryouts.

As a result, two days before his departure, he suffered a serious injury to his left knee during training.

After that, he was sent to the United States for treatment, and his leg injury was healed, but because of multiple injuries in this position, he could only return to normal walking, but he could no longer play.

During Lu Zihao's dark years, Xu Qian, an ordinary girl from a small southern town, always stayed by his side, cared for him, took care of him, and stayed in Beijing with him.

At that time, Lu Zihao was faced with two choices, one was that the sports unit would give him a post in the cultural and sports department, and from then on he would get a dead salary to live as a gangster, and the other was to pay a one-time compensation fee and make a living.

Lu Zihao chose the latter.

He was really talented in basketball, and with his time playing for the national team, he was soon hired by a college as an advisor to the school's basketball team.

But the young and vigorous he had a quarrel with a player in training, and the two sides fought, and finally Lu Zihao was fired by the school, and other schools in Beijing also blacklisted him for this reason.

His parents, who were far away in Guangdong, persuaded him to return to his hometown, and the sports bureau in his hometown also said that he could arrange a job for him, but the stubborn Lu Zihao insisted on staying in Beijing.

He took the compensation given by the unit, rented a basement with Xu Qian, and lived a hard life in Beipiao.

In seven years, they got married, had children of their own, and were still twins, and their lives were both happy and hard.

For the sake of this family, Lu Zihao has changed many jobs.

He worked as a security guard, sold barbecue, and delivered couriers. He now works in a courier company, delivering hundreds of shipments a day when he's busy.

Even so, Lu Zihao never gave up his basketball dream.

He has submitted his resume to universities and high schools in Beijing many times, intending to become a coach and consultant for the basketball team.

He also went to some basketball gyms and training camps to interview for basketball coaches.

He moved several times in the past seven years, and there were other things to throw away, such as the box full of basketball books and video CDs, and the poster that he had treasured for many years.

No matter how difficult and busy the days are, he will take time to watch the videos of the day's professional basketball leagues, write comments in the forums, and look through professional basketball coaching books.

Every day when the courier passes by the basketball court, he will stop and look at it for a while, occasionally pointing, occasionally shaking his head and sighing, and everyone who plays the ball wonders how a courier can talk so much when he looks at a ball.

It's a pity that because of the past beating incident, his resume is always in the sea, and because of a knee injury, he can't play, and the basketball hall and training camp have also rejected him.

The dust accumulated in that box was getting thicker, and the corners of that poster were getting more and more torn.

But two months ago, Lu Zihao's fate ushered in a turnaround.

When he was delivering a courier to a teacher at the High School Affiliated to Huaqing University, he happened to meet one of his former fans, the leader of the basketball team of Huaqing High School and the daughter of the principal of Huaqing High School, Zou Lingling.

When Lu Zihao was still in the national youth team, Zou Lingling was in high school, and she loved basketball, and she fell in love with Lu Zihao, who was superb and handsome.

After Lu Zihao was injured and disappeared, Zou Lingling was sad for a long time.

After graduating from university, Zou Lingling came to Huaqing High School as a teacher and became the leader of the school's basketball team.

More than seven years have passed, and when she saw the courier who delivered her mail for the first time, Zou Lingling still recognized that this was Lu Zihao, who had disappeared for a long time.

She didn't dislike Lu Zihao's situation at this time, but instead pulled him to chat for a long time, so that several of Lu Zihao's couriers were late.

Since then, the two have been in contact with each other.

Zou Lingling has a wealthy background and a lively personality, which makes Lu Zihao, who is being consumed by life, feel relaxed in his previous actions.

And Lu Zihao's bumpy experience and stubborn personality made Zou Lingling feel pity. In addition, both of them love basketball, and they have endless words for a while.

At first, Lu Zihao could still control himself, but he only felt that he had made a good friend, but later he found that he liked this beautiful and lively girl more and more.

When Zou Lingling proposed that she could use her connections to help him enter the basketball team of Huaqing High School to coach, on the condition that he and Xu Qian divorce and be with him, Lu Zihao wavered.

He wavered not only because he liked Zou Lingling more and more, but also because the conditions given by Zou Lingling were too tempting.

Become a basketball coach.

This has always been what he has longed for, not to mention the coach of the basketball team of Huaqing High School, one of the best high school basketball schools in the country.

Moreover, Zou Lingling can also solve the hukou problem and the house problem for Lu Zihao, although these are not Lu Zihao's priorities, but when people are shaken for a reason, those things that could not shake him before will come out and erode people's beliefs.

After hesitating and struggling for two whole months, even Xu Qian found the clue, this kind and tenacious woman, finally waited for her husband's cruel words.

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In the kitchen, the two were still silent, Xu Qian didn't speak again after replying, and Lu Zihao also became mute.

Xu Qian washed the dishes, turned off the faucet, and glanced back at Lu Zihao, who was leaning against the kitchen door.

She thought she would see the guilt in Lu Zihao's eyes, she thought she would see the reluctance on Lu Zihao's face, but when she turned around, she found that Lu Zihao was turning his head to stare at the poster hanging in a prominent position in the living room.

For a while, all kinds of pain and bitterness rushed down the throat to the mouth, nose and tear ducts, and Xu Qian's tears flowed out at once.

At this moment, she understood that in her husband's heart, after all, the ball was more important, important enough to give up his wife and family.

Thinking that in the past seven years, Lu Zihao had accidentally lost the jade pendant he had given him personally, but he hadn't lost the poster, and anger suddenly replaced sadness.

Xu Qian shook off the dishes in her hand, rushed out of the kitchen and rushed towards the poster, and was about to tear it off with her open hand.

"What are you doing!"

Lu Zihao yelled, rushed forward and hugged Xu Qian and snatched the poster down.

Xu Qian couldn't break free with all her might, and finally fell into Lu Zihao's arms and cried.

Lu Zihao couldn't help but shed tears when he watched his wife's tears flowing, crossing the face that had added traces of time.

He hugged his wife in one hand and the poster in the other, crying like he had seven years ago when he learned he could no longer play.

"Leave, leave, this will cost everyone pain. You go and fulfill your dreams, and I will take the children to live. ”

Enough crying, Xu Qian fell into Lu Zihao's arms and said resignedly.

She loves Lu Zihao's perseverance and perseverance, so she also understands Lu Zihao's stubbornness and stubbornness, and life leaves Lu Zihao with few opportunities.

She can understand, but she can't forgive.

At this time, the two little ones who stayed in the room should have heard something and opened the door and walked out.

Brother Lu gradually held a big basketball in his hand, walked up to him, pulled Lu Zihao's trouser leg and said, "Dad, look at me dribbling." ”

Saying that Lu Yan, who was only four years old and not much taller than a basketball, was shooting the ball in the living room, and his small hand actually controlled the big basketball and obeyed it.

The little one doesn't know what happens between his parents, he just knows that as long as he starts playing with the ball, his dad will be happy.

And his younger brother Lu Yuan hid by the sofa and looked at his parents timidly, and he felt that something bad had happened at a young age.

"The boss follows me, and the kid follows you. ”

"I'm going to ...... both"

"Boss follow me, I'm going to teach him how to play. ”

Lu Zihao looked at Lu Gradual, who was still dribbling the ball, and said, although the two brothers are twins, they are rare fraternal twins.

The elder brother Lu gradually looks like his father, and his understanding and talent for basketball are also like Lu Zihao, while the younger brother Lu Yuan is more like his mother, and he doesn't seem to be interested in basketball.

"What can you do when you play ball, what can you do when you play! What can you do by playing ball! Isn't it enough for you to suffer for basketball!"

Xu Qian pushed Lu Zihao away and yelled at him.

Basketball once made Lu Zihao and their relationship, and finally ruined Lu Zihao and their marriage.

After speaking, Xu Qian picked up the frightened two children and rushed back to the bedroom, leaving Lu Zihao alone in the living room holding the poster.

At this time, the mobile phone in his pocket rang, and it was a call from Zou Lingling.

"Zihao ......"

Zou Lingling's voice on the phone was also with a hint of confusion and guilt, but she was born competitive and always believed that what she liked must be won for.

That's the way the game is, and so is the feelings.

"It's okay, I'll take care of it. ”

After speaking, Lu Zihao hung up the phone, stood in the living room and closed his eyes, letting the tears rag on his face.

After a while, he unfolded the poster he snatched from Xu Qian's hand, carefully smoothed it out and hung it back on the wall.

Here's a close-up photo of a black player in a red jersey holding the ball and stepping back for a jumper. He was graceful, like a strong bow ready to fire.

But in front of him, a player in a white jersey leaps high, his straight body and long arms stretched out like a giant tree in front of the shooter.

This poster records the final attack of the Chicago Bulls and Portland Trail Blazers in the 1998 NBA Finals, and is an immortal classic in NBA history.

Lu Zihao took a step back and stared at it quietly, it was the embodiment of his beliefs and dreams.

For him, the preciousness of this poster lies in the signature in the lower right corner of the poster, neatly written in three Chinese characters: Gan Guoyang.

One of the greatest stars in NBA history, the pride of Chinese sports history, a well-deserved monument in the history of Chinese basketball, and a superstar with the most legendary career and the most dazzling honors.

When he won the most brilliant crown in 1998, Lu Zihao was only ten years old.

After retiring for the second time, the superstar devoted all his energy and financial resources to the development of Chinese basketball, especially youth basketball.

He single-handedly opened up a national high school basketball league, invested a lot of money to establish a perfect player training system for many famous high schools, and gave financial support to every school that developed basketball.

After more than 10 years of development, the youth foundation of Chinese basketball has taken on a new look.

The perfect high school league has gradually replaced the system of sports school training in the past, and excellent players can not only get professional training, but also get a good education.

After graduating from high school, they can choose to go to college, and those who excel in basketball can enter the national junior team, the national youth team, and even go to the United States to study in college, participate in the NCAA, and even enter the NBA draft.

One of the beneficiaries is Lu Zihao, a crazy fan of Gan Guoyang, who was able to meet Gan Guoyang at the age of 16 after winning the National High School Basketball League championship and winning the Most Valuable Player, and got this autographed poster.

"If you fall in love with basketball, treat it as a lifelong companion. ”

The words that Gan Guoyang said to himself at that time are still in his ears, and this sentence has also supported Lu Zihao to come to the present and make such a difficult decision.

Maybe Gan Guoyang's original intention was not like this, but Lu Zihao has decided to dedicate the rest of his life to basketball.

He also wants to continue his unfulfilled basketball dream in his son Lu Gradual.

As for the land source.

"Little Lu Yuan, I hope he will be more kind to his mother in the future and don't cause trouble to his mother......"