Chapter 36: New Sneakers
On the weekend, Lu Yuan had an important thing to do, which was to buy a pair of basketball shoes. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
It's been three weeks since he came into contact with basketball, and it's been a week since he joined the basketball team, and Lu Yuan has always been wearing the same pair of white pullbacks on his feet as he participated in the auditions.
In order to prevent his mother from seeing that he always wears these basketball shoes, he put this pair of Huili in Wang Yourong's dormitory, Wang Yourong will bring the sneakers to Lu Yuan before training every day, and then bring them back to the dormitory after training, and Wang Yourong will wash and dry the shoes the next day to keep the shoes clean and fresh.
Lu Yuan likes these sneakers very much, although compared with the professional basketball shoes of his teammates, this pair of old-fashioned sneakers with rubber soles is really a little simple, but the quality is really good, a week of training friction, the sole is not badly worn, the grip is very good, and it is comfortable to wear.
But after training yesterday, Gao Jing clearly told Lu Yuan that he had to change his shoes, on the grounds that the shock absorption and cushioning performance of this pair of pullbacks was too poor, and it was easy to hurt his knees during training games. If he doesn't, he won't be allowed to train on Monday.
So Lu Yuan had to consider buying a pair of real basketball shoes.
Lu Yuan originally wanted to buy them online and felt that it was cheap, but after swiping the online store, he felt that it was difficult to determine the quality of the shoes just by relying on the pictures on the Internet, and he didn't know basketball shoes, so he was afraid that he would be deceived at the online shopping meeting.
After all, a good pair of basketball shoes costs thousands of yuan, and you can stop eating if you buy a fake.
Lu Yuan looked at the balance of his bank card, there was still 2,000 yuan left in the salary he earned from working in the summer, and he wanted to use these two thousand yuan until the end of the semester, but he didn't expect that a pair of shoes might have to contribute them all.
It's distressing!
After thinking about it, Lu Yuan decided to go to the physical store to buy it, and he was relieved to buy the real thing, so after getting up in the morning, Lu Yuan sent a message to Bai Ye.
"Bai Ye, I want to buy basketball shoes today, come with me. ”
After a while, Bai Ye replied with a message: "Ten yuan an hour." ”
Lu Yuan's heart was full of grass, and this guy Baiye actually started to charge, so he replied: "Twenty yuan." ”
After another five minutes, Bai Ye replied, "I'll see you at the door of the hotel in fifteen minutes." ”
So Lu Yuan packed up, said hello to his mother, and went downstairs to ride out.
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Since the end of the special training for Lu Yuan and Wang Yourong, Bai Ye has been idle on weekends.
He slept lazily in the morning, had lunch in the cafeteria of the hotel at noon, and thought about where to play basketball in the afternoon, when he received a message from Lu Yuan.
In his heart, Bai Ye was a little hesitant, after all, he didn't want to give a boy the opportunity to go shopping with someone for the first time in his life, but Lu Yuan said that he wanted to buy basketball shoes, he hesitated, so he sent a message and Lu Yuan made a little joke.
Unexpectedly, Lu Yuan agreed to this big slam on the door, and opened his mouth to ask for twenty yuan, Bai Ye was not good to refuse again, so he cleaned up and let Lu Yuan meet at the door of the hotel.
Taking the elevator to the hall on the first floor, Bai Ye felt that the hall was a little different from yesterday, and after thinking about it, he found that the original sculpture in the center of the hall had been moved away and replaced with a piano.
Bai Ye looked at the time, thinking that Lu Yuan might be over for a while, so he walked to the piano.
This is a milky white grand piano, the surface of the piano is recognizable, the legs and sides of the body are decorated with golden Western patterns, the lid is lifted, the inside of the lid is equipped with a layer of gold metal plates, and the sunlight outside the floor-to-ceiling windows shines in, reflecting the glittering golden light.
"It's really exaggerated, I don't know which factory produced it. ”
Bai Ye looked at the gorgeous decoration and the beautiful flower font brand name carved on the body of the piano, and saw at a glance that this was a piano made by a certain manufacturer in China.
Bai Ye approached the piano, gently stroked the black and white keys, and pressed two notes, the sound is good, it seems that although the domestic piano looks exaggerated, the quality is still good.
At this time, a waiter at the front desk came over and said to Bai Ye: "I'm sorry, this piano belongs to the valuables of our hotel, please don't touch it at will." ”
Bai Ye ignored the waiter, and played a few more notes before saying, "It's an honor for me to touch it, after all, every piano I touched before was ten times more expensive than it." ”
The waiter was speechless, she recognized that this was a little local tyrant who had swiped the room fee for three months as soon as she entered the hotel, and she didn't dare to say anything more.
Hakuba was about to sit down and play a song, his hands were a little itchy, he had given up the piano since he started playing basketball, and his family had been hoping that he could become a musician before he encountered basketball.
As soon as Bai Ye sat down, he felt someone poke him in the back, and he turned around and slapped the other person's hand.
Bai Ye hates that someone touches his body on weekdays, except for the physical confrontation when playing, he doesn't like anyone to touch him.
"Snap", the slap hit the opponent's hand, this time it should be very heavy.
Bai Ye saw that a girl was looking at him with her head down and her hands, pursing her mouth, and teary-eyed.
"Well deserved. ”
Bai Ye gave the girl two words, and then sat back on the stool.
The girl hurriedly shook her hand towards Bai Ye, lifted a box in her hand and showed it to Bai Ye, and pointed to the piano.
"You're here to tune?" Bai Ye looked at the box and felt a little familiar.
The girl nodded vigorously, then walked over to the piano, opened the lid, placed the tool box on the stool, took out the tuning wrench and began to test the new piano.
The girl was very serious, and Bai Ye, who was standing on the side, could see that there was a red spot on her right hand, which was punched out by herself.
"Are you dumb?" asked Hakuba again.
The girl turned her head, shook her hand, pointed to her mouth, and pinched her throat.
"Oh, I'm silent. ”
Bai Ye looked clear, the girl nodded this time, she also heard the difference in this sentence, her face turned red all of a sudden, but she still showed a bright smile towards Bai Ye, and then continued to tune.
The girl looks about fifteen or sixteen years old, about the same as Shiraba, and looks a little like the powerful Japanese star Yui Aragaki, especially her smile and round face, like the bright sunshine outside the window.
Under the sun, Bai Ye watched the girl carefully tune, she carefully turned the tuning screw with a wrench, and gently pressed the tone key, the shoulder-length hair often slipped down, and she took the trouble to pull the hair back behind her ears.
Bai Ye waited like this, an idea popped into his head, when the girl had tuned the piano, he was going to go to the piano music and play a song for the September sun.
At this time, Lu Yuan's text message came - "I'm at the door, come out!"
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Lu Yuan rode his bicycle to the door of the Licheng Hotel and sent a message to Bai Ye, and after two minutes, he saw Bai Ye swaggering out of the west hall.
Walking up, Lu Yuan said to Bai Ye: "Come, I have a car today, I'll take you!"
Bai Ye looked at the bicycle that was about to fall apart by Lu Yuan, and said, "Stupid-, can you change the car?"
Lu Yuan said: "How can I have any money, I will buy basketball shoes later, and I don't know how much I can have left in my salary for a summer vacation." ”
Bai Ye said: "Don't be verbose, hurry up, ten yuan an hour, cherish your time." ”
"Hey, are you serious?"
"Of course. ”
“…… Is five fine? Six dollars?"
Lu Yuan bargained while taking Bai Ye to the first department store in Licheng, the first department store is very close to the Licheng Hotel, just across the road and a traffic light, and the two of them walked for five minutes.
The First Department Store is an old name in the past, which was completed in the mid-90s in the center of Licheng City, and is a public-private joint venture shopping mall. Later, after equity restructuring and foreign acquisition, it was renamed several times, but Licheng people are still used to calling it the first department store here.
Entering the sportswear specialty area on the fifth floor of the mall, Bai Ye took Lu Yuan directly into Nike's store, and if he wanted to buy professional basketball shoes, he still had to choose Nike.
The Nike store of the First Department Store is the only Nike flagship store in Licheng, the store is very large, and the variety of shoes is very complete, which can dazzle Lu Yuan.
On the shelves are pairs of colorful sneakers, each one unique except for a hook-shaped logo.
A female clerk greeted the two of them warmly and asked what kind of sneakers they needed to buy.
Bai Ye didn't speak, Lu Yuan thought about it and had to say, "Well, I want to buy sneakers that don't look like sneakers." ”
The clerk was a little silly when he heard it, it was the first time he encountered such a strange request, and he thought to himself that these two children were not here to make trouble, right?
Puzzled, Bai Ye walked to the shoe cabinet, glanced at all the shoes, and said, "Are there only these ordinary basketball shoes? ”
The clerk hurriedly said, "Yes, come with me, the good brand signature shoes are on the second floor." ”
Saying that, the clerk took the two of them up to the second floor, Lu Yuan looked at the price of basketball shoes on the first floor, the price was around 600-1000, he pulled Bai Ye and said: "These ordinary basketball shoes should be about the same, you don't need to buy any signatures." ”
Bai Ye said, "Take care of your knees." ”
Lu Yuan doesn't understand, does the brand's signature sneakers give knee pads?
When he arrived at the shoe cabinet on the second floor, Lu Yuan found that the shoes here were really different from those downstairs, although they were still in different forms, they obviously had a better sense of design and texture when they were seen closely, and the appearance was more complex and diverse.
Lu Yuan swept it, and at a glance took a fancy to a pair of high-top black, white and red shoes placed on the top floor, and asked the clerk to take them down and show him, but Bai Ye organized the clerk to say that he didn't need to take them, and said to Lu Yuan: "You don't have to think about the Skysc****r series, it's not suitable for you." ”
"Why?"
"You're too short. ”
Bai Ye's words caused a critical blow to Lu Yuan, but he could also hear from the name of this brand, Skysc****r, skyscraper, must be for tall players.
"This pair of Skysc****r Forrest Gump 10 generations is the 1997 championship model, black, white and red classic color, is the town store style of our store, the price is 4999, is every Chinese basketball fan needs to collect a pair of treasures. ”
Listening to the clerk's introduction, Lu Yuan couldn't help but stick out his tongue, he didn't expect the style he liked to be so expensive, so he immediately dispelled the idea of buying it, and said: "Forget it if it's more than 2000, I'll ...... it"
Lu Yuan really wanted to go back to the first floor and buy a pair of more than 600 yuan, but at this time, Lu Yuan saw a pair of white shoes on the far left of the shoe cabinet, which looked very eye-catching.
He walked over to the heel, picked it up, and checked it, it was quite light, and pinched it, it was very soft, and then he looked at the upper, which was covered with a layer of mesh fabric.
The clerk also introduced: "It seems that you like the retro star boots, this is the new Kobe 11th generation, which adopts the design of the full-palm air cushion, which is light and dexterous, which can not only protect the feet, but also have little restraint on the feet." ”
Lu Yuan nodded, looked at the price, 1599, acceptable, and asked the clerk to take the appropriate size and try it on.
As soon as the shoe was put on his feet and he took two steps, Lu Yuan felt as if he was stepping on a spring, and the shoes were very light, wrapped around his feet as if they did not exist.
"Wow, it's so light! I feel like I can fly!" Lu Yuan jumped lightly with his shoes on, feeling great.
The clerk smiled and said, "That's right, it's a full-palm air cushion ......" Before the clerk finished speaking, he saw Lu Yuan suddenly squat, and then jumped up violently, and the whole person jumped up, and his head almost touched the propaganda board hanging in the air!
After landing on the ground, Lu Yuan stomped his feet again, and said happily: "There is really an air cushion!
"Idiot. Bai Ye looked at Lu Yuan and said as if he had never seen the world.
As for the clerk, when he saw Lu Yuan's bounce, he didn't know what to say.
"Okay, I'll buy this pair!"
Although Lu Yuan picks the door, he has always been very happy to buy things, and he will never hesitate once he is identified.
The clerk finally suggested, "Do you want white? Do you need to look at other colors, red, black, and colored ......?"
Lu Yuan refused: "No!"
The clerk agreed: "Well, no problem, you are very discerning, white is indeed very good, the classic basketball shoe color, beautiful atmosphere, and very versatile......"
As usual, the clerk Zhang Fei also boasted about three points of whiteness, and Lu Yuan said to Bai Ye: "I think, when I take these shoes home, my mother will definitely not be able to see that they are basketball shoes, they are too similar to casual shoes, especially the white ones." ”
Bai Ye looked at the clerk who was a little embarrassed, looked apologetic, and thought to himself, this guy really chose a pair of basketball shoes that didn't look like basketball shoes.
Kobe Bryant 11th generation.