Chapter 141: Sakuragi's Wedding
The dust has settled~ The original team jumped out and accused Xiandao of only knowing money, and it was Xiandao who abandoned the team and the fans who once supported him. The team's approach is nothing more than wanting to put their own responsibility on the head of Xiandao, and they don't want the fans to vent their anger on the team.
Xiandao once again realized that the warmth and coldness of this business alliance were warm. In the face of the media, Xiandao seems to be much more mature, and after blessing the old club, he also hopes to help the new club in the future, and does not talk too much about the boiling renewal of the contract.
The new team is in a period of rebuilding and is also a team that has abandoned Xiandao. But Xiandao is confident that this time, he can be reused. He will be the star of the team, play the way he likes, and prove it to those who have hurt him.
With Sakuragi's help, the [Sakuragi Legion] detective agency opened by Yohei finally got out of the state of loss. Not only did they gradually start to make profits, but the business became more and more popular, and the four of them were busy planning to hire staff. Business is good, business is good, busy is busy, but on this day, the four of them hung up a sign of closure and rest, because on this day Sakuragi Hanamichi and Akagi Haruko are going to hold a wedding.
There were a lot of people who came to congratulate them, and a lot of media were present. Sakuragi is now a star in the basketball world, and his every move is particularly noticeable. Except for Liuchuan Feng and Xiandao, who were far away overseas, they were not present, and those old friends in Xiangbei were all present. Mitsui Shou ~ Miyagi Ryota ~ Yasuda appeared at the same time, and the three of them are now inseparable and worthy of the name of the iron triangle.
The three of them are no longer the youth they used to be when they were in school, and they look like successful people in suits and leather shoes. Both Miyagi and Yasuda now work for the Mitsui family's group. Mitsui is with the two of them every day, and the family also wants Mitsui to learn from the bottom and gradually take over the operation of the group.
Sakuragi's most hated thing is socializing. Seeing that the three people were coming, he pulled the three people to find a quiet corner, and when he saw these three people, Sakuragi would think of the time in Xiangbei.
"Sakuragi, how tall are you now? We're still discussing on the way, whether you will be bullied by the gorilla if you marry Haruko, and now it seems that it is Akagi who should be worried! As soon as Mitsui met, he made a joke about Sakuragi, and he didn't become rusty at all because everyone got together less and left more.
"It's half a head taller than a gorilla. I was going to bully him, but I don't know what he was doing, I was always the one who was beaten! Sakuragi put his arm around Mitsui. It also became extremely relaxed, and replied with emotion.
"One thing descends one thing, the boss will always be so domineering!" Miyagi has long been accustomed to calling Akagi the boss, but after so many years, he still can't change it. While playing with Sakuragi with his hands. As he spoke.
"Miyagi. You're going to have to take care of Ayako! "Sakuragi pretended to be serious, Ayako came over early to help, and she was still as capable as she was the team manager when she was a team manager." I feel like my Haruko.,Why is the temper getting bigger and bigger.,It must have been ruined by Ayako.。 When it comes to Ayako, Miyagi immediately becomes much more honest, blushing and looking a little shy.
"Just him, and discipline Ayako? You don't know what to do, Sakuragi. Miyagi is in front of Ayako, like a mouse seeing a cat. Not to mention how well-behaved. Mitsui didn't wait for Miyagi to speak, so he rushed to say, making Miyagi even more embarrassed.
"Sakuragi, I've been reading the news recently, and the news seems to say that there are NBA teams that want you to go to tryouts, is it hype or is it true?" Yasuda was very empathetic and changed the topic, relieving Miyagi's embarrassment.
"Really! But I ignored them! I'm good in this country, I don't want to suffer! You may not know what happened to Rukawa Kaede and Xiandao at the beginning, they mentioned it to me in the national team, and it was uncomfortable to listen to me, let alone let me go. "Sakuragi is doing well and happily now, so he has no interest in the NBA at all.
"Besides, my dad is also old, I don't want to be too far away from him, I want to spend more time with him here. Besides, I can't bear to balance them, as well as your friends. Speaking of Coach Anzai, Mitsui and Miyagi were particularly moved, both of them went to college and were arranged by Coach Anzai, and both of them were always grateful to Coach Anzai.
"I'd rather be a chicken head than a phoenix tail, just don't go!" Miyagi agreed with Sakuragi's choice, "Ah Shen will come back in a while, right?" You've been teammates for so long and still play together. "Although Ah Shen's height is not much, in the professional league, it is more than enough to play an outside line, and he is also good at outside projection. After finishing college with Sakuragi, the two got together again in the domestic league.
"I'm definitely coming, if I don't come, I'll put on little shoes for him!" Sakuragi looked like a boss, and after saying it, he laughed too.
"Ah Shen and Immortal Dao are both too calculating!" Mitsui heard Miyagi and Sakuragi mention Ah Shen, and he felt a little sour in his heart. At the beginning, both of them were good at three-point shooting, and they could be limited by their height, and the road to basketball ended after graduating from college.
"Yes, now it seems that both of them knew that Lu Dao would be today. One practiced outside shooting early, and the other transformed to become a guard early. Yasuda also followed the master and sighed together.
"I think you're doing well now, just have a good time, you don't have to take the basketball road." Sakuragi saw Mitsui's various envy, jealousy and hatred, and quickly enlightened him.
"Sakuragi, you don't know what to do, Mitsui always mentions his junior high school MVP when he has something to do, and my ears are calloused." Miyagi made a joke about Mitsui.
"I'm a real MVP, what's wrong with me? Do you want to mention you? Mitsui's face was flushed by Miyagi's words, and he hurriedly opened his mouth to defend himself. Mitsui does like to talk about the honor of junior high school, but in the face of Sakuragi, who is already a professional player, Mitsui still has self-knowledge.
"The junior was really powerful back then, and when I was in junior high school, I didn't even know what basketball was." Sakuragi didn't want them to quarrel on his big day, so he quickly relieved Mitsui.
"Think about it, we were really talented in that year, so many people became professional players, and I don't know what Lu Dao Amu ~ Fuji Zhen are doing now. After a while, Ah Shen came to inquire with him. Yasuda also relieved the pressure on the master on the side, otherwise Mitsui would be so embarrassed.
"I told him all about what God knew. Don't forget, buddy, I'm running a detective agency right now! Sakuragi said with pride. Thanks to Yohei's detective agency, Sakuragi knows everything about the people of the past.
"Really? Fujima is also quite beautiful in college, what are you doing now? Miyagi's interest was hooked up at once, and since he left high school, he has gone his separate ways, and he hasn't heard from those people for many years.
"When Fujima was in high school, he was a player and coach. I call him a substitute. I don't know if his dream is to be a basketball coach, anyway, now he is really a coach in college. "Sakuragi is like a treasure, and he will come when he opens his mouth. It seems that he didn't brag just now, and he really knows a lot about the recent situation of those former opponents.
"What about Ah Mu? When I was in high school, I was so old, and now I don't know what Lu Dao looks like. Mitsui waited for Sakuragi to finish speaking, and asked with interest.
"Uncle Mu's family is just precocious. People haven't changed much now. It's still like that. I went out to play with Haruko some time ago, and I met Amu, who is now a diving instructor, and his tan is a little darker than before. After listening to Sakuragi, Mitsui tilted his head and began to sketch out what Amu looked like in his mind.
The conversation between the four of them became a quiz contest, and the three of them remembered this for a while, and that for a while. Sakuragi knows it all. I don't get tired of answering. The four of them recalled the passionate high school life together by reminiscing about those former opponents.
Sakuragi's wedding was very lively. Those former teammates and opponents are rarely able to get together. Everyone talked about the current situation and recalled the past. The former Kanagawa qualifiers, the former national competition, the impulse and emotion, the blood and pride of the past.
Everyone carnivaled arbitrarily until it was late, and then they got up and left. Mitsui ~ Miyagi ~ Yasuda drank a little too much, didn't go to drive, the three of them supported each other, and slowly walked along the street to the subway station. As we passed by an open-air court, the sound of basketballs hitting the ground, loud music and cheers from the audience attracted three people.
The three of them drunkenly squeezed to the sidelines, and after looking at it for a while, Mitsui preferred to speak, and his tongue was a little bigger. "Didn't you fight well? It's a far cry from what I was back then. ”
Mitsui's words immediately attracted the attention of the young people in the field, and the onlookers and the young people in the field all looked at Mitsui together. "Uncle, you've drunk too much, let's brag in another place!" A teenager dressed in a very hip-hop dress said to Mitsui on the sidelines, causing a burst of laughter.
Mitsui and the others looked at each other, and they were very emotional, and they became uncles in a blink of an eye, which is really unforgiving. "Uncle, I never brag, you are indeed too tender." Mitsui also recognized his identity as an uncle, and still said inarticulately.
"Uncle, who are you? You seem to be very powerful? Looking at the three drunken uncles, the young man continued to tease and treat the three of them as a pastime.
"Sakuragi, Rukawa Kaede, Sendo." Mitsui blurted out without thinking about it, and the people present just finished speaking, all laughed.
"Uncle, you are so humorous, why did you three come here? Is the team on holiday? The three uninvited guests added a lot of laughter to the court, and the other party continued to ask with a wicked smile.
"I'm not done yet, what are you laughing at? The three of them know the three of us very well, you know? Mitsui still said seriously, the more serious he was, the more people around him laughed.
"Ahh That's it! Actually, I'm quite familiar with Kobe! Uncle, we're going to play, if you want to vomit, don't vomit here! The other party obviously didn't believe what Mitsui said, so he talked nonsense and was ready to continue playing.
"Why don't you take us along?" Miyagi was speechless just now, but these people saw the contempt for the three of them, and as soon as they opened their mouths, they challenged.
"Uncle, you have all your stomachs, can you still play ball? How many hoops are there? "The players on the court still don't think that the three drunkards in front of them can play basketball, and they probably can't even shoot the ball, so they are completely drunk and talking nonsense.
"It's weird, two hoops are pressed on one rebound for everything?" Yasuda didn't drink to the point of dazzle, but the other party regarded them as a pastime, and he also treated the other party as a pastime, Yasuda's words caused a laugh again. "But it doesn't matter, the baskets are two. The ball that my uncle throws will also become two, and one ball will go into one basket. ”
"Okay, just play with your uncles!" Watch as the three are eager to try. The uncle who was very relaxed with them, the young man in the field finally agreed, his real purpose was to play tricks on the three of them, and make the ugliness of the three people to make everyone happy.
The three of them wore dresses and leather shoes to Sakuragi's wedding, but the three of them didn't care very much. He took off his coat and rolled it up and put it under the ball rack, then rolled up the sleeves of his shirt and went on the field.
"We have a lot of respect for our elders. Let's kick off first. "At the beginning of the three-on-three half, the teenagers took the initiative to defend first, and the three teenagers looked like high school students. The stature is taller than Mitsui and others.
The boy who just talked the most chose Mitsui to oppose him. Standing inside the three-point line, he threw the ball to Mitsui outside the line. Then he immediately opened up the defensive stance, and he felt that Mitsui only needed to bring the ball. The ball will soon be back in his hands.
Mitsui received the ball and raised his hand to throw the ball out. I didn't even jump, and my hand shape was still so standard. The boy who defended Mitsui looked frustrated, and he regretted very much that he had agreed to play with the three drunkards. Where is this game, throw the ball when you give it, doesn't this treat them as helping to pick up the ball? Thinking like this, the boy turned around and looked at the ball that was thrown, and he felt in his heart that it must be three non-sticks.
The ball was thrown by Mitsui at a 45-degree angle. After drawing an arc, the hollow enters the net. This caused a commotion in the crowd on the sidelines. The three teenagers in the field were also dumbfounded.
"Come again!" The three teenagers were very unconvinced, they were originally going to make a fool of the three uncles, but they didn't expect the first goal to score. It was still so casual that it made all three of them cheer up and plan to pull a goal back.
The ball was sent to Mitsui again, and Mitsui received the ball and flicked it to the ground. The young man didn't dare to slack off anymore, and hurriedly raised his hand to prepare for the cover. Mitsui didn't really shoot, smiled and passed the ball to the right 45-degree position. Yasuda and Miyagi made a mistake, got rid of the defenders, and ran out to receive a pass from Mitsui.
After Yasuda received the ball, he jumped up and chose a three-point shot. He doesn't jump high in leather shoes, but he throws very confidently and the top of the arc is also very good. After the ball was thrown, Yasuda raised his hand to aim at the basket. "Pick up the ball." The ball was only halfway through when Yasuda smiled confidently, as if he already knew the result.
"Come again!" The ball really went in, which made the audience on the sidelines laugh louder, but now it was not Mitsui and others who were laughing, it was the teenagers who were repeatedly scored. The three teenagers on the field looked at each other, their faces began to become solemn, and there was also a kind of ruthlessness, this time they all planned to come to the real in their hearts, and they couldn't let these three drunks anymore.
As soon as Mitsui received the ball, the opponent immediately posted it up, not letting the shot~ The pass didn't seem to intend to make Mitsui comfortable. Miyagi bypassed Yasuda's outside, ran behind Mitsui, and took the ball. The players who defended him did not relax at all and always followed him, even if Miyagi was close to the midfield, the opponent still did not give up.
Miyagi made a change of direction in front of the individual, dribbling the ball from the left side to the basket. The opponent's defense is clean, just following Miyagi from the side and not letting Miyagi pass him. Miyagi dribbled the ball to the three-point line, paused, looked up at the basket, and shook his hand upward, and the opponent immediately jumped up to block.
The three teenagers are not so easy at the beginning now, and the three uncles are not so easy. However, they all felt in their hearts that the three of them were just uncles with some shooting skills. It shouldn't be a big deal except for the accuracy of the shot, as long as you take a little bit of defense, you can limit it.
Miyagi had already seen through the opponent's thoughts, and after a pause at the three-point line, he shook off the opponent smoothly. However, when he dribbled to the inside again, the ball seemed to be a little bigger, and he was about to lose control of the ball. The boy standing on the inside line, how could he let go of such an opportunity, and immediately rushed towards the ball, still secretly laughing in his heart that Miyagi had drunk too much and his kung fu with the ball was too poor.
Just when the opponent rushed over and wanted to take the ball in his hand. Miyagi was indeed too far away from the ball, but he could barely reach it with his arms and fingers. Miyagi used the fingers of his left hand to point a little, and the ball passed under the opponent's crotch and returned to Miyagi's hand. This is just a flaw that Miyagi deliberately sells, the purpose is to lure out the boy under the basket. Miyagi took advantage of the situation to pass this player, and started to face the unguarded basket, Miyagi did not go directly to the basket but tucked his abdomen in the air, and made a rebound from the other side, and the ball obediently bounced the rebound and fell into the hoop.
The audience on the sidelines whistled and shouted loudly, and now these people really believe that the three uncles do have two brushes, and they are not bragging. The atmosphere in the stadium became more and more enthusiastic, and the teenagers were eager to try to fight with the three uncles, and Mitsui was not in a hurry to go, and started a wheel battle with these teenagers.
The laughter that came from the stadium spread farther and farther away in the night. Mitsui belongs to the majority of people, and they can't go on the path of professional players like Sendo ~ Rukawa Kaede ~ Sakuragi, but like Sakuragi, basketball is something they can't part with in their lives. Basketball can bring them joy and leave them with wonderful memories! Basketball has made their lives more colorful, and basketball has taught them a lot! Everyone has their own dreams, and the road to achieving them is not smooth, and if you want to succeed, you often have to persevere in the most difficult times. (To be continued......)