Chapter 43: My Story

(This chapter is out of the heroine.) I can only ask for more collections, at least don't drop them again! )

At the end of May, at the turn of spring and summer, summer is about to fall on the land of North America.

In Los Angeles, which has a Mediterranean climate, summer will be the driest and hottest time of the year. However, the sea breeze blowing from the Pacific Ocean delayed the onset of the heat wave, and the city of angels was at a pleasant temperature.

The main attraction of this beautiful city is Hollywood, located in the northwest suburbs of Los Angeles, the center of the world's film industry and entertainment capital.

However, the most attractive thing in Los Angeles on May 31 is not Hollywood in the Northwest Side, but the Great Western Forum Arena in Los Angeles in the Inglewood District in the southwest corner - The-forum.

At this time, it is still past 8 o'clock in the morning, and the weekend sun has already woken up the citizens of Los Angeles, and at the ticket office next to the Team-store of the Great Western Forum Arena, the long line has been lined up since the early hours of yesterday morning.

Because the NBA Finals will move to Los Angeles tomorrow, Los Angeles fans will be watching the Los Angeles Lakers and Philadelphia 76ers play at the Great Western Forum Arena.

After being eliminated in the first round by the Houston Rockets as the defending champions in the 1981 playoffs, now is their chance to prove themselves again.

Standing in front of them is the 80-year old rival Philadelphia 76ers.

As a result, fans in Los Angeles are also enthusiastic about seeing the team win the championship for the second time in three years at home.

"I need a three-chapter ticket, the East Stand, well, the middle spot is fine...... Well? Without? It doesn't matter if it's a little further back...... Okay, that's all. ”

In the long procession, an extremely tall figure attracted the attention of all people.

"Wow, this guy should be 6'10, as tall as Moses Malone."

"Don't mention Moses Malone, you know I hate this guy the most, as much as I hate the Celtics."

"The Celtics have been eliminated by the 76ers, and we are 2-0 ahead, so I don't think the 76ers will have any chances."

"yes, I have a friend who is from Philadelphia, and we're both about to break up now......"

The tall man strode out of the line after buying the ticket.

"Wow, that guy turned out to be a yellow man? It is rare to see such a high yellow skin. ”

The tall man who bought the ticket was Gan Guoyang.

Yesterday, he came to Los Angeles with Gan Guohui and Chen Xing, ready to watch this year's finals live.

In addition to watching the competition, Gan Guohui and Chen Xing also had to go to the universities they applied to to submit materials.

With the help of his mother, Gan Guohui applied to the University of Southern California, while Chen Xing applied to California State University, Los Angeles, a public school with cheaper tuition.

Therefore, the heavy responsibility of queuing up to buy tickets at the Great Western Forum Arena was handed over to Gan Guoyang.

Because he is equivalent to China's sports special enrollment, and the admission procedure is different from that of ordinary college students, he is the only one who is very idle and comes to line up early in the morning.

However, Gan Guoyang still underestimated the enthusiasm of the people of Los Angeles for the finals, and when he arrived at the arena at six o'clock, the ticket office was already full of queues.

After queuing for nearly two hours, Gan Guoyang finally bought three seats that were okay tickets, at least he didn't have to sit behind the basket.

In the process of queuing, he became the center of attention, and his height and complexion were simply too eye-catching.

The people around him constantly accosted him, asking him where he came from and where he liked basketball, which made Gan Guoyang fully appreciate the friendliness of the people of Los Angeles.

After buying the ticket, Gan Guoyang didn't go back to the hotel directly, in this pleasant weather, he wanted to walk around the neighborhood, anyway, the other two guys had to be busy with other things.

To the north of the Great Western Forum is Los Angeles' Cemetery Park, while to the west is Inglewood's Main Street.

"Inglewood? Inglewood? How do I remember if someone lives here? Gan Guoyang thought about the name of the area Inglewood, and felt some vague memories, as if there were people he knew who lived here.

In fact, the person Gan Guoyang knew who lived in Inglewood was Paul Pearce.

After the last chance encounter at the Coastal Stadium, Pierce moved his family to Inglewood, and Gan lost the opportunity to practice with the future star.

Now he racked his brain to figure out who lived in Inglewood, but he couldn't remember it anymore.

At this time, the TV screen in a shop next to the street attracted Gan Guoyang's attention, and he no longer had to think about who lived in Inglewood.

Gan Guoyang remembers that in later TV movies, if the story of the United States in the 80s was told, there would often be large glass floor-to-ceiling windows on the side of the street, which would either be furs, coats, jewelry, or stacks of televisions, where the news or sports games were broadcast.

Now, in a store where Gan Guoyang passed, there was a stack of televisions, and the news about the finals was being broadcast on the televisions.

In the previous two games, the Lakers who were playing away had a win in Philadelphia in their first game, returning to Los Angeles with a 1-1 aggregate score to gain home-court advantage.

Gan Guoyang looked at the 18-inch color TV in the window, the picture played with some rough grain, but he was also attracted by the wonderful highlights of the game.

What surprised Gan Guoyang even more was that the channels broadcast on these TVs turned out to be Taiwanese, because he had already seen that the advertisements broadcast after the end of the highlights were Taiwanese advertisements.

It's been a long time since Gan Guoyang has seen a Chinese face on TV — except for the occasional passer-by in the news.

"Is this electrical appliance store owned by a Chinese?" Gan Guoyang was a little curious, he looked up, and sure enough, the signboard was both English and Chinese, and it was written Zhengmin Electric.

Gan Guoyang lowered his head and glanced at the TV again, and found that a sports commercial was playing on the TV, which was Adidas'.

The heroine of the ad is a fourteen or fifteen-year-old basketball player with ear-length hair, bright eyes and bright teeth, and an old-fashioned television set with rough picture quality that cannot hide her snow-white skin.

What's more, she is full of sporty breath, and her smile on TV carries a sense of youth and vitality.

Gan Guoyang looked at the heroine of this advertisement, how to look at it and how to feel familiar.

"What did you do today? Why do you always have a sense of déjà vu? Gan Guoyang's mind was full of question marks, he felt that he was not quite right today, and when he saw and thought of something, he always felt that he had an impression, but he couldn't remember it.

At the end of the advertisement, a positive close-up of the heroine was given, and the amazing temperament came to the screen with the screen, and the sense of familiarity once again hit Gan Guoyang's mind.

"Ahh I know, this is ......" Gan Guoyang finally remembered who it was.

"Hey! What are you doing standing in front of my store? Don't come in and buy things! At this time, a crisp, loud and slightly annoyed voice sounded in Gan Guoyang's ears.

"Wang Zuxian!" Gan Guoyang finally remembered who the face was on the TV, and he also heard the voice from the side and turned his head to look over.

"Who is Wang Zuxian? What do you want to do when you're standing in front of my store? Haven't seen enough TV? ”

The one who spoke was a tall girl in a goose yellow T-shirt, denim shorts, and a peaked cap.

She dragged a pair of flip-flops on her feet, stood in front of the glass window with her waist crossed, stared at her big eyes, pouted her mouth, and scolded Gan Guoyang.

"Uh... This..."Gan Guoyang suddenly felt a little inexplicable, he could look wherever he wanted on the street, and it would not affect the business of the store.

Besides, aren't the large glass windows of the electronics store just for people to visit?

He looked at the fierce girl who suddenly appeared, only to realize that this girl seemed to be a half-breed.

Although it is difficult to see her specific face clearly because of the cap and backlight, you can roughly see her curved face, as well as her slender and graceful neck, which glows dazzling white in the sun.

Her nose and mouth are small and delicate, not like those of Western Caucasians, but not as flat as some of the yellow ones.

The goose yellow T-shirt on the upper body is obviously several sizes larger, like a hood, but there are still two faint marks on the chest.

The shorts on the lower body look a little out of place in the current season, but there is no doubt that those long white legs are enough to make the summer sun come sooner.

"Hey, what are you looking at!" The girl seemed to notice something, and a slight flush appeared on her cheeks and ears.

"Aren't you cold dressed like this?" Gan Guoyang asked coldly.

The girl's face turned even redder, and the hand that was crossed on her waist clenched into a fist, as if she was about to rush up and hit someone.

"Fuxi, what are you doing?" At this time, a person came out of the electrical store, a middle-aged man in a blue plaid shirt, and he was yellow-skinned.

"He's always standing in the window, watching TV!" The girl turned around and said puffingly.

Gan Guoyang looked at the girl's tall and beautiful back and was stunned again, and he didn't know what to say all of a sudden.

"Don't mess around, you have to take care of people standing in front of the window watching TV, and why did you run out in these shorts? Go back! The middle-aged man said sternly, he should be the elder of this girl, and he didn't seem to be used to seeing a girl wearing such short pants.

"Hmph~" The girl didn't look back, snorted and went in.

Gan Guoyang saw that her neck seemed to be even redder.

"I'm sorry sir, it's my daughter who bothered you." The middle-aged man apologized to Gan Guoyang very politely.

“… Oh... It's okay... Uh, are you Chinese? At this time, Gan Guoyang asked in Chinese, and he looked at this middle-aged man as a Chinese.

"Yes, I'm Chinese, but I'm from Taiwan." A smile immediately appeared on the middle-aged man's face, and he also replied in Chinese, although he spoke in a thick Hokkien accent.

Gan Guoyang, who has lived in Chinatown for a long time, has long been familiar with this Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Hokkien dialect, which will later be popular in the mainland.

"Hello, I'm from Jiangsu, and I'm from the mainland."

"Really? Are you from Jiangsu? When the middle-aged man heard that Gan Guoyang was from Jiangsu, his tone suddenly felt a little excited.

"Yes, but the family has moved a few times, and my hometown heard my father say that it is in the Huai'an area." Gan Guoyang said.

In foreign countries, most of the first things Chinese talk about when they meet each other is where their hometown is, and in this distant United States, in addition to skin color, the homeland on the other side can make people feel more cordial.

"It turns out that you are from Huai'an! Huai'an is good, Huai'an is good~" The middle-aged man listened to Gan Guoyang's words, and his eyes were a little confused, as if he had thought of some old past.

Gan Guoyang stood there in a daze, but he didn't know what to say, when he glanced at it, he found a pair of eyes looking at him in the window, and as soon as he turned his head, the figure disappeared immediately.

"It seems to be that girl......" Gan Guoyang thought as he looked at the goose-yellow back.

"Oh, I'm sorry to delay you. If you need it in the future, you can come to my store, there are discounts for Chinese here. The middle-aged man seemed to be relieved from his contemplation and apologized to Gan Guoyang again.

Gan Guoyang also said goodbye to the middle-aged man, touched his head and left, he was at a loss for this inexplicable "turmoil", he was the second monk.

However, the pungent but beautiful girl left a deep impression in his heart.

"Fuxi? What a strange name... I don't know what his last name is... Looks like he's tall, he's 6 feet......."

Gan Guoyang thought as he turned to the north.

Walking on the bustling Los Angeles neighborhood, Gan Guoyang remembered a lot, remembered the girl just now, remembered his hometown, remembered the story of "Gan Guoyang", remembered the story of "Future" himself, and remembered April Fool's Day, April 1st, the finals of the California Division II High School League in Los Angeles and the heartbreaking last minute.

Unknowingly, Gan Guoyang went back to the vicinity of the Great Western Forum Arena and walked to the Faith Cemetery Park to the north of the stadium.

Compared to the hustle and bustle of the streets outside, it is much quieter, and many people are resting in this park.

Gan Guoyang walked on the winding path of the park, feeling the quiet and silent taste of this resting place, his thoughts became clearer and clearer, and all kinds of things in his mind were like boiling water.

The memories of his two lives forced him to suppress his emotions and thoughts at times, and he was afraid that such a tangled mixture would one day turn him into a psychopath.

Slowly, he had paced through the cemetery park to a bus stop on the north side of the park, where he was ready to take the bus back to the hotel.

He sat on a bench waiting for the bus, and next to him sat a middle-aged man in a beige shirt and brown suit pants.

"Hi, hello." Gan Guoyang suddenly greeted the person next to him.

The suit pants next to him looked at him and didn't agree, because Gan Guoyang, who was already 6 feet 10 tall, looked really scary.

"Would you like to hear my story?" Gan Guoyang said again.

The suit pants glanced at it, but still didn't respond, but moved to the side, as if a little scared.

"I'm from China, an ancient country on the other side of the Pacific. When I was young, my heart was not very good, and I heard people say that a person with a bad heart must have been a good person in his previous life, because he dedicated his heart to others. Gan Guoyang didn't pay attention to the young man's performance, and began to talk to himself.

Today's Gan Guoyang is very abnormal, he is not a person who has a lot of tongues and likes to chat with people and fart, and most of his saliva is sprayed on the basketball court.

But now, he has a strong desire to communicate with people, as if to relieve the pressure of the misorganized memories in his mind, or to vent the pain caused by that finals.

He began to ramble on about his own story, but he couldn't figure out whether it was Gan Guoyang's story or the story of Dang Lei in later generations, or he had completely mixed the two.

And the suit pants sitting next to him were slowly attracted by Gan Guoyang's story, so he missed the first bus, then the second, and then the third......

"And then, we lost the game and a lot of people rushed into the field, but I felt like I was walking in the lonely wilderness, that feeling...... It's really terrible. ”

"And then?" The suit pants have entered Gan Guoyang's story and began to inquire about the plot behind.

"And then, I graduated, I went to the graduation party, and then I went to Los Angeles and told you stories here. This is the end of my story, thank you for the trouble and the time it took for you. ”

"Oh no, I think listening to your story will be one of the deepest memories of my life, you said... It's really good, it's great. ”

"The car I'm waiting for is here, I've missed several shifts, I'm leaving." Gan Guoyang looked at the bus at the station and hurriedly said that he had to go back now, and it was already noon.

Suit pants looked at this strange big tall man, wearing a pair of Nike running shoes, and hurriedly bent down and got on the bus.

"Hey, what's your name?" Suit pants suddenly remembered that he didn't know the name of this guy yet.

"My name is Forrest Gump!" Gan Guoyang stretched out the window and said loudly, and then the car started.

In 1994, when the movie Forrest Gump won multiple Oscars, his director said: "I was inspired by a long story meeting, just like in the movie, it was one of the deepest memories of my life, I heard the most sincere story of a person." Oh, and his shoes. ”

The suit pants were Robert Zemeckis, who was just a screenwriter in Hollywood at the time - the director of "Forrest Gump", and the pair of Nike running shoes worn by Gan Guoyang were also known as "Forrest Gump shoes" in the future.

It's just that Gan Guoyang's troubles are not less because of this.

(PS: Paul Pearce actually moved to Inglewood when he was in junior high school, and it was tampered with here.) )