Chapter 9: She's by my side, she's in my heart
The autumn sunset has no temperature, with a little wind there is a thick chill, the trees are a little unbearable, trembling slightly, the river is flooded with scales, dyed with the color of the sun, the cross on the top of the church faces the light, but the other side does not enter the darkness. The wild chrysanthemums in full bloom are the most beautiful scenery in the scene, although it is insignificant, but Su Ling can always notice it.
He couldn't help but notice.
The two were walking on the way to school, the atmosphere was very awkward, Su Ling didn't want to take the initiative to find something to say, he hadn't galloped on the basketball court for a long time, and now he wanted to go faster, but Ying Xiaxia grabbed the sleeves of his clothes, lowered his head and followed him silently, like a shy little girlfriend.
"Do you have to hold it?" Su Ling looked at her helplessly.
"I'm afraid you'll slip away from me as soon as I let go." Ying Xia Xia will speak Chinese very slowly when he doesn't talk about professional knowledge, and sometimes there is really a feeling of pun. From someone else's point of view, this is two young couples talking shy and ambiguous words on the side of the road.
"I won't, I can't leave you alone." Su Ling said with a sincere face.
"I don't believe it, your words are more false than those believers who worship to get free cups." She puffed out her mouth and made an angry look, Su Ling suddenly felt that she was very cute, and sure enough, this was called a girl, "Just now you wanted to get rid of me directly." ”
"Ahaha......" The idea was seen through, and Su Ling had no choice but to let her lead her, and then refocus his attention on the surrounding scenery.
Wild chrysanthemums are cold and proud, growing among the grass, but they are always taller than the sparse grass on the soil. Su Ling wondered if she would like it if she picked one, so she bent down, but her clothes were pulled. He turned around, and the girl behind him shook her head at him, and said with a look of pity: "It's a part of here, life is short, don't take it for the sake of momentary beauty...... The strip breaks. ”
She couldn't speak, Su Ling laughed out loud, and the girl blushed and glared at him angrily. Su Ling felt that this scene was still a little charming in the dusk, the sunset was about to set, and finally the red light was burning, and a gust of wind came, and the wild chrysanthemums and the girl's hair were swaying and messy in the wind. Su Ling remembered that scene, but later he also forgot whether it was to remember that scene, or because of the lovely people who were always very serious in the scene.
"Let's go, let's go, if you don't go, you'll be late." At the urging of Ying Xiaxia, he woke up from his trance, scratched his head embarrassedly, and withdrew his gaze from the girl's clear eyes. With a sea of stars in his eyes, Su Ling felt that this wording was not an exaggeration at all.
Everyone in the gymnasium had finished warming up, and to Su Ling's surprise, they were actually practicing their basic skills. From simple passes to layups to free-throw line shots, everyone was divided into different groups to practice and then rotated. The basketball team is no longer as casual as it used to be, and it seems a little deserted after the number of people decreases.
"There are still more than three months before the spring competition, our goal is very clear, this month I hope everyone can improve their basic skills relatively, and then next month we will start to systematically practice tactics, next year's spring competition, our goal is to qualify first in the district and reach the top four in the city." The coach's loud voice echoed in the increasingly scarce gymnasium.
"Report to the coach, we want to be the first in the city!" Zhou Zhehao just finished a layup, raised his hands high and said.
"Report to the coach, we all want to be the first in the city!" Others said the same. What's the point of the race if it's not for the first place?
"It's good to have confidence, and the top four is also my bottom line, and there are four famous schools in the city that have long occupied the top four positions. Ryosui High School, Takeran High School, Akiyama High School, and Tsusawa High School. I've seen the video of their game this year, and the level of basketball in the city is divided into four elite schools and other schools. The coach looked at everyone, and there was no expression on everyone's faces, they had never been played, and the school team had never qualified for the group stage in the district, let alone the four famous schools, I was afraid that they had never even heard of it.
Su Ling silently changed into his sneakers, ready to join them, he was not interested in these topics, in his opinion, the coach had made it very clear that this month was used to improve basic skills, rather than competing for the speed of this moment, it was better to improve himself honestly.
"Su Ling, 75 minutes late, let's run 75 laps." The coach pinched the stopwatch in his hand, and Su Ling looked at Ying Xiaxia next to him with a blank expression, who quietly pointed at the coach with his finger, indicating that this was what he meant, and at the same time stuck out his little tongue, his eyes seemed to say sorry.
"Coach, coach, 75 laps will run dead." Su Ling said softly that he felt little strength after he finished practicing.
"75 laps, practice with the ball, drop the ball plus one circle, everyone, you can choose to defend Su Ling and break the ball at any time during the training process." The coach's loud voice made Su Ling feel like he was in hell, "After playing a quarter, I started to gasp, if you don't improve your physical fitness, you can only play for five minutes in the future." Men can't afford not to last. ”
"Hahahaha......" Everyone laughed and looked at Su Ling with some pity, after all, in their eyes, Su Ling was late for personal reasons.
"Smack!"
The coach didn't say a word, and passed the ball directly. Su Ling caught the ball and began to dribble along the court, Zhou Zhehao was the first to run over, pretending to be defensive, and asked with a concerned face: "Suzi, what's the situation?" ”
"If you're late, you can only accept the penalty for running." Su Ling looked helpless, crossed dribbling and turned around Zhou Zhehao.
"Don't lie to me, I saw you come in with the manager, don't you go on a date secretly behind Ye Xiaoyan's back, right?" Zhou Zhehao ran after him.
"No, I happened to run into it on the road." Su Ling didn't want to tell the truth, if this kind of special care was spoken, it might make others have ideas.
"Tut, forget it. Ye Xiaoyan asked me where you went after school today, she said that she wanted to watch the newly released movie, and then sent you WeChat and you didn't reply. Zhou Zhehao said casually, his eyes secretly aimed at Su Ling, wanting to see his reaction.
But Su Ling seemed to be still immersed in the previous fitness torture, and said casually: "I had something to do before, and I didn't read WeChat." ”
Zhou Zhehao returned to the training team a little disappointed, and he didn't know what he was thinking.
The day's training was coming to an end soon, and after 75 laps, Su Ling also joined the team of basic exercises, but before he could practice, the coach summoned everyone and asked everyone to stand on the bottom line, saying, "Today's training is basically over." The last round trip, ten round-trips, one back and forth counts one, and if the last person is ten seconds behind the first person, then re-run. Ready, beep—"
Before everyone had time to complain, they immediately ran out, they didn't dare to slack off, and if the coach found out that they were lazy, they might have to run again. Soon, Zhou Zhehao was the first to finish, followed by Zhou Chu, Li Tiantian and others.
When Su Ling ran back and forth on the seventh trip, he felt that he had exhausted all his strength, his brain was already blank, his vision was gradually blurred, there was only the bottom line in his eyes, he didn't know that he was far behind others, when Zhou Zhehao finished, Su Ling was still lying on the eighth, and in the end, he fell on the bottom line of the eighth lay, and the whole person couldn't get up.
"Come on Su Ling!" Ying Xiaxia was the first to cheer him up, waving her fists to cheer him up.
"Come on!" Others also cheered him on, "Get up, you must finish it." ”
Today's training is very tiring, everyone thinks so, Song Youming, who doesn't run much in the middle, went out and vomited once, because he didn't adapt to this amount of exercise. But no one gave up, Su Ling did a lot of exercise in a day, and his body was almost overdrawn, and he really felt that the moment he was lying on the ground might be the best time.
"Arise and accomplish your mission."
"If you admit defeat, you really lose!"
"Don't give up on Suzi."
……
The surrounding voices were a little blurred, and he could only hear them intermittently, but he seemed to hear Ye Xiaoyan's voice in them: "Boys are going to be pillars, so if they fall, they can't sit on the ground, even if they cry, they have to stand up and cry." ”
In my mind, the scene from my childhood gradually emerged, he ran and fell on the tile floor after a rainy day and she helped him up on the side, Su Ling was the child since he was a child, and Ye Xiaoyan has always been a mature one, silently accompanying him and encouraging him by the side.
"Boys are meant to be pillars."
"So even if it doesn't work......"
"Stand up too!"
In her childhood, she wore the same ponytail as now, similar but more immature.
"You go away, I don't want you to care about me!" At that time, he was always bored with her.
"But I like you! So I'm going to be with you all the time. ”
But I like you. This sentence was repeated again in Su Ling's heart. It turned out that when she was young and ignorant, she was like she had confessed herself.
Su Ling's consciousness gradually became clearer, he propped himself up with his hands, and then slowly got up from the ground and continued to run, everyone began to cheer him up more actively, the coach didn't say anything, and there was a trace of approval in his eyes.
In the end, Su Ling almost staggered to finish the remaining laps, but the coach did not change his mind, everyone still had to run again, but this time he did not have a hard requirement, and he could leave after running. At the same time, he also said: "The purpose of this rule is only one, what I hope is not the fastest person to wait for everyone, but everyone to support and encourage the slowest, we are a whole, a whole, we must learn to unite." ”