The place where Zhang Xiaohai wants to take his uncle is a gymnasium not far from the vegetable market.

After getting out of the taxi, the uncle stood in place, looking at the magnificent gymnasium in front of him, and a layer of mist appeared in his cloudy eyes. Reunited after a long absence, this is the place where his dream originated when he was young, but he will never have the opportunity to run on this field again in this life, and it is inevitable that he will feel emotional.

"Uncle, everyone has a stage in their hearts, and they use their youth and dreams to cast a path to their dreams." Zhang Xiaohai walked to his uncle's side and imagined the gymnasium in front of him as his own stage.

The uncle turned around, secretly wiped his moist eyes with his hand, and then limped towards the gymnasium, Zhang Xiaohai silently followed behind the uncle.

There are many people in the gymnasium who are training themselves, most of them are children, teenagers, the uncle walked around the track, and the emotions in his heart slowly retracted, and suddenly there was a pale and panting child running next to him who fell beside him, and the uncle couldn't bear to go up and help him, but there was a coach on a bicycle behind him, yelling at him. "Stand up and keep running!!"

The child's eyes were full of conviction, gritted his teeth, supported the ground with his hands, stood up, and continued to run forward. Seeing this, even Zhang Xiaohai was touched, and behind every glorious champion is always a hardship that others can't see. But when the uncle saw this, it seemed to evoke his childhood memories, and the corners of his mouth involuntarily showed a touch of relief: "If the youth is strong, the motherland is strong, and I have no regrets!" ”

After speaking, the uncle suddenly turned his head and glanced at Zhang Xiaohai, who was silently following him, and said with emotion: "You brought me here to evoke my memories back then, it seems that Ah Cheng has agreed with you." ”

Zhang Xiaohai smiled awkwardly and said, "Uncle, I brought you here, I just want you to relive the stage that belongs to you!! ”

"Well, you did it, I have no regrets now!!" Looking at the teenagers who were training hard past him, the uncle nodded with satisfaction, and then limped towards the gymnasium door first. Zhang Xiaohai followed closely and said at the same time: "Uncle, I'll take you to another place, although it is not as bright as the gymnasium, there is no doubt that it is also the stage where some people's dreams originate!" ”

The uncle nodded, didn't speak, and followed Zhang Xiaohai to take a car and came directly to Hengyu Internet Cafe.

Although the Internet café is not as imposing as the gymnasium, it is full of people. The uncle limped in with Zhang Xiaohai, and he didn't understand what the kid in front of him was doing with him, because here he only saw these teenagers wasting their youth playing games.

Zhang Xiaohai silently walked to the service desk with his uncle, and then whispered a few words to the network administrator, who nodded to him, and then took them to a rather quiet box in the depths of the hall, there were only five people in this box, and the equipment was much more high-end than the outside, and these five people were the team led by Lu Chenxi.

Lu Chenxi They train very seriously, rarely talk and chat, they are all staring at the screen with a focused expression, working on the keyboard in their hands, and Lu Chenxi is directing the game from time to time. Zhang Xiaohai leaned against the door of the box, and couldn't help but nod when he saw this, expressing his satisfaction with Lu Chenxi's serious attitude, and then turned his head to the uncle and said, "Uncle, look at the five people in this box again!" ”

When the uncle heard this, he limped over, looked in through the transparent glass on the door, and saw five young men, sitting in front of the computer, with a serious expression on the keyboard in his hand, their eyes were focused and full, and the uncle saw something familiar to him from their eyes. Although they were also playing games, their demeanor was completely different from the players in the hall, especially the eyes that were focused and full of conviction, as if they were younger themselves.

The uncle's heart shook slightly, and he turned his head and asked puzzledly, "What are they?" ”

Zhang Xiaohai's expression suddenly became serious and explained: "They are training, they are working their own stage, their eyes are focused and full of faith are the same as those teenagers training in the gymnasium, they are all fighting for their dreams!" ”

The uncle looked around at the somewhat dim environment in the Internet café, he couldn't believe that there were people fighting for their dreams in such a place, and the uncle turned around and couldn't help asking, "What game are they playing?" ”

"DOTA, this is a five-player team esports game, they also have competitions, national, international, they are also full of fighting spirit, they also have a firm belief in the eyes, they can fight for the glory of the motherland like those athletes who come out of the gym, but they lack a vision that the world recognizes." Zhang Xiaohai said that he was a little excited.

And the uncle heard this, but he was a little shocked in his heart, he never thought that there would be a game to play, and he could also win honor for the motherland, the uncle who was born in the old society had a very strong sense of honor for the motherland, but he was still skeptical of Zhang Xiaohai's words. "What you say is true?"

"It's true! And I can tell Uncle with great certainty that your son Ah Cheng's Dota talent is comparable to international players, as long as he is given the opportunity, he will definitely be able to stand at the peak of the international stage and win honor for the motherland. Zhang Xiaohai's eyes were full of incomparably firm conviction.

The uncle saw unprecedented firmness in Zhang Xiaohai's eyes, and he couldn't help but believe Zhang Xiaohai's words, but he was still hesitating. "I'll think about it and give you an answer tomorrow!!"

Zhang Xiaohai sighed, he has done his best to do this, and then it depends on whether the uncle has figured it out. After Zhang Xiaohai sent his uncle away, he looked at the speeding car, and his mood was complicated, what would happen next could only depend on the will of God, but he had a hunch that the uncle would agree.

After the uncle and Zhang Xiaohai separated, he did not go back to the vegetable market, but went back to his home. The uncle's house is just a two-story bungalow, and the house is still a little dilapidated. At this point in time, Duan Pengcheng is still taking care of the fish stall, and the uncle naturally wants to avoid his son when he comes back alone.

Pushing open the door, the uncle limped into the dimly lit hut, and then came to a small locker that he hadn't opened in a long time, most recently a year and a half ago. The uncle trembled and opened the door of the storage cabinet carefully, and a lot of dust fell on the crack of the door.

The uncle waved his hand in front of his eyes, swept away the dust that had fallen down, and then cautiously took out a few medals from the storage cabinet, and the uncle lifted his cuffs and carefully wiped off the dust on these medals, and a layer of mist appeared in his cloudy eyes. After the uncle looked at a few medals for a while, he put the medals in tremblingly, and then groped in the storage cabinet with his hand again.

Maybe it's been too long, and the uncle fumbled in the cabinet for a while before he found what he wanted. This is a keyboard, the black shape is very smooth, very suitable for, at a glance you know that it is specially prepared for professional players, but it is a bad keyboard, the keys on it have long disappeared, and the middle of the keyboard is also broken. This is the keyboard that Duan Pengcheng was broken by his father, Duan Pengcheng was reluctant to discard him, so he took it back home, but he didn't expect it to be secretly stored by his father in this cabinet with the medal.

Looking at the keyboard that was broken by himself back then, the uncle muttered to himself: "Ah Cheng, maybe that little brother is right, you also have your own dreams, and your father shouldn't force you to stay by your side!" You also have the right to win honor for the Motherland!! ”

With that, the uncle took the keyboard in his hand, turned around and went to his bedroom to get some money, and then limped out of the house. The uncle took a broken keyboard, hailed a car on the side of the road, and hurried to a nearby computer city. Uncle has hardly been to the computer city, and he doesn't know which store sells the same brand as this keyboard, so he can only ask one by one.

"Uncle, this brand of keyboard was discontinued a year ago, and now it is out of print on the market."

The uncle asked several stores that bought computer configurations, and they all gave the uncle such an answer, which made him depressed for a while. But he didn't give up, and limped from the first floor to the second floor, and then to the third floor, asking all thirty or forty shops, and still the same answer, sweat covered his dry cheeks.

Wiping the sweat oozing from his forehead, the uncle ran to the fourth floor, and there was just a special e-sports configuration store at the left turn of the escalator. The uncle didn't care about thirty-seven twenty-one, so he broke in. Immediately, a young man in the store greeted him, and the latter's eyes suddenly noticed the broken keyboard in the uncle's hand, and subconsciously asked, "Uncle, are you here to buy the keyboard?" ”

"Yes, young man, show me, do you still have this brand of keyboard in your store?" The uncle handed over the broken keyboard in his hand, and the young man only glanced at the brand on it, frowned slightly, and replied: "This brand of keyboard was discontinued a year ago, and it is almost out of print on the market, but we are here for e-sports, and the boss is also a fan of e-sports equipment, he may have it, I'll help you ask!" ”

"Okay, thank you, boy!!" Seeing that there was hope, the uncle couldn't help but be overjoyed.

After the young man told the uncle to rest next to him for a while, he went back to the back room and asked their boss, and after about ten minutes, the boss came out of the back room, a middle-aged man with glasses and a slightly fat figure. After he saw the uncle, he was slightly stunned, obviously he didn't expect that the person who asked for the keyboard would be an uncle, but he still greeted him, and asked politely when he was closer: "Uncle, what do you want this keyboard for?" ”

"I bought it for my son, he's going to play!!"

Uncle said a bland sentence but shocked the boss in place, how could he not understand that e-sports is equal to games in the eyes of secular people, and it is a plaything. The boss originally wanted to bargain with the person who bought the keyboard, but when he met such an open-minded uncle who supported his son's e-sports career, the boss was suddenly touched and his favor increased.

"Uncle, wait a minute, I'll get it for you!!" After the boss said a few words, he went back to the back room, took out the keyboard of the exact same brand, and then handed it to the uncle, and said with emotion: "Uncle, if there are more fathers like you in society, then the domestic e-sports industry will be brighter." ”

It was the first time for the uncle to be praised like this, he smiled awkwardly and didn't speak, before this he was also very opposed to his son playing games, just because someone changed his opinion on the game.

This keyboard,In the end, the boss gave it to the uncle for free,Although the out-of-print keyboard is very expensive,But the boss still thinks,The keyboard can only shine the greatest light in the hands of the person who should belong to it。

After the uncle thanked him, he went out with a new keyboard, and then turned around and remembered this store deeply, the uncle is a kind person, and he has received the favor of others, and he is looking for an opportunity to repay it to others. And the owner of this shop would not have thought that because of his small act of kindness, the benefits he would bring him in the future would be more than he imagined.

After coming out of the computer city, the uncle went home directly with the new keyboard, and then limped open the door and entered his son's bedroom.

After doing all this, the uncle went back to the vegetable market, in order to earn more money, they sold fish until the evening, and ate in front of the fish stall at noon.

Duan Pengcheng saw that his father limped back at noon, and did not see Zhang Xiaohai's figure, Duan Pengcheng sighed slightly, slightly disappointed, and wanted to ask the result, but he still held back. After the uncle came back, his expression was still the same, no different from usual, and he loudly scolded him to hurry up, which also made Duan Pengcheng full of suspicions about Zhang Xiaohai's persuasion effect, and he was already slandered in his heart. "It seems that Dad still hasn't been convinced by that kid, hey!!"

Very late, the uncle finally closed the stall, put the remaining fish into the freezer of the stall, counted the money, the two sorted out the sundries of the stall, and finally saw that everything was in order, so he pulled down the roller shutter door, locked it, and the two went back to the house silently.

After a long day's work, Duan Pengcheng was a little tired, and when he went home, he just wanted to take a good shower and then play a few dota to sleep. It's just that when he returned to the bedroom after taking a shower, he suddenly found that he had a new keyboard on his computer desk, Duan Pengcheng couldn't help but rush forward with curiosity, took it in his hand and looked at it, and the shock on his face became more and more intense. "This is, isn't this the keyboard that was broken by my father back then, and now it's out of print, I searched for several but couldn't find it, how could it suddenly appear in front of my computer desk out of thin air?"

Duan Pengcheng suddenly thought of a possibility, but he was a little incredulous, but only his father had the key with him in the family. "Could it be that Dad bought it? Was my father really persuaded by that stinky boy? ”

The more he thought about it, the more incredulous he felt, it was just a voice coming from the bedroom door that completely dispelled his doubts. "Ah Cheng, go ahead, this time my father won't stop you anymore, and come back for the honor of the motherland."

Duan Pengcheng turned his head suddenly, only to see his father smiling and leaning against the door watching, his eyes were full of encouragement, at this moment, the most fragile thing in Duan Pengcheng's heart was touched, and a layer of mist quickly appeared in his eyes, and he actually shed crystal tears without fighting.

"Dad!!" Duan Pengcheng screamed from the bottom of his heart, and then rushed over and hugged his father's thin body tightly.

"Fight hard, I'm optimistic about that little brother, and I'll be relieved if you follow him."

"Hmm. I won't let Dad down. ”

The uncle nodded with relief, the knot between the father and son was finally relieved at this moment, but Zhang Xiaohai, who had untied the knot, was calling Hu Fei'er's father and asking him to sponsor a coolie for him, as long as he had the strength, Hu Guodong agreed, saying that he could hand it over to Zhang Xiaohai tomorrow. The latter nodded, because Zhang Xiaohai had a hunch that the uncle's heart would definitely be relieved.

Sure enough, when it was almost noon the next day, Zhang Xiaohai took a small worker assigned to him by Hu Guodong and rushed to the fish stall again. As expected, the uncle really agreed to Duan Pengcheng's comeback, which made Zhang Xiaohai happy. It's just that Duan Pengcheng glanced at his father's legs and feet, and said worriedly: "Xiaohai, my father's legs and feet are inconvenient, he ...... alone."

Before he finished speaking, Zhang Xiaohai interrupted Duan Pengcheng's words, pursed his lips and said with a smile: "I have already considered it for you, and I have already found a sponsor for our team, so in order to get you, the sponsor specially hired a small worker to come over and help your father move the fish." ”

Saying that, Zhang Xiaohai sent the little worker to the uncle, and after Duan Pengcheng saw it, his eyes showed a sincere gratitude, hugged Zhang Xiaohai's body, and said with tears in his eyes: "Thank you!" ”

Zhang Xiaohai nodded, Duan Pengcheng's matter has finally come to an end, and the team has one more powerful teammate, he believes that it will not be long before the ace team will be formed, and then it will be able to dominate the international dota stage, as well as challenge his senior brother and defeat the player who holds the horizontal technique.

(To be continued)