After Qi Dai and Xu Yuanshan talked about it, the two also resumed their learning mode before the sports meeting.

Xu Yuanshan got up at six o'clock in the morning to run in the playground, Qi Dai arrived at school at half past six, the two went to the small garden to read English together, returned to the classroom at seven o'clock for morning self-study, went to breakfast together after morning self-study, waited for each other to eat at noon, and went to the self-study room together for evening self-study after eating in the evening.

After a few days like this, Shi Meimei couldn't help but complain to Qi Dai: "If I didn't know that the two of you are studying together every day in addition to studying, I would really doubt that the two of you are getting better." ”

Qi Dai listened thoughtfully.

After dinner that day, Qi Dai and Xu Yuanshan had one more activity - playing basketball.

Qi Dai said very naturally: "I promised you to teach you basketball before, let's start today." ”

Xu Yuanshan naturally had no opinion.

It may be that the weather has been getting colder recently, and most people would rather stay in the classroom than play outside, so there are not many people on the basketball court in the evening.

In addition to Qi Dai and him, there were only a few senior boys separated by a court.

The basketball was borrowed from Chen Tongen, Qi Dai clamped the basketball to her waist with her forearm, and stood on the playground as a coach in a cool posture: "The basketball game is generally composed of five people......

After saying a bunch of specious words, Qi Dai handed the basketball to Xu Yuanshan, "You dribble the ball first." ”

Xu Yuanshan took the basketball, hesitated and patted it on the ground, and glanced at Qi Dai in the process.

Qi Dai encouraged: "Very good, continue." She was embarrassed to say that she had forgotten what was behind her, so she let Xu Yuanshan continue to dribble.

However, it is also true that Xu Yuanshan said that he has no motor cells.

The sport he has been exposed to the most since he was a child is probably running, and other than that, it is limited to the sports that must be tested in physical education class.

Qi Dai is not very good at teaching, so she recalled that Chen Tongen once taught herself steps to teach Xu Yuanshan step by step.

After talking for a while, I had to stop and think about it, and Chen Tongen, who didn't know when he came to watch when he was in trouble, finally stood up from under the basketball hoop, "Do you need help?" ”

"Yes!" Qi Dai immediately handed her the basketball.

So Chen Tongen began to teach the concepts and rules of basketball, as well as the basic skills.

After a while, she realized, "Are you a little bit unable to let go?" She asked Xu Yuanshan.

Xu Yuanshan burned red and didn't look at her.

"Your hands are so stiff, you have to shoot like this to be right." Chen Tongen said and made a demonstration.

Xu Yuanshan glanced at Qi Dai, Qi Dai didn't notice it, she was also learning there, so Xu Yuanshan also pursed his lips and followed along, but it still didn't seem to be the same.

Chen Tongen saw that he couldn't do it for a long time, so he wanted to reach out and guide him, but before he could touch it, Xu Yuanshan retracted his hand with a swish.

She blinked, looked at Qi Dai and then at Xu Yuanshan, thought of something, and took the initiative to say, "I'm sorry." ”

Qi Dai also looked at Xu Yuanshan, Xu Yuanshan put his hands behind his back, and lowered his head to see his expression clearly.

Qi Dai said to Chen Tongen: "Actually, we don't have to be so meticulous, we are just interested in playing, which is different from your major." "I completely forgot that I gave Xu Yuanshan the detailed rules for basketball.

Chen Tongen said: "En." ”

So I started talking again, this time just letting them know how to play.

Two half-hangers, led by a professional player, played for more than an hour before parting.

When Qi Dai and Xu Yuanshan walked to the study room, Xu Yuanshan was silent all the way.

Although he doesn't usually talk much, Qi Dai still feels that he is not in the same mood as before, she thought for a long time and asked, "Do you actually not like to play basketball?" ”

Xu Yuanshan was stunned, broke away from his own world, and replied, "No. ”

"That's good." Qi Dai breathed a sigh of relief, "Actually, let's learn to play basketball and have fun, relax our mood, it doesn't matter if the posture is not standard, the action rules are not standardized, and happiness is the most important thing." ”

Xu Yuanshan was also relieved when he heard this, he was afraid that he would not be able to learn, he was afraid that Qi Dai would dislike his clumsiness and woodenness, and he was even more afraid that Qi Dai would ask him why he was afraid of contact with people.

He wouldn't refuse to answer Qi Dai, but he didn't know how to answer her for the time being, so he hoped she wouldn't ask.

"It's the weekend tomorrow again." Qi Dai sighed.

"Don't you like weekends?" Xu Yuanshan asked her.

"Not really." On weekends, you can sleep in, watch TV, go out, and draw at home...... There are many things you can do, but, "I can't study with you on weekends." "She was a little distressed.

Xu Yuanshan was stunned, and then felt as if his heart had been poked by something, crispy and numb, very light and quickly disappeared.

"What are you going to do over the weekend?" Qi Dai asked him on the table in the study room.

Xu Yuanshan opened his mouth several times and didn't say what he planned to do on the weekend.

Because his plans don't matter, they will be ruined anyway.

Qi Dai sighed silently, no longer embarrassed for him, and only said: "Then if you are free, can you call me, you know my phone." ”

This time Xu Yuanshan was not silent, he nodded and said okay.

Xu Yuanshan has not returned to "home" for a long time.

It is said to be a home, but in fact it is only a temporary residence.

People there remind him every day.

If Huang Bin hadn't called the head teacher and asked him to go back on the weekend, maybe he wouldn't have remembered this place.

"Yo, the hill is back." The woman in the alley shop has a very loud voice, and 80% of the short things in the alley are passed through her mouth, of course, she is also very bold, I heard that her ex-husband once abused her, but she stabbed her into the hospital, and then she didn't even dare to call the police, and she chose to leave the house after the divorce.

So Xu Yuanshan didn't dare to mess with her, and nodded obediently when he heard the words.

The woman sneered with disgust: "Cut, it's really still a little stuffy gourd." ”

This alley is called the old alley, the old alley is not in the suburbs, on the contrary, it is close to the city center, but the old alley is very old, neither need to be demolished, nor will it affect the normal life of people, after a long time it will be forgotten here and develop slowly, the people who live here are like living in the gap between two high mountains, some people struggle to climb up, some people are willing to sink into the abyss, and some people accidentally fall into the gap and can never get up again.

The old alleys are very deep, and the people living here are becoming more and more mixed, and most of the people who stay here are the old people who are reluctant to leave and the outsiders who have left their hometowns to work, and there are people from all walks of life.

Xu Yuanshan once met a tenant in a suit and leather shoes, who got up before dawn every day and was busy until late at night.

The man, he thought, probably crawled out.

What about him?

Will he be able to climb out?

He walked this alley a thousand times, and every time he walked through this muddy alley, the smell of the air and the noise in his ears would make him breathless, and then he would feel that he would be crushed here for the rest of his life.

There is a voice in his heart that will say, don't think about it, you can't get out, you can't climb out, and even if you climb out, you will fall down.

Then he would continue to hide in his shell.

But now, he wanted to get out, and he was determined to climb out.

The place he was going to was at the bottom of the alley, and there was a big banyan tree downstairs, and people often drank tea and chatted and played cards under the tree.

Today is no exception.

"Isn't this Huang Bin's nephew? Holiday? Someone in the crowd asked.

Xu Yuanshan didn't know each other, so he walked forward with his head bored, but the discussion behind him did not stop.

"I'm afraid this kid is not deaf and dumb, I haven't heard a word from him since I lived here."

"It's not a little deaf and dumb, I will set up a stall at the entrance of the alley to sell breakfast during the holidays."

"No, this kid doesn't look that old."

"Eh, don't mention it, the child is pitiful."

……

Xu Yuanshan opened and closed the unit door, isolating all those chaotic sounds behind his ears.

He was almost able to memorize those words.

It is nothing more than that his parents died when he was very young, and it didn't take long for his grandparents who took care of him in the countryside to go west, and his uncle and aunt kindly adopted him as the only relative, but the uncle had a car accident the next year, and his aunt found someone to tell his uncle's fortune, and the fortune teller said that someone in the family was with him, and then he took his eight characters to calculate, and the fortune teller said that his life was not good, and he specialized in relatives and so on.

Oh, well-intentioned. Xu Yuanshan sneered in his heart.

Standing in front of the doors of Building 602, he struggled for more than ten minutes before knocking on the door.

After another ten minutes, there was a scolding voice: "Who is it early in the morning!" Knock knock, knock soul! ”

Xu Yuanshan shuddered, withdrew his hand and squeezed the schoolbag strap tightly.

The door inside opened, and there was a woman in a large cotton pajama standing inside the door, the woman's chin was pointed, her cheekbones were slightly high, and a pair of Danfeng eyes were half-squinted, and she said in disgust: "It's you, why did you come back." ”

With the heating on in the house and the strong smell of sandalwood, Xu Yuanshan quietly moved his feet and whispered, "Uncle asked me to come." ”

"Tsk." The woman laughed at the house and shouted: "Huang Bin, your cheap nephew is here!" ”

"The distant mountains are coming?" A middle-aged male voice came from inside, "Then you let him come in first." ”

"Go in, go in! You don't know how dirty the alley is, you don't care if it's not you who cleans every day, right? The woman scolded and went into the house again, but the security door was not opened.

Xu Yuanshan just stood in the ventilation corridor and waited.

After a while, Huang Bin got dressed and opened the door and came out, pulled Xu Yuanshan downstairs again, and said in his mouth: "Yuanshan, don't be like your aunt, women have long hair and short knowledge." ”

Xu Yuanshan didn't pick up.

When he first came here, he thought that his uncle loved him, but ......

Huang Bin led him out of the old alley again, and kept saying hello to those he didn't know along the way.

Ten minutes later, I walked outside a large vegetable market.

Xu Yuanshan naturally knew that Huang Bin didn't bring him to buy vegetables.

Sure enough, Huang Bin pointed to a fish stall not far away and told him: "You will come here to help on weekends in the future, the other party has arranged lunch and dinner, my uncle is also old, and there are several people in the family, you are not young, can you help your uncle?" ”

Every time, he will be white-faced and red-faced with Wang Xia, if he hadn't accidentally known the truth about his transfer to Ninth Middle School, maybe he would really continue to treat him as a real uncle who really loves him.

"Far Mountains?" Huang Bin called him.

But he couldn't do anything, Xu Yuanshan lowered his head and said okay.

Instead of getting up before dawn to sell breakfast and going out to sell snacks every night, it's good to just stay in the vegetable shed now, isn't it? He comforted himself.

Huang Bin touched his head and said with satisfaction: "Good." ”

Xu Yuanshan suddenly remembered Qi Dai, who also liked to touch his head, and suddenly had a strong resistance to Huang Bin touching his head.

He hid without a trace, and Huang Bin didn't care, anyway, he didn't care what Xu Yuanshan thought.

Xu Yuanshan went to the fish stall under the leadership of Huang Bin and became a fish seller.