Chapter 19: An Unexpected Basketball Game

It's important to be the last winner, but winning doesn't bring me much joy, but the feeling of defeat is unbearable.

Yu Zixiao couldn't remember when he started standing here, the bright moonlight sprinkled on the small lake on the campus looked particularly beautiful, and the breeze and the moonlight together covered the small lake with a layer of silver gauze.

On weekends, he is the only one left in the dormitory, and there will inevitably be a little emptiness in his heart, but at this time, he prefers to enjoy the tranquility of being alone.

Yu Zixiao took out the two concert tickets that Liu Yinuo threw on the ground at random from his pocket, and a post-it note was attached to them: At eight o'clock next Friday night, the basketball game of Class 1 vs Class 4 is located in the school playground.

He hasn't touched basketball for almost half a year, and even if he has been practicing, I'm afraid it's not his opponent. Yu Zixiao can imagine how badly he would lose if he went to play.

Yu Zixiao tore off the post-it note, and what caught his eye was the schedule of the concert: it happened to be next Friday night, so it was better to go to the concert.

Yu Zixiao framed the bright moon in the night sky with both hands, if only the moon could be as beautiful as it is now when watching the concert.

On weekends, there are still sparse people walking around on campus, and the school has arranged a small storage box for each student, Yu Zixiao sneaked into the storage room with the ticket, wanting to put the ticket in Lin Yu's storage box.

Although the storage box was locked, there was still a big gap between the door and the box, and Yu Zixiao easily stuffed a ticket into it.

Just as he was about to escape from the "crime scene", Yu Zixiao heard the sound of conversation outside.

"Who do you think Liu Yinuo will go to the concert with?"

"I guess it should be Lin Yu, I heard that Liu Yinuo likes her!"

"Really?"

"Most of them are not on leave, I heard that some people saw them go out of school together after school, and they seemed to be holding hands."

No way. The feeling of pressure in Yu Zixiao's chest was a little strong.

"It's no wonder that Liu Yinuo plays basketball well and has good results, the key is that he is still handsome, and the two of them are really talented and beautiful."

"Yes, yes, many people say this, before everyone thought that Yu Zixiao would be with Lin Yu, but later, I heard that Yu Zixiao was a scumbag, and Lin Yu dumped him. Lin Yu also said that if she won the first place this time, she would go to the concert with Liu Yinuo. ”

"Scumbag? What's going on, tell me about it......"

The voice became farther and farther away, Yu Zixiao slowly stood up, he fumbled in his pocket for a while, and stuffed a deformed ticket into Lin Yu's storage box through the gap: Who will you go with ......?

On Monday morning, Yu Zixiao finished his meal early, and along the way, he could always hear other students setting up their dragon gate array, and whenever he heard someone laughing, Yu Zixiao felt that they were laughing at him.

For Yu Zixiao, this originally very close road is not much worse than the psychological pressure that a human landing on the moon has to bear after completing it.

Yu Zixiao didn't choose to enter the classroom by the stairs that the students were walking, he was going to go up from a small staircase that had been abandoned for a long time.

"That's right, the exam is over...... Nothing big of a reaction...... Uh-huh...... There's a basketball game this week. ”

Although the voice was very small, Yu Zixiao still heard that it was Liu Yinuo, Yu Zixiao leaned sideways and cautiously poked out a head, Liu Yinuo was talking on the phone with his hand covering his mouth.

Click! Yu Zixiao accidentally stepped on a branch that had dried up, and the sound he made was unexpectedly harsh in the empty corridor.

"Who?" Liu Yinuo immediately hung up the phone.

Yu Zixiao didn't care about the sound anymore, he just ran away, and it wasn't until he ran to the seat that Yu Zixiao was able to take a breath: Why should I run......

After class in the morning, Zixiao looked very unenergetic, his upper and lower eyelids were fighting all the time, and the thick sleepiness that kept pouring out of his head made his vision more and more blurred.

"Yu Zixiao, hurry up." He Yukun shook Yu Zixiao awake with his big thick hands.

"What?" Yu Zixiao felt that he didn't even have the strength to open his eyes.

"The squad leader asked me to ask you, do you want to participate in this Friday's basketball game, I just went to sign up."

"Don't go ......" Yu Zixiao didn't want to give Liu Yinuo another chance to defeat him.

"Oh, then I'll go talk to the squad leader."

The events that have happened in the past few days have tormented Yu Zixiao and he has not slept well, but the noisy environment in the classroom has made him feel more secure.

"Is Yu Zixiao here?" A familiar voice came into Yu Zixiao's ears.

"It's Liu Yinuo! What is he doing in our classroom? ”

"Wow, he's really handsome, ...... than Yu Zixiao" The girl who spoke immediately closed her mouth, because Yu Zixiao was looking at her with eyes like dead fish.

"That? Liu? Did you put the tickets in my locker? Lin Yu originally planned to go to the first class after class to ask, but she didn't expect Liu Yinuo to come to the fourth class.

"Huh...?" Liu Yinuo looked at Lin Yu and then at Yu Zixiao, looking a little overwhelmed.

"It's just... I found two concert tickets in my locker, the one for the first place in the grade...... So I wondered if you ......" Lin Yu spoke in a smaller and smaller voice.

Yu Zixiao hurriedly gave Liu Yinuo a look.

"Oh, yes, yes, I put it in, because I heard from others that you really wanted to see it, so I put the ticket inside." Liu Yinuo immediately understood that the ticket was given by Yu Zixiao.

"How is this going to work... Here's your prize... How embarrassed I am..."

Yu Zixiao was very uncomfortable just watching Lin Yu and Liu Yinuo talk, not to mention that Lin Yu was still acting so shy in front of him.

"Aren't there two tickets, so let's go together!" Liu Yinuo seemed to suddenly remember something, and he was extremely excited to say this.

She won't promise you, you wait to make a fool of yourself, stinky boy! Yu Zixiao thinks that as far as his understanding of Lin Yu is concerned, Lin Yu will definitely not agree to Liu Yinuo.

"I ...... Or ......" Lin Yu's cheeks were already dyed pink when she said this.

"Oops! Lin Yu, you are going, Liu Yinuo is inviting you. Those girls who usually stayed away from Lin Yu also helped out at this time.

"I ...... Well. Lin Yu still relented and agreed.

"Great, then we ......"

Yu Zixiao was so shocked that his jaw was about to drop, he felt that the sleepiness on his body had all dissipated in an instant, he quickly stood up and interrupted Liu Yinuo's words: "Didn't you say that you are going to play a basketball game this Friday?" Who am I fighting when you run away? ”

"Huh? Didn't you just say you wouldn't fight? He Yukun suddenly came out and said this, and Yu Zixiao sighed in his heart.

“… When did I say... I obviously said I was going to fight... Liu Yinuo, if you leave, your class may lose. Yu Zixiao would rather lose to him than Lin Yu to go to the concert with him.

"If you lose, you lose, there will be many competitions in the future, but there are not many opportunities to watch concerts. What's more, it's... You tell me? Liu Yinuo said this very calmly, and Yu Zixiao suddenly felt that he was a child compared to him.

"That is to say, Liu Yinuo, you have played so many games, and it is not impossible to take a break once in a while!" The girls followed Liu Yinuo's words.

"Then we said okay, take a leave of absence on Friday, and meet at the school gate on Friday morning." After Liu Yinuo said this, he turned around and left.

"I just said that Lin Yu will go with Liu Yinuo!"

"They really looked like a good match when they stood together just now."

The discussion of his classmates kept echoing in Yu Zixiao's ears, and he buried his head on the table and covered his ears tightly with his hands.

"Student Yu? You okay? Ming Yiyi's voice sounded gentle.

“…… Shut them up. ”

"Huh? What did you say? ”

“…… Shut them up... Shut up...... Shut up ......" Yu Zixiao cried quietly, no one except Ming Yiyi noticed the crying boy, Yu Zixiao felt that he was so weak, so powerless.

Ming Yiyi gently patted Yu Zixiao's back: "You're going to play on Friday, right?" I'll go cheer you on. ”

"What if I lose?" Yu Zixiao really wanted to win.

"I just want to cheer you on, I don't care about the rest."

Yu Zixiao wiped his eyes vigorously, he looked at the cute girl in front of him and smiled: "I will definitely win, don't worry, come on." ”

Ming Yiyi nodded: You look so good when you smile.

On Friday night, the small playground was lit up by several giant searchlights borrowed from the gymnasium, which are said to be military lights left over from the war.

Without Liu Yinuo, the basketball game still attracted many students to watch, and the playground was full of people, and many girls came to the school playground during the holiday to see Yu Zixiao.

Yu Zixiao borrowed his cousin Mr. Wu's basketball uniform, and he deliberately cut an inch of his hair for the game, which was also to distinguish it from Liu Yinuo's hairstyle.

"Are you sure you won?" He Yukun put his hand on Yu Zixiao's shoulder.

"No problem, you've seen my skills during the past two days of training, it's just ......" Yu Zixiao said that he suddenly stopped here, and he kept telling himself to be more mature these days.

The players on both sides came to the court, Yu Zixiao kept practicing the posture and skills of dribbling, and the five people on the other side looked a little lacking in confidence, Yu Zixiao felt that he could easily win the game today.

"Did they go to the capital?" Yu Zixiao suddenly asked He Yukun.

"Well, I saw the car walking through the school gate in the morning."

"Oh......"

After the start of the game, Yu Zixiao led his teammates to launch a fierce offensive, Yu Zixiao's pace was extremely fast, a left turn, a right turn, the basketball continued to move under his hands that were constantly slapping up and down, and the opposite player made a classic posture in the eagle catching chicken game, the center of gravity dropped, and his hands were opened, and his basket was firmly protected behind him.

The students at the scene were all excited, and the boys kept shouting and shooting! The girl let out a somewhat piercing shout, and Yu Zixiao's name didn't know how long it stayed in the empty upper part of the playground.

I saw Yu Zixiao turn around with a feint, and the opposing defender was shaken to the ground, and then Yu Zixiao made a tiger jump, and threw the basketball out of the bow with both hands together, and the basketball drew a beautiful arc in the air and was unbiased in the middle of the basket.

"Ahh The ball is in! After seeing Yu Zixiao's smooth operation, the girls screamed again.

"Come on!" Ming Yiyi stood in an inconspicuous position cheering for Yu Zixiao, and the girl's voice was drowned out by the fanatical shouts of her classmates.

Yu Zixiao and He Yukun would high-five each other after every goal.

Halfway through the race, Class 4 had a 20-point lead. During the break, Ming Yiyi deliberately handed the drink he brought to Yu Zixiao.

"Someone in the first class seems to be injured, go and take a look."

Yu Zixiao finally squeezed to the front of the crowd, and saw a boy in the class covering his feet and making a painful expression.

"There are no substitutes in our class...... It would be nice if Liu Yinuo was here......" There was a girl in the first class who was checking the boy's wound, and what she said made Yu Zixiao feel a little unhappy.

"Do you want to be a substitute? I am back. The familiar voice passed through the noisy noise, and Yu Zixiao immediately turned back to see the source of the sound.

"How are you? You didn't go to the recital? Yu Zixiao was both a little surprised and a little happy when he saw Liu Yinuo in front of him.

"I overslept today, so I didn't go." Liu Yinuo touched his head with his hand, and there was still a smirk on his face.

"Great, we'll win if you're here!" Several girls in the first class immediately gathered around Liu Yinuo.

After Liu Yinuo simply dealt with a few girls, he immediately ran to the injured boy's side, and he carefully checked the wound on the boy's foot: "It's not a big problem, it's just that you can't exercise vigorously in a short time, I'll take you to the infirmary!" ”

"You can't go, you still have to help me play." The boy wanted to push Liu Yinuo away.

"It's okay, just warm up before the game." Liu Yinuo picked up the boy and ran to the infirmary, and ran back out of breath in a few minutes, and at the same time changed into a basketball uniform. The girls around him were praising Liu Yinuo's behavior.

"Let's get started."

The game that had been interrupted for a while started again, and unlike before, the fourth class was no longer in a strong offensive position, and the addition of Liu Yinuo made the balance of victory of the game tilt in favor of the first class.

Towards the end of the game, the score was already tied between the two sides. The final countdown is being done on the timer in the center of the arena.

After He Yukun failed to attack with the ball, the ball fell into Liu Yinuo's hands, and he shook off several fourth-class players in a row, and quickly dribbled the ball towards the basket of the fourth-class team, and Yu Zixiao was waiting for him here.

In the previous game, Yu Zixiao's defense can be described as watertight, and he still maintains a very sensitive intuition after a long time of absence from the battle formation.

In a cheer, Liu Yinuo suddenly changed his pace, he completely ignored Yu Zixiao's defense, first jumped forward, then jumped, compared to Yu Zixiao's somewhat wide body immediately flew into the air, a violent dunk, the basketball fell to the ground through the basket, the audience was startled at first, and then there was a continuous applause and screams.

The game is over. Yu Zixiao stood in place for a long time and did not react. The girls who had been cheering for Yu Zixiao were speechless at the moment.

Liu Yinuo rolled up his basketball uniform and wiped the sweat on his face, and the exposed abdominal muscles made the surrounding girls let out a burst of exclamation.

"Today I won't be able to win, and you're obviously a little out of strength when you get to the backcourt." Liu Yinuo walked up to Yu Zixiao and said, "Next time you will definitely be able to win me, I believe you have this strength." ”

After Liu Yinuo left, Yu Zixiao opened his hands that were a little red and swollen, and said with a slight tremble: "Yes......"