Chapter 8: The Dragon's Stretch (2)
Dozens of minutes later, Cuicui came to the door of the head coach's office with a stack of papers, knocked on the door, and walked in. After a while, Applejack and Li Mo ran out of the head coach's office crying.
Applejack and Li Mo saw Tang Long sitting in the fitness area and strode towards him. Tang Long immediately stood up and greeted him. Both children were dressed in clean casual clothes and sneakers, with a bitter face. Tang Long stretched out his arms and wrapped his arms around their shoulders one left and one right. Their faces were covered with tears and their eyelashes were wet.
"Applejack, Li Mo, come here." An old man walked out of the head coach's office and shouted in a strong Sichuan dialect.
He wore a thick white turban around his head, a wrinkled face carved into his dark face, and wore a black cotton jacket and a pair of black trousers. As soon as he finished speaking, another middle-light man in his forties walked out of the office and looked at Applejack and Li Mo.
"I don't go back to Daliangshan, I don't go back to Nanshan Village, I want to stay in the club." Applejack turns around with a shuffling voice and yells at them.
"It's not up to you, you have to go back to your hometown today." The old man stomped his foot and said.
"Li Mo, hurry up and come over with Applejack to press the handprint." The middle-aged man shouted impatiently at Li Mo, "I'm waiting for you two." ”
"No, it won't." Li Mo said.
Tang Long held Ajie and Li Mo, not knowing what to do. At this time, the old man and the middle-aged man came over, grabbed the arms of the two children, pulled them out of Tang Long's arms, and dragged them towards the head coach's office. Tang Long was stunned, and then walked with them.
After Tang Long walked into the head coach's office, Jin Tianya saw him and nodded. Bai Sumei glanced at him, shook her head, and smiled helplessly. Under the window of the office were several trolley suitcases, on which were bulging backpacks, the luggage of five children. There were three termination letters on the coffee table, Zhang Shuai, Wang Xiaolin, and Zhang Tiantian had already pressed their handprints, and only Ajie and Li Mo were left.
"Press the mudra, and we'll be able to go home." The middle-aged man patted Li Mo's right wrist and said.
Li Mo didn't say a word, lowered his head and wiped his tears. The old man and the middle-aged man picked up a box of ink clay that had been opened in one hand, grabbed Applejack and Li Mo's palms with the other, and forcibly poked them into the ink. Li Mo and Applejack's index fingers, middle fingers, ring fingers, and little fingers were all stained with ink, bright red as blood.
The old man put down the ink, picked up the termination letter with his left hand, grabbed Applejack's left palm with his right hand, and pressed it down on the termination letter, Applejack exerted force on his wrist to fight against the old man's palm, preventing the old man from pressing his palm down. Li Mo's arm over there couldn't be twisted over his thigh, and he had been forcibly pressed by the middle-aged man with his palm.
The old man glanced at everyone and saw that everyone was looking at him and Applejack, and he was a little annoyed, and his right hand used all his strength to press Applejack's palm. Applejack was young after all, and froze for a few seconds, her palms slowly hanging down toward the termination letter. As Applejack's middle finger is about to land on the termination, he flicks it vigorously, and his left palm breaks free from the old man's palm.
"Applejack, grandpa came all the way to pick you up and take you home to study, don't you screw up, okay?" The old man shook the termination letter and shouted at Applejack.
"I'm not a reader, you already know...... I'm going to read now...... Can you keep up? ”
"If you can't keep up, you won't study, and you'll stay at home." Grandpa Applejack said.
"I'm not going back to Nanshan Village, I don't want to stay at home, I don't want to be like my parents, I want to stay here and practice martial arts." Applejack burst into tears.
"No, if you don't leave today, you have to go." Grandpa Applejack said impatiently.
"I won't leave."
"Do you believe it or not?" Applejack's grandfather raised his palms in anger.
"Don't be like this, old man, you have something to say." One of the two policemen who had been sitting quietly on the couch just now spoke.
Jin Tianya glanced at Bai Sumei and motioned for Bai Sumei to persuade the child. Sumei stood up and walked over to Applejack's side, took out a stack of tissues from her pocket, pulled out two tissues to wipe the tears from Applejack's eyes and face, and then squatted in front of Applejack, holding Applejack's left hand, looking at his large, tear-soaked eyes that were unusually bright.
"Applejack, we once gave you hope, but now we can only let you go back with disappointment, Sister Meimei is sorry for you! When you grow up, you know that many things can't come by your own will. It doesn't matter, when you come to Shenzhen, you are Sister Meimei's good brother, don't let grandpa be angry, listen to grandpa! ”
Bai Sumei stretched out her fist, and Applejack also stretched out his, and the two fists gently touched each other. Tang Long walked up to Applejack and stretched out his huge fist to touch Applejack.
After the punch, Applejack sniffs, takes the termination letter from his grandfather's hand, and pokes her finger hard at it. After pressing the handprint, Ajie's grandfather and the guardians of the other four children stood up and thanked Jin Tianya, Bai Sumei and the two policemen, and after thanking them, they pulled the suitcase, carried the backpack on their backs, and walked out of the head coach's office with the five children, and the two policemen, Jin Tianya, Bai Sumei and Tang Long followed behind to see them off.
When everyone walked out of the head coach's office, they found that Coach Zhang and Coach Ma Long were standing in a row in the aisle with boxers to bid farewell to the five children. The other fighters also raised their fists and watched as the little brothers who had fought side by side slowly walked in front of them.
After everyone went downstairs in two groups by elevator, Jin Tianya, Bai Sumei and Tang Long helped them put their luggage into the back seats of the three taxis they called, and the police also got into their police cars. The four cars all started and slowly drove forward, and the children got their heads out of the car windows and kept looking at Bai Sumei, Jin Tianya and Tang Long. But soon, they took the speeding car into the rush of traffic in the street and disappeared.
After Jin Tianya left them and went to the club, Bai Sumei could no longer be reserved, turned around and threw herself on Tang Long's shoulder, her arms tightly wrapped around Tang Long's neck, crying silently, and streams of hot liquid fell down Bai Sumei's cheeks into Tang Long's underwear, rolling straight to his back, cold.
Tang Long silently stroked the back of her head and shoulders, and after a while, Bai Sumei's emotions calmed down, she let go of her hands, lifted Tang Long's shoulders on her head, took out a tissue by herself, and wiped away her tears.