(Continued)

"If you want to play amateur baseball in Japan or visit Koshien Stadium, you will have a chance to ...... later," Shiiichi said.

"I've decided!"

"What did he decide again?" Shi Yi said secretly in his heart.

"I want to be a player on the national baseball team and become the Yao Ming of baseball! Beat Japan and the United States to win the gold medal at the Olympics! ”

Gan——

Shikiichi's mind seemed to recall such a voice, and it was endless. He couldn't help but complain: "You originally wanted to win glory for the country, it's really noble...... The big leagues are not at a higher level than the Olympics? And haven't you heard? After the Beijing Olympics, baseball seemed to be kicked out of the Olympics. ”

"Even so, I think there will be a chance to return to the Olympics in the future."

"Really...... All right. Shi Yi sighed and said, "But if it's only the fourth in Asia, I'm afraid it will be difficult to enter the Olympics, at least pull the Chinese Taipei team down first...... By the way, do you want to watch the game today, or anime? ”

"Neither," Dong Guoqi shook his head and said, "How was the matter last time?" ”

"What happened last time...... Oh, that'......" With that, Shiiichi went back to his room and took the thing. The thing that Dong Guo Qi was talking about was the baseball gloves that he asked his father to bring from Japan.

"Great, this is it! The pitcher's gloves ......" as he said, Dong Guoqi put on the gloves and looked at the gloves as if they were treasures, "By the way, what about yours?" ”

"Mine? I've got an old one, I haven't used it much anyway, and I'm right-handed. ”

"In that case, let's go out and play passing! You can't play it alone! ”

"Hey, what the hell!"

In this way, Shi Yi was pulled into the community by Dong Guo Qi and played with passing and catching the ball. After that, passing and catching became a regular action between the two of them until the end of the summer vacation in fifth grade. At the beginning, whether it was passing or receiving, Dong Guo was very unsightly, but after playing a few times, his movements became more and more standard, and his skills surpassed Shi Yi.

- Maybe this person really has a talent for playing baseball?

***

However, when he was in the sixth grade, Dong Guo Qi no longer played with Shiyi to pass and catch the ball. I don't know if it's sick, but when Shi Yi went to Dongguo's house several times, his parents said that he was seeing a doctor. Later, he took more and more days off, and gradually he didn't even go to school.

When I saw Dongguo again, it was already after the midterm. He sat in the empty seat for a long time, his expression as solemn as ice. He only nodded when he saw him, and did not speak.

- What the hell happened to him? Where is the vitality of the past?

Finally, he couldn't help it, walked up to Dong Guoqi and said, "Come to my house this weekend to play passing and catching......

In an instant, Dong Guoqi's face was like a cube of melted ice, and liquid came out—tears.

It's incredible, Shiichi never thought that Dong Guo Qi would face himself with such an expression one day.

However, Dong Guoqi quickly wiped away his tears, showed his previous smile, and said to Shi Yi: "Okay! ”

In this way, on Sunday, Dong Guoqi came to the Shijia family as promised, and after watching the video of this year's summer league game, he played the long-lost passing and receiving again.

Everything was so normal, Shi Yi thought that the former Dongguo Qi was back. Until he said something like that to himself......

"I'm sorry, little one...... I came to school that day to go through the transfer procedures...... I'm moving out tomorrow and I'm going to go to school in another city, including junior high school...... I'm here to say goodbye to you today......"

"Yes......" Shiyi was actually mentally prepared, so the moment he finished speaking, he was very calm.

But then, Dong Guoqi cried loudly: "I'm sorry, Xiaoyi...... But thank you for always playing baseball with me...... I will...... I'll always remember you! ”

- Hey, don't do that...... Even you're like this, so what should I do!

Shiichi shouted as hard as he could, while controlling his emotions.

"I don't need to apologize, I'm the one who should apologize," Shiiichi said calmly, "I'm sorry, I've been hiding it from you, but after graduating from elementary school, I'm going back to Japan for junior high school......"

My father was an employee of a Sino-Japanese joint venture, and he often traveled back and forth between the two countries, perhaps because he was Japanese, so he spent more time in Japan. In order to facilitate his care, Shikichi followed his mother to Tianjin, China when he was thirteen years old, lived here, and waited until he was in junior high school before returning to Japan to go to school.

Shi Yi thought of the arrival of this day early in the morning, but he didn't expect this day to come a little earlier.

"So no matter what, it's time for us to say goodbye......" Dong Guoqi seemed to be relieved, and his emotions were instantly controlled.

"yes......" Shikiyi whispered, "By the way, the gloves were given to you......"

"Is that okay? It feels expensive......"

"Yes, of course!" Shi Yiqiang smiled and said, "The dream you told me that day must come true...... If it's you, maybe it's possible...... No, it can! ”

This sentence seemed to stimulate a certain nerve of Dongguo Qi again, and he sobbed again: "Such as...... If you can...... I think...... I want to ...... with you Playing real baseball with you......"

"That'...... Then we're done...... See you on the pitch one day......"

***

After saying goodbye to Dongguoqi, Shiichi returned home, returned to his room, and locked the door.

See you on the pitch one day? How can I say goodbye? At that time, they were still children, they didn't have mobile phones, no social accounts, and they were going to move out soon after Dongguo moved away, so it was impossible to leave an address to write letters.

This parting may be a farewell......

INTERVIEWER Wouldn't it be nice to make new friends when you arrive in Japan? After knowing Dong Guo Qi for five and a half years, he taught himself many, many things, including making friends. Even if you don't have that person in the future, you will definitely be able to make new friends......

At this time, Shiichi suddenly noticed that the gloves were still on his hands. In an instant, the bits and pieces of the past five and a half years flashed through his mind like a movie.

Five and a half years may be just a flick of the fingers for adults, but for him who was only 12 years old at the time, it was nearly half of his life.

He was his first friend, and I'm afraid he was the only friend at that time. Is that good? Just dealing with this friendship so lightly, just letting a person who was so important to him slowly fade in his memory as time passed.

He may never make friends again, at least no one will ever play with me every weekend!

Before I knew it, tears had come out of my eyes.

He hates to cry. I used to look in the mirror when I was crying, and the way I looked when I was crying and my nose was so ugly.

But he knew that he had reached his limit, and he couldn't hold back anymore.

So, he put his head in the pillow, wiped away his tears and snot with a pillow towel, and bit the pillow towel desperately in his mouth so that he could not cry.

Even so, he couldn't help but cry.

It's really unproductive......

On this day, he didn't know when the sun would set, and whether it would rise tomorrow or not seemed to matter to him.