The instructor gave an order, and the boys at the table stretched out their chopsticks to pick up the dishes almost at the same time, but they were quite orderly and did not rush into a ball, turning the dining table into a group of chopsticks.

"You know what? The Champions League has been drawn, and it's the group of death again! Ye Ruiyang said while chewing on the roots, "This year's Europa League is also full of heroes, and it looks much better!" ”

No one responded to him.

After all, there are not many people in China who really pay attention to football, and most of the "fans" just come to see the excitement on the sunrise of the national team's game, boast if they play well, and scold if they don't play well.

But everyone who pays attention to it is loved, after all, not everyone can stay up late to watch football. I'm just a pseudo-fan, I haven't seen many club games except for the national team and the World Cup.

Ye Ruiyang was a little embarrassed, and stirred up the soup with a public spoon. Round and round, it just doesn't come out. He was a bit of a chubby (or rather stout) boy, taller than me, with a square, fair face, though he had been a little tanned by the sun for the past two days. He had large, beautiful eyes, usually shining, but stared bleakly at the stirred leaves as if they were a pool of wobbly duckweed.

"I'm betting five cents, and Real Madrid will defend the title this year." Finally, a voice sounded, it was Li Baichuan from Mi Le's class. He is a boy with small eyes, dark skin, taller than Ye Ruiyang, and his figure can be called "burly", he likes sports very much at first glance, but his back is a little hunched - who is not a little tree bent by a schoolbag of more than ten catties?

He and Ye Ruiyang seem to be elementary school classmates, and it is estimated that saying this sentence is to save Ye Ruiyang, and he didn't raise his head. Ye Ruiyang was really not very enthusiastic, so he muttered a few sentences.

"What a daze, eat quickly. If you don't eat it again, the food will be gone. Miller poked my arm with the bottom of his chopsticks, and I came back to my senses to pick up the rice.

"I heard that the sports activities class in the new semester will organize football and basketball class competitions, and the school team coach will also come to see them in order to select people." Ye Ruiyang, who was silent for a while, spoke again as if he had made an important decision. But everyone is either drinking soup or swallowing rice in a sullen voice.

"The basketball game is one team per class, and the football game is one team for every four classes, that is, one to four classes, and five to eight classes." He's still talking. No wonder he wanted to mention this, we are all the boys in classes 1 to 4 in a company, and Ye Ruiyang is looking for his teammates.

For some reason, I suddenly asked how many a-side the football game was, and he instantly radiated and told me that it was a five-a-side game and played a small game. I asked again if I wanted to bring a goalkeeper, and he said of course he would.

"Okay, then we'll have three of us." Ye Ruiyang looked at Li Baichuan proudly, "And the goalkeeper has been found." ”

I haven't told them I'm a goalkeeper yet.

"I really can't see that Ke Ke can play football, and he is a goalkeeper." Millet rested his head on my shoulder, "I thought you were the kind of guy who scared you to death when the ball flew over!" ”

I shook his head off.

"You're here, I've been looking for you for a long time." A girl's voice sounded behind me, and when I looked back, it was my cousin.

"What's the matter?" I guess she saw all the movements that she had just shaken her shoulders, and she was obviously holding back a smile, so there was not much politeness in my tone.

"You come to the playground in front of the girls' dormitory later, and I'll give you something."

She went first. When we saw each other again, she gave me a whole bag of seaweed, my favorite and only snack I would ever eat. Before I could say thank you, she handed over another pack of blue things. I looked down, my face flushed, and my hand seemed to be in contact with a burst of electricity. The bag fell to the ground and I didn't want to pick it up at all.

"Why are you giving me this? Isn't it for girls......"

"You take it and put it in your shoes, so it doesn't hurt to kick your feet."

"Yes...... Is this what you use, sister? "I don't dare look up yet.

"What do you think?" She pinched my face and didn't use any force, "I bought it at the commissary, aren't you afraid that you, a big man, will be embarrassed to buy it?" ”

I thanked her, and she said I'd come back to her when she ran out.

"By the way, what's the name of the boy sitting with you today?" Before I could slip away, she stopped me again.

"Why do you ask this?"

"Aren't you always alone? I was quite surprised. New semester and new atmosphere? ”

"Maybe, I might ......"

"Don't interrupt!" She pulled my face again, "Tell my sister, what's that kid's name?" ”

"What kid, you say like a teacher, you're not in military training?"

"Less nonsense!"

I had to tell her so I could be put back.

When I returned to the dormitory, everyone was snoring. I kicked off my shoes and was about to go to bed, only to be kicked in the thigh by Miller on the lower bunk.

"What are you doing?" I was a little annoyed by the sudden attack, probably because I was bullied by my sister for a while.

"Is that your girlfriend?"

"Where's my girlfriend?"

"Liar!"

"Lie to you that you're a puppy! That's my cousin, class 14, surnamed Zhao, if you don't believe it, you can ask Li Baichuan, didn't he say that he knew the whole school? ”

"Okay, just kidding. I don't think you dare to fall in love. By the way, do you like to eat seaweed? He changed his grinning expression and made me swallow all my anger.

"Sort of."

"What else do you like to eat?"

"It's gone."

I climbed up, unpacked the big bag of seaweed, thought about it, and threw a bag to the lower bunk. Soon the bed was filled with the sound of crunching grass and gnawing on it.

Before the wake-up call sounded, I got down and put the thing on my shoes, and stepped on them softly, like walking on clouds. Miller fell asleep on the bed wrapped in the quilt like a little rabbit, and he seemed to have eaten only one slice of seaweed, and the rest of the quilt was rewrapped upright and placed at the head of the bed. I put his shoes on, too.

After the afternoon training, Ye Ruiyang took out a football like a trick. I asked him where he got it, and he said he had it with him. He asked me if I would skip dinner and go to the stadium at the base to play for a while, practice in advance, and when I came back, he would like to eat instant noodles. I somehow agreed. He also brought Zhang Taotao, a dark-skinned boy with tied hair, from our class, to share a dormitory with me at school. He was the first to come to the dormitory, and his parents were about to leave when I entered. My parents chatted with them for a while, and they spoke Chinese, but they didn't understand. Zhang Taotao's parents' accent was very strong, it sounded like Korean or Japanese, and in the end, Zhang Taotao helped "translate".

My dad thought it was good, saying that too many children don't know dialects anymore. My cousin and I are such representatives, after all, my parents are not from the same province, and Jiangyuan City is not their hometown, so we can only communicate in Mandarin at home.

Zhang Taotao's family is dressed quite plainly. He was very industrious, and by the time we arrived, the floor had been swept and mopped by him, every stool had been wiped and the sink had been brushed almost shiny, making one suspect that it was new. It can be seen that he wants to make a good impression on his roommates who have not yet arrived, so that everyone thinks that he is a person who loves cleanliness and is willing to do things.

There were no sneakers, so we kicked with the shoes issued by the military training. There was no hope for the gloves, but fortunately they didn't let me keep the goal - there was no net in the goal, and we didn't bother to pick up the ball, so we just didn't shoot. It's just four people passing around on the pitch of the base. After a while, a classmate stopped on the sidelines and asked if he could join in. He has a baby face, which is not commensurate with the height of at least 1.75 meters - this height is considered to stand out among the first year of junior high school. Ye Ruiyang asked him which class he was from, and when he heard that it was the fourth class, he almost didn't jump, saying that he had finally gathered enough five people, and immediately dragged the classmate into the court.

His name is He Mingming, he usually plays as a central defender, and his father is a fan of which team in Serie A.

The five of us played for a while, and found that there was another figure standing on the sidelines, and Ye Ruiyang didn't look up, and asked which class it was from a distance. Answer: Continuously. Ye Ruiyang said that it was too good to be his own person again, so he hurried to practice and play the class game together. The visitor said that he would not be able to go to school when school started, Ye Ruiyang snorted, impossible, I am covered, and turned around proudly and asked if we were like this. None of us answered, and he didn't understand it, when he suddenly realized that the man was wearing a different military uniform than ours.

That's the instructor of our company.

As a result, during the evening training, the five of us were carried to the front of the whole company. The instructor said that after training, he had to rest well, only to find that someone was very energetic and playing on the field. He asked, and someone told him that playing football is resting.

I really think Ye Ruiyang's answer at that time was too stupid.

The instructor asked us to run ten laps around the playground first, a 400-meter playground. They quickly formed a line and ran in an orderly manner. I can only follow.

I'm the worst at running.

"Brother, your physical fitness is a little worse, but you will definitely be able to improve slowly."

"I really don't want to run. I thought that if you pulled me to play the ball, you just shot and pass the ball, why do you have to run so much in a game! ”

"Heck, you do have to be physically fit to play football, and the faster you can, the better."

"I'm not you!"

"Don't say that! It's going to be fine. ”

After running around, I had a fishy smell, and the four of them were in good spirits. Ye Ruiyang looked fat, and it was not difficult to run at all, and Zhang Taotao, who was in the lead, was even more out of breath.

I was thrown away by them, and my eyes were a little black.

"Brother, you run, the coach said, the last person to run today has to do push-ups."

"You're going to help me run! I can't run! "I'm so angry, but I can't get angry.

I saw the strings suddenly gasp for breath, and the speed was much slower, like a plum blossom pile, and each step took a year. This acting skill is too exaggerated, he will not deceive people at all, and adults can see through it at a glance.

The coach was glaring at me and him, his eyes like cold water poured on his head and face in winter, terrifying from top to bottom, from the inside out. I don't know if he's angry with me and useless, or angry at me and deliberately releasing water, maybe both.

In the end, it was not me or him who did the push-ups, the team member named Zhao Rui ran first to last. After he finished, the coach announced that the class was out without saying anything. Xianxian helped Zhao Rui into the locker room.

I'm waiting for him outside the door.

"Brother, are you okay? How do you feel a little upset? ”

"Go away."

"What do you mean?"

"What do you mean? Am I pitiful that I want you to act like this? ”

"No, I'm afraid you're too tired to fall or something......"

"You're so good at pleasing people! Please your parents at home, please your teachers at school, and even your sister! Yes, you are a good boy, everything is so strong, what about me? I'm not sensible, I can't do anything......"

"Why, brother, you are great in my opinion......" He came over and patted me on the shoulder.

"Pull it down, you just want me to be inferior to you in everything, and then come to pity me and please me, right?" I jerked him out of the way and slammed it into the wall.

"What are you doing?" His tone was irritated by the push.

"What? Want to fight? Am I afraid of you? "When he wasn't happy, I got even angrier.

Then the two of us fought, but more accurately I hit him. He didn't fight back.

When we were young, the two of us used to fight a lot, and I couldn't beat him, so I was often hammered to the ground. But I also have a way, which is to cry. As soon as he was pressed to the ground, he howled and cried, attracting his mother to him, and he was the one who was scolded.

But if it's a dad who calls, it's basically a fifty board each. I can't fool him.

Later, when I tried to fight him, he stopped pinning me to the ground. But today his parents are gone, and there is no reason why he should not fight back.

"Fight back! You shit! Come and hit me? Don't dare? Aren't you better than me in everything? I hate you! "Angry, I kept provoking him. He just covered his head with his arm. He was so bad that he let me beat him, but the more I fought, the more unconfident I became, and I gradually felt so guilty that I couldn't do it.

"That...... Am I too heavy? I finally stopped tremblingly.

"Go away."

He pushed my arm away from the air and walked away. For a moment, I felt like I was abandoned, and he never wanted me as a brother again. I cried and ran up to him, hugged him from behind, and hugged him tightly. Beg him not to go, beg him to forgive me, beg him not to leave me alone. He can do whatever he wants, I can let him fight, let him press on the ground and hit as many times as he wants, and I will never fight back.

"Actually, you didn't hit hard at all, I didn't get angry, I deliberately teased you. Well, there's something wrong with me. How about we go to the supermarket and buy seaweed later? He smiled unexpectedly, showing a look of pride in the bait, and took twenty dollars out of his pocket, "I'll invite you, okay?" ”

It's so cunning, endure it first, let me die in shame, it turns out that I want to capture and indulge, and finally buy me. But I was obediently led into the supermarket by him, like a poor puppy following behind his master.

When I got home that day, I hid in my room alone and nibbled on seaweed, and he didn't enter until late.

"Brother, are you afraid of balls?"

"What do you mean?"

"I think you might be able to kick the goalkeeper? Even if you pass the ball very well, like Andres Iniesta, if you play in midfield, ......"

"Who?"

"Oh, you don't know. It's nothing...... Goalkeepers don't need to be particularly physical, just concentrate and not be afraid of being hit by the ball. You've always been brave, and I'm scared sometimes. ”

"I'll try." I don't feel like I've got any place in the team anyway.

"Really?" He happily hugged me, "Then will you wait for me for a week?" ”

"Why?"

"I'm going to save up my pocket money next week and buy you a better pair of goalkeeper gloves." Actually, I'd love to partner with you in the current game, just like the twins in "Soccer Player". But I'll support you in whatever position you play! As long as we can play together. Then it's decided, I'm the sharpest spear, you're the strongest shield, and we're the best combination! ”

"Kopeve! You run! Are you still playing football with your physical fitness? "The instructor was yelling from the sidelines, I was almost four full laps behind them, and I guess in a little while they would pass me from behind.

But I couldn't run anymore, and there was a smell of blood in my throat, and all my internal organs were mixed together. When the wind blows, I can't help but retch.

"Instructor...... Kopeve: They're going to play, I know that. But I didn't stop it. So, I guess I deserve to be punished too, right? A somewhat timid voice, "Shall I run?" ”

I don't know what the instructor's reaction was, but soon someone ran with me next to me.

"Ke Ke, hold on, it's almost over." Millet said to me with a brisk step, "If you can't run, walk for a while, and then we'll keep running." ”

I wanted to say something, but I couldn't really say it.

In the end, I still finished the run, I don't know how much I was ahead by the other four, anyway, everyone was waiting for me and Mile in a military position.

The instructor asked us to take a break and think about how to write the review, 500 words per person. Miller was also allowed to rest with us, and the instructor said he didn't have to write a review. After about ten minutes of delay, the instructor told us to return to the team, saying that there was no need to write anything else about the review, just write about why we play football and how much we like football, and just give it to him, he won't let us read it publicly.

Ye Ruiyang even dared to speak and asked the instructor if he was a fan. The instructor sneered and said yes. He also said that he wanted us to write about the teams we support.

"Think about it, if there is one of the teams you support that I hate, you can continue to run tomorrow."

It sounds threatening, but it doesn't seem to be that scary.

That night, I had to fight at night in the dormitory. Ye Ruiyang means that we must not write that we are fans of a European giant, the giants offend a lot of people, in case you write a Manchester United, the instructor is a Liverpool fan, then you can announce death in advance. Li Baichuan meant to write about the local Chinese Super League team, but Ye Ruiyang objected, saying that you don't know where the instructor is from, in case he hates our hometown team, wouldn't he give his life again?

There were also Chinese Super League teams in our hometown that year.

He Mingming said that he would write about the team that his father supported, and it would be a big deal to run another ten laps.

Zhang Taotao and I were stunned. It doesn't seem like he's watching much of the game either.

"I said, why don't you just pick a few small teams to write?" Mi Le listened to Ye Ruiyang and Li Baichuan arguing on the bed, and turned over, "I'll search for you, I don't believe that the coach still watches the Brazilian league." ”

He used his phone to pick up the names of several teams, wrote them down on a piece of paper and threw them to us, and took my pen and paper with him.

"What are you going to do? Give it back. "I chased him to his bed.

"I'll write it to you. At first glance, you've never written a review. He shook his head at me a little smugly.

"Actually, it's not a review, is it?" I spread my hands. It is true that I rarely cause trouble, but the review I have written. However, if I hadn't played with these unreliable people today, I guess I wouldn't have been able to write an article in three years of junior high school.

"That's even worse. I can see that you don't watch the ball. ”

"Do you see?"

"I won't tell you. In short, you gave me my favorite food, and I still have to repay you. ”

I saw him write on paper. "My favorite team is the Brazilian team of Chapecoense, also known as the Chapecos, and their crest is a green ......"

A football club I've never heard of. In that summer, I thought I had just heard its name and forgotten it in a few days. And so it is. But it won't be long before I hear the news about this team I met again, and it's a very sad story.