you are all star

Chapter 21 Devil Training
Louis watched Mills get into the car in despair, and Louis stared at his car as it disappeared at the end of the street. Suddenly, his eyes were a little dull, and he seemed a little guilty. He felt very sorry for Neil. It was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. I was declined by myself.

Louis tidied up his emotions, and decided to hide all this from Neil, and he must not let him know, because the matter was not as simple as imagined.

Louis still put on a natural expression and came back with a smile on his face.

"Dad, where were you just now?" Neil asked strangely when he saw his father come back.

Louis looked at Neil and the children and shook his head, then at Nuana.

From his eyes, Nuana saw the entanglement, helplessness and sadness that she had never had before, and guessed that Mills came to him, there must be nothing good, but the children were having fun at the moment, so she couldn't ask, so she had to Like Louis, he continued to smile and play games with the children as if he didn't know anything.

Unknowingly, night fell quietly and quietly, and the whole slum was illuminated by some dotted lights, so that these poor and helpless people could not find their way home, and all they could see were It was dark, like hell.

As it was getting late, Smart, Seines, Paul and Jones took the children to say goodbye to Neil and his parents, and went home with the faint lights.

The Neil family saw the children off, and Louis looked at Neil with a smile, as if he didn't remember Mills' visit before, and said humorously, "Boy, should we, father and son, have to work the night shift?"

"Let's go, Dad, run at night."

Running at night seems to have taken root in Neil's mind now, forming a subconscious and habit.

It will never be like before, whenever his father reminds him, he will say: "Dad, today is too tired, can we stop running." Every time, it is Louis who threatens him with his basketball dream. He said, "You can't bear this bit of hardship, so stop liking basketball and change your dream!" In desperation, Neil persisted and worked hard with his father's company.

In fact, in many cases, no one can predict what will happen tomorrow, but you have worked hard and prepared before everything, and when unexpected things happen, you will be able to solve them easily, and you will not be so helpless.

That's why Louis kept insisting on Neil's night runs, twenty sit-ups, squats, and weightlifting a day.

Early in the morning on the second day of Neal’s fifth birthday, he and his father rushed to the court, and his father taught him dribbling, passing, post-up, floater, standing jumper, fadeaway jumper, three-step layup with dribble breakthrough , and standardize his shooting posture, the tall Louis stood in front of him to block his sight, interfered with his shooting, and asked him to repeat it again and again. When he scored, he would be fined twenty sit-ups, and when he missed a dribble, he would be fined twenty more dribbles. Even if he was sweating profusely, Louis would never let him down and be merciful. Anyway, every morning, Before the children came, he couldn't escape his father's devilish training. When Neil completed what his father asked, he would give him five cents and let him buy a bottle of Coca-Cola.

Although sometimes Neil was also dissatisfied with his father's harsh demands, he whispered to himself and complained to his father: "Louis, you treat me like this, am I your biological son?"

But every time the children didn't complete the basketball move, but he completed it, he was happy, and at the same time realized his father's good intentions, and said to himself: "It turns out that my father's harsh intentions for me are all because of my father's hard work." this."

When Neil finished the task assigned by his father with some difficulty, the rising sun had already poked its head out from the top of the mountain, and he started his day's task to take care of the world and make the world bright, warm and sunny.

The rising sun did not come for a while, and the children also rushed to the rising sun.

Seeing Louis and Neil, they greeted repeatedly: "Uncle, Neil, what a morning for you father and son!"

Louis looked at the children with a smile, and talked back: "It's not too early."

Neil was sweating profusely, sat cross-legged with his body soaked, the ground where he sat was wet, and drank mineral water without saying hello to the children.

Smart looked at Neil who was sweating profusely, his hair and clothes were soaked, looked at Louis and smiled and said, "Uncle, you didn't give Neil another devil training, did you?"

"He's not willing to let me go. It happens every morning, and I'm used to it." Neil said ahead of his father.

"The reason why I train him like this is to tell him that liking basketball is not an easy task. You have to work hard for it, you have to give your body for it, and you have to torture your body and spirit constantly, so that you can get closer and closer to basketball." It's getting closer and closer to the dream." Louis looked at Smart and replied like this.

The other children looked at Neil, who was drinking water and kicking him angrily, and couldn't help but sighed and shook their heads and muttered in a low voice: "Neil, what a pity that he arrives an hour earlier than us every morning, and was trained by Louis the devil. , if we were him, I'm afraid we can't hold on anymore, and maybe Louis will get serious."

Smart looked at Luis who was kind and hardworking, and then walked over to Neil and patted Neil on the shoulder: "You boy, you can be content with such a father! My father doesn't care about me. He doesn't support anything I like. I said I like to play ball, but he said I was a jerk. For this reason, I was rebellious, and I often didn’t go home. I was on the street all day, playing street ball. Reasonable, and I was expelled from school. I had no choice but to pick up some rubbish in the trash every day and sell it to let your father teach me how to play. I did this for no other reason than to be like No. 23 (Jordan) To be able to play in the NBA like that, to tell my dad that I was right to like basketball, and to let those who laughed at me know that I was the hero who saved myself."

After hearing these words from Smart, Neil looked at his father very relieved, then smiled silly at Smart and said, "So you like 23 too, okay?"

"It means that your kid also likes him to play ball?"

"Of course, he is a role model and a hero for us black people."

Smart nodded at him with a smile.

"Boy, you are very talented in basketball. You must listen to your father." Smart was silent for a while, sighed, and then looked at Neil and said persuasively.

"Yeah, but I'm afraid I'll be trained to death by him."

Smart touched his head, couldn't help laughing and said, "You clever brain, what do you think about all day? How can you be trained to death? Let me tell you, for our dreams, even if we are If you die from training, you will die from happiness, and you will die from happiness.”

"Really, Brother Smart?"

"Of course it's true. If you don't believe me, ask your father."

"But I don't want to talk to him right now. He's been so mean to me that he almost killed me."

"Boy, you don't want to be such a good father, I'm going to steal it from you!" Smart is very smart, very humorous and funny, deliberately said this to provoke Neil.

At this time, Neil was very conflicted, but he still boldly responded to Smart unambiguously: "Louis is my father, no one can take him away."

Listening to this, Louis said it out of his mouth. Although it was a bit childish, it was sincere, undisguised, and unambiguous.

After hearing this, Smart smiled at him and whispered in his ear: "Then why don't you hurry up and give your father some water in your hand, he also trains you like a devil for your dream, and he is full of blood. I'm sweating profusely, and I'm exhausted."

Hearing Smart's reminder, Neil's eyes lit up, he looked at Smart with a silly smile, then walked up to his father with an unfinished bottle of mineral water, handed it to his father and said, "Dad, what are you doing for Train me, you have worked hard, drink some water, before I can't grow up, I'm childish."

Louis didn't speak, just smiled at him, touched his little head, took the water from his hand, and gulped it into his mouth.

Seeing this scene, the children couldn't help sighing with a smile on their faces: "Hey...the love between father and son is so deep!"

After drinking the water, Louis nodded and smiled at Smart, then turned to the children and said, "Children, the day's plan starts in the morning, let's start the day's tasks!"

Although the children's legs and feet are sore and weak, like plagues that haven't had enough rest, they want to shake their heads, but they think of how happy and proud they are when the ball draws a beautiful arc in the air and then brushes the basket into the net. Standing lazily in a row, start a new day's journey.

(End of this chapter)