you are all star

Chapter 30 Teachings in the Sunset
Looking at the 6:2 score, Neil was in a terrible mood. He knelt on the ground with both feet, and beat the ground with clenched fists.

Seeing Neil's heartbroken expression, Louis felt very uncomfortable. Tears rolled in his eyes, and he slapped his face hard. He was very guilty and felt sorry for Neil, but he knew it would be Neil must get through the difficulties of adaptation.

Louis hurriedly ran towards Neil, looked at Reddy standing beside him triumphantly, and he also glanced at Neil with a pair of contemptuous eyes, with a satisfied smile on his face.

Seeing this scene, Louis felt sorry for Neil, so he knelt down and patted Neil's shoulder with one hand.

Then he stared straight at Neil: "Boy, look at me, you've done a good job, it's all right, come on, I believe I can beat myself."

Neil wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes, and glanced up at Louis: "Dad, I've let you down again, and I've embarrassed us black people again."

"No, you've done a good job, really."

"Dad, don't comfort me, I feel terrible."

"It's okay, you really did a good job, take your time, I have confidence in you."

Seeing that his father did not despair of him, but still cared and loved him, Neil nodded movedly to his father, then slowly stood up straight, stared at his father, pursed his lips, smiled and said, "Well, Dad, I know I'm hungry, let's go home!"

Louis smiled gratifiedly when he heard what Neil said, stood up slowly, nodded in response to Neil, then stretched out his hand to hold Neil's hand, and was about to turn around and escape from this noisy world.

But when Reddy saw that Neil was defeated by him, he wanted to leave just like this, so he sneered, stared at Neil and said, "Neil, even if you are taller than me, I can kill you N times, the defeated , you just want to escape like this?"

Hearing Reddy's harsh remarks, Neil gritted his teeth, clenched his fists, stared wide-eyed, and glared, wishing he could reach out and give Reddy a good beating.

But his father hurriedly pulled him away with all his might, beckoning him to endure.

Only then did Neil endure it, and with his head bowed, he was held by his father and left the stadium, which was like a battlefield in life.

Reddy stared at Neil's back, and said again: "Neil, you are defeated!"

Neil wanted to turn around and give Reddy a look to let him experience it, but Louis, who had tears running down his cheeks, suddenly pulled Neil and started running.

Neil didn't dare to raise his head, because too many strange eyes were staring at the fleeing father and son.

While he was dragged away by his father to flee the scene, the previous ridicule and comments came back again and again in his mind: "Neil, you are so bad, you still want to beat our school's basketball prince at your level, wake up , You idiot, we really don’t know how the school will send you, with your skills and basketball IQ, even we can’t beat us, you trash, in the future, we don’t want to see you play.”

While cursing, they threw the snacks in their hands and the water bottle next to them towards the place Neil was about to pass by.

Neil thought about this scene, and tears ran down his cheeks. When he and his father passed through a corner of the campus where people were coming and going, many people looked at them in surprise and concern.

But Neil hurriedly lowered his head to avoid it. Louis saw that Neil's face became more tense, and the hand being held was still sweating, so he lowered his head to look at Neil who was crying, and immediately quickened his pace.

The father and son walked out of the school gate and walked along the sidewalk that used to go home.

When Wen Si Elementary School was left behind by their father and son, the setting sun from the west reflected the bodies and shadows of Neil and his father yellow.

Neil held Louis' hand tightly like this, and Louis held Neil's hand tightly like this, never letting go for a moment.

The father and son walked unhurriedly like this, only hearing the footsteps and laughter of pedestrians coming from the side of the road.

Until Louis asked this sentence: "Boy, from the beginning of the game to now, what is your mood like?"

As soon as this sentence came out, all the footsteps and laughter were immediately hoarse, and they were all suppressed by it. When it reached Neil's ears, it was so clear and clear, and it was so thunderous.

Neil raised his head and glanced at his father, with a sad expression on his face. He didn't know how to answer his father, so he said casually, "Dad, I'm in an extremely bad mood right now. Anyway, I'm just very unhappy."

"Boy, don't be like this. Look at me and you now facing the sunset. The sunset has turned your face, my face, and our bodies and shadows. Look at the yellowed hills and everything in the distance. Thinking about us who have been exposed to pornography, how beautiful this scene is!"

"But Dad, I didn't notice it at all."

"Boy, put away all the unhappiness and sadness trapped in your heart now, then close your eyes and try again!"

Neil nodded and closed his eyes.

While holding his hand and continuing to move forward, Louis kept saying, "Boy, the reason why you lost to Reddy today is not because you are not good at the game, but because you care too much about what the outside world thinks. And vision, which makes you bear too much burden, which inhibits your performance. After two times, I hope you must bear in mind a truth this afternoon. If you want others not to talk about you, you have to show your The strength of them, let them shut up, and don't care so much, just treat every game full of spectators and fans as your usual training, and you don't have to care about or pay attention to other things. Concentrate, don’t get distracted, and you have to get used to playing with spectators and fans because they’re watching and you’re famous, but if you’re not playing well, it’s going to ruin you.”

"Boy, after I've finished speaking, I wonder if you understand this truth, and if you feel the beautiful sunset that is rushing towards us?"

Neil closed his eyes tightly, and was led by his father while falling into deep thought.

Neil's mind echoed over and over again the words and deeds that his father said just now. Although he couldn't absorb them all, he felt that there was a person (father) in the dark who was always holding his hand and never let go for a moment. Incomparably steadfast, as if not afraid of falling and wrestling on the road ahead, accompanied by a yellow sunset, the picture is so beautiful.

Seeing that Neil didn't agree, Louis looked down at Neil again and asked, "Boy, you're talking, can you feel it?"

Neil suddenly opened his eyes, looked up at his father, blinked, pursed his lips, and said with a silly smile: "Dad, I just felt it, as long as I think about the person who loves me and the person I love, I will I won’t be afraid that the road ahead will be darker or darker.”

Louis touched Neil's head, smiled gratifiedly, praised him and said, "Hey, you're not bad, you actually felt it."

"Dad, what I was thinking about just now was all the beautiful things around me, and you are always by my side, and you have been holding my hand, so you have been leading me forward with my eyes closed, and I am not afraid of stopping me in front of me." Everything, although I walk slowly, but I am always moving forward."

After listening to Louis, he smiled and nodded in response: "Well, boy, so don't care about other people's opinions and eyes from now on. When you are on the court, you think that your mother and I will be with you all the time, and what happened that night The stars and today’s sunset are with you, and you are not allowed to think about anything else, if there is too much ridicule and discussion on the court, you just think about blowing up your opponent, and they will naturally shut up.”

"I remember, Dad!"

Louis looked at Neil, who also had a smile on his face at this time, and pointed to the sunset in the west with a smile: "Boy, look, everything under the sunset is so beautiful!"

"Yes, Daddy! So beautiful!"

Louis smiled thinking of Neil, patted his head with one hand, and led him with the other, talking and laughing as he walked in the dusk under the setting sun, his shadow was drawn long and far away by the facing sunset.

(End of this chapter)