you are all star

Chapter 51
Since the day Neil planned to give up his dream completely, he found that his mood became more and more depressed every day, and he was depressed all day long.

This reaction of his is like a dark cloud over his face, lingering all day long, dreams and reality have always troubled him every day.

He spent three days in such a cloudy environment. On the afternoon of the fourth day, Louis and Nuana returned home, prepared a meal, and told him to eat. He was like a few days ago, lazily hanging like a stone on his buttocks. Listlessly agreed, sluggish, extremely decadent, shortcoming came to the dining table vigorously, looked at parents dully, sat down and buried his head in his mouth to feed the food vigorously, without lifting his head or picking up the food, just caring about the meal. eat plain rice.

As parents, seeing their son has been like this for the past few days, they thought yesterday that he would be better today, but who knows, he is still like this, without the vitality that the morning sun should have, only the depression of the evening sunset.

Louis wanted to start scolding Neil, but Nuana, who has always been kind and understanding, quickly shook her head at Louis, and pointed to the dishes on the table with a fork, and then the two of them put a fork of vegetarian vegetables into Neil's bowl , forked some meat.

Seeing this behavior of his parents, Neil felt even more uncomfortable. He was an older child and had nothing to do all day. Never missed a meal.

Thinking of this, he suddenly put down his eating utensils, and said coldly, "Dad, Mom, I'm full, eat slowly!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he wanted to stand up and go back to the living room, because he felt very guilty. After growing up so big, his parents were so tired that they couldn't breathe every day. They just hoped that I could live a good life, and what about me?But I pursue my so-called illusory dream, which is too far away, and makes my father drag his tired body every night to accompany me to run at night. I originally thought that playing basketball can make money, but in the end, everything is just thinking about it.

Seeing his actions, Louis became a little angry, as if a fire was spreading in his heart, and quickly approached Neil, as if he wanted to ignite his son into a hot man.

He stared straight at his eyes, his expression was very serious, and it was so cold that Neil was almost numb from the cold. In desperation, he had no choice but to give up the idea of ​​running away from them, sat down quietly, and lowered his head in a daze. head on.

Seeing that he didn't pick up the fork to continue eating, Louis could no longer bear the anger in his heart, and glared at him with wide eyes, but Nuana glanced at Louis hurriedly, and he had to suppress the anger in his heart, and said, "Ni Er, you know Dad's character, eat quickly? I don't want to lose my temper."

Neil doesn't know what happened recently. It seems that he has been completely occupied by demons, eroding his heart, and has completely lost his previous calmness and steadiness. It seems that he has been swallowed up by this country where money is prevalent, money is supreme, and capital is paramount. I only think about money, I only want to reduce the burden on my family, I can't listen to anyone's words, I like to find faults in my heart, I am very stubborn, I have begun to miss the previous one who has dreams, longings, futures, and dares Challenge, the kid who dares to move forward, because now he has more worries about the future, more money, which is light in his hand, but heavy in his heart, his desire for money is expanding, maybe because he is afraid of poverty !
When Louis asked him to pick up the bowl and fork to eat, instead of listening, he was so angry that he hurt his loving father, pushed the dining tools aside, and shouted loudly: "I'm full." , I won't eat!"

Louis held the dining utensils in his right hand, and wanted to slap him with his left hand, but Nuana saw that her son was about to be beaten by her husband, so she grabbed her hand to stop her.

Neil was like an eagle whose wings had already grown hard. Not only did he not know how to react and admit his mistake, but he contradicted his father and provoked his father: "You hit me every now and then, you hit me today!"

Listening to the provocative words, Louis was extremely distressed, and stood up from the dining table in a rage, leaned his head over, glared at him with wide eyes, and stretched out his hand to give him a meal.

Nuana stopped him again and said: "Louis, maybe he has a reason for this. He has been like this for three days. He eats a little every day, and after eating, you ask him to go for a night run, but he doesn't go." .”

After Nuana reminded him, Louis controlled his emotions a little bit, sat down again, and sighed: "Hey... this kid's wings have grown hard, you can't do this, you can't do that, then you come to educate Well, I've been really dizzy by him for the past few days. Yesterday I thought today would be better, and I kept giving him a chance, because everyone will have a period of depression and unsatisfactory, but what about him? Every day is getting more and more depressed, decadent, a little Unlike a vigorous kid, I don't know what has happened to him recently."

Nuana gently put down the dining utensils in her hand, walked up to Neil, patted him on the shoulder and asked, "Son, what's the matter with you these days? You've been depressed all day long, and you eat a little bit of food. I'll let you go tonight Running, you can't live or die, and you find a lot of objective reasons to shirk. You are growing your body, and you have regarded basketball as a dream since you were a child. You don't have a good and healthy body. How do you realize your dream? "

"Mom, please don't mention my dream now, okay?" Neil heard his mother mentioning that illusory dream once left and right, his head was about to explode, and he was in constant pain, maddened, and his tone was somewhat repulsive to his mother. Thought of my mother's illness, I said it in a milder tone.

"Don't you like basketball anymore?" Nuana was very surprised when she heard this, and looked at the bewildered and desperate Louis who was sitting beside her in bewilderment, and asked seriously.

When his mother asked, Neil fell into deep thought, should he tell his father and mother the truth?If I did, would they reprimand me?Let him talk, it will feel better this way.

"Actually, I... don't want to like basketball anymore, because he can't lighten your burdens, and can't make money to support your family."

"Boy, do you know what you're talking about? You like something and have already regarded it as a dream. How can you just give up?" Louis heard him say this, thinking about it from the age of three or four until now, No matter how hard and tired every night, I have to run and exercise with him at night. After working so hard, I suddenly said that I would give up halfway and give up. It was ridiculous, so I interrupted the conversation between Nuana and him, very angry All of a sudden, he stared at him and said.

"Dad, Mom, don't try to persuade me. Think about it. For so many years, I went to the garbage dump to pick up some rubbish, bought it, and exchanged it. I guess there is a lot of money. But I choose this so-called basketball game. , The so-called dream, did not earn a penny, only helped Wentz Primary School win the first championship since the school was founded, and won a medal, but that thing is worth a few dollars."

Louis felt that Neil at this time was taking money too seriously. If he could not be pulled out of this abyss, he would go astray in the future, but it was useless to blindly persuade him not to give up now. Many things Let him realize it by himself. Since he wants to make money to lighten the burden on his family, let him do it. After all, many things can only be profound and fresh in his memory only after he has experienced them personally, and there will be nearly one more year in this holiday. Yue, as for his school, it really doesn't work, so I can only trouble Mills again.

After Louis had such an idea in his heart, he suddenly had no objection, and directly supported him: "Since you have such an idea, then I support you, but if you can't even earn five to ten dollars before school starts , then you have to stick to the dream of basketball.”

Nuana was very angry when she heard that Louis actually agreed, she stared and said, "Louis, you are..."

"Honey, let him go. Since he thinks that money is more important than the honor he gets, and he always thinks that is true filial piety, then we don't support him, should we oppose him?"

After listening to Louis' explanation, Nuana also felt quite reasonable. After all, her son has fallen into the demon of guilt by mistake. If he can't get out by himself, relatives and friends say that ten thousand is equal to zero.

Neil heard his father say 5-10 dollars, and felt that he earned it easily in more than 20 days, so he uttered wild words: "Dad, it took more than 20 days to earn 5-10 dollars? Are you underestimating me? Dare I Bet you."

Seeing that the haze had disappeared from his son's face, Louis smiled and said, "Okay, I bet you won't make more than ten dollars."

"Wait..."

As soon as Neil responded, he said he was full before. He didn’t know if he was suddenly hungry again or felt that his body was the capital of the revolution. He picked up the bowl and the tableware and started feeding food into his mouth.

Louis pointed at Nuana to Neil, shook his head and smiled, and Nuana shook his head and smiled too.

Then the family continued to eat, smiling at each other from time to time.

(End of this chapter)