Ludwig

Chapter 7 Fang Shuo's Encouragement

……a week later……

After getting off the plane, Li Yuming returned to the CUHK school team to apply for resignation without stopping. This news not only shocked the senior officials of CUHK, but also shocked the entire basketball world. For a while, the headlines in all major basketball newspapers were Li Yuming's resignation news.

Sina Sports - "Retire bravely in the rapids? CUBA's new MVP applies for retirement"

3G Sports Portal - "Next Step Professional Team!! !An insider broke the news that Li Crazy will land in the CBA next season"

Football News - "CUHK MVP Li Yuming applied to quit the team today, and his future is unknown"

Guangzhou Daily——"Future star recovers from injury and cancels basketball association player status"

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Li Yuming, who returned to Guangzhou, looked at the basketball hall of CUHK, and he felt that everything was so familiar.This is the first time since he joined the basketball team that he has not been to the basketball hall for so long.

In the past days, he was always the first to arrive, and he had already completed his warm-up and strength training before other teammates arrived.He had already started training with the ball while his sleepy teammates ran laps.Li Yuming not only arrived early, but also returned late. When his teammates had completed all the training arranged by the coach and returned to the dormitory, he still practiced spot-up shooting by himself without stopping. Even a professional coach like McCullough was so crazy about Li Yuming The training intensity is admirable.

Entering the arena, the training was over at this time, and only Fang Shuo was left doing bench presses in the weight room.

Li Yuming held on to the door of the weight room, and lightly held on to the wall: "Captain."

When Fang Shuo saw that it was Li Yuming, he put down the barbell in his hand. Fang Shuo already knew about Li Yuming's withdrawal from the team, so he didn't express his opinion on it. The mature captain of the middle school just faced the news silently.

Fang Shuo waved to Li Yuming: "Mingzi, come with me."

Following Fang Shuo, Li Yuming came to the familiar locker room. At this time, the other teammates had already left. Those who should go to class went to class, those who went back to the dormitory, and those who were dating went to date.

Opening the closet, Fang Shuo fumbled in his schoolbag for a while, and took out a pack of Yuxi cigarettes. Li Yuming, who was sitting in a familiar position, was a little surprised. He didn't know that his old captain still smoked.

"Hey, here's one. When I'm in a bad mood, I'll take a few puffs." Fang Shuo handed Li Yuming a cigarette, but Li Yuming didn't take it. He hasn't smoked a cigarette since he grew up.

Fang Shuo reproachfully said: "Tsk, you kid, just smoke one with me."

Li Yuming said "uh", and then took the Yuxi cigarette handed over by Fang Shuo. Fang Shuo took out the lighter to help him light it. Since he had never smoked a cigarette, Li Yuming took a big puff, and he was choked and coughed .

"Hey, you kid." Fang Shuo smiled and lit one himself.

In the smoky locker room, the two big men didn't make a sound, Fang Shuo stared at his shoes, as if he was thinking about something.And Li Yuming looked around at everything around him with his eyes, as if he was trying his best to imprint the flowers and trees here deeply in his mind, and he would never forget them for the rest of his life.

"Mingzi, tell me why you don't play basketball anymore." Fang Shuo dusted off the cigarette ash.

"Uh." Unexpectedly, the captain would cut into the topic so directly. Li Yuming panicked and didn't know how to answer: "Uh, I just want to study."

"Mingzi, don't lie to me. You can fool others but not me. Tell me, what is your secret?" Fang Shuo shook his head solemnly, threw the cigarette butt in his hand on the ground, crushed it with his big foot, and Stamped out the cigarette butt.

"Captain, don't ask me any more." Li Yuming avoided Fang Shuo's serious and sharp eyes, and glanced around the floor anxiously.

"Mingzi, tell me, if there is any difficulty, we can help you solve it together, don't give up your talent easily, okay?" Looking at Li Yuming who was avoiding his gaze, Fang Shuo had nothing to do, and his tone was a little more helpless.

"Ah...Captain, I don't want to say it." At this moment, Li Yuming buried his head even lower.

"Mingzi! If you're a man, don't dawdle. Talk about anything!" Fang Shuo said angrily. After all, Fang Shuo is five years older than Li Yuming. Li Yuming is absolutely more than enough.

"Captain...my...right hand..." Under Fang Shuo's force, Li Yuming sighed, and finally revealed the injury of his right hand.This also shocked Fang Shuo so much that he didn't know what to say for a while.Fang Shuo got up and sat next to Li Yuming, put his hands on Li Yuming's shoulders, this is his habitual action to encourage his teammates on the court.

The cigarette in Li Yuming's hand had burned out at some point, and the tongue of flame licked the sponge end of the cigarette, releasing a pungent and unpleasant smell of burning.Li Yuming didn't feel the burning sensation in his palm at all, and just let it stay in his hand.

"McCullough is gone. The University of Kentucky, a famous NCAA team, recruited him to be an assistant coach. Before he left, he asked me to give you a message, telling you to continue to maintain this state. He hopes to see you in the NBA one day in the future." Fang Shuo changed the topic and talked about coach McCullough.

"Captain, my hand... don't tell others about it." Li Yuming nodded after hearing McCullough's departure, but it was already impossible to fulfill his expectations.

"Understood, Mingzi, it's really a waste of your good body not to play basketball." Fang Shuo said regretfully.

Fang Shuo's casual words brought Li Yuming back to his senses. He finally threw away the half-burned cigarette butt in his hand, stepped on it and said, "Captain, I want...to play football."

"Play football???" Just as Zhang Yu learned from Li Yuming that he would choose to try football, Fang Shuo was stunned and opened his mouth so wide that he could stuff several eggs.

"Yes! Coach Cao Yu of the Sun Spring Football Club approached me and told me that I have the talent to play football, so he asked me to try it. I thought about it. Since I can't play basketball, don't waste my body, just try it." , maybe it can be kicked out." Li Yuming chuckled seeing Fang Shuo's exaggerated expression of shock.

"Data madman???" Fang Shuo exclaimed again when he heard Cao Yu's name.

Li Yuming is also Sparta: "Why do you all know Coach Cao Yu?"

Fang Shuo looked at Li Yuming with the eyes of an alien: "As long as you only watch basketball news all day long, Coach Cao Yu's invincibility last year brought Ri Zhiquan from the all-China class back to the Chinese League. Now he is in the football world. It can be said that he is the most popular local coach. He is most famous for his data analysis ability. As long as the players he favors have a correct attitude, they can hardly fail to play. If you are favored by him, you can indeed consider switching to football. "

Li Yuming was very surprised. He didn't expect Fang Shuo to think so highly of that wretched fat coach: "Captain, what do you mean, you support me to change to football."

"Go ahead, everyone has to look forward. Since the road of basketball is blocked, let's go on another road. Maybe someday you will become a celebrity by kicking and kicking hahahaha."

After saying all the words, the atmosphere in the locker room became much more harmonious. The two joked with each other, talking about the little things they had known since it was dark. We all know that there will be fewer and fewer intersections between a basketball and a football in the future until there is no one.

"Akiko! Come on!"

(End of this chapter)