basketball craftsman

Chapter 54 V.67: The Past

The fourth round of the Phoenix City High School Basketball Winter League is in full swing. During the match between the Fenghuang Municipal University High School and Xiaogan Middle School, Ling Lan left the auditorium, and Meng Xiaodong followed her out of the stands of the sports center to the hall Outside, Ling Lan turned her head and glanced at him and asked, "What are you doing here, idiot?"

"I..." Meng Xiaodong stood not far away with a confused face and said, "Actually, I don't understand the game."

"Pfft..." Ling Lan couldn't help but smiled and walked forward with her hands folded in front of her chest and said, "You must be sleepy again? If you want to find a lawn to bask in the sun and sleep, just say so... let's go, the basketball gym is really boring of."

Ling Lan and Meng Xiaodong walked out of the sports center one after the other, walked around the fountain and the garden, and sat down on a lawn on the left. Is that basketball court practice?"

"Yes..." Meng Xiaodong yawned and replied, "I'll go play for a while after lunch."

"Play?" Lily Lan poked her head out of the corner of her mouth and asked closer, "I said you still treat this as a game? You know that the next game will start in a week, you have to correct your attitude, idiot."

"But I don't know how to practice..." Meng Xiaodong stretched his waist and lay on the grass lazily, "I just want to throw every basketball into it..."

"You..." Ling Lan held a piece of timoth in her hand and teased Meng Xiaodong's ear, "You can't get up and think carefully about how to use your skills in the competition..."

"Why don't you go to the Baihua High School game?"

Meng Xiaodong asked sideways with eyes closed, Ling Lan was stunned listening to his words, many memories and past events, and everything about Zhang Wenjun appeared in her mind... Meng Xiaodong turned to the other side and said to Ling Lan: "You should want to see it in your heart, right?"

Ling Lan pondered for a long time, and slowly lay down on the lawn with her head very close to Meng Xiaodong. They were like clock and minute hands, and then Ling Lan said softly: "Three years ago, when I was 13 years old, I went to school alone for the first time. Because the junior high school does not allow parents to accompany the students to and from school every day... At that time, I was very timid and introverted. On the first day of school, I sat alone in the corner of the classroom without talking to anyone. Say I'm a coward, a primary school student who hasn't graduated in five years..."

Meng Xiaodong turned around and glanced at the top of Ling Lan's head. With the back of her hand blocking the warm sunlight in front of her brows, Ling Lan continued, "I was terrified at the time...every day I was waiting for class to end, and then timidly walked from the east side of the school. escaped from the school through the side door in front, locked himself in the room and shivered under the quilt after escaping home..."

"How could it be like this..." Meng Xiaodong asked puzzled, "It's so tough now that you can't tell..."

"Sturdy you!" Ling Lan reached out and twisted him, then said with dull eyes: "I hid behind the door of the room, eavesdropped on the conversation between my parents and the psychiatrist in the living room, and knew that I have deep autism... …difficulty in communicating and fear of coming into contact with strangers...”

"Then what happened afterwards?" Meng Xiaodong asked to rest with his eyes closed, Ling Lan slowly closed his eyes and crossed his fingers on his lower abdomen and said, "I clearly remember that it was a month after school started, and after school that day I was as usual Going home from the side door timidly, when I went to the side door alone and wanted to go out, I bumped into a tall classmate... He was Zhang Wenjun. He was wearing a sports vest and holding a basketball in his hand. The two of us They all fell to the ground, and I was so scared that I just cried out..."

"At that time, I sat on the ground and cried in fear..." Ling Lan closed her eyes and said softly, "After Zhang Wenjun helped me up, I was still crying, and then he took the basketball in his hand and said to me, 'I'm sorry, don't cry. Alright? I'm going to the game now... How about this, you take this basketball first, and I'll come to you tomorrow.'”

Linglan said here and paused for a few seconds before saying: "That's it... Zhang Wenjun put the basketball in his hand on the ground in front of me and ran away. It took a long time for me to stop crying. I don't know why he put his basketball The basketball stays here... I squatted down to pick up the basketball, then put my hands in my arms and went home; when I got home, I went to the room, I sat on the ground, put the basketball in front of me and looked at it carefully, after a long time I I took this basketball to the balcony and patted it with my hands. It was the first time I touched a basketball, and I found it very interesting..."

Lying on the lawn, Lily of the Valley took a deep breath and said: "I really found it very interesting. From that day on, I put this basketball under the bed in the room. Whenever I was afraid, I thought about basketball. I gradually and suddenly found myself Turns out there are some obstacles that can be overcome ... basketball is an incredible thing."

"Aren't you going to give it back to that person?" Meng Xiaodong asked, Ling Lan smiled lightly and shook her head slowly and said, "It was only three months later that I heard my classmates talking about a basketball player among the freshmen who often played on the basketball court. Basketball, because I thought basketball was interesting and gave me a little courage, so I wanted to see other people playing basketball in person... That day after school, I came to the open-air basketball court, and I stood behind the barbed wire far away. Looking at the rumored basketball player, it turns out that he is Zhang Wenjun..."

"At that time..." Ling Lan said with flushed cheeks, "At that time, Zhang Wenjun was tall and handsome. In my eyes, he played basketball so gorgeously. Every movement fascinated me... From then on, every day after school After that, I will go to the open-air basketball court once to see if he is playing basketball. As long as I can see him, I will be happy for a long time, until one day... I stood behind the barbed wire and watched him play basketball. The basketball popped out of the hoop and fell in front of the barbed wire. Zhang Wenjun saw me when she came to pick up the ball. She recognized me at a glance... He stood behind the barbed wire and said to me, 'Hey! We meet again! You are okay. ?'"

Lily opened her eyes and leaned her head on her arm and said, "At that time, I was taken aback and immediately turned around and left, but immediately he asked again, 'Well, can I return my basketball?' and I stood there. In the same place, after a few seconds, I nodded slightly, and then immediately ran all the way home to take out the basketball from under the bed, and then ran back to school with the basketball from home... It was really late at the school gate It was already closed, and when I was standing at the empty school gate panting with my basketball in my arms, Zhang Wenjun poked his head out from behind the iron railing and signaled to the east... I immediately understood and ran to the side gate of the school with the basketball in my arms. Then Zhang Wenjun climbed up the iron gate and jumped out. He was sweating profusely in his basketball uniform and said, "The game was too late and I forgot that the school closes at [-] o'clock." At that time, I couldn't say anything and immediately put the basketball in front of him. Turned around on the ground and left, he was a little surprised and stopped me and asked, "Will you come to the school to watch my game on Saturday afternoon?" I stood ten meters away and stopped for a long time and nodded in agreement."

Linglan said with a green smile and said: "On Saturday, I really mustered up the courage to go to school to watch Zhang Wenjun's game. He performed very well in that game. Every time he made a shot, many people cheered and cheered for him. Even though I stood watching from afar, I couldn't help but want to shout out to cheer him up..."

"We won the game that day." Ling Lan said softly, "Seeing him celebrating happily, my heart is also extremely happy... I am really very happy."

(End of this chapter)