Qi spirit

It was a hot day, the least rainy season of the year.

The basketball team members of Chongling High School are on the bus returning to school from the gymnasium in Betsu City.The poor performance of the air conditioner in the car makes the air hot and sweaty. However, for a group of athletes aged 16 to [-], this harsh environment will not evaporate their excess energy. It is rare for a group of people to travel together. You must seize the time to make a fuss.

However, the atmosphere on the bus was unusually quiet at this time. No one spoke, played, flipped through books, or even slept.Almost like a death bus on its way to the slaughterhouse.

Finally, Tan Jun, the deputy captain sitting in the front seat, spoke in his usual calm and serious tone: "Go back and run [-] laps of the playground to disband."

The Chongling basketball school team, which has always been invincible in previous years, narrowly beat their opponents who failed to even participate in the preliminaries last year by only two points in the preliminaries of this year's national interschool ball game. They were ridiculed by many competitive opponents, saying that they might not be able to keep their national championship status this year.

"Yan Yuling." Tan Jun suddenly raised his voice.

"Yes!" Yan Yuling, who was sitting in the window seat on the left side of the third row from the bottom, immediately stood up in shock from this menacing call, and slammed his head on the luggage rack on the top of the bus, but he didn't dare at all. Crying for pain, he didn't even dare to touch him, his hands were vertically beside his legs in fear.

"You run forty laps, plus two hundred sit-ups and one hundred push-ups."

"Hello..." The captain sitting next to Tan Jun said, "It's not Yuling's fault."

"Oh, so he was late in the morning because someone here caught him out for a carnival last night?" Tan Jun raised his left leg and crossed his arms, never turning his head to look at the group of juniors behind him.

On the contrary, the captain, who has always been gentle and courteous, turned his head and looked pitifully at Yan Yuling, who was still trying to maintain his balance and stood upright.

"Then he must have an unavoidable reason..."

"I'm sorry!" Yan Yuling interrupted the captain's intercession, "Captain, vice-captain, and everyone, I am willing to take full responsibility, vice-captain, please don't punish everyone, let... let me bear it alone." Yan Yuling After speaking, he swallowed his saliva fiercely, clenched his fists tightly, and his palms were already sweaty.He knew that if he said these words, the vice-captain who was particularly strict with him would definitely double the punishment, but he had to admit that he should take full responsibility.

Yan Yuling took part in today's ball game without telling his mother, of course it will be ruined afterwards, but at least he has played the ball, whether his butt is blooming or his palms are rotten or his knees can't straighten up, then he will worry about it later.

Originally this morning, we had to gather at the school at 05:30 am, and the bus left at 04:30. Yan Yuling wanted to sneak out at [-]:[-], but when he was about to go downstairs, he found his mother sitting in the living room alone, not knowing what to do. What, he didn't dare to confirm, he waited in the room until his mother went upstairs to return to the room, and then flew away from home immediately, but it was already six o'clock when he arrived at school.

Delayed departure of the bus, unable to avoid the busy time of the road, and spending a long time on multiple blocked roads, as a result, the team missed the first game, which directly led to a serious fall behind in the following points.Not only that, because Yan Yuling felt sorry, he was very nervous when playing, made frequent mistakes, and even rarely hurt his own team members. He was originally the main force of the team, and the substitute who replaced him lacked experience and skills. The team regained too many points.The vice-captain didn't intend to play, and finally had to put on armor to go into battle.Not long ago he tore his ligament, and the captain, who was still recuperating from his injury, managed to hold up for half the game to prevent the team from being eliminated.But the legendary undefeated champion team was still disgraced.

"Why do you say that? We are a team, we share difficulties!"

"That's right! Forty laps! There are also sit-ups and push-ups. I'll do it with you!"

"Yes! Let's do it together!"

"The semi-finals let them taste our strength!"

The team members stood up one by one to support Yan Yuling, and finally everyone stood up.

"Look, everyone is so united, you should just let Yuling go."

The captain's good words persuaded, but the vice-captain still turned a deaf ear.

"Everyone has kindness." The deputy captain stood up from his seat, turned around and glanced at everyone's faces, more than half of them dared not look him in the face, including Yan Yuling.

"Every year, the school sponsors us with a full set of uniforms and sneakers, as well as transportation and meals. If the game location is too far away, it will also provide accommodation. The team does not need to spend a penny. After the game, we are allowed to take a day even if we are not injured. False break, why? Because we are the champions for the school! Today’s shitty results, I guarantee that the school magazine society will make a big fuss! The principal will come to question us! Do you want to fight! Even if we say yes, we will He will persuade us openly, and order us secretly to give up this year's competition, and recharge our batteries to prepare for the next year's competition, so as not to lose the school's face!" The vice-captain became more and more excited as he spoke, and at the end, the captain covered his ears.

"Are you exaggerating too much?" the captain said helplessly.

"How dare you say it's impossible?"

"Uh..." The captain was speechless. He knew that the same thing happened to the school's gymnastics team the year before last. It's been a slump until now.

"It's impossible." The deputy captain pressed.

"Don't dare..." The captain lowered his head and scratched the back of his head.

The vice-captain who was approved by the captain became even more arrogance.

"Anyone who wants to continue the competition can do as I say. Those who should run [-] laps should run [-] laps, those who should run [-] laps should run [-] laps, and those who should be punished will be punished. The captain and I will convince the school Our level is still champions! Say, are we champions?"

Everyone froze for half a second.

"Yes! It's the champion! We are the champion! The Chongling school team is invincible!"

The low morale on the bus instantly heated up.The uncle Indian driver, who was holding the steering wheel, didn't understand the conversation just now. Seeing the lifeless young teenagers in the car suddenly cheer up, he laughed and said that they were like athletes.

"What happened to those fifty laps?" the captain asked weakly the black-hearted vice-captain who returned to his seat with a smug face.

The black-hearted vice-captain twitched his lips, and said with a sneer, "That kid, if he's popular, he's self-righteous, and he deserves it."

"You have a grudge against him?"

"Is it a complaint if you don't like it?"

"Ugh……"

The captain, who adheres to the principle that more is worse than less, has never been able to compete with the vice-captain, who has a vicious mouth and a heart. He can only think about how to comfort the cute junior who will be punished to be out of shape afterwards.

The return trip was still suffering from traffic jams, and it was already dusk when we arrived at the school.

"Whoever dares to accompany him to be punished will be doubled."

One hundred laps of the playground will kill people, and not everyone can go home late.Frustrated by the vice-captain's vicious intimidation, the people who had finished running [-] laps of the playground had no choice but to go home silently, and those who had any water and snacks on them secretly stuffed them into Yan Yuling's backpack.

Yan Yuling's seven o'clock access control time has passed long ago, and no matter what time he returns home, he has to be served by his mother's family law. The captain paid off the punishment in two days, and he said that he didn't need it.

After returning home today, he might not be able to run for several days.

Yan Yuling finished sit-ups and push-ups first. Although there were a lot of penalties for these two items, they were his usual warm-up before training and were easily completed.The challenge of running is endurance. After running 45 laps, it was getting dark.Only the vice-captain left on the playground was 'imprisoned'.

Yan Yuling has never received lenient treatment from the devil's vice-captain since he joined the team, but the vice-captain is indeed powerful, and he also taught him many necessary skills, and used him very much. He was the main force for the first time in the competition. He has never been a substitute before, so naturally he will not refuse to accept it, even if he really feels that his legs and back are about to be broken, and it is impossible to run.

"What are you doing? Urgent urgency?" The deputy captain came forward with his hands in his trouser pockets.

Yan Yuling was unable to answer, he held onto the trunk of a small tree by the playground, bent his waist and lowered his head, panting.His sweat was dripping down his chin like water, and his underwear and socks were soaked. From the neck down to his toes, every muscle in his body was aching, and his tight thighs and calves were trembling constantly. cramp.

"If you can't finish running, run tomorrow, start from scratch." Yan Yuling looked up at the devil, saw the seriousness in the devil's eyes, swallowed his saliva, straightened his waist, swung his legs, and continued to move forward with difficulty.

The deputy captain jogged beside him.

"Relax your muscles and regulate your breathing slowly."

"En." Yan Yuling nodded, following the instructions and trying to relax.

"You have explosive power, but your endurance still needs to be honed. I am not punishing you for running for no reason. This is also training."

"Yes... I... know..." Yan Yuling had to take a breath every time he said a word.

"Are you convinced? If you don't agree, you can leave at any time. I won't keep you."

"I accept! I accept!" Yan Yuling nodded vigorously.

For the last five laps, the vice-captain ran with him all the time, telling Yan Yuling intermittently about the team's past, describing a few classic NBA games he would never forget, and then talking about dreams and the future.

Yan Yuling listened carefully, and after diverting his attention, the physical discomfort would not be too difficult, and his steps gradually returned to lightness.

"Tell me about your future plans, will you read the body?"

When the question was thrown, Yan Yuling was stunned for a moment, then nodded and said yes.

"Ha, I knew it! You are very talented, you should go to basketball!" The vice-captain smiled rarely.

Yan Yuling pursed his lips and smiled, "Yeah." In the future, if he can make decisions, that's indeed his plan.

Fifty laps and you're done.

Yan Yuling knew that he had to hurry home, and his late mother would punish him by kneeling according to the time beyond the gate control. He could try to save one minute from kneeling, but he exhausted his strength as soon as he finished running, and lay on the playground unable to move.

"I heard that you have a younger brother, and you also play ball?" The vice-captain said while lifting Yan Yuling's right leg and straightening it, then pushed the back of Yan Yuling's thigh with his knee and pushed it toward his chest. It's a stretching movement after intense exercise. It cannot be omitted.

Yan Yuling gritted his teeth and endured the pain of pulling and contracting the muscles in the front and back of his thighs, thinking that he would have to do the forward bending of his legs in a while, he had the urge to cry.

"I asked you something, didn't you hear me?"

"No……"

"Didn't you hear me? Are you hard of hearing?" the deputy captain shouted.

Yan Yuling hurriedly shook his head to clarify: "My brother doesn't play ball!"

"Yes? Why?" The deputy captain put down his right leg and switched to his left.

"He is in poor health, has asthma, is not suitable for sports..."

"intrinsic?"

"Ah."

"serious?"

"Ah."

"That's a pity, it would be great if you could join our team, get up."

The vice-captain put down his left leg, Yan Yuling sat up tremblingly, the vice-captain split his legs sideways for him, the angle was definitely greater than ninety degrees, it was not enough, and then he stretched it with his hands Split some more.

No... Yan Yuling could only swallow the request.

"You're so tall, isn't your younger brother not bad?" The vice-captain walked around behind Yan Yuling as he said that, without saying hello, he pushed Yan Yuling's back forward with both palms.

"Ah..." Yan Yuling couldn't help it.

"What's your name? Are you a girl?" The deputy captain pushed forward mercilessly, then unceremoniously straddled Yan Yuling's back, pressing Yan Yuling's upper body down.

Yan Yuling's body is not inferior to ordinary people in softness, although he is not as good as a gymnast, but he is strong in endurance, so the devil's vice-captain secretly used the stretching movements of the gymnastics team to hone him, and often watched him from the sidelines. The team members were terrified and kept silent. You must know that they rely on their legs to play, and their leg muscles are very stiff.This kind of leg pressing is no different from torture.

Yan Yuling bit his lip to stop himself from crying out in pain, but as time passed, his pain doubled.

He had to distract himself from the pain.

"My brother...height is much different from mine..."

"That high?"

"No...he's short." Saying that his younger brother felt a little guilty about being short, Yan Yuling hurriedly added: "He's relatively petite, very cute..."

"What's the point of being cute?" the vice-captain spoke without restraint...

Who said it's useless?Yan Yuling complained that his younger brother is cute and hurts others, unlike himself, who only tricks sticks and vines to 'pain'.

"How can there be such a big difference in height between brothers? Your parents are also very different in height?"

That was probably one of the reasons, Yan Yuling also thought so, but there was another definite reason.

"My younger brother was born prematurely, so... his body is weaker and his development is slower..."

"Oh...then you, as an older brother, should take care of him more."

"Yes, I understand..."

After the leg press was over, the deputy captain then performed other soothing movements for Yan Yuling.The pain in the body muscles gradually eased, and Yan Yuling's thoughts also relaxed.

Although he still responded to the vice-captain's words one after another, his thoughts were brought back to the past because of the topic just now, the year when his younger brother was born.

That year, the sentence that was most deeply imprinted in his mind was said by his father, which was similar to what the vice-captain said.

"You will be an older brother from now on. You must take care of your younger brother, protect your younger brother, and give priority to your younger brother in everything, because your younger brother is physically weak."

This sentence Yan Yuling can generously share with others.

However, no one knew how much motivation this sentence brought to the five-year-old him at the time.

It was because of these words that he survived a childhood that was as dark as a nightmare.

The author has something to say:

Accidentally wrote a side story, let everyone remember the character Tan Xuechang.