my brother is not cute at all

In the elevator, Hou Zeqi raised the corners of his mouth in pleasure, recalling Yang Yue's face turned pale with shock just now.

Bajie watched from the side, hesitated for a moment, but still couldn't help asking: "Your brother... also has 'Yue' in his name?"

In an instant, the hideous scar seemed to be torn to pieces by invisible ghost claws, and the name that had faded from Hou Zeqi's memory for a long time became clear again in the blurred blood, and the dazzling blood seeped into the corner of his clothes, The door of the operating room which was closed with a bang, and the white chrysanthemum blooming in front of the cold tombstone once again came into my mind.

He was stunned, the smile on the corner of his mouth instantly froze on his face, and his expression gradually dimmed in Bajie's sight.

Bajie immediately realized that he had said the wrong thing, and quickly apologized: "I, I, I didn't mean anything else, I just asked casually, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have asked."

"You don't need to apologize," Hou Zeqi adjusted his emotions, smiled wryly, his deep eyes filled with flickering lights, and after a long time, he murmured: "I am the one who should apologize."

Bajie was silent, staring down at the toe of his shoes, the bangs on his forehead blocked his eyes, so he couldn't see his expression clearly.

The elevator reached the underground garage, and the door opened with a "ding".

Hou Zeqi glanced at the people around him, sighed vaguely, and walked out of the elevator quickly.

"I don't blame you anymore."

Bajie's voice muffled from behind him, and Hou Zeqi paused.

The person behind sighed and walked out: "I really hated you at the time. Every time I lost a game and was taken to the training room by the manager and coach to scold me, I would blame you. I think you didn't say a word. Just retire and dump all the mess on me, that's the way cowards would choose to escape."

"I was only 18 at the time, and I thought you were too inhuman."

"But later, I thought that you must feel more uncomfortable in your heart than me, so I... suddenly couldn't bear to hate you."

After Bajie spoke, his voice became lower and lower, and his clear voice was finally tainted with a hint of hoarseness.

Hou Zeqi was silent for a while, then patted him on the shoulder and said in a hoarse voice, "I'm sorry, I had no other choice but to retire."

"But Liu Yue's death has nothing to do with you at all! You are not wrong at all! Why have you refused to let yourself go for so many years?" Bajie was anxious, and slapped his hand away, even with a voice excited.

"Perhaps it's my fault that he likes me so desperately," Hou Zeqi smiled sadly, the corners of his mouth were slightly self-deprecating.

"If you think so, then you will live in the shadows for the rest of your life," Bajie's voice was tinged with pleading: "Can you be more sober? You are not the one who sent him to the rehab! The one who caused his car accident The person is not you! He just happened to like someone, he is not wrong, you are not wrong, it is his parents who are wrong! It is his family!"

The more Bajie spoke, the more excited he became, and in desperation, he grabbed his wrist.

Hou Zeqi looked at the hand that was holding his wrist, without making a sound, his seemingly calm eyes actually filled with endless laments.

Bajie suddenly realized his gaffe, and then silently let go of his hand in the silence.

It took a long time for a low sigh to be heard in the quiet air.

"Bajie, did I tell you when I was playing that the mood before the game is very important?"

Bajie lowered his head and nodded silently.

"All team members must put aside all distracting thoughts in their minds before the game." Hou Zeqi paused, looked at him calmly, and continued, "The only thing you can think about is to go all out. Go for the championship."

Bajie continued to nod with a docile face, and said in a hoarse voice, "I remember, I remember everything you said."

"That's good," Hou Zeqi smiled, "Get in the car, Captain."

"I'm not young anymore," Bajie said.

Hou Zeqi: "That's right, your 21st birthday will be in a few days."

Bajie asked softly, "Can you celebrate my birthday?"

Hou Zeqi looked at him with a smile: "That depends on your performance in this competition."

"No problem," Bajie finally put on a flamboyant and confident smile under his watchful eyes: "FIH, we must win!"

As Angie said, today's FIH is no longer what it used to be. Facing the confrontation between emerging teams, FIH is really like a dying veteran. Although Bajie turned the situation around at a critical moment and won the first game first, four At the end of the game, FIH played against BW, which had no such team a year ago, and it was a 2:2 tie. As the final time came, the game became more and more anxious.

Hou Zeqi looked at the 360-degree screen on the field, FIH still maintained the usual id, Erbing, Santiao, Sihai, Wuren, but both he and all the audience present knew very well that the era belonging to FIH really is long gone.

He looked at Bajie's frowning brows in front of the screen and his unknowingly sharpened chin on the field, and suddenly remembered that when he was in the team, this teammate with baby fat on his face would often jump over the wall Those who go out to eat late at night, every time they are caught, they will find the same excuse——

"Brother Seven, I'm still growing. You see, I am the youngest in this team. I am the sun at four or five o'clock in the morning. I am a rising star. Although I am small now, I have a future in my heart." It's my dream to be as tall as you, so this time... don't punish me."

"Bajie, your height is determined innately, and your skills are determined later in life. Can you be punished if you are punished for an extra hour of training? You are a rising star, you are the sun at four or five o'clock. I shoulder the future of the FIH team, so don't say anything, just go to training."

He finished speaking with a smirk, and pushed him into the training room mercilessly. Ba Jie grabbed the door frame of the training room, vowing not to let go.

"Hey! Wait! I want to expose! I just passed by the kitchen and saw Brother June was also stealing food! You punish me but not him, it's not fair!"

"Sneaking food in the kitchen without delaying normal training, can it be the same as you sneaking over the wall?"

"Who said that? He ran away in the middle of the review! I don't care, you can't be partial!" Bajie took advantage of his height to sneak under his armpit nimbly, and shouted as he ran, "Don't eat you in June!" Come out quickly! The captain is going to the kitchen to catch you!"

The two chased after each other and ran into the kitchen. The boy who was still sucking on the instant noodles immediately swallowed the noodles, and frantically wiped the soup from the corners of his mouth: "Team, captain, I... am so hungry."

Hou Zeqi found that he was just like a father, he was so angry with these brats all day long that he couldn't laugh or cry.

"Eat this when you're hungry? Eat nothing nutritious all day long."

"I also want to eat fried rice, but I...can't cook," June is the kind of boy who is easily shy and blushes. Although he is the oldest in the whole team, he always speaks softly. Can't make people angry at all.

"If you want to eat fried rice, don't tell me earlier," Hou Zeqi laughed angrily, rolled up his sleeves, skillfully opened the refrigerator to pick out ingredients, and told Bajie while picking out: "Go and call all the hungry wolves in the training room. Late dinner for you."

Bajie cheered and ran away quickly, leaving June looking at him with bright eyes: "Captain, you are so kind, I wish I could be with you forever."

At that time, he thought he was just a young man in his 20s who was joking impulsively. He didn't expect that in the national competition half a month later, at the moment when the whole team won the championship, June would actually pounce in front of the national audience. She came up to hug him and kissed him on the cheek excitedly.

Afterwards, FIH's public relations team declared on the Internet that everyone had a good relationship within the team and was just impulsive. Although the matter was quickly suppressed, it alarmed June Yuan's parents who were abroad.

His memory is very deep. It was a cloudy day, with a sea of ​​dark clouds surging over the city, as if a sharp lightning would come out of the clouds at any moment. June's mother, with her delicate makeup on, was begging him incoherently all the time. .

"Our family has been obedient since we were young, and our grades are good. Now that the game has ruined us, he keeps telling us that he likes men! Isn't it sick, what else?"

"Our family is no better than yours. We have no money and no power. We just hope that our children can find a virtuous wife to live in peace and stability! I beg you, please let our family go! What do you want? As long as We can afford it, we will give it all! I just beg you not to ruin our son!"

"Auntie, I don't want anything, I just want Liu Yue to stay in FIH," he said firmly, "I can leave or retire, but the world championship is his dream, so he must stay."

"Seven choices! What nonsense are you talking about!" The manager said anxiously: "Both of you, neither of you can leave!"

The manager's words became the last straw that crushed June's mother. She began to cry almost madly, her voice was harsh and unpleasant: "No! You are more and more determined not to stay! Who knows what else you will do to my son?! Your family is rich and powerful, destroying my son is as easy as crushing an ant! How can I let him stay here?! He goes! He has to go today!!"

"Don't worry, Liu Yue's mother," the manager was so anxious that he took out the handkerchief he carried with him and wiped the sweat from his temples: "Calm down, let's go to the conference room to talk, shall we? Liu Yue's contract has just After a while, you took him away rashly, do you know how much liquidated damages he will pay? Do you know how much our team will suffer?"

"Then what can I do?! My son has become gay! Can I still watch him stay with this person?! What do you want me to do?! Do you want me to die!"

In desperation, June's mother began to crazily beat the equipment in the training room. The surrounding team members were all frightened, and they froze for five or six seconds before swarming up to grab the woman.

In the end, June was ruthlessly taken away on the grounds of a temporary vacation.

When he looked back at all the players in the training room, his eyes were red and glaring like blood oozing out. Those eyes that were always firm, courageous, and always burning with self-confidence were like broken walls that had been completely burned by the fire at that moment. The ruins, even the last sparks are ruthlessly crushed by reality.

"You... wait for me to come back."

Those were the last words he left for FIH.

Then, the blood-red lightning pierced through the dark clouds like a giant ax in the doomsday, with a bang like cracking rocks piercing the clouds, making the ground tremble slightly, and the bean-sized raindrops poured down, slapping the ground like a crackling sound There was a sound of thunder in the sky, like the hysterical mourning of the sky.

In the end, FIH did not wait until June to return, but ushered in his funeral at the end of the month.

On the field, Bajie seized the opportunity to turn defeat into victory and successfully led his teammates to win the last game. FIH defeated BW with a score of 3:2 and successfully advanced to the playoffs.

The audience is boiling! The FIH team members excitedly took off their headsets and rushed forward to hug their captain!

In a trance, Hou Zeqi seemed to see the young man flying towards him with open arms in the running figure. His body glowed with illusory light, approaching and approaching him whistling...

Then at the moment when it hit him head-on, it passed through his body suddenly, and went away like the wind.

——If there must be one person between us who leaves FIH, then that person must be me...

The words that June stood in front of him after packing his luggage seemed to echo in the air.

——Because, no one loves FIH more than you.

The author says:

June is an unrequited love, an innocent victim from beginning to end, and an ordinary teammate, he is at most a knot in his heart, not a white moonlight.