Captain is a sick beauty

"Snapped!"

The basketball that was thrown at high speed all of a sudden brushed against Pei Qingyu's fingertips, which made Pei Qingyu have to withdraw his hand and gave up the act of hooking Xun Yin's fingers.

The basketball bounced heavily on the ground a few times. Pei Qingyu frowned. He turned his head and saw a person squatting on the ground standing up slowly not far away.

Half of his face was covered by a mask, and his exposed eyes were hidden under the broken hair that reached his eyebrows.

This person seemed to be younger than Pei Qingyu, and he was in the transition period between a teenager and a youth.He walked over slowly with eyes downcast, without looking at the two people in front of him, just picked up the basketball silently and wanted to leave.

But just as he took two steps, he suddenly half-turned and looked at Pei Qingyu, and said in a low voice, "Sorry, I didn't control my strength well."

Pei Qingyu just couldn't help laughing. He looked at the young man who turned his head and wanted to go back. Just as he was about to step forward to stop him, he heard a faint sound from the side. Xunyin who was standing behind him without saying a word He took a step forward and silently stood in front of the boy.

"Where are you going?" Xun Yin paused, and asked suddenly without beginning or end.

The boy didn't show any doubts either, he looked up at Xunyin, then looked down at the basketball in his hand, and replied briefly: "Play basketball."

"There is no basketball court here." Xun Yin looked around and asked again, "Where are you going?"

This time, the boy didn't speak any more.He turned around and moved a few steps to the side, trying to bypass Xun Yin, but a shadow was cast in front of him again.

Both the young man and Xun Yin were taciturn, they walked back and forth and moved half a meter to the side, but neither of them spoke their first words.

Pei Qingyu who was at the side finally couldn't help sighing when he saw the two of them playing "extremely fun".

He took a step forward, still directly hooking the palm of the man's hand with his fingers, and then clasped it tightly, pulling him back a step.

Pei Qingyu stood in front of Xunyin, smiled at the young man in front of him, and asked softly, "Don't worry, he's about your age, he's also very interested in basketball, and wants to play with you, but he doesn't think there's enough here." venue, so just ask.”

The young man looked up at Pei Qingyu silently, and after a long silence, he finally replied in a low voice: "Over there, in the corner of the garden, there is a gap between two trees, which can be used as a basket."

"Oh, it looks like this." Pei Qingyu nodded lightly, and he looked down at the basketball tightly held by the young man. The basketball was very old, and the edges were a little hairy, as if it had been rubbed many times.

"Then there are only the three of us and it seems that we can't be divided into two teams equally." Pei Qingyu stared quietly at the young man in front of him, and continued to ask, "Do you know anyone here...where are your teammates who play basketball together?"

"...There used to be." The boy's fingertips holding the basketball were slightly white, and he whispered, "but recently, he suddenly disappeared."

"Gone?"

"Yeah." The boy nodded, and replied in a low voice, "We used to go there to play basketball together every day when the wind was released, but he hasn't come out for a while. I don't know his ward, so... "

"How long has it been recently?" Pei Qingyu asked in a low voice.

"...Probably, two weeks ago?" The boy thought for a while and gave a range.

Pei Qingyu frowned when he heard this, and he looked back at Xun Yin behind him.

The moment Xunyin stopped the young man from asking nervously, Pei Qingyu suddenly remembered that they had seen a photo on the wall of Sun Miao's ward just now, in which there was a basketball exactly like the one in the young man's hand.

Both of them originally thought that the person the boy mentioned was Sun Miao, but Sun Miao's condition took about a week to deteriorate, which was somewhat inconsistent with the two weeks the boy said.

"Is the person you played basketball with dark skinned? He looks tall but also very thin." Pei Qingyu tried to describe Sun Miao's appearance, but the boy continued to shake his head.

"No...he's quite white."

Pei Qingyu sighed slightly in his heart. He straightened up while supporting Xun Yin's arm. He was about to say something when he saw the young man think for a while, then raised his head and continued, "I only know his name."

"His name is Sun Miao."

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Turning around from the corner of the small garden, the surrounding voices suddenly became much less.

The young man led them between the two trees at the corner. Pei Qingyu looked up and saw that there were indeed two tall trees standing beside the courtyard wall of the hospital. Their branches overlapped and covered the courtyard wall behind. Mostly.

"Sun Miao was not admitted to the hospital at the same time as me. I was a year earlier than him. But we were allowed to go out at the same time." The boy sat cross-legged on the ground and patted the basketball lightly, saying in a low voice.

"In the psychiatric hospital, only when the patient's condition is completely stable will he be allowed to come out for activities. It took me a whole year to reach stability, but it took Sun Miao less than a week."

"Sometimes I can't control myself and I will be taken back to the isolation ward for two days, but I heard from the nurse sister that Sun Miao's condition has been very stable. I can't guarantee that I can come out every time I go out, so I give my own basketball to him. Let him go and make sure he can play by himself for a while while I'm away."

The teenager looked down at the basketball beside him while talking: "But about two weeks ago, Sun Miao suddenly returned the basketball to me during a wind tour."

"He told me that he might not be able to come out soon, so he returned the basketball to me first." The boy looked up at Xun Yin's expression, and explained as if he realized something, "I don't know what other mental patients are. What it looks like... But as far as Sun Miao and I are concerned, we both know that we are sick, but we just can't control it."

He shrugged as he spoke, "Otherwise, we wouldn't be in a mental hospital, would we?"

"Sorry." Xun Yin shook his head slightly, looked at the young man and beckoned him to continue.

"Sun Miao and I have the best relationship not only because we play basketball together, but also because we suffer from the same disease to a certain extent, so we are the closest 'patients'."

The boy stopped hitting the ball unknowingly at this point, he lowered his head and stared at his toes, and said in a low voice: "So I can feel that there is something wrong with Sun Miao telling me about his 'morbidity' this time. "

"Emotionally?"

Pei Qingyu leaned on the trunk next to him and looked up at the "basket" formed by the interlaced trunks. When he heard this, he turned his head and looked at the boy and asked.

"Yes, his mood is a little...too pleasant." The young man raised his head. Years of illness experience gave him experience. Like an old pedant, he analyzed in a rigorous manner: "Every time I get sick, Usually it's because of emotional restlessness and depression. But this time Sun Miao didn't seem to be in a bad mood, on the contrary, there was some faint happiness mixed in."

"I don't really understand what he was happy about, but I couldn't control my emotions in those few days. I came out after two days of rest, and Sun Miao was no longer allowed to let the wind go."

When the boy said this, he looked up at the two people opposite and said, "That's all I know...so can you play basketball with me?"

Pei Qingyu couldn't hold back a slight smile, rolled up his sleeves and walked forward, stretched out a hand to the boy and said, "Okay, I'll fight with you, come on."

The boy nodded and wanted to get up, but he was still wearing a mask and didn't intend to take it off.Pei Qingyu was afraid that he would be short of oxygen for a while, so he hesitated whether to remind him to take it off, but suddenly a person came in front of him.

Xun Yin grabbed the young man's hand first, pulled him up, and at the same time lightly pressed Pei Qingyu's arm and said, "Captain feels sick to his stomach, let me fight with you first."

Pei Qingyu was stunned for a moment, but saw that Xun Yin's hand holding his arm suddenly turned in a different direction, and pointed upwards without a trace, Pei Qingyu raised his head and glanced forward, instantly understood, smiled slightly and stepped back half a step, motioning for the two to continue. .

The young man didn't seem to care about anything else as long as someone was playing with him, he bowed slightly, looking at Xun Yin with clear eyes.

Xun Yin took the basketball and slapped it twice, looked at the boy and said, "Then you go first, little—"

"My surname is Zhang." The boy raised his head slightly, and the thread of the mask was tightly tied behind his ears, "but you should call me Xiaoqi."