For Love of the Game

Fengyue doesn't have a legal profession, but that doesn't mean it never did, and Sun Yuan is one of them.

Speaking of Sun Yuan, he is also an old member of the Maple Moon team. It can be traced back to the time of Zhou Ning and Fan Jingming, which is longer than Song Xueyang's joining the team.

After last year's playoffs, Fengyue scored the best result ever, and the two older draft players retired. Sun Yuan also left the team at this time.

Jumping from a top four team to a top eight team, obviously Supper offered better conditions.

The fact is indeed the case, Sun Yuan directly parachuted into the Supper team as the vice-captain.

He thought that his departure would deal a heavy blow to Maple Moon. After all, losing three players who were officially drafted at the same time in one year was no joke, and he considered himself a capable faction.

But it didn't. The fact that he left the team seemed to have only caused a shallow splash in the team, which soon dissipated.

"Eh? I remember that this year's Group B only had Supper's family as the top eight teams. Why did they come in second in the group?" Fan Jingming asked in bewilderment.

When I watched the game, "The first group in Group B is a new team called Dream Team. It is said that the team was built in an Internet cafe. The average age of the players is 17 years old. They are all high school students. The captain is a sophomore in high school. After defeating Niu Niu, he reluctantly got sponsorship. It seems that he has not dropped out of school, because he ran away from home because of the professional game, and his parents ran to the gate of the group B game to make trouble."

Maple Moon: "..."

How could there be such a miserable team.

Shi Yi added, "However, this year's group stage is divided into groups. In Group B, there is only Supper, a top-eight team, and they will successfully advance to the top-eight."

Fan Jingming asked, "How did they beat Supper? Even if Supper regresses, he still isn't weak enough to lose to the rookie, right?"

Hai Xing gave him a blank look, "Can you take a break to watch the game, because Captain Fan Hao and Sun Yuan didn't play in the Supper match."

"why?"

Song Xueyang snorted, "Didn't Sun Yuan always have that temper, if you don't follow him, you'll go on strike."

Everyone shut their mouths one after another, for fear of making the captain unhappy.

Looking at the atmosphere, Shen Huai also knew that Sun Yuan and Song Xueyang were not getting along well, "But I watched the dream team's audition match, the players have great potential, they will lose to the Star Sea team in the audition, they will not perform well half the factor."

Everyone was a little surprised, because very few people watched the videos of the auditions.

"Have you watched the audition video?"

"Well, because their captain is an assassin."

What happened here?Another captain belongs to an Assassin. Do newcomers like to play Assassin so much?

"However, the next opponent of the dream team is the God of War, I'm afraid they will be beaten to pieces, right?"

Everyone was silent for a while, it was a bit miserable to meet the runner-up team in the first game of the playoffs after playing first in the group.

In any case, for Fengyue, it is a good thing to be able to draw in Group B. As long as everyone plays steadily, it is not difficult to win Supper.

It's a pity that Si Qianjin, he just led the team to get No.1 in Group D from the Loser's Resurrection Match. As a result, they faced WG directly in the first game of the playoffs.

Everyone pretended to feel sorry for Lei Ting for a while and then started training again. Shen Huai and Zhou Ning went to make coffee together.

Shen Huai asked, "Sun Yuan has a bad relationship with the captain?"

"It's more than that." Thinking of the past days, Zhou Ning felt a little emotional, "Sun Yuan was a player who joined the team with me. He was the one with the best technical skills in the team at that time. The club also intended to praise him. The captain at that time He was an old captain transferred from another project team. He was 25 years old when he joined the team. He took us for a year and then retired. We all thought that Sun Yuan would be the captain, but we didn’t expect Fox to airborne.”

Shen Huai understood that from the point of view that he would go on strike when he was upset, Sun Yuan was also an arrogant and stubborn person. Song Xueyang must have been very unconvinced when he came out of the rookie training camp and became the captain directly.

"Fox just became the captain and started to rectify. He kicked a lot of people in the team. Sun Yuan looked down on him. He thought he was artificial and always quarreled with him. From time to time, he would go to Mr. Jiang. He also said that he was in the team. There is no fox, there is a fox without him."

Shen Huai didn't expect such a drama, "What did Mr. Jiang say?"

Zhou Ning laughed, "Mr. Jiang said 'If you love to stay, don't stay, don't leave', he ran back in a desperate manner. I was outside the door at the time, and when I heard the sound, I quickly put on my earphones, lest he know that I heard it." , lose face."

Shen Huai couldn't help laughing, "Mr. Jiang is very partial to the captain."

"No, I think it's Sun Yuan who runs to Mr. Jiang's office every day and annoys Mr. Jiang."

Zhou Ning slowed down, obviously he still had a long paragraph to say, "In the first year when Fox was the captain, Sun Yuan refused to play in the group match against Chenxi, but the Fox still arranged for him to play 6V6. A head was given away, you know about this, right?"

Shen Huai nodded. There were melons on the Internet back then, but Shen Huai thought they were fake melons and didn't eat them.

"After coming back, Fox asked the higher-ups for instructions to withhold Sun Yuan's salary for three months, and Sun Yuan smashed Fox's computer when he returned to the training room."

Shen Huai frowned, no matter what, this behavior was too rude.

Seeing his worried look, Zhou Ning laughed, "Who is the fox? After that, he didn't let Sun Yuan play until the end of the group stage, and every time Sun Yuan broadcasted live, he would use a trumpet to kill him. So Sun Yuan didn't dare to play the game after training."

Shen Huai shook his head, sure enough, Song Xueyang was not something he needed to worry about at any time.

Zhou Ning wanted to say something more, but the phone rang. He glanced at the caller ID and told Shen Huai to go back first. He walked to the corner of the stairs and whispered, "Mom, what's wrong?"

"Xiao Ning," the woman on the other end of the phone was already crying, "come to the hospital to see your father, he has been talking nonsense for the past two days, I'm afraid it's a flashback..."

Zhou Ning was mentally prepared before answering the phone, and he had already become numb after so many years, so he just said calmly, "Okay, wait for me."

He went back to the training room and called Song Xueyang out to ask for leave. He didn't say the reason, and Zhou Jing also ran out.

"Captain, I also want to ask for leave."

Zhou Ning said sharply, "No, we are all gone, how do you train?"

Song Xueyang knew a thing or two about Zhou Ning's situation, and didn't express his opinion, "You can discuss it yourself. Before you leave, go to Brother Kun to write a leave note, and I will pass it on for you."

Zhou Ning nodded gratefully.

Song Xueyang returned to the training room and closed the door thoughtfully.

Zhou Ning took Zhou Jing aside, "Xiao Jing, you won't be able to help when you go back. When you grow up, you have to live for yourself. Don't worry too much about family affairs, understand?"

Zhou Jing pursed her lower lip and took out her salary card from her pocket, "Brother, this is for you. The initial password has not been changed. I know you don't have much money. When I signed the contract, the team gave 100 million. It didn't move much, you can take it."

Looking at the bank card, Zhou Ning felt sour in his heart, "Brother earns more than you, don't think about it, keep the money for a dowry in the future, and save it for two years to buy a house is a serious matter. You train hard in the team, Brother will call you with money."

When he said that, Zhou Jing knew that she would never receive this call.

Zhou Ning left at noon that day, in such a hurry that he didn't even have time to drink that cup of coffee. Song Xueyang only said that he would go home, but judging from Zhou Jing's state, it was obviously not that simple.

The flight from Shanghai to Nanjing had to wait until evening, and Zhou Ning took the high-speed train, and it was only after 2 o'clock when he arrived at the hospital.

Zhou's mother stood guard outside the ICU, the tears in her eyes dried up, leaving only two red eye circles.

"Mom." Zhou Ning called out.

When Zhou's mother saw him, she immediately cried with her head in her arms, talking intermittently about Zhou's father's situation in the past few days.

After listening calmly, Zhou Ning asked again, "Did you see the doctor?"

"I've seen it," Zhou's mother wiped away her tears, "the result hasn't come out yet, I don't think they dare to say, your father just can't do it..."

She cried halfway before noticing that Zhou Jing hadn't come, "Where's Xiao Jing? Why didn't she come back? She didn't answer the phone?"

"The game is coming soon, the team is busy with training, we can't both go, I let her stay."

Zhou's mother suddenly became worried, "Will you delay training if you come out for the game soon? Your captain must have a bad impression of you, right? Why didn't you stay by yourself and let Xiaojing come back?"

Zhou Ning frowned, "What can she do as a girl?"

"What's wrong with the girl?" Zhou's mother glared at him. "Who is the girl more delicate than? When I was her age, I was pregnant with you and had to go to work in the factory. You just spoiled her too much. Sooner or later You are going to get married, you are from the Zhou family..."

"Mom," Zhou Ning stood up, "I'll ask the doctor for the results."

Zhou's mother sat on the chair and dared not say a word.

Zhou Ning walked downstairs slowly. His mother was seriously patriarchal and had no education. When she was young, she was beautiful and married to his father. The first child was a son, which gave the family enough face.Later, he made a bet with the people in the factory that he could have another son, and Zhou Jing was born, and he lost 100 yuan for this matter. In those days, anyone who could bet with 100 yuan casually was already a wealthy family.

His father was fine, he felt that a son and a daughter would be a blessing from heaven.

It's a pity that the good times didn't last long. When Zhou Ning was in high school, his father was seriously ill and went to the hospital, spending all the family savings.Not long after they were brought home, they fell ill again. The small hospital in the county could not cure them, so they were advised to be transferred to another hospital. The family hurriedly sent them to Suzhou City, but it was found that it was kidney failure, which delayed the treatment and was already in the middle and late stages.

Zhou's mother stopped working after giving birth, and had to spare her hands to take care of Zhou's father. The family owed a lot of money, and they couldn't even pay for the two children's education.Balanced between the two, Zhou's mother chose her son between her son and her daughter, and she made Zhou Jing drop out of school.

That year Zhou Ning was in her third year of high school, and Zhou Jing was only in her second year of junior high school. She didn't even finish junior high school, so she was forced to go out to work.

Zhou's mother dared not tell Zhou's father who was hospitalized, but she couldn't hide it from Zhou Ning, so Zhou Ning ran away in a fit of anger.

He walked away for three days, holding the bank card and ID card he had saved money in. Zhou's mother cried so hard at the police station that she almost cried her eyes out. At this moment Zhou Ning came back and gave her back 100 yuan. Ten thousand.

No one knew what he went through in those few days. When Zhou Ning came back, his face was injured, his clothes and pants were changed, and he was still carrying a luggage bag.

He said two sentences, the first sentence was, "I'm not going to study anymore, I'm going to make money."

The second sentence is, "Let Xiaojing finish high school."

Zhou's mother cried and refused to let him go, but Zhou Ning still ran away. He stuffed Zhou Jing with a bank card to pay her tuition.

After a long time, Zhou's mother found out that he was playing e-sports, but where he got the 100 million in the first three days has never been known.

Zhou Ning worked for two years, and his father's condition deteriorated again, and he had to be transferred to the ICU ward for treatment. He transferred his father to a hospital in Nanjing and helped Zhou's mother rent a house near the hospital.

In addition to going to school, Zhou Jing has to take care of her father, and her college entrance examination results are not very good. Zhou's mother is also thinking about getting her married quickly, and wants to ask for more gift money while she is young.She knew that her son's salary had been emptied by the family, and she wanted to save some money for her son to ask for a wife.

Zhou's mother was dedicated to her son, but unfortunately, Zhou Ning couldn't bear this love. He took Zhou Jing away after he knew about it. The child was up to date, and he walked out of the training camp in two years. A person who has played the game becomes a professional gamer.

Zhou Ning found a doctor, and the doctor was already very familiar with him, so he said, "Your father's physical condition is quite stable, but his mental state is not very optimistic. He has been in the ICU for a long time and he is under too much psychological pressure. you know?"

Zhou Ning understood that ICU syndrome is a kind of mental disorder that occurs during the monitoring of patients, which basically stems from the fear and anxiety of death.

His father has lived in the ICU for two years, and this problem only occurs now, and his psychological quality is already relatively good.

"what should I do?"

"I suggest that your father go to a separate ICU ward. Living with other patients is very easy to be affected. Last month, a young guy left in their room. If he is sick with him, your father is not in a good condition."

Zhou Ning understood, "How much does it cost?"

The doctor made the final calculation in his heart, "ward, medicine, dialysis and so on... You should prepare 50 yuan first."

Zhou Ning pursed his lower lip, "Don't you have a suitable kidney source yet?"

The doctor sighed, "It's hard to find money."

Zhou Ning told the doctor's words to Zhou's mother, and Zhou's mother stared straight, "50?! Why is it so expensive?"

"It's just that the doctor gave the green light, a separate ward, no matter how many people ask for it."

Zhou's mother was silent, she also knew that the hospital ward was tense, "But, the money you gave me before is less than 50 yuan, [-] yuan, how can there be so much money?"

"I have."

Seeing her son, Zhou's mother burst into tears, "Xiao Ning, you are already 24. I know that your players have not had a good life for a few years, and you are always going to retire. You have to save yourself a way out." , parents only want their children to live a good life, if your father really can't do it, he really can't..."

"Mom, stop talking." Zhou Ning didn't dare to listen, "You stay here with Dad, I'll go through the formalities."

After Zhou Ning paid the money, he checked the balance in the card, and there was 20 left. After taking out the mortgage for the next six months, his own living expenses, there was only about 10 left, and the 50 he just paid was just One and a half months of money.

He sat on the edge of the flower bed in the hospital and took a deep breath, his heart still feeling tense.

He came out from home at the age of 18. This year, he has been working for six years.

Six years, no savings, no deposits, and even the house was bought with a loan. I am afraid no one will believe me if I tell him, and he himself feels sad.

When he first joined the team, he had to pay his father for medical treatment and Zhou Jing's tuition. At that time, the wages were low, and the treatment in the e-sports industry was not as good as it is now.

It's not like he didn't think about it when he was the most tired and painful. Why did he have to bear these?Some facts should be given up if there is no other way, right?Even his father has expressed to him more than once his willingness to give up treatment, as long as he nods his head, everything will be over, and he has done his best for so many years of tens of millions of water.

But every time this thought came to his mind, he would deeply despise himself, and the strong sense of guilt made him suffer.

He couldn't let go of this burden, and he didn't dare to let it go, just like every time in the past, when he couldn't bear it, his mother would always find it on his younger sister.

There are many people who can make money in the circle, and the income difference between high and low popularity players can even be several million. Live broadcast, endorsement, for top masters, as long as they want to work hard, it is not a dream to earn tens of millions a year.

But Zhou Ning is not the material for live broadcasting to attract fans. If he is not famous enough, he won't have too many endorsements.

He also knows very well that his career as a professional player is short, after six years, and he will play for another two years at most, and he will leave this circle too.

After retiring from the industry, those who are more powerful, have become coaches, commentators, have a good mouth, become anchors and open online stores, and those who are even worse can do some small business.

But he can't, he's not a great master, he doesn't have such a high reputation, and he can't learn from those snarky anchors, and he doesn't even have the money to open a Mala Tang shop, so he can hardly see his future at all.

The only fortunate thing is that he gritted his teeth and bought a house, and the loan can be repaid before he retires.

I bought the house in Dalian. I heard that it is a seaside city with pleasant scenery. There is heating in winter and it is not too cold. In summer, the sea is not too hot. It is far away from home, so there is no need to worry about everything. He has thought of excuses, so he said he found a house. Dalian girlfriend.

Every time he thinks of this, he feels that he is a very selfish person, he should go back to Suzhou, the family business is not over yet, but he really feels very tired.

Zhou Ning sat outside for a while, then called Brother Kun, and wanted to ask if the team had any endorsements recently, and if they could advance part of next year's salary.He does this all the time, and he will always prepay for the next year. When he retires, he will probably be leaving the house.

As soon as the call was connected, Brother Kun took the initiative to say, "Dan Xueyang handed you your leave request. If you have something to do at home, you can wait a few days before coming back. By the way, there is an endorsement in Beijing. Do you have time to check it out? "

Zhou Ning pursed his lower lip, "Did the fox tell you something?"

There was a pause on the phone, "Hey, what can he tell me? That kid is crazy, the endorser in Beijing asked you to go, but you have something to do at home, I thought that if you have time, you Go, I don’t have time, I’ll let someone else go, you can watch it yourself.”

"I see, I'll go."

"Success, save the plane ticket, and the team will reimburse you."

Zhou Ning didn't say the salary advance, but Zhou Ning stared at the screen for a long time and smiled.

How could it be such a coincidence that he specified himself, and happened to be in Beijing, and the playoffs were also in Beijing.

He hasn't talked to anyone about the family affairs, and he has always shown a carefree, gentle and elegant appearance to the outside world for so many years. No one even thought that he has to bear so many things, but Zhou Ning thinks that Song Xueyang must know.

Because his help always came so timely.