【Double Flower】Honeysuckle

late at night.

The moonlight shone on the floor stalls in the corridor, there was no crisp and clang sound, and even the soft footsteps sounded very gentle to the ears.

Zou Yuan silently followed behind Yu Feng, walking on the way back to the dormitory.

In the player channel, Yu Feng didn't ask him more about Zhang Jiale's past.However, the piles and piles of the past, like a torrent that broke through the valve, were pushed straight to his eyes with overwhelming heaviness and sorrow.

In the year of the fifth season, at the press conference after the final, he was sitting among the reporters in the audience.

So, when he heard Sun Zheping's retirement decision announced by the manager on his behalf, Zhang Jiale's face full of emotions he couldn't understand, mixed with despair and anger, together with the unwillingness that hadn't been cleaned up in the future, just crashed into him like that. his eyelids.

At that moment, Zhang Jiale looked so strange in front of him.

That night, he only left a message of "Go back to City K first", then turned off his cell phone, and disappeared inexplicably just like Sun Zheping who had just retired.

In the evening of the next day, when everyone was anxiously looking for him for almost a whole day, and when they had nothing to do and almost called the police, he returned to the Baihua Building with an expression that Zou Yuan was all too familiar with. .

He smiled.

Even though he had just failed in the finals, even though his eyelids were still blue with fatigue, even though he seemed to be unable to maintain his collapsed expression at the press conference the night before, Zhang Jiale was standing in front of everyone at this moment. , even smiled.

He apologized to everyone with a smile, accepted their repeated inquiries with a smile, changed the subject with a smile and urged everyone to invest in a new round of hard work, and even raised his fist with a smile, promising that he would lead Hundred Blossoms to win the new season champion of...

But this familiar smile fell into Zou Yuan's eyes, which only made him feel strange.

For the first time, he had the feeling that he had never understood Zhang Jiale.

Something disappeared from Zhang Jiale's body.Even though he tried his best to suppress it, Zou Yuan still felt that Zhang Jiale was no longer the Zhang Jiale he used to be.He smiles, he works hard, he sprints forward all the way with Baihua, he seems never to be tired, frustrated and lost, like a cluster of fireworks that never seems to burn out, more like a down-to-earth person than he used to be. madman.

But there is no longer the shadow of the boy Zou Yuan secretly admired who was in the small building and under the sun, flamboyantly shooting at people with his hand like a gun.

In those two years, no one saw him resting.There seems to be a screen in Baihua's training room that will never go out, and the person in front of the screen will never leave.

Many times Zou Yuan has a lot to say to Zhang Jiale.But when the words came to his lips, seeing the smile on Zhang Jiale's face, he couldn't say anything in the end.He can only go back to the training room of the youth training camp, turn on his computer, and repeat the boring training over and over again while others are resting and having fun, trying to bring himself closer and closer to the burning light source .

Could it be that he can relax a bit when he becomes stronger, strong enough to shoulder a part of Zhang Jiale's responsibilities?

But he is so powerful.The place where he stands alone is like a hundred flowers blooming.So, did he never care whether those people he took behind him and dragged them forward were strong or weak?

As for the many questions, Zou Yuan couldn't remember how long he had been lingering in his stomach.Until one day, he chatted with Mo Chuchen about the past of Baihua. He heard how their team was established, what years they had experienced in the small building surrounded by greenery, and how their former Captain Sun How crazy is it? Listening to Zhang Jiale's vice-captain, that scene propped up the entire Hundred Flowers scene... Seeing the light in Mo Chuchen's eyes, he seemed to understand something.

The Zhang Jiale in front of him seemed to be gradually living himself into the Sun Zheping he remembered - even crazier than the Sun Zheping back then.

After hearing it, Zou Yuan didn't even know how he should feel when facing Zhang Jiale.He couldn't control the sourness in his heart when he saw Zhang Jiale's increasingly tired and haggard face, but he also knew that a strong man like Zhang Jiale didn't need anyone's sympathy and pity.

Everything is his own choice, and he is much weaker than him, and he is not even qualified to feel hard for him.

Zou Yuan kept saying this to himself.

Even after the finals of the seventh season, at the press conference after he missed the championship for the third time, Zhang Jiale's face was pale, but he still smiled lightly, saying softly that he would continue to work hard.

However, after they returned to the team building that night and everyone fell asleep with unwillingness and hope for the future, Zou Yuan tossed and turned for a long time, put on his coat, and walked lightly to the first training room. He was surprised to find that the room was dark. Among them, only the computer on Zhang Jiale's seat was still on.

But Zhang Jiale was nowhere to be seen in front of the computer.

Like a ghost, Zou Yuan pushed open the door of the training room, did not turn on the light, and walked to Zhang Jiale's seat by taking advantage of the moonlight outside the window——

He saw Zhang Jiale curled up, nestled in the narrow gap under the computer desk, there was not much sad expression on that much clearer face, but he was resting on his knees, quietly letting the tears flow all the way Flowed down silently.

It seemed like a long time before Zhang Jiale realized that the moonlight in front of him was blocked by someone.He raised his head slowly, and his out-of-focus eyes slowly focused on Zou Yuan. After a long time, his eyes showed a trace of fragility that Zou Yuan couldn't believe existed in him.

"Sorry to worry you. I'm fine."

He raised his hand and roughly wiped away the tears on his face, but the corner of his mouth that he tried to pull towards Zou Yuan seemed to be stretched to the extreme and was about to break: "Please don't tell others what happened today."

At that moment, Zou Yuan saw clearly that Zhang Jiale was a strong man, but at the same time he was also an ordinary person.

He will be hurt, tired, sad, vulnerable, depressed, not as strong and omnipotent as he imagined.

Zou Yuan began to hate his own uselessness - he failed to help Zhang Jiale win the championship, failed to share Zhang Jiale's responsibilities from all over the world, and he couldn't even say something that would comfort him at this moment .

He could only nod silently, exit the room along the way he came, closed the door gently, and sealed this scene in his heart, not mentioning it to anyone.

That was the first and last time he saw Zhang Jiale's tears.

Because after those two months, Zhang Jiale chose to retire.

Zhang Jiale suddenly retired before the eighth season, and the burden of captain fell on his shoulders.Facing the many responsibilities and pressures that made him breathless, he would inevitably complain to Zhang Jiale, but in the middle of the night, when he returned to the dormitory, he even secretly relaxed. tone.

He thought, retiring, does it mean that Zhang Jiale can finally take a good rest?

"What's wrong?" He seemed to have stood there for a long time, in a daze, Yu Feng's voice brought him back to reality.Zou Yuan blinked, looked at the words "First Training Room" on the door plate in front of him, and suddenly said in a low voice:

"Tell me why there is only one champion."

Yu Feng smiled: "If everyone wins the championship, what's the point of our hard work."

Zou Yuan tilted his head and thought for a while, then laughed softly: "That's true."