[full-time master] short story

Nothing happened from the beginning to the end, everything was smooth, safe and sound, and everything was fine.

Only then did a cold hand stick a sticker on his forehead.

13

He thought he was dreaming.

In the dream, Su Muqiu was still 17 years old, with a cigarette in his mouth, he knocked out one skillfully for him, then pulled him close, and the two of them lit the cigarette with a match.He looked at the other person, feeling strange and familiar at the same time, after all, he hadn't seen him for ten years.The smoke rose and blurred the corners of the opponent's eyes and eyebrows. He stretched out his hand to brush it away, but halfway through it he remembered that it was useless.

But Su Muqiu still looked at him with a smile, and said:

Lao Ye...

Ye Xiu opened his eyes, felt his limbs go weak, the sun was indescribably dazzling, and he turned the cold towel off his forehead.Chen Guo was sitting by the bed, and quickly pressed him down: "The boss is so careless, he doesn't even know he has a fever."

"what?"

"The fever was so high in the middle of the night that we almost called an ambulance, but in the early morning it went down inexplicably." Chen Guo sighed, "I'm getting old, don't stay up late anymore."

Ye Xiu still felt a little dizzy.He closed his eyes, trying to remember what Su Muqiu said in his dream, but he couldn't remember anything.

"——I'll get you something, you eat a stomach pad, and then take medicine."

Chen Guo tested his temperature again, and left after speaking.

Ye Xiu lay there, finally felt that the sun was extremely dazzling, raised his hand to cover his eyes, and at the same time felt very clear and foggy.

Until a voice, very close and very far away, slid past his ears, like the last echo of a dream:

Goodbye.

Then he felt a little wet under the back of his hand.However, my heart is very light, so light that I can float in the hot sun.

He opened and closed his lips soundlessly and said:

goodbye.git.

The End.

2. Dream Pontoon

Dream Pontoon

1.

At first, it was just a seemingly indifferent question.

"I'm going to form a team. How about it, come to my place to play professional league together."

2.

The last moment he was still in the bustling streets of London.Turning a few turns from Charing Cross Road subway station is London Chinatown. Most of the people on the street are black-haired and yellow-skinned compatriots. Chinese restaurants are crowded on both sides of the street, and occasionally there are one or two Chinese medicine shops.Suddenly, he was here the next moment: the morning sun came in from the big window behind him, making the screen white, and the dust floated on the dark black desk. Squeak.

He didn't know why he was here, his mind seemed to be covered in a layer of fog, and he didn't react until he looked up and saw the dazzling ranking list.

This is dreaming.

At this moment, Cui Li opened the door and leaned in half of his body: "Mr. Tao? Are you ready? The manager of Yueyun will come over in a while."

So he pinched his thigh hard.did not wake up.

3.

Tao Xuan was a little taken aback the first time he saw real Ye Xiu.He has been running an Internet cafe for so many years and naturally knows the standard of ordinary nerds. He has dealt with them online for a long time, but this guy in front of him is three or five years younger than he thought, and has lost twenty pounds. Maybe he just passed his growth period. Because of this, Xi Lingling looks abrupt.On the contrary, although Su Muqiu who came with him was shorter, he looked more mature, and the expression on his brows and eyes was that of a person who had tried his best in the society—even though he was only a little like Big Yexiu.

That day, he suppressed his doubts, and first talked with the two about the composition of the team's prospects, and then talked about the several leagues under preparation, and even the training conditions that Internet cafes can provide, and finally said lightly: "It's time for the offline competition. , register with your ID card, and you have to go to—”

"No problem, no problem." Su Muqiu waved his hand, "I'm already an adult, and his birthday will be at the end of May, so there will be no delay."

At that time Ye Xiu looked even younger than his actual age, which was completely different from later.

In short, after the first time, things were probably settled. Tao Xuan searched for other players all over the world while tossing about the hardware in the training room above his Internet cafe. It was full of youthful spirit, and he didn't expect that the plate would become so big later.When he was so busy, he suddenly received a call from Su Muqiu - the caller ID was Su Muqiu, but the voice inside was Ye Xiu's.

He said that Su Muqiu had a car accident.Can you come over and do me a favor?

Tao Xuan didn't dare to drive when he went out.He sat in the back seat of the taxi all the way to the hospital in a restless state of mind. The mobile phone in his hand never rang again. He couldn't help holding on to two or three hopes, but all the way into the emergency operating room, he heard the sound of a girl sobbing. This little hope It also completely fell in the worst direction.The fluorescent tubes above his head were flickering, and when he walked over, he felt somewhat unbalanced under his feet, and Ye Xiu's face could hardly be recognized under the pale and false light: it was as if he had put on a mask called normal before the intense grief , It is also like the youth of the past that has shed like a snake, revealing a vividness that is difficult to look directly at.Perhaps it was just his imaginings added years later-they had only met once, and outside the operating room one always couldn't recognize the other face destroyed by anxiety.

Tao Xuan didn't remember much of what happened afterwards, and he didn't do much to help him except for borrowing money and finding a lawyer.Due to their lack of cash, Ye Xiu and Su Mucheng planned to store the ashes in the funeral home temporarily, and Tao Xuan went to Nanshan Cemetery to rent a cemetery on his own initiative, saying that he had to bury his ashes for safety.

After Su Muqiu was buried, Tao Xuan dragged Ye Xiu and Su Mucheng to a nearby restaurant for dinner.Even though the food was tasteless, he still picked up the common principles and exhorted them back and forth.The two people on the opposite side moved their chopsticks silently and slowly, occasionally nodded and answered.

At the end of the day, he went home and lay down on the bed and suddenly thought—when encountering such a thing, maybe Ye Xiu would just let it go.This thought was like a ball of burning coals entrenched between his chest and abdomen. He turned on the lamp, touched the phone and even opened the address book, then turned it off with a sigh and threw it aside.

He couldn't ask that, he could only wait.

It's just that when Tao Xuan walked into the Internet cafe the next day, he heard the young man in charge of the front desk say that the team player you're looking for is here, and it's upstairs.Tao Xuan was stunned for a moment, then he went upstairs and opened the door of the training room. He saw a figure sitting there with earphones on his head, and the word "Glory" was popping up on the screen.

He watched the battle mage on the screen waving his jet-black battle spear in the victory posture established by the system, and then he saw the man take off his earphones and turn around: "Boss, it's early."

"Well, good morning.—How about it, my keyboard?"

"The keyboard is fine, but the mouse is still heavy."

"Heavy? What brand do you usually use..."

After that, if Ye Xiu hadn't used most of the first year's bonus to repay Tao Xuan's debt, Tao Xuan would have almost forgotten that there was such a thing back then.Holding the envelope, he cleared his throat in embarrassment, and asked how Mucheng was doing, and whether the civil compensation had come down.Ye Xiu answered, but saved it for Mucheng to go to college.

Tao Xuan felt damp in the hand holding the envelope.

Take it easy.He heard himself say that the days to come will be long.

4.

In the next 5 minutes, Tao Xuan tried all possible ways to confirm the date: desk calendars, wall calendars, Internet phones, and even went to the forum three times, and got a piece of "Excellent Era: The Fall of the Former Dynasty"" Now iPhone20 can't save Excellent Era" "Optimistic about Excellent Era's relegation, the challenge will come again for another year" post.Those harsh words now seemed to be nothing but human beings. He pinched himself twice again, but he still didn't wake up.

In the end, he simply went out of the house, waved his hand when he met Cui Li in the corridor, and said that I should go to the training room first.

Cui Li rarely hesitated: ... this ...

Tao Xuan said: You should call Yueyun first and tell him that something happened to me and I won't be here in the morning, so call him over at one o'clock in the afternoon.Without looking at Cui Li's face after speaking, he walked directly along the corridor.

Of course he knew that Yue Yun had come to discuss Sun Xiang's transfer contract.It's a pity that the smug ambitions of the past are no longer found today. When Tao Xuan walked down the stairs, he saw those familiar photo arrangements and couldn't help slowing down—these are gone now.

But - when is "now"?

He walked down the final steps in two or three steps, and looked up to see the spray-painted three-peat poster in the depths of the corridor—it was the one Tao Xuan was most satisfied with back then, so he specially asked workers to leave it there.

At that moment, he suddenly realized a fact.

It's still too late.

He didn't sign Sun Xiang's transfer contract, didn't have a showdown with Ye Xiu, and didn't push his Excellent Era dynasty step by step to a dead end.

—Is there still time for everything to change?

5.

In the first three seasons of the Glory League, everything moved forward like a quadruple speed video.In the first season, the distribution of the finals broadcast on the Glory Alliance network was beyond Tao Xuan's expectations, but in the second season, the alliance started TV broadcasting, and the previous money became trivial again.

That year, Jiashi Glory Club ushered in the second championship trophy, rented the first building and transformed it into the best training center in the league, and for the first time, all members participated in the live TV awards ceremony (naturally, For some reason, Ye Xiu, who refused to appear on camera, was not among them).After returning to City H, Tao Xuan made a special gift of 10 yuan in red envelopes by himself—he wanted to give too much, but it was a pity that he spent too much money to renovate the hardware facilities that year, so he didn't want to pretend to be generous .He always tells the team