My vision is different

Chapter 3 Why is the last school so difficult?
"Hello Coach Li."

"Xiao Lin's father, I'm really sorry for calling you here so late."

"It's okay, everything is for the children, isn't it?"

Lin Shaojie, who was hiding outside the wall, secretly listened to the voice inside the wall, and the long memory recalled in his mind, he knew who was talking to his father.

Li Daohong, the basketball coach who had taken a fancy to him before.

"Our Family Lin Shaojie's Achievements"

"The grades are very good. Although there are many shortcomings, the advantages are also outstanding. After all, non-professionals can reach this level, and the talent is still very good."

Li Daohong said encouragingly, and Father Lin was even more happy to hear it.

But Lin Shaojie outside the door always felt that something was wrong.

"But."

"What's the matter, Coach Li?"

Father Lin's voice was very anxious. It was about his son's future. As a father, he was a bit out of place.

"Old Lin, let me call you that!"

Li Daohong pulled Father Lin to sit on the sofa.

"For the six new players specially recruited this time, there are only two spots left for guards. The others are forwards and centers. The candidate for shooting guard has almost been decided, and another point guard."

Li Daohong paused, looked at Father Lin's longing eyes, and still couldn't help saying.

"It's already been decided."

Lin's father slumped on the chair with his eyes blank.

"Then, then you call me"

"Old Lin, I'm very sorry. I really don't want to do this. Lin Shaojie is my favorite player, but I can't give you this spot now."

"Coach Li, you can't do this!"

Father Lin said eagerly: "His test scores are very good, the coaches have said it, and you also said that my son is your favorite, right?"

"I am very optimistic about him!"

"Money, is it because of money?"

Father Lin said in a panic.

"Coach Li, if this is the case, I will go to withdraw the money now. Tell me how much you want, and I will definitely take what I can get. Please, Coach Li, this is a matter of the child's life!"

"Old Lin!"

Li Daohong said loudly: "It's not about money, I, Li Daohong, am not that kind of person."

"What is it if it's not money?"

Maybe it's because the emotions that have been suppressed these days can't be held back at this moment, Father Lin said loudly in a nearly broken voice.

"Since I received this news, I have contacted you as soon as possible. What did you tell me before I came here? Now I have rushed here with my son, and you have seen the results. You have given us the greatest hope, but in At this time, you told me that this spot cannot be reserved for us.

If my son is not qualified, I will admit it, but he is the first, the first!

How can you do this?
Are you not a coach? "

"The coach can't decide everything."

Li Daohong took out a cigarette, handed it to Father Lin, and said in a low voice.

"I won't go into details with you about some things. I came here so late because of this matter. The Provincial City University must not be able to do it. Some things are not up to me. As long as I can make up my mind, I will immediately Lin Shaojie can come to report, but I can't decide on this quota, some people took it away."

"The coach can't decide the players, so what kind of coach should he be?"

Lin's father blushed, but Li Daohong comforted him instead.

"Old Lin, if I don't call you here today, and the school will notify you in a few days later that Lin Shaojie was not selected, will you still blame me?"

Father Lin didn't say anything.

"I didn't want to lie to you, so I told you this, it's not easy for you to come here from the county.

Some people want to come in, but I can't stop them, and I don't have that ability. Classmate Lin has become a victim. I can't do much now, but I can call you here because I want to give you another chance. "

With that said, Li Daohong handed out a piece of paper.

Gradually calming down, Father Lin didn't take a piece of paper from Li Daohong, but watched it fall to the ground, and said hoarsely, "What is this?"

"The provincial university doesn't have this chance, but Jiangnan University still has a possibility. They still have a vacancy for a defender. If you only know the news after a few days, then you must have missed this opportunity."

"Ha ha!"

Father Lin said in disbelief: "You leaders, you can say whatever you want. I can't get six places on your side, but only one on his side? Can I believe it?"

"Old Lin, I know you don't believe me. I just want to tell you one thing. In terms of sports, I, Li Daohong, don't matter at the Provincial University, but at Jiangnan University, Xie Zhenghe is the number one. If you can’t run away, everything depends on your strength.”

"Is it?"

Father Lin, who was mentally exhausted, picked up the piece of paper that fell on the ground. The thin paper seemed to weigh more than a thousand catties, and it was heavy in his hand.

Perhaps at this darkest moment, Li Daohong lit another light for him.

"Student Lin is still good, and I don't want such a good seedling to have no future, why don't you give it a try?"

Lin Shaojie outside the wall watched his father wear the wrinkled suit and picked up the paper.

The curved back was imprinted on the glass window, making it even more crooked.

"Okay, I'll try!"

Feeling that his father was about to come out, Lin Shaojie tried to walk as lightly as possible and left quickly.

Back in the slightly cramped hotel room, Lin Shaojie lay on the bed again, staring at the roof with blank eyes.

The hot and humid summer is approaching. There is only one ventilation fan blowing in the room without air conditioning. There is an indescribable musty smell in the room.

I thought of my father, and thought of the figure who was running around for his own future.

Lin Shaojie always felt that his eyes were a bit moist, maybe the sand and dust got his eyes wet!
Father came back very late, smelling of cigarettes all over his body.

With his eyes closed, Lin Shaojie could feel his father sitting beside the bed, resting on the chair.

Lin Shaojie, who had been lying on the bed for a long time, deliberately turned over and opened his eyes in confusion.

"Dad, are you still asleep?"

"Can't sleep!"

Father Lin looked at his son, and took out the same crumpled note from his pocket.

"Son, how about we try again, one last time"

Lin Shaojie was stunned: Father knew that he was following him?
"You haven't been good at lying since you were a child. I can hear the sound of your walking. Was it you who was outside the door just now?"

Father Lin took out a cigarette, took a deep drag, and coughed chokingly.

Lin Shaojie got up and snatched the cigarette: "Mom is not by your side, you just keep smoking, you don't want your body."

"No more."

Father Lin's eyes were a little moist: "My son is so good, but I, as a father, don't live up to it. I was obviously the best in the test, but I failed."

"Me? Excellent?"

Lin Shaojie pointed at himself and said sadly: "If I am capable enough to be admitted to university, will my father beg for help when he is old?"

After speaking, Lin Shaojie looked at the paper on the table in his father's hand and wanted to take it and tear it up.

"What?"

"Whatever you try, you are just playing with people, you push me, I push yours, you talk nicely, but you don't do anything, if you really value me, then settle down, no one can stop it.

It's not just that I'm afraid that my position will be affected. In the final analysis, I have no ability. If I really have that ability, I can give others the confidence to overthrow the table. "

Father Lin snatched back the paper, which had Li Daohong's autograph on it.

"Why are you insane, your brain is broken."

For the father, this piece of paper is a glimmer of light in the dark, and he will never bear his son to miss the last chance.

"Li Daohong didn't apologize to me. On the contrary, I was very grateful to him. I saw the opportunity, but if he didn't nod, I wouldn't even have the chance to enter the school. Why do I hate him?"

Father Lin lifted his son's shoulders and looked up at his son who was half a head taller than him.

"Son, you are so old, I don't have much time to accompany you. My life experience doesn't apply to you. Everything depends on you, understand?"

The ventilation fan is blowing "huhu", but it can't blow away the summer heat.

Lin Shaojie looked at his father's gray temples, and his perennial sub-health, he already looked a little old. Standing with his mother, he felt at least ten years older.

Look at the old Modu watch that my father has worn for [-] or [-] years.

Lin Shaojie unconsciously remembered the watch his father drew on his wrist when he was young.

That watch may never have moved, but it took away Lin Shaojie's best time.

(End of this chapter)