Reemployment Guide for Laid-off Players

Chapter 25

After the 2V2 match, the game was suspended for a few minutes, followed by a 1V1 team match, in which five players from both sides played in turn, and whichever team was left on the field at the end would win the match.

Returning to the position, Jiang An took two deep breaths before slowly regaining his composure.He watched the camera flicker past Xia Yao first, and then to Shen Yanhan's young team members.

The commentary still revolved around him and Xia Yao, and he discovered that since Xia Yao's emergence to the present—even since high school, his and his names have been appearing in high-frequency synchronization, but he just started now Concerned, inexplicably feeling a little uneasy.

Is this the real "summer style ptsd"?

Jiang An was lost in thought, and looked at Yun Yin who fell on the screen at the end. He seemed to have returned to the match with Xia Yao in the third season. The astonished Xia Yao overlapped.

His mind suddenly cleared, and all the details of that night flashed back before his eyes like a movie scene.

There are boarding students and day students in Hongyuan. Those whose homes are far from the school are forced to live in the school.Jiang An's house is quite close to the school, but because his parents often work outside, Jiang Le lives in the school directly, and he usually lives in the school because there is no one at home.

A smart and rebellious adult who has just grown up, as soon as he is out of the control of his family, he can't wait to start thinking about the future direction of his life-Jiang An has always been calm, but when it comes to disclosing his sexual orientation with his parents , a little impulsive.

He caught his parents going home with great difficulty, and had a showdown with his dad right after dinner. His mother was so shocked that he broke a stack of bowls in the kitchen, spreading broken porcelain all over the floor.

His parents have a decent job and a decent person, so they don't want to quarrel with Jiang An, but Jiang An, who couldn't help it at that moment, had a big fight with them, and his father almost moved in anger hand.

His mother persuaded him earnestly, asking him if it was because his parents spent less time with him, and he felt lonely, and she also asked Jiang Le to go to school and accompany him every day.Jiang An had always been stubborn with his father, and couldn't listen to a word at all. When he rushed out of the door, he acted resolutely, as if he had "determined a private life" with someone and was going to elope.

After leaving the gate of the community, Jiang An called Chen Gu out. The two found a roadside barbecue stall near the school and drank a meal. Both of them can't drink very much. This is the first time for Jiang An to borrow alcohol. To relieve his worries, he "complained" to Chen Gu while drinking, saying that he didn't understand why he fell in love with men. Chen Gu got drunk first, and his words didn't match up, and his words were confusing, making Jiang An's mess His heart was even worse.

"Hi, like men, then no, hiccup... quite, quite normal?"

The two supported each other and walked towards the back door of the school—in fact, no one knew where they were going, so they just walked forward.As soon as the wind blows, Chen Gu wakes up a little bit, at least his left foot doesn't trip over his right foot, he shook his head and said, "You know that, who is that! There is...a man named Xia Yao, High, high school, every day—not every day, just, just being bullied all day long! He also, also..."

"What you're talking about..." Jiang An suddenly stopped, and Chen Gu staggered forward and threw himself on the grass, rolled around twice and didn't get up, so he just lay there.

Looking at Chen Gu lying flat on the ground, Jiang An looked up at the stars in the sky, felt dizzy and quickly lowered his head, and said to himself: "That one talks less, less, and grows, hiccup! Pretty, beautiful—— "

Before he finished speaking, he also fell down, and after the muffled sound of his knees landing on the ground, his mind became a little clearer.He got up and found that Chen Gu didn't know where he was muttering and rolling, he patted his trouser legs indiscriminately, and walked forward with a sneer.

"Xia, Xia Yao? He is also..."

He read while walking, looked down at his feet, didn't pay attention to the road, and almost bumped into someone else when he took a step forward. Then he raised his head and found three people standing in front of him—plus one under the tree, a total of four .

Tired of walking, he sat down on the ground, looked around and knew that he had come to the grove behind the school, he tried to get up while holding on to the tree trunk beside him, his feet slipped and sat back, with After a buzzing, he suddenly heard someone talking in front of him.

"My surname is Xia. I heard that your family is quite rich. You rich people like to play with this?"

It was dark and Jiang An couldn't see who was talking, but he saw the white boy standing under the tree amidst the shadows of the trees.

The fair and clean boy didn't speak, and this man became even more arrogant. He raised his voice and yelled fiercely and unreasonably: "It's fine if you say you like men, but who do you provoke all the time like this? This is, huh? Lu Nian I gave you something, right? You really deserve a fucking beating!"

The person under the tree still didn't speak, just turned his head to avoid a punch.

When the matter developed to this point, a flame of justice was burning in the drunken Jiang An's chest—he suddenly remembered that he was the leader of the school supervision and inspection team, and suddenly he seemed to be drunk, sober and clear, and stood up neatly after a while Stepping up a few steps, he pushed the two people in front of him away.

He saw the surprised eyes of the people under the tree, and when he had no time to respond, the first command his brain gave to his limbs was to kick the person who punched just now.

He was overwhelmed by his height advantage, so it was a scuffle, rather than a unilateral beating. Seeing that he smelled like alcohol, the other two dared not come up to pull him. In a panic, they had to pull their companions out of his feet.

Through the moonlight, the three people recognized Jiang An as the one who hit the person. On the one hand, they were afraid of his right to make a report, and on the other hand, they were afraid of his force value, so they ran away without a trace.

In fact, when he was beating someone, Jiang An held his breath all night and finally went out. He had just put on his red armband, when he looked up and saw that the man was gone, he was a little disappointed, and then turned to look at the boy under the tree.

——The third time he drew his sword to help, he finally took a closer look at Xia Yao.

When he saw this face, the only thing left in his mind was "Xia Yao is also gay" that Chen Gu hadn't finished but the meaning had arrived.

Xia Yao was still looking at Jiang An fixedly, but he didn't notice that he was already very close to him.In fact, his heart was beating like a drum, and his hand rested on the stick of the lollipop in his mouth and let it loose a little bit.

Jiang An smelled the sweet orange scent, subconsciously leaned closer and sniffed it carefully, as if expecting Xia Yao to speak, he interrupted Xia Yao right before he could speak.

Jiang An snatched the lollipop from Xia Yao's mouth and asked vaguely, "Are you really gay?"

Xia Yao was silent, and frowned.

"You said, what does it feel like when a man likes a man?" Jiang An looked at the lollipop in his hand and asked again.

Xia Yao's lips moved, but he still didn't speak in the end. He stared straight into Jiang An's eyes, which made Jiang An's heart skip a beat.

Then Jiang An did an absurd thing—he put one hand on Xia Yao's shoulder, pushed him back and hit the tree trunk, before he even realized it, he leaned over and put his lips on Xia Yao's. mouth.

Xia Yao had just eaten orange-flavored lollipops, and the taste rushed into his mouth bit by bit.

......

The third round of 3V3 officially started. Jiang An looked at Xia Yao's indifferent expression on the screen, and suddenly raised his hand to grab his arm—that night, Xia Yao's first move was to raise his hand and grab him hard arm, then stared wide-eyed in astonishment, and even forgot to push him away.

It was only at this moment that Jiang An really realized the weight of these four words after drinking.

He slapped himself on the forehead with great remorse, and was terrified by Taozi again.

Taozi couldn't bear it anymore and raised her hand to slap it down, but in the end she just swung it angrily and asked Jiang An, "What's going on with you today!"

Jiang An despaired of himself. This is no longer a category of bad memory. He is sure that he is a "scumbag". This has nothing to do with Xia Yao's attitude towards him. He was subjected to campus violence because of his sexual orientation, and he still asked him that kind of question in that situation, kissed someone inexplicably, and forgot everything when he woke up. Think of such a person.

Xia Yao's misunderstanding of him must have started at that time. This should be no different from the scumbag who lifts his pants and refuses to recognize him in essence, Jiang An thought.

At the same time, he felt that Xia Yao was really kind, and now he can still make those efforts to get him back on the field-maybe it has something to do with saving him again more than a year ago, but generally speaking, he still owes him Xia Yao has a lot.

Then he felt palpitations.Indebted, how can this be called indebted?

The first round of the 3V3 match was won by Shen Yanhan. Chen Gu did not expect that Zhao Xinwei, who usually seemed to be talking nonsense, would be able to play such a tacit cooperation with Deng Feng, pinching the opponent's mistakes and winning cleanly. .

He patted Zhao Xinwei on the shoulder in relief, and when he looked up, he saw Xia Yao with a dignified expression opposite him.

That fight just now really shouldn't be at the level of Hanjiang Yingxue's second team. Seeing that Xia Yao turned around and left the competition area, Chen Gu glanced left and right and followed him calmly.

Although he followed Xia Yao all the time, he didn't think about how to start a conversation for a while, and finally stopped in front of the men's toilet.

Xia Yao turned around and asked him, "Why, do you want to go to the toilet with me?"

"Ah, no, no, I mean—" Chen Gu touched his nose in embarrassment, and said, "What a coincidence, you also go to the bathroom?"

Xia Yao stared at him for a while, then said expressionlessly: "Okay, I know why you are here, I'm fine, I know what level they are."

"Hey, that's right. I saw your dark face just now, and I wanted to come over and have a chat with you, but I was afraid that you would think too much." Chen Gu explained.

"What do I think about? I know whether I win or lose the game."

Xia Yao took two steps and stood by the French window, raised his hand and rubbed the center of his brows, Chen Gu followed him and stood side by side with him, seeing his tired face, he asked him softly, "Why? Didn't you rest well?"

"I've been thinking a lot lately, so I don't sleep well."

Chen Gu smiled and said, "What's so annoying? Talk to me?"

"It's nothing, it's just..." Xia Yao turned sideways, his gaze was clearly casually released over Chen Gu, but it seemed that he had grown legs, and he accidentally ran to Jiang An who suddenly appeared at the end of the corridor up.

It wasn't that he deliberately didn't reply to the message last night—but it could also be counted as intentional. The breath in his chest had obviously dissipated a few years ago, and when Jiang An mentioned it last night, he blocked it again.

Seeing that Xia Yao was looking behind him and hesitated to speak, Chen Gu turned around and followed his gaze, just as Jiang An raised his hand to greet him and walked briskly over.

In just ten seconds, Xia Yao experienced an unprecedented ideological struggle, hesitating between the two options of "stay" or "leave". When he made a decision to avoid, Jiang An had already walked in front of him.

After greeting Chen Gu, Jiang An secretly took a deep breath, turned to look at Xia Yao and said, "I thought you wouldn't come today."

This sentence didn't even have a subject, it was really ambiguous and inexplicable, Xia Yao didn't know what to say, so a muffled "um" was his response.

"Gu, I want to say something to Xia Yao, please avoid it." Jiang An said suddenly.

"Ah?" Chen Gu was taken aback, and before he could make a response, Jiang An had already pushed him a few steps away. He was forced to move forward while turning around and questioning Jiang An: "What do you have to say before I avoid it?" ?—Xia Yao! Tell me!"

However, Xia Yao just watched the two of them dragging away with a frown, and turned to go into the toilet with a blank expression.

After Jiang An sent Chen Gu away, he wanted to chase after him when he came back, but after thinking about it, he felt that it was not appropriate to chase him to the toilet, so he chose to stand at the door and wait for Xia Yao to come out.

So when Xia Yao came out after wiping his hands, he saw Jiang An who was guarding the door, and he couldn't hide - he couldn't go back after he was out, let alone ignore him and walked over. Behind his back he said, "What do you want me to do?"

"Old Li has been telling me to think carefully about whether I have done anything to apologize to you before. I should have remembered earlier." Jiang An replied seriously.

Xia Yao was startled when he heard that, and asked him again: "Think about it sooner?" Xu felt a little redundant after asking, he took two steps forward, turned his back and stood in front of Jiang An, and said coldly on purpose: "Think about it earlier What's the use of getting up."

"At least I can apologize to you earlier, whether it was seven years ago or four years ago, I have an unshirkable responsibility."

"Responsibility?" Xia Yao turned around, looked Jiang An up and down, and asked slowly, "What responsibility do you want to bear?"

"I—" just said the word, Jiang An realized in retrospect that what he said was completely ambiguous and useless, and naturally he couldn't continue with the rest.

Xia Yao smiled, rubbed his left hand on the cuff button of his right wrist, and said calmly: "I stayed in DP four years ago and had nothing to do with the previous high school, and I also told you that I didn't care about the previous things. Mind, now I hope you return to the game just because you are a respectable opponent, I want to put aside the past and be friends with you, this is not okay?"

"Then how can I get rid of it!"

Jiang An thought that it would be impossible, and quickly persuaded him: "You have to pursue it, you have to pursue it, I—"

"Jiang An, I find you really strange." Hearing what he said, the smile on Xia Yao's lips became pure and clear. He paused, and then said, "Why do I have to pursue it? It's not good for me to be clean." ?"

"Because I don't want to owe others, Xia Yao."

Hearing this, Xia Yao looked at him in silence for a moment, restrained his smile and returned to normal, and said flatly, "Then we've already settled the dispute."

"Huh? What do you mean it has been cleared?"

"You helped me out twice in high school. If you hadn't blocked me that time more than a year ago, I don't know if I would be here today," Xia Yao said, taking a step forward and standing beside Jiang An , squinting his eyes to see the bright sun shining outside, sighed: "Then about the high school, the youth training camp, and the matter of you entering Shenyan Leng as a coach.

"There are also three pieces, offset."

Jiang An obviously didn't come here to "clear" with Xia Yao. He is not like Xia Yao. He may have been angry after so many years of remembering. Now he just knew that he did such a ridiculous thing that night. Even Xia Yao felt a little embarrassed and guilty.

Before he opened his mouth, Xia Yao seemed to see what he was thinking, walked out two steps and stopped, turned his back to him and said: "As you said, it's because you are drunk, what did you say?" If I do, I won't take it to heart."

After talking about Xia Yao and leaving, Jiang An stayed in place for a while, and heard Tayue's skill explanation next to his ears. When he came back to his senses, he turned his head and saw the live broadcast of the game on the TV hanging on the wall.In the round that Hanjiang Yingxue just finished, Xia Yao's fans were even more excited than the fans of the second team on the field, and kept calling Xia Yao's name.

Xia Yao re-entered the cameraman's lens, never smiling.Jiang An stared blankly at those eyes, and muttered to himself for a while, "You said it lightly, but I just took it to heart."

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I changed it again, and I didn't expect it.