Bamboo Horse Alpha - Chapter 2

The moment he saw the front face, four words popped into Yu Jiu’s mind: It’s really him.

Unlike the half-grown boy in my memory, now Zhai Chi has grown a lot taller, and his mixed-race facial features are more three-dimensional and profound after opening.

For the convenience of playing, Zhai Chi specially changed into a loose ball uniform, with his arms and knees exposed.

He had just exercised, and there was a thin layer of sweat on his forehead, reflecting the water under the indoor fluorescent lamp, as if deliberately using his pheromone to seduce people.

The people who watched him play outside the court saw him stop suddenly, and excitedly picked up their mobile phones and screamed ten consecutive shots.

Yu Jiu is still deliberating.

How do old friends greet each other when they meet again?

Go straight up and say hi?

Say politely long time no see?

Or pretend to be exaggerated to express your surprise?

Yu Jiu curled up his fingertips unconsciously, and tentatively raised his hand, but just as he was about to speak, the people on the field had already turned their eyes away first.

“…”

Someone behind Zhai Chi approached him holding a basketball, attracting his attention.

“Brother Jiu, what are you looking at?” Seeing him stunned, Yu San also looked towards the field.

Yu Jiu was taken aback, put back his raised hand in embarrassment, looked away and said, “It’s nothing, I’m going to change clothes.”

“Hey, brother Jiu, wait a minute, I’m going to the bathroom.”

Yu Shan followed quickly.

The restroom and the locker room of the gymnasium were not far apart, and the two walked towards the corner of the basketball court together.

On the court, just as Yu Jiu turned around, Zhai Chi eagerly said “Sorry” to the senior senior who was playing with him, and when he turned his head, he was no longer in the same place.

“…”

He looked at the receding figure in front of him with complicated eyes.

A few minutes later, outside the locker room, Yu Jiu quickly changed his clothes, probably because he suddenly changed from a well-fitting school uniform to a loose ball uniform.

He hesitated for a moment, put on his school uniform jacket again, and then opened the door of the locker room.

Yu San was already waiting outside the locker room. Seeing him coming out, she first looked him up and down, then silently raised the small camera in her hand, and asked for advice, “Can I take a picture?”

Yu Jiu looked at the camera in his hand speechlessly: “Why do you carry this thing everywhere?”

An invalid answer is equivalent to default. Yu Shan quickly took a photo of the male god’s ball uniform, and then said: “Hobbies, and before you came, I took a lot of photos of transfer students. Do you want to see it?”

“…”

He suddenly mentioned Zhai Chi, and Yu Jiu’s mind suddenly flashed the scene of that man silently looking away on the court just now.

He was inexplicably blocked, he paused slightly when he turned around, and said, “Yu San.”

“what?”

“Did you ever have…friends who played well as kids?”

Yu Shan was lowering his head and fiddled with his camera. Hearing this, he thought for a while and said, “Yes, I had a very beautiful deskmate when I was in sixth grade. I even had a crush on her!”

Yu Jiu murmured, “Then are you still in touch?”

“I haven’t contacted her for a long time.” Yu San said, “She doesn’t do well in her studies. We didn’t go to junior high school. Now she probably doesn’t even remember what I look like.”

“…”

Yu Jiu was taken aback for a moment, but was soon relieved.

Too.

Not remembering is normal.

No matter how familiar someone is, after a few years, they may not be able to recognize each other at a glance when they meet again.

He thought that the reason why he could recognize Zhai Chi was firstly because of his name, and secondly… probably because his face was so outstanding.

It has to be said that among the many people Yu Jiu has met since he was a child, Zhai Chi is the one who left the deepest impression on him by his looks.

At a dinner party when he was seven years old, he huddled in a corner alone, Zhai Chi was the first to discover his existence, took a piece of cake and tried to coddle him from the corner like a pet Coax it out.

At that time, Zhai Chi was wearing a very well-fitting little black dress, squatting in the corner and looking at him with his head tilted, as beautiful as a porcelain doll.

…And now after so many years, there are no porcelain dolls from that year.

He suddenly stopped talking, and Yu San raised his head in doubt: “What’s wrong? Why did you suddenly ask this?”

Yu Jiu raised her eyes and said, “Just ask, let’s go.”

He walked from the corridor outside the locker room to the direction of the stadium, and didn’t even look at the “information” of the transfer student that Yu Shan had dug out. Pressing the shutter, I thought to myself: As expected of him, even his back looks so good-looking!

On the basketball court, Zhai Chi’s warm-up match before the game has ended, and he is sitting on the rest chair to rest.

He was a little restless, and looked in the direction of the locker room from time to time, but he never saw the person he wanted to see.

While paying attention to the movement in the locker room, he looked at the reply under the post on the phone.

An hour ago, Zhai Chi posted a question on Zhihu, and now there are many answers.

Question: If you have a friend who ran to find him in your most difficult time, but he avoided you and didn’t answer your call, would you be very angry?

Reply 1: [Creating friends out of thin air? ]

Reply 2: [Does this still need to be said? What kind of friends are you if you don’t help in the most difficult times? ]

Reply 3: [It’s fine if you don’t help, it’s too much to just shut someone up, right? This is no longer the level of anger, just break up the relationship! ]

Zhai Chi: …

Follow-up question: What if your friend didn’t know about your difficulties, and you had difficulties at the time?

Reply: [What difficulties? Wouldn’t it be nice to make it clear? ]

Reply: [Whether you know it or not, if you are a friend, you shouldn’t shut someone out, right? ]

Reply: [The landlord is the person who assumed it, right? Did your friend end up looking for you? ]

Zhai Chi: …

He continued to type with a little fuzz: I found it five years later…does it count?

Reply:[………]

Reply: [Five years? The day lily has been cold for five years! What are you looking for? ! ]

Reply: [No contact for five years? Is this still a person? Be careful, the landlord, the matter is not simple, your friend must be plotting something wrong! ]

Reply: [This kind of person is still a friend, and he ran away as soon as possible, absolutely unforgivable! ]

Zhai Chi: …

Question result: death penalty!

Not even a single hair chance!

Zhai Chi rubbed his eyebrows with some headache.

“Here, do you want to drink?”

While he was in distress, suddenly a bottle of water was handed directly in front of him.

Zhai Chi looked up subconsciously, and saw that it was the senior who had just played together.

“Why are you so absent-minded today? What’s the matter? Knowing that you’re going to compete with the vice-captain, are you nervous?”

The senior’s name is Zhou Duo, and he and Zhai Chi met on the basketball court.

Sometimes the friendship between Alphas is as simple as that. They can become friends after playing a ball game and recognizing each other.

Although they have only known each other for a week, this does not prevent the two from establishing a deep revolutionary friendship.

Zhai Chi smiled, and took the water from Zhou Duo’s hand, “I was absent-minded, didn’t you also fail to beat me?”

“Hey, you don’t forget to play the cymbal.” Zhou Duo sat down next to him, “Okay, tell me, why are you looking at the locker room all the time?”

Zhai Chi said generously, “Look at my next opponent.”

“…”

Zhou Duo didn’t expect him to be so calm, he was a little startled, and then glanced at the locker room, “Yu Jiu, he’s actually pretty good.”

Zhai Chi’s eyes brightened slightly, “What do you say?”

Zhou Duo said: “Do you know how Yu Jiu became the vice-captain? He was directly named by the captain without discussing with other members of the team. He is a beta and has never participated in an official game, so the team members Not very convinced, but I have watched his match with the captain, one-on-one with Yu Jiu, the captain is not an opponent at all.”

“…”

The people on the rest chair were suddenly silent.

Zhai Chi looked at Zhou Duo, waiting for his next words.

Zhou Duo turned his head to look at Zhai Chi, seeing his expected indifferent expression, he was dissatisfied and said, “Why aren’t you surprised at all?”

Zhai Chi paused, and immediately put on a look of surprise, “Is he so powerful?”

Zhou Duo: “…”

Too fake.

never mind.

Zhou Duo continued: “Actually, I didn’t expect you to agree to Xu Shi’s help in the game. Although Yu Jiu has never played an official game, and he doesn’t participate in training much, but he is capable… As for Xu Shi, he has a good heart.” Too young, when Yu Jiu first joined the basketball team, one of his old players wanted to give Yu Jiu a bad start, but in the end he was too bad and lost face in front of his teammates, and he has kept his grudges to this day.”

“But you didn’t join the basketball team, and you don’t seem to be in the same league with Xu Shi. How did you agree to form a team with him?”

Zhai Chi was stunned for a moment, then stumbled and said, “I’m not… a newcomer, I’ve been famous for a long time, do you want to admire the demeanor of the vice-captain?”

“Bah, you’ve only been transferred here for a week, and you’ve heard the reputation of being a fart for a long time.” Zhou Duo said, “If you want to play a game with Yu Jiu, why don’t you ask him out yourself?”

“…”

Zhai Chi’s heart froze, as if someone had stabbed him with a machete.

He wants to!

But Ren just turned around and left when he saw him from the sidelines. If he made an appointment for a match by himself, he would definitely be rejected directly.

He didn’t really want to answer this question, so he said instead: “Why would the senior think that I won’t join forces with Xu Shi?”

“You…” Zhou Duo was about to say the reason, but when he turned his head and saw this person’s expression of being very embarrassed and waiting for praise, he was suddenly aroused with a rebellious mentality, and he didn’t want to praise anymore.

He glanced at the direction of the locker room from the corner of his eye, and said casually, “Your opponent is here.”

Zhai Chi’s expression froze, he turned his head quickly, and sure enough, he saw Yu Jiu walking towards the court.

Just halfway through, he was stopped by someone.

“Yo, the deputy captain is here?”

A strange voice.

Yu San, who was following behind Yu Jiu, looked up and rolled his eyes straight out of the sky.

It’s Xu Shi.

Xu Shi has a thick head, and there are still a few pimple marks on his face that have not subsided. It is quite annoying to look at, but he is still smiling and leaning forward: “Vice captain, your teammate is looking for you!” Are you ready? The game will start soon, why are you here alone?”

Yu Jiu said, “Get out of the way.”

“What? Found it? Where is it?” Xu Shi looked around pretending to be puzzled, and finally fixed his gaze on Yu Shan, who was shorter than him, and said in surprise: “You don’t mean Yu Shan, do you? “

Yu Shan: “…”

“Hey, deputy team.” Xu Shi couldn’t hide his complacency on his face, “Even if you are too busy studying to find someone, you don’t need to find an omega to perfuse me, right? Did you not find the right one? If you really can’t find someone Find someone, or I’ll help you ask the brothers in the team, how about finding someone to form a team with you?”

The basketball team members who were present today basically came with the intention of watching a joke. As for those who didn’t come, they all had their own business and didn’t have time to come.

Ask Xu Shi to help find someone, and it would be nice if he doesn’t trip him up in the dark.

Yu Jiu didn’t want to talk to him, and turned around to avoid him.

Xu Shi quickly reached out his hand to stop him, “The deputy team doesn’t need to be polite to me, I’m doing it for myself, otherwise it will be two-on-one in the game, it will be too many to win…”

“Fuck, Xu Shi, don’t go too far…”

“Yu Jiu!”

Yu Shan couldn’t bear it anymore, just about to lose his temper, when he saw that a dispute was about to start, he was suddenly interrupted.

A loud voice suddenly appeared at the entrance, and most people in the audience turned their heads sideways. Xu Shixun turned his head and saw the person who was trotting towards them, his smug smile froze at the corner of his mouth.

The man ran up to Yu Jiu and said, “I’m sorry for being late, Lao Cao left too many questions, it’s a waste of time, the competition hasn’t started yet, right?”

Yu Jiu smiled and said, “No, the college entrance examination is just over a month away, I’m the one who disturbed you.”

“Ham, it’s nothing more than a combination of work and rest, just playing ball.”

“…”

The two of them talked as if no one was there, and Xu Shi next to him looked at the taller person who just arrived, and murmured: “Captain?”

The person who just arrived was Cheng Yuanchao, the current captain of the No. 1 Middle School basketball team.

Yu San was also a little surprised, “Brother Jiu, the teammate you are looking for is the captain?”

Yu Jiu calmly said, “Well, I really can’t find anyone.”

Xu Shi: “…”

His voice was not low, and it clearly reached Xu Shi’s ears, choking him quietly.

Cheng Yuanchao is a practical man, and he was short on time, so he glanced at the court and said, “Since we’re all here, let’s go to the court, Xu Shi, where are your teammates?”

Xu Shi hasn’t reacted yet.

He didn’t expect Yu Jiu to find the captain to help out.

The combat strength exceeded expectations, and he suddenly felt a little bit hopeless.

He was stunned for a while, and Zhai Chi had already come over from the rest chair, “here.”

Several people turned their heads at the same time.

Zhai Chi glanced at Yu Jiu indiscriminately, then turned to Cheng Yuanchao and said, “Hi senior, I’m Zhai Chi, from Class 10 of Science in the second year of high school.”

“…”

Cheng Yuanchao looked him up and down, “Are you the new transfer student?”

“Yes.”

“Okay.” Cheng Yuanchao said, “Yu Jiu, you get to know him… Yu Jiu?”

The moment he turned his head, the people around him had already taken the lead.

Zhai Chi: “…”

Is that why you don’t want to see him? She didn’t even want to say hello to him.

He smiled helplessly.

Cheng Yuanchao understood very well.

Originally, Xu Shi challenged Yu Jiu with bad intentions. As Xu Shi’s teammate, Zhai Chi was not treated by Yu Jiu, isn’t it normal?

He didn’t smooth things over either, and said directly: “Let’s go.”

Both sides of the game played at the same time, and the audience who came to watch the game were the most excited.

The moment they saw Cheng Yuanchao standing on the court, the onlookers let out an exclamation at the same time.

“Fuck, I read that right, right? The captain played in person?”

“Yu Jiu is so embarrassing that he even asked the captain to help him out!”

“Originally, Yu Jiu’s position as vice-captain was determined by the captain. Now someone wants to challenge Yu Jiu, which means questioning his decision and challenging his authority. It’s normal for him to play in person.”

“Today’s game is so exciting, and the captain was once my male god!”

“Anyway, it’s over for shouting today!”

The game started directly on the court, and they were basically “acquaintances”. No one dared to underestimate the enemy, nor did they hold back. The opening game was very intense.

Although there are only four players in the game, the game is still played by the whole court.

The most watched ones on the field are undoubtedly the “two major school grass” who have been battling on the forum for a week.

In terms of height, Zhai Chi has an advantage over Yu Jiu. Yu Jiu is 1.8 meters tall, and Zhai Chi is about 5cm taller than him. He steals the ball from Cheng Yuanchao, who is 1.9 meters tall, a few times. Yu Jiusheng is flexible, and the two are inseparable. Let.

Zhai Chi grabbed the rebound again, turned around and rushed straight. He was very fast, took off from outside the three-point line and shot a beautiful three-point shot, and the audience burst into applause.

Not only the spectators who just watched the game, but even Zhou Duo who had just played with Zhai Chi were surprised by his move.

“I’ll go, this kid actually hides his clumsiness when compared with me!”

Yu San was standing next to the rest chair with Zhou Duo, he looked at the excited senior senior, and was a little worried for Yu Jiu, “Senior, that Zhai Chi is very good?”

Zhou Duo was immersed in the game, and immediately said after hearing this: “Of course!”

Yu Shan said, “How powerful is it?”

Zhou Duo thought for a while, looked at Yu Shan and said, “Do you think I’m good?”

He is second only to the captain in the No. 1 Middle School basketball team, and Zhai Chi not only hides his clumsiness in playing against him, even what he is showing on the court now may not be his true strength.

Zhou Duo originally wanted to use himself to show off how powerful Zhai Chi was, but turned around and saw the omega junior next to him, feeling a little embarrassed.

Yu San was embarrassed and said, “That…senior, I haven’t seen you play.”

Even if he had seen it, Zhou Duo was not the C position in his camera, he hadn’t paid much attention to it at all.

Zhou Duo: “…”

This junior is really disrespectful.

At this time, there was another shout from outside the court, Zhou Duo quickly looked at the court, it was Yu Jiu and Zhai Chi who were facing each other.

At this time, the basketball is in Yu Jiu’s hands, and Zhai Chi is guarding him.

The two evenly matched players fell into a brief stalemate under the basket.

The two were very close.

It was the last minute of the first quarter, after such a long period of strenuous exercise, both of them were more or less sweating, especially Yu Jiu.

Yu Jiu was still wearing a school uniform jacket. Although it was raining at the end of April, the temperature was not very high, but there were many people in the room, and he was constantly exercising. It was very hot now, not just ordinary hot.

Every time Zhai Chi approaches, it seems to bring him a kind of physical oppression, which belongs to Zhai Chi, and he has never felt oppression from other Alphas.

Eager to get rid of this oppression, he glanced at Cheng Yuanchao behind Zhai Chi, “Captain!”

He suddenly yelled, and at the same time turned his hands up, as if he was going to pass the ball to Cheng Yuanchao.

Zhai Chi reacted immediately and raised his hand.

Just when his hands were raised over his shoulders, Yu Jiu stopped them suddenly, took back the half-thrown ball, quickly stepped back half a step, aimed at the position of the basket, and leaned back with his whole body. Get back to the vacated area in time to defend, and shoot accurately.

“Damn it! It’s in!”

“This is also possible? Yu Jiu is too awesome!”

“The score is tied again!”

There was another carnival in the audience.

The first quarter is over.

On the field, Zhai Chi looked back at the net that was still shaking after the basketball hit the ground because of the goal, raised his eyebrows unconsciously, and there was a bit of surprise in his eyes.

He turned his head and wanted to take the opportunity to say something, but the shooter had already turned around to give his teammates high fives.

Zhai Chi: “…”

Zhai Chi’s teammates were also unhappy.

Before the game, Xu Shi was worried that he would lose. After the game started, Zhai Chi was not inferior at all when he saw one-on-two. To run with!

Moreover, what he wants is not an equal share.

Two minutes later, the second quarter continued.

Under Cheng Yuanchao’s deliberate arrangement, the second quarter almost became an individual match between Zhai Chi and Yu Jiu.

The battle was still stalemate, everything was normal at the beginning, but when it was about to end, the ball was in Xu Shi’s hands, he dribbled the ball to the basket and was stopped by Yu Jiu, seeing Yu Jiu approaching his position, he suddenly smiled.

Yu Jiu was about to stop him from shooting, when suddenly the smell of snail powder came over his face, his breathing was stagnant, and Xu Shi took the opportunity to push him away with his back and then turned around to shoot.

He bumped into someone very virtuously, and Yu Jiu was greatly affected by the smell, so he fell directly to the floor.

Not far away, Zhai Chi’s pupils shrank slightly, and he ran over quickly.

…