The large Volvo slid quietly along the B city airport expressway. In the car, Ye Xiu sat in the passenger seat, and Ye Qiu, who was driving next to him, didn't look at the other, and each remained silent without saying a word.
Ye Xiu tilted his head slightly and leaned on the headrest, with his eyes closed. He held the cigarette case in his right hand and the five fingers of his left hand were hanging on his legs, tapping quickly from time to time. Ye Qiu held the steering wheel with one hand and fiddled with it aimlessly with the other hand.
A knob. Following his movements, the radio in the car switched from light music to Shan Tianfang's storytelling. After changing several channels, a clear female voice suddenly rang:
"Team Happy captain Ye Xiu announced his retirement——"
With a "click" sound, the radio was turned off. The quiet sound of the air conditioner filling the small space inside the car. After a while, Ye Qiu finally couldn't help turning his head to look at his brother. The tip of his tongue touched the roof of his mouth, which was very loud.
He clicked his tongue:
"Brother, you only brought this little stuff back? Fortunately, I drove a big car out to prepare the luggage, but in the end, it was just a small bag--"
Just like this, the backpack was not full. It was empty and fluttering, as if it was just holding a hard object and threw it on the back seat with a very light sound. In any case, it didn't look like a wanderer returning home.
, it’s like going home temporarily for a few days.
"You only brought your keyboard and mouse!"
"Wherever, at least there is a login device, okay?"
Ye Xiu answered without hesitation. Ye Qiu was furious: "Brother, aren't you? You don't even bring a change of clothes?"
"Can't everything else be purchased online?" Ye Xiu still didn't open his eyes. He just turned to the side in the direction of his younger brother and said with a light smile, "It's you, you've been doing well recently." He took a photo casually.
He looked at the leather seat under his body and asked, "Did you buy a new car?"
"Mom bought it!" Ye Qiu replied angrily. After a pause, he added in a low voice: "I bought it in May last year. At the end of May, it was the third day of our birthdays."
Ye Xiu was silent. He opened his eyes slightly and stared at the passing tree shadows outside the window. He quickly calculated in his mind: At the end of May last year, wouldn't it be that he won the challenge and brought Xingxin back to the alliance?
that day?
Thinking of this, Ye Xiu couldn't help but raise his eyebrows and smile:
"Hey, isn't mom going to praise me to death?"
His smile was bright and his tone was relaxed and lazy, which was clearly his usual nonchalant look. Ye Qiu breathed a sigh of relief from the bottom of his heart, and then rolled his eyes at him unbearably.
"It's true that Mom scolded you to death! - I've been nagging you at home for the past few days. You know how to sign this kind of contract, which is an insult to her reputation. Also, if you weren't reluctant to let go, she would just send any student away
Go out and sue Excellent Era for bankruptcy in a minute, okay?"
"Mom is mighty and domineering -" Ye Xiu shrugged. He knew that this was indeed true. As the first generation of law students who resumed the college entrance examination in 1977, among the students of his mother, he was young and in the prime of his career.
A barrister who stands up and speaks less can form a platoon. As for the next generation of disciples and disciples, if they add up to a group, they can speak less.
This lineup is out to bully Tao Xuan...ahem.
The cell phone rang at this moment. Ye Xiu was at a loss for a moment, and then he slapped the cigarette case on the bridge under his brother's contemptuous gaze, and hurriedly flipped through the phone. The ring rang patiently a dozen times in a row.
, Ye Xiu found out his cell phone and hurriedly picked it up: "Hello?"
"Ye Xiu? This is Chen Guo." The female voice on the phone was urgent and fast, crackling, and went straight into the ears of Ye Qiu in the next seat. Out of politeness, he had to force himself to look away and pay attention.
The force is concentrated on the road in the distance.
Ye Xiu held the phone in his right hand and put it to his ear, leaning on the car window with his elbows, leaning on the seat without speaking. Until the silence gradually filled the air like suffocation, and flowed from the passenger seat to the other end of the phone,
After a while, it was broken by the rapid shouting:
"Hey, hey? Hey, hey, hey?"
"Boss lady.——I'm retired."
Ye Qiu couldn't help but glanced sideways at him. In his peripheral vision, Ye Xiu's expression was not the relaxed and cynical expression he was used to seeing, but a rare seriousness, and even a little bit of imperceptible gloom. However, those eyes were
It was sharp, like a newly minted sharp blade, and the cold light was awe-inspiring, but it only flashed before being hidden in the sheath and disappearing.
The other side was still yelling something. It seemed like arguing, but also like persuading. Ye Xiu listened silently for a long time, lowered his eyes, and repeated it again:
"Boss lady, I'm retired."
His voice was quiet and firm, which was very different from his usual light and lazy tone. His tone was helpless, but also filled with irreversible strength. The voice on the other side immediately lowered his voice, and he muttered a few words in a low voice, and finally came out
He reluctantly said "Okay".
"Yeah, please. Help me reject them." Ye Xiu casually chatted a few more words, hung up the phone, leaned back on the chair again, closed his eyes and let out a long breath. Ye Qiu waited until he resumed
After opening his eyes, he asked: "Going back to you?"
"No - they know I retired. It's a matter of the World Invitational Tournament."
"World Invitational Tournament?"
"Glory World Invitational Tournament. The first session. Sixteen countries will start in Zurich."
There was a long sound of braking. A moment later, the car had stopped on the roadside. Ye Qiu let go of the steering wheel, half-turned around and looked at Ye Xiu intently:
"Brother, if you want to go, I'll call you at home -"
"No need." In contrast to his solemnity, Ye Xiu looked nonchalant. He waved his hand, as if all the heaviness and reluctance just now were blown out the window, leaving only the words on his lips.
A flickering smile:
"I told you I would retire!"
To return to Ye's home from the airport, the most convenient way is to take the Airport Expressway into the city, turn right at the North Fourth Ring Road, and then turn right again at Zhongguancun North Street. Ye Qiu originally estimated that it would take at most an hour to get home, but as a result, he left the airport
In less than twenty minutes, there was a whine - there was a traffic jam.
"Oh, it's okay," Ye Xiu said calmly, "Traffic jams on the airport expressway are not a common occurrence. We come to Beijing twice a year - oh, we came three times last year, and there was always a traffic jam."
"You have the nerve to count it only once after living here for more than a month?" Ye Qiu complained: "Besides, for such a long time, you didn't even go back to your home!"
"Sorry, I was talking about last season..."
"...The fight against Glory has messed up your timeline!"
The two brothers were bickering pointlessly, trash-talking each other, and slowly moving forward along with the traffic. During this period, Ye Xiu received two more calls, one of which was still from Chen Guo, and neither did Ye Qiu.
Listening carefully, she only knew that Ye Xiu promised her to give her mobile phone number to others; the second time, he was silent almost from beginning to end, facing the endless stream of persuasion, cajoling, presenting facts and reasoning on the other end of the phone, just
At the end, he repeated gently but firmly: "I retire."
He hung up the phone quietly, faced the window, and took a deep breath. When he turned his face again, his smile was still bright:
"When will you get home? I'm hungry!"
"——Damn brother, you can't do that! You didn't even eat a bite on the plane?!"
After struggling on the airport expressway for a full hour and a half, the car finally turned onto the North Fifth Ring Road. Ye Qiu breathed a sigh of relief and smiled a little more on his face. Just as he turned his head and wanted to speak, Ye Xiu's cell phone rang again.
"Why don't you go!!!!" The scream on the phone almost pierced Ye Qiu's eardrums - probably because Ye Xiu couldn't bear it anymore and moved the phone further away, so that the sound on the phone could be heard without any obstruction.
Sent out:
"You are Ye Shen!!!!"
You are Ye Shen. Hearing such screams, Ye Qiu turned his head and glanced at his brother again - but this time, even the seriousness and gloom just now disappeared. Ye Xiu stared forward motionlessly, his lips pursed.
His face formed a straight line, and there was no expression on his tight cheeks. After a while, he moved his lips and uttered a sentence softly but heavily:
"Sorry. I'm really retired."
"You said you retired last time!" A more excited retort came from the phone: "But you came back right away! You started from scratch, organized a new team, and in a year and a half, you returned to the professional circle. In another year, you won the
Champion! No one loves glory more than you! How could you refuse, how could you not even participate in the World Invitational Tournament! You are Ye Shen!!!"
The sound became sharper and faster, and finally broke into a broken sob. Ye Xiu listened silently, his face expressionless, but the cigarette case in his hand had been clenched at some point.
It took a while for the other person to calm down. He sniffed a few times and finally suppressed his tone to a normal level:
"I'm sorry -" the voice was still trembling, but as the statement continued, it finally became more and more normal: "I lost my temper...
I……"
There was another long period of quiet listening. Then, Ye Xiu closed his eyes and spoke again:
"Feel sorry."
"..."
"Excuse me."
"...Okay. Goodbye."
He retracted the line. Then, facing his brother's curious eyes, he replied lightly:
"This is a call from the General Administration of Sport."
"From the General Administration of Sports? Is this the quality?" Ye Qiu's face was full of distrust, "You started crying while talking?"
"I happen to be a fan of my brother..." Ye Xiu spread his hands, "I can't help but encounter things wherever I go. Alas, who makes me have so many fans..."
"Brother, you'll die if you don't show off - bastard brother, don't smoke in the car!"
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The part about Ye Xiu actually hurts my heart...even though I know he must be stronger than me...