Hunter and Hussar

Chapter 119 Thanks
After the game, the stadium was as barren as a battlefield where the smoke cleared. I walked in vain. I didn't even know what I was stepping on.It may be grass, it may be a plastic runway, it may be the land that has collapsed into clouds.

"Brother, brother, are you okay?
"Brother, don't cry, I want to cry too."

"Brother, cheer up! I'll give you whatever you want, I don't want anything, I just want my brother to be good. I'm so scared, don't ignore me, don't be angry with me..."

"Okay. Go celebrate with your companions. Congratulations." Yue Yin gently pulled A Fang away from Lao Ye.He was crying all the time, and Mi Le and I took him to the bench, halfway there we couldn't walk, and we sat down on the turf.

"But, sister, is my brother angry with me? Will my brother ignore me..." A Fang trembled a little, looking worriedly at his cousin's head hidden in his knee.At this time, Yue Yin's face was expressionless, just now Peng Jingbai came over to hug her, she was so calm and at ease, she was so strong that she didn't need any comfort.Maybe the tears were shed in the first half.It may also be because people are like this, vulnerable when they can be vulnerable, and tough when they need to be tough.

"Stop talking! If you understand your brother, go away immediately! Let him be quiet for a while!" It was the first time I saw Yue Yin being so fierce, and he was still a child younger than himself, "You two will have dinner together at night." .” The next sentence was a little calmer.A Fang was obviously taken aback, but soon nodded submissively.

Ye Ruiyang was also obediently called out by her, although she was still wiping away tears, her eyes were dazed.

Keke, I'm sorry.I... I want to beat my brother.I want my parents to see my performance... Actually, I saw the celebration between you and Mi Le, I know, do you really want to give the victory to your brother?I, I really want to help you...I really want to help you realize this wish.Sorry for overthinking this.sorry Sorry……

No, no, you've been helping me.Good brother, I really appreciate you.It was you who pulled me back to the pitch, you've been helping me since the beginning.You stop apologizing.I also have things that I don't do well, and I often make fun of you, I'm pretty bad as a friend.And you have always been reliable, you are our boss, our little brother.You take good care of us.

Ye Ruiyang, we have quarreled several times.It's in the past.The three of us will always be good brothers.In the future, never lie on the ground and take the ball in the head.Too dangerous.Don't be so desperate, we will all be afraid.

The three of us hugged each other for a while, with our foreheads against our foreheads, feeling the temperature of each other's minds in the dripping sweat.But Ye Ruiyang is still sad, and he will continue to be sad for a while, and maybe even more sad when he thinks of this incident in the future.I couldn't make him feel sad, and I couldn't feel sad myself.But I know that from the beginning to the end, my sadness has nothing to do with the missed penalty.

In fact, after the game, he was just crying, and he really cried when he apologized to me.Crying is always necessary.And crying with your head buried in another person's arms is considered real crying.She said they would go back later.So Mi Le and I went to the bench first.The coach and brother Chuan walked towards us, and the former patted both of us on the head hastily.Maybe it's because she thinks we are the most reassuring children, but she doesn't comfort us much.

"Wei Wei. Miller." My sister followed closely behind them and stopped beside us.

"It's okay." I smiled, turned my head back, and told her, go and see the people behind us, and don't comfort me now.She looked at me hesitantly, then nodded, and ran forward in small steps.

She must have felt that I had grown up at that moment.

"Boss, boss, brother, just look up. Don't cry. If you cry again, your nose will be crooked again."

Xuexue, Mu Zheng and Xu Mu sat at one end of the bench.Xuexue covered her entire face in the lifted clothes, and arched her whole body again.Xu Mu grabbed the mask he had thrown away with one hand, while softly stroking his companion's hair.The voice is gentle as if coaxing a child who doesn't want to go to kindergarten to pick up his schoolbag. My mother and sister have coaxed me like this before.

"Hey, the captain and Mi Le are here." Mu Zheng patted Xuexue on the back, his eyes filled with anticipation, as if I was their savior.

"Captain, I'm sorry." The body covered by the white clothes trembled twice, and he didn't take off the protection in front of him.For some reason, probably instinctively, I stepped forward and straightened his upper body, and took off the clothes covering his head before he had time to react.His calf was kicked by him, and there was another black mark on the long white socks.

"What are you doing?" He was unhappy, but he couldn't get angry, and the words he asked were more like the helpless accusation of a poor little animal when it was attacked.Like an unreasonable beast, I jumped on him, hugged him in my arms, and hugged him fiercely.

"I don't like people seeing me cry either. But if you want to cry, just cry hard. Don't hold back."

This sentence was like opening a drain or a floodgate, and Xuexue cried out with a "wow", crying like a child, although his voice finally changed, and it was gradually inclined to the emphasis of an adult.While weeping, he hammered me. I don’t know how long it has been since he cried like this. He cried loudly and desperately. Maybe the last time he cried like this was the night when he mistakenly thought that Mu Zheng was dead.That's it, we don't need to say anything, we don't need to talk about anything, let's pour out all the loss and bitterness that has been swallowed in the stomach now from the eyes.

"Xue Xue. Mu Zheng. And... Ke Ke. Sorry, I'm back again."

Li Bin came to our place.At the moment of victory, only he and A Fang did not immediately fall into the carnival of celebration.

"Congratulations." Mu Zheng got up and walked towards him, "You finally won the championship, sister will be happy."

"My sister can't see it anymore. If she can see it, she will be the happiest..." Li Bin lowered his head and rubbed his fingers again, but after just rubbing his fingers, he suddenly raised his head to look at Mu Zheng again, "She is the happiest You must be feeling better again."

"Yeah...it's getting better. We will all be fine. There is still meaning for people to live."

"I will beat you next time."

"Don't say that. In the future, you may become a comrade-in-arms on the same front."

got windy.We are outside, we don't need to open the windows to see and feel.

Captain, I'll be back next week.Can you come see me off?Seeing me approaching, Luca barely got up with Le Ben's support.Of course, we will all come.That's great, thank you, Captain.Although I didn't win the championship, but... I have no regrets.Although I still really want to go back with the gold medal.Captain, alas.It's okay, I'm fine.Thank you, thank you Miller.I will always remember you, no matter how far apart, no matter whether we can still see each other.I stayed here for a year, and I will never forget it for the rest of my life. Once a white, always a white. Cazador till I die. Captain, I'm fine, we're both fine.I have to work hard, and there is a final exam.I want to pass once.Language, yes, yes.Captain, can you teach me?I heard you can write poetry.Did you agree?Very good.I don't want to fail once.Thank you, Captain.In return, I'll teach you to read my name, okay?I teach each of you to read.In this way, you will all remember me. [1]
OK.Put your socks on after the ice is done, though.Do not go barefoot outside.

Miller, don't forget to get your ball.Mingming helped Yan Xi grope for the painful spot on his body, and the latter gritted his teeth and said that sentence to Mi Le.He bowed his head in response.You are a "perfect hat trick".Yan Xi continued to explain.Left foot, right foot, and head, three different positions each scored a goal.You must let them get the ball.Hold your head high and go to them to ask for it, and ask for it confidently.you are awesome.Really good.Xixi, you are much better than me, you are the one who carries us forward.Mi Le sat down and touched Yan Xi's cheek.Sorry, I couldn't hold it in the end.It's okay, you're too tired.Take a break and stop running. No. 3 wiped No. 9's eye socket with the cleanest side of his arm.

Number 6 rummaged frantically in his schoolbag.A piece of paper, we need a piece of paper.Some things are always deliberately hiding XZ when we need it most.

I walked to the entrance alone.The golden trophy stands on a small stand, tied with white and light green ribbons at the sides.Soon it will be held up by the man wearing the captain's armband, and there will only be one color left of the ribbon fluttering in the wind.I'm so close to it, so close that I can touch it just by raising my hand.In accordance with the promise we made with our companions, none of us touched its sacred body before we had it.Yet we are doomed not to have it, as past time is doomed to pass.It's right in front of my eyes, but it's someone else's.We have been taught since we were young not to take other people's things.

"Keke... are you okay?"

It was Zhao Rui who tentatively touched my arm.

"I'm sorry." I finally couldn't hold back anymore, and put my head on him.It really is him who can make me so ashamed.

"I've worked hard."

"Not at all! You should be allowed to go."

"A clean sheet is far beyond my expectations. You are the only one who can do miracles. We were just a little bit unlucky."

"Almost, always almost. Why am I always like this? I don't understand. How many times." My throat was so itchy, I hurriedly turned my head and coughed, and Zhao Rui patted my back several times to make me feel better.It's terrible, I feel like I'm going to cough my throat out.

"Is it that I'm far behind? It's just luck that I got here, but I'm not worthy of this stage at all? So, it looks a little worse, but it's actually more than that." I stared straight at him.

"No. After the past two years, you should be very clear about your ability. And it is far from the limit, none of us have reached it. The championship is a reward, not a proof. It doesn't have to be won to show that you... "

"But No.2 is nothing! Do you still want to continue to lie to yourself? You are obviously as sad as I am!" I suddenly yelled, and then looked around vigilantly around like a conditioned reflex.I haven't lost my temper like this in a long time.

"That's right. But..." His voice was also choked up, and his eyes narrowed to the ground.

"Ke Ke, don't say that."

Close to the sneak attack, Mi Le hugged me from behind.His arm was wrapped around my stomach like a tight belt, and I immediately dropped all thoughts from head to toe, only feeling the tight-fitting thrill of contact.

"It's my fault, I keep saying those things. It's wrong to think so. I want to be strong and competitive...but I've never been useless if I can't do my best. Keke, don't learn from me." Not bad', isn’t this what you taught me? It’s still the same sentence, let’s go through this journey together. Now that the journey is over, we still have to be together.”

"You don't have to comfort me like this. We will always be together whether there is a championship or not. But, I really want to get it. I really want it."

Perhaps in a person's long life, frustration is far more than pride.In the long history, human resistance has often failed.The wall that cannot be crossed, the stone ball that is pushed up and down, the helplessness of life, old age, sickness and death.The loss after hard work makes you feel that there is no way out after struggling, and the life and goals that you get but are disliked are a luxury that others can't reach.However, it seems that these are not enough for us to put aside life itself and curse our own existence and destiny.

I know this.But right now, it's them I'm letting go of.Reason is one of the proofs that we grow from children to maturity, but no matter how people grow up, they will eventually have emotions.I don't want to hear that anymore, I just want to actually get back to my buddies and cry with them.Like now I turned around, leaving the trophy one step away behind me, and walked back to the bench with Miller. "Failure is the mother of success", "Youth is inherently imperfect", "Youth with regrets is more valuable"... Shut up, I ordered myself.I don't want to think about these words anymore.They are just the chicken soup for the soul that the regretful adults have successfully made up for.They have long since forgotten the bitterness of being empty-handed before tomorrow, or never having the experience I had at all.I am a student who is not yet 15 years old. I am naive and ignorant. I have no social experience and only live in my own narrow world.The school taught me to study, and I know that studying is for myself and my family members.And the rest of the two years, I learned a lot more.At the crossroads of my childhood and youth, I worked with a group of people for a common goal.It may not be our ideal, nor is it considered the best thing to do at this age by the outside world, but we are still united for this and will not hesitate.We gave it our time, it didn't give us the best return, but we still love it, and still love each other because of it.We have ignored our prejudices, forgotten our timidity, endured the pain, passed through death, tortured ourselves repeatedly like traditional Chinese medicine, persistently salvaged and searched in the bitterness, and never stopped our steady and light footsteps.At the last moment, we put on broken armor, spurred our scarred and bony horses, and rushed towards the imaginary sunset horizon, even if our figure would be swallowed by its huge afterglow, we would never look back .

It would be great if I could end this period of growth with a trophy.A small full stop, followed by a longer space.The future is like the sea, and the future is long.But... No matter how I think about it, I will still be reluctant to part with the trophy that is behind me today.

The temporary podium is set up, and there are sponsors' billboards behind it.It should be that we were almost crying, and the coach walked to the center of the crowd.Children, I know you are sad.I'm the same way, so I don't have much to say.This is the first time our school has played in the finals, and it is also the first time in the teacher's life.Maybe you will have more opportunities in the future, and you will get much more important honors than today.The future belongs to you, not to mention that each of you is so outstanding.As for the teacher, she is old.Children in the second grade of junior high school, the teacher can no longer accompany you on the journey.Don't be sad, it's inevitable.You can't stand still, you have to grow up, you have to go to a higher and better platform, and you have a life beyond our generation.Teachers feel very lucky and happy to be able to accompany each other through the short two years of their lives.And don't forget that the people who have always supported you are still waiting for you to go back in the stands.This is the last time, let's wipe away our tears, face them bravely, and thank them for their company from beginning to end.They will never leave us, even when we are in a desperate situation.When all the roads are dead, there are always relatives and friends waiting for you to go home.No matter how far you go, good or bad, don't forget them.Then, we went to receive the award.Don't forget to thank your companions for their help if you get an individual award, we are always a family.After the individual awards were awarded, we went to receive our own silver medal openly.Don't take it off before you walk off the field, and accept everything that life and destiny bring us.

We did so, and everyone went to the stands in No. [-] Middle School to bow and thank everyone. "Thank you, Chaser", "Jiangdong's children are so talented, it's unknown if they will make a comeback", the blue and white banners were unfurled by our relatives, teachers and friends.When I got home, my parents would tell me that they spontaneously discussed making banners for us before the game.They did three, and in addition to what we saw that day, there was one celebrating the championship.Win or lose, they always love us and thank us for the joy we bring them before we thank them.

It's a pity that we can bring too little happiness.It's a shame that I didn't make you happy to unfurl the flag or sail like a victory declaration.

The first award to be given out is the best player in the final.Our words came true in May when, for the first time in Mayor's Cup history, the award went to the losing side.Its winner is Mi Le from Jiangyuan No. [-] Middle School.Quite unexpectedly, he kind of wanted to pull me on stage to accept the award, but the award belongs to him alone.Amid the applause of the audience, he walked up in a daze, as if he had just woken up from a nap.For the runner-up, the awards ceremony is a long ordeal, and every time they go on stage, it is like uncovering a scar.The sun's intense light made my temples swell a little, especially since I was on the stage as the goalkeeper in the team of the season.Aceh was also selected for the best team. He walked from the stands to the stadium on crutches.Seeing that Yan Xi was a little unstable, he gave Yan Xi a crutch so that he could hold it up, and He Mingming and Aniwar took turns supporting him.Also coming down from the stands were Pu Yun and A Hua, who accepted the award for Yin Rirong who was not present.Pu Yun and Mi Le hugged each other lightly. This moment is just like that moment. After a year, we exchanged identities and smiled helplessly at each other amidst the bitterness.The prizes are certificates and small gifts from sponsors, mine is a gray rabbit doll.After the game, I gave the rabbit to my sister.

Sorry, I can only give you this.Well, my brave little brother, my sister will protect you.She held it in her arms, and me.

It's time to find a rabbit for my sister again, a rabbit that can jump and jump, and can prick up two ears.

After that, the best rookie is awarded and the best rookie lineup is announced.The sun turned and beat on the awning of the bench, steaming our dried up sweat.I was a little drowsy, and I barely supported my eyelids to stare at the honored companion.But the heavy pressure of the temperature still pushed the drowsiness in the brain, until he took the ball and sat beside me.

"Ke Ke, I'm sorry. I can only give you this."

a ball?

Oh yes.a ball.There is only one goal in a whole season for a city, and it represents a near-perfect individual performance, belonging to the most important person to me.Moreover, there is also my own effort behind this personal performance.After 60 minutes of games and penalties, it's still pristine and covered in red markers.It is the name of each teammate, Luca's is the longest and his is the shortest.There is also the name of the coach, and those opponents who cannot be forgotten.

"Theory is gray, the tree of life is evergreen", "And death shall have no dominion", the scarlet letters of the two small poems are squeezed together, just like us crowded together in the past. [2]
I won't lose anything again.

[1] The meanings of these two sentences are "white for one day, white for life" and "I will be a hunter and a light cavalry until my death".

[2] The first sentence comes from Goethe's "Faust".The latter sentence comes from Dylan Thomas And death shall have no dominion ("Death must not conquer").

Awards
Best team (433)

Goalkeeper: Kopewe (No. [-])
Defenders: Mi Le (No. 54), Chen Yanba (No. [-]), He Mingming (No. [-]), Pu Yun (Jiangwai)

Midfielders: Li Bin (54), Yin Rirong (Jiangwai), Huo Yuqi (Lifu)
Forwards: Yan Xi (No. 54), Qiao Li (No. [-]), Anival (Li Fu)

The best rookie lineup (part): Ye Junfang (54th middle school), Jiang Xiaofei (No. [-] middle school branch), Anival (Science and Technology High School), Luka Mikhailovich (No. [-] middle school), Xiao Qi (No. [-] middle school) ), He Honghui (No.[-] Middle School)
Best rookie: Anival Inayeti (Lifu, 11 appearances, 11 starts, 10 goals, 2 assists)

The best player in the final: Miller (one goal, 3 goals)

The best players in the Mayor’s Cup: Qiao Li (54 shots, 10 appearances, 10 starts, 9 goals, 1 assist), Li Bin (54 shots, 11 appearances, 11 starts, 6 goals and 5 assists)

Golden Boot: Anival Inayeti (10 goals)
Assist kings: Yan Xi (5 hit, 54 assists), Li Bin (5 hits, [-] assists)

Dark Horse Award: High School Attached to Science and Technology
Sportsmanship Award: Beichuan Middle School, High School Attached to Science and Technology, Branch No. [-] Middle School

Special Award of the Organizing Committee: Mu Zheng (No. [-] Middle School), Jiang Xiaofei (Branch School), Huo Yuqi (School Attached)
Best Head Coach: Wang Feng (No.[-] Middle School)
Runner-up: Jiangyuan Foreign School

Runner-up: Jiangyuan No. [-] Middle School

Championship: 54

(End of this chapter)