Hunter and Hussar

Chapter 75

It's almost time to start.The internal strife was really a loss and a loss. The opponent couldn't stand it any longer. After trying to persuade him, Xiao Qi finally shut up and went back to the locker room.I don't know if the people in the stands saw it, but it was probably clear at a glance.Ah Hua patted me on the shoulder comfortingly, saying that it was not easy for me.I'm not in the mood to reminisce today.They also understood very well, and said goodbye in a hurry after saying a few words casually.

In fact, it’s okay if they want to chat with me for a while, I don’t know how to mediate the problem between the two juniors when I go back to the locker room—to be precise, it’s Xiaoqi’s complaint to Luka.I was worried, the coach stopped me.

"Captain, tell me." She pulled me to the bench seat with a serious face, "How do you plan to deal with this matter?"

How to deal with it?I also want to ask you, old man.Of course, I don't have the guts to say that.

"Teacher, Xiao Qi was a little too..."

"I'm asking the captain! Are you the captain? Go back to the locker room first!"

The coach gave Mi Le a stern look, and my "military adviser" shrugged helplessly, and left helplessly and anxiously.It was just me and her on the bench.

"Tell me, what should I do?"

"Coach, you should withdraw me." I drooped my head and said what was in my heart.

"Why did you withdraw?" Even the questioning tone made me tremble a little.

"After losing two games in a row, the juniors even started arguing. It's because I didn't do well, so I have to be responsible."

"Kepwei, what are you responsible for?" I raised my head in fright, and the coach was staring at me with disappointment and blame, like a sword stabbing at me, "The captain is a teacher and a classmate I chose you, not me alone. Everyone chooses you, which means they trust you. Is this how you treat everyone’s trust? Whenever you encounter difficulties, you want to escape and drop the burden. Is this taking responsibility? A coward, a coward!"

The coach scolded me the most in every sentence.I'm not even afraid, just guilty.

"I'm sorry. Don't dare again."

"Then tell the teacher, what should we do today?"

"Talk to... talk to them? Talk to them alone." My brain was running fast, and I came up with this method.

"What's wrong with them?"

The coach's barrage of questions made my brain spin faster.It seems that I am not so stupid, sometimes I just don't want to think or say.

"Luka... There is nothing wrong with others, mainly because of poor performance on the court and lack of confidence. It is good to comfort and encourage him more, but you can't... and you can't force it to be good, and always say 'you are awesome' .He is very smart. If you comfort him too deliberately, it will hurt his self-esteem. As for Xiao Qi, he is very active on the court and has a lot of fighting spirit. However, his emotions are not well controlled, and the way he expresses is too extreme. You must explain it clearly to him , winning or losing the game is not just a matter of one person. When everyone makes mistakes, since we are teammates, we must unite and love each other, and we cannot talk like this..."

"Didn't you say it well? Why did you have to dismiss you? You unlucky child." She sighed resentfully, knocked my head, and I stuck out my tongue with lingering fear after passing the test.

"Then I'll hand over Xiao Qi to you, can you handle him?" Her hand stopped on my ear and rubbed it.Of course I have to say yes, and of course I have no idea.I am most afraid of "stabbing the head". Although Xiaoqi is not bad, and he talks and laughs with everyone in training, but when he gets aggressive, I don't know what to do.I can't even hold my studies.My personality is still too soft, I would honestly surrender when pushed against a wall.Talking with my juniors turned out to be like climbing a mountain of swords and going down a sea of ​​flames.

If only Xianxian could go for me, who wouldn't accept him?
It's funny to say, how did the old class think I could be a teacher before?I don't even dare to deal with naughty students.Now I can only bite the bullet.Can't blame others.The division of labor and cooperation has been settled. I will immediately go to chat with Xiaoqi, and the coach will go to chat with Luka.

The locker room was indeed in a "cold war".As soon as the coach and I walked in, everyone seemed to have seen a savior.Mi Le quietly told me that before the "Cold War", a "Hot War" almost broke out. After returning, Le Ben, who was in the same class as Luka, came to ask Xiao Qi why he said that about Luka. Hitting Xiao Qi with his fist, Luka hugged him from behind. Xiao Qi also said that Luca was hypocritical.After everyone talked for a long time, the two people calmed down, and Luca's nose twitched even more.

"I'll 'clean up' him." I don't know why I said this, I didn't want to really "clean up" Xiaoqi, but I still told Mi Le secretly.

"Leaving aside what just happened, as a teacher, I told each of you to be strict with your teammates, and even more so with yourself. Obviously, we didn't demand enough of ourselves and others in the first half today. Yan. Of course, I am very happy to see your positive performance in the second half. If you show this kind of energy in the first half, we should be able to win this game - at least not lose."

Seeing the situation in the locker room, the coach didn't criticize anyone, and first told everyone about the game.

"It's still the same old saying, 'attitude is everything'. We didn't deserve to score at home in the first half. We can't make mistakes every time and try to make up for them. We have to correct our attitude from the beginning. I It’s not just about the attitude of the game, but also your attitude towards life and study, and your attitude towards others. No. [-] Middle School is a united team. I believe that each of you wants the team to be good. We have no room for mistakes. Yesterday, Jieqi Middle School defeated the Branch School Middle School in an away game, and we are six points behind the top two in the group. If we want to qualify, we must not be negligent in the next game, understand?"

Everyone nodded, but she asked us to shout out, so there was a burst of "understood" in the locker room.

"We'll talk about techniques and tactics next time in club class. Let's all go and rest. Luka will stay here for a while."

Luka's eyes were terrified, and he stared blankly at the coach, as if the coach was going to settle accounts with him.

"Teacher, don't blame Luka." Le Ben said aggrievedly, avoiding the coach's gaze, "Don't let him go."

The latter muttered softly, but was heard nonetheless.

"Who said I'm going to let him go? Stop spreading rumors about me!"

The coach hammered Le Ben's head, pretending to be very hard.Le Ben seemed to have won a gold medal for avoiding death for Luka, and let out a sigh of relief, tilted his little head, and slumped on Luka's shoulder.What a child, how could he be expelled if he can't play well? We couldn't even make up the roster for the game, so we had to go to the basketball team to catch two people to help.

Speaking of which, Le Ben is also a very interesting student.At first everyone thought his surname was pronounced yuè, but he asked us to pronounce it lè.The character is one character, but the surname is two surnames.I also specifically told my sister about this, and she said that "Le" has several pronunciations. As a surname, it is pronounced yuè in most cases, but Leben's family is obviously an exception.My sister also asked me to ask where Le Ben's family was from. I always forgot, and I didn't ask until I graduated.When I think of this surname, as long as Mi Le is by my side, I will deliberately call him "Mi yuè" or "Mi yào", and he will keep kneeling on me.

"Xiao Qi, come here, the captain wants to talk to you, just the two of us." Seeing that everyone was cleaning up, I walked up to Xiao Qi, with a very gentle tone, as if asking for his opinion.He frowned reluctantly, nodded, and continued to stuff things into the bag.

It seems that the conversation for a while will not go well.I suddenly remembered that in the past three years, my sister would often talk to me, and my attitude seemed not much better than that of Xiao Qi.A face that was unwilling but had to agree, made me feel depressed when I saw it.

Show me your sister's patience with me.

Waiting for Xiaoqi to put away his things, I patted his shoulder lightly, and walked out of the locker room door with him.Before leaving, I also saw Mi Le and Ye Ruiyang's eyes on me, I don't know if it was sympathy or encouragement.The two of us walked outside the gate of the gymnasium, where there was a row of fitness equipment, so we couldn't help lying on a stepper, and "walked" wobbly, talking while walking.

"The senior has always admired you. Your skills are very good, and you are full of fighting spirit on the court. The team needs players like you the most. I know you are for the good of the team..."

"Stop talking nonsense, just talk about it." He interrupted me impatiently.

I bit my lip.

"As the coach said, we must be strict with each other. Not only strict with others, but also strict with ourselves..."

"Do you think I'm not strict with myself?"

He was still stepping on the stepper casually, and my steps stopped.We were silent for at least half a minute.

"Is the coach sent you here?" He spoke first.I noticed faint vigilance and hostility.

"Actually, I really want to talk to you..." I tried to keep my tone calmer, like a big brother talking to his younger brother.Xiao Qi is two years younger than me.

"Nothing else, I just can't get used to it." He snorted dismissively.

"What do you dislike?"

"I can't understand that you are all used to that little foreigner. Why? Just because he is a noble foreigner?"

what?
"Senior knows that you want the team to win, but you can't just blame one person for the loss..."

"I know! Blame me for losing today, blame me for sending a set kick, blame me for not being able to score goals! Captain, you can scold me whatever you want!" He stopped suddenly, his voice raised several times, and his eyes almost froze. There was a flash of fire, "But someone's level is not good at all. Why can he play? Why can he wear No. 10 in No. [-] Middle School? Is he a foreigner, so he is superior?"

Xiaoqi slapped me hard, and I swallowed a few mouthfuls of saliva before I could react.Seeing that he had calmed down a bit, I slowly opened my mouth:
"First of all, it is the coach's arrangement who is sent to the field. Luka's performance in these two games is indeed not very good, but we have also participated in training. In all fairness, Luka's skills are not too bad, right? Your pass today It's very exciting, but to be honest, if the seniors kick themselves, they may not be able to score..."

"Captain, you are the goalkeeper. He is a full-back. Look at the left-backs from other schools, and then look at ours?"

"The left back from another school is a good friend of mine. He played much worse than Luka when he was a child. His defense was leaking and he couldn't go up in offense. The coaches didn't dare to send him on the field. The food is eaten one bite at a time, you See how much he has improved now? Luka's foundation is not bad, and he will definitely play better and better." Saying that, I patted Xiao Qi on the back.

"But now we have lost two games in a row, we have not scored a point, and we are six points behind! Do we still have to give him a chance? If he kicks indiscriminately, let alone qualify for the group, we may all be at the bottom! The team is used as a tool for leveling up? Is the school team established to find status for foreigners?"

"Why do you always insist that Luca is a foreigner?"

I was talking about it with Xiaoqi very gently, but he seemed monolithic and couldn't listen to a word.

"That's right! Didn't he tell me he was wrong?"

"Don't tell me! What are you thinking?"

"What are you thinking? You will protect outsiders!"

"Luka is our classmate! He is a student of No. [-] Middle School, just like me and you!"

"Then if I conceded three goals to the opponent in a game, or failed to score an empty goal, would you still tolerate me so much? What about other juniors? Aren't you favoring him?"

"The senior has been on the school team for a year. It is common for everyone to make mistakes in the game. It is enough to sum up after the game. Everyone gets along very well. Besides, I think Luka is still very easy-going and not very superior. Look down on us Chinese."

"Just speak for him! You are all like this! You are not him, how do you know what he thinks of us? Maybe he thinks we are all a bunch of fools! There are so many 'foreign garbage' in China now, all of you This kind of person is used to it! You like foreigners so much, why don't you get out?"

In the past, when my sister came to talk to me, I would quarrel with her, and even deliberately anger her, but when I was arguing and arguing, I would cry, crying for no reason.Xiao Qi didn't change his face, his heart didn't beat, and he was upright.

"What, nothing to say?"

"Xiaoqi, the senior is not very smart, but he is a little older than you, and he may have read a few more books. Let's calm down and 'analyze specific issues'. It is true that some foreigners are of poor quality, but in China, foreign There are many people, and they also come from different countries and families. The culture and habits of each country are very different, let alone each different person? It cannot be said that some people have poor quality, and everyone's quality is poor .Right? Luca is from Austria. To be honest, I don’t know Austria very well. I only know that they like music. It’s fate that we can get together because of football. It’s so far apart..."

"Don't tell me these things are useless. It doesn't matter which country he is from. I only know two kinds of people: Chinese and foreigners. I think you are too inferior. We Chinese have knelt down for too long in the past. Time to stand up. Stop acting like a slave!"

I admit that I really don't know Luca that well, and it's because he is a foreigner that I care a little about him, such as his good-looking eyes.But if he doesn't have those eyes, and his hometown is not in the country of music that I am not familiar with, I will also feel that he is very kind and want to make friends with him.I like his meticulous expression when he does things, the joy of guessing the topic, the crooked handwriting, and the sentence "Captain, I will work hard" that took a lot of effort to say, all of which make me like him. It is a classmate who is a little introverted.I preconceived and realized that he is a foreigner, but now, I don't care what country he is from, it doesn't matter if he is an alien, he is one of us.

"Xiaoqi, I don't feel inferior to me, but you. Of course, it's just a little inferiority complex."

"What did you say?" An expression of disbelief.

"You seem to be a little too concerned about Luka's identity. Why do you care so much about him?"

"It's you who care about him, and I can't understand you."

"But why do you always care so much about whether we treat Luka well? It seems that we are taking care of him when we look at Luka more. We are still normal when we train and compete, and we don't give anyone special treatment, coach It also treats everyone equally. The senior understands what you mean. Being too nice to others does not necessarily mean respect, and they may not necessarily like them. Sometimes they even lose their self-esteem. However, there is no need to pay special attention to this matter. How important. I have a feeling that the more you care about something, the more worried or afraid you are about it. For example, I used to hate your senior Zhao Rui. I was annoyed when I saw him. I wanted to alienate him and made malicious speculations. But later I found out that I was too narrow-minded and had a lot of misunderstandings about him. Sometimes I was jealous of him and afraid of being replaced by him. This analogy may not be appropriate, but the senior believes that it is important to stand up and not feel inferior The most important thing is to have self-confidence. Self-confidence is not to exclude others, but to be able to recognize and accept the advantages of others, and to be able to see the problems of others. It has both a mind and a boldness, and has its own thinking. It is always stuck in some small When it comes to problems, you can’t see the bigger world.”

In fact, many of the things I said were said to me by my sister or teacher. Although I was reluctant to listen to them when they said it, I still remembered it.Now that I am patiently speaking these words to Xiao Qi, I actually have a feeling that I have become smarter, and I am inadvertently a little ecstatic. Maybe this kind of broad-mindedness will move me.

"I don't quite understand. Captain, are you the class representative of the ideological and moral class?"

This unlucky kid has a worse attitude than me!I would at least say, um, um, yes, I get it.

"And, captain, what's the use of what you said so much? There are still so many 'foreign garbage' in China, and some people still hold foreigners as gods. If you throw a bicycle and a foreigner throws a bicycle, who will Can you get it back first?"

Thanks, I didn't lose my bike.My brother's car is gone, and he won't be coming back.

"So, is Luca 'foreign trash'? Has he done something bad?"

He tilted his head.

"Not really. But his performance..."

"Everyone didn't perform well today. Why do you pay so much attention to him? Luka conceded a ball, but I didn't save a few balls myself. Is it because Luka is a foreigner that you feel his The problem is bigger? Think about it yourself, who is taking special care of him? Just because he is a foreigner, he has to be perfect? ​​We are not playing in the Chinese Super League, and Luka is not a foreign player with an annual salary of tens of millions. He's just an ordinary classmate. No one chooses the number 10. Of course, the senior also admitted that he would care about him because of his identity. After all, he looks different from us, and the first impression is very deep. Of course , the difference may just be in appearance.”

"Okay, why are you so talkative, more verbose than my parents." He pursed his lips, still with a reluctant expression, "After talking so much, don't you just want me to apologize to him? I understand the truth, I didn’t control my emotions well today, the occasion was wrong, and I embarrassed the team. I’ll apologize in the next training session, in front of the whole team, are you satisfied?”

I seem to have completed the task, but neither Xiaoqi nor I could convince anyone, or we didn't have much real communication, and we all insisted on our own views.The twisted melon is not sweet, forcing Xiaoqi to apologize to Luka can't solve the problem, maybe history will repeat itself next time.In fact, I don't completely disagree with Xiao Qi's opinion.But this topic is too big, and I didn't fully understand it at the time. It was not easy to talk about the team.

"But, Captain, I'm speaking up front..." He stretched out his finger and shook it in front of my eyes, "I'm not apologizing for that little foreigner, but for the team, you understand?"

This brat, will he surrender to Han instead of Cao?

"Understood. It's okay, don't force it." I smiled.

"No, you're not angry?" He retracted his fingers in surprise.

"Why should I be angry?"

I lost my temper long ago.Of course, not necessarily.If Xiaoqi becomes fierce, I might be afraid.

"Well, Captain..." He scratched his head and smiled, "You have a very good temper. Actually, I just wanted to make trouble. I just don't like being educated."

"Understood, we are all similar." I patted his shoulder again, feeling that I could still communicate with Xiao Qi more calmly.It's not about convincing anyone.Like me, he is a child, and he doesn't like children who are nagging.

"I will pay attention in the future. However, I can only do not hate him. As for you, captain, I will not deliberately quarrel with you next time."

"Okay. It's nothing. Your willingness to express your emotions to me shows that you still trust me. I'm quite happy. No one will casually speak their minds to outsiders."

"Ah."

Xiaoqi nodded, and we said goodbye to each other.I think, in that afternoon, during that long conversation, I endured my annoyance and dissatisfaction, but I never thought about forcing Xiaoqi to apologize to Luka for the sake of the team's superficial unity.I didn't use the captain's authority, I didn't say you have to do something, you have to accept my ideas.He didn't use various means to threaten him-if you don't apologize, everyone will exclude you, and you don't want to stay comfortably in the team.Not to mention, I will tell the coach all your words and deeds, and let her deal with you.Perhaps because of this, Xiaoqi and I have increased our mutual trust.Indeed, I was a little moved by myself.However, I clearly and clearly know that I hate the kind of behavior that ignores other people's feelings and ideas for the "absolutely correct" goal, uses status and authority to crush others, and forces others to accept my own ideas.I don't like this kind of person, and I don't want to be this kind of person.

But I have become another kind of annoying person, maybe a bit like the kind of person Xiao Qi hates.That day may have been the most patient and gentle I've been in 13 years, and I failed to give that patience and gentleness to my loved ones.After watching Xiao Qi go away, I opened my mobile phone screen and found missed calls and WeChat messages.Mom and Dad are still waiting for me at school, waiting for me very patiently, trying to comfort me.I forgot to contact them.And how much real patience and tenderness have I had with them and my sister during the past three years?

　Ang... In this chapter, it seems that Xiaoqi is talking about the issue of "super-national treatment" for foreigners.

　　In fact, this problem exists.As the author, I and Ke Ke in the novel did not deny what Xiaoqi said.Ke Ke himself also avoided some questions (such as what Xiao Qi said, your words are very beautiful, but can they actually work? Is it like this in society?).This problem can be put on a very big scale, and of course it can also fall into the small things around you.It's just a mention here.In fact, whether Xiao Qi or Ke Ke, no one is absolutely right or wrong, and both of them are very immature.When I was a child, I was more like Xiao Qi, with a somewhat unscrupulous character, but I can still recognize who treats me well.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)