Hunter and Hussar

Chapter 83 "Go to Africa"

The lights in the ward were turned off.The curtains were drawn between the beds, calm breathing and snoring one after another.I walked to Mu Zheng's bed, and the small lamp beside the bed was still on.He was in a hospital gown looking at his Chinese textbook, apparently waiting for me.

"Aren't you going back tonight?" he said in a voice that made sure he wouldn't wake anyone up but that I could hear.

"No, it's too late," I said.It must be past eleven o'clock now.

"Come on, I'll take you to a place." He climbed down slowly, beckoning me to follow him out of the room.After a few turns, we came to a place similar to a laundry room with a dryer.He said that you dry your coat and trousers. After all, it was rained, so it must not be completely dry by now.After he finished speaking, he went out, and I froze in the laundry room.In mid-October, it was not so cold yet, so I put on a coat and short sleeves, and only a pair of outer pants underneath.If I leave them all out to dry, all I have left is a pair of little shorts.It's not in the school dormitory (even if I am there, I am embarrassed to dress like this), what if someone comes in?What if it's still a woman?I blush just thinking about it.

The phone rang again, and I panicked for a while, as if someone really broke in suddenly.Li Bin beat him.

"Hello? Are you home?" I asked.

"On the way. Ke Ke, I still have something to do. I suddenly remembered. Didn't Mu Zheng say in the car that he was undergoing an examination in the hospital? What kind of disease is it? I'm afraid he's asleep, so I'm here to ask you."

How should I say it?There are words in my mouth, but I don't know where to start.Li Bin was waiting on the other end of the phone, and I seemed to hear his anxiety from the occasional noise.

Mu Zheng appeared at the door in time, and he brought me a new set of hospital gowns.So I handed him the phone logically, and hid in a corner to change my clothes.However, it is pure fantasy to accomplish this with only one arm. Mu Zheng helped me take off my shirt while talking to Li Bin, and he turned on the loudspeaker.

"I just feel like a relapse, although the results will come out tomorrow. I will have to have another round of treatment. I don't know if it will work. I was very uncomfortable on the way to the hospital today, but it got better later. We haven't seen each other for three years. It was hard to get in touch. I just thought that while I was still able to walk, I would come to see you quickly, and come to your house to see you. Maybe there will be no chance in the future. "

"Don't think so, okay?"

"There must be a chance. I will move to a new house in the future. I will wait for you and Xuexue to come and play. Ke Ke can come if he wants to."

No, leave me an arm for homework and exams.Of course, I didn't say that.

"Anyway, it's good to see it, and I don't regret it." He said so calmly, and I shivered while drying the clothes.

"What do you mean by that? It's scary. You are in such good health, and the last treatment was very successful. Didn't you all go back to the court? To be honest, I have been paying attention to the Mayor's Cup last year, knowing that you won the Golden Boot, I am very happy for you, but I am too embarrassed to contact you... because I am afraid that you will forget me, or know what happened to my family, and you don’t want to be friends with me anymore. So you came to see me this year, I am really excited and excited Scared again."

"We will always be friends." Mu Zheng said, looking at me.I pretended to concentrate on flipping through my coat.

"So, you should treat well. By the way, haven't there been any results yet? Maybe it was a false alarm. We are both in the second year of junior high school, and this year is the last Mayor's Cup. I dare say, if it weren't for you , the championship is in our school’s bag.”

Last year, we and No. 54 ranked first in the group and passed by in the knockout round.They probably lost to Beichuan Middle School in the quarterfinals.Beichuan only got one draw and one loss against us.But it's useless to say this, No. 54 Middle School didn't lose a game in the first semester, and was eliminated by a foreign school, and the foreign school lost to Beichuan in the final.Maybe everyone has the possibility to win the championship. Originally, the level of skills and tactics is between the two, and the possibility on the football field is difficult to estimate.This semester, No. [-] High School recruited students from several schools in Jiangbei, so Li Bin got the chance to compete. According to Mu Zheng, he is an attacker with comprehensive skills.Although Mu Zheng often praised others, he was very serious when he mentioned Li Bin. Compared with Mu Zheng, his strength may be even worse.

"My teammates are all very strong. Even without me, I wouldn't let you win the championship easily." Mu Zheng smiled at me, "Of course, if we were to fight, we would win the knockout round. Maybe I can come back, but Ke Ke will definitely return to the team. He will not let you score goals casually. By the way, we still have to learn. He is much tougher than before, so don’t even have trouble getting past the midfield line.”

It's amazing, the three of them originally said to their sister on the hospital bed that they wanted to win the championship together, but now they have become competitors.However, things are always unpredictable on the football field. Don't Shi Zhenhua, Pu Yun and I also "respect each other's masters"?If Mu Zheng and I were admitted to different high schools and continued to play football, there is no guarantee that he would say this to me, although it was in a joking tone among friends.

What if Mi Le and I become rivals?No wonder he keeps talking about wanting to go to the same school as me.Maybe, let's just say maybe, one day we won't be in the same school, and he might stop playing football.I can't tell.Just like if Xianxian took me to play basketball back then, maybe I would like basketball more. (And won't he just leave me?) A person's life is so amazing, sometimes when making decisions, they are ignorant and only imitate the people who are important to them.So, we inadvertently embark on a road, completely ignorant of the future and the fate of the road buried underground.Sometimes we are even pushed down a certain path.Taotao didn't give the shoes to Xiaofei, and Li Bin didn't get into No. 54. They wouldn't be able to participate in the three years of junior high school.

Not everyone can turn around like Li Bin.Not everyone who has a serious illness can recover like Mu Zheng and stand on the court again.They must have put in an effort I can't even imagine.So, if you want to do it all over again, it will be even more difficult to imagine.too difficult.

I was so distracted that I almost burned my hand.They were still chatting, Li Bin must be encouraging Mu Zheng.

"Then let's talk about it. If we meet, don't show mercy to anyone." The other end of the phone said.

"Okay, when you lose, I will come to comfort you." I said before Mu Zheng.

"Hey, Ke Ke hasn't spoken for a long time. I almost forgot that you were here. Okay, if you lose, I will comfort you too."

"I don't want it," I said.Mu Zheng helped me put on the hospital gown.I got serious, and seemed to have forgotten that my hands still had to be hung, and I also forgot that we are now in danger of qualifying for the group.I just want to compete with Li Bin upright on the court and not let him score a single goal.

"Did you hear that? Our captain doesn't need your comfort. He's the captain." Mu Zheng showed a smug expression, even though only I could see it.Yes, I am the captain, even if I cry three times in one night, I am still the captain.

"I'll see you again tomorrow, so go to bed early."

After saying good night, I hung up the phone and went back to the ward with Mu Zheng.It's almost twelve o'clock, he is not in good health, and I have delayed him for so long.Go to sleep now.I went to the bathroom to wash my feet, and put my coat on the hospital gown. He climbed onto the bed first, and I gently moved a chair, trying to lie on the end of the bed.However, I saw him move himself to the side of the bed, leaving an open space.won't you come uphe asks.I said lying down is fine.It's cold in the morning and evening, you must have a cold like this.My arm was injured, wouldn't it be more uncomfortable to get sick again?His words are very useful, and I can think of the scene where Mi Le will help me tie my suspenders every day for at least a month in the future.No more trouble for anyone, including myself.

Lying obediently on the bed, Mu Zheng shared half of the quilt for me.He turned off the little light.In the dark, I lay on my right side, back to back with him.Not quite used to it.I've always been very unfamiliar, and I'm not used to sleeping in the same bed with other people, even acquaintances, unless they are very close.I have always regarded Mu Zheng as the team's number one star, and never thought of sleeping in the same bed as him.Even though we are very close, I still have a sense of distance from him, and I am inevitably nervous.After the lights were turned off, the slow breathing and occasional coughing in the entire ward became more and more obvious.I seemed to be on a swaying train, and the car was condensed with drowsiness, and the child was wearily drawing the sun on the foggy window.I didn't know where I was going or where I needed to get off.Mu Zheng didn't even know.But... Li Bin and I have made a lot of efforts, maybe he has given up the idea of ​​jumping off the car.When I learn it tomorrow morning, I can pat my chest with my remaining right hand and tell him that everything is fine, as we both agreed.

Is it time to stay awake?Sleepiness is urging me, and my heart tells me to persevere.Xuexue will come tomorrow, and Mr. Zhou will definitely know the day after tomorrow.In front of close friends and relatives, it may be difficult for a person to have the urge to end his life.His chances are ticking by.What if Li Bin and I failed to get rid of that dark thought? 1 minute of darkness will not make people blind, but what if during this 1 minute of blindness, people choose to be defeated?
It is impossible to directly ask Mu Zheng what he thinks now.I want to wait, to wait, to become a hunter hiding in the grass again, watching over the sleeping land until the sun rises again.Perhaps this is my chance to redeem myself, I have no way to bring Xianxian back, but I must not let Mu Zheng leave us.

"Ke Ke, can't you sleep? Is it too crowded?" A soft voice came from behind, as if there was still a little light.I agreed without thinking nervously.

"Let me sing a song."

He sang, the ending song of a TV series.I haven't heard this song in ages.When I heard it, I remembered many things.I remembered the title of the film that I had forgotten for a long time, the name of the protagonist who had dimples on one side and no dimples on the other, and was seriously injured in the first episode, and that never-changing smile.When I was a happy child, I also longed for such a friend.

But I heard something terrible.Because of the lyrics.At the end of the song, the singer is saying goodbye to his mother, telling her that he will leave home tonight and go on a long voyage.

"What do you mean?" I didn't care about not being able to press my left hand, turned over and looked at him.I couldn't see his pupils hidden in the darkness, only the outline of his face in front of him.

"Where are you going? There doesn't exist that place, that's made up. We can only live on Earth."

"I know it in my heart, I just envy him. It's a lucky boy to have someone travel so far to save him. If only I could be like him, it's a pity that I don't have such an extraordinary name." Mu Zheng said Played the leading role in that TV show.

"But your name is also very extraordinary. It was chosen by your mother, and I like it very much."

"You're right. So, I'll be brave again, as brave as he is, as brave as you are. After all, win or lose, I'm not alone, you can see."

He touched my fist quietly under the quilt.

"Ke Ke?"

"Ok?"

"When I recover from illness, let's go to Africa to play. Go hunting in the savannah, and climb Mount Kilimanjaro. I heard that the top of the mountain is like a temple. Maybe we will meet a frozen leopard."

"I can't climb it. Also, I don't know how to hunt. I can't kill chickens. But I will accompany you."

Because you are really brave.So brave that I want to hug you with all my strength and not let you leave anyone.

"Then let's go to Spain to watch bullfights. There are still matadors, maybe they are only a few years older than us. We also go fishing, catch grasshoppers as bait, make a campfire by ourselves, and use the river water to make coffee. Pitching a tent in the wild isn't bad, isn't it? We'll have lots and lots of time, Nick..."

He continued to speak softly, and I was sleepy, so I responded with a soft "hmm".Confused, the only thing I know is that I'm not sure if I want to dream of Xianxian this night.Maybe I will dream of the child who accompanied me through the TV screen, of the brave matador, of the African grasslands, of the snow-capped mountains shining in the sun, of the great rivers throwing bait, or something else.

　A small episode, tomorrow is the story of Xuexue~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)