Letting go of dreams requires greater courage.
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"I didn't expect you to grow up so soon." Dad's voice was slightly choked, but Xiao Le stood up in a solid embrace.
Xiaole's morning
For the fifteen-year-old Xiaole, the busiest day is the morning. He will use yesterday's leftovers to cook a pot of porridge, boil three eggs, and pick a dish of pickles from the pickle box in the refrigerator. Grandma will get up on time at six o'clock, dress neatly, and sit at the dinner table. She likes to tilt her head to look at Xiao Le, of course, this is not to look cute, but because her left ear can no longer hear. She wanted to stretch her right ear longer, and then said loudly, "Xiao Le, I'm hungry!" Sometimes, Xiao Le was really worried about her grandmother who was living and getting younger. I was 70 years old last year, and I have probably returned to 10 years old this year.
Letting go of dreams requires greater courage. If there is no special reason, Xiao Le will not meet his father in the morning. He will not leave the night shift so early. Before Xiao Le went to school, he would leave a breakfast for him, which he would hold with a blue porcelain bowl. Occasionally, a faint water vapor seeps out from the gap, like a short thought of fleeing.
There is an old basketball stadium on Poplar Street. Every day when Xiao Le passed by, he would stop in front of the big window to watch the freshmen from the basketball school shout and practice ball inside. Xiao Le wanted to be like them, wearing a blue T-shirt, dribbling the ball, passing people, dunking slam dunks on the court... However, this is just thinking about it. If he tells his father that he wants to go to basketball school. God knows what will happen?
"Hi! Can you help pick up the ball?"
A basketball suddenly flew out through the window and landed on the green area beside the road. A boy raised his hand to Xiao Le, and the blue sportswear looked a little dazzling in the morning sun. Xiaole picked up the ball and suddenly had the urge to do Kobe. He threw it with all his strength and watched the basketball fly straight out. However, the bag behind him was too heavy, pulling him to the ground.
"Thank you classmate, be careful when playing the ball, haha..."
Xiao Le stood up on the ground a little embarrassed, blushing and slapped on the dirt on her body. A red leaflet fell from the fluttering dust. It said "Basketball School Summer Class", and these words made Xiaole's heart fascinated.
Coach Tao Yong
Coach Tao Yong is very thin, frowning, like a fierce monster. He doesn't like talking, but he likes to whistle very much. Whether he is happy or unhappy, it is a loud whistle.
"I only have this money." Xiao Le sat at Coach Tao Yong's desk, a little uneasy. He pushed 600 yuan in front of the coach and said: "If it is not enough, I can compensate you by collecting the ball and cleaning it."
"Do you have a team uniform? Professional sneakers? Knee pads?" Coach Tao Yong leaned back in the chair, shaking his toes gently.
Xiao Le could only hold his mouth and shook his head.
"Child, basketball is not something you can afford. Go back and play casually."
Xiao Le knew there would be no results. He put away the six hundred yuan on the table, bowed to the coach and said, "You can say I have no money, but don't say I am playing? Thank you for your suggestion."
Coming out of the basketball hall, Xiao Le couldn't help but look at it with nostalgia. Maybe by the next summer vacation, he can save enough for tuition.
Suddenly, a harsh whistle rang behind Xiao Le.
It was Coach Tao Yong who threw a dark blue Adi travel bag. Xiao Le hurriedly caught it, and the mouth of the bag was not tightened, revealing a corner of the blue team uniform.
"My son's old equipment, please go back and wash it if you don't mind. Let's wear it to class next week."
Olympiad Basketball
"This semester's grades are not bad, but the key points of the exam need to be refueled."
Talking with dad is always boring. Although they live in the same house, they don’t have much time to meet each other. The single dad has to do two jobs, and can sit with Xiaole for a while only during dinner time.
"By the way, did you sign up for the summer school?" Dad who was about to go to work asked casually. Xiao Le was busy serving the meal, and answered vaguely: "Um... it's reported."
Xiaole did apply for the summer school, but it was not the "Olympics" that his father expected, but the "basketball". This plan, which sounds extremely risky, is exciting. Classes will be divided into classes at the beginning of the next semester. Xiaole who chooses science knows the importance of tuition during this holiday. But running on the field and listening to the terrifying coach Tao Yong explain the skills of organizing offenses is his dream on the way to school every day. It is not something that a few boys can randomly grab a century-old ball on the playground.
Xiao Le found that he was really bad at lying, his father had gone, and his cheeks were still burning badly.
Grandma sneaked in mysteriously from the door of the kitchen and was startled by Xiao Le who was embarrassed. "What's the matter? Grandma."
Grandma pressed to his ear, seemingly whispered, but in fact she said loudly: "The clothes you let me dry secretly are already dry." Xiaole shook his ears for three minutes.
During that time, Xiaole's ears were all dreaming with the sound of "boom". He often crashed into the field in confrontation practice. But he likes this kind of practice, the moment the sweat flies from the tips of his hair, he becomes free. However, this freedom must be greatly restrained in front of my father, but the happiness in my heart will always emerge inadvertently, and there will be circles of smiles on the corners of his mouth.
Dad said: "Is the teacher in the lab class interesting?"
"Hmm..." Xiaole said in a faltering manner, "The method of teaching is very new, and I have never heard of it."
Dad looked at Xiao Le's happy face, and the frowning eyebrows spread out all the time.
window
On this day, when Xiao Le was practicing, loud quarrels came from outside the window. Many people pushed and pushed each other together, concealing their immediate anger. Xiaole also stopped training like other teammates, curiously surrounding him. It was a few workers asking for salaries, torn with a group of security guards on the narrow sidewalk. Suddenly a figure was pushed out and fell to the ground awkwardly, and when he sat up with a moan, Xiao Le said in surprise, "Dad!"
The two did not expect to meet in such an awkward manner, through the tall window, seeing the secrets and embarrassment in each other's hearts. Dad got up from the ground with difficulty and said, "Go home!"
Xiao Le had never seen his father such a strong temper, and his father had never seen Xiao Le so tough. Dad patted the table excitedly and said, "I worked so hard to collect the money for your cram school, but you ran to play ball!"
"I want to go to basketball school."
"It's so difficult at home, I have no money for you to play!"
"I want to go to basketball school!"
"From today, you are not allowed to go anywhere!"
"Dad, don't be unreasonable, don't you have dreams when you were young?"
"No!"
"Ka", there was a slight closing sound in the living room, and Xiao Le shouted vigilantly: "Grandma."
Grandma is not in the bedroom, not in the kitchen. She is like a 10-year-old girl, going out willfully. Xiao Le and his father panicked, and could no longer bother to argue, and hurriedly chased out the door to find them. However, they searched all the places they could think of, but they didn't find the shadow of grandma. Dad didn't think of the sundries room on the roof of the building until sunset.
Grandma was really there, sitting alone in front of the door in a daze, with the orange-red sunset warmly spreading across her face.
"Grandma, what are you doing here?" Xiao Le asked carefully.
"I..." Grandma stared at Xiao Le blankly and said, "I forgot."
Spider dream
In later days, Xiao Le did not quarrel with his father, nor did he go to basketball school. Many things make him busy. He had to take care of his increasingly confused grandmother, and he also asked the school's legal club to help his father ask for a salary. This became the first actual case of the school's legal club. Together with his classmates, he went to find a public interest lawyer, contacted TV stations for interviews, published information on the Internet, and gained more public opinion... He found that in fact, at the age of fifteen, you can do a lot of things. Those who are sharp and tenacious in youth, let them help. The helpless dad and the workers had a beautiful turnaround.
The night when my father received his salary, it was the first light snowfall after the winter. He has been sitting in the living room smoking a cigarette, and the coffee table has a down-to-earth envelope. Xiao Le took out grandma's medicine bottle from the refrigerator and said, "Dad, grandma's medicine is finished, remember to buy it tomorrow."
Dad has been silent, without speaking. Xiao Le looked at his gloomy expression and decided to avoid it. But father suddenly stood up and hugged him tightly.
"I didn't expect you to grow up so soon." Dad's voice was slightly choked, but Xiao Le straightened his back in a firm embrace. Boys always grow up in a blink of an eye, and amidst experience and setbacks, they give birth to a strong and stable shoulder like a father. However, Xiao Le looked at the dusty jerseys on the hangers, and those originally dazzling blues became the price of fading for growth.
In the evening, Dad went to the night shift as usual, and Xiao Le helped grandma take off her coat and sleep. A yellowed picture album fell out of the wide pocket. Grandma suddenly realized like a child: "Oh, I remember what I did when I went to the utility room that day. Your dad lied, and I found his childhood dream."
Xiao Le gently opened the picture album, which was filled with beautiful watercolor landscapes. Although the brushwork is immature, it shows a different kind of talent. The last picture of the album is a spring in the morning light. Among the light green branches, a weak spider weaves a crystal clear web. Xiao Le saw his father's handwriting: A spider without wings can weave a silk web in the sky. It is a dream to make it dare to fly.
The grandma sighed in frustration and said, "If it weren't for your grandfather's serious illness that year, I should be a painter's mother now."
Dunk of life
The "Winter and Summer Training Course" has begun again. Xiao Le stood in the office of the basketball school holding the washed blue jersey. Coach Tao Yong was still leaning on the back of his chair, shaking his toes. Xiao Le put the travel bag on the table and said, "Sorry coach, I can't come anymore."
The coach nodded slightly, which counted as an answer. Xiao Le didn't know what else to say, so he scratched his head and left. The newly joined teammates in the arena are still training steaming. Xiao Le walked very slowly, quietly looking at the place where he made himself happy and hardworking. Suddenly, a loud whistle sounded behind him, and he heard Coach Tao Yong shouting roughly: "Idiot! Run for me!"
Xiao Le froze for a moment, and ran forward desperately. Sometimes this is the case. Persevering in dreams is a kind of courage, but letting go of dreams requires greater courage. In fact, his life is a bigger game, and there are more basketballs waiting for him to dunk.
Xiao Le ran fast, tears spilling out of her eyes. But he never stopped, never looked back.