The True Color of Youth Chapter 173 It’s all in vain
"I explained to my father in advance that I was just pretending."
Long Xiaochuan took out the prepared knee pads and just covered the plaster: "How is it? It looks good, right?"
Long Zaiyuan scolded: "You, you can obviously avoid injury, but you can't just throw the last ball? Do you have to attack the basket?"
"Isn't the atmosphere here? I don't feel comfortable."
Long Xiaochuan grinned, took out two plasters from his bag, and exaggerated the words of the old Chinese doctor, hoping that his uncle would have a chance to play ball after recovering from his injury.
Long Zaiyuan looked at his right hand that had not yet had its plaster removed, and said calmly: "It doesn't matter. I'm getting older and my body has been declining. It's only a matter of time before I put down basketball."
"What nonsense are you talking about? Isn't there a famous saying in the basketball circle? It's not that you stop playing when you get old, but you get old if you don't play! You have to cheer up and take us to participate in the competition next year, the year after that, and the year after that. We will always have something
I will stand on the championship podium one day!”
Long Xiaochuan waved his right arm with strong confidence.
Long Zaiyuan looked at him with unconcealed approval in his eyes.
Early the next morning, Long Xiaochuan called his teammates to the room and revealed the entire plan.
Their third game was against the Huaishan County Tea Township representative team. This was the last game of this group and was scheduled in the afternoon.
He still had the whole morning to lay a trap for the coal mining team and Du Qiu.
After learning that Long Xiaochuan's injuries were harmless, everyone was really happy and angry. They laughed and scolded each other for a while, and began to work together and list all the injuries and dangers that Long Xiaochuan might encounter.
What is most likely to happen at the scene is that someone deliberately caused a commotion and took advantage of the chaos to attack. This way, they can avoid being caught and not subject to legal sanctions.
Pan Lei suggested that Long Xiaochuan wear trousers tomorrow: "Tie an iron rod to your leg. Otherwise, the situation will be chaotic and we won't be able to protect you in time, and you will be really hurt."
Long Xiaochuan laughed: "No, I'm not a fool. How can I still stretch out my legs and wait for them to kick me?"
A group of people were discussing lively who would ambush, who would videotape, who would maintain order, who would cooperate with the pursuit and interception, etc.
As for the game itself, there was not much preparation.
Because comparing the results of the previous two days, among the four teams in the group, only the Thunder have won two games in two games.
The Coal Mine Team and the Zhuxi Team each won one victory, and the Chaxiang Team was the weakest. They had already lost two games in a row and were eliminated early. There was no need to fight hard in the last game, so it was not expected to be too difficult.
At noon, the results of the match between the Coal Mine Team and the Zhuxi Team came out. The Zhuxi Team won the second game 58:56, and the Coal Mine Team was eliminated early with one victory in three games.
The situation is becoming clearer. No matter how they win or lose in the afternoon game, Thunder Team and Zhuxi Team will take the top two spots in the group and qualify.
The result of the match only affects the group rankings of the two teams.
Only if the Thunder loses unexpectedly and only scores 30 points in the game can they give up the first place in the group.
is it possible?
Even if Long Xiaochuan can't play, Shi Lang is protected and hidden, and the remaining 9 people go to play against a weak team, can they still not score 30 points?
Therefore, in terms of mobilizing everyone's passion, the task of winning is completely incomparable with the goal of catching the bad guy.
Before the afternoon game, the Thunder team came to the field early to warm up. Everyone was in high spirits. They were not playing seriously, but observing suspicious people on the sidelines.
Long Xiaochuan intentionally wore shorts to sit there and dribble. He could also simply shoot and interact with fans, showing off his health and vitality like a conspicuous bag.
The area around the stadium was already surrounded by informants. Wang Meng and Xing Wei were here, pretending to be ordinary fans and surrounding Long Xiaochuan. As long as any suspicious person rushed towards Long Xiaochuan, they would try their best to stop him.
Everything is ready, just waiting for the prey to walk into the trap, everyone's heartstrings are tense.
The coal mining team has been eliminated early. If they are asked for bounty by Boss Du again, it will be difficult for them not to take risks!
However, after the game started, the surrounding area was in order and everything was calm.
The Thunder team started with Pan Lei, Du Gangnan, Liu Dingding, Yang Yaye and Gao Fu, and they were not much worse than their opponents in terms of strength.
After the entire first quarter, the score was 14:12, and the Thunder team was still leading by 2 points, and had a great chance of winning the game with three wins and qualifying.
But the Thunder players on and off the field were not very happy: "These guys are so calm, why don't they take action?"
Long Xiaochuan couldn't help but murmured to Yu Yan: "Is it possible that I didn't behave openly enough? Didn't I arouse Du Qiu's anger?"
He stood on the sidelines at one point, reminding this, shouting that, and doing enough provocative actions.
Shi Lang also ran to Long Zaiyuan to discuss: "If I don't play, will it make the other party suspicious?"
Long Zaiyuan shook his head: "Then we can't let you get kicked. We can't afford to hurt you."
The game is still going on, and time is passing minute by second. All members of the Thunder team are actively running and cooperating, always maintaining the lead. Yang Yaye and Gao Fu are going crazy, hitting consecutive three-pointers from the outside, making the game enter the garbage early.
time.
Some spectators on the sidelines shouted again, asking for Long Xiaochuan to be replaced.
Long Xiaochuan stood up and looked at it carefully. When he saw that it was an ordinary student, he felt angry and shouted to him: "I have already achieved this score, do I still need to go up?"
The audience was all happy. Some were booing, some were persuading, but there were none who rushed towards Long Xiaochuan!
Until the end of the game, the Thunder entered the quarterfinals with a 22-point lead and did not wait for any malicious damage from the Coal Mine team.
Long Xiaochuan was very depressed: "Something is wrong. Could it be that they paid back the money?"
Yu Yan also guessed: "Maybe Du Qiu didn't ask for the money immediately?"
Wang Meng and others also came over, feeling helpless that today's work was in vain: "Brother, your idea doesn't work."
Long Zaiyuan was calm and calm: "Tomorrow is the off-season. Let's think of other ways. If Du Qiu wants to manipulate the game, he will definitely not want our team to win. He will definitely take action. Everyone has been fighting in the past two days.
Cheer up, Xiaochuan, try to stay in the hotel room and don’t be alone.”
Compared with arresting Du Qiu, he was obviously more worried about his nephew's safety.
Long Xiaochuan disagreed: "I want to lure the snake out of its hole. What's the use of just hiding it?"
Shi Lang didn't play today, and he felt aggrieved: "Huh, what are you trying to do to lure the snake out of its hole? I think you are just trying to scare the snake away. You have arranged such a big battle in advance. I'm not stupid, how can I not notice it?"
What everyone said made sense, but no one hit the mark.
At this time, Du Qiu was paying attention to everything around the arena through a small transparent passerby anchor.
Next to him, the captain of the coal mining team was carrying a bag of cash and was worried and frightened: "Thankfully you have eyes and ears, otherwise my brother would have fallen into Long Xiaochuan's hands today. I'd better return this money to you."
Du Qiu lit up his cigar and sneered: "Keep fifty thousand, and you deserve the rest. Don't get involved in this matter anymore, I will find someone to settle it."