Chapter 88 three seconds

When Mou Jisheng was in Maqiao, he was very energetic and even played basketball after work.When the educated youths were too tired to play, he took a few local youngsters to play, and sometimes ran a few miles to the middle school in the commune to play until midnight, and the moonlight shook with a racket. He was very strict with his students. Sometimes when he blew his whistle, he would point to one of them and say, "Tie your pants up!" He's a referee and coach who cares about his pants. He taught his students all the toughest rules on the court, including the "three seconds."Before that, Ma Qiao's youngsters also played ball, but there were fewer rules. They could dribble the ball twice, and they could dribble away in serious cases, but they were not allowed to hit anyone.Mou trained his students with the standard of the provincial first-class team and became a disseminator of the word "three seconds".Many years later, when I revisited Maqiao, the village already had a private culture room and half a basketball court, and some young people were shouting and playing, all of whom were faces I was very unfamiliar with.The only thing that feels familiar is their endless "three seconds" sound, which makes my heart thump.

These young people don't know what an educated youth is.For those who came to the village a long time ago and stayed in the village for only a few years, and for the Yibian people who lived in the village and didn't know much about Maqiao, they were ignorant, and there was no need to express interest.I walk the whole village.Maqiao did not leave any traces of our past, not even a familiar scratch on the earthen wall.Some of the old people I can vaguely remember have nowhere to be found, and passed away one after another last year or the year before or the year before or the year before.They caused Maqiao to sink piece by piece in my memory, and it was about to disappear completely.I used to live here for six years.Now, six years are gone, leaving only the old thing, that is "three seconds" - although its meaning has changed, in my observation, "three seconds" is very important for the young players on the court now. For us, it not only means staying in the penalty area for more than three seconds, but also means all foul actions such as hitting the basket, pushing people, dribbling away, etc. Three seconds is a synonym for foul.This must have been something that Mou Jisheng never expected back then.