Chapter 11 110,000 yuan a pair of spikes

When I was in junior high school, I didn't hesitate to join the baseball team.Almost all of my friends who were on the same team in elementary school also became members of the baseball team.At that time, in the baseball team, there were fifteen students in the third grade of junior high school, and fifteen in the second grade. Because I ran fast, even though I was in the first grade, I was immediately selected as a regular player.At this time, the "running" exercise that my grandmother suggested to me had a great effect. The baseball team in middle school is very formal, and its quality and quantity are not comparable to the team organized by myself in elementary school.

I'm getting more and more obsessed with baseball. At this time, grandma also changed.In the past, no matter what I did, she pretended not to know, but now she often came to watch me practice.But she still has some concerns, she won't come here openly, even if she comes, she will hide in the dark and watch me practice secretly. "Hey, here she is." "Ok, I know." Every time my teammates would inform me quietly, since my grandma was so worried, I had no choice but to pretend not to notice. As soon as I got home one day, my grandmother rushed out and said to me:

"You played really well today!" I hit a bye home run that day. Although I knew she had gone to see it, I pretended to be stupid and asked: "Huh? How do you know?" Grandma just laughed awkwardly. After this kind of thing happened several times, my grandma gradually cheered me up loudly during the ball game. "Zhaoguang, here is a big one!" Only at this time, my grandmother, who usually has a good temperament, will cheer for me loudly regardless of her image.For me, who is used to not having family to watch the game, it is really happy and a little embarrassing.

It's fun to be an official player, but it costs money in many ways.This is different from organizing our own baseball team, practice uniforms and equipment are necessary. Although my grandma washes my practice clothes by the river every day, my body will grow, and only one set is obviously not enough. "I'm going to start running tomorrow morning." I lied several times and sneaked off to work in the central market around three in the morning.The only jobs that middle school students can do are physical labor such as moving goods and cleaning. By the time I finish work at eight or nine o'clock, I am already exhausted and paralyzed.Of course I didn't go to class, I went home and slept until three o'clock in the afternoon before going to practice.

At that time, my grandmother and I slept in different rooms.I don't think she noticed, but my ball equipment and practice clothes have increased without knowing it, and she may be pretending not to see it. At that time, many children did not go to school in order to help the family. "I haven't seen Ashihara recently." "Ah, he seems to be helping out in the family's ironworks." Such conversations are commonplace. Now it seems that cutting school to work will be bad, but it was not the case at the time. When I was a sophomore, the summer baseball game ended, the juniors left, and I became captain of the baseball team.On the day I was elected captain of the baseball team, at dinner, I said to my grandmother:

"I'm going to be captain." When grandma heard this, she stood up suddenly, opened her precious cabinet, and took out ten thousand yuan bills. "Zhaoguang, I'm going to buy a pair of spiked shoes." After speaking, he strode out the door. I didn't have spikes at the time, so I always wore normal sneakers. But it was past seven o'clock in the evening. "Grandma, even if you want to buy it, the store is closed." I chased after grandma and said. "It doesn't matter, the captain must wear spikes." Grandma doesn't listen to me.

It was already 7:30 when we arrived at the only sporting goods store nearby, and the boss was about to close, and hurriedly put the leather shoes and straw sandals displayed at the store entrance into the store.Grandma shouted desperately: "Give me the most expensive spikes!" "what?" "Give me the most expensive spikes!" She didn't mention the color and size, but only said "the most expensive". The boss was a little surprised, but quickly figured out what grandma meant. "well." He went into the store and took out the high-end spikes.

"This one, two thousand two hundred and fifty yuan." After the boss finished speaking, grandma seemed to have misunderstood what he meant. "Why does this kind of thing cost 10,000 yuan!" He said and handed out the 10,000 yuan banknote that he held tightly in his hand. When the boss saw the 10,000 yuan bill in front of him, he was startled and said in confusion: "No, not so much." Maybe grandma hasn't used ten thousand yuan bills for a long time, she is both excited and nervous. Nevertheless, I was very excited to have spikes suddenly and unexpectedly.I was so happy that I looked and looked, touched and touched, and put it next to my pillow when I slept.When I went to school the next day, I went out wearing spiked shoes.When I arrived at the school gate, I shook off the mud, changed into the indoor shoes worn in the school, and brought the spiked shoes into the classroom.The first class is math, I put the spikes on the table.

"Tokyo, what's wrong?" "It's nothing, it's a new one." The classmates asked me, and I proudly picked up the brand new spikes to show them. "Tokunaga, what's that?" "The new spikes, aren't they good?" When the teacher asked me, I answered proudly. For physics and chemistry in the second section, and world history in the third section, I put the spikes on the table and waited for the teacher to ask me.I think at least two or three days of doing this. These are my first pair of spikes and I'm really happy, there's no other way!

The only things I can show off when I am so poor are crayons and these spikes. Soccer may be more popular now, but at the time, baseball was the most popular sport.Moreover, the baseball team of our Chengnan Middle School is a well-known strong team in the county. After I became the captain, I immediately became a man of the school. No exaggeration.Not to mention those in the same grade, many girls who were a grade lower than me or a grade higher than me, and even girls from other schools, gave me gifts or wrote me letters. The girl handed me the letter coyly and said: "Please read it." Or gave me a towel embroidered with letters and said: "For your practice." The scene, as soon as the locker was opened, a pile of letters fell out.

It's not that I don't like girls' admiration, it's just that I'm busy practicing, and there is no girly atmosphere around me.And the friendship that boys give me is more grateful than the sweet words that girls give me.They probably know that my family is poor, so they will give me a lot of things, and they are very kind to me.Mr. Nanli is the son of a peasant family with the largest family business in our area. One day he suddenly asked me: "Do you like rice cakes?" "Ok." "We have a lot at home, and I'll bring them to you tomorrow." Nanli smiled and went back. The teacher-student discussion time the next morning suddenly had to check the schoolbag. "Ah, this knife is confiscated." "You still have a lighter?" Strict checks are carried out to Nanri. "what is this?" The teacher's surprised voice resounded in the classroom, and Nanli's schoolbag contained a lot of rice cakes. Nanli said loudly, "It's rice cakes." "I know it's rice cakes. I'm not saying it's bad to bring rice cakes, but where are your textbooks?" Nanli said he would bring me rice cakes, but he actually brought me a schoolbag full of them. In addition, Nanli often gave me potatoes and onions. I was really unlucky, and I encountered schoolbag inspection again.The teacher saw a lot of potatoes and onions poured out of the schoolbag, and of course he was more angry than last time. "It's rice cakes and potatoes, what are you doing at school?" I thought it was because of me that the teacher had a bad impression of him, so I shrank away guiltily, but Nanli grinned. "Tokunaga said he had never seen potatoes and onions, so I brought them to him." But the teacher is also unambiguous. "To show him, one of each is enough." I thought Nanli would say goodbye, but he replied like this: "Tokunaga said he wanted to see all kinds of potatoes and onions. Sensei, potatoes and onions really have various forms." As expected of a peasant boy, even the teacher could only nod with a wry smile, and didn't make trouble anymore. There is also a kind Hashiguchi-kun who is so kind that I will never forget.His family owns a laundromat, he said: "Baseball captains can't be sloppy." Every Saturday night, he sneaks my uniform into the store's mountain of deliveries.In this way, on Sunday night, my uniform looked like new. There was even a photo of me among the female middle school students in the prefecture at that time, and it was probably spread from Hashiguchi. Even a baseball captain who wears a rumpled uniform all day because he's poor, girls don't talk to me.