Chapter 2 chapter 2

"What's going on?" Zhe Lang stared at Mei Yue's face, "Have you lost your voice? What happened to your vocal cords?" "Have you caught a cold?" Xu Bei also interjected and asked. She shook her head, then wrote something in the notebook and showed it to the two of them. "I can't answer right now, I'll talk about the details later. 』 Zhe Lang and Xu Bei glanced at each other, and then turned their eyes back to Mei Yue. "What happened to you? Can't talk?" However, Mizuki remained silent and just pointed to the words on the notebook.

"What a weirdo, what happened to you?" Xu Bei said. "Anyway, she doesn't seem to be able to answer here. Let's find a shop where she can talk properly." As soon as Zhe Lang said, Mei Yue frowned and shook her head vigorously. "Don't you want to go to a store that will attract people's attention?" he tried to ask. She nodded emphatically. Xu Bei heaved a sigh of relief. "What are you doing, can't you just go to karaoke?" "Is it okay?" Zhe Lang asked Mei Yue. She tilted her head hesitantly, her slightly wavy hair swaying in the wind.

At this time, Zhe Lang discovered the biggest difference between her and before, that is makeup.The makeup on her face is thicker than before, and it's not so much makeup, it's more like a casual smear of all the cosmetics at hand on her face, and the lipstick is slightly painted on her lips.Compared with her not saying a word, this fact makes Zhe Lang more disturbed. "Otherwise, are you going to my house?" Zhe Lang asked directly. Mizuki raised her head and looked directly into his eyes.Her eyes are asking: can you? "I don't care. How are you, Sugai?" "Well, of course I can." Sugai slightly pulled up the sleeves of his suit jacket and glanced at his watch. "It's so late, won't you bother me? Um... Gao Cang is not at home tonight?"

"She will come back later, don't worry about her." Zhe Lang looked at Mei Yue, "How is it? My house is very close to here." She opened her lips hesitantly, but she didn't make a sound after all, she just nodded embarrassingly. "Okay, that's the decision." Zhe Lang patted Xu Bei on the back. The three decided to take the Marunouchi Line from Shinjuku Sanchome.Before entering the underground tunnel, Sugai called home on his mobile phone, saying that he had met his college team manager and that he was going to Nishiwaki's house later.After speaking, he handed the phone to Zhe Lang.

"My wife and lord told you to answer the phone." "me?" "Yeah." Xu Bei pursed his lower lip and nodded. Zhe Lang answered the phone and said hello.He met Xu Bei's wife and attended their wedding banquet.She is a woman with a long face and Japanese features. Xu Bei's wife asked, "Would it be disturbing to come to the house so late?" Zhe Lang replied, "No, please don't worry about it." "Is your wife being polite, or is she worried that her husband is messing around outside?" "How could I mess around outside? She was just worried that I would go home after drinking outside."

"What's the point of coming home after drinking out? It's not Ginza." "You can't say that. My child is going to primary school, and my wife is getting stricter. Besides, I have a loan to pay." At the end of last year, Sugai bought an apartment in Ogikubo. "It's better for your family, Gao Cang is also working." "Every family has scriptures that are difficult to recite." When the three of them stepped down the stairs of the subway, Mizuki put on her sunglasses.Zhe Lang thought to himself, why do he still wear sunglasses at such a late hour?But he pressed no questions.

The Marunouchi line was very crowded, the three of them were dispersed by the crowd in the carriage, and Sugai was pushed to a distance alone.Zhe Lang and Mei Yue were pushed to the other door together.He made Mizuki stand by the door, standing face to face with her, feeling like a linebacker. Mizuki avoided eye contact with him and kept looking at her feet.Zhe Lang saw her long eyelashes from the gap between her sunglasses and her face, as if she hadn't applied mascara. In the light of the car, the poor makeup on her face was particularly obvious, and the foundation was unevenly applied.Her skin is rather rough, but she doesn't hide it.

While the tram was moving, Zhe Lang found that although she had put on heavy makeup on her face, she didn't emit any fragrance.Not only that, Zhe Lang even smelled the smell of sweat and sweat. Zhe Lang thought of something else from the smell of sweat.In the dark corridor, a broken door was left open, with a faded sign on it, and the words "American Football Club" on the sign were barely visible. On the other side of the door was a room full of dust, sweat, and mold. A young woman stands in the middle of a room strewn with armor and helmets, the right half of her body illuminated by sunlight streaming in through a window that hasn't been cleaned in years.

"I understand the mood of QB." She, Mizuki Hiura, said. The day after the finals, there was no one else in the club office except Zhe Lang and her.Even so, the room was still filled with the heat from the players. "If you lose the game, you lose. There is nothing wrong with QB." Mizuki continued, nodding her head slowly.At that time, she called Zhelang QB.Of course, QB refers to the quarterback (Quarter Back). "I was responsible for the loss." Zhe Lang responded, "Because of me, I couldn't win the championship." Then, he sighed dramatically.

Nineteen to fourteen, a five-point loss.If the touchdown is successful, that's it ①. Everyone said that their team was already at a disadvantage, and Zhe Lang and the others were already mentally prepared.The hostile defense is impenetrable. In contrast, the speed of the running back Nakao is the strongest weapon of Zhe Lang's team.Once Nakao is marked to death by the enemy team, the probability of winning is very slim. So they decided to bet their odds on the pass attack by surprise, in order to deal with the opponent team's tactics of focusing their defense on Nakao.Zhe Lang and the others added fake moves, in other words, they only "pretended" to pass the ball to the middle tail.And Nakao "pretended" to catch the ball and ran like normal.Zhelang repeatedly passed the ball to Matsuzaki or Hayata while the opponent's defense was being swayed by Nakao's feint.The hostile team saw that the Imperial University team rarely passed the ball in this season's game, but they did not expect that Zhe Lang and the others would use their tricks and fight back.They completely forgot that Nishiwaki Zhelang was the first and second long-distance shooting quarterback in the league until the previous season.

However, tactics are always seen through.In the second half, the rivalry was unmoved by Zerang and Nakao's feints.At the time of the eight-second countdown... Only one more shot was left, eighteen yards from the goal line. Zhe Lang held the tied ball in his right hand, strode back, looking for the target of the pass.The hostile defensive line is advancing like a beast, and the defensive teammates fight to stop them.The quarterback has little time left, and sooner or later the opposing blocker will break through the barrier and physically charge Zerang.If you get caught with the ball, it's game over. Zhe Lang threw the ball.The ball spiraled and flew towards Matsuzaki.Matsuzaki ran desperately to catch the ball. If his arm had been ten centimeters longer, he would have passed the ball.But it was the opponent's defender who caught the ball.At that moment, the hostile players showed ecstatic emotions with their whole bodies, while the Teito University team lowered their heads in disappointment.When Zhe Lang watched the video afterwards, he realized that winger Hayata was unguarded at the time. "It's all my fault." Zhe Lang repeated this sentence in the club office where the two were alone. "That's not the case, QB has tried his best." Mei Yue picked up the ball at his feet and threw it at him, and Zhe Lang puffed up his chest to catch the unexpectedly strong ball.She continued: "Cheer up!" Zhe Lang stared at the ball Miyue threw, and then looked at Miyue.She bit her lower lip, retracted her jaw, and stared at him slightly, her eyes were bloodshot. After that, Zhe Lang never talked to her about that game again.At the annual gathering after graduation, she only attended the first three times, and never showed up afterwards. The three of them got off at Higashi Kouenji Station, and Zhe Lang's apartment was a few minutes away from the station.Although the house with two bedrooms and one living room is rented, it has only been completed for three years. The structure is stable, and the door will automatically lock.Every time it was mentioned that the house was rented, the other party would say: "It would be more cost-effective to buy it." But Zhe Lang never discussed this matter with Risako. The three of them took the elevator to the sixth floor.The households are arranged in a ㄇ shape, and the innermost household is Zhelang's home.Zhe Lang opened the door, and the room was pitch black.He lit the lamp and said to the two, "Come in." "The furniture and decorations are very high-end, do sports reporters make so much money?" Xu Bei said as soon as he stepped into the living room, looking around. "Wherever it is high-end, it is all ordinary goods." "Come on, it's nothing like that, I understand a little bit." Xu Bei carefully admired the exotic tableware lined up in the sideboard.Almost all of the sideboards are collections that Risako bought from abroad. Collecting tableware is her hobby. "It doesn't matter if you're high or not, just sit down first." "That's right." Xu Bei sat on the leather sofa, stroking the armrest with his hand, "Good things really have a different touch." The loveseat and the three-seater sofa are arranged at right angles.Xu Bei chose the three-seater sofa, and Zhe Lang sat down beside him, but Mei Yue remained standing. "What's wrong with you? Sit down." Zhe Lang said, pointing to the love seat. Mizuki didn't respond, and took out the small notebook from earlier. "It's a written conversation again..." Xu Bei murmured. With a solemn expression, she wrote something in the notebook and handed it to Zhe Lang.The notebook says, "Where's the restroom?" 』 "After going out of the corridor, the second door." Mizuki left the living room with her gym bag.Maybe she is going to wash her face, Zhe Lang thought, if only she could remove the rough makeup on her face. "She doesn't seem to be able to speak. Could it be that there is something wrong with her vocal cords?" Xu Bei tilted her head with a puzzled look on her face. "Would she have stayed there to mean she was waiting for us outside the store? Why didn't she go in?" "Probably because I don't want to see other people." "why?" "I don't know, I just can't figure it out..." Xu Bei scratched his head. Zhe Lang walked into the bar kitchen, poured water into the coffee machine, and installed filter paper. There was the sound of the bathroom door opening, and Mizuki seemed to come out.Zhe Lang poured the Spanish blend coffee into the paper filter, turned on the coffee machine, opened the door of the sideboard, took out the mug and put it on the cooking table. Zhe Lang turned his back to the living room, but could feel Meiyue walking into the living room. "Huh... who are you?" Xu Bei said, unable to speak.Mizuki didn't answer. Zhe Lang thought to himself, what's wrong?Step away from the kitchen. In front of the living room door, stood a short, strange man.Wearing a black shirt and jeans, he slowly turned his head to Zhe Lang. who are you?Zhe Lang almost asked aloud.But before asking questions, he found that the man's facial features were exactly the same as Mizuki's.The person standing in front of her had short hair and had completely removed her makeup. It was Mizuki. Xu Bei got up from the sofa, half squatted, with his mouth half open, and his eyes widened.Zhe Lang was so surprised that he couldn't speak, but he thought in his mind - I must have shown the same expression. Meiyue looked at the faces of the two of them in turn, the corners of her mouth were raised slightly, as if she was smiling.She seemed to be sneering at the dumbfounded two people, but also seemed to be laughing at her own appearance. Zhe Lang felt that she took a breath, but he held his breath instead. "Long time no see, QB." Mizuki finally made a sound. But it was a man's voice. -------------------------------- Note: