“Impossible,” Fang Yuzhe guaranteed. “My job is super simple.”
“Anyone can do it.”
“Really?”
“How much are you earning now?”
“Eight hundred.”
“No way, working so hard for just eight hundred? I’ll give you two thousand, and there’s a bonus if you do well!”
“Two thousand!” Xia Yuluo quickly calculated in her mind – she could earn her mother’s medical expenses in just a year!
“Do you want to try?”
“Of course!”
Fang Yuzhe smiled mischievously, “What if I sell you?”
Yuluo laughed and shook her head, “You won’t. You’re not that kind of person.”
“Oh right!” He momentarily forgot, “Of course I won’t. I’m very kind!”
“Okay.” Xia Yuluo was especially happy. This was the first time she could watch them play basketball from such a close distance; she felt so excited!
Everyone was training hard, first practicing passing, coordination, and dunking, then playing a small game, and then taking turns practicing shooting.
“Xia Yuluo, help pick up the balls!” Fang Yuzhe called to her.
“Can I join in?” Yuluo stood up from the stone steps, picked up a blue ball that had rolled right in front of her, and threw it back; it was so much fun!
Basketballs flew over one after another, and she picked them up with great enthusiasm. In a short while, she was out of breath and sweating.
“Can you still handle it?” Those boys asked her laughingly.
“No problem!
Yuluo looked up with a bright smile, her short hair was dyed golden by the sunset, her eyes curved like crescents, sparkling with a pure, childlike glow.
One boy muttered “so cool” under his breath, and was immediately hit in the head with a ball by Fang Yuzhe.
After practicing for a while longer, the team captain called it a day, everyone threw the balls into a plastic frame, and two boys carried them into the teaching building.
“Let’s go eat,” Fang Yuzhe wiped his sweat, and Yuluo opened a bottle of mineral water and handed it to him.
“If I were a boy, I’d join your basketball team!” She was having too much fun.
The boys around her laughed, “You don’t qualify, you’re too short!” He used his hand to measure her height, barely reaching his shoulder.
“Miyagi Ryota is short too!” She argued.
