I have retired

The wide Volvo glides quietly and at high speed along the B City Airport. In the car, Ye Xiu sat in the passenger seat, and Ye Qiu, who was driving next to him, did not look at anyone, each silent and did not say a word.

Ye Xiu leaned his head slightly on the headrest, closed his eyes, held the cigarette box in his right hand, and the five fingers of his left hand hung on his legs, and from time to time he quickly knocked a round. Ye Qiu held the steering wheel in one hand, and played aimlessly with a knob with the other. With his movements, the radio in the car was played from light music to Shan Tianfang's commentary, and after changing several stations in a row, a clear female voice suddenly sounded:

"Ye Xiu, the captain of the Xingxin team, announced his retirement-" With a "click"

, the radio was turned off casually. The quiet ventilation of the air conditioner filled the small space in the car, and for a while, Ye Qiu finally couldn't help but turn his head to look at his own brother, the tip of his tongue against his palate, and sighed very loudly:

"I said brother, you just brought such something back?" I also drove a big car out to pull my luggage, and as a result, it was just a small bag-" Just

like that, the backpack is not yet full. The air fell lightly, as if only supporting a hard object, thrown onto the back seat, very light, very light. In this way, it is not like a wanderer returning from a long distance, but temporarily going home to live for a few days.

"You're light with a keyboard and mouse, you!"

"Where, is there a login machine?"

Ye Xiu replied without thinking. Ye Qiu stammered: "Brother, aren't you!" Don't bring a change of clothes?

"Isn't everything else available online?" Ye Xiu still didn't open his eyes, only followed the sound to the side in the direction of his younger brother, and his tone was light and slightly smiling, "It's you, it's been a good lately." He casually patted the leather seat under him, "Bought a new car?"

"Mom bought it!" Ye Qiu replied angrily. After a pause, he added in a low voice: "I bought it in May last year." At the end of May, on the third day of our birthday.

Ye Xiu was silent. He opened his eyes slightly, looked out the window at the shadows of the trees flying by in fascination, and quickly calculated a round in his heart: At the end of May last year, wouldn't that be the day he won the challenge and returned to the league with excitement?

Thinking of this, Ye Xiu couldn't help but raise his eyebrows and smile:

"Yo, isn't that mother going to praise me to death?"

This smile was bright, and his tone was relaxed and lazy, which was clearly his usual appearance of not caring. Ye Qiu breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, followed closely, and couldn't bear to give him a blank look.

"It's true that Mom scolded you to death! ——I have been nagging you at home for the past few days, and this kind of contract will be signed, which is simply insulting to her prestige. Also, if you don't want to bear it yourself, she can send a student out casually and sue Jiashi bankruptcy in minutes!

"Old mother is mighty and domineering-" Ye Xiu shrugged. Knowing that this is indeed a fact, as the first generation of law students to resume the college entrance examination in 77, among my mother's students, only the barristers who are young and strong and are in the year of fighting can also form a platoon when they stand out. As for the next generation of apprentices and grandchildren, adding up a regiment is also less to say.

This lineup went out to bully Tao Xuan... Ahem.

That's when the phone rang. Ye Xiu was dazed for a moment, and then he slapped the cigarette box on the driver's platform under his brother's disdainful gaze, and hurriedly flipped his mobile phone up and down. The ringing rang patiently more than ten times, Ye Xiukan searched out his mobile phone and hurriedly picked it up: "Hello?

"Ye Xiu? I'm Chen Guo. The female voice coming from the phone was urgent and fast, crackling, and poured straight into Ye Qiu's ears in the next seat. Out of politeness, he had to force himself to look away and focus on the distant pavement.

Ye Xiu held the mobile phone in his right hand to his ear, propped his elbows on the window, and leaned back in his seat without speaking. It wasn't until the silence gradually spread like a suffocation, and then flowed from the passenger seat to the other end of the phone, and after a while, it was broken by a hurried shout:

"Hey? Hey, hey, hey?

"Hostess. - I'm retired.

Ye Qiu couldn't help but glance sideways at him. In the afterlight, Ye Xiu's face was not the relaxed and cynical he was used to, but a rare seriousness, and even a little imperceptible gloom. However, those eyes were snowy, like a new blade, cold and awe-inspiring, but only a flash, and then disappeared in the sheath.

The other side is still shouting something. It seems to argue, and it seems to persuade. Ye Xiu listened silently, for a long time, lowered his eyes, and repeated again:

"Boss lady, I'm retired."

His voice was quiet and firm, very different from his usual fluttering, lazy tone, his tone was faintly helpless, but it carried the strength that could not be returned. The voice on the other side immediately lowered, muttered a few words in a low voice, and finally came out a reluctant "Okay".

"Uh-huh, please. Help me turn them down. Ye Xiu chatted casually again, hung up the phone, leaned back into the chair, closed his eyes and let out a long breath. Ye Qiuzhi waited until he reopened his eyes before asking, "Looking for you back?"

"No—they knew I was retired. It's a World Invitational thing.

"The World Invitational?"

"Glory World Invitational. of the first session. Sixteen countries, kicking off in Zurich.

A long brake sound. In a moment, the car had stopped on the side of the road, Ye Qiu let go of the steering wheel, half-turned and looked at Ye Xiu fixedly:

"Brother, if you want to go, I'll tell you at home——" "

No need." Contrary to his solemnity, Ye Xiu looked like he didn't care. He waved his hand, as if he had swept all the heavy and reluctant things out of the window just now, and all that remained was a fluttering smile on his lips:

"Say I'm retired!"

If you return to Ye's home from the airport, the most convenient thing is to enter the city along the airport expressway, turn right to the North Fourth Ring Road, and turn right to Zhongguancun North Street. Ye Qiu originally estimated that he would be home in a maximum of an hour, but as a result, less than twenty minutes after leaving the airport, he lamented - there was a traffic jam.

"Oh, it's okay," Ye Xiu said emotionally, "Isn't it common for high-speed traffic jams at airports. We come to Beijing twice a year — oh, three times last year, and there was always one time to block.

"Stayed for more than a month, you mean only once?" Ye Qiu complained: "Moreover, for such a long time, your home has not returned once!"

"Sorry, I'm talking about last season..."

"... Fight glory so that the timeline messes up you! The

two brothers bickered without nutrition, spewing trash talk at each other as they slowly moved forward along the traffic. During this period, Ye Xiu received two more calls, one was still from Chen Guo, and Ye Qiu did not listen carefully, only knowing that Ye Xiu promised her to give her mobile phone number to others; The second was silent almost from beginning to end, facing the endless persuasion, persuasion, fact-making, reasoning on the other end of the phone, only to repeat gently but firmly at the end: "I am retired."

He quietly hung up the phone, looked out the window, and took a deep breath. When he turned his face again, his smile was still bright:

"When will you be home?" I am hungry!

"--Brother Bastard, you won't be there! You didn't eat a bite on the plane?! After

struggling on the airport highway for a full hour and a half, the car finally turned onto the North Fifth Ring Road. Ye Qiu breathed a sigh of relief, and the smile on his face was a little more, and just turned his head to speak, Ye Xiu's mobile phone rang again.

"Hello? ... It's me. ... Hello. ......... I'm not going. I retired.

"How could you not !!!!" The screams in the phone were almost therePierced Ye Qiu's eardrums - probably because Ye Xiu couldn't bear it, moved the phone farther away, so that the voice in the mobile phone came out without hindrance:

"You are Ye Shen!!!!"

You are Ye Shen. Listening to such a scream, Ye Qiu turned his head and glanced at his brother again—and this time, even the seriousness and gloom just now disappeared, Ye Xiu stared motionlessly ahead, his lips pursed into a straight line, and his tight cheeks could not see the slightest expression. It took a moment before he twitched his lips and spat out softly and heavily:

"Sorry. I really retired.

"You also said last time that you were retired!" An even more excited rebuttal came from the phone: "But you came back immediately!" Start from scratch, organize a new team, one and a half years, return to the professional circle, and another year, win the championship! No one loves glory more than you! How could you refuse, how could you not even participate in the World Invitational Tournament! Are you Ye Shen!!!! The

voice grew sharper, more urgent, and finally, erupted into a broken sob. Ye Xiu listened silently, listened, expressionless, but the cigarette box in his hand had been clenched into a ball at some point. It took a while for the other side to calm down, sucked his nose a few times, and finally suppressed his tone to a normal level: "I'm sorry-" The voice was still a little shaky, and as the statement continued, it finally became more and more normal:

"I gaffed...

I..."

Another long quiet listening. Then, Ye Xiu closed his eyes and spoke again:

"I'm sorry."

"I'm

sorry."

"... Good. Good bye.

He closed the thread. Then, facing his brother's curious gaze, he replied lightly:

"The General Bureau of Athletics called."

"Of the General Administration of Athletics? Just this quality? Ye Qiu's face was full of distrust, "Crying as he spoke?

"It just so happens to be a fan of brother..." Ye Xiu spread his hands, "There is no way to run into it wherever you go, alas, who makes brother have more fans..."

"I'll go to the old brother, you can die if you don't show off - bastard brother, don't smoke in the car!"