"Then why are you the captain?" Kou Chen asked.

"I can get the ball in your hand, but you can't touch my ball." Huo Ran took the out-of-bounds ball thrown by the audience in the stands and prepared to serve from the sideline.

Kou Chen quickly touched the ball: "Look."

Huo Ran looked at him, a little confused.

"I met him." Kou Chen whispered.

"...Don't make me laugh," Huo Ran curled up the corners of his mouth, suppressed his smile, and lowered his voice, "Pass the ball back to me, and you rush to the baseline for a three-pointer."

"Yeah." Kou Chen glanced at the scoreboard. They were four points behind.

Huo Ran bounced the ball over, Kou Chen took the ball, and someone from the other side immediately came over to intercept it.

Kou Chen dribbled the ball towards the midline, glanced at Huo Ran, and saw that Huo Ran had already passed the two opponents and closed the door to defend. He stretched out his arms and turned his palms back.

He immediately rushed forward, then paused. Before the person guarding him could regain his focus, he passed the ball past his hand and said, "Here we come!"

Huo Ran tilted his head slightly, caught the ball with his hand, and rushed forward with the ball without any pause. Kou Chen quickly followed up and rushed straight to the baseline from the right sideline.

This kind of tacit cooperation in the chaos made him suddenly excited when he caught the ball returned by Huo Ran on the baseline. He shook his hand and the ball missed a little and bounced off the edge of the basket.

"Fuck!" he cursed.

Xiaoxiao grabbed the rebound and passed it to Lao Liu, who passed the ball to him again.

At this time, the opportunity for a three-pointer had been missed, and the opponent's defense was in place. Kou Chen suddenly felt depressed.

"Shoot!" Huo Ran didn't know when he cut to the opposite side of him, and together with Lao Luo, he withstood the opponent's man.

This opportunity to take a shot could only last for two seconds at most. Kou Chen took off without hesitation, and the ball drew an arc almost parallel to the backboard and fell into the basket.

"Holy shit," Lao Luo shouted, "I can get in here."

Kou Chen raised his eyebrows but said nothing.

"Damn," Huo Ran smiled and ran past him, "My mental quality is so damn good."

Midway through the second half, a few more people showed up, but they couldn't make up enough people for two stadiums, so Huo Ran and Kou Chen took their place and sat in the stands to rest.

"How is it?" Kou Chen sat next to Huo Ran.

"What?" Huo Ran was drinking water.

Kou Chen put his arm on his shoulder, hugged him, and whispered: "I played well, didn't I? Captain."

"Well," Huo Ran handed him the water, "Would you like to drink it?"

"Is that all it takes?" Kou Chen took the bottle and took two sips.

"Awesome." Huo Ran smiled and looked at the people on the court.

Kou Chen said nothing and stared at his side face.

"What's wrong?" Huo Ran glanced at him.

"You have a little layer of fuzz on your face," Kou Chen said.

"...You have it on your face too." Huo Ran turned around and looked at him, "Who doesn't have it on their face?"

"Guo Zijian is not like that. He has too many acne on his face." Kou Chen took out his phone and took a picture of Huo Ran's face, "Do I have any on my face? Look, is it like this?"

"Are you childish? Why are you looking at the little fuzz on your face when you are watching the game?" Huo Ran glanced at his own face on the screen, "Yes, you also have such little fuzz."

Kou Chen laughed: "Am I so cute?"

"...Yes." Huo Ran glanced at him.

"Probably," Kou Chen looked at his phone, "You're the only one who said I'm cute."

"You are usually too cool and handsome," Huo Ran said, "others don't notice how cute you are."

"Fuck," Kou Chen glared at him, "You are so good at talking."

"There's no way," Huo Ran said, "Emotional intelligence is just that high."

Kou Chen sat across the stands, leaning against him, laughing to himself for a long time.

After playing ball, Huo Ran didn't go home, but went directly to Kou Chen's house.

Kou's father and Kou Xiao were not at home, only Kou's mother was there. When she saw them coming back, she stood up immediately: "I'm going to your second aunt's house."

"What for?" Kou Chen asked and whistled again, "Handsome——"

Shuaishuai ran down the stairs on the second floor. Halfway there, he was so excited that he jumped over the railing. Then he rolled over and skidded on the ground several times before he got up.

Huo Ran hugged it and rubbed his head vigorously.

"She asked the tailor to come to her house to make clothes today. I went over to take measurements and make a coat," Kou's mother said. "Aunt Wang went shopping for groceries. She will cook whatever you want to eat later. I ate it at the second aunt's place."

."

"Oh." Kou Chen nodded.

"You two should take a shower quickly so you don't catch a cold from the sweat." Kou's mother said and went out.

Huo Ran was stunned: "How can she go there? It's very foggy outside."

"My second aunt's house is just ahead, on the other side of Building 8. It's a two-minute walk." Kou Chen put his arm around his shoulder from behind and pushed him toward the stairs. "Here, I'll show you my room.

"

Kou Chen's room is quite large, and it is much tidier than Huo Ran's room. There are no spare parts or piles of tools.

The main decoration is very simple, including a bed, a bedside table, a wardrobe, a floor lamp, a coffee table and a bean bag under the lamp, and a notebook beside it.

Shuai Shuai followed him into the house, jumped onto Kou Chen's bed and lay down.

"Go down." Kou Chen said.

Shuaishuai stood up and jumped out of bed obediently, then jumped back on again a second later.

"Not stupid at all." Huo Ran said with a smile.

Kou Chen pounced on Shuaishuai, buried his face in his fur and smelled it: "Well, it still smells good. You can lie down for five minutes."

"Can you play?" Huo Ran picked up a Rubik's Cube on the bedside table.

"Can you do it?" Kou Chen turned over and lay down, resting his pillow on Shuai Shuai.

"I can play with one side," Huo Ran slowly turned the Rubik's Cube. "When I was a child, I could play with one side. If I want six sides, I can take it apart and press it back again."

"Throw it over." Kou Chen stretched out his hand.

Huo Ran threw the Rubik's Cube over.

Kou Chen caught the Rubik's Cube with one hand and began to move it with his fingers.

"Are you so awesome?" Huo Ran looked at him, "Five seconds with one hand?"

"Fuck you," Kou Chen laughed, "You are bragging for me, I'm not pretending."

"Then..." Before Huo Ran could finish his words, Kou Chen shook the Rubik's Cube at him. He took it and looked at it, "It's better than me."

"It will take at least forty or fifty seconds for everything to be reset," Kou Chen sat up, "I'll give you a show."

"Yeah." Huo Ran handed the Rubik's Cube back to him and stared at his hand.

Kou Chen disrupted the Rubik's Cube, looked around in circles, then cleared his throat and muttered in a low voice: "Biu~Start."

Huo Ran held back and did not laugh out loud.

Kou Chen's fingers are quite long, especially when he turns the Rubik's Cube, swish, swish, swish, swish.

Judging from the fact that it took Huo Ran one minute to play one-sided, his speed was considered very fast. Huo Ran estimated the seconds in his mind, and it was probably a little more than thirty seconds.

"You can continue to practice at this speed until you can compete." Huo Ran said.

"I'm not interested," Kou Chen lay back on Shuaishuai and patted the bed next to him, "I've been playing this for many years. I've been playing since I was a child and now, at this speed, I can't even compete."

Huo Ran took a look at Shuai Shuai's big, fluffy dog ​​belly, which he had always wanted to experience. After Kou Chen made room for him, he lay down next to Kou Chen and carefully pillowed his head on Shuai Shuai's.

On the belly.

"Are you comfortable?" Kou Chen asked.

"Yeah." Huo Ran responded. When Shuai Shuai gasped, his head would slightly move up and down. It felt very strange.

"When I was a child, I liked to lie down like this, doing nothing, not reading, studying, or practicing the piano..." Kou Chen raised his hand, disrupted the Rubik's Cube again, and then quickly turned it with his fingers.

"Biu~ Start," Huo Ran whispered the order for him when he started to reset for the third time, "I thought you were fine, so I went out to fight with the children."

"You can play, but you can't play all the time," Kou Chen said while spinning the Rubik's Cube. "Don't you have to rest when you're tired?"

Huo Ran laughed, and then sighed after a long time.

Kou Chen said nothing, and turned the Rubik's Cube again and again. Huoran looked at his hands, and there was a sense of tranquility that he only felt when he was alone in the suburbs.

The author has something to say: We will continue tomorrow. The author, who was half cold to death due to freezing rain today, huddled next to the heater and said shakily.
Chapter completed!