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Chapter 3 Playing Ball Alone
He was placed high hopes by his father, although he failed to bring the Chinese team the sure-win Long Bisheng, in this army compound, he grew up day by day.

XJ’s life is relatively poor, but for Long Bisheng, who lives in the military compound of the Agricultural Reclamation Corps, although living here is not as good as his peers in big cities, he can enjoy new toys and get in touch with new things in advance, but compared with big cities, he can find more fun in this vast and infinite grassland.

Maybe it's because of his father's good genes. Xiaolong will grow up very fast. For example, if he was born in a big city, he would definitely be like Yao Ming when he was born. The last time the newspaper...

However, compared with Yao Ming, Long Bisheng is still a little bit behind. For example, Yao Ming was over 1.2 meters tall when he was four years old, and he had to buy a full ticket when he was riding a bus. Long Bisheng was a little shorter than 1.2 meters when he was four years old. However, every time his mother took him to WLMQ to take a bus, he always argued with the conductor about whether he should buy a full ticket.

Xiaolong Bisheng has a big appetite. In Long Yuyun's words: "If I hadn't been in the army and had the army's food to support you, I would have been poor by you!" At this time, Yin Xiuping would always add: "It's better to be in the army!"

Among the children in the army compound, Long Bisheng is the tallest one, but he has never become the king of children in the army compound, because unlike his father's tough temper, Long Bisheng's character is more inherited from his mother's gentleness, and he rarely conflicts with others, and with his big size, other children dare not bully him.

After entering the 90s, the craze brought by football to China has gradually affected this military compound. Anyway, in the sparsely populated XJ, the courtyard of this military compound is also very large. Anyone who passes by this military compound can often see a group of half-children aged five to 15 roaring past in the compound, chasing that small football.

Naturally, there are many children in the army compound. The food in the army supports the people, and the children who are raised in vain and full of energy vent their energy in these sports, playing football and basketball... They like this kind of physical confrontation. Vigorous sports, if nothing else happens, most of them will get the opportunity to join the army when they grow up. Such sports can also allow them to exercise their bodies in advance.

However, there are too many children in the army compound, so there will always be people watching when they are playing football, and Long Bisheng is always one of the people watching.

Although he is tall, his height is useless for this kind of game where two bricks are used to form a goal. For this kind of "goal", there is no such thing as a header.

In this kind of competition on a small field, his height has become a burden instead, and to ordinary people, his reaction seems to be a bit slower. Facing flexible partners, he always can only scurry around like a headless chicken on the field.

After a few times, no one wanted to be on the same team with him, so when his friends were playing football excitedly, he could only watch them play from the sidelines, while playing football by himself bored.

How can a person play football?It’s nothing more than kicking the ball around, bringing it around—an extremely boring method. Few football players like to do this kind of thing all day. For them, even running on the court for half a day without touching the ball is more interesting than playing alone on the sidelines—playing football is entertainment. If you play alone, there is no entertainment.

But Long Bisheng never tires of it, since he can't play anyway, it's always good to have a ball off the court, not to mention, it's also very interesting to watch his teammates play football off the court.

Among his group of partners, the one who played the ball best was Fan Pengfei, the only son of Fan Yuhan, the instructor of Long Yuyun's battalion. Although this kid who was the same age as Long Bisheng was much shorter than Long Bisheng, his skills were much higher.

Once, when a coach from the Bayi Engineering Brigade came to the XJ Agricultural Reclamation Corps for business, he passed by the compound where Long Bisheng and the others were located. He happened to see a group of little guys playing a game, so he stopped to take a look with great interest. While watching, he cheerfully said to Long Yuyun who was by his side: "The football atmosphere in your compound is good. There are so many children playing football."

"That's right, I'll take the lead." Long Yuyun replied with a smile, and soon he couldn't laugh - because he happened to see his son standing aside, idling and pulling a football under his feet.

Long Yuyun thought about letting his children play football, but he had also seen Long Bisheng play a few small games. His reaction and technique were simply horrible. No matter how confident he was in his son, he understood why other children were unwilling to play football with Long Bisheng...

"Well, that little guy played well...he's probably only five years old, and the other kids are at least seven or eight years old, so it's not easy for him to be so conspicuous." The coach suddenly sighed.

Long Yuyun didn't even need to look to know that the coach was praising the instructor's son, Fan Pengfei. Seeing Fan Pengfei running towards his half-court with a smile on his face, and then looking at his son with a silly smile on his face, pulling the ball beside him, Long Yuyun felt a little depressed in his heart.

"That's your son, right? You're famous for being a football fan, so your son must be playing football too, right?" The coach turned his head and asked Long Yuyun.

"Old Liu, that's not my son, that's Lao Fan's son, Fan Pengfei, who is well-known in our compound." Long Yuyun was even more upset, but he was unwilling to lie. Besides, he had a good relationship with the instructor, and hoped that his son would be favored by the coach.

"Oh, it's Lao Fan's son, who is your son?" Coach Liu asked with great interest.

"Here, the one on the side." Long Yuyun became even more depressed, and pouted at Long Bisheng.

"Your son is big enough...he looks like you." Seeing Long Bisheng, who stands out from the crowd, Coach Liu laughed: "How is he playing football? Why doesn't he end up playing?"

Long Yuyun said with a dry smile: "The kick is... so-so."

"Then ask him to flip the ball to see." Coach Liu said with interest.

Hearing this, Long Yuyun's heart sank.

(End of this chapter)