zero second lore

Chapter 36 New Sneakers

On the weekend, Lu Yuan has an important thing to do, which is to buy a pair of basketball shoes.

It's been three weeks since I started playing basketball, and it's been a week since I joined the basketball team. Lu Yuan's feet are always wearing the same pair of white pull-backs he wore when he participated in the selection.

In order to prevent his mother from finding out that he always wears these basketball shoes, he put this pair of basketball shoes in Wang Yourong's dormitory. Every day before training, Wang Yourong would bring the sneakers to Lu Yuan, and after the training, he would bring them back to the dormitory. He will wash and dry the shoes to keep them clean and fresh.

Lu Yuan really likes this pair of sneakers. Although compared with the professional basketball shoes of his teammates, these old-fashioned sneakers with rubber soles and selvage edges are a bit crude, but the quality is really good. After a week of training friction, the soles are not worn too much. Good grip and comfortable to wear.

But after the training yesterday, Gao Jing clearly told Lu Yuan that he had to change his shoes. The reason was that the shock-absorbing and cushioning performance of this pair of pull-backs was really poor, and it was easy to hurt his knees during training and games.If not, he will not be allowed to participate in Monday's training.

So Lu Yuan had to consider buying a pair of real basketball shoes.

Lu Yuan originally wanted to buy online, thinking it was cheap, but after looking at the online store, he felt that it was difficult to determine whether the shoes were good or not based on the pictures on the Internet. He didn't know basketball shoes, and he was afraid that he would be deceived when he bought online.

After all, a good pair of basketball shoes costs thousands of yuan, and if you buy fake ones, you will be out of business.

Lu Yuan looked at the balance of his bank card, and there was still 2000 yuan left in the salary he earned from working during the summer vacation. He originally wanted to use the 2000 yuan until the end of the semester, but he didn't expect to contribute all of it to a pair of shoes.

It hurts!
After thinking about it, Lu Yuan decided to go to a physical store to buy it. He could rest assured after buying the real thing, so Lu Yuan sent a message to Bai Ye after waking up in the morning.

"Bai Ye, I want to buy basketball shoes today, come with me."

After a while, Bai Ye sent back a message: "Ten yuan an hour."

Lu Yuan's heart was full of worries, this guy Bai Ye actually set up a fee, so he replied: "20 yuan."

After another 5 minutes, Bai Ye replied, "I'll see you at the hotel gate in 15 minutes."

So Lu Yuan tidied up, greeted his mother, went downstairs and rode his bike out.

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After the special training for Lu Yuan and Wang Yourong ended, Bai Ye was free on weekends.

He slept late in the morning, had lunch at the hotel's cafeteria at noon, and thought about where to play basketball in the afternoon, but received a message from Lu Yuan.

Bai Ye was a little hesitant in his heart, after all, he didn't want to give a boy the chance to go shopping with someone for the first time in his life, but when Lu Yuan said he wanted to buy basketball shoes, he hesitated, so he sent a message to make a joke with Lu Yuan .

Unexpectedly, Lu Yuan, a stingy man, agreed and offered 20 yuan. Bai Ye couldn't refuse anymore, so he tidied up and asked Lu Yuan to meet at the entrance of the hotel.

Taking the elevator to the lobby on the first floor, Bai Ye felt that the lobby was a little different from yesterday. After thinking about it, she realized that the original sculpture in the center of the lobby had been removed and replaced with a piano.

Bai Ye looked at the time, thinking that it might be a little while before Lu Yuan came over, so she walked to the piano.

This is a milky white grand piano with a shiny surface. The legs and sides of the body are decorated with golden western patterns. The sun shines in from the floor-to-ceiling windows, reflecting the golden light.

"It's really exaggerated. I don't know which factory produced it."

Bai Ye looked at the gorgeous decoration and the beautiful cursive brand name carved on the body of the piano, and could tell at a glance that it was a piano made by a certain domestic manufacturer.

Bai Ye approached the piano, gently stroked the black and white keys, and pressed two notes. The sound was good. It seems that although the domestically made piano looks exaggerated, the quality is still good.

At this time, a waiter at the front desk came over and said to Bai Ye: "I'm sorry, this piano belongs to our hotel's valuables, please don't touch it."

Bai Ye ignored the waiter, played a few more notes, and said, "It's an honor for me to touch it. Every piano I touched before was ten times more expensive than this one."

The waiter was speechless. She recognized that this was a little local tyrant who had paid for the room fee for three months as soon as she entered the hotel, so she didn't dare to say anything more.

Bai Ye was about to sit down and play a piece. His hands were a little itchy. Ever since he started playing basketball, he had given up on the piano. Before he met basketball, his family always hoped that he could become a musician.

As soon as Bai Ye sat down, he felt that someone poked his back. He turned around and slapped the other person's hand.

Bai Ye hates being touched by people on weekdays, except for physical confrontation when playing, he doesn't like anyone to touch him.

With a "slap", the slap hit the opponent's hand, which should be very heavy.

Bai Ye saw that a girl lowered her head, covered her hands, pursed her mouth, and looked at him with teary eyes.

"Deserving it."

Bai Ye gave the girl two words, and she wanted to sit back on the stool.

The girl quickly shook her hand towards Bai Ye, lifted a box in her hand to show Bai Ye, and then pointed to the piano.

"You came to tune?" Bai Ye looked at the box, feeling familiar.

The girl nodded vigorously, then walked to the piano, opened the cover, put the tool box on the stool, took out the tuning wrench and began to test the new piano.

The girl was very serious, and Bai Ye, who was standing by, could see a red spot on her right hand, which was punched out by herself.

"Are you dumb?" Bai Ye asked again.

The girl turned her head, shook her hand, pointed to her mouth, and pinched her throat again.

"Oh, lost my voice."

Bai Ye looked clear, the girl nodded this time, she also heard the difference in this sentence, her face blushed suddenly, but she still showed a bright smile towards Bai Ye, and then continued Tuning up.

The girl looks about fifteen or sixteen years old, similar to Bai Ye, and looks a bit like Yui Aragaki, a powerful Japanese star, especially her smile and round face, just like the bright sunshine outside the window.

Under the sun, Bai Ye watched the girl carefully tune the tuning. She carefully turned the tuning screw with a wrench and pressed the key gently. Her shoulder-length hair often slipped down, and she took the trouble to push it back behind her ears. .

Bai Ye waited like this, an idea popped up in his mind, when the girl finished tuning the piano, he wanted to play a song for the September sunshine before the piano piece.

At this time, a text message from Lu Yuan came - "I'm at the door, come out!"

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Lu Yuan rode his bicycle to the entrance of Licheng Hotel, and sent a message to Bai Ye. After 2 minutes, he saw Bai Ye walking out of the west hall.

Walking up to him, Lu Yuan said to Bai Ye: "Come on, I have a car today, I'll take you!" As he spoke, he patted the back seat of the car loudly.

Bai Ye looked at the bicycle that was about to fall apart by Lu Yuan, and said, "Silly, can you change the bicycle?"

Lu Yuan said: "I don't have any money. I need to buy basketball shoes later. I don't know how much money I have left over from my summer salary."

Bai Ye said: "Don't be so wordy, hurry up, ten yuan an hour, cherish your time."

"Hey, are you serious?"

"of course."

"... Is five dollars okay? Six dollars?"

While bargaining, Lu Yuan took Bai Ye to Licheng No. 1 shopping mall. The No. 1 shopping mall was very close to Licheng Hotel, just across a road and a traffic light. The two of them walked for 5 minutes.

After entering the sportswear area on the fifth floor of the shopping mall, Bai Ye took Lu Yuan directly into the Nike store. If he wanted to buy professional basketball shoes, he still had to choose Nike.

The Nike store of No. 1 is the only Nike flagship store in Licheng. The store is very large and has a complete range of shoes, which makes Lu Yuan confused.

There are pairs of colorful sneakers on the shelf, each pair is different except for a hook-shaped logo.

A female clerk approached the two enthusiastically and asked what kind of sneakers they needed to buy.

Bai Ye didn't speak, Lu Yuan thought for a while and said, "Well, I want to buy sneakers that don't look like sneakers."

The clerk was a little silly when he heard it, and it was the first time he encountered such a strange request, thinking that these two children are not here to make trouble, right?

Just wondering, Bai Ye walked to the shoe cabinet, glanced at all the shoes, and said, "Are there only these ordinary basketball shoes? Are there not better celebrity signature shoes? Air-Jordan, LBJ and so on."

The clerk quickly said, "Yes, come with me, all the good brand signature shoes are on the second floor."

As the clerk led the two of them up to the second floor, Lu Yuan looked at the prices of the basketball shoes on the first floor. The prices were all around 600-1000. He pulled Bai Ye and said, "These ordinary basketball shoes should be about the same. Buy something signed."

Bai Ye said: "Take care of your knees."

Lu Yuan didn't understand, would the brand's signature sneakers come with knee pads?

Arriving at the shoe cabinet on the second floor, Lu Yuan found that the shoes here were indeed different from those downstairs. Although they were still in different shapes, they had a better sense of design and texture from a closer look, and the appearance was more complex and diverse.

Lu Yuan scanned, and took a fancy to a pair of high-top black, white and red shoes on the top floor, and asked the clerk to take them down for him to have a look, but Bai Ye organized the clerk to say no, and said to Lu Yuan: "Skyscraper You don’t have to think about the series, it’s not suitable for you.”

"why?"

"You're too short."

Bai Ye's words caused a critical blow to Lu Yuan, but he could also tell from the name of the brand that skyscrapers must be for tall players.

"This pair of Skyscraper Forrest Gump 10s is the model that won the championship in 1997. The classic black, white and red color scheme is our store's town store style. The price is 4999. It is a treasure that every Chinese basketball fan needs to collect a pair of."

Hearing the clerk's introduction, Lu Yuan couldn't help sticking out his tongue. He didn't expect the style he liked to be so expensive, so he immediately dismissed the idea of ​​buying it, and said, "Forget it if it costs more than 2000, I..."

Lu Yuan really wanted to go back to the first floor, just buy a pair of more than 600. At this time, Lu Yuan saw a pair of white shoes on the far left of the shoe cabinet, which looked very eye-catching.

He walked to the heel of the pair of shoes, picked it up, weighed it, it was quite light, squeezed it again, it was very soft, and looked at the upper of the shoe, it was covered with a layer of mesh fabric.

The clerk introduced again: "It seems that you like retro star boots very much. This is the new Kobe 11th generation. It adopts the design of full palm air cushion, which is light and flexible, which can protect the feet and at the same time restrict the feet very little. .”

Lu Yuan nodded, looked at the price, 1599, acceptable, and asked the clerk to bring a size that fits his feet and try it on.

As soon as the shoes were put on his feet, after taking two steps, Lu Yuan felt as if he was stepping on a spring. The shoes were very light, wrapping around his feet as if they didn't exist.

"Wow, so light! I feel like I can fly!" Lu Yuan hopped lightly with his shoes on, feeling great.

The clerk smiled and said, "That's right, it's a full-palm air cushion..." Before the clerk finished speaking, he saw Lu Yuan suddenly half-squat, then jumped up with all his strength, and his whole body jumped up. Leaping up, your head almost touches the publicity board hanging in the air!

After landing, Lu Yuan stomped his feet again, and said happily: "There is really an air cushion! The ground is soft!"

"Idiot." Bai Ye said, looking at Lu Yuan who had never seen the world.

As for the clerk, seeing Lu Yuan's bounce, he no longer knew what to say.

"Okay, I'll buy this pair!"

Although Lu Yuan is stingy, he always enjoys shopping, and once he makes a decision, he never hesitates.

The clerk finally suggested: "Do you want white? Do you need to look at other colors, there are red, black, colorful..."

Lu Yuan flatly refused: "No need!"

The clerk agreed: "Well, no problem, you have a good eye, the customer, white is really good, the classic color of basketball shoes, beautiful and atmospheric, and very versatile..."

As usual, the clerk Zhang Fei also exaggerated three points, but Lu Yuan said to Bai Ye: "I think, if I take these shoes home, my mother will definitely not be able to tell that they are basketball shoes. They are too similar to casual shoes. Especially white."

Bai Ye looked at the clerk who was a little embarrassed, and gave an apologetic look, thinking that this guy really chose a pair of basketball shoes that didn't look like basketball shoes.

Kobe's 11th generation.

(End of this chapter)