fastball under a clear sky

Today is still a hot midsummer, staying in the air-conditioned store, Long Hao stood at the counter with a dull expression, turning the signature pen in his hand.

I never expected to meet Lin Bairui again, and he told a lot of things that surprised me.

Long Hao, do you know?I have exhausted almost all methods and can't find your whereabouts. You seem to have evaporated from the world, leaving no trace at all.

Lin Bairui stated this matter seriously, and Kubo also told how he was threatened by someone. No matter how he thought, there was only one person who would do this, and that was his father!

Kubo's argument is that the person who threatened him knew his identity very well, which means that the other party has investigated everything about Kubo, and since he can do this, it also means that the other party has been by his side for a while, and he is not an idle person. I have seen a lot of characters myself, because my father is surrounded by such professional people.

In layman's terms, it is bodyguards, and in professional terms, it is security maintenance personnel. Since his celebrity father is expensive, the bodyguards he hires are also relatively powerful. What he knows, some are from various countries. A ruthless character who was directly poached by a high-paying special agency.

Different from ordinary non-governmental credit reporting agencies, whether it is investigation, surveillance, or security, these guys are so professional that it is unbelievable.

Unconsciously knocking on the table with his fingers, Dad invited more and more people, so that I, who was always sensitive to the surrounding environment, did not realize that I was being watched.

Why dad always refused to let him go?Always explain from your own perspective that this is protecting the child.Long Hao knew that his father felt that he owed his children to him who had been working outside for a long time, especially when he was born in a daze when he was very young, but his father's inexplicable compensation behavior always messed up his life.

This time he must have a showdown with him, and it's too much to hurt someone!

"When did Wu get injured? If he can't start the rotation, the Bears will be in danger!" Imaoka said to Long Hao while staring at the screen of the sports program.

"Yeah!" Long Hao didn't care about watching TV. He was thinking about where his father's people might be hiding and watching. Kubo said that everything they did at home should be known, because the other party had clearly mentioned it. These are very annoying, I don't know how long I have been under surveillance.

At this time the store door was opened, Imaoka turned his head from the TV screen and greeted the guests with a smile, Long Hao also heard the sound of the door and came back to his senses.

A tall man wearing a casual shirt and sunglasses walked into the store with a blank expression. Imaoka greeted him and asked, "Welcome, sir, what do you need..."

Imaoka's sudden stop made Long Hao look at the person who came.

"Could you please speak English?"

The voice that he wanted to forget and never forget, and a deeper and more steady tone came into his ears. Long Hao's eyes met that face, and he couldn't help opening his eyes wide and frowning.

Are you dreaming?

As if to emphasize his identity, the other party took off the brand-name sunglasses on his face, and stared straight at Long Hao with extremely sharp eyes, as if he was also confirming something.

No one said a word in the entire store, only the sound of news broadcasting from the TV.

Imaoka felt that he was suffocating from nervousness, and his palms were even sweating. He watched the other party staring at his boss, and his boss didn't move at all. There was a strange feeling between them.

I saw the man speak slowly to his boss in Chinese.

"have not seen you for a long time."

It is very short four words, but there are thousands of thoughts in this sentence, this is a sentence that I said with great difficulty.

The person he misses day and night stands in front of him, but Long Hao can only stare at him in a daze.

Always dreaming of the two reuniting, every time in the dream I hugged him tightly crying, but when the real person stood in front of my eyes, I was not as I imagined, why?

"Well, long time no see!" The head can only reply the same sentence at the moment.

At this time the store door was opened again.

"Wu Yiwei, wait for me too! What if you run around like this and cause a commotion?" Lin Bairui complained from the door.

Imaoka's eyes widened when he saw another baseball star. He only knew that his senior and boss were classmates at the same school as them, and he always thought it was nothing special. There are several seniors in the Football J League now, but now that these two people are standing in front of him alive, it means that the seniors are very familiar with them, right?Can I ask them for an autograph?

Looking at the almost petrified Imaoka, Long Hao sighed and patted him on the shoulder: "Imaoka, can you help me take care of the shop today? I'm going out with my friends."

"Yes..." Imaoka swallowed and was stunned.

"Long Hao, I'm sorry, I should have called you first, but this guy rushed to you as soon as he got off the plane, and I had no chance to stop him." Lin Bairui elbowed the person next to him.

Wu Yiwei didn't speak, but just stood there and gave Lin Bairui a glance.

"It's ok."

Long Hao shook his head and pursed his lips and said worriedly: "It's just that you came here like this, I think those people must know about it, I'm afraid they will be rough on you."

"You mean being watched?" Wu Yiwei asked briefly.

Long Hao nodded, showing an expression of "you should understand".

Wu Yiwei twitched the corner of his mouth and replied with a relaxed face: "You don't have to worry."

"When I told him about this problem, he also looked indifferent. I really don't know if he understands the seriousness of this problem."

Lin Bairui glanced at Wu Yiwei with displeasure: "Since he went to the United States, he has become scheming, always playing with mysteries."

Wu Yiwei ignored Lin Bairui's complaints, and turned his gaze to Long Hao again, this was the face he had missed thousands of times.

Just as I thought, after eight years, Long Hao has only added a little bit of maturity, and those beautiful eyes can still fascinate him.

"Hey!" Lin Bairui clapped his hands and pulled Wu Yiwei's soul back: "Don't waste time, let's get together somewhere! I have a game tonight."

"Do you want to leave through the back door?" Long Hao pointed to the warehouse.

"No need." Wu Yiwei directly refused: "It's okay to let your father know that I'm here."

Wu Yiwei opened the door with a provocative face, facing the busy street, his tall stature caused a lot of passers-by to stare as soon as he stepped out of the door.

Even the back view of this man makes people feel domineering, and he can still see such a scene, Long Hao begins to doubt whether he is in reality again.

"Let's go!" Lin Bairui's voice pulled him back from the fugue, and followed the footsteps of the two people in front.

"Shit! Why did that Wu suddenly appear here?" The blond man in a suit cursed while holding a binoculars.

"Wu? You mean the one from the Bears?" Another foreign man who was smoking, heard his companion's scolding, and hurriedly threw away his cigarette and stomped it out.

When the man who took the binoculars confirmed the person who came out, he said eagerly to his companion, "Even Lin, who is under surveillance, is here. He called into the company. This matter must be reported to the superior immediately."

"Then are we going to issue a warning here? Like last time?" asked the man who took out his cell phone.

Hearing the question from his companion, the blond man narrowed his eyes and thought.

"Peeping is bad behavior!"

Suddenly someone else interrupted the conversation between the two, which made the two of them raise their heads to look at the source of the sound. This is Japan. Hearing the authentic American English, the two who were once members of the SWAT team immediately became alert. Heart.

In front of them appeared a man who was the same Westerner as himself, but there were three of them, with black and white skin colors. The group of people they met smelled similar to each other.

Three people stood in front of them, and one of the younger ones had his hands in his trouser pockets with a shabby face.

"Whatareyou..." Confused by the sudden appearance, the blond man also said in a bad tone: "What do you want to do?"

The person leading the way was a black man. Even wearing a standard suit, he couldn't hide his overdeveloped muscles. He took out a business card from his wallet and handed it to the person in front of him.

"My name is Ferit, and I'm from Strategic Security Consulting Company. My job is to ensure the safety of my clients and keep them from being disturbed by unrelated people. Today I'm here to say hello to you with my brother."

Taking the business card of the strong black man in front of him, the blond-haired man looked at the three of them. Strategy is a powerful hostile company that specializes in recruiting intelligence agents from various countries and members of the special forces in the army.

The black man named Ferritt smiled with satisfaction after seeing the blond man took his business card, then he looked at Longhao's store door and said, "I hope you don't harass our customers, Mr. Wu and him. My friends, I hope we can respect each other."

"Sorry, it's also our job not to let miscellaneous fish get close to Mr. Long." The Xinfa man stared back.

Ferit sneered, shrugged his shoulders and turned to leave. Before leaving, he did not forget to amuse him: "I advise you to ask the company for a salary increase first, we are not easy to deal with."

Watching the three walk away, one of them scratched his head and said, "What should I do? Things will become more complicated if strategy intervenes. Isn't Wu a baseball player? How do you know to find them?"

"I don't know!" The blond man sighed, "I just know that life is going to be difficult."

After the three of them left Long Hao's store, Wu Yiwei casually pointed to a western-style restaurant on the road, and the two who had no objection followed him in.The conversation between the two protagonists after their reunion was unexpectedly dull. Most of them were Lin Bairui and Wu Yiwei talking about their respective player lives. The three of them had a tacit understanding about the parting night, until Lin Bairui realized that he should prepare for the game while looking at his phone. .

"Hey, do you want to watch my game? If I tell the team, you can use the VIP room without being disturbed by the fans." Lin Bairui suggested.

"Whatever." Wu Yiwei answered first.

"Long Hao? You should be fine, right?"

"En!" Long Hao nodded without thinking too much: "It would be best not to miss the Hankyu Tigers match."

Because of this, the two of them followed Lin Bairui to the Arena. Lin Bairui made a phone call, and after a staff member came to receive them, he said goodbye to them and went to join the team.

The stadium has been filled with cheering fans one after another, and began to sing cheering songs, the whole stadium is very lively.

The staff took the two of them to the VIP room, brought them snacks for watching the game and told them that there were drinks in the refrigerator, and then left first.

Looking at the whole bustling stadium from the whole floor-to-ceiling windows, Wu Yiwei felt very novel about the special atmosphere of Japanese professional baseball, and his eyes scanned everything outside the window.

"It's impossible for the United States to have such a neat cheer song!"

It was Long Hao who spoke first. He grew up in the United States, and he and his father went to be a guest at a baseball game and received entertainment several times, so he also has a good understanding of American baseball culture.

"Well, I'm actually not very used to this way of cheering. I only have the opportunity to experience it when I am in the national team."

In fact, he is more used to booing in the United States. Americans are not used to praising players, and when they feel that a player has performed poorly, they will scold them badly.

Seeing Lin Bairui's photo and name appearing on the computer board, Wu Yiwei heaved a long sigh: "Finally let him work hard until today."

Listening to the cheers, Long Hao said unintentionally: "Well, Lin Bairui really worked hard. The position of catcher is very difficult to grab, right?"

Wu Yiwei, who put his hands on the glass, nodded his head: "Well, it was very hard..."

Wu Yiwei's tone felt very low, which made Long Hao a little nervous whether he said something wrong.

"When I first went there, I was not only very good, but I couldn't even write 26 English letters. My teammates were also very unfriendly to me. It was common for me to get punched by those big guys in fights. In addition, I was not acclimatized , I nearly died my first year in rural America in Bird Raja.”

Wu Yiwei stared at the football game outside the window, and narrated these past events with his back to Long Hao.

He raised his left hand and said: "The most painful thing was the elbow surgery in the 12A period. My hand was originally declared hopeless by the doctor, but at my request, I still gambled on the surgery with only a 20.00% chance of recovery. Fortunately, the operation was successful, but when I started to recover, it was like being tortured by hell. At the beginning, I couldn't even straighten my hand forward. Every time I straightened it, it looked like the flesh was being torn apart. The pain made me almost cry."

"I know about this. This is big news! You have been resting for a whole year, and the media in Taiwan speculate that you will return to China for development." This news should be known to all baseball fans in Taiwan. Of course, Long Hao cannot forget it. Also worried for a while.

"Yeah! But I survived the risk. After entering the major leagues, the ruthless boos from the fans when I was in a bad situation actually made me feel uncomfortable. I was thrown water glasses and garbage. I even felt that everyone They are all waiting for my joke..."

"You've made it through too! You're a big star now, just like what you hoped for in high school. You've come out ahead. It's all worth it!"

"Is that what you think?" Wu Yiwei said unexpected words to Long Hao.

"Do you know why I'm nagging and complaining to you like a woman?"

Long Hao had no choice but to look at his back.

"I just want to tell you that the reason why I can survive is for today." Wu Yiwei sighed long after thinking of the hellish life: "I hope you don't laugh when I say these words, I'm actually hiding under the quilt I cried secretly many times in the bathroom or in the toilet. Every once in a while I dreamed of the day I lost you, and my eyes would feel sore involuntarily. Ha, it looks like a woman! After I met you, I became a love Cry ghost..."

"Is it the same as now?"

The past that Wu Yiwei talked about was like a picture, and he seemed to be able to see that tall figure curled up in the quilt crying bitterly, which made Long Hao feel a burst of heartache.

Wu Yiwei nodded: "Yeah, I'm pretty stupid..."

Seeing Long Hao again, I was actually very excited inside, but on the other hand, I felt terrified. The Long Hao in front of me seemed to be no longer the Long Hao he was eight years ago. He had become mature and masculine. Maybe he hated it His father came from himself, or maybe he also regarded that relationship as an ignorant memory, and with the Japanese mentioned by Lin Bairui, Wu Yiwei was so frightened that he almost went crazy.

"If you don't turn around, I thought you didn't want to face me..."

Long Hao walked to Wu Yiwei's side and held his hand.

Wu Yiwei turned his head to look at him, Long Hao smiled at him, Wu Yiwei missed this smile so much, he couldn't help frowning, and couldn't help pulling Long Hao into his arms and hugging him tightly.

"I finally found you." He whispered hoarsely, and Wu Yiwei kissed the top of Long Hao's head excitedly.Smelling the smell of Long Hao's body, Wu Yiwei told himself that he was not dreaming, if time stopped like this, I don't know how good it would be, and the hands tightly wrapped around him seemed to never want to let go.

Long Hao felt that Wu Yiwei's heart was beating fast. The strangeness and embarrassment since meeting again was disappearing bit by bit. This person was still Wu Yiwei from before, the reckless, arrogant, ignorant but forever Watching his big boy.

"Did you know? The moment I was sent away, I couldn't breathe when I saw you standing over there from the ambulance."

I don't know why my thoughts went back to the past. Before I met Daisuke Kubo, Long Hao only had people around him in his mind.

Wu Yiwei tightly surrounded him with his arms. "I know……"

Why wasn't he that day?My heart hurts like being hollowed out.

"I can't choose another way... I'm too young to have any strength to protect you." So at that time, I could only watch the ambulance whizzing by my ears, and I don't know how many times I was killed. This memory woke me up with fright. Every time I wake up, there are always two tear marks on my cheeks. This has always been my secret. He thinks that maybe he can get rid of this nightmare in the future.

"Do you... hate me? Hate that I called someone to come." This is a question I have always been afraid of but I have to ask.

"Eight years... I've endured so hard these eight years." Thinking of the past, Long Hao burst into tears, even though he tried his best to control the tears.

"Well... I know!" Wu Yiwei listened quietly, thinking about how Long Hao survived, how he made a living in a strange place, he had a lot of things he wanted to ask him...

The two, who were almost crying together, felt the complex emotions of reunion pouring out of their chests after they felt each other's fiery breath and body temperature.

"But how can I hate you? Eight years ago, you gave me a promise and tried hard to show me, let me hold on to hope, when you lost contact, I thought you didn't want me, and finally gave up on you, you appeared again How can I hate you for saying these things to me?"

Wu Yiwei felt that the shirt on his chest was a little wet. Hearing Long Hao's confession to himself, he apologized excitedly: "I'm really sorry! I kept you waiting, this time I will never let go!"

Compared with the reckless him before, Wu Yiwei, who promised in a low voice, was too gentle and considerate, Long Hao was almost melted by his words.

Wu Yiwei let go of the hand that was holding him tightly, and seriously raised Long Hao who was full of tears, carefully looked at the person in front of him, and kept wiping the tears from Long Hao's eyes with both hands.

"Long Hao..."

With a soft call, his mouth was gently pressed against it, and with one movement, Long Hao was pressed on the sofa, deep and gentle, easy to touch, he seemed to pass on his thoughts bit by bit through kisses, and his tongue was on the sofa. Long Hao's mouth was lingering, completely preventing Long Hao from having a chance to breathe.

Under the soft kiss, Wu Yiwei said love words: "I'm really sorry, I just came back now! All these years I have been waiting for today... I can finally use my strength to hold you firmly, no one can take you away .”

A deep kiss lingered between the two, so hot that it was breathless.

"Awei..."

Long Hao immediately indulged in Wu Yiwei's kiss, but at the same time, a figure flashed in his mind...

This made Long Hao wake up suddenly and push Wu Yiwei away.

"Long Hao?" Wu Yiwei looked at him in astonishment.

Long Hao raised his head and frowned at the man in front of him. If he just accepted Wu Yiwei like this, he would always have a grudge in his heart.

Wu Yiwei probably guessed a thing or two from Long Hao's expression, and Lin Bairui's warning to himself became clearer.

"Thanks to a Japanese named Kubo who provided his whereabouts, I was able to find Long Hao. You owe him a favor, and I think Long Hao's affection for him is definitely more than just an ordinary friend. You should do your best." ! 』

"Is it because of Kubo?"

Long Hao couldn't help shaking his eyes when he heard this name.

Under Wu Yiwei's watchful eyes, Long Hao recalled the sexual incident not long ago before he left, which made him feel very embarrassed now. He couldn't help but care about Kubo. To be able to see the person he misses again, he must thank him for a large part .

"You haven't answered me yet! Are you rejecting me because you care about Kubo?" Wu Yiwei frowned dissatisfied.

"What would you do if I said yes?" Long Hao didn't evade his question.

"Long Hao, do you like him?"

"I..." Long Hao wavered, finally he bit his lower lip and frowned frowningly admitted: "I admit that I have feelings for him."

Wu Yiwei pressed him into his chest again: "Don't think about him now! You can only have me in your heart!"

He ordered domineeringly and punitively hugged him tightly. Long Hao belonged to him. This was confirmed eight years ago, and Wu Yiwei never doubted it.

Long Hao didn't have the power to resist at all. In fact, when his strong body clasped him tightly, Long Hao completely lost the ability to resist.

Wu Yiwei's lips aggressively invaded him once again, Long Hao turned his face aside, finally took a little distance to catch his breath, and resisted Wu Yiwei's aggression, he thought that before he had the last sliver of reason, he had to clarify My own feelings, the one who cared about Kubo, did I also fall in love with him?

But at this moment, Wu Yiwei let go of Long Hao, and sat down on the sofa.

"Awei?"

"I seem to have underestimated the blankness of these eight years..." After rejecting himself twice, Wu Yiwei understood that it was not just about caring.

Scratching the back of his head, he sat on the sofa with a self-deprecating smile: "I'm sorry, I'm really too wishful thinking, I've left you for eight years, I have no right to tell you that you only have me in your heart."

Wu Yiwei, who showed a distressed expression, made Long Hao very sad, that he would torture Wu Yiwei, who had always been rebellious, so much.

I always thought that I had lived a very hard life for eight years, without any promise of guarantee, and I didn't know how many times I almost gave up, but compared with the people in front of me, the grievances I suffered were nothing at all.

Long Hao walked over, and he stretched out his hand to touch the person in front of him.

"Sorry..." he said softly.

Wu Yiwei didn't say anything but shook his head, asking Long Hao not to care.

Long Hao took Wu Yiwei's hand and watched the football game below. Now he can only do so much, his temperature spread to Wu Yiwei's hand.

Eight years ago, when Wu Yiwei held Long Hao's hand for the first time, he swore that he would never abandon this warmth; when he held Long Hao's hand again, this emotion did not decrease in the slightest but became more intense. Such a simple action made Wu Yiwei feel that his empty heart was filled again.

He won't let go!Wu Yiwei once again swore in his heart.

Neither of the two people sitting on the sofa said anything, and watched the game quietly until the end of the game.

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121A: The American professional baseball system is Rookie→ShortSeason→A→AdvA→AA→AAA→MajorLeague. To put it simply, players climb up from the rookie league and go through 1A, 2A, and 3A before they can enter the major league.