Chapter 31 Sad Past
Lu Xueman led Yang Mo to the group of reporters and immediately found the reporter with the CCTV logo. After greeting a nearby director, the reporter holding the microphone and doing a live broadcast immediately said, "Okay, host, we now have the only Chinese player participating in this draft, Yang Mo."
As soon as the reporter finished speaking, Lu Xueman gently pushed Yang Mo. Yang Mo walked to the reporter and the photographer immediately turned the camera towards her.
Yang Mo looked at the camera and hesitated for a moment, then greeted the camera with a smile on her face, which seemed quite real. Lu Xueman, who was standing next to her, couldn't help but burst out laughing and whispered, "She really has the airs of a superstar."
"Mr. Yang Mo, maybe everyone is not very familiar with you because you have never appeared in the domestic basketball arena. Are you confident about this draft?" The reporter asked Yang Mo while holding up the microphone.
"Hello, fellow audience members, hello, fellow football fans, and hello, brothers and sisters from Donghua City. I'm Yang Mo." Yang Mo chattered on for a long time, which made Lu Xueman next to him frown. She quickly gestured to Yang Mo, indicating that he should get to the point.
Yang Mo received Lu Xueman's gesture and smiled awkwardly. He changed the subject and said, "Maybe you are not very familiar with me. I have never played in the CBA, nor have I participated in any national youth team. In fact, I have never even joined a professional team. I am just an ordinary basketball fan."
"Uh..." The reporter was stunned by Yang Mo's words "ordinary basketball fans". How dare an ordinary basketball fan come to the draft? Are you kidding? At that moment, he looked down on Yang Mo and asked casually: "Do you have confidence in this draft? Do you think you will be selected?"
"Of course. If I didn't have 100 percent confidence, I wouldn't be here."
Yang Mo spoke very seriously, but the reporter subjectively thought he was bragging, so the tone of the question seemed a bit hostile: "Excuse me, are you so confident because you inherited it from your parents? Or is it caused by your growth environment?"
The reporter's words clearly meant that Yang Mo was being indirectly criticized for being uneducated.
If it was someone else, Yang Mo might have tolerated it, but he absolutely couldn't tolerate this idiot suddenly standing up and scolding his parents. As an orphan, his self-esteem was extremely sensitive in this regard. Immediately, Yang Mo's face, which had been smiling, suddenly froze. He turned his head and glared at the reporter: "What do you mean by that?"
The reporter was shocked by Yang Mo's glare. He was really afraid that Yang Mo would hit him. This was a live broadcast! He quickly smiled and said, "I mean, is your confidence innate?"
"Yes." Yang Mo nodded directly, and then said: "I know you want to say that I am arrogant, but... time will prove everything."
Having said that, Yang Mo shook her head and walked out of the picture.
Yang Mo turned her head and walked away, shocking tens of millions of fans across the country who were watching the show. The reporters were also stunned, and Lu Xueman was a little at a loss. Although she could hear the unfriendly tone in the reporter's words, there was no need for Yang Mo to get so angry.
So she quickly chased after him.
At this time, after being embarrassed for several seconds, the reporter forced a smile and said, "Okay, audience friends, this interview ends here."
After saying this, the reporter burst into swear words: "Fuck, what the hell? Do you really think you are a piece of chicken hair, you bastard..."
Before he finished his angry curse, the director next to him quickly unplugged the microphone. Oh my god , this is a live broadcast. The screen just hasn't been switched yet. Now, people all over the country know that there is a reporter in CCTV who speaks foul language and doesn't know how to respect others.
Originally, the audience thought that Yang Mo's inexplicable departure was a bit rude, but now after hearing what the reporter said, they completely understood that it was this rude reporter who angered Yang Mo.
This broadcasting accident immediately triggered a large-scale discussion among netizens. Various forums and posts popped up like mushrooms after a rain, and everyone was discussing Yang Mo who appeared out of nowhere.
Although Yang Mo's first appearance in public was not perfect, the sensation it caused was unparalleled. At least in a short period of time it made up for the gap in his previous twenty years in terms of popularity. He became famous overnight.
At the same time, Lu Xueman had caught up with Yang Mo. She held Yang Mo's hand and asked, "How could you do this? Even if someone is being rude, you can't just walk away. This is a live broadcast, and there are so many viewers across the country watching you."
"Don't talk nonsense to me. Let me tell ." Yang Mo turned around, pointed at Lu Xueman, glared at her and shouted, "I didn't hit him today, which means I've improved myself."
Yang Mo suddenly became so serious that Lu Xueman was frightened and shut her mouth for no reason. Although they had known each other for a short time, Yang Mo gave her the impression of a person with no temper. She didn't expect that he would suddenly explode now. She subconsciously felt that the reporter must have touched his reverse scale, otherwise he wouldn't be so furious. You know, she had given him a cold shoulder many times in front of him, but he always laughed it off.
After Lu Xueman said nothing, Yang Mo walked to his round table, found a chair to sit down, closed his eyes and kept silent.
He was filled with emotions. He thought about the past ten years. It was not easy , but he never embarrassed his parents. Suddenly, he remembered the time when his father gave him his first basketball. "Xiaomo, today is your birthday. Daddy is giving you a basketball. I hope you can beat Daddy in the future."
As he thought about it, Yang Mo's tightly closed eyes began to shed tears, and he couldn't stop. He thought, if his father was still alive, how great it would be to be able to watch him play in the NBA, how proud he would be!
Yang Mo wiped her tears vigorously, and a tissue was handed to her. Yang Mo looked up and saw that it was Lu Xueman.
After hesitating for a moment, she took the tissue, quickly wiped away her tears, and wiped her face twice to make herself look like she had not cried.
"Is there something wrong?" Yang Mo asked Lu Xueman after wiping his tears. He tried to force a smile to prove that he was not sad, but he failed to do it in the end.
"It's okay." Lu Xueman shook her head gently, sat next to Yang Mo, and asked in a low voice: "Can I know why you are angry? I don't want to pry into your privacy, I just want to avoid such things from happening again in the future."
"..." Yang Mo was silent for a while, picked up a glass of water on the table, took a sip, and said: "My father is a very good basketball player, he is my idol, he once led our provincial team to win the National Games championship. When he gave me the first basketball, he said that he hoped I could beat him, and then he cheated, he didn't wait until the day I could beat him, when I was ten years old and my mother..."
When Yang Mo said this, her throat finally choked and she couldn't continue speaking, so she tilted her head back and took two sips of water, but she was still too sad to speak.
Lu Xueman was also very sad after hearing this. She lowered her head and wiped away many tears, then reached out and patted Yang Mo's shoulder. Suddenly, she felt a sense of "we are both wanderers in this world" in her heart, and she couldn't help but want to hug the silently sobbing Yang Mo in her arms.
"Do you want to know my story?" Lu Xueman said in a low voice.
As soon as she finished speaking, Derrick Rose, Westbrook, and Eric Gordon all came over. As soon as they came over, Westbrook patted Yang Mo on the shoulder and said, "Hey, man, we have discussed it. We will give you a big surprise later."
