Chapter 4: Daya and Erya
Colangelo did not take Wang Tiejun back to the hotel immediately, because it was impossible for them to enter a five-star hotel in this state.
He took Wang Tiejun to an ordinary clothing store on the street and bought him a new set of clothes, spending nearly three hundred dollars in total.
Wang Tiejun put on the new clothes and felt that a new life had begun. He said to Colangelo gratefully, "Sir, I promise I won't let you down."
Colangelo smiled and nodded, saying, "Young man, you have excellent static talent, and your strength talent should also be first-rate. I let you join my team not just to be your sparring partner. I hope you can use this opportunity to practice your skills well. One day, if you can satisfy me, I will give you a player contract."
"real?"
Lao Wang was surprised and delighted.
"certainly."
Colangelo laughed.
Then he found a shoe store and asked the clerk to try on shoes for Wang Tiejun. In the end, he spent seventy dollars to buy a pair of very warm high-top fur shoes in size 53.
“It’s so warm!”
After Wang Tiejun changed his thin cloth shoes and put on fur shoes, he felt that the winter that had just begun was over.
Now he has new clothes and new shoes, and he feels like a decent person. Oh, he has completely changed and become successful.
"Let's go, let's go back to the hotel." Colangelo said with a smile.
"Let's go!"
Wang Tiejun followed happily behind.
"I never thought that one day I would be able to live here. It seems like a dream!"
After getting out of the taxi and standing in front of a five-star hotel with more than 20 floors, he felt like he had everything.
Next, Colangelo used his connections in New York to quickly change Wang Tiejun’s tourist visa to a work visa, which was just a small matter for him.
After finishing all these, Wang Tiejun signed a sparring contract and became a trainer for the Suns.
"Sir, can I call China from the hotel? I want to let my family know that I have a formal job in the United States," he asked.
“Of course, you can contact the front desk first. There will be a room number, and then we will help you open an international line.” Colangelo nodded and smiled.
"Thank you, sir," he said happily.
When I get to my room, the first thing I do is take a shower.
He hadn't taken a bath for more than ten days since the temperature dropped below five degrees, and he smelled like an old sauerkraut jar.
He took a bath for an hour and a layer of skin on his body was rubbed off.
"Congratulations to the host for completing the novice mission and receiving a reward of 200 points."
"Host, please obtain a fully guaranteed NBA player contract and be rewarded with 300 points. The rewards for other player contracts will be halved."
When he opened the system, he saw two new prompts.
"A fully guaranteed contract for the player?"
He is a little overwhelmed and can't complete it now. He hasn't trained for nearly two years. Considering his current age, these two years are the best time for him to improve his skills. However, his level has declined instead of improved. How can he be qualified to play in the NBA?
It’s still like Mr. Colangelo said, just be a good sparring partner first, and everything will come naturally when your strength improves.
After getting dressed, he sat down next to the phone in the room, picked up the receiver and dialed the front desk.
I have been in the United States for almost 5 months. Because I was having such a bad time here, I was too embarrassed to call home. Now that my life is starting to improve, I can't wait.
Soon, the international line was connected and he began to call the 57th Brigade.
It is 7pm in the United States now, which is 7am in China, so there should be someone at the brigade headquarters.
The 57th Brigade was where his family lived, which is now the village committee. There was only one phone in the entire brigade.
"Hello, who are you looking for so early in the morning?"
After the phone rang more than ten times, it was finally connected, and a man with a rough voice shouted at the top of his lungs.
"Uncle Hongtong, I'm Tiejun." He said quickly.
"Hey, King Kaoshan, is that you, kid?"
Liu Hongtong on the other side was startled at first, then immediately shouted, "You haven't called back since you went to the United States. People in the surrounding area are saying that you died in the United States. I asked you if you made any money, but your father, mother, and two sisters are still eating pickled radish strips at home every day."
"Uncle, what are you talking about? Hurry up and call out on the loudspeaker. My international calls are very expensive. One minute of them is equivalent to a month's worth of your calls." He shouted.
"Wait, call me back in half an hour." Liu Hong said.
"Okay, thanks uncle." Wang Tiejun said.
There is Qing County in Cangzhou City. Qing County used to belong to Tianjin, and was later transferred to Hebei. It is quite close to Tianjin and Beijing. Wang Tiejun's home is in Qingzhou Town of Qing County. It is not near the sea and is mainly engaged in farming.
It's only seven o'clock, and the Wang family of four are already busy working in the fields.
In addition to the more than ten acres of land at home, they also picked up another forty or fifty acres of land in the village to plant, a total of more than sixty acres, all of which were taken care of by Wang Tiejun's eldest and second sisters, while his parents went out to work and help others plant the land. The family of four was exhausted like dogs every day.
In addition, it has been almost five months since Wang Tiejun went to the United States and there has been no news from him. There are also rumors in the village that Wang Tiejun died in the United States. They are uneasy every day, physically and mentally exhausted, and their days are like years.
"Wang Aiguo, Wang Aiguo from Team 4, the father of the King of Backers, did you hear me? Your kid called, come to the brigade headquarters immediately..."
"Wang Aiguo, Wang Aiguo from Team 4..."
At this time, the team's loudspeaker suddenly sounded, and the team leader Liu Hongtong's loud voice rang out.
"His dad, his dad, did our son call to say that he is still alive..." Liu Damei, who was helping others turn the soil, said excitedly.
“Hey hey!”
Wang Aiguo had been listening to the loudspeaker with his ears pricked up. He dropped his hoe and trotted toward the brigade headquarters, turning back and shouting, "Big sister, do you have anything to say?"
Liu Damei's eyes turned red, she shook her head and shouted, "I don't have much to say, just tell your son to work less and eat more, don't meddle in other people's business, and tell him to control his temper..."
After her man ran away, she sat down on the ground and started crying.
"Sister, my old man called. I said he was fine, and now you see he called me."
A mile away, in the Wang family’s own field, Wang Erya said happily after hearing the broadcast.
"Uh-huh……"
Wang Daya was also very excited. She raised her head and stood on tiptoe, looking into the distance and said with a smile, "Dad went there, running there."
"I don't know if the old man has finished wearing his shoes. His feet are so big, he will be frozen without shoes." Wang Erya looked at the brigade headquarters and said absentmindedly.
"well!"
Wang Daya sighed.
"Da Ya and Er Ya, your old man finally called us. Tie Jun hasn't contacted us for several months and we all thought he was gone. Now you can rest assured."
At this time, Aunt Liu, the neighbor of the Wang family, went to the field carrying a hoe, shouting loudly.
"Uh-huh……"
Both sisters laughed, their faces full of joy.
Aunt Six sighed again, "Tiejun caused such a big disaster, and you two sisters also suffered with it, otherwise you would have become mothers."
After hearing this, Daya and Erya looked at each other, their expressions somewhat unnatural.
Two years ago, their family was considered a very prestigious family in this area because the old man was very promising. At a young age, he made a name for himself in the Cangzhou martial arts world, joined the Hebei men's basketball team, and was later selected for the national youth team. Who in this area didn't dare to look up to them?
Both of them were pretty. During that period, many people came to matchmake for them, and there were also many young men around who took the initiative to pursue them. After much selection, their parents chose the brothers Zhang Dacheng and Zhang Ercheng from the village in the second half of 1990.
The Zhang brothers were also pursuing them. Their family was a professional pig farmer. In the 1980s, the Zhang family was a millionaire in the village. Their father, Wang Aiguo, was attracted by the Zhang family's financial conditions.
However, the Zhang family required them to get married that year, but they were in their third year of high school and wanted to continue their studies and go to college. They didn't want to marry into the Zhang family and feed pigs, so they had a conflict with their family.
But they were no match for their father Wang Aiguo, who favored boys over girls, and were beaten several times. When they wanted to run to SJZ to find their younger brother Tiejun, they were caught by their father halfway and were finally forced to drop out of school and get married.
But on the eve of her wedding, her husband Tiejun got into trouble, and her family fell to the bottom.
The family lost all their money and was left with a huge debt of more than 70,000 yuan. The Zhang brothers were worried about being implicated by them, so they broke off the engagement.
This was fine, even though it was embarrassing and there were a lot of gossip from the neighbors, but they didn't want to get married in the first place, so this just fulfilled their wish.
"Look, speak of the devil, and here he comes." Aunt Six shouted at this time.
When Daya and Erya looked over, they saw that it was indeed the Zhang brothers, carrying hoes and going to the fields.
