Chapter 104: The Neglected Useless Left Hand

  Lin Xiaoyu's injury was a bolt from the blue for Coach Bian Guohui. He had been looking forward to Lin Xiaoyu, the team's most indispensable player, leading the team to even greater glory in the qualifying match held in the provincial capital. However, when he saw Lin Xiaoyu's right hand wrapped in bandages, his confidence in the team suddenly plummeted to a low point.

  Lin Xiaoyu's hand injury will take about a month to recover, but there is still more than half a month before the provincial qualifying match for the national high school basketball tournament. Bian Guohui doesn't know if Lin Xiaoyu can play at that time. Lin Xiaoyu is the team's most powerful weapon, and Bian Guohui is well aware of how important this child is to the basketball team. The team's ability to advance further in the qualifying match depends entirely on Lin Xiaoyu's performance in the game. Just a few days ago, Bian Guohui was still creating a brand new tactic for Lin Xiaoyu, but now that he sees Lin Xiaoyu injured, how can he not be disappointed?

  But the thing has already happened, and Bian Guohui can't complain about anything. Although his teammate's unexpected injury was not caused by playing basketball, Bian Guohui is still very concerned. Bian Guohui even went to invite an old Chinese doctor to treat Lin Xiaoyu's hand injury. This old doctor was a team doctor in the professional football team that Bian Guohui played for when he was young. Bian Guohui knew that this old team doctor had a good traditional Chinese medicine treatment for injuries, and many of his teammates' old injuries were cured by this old doctor, including an old wound on Bian Guohui's leg. So Bian Guohui drove to invite the old doctor to treat Lin Xiaoyu's hand injury, hoping that the old doctor's traditional Chinese medicine could create a medical miracle and let Lin Xiaoyu's hand heal quickly.

  Lin Xiaoyu sat on the basketball court's stands, quietly watching her teammates train diligently on the court. Lin Xiaoyu really wanted to join these lovely teammates in sweating it out on the court, but her hand, wrapped in thick bandages, wouldn't allow her to do so. Lin Xiaoyu slowly watched her teammates train from the stands, feeling a bit better with good friend Yan Nan by her side, chatting with her about their shared interests.

  Yan Nan sat beside Lin Xiaoyu, feeling very happy. In the past, when Yan Nan came to watch Lin Xiaoyu train, he would always sit alone, staring blankly at Lin Xiaoyu playing on the court. Although watching Lin Xiaoyu play was also enjoyable for Yan Nan, it couldn't compare to the feeling of sitting together with Lin Xiaoyu now. Being able to sit together in the stands and talk intimately made Yan Nan feel that Lin Xiaoyu's injury was also a good opportunity for them to deepen their feelings for each other.

  But things didn't go as smoothly as Yan Nian had thought. Yan Nian always pretended to accidentally reveal her feelings for Lin Xiaoyu in their conversations, but the careless and obtuse Lin Xiaoyu was completely unaware of Yan Nian's hints. This made Yan Nian both loving and frustrated with Lin Xiaoyu's emotional dullness. The reserve of girls made most of them dare not to openly express their love to the other party, even a girl like Yan Nian who had a more outgoing personality.

  Yan Nan sat in the stands chatting with Lin Xiaoyu, and he could always feel the gaze of the team's female manager, who was doing logistics work on the side of the court, occasionally sneaking glances over here. The girl's keen sense made Yan Nan aware of the meaning behind these gazes. Yan Nan felt the pressure brought by this beautiful female manager, so when chatting with Lin Xiaoyu, he would always lean in close to her, using this to show off to the team's female manager who kept sneaking glances over. Yan Nan wouldn't let someone else easily take away the boy he had a crush on.

  Every time Yan Nan discovers that the female manager of the team looks a bit dull when she sees herself and Lin Xiaoyu being intimate, Yan Nan's heart always feels a kind of triumphant joy.

  After Lin Xiaoyu's right hand was injured, Lin Xiaoyu clearly realized for the first time that her left hand was so useless. Some things that were easy to do with her right hand became difficult when she switched to using her left hand.

  Lin Xiaoyu's right hand, which had been fixed with a splint and bandages, was now unable to move. As a result, Lin Xiaoyu could only rely on her left hand in daily life. It wasn't until then that she realized how clumsy her left hand was. Using chopsticks to eat; holding keys to open doors; grasping pens to write... these trivial matters that normally didn't require any effort suddenly became difficult tasks when done with her left hand.

  Chopsticks that are normally flexible and quick in her right hand can't pick up food from a dish when held in her left; the door-opening procedure that used to take only one second is now a long ordeal with the key hovering around the keyhole for half a day before it's finally inserted; the neat handwriting she's always been proud of becomes childlike scribbles, uglier than those of a three-year-old who has just learned to hold a pen... These are the "masterpieces" created by Lin Xiaoyu's left hand.

  Lin Xiaoyu found that she was too dependent on her right hand in her previous life. Everything was done subconsciously with her right hand, making her left hand, which had been neglected for a long time, extremely clumsy. Lin Xiaoyu felt that her two hands were like two identical twin brothers, but her right hand was an athletic sportsman who could run and jump well, while her left hand was like a weak scholar who couldn't even catch a chicken. Although they looked the same on the surface, the difference between the two hands when in use made Lin Xiaoyu feel unbelievable.

  Lin Xiaoyu remembers that when she was very young, she was a left-hander. She always used her left hand to pick up things and write with chopsticks. However, under the strict education of her mother, Lin Xiaoyu was deprived of the right to use her left hand for these activities. Her mother thought that in everyday life, everyone uses their right hand to do things, and she didn't want Lin Xiaoyu to stand out as special among ordinary people. So she forced Lin Xiaoyu to change from a left-hander to using her right hand like other children.

  (This kind of Chinese-style assimilation is frightening. I don't know how many children with extraordinary creative power are being stifled in their cradles. Education often molds all children into the same shape, just like molding clay. Sigh... A small lament. Friends who think my views are wrong can completely ignore this as nonsense.)

  Lin Xiaoyu really couldn't have imagined that her life over the past decade or so would make her left hand become so numb, it seems that once anything stagnates, it will slowly decline, just like a boat going upstream.

  When it comes to playing basketball, Lin Xiaoyu's left hand is like a child who has just come into contact with basketball. Normally, Lin Xiaoyu can do actions with her right hand with her eyes closed, but once she switches to her left hand, they become extremely difficult. Lin Xiaoyu finds that even completing a simple dribbling and layup with her left hand is a tricky problem. Lin Xiaoyu suddenly feels grateful for this injury to her right hand, because if it weren't for this injury, Lin Xiaoyu might have continued to neglect her left hand. Lin Xiaoyu can imagine that if her left hand could make movements as agile as her right hand, then on the court, her role would be doubled. In this way, even when facing strong opponents, her left hand would become a weapon that would give them headaches.

  At that time, when the whole team was preparing for the national high school basketball qualification match in the gym, Lin Xiaoyu would take a basketball to the corner of the court and start practicing her left hand alone.

  Practicing with the left hand is a tough process. The flexibility of the left hand itself is not as good as that of the right hand, and it has been accustomed to using the right hand to easily perform various high-difficulty movements. Now, in order to practice with the left hand, some simple and boring basic movements have to be repeated, which doesn't feel good at all. It's like someone who is used to riding a bicycle on the road with ease, but now suddenly has to carry this bike on their back. The contrast from riding a bike to carrying it on one's back is quite unbearable.

  Lin Xiaoyu is a person who can easily find happiness. Although practicing with her left hand was a bit arduous and tedious, Lin Xiaoyu found joy in the gradual improvement of her left-hand skills. Just like a child playing with mud seeing their own little castle being built up, that feeling of successful happiness can completely make them ignore the dirty mud on their face and clothes...

  In the training hall of the experimental middle school basketball team, even after all the players had left due to the end of training, a boy with his right hand bandaged could always be seen in one corner of the court, diligently practicing dribbling and passing with his left hand. On the stands, there would also be a beautiful girl gazing at this boy with deep affectionate eyes. In the gym, another beautiful girl would slowly tidy up the training equipment that had been slightly disorganized after the players' training, and she would occasionally steal glances towards the place where the basketball hit the ground and made a sound...

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