Prose | Huachun: Shooting

Hua Chun (Japan)

My father was famous for his love of watching football.

That year, he was 65 years old, his mother had been dead for 5 years, and colleagues in the unit advised him to continue the string. The enthusiastic matchmaker brought a few middle-aged women, and the father talked back and forth, never finding the feeling. Later, the matter was not brought up again.

One day, an old sister came and said that she came to see the object, and my father guessed that the old sheep had come from the side. It happened to be a hot game at the nearby stadium that day, and he didn't say much, asked her to sit down in a chair and turned on the TV.

The TV was a black-and-white screen, and every conversation between the two was related to the live broadcast of the football game. The eldest sister looks very straightforward, dressed very plainly, and looks like a retired cadre. She seemed to already know her father's hobbies, and reported to the door: "Our house is also near the stadium." ”

Our brothers and sisters sat on the side one on the left and one on the right, waiting for the game to start. After a while, there was a thunderous cry from the other side of the stadium, and the game gradually entered a hot stage of intense intensity.

Only to hear the TV narrator shout a "shoot", the big sister in front of the TV set "snapped" a thigh, stomped on the foot, and shouted: "Good ball!" "Her voice was like thunder, and for a moment she shocked our whole family.

The loud slap on the thigh, the deafening roar of the red face, was enough to make my father bounce up from his chair, as if he saw the green forest from the northeast. However, this is not nothing, we are also in a state of excitement, in front of the screen can not stop shouting, enough to lively for more than an hour before the end.

Afterwards, the father said, how did the old sheep introduce a tiger girl? This woman can beat the Japanese devil, and I am afraid that I will break the floor when I come to our house. However, such a woman who is so obsessed with football games, her father is still the first time he has met him at such an old age.

The eldest sister later asked to come to my house several times to watch the ball, when the TV set was a rarity, and my father came out of the cell of the isolation and censorship, and the salary was all thawed, so he bought this luxury.

The elder sister's request could not be refused. So, every time the ball game started, my family was very happy, and everyone shouted and shouted. The words between the elder sister and the father do not need to be specially hinted at and arranged, they are a pair of fans, in the era of spiritual and material scarcity, it is difficult to have the opportunity to laugh and entertain like this.

However, whether it is the father or the eldest sister, who has experienced the guns and bullets of the War of Resistance Against Japan in the past, and suffered physical and mental destruction in the 1960s and 1970s, they have also fallen into various diseases and terminal illnesses.

The years were merciless, until my father once changed his face for a ball that could not be shot, and suddenly he fell down and was taken to the hospital by an ambulance, and the two interrupted contact.

Not long after his father passed away, the eldest sister also died.

Many years later, I speculated several times that my father was happy with her. Despite a ball kicking around in their hearts, they never scored.

【About the Author】

Hua Chun, who went to Japan in the 1980s to study, worked in environmental protection agencies, parliamentary offices, and construction companies. He is currently retired and living in Tokyo, Japan. He is the author of novels, prose, poetry, etc., and has won many important domestic literary awards, and has been compiled into university textbooks and excellent anthologies. In 2015, he was invited by the State Council to Beijing to participate in the "9.3" military parade. He was a director of the Chinese Environmental Literature Research Association, the honorary president of the Japanese Chinese Literature PEN Association, the director of the World Chinese Tourism Literature, a visiting researcher at Jinan University in China, the Institute of East Asian Culture of East China University of Political Science and Law in Shanghai, and a visiting professor at the China Chinese Creative Center of Shanghai University.

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