Yin Guo found that he played 9 goals, which was his own game.

"This is an amateur," Su Wei pointed to Lin Yiyang's back and whispered to Yin Guo, "Berry said he was challenging for a regional championship here."

Yin Guo nodded lightly, it turned out to be an amateur.

Berry was talking, and Su Wei was relaying: "And this regional champion has already won three games in this room. This is his blessed place. Berry also said that three thousand dollars is too hasty."

Yin Guo didn't understand the amount of betting here, so he didn't say anything.

Three thousand dollars is indeed not a small amount.

Lin Yiyang held the orange ball himself and handed the yellow ball to the opponent.

Yin Guo knew that they were about to compete for the kick-off.

He and the regional champion walked to the side of the table and each put the ball on the tee line.

Quiet all around.

Yin Guo and Su Wei stopped talking softly. Both of them know very well that in the nine-ball game, the right to tee off is very important, and the chance of winning is much greater if they get it, so when the two players start the game, they have to win the right to serve once.

The rules are very simple, two people have to hit the ball together at the tee line, and after each ball hits the opposite bank, it bounces back. Whoever is closest to himself when the ball stops, wins.

In the silence of the room, there were two slight knocks.

The two balls rolled out almost at the same time, drawn a straight trajectory on the blue table, hit the opposite bank at the same time, and bounced back at a constant speed.

The speed of the two balls is getting slower and slower.

Yin Guo stared at them, she almost knew the result-

Slowly, slowly, Lin Yiyang's orange ball surpassed the opponent's yellow ball. The ball rolled in front of Lin Yiyang and stopped against the edge of the table, no more or no less, and stuck to the shore of the ball, no closer than this.

Yellow Ball was also in the applause, stopped, only 1cm behind.

In the face of the 1cm gap, Lin Yiyang won.

"Who will be the referee?" Lin Yiyang picked up the white ball and placed it on the serving line.

"I, I'll come." Berry volunteered.

He originally came for the regional championship, but after watching Lin Yiyang's beautiful blow, his emotions were even higher.

He came to be the referee, he came to ensure fairness, in fact, he wanted to make sure that Lin Yiyang just got away with it.

There is a low long light on the table, which casts a soft white light on the blue table top. The light is very low, so low that it can only illuminate the position below his waist. Berry quickly stacks the balls in a nice diamond shape on the table.

He switched to green powder and smeared the clubhead.

On the side of the table, leaned down, looked down on the white ball, and aimed the clubhead. One hit.

While the ball was pocketed, the others had circled to the right side of the billiard table, caught up with the next blow, and another ball was pocketed. As soon as Yin Guo saw the pocket, he switched to the next position again and hit the ball quickly.

Is this for a fastball?

In general competitions, few people will play fastball, because it is all about career and world ranking games, and you have to play steadily. On the contrary, there will be opportunities to meet fastball masters in the ball room.

Some people just want to be fast and beautiful, but they have high requirements for positioning and accuracy.

The faster, the more accurate.

The nine ball is different from the middle eight, and you can only hit the ball with the smallest number on the table.

1 ball, 2 ball, 3 ball...

In the end, when there were three balls 7, 8 and 9 left on the table, he hit the 7th ball with the white ball and let the 7th ball hit the 9th ball, and the two balls were pocketed one after another.

The round ended with applause.

In the nine-ball game, whoever scores the No. 9 ball in the end is the winner.

He won. One shot clearing.

She stared at Lin Yiyang's back, looked at him, and smeared the club head with skillful powder again.

If you don't play fastball, in the official game, every shot is very important, and every shot needs to be played with skillful powder. This is to stabilize the mind and prepare for the next shot.

Unlike tonight, it was more of a show.

"It's still too late, everyone," this time it wasn't Lin Yiyang who was inviting, but the excited Berry, who said in English with a smile, "We can still raise, there are fifteen games in total. Don't miss it, everyone."

Everyone laughed and raised money.

Lin Yiyang's first game conquered all the strangers present, including the regional champion. Maybe before, he was still this ball room, the champion of this region, and tonight, I am afraid it will be a terrible match.

...

"He really looks like a professional." Su Wei sighed softly.

In the end, he hit faster and faster.

The rod is in place, the ball is pocketed. No mistakes, zero mistakes.

You don't see him stop, aim, nothing at all, just the ball keeps dropping and he keeps changing to the next position. This is the first time Yin Guo has seen someone play fastball all the way up close.

In the tenth inning, the No. 9 ball was hit and fell directly into the bottom pocket under everyone's attention.

Lin Yiyang stood up straight.

Fifteen games have not been played, and tonight's bet has been won. Perfect finish.

The regional champion who was sitting on the billiard chair and watching the last round stood up, stretched out his right hand to him, and smiled very happily. This is the hearty feeling of meeting his opponent. After losing convincingly, naturally there is no complaint.

"It's an honor." Lin Yiyang held the club in one hand and shook hands with the opponent.

The other side patted his arm heavily: "Young man, tell me, was there you in this year's U.S. Open? You must have signed up, right?"

Lin Yiyang smiled and shook his head. He put the club back in place and put it on the club rack.

Unlike these professional players, even if he came to bet such a huge game of billiards, he did not bring his own clubs, but only used the public clubs provided by the club.

The owner of the ballroom smiled and handed him a towel, along with a cup of hot water, which Lin Yiyang asked for from the owner just before the last game. He is thirsty.

Lin Yiyang held the mouth of the cup and took a small sip, moistening his throat. He was drinking water with his head down in the old beauty beside him. It seemed that he really spent a lot of energy and was seriously short of water. Almost, after drinking a small half cup. He raised his head, as if he had just seen Yin Guo, he fixed his eyes on her, and smiled to himself: "Hi."

She was going to wait for Lin Yiyang to finish drinking the water, and then came forward to say hello.

"Hi." She waved her right hand lightly.

Because was nervous watching the game, didn't speak for a long time, and voice was still a little hoarse.

Unconsciously clearing his throat.

"You know each other?" Su Wei asked Yin Guo in surprise.

"Are you friends?" the losing regional champion also asked Lin Yiyang at the same time.

"I just met," Lin Yiyang put the water glass on the billiard chair, looked at her seriously, and said to the gossipy crowd in English, "I really hope she treats me as a friend."

...

"Of course," Yin Guo, in the eyes of everyone, seemed to have done something bad and admitted his mistake, with a correct attitude and sincere tone, "We have always been friends."

Lin Yiyang was amused by her seriousness, and changed back to Chinese: "Just kidding, don't take it seriously."

Yin Guo also breathed a sigh of relief, and replied in Chinese: "I thought I was the wrong person at first."

Lin Yiyang smiled and said nothing.

However, he seemed to be in a good mood. He quickly took out a sticky note from his trousers pocket, handed it to the regional champion, and told him that this was his classmate's account. If he lost money, he could just put it into this account.

The regional champion happily took it and said with a smile that he would save money and wait for another game with Lin Yiyang.

"There should be no next time." Lin Yiyang said.

The other party didn't take it seriously and patted him on the shoulder: "You are welcome here at any time."

The crowd quickly dispersed, and each returned to his own table, because Lin Yiyang's wonderful game made them all excited to play. It didn't take long for everyone to start tonight's battle in full swing.

Only they are quiet here.

Yin Guo introduced Su Wei to Lin Yiyang: "Su Wei, came with me."

Lin Yiyang nodded.

He handed a bill to the waiter and whispered. After a while, the waiter came over with two drinks, he picked it up and handed it to Yin Guo and Su Wei.

After Su Wei thanked, she was dragged away by Berry, went to start a game, and turned around to thank her as she walked.

Yin Guo stayed here alone.

She bit the straw and sat on the pool chair next to Lin Yiyang's table, leaning against the wall, with both feet on the bar under the chair, watching the battle situation at the next table.

Suddenly realizing that there was no one around Lin Yiyang, he looked back and smiled at Lin Yiyang.

Lin Yiyang was leaning against the pool table, playing with a white ball.

Quiet.

This was the first time the two were alone, without Meng Xiaotian present.

He put the white ball in his hand on the tee line: "Why did you come so far?"

He knew the location of Yin Guo's hotel, and of course he knew very well that her hotel was far away from the ball room.

"Berry, who was talking to you just now, was brought by him. I heard that there are many contestants here tonight. Come and see," Yin Guo thought for a while, and then explained, "I signed up for the U.S. Open. "

Lin Yiyang nodded. Actually he knew.

From the first day at the bar, seeing a club box on three suitcases in the corner, Lin Yiyang knew that the siblings were here for the Open. Hiding in a bar with a custom club on a Blizzard day is just that reason, this identity.

But at that time, he thought the club belonged to his younger brother.

Seeing that he didn't speak, Yin Guo continued to bite the straw.

There are a lot of questions in heart, but don’t know them well, and I’m not used to chatting like friends, so have to hold back.

Lin Yiyang took out the balls he had just hit from the bag one by one, put them on the table, and arranged the nine balls into a diamond shape. She thought he wanted to start a new game, not that he just wanted to tidy up the table.

After everything was done, he picked up his winter clothes from the chair: "That friend of yours lives in the same hotel as you?"

He pointed at Su Wei with his eyes.

Su Wei was leaning over, aiming for the ball she was about to hit, at a table in the distance, by the door.

"It's not a family, but it's not far away," she also thought about the question of going back, "but she lives in Flushing tonight, her boyfriend's house, I guess I have to go back by myself."

Lin Yiyang had already put on his winter clothes and zipped up: "I'll take you back."

give me?

"Are you on your way?"

Probably not, the first night when took a taxi, the driver clearly said that he would take Yin Guo and the others to the hotel, and it was a detour to Queens.

"I'm a man, it doesn't matter how late I go back," Lin Yiyang glanced at the wall clock on the wall, "You're different."

is quite late. Her friend also warned her seriously that she should never go out alone at night as a girl, in addition to living in Manhattan in New York. Because she knew that Yin Guo had to practice in the ball room until it was dark, and told her that Meng Xiaotian would pick her up back to the hotel every day.

But it's too far from the hotel, and let him take a detour to see him off?

It's not safe to eat too many favors from people, right?

Yin Guo was still confused.

"Are you afraid I'll sell you?" Lin Yiyang joked with her.

"No, no," Yin Guo shook his head, "I don't want to trouble you all the time."

"It should be," he said. "I'm a man, and there's no excuse for sending girls home."

Lin Yiyang didn't give her a chance to think about it, he pointed to Yin Guo's clothes and bags piled on the billiard chair next to him, meaning to let her put them on, he directly picked up the bucket for Yin Guo, carried it, and walked to the front desk. , and check out with the boss.

The old rule, whoever wins the ball, pays the table rent.

Yin Guo didn't have time to think about it, she returned the cup to the bar, went to say hello to Su Wei, put on a down jacket, carried her bag, and followed Lin Yiyang who pushed open the door.

In less than fifteen innings, it was already snowing outside.

"I'll take a car, wait a minute," Yin Guo took out his phone from the pocket of his down jacket.

"It's been so long, and you're still taking a taxi? Why don't you take the subway?"

"I came last year and sat in the wrong place several times. Later, I didn't dare to sit casually." She was also depressed.

Yin Guo was also distressed. In fact, the entrance to her hotel was the subway entrance, so she didn't need to take a taxi all the time. But when she thinks of the subway, she has a psychological shadow.

The subway here is over a hundred years old, and many of the carriages are very dilapidated. She is not afraid of getting dirty, but she is afraid that there is no electronic display screen in the subway car, because it is not the mother tongue to announce the station, and she has to listen to the station name carefully throughout the whole process.

Worst of all, usually this kind of broken car, the station horn is often broken.

Once there is no broadcast sound, it will become a fool.

She once sat in a subway car with no electronic display screen and no station announcement sound twice in a row, and she happened to encounter the subway's draft, and it didn't stop for four stops.

Lin Yiyang smiled in the snow filled with goose feathers.

He pressed Yin Guo's phone and pointed to her hat: "Put it on, we have to walk three intersections, and it takes at least fifteen minutes to get to the subway entrance. Follow me, you can't lose it."

After he finished speaking, he put Yin Guo's club barrel on his back and walked into the wind and snow.

Yin Guo put on his hat and followed him closely. It was so cold that he didn't dare to take his hands out of his pockets.

Her boots kept stepping on fresh footprints on a layer of fresh snow, following in Lin Yiyang's footsteps. Lin Yiyang was looking at the condition of the car. He lowered his head and saw the pair of little boots walking very fast, and he was tired.

He was used to striding, and never tried to slow down for anyone. Tonight, it was very graceful and slowed down.

When he slowed down, Yin Guo breathed a sigh of relief.

She breathed white air, walked silently with him for five minutes. It's not right to be so quiet, need to find something to talk about.

"Do you like to gamble?" She took the initiative to chat.

"generally."

"It's all this big amount? Or do you like such a big bet here?" Yin Guo was taken aback when he heard the numbers just now, but he didn't expect such a large amount.

Lin Yiyang shook his head: "One of my classmates was betting with others, and he didn't dare to come after he made a heavy bet. He kept begging me for half a month."

Lin Yiyang stopped, they had reached the intersection after a while.

There is a red light in front of you, and you have to wait for the green light.

Seeing that Yin Guo was so quiet, he looked down at her: "Why don't you ask?"

"I was thinking, are they good friends?"

The trip from Washington to Flushing, New York, must have been for a very important friend.

Lin Yiyang shook his head, not counting.

"I want to invite someone to dinner, but I don't have money," he noticed that the green light had changed, put his hand on Yin Guo's back, pushed her onto the sidewalk, and walked to her right. "It's a quid pro quo."

It turns out that Yin Guo was crossing the road and thinking, he really likes to invite people to dinner.