Anthony the Reborn

Chapter 23 Women Are All Shopaholics

"Well, I'm back." Anthony said sourly in his heart, looking at Su Xi, he felt an urge to rush her into his arms.

"Hurry up and eat, what are you doing standing here!" Su Xi put the clothes aside, and stood up after speaking.

Anthony wanted to stretch out his hand, but in the end he squeezed his fist and let Su Xi leave from his side.

"Ah! The food is cold, let me heat it up." Su Xi said, then took the food to the kitchen to heat it up.

"Well, I'll help you." Anthony said and went up to help serve the dishes.

Speaking of which, this was Anthony's first time entering the kitchen, and it was clean. It could be seen that Su Xi had cleaned up a lot. Just when he was putting the dishes on the kitchen counter, he suddenly found a mirror hanging on the wall. Dazed for a while, this was the first time he had encountered a mirror hanging in the kitchen. He pointed to the mirror and asked suspiciously, "Su Xi, why is there a mirror here?"

Su Xi was adjusting the microwave oven, and when he heard Anthony's question, he said without looking back, "That, I hung up after a pepper got into my eyes last time."

"What?" Anthony didn't understand all of a sudden, wouldn't it be okay if peppers were put in glasses and hung mirrors?

"That's right!" Su Xi had already adjusted the microwave oven, walked to Anthony's side, looked in front of the mirror, and said with a smile, "Look at me, here is a mirror, so I can see myself and know myself What are you doing, you don’t know, the last time I was too tired, I forgot that I was cutting peppers, so I wiped it in my eyes..."

When she was talking, she also gestured with her hand, maybe because she was too close to Anthony, and when she put down her hand, she accidentally hit Anthony on the ass.

Anthony was taken aback, then turned his head and stared at Su Xi, with a sudden tenderness in his eyes.

Seeing Anthony looking at her, Su Xi's face turned into a red apple, and he was about to bleed.

The two looked at each other, neither of them spoke, and the atmosphere suddenly became very tense.

"Ding!"

Suddenly there was a crisp sound, and the dishes in the microwave oven were ready.

Su Xi quickly took two steps back, slapped her cheek with her hand, and said with a smile, "It's so hot~"

After speaking, she walked to the side of the microwave oven and prepared to take out the dishes inside.

Anthony was also withdrawn, and at this moment, he saw himself in the mirror, which was a face belonging to Carmelo Anthony, and his expression suddenly became complicated.

It’s true that he has time-traveled, he will be Carmelo Anthony in the future, but he has changed from a Chinese to an American, and Su Xi is a Chinese, if... if someday the two of them really have a relationship What, will Su Xi's parents agree?Will his family agree?The time he was in was 2003, and it couldn’t be compared to 2017. At that time, the Chinese had little resistance to Americans, but now, someone brought a foreign son-in-law back, and he was a celebrity. , Su Xi, can a girl bear it?

"Melo, what's the matter with you?"

Su Xi took out the dishes from the microwave oven, saw Anthony's face was cloudy and uncertain, and didn't know what happened to him suddenly, so he could only ask in a low voice.

"Ah? No... nothing..." Anthony smiled embarrassingly.

"Oh..." Su Xi glanced at Anthony strangely, then said with a smile, "Come and help us take out the dishes..."

"Hmm..." Anthony replied awkwardly.

At the dinner table, two people sat across the table. Su Xi blushed slightly and lowered his head shyly. Anthony was a little upset and didn't know what to say for a while. The two of them were silent and didn't speak. Awkward.

a long time.

"that……"

The two spoke almost in unison.

"Let's talk first..." Su Xi raised his head, looked at Anthony and said.

Anthony nodded and asked, "Did something happen to you after that night? I think you seem to be busy? I haven't seen you all the time."

In fact, he really wanted to ask about the tears he saw that morning, but he didn't say anything in the end.

"Me?" Su Xi smiled, "I'm fine, it's just that the work pressure is a bit higher, and I've been working overtime these days."

"Oh, that's it. I thought something happened to you." Anthony replied with a smile. He could see that this was not Su Xi's truth, but since she didn't want to tell it, she must have some concerns.

"By the way, it's you. Seeing your frowning face, did something not go your way?" Su Xi put a pinch of vegetables into Anthony's bowl, and asked with concern.

Anthony shook his head and said, "You don't understand my affairs."

"Hmph! What's the matter? How do you know I don't understand without saying anything?" Su Xi pouted.

"It's related to basketball." Anthony said, took a mouthful of rice, chewed it in his mouth, nodded and said, "This shredded potato is better than last time, and the cooking skills have improved!"

Su Xi was going to listen to what Anthony had to say, but when he changed the subject and suddenly praised her for cooking well, she blushed slightly, scratched her head and said, "It's okay, aren't they all about the same..."

"How come, there is progress, you have to trust my judgment level." Anthony said, inserting a large clip of potato shreds into his mouth, nodding while eating.

"Okay, I believe you." Su Xi's face was flushed, and he almost found a hole to drill down.

"Haha..." Anthony let out a burst of hearty laughter, as if he was proud of his success.

Su Xi raised his flushed face, looked at Anthony suddenly and said, "Melo, tell me, maybe I can help you solve some doubts in your heart. There is a saying in China that 'the authorities are obsessed with the bystanders', you just Tell me, it won’t lose meat anyway, if it does lose, I’ll make it up for you!”

"..."

"Well, remember the last time I told you on the note that I was going on a road trip?" Anthony put down his chopsticks and said slowly.

"Well, I know." When Su Xi heard Anthony talking about the note, her face that had just receded a little and immediately flushed again, but hearing Anthony meant that she was ready to speak, she raised her head and looked at him intently again, for fear What's left behind.

"Let me tell you this, the last time I was playing against the Raptors, a Canadian team, I almost got into a fight with their star player..."

"You and Carter almost got into a fight?!" Su Xi was startled, with a nervous expression on his face.

Anthony looked at Su Xi in surprise, frowned and said, "Do you know Carter?"

"Yeah, I'm also a half-basketball fan. Otherwise, you think I'd be so confident to help you answer your questions? But then again, how could you date him? I remember that he has a good temper..." Su Xi asked in confusion.

"People are not necessarily what they see..."

Anthony went on to talk about what happened with the Raptors that day.

"Melo..." After listening to Anthony's narration, Su Xi suddenly looked at him seriously and said, "Melo, you just entered this alliance. There are some things you may not know. As far as what you just said, I think This is not Carter's original intention, his purpose is just to irritate you, and then let you do it, because he knows that you are just a rookie, and you will definitely be tricked."

"..."

"Didn't your coach stop letting you play in the end, so his plan succeeded!" Su Xi continued.

Anthony frowned, but after thinking about it carefully, what Su Xi said seemed to be true, and thinking that Carter, whom he met before crossing the lock, didn't seem to be the kind of troublemaker. It seemed that he was really fascinated by the authorities. I thought he wouldn't be like those rookies in the NBA after time travel, but now it seems that he still has a lot to learn besides not being so easy to foul.

Seeing Anthony's expression that seemed to be enlightened, Su Xi smiled, and said quite complacently: "Tell me, I know this small matter will definitely not bother you so much, and what else, let's talk about it all. I'll help you out."

"Ahem..." Seeing Su Xi become so heroic, Anthony couldn't get used to it for a while.

"I've said it~" Su Xi said delicately.

"Yeah." Anthony nodded, and he didn't say what Su Xi would do, "Actually, what I'm most confused about now is my head coach, because my playing time was restricted after the last game. I spent most of the game sitting on the bench, you know, as a player, sitting on the court is a very painful thing."

Su Xi touched his cheek with his hand, hesitated for a while, and finally lowered his voice and said tentatively, "Did you hit badly behind?"

Anthony was taken aback for a moment, but immediately understood what Su Xi said. Generally, sitting on the bench is mostly due to bad beatings. He shook his head and said, "If I was the bad beating, do you think I would still be troubled?"

"Oh, then it's not a bad beating." Su Xi said with a smile, "Wait for me to think about it."

"Yeah." Seeing Su Xi's serious look, Anthony felt warm in his heart, and those troubles seemed not so important.

"You were pressed on the bench after a fight?" Su Xi suddenly raised his head and asked.

"Ah."

"Then... I think there are two possibilities. First, your head coach is dissatisfied with you and just found an opportunity to suppress you. Second, your head coach doesn't want you to get hurt. I personally think The second possibility is more likely." Su Xi analyzed.

"Injured?" Anthony heard this for the first time.

"Yes, think about it. You are the one chosen by Vandeweghe. He is the general manager. In terms of power, he has a lot of power to intervene in the choice of coaches. Therefore, unless it is absolutely necessary, the head coach will not talk to the general manager. The manager is doing it against him, so the possibility of the first case is small, so the second case is left..."

When Su Xi said this, he looked at Anthony with piercing eyes: "You played so wonderfully in the first game that the opponents regarded you as the core player of the Nuggets. They must have tried their best to target you. It’s okay to meet Carter, but if you meet someone else, especially a player like Artest, you may be injured, so the idea of ​​the head coach is to protect you, and it is likely to be instructed by Vandeweghe.”

"Yes, it should be his instruction." After Su Xi finished speaking, he repeated it again, as if he was satisfied with his own analysis.

Listening to what Su Xi said, Anthony recalled that Vandeweghe had approached Bzdelik in private, and thinking about it now, it was probably the so-called "instruction" that Su Xi said.

Seeing that Anthony was still thinking about it, Su Xi suddenly reached out and patted Anthony and said, "Actually, you don't have to worry at all, because the preseason is irrelevant. When the regular season starts, the coach will definitely let you play for a long time. You have to do it yourself." Get ready~”

"Well, you're right." Anthony's doubts were eliminated, and he laughed from the bottom of his heart.

"Then..." Seeing that Anthony was no longer worried, Su Xi suddenly said badly, "I helped you, do you want to repay me?"

"Repay..." Anthony glanced at Su Xi strangely, not knowing what her so-called repayment was, could it be...

As he thought about it, he couldn't help but look Su Xi up and down.

Seeing Anthony's eyes flicking at her body, Su Xi hurriedly said, "Don't think about it, the reward I said is not what you think..."

"Which one am I thinking?" Anthony suddenly wanted to tease Su Xi.

"It's just... hmph, it's not like that anyway!" Su Xi said, stood up and walked upstairs.

Seeing Su Xi leaving in anger, Anthony hurriedly followed, yelling, "Listen to my explanation..."

It turned out that Su Xi's repayment meant accompanying her to buy clothes. Anthony didn't think it was a big deal at first, and he just happened to buy a few clothes for Su Xi. He could wait until the shopping mall and watch Su Xi who was shopping like crazy. Finally realized one thing he almost overlooked: women are all shopaholics!
(End of this chapter)