Fox in the Penalty Area

The school bell rang in every corner of the campus, and soon students with schoolbags came out of the classrooms, appeared in the corridors, in the stairwells, and poured out of different teaching buildings.

Some of them ran to the school playground, and some went to the school gate.

But in the teaching building of the third year of high school, not many people got up and left.

They still have evening self-study to go, now is not the time to leave school.

Chu Yifan put down the pen in his hand, raised his head from behind the pile of books on the table, and then took out a pair of crutches leaning against the wall.

Holding on to his crutches, he tried his best to stand up, and then slowly moved towards the door of the classroom.

"Chu Yifan, you still have to go to training after this?"

someone in the classroom asked.

"Not for training." Chu Yifan smiled. "It's to say goodbye."

"Ah, yes, you're retiring from the football team... shall I help you?"

"Thank you, but there's no need." When Chu Yifan said this, he had already seen Yan Yan standing at the door of his classroom.

"How about it, is it convenient to go down the stairs? Do you want me to carry you?" Yan Yan greeted Chu Yifan after he came out.

"Go to hell, I need your back?" Chu Yifan glared at him.

Yan Yan laughed out loud, attracting many people's attention.

Seeing him like this, Chu Yifan complained: "You will be the captain of the team next, can you be more cautious..."

Yan Yan shook his head with a smile, and said nonchalantly, "I'm not going to be serious, Team Chu. Not everyone is like you."

"Oh..." Chu Yifan sighed, "I really don't know if you are suitable to be the captain now."

"Hey." Yan Yan smiled, and slowly moved towards the stairs at Chu Yifan's speed.

"Don't help me." Chu Yifan said to Yan Yan when he reached the stairs.

Yan Yan raised his hands: "Okay, I won't help you."

But he still walked on the steps slightly ahead of Chu Yifan by two squares, so that if Chu Yifan didn't maintain his balance and was about to fall, he could also help Chu's team below.

Chu Yifan leaned against the railing of the stairs, supported his crutches with both hands, and carefully walked down the steps step by step.

"Captain Chu, I actually thought about it." Yan Yan, who was walking in front, shook his head back and forth, first looked at his feet, and then turned back to look at Chu Yifan.

"Thought what?"

"When we went to find Luo Kai, I thought about it, if Luo Kai can really help the team enter the national competition, then when you retire, I don't have to be the captain, let Luo Kai, let him come Be captain."

Chu Yifan, who was looking down at the steps under his feet, stopped in surprise when he heard these words, and looked up at Yan Yan.

"Really, I really thought so at the time, after we found Luo Kai and came back." Yan Yan stood below him, looked up at him and said. "As long as the team can go to a national competition, I don't care if I'm the captain or not. You are right, Team Chu. I'm actually not a qualified captain."

"I didn't mean that, Yan Yan..."

"It's okay, Team Chu. I don't really want to be the captain myself. When I think of showing myself dignified in front of my teammates all the time, I feel very tired-you know I'm not that kind of person. I just I like to be an unprincipled vice-captain, and occasionally use your name to come out and pretend to be powerful, ha!"

Speaking of this, Yan Yan laughed.

But Chu Yifan couldn't laugh, he said to Yan Yan: "But Luo Kai is gone too."

"Yeah, Luo Kai is gone too..." Yan Yan sighed.

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Hu Lai packed his schoolbag, took the sports bag with the jersey from Song Jiajia, and ran out of the classroom first: "See you on the court later, Fatty!"

"Go, go..." Song Jiajia waved her hand, and then began to pack her schoolbag slowly.

In the classroom, many students saw Hu Lai running out, and after Hu Lai ran away, they all started talking.

"It turns out that I went to play the national competition,

Do you really want to become a professional player? "

"Yes, yes, now that I think about it, I still feel a little unbelievable... This is the first time I feel that campus football and professional football are so close..."

"I'm a little envious, I also want to be a professional player..."

"Huh? You have a good idea, you can't even get into the school team!"

"Hey, do you look down on me! Even Hu Lai can enter the school team..."

"Hey, you're really not as good as Hu Lai! He scored three goals in this national competition, the second scorer in the team, second only to Luo Kai!"

"When you say that... it's really incredible. Who would have thought that Hu Lai could score three goals in the national competition... Didn't you say that you can't even kick the ball? "

"That's not it. We used to laugh at people before, but now it seems... Sigh!"

Listening to the discussion in the classroom, Song Jiajia kept packing things.

Before they finished talking about this topic, the schoolbags were also packed.

Song Jiajia put his schoolbag on his back and got up from his seat. He didn't need to look around. He could see that there were two very special places in this classroom with just a glance.

It's not like other people's desks are full of books, and it even looks a little messy.

These two seats are clean on the surface, in stark contrast to the "overcrowded" desks around them.

Of these two desks, one belongs to Li Qingqing and the other belongs to Luo Kai.

Just three days after the school football team came back from the national competition, Luo Kai came to the school for the last time. Under the leadership of his parents, he cleaned up his desk and made a simple exercise with the whole class. Say goodbye and leave school.

After he left, news spread in the class that Luo Kai had dropped out of school to play professional football.

Everyone also came to ask Hu Lai. After all, Hu Lai and Luo Kai participated in the national competition.

Hu Lai confirmed this statement impatiently.

So everyone knew that Luo Kai actually passed the national competition, and was valued by the professional football club, signed the contract, and became a professional player...

For Luo Kai's departure, the boys are generally envious, and at the same time they are a little proud. After all, if Luo Kai becomes a star in the future, then everyone can be counted as Luo Kai's classmates.

The girls, on the other hand, felt dejected for several days, feeling that Prince Charming was getting farther and farther away from them, and they might be people from two completely different worlds in the future, and they would never have any intersection again in their lifetime. The fantasies in their hearts about youth and ignorance have all come to naught...

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When Hu Lai entered the locker room to change clothes, he found that there were many fewer people in the locker room.

He was in a daze for a moment, and then remembered that all his senior teammates had left the team, and only their sophomore and freshman players were left on the football team, wouldn't there be a lot less people than usual?

"Oh, the locker room suddenly became empty, and I'm not used to it..." Meng Xi said with emotion.

Usually thirty-six people share a locker room, which really makes this small locker room very crowded, but everyone is used to this kind of crowding.

Meng Xi started talking, and everyone started chatting.

"By the way, I slept and dreamed last night, and I dreamed that we were participating in the national competition..."

"What you said... I still feel that the national competition is like a dream! A dream that I don't want to wake up from!"

"I also hope that I will sleep for a long time and won't wake up... You don't know how upset I was when my mother woke me up today!"

"Promise!" Hu Lai raised his head and said, "Why don't we go to the national competition next year? Are you still dreaming every day?"

Everyone in the locker room stopped talking, but turned to look at Hu Lai.

"What? Did I say the wrong thing?" Facing everyone's eyes, Hu Lai was puzzled.

"It's a good wish, Hu Lai. But it may be a bit difficult to realize..." a teammate said euphemistically.

"Why is it so difficult?" Hu Lai asked back. "Just because Team Chu and the others retired?"

"Uh... and Luo Kai is gone too..."

Hearing Luo Kai's name, Hu Lai snorted heavily through his nose: "He's going his own way. Without him, can we not participate in the national competition?"

"That's right! What Hu Lai said is right, if Butcher Luo is gone, will it be possible for us to eat hairy pigs?" Meng Xi jumped out and formed a united front with Hu Lai.

Everyone looked at these two people and hesitated to speak.

That is to say, anyone can speak beautiful words. But the actual situation is that once Luo Kai leaves, the strength of the team will be greatly reduced. You must know that Luo Kai has contributed a lot to the reason why they can participate in the national competition. It can be said that without Luo Kai, they would not be able to go to the capital to play the national competition. There is nothing wrong with this statement.

But everyone also knows that the relationship between Hu Lai and Luo Kai is not good, so Hu Lai must say that... Everyone is embarrassed to refute him directly.

In any case, the second best performer in this national competition is Hu Lai. Luo Kai scored six goals, and Hu Lai also scored three goals. He is the second scorer in the team...

Just when the atmosphere in the locker room was a little weird, Yan Yan, the deputy captain, appeared at the door: "Hurry up and change clothes, Team Chu and the others are here."

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Chu Yifan stood in front of all the players with the support of his crutches, and everyone's eyes were always on the crutches and his right ankle.

In the game against Chongwen Middle School, the Chu team was injured, unable to persist in the game, and was forced to change. That was the turning point of the team's rout.

Team Chu's injury was later diagnosed as a torn ankle ligament.

Even for professional players, this is a very serious injury.

Everyone will inevitably feel a little depressed when they see the captain like this. On the one hand, it is because they are reminded of their dream of the national competition and they were eliminated, and on the other hand, it is because of the injury of the captain.

Injury is the devil that everyone who plays football least wants to encounter, but has a high probability of encountering...

Chu Yifan ignored the eyes of his teammates looking at him, maintained his usual smile and said: "I have nothing to regret in my high school football career, thank you, I participated in the national competition for the first time in my life - from the first Since the beginning of the national competition, I have always dreamed that I can play in the national competition. At that time, I was still in elementary school. I finally realized this dream in the third year of high school, so I said that I have no regrets at all. This is not self-deception."

Speaking of which, his smile was even a bit brighter, proving that he wasn't duplicity.

"And we reached the quarterfinals in the national competition, which far exceeded my initial expectations. I just thought that if I could play a national competition, I would be satisfied. I didn't expect us to be the quarterfinals... …Although I can’t go any further, I’m already very satisfied. So thank you everyone!”

Chu Yifan bowed to his teammates.

"Next, our junior high school players will quit the team. The future of the team depends on you. I hope to see you in the national competition next year. I don't want our Dongchuan Middle School football team to be just a flash in the pan."

When Chu Yifan said these words, he glanced at Hu Lai.

He still remembered what Yan Yan once said to him - this is the chosen one who is valued by the head coach.

His performance in this national competition seems to prove this point.

Every time the manager substituted him, he was sure to score.

After Chu Yifan was eliminated from the team, he fantasized more than once that if he was not injured and the head coach replaced Hu Lai, would we have a chance to take down Chongwen Middle School?

But now that's all hypothetical.

Luo Kai performed well in the national competition and was selected by professional teams. Hu Lai continued to stay in the team. If anyone in this team could give Chu Yifan hope, it must be him.

Thinking of this, he turned his gaze to Yan Yan and saw Yan Yan nodding at him.

He talked with Yan Yan on the way here, and the decision was agreed by both of them.

Chu Yifan, who retracted his gaze, cleared his throat, turned to look at the head coach Li Ziqiang: "Coach, I have a heartfelt request."

Li Ziqiang said, "What request?"

"After I hand over the captain's armband to Yan Yan, can Hu Lai be the team's vice-captain?"

As soon as this remark came out, the whole team was in an uproar!

Everyone looked at Chu Yifan with incredulous eyes, including Hu Lai himself.

He waved his hands again and again: "No, Captain Chu, I don't..."

But before he finished his refusal, he heard Li Ziqiang say: "Yes."

This time there was no uproar, the court was silent.

Everyone turned their heads and looked at the head coach who had just nodded with incredible eyes.