Fox in the Penalty Area

"There is a problem." After putting all the pots and pans into the dishwasher, Li Qingqing said to Hu Lai, "How can we train without football?"

"Who said there's no football?"

After Hu Lai finished speaking, he ran upstairs.

Soon he came down with a football in his arms, Li Qingqing's eyes widened: "Are you willing?"

That was the first football that Hu Lai bought with money in his life, and it was the witness of the two of them meeting.

Even to a certain extent, it can be regarded as... "a token of love".

Hu Lai has always put it on the desk, and looks very cherished.

Li Qingqing thought that this football would become an eternal souvenir and lose the attributes of football itself.

Didn't expect Hu Lai to take it off the desk today and kick it again?

"What is there to be reluctant about? Isn't it a football? Besides, we should be in a hurry. Let the fat man buy us a full set of training equipment tomorrow, including a new football, so we can train at home." Hu Lai Throw the football up, and head the ball towards Li Qingqing.

Li Qingqing lifted his foot to stop the ball, and found that the football had enough gas, and there was no shortage of gas, which met the conditions for use.

"Okay. Let's go after an hour's rest. I'll review my Spanish first."

Song Jiajia hired a Spanish teacher for Li Qingqing, but he didn't come every day. He had three classes a week and came three times.

When she doesn't come here, Li Qingqing reviews Spanish by herself.

This was the pattern of her life before Hou Lai came to Madrid.

Now with Hu Lai, it is naturally different.

"Then I'll review for you. If you don't know anything, you can ask me." Hu Lai sat down beside Li Qingqing.

"it is good."

Li Qingqing agreed very readily at first, but she soon regretted it because...

"What are you doing?" she asked, turning her head.

"Look at you." Hu Lai next to him supported his head with one hand,

Wei Wei looked sideways at Li Qingqing and said.

"Then don't keep looking at me like this... I will be distracted!" Li Qingqing protested.

"You're so pretty, can't you just take a few more glances?" Hu Lai said cheekily.

"You can watch it as you like, but don't influence me here when I'm studying!"

In the end, Hu Lai was sent away by Li Qingqing.

"If you don't, I'll call you again!"

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Hu Lai, who was driven away, boarded the balcony on the second floor, looked to the left, and saw the lights in the neighbor's house.

It is said that they are neighbors, but the distance between the two parties is almost 100 meters.

There was some movement over there, but I couldn't even hear it very clearly. And vice versa.

It is completely different from the kind of neighbors in China where chopping ribs upstairs and your windows are shaking.

After two and a half years in Leeds, Hou Lai has to get used to this kind of life.

At least in this way, no one will easily disturb the two-person world between him and Li Qingqing.

He looked at the neighbors, and remembered what Song Jiajia said, that seemed to be Maxi Carey's home over there.

Maxi Carey was famous, and of course Holly had heard of it.

There has been such a saying in the market, although it has never been confirmed, many people are willing to believe that it is true:

That is, if Maxi Carey is not because of his personality, he can actually compete with Alexandra Serrados for the "Four Heavenly Kings".

After all, before Serrados won the World Cup, he was the weakest one among the "Four Heavenly Kings".

Louis Francis is in the same team as him. He is the top card of the King of Madrid. He has won all the honors of the national team and the club. He is the winner of the Grand Slam in football.

Not to mention Celius Caesar of the Turin Bulls, among the four kings, he has maintained a very good state until now. The "all-round superman" in world football has almost no shortcomings, whether it is physical or technical. I have won all the honors that the club should have, and I have also won all the personal honors. In the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, he helped Italy to win the World Cup and became the champion among the "Four Heavenly Kings". Both his ability and prestige have reached the peak.

Grimand Aylmer, the "Sun King" of Blue and White Munich, is a well-deserved leader of German football. Except for the European Cup champion, which has not been touched, all other championships have been won.

Compared with the three of them, Serados is indeed somewhat weak.

At the club, although he has won many championships, it is after all in the King of Madrid. Isn't it normal to win the championship in Madrid?

In terms of personal influence, before Francis retired, Serrados could only be the "second gang leader" in the King of Madrid, and the boss has always been Francis.

The honor of the national team is zero, there is no World Cup, and there is no European Cup.

Before the United States and Canada won the World Cup, many people thought that Serrados was the four kings.

And Maxi Carey is the most vocal player among those who are considered to be the "Four Kings".

National team honors, Maxi Carey and Celados were all zero at the time.

The club's honor is short of the Champions League.

But after all, he is a pirate in Madrid, not a king of Madrid, so being able to achieve such a result is enough to show his strong personal ability.

Coupled with Maxi Carey's chic and elegant style of play, full of imagination, he is better than Celados in terms of viewing.

In the eyes of the majority of fans, the popularity is naturally high.

Of course, there is nothing to dispute about this issue now. Serrados led the Spanish team to win the 2026 World Cup in the United States and Canada. He himself also won the best player in the World Cup with four goals and two assists.

The debate about whether he was qualified enough to become the "Four Heavenly Kings" came to an abrupt end.

...

Maxi Carey is an extremely talented and talented top superstar, but he has a temper...

Although Hu Lai has never been in contact with this superstar, he is also deeply impressed. The deepest one was last year's World Cup.

Originally, the players of the Chinese team participated in the World Cup for the first time, and they were a little nervous.

After hearing that Maxi Carey was out of the World Cup with an unexpected injury, everyone was even more nervous. So much so that a slightly intense fight in training can cause a small conflict.

So in fact, it can be said that the conflict between Jiang Wanqing and Gao Chen was triggered by Maxi Carey...

After that injury, at the airport where he left, facing the swarming fans and media reporters, Carey said coolly: "Do you regret missing the World Cup? No, it is not my regret that I can't participate in the World Cup, but the World Cup. Pity."

This sentence also left a deep impression on Hu Lai, because it really seemed to be pretending.

Of course, Maxi Carey can indeed be called the "King of Pushing the King", You Shan pretends to be pushing.

There are always a few players with special personalities in world football, and Maxi Carey is one of them.

In addition, after he was criticized for his maverick personality, he uttered such a golden sentence:

"For those who don't like me, I have only one word: the mountain is there. Whether you like it or not, the mountain is there."

This sentence has become a classic quotation that can represent Maxi Carey.

as well as:

"Fuck it, I 'MAX' is such a dick!"

His other nickname "MAX" also comes from this sentence.

The difference between Maxi Carey's name MAXI and MAX is only one letter.

MAX also means the highest, the most, the biggest, and the limit, so he uses this word to express that he is the most powerful player in the world, and he doesn't take the "Four Kings" seriously at all.

A fanatic nicknamed "Marx" really complements a club like the "vanguard of the working class"...

Hu Lai complained in his heart.

Such a person with full of personality is the number one star of his new club, why does he feel difficult to get along with...

But Hu Lai is not afraid.

He has been fighting wits and courage with his own father since he was a child, and he doesn't know how to write the word "fear".

"Holly!"

Li Qingqing's calling sounded from downstairs.

"Coming!"

Hu Lai quickly ran downstairs after responding.

His Li Qingqing needed him, so he went there on a colorful cloud.

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After Li Qingqing finished studying Spanish, the two of them changed their clothes and appeared on the lawn in the backyard.

"It is actually very simple to practice the left foot. It is to add restrictions to the training: 'All touches can only be performed with the left foot'. Starting from the ball, first cultivate the left foot's sense of the ball."

Li Qingqing said that to step on the football with his left foot is to press down on the football with his foot, let the football jump up after being squeezed and deformed, and then stir up the football with his foot.

She juggled the ball with only her left foot and appeared very skilled.

It is not obvious at all that her dominant foot is her right foot. If there is a women's football game, Li Qingqing's reverse foot ability in the game should be at full value.

After bouncing for a while, Li Qingqing handed the football to Hu Lai with his left foot: "Go on! Use your left foot!"

When Hu Lai conditioned to lift her right foot, she shouted.

Hu Lai switched to his left foot in a hurry and didn't stop well.

He himself was a little embarrassed: "This time it doesn't count, I'm not ready!"

He was really not ready, not an excuse.

Li Qingqing smiled happily, because she seemed to have returned to the secret base eight years ago.

"No more, just use your left foot to bounce the ball."

After Li Qingqing assigned the task, she just watched from the sidelines.

Hu Lai is bouncing, and he will always switch to his right foot reflexively. At this time, Li Qingqing will remind him aloud.

In fact, Hu Lai's left foot didn't say that he couldn't even do the simplest juggling, but he usually juggles with his left and right feet alternately. Once he was asked to only use his left foot to juggle the ball, it was against his habit, so he would It always takes a while to get used to.

Fortunately, it didn't take long for him to get used to it.

After Li Qingqing saw that he was used to it, he didn't let him continue bouncing, but called a stop and asked him to pass the football with his left foot.

The two pass the ball to each other.

Pass with left foot, receive with left foot.

At the beginning, it was passed on the spot and received on the spot. Later, when Li Qingqing saw that Hu Lai was getting used to it, he started running to pass and receive.

After the two went to the football park to "digest food", this was actually the first time that Hu Lai played football with Li Qingqing after many years.

Hu Lai also had a new understanding of the growth of Li Qingqing's abilities.

It has to be said that regardless of the innate gap in physical confrontation between men and women, Hu Lai believes that Li Qingqing should be one of the top players in football.

Especially the basic skills are particularly solid.

Don't look at the simple passes so far, but the power of Li Qingqing's every pass...is exactly the same!

Can you believe it?

It's like a ruthless serving machine. After setting parameters such as strength and speed, each kick is the same as the previous kick. To what extent do you have to control your own muscle strength...

Hu Lai has always known that Li Qingqing is a genius of the Chinese women's football team and has a very high position in the world women's football team. Otherwise, the King of Madrid would not have spent so much money to sign her from Paris Eger.

But in fact, it was not until today that Hu Lai had a deeper and true understanding of how powerful Li Qingqing was.

He even thought, if he could live with Li Qingqing earlier, how quickly his football level would improve...

Thinking of this, Hu Lai had a whim, entered the system space, and used points to buy [Advanced Training Scroll: Pass] and [Advanced Training Scroll: Catch], as well as [Advanced Training Scroll: Shoot], and use them on himself.

He wanted to see if his way of training privately with Li Qingqing at home would be recognized as a "training session" by the system.

It turns out... Well, the system doesn't think this is a formal training session.

After using the scroll, an icon also appeared in the BUFF column, but the icon is gray...

The description didn't work.

It seems that it is not feasible to rely on the way of opening a small stove to enjoy the system bonus.

But Hu Lai himself was not too disappointed. After all, even without the bonus of the training scroll, as long as he practiced honestly every day, his ability would still improve.

It's just going to be a little slower.

Go slow.

As Fatty Song said, he and Li Qingqing will have a long life in the future... How can they be day and night?

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The football rolled quickly on the lawn, and the friction made a rustling sound.

Li Qingqing watched the football roll towards Hu Lai, and couldn't help but smile on his face.

She secretly thought a lot about what would happen after she and Hu Lai lived together.

But I didn't expect them to pass and catch the ball in the yard like this...

But she wasn't disgusted, let alone disappointed.

She was even delighted.

She seems to have returned to 2019 eight years ago, when she and Hu Lai met at the secret base, and she became his coach.

At that time they were only sixteen years old.

She is very grateful that she met Hu Lai when she was sixteen years old, on that day when she didn't even know if she could continue to play football.

She is even more fortunate that even after eight years, they can still play football together like this.

Football is really good...

Li Qingqing kicked the football towards Hu Lai.

Hu Lai stopped the ball according to his previous habit, but his raised left foot was kicked back a step, and he almost missed the ball.

"Wow! Why did you increase your strength suddenly?" Hu Lai exclaimed.

Li Qingqing said solemnly: "Cough, I think you've gotten used to it, so it's time to increase the difficulty!"

Hu Lai looked at her suspiciously: "Is that so?"

"Of course! I'm your coach!" After speaking, she hooked Hu Lai, "Bring the football back and increase your strength."

Hu Lai obeyed.

Boom!

"You see, if you use a little force, the pass will not be accurate." Li Qingqing turned to look at the football hitting the wall next to him and said to Hu Lai.

Hu Lai opened his mouth and found that he had no way to refute. He could only say, "Come again!"