Fox in the Penalty Area

"Team Chu pass quickly!"

On the football field of Nanshan University, two teams are playing an eleven-a-side football match. A team in blue jerseys is attacking the goal of the team in white jerseys.

Accompanied by this shout, Chu Yifan, who was wearing the No. 10 blue jersey, sent a through kick.

Just after the football kicked out, a blue figure suddenly appeared in the white team's defense.

The white team's defensive players followed the football and turned their heads to look away, only to see that the blue team player had appeared behind them.

Someone raised his arm reflexively and shouted: "Offside!"

But the blue team player didn't listen to him at all. After receiving Chu Yifan's pass, he dribbled the ball into the penalty area, and then faced the attacking white team goalkeeper, his left shoulder sank, and his right foot pushed the football far away. horn.

The football passed the opponent's goalkeeper and easily entered the goal.

"Stop shouting, old Guo. Hu Lai's ball is not offside. Ha!" Chu Yifan smiled and said to the opponent who raised his hand and shouted for offside. Judging from the tone, the two were already very familiar.

"Damn! It's just a match between the two departments. You still invite foreign aid. If you invite foreign aid, just invite foreign aid. You also invite the Poseidon Youth Team..." The person called "Old Guo" pointed at Chu Yifan and cursed.

Chu Yifan chuckled: "Don't tell me that your No. 30 is not from the South China Tigers youth team."

Lao Guo's face suddenly became a little embarrassed.

"Everyone calls you foreign aid, only the eldest brother doesn't say the second brother. Besides, you call foreign aid to win us, but we are not called foreign aid..."

"Damn it, this is the most shameless thing I've ever heard. Why do you call foreign aid not to win?" Old Guo said angrily.

"Of course it's to help Hu Lai stay in the game." Chu Yifan said goodbye to the other party with a smile, and then ran to celebrate the goal with Hu Lai.

"...We called foreign aid because we are temporarily short of people!" Old Guo shouted angrily behind Chu Yifan, but Chu Yifan had already ignored him.

Chu Yifan hugged Hu Lai who had grown a little, and patted his chest happily: "Hu Lai's shot is beautiful!"

Hu Lai said hastily: "It's the Chu team, you made a good pass just now. It's a pity that you don't go to the college team at your level, and it's a pity to play in the college league..."

Chu Yifan shook his head: "Didn't I say that? My body can only play games of this intensity.

I really went to play in the college league, and the old injury relapsed, maybe I couldn't even play this kind of game. "

"I know, Team Chu, but I still feel sorry for you."

"Don't worry about me, it's you. Director Zhao's resignation, what will you do in the Poseidon youth team? Don't tell me that it doesn't affect you. If it doesn't affect you, you can be excluded from the competition for three consecutive weeks. off the list?"

Facing Chu Yifan's question, Hu Lai did not answer.

Seeing this, Chu Yifan knew that he had nothing to ask, so he patted him on the shoulder and said nothing.

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"That No. 14 is really amazing! This is the fifth goal in the game, right? Since when did the Chemical Academy have such a powerful person?"

In the stands of the university stadium, two girls gathered together, and one of them was obviously very interested in Hu Lai in the field.

Seeing this, the boy next to them who had been paying attention to them hurried over to solve their problems: "This classmate, don't you know Hu Lai?"

"Hu Lai?" The two girls looked at him suspiciously.

"That's right, it's the number 14. He's not a student of the Chemical Academy... He was the champion, top scorer and best player of the National High School Football Championship last year. Now he is a player of our Poseidon Club youth team in Lingnan, Professional club echelon players, of course they are amazing!"

"Wow, a professional player?!" The girl's eyes lit up when she heard the other party's explanation.

"Uh, it's not..." The boy was a little embarrassed, "He should only have signed a youth contract with the Poseidon Club. Of course, he also has the opportunity to become a professional player in the future..."

"Since you are a player in a professional club, why did you come to play football in our university?" The girl was still very surprised, she frowned and looked at Hu Lai on the field.

The teammates of the blue team, that is, the football team of the School of Chemistry, have surrounded him, surrounded him in the center, and are celebrating a goal.

"This... I don't know anymore." The boy shook his head. He also wanted to explain the beauty's confusion, but he really didn't know...

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"Hu Lai, thanks to you, wait for us for a while, we go to the dormitory to change clothes, treat you to dinner!"

After the game, Chu Yifan said to Hu Lai who was packing up his things.

His roommates immediately echoed: "Yes, yes, we must stay for dinner!"

But Hu Lai shook his head and rejected their good intentions: "No, Team Chu, I have to go back. It takes nearly two hours by subway from here. I'd better go back early."

"Don't, it won't take long to have a meal..." the roommates persuaded.

"I really don't want to eat, next time, I will definitely let you treat me next time!" Hu Lai smiled and shook his head, then put on his backpack and prepared to leave.

Everyone looked at Chu Yifan, hoping that Chu Yifan, the old captain of Hu Lai, would be able to speak up, maybe he could persuade Hu Lai to stay and eat before leaving.

But Chu Yifan nodded: "Okay, let's do it next time."

With a smile on his face, Hu Lai waved to everyone: "Goodbye, we will meet again next time."

"Da Chu, why don't you persuade him to have a meal before leaving? I think you are reluctant to treat him?" The roommates complained as they watched Hu Lai's back as he had gone away.

"What's the matter, I still need money for a meal? Didn't you see that Hu Lai is not in a good mood today?"

The roommates carefully recalled Hu Lai's performance today, and found that it was indeed different from usual.

"It seems to be preoccupied..."

"Isn't it better to invite him to dinner and take good care of him? If there is something bothering you, wouldn't it be good to tell us?"

Chu Yifan shook his head: "I think it's better to let Hu Lai be quiet at this time. From what I know about Hu Lai, if he really wants to tell us, then he will take the initiative to tell us, but if he doesn't say , that is, I don’t want others to know.”

"Hey, what else is on your mind? Isn't it because after Zhao Kangming resigned and left, his future in the youth team suddenly became uncertain?" A roommate sighed. "When Zhao Kangming was here, Hu Lai was like Zhao Kangming's godson. Now that Zhao Kangming resigned, Hu Lai couldn't even play in the youth team. The Poseidon Club swore at the beginning that Hu Lai Reasonable professional football planning, but it turned out like this? The person in charge patted his ass and ran away, throwing Hu Lai here. This is tricking people into killing..."

"You can't say that, Lao Li. Zhao Kangming is also a victim of the club's high-level struggle." Another roommate persuaded. "He definitely doesn't want to abandon Hu Lai. He and Hu Lai have such a good relationship... There is nothing wrong with saying 'like father and son'. But the club's executives are changing their minds!"

"That's right. A few years ago, the South China Tigers, the rivals in the same city, used the method of Jinyuan football to recruit a lot of stars, won three league championships, and won the AFC championship once...the limelight is so great that everyone thinks There is only one Chinese Super League team in Lingnan called the South China Tigers, but Poseidon, which was established earlier than the South China Tigers, has not improved so far, and it is normal for the club's top management to want to make changes..."

"That's right. Poseidon attaches great importance to youth training. Over the years, it has trained talents for our Lingnan football. However, it is really difficult to compete with those rich and powerful local tyrants with only youth training and a small amount of investment. Looking at the South China Tigers How could it be possible to say that the Sea God has no idea if the champion is soft-hearted?"

"That is to say, if you want to spend money to bring in stars, then why do you use the youth training? You must force Zhao Kangming, the director who has served the team's youth training for eleven years, to resign..."

"Sea God only has so little money. If you want to spend more money to buy stars, don't you have to reduce your investment in youth training? Zhao Kangming also resigned because he was dissatisfied with this."

"Hey, let me tell you, the most grandson is the youth training director who succeeded Director Zhao. I thought he was the head coach of the elite team of the Quanshun Football School before. I thought his level was so high. In the end, Hu Lai I won’t be able to play the game. I suspect that he came here to suppress Hu Lai on purpose, in order to eliminate Director Zhao’s influence in the Poseidon youth training system..."

"One emperor and one courtier, it's normal operation. If you don't rule out dissidents, how can you secure your position?"

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"Modern football has higher and higher requirements for center forwards, and they are becoming more and more comprehensive. What's the use of you who can only shoot? A center like you does not meet the requirements and definitions of modern football...Let me be honest, I am not saying You have no future in Poseidon. I mean, even if you go to another team, you have no future. Sorry, I am a straightforward person, but I am doing it for your own good. Instead of wasting everyone's time like this, it is better to find another way out... ..."

This is what the new youth training director Sun He said to Hu Lai on the sidelines of the training ground after the training ended yesterday.

When he said this, he was in front of all the youth team players and coaches. After hearing what he said, everyone turned their attention to Hu Lai.

Hu Lai never thought that he would say such things in front of so many people when he hit the youth training director who had only been in office for less than a month.

Until now, one day has passed since the incident, as long as Hu Lai is willing to recall, he can still easily recite the full text of Sun He's words, and he remembers his tone and expression clearly.

I have gone through untold hardships, from the school team to the professional football club echelon, and I did not hesitate to run away from home for this, and received stricter training in the Poseidon youth team than others, and put in more effort than other youth team teammates , and finally got such an evaluation?

This youth training supervisor is from the Quanshun Football School... When he heard the news, he still had a glimmer of hope for his future in the Poseidon Club's youth training camp. After all, Coach Li Ziqiang also came from the Quanshun Football School. The director of youth training and coach Li Ziqiang come from the same football school, so the level must not be much different.

The uneasiness caused by Director Zhao's sudden resignation has also stabilized.

Who would have thought that he would be given such a blow in the head by the other party!

People have talked to this point, and I still imagine that I can get ahead in the Sea God Club, isn't that stupid?

But I still have a four-year youth team contract with the Sea God Club, even if I want to leave, where can I go?

For the first time, Hu Lai felt confused about his future.

He also finally realized what coach Li Ziqiang told him at the beginning, the cruelty and uncertainty of professional football.

On the plane from Andong Jincheng to Lingnan City, he imagined a lot of unfavorable situations, such as the youth team teammates don’t like him, he is not satisfied with the environment in Lingnan, and his football style is not suitable Poseidon's football philosophy... He even thought about whether he would encounter something like his father's, so he had to be more vigilant and watch out for other people's seemingly dangerous moves during training. Of course, the most important thing is to have a good relationship with your teammates, so that others don't regard you as a threat, develop insignificantly, and don't waste time...

But he never expected that he had never encountered these things, but he would be affected by the dispute over the route of the club's senior management.

Since he is favored and taken care of by Director Zhao, it is natural that now he has to bear the cruel cleanup of Director Zhao's direct line by the new youth training director-how much Director Zhao favored him at the beginning, this Director Sun probably hates him now. how deep...

In this regard, his youth team coach, Chen Mo, is a lesson from the past. Director Zhao had just resigned. Two days later, the new director, Sun Hesun, came in by air. After only one day, coach Chen Mo resigned on his own initiative.

Why resign? Because Coach Chen Mo is Director Zhao's capable man and is Director Zhao's most trusted youth training coach. He has cooperated with Director Zhao for many years, and he is short of labeling "Zhao Kangming's direct line" on his forehead. If he hadn't been pressured by the new supervisor, would he have resigned and left the Sea God Club where he had worked for almost ten years?

Hu Lai really wanted to swear at his hometown "MMP" - he just wanted to receive training in the Poseidon youth team and become a professional player...

When he first joined the Poseidon Club, he received a task issued by the system. The task required him to sign a professional player contract. After successfully completing the task, he would be rewarded with a [Marrow Cleansing Potion] and 50,000 points. Will be promoted one level accordingly.

These rewards are full of temptations for Hu Lai, but until now this task is still quietly lying on the task list, with no sign of completion...

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The voice of the dialect announcing the station sounded in the subway car, and Hu Lai finally came back to his senses, and rushed down the car with a stride.

Then follow the dense flow of people on the escalator and slowly climb up.

After exiting the station, there is a square in front of a shopping mall. He needs to cross this square, cross the wide Binjiang Road through a pedestrian bridge, and go to the station across the road to take a bus back to the youth training base in the outskirts of the city.

It was evening now, and it was Saturday again, and the square in front of the mall was full of people.

Like him, some came out of the subway station to change trains, some just came to visit the shopping mall, and some residents who lived nearby came to take a walk.

At the beginning of the Chinese lanterns, tourists are like weaving.

The landscape tree in the center of the square is covered with light strips, and each small bulb emits orange light, bringing some warmth to the coming night.

A street performer is standing in front of the landscape tree, shouting to the people coming and going: "Don't miss it when you pass by! Feel the power of music! You can get a song specially sung for you for only fifteen yuan ! Straight to the heart, one shot into the soul!"

It's not that Hu Lai has never seen street singers. Most of them hold a guitar and sing while playing, and put a speaker next to them. They don't do anything but sing. Whatever the singer sings, the onlookers listen to, and they give money if they think it sounds good. .

How can there be a street singer like this to solicit business? And I also sang specially for you, why do you want to get into your soul... Isn't this too careless?

Hu Lai followed the prestige with some curiosity, only to find that this street performer not only has a strange way of doing things, but also has a strange shape. He's holding a guitar like those other street singers, but behind his back is... a drum kit!

Those drumsticks are connected to his feet and the guitar head through steel wires, and as he steps on the spot and lightly swings the guitar head, the drumsticks beat rhythmically on the drum kit behind him.

It was the first time for Hu Lai to see a singer dressed like this... This is to play a band by himself!

Many people, like Hu Lai, were attracted by the singer's peculiar dress, words and deeds, and stopped to watch.

But no one was willing to go up and give him fifteen yuan to let him sing a song for himself.

Maybe it's because he thinks the singer's behavior is perverted and unreliable, or maybe he's too embarrassed to be the first one in front of everyone.

In short, everyone just watched, but no one stepped forward.

The singer continued to yell hard, stamped his feet from time to time, and beat the drum twice to attract more people to come.

When Hu Lai saw him like this, and heard his Mandarin without a Lingnan accent, he probably was from the south, just like himself. Immediately there is a kind of empathy of "being a stranger in a foreign land alone".

So he took out his mobile phone and walked up to it, scanned the QR code, and transferred fifteen yuan through WeChat.

But he didn't want the other party to sing a song for him, and he didn't plan to stay. He still had to drive a car... So he waved to the singer who expressed his gratitude: "You don't need to sing, I just want to show your support ..."

Unexpectedly, the other party put on a straight face and said seriously: "That's not good! If I take your money, I must provide you with corresponding services, otherwise I am no different from begging on the street? If you don't let me sing, then I will I will return the fifteen dollars to you!"

Seeing that the other party was serious, Hu Lai had no choice but to say, "Okay then, you sing and you sing..."

He retreated into the crowd, intending to wait for the singer to sing, and then listen to half a song to show respect before leaving.

Seeing that someone was paying, the onlookers also got excited and stopped to watch, waiting to listen, wanting to hear what song the singer was going to sing for the young man who had paid.

The singer tuned the strings, and at the same time kept looking up at Hu Lai during the tuning process. He saw that he was wearing an ordinary sportswear and carrying a backpack, so he couldn't tell his identity. In the end, he set his eyes on Hu Lai's face. He felt that there seemed to be some distressed emotions in the customer's brows and eyes. Maybe he encountered some troubles...

Reminiscent of his non-native Mandarin accent, he already has a mind about what songs to sing.

So he plucked the strings and sang:

"Brave you, stand here with a thin but proud face; in this distance, no one is with you, only fantasy and worries..."

Hu Lai, who didn't take the street singer's song seriously, was stunned when he heard the first line of the lyrics.

He originally planned to leave after listening to half of the song, but he stood there as if roots had grown under his feet, and listened to the whole song.

"... Those short-lived brilliance are explosive fireworks; that group of dazzling flames are burning you and me; that unforgettable love always brings me harm; that ordinary life is hot because of you... "(Note 1)

The singer who finished singing stared at Hu Lai and said to him: "You are brave, stand here with a thin but proud face. Life is hot because of you. Come on!"

Hu Lai also recovered from the emotions brought to him by this song, and he laughed when he heard the last words of the singer.

The depressed emotions caused by the confusion of the future have really reduced a lot.

No matter what life is like, it's always going to be so hot...

He said to the singer very sincerely: "Thank you!"

At this time, the onlookers came back to their senses, and cheers, whistles and applause erupted from the crowd.

For the wonderful performance of this singer, and the song chosen for him actually really touched the audience...

With a successful precedent, more people will naturally be interested in the singer's performance, so everyone rushed to scan the QR code, hoping that the singer can sing a song that goes straight to his heart.

In such excitement, Hu Lai squeezed out from the crowd, carried his bag and walked towards the flyover at the other end of the square.

At this time, his mood was completely different, and he also had the mind to look at the sky, only to find that there was a sunset glow in the western sky.

The setting sun appears and disappears in the clouds, completely dyeing the stratus clouds.

Just when he was staying to enjoy the sunset, his cell phone rang: "...no one makes you give up, let alone make you live a sloppy life. The thinner you are, the more you have to resist, until in the end no one can stop you..." (Note 2)

He picked up the phone and found that it was actually Director Zhao Kangming calling.

"Oh, Director Zhao, you can call me..."

"Ha, Hu Lai, I'm sorry... Hey, hearing you are so eccentric, why do you feel that you are in a good mood?" The person on the other end of the phone was indeed Director Zhao Kangming.

"Because I'm looking at the sunset. The sunset in Lingnan is very beautiful today, Director Zhao." Hu Lai looked at the western sky with his mobile phone.

"Looking at the sunset? You still have the mood to watch the sunset... Then I don't worry. I left too suddenly at the beginning, and I felt sorry for you, so I never dared to call you for fear that you would scold me..."

"Look at what you said, Director Zhao, how dare I scold you..."

"Well, once you say that, I know you have resentment towards me. It's normal to have resentment, after all, this matter... It's really fucking! Also, I heard that you haven't entered the list for three consecutive games gone?"

"Yeah, the new supervisor doesn't seem to like me very much."

"Oh, he regards you as my person..." Zhao Kangming on the other end of the phone sneered, and then said: "I called you because I wanted to apologize to you. After all, I dragged you to Poseidon, in the end I ran away... Secondly, I want to ask you, are you interested in playing in the middle class?"

"Middle class?" Hu Lai was stunned after hearing Director Zhao's words.

"Yes, although it is not the Chinese Super League, but for young players, it can get more opportunities. I am now the head coach of a Chinese Premier League team, and I think of you..."

"But Director Zhao, the transfer has been closed."

"It's okay, we can sign the agreement first, and then transfer when the summer transfer window opens. By the way, it's not a loan, I plan to buy you out directly. How about it? Are you interested? Chen Mo also came to me As an assistant coach, I have ambitions."

"Then Director Zhao, which team do you go to be the head coach now?" Hu Lai asked.

"Ha! What a coincidence?" Zhao Kangming on the other end of the phone laughed, "Your hometown team, Anton Shining Star!"

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Note 1: The song is from "Life Is Hot Because of You" (also known as "Life Is Hot Because of You") by New Pants.

Note 2: The song is from "Until the End" by the V89 band.

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