Fox in the Penalty Area

Xie Lan wandered in the newly renovated "son's honor room" and looked at the fruits of her labor with satisfaction.

Under the carefully designed lights, the trophies and medals she brought over from home shone brightly.

The lighting effects that were optimized and designed specifically for trophy display were indeed much better than what she had randomly created by herself in the small room.

Both the lighting and layout are better.

Now the "honor room" with four rooms and three halls is divided into different "exhibition halls" according to the timeline. For example, the "domestic career" is all the honors Hu Lai won while playing domestic football.

In the room with the theme of "Career in Europe", all those displayed are the honors Hulay won after going to Europe to play football.

As soon as they enter "Life in Europe", visitors' eyes will be involuntarily attracted to a row of display cabinets.

The staggered placement of platforms at different heights highlights the importance of different trophies.

These trophies guard the tallest trophies in the middle, which are:

The 202 Europa League best player and top scorer trophies, the 2025-202 player trophies, and the 202 World Cup Golden Boot trophy.

These dazzling gold and silver trophies are lined up in different shapes and heights, just like the city skyline.

Under the light, it looks like a miniature city that never sleeps.

Xie Lan looked at these dazzling lights, and his smiling face became radiant.

I don’t know whether it was because I felt refreshed or because I was illuminated by the lights in the exhibition hall.

In short, she became more and more happy as she watched the scene in front of her.

She bought this house in the same community and turned it into an honor room.

She does not plan to open it to outsiders, but only uses this house specifically to store her son's more and more trophies.

In her free time, she would come here alone, wipe away the dust, mop the floor, and then admire the honors that her sons had earned with their sweat.

Every trophy,

When she touched it, she felt like she could relive a past event.

Parents of other families miss their children who have left home and rely on looking back at photos and videos from the past to ease their longing.

Xie Lan is different, she comes by wiping these trophies.

After wandering around in his "European career" for a while, Xie Lan returned to the lobby.

It's actually the living room of this house.

There are not many cabinets and trophies in the living room.

The only cabinets filled with honors from Hu Lai’s high school days include:

Anton Cup championship medals, Anton Cup top scorer trophies, national competition championship medals and trophies for the top scorer and best player.

There are several large photos on the wall, which are moments of Hu Lai in different periods.

And these moments often represent Hu Lai's highlight moments during that period.

For example, there is a photo of Hu Lai holding the championship trophy in the national competition, which was placed behind the national competition championship trophy.

This photo is also the first one in the series because Xie Lan is trying to make up for his absence from the start of his son's football career.

The original photo of this photo was later found by someone through Hu Lai's relationship. She specially developed a photo, put it in a photo frame, and hung it on the wall.

Every time she comes to the honor room, she will see this photo first.

Her son is smiling very happily in the photo.

To be honest, even though she was Hu Lai's mother, Xie Lan had never seen her son with such a bright smile during high school.

Football has brought countless wealth to her son and her family. But what Xie Lan is most grateful for about football is that it allowed her son to laugh so wildly in adolescence.

The next second photo is of Hu Lai going to the TV station to accept the award after the season when he helped Anton Shining Star to be promoted to the Chinese Super League.

In that scene, Hu Lai said in front of the audience, "If my dad fails, he is still my dad. And failure is his dad who succeeds!"

For Shelan, the scene symbolized the beginning of reconciliation between the two men in the family.

Other photos were also carefully selected by Xie Lan to ensure that the moments recorded in each photo have extraordinary significance to Hu Lai and his family.

She used this house of nearly 200 square meters to make a three-dimensional photo album.

As soon as you enter the house, it's like opening a photo album, and all kinds of past events come to mind.

In this living room, in addition to Hu Lai's high school trophies and photos documenting his career, there is also a 100-inch TV.

The latest sports news, related to her son, was being played inside.

"... In the early morning of this morning, capital time, at the FIFA annual awards ceremony in Milan, Italy. Chinese player Li Qingqing won the third place in the annual Miss World Football selection... She led the national team to win third place in the World Cup in 2027 …”

Xie Lan looked at the beautiful figure in a white evening dress on the TV screen and smiled so hard that she could hardly see her eyes.

very nice!

"In addition to Li Qingqing, Hu Lai also received two honors at this award ceremony. It is also the best goal of the year. His 34-meter overhead kick goal in the Champions League group stage against Ruerrhein Became the best goal of the year. He was also selected into the best team of the year with his outstanding performance of scoring 75 goals in a year... However, Hulay did not enter the final three candidates for the World Footballer. According to In the vote list announced later, Hulay ranked eighth. European Ballon d'Or winner and midfielder Soren Gribsch, who plays for Blue and White Munich, won the World Footballer... although he failed to enter the final three. list, but Hu Lai, who is only 24 years old, can perform like this, and the future is really promising!"

When Xie Lan heard these words, he began to re-evaluate the "honor room" he had just decorated.

She frowned slightly.

I have just finished my troubles... Could it be that my mother's speed in buying a house and renovating it can't keep up with this guy's speed in winning trophies?

Or... just do it all at once?

The whole big villa?

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Seeing Hu Lai packing the trophy he just took home, Li Qingqing asked: "What are you doing?"

"Fatty Song is going back to China in two days. I plan to ask someone to help me carry these two trophies back and give them to my mother. I heard that her new honor room has been completed..."

Li Qingqing thought of the "Honor Room" she visited at Hu Lai's house. Hu Lai's mother really liked collecting these shiny things...

She sighed: "It's a pity that only the first place in the Miss Football competition has a trophy... Otherwise, I would have asked Lao Song to take it back to my dad for me."

Unlike UEFA's Ballon d'Or awards, the first place will naturally receive the Ballon d'Or.

But the second and third places did not come empty-handed and gained nothing.

They will receive the Silver Ball and Bronze Ball respectively as rewards.

If this were UEFA's Ballon d'Or, Li Qingqing, who finished third, would have received a Bronze Ball trophy. Instead of coming back empty-handed like now.

Apart from the fact that the news mentioned that she was ranked third for Miss Football in the World, that she appeared on the big screen as one of the three finalists at the award ceremony, and that there was a VCR dedicated to introducing her, there was no proof.

The awards ceremony has just ended, and there is news. Everyone also knows that she, Li Qingqing, was once the top three Miss Football in the world.

But in a few years, everyone will only know that the Miss Football World in 2027 is Laura Sarabia Hernandez, who led the Brazilian women's football team to win the World Cup. They don't know that Li Qingqing was also shortlisted for the top three.

Hu Lai consoled him: "It's okay. When the time comes, I will be Mr. Football and you will be Miss Football. We will each get a trophy!"

Li Qingqing thought about it seriously: "Then shouldn't we go on stage to receive the award together?"

"Is it not good?"

Li Qingqing laughed: "Okay! It's settled then! I will also win the European Golden Globe Award!"

Hu Lai responded without hesitation: "I want to get it too, let's do it together! We will attend every award ceremony together in the future!"

This was the best idea he could think of to avoid having to separate from Li Qingqing just because he was going to attend the award ceremony.

Li Qingqing suddenly stretched out his hand and showed his little finger.

"What?" Hu Lai asked.

"Hook!"

"Childish..." Although Hu Lai said this, he still obediently stretched out his little finger and hooked it with Li Qingqing's finger.

Li Qingqing didn't care what Hu Lai said, she shook her arms with a smile:

"Hang yourself with a hook and don't change for a hundred years! Hu Lai, you have to attend the award ceremony with me and receive the award together!"

Hu Lai also laughed.

Because he thought of that scene then...it was really a bit Versailles!

If that's the case, are you and Li Qingqing considered a "condor couple" in football?

Hey, that's not right...

He is Yang Guo, and Li Qingqing is his aunt.

So who is the eagle?