Fox in the Penalty Area

Zhang Qinghuan once felt that he had fallen into an endless decline, falling in the darkness without light or sound.

He once yelled and wanted to call for help, but when he opened his mouth, no sound came out.

He waved his hands, trying to grab something to stop his slide, but in vain.

He didn't catch anything, or in this darkness, there was nothing he could catch at all.

Then he began to count silently in his heart, thinking that by counting to three, he would be able to keep his feet on the ground.

but no.

Count to three, still falling.

Dozens of times, but still falling.

Count a hundred times, but still can't see the bottom.

Then he began to fantasize that perhaps the fall could end in the next second.

Another second, another second, next time for sure...

Finally, he does not count how much time has passed. Accustomed to the feeling of weightlessness in the process of falling, he even somewhat...doesn't want this feeling to disappear, and doesn't want the moment when he really has his feet on the ground.

The reason why he likes to drink so much may be because every time he gets drunk, he can find the vertigo of endless falling.

Fluttering, it seems that it is not falling, but soaring...

In fact, at the beginning, he also seriously thought about whether this was bad, but then when he thought of his father, such a healthy and cheerful person, he would be gone if he said nothing, and he felt that since he would never know what happened to tomorrow and the accident. Which one comes first, then why not cherish the present moment and enjoy yourself in time?

Didn’t the great poet Li Bai say, “To be happy in life is to be happy to the fullest, don’t let the golden cup be empty to the moon”...

If you have wine today, you are drunk today, and you will worry about it tomorrow.

It's just that he never thought that one day he would be told suddenly that there would be no tomorrow, and all the worries and anguish would be accumulated in the present.

His career is over!

He was panicked and helpless, not knowing what to do.

at this time,

The phone on the bed rang.

The ringtone pierced the darkness where there was no light or sound. He was like a drowning man, desperately trying to grab the straw, and grabbed the phone suddenly.

Then I was stunned.

It's mom calling.

"Huanhuan, I read on the news that you were injured, and the situation doesn't seem to be very good?" As soon as the call was connected, he heard his mother's urgent voice. "What the hell is going on?"

Hearing her mother's voice, Zhang Qinghuan could no longer control her emotions, and burst into tears: "Mom..."

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Hu Lai finished training, went back to the locker room with his teammates, changed clothes, and waited for Wang Guangwei to pack up and go back to the rental house together.

At this moment, assistant coach Chen Mo suddenly appeared at the door of the locker room.

He knocked on the door.

The originally lively locker room fell silent when they saw a coach coming. The head coach Director Zhao is a very kind person, but the assistant coach Chen Mo is a very powerful and ruthless character...

In this silence, Chen Mo looked at Hu Lai and said, "Hu Lai, come here."

Everyone turned their puzzled eyes to Hu Lai, who had been named, and did not understand why the assistant coach came to him suddenly.

If anything, at the end of the team's training, the coach will directly keep the person.

Hu Lai knew that this might have something to do with Zhang Qinghuan.

So he said to Wang Guangwei: "Don't wait for me for a while, just go back after packing up."

Wang Guangwei didn't ask, and nodded in agreement.

It was only then that Hu Lai got up and left with the assistant coach in full view.

As soon as he left, his teammates came to ask Wang Guangwei: "Guangwei, do you know why Hu Lai was called away alone?"

Wang Guangwei spread his hands: "I don't know either..."

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Hu Lai met a person he had never seen before in the office directed by Zhao Kangming. He should be middle-aged, about the same age as Director Zhao, but the hair on the temples is all white, and only the hair in the middle is still black.

His face was deeply wrinkled and frowning, which made his expression look a little sad.

Seeing Hu Lai coming in, Zhao Kangming waved to him: "Come on, let me introduce you, this is Yong Jun, it's...uh..."

A middle-aged man named Yong Jun took the initiative to introduce: "I used to be Zhang Qinghuan's manager and a good friend of his parents."

Hu Lai looked at him strangely, not understanding what this had to do with him.

"It's like this. Mr. Yong was entrusted by Zhang Qinghuan's mother to come to Jincheng to see Zhang Qinghuan's situation. He found the club and hoped to see the X-ray of Zhang Qinghuan's left ankle..."

Now Hu Lai understood that it was normal for people to ask for X-rays, but neither Director Zhao nor Dr. Yang could produce them. So seeing that the deception was about to be exposed, Director Zhao pushed himself, the culprit... no, the perpetrator was pushed out.

But Hu Lai is not such a person who gives in so easily, he looks confused: "Then Director Zhao, just show it to others."

"Hehe." Director Zhao smiled slightly.

Chen Mo next to him glared at Hu Lai: "Don't pretend to be crazy here, Hu Lai. You came up with this idea!"

Yong Jun watched the conversation between the three people, his eyes turned around on them, he didn't quite understand what was going on, but he vaguely felt that things were not as simple as he saw...

As soon as Chen Mo spoke, Hu Lai became honest, and he turned to Yong Jun: "Uncle, how is your relationship with Zhang Qinghuan?"

"Uh..." Yong Jun had a hard time facing this question.

Seeing this, Hu Lai explained: "Because what we are going to say to you next, uncle, has something to do with Zhang Qinghuan's future. If you are not the kind of trustworthy person, then I will not say a word. This is Zhao The dead rules that the guide gave me."

After speaking, he glanced at Zhao Kangming.

"Hey, this kid..." Chen Mo didn't expect Hu Lai to defeat Zhao Kangming's army.

But Zhao Kangming didn't care, and smiled slightly, as if he had admitted Hu Lai's words.

"It's hard for me to tell you what my relationship with Qing Huan is." Yong Jun understood, and he explained. "I used to have a very good relationship with him. I was a good friend of his parents. We have known each other for many years. I was also his manager. Of course not now, because Qing Huan felt that I was too strict with him and treated me badly." Satisfied, let me go. But I still maintain a very good relationship with his family. This time it was his mother who called him and found out that he was going to retire due to injury... She was shocked, but she was not in good health. Well, I can't travel far, so I have to let me take a trip to Jincheng to see his son."

After Yong Jun finished speaking, a very strange idea popped up in Hu Lai's mind——his son had such a big incident, why did the mother ask a friend... Where's his father?

He really wanted to ask this question, but he didn't know if it would embarrass everyone.

Yong Jun saw Hu Lai's small eyes blinking, how could he not understand?

So he quickly explained: "I didn't make it clear... Qing Huan's father passed away three years ago."

The whole room, not only Hu Lai, but also Zhao Kangming and Chen Mo were all surprised.

Because they had never heard of it before!

"This... the death of Qing Huan's father is a very sad and unfortunate thing for Qing Huan and his mother. This kind of thing is not worth publicizing, so only people in the small circle know about it. Not even the reporters knew about it."

Listening to Yong Jun's explanation, Hu Lai suddenly had an idea in his mind:

Zhang Qinghuan's father passed away three years ago, it seems that Zhang Qinghuan's indulgence has continued for three years, is there any connection between this?

The reason why he had such an idea was because there was a similar example in the time and space he traveled through.

The famous former Inter Milan star, Brazilian striker, "King" Adriano, who was once talented, was considered by his teammates to be a combination of Ronaldo and Ibrahimovic. The fans at the Meazza Stadium are looking forward to their Kings can one day actually sit on the throne.

But in the end, this super genius did not fulfill his talent and did not become what people expected.

Instead, he fell at a very fast pace.

Singing and singing every night, even sleeping in a nightclub. Surrender yourself completely to alcohol and women, to wanton indulgence.

Even if the club chairman and the team's locker room leaders cared for him like their own children and helped him, they still couldn't pull him out of his depravity.

Later, Adriano admitted that his father's death had dealt a great blow to him, and he has never recovered from a setback, facing huge mental problems.

Of course, some fans on the Internet think that Adriano just wanted to find a reason for his depravity and blame his dead father. Anyway, the dead will not stand up from the coffin to refute him.

This argument has always been very marketable. After China's genius Dong Fangzhuo suffered so much criticism, he didn't come forward to clarify those rumors until he retired, but few people care about the truth anymore, they only care about what they think is the truth.

At any rate, there were others on Adriano's side who testified to the extent to which his father's trends had affected him. And those clarifications made by Dong Fangzhuo are nothing but sophistry by some fans...

Inter Milan's captain Zanetti said in an interview later that when Adriano received the call and was informed of the bad news, they were all in the room. He still can't forget that Adriano hung up the phone The scream that followed, "was in a way no one could have imagined".

Zanetti also admitted that their failure to pull him out of the dark passage was his biggest failure and that he felt incompetent because of it.

Because of the sudden death of a loved one, the huge impact on a person can turn a world-class super genius into a self-willed and depraved gangster.

This kind of thing does not only exist in stories fabricated by literati, but actually exists in the world.

So even though Hu Lai had never heard Zhang Qinghuan admit it, he still connected the two things immediately.

He looked at Yong Jun with wide eyes: "Is Zhang Qinghuan's current behavior related to his father's death?"

Yong Jun didn't expect Hu Lai to see what was behind the appearance all of a sudden, he cast a surprised look at Hu Lai, and then nodded: "Qing Huan never admitted it, but both his mother and I think so. Yes For Qing Huan, his father is not just a simple father. Lao Zhang is the leader of his son's football and the first coach. After Qing Huan showed his talent, he sent Qing Huan to the sports school, at least four times a week, each time They all rode bicycles across half of the capital, and took him to the sports school to practice..."

Along with Yong Jun's narration, Hu Lai, Zhao Kangming and Chen Mo all gradually sketched out the image of Zhang Qinghuan's father in their minds.

He is an old football fan. In order to allow his son to concentrate on playing football, he resigned from public office, sold his house, and stayed with his son 365 days a year, regardless of wind or rain. Accompany him to play football in the sports school, accompany him to enter the reserve team of the capital Tenglong club, accompany him to upgrade in the echelon level by level, all the way to the first team of Tenglong.

The son followed the team to the game, no matter how far away, he would follow, standing on the sidelines holding a handheld DV to take pictures of his son playing football.

After the game is over, he combines the video he shot to replay the game with his son, analyze his performance, correct any problems, and praise him for good performance.

In this way, day after day, year after year, under his meticulous care and careful training, his son has become a super genius who has attracted the attention of all Chinese fans. Everyone pinned the hope of the Chinese team to participate in the World Cup on him.

Next, it should be the son fighting hard on the field, and the father watched his son's game with satisfaction from the stands, and continued to accompany him to enter the national team, participate in the World Cup qualifiers, and finally meet his son in the World Cup and become a part of Chinese football. good story.

Including Yong Jun, those who know the story of their father and son think so.

That's how the story should go on.

"...But who would have thought that a person who was usually healthy would suddenly...disappear on the way to watch his son's game away. Later, the doctor said it was a spinal arteriovenous malformation...we couldn't figure it out, a good person Hey, he's not sick or in pain, he's gone anyway... Qing Huan couldn't accept it even more. Since then, I've noticed that he's not mentally right, and he's not active in training anymore, and he always wants to go out to play, go Nightclubs, going to bars. When Lao Zhang was still with him, he was not like this... I didn’t let him go. He quarreled with me at first, and then he simply avoided me and went secretly. If I found out, he continued. Noisy. Then he simply asked me to terminate the contract, and I was exhausted from arguing with him at that time, and if I wanted to terminate the contract, I would terminate the contract... Now that I think about it, I regret it, I should not have agreed to terminate the contract at that time, I should have Keep an eye on him, defend him closely..."

Speaking of this, Yong Jun seemed to be joking, but his smile was particularly bitter.

After listening to Zhang Qinghuan's unknown story, the other three people in the room fell silent.

And Yong Jun looked at them and asked: "Now, can you tell me what happened to Qing Huan?"

The three looked at each other, and finally Zhao Kangming stood up: "Mr. Yong, the thing is actually like this..."

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PS, special thanks to Xiong Chumo, the author of "Surgery Live Room", for providing the cause of sudden death!

Mr. Xiong's new book "Doctor Sleepless" has been updated with 270,000 words, you can read it, or put it on the bookshelf to grow fat~