Fox in the Penalty Area

After finishing the training at noon, the players first put all the training equipment in the equipment room, and then went back to the locker room to change clothes.

Of course, Hu Lai didn't have to work with the juniors. He followed the head coach Li Ziqiang back to the locker room.

"Coach, don't you consider finding an assistant coach or something? There are so many people in the team, can you be the only coach who can handle it?" Having entered the coach's office, Hu Lai found a place to sit down by himself.

Li Ziqiang looked at the extremely self-conscious Hu Lai and said, "I have nothing else to do, I have plenty of time."

"It's not about lack of time. A person's energy is limited." Hu Lai said again, "Is the coach busy at night? I want to treat you to dinner."

"Why do you invite me to dinner?" Li Ziqiang asked casually while packing up his lesson plans.

"One needs to know how to be grateful. You see, I am now a serious professional player. This is all because I have received good basic training from you. Otherwise, I would not be able to keep up with the pace when I went to the Poseidon youth team." Ah..." Hu Lai said with a smile.

"Really?"

"Is this still a joke?" Hu Lai patted his chest, "And coach, even though my annual salary is not very high now, there is still money for a guest."

"That's fine, after I get off work, you can go with me." Li Ziqiang nodded.

Although there is no training in the afternoon, Li Ziqiang will not leave work too early. He still has to wait until the normal school dismissal time.

So how will Hu Lai pass the time from noon to get off work?

He needn't worry about that.

After coming out of Li Ziqiang's office, he saw Zhai Guangming, the old principal of the school.

He was looking at himself with a smile.

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In the honor room of the football team of Dongchuan Middle School, Hu Lai wrote his name on the autograph book specially prepared for him. A teacher in charge of publicity in the school recorded this scene with a SLR camera.

The old headmaster who looked carefully at Hu Lai's signature laughed and said, "The photos and signatures will be framed and placed in this honor room."

"Wow, I'm so flattered, Principal..." Hu Lai said modestly,

But in fact, the heart is ecstatic.

Is there anyone who doesn't like pretending?

"I would also like to trouble you to send us a star jersey signed by you after you return to the team. It will also be framed and hung on the wall." Principal Zhai pointed to the wall, and it was indeed empty.

"Principal, look at what you said. It's too outlandish! I'm a student of our Dongchuan Middle School. Isn't it necessary to honor Dongchuan Middle School? What are you talking about?"

Hu Lai patted his chest and said.

Principal Zhai smiled happily.

In the end, the two of them took a photo together standing in front of the championship trophy of the high school national competition that year.

However, this group photo will not appear in the honor room of the school team, but is in Principal Zhai's own private collection.

When he is in office, he will be placed on the desk in the principal's office. When he retires, he will put this photo back home.

It can be seen from this that he loves Hu Lai.

Ordinary people can't enjoy this kind of treatment at all.

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When the school bell rang, Hu Lai followed Li Ziqiang out of the campus first.

Really stuck at get off work...

Hu Lai couldn't help complaining in his heart.

And Li Ziqiang seemed to know what he was thinking, and said: "If you don't leave early, I'm afraid you will be blocked on campus by students after school. How can you invite me to dinner then?"

Hu Lai was seen through by the coach, but he was not embarrassed at all, but smiled and flattered Li Ziqiang: "Coach is wise!"

Li Ziqiang looked back at Hu Lai's appearance, sighed, shook his head, and stopped talking.

Then he rode his bicycle and pedaled towards his home.

He didn't care about how Hu Lai wanted to get there, he took a taxi, took a bus or any other means of transportation.

Hu Lai swept a shared bicycle at the school gate and quickly followed.

In this way, the two of them pedaled their bicycles in tandem and turned out of the small street at the entrance of the campus, and merged into the traffic on the avenue outside.

When he turned to the alley where the coach's house was located, Hu Lai found that some workers had already built the fence here.

It seemed that the house inside would also be demolished, so he asked curiously: "Coach, it seems that your side will also be demolished. Where will you live then?"

"I have already rented a house near the school, and I will move out after this month is over." Li Ziqiang said as he turned into the alley.

After riding to his own door, he locked the bicycle by the gate, and then took out the key to open the door.

Hu Lai paid for his shared bicycle behind him.

After Li Ziqiang opened the door of the house, he opened the door and shouted: "Qingqing, don't cook, someone treats you tonight!"

Hu Lai, who had just finished paying the bill, paused when he heard what the coach said.

Then he saw a tall and beautiful figure jumping to the door: "Who is it, Dad?"

The eyes of the two collided, and they exclaimed almost at the same time: "Ah!"

Li Ziqiang watched coldly from the side, taking into account the reactions of the two of them.

Hmm, it doesn't look like it was deliberately pretended...

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Sitting in a small private room of a Chinese restaurant, Hu Lai glared at Li Qingqing, taking advantage of Li Ziqiang's opportunity to wash his hands and go to the toilet, he asked her: "Why didn't you tell me when you came back?"

Li Qingqing smiled until her eyes completed the crescent moon: "I want to see if you will remember to visit my dad."

"What? I look like an ungrateful villain?" Hu Lai rolled his eyes dissatisfied. "In addition, the bill between us has settled again..."

Li Qingqing quit: "How can this work? You invited my dad, not me!"

"Then do you want to eat?"

"eat!"

"This is the end..." Hu Lai spread his hands.

"What you owe is my meal, not my father's!" Li Qingqing refused to budge. "Unless you invite me to dinner."

Hu Lai still wanted to refute, but he saw Li Ziqiang walking in the aisle outside the door, so he had no choice but to shut up.

When Li Ziqiang walked into the room, he found that the two people were playing with their own mobile phones, and they didn't communicate with each other, and they didn't even look at each other.

He asked his daughter: "Qingqing, didn't you say that you and Hu Lai are friends? Why do you seem strange to me?"

"Ah?" Li Qingqing didn't expect her father to look at the problem from such a tricky angle. She was stunned for a moment and quickly explained: "Isn't there no contact method? I haven't contacted for a long time. Of course it will be a little..."

Hu Lai also nodded quickly: "Yes, yes, coach, when Li Qingqing left suddenly without even saying hello, today is the first time I've seen her again since that time..."

What he said was indeed the truth, today was really the first time the two of them... met offline after their high school farewell.

Li Qingqing was also stunned when she heard Hu Lai's words, because she hadn't realized this before, and she could always chat with Hu Lai on WeChat, which gave her the illusion that Hu Lai could see Hu Lai whenever she wanted. But in fact, today turned out to be the first time they met face to face after they separated.

She left at the beginning of the first semester of high school, and now if Hu Lai continued to study, he would be in college. In a flash, he hadn't gotten along so closely for almost three years.

Then she thought, how can she look like she really met for the first time in three years?

Well, don't be too enthusiastic, don't talk too much...

So she watched Hu Lai chatting with her father with a smile, polite but not enthusiastic.

Hu Lai obviously thought the same as her. During a meal, he only had a few polite exchanges with Li Qingqing, and they were all just a few casual exchanges.

It is very in line with the sense of alienation that has not been seen for many years.

After dinner, Hu Lai also asked whether he should send the coach and Li Qingqing back, but Li Ziqiang refused.

So the three of them parted ways at the entrance of the restaurant, Hu Lai went home, and Li Ziqiang walked back with Li Qingqing - the restaurant where they ate was not far from Li Ziqiang's home, they walked here at the beginning, now they walked back naturally after eating, The right to take a walk.

On the way back, Li Qingqing curiously asked Dad how Hu Lai found him.

This is also a normal question. If you don't even ask this kind of question, it may make people suspicious-are you not friends? Why do you appear indifferent?

Li Ziqiang took Hu Lai to the school to find him and the team, and even trained with the school team at his request, and told his daughter.

"So interesting? If I had known, I would go to school with my dad and train with the school team!" Li Qingqing clapped her hands.

Li Ziqiang glanced at his daughter, and said to himself that it's a good thing he didn't ask you to go to school...

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After returning home, Hu Lai took a shower, lying on the bed in his bedroom, took out his mobile phone and saw the WeChat message Li Qingqing sent to him: "Are you free tomorrow?"

"Yes, what's the matter?"

Hu Lai just cut out after answering, and wanted to see other news, only to find that Li Qingqing replied in seconds: "Bring me to dinner!!!"

This woman even used three exclamation points... Does she want to eat me?

Hu Lai complained in his heart, and then replied: "Please, please, don't be so excited..."

"You have invited my dad to dinner, and of course you should also invite me to dinner, I am your enlightenment coach!" Li Qingqing also posted a little man with his hands on his hips, with a proud face.

"I didn't say no...tomorrow noon or night, you choose."

"At noon, my dad came back from get off work in the evening..."

"What are you afraid of when you come back, call the coach!"

"Then are you inviting me or my dad?"

"Please, please, please... just for lunch, what do you want to eat? Dongchuan's clear soup beef pot is very famous."

"Then eat this!"

"Okay, I'll take you to the most authentic and delicious place."

"OK!"

"Tomorrow morning, I will go to your house to find you first, and then we will go together."

"it is good!"

Li Qingqing looked at the phone and laughed happily—this kid, finally fulfilled his promise and invited me to dinner!

But even if he asked for this meal, he still owes me... one hundred and thirty-two meals!

Thinking of this, Li Qingqing opened the memo on the phone, found a note named "One Card", deleted the Arabic numeral 133 in it, and replaced it with 132.

Except for her, no one will understand what the notes in this memo mean.

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Hu Lai was swiping his phone when he heard someone knocking at the door. He put down his phone and turned to look, only to find that it was his mother.

"How did you feel eating with your coach?"

"It's good..." Hu Lai frowned, not understanding why her mother asked.

"I read in the interview of the "People History" program that the school team coach doesn't seem to like you very much?"

It turned out that my mother was worried about this...

"Misunderstanding, it was a little bit at first, but later your son conquered him with super talent and ability, we have a good relationship, mom don't worry about it."

"real?"

"Really. And it's not just me and the coach, but also the coach's daughter..."

"The coach's... daughter?"

"Oh, she used to be my classmate, and then she went to play professional football." Hu Lai didn't elaborate.

But the mother was concerned: "Women's football?"

"Well, women's football. By the way, Mom, I won't be home for lunch tomorrow either."

Not eating at home?

Xie Lan nodded and agreed very simply: "Okay, let's go!"

She didn't ask Hu Lai what she was going to do, so did she need to ask?

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After coming out of Hu Lai's bedroom, she entered her own bedroom, then gently closed the door, then turned around and said to her husband, "Old Hu Lao Hu..."

"Why?" Hu Lixin put down his phone, and frowned when he saw his wife.

"You said our son...does he have a girlfriend?" Xie Lan lowered his voice.

Hu Lixin stared blankly at his wife, never expecting that she would ask such a question: "If you ask me, who should I ask?"

"That's right...you don't care about your son at all..."

"What does that have to do with whether I care about him or not?"

"I just went to inquire about his dinner with the coach, have you gone?" Xie Lan asked.

"This is called caring? What does that have to do with girlfriends?"

"He not only invited the coach, but also the coach's daughter. He also said that the daughter was his high school classmate."

"What's the matter?" Hu Lixin didn't understand.

"What's the matter?" Xie Lan sneered, "He won't be at home for lunch tomorrow. Who do you think he went out to eat with?"

Hu Lixin immediately thought of the coach's daughter, and he frowned: "It's impossible... You have too many associations, and there is no real evidence at all."

"What evidence do I need? Intuition is enough!" Xie Lan put his hands on his hips and said triumphantly, "Let me tell you, Lao Hu, the relationship between your son and the coach's daughter is absolutely extraordinary!"

Hu Lixin sneered: "Are you... thinking that your son has a successful career, and you start worrying about him getting married? You just think too much. Let me tell you, Xie Lan, don't think about these things. He’s only played well for half a season, and in your eyes, it’s like he’s already won a championship, and he’s still very early.”

After speaking, he waved his hand, continued to look at his mobile phone, and ignored his wife.

Xie Lan didn't think she was delusional. Although there was no evidence, she just firmly believed in her intuition.

She couldn't help but wonder, what kind of person is that coach's daughter?

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