Fox in the Penalty Area

"Peter is really unlucky. He was finally able to start in the World Cup, but he was injured before halftime, and now he has to be absent for such a long time... I think we should go and see him." In the locker room, Hu Lai suggested to a few good friends around him.

Charlie Potter frowned: "I always feel that you are not really going to visit Pete..."

Hu Lai was very puzzled: "Charlie, what you said, if I didn't want to visit Pete, what else could it be for?"

"To show off in front of him, you bloody World Cup golden boot!"

Hu Lai spread his hands: "Charlie, you can't judge a gentleman with a villain's heart. If you don't tell me, I never thought that I could win the World Cup Golden Boot with my five goals in the World Cup..."

Kamala couldn't stand it anymore: "Hu, you better stop talking, the more you talk, the more I think you are showing off..."

Currently in the Leeds City team, only Hu Lai, Pete Williams and Jay Adams participated in this World Cup.

Ismail Kamara, who was outstanding in the league last season, was absent.

The French team is really full of talents, and he only performed well last season, lacking enough evidence to prove that he can maintain a good state. So he didn't get called up to the French team.

The French team, which didn't even qualify for the group stage in the last World Cup, performed well this time, and finally reached the semi-finals, and defeated Belgium in a penalty shootout in the third and fourth finals, winning the third place in the World Cup.

Some French media said that based on Kamara's performance in the Premier League last season, it should be a certainty that he will be selected for the French national team next, so he didn't run away. But if he wants to participate in the World Cup in Spain and Portugal four years later, then he has to continue to maintain this performance and state, at least not to have big ups and downs.

Charlie Potter's situation is a lot like Kamala's.

He's done really well for Leeds, especially last season. But he was never selected for the England team. The main reason is that England has a lot of talents in the midfield. Even players like Pete Williams and Jay Adams can only be used as substitutes, let alone him.

And Hu Lai, as one of the only three players in the team to participate in the World Cup, not only participated in the World Cup, he also scored goals.

Not only is it as simple as scoring goals, he also scored five goals!

Not only is it as simple as scoring five goals, he also won the top scorer of this World Cup with five goals!

This makes people feel... very embarrassed.

You know, this is Hu Lai's first World Cup!

Winning the Golden Boot in the first World Cup... Is there such a precedent in world football?

Yes, among the winners of the Golden Boots in the first few World Cups, there must be those who participated in the World Cup for the first time. The Golden Boot is also the first Golden Boot in the history of the World Cup.

The top scorer of the second World Cup belongs to the Italian striker Luca Valentini, who scored four goals and won the top scorer of the World Cup.

But ancient precedents mean little.

Since entering the 21st century, there has never been a player who can win the Golden Boot in the first World Cup he participated in.

Holly did it.

For this reason, he also flew to New York, the United States, and received his World Cup Golden Boot trophy after the World Cup final.

Then take photos with those long-established superstars.

It can be said that Hu Lai, who was only 22 years old and won the Premier League title, the Premier League top scorer and the World Cup top scorer in the same year, has reached the peak of his career so far.

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When everyone was teasing Hu Lai, Jay Adams, who had been looking down at his mobile phone without speaking, suddenly said, "I don't think we need to visit Pete."

"Why?" Everyone turned to ask him.

Adams picked up his phone and showed it to everyone.

On the screen is a news:

"... Frustrated on the court and proud in love? Pete Williams has a private meeting with a beautiful woman..."

Below the headline is a photo, supposedly taken outside Williams' home, of Williams leaning on crutches with one hand and caressing the face of a brunette with the other.

A group of people were dumbfounded.

After a while, Hu Lai suddenly slapped his thigh: "We should go see Pete!"

Charlie Potter reacted and nodded sharply: "Yes! You should care about him more!"

Adams looked at them, and the two of them also looked at Adams. Hu Lai asked him, "Jay, aren't you curious?"

Adams put away his cell phone, nodded and said, "Yes, we should really visit Pete."

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When Pete Williams' grandma opened the door and saw several Leeds City players outside, her eyes widened and she was speechless for a while.

"Grandma is good! Excuse me, is Pete at home?" Jay Adams, the leader, asked with a kind smile.

"Ah... oh, oh!" Grandma finally came to her senses, she nodded repeatedly, and then turned sideways to let a few people into the room, "He's at home, he's at home."

After she finished speaking, she turned around and shouted upstairs: "Pete——! Your teammates are here to see you!"

Soon there were footsteps coming from the stairs, and Pete Williams poked his head out there, seeing Hu Lai and the others surprised and delighted: "What's wrong with you?"

"We came to see you, Pete." Hu Lai said on behalf of everyone. "Everyone cares about you."

Charlie Potter, Jay Adams, Kamala and others behind them all nodded vigorously.

Williams was very touched: "Thank you... Thank you! Don't stand below, come up, come to my room. Sorry that my legs and feet are not very convenient, so..."

"It's okay, Pete. You wait there, we will come up by ourselves." After speaking, Hu Lai turned his head and glanced at the crowd who followed. Everyone looked at each other and walked forward at the same time in a tacit understanding.

Everyone who came up the stairs saw Williams, punched him in the chest, and snarled toward Williams' room.

The grandma who saw this scene downstairs showed a relieved smile.

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Williams was the last to enter the room. As soon as he entered, Jay Adams, who was guarding the door, closed the door at the same time.

Williams, who still had a smile on his face, was dragged to the bed by Charlie Potter, pressing his hands.

Others quickly gathered around, with a look of scrutiny.

The smile faded from Williams' face, and he, startled, looked at his teammates: "Guys, what are you doing?"

"What are you doing?" Hu Lai snorted, "You know it yourself, Pete."

"Clear? What do I know?" Williams looked at his teammates who suddenly changed their faces, confused.

"Don't be stupid, we've all seen it on the news!" Charlie sneered.

"News? What news? I didn't renew my contract with the club. I only completed the renewal last season..."

"Don't try to get away with it!" Hu Lai said, and then winked at Adams, who held the phone in front of Williams' eyes, turned on the screen, and let him see the news clearly.

"Frustrated on the court and proud in love? Pete Williams has a private meeting with a beautiful woman..."

Williams stared blankly at the phone screen with wide eyes, and it took a few seconds before he uttered a swear word: "Damn it! Those damn paparazzi!"

"Both stolen and stolen, what else do you have to say, Pete?" Hu Lai crossed his arms and winked at Charlie, indicating that he could let Williams go.

So Charlie got up and stood beside the bed with the others, staring down at Williams.

Williams turned his head and looked around. "Aren't you guys? You came to my house to ask me this question?"

"What do you mean by 'just to ask you this question'?" Hu Lai said, "Is there anything more serious than this?"

"I'm injured!"

"Ah, we're sorry, Pete." Charlie said in a sad tone beside him. "So we came to visit you specially, hoping that you can overcome your injury and return to the court as soon as possible. Well, then you don't mind telling us... who is that girl?"

Williams raised his hand, gave Charlie Potter a middle finger, and then sighed helplessly: "It's my French teacher..."

Before he could speak, the young people in the room collectively exclaimed: "Family teacher. AVI?!"

"My goodness!"

"Peter, I misunderstood you. I always thought you were the kind of upright person. I didn't expect you to be better at playing than all of us!"

"Damn!" Williams pointed out his middle fingers with both hands at the same time, "She is really my French teacher! We are only together because she came to comfort me after I was injured..."

"Pete, listen to what you say. I used to be a French teacher. After I came to comfort you once, the two of you are together. There is a layer of film between you two. After being pierced, the relationship between the characters will be changed all of a sudden. Is it?" Hu Lai sneered. "If you had no ghosts in your heart before, I wouldn't believe it!"

"What's a 'ghost'?" Williams gave Hu Lai a hard look, and then said with some dejection, "Well...I admit, in the days of contact before, I did gradually have a good impression of Delphine... ..."

Jay Adams sighed with some disappointment: "I thought there could be some twists and turns in the story between the two of them, which would be worthy of the tabloids... but the truth turned out to be so simple and plain..."

Hu Lai turned around and asked him: "Otherwise, what else do you want, Jay? I think this is more worthy of tabloids than the story between the star and the nightclub queen. How strange-the core of Leeds City's midfielder and himself my French teacher is in love!"

Camara suddenly asked Williams: "Why are you learning French?"

Williams pouted: "I don't want to communicate with you conveniently..."

Hu Lai let out a "ha": "So, Ismail, are you still Pete's 'matchmaker'?"

Kamala looked puzzled: "What is 'hongniang'?"

"Oh, it's Cupid."

After getting the explanation, Kamara looked at Williams again: "But Youhu translated for us..."

"That's the problem, Ismail. This kid will take my words out of context." Williams said, pointing at Hou Lai.

Hu Lai who was pointed at changed his face and said angrily: "What nonsense? How did I take it out of context? I call it extracting the central idea!"

"However you define it, Huh. In short, you have the right to interpret what I say, and I want to be able to communicate directly with Ismail, so I asked Delphine to teach me French." Williams continued.

"In the end, you didn't learn French, but you got the teacher?" Charlie Potter complained.

"No, Delphine is a good teacher, I learned French." This sentence Williams said in French.

Camara's eyes lit up when Williams actually spoke French.

Although he has now learned English and daily communication is no longer a problem, he was still shocked by what Williams did-he didn't expect that the other party would actually learn a language for himself.

Others also expressed their admiration for Pete Williams.

Jay Adams shook his head: "I can't do it like you, Pete..."

Charlie Potter was thinking: "I heard that French girls are more open and romantic than British women, maybe I should also learn French?"

Hou Lai taunted him: "You shouldn't be learning French, you should be going to Korea, Charlie."

"Go to Korea? Why? Korean girls are more open?"

"No. Korean plastic surgery is better."

"Go to hell, Hu! You have no right to blame me!" Charlie rushed forward and knocked Hu Lai down on the bed, and the two made a fuss.

Just then, grandma yelled outside the door: "Tea time, boys!"

Hu Lai, whose clothes were disheveled and whose hair was crumpled into a bird's nest, sat up from the bed and suggested, "Guys, we should let Pete treat us to dinner and introduce his girlfriend to us. In China, this is..."

Adams raised his hand to stop him from continuing: "You don't want to think like this, Hu."

"Why?" Hu Lai was very strange, and what food did I, Hu Lai, not want to mess with?

"Don't you always say that a bachelor is a dog? At that time, Pete and his girlfriend are making love to each other at the dinner table, and you can only watch from the side... What is this food, it is clearly dog ​​food, you can still eat it Is it?" Adams explained.

Hu Lai was stunned for a moment, and realized that Adams was right, that scene...was too cruel and not suitable for children.

So he waved his hands dejectedly: "Forget it... let's go to afternoon tea!"

Everyone romped downstairs and saw that Williams' grandma had prepared tea and biscuits.

She picked up the plate and said to Hu Lai who was the first to come, "Try it, Hu. These are the 'bone biscuits' I specially baked."

Everyone looked at the pile of bone-shaped biscuits on the plate, and they were taken aback for a moment, and then burst into laughter, except for Hu Lai.

Grandma gave the laughing people a strange look, then looked expectantly at Hu Lai, and beckoned him to try it.

Williams smiled happily, and patted Hu Lai on the shoulder: "You're welcome, Hu. My grandma bakes the best cookies!"

Hu Lai had no choice but to pick up a "bone" and chew it in his mouth.

"How is it?" Grandma looked at him expectantly.

Hu Lai nodded, showing a slightly exaggerated smile: "It tastes great! Thank you, grandma."

"You are too polite, Hu. I am very happy that you can come to see Pete. Come, eat and play whatever you want. You can do whatever you want..." Grandma greeted everyone.

Everyone sat down to drink tea and eat biscuits obediently. Under the kindly gaze of grandma, they behaved like five or six-year-old children at first.

But soon they turned on the game consoles and started fighting with a lot of yelling.

Grandma was busy in the kitchen, and she glanced at the young people from time to time, and a smile appeared on her face from the bottom of her heart.

She felt as if she was younger again.

so good……