Golden Greenery

Huang Chengjun was late today. When he arrived at Moses Mabhida Stadium, the game had already started.

After watching the top ten match between the Chinese team and Japan in Yokohama last February, Huang Chengjun packed his bags and returned to China. He returned to his hometown that he had left for seven years and returned to his beloved place where the ground is not three feet flat and the sky is not three feet high. A place with sunny weather. After going back to adjust his mood for a few days, Huang Chengjun applied to teach in a remote mountainous primary school and stayed quietly with eighteen children for more than a year.

Last week, the school went on summer vacation, and Huang Chengjun's teaching support came to an end. He couldn't wait to fly to South Africa, holding the tickets for the fourth 18-game match of the World Cup in South Africa.

There is not much salary as a volunteer teacher. Huang Chengjun's current expenses are basically the money he saved from working hard for seven years in Japan, which is not much, so he has to save some money. But the flowers have to be spent. It is Huang Chengjun’s dream to watch Zhuoyang play in the World Cup.

It was difficult to get a ticket for the group stage, and the tickets were already being competed for by Chinese fans at a sky-high price. Huang Chengjun did not join in the fun. The eighteen children in the school did not have a holiday, so he could not leave. But Huang Chengjun is a person who is good at analyzing and thinking. He judged the group situation and decisively booked the tickets for this game in advance. Huang Chengjun is confident that Zhuo Yang can advance to the top 16, but he is not arrogant. He is certain that the Chinese team will finish second in the group.

Because the matchup situation in the rematch was not clear before the start of the World Cup, tickets were not yet in high demand and they always had to wait until the top players from all walks of life took their positions before they started to sell out. Huang Chengjun's accurate judgment saved him a lot of money, and his reasonable arrangements for the itinerary in advance were consistent with his rigorous yet bold character.

Huang Chengjun is not interested in the country of South Africa, and he is not a person who likes to travel. In addition, he has already heard about the poor social security in this country, so he traveled thousands of miles this time just to watch this game. Watch it when you come, and leave after you finish it.

But despite all the calculations, Huang Chengjun was still late, which made him quite helpless. But I can't blame him. The hosting of the World Cup in South Africa was very chaotic in many places. This gave Bender, a local fellow who likes to hurt others at the expense of himself, an opportunity to tease Huang Chengjun.

The game will be played at the Moses Mabhida Stadium. It has been decided a year ago. This is written on the World Cup officials and Huang Chengjun's tickets. But after arriving in Durban on time, he could not find the stadium.

Moses Mabhida, this is obviously a personal name. This comprehensive stadium was newly built specifically for this World Cup, and it was named in memory of former South African Communist Party General Secretary Moses Mabhida.

Comrade Mabhida once led the broad masses of workers and peasants in South Africa to wage an arduous struggle against apartheid and made outstanding contributions to South Africa's national reconciliation. He is deeply loved by the South African people. The Moses Mabhida Stadium is also one of the most beautiful and famous stadiums in all of Africa.

Less than a month before the start of the World Cup, FIFA suddenly informed the South African Organizing Committee that names and brands that are not on the sponsor list of FIFA and this World Cup will not be allowed to appear in the World Cup venues. That Moses Mabhida of yours. Change, must change.

So Ellis Park can be called Coca-Cola, the Bayside Stadium in Port Elizabeth can be called Nelson Mandela, but Moses Mabhida cannot be called Moses Mabhida. But the people of Durban have a broken diaphragm, but their arms cannot lift their thighs, so they can only temporarily call it Durban Stadium.

As a result, all official announcements, advertisements, guides, street signs, etc., were all changed to the new name of the stadium.

Huang Chengjun had been doing finishing work in the mountains before, and he had to appease the eighteen innocent children who were reluctant to leave him. He knew nothing about the rotten millet in South Africa thousands of miles away. After coming down from the mountain, he was in a hurry and didn't go there seriously. After checking the information, he never thought that FIFA would be so whim.

After arriving in Bande, the game was about to start in three hours. This was enough time for Huang Chengjun to rush to the stadium. But when he asked the simple local villagers for directions, he received an extremely sincere answer: Sorry, we don't have a football stadium named Moses Mabhida here.

At that moment, Huang Chengjun thought that he had traveled to another world or encountered a supernatural event. After calming down, Huang Chengjun tried to make his English pronunciation as standard as possible, but the answers he received were still very sincere and calm.

"No, indeed not. You must be mistaken." He was sincere and concise, and there was no unnecessary nonsense. I asked several locals in succession and got the same answer.

The more narrow-minded and poor-hearted people are, the more they like to show their superiority in front of outsiders. The more idiotic a person is, the more they like to tease people needlessly, because this will bring a long-term sense of satisfaction to their poor brains. In this regard, China and foreign countries are the same. This can be considered the world's unity.

Huang Chengjun saw clues from the expressions of these serious but narrow dark faces. He did not try to be pretentious with these locals. Although he was still wondering whether he got off the wrong plane, he still nodded with a smile and walked away. .

The whole city of Durban was decorated with lights and colorful decorations because of the World Cup. It was not difficult to find the stadium without asking for directions. Just follow the flow of fans of all colors. Huang Chengjun followed the largest group of people, which was a group of Dutch fans. .

Fans all over the world are one family. Huang Chengjun found the opportunity to chat with them and finally learned from them about the stadium name change. He couldn't help but feel speechless to FIFA and the local people. Dutch fans enthusiastically invited Huang Chengjun to join them, and he readily agreed.

Huang Chengjun has been studying and working in Japan for seven years, and his Japanese is almost as good as that of a rural Yokohama native. However, his English level is very average, better than Bengzi. When communicating with Dutch fans who were not very good at English, they could misunderstand each other if they were half-informed, so Huang Chengjun followed them to the big screen in the square prepared by the organizing committee for fans without tickets. In order not to cause excessive traffic congestion, the big screen and the Moses Mabhida Stadium are separated from each other in the city.

After finally figuring out all the mistakes, Huang Chengjun, who couldn't laugh or cry, could only quickly find a way to cross the entire city again, otherwise the trip would be in vain. Perhaps because of Rijkaard's relationship, Dutch fans were very friendly to Huang Chengjun. A Rotterdam man with a big orange beard volunteered to take Huang Chengjun there on his motorcycle.

When he finally reached Moses Mabhida, the game had already begun. And when Huang Chengjun climbed up to the stand where he belonged, as soon as he poked his head out, loud cheers suddenly came from around him.

In the 18th minute of the first half, the first goal came, scored by Alger Robben. The Chinese team fell behind 01.