Green striker

In a certain city or place in China, on a night with a sparse moonlight, a young man, Xiao Cheng, dragged his exhausted body and slowly walked back to the shared house where he lived with his co-workers under the illumination of street night lights.

"Haha, Xiaocheng, you came back at the right time. We just came back from buying late night snacks. You kid, it's time for you to catch up on a delicious meal!"

"Come on, let's wash our hands and have a late night snack. It just so happens that we can also watch a game with wine and meat!"

Xiao Cheng just opened the door with the key and entered the room. In the living room, he could hear his friend and co-worker Lao Wang greeting him for supper.

"Okay, I happen to be hungry now. I bought a bowl of noodles on the way back, but I still feel like I'm not full!" Xiao Cheng responded to Lao Wang's words, and he also changed his shoes. Xiao Cheng was not a talker either.

He also said: "Then what game are you watching today? You stayed up late on purpose. Is this La Liga or the Premier League? You can't still watch Serie A, Juventus, and Milan, right?"

"What are you thinking about? Are you living a dull life?" Lao Wang, who was sitting on the chair, replied: "Today in the middle of the week, there are no La Liga or Premier League games, and there are also uninteresting make-up games."

"So what game are you watching today?"

"You won't know it by watching TV yourself," Lao Wang replied.

Xiao Cheng also changed his shoes at this moment. He walked into the living room, but his attention was not on the TV, but on the simple iron table.

On the iron table were several plates of barbecue in plastic boxes, and several bottles of beer that looked like they had been chilled.

Xiao Cheng looked at this thing, his mouth was watering, and he laughed in surprise: "Oh, chicken legs, beef, mutton skewers... cold vegetables, braised dried sesame, stinky tofu... screws, peanuts, edamame... these

Fried, braised, stir-fried and cold, today’s midnight snack is so neat and lively!”

"Nonsense, it cost me more than 100 yuan, how can I not pay for it?!" Lao Wang yelled in confusion after hearing this, "You are lucky, you caught up today and can have a good meal.

"

"Haha, yes, yes, good luck, good luck!" Xiao Cheng didn't defend himself. He went into the kitchen and washed his hands with a smile. As soon as he came out after washing his hands, he eagerly took a few peanuts and put them into his mouth.

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"Well, the peanuts sound crispy, which is good."

Xiao Cheng was commenting on the peanuts. At this point, he turned his attention to the TV that was showing the picture.

"Shanghai Five Star Sports?"

Xiao Cheng saw the red mark in the upper left corner and said, "So today I'm going to watch Chen Yang's game."

"Yes, that's right." Lao Wang nodded. He took an opened bottle of beer, poured wine into two disposable cups, and said: "These days, Chinese football and other things, just look at it.

Chen Yang, it makes people feel less panicked."

"In the game against Barcelona, ​​even if the substitute came on at the last minute, he could score a goal. It's a pity that it was that game and I didn't see it."

When Lao Wang said this, he started shaking his head. His face was red. It looked like he had drunk a lot of wine before, and now he said with the smell of alcohol in his mouth: "So... burp! In today's game,

Chen Yang is starting again. I have barbecue beer to go with it. I just want to see if Chen Yang, one of the best Chinese players in Europe, can still perform so well in this game!"

"Then he shouldn't be so awesome, right? Maybe Chen Yang was lucky in that game?" Xiaocheng moved a chair and sat down, and followed Lao Wang's words and said: "Let's play again in this game.

I guess it’s really difficult for Barcelona to perform well again!”

"What's your estimate? How accurate is your estimate?" Lao Wang listened to Xiao Cheng's words and smiled. "Xiao Cheng, I remember that a long time ago, you said... hiccup! You used to be with Chen Yang.

Have you ever been teammates?!"

"Tell me, do you think that Chen Yang will be playing football abroad in a few years?"

"So, you estimate, this... hiccup! It's not that I'm trying to hit you, you really can't do it!"

After listening to Lao Wang's somewhat drunken words, Xiao Cheng smiled and said, "Haha, yes, if I had asked you to estimate what Chen Yang would be like in the future, you can ask me now

It’s up to me to judge, but I can’t estimate it accurately.”

"But I was indeed teammates with Chen Yang for a while. When we were still in Lokomotiv, Chen Yang and I were both thirteen or fourteen years old, and we all played together."

"I didn't expect that in just five or six years, Chen Yang would successfully go to play football abroad and become famous."

When Xiao Cheng said this, he paused.

He seemed to have recalled some memories from the past. He still remembered that later on, when the club was disbanded and there was nothing left, when he returned to school and continued studying, he vaguely heard others talk about Chen Yang going to try out elsewhere.

All kinds of news.

After that moment, there was nothing, and then a few years later, Chen Yang appeared in a foreign country, in the Spanish Second Division.

I don’t know what Chen Yang, a person I once knew, has gone through in the past few years.

Xiao Cheng looked at the TV and saw that the commentator was warming up the game, listening to his voice of Chen Yang and Chen Yang.

Inexplicably, Xiaocheng sighed before saying: "Chen Yang is indeed very good. Now that he is playing abroad, he should be like this."

Chen Yang persisted.

Unlike him, he persisted in nothing and gained nothing.

…

When the time came to 7:26 in the evening.

There are less than 5 minutes left before the official start of the game.

"Do you think Chen Yang will score another goal today?"

In the main stand of the stadium, the Cole family, who have always been loyal fans of the club, came out to watch the game tonight.

The words above were spoken by Cole's second daughter, Lucia, and his sister Estella, who took time to go home to watch the game.

Estella glanced at Lucia, and he knew that the girl asked her this deliberately.

But Estella, she still took Lucia's words and said: "Barcelona are very strong, but I believe he will still score goals. This is my opinion."

"Oh, you just believe him so much?" After Estella answered Lucia's question, Lucia said again.

As for Estella, she smiled and said, "Of course I trust him, I have always trusted him."

Estella's smile as she spoke was full of joy and... sweetness!

This made Lucia couldn't help but mutter, "I really don't know what kind of magic potion that guy gave you. What is there to like about a person like him?"

Estella chuckled when she heard her sister's dissatisfaction. She knew where Lucia's unhappiness came from.

Last week, it was Lucia's birthday, and the whole family celebrated her birthday, and Estella also invited Chen Yang to come with her.

At that time, Chen Yang also came up with many gifts, including a birthday gift for Lucia. Some of Lucia's gifts were expensive and some were special, which were considered "unexpected surprises".

The unexpected surprise was the reason why Lucia began to hate Chen Yang.

Because the unexpected surprise Chen Yang gave Lucia on her birthday was none other than giving the 16th birthday girl a thick set of teaching aids.

It’s similar to China’s five-year college entrance examination and three-year simulation.

"Just because he visited our house last time and he gave you several extra sets of teaching aids, you hate him now?" Estella said with a smile: "You have to be more cheerful and generous, after all.

This is for your own good."

"What? This is for my own good?!"

After hearing this, Lucia lowered her face and chuckled coldly: "Then I really want to thank Chen Yang for his kindness!"

"It would be nice if there were just several sets of teaching aids."

"But how many sets are those?"

"That's a whole person's worth of information. He bought all my supplies for next year and the year after that! I'm really touched!"

As Lucia spoke, she gestured to her neck with her hand, indicating the situation when Chen Yang sent these materials and how exaggerated those materials were.

"Even if you make those things for me, I won't be able to finish them even if you don't eat, drink, sleep, and rest for a year!" Lucia finally said through gritted teeth.

Estella looked at Lucia's angry look, and she couldn't help but laugh again, "But why do I remember that someone was so happy after Chen Yang sent him information?

.”

"I seem to have an impression that someone was holding a new Apple mobile phone and was extremely happy."

When Estella mentioned someone, she was not referring to Lucia who was sitting next to him.

Hearing this, Lucia's originally non-angry expression was startled. Then, Lucia's face turned bitter and whispered: "My dear sister, it's not like you don't know about that phone, so I just got it to play with."

If you don’t show up all night, you will be charged.”

Who can make the decision to collect her cell phone, but it is the Nakole couple sitting in the front row right now.

Lucia's voice when she said this was very soft, but she was afraid that these two people would hear her.

"But who can be blamed?" Estella laughed out loud when she saw Lucia's reaction, "If you had some self-control and didn't play too much with your phone all night, I don't think so.

This will be the result."

"I knew you would say that too!" Lucia curled her lips, and she had her own reasons to retort: ​​"How can I not have self-control? I play for fun, and my grades are still very good!

"

"Oh? Then what guarantee can you give? Not to mention my parents, but at least to me, can I believe what you say is guaranteed?"

Estella chuckled, and she pointed her finger at Lucia's pretty face, the eye bags that were astonishingly large to the naked eye, "Are those the dark circles under your eyes that can be compared to those of the fat men in the zoo?

"

Then, she pinched Lucia's little face and said, "Are you still a picky eater, with a visibly thin, pale face and a small body that is no different from a stunted person?"

Lucia looked at her eldest sister's smiling face. Lucia, who was very familiar with this sister, didn't know that this was how Estella often appeared when she was angry.

"Well...well..."

Lucia wanted to make a cry for mercy, but her face was pinched by Estella and she couldn't speak clearly.

Seeing Lucia's appearance, Estella smiled and continued to squeeze Lucia's little face, and even started to rub it. While rubbing it, Estella said to Lucia: "Listen up.

Oh, Lucia, Chen Yang may not be a person who can be liked and accepted by everyone."

"Some people will definitely hate him, and I don't expect you to be able to accept him. However, I don't think it's okay for you to hate him just for this reason."

"Even if Chen Yang is a stranger and doesn't know me, I don't want my sister to be such a person!"

"Otherwise, I think you still have some, oh no, a lot of small problems that need to be corrected."

After Estela said her last words, she let go of Lucia.

But the smile at the corner of her mouth has not stopped, and Estella's current smile, in Lucia's eyes, is exactly the same as her mother's.

Lucia could also hear the warning in Estella's last words.

Lots of little problems?

How could Lucia, a smart girl, not know how many little problems she had hidden from her parents...

"I know I was wrong!" Lucia lowered her head and looked at the parents in the row in front of her, whose attention was on the court. She begged for mercy in a low voice honestly: "I will never do it without any reason in the future.

He will just hate Chen Yang and...others!"

As far as Lucia is concerned, the only person who can control her is her mother, and now, she has to add her eldest sister.

In response, Estella touched her sister's little head and said gently: "If you know your mistakes and can correct them, you are a good child."

Lucia was shaken by Estela's gentle touch on the head, and then she pointed at the playing field. "Okay, okay! Come and watch the game, the game is about to start!"

"Look, Chen Yang is preparing to serve in the center circle."

…

At this moment, in the center circle, Chen Yang and old captain Silin were at the kick-off point.

In the first half of the game, Tarragona gives priority to kick-off, and they will attack from left to right.

"What do you think of the next game, our golden boot shooter?"

While the referee was still counting down the seconds and waiting for the whistle to blow, the old captain used a reporter's tone and teased Chen Yang in a relaxed manner.

Chen Yang glanced at Barcelona's half and whispered: "How else can I see it, but I just see it with my eyes."

"Haha, it seems that you also understand humor." The old captain laughed, "This is a good joke, quite cold."

Chen Yang was confused. He really wasn't very good at understanding European humor and laughter.

However, Chen Yang looked at the sky and said: "I don't know about the rest of the next game, but I know that it will probably rain."

Unexpectedly, the old captain laughed again, "Good, it seems you have found a place, and you don't need me to teach you any more funny jokes."

"Uh..." Chen Yang shook his head, "I'm serious."

"It's going to rain."

Look at the dark sky without stars and moon, and feel the cool and moist breeze blowing through the stadium right now.

These are all foreshadowing that a storm may be about to fall soon.

The old captain put his hands on his hips and replied: "Then I can tell you that I am serious too."

"Play seriously, and then be prepared for rain."

"The weather forecast says that there will be light rain tonight."

"Are you sure?" Chen Yang didn't quite believe what the old captain said. Looking at the current momentum, it was really just a light rain.

"Well, maybe it's not necessarily a moderate rain." The old captain shrugged, "Anyway, no matter how heavy the rain is, this game will not be postponed."

There is indeed nothing wrong with what the old captain said.