The Midfield Master

In the old-fashioned residential area of ​​Yuexiu District, Xia Ze shuttled through the dark and narrow alleys with a backpack on his back, greeting neighbors sitting at the door. This is where Xia Ze was born and raised. Some neighbors have moved out, but Xia Ze's family still lives here. He walked through the alley for a few minutes, and went up the stairs through a small door.

"Mom, I'm back." Li Xiangyang put his backpack on the old sofa and shouted towards the balcony.

"Xiaoyang, I'll go to the stall later. I left some food for you in the kitchen." A middle-aged woman's voice came from the balcony.

"Zi Shuaizi goes to play football every day. He doesn't know the hard work of your mother raising you. Feeding a dog is better than raising him!" An old voice came from the same balcony, it was Xia Ze's grandfather Xia Jinhua. On the balcony, he helped Mother Li prepare things for the Mala Tang stall.

When Xia Ze was five years old, his father, who used to be a professional player, was forced by his creditors to commit suicide by jumping off a building because of match-fixing and gambling.

Six months later, her grandmother died of depression, and Xia Jinhua suffered a stroke and was hospitalized due to the shock of losing two close relatives one after another.

What was a good home suddenly fell apart.

Due to the death of relatives and drastic changes in the family because of football, Xia Jinhua hated football ever since. Although Xia Ze's football talent is extremely high, he does not approve of Xia Ze continuing to play football.

Fortunately, his mother strongly supported Xia Ze, coupled with the relationship accumulated by his father during his lifetime, Xia Ze and his younger brother Xia Tao were able to have the opportunity to football school and still maintain the hope of becoming a professional player.

At that time, Mother Xia had to take care of Xia Jinhua, who was half-paralyzed, and also raised five-year-old Xia Ze and one-year-old Xia Tao. Life was very difficult.

From doing odd jobs to setting up street stalls, she has done almost all low-level jobs. Xia Jinhua is very dissatisfied with Xia Ze who only cares about playing football, neither studying hard nor helping his mother with work, so he often scolds Xia Ze.

Xia Ze didn't directly ignore grandpa's scolding, he was used to it over the years. After taking a shower and eating, he went back to his and his brother's room.

Xia Ze lives with his grandfather, mother, and younger brother in this 50-square-meter house. The house was bought by his father when he was a professional player, and it has a history of 20 years.

The room of the two brothers is about ten square meters, with a bunk bed, and the rest of the place is full of sundries.

"Huh? What is this?"

When Xia Ze put his things away and was about to take a nap, he saw a white medicine bottle among the messy clothes.

Picking up the medicine bottle, the words "sleeping pills" were written on it, and half of the pills were still inside.

Only grandfather Xia Jinhua in the family needed sleeping pills to fall asleep, but why did his medicine appear in his room?

Could it be?

In just a split second, Xia Ze connected things together, immediately went to the balcony, and asked grandpa Xia Jinhua loudly: "You put sleeping pills in my kettle last night!?"

Xia Jinhua didn't seem to hear Xia Ze's questioning, wearing a pair of presbyopic glasses, sitting in a wheelchair, wearing fish egg skewers with rough hands.

"Ozawa, you can't talk to grandpa like this!?" Li Chunhua scolded in dissatisfaction.

"Mom, I went to bed very early last night and set the alarm clock, but I just couldn't wake up this morning and almost missed an important game."

Xia Ze took the medicine bottle and said to Li Chunhua: "I thought it was my problem, but I found this bottle of sleeping pills in the room just now, he must have deliberately put sleeping pills in my water bottle to make me oversleep. "

Li Chunhua took the medicine bottle, which had a familiar hospital stamp on it, sighed and said to Xia Jinhua, "Elder-in-law, is this true?"

Xia Jinhua stopped what he was doing, looked up at Xia Ze with disgust, and said, "That's right, I did it. If you have books and don't study well, go to work to earn money! Can you make money by playing football? Just play around all day!"

Hearing this, Xia Ze became even more angry. Am I playing? I play hard to make my family better off. And playing football is also my dream.

Besides playing football,

I still have a part-time job, when did I just focus on having fun?

"Don't worry, I'll take care of this family!" Xia Ze looked at his grandfather and said word by word. At this moment, he had already made a decision in his heart.

...

In a McDonald's in the city, Xia Ze was ordering food for customers in work clothes. Since high school, he has worked part-time at this McDonald's to help support the family. Every day after school training, weekends, and holidays, he will work here to earn money.

Although it is summer vacation, there are not many customers in the afternoon, Xia Ze said to his colleague Qian Xiaoan, "Xiao An, do you know how much it costs to fly from Guangzhou to Portugal?"

"It should be about 5000 for Portugal. Hey, are you going to Portugal?" A cute girl of about 160 next to Xia Ze replied. She is also a part-time student who came here during the summer.

"It's nothing, my deacon just asked casually." Xia Ze just smiled and didn't answer. Qian Xiaoan didn't ask further, because a customer came to order food.

"Hello, I would like a French fries, two glasses of Coke and a plain cone." A loud voice came from the front of the ordering counter.

Qian Xiaoan looked up, and saw a tall young man looking at him with a smirk.

"You're so big, and you still eat so much, can't you get fat?" Qian Xiaoan teased.

Since Xia Ze worked part-time here, Zhang Wei often came to see him. Even the manager knew this stupid big man who was close to 1.9 meters.

"It is because I can eat that I can grow taller and faster, and there are beauties waiting for me."

Qian Xiaoan looked behind Zhang Wei, and saw Wang Xiaolin sitting on a table, holding her chin and looking at Xia Ze affectionately.

Qian Xiaoan hastily poked Xia Ze's waist with his elbow, motioning him to look ahead. Xia Ze looked up, just in time to meet Wang Xiaolin's eyes

When Wang Xiaolin saw that Xia Ze had found her, her face blushed, and she called Xia Ze over.

Seeing this, Xia Ze quickly asked a colleague to take his place, took a rag, walked to Wang Xiaolin's desk, wiped the table and whispered, "What are you doing here?"

"I called and asked. Tenonio is indeed a scout for the Maritimo club. He has been on vacation in China for the past month." Wang Xiaolin also whispered.

At this time, Zhang Wei also came over with something. Xia Ze didn't have a table to wipe, so he had to wipe the flower pots and fence beside him.

"What about our team?"

"I asked the coach and my dad, and they all said that if you have the opportunity to try out, the club will support you, but you need official documents to allow you to go to Portugal for tryout." Wang Xiaolin continued.

"I've asked my parents, and they think that if there is a chance, they will support me to try it. Xia Ze, have you decided yet?" Zhang Wei asked Xia Ze while eating French fries.

"Um... I don't know yet." Xia Ze seemed a little hesitant.

During the quarrel with his grandfather a few days ago, he really made up his mind to make a breakthrough. But after learning from Qian Xiaoan that such a large sum of money was required to go to Portugal, he was a little hesitant.

"I have some private money, I can lend it to you first." Wang Xiaolin asked in a low voice. She knew that Xia Ze's family environment was not good, so she was always reluctant to mention these things. But at this time, there is no way not to mention it.

"No need, I'll figure it out myself." Xia Ze rejected Wang Xiaolin's suggestion without even thinking about it.

It's good for me to be boyfriend and girlfriend with her, but precisely because she is my girlfriend, I can't even ask for her money.

"I've known him for so long, every time it comes to money, he will find an excuse to leave, he's coy and unmanly." Zhang Wei complained from the side.

"That's because he doesn't want to owe others, money, or favours. A man is poor and ambitious, and I think this is what a man should do." Wang Xiaolin looked at Xia Ze with admiring eyes.

"Love can blind people's eyes, it's true." Zhang Wei looked at Wang Xiaolin's spring, and said secretly in his heart.

...

In the afternoon, in the living room of the Guangzhou R\u0026F Club, Wang Xiaolin and Zhang Wei sat on the side, and with them was Wang Jingcun, the deputy manager of the R\u0026F Club.

"Xiaolin, wouldn't it be good for us to negotiate with Tenonio regardless of Xia Ze?" Zhang Wei whispered to Wang Xiaolin beside him.

"Don't worry, let's talk about the details of the trial training with Tenonio now. He definitely wants to go to the trial training. If it's just because of money, I'll help him out first. Let's negotiate now and wait for the documents to come out Even if Aze doesn't want to, he still has to fly to Portugal." Wang Xiaolin explained in a low voice.

As soon as he finished speaking, the secretary of the R\u0026F Club led the middle-aged man who thought he was a foreigner into the reception room. He was Tenonio who had talked with Wang Xiaolin and the others that day. When Wang Jingcun saw Tenonio coming in, he took the initiative to shake hands with him and say hello.

Today Tenonio did not wear shorts, slippers and a T-shirt like he did when he watched the game that day, but a straight suit. After shaking hands with Wang Jingcun, he also greeted Wang Xiaolin and Zhang Wei. After some courtesies, both parties sat down as the host and guest.

"Mr. Tenonio, I am very pleased to hear that you are interested in the two young players of our club." Wang Jingcun said to Tenonio in fluent English.

"You can just call me Joao." Tenonio said humbly: "I watched their game that day, and I was very impressed by them, especially Xia Ze..."

Speaking of this, Tenonio looked around the living room, and seemed to realize that Xia Ze was not present, and said in surprise, "Hey, why didn't you see Xia Ze?"

"That's right, Xia Ze has something to do today, so he can't come. He asked me to represent him." Wang Xiaolin replied.

"Oh, that's it." Tenonio suddenly realized.

"Joao, if you want to bring Xia Ze and Zhang Weidao to Portugal for trial training, our club is willing to let them go. But because they are both underage, we need official documents from the Maritimo club to let them go. "Wang Jingcun said politely.

"That's no problem. May I borrow your phone and fax machine? I'll call the club and ask them to fax the trial training documents." Tenonio said straightforwardly.

"No problem, this way please." Wang Jingcun became cheerful when he heard that the other party was so forthright. Although the coaches of Real Madrid and Manchester United did not take a fancy to their players this time, there is a Portuguese Super League team who offered to let the club players try out, which is undoubtedly more exciting than sending players to giants for tryouts in the form of commercial cooperation uplifting. Red Devils Manchester United Rewards Grain 188 Red Devils Manchester United Rewards Grain 388 Red Devils Manchester United Rewards Grain 188 Red Devils Manchester United Rewards Grain 388 Red Devils Manchester United Rewards Grain 88