Fox in the Penalty Area

"Dad, Mom, I'm leaving first." Just after swallowing the last sip of milk, Hu Lai got up from the dining table, grabbed the schoolbag beside him, changed his shoes and went out.

"Be careful on the road." The mother pointed out from the kitchen and urged.

"I know!" When he answered this sentence, Hu Lai was already outside the door.

Hearing the footsteps echoing in the corridor, Xie Lan glanced at her husband who was eating breakfast, and said with a smile: "Our child is getting more and more sensible, and I go to school for morning reading every day. I think you should feel relieved, right?"

"That depends on his test scores." Hu Lixin said while peeling the shell of a boiled egg.

"His ranking in the final exam of last semester has risen by ten places compared with the last semester of the freshman year of high school. Besides, as long as our son has this attitude, you should be happy." Xie Lan came to the seat where Hu Lai was sitting with a tablecloth in hand, Clean up that piece. "Hu Lixin, I'm serious, you should be a little more tolerant to our son. Sometimes, you are too strict, so strict that I even wonder if it is your own..."

Hu Lixin frowned and said, "I'm being strict with him now, and it's for his own good. You also know that this kid is not in good shape all day long. If you dare to relax a little, he will dare to expose the roof tiles for you."

"That is to say, if you are too strict, he will be afraid of you. If the relationship between the two of you is too rigid, aren't you afraid that he will not love you?" Xie Lan took the two eggs that Hu Lai ate. The shells were swept with a tablecloth into his glass of milk.

"I just want him to live well, it doesn't matter if he loves me or not." Hu Lixin said.

"You say that again!" Xie Lan stared at her husband, dissatisfied.

Hu Lixin looked down at his knees and said: "I don't want him to follow my old path. He wrote and played football at a young age. After studying for more than ten years, he retired without even playing a professional game. He still has injuries. What did you do? When I came out to the society, I realized that I don’t know anything. I have low education and no ability. At first I worked hard, but later I couldn’t sell my strength...Study hard, go to a university, and it’s much easier to find a job when you come out .”

"Haven't you heard that it's hard for college students to find a job now?"

"No matter how difficult it is to find, it is better than me."

Seeing that her husband was so stubborn, Xie Lan couldn't continue talking about this topic anymore, she could only sigh in her heart, turned around and walked to the kitchen with Hu Lai's used bowls, chopsticks and cups.

Behind her, Hu Lixin in a security uniform stuffed the peeled egg into his mouth.

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When Hu Lai arrived at school,

He parked his bicycle in a special carport outside the school gate, and ran straight to the football field.

Li Ziqiang was already there waiting for him, just like every morning before.

When there were not many people on campus, and the track and stands of the stadium were not yet occupied by students memorizing English vocabulary and political texts, Hu Lai had already started training under the guidance of Li Ziqiang.

This time they did not train directly on the court, but came to the single parallel bars area.

Standing in front of a pair of parallel bars with the highest height, Li Ziqiang said to Hu Lai: "Upper body strength training includes arm strength, neck and shoulder strength, chest strength, back and hip strength, and abdominal strength. We do the same thing. We start with arm strength first." .See that double bar?"

Holly nodded.

"Look at my demonstration." Li Ziqiang turned around, raised his arms, grabbed the parallel bars with both hands, jumped up with a little force, and then straightened his arms to support his body.

After the body was still, his arms were slowly bent, and the body slowly descended until the upper arms were almost parallel to the ground before stopping.

Then his body began to move upward again, and his arms were slowly straightened from a ninety-degree bend. When he was fully straightened, his body returned to its original position.

The next step is to repeat this set of elbow flexion and stretching.

After finishing, Li Ziqiang jumped off the parallel bars, clapped his hands and said to Hu Lai: "See clearly? Just do this. There are a few points to pay attention to. The first is to only lower your body until your upper arms are parallel to the ground." , do not continue to descend, and the height of the elbow should not be higher than the shoulder. If you move correctly and train properly, there will be a stretch in the front of the shoulder."

"Okay, I see, Coach."

"Okay, then you can come." Li Ziqiang backed away and gave the place to Hu Lai.

Hu Lai spit towards the palm of his hand, grabbed the parallel bars and jumped up, then pushed his body up with all his strength, and then slowly descended.

"That's it, keep it up..." Li Ziqiang watched him make moves from below, and at the same time kept making corrections and reminders. "Don't sway your body, hold on! The more you sway, the more tired you will be!"

"The elbow height is wrong, continue to lower the position...the upper arm is parallel to the ground, that is, the elbow is at 90 degrees. Yes, eh, yes, this is the position. Remember the feeling here. Do you feel stretched in front of the shoulder? "

Hu Lai gritted his teeth and replied, "Yes, coach..."

"That's right, go ahead, push back!"

Hu Lai slowly stretched his body up by relying on the strength of his upper arm.

When his body reached the top, he quickly entered the system to take a look at his current "BUFF": in the space on the right of his avatar, it was displayed by the effect of the strength training scroll, and the countdown under the icon told him that there were still nine classes left.

Seeing the scroll effect, Hu Lai felt relieved.

Come on, special training, when I have built up my muscles, I must buy that kind of tight T-shirt to wear!

Just like that muscle-flaunting monster Chen Rui!

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"Xiaoyu, Deputy Hu was asked by the coach to train more strength. It's noon, and he's lifting weights there..." During the lunch break, Chen Rui came to chat with Xia Xiaoyu.

The topic of course was the special training for their vice-captain.

In fact, since joining the team, every high school player has gradually accepted the fact that their vice-captain has to receive additional training and is scolded bloody by the head coach.

The captains and vice-captains of other teams seem to be the highest-level people in this team, but this is not the case in Dongchuan Middle School.

Their vice-captain is a rookie who started football training after entering the school team in his first year of high school. He has a weak foundation and has left a lot of homework to make up.

Therefore, before his morning reading and lunch break, he will conduct special training under the guidance and supervision of the head coach.

Before it was training his running position and shooting, but now he is training his strength.

Freshman players discuss their vice-captain behind closed doors.

It stands to reason that such a person would not even be able to play games in other teams, let alone vice-captains.

But Deputy Hu was not only the starting player in Dongchuan Middle School, but also scored five goals in three games.

In everyone's opinion, such a performance is already very good, but the head coach is still not satisfied, or Deputy Hu himself is not satisfied either.

So the two of them hit it off and continued to practice.

"How can I say that Deputy Hu can score three goals in the national competition after he has only been exposed to football for half a year?" Xia Xiaoyu said, "I want to watch Deputy Hu's training, do you want to watch it? Chen Rui?"

"Go ahead, I'm fine anyway."

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As soon as the two entered the playground, they heard the head coach's voice: "Hurry up, don't slow down. If you are slow, I will tell you, and your chin will hit the ground. Don't blame me if you are disfigured... But you are also shameless." Destroyable..."

Then there was the panting voice of their vice-captain: "Coach, don't say that... the male big eighteen changes..."

Afterwards, Xia Xiaoyu and Chen Rui saw their vice-captain crawling past them in a very strange posture——his hands were bent to support his body, and he moved forward in a staggered manner, like a lizard, while his legs were held by the master. The coach is in his arms and is being pushed forward to climb.

"I'll go... the old man pushes the cart!" Chen Rui blurted out the coquettish words.

Then he quickly realized that he had said the wrong thing, but neither the coach nor the vice-captain paid him any attention, as if they hadn't heard them at all.

"Huh, it's dangerous..." Chen Rui patted his chest.

"What old man is pushing a cart? This is training Deputy Hu's upper body strength." Xia Xiaoyu gave Chen Rui a white look and explained.

The two of them just stood in the shadow under the doorway at the entrance of the stadium, watching Hu Lai being pushed around the football field by the head coach.

When the head coach let go, Hu Lai lay motionless on the artificial turf, as if dead.

"The amount of training is really huge...Xiaoyu, sometimes I wonder if our head coach has a grudge against Deputy Hu. It's cruel to train him...I still remember what the head coach said when we first joined the team Is it? At that time, many people were scared and retreated, but when it came to training, when everyone saw the treatment of Deputy Hu, many people felt balanced..." Chen Rui murmured while watching this scene.

"But this kind of training is really useful. I don't know what Hu was like when he was a freshman in high school. I guess he was able to score three goals in the national competition, it must be related to this kind of training. Chen Rui, I suddenly have an idea , do you want to listen?" Xia Xiaoyu said looking at Hu Lai on the field.

"what idea?"

"Didn't the coach say that? The team's goal is the national competition, but I don't think it is possible to go to the national competition for a round trip, right? The coach's ambition will not be limited to tying the results of the last national competition. And If you want to perform better in the national competition, you need to invest more in training. I think, like Deputy Hu, I can come to school half an hour earlier in the morning. I have nothing to do at noon anyway. Then why can't I join the coach's special training?"

Chen Rui looked at the outstanding member of the first-year high school freshman team with some surprise: "But Xiaoyu, you are already very good, so there is no need for it?"

"Excellent? I don't think so." Xia Xiaoyu shook his head. "Our goal is the national competition, and there must be stronger opponents in the national competition than the opponents in the Anton Cup. If we stand still, how can we guarantee that we can defeat the strong opponents in the national competition? So I think we should work hard to improve Myself, the only way is to go to the national competition to ensure that I will not become that short board. Do you want to come together? Come to school half an hour early every morning, and then use the lunch break to do special training."

Chen Rui was a little hesitant. After seeing Hu Lai's appearance, he was afraid of such training.

Seeing that Chen Rui didn't say a word, Xia Xiaoyu walked out of the shadows, walked towards the sunny football field, and walked towards the head coach.

"Tsk, forget it!" Seeing this, Chen Rui chased after him, and walked beside Xia Xiaoyu in two steps. "You can do it with such a small body, so can I!"

Xia Xiaoyu looked at his midfield partner and laughed.

Then the two of them walked up to the head coach together.

"coach!"

Li Ziqiang looked at the two of them: "What's the matter?"

"Coach, we know that you are doing extra training for Deputy Hu. I want to apply to join, is that okay?" Xia Xiaoyu said.

Hu Lai, who turned over and lay on the ground panting heavily, heard Xia Xiaoyu say this, and was so startled that he propped himself up on his arms, and cast a surprised look at them—why are there still people who come to seek abuse these days? ?

"Why?" Li Ziqiang didn't show a surprised expression on his face, but asked.

"Because I want to work hard to improve myself so that I can perform better in the national competition. I don't want to just go to the national competition to see the world." Xia Xiaoyu said.

Li Ziqiang turned his attention to Chen Rui again, and the latter nodded quickly: "Me too, coach!"

"I think coach, if you teach Vice President Hu alone, you are also teaching, and teaching us is also teaching. I can also come to school half an hour earlier every day. I don't need to take a nap, so the lunch break can also be used for training. I hope you will agree with me, coach."

Chen Rui withdrew his gaze from looking at Xia Xiaoyu, turned to look at the head coach, nodded and said, "Me too, coach!"

Li Ziqiang looked the two of them up and down.

It's not the first day he's doing special training for Hu Lai here. It's been almost six months since March, except for the summer vacation. This is the first time that other members of the team have offered to follow up with additional training.

He asked, "Did you eat much at noon?"

"Ah?" Even Xia Xiaoyu didn't react this time, and didn't understand what the head coach meant by asking this.

Chen Rui wondered if the coach was euphemistically scolding them for "they are full and looking for trouble when they have nothing to do"?

Hu Lai, who had already sat up, explained to them for the head coach: "He is afraid that you will spit out your lunch in a while, what a waste of food."

Hearing what Deputy Hu said, Chen Rui was frightened—it was just training, how could he vomit? How much is this training?

But at this moment, he heard Xia Xiaoyu beside him say: "I didn't eat much, coach, I promise I won't throw up!"

Chen Rui gritted his teeth: "Me too, coach!"