Fox in the Penalty Area

David Miller put his hands in the pockets of his jacket, turned up his collar, and then curled up his neck, resisting the cold wind blowing from the corner of the street, and walked quickly through the alley.

A few kids ahead are kicking a football against a wall.

There is a goal painted in white paint on the wall.

They are divided into two teams and compete with each other, with the ultimate goal of shooting the football into the "goal".

When David saw this, he walked around from the side, not wanting to disturb the children playing football.

At this moment, a child volleyed and kicked the football into the "goal".

After a muffled bang, he jumped up happily, then turned his head and ran towards David Miller.

Then David saw the child running a 180-degree turn, crossing his hands and then hem, stopping in front of him, doing a "simplified version" of Hu Lai's celebration...

"Yeah!" he yelled. "I made it!"

The other children yelled in disbelief: "No! You didn't jump at all! You jumped very high when you did this!"

"That's right, and your last movement of waving your hand is not neat enough! The sense of strength is far worse!"

"Don't blame me, if you have the ability, you can make one, maybe it's not as good as me!"

The teenagers argue over a celebratory gesture.

David Miller stepped away from them.

He walked to the end of the alley, turned around, walked another fifty meters, and walked into the "White Rose" bar.

As soon as I entered, I saw a video interview with Hu Lai from Leeds City TV on the TV hanging from the ceiling.

In the shot, Hou Lai is wearing Leeds City training clothes, sitting in the club gym, with a variety of fitness equipment in the background.

"...yes, I turned down the King of Madrid because I wanted to come to Leeds... I'm definitely not saying this to please you, I'm telling the truth. I think I can get more opportunities in Leeds, the manager here is very good. Know me. As it turns out, I'm in the right place."

When Hu Lai on TV said this, he grinned.

David withdrew his gaze, asked the bartender behind the bar for a glass of beer, and then walked to his companions.

Everyone is sighing.

Two more people did not come.

No one asked why they didn't come because the reason was obvious.

Leeds City have won three consecutive victories for the first time this season... no, they have won three consecutive victories for the first time since they were promoted to the Premier League.

The team's outstanding performance is not only reflected in the score, but also in the scene.

When the team is playing well and winning again, most people naturally want to get back in the stands.

Before, everyone didn't go to watch the game. On the one hand, it was because they were dissatisfied with the club's series of operations, and on the other hand, they were also dissatisfied with the team's results.

If the club's performance is better than when Lauren Galley coached after so many showy operations, I believe these fans will not be able to make trouble.

After all, no matter who is the head coach, the most important thing is that the team's performance is good. Otherwise, if the team is relegated, even if Lauren Galli is still the head coach of the team, the fans will not give him a good face. At that time, it is probably these fans who will be the first to stand up and ask this meritorious coach to leave get out of class.

David Miller walked over, no one greeted him, and he didn't care, and he didn't want to greet people at first. He sat down by himself and started drinking without saying a word.

There were such a mixed group of Leeds City fans sitting around a few tables.

On the TV set above their heads, Hu Lai is still saying, his English has a bit of a local Leeds accent:

"'Leedsley'? Of course, I know. On the first day I came to the team, someone taught me what to do." After speaking, Hu Lai raised his arm and knocked his right fist on his heart Twice.

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Yong Jun parked the car on the side of the road, turned to Hu Lai who was about to open the door and said, "Have fun, but don't be too crazy, I will pick you up when the time comes."

"Uncle Yong, it's contradictory for you to say that. You have to be happy but not too crazy... How do you play?"

"You can handle it yourself." Yong Jun looked at Hu Lai, who was wearing a sports brand sweater and jeans, and said with a smile: "You are not trendy at all, just look at your teammates."

He pointed to Charlie Potter who was welcoming his teammates at the entrance of the nightclub ahead. The latter is wearing a bright pink jacket over a green shirt and orange leather pants. Even the colorful neon lights of nightclub signs can't hide his coquettishness.

Hu Lai grinned: "Uncle Yong, do you call the traffic lights 'Chao'?"

Yong Jun himself was amused.

Hu Lai waved to him, opened the car door and went down: "Goodbye, Uncle Yong. I will call you when the time comes."

"Okay, pay attention to your image." Yong Jun added another sentence, reminding him that with his performance of five goals in three games, he has a high degree of attention in the eyes of the media, and he should not do something out of line to damage his image.

Hu Lai gestured "OK" to him.

Yong Jun saw him hugging Charlie Potter in the car, and then walked into the nightclub, and then turned around and left.

After winning three consecutive victories, the atmosphere within the Leeds City team was unprecedentedly relaxed, so someone asked his teammates to come out to have fun and relax. After all, considering the upcoming match against the fifth-placed Warship Harbor in the league, Leeds City may be in danger. If they don't take the opportunity to relax now, they might lose the chance after losing to Warship Harbor.

As a major contributor to the team's three-game winning streak, it is impossible for Hu Lai to stay out of the matter. Charlie Potter even said that if Hu Lai does not come, everyone will have a lot of fun—after all, this party is in name. The banner of "Welcome Hu Lai", if the protagonist doesn't go, how can everyone be happy?

So after Hu Lai received the invitation, he came back and told Yong Jun, and Yong Jun agreed that Hu Lai would go to the party.

First of all, this is a normal social activity, and it is also an essential part of European teams. As a newcomer to the team, it is impossible to refuse such an invitation. Unless you want to create an "unfriendly" and "difficult to get along with" persona in the minds of your teammates, and then wait to be squeezed out, don't refuse easily, especially the first party invitation.

Secondly, Hu Lai is also a young man, and it is unrealistic to ask him to cultivate himself like a middle-aged and elderly man.

Young people have to live like young people.

When he was in Xingxing, he still had so many friends around him, and it was no problem staying at home with friends every day. But after coming to England, he and Yong Jun are the only two people here. Yong Jun is a middle-aged man who has nothing in common with young people. Hu Lai will inevitably feel lonely. Let him play with his teammates, maybe it can relieve the homesickness a little bit.

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As soon as Hu Lai entered the nightclub, he was rushed into the booth by his teammates who had arrived earlier.

When he saw Pete Williams in the crowd, Hu Lai was still a little surprised, and he leaned forward: "I thought you wouldn't come."

Williams frowned at him: "Why didn't I come?"

"Because you always look serious?" Hu Lai began to imitate Williams' tone and said, "Today is a very important game, we must win! Ah, well done everyone, congratulations, kicked out Had a great game!"

His vivid imitation caused other teammates to burst into laughter.

Amid the laughter of everyone, Williams launched a counterattack: "Really? To be honest, Hu, before I met you, I thought Chinese people were reserved, gentle and shy. You ruined my view of Chinese people." imagination."

"Where am I not restrained, gentle or shy?" Hu Lai asked back.

"Where are you reserved, gentle and shy?" Williams asked rhetorically.

Hu Lai raised his hand: "Stop. Let's not go on in this endless cycle, or we will be scolded again... I just want to say that there are many people in China, and everyone is different. For example, I know someone who Same position as yours, Pete, but totally different style of play. He's probably more open than you laowai, one woman a day. I've seen three women fight over who can win at night when I was eating out. Sleep with him and fight..."

Let alone Pete Williams, the other Leeds City players couldn't help opening their mouths when they heard Hu Lai say this.

Charlie Potter even exclaimed: "You are lying, Hu!"

Hu Lai sneered: "What's the benefit of me lying to you? It's someone else, my friend, not me."

Potter lowered his head and thought, it seems that this is really the case...

Others brag about how great they are, but Hu Lai brags about how great his friends are. What's the point?

"I also know a friend, most of his fans are female fans, tens of thousands. Every time we go to an away game, his female fans will surround him at the airport. I have seen female fans with my own eyes. Because of his smile, he almost passed out from excitement..."

"Is it... so exaggerated?" Joe Taylor tried hard to imagine such a scene, feeling unbelievable.

Hu Lai curled his lips: "In China, this is too normal. You know, how many people are there in China? It is more than the combined population of your entire Europe. So everything in China will be bigger than what you are used to .”

Goalkeeper Mikay van der Ven remembered what Nevin Ball, director of football, said to Hu Lai when he first came to the team. ?”

Hu Lai replied, "Ah, it's thirty million now."

He also took out his mobile phone to confirm, and then corrected his statement: "38.6 million."

Van der Ven gasped.

Hu Lai also said nonchalantly: "I'm not too many. In China, there are still celebrities with hundreds of millions of fans."

"Hundreds of millions..." Van Deven couldn't figure it out anymore.

"So, Pete. China is very big, and there are many Chinese people, but don't think that all Chinese people are carved out of the same mold." Hu Lai finally set his sights on Williams.

Williams pouted: "How do I know if you're talking nonsense?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Hu Lai's arm came up: "Oh, if I have a chance to introduce all my friends to you in the future, you will know if I am talking nonsense."

The two were bickering, and everyone noticed that there were a few girls outside looking at them.

When they looked at Hu Lai's position, their eyes lit up, and they shouted happily: "Hu! It's Hu! It's him!"

Then they squeezed up: "Can I take a picture with you, Hu?"

"I want your autograph, can I, Hu?"

Hu Lai was shocked - I didn't apply the Charm Essence Lotion when I came out today...

He has been in Leeds City for more than a month, and it's not that he hasn't taken photos with fans and signed autographs, but they are all for male fans, especially Chinese students studying abroad.

He really didn't expect to meet his female fans while playing in nightclubs.

After the initial consternation, he complied with the demands of these female fans.

Stand up and take photos with them one by one, and give them autographs.

After getting the autographs and photos, these female fans happily waved goodbye and left, which disappointed the other Leeds City players who were waiting to get close to these girls.

Hu Lai just regarded this as an episode and continued to brag with his teammates. But the teammates insisted on asking Hu Lai to buy them a drink, so Hu Lai had to pay for it out of his own pocket, which calmed down the anger...

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As Hu Lai said, Pete Williams is a very serious person. Although he is young, he knows what he wants and how to do it. He didn't get too involved in making fun of it, so the party didn't last long. At ten o'clock in the evening, Williams proposed to end the party.

Although Charlie Potter was still a little reluctant, he could only agree. After all, even though Williams is young, his status in the team is not low-it can be said that he is probably the oldest one in this Leeds city...

If the captain didn't come, he was almost like the captain.

He said so, and no one else had an opinion.

Or even if you want to continue playing, it is definitely impossible to continue playing in this nightclub.

After walking out of the nightclub, Charlie Potter put his arms around Hu Lai's shoulders and whispered in his ear, "How is it, Hu Lai? Didn't you have fun? It's okay, we can continue, just change the place..."

Hu Lai took out his mobile phone: "I have already called my agent, Charlie, he will pick me up right away."

Potter shook his head in disappointment: "What a disappointment. How can you be so boring?"

Hu Lai said with a smile: "Charlie, when will you go to China with me, that is my home field, and then I will let you go to my villa party to see what an interesting person I am."

"Your villa party?" Potter's eyes lit up when he heard Hu Lai say that, "What was that like?"

"There are swimming pools, champagne, delicious barbecue, and beauties in bikinis..."

"Oh great!" Charlie Potter couldn't wait to cheer before Hu Lai finished speaking. "I knew you understood it very well, Hu, you really understand it! Then what? Go on, what then?"

The other teammates nearby were also very interested when they heard what Hu Lai said. Even Pete Williams eavesdropped.

"And then? Then we played a three-on-three match on the football field in the back garden of the villa, surrounded by beauties in bikinis, isn't it interesting..."

"Wait, Hu Lai..." Potter heard something wrong, he raised his hand and interrupted Hu Lai. "You found a bunch of big girls, all dressed up, and then... you went to play a three-on-three game?"

"Yeah, Charlie. Let me tell you, we played really well, amidst the cheers of the girls! We played until almost eleven o'clock..."

"Damn it!" Potter yelled, "You're so perverted, huh! Leave so many big bikini girls alone and go play football? You must be out of your mind, huh!"

The surrounding teammates all burst into laughter.

Hu Lai spread his hands innocently and asked, "Why is this perverted? Are we going to let the bikini girls play three-on-three, and we have a group of old men cheering them on? I think that's perverted, okay, Charlie ?”

Potter was speechless, and kept shaking his head: "I don't want to talk to you anymore, Hu... You ruined my beautiful fantasy of the villa party!"

Others were still laughing non-stop, and some even laughed so hard that they couldn't straighten up, so they could only squat on the ground clutching their stomachs.

Some of them were still laughing until Yong Jun's car pulled over.

Looking at the happy Leeds players outside, Yong Jun waved goodbye to his teammates and said to Hu Lai who got into the car, "It looks like you guys had a good night."

"Yeah, everyone is very happy, except Charlie." Holly turned to look at Potter who gave him the middle finger and said.

"Ha!" Yong Jun also saw it, and at the same time knew that Hu Lai and Charlie Potter might be the closest couple in the team, so he didn't really feel that Potter and Hu Lai had a falling out. A joke between two friends.

"Is there anything interesting?" Yong Jun asked while driving.

"A few girls came over halfway, they should be my fans, they asked me to take a photo and ask for my autograph."

Yong Jun turned his head and glanced at Hu Lai, who leaned back on the back of the passenger seat with his head slightly raised.

"Not bad, Hu Lai." He smiled.

"It's not bad, Uncle Yong..." Hu Lai complained, "Just for this, I bought everyone in the team a drink. This bar is really expensive, and I won't come here again! "

Yong Jun laughed when he heard this.

Hu Lai stopped talking, bowed his head and took out his mobile phone to send Li Qingqing a WeChat message: "What are you doing?"

Soon Li Qingqing replied: "I just took a shower and I'm lying on the bed. How about you?"

"Just finished a party..."

"Yo yo yo!"

"Cheke, do you want a set of pancakes and fruits?"

"Don't change the subject, what party? Are there any beauties?"

"Yes, I was tricked!"

"Ah? Tell me quickly!"

"It's a long story..."

"Then speak slowly, it's okay, I have plenty of time!"

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There is no time difference of six or seven hours, and the two people's messages are coming and going, and they are flying across the English Channel.

By chance, Hu Lai's hand touched a note in the pocket of the sweater. He took it out and glanced at it with the light of the street lamp outside, and found that it was a string of numbers, which should be a phone number.

He thought about it, maybe a woman who took a photo with him at the party secretly stuffed it in...

Hu Lai pouted at this, then rolled down the car window, crumpled up the note in his hand and threw it out.

After finishing all this, he freed his hand to continue chatting with Li Qingqing on WeChat.

Ding dong ding dong, the WeChat notification sound keeps going.

In the driver's seat, Yong Jun concentrated on driving his car without asking who Hu Lai was chatting with.

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