Fox in the Penalty Area

After a day of training, Qin Lin asked Hu Lai, "Where do you live these days?"

Hu Lai put his arms around Wang Guangwei next to him: "I'll go back to live in the villa, Lao Wang and I have made an agreement."

Qin Lin nodded: "That's good. Come to my house for dinner at night. Xiaoqi also wants to see you."

"No problem, Lin Ge!"

After getting the promise, Qin Lin turned around and left with the other coaches.

Hu Lai, surrounded by his teammates, went to the locker room.

Everyone surrounded him and kept asking him various questions:

"What's your experience playing in the Premier League, Brother Hu?"

"What is the difference between the Premier League and us?"

"How to get along with foreigners?"

"Brother Hu, is it too late for me to start learning English?"

"Have you tried Hu Lai's best champagne? Is it good?"

...

Hu Lai felt that he had not returned to Shanxing, but came to Zhihu.

After finally taking advantage of the changing time in the locker room to deal with everyone's problems, he came to the parking lot with Wang Guangwei, Zhang Qinghuan, Xia Xiaoyu and Morikawa Junping.

"You're lucky. If I were driving the tram today, it wouldn't be able to fit so much luggage in the trunk." Zhang Qinghuan said standing next to Xia Xiaoyu's Volvo.

"When the time comes, you'll have to run back by yourself. This is the price of Sapri's love!"

Hu Lai heard Zhang Qinghuan scolding himself, and said with a smile on his face, "No, I know you like me, brother Huan. You would rather run away by yourself than let me run away."

"I like you to die!"

The few people next to them laughed when they saw the two bickering.

Especially Wang Guangwei, suddenly felt a little emotional. It was such an ordinary scene for them at the beginning, but now it is rare to get together—although Hu Lai is back today, Chen Xingyi is still in Dashun.

In the future, if they all go to Europe to play football, and they are separated from each other, it will be even more difficult to get together...

So he took a picture of the scene in front of him with his mobile phone, and then posted it in the group, and @陈星尊.

"Damn!" Chen Xingyi quickly jumped out, "Hu Lai was kicked out by Leeds City? Can't get along in Europe and return to your flashing star?! Why don't I know about such a big news?!"

Seeing this sentence, Wang Guangwei couldn't help laughing.

Zhang Qinghuan and Hu Lai asked him, "Old Wang, what are you laughing at?"

Wang Guangwei signaled them to watch the group.

Everyone took out their phones and looked down.

"Day!" Hu Lai cursed, and then said in the group: "Little Xing Xing, can you speak up?"

"Is this the first reaction of a normal person, okay? Otherwise, why are you running to Xingxing?"

Zhang Qinghuan: "He came here to pretend to be aggressive in front of us."

Hu Lai: "How do I talk? I don't forget my original intention! Go back to the place where the dream started!"

Wang Guangwei: "Well, don't forget the original intention of pretending to be aggressive, and return to the place where pretending to be aggressive began."

Xia Xiaoyu: cover your face, laugh and cry

Junpei Morikawa: Laugh till weep

Just like the emoticons they posted in the group, Xia Xiaoyu and Morikawa Junping laughed non-stop while holding their mobile phones.

After the setting sun had almost sunk into the mountains to the west, the golden sunlight swept across the earth, coating everything with a layer of gold, including the car in the parking lot of the Liucheng Training Base and the people beside it.

The sun shines on them, and then pulls a long shadow behind them, extending far, far away.

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The five people drove back to the single-family villa, and Hu Lai saw that the football field was still there, and there was no sign of desertion.

It seems that even if he and Chen Xingyi were missing, the remaining four would still use the football field occasionally.

"You still sleep in your room, and there are regular cleaners to clean it, so you don't have to worry about the hygiene. There are plenty of bedding in the guest room." Wang Guangwei helped Hu Lai arrange it.

Hu Lai had no objection to Lao Wang's arrangement.

In fact, it doesn't matter to him to sleep directly in the guest room.

Carrying the box upstairs, he opened the door and found that the furnishings in the room were the same as before, except that the mattress was empty, as if he was still living here.

He stood at the door and didn't go in. Seeing him like this, Zhang Qinghuan, who lived on the same floor as him, asked, "What's wrong?"

"I don't know why..." Hu Lai murmured, "It feels like visiting my own former residence..."

Zhang Qinghuan: "...All right, after you leave, I'll order a sign with 'Hu Lai's former residence' written on it, and hang it on the wall next to it."

"Brother Huan, when you leave, you can also make a sign." Hu Lai specifically emphasized the words "waiting for you to leave".

Zhang Qinghuan waved his hand: "No, no, no, I don't engage in that formalism, it's all a false name!"

"hehe."

"Brother Lin told us to go eat!" Xia Xiaoyu's shout sounded from downstairs.

Only then did Hu Lai and Zhang Qinghuan stop bickering with each other.

He pushed the suitcase into the room, and without packing it, he turned around and went downstairs with Zhang Qinghuan.

Then he joined the other three people, locked the door, and walked to Qin Lin's house diagonally opposite.

At the door, they saw Qin Qi who couldn't wait to come out.

"Brother Hu!" Qin Qi was very happy to see Hu Lai, so he almost rushed forward.

"Oh, Xiao Qi has grown so tall..." Hu Lai stretched out his hand to pull his hair again, but Qin Qi dodged it in time.

Wang Guangwei complained from the side: "Don't say that you are like you haven't seen Xiaoqi for many years, you only left for half a year, okay?"

After entering the door, seeing Qin Lin and his sister-in-law, the five quickly stood up and greeted each other with a respectful attitude.

"Hello Brother Lin!"

"Hi sister-in-law!"

"Okay, okay, okay, come and sit down!" Wang Yuan waved to them, and some dishes were already placed on the long dining table. "There are still some that are being made, you eat first..."

"It's okay, sister-in-law, we will wait for you to eat together." Wang Guangwei said.

"Don't wait, wait until the dishes you made earlier are cold. Eat first..." Wang Yuan waved her hand, turned around and walked into the kitchen again.

Qin Lin wanted to help, but was kicked out: "Call someone!"

Qin Lin returned to the restaurant with a helpless wry smile, then looked at the five people, and finally his eyes naturally fell on Hu Lai.

"The training effect of the Premier League is so good? It's only been half a year. I thought you had been out for several years." Qin Lin said with emotion.

Hu Lai quickly said: "At the beginning, I didn't dare to relax, so I was very serious and worked hard..."

Although it feels like he's pretending to be aggressive again, it's better than just saying "that's because I hooked up", okay? No one believed him, so I really don't blame him for pretending...

Qin Lin didn't delve into it, and nodded: "Don't relax in the future. Playing football is actually like sailing against the current. If you don't advance, you will retreat. If you don't work hard, you will be overtaken by newcomers."

"I know, Brother Lin. Not to mention being overtaken by newcomers, I am still catching up with others. The Premier League is really strong."

"Well, as long as you can have this idea."

Wang Yuan came out of the kitchen with a plate of steaming dishes, and when she put them on the table, she touched her husband: "Don't just chat, invite them to eat!"

Then she looked at Hu Lai again: "Don't worry, Hu Lai. I know that Chinese food is not healthy for you athletes, but it doesn't matter if you eat it once in a while, and your sister-in-law cooks all light..."

Hu Lai quickly said: "It's okay, sister-in-law. I'll just practice more after eating. When I was in Leeds, the last season was over, and the head coach invited our whole team to eat Chinese food!"

"Really? So good? Ha!" Wang Yuan laughed, then turned and went into the kitchen again: "Eat, chat while you eat!"

Qin Lin picked up the chopsticks behind her: "Eat!"

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"Brother Hu, did that Xiao En really say that?" Qin Qi stared at Hu Lai, he couldn't even eat the glutinous pork ribs on his chopsticks.

"Of course. He thought I couldn't understand English, so he was talking nonsense there." Hu Lai curled his lips, "Actually, I could hear it clearly, so I gave him back on the spot!"

"I also know this Sean. The media said that he is the hero of Leeds City. I didn't expect the true face of the hero to be like this..." Wang Guangwei is very concerned about international football trends.

"Hey, isn't it like this everywhere? Where there are people, there are Jianghu. Don't think that foreigners are superior to us, and some of their players are not good..." Zhang Qinghuan pouted.

"Speaking of which this season, the North London Wanderers only got fifth place at the end of the season, and they fell all the way from third place. It was like an avalanche. The qualification for the Champions League also flew away. I don't know how Sean feels..."

"It is said that many Rangers fans called him a dog..." Hu Lai said. "Just because he didn't score against us against Leeds City, the Rangers fans blamed him for the team's loss of Champions League qualification. It's like a 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle'."

"Hahaha! Retribution is not good!"

"The last dish is here—" Amidst laughter, Wang Yuan came in with a dish of steamed fish.

The others quickly stopped chatting and greeted Wang Yuan: "Sister-in-law, come and eat!"

"Talk about yours." Wang Yuan sat down beside Qin Lin, not in a hurry to eat, but propped up her chin with her hands, staring at the group of young people.

Hu Lai continued to tell her son those anecdotes about her playing in the Premier League. The son naturally listened very seriously, his mouth slightly opened as cute as he was when he was a child, and his eyes shone with hope.

She raised her hand and wiped the sweat on her forehead with the back of her hand, and then noticed that someone was looking at her, so she turned her head and looked up, and saw her husband sitting next to her, looking at her.

Wang Yuan smiled.

Qin Lin also laughed.

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In fact, the meal was finished long ago, but everyone sat around the dining table and chatted for almost two hours.

It wasn't until half past nine that the five young people bid farewell to Qin Lin's family and returned to their rented villa.

Zhang Qinghuan turned on the projector: "How about it, Hu Lai? Come to discuss and exchange ideas?"

Unexpectedly, Hu Lai shook his head and turned to the gym on the basement floor: "No, I ate so much today, I want to quickly transform into muscles."

Behind him, four people looked at each other.

They had never seen such a Hu Lai before they went to Europe...

They thought of what Director Zhao said on the training ground today.

So is this why Hou Lai was able to progress so quickly in Europe?

"I'll go too." Wang Guangwei said first.

And Junpei Morikawa didn't speak, but he had already moved first.

Xia Xiaoyu followed closely behind.

"Damn!" Zhang Qinghuan swears when he saw this, and followed.

Five people quickly filled the small gym, some on the treadmill, some on the elliptical machine, and some chose to exercise thigh muscle strength...

The sound of heavy breathing and clanging equipment sounded in the gym.

In the living room, someone's mobile phone kept vibrating and buzzing on the coffee table.

Chen Xingyi: "Take more photos!"

Chen Xingyi: "I said, how did you get together?"

Chen Xingyi: "Call me back! Hey, are they all dead?!"

Chen Xingyi: "Moxi, Moxi, is anyone there?"

Chen Xingyi: "This group has been banned? Which of you posted a color picture?"

Chen Xingyi: "Every day!"

Chen Xingyi: "Fuck! Fuck!"

...

Those voices from the gymnasium on the basement floor floated up, as if they were his answer.