Chapter 17 Fried dough sticks
Rushing outside the store, Fu Xiao's tense arrogance suddenly subsided. She fell down on a long chair by the roadside and patted her chest.
“My social energy has been drained this week.”
Fu Xiao has read a theory. The general meaning is that for a socially anxious person like her, the number of words spoken within a certain period of time is fixed. For example, a bottle of mineral water only has 250 ml. Every time she talks to someone, she must have the courage to do so. , pour a little out, and when the bottle of water is exhausted, you have to stay alone for a while. When the bottle of water is slowly refilled, you can continue to communicate with others.
And because she was angry just now, she almost finished all her words this month.
Jiajia looked at her dumbfounded. "Do you also read e-sports novels?"
"What?" Fu Xiao was confused by Jiajia's confused question.
"Full-time job. 'It's not about showing off, it's about glory.'" Jiajia said seriously, imitating Fu Xiao's tone just now.
"I haven't seen it. Why, is there anyone who has the same idea as my hero? I just said the name of the game is King of Glory, so I just said it casually."
"You haven't seen it!" Jiajia started chattering on about her "Ye Shen" on the way home.
Fu Xiao knew that she just wanted to divert attention, so he showed unprecedented interest in the god-level novels mentioned by Jiajia, and very wisely never mentioned a word about Zhang Sui again.
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On the other side, Li Xiwen announced this week's competition schedule to everyone while distributing early soy milk and fried dough sticks. The city finals are also the provincial semi-finals. Because it is the provincial capital city, the teams coming to Shangning to compete are inherently talented and highly valuable. In the first game, their Liji snack team faced a name they had never heard of before, called the GGH team. But a team with such a well-named name never gets past the first level of auditions and mixes prize vouchers.
Although Li Xiwen had to admit that the "Li Ji Snacks" team was more like a food court voucher team, it was better at hiding it from others. Otherwise, if the former KPL champion re-enters the national competition after "retiring", public opinion will explode. Li Xiwen wants to return to the league, but he must go back in glory. Until then, it is best to keep a low profile and bide his time.
But Lin Yuhang, the champion, doesn’t think so. KPL is a place full of young people. Fans are overwhelmed by the ever-changing version changes and fresh blood. Every six months, a new wild king or full-c killer will appear. The 25-year-old myself Maybe it has been forgotten long ago.
"How is it going? Are you confident about tomorrow?" Li Xiwen asked everyone.
"Yes!" Skinny Monkey Wang Bintao replied, "I just don't know if I will still have diarrhea by then." He rubbed his belly and felt like he was about to collapse. This is the fourth time he has come out of the toilet this morning.
"Did you eat too much?" Assistant Lu He asked with concern.
"Don't mind him. His stomach is so delicate, no wonder he's skinny and skinny." Lin Yuhang stuffed deep-fried dough sticks into his mouth.
"You're not thin, you're not thin." Wang Bintao sat down next to Lu He. "Wherever you sit, our team's signal will block you."
"Don't you two hate each other one day?" Lu He said boredly as he yawned.
"We really have to recruit two substitutes after we win the championship." Li Xiwen said thoughtfully. "This way you won't have to force yourself to play if you have an illness or something."
"No, no," Shouhou put down the soy milk in his hand and said quickly, "Boss, I was wrong."
Li Xiwen was stunned for a moment, and everyone burst into laughter.
Substitute players are supplements and help to the starting lineup, and they are also threats and pressures. There are many players who, after being rotated out of the starting lineup, never have the chance to go back and continue playing. And Shouhou knows this very well. It was Li Xiwen who replaced him with a substitute jungler for one game, and the substitute jungler seized the opportunity to show off Luna. From then on, Shouhou never had a chance to start again. .
"Do you still hate Lao Li?" Lin Yuhang asked deliberately provocatively.
"I don't hate it." Wang Bintao leaned back on the chair indifferently. "I just still don't understand how my jungler is worse than you. Now in Li Ji, we have to ask me to change my position."
"I think it's because you are stronger in the middle than him." Lu He lowered his head to draw a tactical chart and handed it to Qin Han.
"Okay, Old Li." Lin Yuhang rubbed Lu He's head with his greasy hands after grabbing the dough sticks, but Lu He turned away and dodged, "This newly recruited kid is so good at talking! I like it!"
The skinny monkey was not happy to be praised for his "hexini" and made a face, but he did not continue to struggle.
"Where is Wu Xiao?" Li Xiwen asked, "Where is our gold medal winger?"
"I went out early in the morning." Lu He lived in the same house with him. "But he didn't tell me where he was going. Maybe he was going for a morning jog?"
"This newly recruited kid is a bit stupid," Lin Yuhang changed his words, "Have you ever seen him out running after all these days? It's almost noon. Have you gotten lost?"
At this moment, the doorbell rang, and Qin Han, who was closest to the door, got up and opened the door.
"Is this Li Xiwen's house?" A tall and thin woman and a short and fat man stood at the door, followed by Wu Xiao.
"We are Wu Xiao's parents."
Qin Han stepped aside in confusion and looked back at the people in the room.
Li Xiwen hurriedly greeted him.
"What kind of big company or studio do I think this is?" The man walked in with a big leg, looking like a boss inspecting the company.
"That's it," Wu Xiao's mother said. "I heard from my son that a certain team is coming to play a game, and I want to come and have a look." She looked at the apartment of Li Xiwen's group. "Is this your team?"
"Although we do not exclude family members from visiting, we still hope that everyone can inform us before coming," Li Xiwen said politely.
"Our children are too young. Just to play games, they signed a contract without knowing anything." Wu Xiao's mother's red eyes made Li Xiwen feel uncomfortable.
"When he heard that there was no salary, he realized that there was no one to support them -" she looked at the other teenagers in the room as she said this "- to support them to eat and drink for free and play games without doing their job."< br>
"We are here today to talk to you about terminating the contract."
It's a straight forward approach. Everyone looked at each other, and Li Xiwen's eyes moved away from the tall and thin woman's white face and looked directly into the eyes of Wu Xiao behind her.
"Wu Xiao is an adult and signed a legal contract with our team. If we default on wages, he does have the right to terminate the contract. But I want to know whether this is the choice of this person with independent civil capacity."
Wu Xiao's eyes were evasive and he did not dare to look at Li Xiwen.
"This is your team? What kind of employer do you belong to?" Every time Wu Xiao's father spoke, the team members in the room had the urge to take off the delicate tie around his neck, tie it in a knot, and tie it to the donkey. .
Although Li Xiwen behaved politely, his heart was already blowing the suona in Beidahuang.
In the past, the club had dedicated personnel to do this, relying on family groups and alliances. This kind of thing was not within his scope of business!
"Group organization" Li Xiwen said, "I personally signed a cooperation treaty with each of them."
"Meaning, you are solely responsible for everything?"
"Yes."
End it quickly. This conversation is really painful. Li Xiwen seems to have returned to his father's lifeless black building.
"Wu Xiao, don't you want to fight?" The team members didn't care about this. Lu He interrupted politely and asked Wu Xiao directly.
Wu Xiao did not speak, but lowered his head and took two steps back, getting further away from everyone. (End of chapter)