Chapter 44 Shameless
Although everyone on the 50th Middle School football team worked hard, they ultimately failed to win the game and did not even score a goal.
When the final whistle of the game was blown, many players from the No. 50 Middle School football team cried. The cheerleaders who had been cheering for more than 80 minutes in the stands fell into painful silence and were waved at during the game. The flag in the wind also hung low, and there was no movement anymore.
Their season ended after the first game.
The coach of the No. 50 Middle School football team seemed to be very used to this scene. He shook hands with Li Ziqiang after the game and went on the field to comfort his players. With him was the head teacher of the No. 50 Middle School football team. He did this after shaking hands with the leading teacher from Dongchuan Middle School.
The players of Dongchuan Middle School celebrated the victory happily.
Although the Fifty Middle School is not a strong team, this year they formed a team in a hurry and did not have enough time to prepare for the competition. They were able to win and advance to the next round, which is indeed worthy of celebration.
During the celebration, Meng Xi shouted especially loudly because he had zero opponents in this game and did not allow Fifty to score even a single goal. He was very satisfied with his performance.
Especially in the final stage of the game, it can be said that the No. 50 football team has completely given up on defense and is focused on scoring a goal. This may be their only wish this season.
But Meng Xi cruelly rejected their scoring opportunities again and again.
The players in the No. 50 Middle School cried very sadly in the end, and this may be part of the reason - forgetting being eliminated, we were not even allowed to score a goal, which was too much!
But that's how it is on the football field. The mood of the winner and the loser are not the same.
Those scenes that made them cry in the eyes of onlookers may not have been seen by the victors who were excited and busy celebrating.
Although he did not play, Hu Lai still joined his teammates after the game to thank the students in the stands who came to cheer for him.
This is also one of the post-match procedures that Li Ziqiang asked them to do in order to teach the children to be polite and grateful.
When Hu Lai applauded and thanked the audience, he saw Li Qingqing, who was standing with Fatty Song.
He was waving towards himself.
Although he did not play and did not even break a sweat, Hu Lai still raised his chest and raised his head and accepted Li Qingqing's cheers calmly.
Diagonally in front of Hu Lai, Luo Kai stood in the first row of the team, raising his hands to thank the stands like his teammates. But his face remained calm, even though he received the most cheers - the stands were basically filled with his fans.
Both men and women were impressed by his performance on the court.
In the end, Dongchuan Middle School won the game with a score of 5:0. Luo Kai scored four goals alone and performed a big four.
He deserves all the cheers and accolades he gets.
But in the face of these cheers, he acted very calmly.
Until... he saw Li Qingqing waving his arms towards him.
Then a bright smile finally broke out on his face, and he raised his hand and waved in response to Li Qingqing.
Of course, this action caused the cheers in the stands to get louder, but Luo Kai turned a deaf ear. His eyes now only saw the smiling Li Qingqing.
Football is fair. Who performs well and who performs poorly will be known after playing on the field.
With his performance like this, isn't it normal to win Li Qingqing's favor?
Finally, Qingqing finally found her way back...
Thinking of this, Luo Kai turned his head and tried to take a look at Hu Lai's current embarrassment with a victor's attitude.
But what he didn't expect was that what he saw was Hu Lai who was also waving his arms to Li Qingqing!
How shameless! Is Qingqing waving to you? !
Luo Kai spat in his heart.
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Xie Lan was a little restless, and she was a little distracted watching the TV series she usually loved to watch. He also got up from time to time and went to the balcony to take a look to see if his son was back.
She was worried about Hu Lai, worried that he would not be able to come back on time, and worried that her husband would discover that he was playing football in school.
Fortunately, when it was five minutes to five o'clock, Hu Lai opened the door with the key and walked in.
Xie Lan, who was sitting on the sofa watching TV, glanced at his son: "Back?"
"Well, Mom, you see I didn't lie to you, right? I came back as soon as the game was over." Hu Lai said to his mother with a smile on his face.
"Oh, how was the football match?" Xie Lan asked casually.
"We won!" The smile on Hu Lai's face became even brighter.
Seeing the heartfelt smile on her son's face, the mother also laughed, but soon became serious: "Hurry up and take a shower and change clothes!"
She didn't say it too directly, but Hu Lai immediately understood what his mother meant, which was to prevent his father from discovering the flaw.
But Hu Lai shook his head: "I didn't play, Mom. I watched the game from the sidelines and didn't sweat at all."
Xie Lan was a little surprised: "You didn't play football? Then what are you going to do? Be a spectator?"
"You have to go even if you don't play, Mom. This is called team spirit! We are a team, a whole, no matter whether we play or not, everyone has to go!"
Seeing that his son was quite proud, Xie Lan shook his head: "Okay, as long as you like..."
Although she didn't quite understand what was so happy about not being able to play in the game, but anyway, as long as her son was happy, that would be fine.
Speaking of which, since joining the school's football team, her son seems to smile more and more - she doesn't mean the kind of fake smile that is used to cover up his true inner thoughts, but the kind of smile that comes from the heart. .
Even if I don’t play football or exercise, it seems good to see such a smile...
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At 7:30 in the evening, Hu Lixin returned home exhausted from a day's work. His wife and children had already had dinner, and his wife was in the bedroom using her mobile phone to scroll through Kuaishou.
"Where's Hu Lai?" he asked his wife.
"I'm reading in my room."
"How was he doing today?"
"It's pretty good. I finished all my homework in the morning..."
Hu Lixin was a little surprised: "Why didn't he wait any longer?"
Xie Lan smiled and said: "Didn't you notice?"
"What did you find?" Hu Lixin was a little confused.
"He has been studying much more seriously recently."
Hu Lixin frowned and thought for a while: "Is there any?"
"You don't care about your children too much." Xie Lan complained. "I know you are busy with work and under great pressure, but at least you should pay more attention to our son? His performance during this period is much better than before."
"Maybe it's because I'm older and understand a little more."
Seeing her husband's careless look, Xie Lan really wanted to tell him several times that it was actually his son who joined the school's football team. His whole mental outlook had changed, and he felt more energetic in everything he did...< br>
But she didn't say that in the end.
Her son asked her to keep it secret from his father for him. If she told him, she was sure that her son's heart would be permanently and completely closed to her.
She didn't want that.
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Song Jiajia pulled out a plastic bag from her backpack and dumped the contents on the floor. A set of yellow Dongchuan Middle School football team jerseys appeared in front of him. The number "14" on the back of the turned-over jersey was clearly visible.
Looking at the jersey on the ground, Song Jiajia frowned.
After the game, Hu Lai gave it to him and asked him to keep it for him. He said that Hu Lai's father didn't like him playing football, so he couldn't put anything related to football in his house.
Since you can't hide things at home, it makes sense to leave your jersey with a close friend for safekeeping.
But Song Jiajia felt that things were not that simple.
In today's game, Hu Lai stood on the sidelines wearing only his jersey. Apart from following the big team to warm up, he had no chance to play and didn't even break out a sweat.
So the pants and socks of this jersey are still clean.
But what if Hu Lai plays in the future? Smelly sweat, coupled with the dirt on the court...
After he finished playing the game, he stuffed himself with the jersey, shorts, and smelly socks... Oh, and the shoes, those damn sneakers that exuded an extremely strong smell!
Are you just taking care of it for me?
Will he be wearing these dirty things next time he plays? And then accumulate more sweat odor, foot odor, and stains and hand it over to yourself?
Just thinking about that scene gave Song Jiajia a layer of goosebumps all over her body.
So after every game from now on, I have to wash his jersey and his smelly socks? !
Song Jiajia was very angry and felt that she had been fooled by Hu Lai.
But then he thought about it and breathed a sigh of relief:
How could Hu Lai play in the game with such a setback?
Good risk, good risk, very lucky...
Song Jiajia patted her chest, then put the set of things back into the plastic bag and threw it into the corner. (End of chapter)