Chapter 209 This is the reason
Xie Lan was at work when she received a call from her son Hu Lai.
"Mom, we are here and we are waiting to pick up our luggage. The school has a car to pick us up. Go back to school first, so you don't have to worry about me. Besides, I should go home at the normal time after school..."
Xie Lan interrupted Hu Lai's report, but lowered his voice and asked: "Son, did you really sign a contract with that Poseidon Club?"
"... I'm sorry, Mom, I didn't listen to you. I will stop playing football after this season. I still want to play football. I don't want to wait another year..." Hu Lai heard his mother mention this matter and thought her mother was If you want to call for punishment, you should strike first and apologize proactively.
When Hu Lai said this, Xie Lan had already stood up from his desk, walked out of the office quickly, and walked all the way to the end of the corridor.
When she leaned against the window, she sighed and said: "Hu Lai... Mom doesn't blame you, it's just... your dad is really right. After you taste the sweetness of playing football, you will definitely not You might listen to me and give up playing football for one year in high school.”
"Dad?"
"I never told you. Before your final, your dad knew that you were playing football without telling him. He was very angry... I was afraid that it would affect your performance in the game, so I never told you. Your father will not approve of you going to that Neptune Club..."
Hu Lai on the other end of the phone interrupted his mother eagerly: "I won the national championship, top scorer and best player, can't I make him change his mind?"
When Xie Lan heard her son say this, there was still a hint of expectation in her tone. She was silent for a while before sighing: "It has nothing to do with this... In fact, if you really just finish this competition and stop playing football, you can rest assured." Prepare for the college entrance examination. Maybe your dad could just pretend that it never happened and not pursue it... But now that you want to play professional football, he will definitely not agree."
"Why? Mom? Why does my dad dislike me playing football so much? I have never seen him so paranoid..."
Xie Lan was about to speak when she saw the director sticking his head out of the office. After finding her, he waved to her.
She quickly said: "Mom has something going on here, so I won't talk to you. Anyway, listen to me. Don't mention professional football when you see your dad at night. I'll help you persuade your dad first... That's it. , hung up first.”
After saying that, Xie Lan ended the call, held the phone in his hand, and walked towards the office.
At the same time, in the busy luggage hall, Hu Lai squatted against the wall, holding his mobile phone in his hand, looking at his teammates playing around the luggage conveyor belt in a daze.
There was a feeling of unwillingness in his heart.
Why is it that even though he has won an honor like the national championship, everyone else is elated and looking forward to going back to tell his parents the good news, but he has to go back and face a storm?
For a moment, when he thought of his father's rage, he didn't even want to go home.
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Hu Lai, who was carrying his schoolbag and had changed back into his Dongchuan Middle School uniform, finally stood downstairs in his home, but he was not in a hurry to walk into the dark door of the unit building.
He had already seen his father's battery car parked in the doorway, charging.
This means his dad is back.
That's why he didn't go in.
In fact, he had been wandering downstairs like this for a while.
Every time he wanted to go in, he couldn't help but turn around and exit.
The black doorway was like a beast's den in the darkness, as if once he walked in, he could never come out.
After wandering like this for a while, Hu Lai gritted his teeth: It's a blessing, not a curse, it's a curse that can't be avoided!
Then he stepped inside.
When he was almost climbing to the fourth floor, he stepped lightly, wanting to hear what was going on at home, such as whether his mother and father were having a fierce argument... At least it would let him know the current situation.
But he heard nothing and the room was quiet. If it weren't for the light leaking from the crack in the door, it would be so quiet that it would be as if no one was home.
Hu Lai put his ear against the door and listened for a few minutes. During this period, except for the occasional movement from the kitchen, he didn't hear a word from his parents.
In desperation, he had no choice but to raise his hand and knock on the door. At the same time, he suppressed the pounding in his heart. He took a deep breath and let it out slowly.
When the breath was exhaled, he saw the door open and his mother standing at the door.
After seeing him, her mother glanced at him and signaled him not to say unnecessary words, then she let him in, and at the same time she pretended to be calm and said, "You're back? Hurry up and put your schoolbag away, wash your hands, and get ready to eat."
When he walked into the house, Hu Lai saw his father. He was sitting on the small sofa in the living room, looking down at the screen of his mobile phone. When he heard his mother's words, he didn't even raise his head.
So Hu Lai didn't say hello to him, quickly changed his shoes, went back to his room to put down his schoolbag, and then came out to wash his hands.
Mom, on the other hand, glanced at the two of them worriedly and went to the kitchen to serve the food: "It's time to eat."
She wanted to use the delicious food she had worked so hard to make to ease the tense atmosphere between the two of them.
In fact, from the time his husband came back from get off work until now, he hasn't said a word, he just sits on the sofa and looks at his phone.
This gave Xie Lan a premonition - I'm afraid it won't be good tonight...
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Xie Lan's hunch was correct. When Hu Lai washed his hands and sat at the dining table, Hu Lixin put down the mobile phone in his hand, looked up at him and said: "Forget about the football that has been played. But professional teams, Don’t go.”
Hu Lai glanced at his mother in surprise - Mom, I heard you didn't mention this, it was my dad who took the initiative...
Then he looked at his father, took a deep breath, and asked, "Why?"
"There is no reason." Hu Lixin said expressionlessly. "I told you not to go, so you're not allowed to go."
"Dad, you are always like this!" Hu Lai couldn't help it and protested loudly, "It was the same before. When I asked you why you were not allowed to play football, you just said there was no reason. If I don't want to play, I won't play... I I am no longer a three-year-old! I will be eighteen years old in a few months and will be an adult!”
"No matter how old I am, I will still be your father!" Seeing that Hu Lai dared to shout at him, Hu Lixin also slammed the table emotionally.
Xie Lan, who was serving dishes in the kitchen, heard the quarrel in the living room, put down the dishes he had picked up, put his hands on the stove, and pursed his lips tightly.
"So what if you are my dad? You are my dad and you can't restrict my personal freedom! You are my dad and you can't let me do anything I have to do! There is no such reason in the world! Why don't you let me I play football? If you don’t have talent, I tell you, dad, I am very talented now! Even the scouts and managers of professional teams say that I have talent! ”
Having said this, Hu Lai turned around and rushed into his bedroom. When he came out again, he was holding the schoolbag he had carried back. He opened the schoolbag, took out the contents and placed them one by one on the empty dining table.
A Golden Boot trophy, a Golden Ball trophy, and a gold medal.
"I led the team to the championship in the national competition. I scored twelve goals and was the top scorer. I was also the best player in this national competition! There were so many high schools in the country, but in the end there were only thirty-two. I am the strongest in the national competition that the school team can participate in! Even Chen Xingyi was defeated by me! And it only took me less than two years to do this! I have talent! Why can't I try professional football..."
Hu Lai asked questions loudly and repeatedly, as if he wanted to vent all the unwillingness and injustice in his heart.
But before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by his father's violent shout: "Because there is no way!"
"It won't work? How will you know if it doesn't work if you don't try?" Hu Lai snorted.
"I've walked through it, and I know it's impossible!"
Hu Lai was stunned: "You... walked by?"
"Your dad... used to be a professional player." Mom's voice sounded.
Hu Lai turned around and looked over, and found that his mother was already standing at the door of the kitchen at some point, leaning weakly against the door frame.
He then turned his surprised eyes to his father.
Hu Lixin, who was sitting on the sofa, snorted coldly: "What kind of professional player? How can there be a 'professional player' who has never played in a professional game?"
Then he looked at Hu Lai, pinched his knees and said, "Do you know why my knees hurt after a rainy day?"
"Don't you mean... rheumatism?" Hu Lai gave the standard answer that his parents had told him before.
"Actually, it's not rheumatism, it's an injury sustained while playing football..." Xie Lan gave the correct answer.
"Injury from playing football?" Hu Lai was stunned for a moment, then grinned, "Dad, you didn't go this way because you were injured playing football, so you won't let me go this way?"
Although he didn't like his father, he never thought that his father would be a coward who retired because he was injured and said that football was a dead end...
"You know nothing!" Hu Lixin suddenly yelled, startling Hu Lai. "Do you think my knee was injured when I collided with someone during the game? Or did I sprain it myself? Let me tell you, kid, my knee was kicked to pieces by my teammates in training!"
Hu Lai looked at his father's right knee in shock.
"Do you know why he kicked me in the knee? Because I competed with him for a place in the first team! Just for this place on the bench of the first team, he kicked me in training! Why don't I want you to Go play professional football? This is the reason! If you really don’t have talent, it’s okay, but if you say you have great talent, then you will become that kind of person. A thorn in the side! Do you think professional football is what you see on TV? There are fans, rich cars, and mansions... what you see is real professional football? Thousands of ignorant boys like you compete for a position! Under the feet of a successful person are countless losers!
"Those losers don't have luxury cars or mansions, no fans, and no money! They put in the same efforts as the successful people, but in the end they became losers for one reason or another! Don't think they didn't work hard enough, they work harder than you do now Ten times! But what about China? There are 18 Chinese Super League teams and 32 Chinese League Two teams. In such a big country with a population of 1.5 billion, there are only 66 professional teams in total. Every kid who plays football says To become a professional player...there are so many places for you!"
Hu Lixin roared angrily and stood up from the sofa. He was half a head taller than his son and glared down at Hu Lai.
Seeing this, Xie Lan wanted to come up and persuade her husband, but Hu Lixin seemed to want to spit out the breath he had been holding for decades. He had a lot to say in his heart, so he suddenly threw away his wife's arm and said with He stared at Hu Lai with cannibalistic eyes.
"Do you think you are walking on a bright road?! No! This is a damn single-plank bridge! I know ideals, ideals, ideals all day long... Is the ideal something to eat or spend? Is it great to have an ideal? You can't even afford a bigger house. ! You think I want to be a guarantee? An? Do you think I want to stand outside the gate and salute people every day? Do you think I want to be scolded by those owners who drive luxury cars? As long as I have a degree and a few more years of study, I can go there. Be a security guard? ”
In Hu Lai's eyes, Hu Lixin was always serious and often criticized him. But it was the first time that he saw Hu Lixin being so full of swear words and almost losing his temper today. He was so frightened that he didn't know what to say. He could only Looking directly at his father.
Or, no longer a father, but just an angry middle-aged man.
Hu Lixin gasped and sat down slowly. His voice was no longer high-pitched and sounded much older: "I don't allow you to go to the Poseidon or Poseidon team. You just go to school and take the college entrance examination. Even if you take the college entrance examination No matter how bad the university is, it is still better than playing professional football!" (End of Chapter)