Chapter 356 What is "surprise"?
Hu Lai has already planned everything. After playing the game against Wuzhou Dongshan, it will be the league offseason. There will be no games next. It won't be a big deal even if he takes a day off and returns to the team late.
I believe that with his friendship with Lao Zhao, it is not difficult to ask for leave.
Then he followed the army from Wuzhou to Shanhai. In Shanhai, he left the team to find Li Qingqing, gave things to others, and then invited them to have a meal. During the meal, he told Li Qingqing some jokes to make her happy and not to remind her of being injured. Annoying things.
After dinner, I probably won't be able to catch the plane, so I'll find a hotel nearby to stay for one night, and then fly back to Jincheng the next day.
Perfect.
After making such a plan, Hu Lai went to Zhao Kangming to ask for leave the next day.
"Are you going to return to the team one day late?"
Zhao Kangming was a little surprised. It didn't mean that he shouldn't take this leave or that he couldn't take it. It was just that Hu Lai had never taken this kind of leave before. He doesn't have a girlfriend, and he doesn't like going to nightclubs. He always goes to away games with the team and comes back with the team again. Although he is a professional player with an annual income of 1.8 million, his life is as simple as a child.
Going to play a game with Zhang Qinghuan, Wang Guangwei and the others is just entertainment.
Until now, I don’t have many famous brands on my body. Others are carrying Louis Vuitton, Gucci, and Hermès bags. When he goes out for training and away games, he still carries a sports brand bag...
Clothes, shoes, etc. are all mass consumer goods brands.
Such a person actually asked him to return to the team one day late after the game. Zhao Kangming couldn't help but be surprised and curious: "Why?"
"Well, I have a friend in Shanhai. I want to visit..." Hu Lai explained.
I just went to see my friends... Zhao Kangming nodded: "Okay, you are allowed to return to the team one day later. Although there will be no games next, the team has not been disbanded directly, so you still have to come back for training, do you hear?"
Hu Lai nodded repeatedly: "I know, I know, thank you, Director Zhao!"
Just as he planned, asking for leave from Director Zhao was not difficult at all.
This was the most difficult part of his entire plan, and the rest was completely worth mentioning.
He even bought a ticket in advance to return to Jincheng the next afternoon after the game.
Everything is ready, only the competition is left!
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"Hey, Dad? Why are you here?" Li Qingqing, who was lying in the ward, stared at Li Ziqiang who walked into the ward with Uncle Yang in surprise.
"Shouldn't I come?" Li Ziqiang asked with a straight face.
"Uh... no, don't you still have a job? That school team..."
"The college entrance examination is coming soon. The training of the football team has been stopped. I am the coach of the school team. The school team is not training anymore. What should I do with it?" Li Ziqiang walked to his daughter and found that there was a hair in the middle of her hair. Root clippings...
He raised his hand and reached for the top of his daughter's head.
Li Qingqing thought her father was going to touch her head, so she flinched slightly, but her father didn't do that. When he took his hand back again, there was already an extra grass clipping.
"Ah, I didn't take a shower after the game yesterday..." Li Qingqing blushed when she saw this.
Her right thigh hurt all night last night and she couldn't even sleep well. How could she take a shower?
If it weren't for the nurse, she wouldn't even be able to go to the toilet.
Li Ziqiang threw the grass clippings on the ground, then bent down to observe the injured area of his daughter, and found that it had been bandaged.
"Pressure bandage." Yang Mingwei next to him explained, "It's a little bruised, but it's okay, not serious."
After a muscle strain, because the muscle fibers are torn, some bleeding will occur and penetrate into the skin, causing bruises.
Hearing what his old friend said, Li Ziqiang's expression did not relax at all, and he even frowned.
If there are bruises, it means that the muscle is broken. Even after recovery, it will affect the explosive power of the thigh, because the broken part will not grow back on its own. At most, it will just stop hurting.
Although Lao Yang said it was not serious, it would still have an impact no matter how serious it was.
This means that even if his daughter recovers, her speed and explosive power may decrease...
And if the recovery is not good, the old injury will relapse, and one place will be repeatedly strained, and more and more muscle fibers will be broken, which will become more and more serious. It will become a stubborn disease, and eventually Li Qingqing will completely lose his speed and explosive power.
That is what Li Ziqiang is most worried about.
Speed and explosive power have always been the key qualities for Li Qingqing to stand out. Li Qingqing, who has lost her explosive power and speed, can only be an excellent female football player at most no matter how exquisite her skills are...
While Li Ziqiang was still worried about his daughter's injury, Li Qingqing was wondering whether to tell Hu Lai the news of his father's arrival, because according to the plan they had discussed, Hu Lai would come to see her the day after tomorrow.
It turned out that she wanted to be alone, and Hu Lai could come if he wanted.
But now his father is here... When Hu Lai comes to the door and finds his school team coach in the house, will he suspect that he has gone to the wrong place?
And the most important thing is if his father knew that Hu Lai was looking for his daughter, would he think twice?
After much deliberation, for a few moments, Li Qingqing wanted Hu Lai not to come.
But when the words came to her lips, she still didn't send the message out.
She thought that Hu Lai and I were high school classmates, and we participated in the East Asian Cup together, and even took photos in front of so many people, so if I was injured, wouldn't it be normal for him to stop by to see me?
Why should I have the thought of "feeling guilty"?
Thinking of this, Li Qingqing decided to pretend that nothing happened.
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Game day came quickly.
Anton Flashing Stars challenged Wuzhou Dongshan away from home.
Wuzhou Dongshan was lucky enough to avoid relegation at the last moment of the season and was able to stay in the Chinese League One.
There is also a story between them and Flash Star - in last season's game, Wuzhou Dongshan's midfielder Yuan Yue made a rough foul, causing Zhang Qinghuan to be injured.
It also led to a series of events that followed, and finally made Zhang Qinghuan the prodigal son return.
Of course, few people will think that these latter things are the result of Wuzhou Dongshan...
Yuan Yue was not able to enter the starting lineup for this game because he strained his inner thigh muscle in a training session two weeks ago and is still recovering from his injury.
On the one hand, Zhang Qinghuan's fans were happy about this, thinking that this was Yuan Yue's retribution. On the other hand, they were very sorry because their Qinghuan family could no longer beat Yuan Yue's head on the court.
Wuzhou Dongshan, who was lucky enough to avoid relegation last season, changed their head coach and introduced new players after some operations during the transfer period. Their performance so far this season is pretty good, and they are temporarily ranked twelfth in the league. If they can maintain this performance, then Wuzhou Dongshan fans should not have to worry about the team being lucky enough to avoid relegation at the last minute this season.
Although Wuzhou Dongshan's performance this season is much better than last season, it is still not enough in front of the more powerful Flash Star. After all, it is not just their team that has become stronger.
Zhang Qinghuan didn’t know if he recalled the unbearable years of last season when he saw this opponent...
Anyway, he became the protagonist in this game.
One goal, two assists, all three of Flash Star's goals were related to him.
Hu Lai received his assist and scored his ninth league goal of the season.
In the end, Flash Star defeated Wuzhou Dongshan 3:1 in an away game. When the offseason came, they had six wins, three draws and one loss in the league, temporarily ranking third.
With this result and performance, there is hope that we can compete for the top spot at the end of the season.
After the game, the commentator of Anton Satellite TV happily talked with the guest Lu Guanlin about the team's prospects of reaching the top spot, which made many Anton Star fans in front of the TV look forward to it.
How many years has it been since Anton Football had a top league team?
When Xingcheng was disbanded, it had not played in the top league for two years.
Do the math, and for twenty years now, no football team in Anton has participated in China's top professional league. So many people think that Anton people do not need football as an entertainment activity. When the old sports center was demolished, the people of Jincheng sang and danced and played mahjong, but no one thought to remember it. Let’s take a look at the passing years of Anton Football.
The once famous gold medal market of Chinese football was born with great fanfare, but died quietly.
Anton’s football has not kept pace with the growing spiritual and cultural needs of the people of Anton and Jincheng, and has been abandoned by the times...
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At the high-speed rail hub of Shanhai, Hu Lai said goodbye to his teammates. He was the only one in the team who did not return to Jincheng with the team, so he naturally became the focus of everyone's attention.
"What? Hu Lai won't go back with us?"
"What? Hu Lai stayed alone in Shanhai?"
"Said he was looking for friends..."
"Huh? Hu Lai is going to the mountains and seas to find a girlfriend?"
"Shocked! Hu Lai left the team and stayed in the mountains and seas for a private meeting with a beautiful woman!"
"Hu Lai, you can do it. You found a girlfriend in the mountains and seas quietly..."
"You girls! I'm going to meet my friends! Don't use your greasy thoughts to guess the young me!" Hu Lai was furious.
Everyone laughed.
Zhang Qinghuan hugged Hu Lai: "Don't be shy, little Hu Hu. It's not shameful to find a girlfriend, but is it shameful to pursue love? There are so many human writers who have created so many stories praising love, what is there to be ashamed of? Tell me, big brother Tell us who your girlfriend is Fangfangdi? ”
"It's your sister!" Hu Lai shook off Zhang Qinghuan's arm, then turned and left. If he stayed a little longer, the rumor would have turned into him going to the mountains and seas to meet his illegitimate son... These people have no bottom line. Shameless person!
"You have a beautiful idea! If I have a sister, I will definitely keep her away from you!" Zhang Qinghuan shouted to him from behind.
The team members burst into laughter again.
Hu Lai fled amid roars of laughter.
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Hu Lai found the house she rented based on the address given by Li Qingqing.
It was not easy for him, who was here for the first time. He had to navigate the map and find someone to ask for directions... In the end, he also met an old Shanhai man, who was quite enthusiastic and spoke a Shanhai dialect. He couldn't understand it at all. But seeing that the old man had inconvenient legs and feet and seemed to take him there personally if he didn't understand, Hu Lai could only nod his head to express that he understood, understood, understood...
In this way, he walked around Li Qingqing's rental community three times and finally found a gate that he could enter.
Fortunately, this community is not strictly managed and does not require visitor registration, otherwise it would be even more troublesome.
To be honest, looking at this community full of urban life, Hu Lai suddenly thought of the community he rented in Liucheng and Wang Guangwei.
After groping around in the community for a while, I found the specific building and unit door.
Hu Lai, who has now overcome all difficulties, is standing outside the security door, ready to knock on the door.
The reason why it was so difficult to find her was because he didn't tell Li Qingqing on WeChat that he was already here. Naturally, this was done to give her a surprise...
After knocking on the door, there were footsteps inside, and then the sound of the door opening.
When the door was opened, Hu Lai jumped out from the side: "Sap Rui... eh?"
He saw Li Ziqiang standing in the door.
He also saw that the surprised expression on Coach Li's face gradually subsided, and the face gradually returned to the state he was familiar with - staring at him with a straight face.
Looking at Coach Li's dark face, Hu Lai thought of this sentence in his mind:
When you stare into the abyss, the abyss stares back into you. (End of chapter)