Chapter 406 What did Hu Lai’s father do before?
Flash Star finally defeated Tangdu Jiulong 3:0 in the away game. No matter what the result of Ningtian Yongan's game was, an upgrade spot was locked in advance.
This matter has become a major event in the Chinese League One. Not only the local media in Anton and Jincheng are paying attention to this matter.
After the game, media across the country rushed to report on Anton Football's return to China's top league.
The scene of Shining Star fans singing the Anton Xingcheng team song in the stands also moved countless people.
Even their opponents, the fans of Tangdu Kowloon applauded the fans of Flashing Star after the game, and used Flashing Star as an example to encourage the Tangdu Kowloon football team - Anton Football, which is only one step away from being relegated. Returning to China's top league after 20 years, even if we are relegated this time, we Tangdu Jiulong will definitely come back!
After the game, Zhao Kangming, as the head coach of Flash Stars, was a major contributor to the team's upgrade and was sought after by the media.
Hu Lai, the top scorer, naturally can't escape.
Traditional media have reported on it one after another, and there has been heated discussion on the Internet.
Any news about him will arouse heated discussions and attract a lot of attention.
Now that Flash Star's team goal has been achieved, the only suspense is how many goals Hu Lai can score in the Chinese League One this season...
He has broken the record, but what the new record will be has not yet been determined.
Because the league is not over yet, Flash Star still has two league games to play.
It can be said that what everyone is most looking forward to now is how much Hu Lai can raise the new record.
The "Goal" website's domestic football section conducted a poll asking everyone how many league goals they thought Hulay could score this season.
Four options in total.
The first one is "Twenty-Four Goals", which is Hu Lai's current number of goals. Choosing this option means that Hu Lai will not be able to score in the next two games. Very few people choose this option.
The second one is "Twenty-Five Balls".
The third one is "Twenty-Six Balls".
The fourth option is "Twenty-six goals or more."
Many people chose the last one of "more than twenty-six goals", which was the most chosen among the four options.
This shows that everyone is generally very optimistic about Hu Lai's scoring ability.
Unless Zhao Kangming makes a substantial rotation after being upgraded in advance, giving other forwards a chance to play and not allowing Hu Lai to play. But this possibility is very rare. After all, with how much Zhao Kangming loves Hu Lai, how could he not give Hu Lai a chance to work hard to set a new record?
In addition to being concerned about what Hu Lai's goal record will eventually be, some fans are also asking online, "Why is Hu Lai so good at scoring goals?"
This post was supposed to be a good opportunity to popularize knowledge about football tactics, but because some people said that the reason why Hu Lai was able to score goals was because Shanxing gathered the entire team to feed Hulai the ball. To put it bluntly, it was artificially created by Shanxing. The top scorer, he also said that Hu Lai is a system player...
Opponents claimed that "Why is Hu Lai so good at scoring goals" is an excellent question to test whether a fan is a real fan or a fake fan. Anyone who says that Hu Lai's goals are all due to luck or fed by midfielders are all fake fans who don't understand football.
So this post eventually became a battleground.
In addition, some people are also concerned about Hu Lai's relationship with Wang Guangwei, Chen Xingyi, and Zhang Qinghuan, because they always see the four of them together. So someone asked, "Is Hu Lai's official CP Wang Guangwei, Chen Xingyi or Zhang Qinghuan?"
The result was another world war...
In this context, when an article titled "Shock! Hu Lai’s father turned out to be the security guard of our community! "When it appeared, it naturally quickly attracted the attention of many people.
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"...When Hu Lai performed a hat trick against the South Korean team in the East Asian Cup and helped Chinese football successfully 'break South Korea', CCTV at that time came to our Dongchuan to interview Hu Lai's parents, but they did not interview The father who came to Hu Lai only interviewed Hu Lai’s father Mom... I just realized that Hu Lai's family conditions are actually quite average... But that's not the point of what I want to say. What I want to say today is that Hu Lai's mother mentioned it in a news interview at that time, saying that Hu Lai's father was... Work as a security guard in a certain community
"I didn't pay much attention at the time until I passed by the gate of our community that day and overheard two security guards chatting there and mentioned that Lao Hu was Hu Lai's father... I know Lao Hu. The security guards in our community usually stand guard and salute. Stand up straight when you are tall. He is also tall. Although the uniform is slightly ill-fitting, compared with the security guards around him, he is still passable, so I have paid attention to him before... but I never expected that this old Hu could actually Hu Lai's father!
"I was shocked at the time! How dare the big star Hu Lai's father salute me every day?! After hearing this, I kept a close eye on him and secretly took a photo of Hu Lai standing guard, and then talked carefully with Hu Lai After comparing the photos, I found that their eyebrows are really similar.”
At the end of the post, the poster added two pictures. One picture shows a security guard wearing security uniform standing outside the gate, and the other picture is Hu Lai's ID photo found on the official website of Flash Star.
After comparing the two photos together, as the poster said, everyone found that the middle-aged security guard looked a bit like Hu Lai!
In fact, if we get here, then this post will only receive ordinary attention among the posts related to Hu Lai that have popped up recently.
After all, everyone knew that Hu Lai's father was a security guard before. How could fans who really follow Hu Lai let go of any news about Hu Lai?
So there is nothing much to say about Hu Lai's father being a security guard. At most, some people envied the original poster with his real name in the post and asked him if he had gone to take a photo with Hu Lai's father and get an autograph or something.
What really makes this post different from other posts about Hu Lai, what stands out under the topic of Hu Lai is a reply from the building.
"Master, I was looking through the newspaper clippings collected by my father two days ago, and found a photo of the starting eleven of the youth team of Baishan Tianchi Club that represented Baishan Province in the National Games football match. Then I suddenly felt that the photo The man in the middle and back row, third from the right, looks very much like Hu Lai’s father in your photo. No, to be precise, he should be more like Hu Lai...”
The person who replied not only posted the first group photo, but also took a screenshot of the person he found suspicious so that everyone could see it more clearly.
Later, some good people put the poster's photo and the replyer's photo side by side to make it easier to compare.
Needless to say, when compared, the people in the two photos are indeed somewhat similar.
Although the old photos back then were not very clear due to the low pixels and limited photography technology.
But it also makes people feel like...
The person who replied also typed the names of all the people in the photo in the post, corresponding to their positions in the photo.
What's even more coincidental is that this person also happens to have the surname Hu, and his name is Hu Lixin.
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Hu Lai had just completed an interview with team reporter Chen Jianyu, about his setting a new Chinese League One-season scoring record and the team's success in reaching the Super League.
Hu Lai has accepted similar interviews many times and is very comfortable with them.
This interview was nothing beyond his expectations.
Even if he broke the record, he didn't feel any difference. Chen Jianyu also praised him for his good mentality.
Hu Lai's answer was: "It's not the Chinese Super League's single-season scoring record, so what's there to be proud of? Uncle Chen..."
Then Chen Jianyu took advantage of the situation to bring up the topic of success in the Super League. Hu Lai also expressed his expectations and longing for the Chinese Super League. It can be said to be a very standard interview and interview routine.
After the interview, it stands to reason that Hu Lai should leave.
But Chen Jianyu stopped him, then glanced at the photographer who was packing equipment in the distance, took out his mobile phone and said to Hu Lai: "Hu Lai, I'm asking a very personal question. If you don't want to answer, it doesn't matter if you don't answer." , this is not an interview.”
Hu Lai smiled and said: "It doesn't matter, Uncle Chen, just ask. I can even tell you the answer to questions like whether you have a girlfriend or not."
"Well..." Chen Jianyu asked Hu Lai after getting his permission, "Hu Lai, we all know that your father is a security guard..."
Hu Lai nodded: "That's right."
As for the fact that his father was a security guard, it spread after his mother told it in a CCTV interview. He himself has no objection to this matter. He doesn't think it's embarrassing for his father to be a security guard, so he won't reject this issue.
We are all working people, so who is inferior to others?
"Then let me ask you, has your father... been a professional player before?" After asking, Chen Jianyu stared at Hu Lai's face and eyes.
He saw Hu Lai obviously stunned.
Not confused, just stunned.
He knew that the online post was correct.
"That's it, Hu Lai. A post suddenly appeared on the Internet. It should have been posted by the owner of the community where your father works. In it, there was a photo of your father standing guard..."
Chen Jianyu told all the information he saw on the Internet, and even took out his mobile phone to show Hu Lai.
Hu Lai saw that it was a post from the "Goal" website. He had not been on the "Goal" website during this period, and he did not expect that even his underwear was taken out...
After reading the main content of the post and the most liked reply, Hu Lai nodded and said simply: "Yes, Uncle Chen, my dad did play football before."
He felt that the fact that his father had played football was nothing to hide.
Just like his father working as a security guard, it is not something that would make him feel embarrassed or ashamed.
Seeing Hu Lai's admission, Chen Jianyu asked again: "I checked your father's name, but I couldn't find any reports about him playing football... Back then, Baishan Tianchi Club was also an A-level team in Baishan Province, but there was no mention of your father at all. news, which makes me a little strange..."
"Uh...he retired before he could join the first team due to injury..." Hu Lai could only say this.
"Ah, that's such a pity..." Chen Jianyu showed an expression of surprise and regret, and then asked: "Can I interview your father?"
Hu Lai shrugged: "I don't think he will agree to be interviewed, but I can call you and ask."
"Thank you so much."
Hu Lai shook his phone and walked out: "When I ask, I will reply to you directly on WeChat, Uncle Chen."
"Okay, no problem, thank you!"
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When Hu Lai called his mother, Xie Lan was cooking in the kitchen, and it was her husband who gave her the phone.
When Xie Lan saw that it was Hu Lai, he got angry and said, "You will die if you answer my son's call!"
"Don't you have to tell me after I answered it?" Hu Lixin gave the phone to his wife and turned around and walked to the bedroom.
Xie Lan had no choice but to answer the phone and turn on the speaker, put it aside, and continued cooking: "Hey, what's going on?"
"Mom, has dad's matter been leaked?"
"What's going on?" Xie Lan didn't react at all.
After Hu Lixin, who was about to enter the bedroom, heard Hu Lai's words, he stood there and looked back.
"It's about the fact that he played football before. Today our reporter Chen who was with the team came to interview me. After that, he asked me about it, saying that it had been spread on the Internet... Then I went to check it out, and it was true, Some netizens also found photos of my dad when he was playing football. I have already sent you a WeChat message... Reporter Chen wanted to interview my dad, so I said to call and ask..."
After hearing this, Xie Lan looked up at her husband. As she expected, she saw her husband shaking his head at her.
But this time she did not send a message for her husband. Instead, she gestured to him and asked him to tell his son himself.
Hu Lixin waved his hands repeatedly, unwilling to do so.
Xie Lan picked up the phone when he saw this: "Your dad said it's okay..."
Before she finished speaking, she saw her husband approaching and shouting louder: "No! I won't accept the interview!"
Xie Lan asked: "Did you hear it?"
Hu Lai's voice came from the mobile phone: "Okay, then I'll go back to Reporter Chen."
After hanging up the phone, Xie Lan held up the phone and pouted: "Is it so difficult to talk to your son?"
Hu Lixin did not answer this, but frowned: "No wonder..."
"Why?" Xie Lan was puzzled.
"No wonder when I was standing guard today, I found an owner who was always hanging around the gate. If I hadn't known that this was the owner, I would have thought it was a thief who came to visit..."
Xie Lan's eyes widened: "Did this owner know your identity?!"
"That should be it..." Hu Lixin said thoughtfully.
Xie Lan asked nervously: "Ah? What should I do? Do you want to resign?"
Hu Lixin glanced at his wife strangely: "Why do you want to resign?"
"Aren't you just like a wanted criminal? You're afraid that others will know your past. Now that your identity has been exposed, why don't you run away quickly?" Xie Lan rolled her eyes at her husband.
"..." Hu Lixin didn't expect his wife to be waiting for him here.
After quarreling with her husband, Xie Lan lowered her head and found the photo sent by her son in WeChat.
It was a black and white starting photo.
Without any explanation, she saw her husband at a glance. She pointed to the third person from the right in the second row and said to her husband in surprise: "Ah, Hu Lixin, I didn't expect that you were quite handsome when you were young... …”
When Hu Lixin saw the photos on his wife's cell phone and the word "White Mountain" on the chest of the jersey, some memories seemed to be suddenly unlocked and recalled by him.
If he remembered correctly, this should be a pre-match photo taken when their Baishan Tianchi U20 team represented Baishan Province in the U20 category of the National Games.
He was one of the starting players, and according to the procedure, he had to take a group photo before the game, so he got such a photo.
Xie Lan found that her husband fell into a state of confusion after seeing the photo. She called out and asked: "When was this photo taken?"
Hu Lixin shook his head: "I forgot. Who still remembers what happened so early?"
Xie Lan was a little disappointed with this answer, but when he thought about it, it was indeed true. It was normal that he couldn't remember something that happened so long ago with such a black and white photo of nothing.
She enlarged the photo and took a closer look at her husband's appearance when he was young. Then she couldn't help but sigh: "Genes are really powerful. Hu Lixin, you and the eighteen-year-old Hu Lai looked so much like each other... They were carved from the same mold. ! ”
Hu Lixin ignored her, turned and walked back to the bedroom, picked up the cigarette case from the coffee table, shook out a cigarette, lit it and took a deep breath.
When he raised his head and blew out all the smoke, he heard his wife screaming outside: "Ah! My food!"
There was a vague smell of paste floating over, but it was quickly covered by the smell of smoke that Hu Lixin spit out. (End of chapter)