Chapter 1073 If I didn’t meet you
"Hahahahahahaha!"
Li Qingqing squatted next to the piece of fried egg, laughing so hard that she couldn't raise her head, and the flower branches were trembling.
"Hey, that's too much!" Hu Lai stood beside her and protested helplessly. "How long will you continue to laugh when the bones of the omelette are still cold?"
"'It's time to show real skills'? Haha! It's indeed real skills! Hahahaha!" Li Qingqing raised her head and glanced at Hu Lai, and couldn't help laughing.
"It's just a mistake once in a while..."
Li Qingqing stood up from the ground holding her stomach, and then imitated Hu Lai's tone and said: "'You're showing off your embarrassment!' Hahahaha! Hu Lai, you are so honest!"
Hu Lai rolled his eyes at her and gave up his defense.
Then he sniffed: "What does it smell like?"
Li Qingqing, who was smiling happily, was stunned for a moment, the smile on his face froze, and then screamed: "Steak!"
She jumped to the stove, picked up the tongs and flipped the steak, and saw that the side next to the pot was burnt black...
Hu Lai looked at the piece of steak and smiled: "How mature is this?"
Li Qingqing glared at him: "It's all your fault!"
"It's the result of your gloating!"
Li Qingqing changed the subject: "Is there any steak?"
"Yes, yes, but it hasn't thawed..." Hu Lai said helplessly, spreading his hands. "This piece was taken to the upper level to defrost it before I went out for training today."
"Alas..." Li Qingqing sighed and tried to ask: "How about you make do with it? I'll peel off the layer of paste?"
Hu Lai looked at her without speaking.
Li Qingqing herself felt it was outrageous, so she had no choice but to throw the steak, which was reminiscent of carcinogens, into the trash can.
Then she asked: "What shall we eat now?"
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Hu Lai and Li Qingqing sat opposite each other at the dining table.
On the table between them was a plate of fried potato cubes. In addition, there were two bowls with their plates turned upside down, emitting a familiar aroma.
Hu Lai glanced at the kitchen timer placed on the table: "Time's up!"
After saying that, he lifted up the plates on the two bowls and was even burned: "Wow, it's so hot..."
Li Qingqing looked into the bowl and asked: "Why do you have instant noodles here?"
Hu Lai blew on his burned fingers and replied: "Huh... the logistics support materials brought by the Asian Cup national team. It was originally the quantity to prepare for reaching the semi-finals, but in the end we were eliminated in the quarter-finals. , Huh... There are still some left. I just want to bring some back to lighten their burden. Huh... This stuff is not rare in China, but it is still a good thing here in Leeds..."
Li Qingqing stood up and put the two fried eggs in the pan into bowls, one for each person.
Make the instant noodles in the bowl look more appetizing.
But it’s still instant noodles.
"I really didn't expect... I came all the way to Leeds and you treated me to instant noodles." Li Qingqing was speechless.
"Instant noodles are also very good. Don't you think you are happy to be able to taste the taste of your motherland in a foreign country?" Hu Lai picked up the noodles, blew on them, and breathed them into his mouth.
Then he closed his eyes and said with an intoxicated look on his face: "The taste of the motherland is... the taste of Laotan pickled cabbage and beef!"
Li Qingqing was amused by his exaggerated performance and picked up some noodles to smell: "It's been a long time since I've eaten instant noodles. I used to eat them all the time when I was a kid. My dad said they were bad for your health, but I just love eating them..."< br>
She took a bite and closed her eyes like Hu Lai, showing an expression of recollection.
Hu Lai asked: "How is it? Can you find the taste of childhood?"
Li Qingqing smiled with her eyes closed: "My favorite food when I was a kid was the braised beef flavor..."
"Ah, there was braised beef flavor at that time, but I didn't ask for it... Little Star and the others shared a few."
Li Qingqing opened his eyes and looked at Hu Lai, who was a little regretful: "When you said that, I have a feeling that in the end of this Asian Cup, you all divided your luggage and dispersed. You got Laotan pickled cabbage beef noodles, and Chen Xingyi and the others got... Braised beef noodles..."
Hu Lai was amused by Li Qingqing's description: "I didn't have it originally, but it makes sense to ask you to say that... But actually everyone was quite sad at the time, so the scene was not happy. After all, we just lost... now Much better, we have to look forward. It will definitely not be like this in the local Asian Cup four years later.”
Four years later, the 2031 Asian Cup will be hosted by China.
By that time, Hu Lai was twenty-seven years old, Zhang Qinghuan was thirty-one years old, Wang Guangwei was twenty-nine years old, Chen Xingyi was twenty-eight years old, Luo Kai was twenty-seven years old, Xia Xiaoyu was twenty-six years old, and Zhou Zijing was twenty-six years old. , Lin Zhiyuan is twenty-five years old... Everyone is in the mature stage of their respective careers. The age structure of the team is reasonable, and they are still young and have no lack of experience.
It's time to give results.
If such a team still cannot deliver satisfactory results, it will not be justified in any case.
"It's great that you think so." Li Qingqing's words were filled with relief.
Hu Lai heard it and asked: "What are you doing? Do you think I will become depressed?"
Li Qingqing smiled and said nothing.
"Hey... don't underestimate me!"
Li Qingqing smiled and shook his head: "Don't underestimate me, you are the one who wants to win the World Cup!"
Hu Lai pointed at Li Qingqing: "Irony?"
The girl hurriedly waved her hands, put away her smile, and looked at Hu Lai seriously: "To be honest, Hu Lai. I admire you for being able to express this goal under such circumstances."
Hu Lai suddenly felt a little embarrassed by Li Qingqing's serious gaze. It was rare that he didn't get along: "Oh, I ended up saying it and was scolded..."
Li Qingqing shook her head gently: "Don't care about their reasons. Say what you want to say and do what you want to do. I will always support you."
After saying that, she held her chin with one hand and stared at the person in front of her.
Hu Lai became wary: "How many meals will I owe this time?"
Li Qingqing's posture and emotions just now were not tense at all: "What!"
"Ah? Didn't you just say that just so that I could treat you to dinner?"
Li Qingqing was stunned for a moment, then smiled: "If you say that, it's true, then even if you owe me... ten more meals!"
As she said that, she took out her phone in front of Hu Lai, opened the memo, and started revising it.
Upon seeing this, Hu Lai called out: "Good guy, don't you need to ask for my consent now?"
Li Qingqing glanced at him: "Don't you want to invite me?"
"Think about it, please, please!" Hu Lai nodded without saying anything. "Isn't it just about eating? Can eating make me poor?"
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After a simple dinner, Hu Lai took Li Qingqing to briefly visit the villa he rented.
When he walked into Hu Lai's room, Li Qingqing saw the football on the table at a glance.
Her eyes widened with an expression of surprise: "Ah! You actually brought me to Leeds?"
She stepped forward, picked up the football, turned it around, and saw the phone number she had written down.
The writing is slightly faded, but still legible.
Holding the football in hand, Li Qingqing looked back at Hu Lai.
Hu Lai pointed to the football in her hand and said: "This is my first football."
Li Qingqing lowered his head and looked at the football in his hand again, and then remembered the first time he met this boy.
At that time, how could she have thought that she would be closely bound to him in the future and be closely related to each other?
"What are you doing?" Hu Lai asked strangely when he saw that Li Qingqing suddenly fell silent.
"Nothing, I suddenly thought of how we met..." Li Qingqing put down the football with a smile. “It feels like not long ago, but in fact it’s almost ten years.”
"Is it that exaggerated?"
"2019 to 2027, what do you think?"
Hu Lai took a breath and realized that it had been almost eight years since he came to this time and space.
He was suddenly in a trance - if I had not traveled through time and space, would I still have met Li Qingqing in that secret base in the original time and space?
Is there Li Qingqing in that time and space?
What would I have done if I hadn't met her?
Maybe... he's just an extremely ordinary person who knows other people and lives an ordinary life.
But no matter which time and space he is in, Li Qingqing will probably become the dazzling one in the end...
"What are you doing?" Li Qingqing tilted her head and asked.
"When you say that, it reminds me of high school."
"At that time, did you ever think that one day you would become a professional player and play in the UK?" Li Qingqing asked.
"Then who can think of it?" Hu Lai shook his head, "Can you think of today?"
"I didn't expect it. At that time, I thought it would be good for you to join the school team... Who would have thought that you would now play in the Premier League! I think your classmates at the time can brag: We rejected the Premier League gold medal. Boots and World Cup golden boots!" Li Qingqing laughed.
Hu Lai was speechless: "Do you still remember this nonsense?"
"Remember, how could I not remember? Even though so many years have passed, I still remember it." Li Qingqing leaned on the edge of the table.
"Have I ever told you that my dad actually didn't think highly of you at first?"
Hu Lai nodded: "I heard you say it."
"Then do you know what I was thinking at that time?"
"I don't know."
"What I think is, if he doesn't recruit you to join the school team, then I will train you for a year, and then you can sign up for the school team when you are a sophomore in high school. After you are admitted to the school team, I will go to my father and tell him that you are mine." Brought out, haha!" Li Qingqing laughed so hard.
"It turns out that I haven't even waited for a year. You ran away first!"
"Oh, at that time you were already on the school team anyway, so why should I stay in school?"
"But what if I wasn't on the varsity team?"
Hu Lai asked a question that was difficult for Li Qingqing to answer. She frowned and was silent for a while, then shook her head and said: "I don't know..."
"Idiot, of course you have to leave! That's an opportunity to play professional football!" Hu Lai said anxiously.
Seeing him like this, Li Qingqing high-fived him and said, "I remembered!"
"What do you remember?" Hu Lai asked, stunned.
"I remember you said the same thing back then, and you even scolded me!"
Hu Lai showed a puzzled expression: "Scold you? Why should I scold you?"
"You called me a 'stupid woman'!" Li Qingqing pointed a gun at Hu Lai, who was sitting on the edge of the bed, and narrowed one eye and tilted his head slightly to take aim.
"Is this happening?" Hu Lai asked with a frown.
"Of course. You said you were going to wake me up as a 'stupid woman'... I hold a grudge! But if you can treat me to ten more meals, I will forget a lot of things!" Li Qingqing's "Pistol" Still aiming at Hu Lai.
Hu Lai raised his hands and surrendered: "I thought Charlie was the best person I have ever seen, but it turns out that every mountain is higher than the next, and you are better than him..."
Seeing Hu Lai admit defeat, Li Qingqing put away his "weapons" with a smile and made a "V" gesture.
Then she took out her phone and added the ten meals:
"Hu Lai, you owe more and more, so you have to work harder to pay it back!"
"Haha."
"What does 'haha' mean?"
"Literally."
"If you have a bad attitude, you will get ten more meals!"
"...Li Qingqing, haven't you heard a sentence?"
"What words?"
"The uncle is the one who owes the debt!"
"..."(End of this chapter)