Fox in the Penalty Area

On the day of the competition, Sun He didn't sleep well all night, as if he was in a broken thatched hut on a stormy night. I always worry that the roof of this thatched house will be blown off by a strong wind, and I worry that the house will get water when I hear the sound of the torrential rain... In short, I can't close my eyes and fall asleep peacefully.

And coincidentally, the weather forecast did say that there could be moderate to heavy rain tomorrow.

After finally surviving the night, the next day when he drove to the parking lot of the training base, he received a call from Secretary Zhang, telling him to go directly to the office of President Zhang when he came, and that President Zhang wanted to find him. .

He had a premonition that the final judgment was coming.

But he couldn't not go, so he had to bite the bullet and go, and at the same time, he planned a countermeasure in his heart - no matter what Mr. Zhang asked, he just insisted that there was nothing wrong with it.

After locking the car, he walked towards the club office building in the training base under the cloudy sky above his head.

When Sun He appeared in Mr. Zhang's office, Mr. Zhang showed him a newspaper with a calm expression.

It was freshly baked, really just out of the oven, with a strong scent of ink and a hint of residual warmth on it.

The evening paper was flipped to the sports page, and the most eye-catching headline in the middle was: "Sea God's failure was doomed a year and a half ago!"

Then, around this headline, there are articles with different subheadings, with pictures and words. It took a whole page to talk about one thing - how Hu Lai left the youth training team of Poseidon Club in the first place.

In short, he was forced to leave by Sun He, the newly appointed director of youth training of the Poseidon Club at the time.

Evening News reporter Gao Youjun made multiple visits to seek to restore the truth of the incident. Finally, through the personal accounts of several players of the Poseidon youth team at the time, it was confirmed that Sun He had indeed said those exaggerated words to Hu Lai.

"Mr. Cao called me this morning and asked me about something in this newspaper." Zhang Qiang, the general manager of the club, looked at Sun He who was reading the newspaper with his head down, and said calmly. "I said I didn't know, I wanted to ask you, so I called you here. Xiao Sun, what was said in the evening paper...is it true or not?"

Sun He's hand holding the newspaper trembled slightly, causing the newspaper to make a rattling sound.

He knew who "Cao Boss" Mr. Zhang was talking about was the chairman of the Poseidon Club and the president of Nanling Yuanshan Group, the financial backer behind the Poseidon Club. Cao Jianwei, a 61-year-old business tycoon.

Even Mr. Cao has already asked about this matter, how could Sun He not know what it means?

Trembling, he put down the newspaper, and then said to Zhang Qiang: "Mr. Zhang is right, I'm sorry... I failed your trust and misjudged Hu Lai..."

Zhang Qiang raised his hand and didn't let him continue, but nodded: "Okay, I understand. You can go back and write a resignation application to me in a while. The club will say that you resigned due to illness, which is also considered a reward." Save yourself some face."

"Thank you Mr. Zhang..." Sun He bowed his head and exited the general manager's office.

I happened to meet that beautiful female secretary, and when she saw him coming out, she cast a glance at him, with three points of sarcasm, five points of indifference and two points of disgust in her eyes.

But she didn't look like this when she saw Sun He before. She always greeted Sun He with a smile on her face, for fear of offending Mr. Zhang's popular man.

Today's Sun He could no longer care about the female secretary's virtue of watching people order dishes, so he left in a hurry.

When he walked out of the main building of the club, he realized that it was already raining on a cloudy day, and it was still raining heavily, but he didn't bring an umbrella.

He originally wanted to go back to the building to hide from the rain, but when he looked back at the brightly lit office building, he finally didn't dare to go in, but walked into the rain with his head down.

Later, Lingnan Poseidon Football Club released a statement.

The statement stated that Sun He, the club's youth training director, applied for resignation to the club due to physical reasons.

The club agreed to his resignation request. Starting today, Sun He will no longer serve as the club's youth training director.

As for whether Sun He's departure is related to what Hu Lai said, the club has no statement.

A media reporter called to ask about this, and the Sea God Club was also noncommittal.

As for whether Sun He really said those words to Hu Lai, the club did not respond.

Everyone guessed that Sun He's resignation must be related to what Hu Lai revealed.

On the self-media marketing account, these two things have already been equated.

Some self-media also made up a story of "Don't bully the young and poor", vividly telling everyone the grievances between Hu Lai and Sun He.

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"The team reached the FA Cup final, and you let that person be fired. What a double blessing, Hu Lai!"

On WeChat, Li Qingqing, who was jet-lagged, ran over to congratulate Hu Lai after learning the whole story.

"It's okay..." Hu Lai said calmly, with the demeanor of a master who killed an ant casually.

"Hu Lai, do you know? This Sun He is the chief culprit who made my dad leave Quanshun Football School and come to Dongchuan Middle School!"

"I'm going? What else is there?" Hu Lai's masterful demeanor was gone.

"Well, back then he competed with my dad for the head coach of the elite football team of the Transit Football School..." Li Qingqing told Hu Lai about their past at the Transit Football School.

Hu Lai was silent for a while after listening, and then said: "Then I really want to thank this grandson. If it weren't for him, why would you and the coach come to Dongchuan Middle School? If you don't come... there will be no one Taught me how to play football!"

Li Qingqing looked at Hu Lai's words with wide eyes, and after thinking about it, he felt that Hu Lai's words were completely correct.

They can meet, really thanks to Sun He...

Without him, Dad would still be an elite coach at Transit Football School, and he would continue to play and train in Transit's elite women's football team.

They will not go back to their distant hometown, Dad will not become the head coach of the Dongchuan Middle School team, and she will not go to school in Dongchuan Middle School, let alone meet Hu Lai who plays alone in that open field.

How long will Hu Lai continue to train secretly in that unknown place before he can get a chance?

She doesn't know Hu Lai, and Hu Lai doesn't know her, so that's another story... No, it's a story in another parallel world.

Somewhere, it seems that some things are doomed from the beginning...

"Well, I want to thank him." Thinking of this, Li Qingqing replied.

"Oh, why didn't you tell me about this earlier? After yesterday's game, I can thank him together, thank him for pushing your father out of the Quanshun football school, and that's why he became my school team coach... ..."

"Farewell, my dad has never let me tell this matter." Li Qingqing hurriedly stopped Hu Lai, for fear that this kid would really do that kind of thing—judging from his previous style, he could really do that dry. "And aren't you just adding salt to the wound?"

"It's not just salt, I also sprinkle cumin and chili powder, and then turn it over and re-apply oil, it's roasting sizzling..."

"Stop talking, Hu Lai, I'm hungry!" Li Qingqing protested.

"What time are you hungry?"

"I didn't eat much..." Li Qingqing was a little shy.

"why?"

"Actually, the coach here made me lose weight..."

"lose weight?"

"Losing weight!!!"

"Yes, yes, lose weight, lose weight...but not so much, you are not heavy at all, really."

"The team doctor said that I was still a little heavy. He said that if I could lose weight, my speed could be faster and the burden on my muscles would be smaller when exerting force..." Li Qingqing explained to Hu Lai seriously.

"What's your goal weight?"

"Sixty to sixty-two kilograms..."

"So how much do you weigh now?"

"I won't tell you!" Then Li Qingqing changed the subject: "Let me tell you, Hu Lai. This place is really professional, and the club takes me very seriously. They specially arranged a nutrition team for me to improve my health. Supervise my diet. Although I haven't played yet, I feel that I am not far from playing games!"

After finishing speaking, she sent Hu Lai a photo of herself training in the club gym.

In the photo, she is carrying a pair of barbells and doing squat training under the guidance of a physical trainer.

This photo was taken from the side while she was squatting down.

When she was wearing shorts, her thigh muscles swelled up when she squatted down, as if a surge of power was generated from the muscles, and then sent up along the curve of her hips, connected to her straight waist and back, helping her to lift the barbell .

"Handsome!" Hu Lai boasted.

This was not a compliment against his will, but he really thought that Li Qingqing in the photo, who was gritting his teeth and with veins on his neck, was extremely handsome.

Then he noticed Li Qingqing's hair: "Did you cut your hair short?"

In the photo, Li Qingqing's iconic ponytail is gone, replaced by short hair that just reaches the ears. The bangs that originally covered the forehead were separated from the left and right, and clipped with hairpins to prevent them from falling down and covering the eyes.

"Yeah. Does it look good?"

"So sassy!"

It was the first time he saw the short-haired version of Li Qingqing, matched with her sword eyebrows and starry eyes, she really had a heroic appearance.

Hou Lai asked again, "How much French do you know now?"

"Ten sentences more than last time!" Li Qingqing was triumphant.

"Is that much more?"

"Hehe, what is 'talent'? Do you know how difficult it is to learn French? How dare you say 'talent' to someone who just passed the English final exam?" After Hu Lai said this, Li Qingqing was not happy. up.

"I can't use it. Why do I do so well in the exam? In fact, I am a language genius, but because I don't have a language environment, there is no need to learn so well. Just pass it, and it's enough." Hu Lai lied smoothly. "Let me tell you, if I were to play football in Europe, my foreign language proficiency would definitely improve by leaps and bounds. Then I will show you what a real language genius is!"

"You come out and talk about it first." Li Qingqing rolled his eyes.

After chatting with Hu Lai, Li Qingqing put down her phone, got up in her training clothes and walked to the team's fitness coach...the scale next to her.

Then she took a deep breath and stood up gently.

After the screen flashed three times, her current weight figure appeared.

63.1

The unit is kilogram.

"That's right, Qingqing, you've improved by 0.4!" The fitness coach gave Li Qingqing a thumbs up after recording the numbers.

Li Qingqing barely understood what the fitness coach meant by combining gestures, and she breathed a sigh of relief.

Then I saw the number on the screen jump and changed to 63.2.

Uh……

She looked at the fitness coach with some embarrassment.

The fitness coach looked down at this number, raised his head and grinned at Li Qingqing, showing his white teeth: "It's okay, Qingqing, it's okay."

After speaking, he crossed out what he wrote down before, and re-wrote the number next to it.

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Shining Star eliminated Poseidon in the away game, Sun He was resigned, and Hu Lai succeeded in revenge.

But Zhang Qiang, who caused Zhao Kangming to leave the club, is still sitting in his position as the general manager. Responsibility has not been pursued, or there is no responsibility to be held accountable.

There are many people on the Internet complaining for Zhao Kangming, but Zhao Kangming himself doesn't care.

After this game, the grievances between him and the original club have disappeared.

He has proved himself in front of the club's top management, proving that as long as the tactics are appropriate, a team relying on young players as the core is equally competitive.

This FA Cup semi-final victory against Poseidon is the best proof.

Of course, if someone still raises the bar, saying that the FA Cup is too unpopular and that this kind of game that determines the outcome can't explain anything, then that's okay.

Isn't there still a league?

Stable performance is more needed in the long league, so the results of the league can always prove that Zhao Kangming's persistence is right, right?

But now Shining Star can not think about the FA Cup and concentrate on going all out in the league.

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PS, during the double period, ask for a monthly ticket, thank you very much!