Chapter 138 The Legend of the Condor Heroes in Football
Xie Lan wandered in the newly renovated "son's honor room", looking at the fruits of her labor with satisfaction.
Under the carefully designed lights, the trophies and medals she brought over from home shone brightly.
The lighting effects that were optimized and designed specifically for trophy display were indeed much better than what she had randomly created by herself in the small room.
Both the lighting and layout are better.
Now the "Honor Room" with four rooms and three halls is divided into different "exhibition halls" according to the timeline. For example, "Domestic Career" is all the honors Hu Lai won while playing domestic football.
In the room with the theme of "Career in Europe", all those displayed are the honors Hulay won after going to Europe to play football.
As soon as they enter "Life in Europe", visitors' eyes will be involuntarily attracted to a row of display cabinets.
The staggered placement of platforms at different heights highlights the importance of different trophies.
These trophies guard the tallest trophies in the middle, which are:
The trophies for the best player and top scorer in the Europa League in the 2026-2027 season, the trophy for the best young player in Europe in the 2025-2026 season, and the 2026 World Cup Golden Boot trophy in the United States and Canada.
These dazzling gold and silver trophies are lined up in different shapes and heights, just like a city skyline.
Under the light, it looks like a miniature city that never sleeps.
Xie Lan looked at these dazzling lights, and his smiling face became radiant.
I don’t know whether it’s because I felt refreshed or because I was illuminated by the lights in the exhibition hall.
In short, the more she watched the scene before her, the happier she became.
She bought this house in the same community and turned it into an honor room.
She does not plan to open it to outsiders, but only uses this house specifically to store her son's more and more trophies.
In her free time, she would come here alone, wipe away the dust, mop the floor, and then admire the honors that her sons had earned with their sweat.
Every trophy she touches feels like she can relive an event from the past.
Parents of other families miss their children who have left home, and they look back on photos and videos of the past to ease their longing.
Xie Lan is different, she earns her living by wiping these trophies.
After wandering around in his "European career" for a while, Xie Lan returned to the hall.
It's actually the living room of this house.
There are not many cabinets and trophies in the living room.
The only cabinets filled with honors from Hu Lai’s high school days include:
Anton Cup championship medal, Anton Cup top scorer trophy, national competition championship medal and trophy for top scorer and best player.
There are several large photos on the wall, which are moments of Hu Lai in different periods.
And these moments often represent Hu Lai's highlight moments during that period.
For example, there is a photo of Hu Lai holding the championship trophy in the national competition, which was placed behind the national competition championship trophy.
This photo is also the first one in the series because Xie Lan is trying to make up for the regret of not being able to start his son's football career.
The original photo of this photo was later found by someone through Hu Lai's relationship. She specially developed a photo, put it in a photo frame, and hung it on the wall.
Every time she comes to the honor room, she will see this photo first.
In the photo, her son is smiling very happily.
To be honest, even though she was Hu Lai's mother, Xie Lan had never seen her son with such a bright smile during high school.
Football has brought countless wealth to her son and her family. But what Xie Lan is most grateful for is that football allowed her son to laugh so wildly in adolescence.
The next second photo is of Hu Lai going to the TV station to accept the award after the season when he helped Anton Shining Star to be promoted to the Chinese Super League.
In that scene, Hu Lai said in front of the audience, "If my dad fails, he is still my dad. And failure is his dad who succeeds!"
For Xie Lan, this scene symbolizes the beginning of reconciliation between the two men in the family.
Other photos were also carefully selected by Xie Lan to ensure that the moments recorded in each photo have extraordinary significance to Hu Lai and his family.
She used this house of nearly 200 square meters to make a three-dimensional photo album.
Just entering the house is like opening a photo album, and all kinds of past events come to mind.
In this living room, in addition to Hu Lai's high school trophies and photos documenting his career, there is also a 100-inch TV.
The latest sports news, related to her son, is being played inside.
"... In the early morning of this morning, capital time, at the FIFA Annual Awards Ceremony held in Milan, Italy, Chinese player Li Qingqing won the third place in the annual Miss World Football selection... She led the national team to win third place in the World Cup in 2027
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Xie Lan looked at the beautiful figure in a white evening dress on the TV screen, laughing so hard that she could hardly see her eyes.
very nice!
"In addition to Li Qingqing, Hu Lai also received two honors at this award ceremony. It is also the best goal of the year. His 34-meter overhead kick goal in the Champions League group stage against Ruerrhein
Became the best goal scorer of the year. He was also selected into the best team of the year with his outstanding performance of scoring 75 goals in a year... However, Hulay did not enter the final three candidates for the World Footballer. According to
In the vote list announced later, Hulay ranked eighth. The European Ballon d'Or winner and the core midfielder Soren Gribusch who played for the Blue and White Munich won the World Footballer... Although he failed to enter the final three
list, but Hu Lai, who is only 24 years old, can perform like this, and the future is really promising!"
When Xie Lan heard these words, he began to re-evaluate the "honor room" he had just decorated.
She frowned slightly.
I have just finished all my hard work... Could it be that my mother can't buy a house and decorate it as fast as this guy can win trophies?
Or... just get it right at once?
The whole big villa?
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Seeing Hu Lai packing the trophy he just took home, Li Qingqing asked: "What are you doing?"
"Fatty Song is going back to China in two days. I plan to ask someone to help me carry these two trophies back and give them to my mother. I heard that her new honor room has been completed..."
Li Qingqing thought of the "Honor Room" she visited at Hu Lai's house. Hu Lai's mother really liked collecting these shiny things...
She sighed: "It's a pity that only the first place in the Miss Football competition has a trophy... Otherwise, I would have asked Lao Song to take it back to my dad for me."
Unlike UEFA's Ballon d'Or awards, the first place will naturally receive the Ballon d'Or.
But the second and third places did not come empty-handed and gained nothing.
They will receive the Silver Ball and Bronze Ball respectively as rewards.
If this were UEFA's Ballon d'Or, Li Qingqing, who finished third, would have received a Bronze Ball trophy instead of coming back empty-handed like now.
Apart from the fact that the news mentioned that she was ranked third for Miss Football in the World, that she appeared on the big screen as one of the three finalists at the award ceremony, and that there was a VCR dedicated to introducing her, there was no proof.
The awards ceremony has just ended, and there is news. Everyone also knows that she, Li Qingqing, was once the top three Miss Football World Champion.
But in a few years, everyone will only know that the Miss Football World in 2027 is Laura Sarabia Hernandez, who led the Brazilian women's football team to win the World Cup, but they don't know that Li Qingqing was also shortlisted for the top three.
Hu Lai consoled him: "It's okay. When the time comes, I will be Mr. Football, you will be Miss Football, and we will each get a trophy!"
Li Qingqing thought about it seriously: "Then shouldn't we go on stage to receive the award together?"
"Is it not good?"
Li Qingqing laughed: "Okay! It's settled then! I will also win the European Golden Globe Award!"
Hu Lai responded without hesitation: "I want to get it too, let's do it together! We will attend every award ceremony together in the future!"
This was the best idea he could think of to avoid having to separate from Li Qingqing just because he was going to attend the award ceremony.
Li Qingqing suddenly stretched out his hand and showed his little finger.
"What?" Hu Lai asked.
"Hook!"
"Childish..." Although Hu Lai said this, he still obediently stretched out his little finger and hooked it with Li Qingqing's finger.
Li Qingqing didn't care what Hu Lai said, she shook her arms with a smile:
"Hang yourself with a hook, and it won't change for a hundred years! Hu Lai, you have to attend the award ceremony with me and receive the award together!"
Hu Lai also laughed.
Because he thought of that scene then...it was really a bit Versailles!
If that's the case, can you and Li Qingqing be considered a "condor couple" in football?
