"Have you heard? Vice President Hu was chased by many people for autographs today!"
"real?!"
"Of course it's true, I saw it with my own eyes!"
"I heard that there are girls who specially come to the door of Hu Lai's class to block his signature..."
"Holy crap, is it really true?"
"It's really true, and it seems that there are people chasing me to the toilet to ask for autographs..."
"Exaggerated, exaggerated..."
"666!"
The Dongchuan Middle School players in the locker room were chatting while changing clothes, and the content of the chat was naturally inseparable from their vice-captain Hu Lai.
In fact, after the first-year players came to the team, they realized that although Yan Yan was the captain in name and did everything he did, the talking point in the locker room was always the one watching.
A deputy captain who doesn't seem very reliable.
No matter how you look at Hu Lai, he doesn't look like captain material. When everyone gets along with him, it is inevitable that they will forget his identity.
But no one dared to underestimate their vice-captain because of this.
After all, his performance is really there.
The team's top scorer, Anton Cup Golden Boot, a man who can score a hat trick against Jiaxiang High School.
Anyone who dares to look down on such a person has their brains filled with water.
So although the captain is Yan Yan, the core of the team is indeed Hu Lai.
At this moment, Hu Lai, the focus of their conversation, was standing at the door of the locker room, putting his ear against the door panel, eavesdropping on what his teammates inside were talking about him.
When he heard what he said in front of him, his face was filled with a smile that couldn't be concealed.
However, when he heard someone chasing him into the toilet and asking for an autograph, the smile on his face disappeared and he quickly opened the door and entered.
"It's true that some girls came to my class to ask for autographs, but what's the point of chasing them to the toilet?" As soon as he came in, he kept a straight face and tried to make his voice more authoritative.
"Ah, Deputy Hu..."
"No, no, I just heard about it..."
"Haha, you want to go to the toilet and ask for an autograph?" Meng Xi, who came in from behind, burst out laughing, "Let me think about it, Hu Lai, you have a notebook in one hand and a pen in the other, how do you hold that thing?"
When he said this, he even glanced down at Hu Lai's body in a disgraceful manner.
Others also started laughing.
Hu Lai put his hands on his hips and pushed his lower body out a little: "Help? Why do you need to help me? You never help me when I pee!"
The laughter in the locker room was like an explosion, almost overturning the stands above.
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A boy in the classroom opened his notebook, and two unattractive big characters "Hu Lai" appeared on the paper.
My deskmate took a look and was a little surprised: "Wow, you actually went to Hu Lai to get an autograph?"
"When I saw so many people asking for it, I just wanted to join in the fun..." the owner of this book explained with some embarrassment.
"This word is really not very good..." my deskmate said with some disgust. "Since it was an impulse, just tear it off and throw it away."
The boy looked at the signature on the book and was silent for a while, then shook his head and said: "No. Just keep it as a souvenir. When Luo Kai left, many people regretted not asking him for an autograph or something."
As he spoke, he used a ruler to tear off the signed page from the book.
"Do you think Hu Lai can play professionally?" His deskmate was surprised by his attitude.
"I don't know." The boy shook his head and said, "But at any rate, this is also the signature of the top scorer of the Anton Cup. It doesn't take up any space. Why throw it away?"
He tucked the piece of paper into his history textbook.
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The Anton Cup is over, but the training of the Dongchuan Middle School football team will not end.
They will have to practice at the normal training pace until New Year's Day.
After New Year's Day, as the school's final exam approaches, training will stop.
Then during the winter vacation, there will be another training camp. The arrangement is exactly the same as last year.
Hu Lai's response was exactly the same as last year. This time, he didn't even need to discuss it with his mother. Instead, his mother took the initiative to ask him if the team would be training during the winter vacation.
After getting Hu Lai's affirmative answer, her mother picked up her phone and signed up for him two winter vacation tutoring packages for math and English with a smile.
Although the school cannot directly and blatantly offer cram schools due to policies, it does not prevent teachers from actively recommending various off-campus cram schools to parents.
And it’s so blatant that everyone else is going to tutoring. If your child doesn’t go, I’m afraid he won’t be able to keep up when school starts.
After hearing this, how can parents dare not to give their children tutoring?
So in fact, the higher authorities keep shouting about reducing the burden, but no parent really dares to reduce the burden on their children.
After all, if you really reduce the burden on your children and they are unable to go to college, who will you ask to reason?
Hu Lai doesn't know whether it is good to reduce the burden, but from a personal point of view, he very much hopes not to reduce the burden. In this way, the school can openly hold winter vacation cram schools and hold classes in the school. He can also openly use this opportunity to come to the school for training.
, instead of being forced by mother to run in both directions...
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The final exams were over. The players of the Dongchuan Middle School football team did not worry about whether their academic performance could satisfy their parents. They devoted themselves to training on the second day of winter vacation.
The training content is mainly technical and tactical training, supplemented by physical training.
Li Ziqiang designed some offensive tactics around the trident composed of Hu Lai, Xia Xiaoyu and Shen Yulin, requiring the team to master them during the two-stage training during the winter vacation.
In his vision, if Dongchuan Middle School wants to achieve good results in the national competition, the cooperation of these three people is very important.
And the performance of these three people must be based on the cooperation of the whole team. It definitely does not mean that only these three people are allowed to participate in the offense, and the others focus on defense.
He required the team's three lines to stay compact. Everyone was not allowed to stand still after passing the ball, but had to run to the next position. If they couldn't do this, there would be no chance of playing.
We should try our best to create a local situation where more people attack less people.
If the ball is lost, a counterattack must be organized on the spot. Everyone must act in unison, and no one can score and no one can.
In fact, these are the tactics adopted by Dongchuan Middle School in the Anton Cup, but Li Ziqiang has made them more detailed and allowed the team to master them more deeply through repeated training.
Make it form the style of the Dongchuan Middle School football team.
Just like Jiaxiang High School focuses on defense, Dongchuan Middle School focuses on overall offense and defense.
Even a forward player like Hu Lai needs to participate in the defense. Not to mention whether he can intercept the ball, but when he is needed, he must appear in position, so as not to let his team defend.
A small number of individuals.
Doing this requires a lot of physical fitness from Hu Lai. Fortunately, after these two years of training, Hu Lai's physical fitness has made great progress.
Moreover, Li Ziqiang did not assign too many heavy defensive tasks to Hu Lai, he just required him to fall into position. So there is no need to worry that returning to defense will affect his offensive performance.
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In the intense and intense training camp, time passes very quickly, and for Hu Lai, who has to juggle training and tutoring, time passes even faster.
In the blink of an eye, the first training session is over, and there are only two days left before the Spring Festival.
During the Spring Festival this year, Hu Lai heard from his mother that Grandpa Jincheng had said that he wanted his daughter to go back to celebrate the New Year, but her mother refused. She said she was on duty at work and couldn't make up the time.
In fact, it only takes 35 minutes to take the high-speed train from Dongchuan to Jincheng. How can we not make up the time?
It's just because Hu Lai's mother doesn't want to take her husband and children back to suffer the consequences.
Hu Lai didn't care much about this, since he didn't have a good impression of his grandfather's relatives anyway.
When he was a child, Hu Lai once had a fight with relatives and children there who looked down on his father and called him a toad. With one against four, the skinny Hu Lai certainly lost without any suspense. He was beaten by four cousins.
The cousin was beaten into a pig's head, while Hu Lai could only leave a few nail marks on his body.
However, the other party complained first, saying that Hu Lai had snatched their toys, which resulted in Hu Lai being severely punished by his grandfather. Hu Lai knew that his grandfather actually did not like his father, nor did he like himself.
Just because of this matter, Hu Lai's mother had a falling out with her father on the first day of the Lunar New Year. In front of dozens of relatives, she turned over the table, then took her son and husband straight to the bus station and took a long-distance bus that day.
Then she returned to Dongchuan. Her father was so angry that he pointed at the backs of the three people and yelled that he wanted to sever the relationship between father and daughter, but Hu Lai's mother didn't even look back.
For several years after this incident, my mother almost lost contact with her relatives and never returned to her parents' home in Jincheng.
It was not until my grandfather became seriously ill that he started walking again, and he moved very infrequently. There was nothing necessary to do without going back. But it was different from before when he had to work hard to stay harmonious in front of relatives. After that, Hu Lai's mother rarely went back.
Taking into account the face of relatives and my parents, I don't even bother to do superficial things.
As for Hu Lai's father, Hu Lixin, in order not to make things difficult for his wife, he never mentioned going to Hu Lai's grandpa's house.
In short, for Hu Lai, his grandfather and those aunts, uncles, uncles, aunts, cousins, cousins, etc. who are close at hand are not his family. The family is just a family of three. He, mother,
dad.
As for my father's relatives, because they are too far away, and my grandparents passed away early, they don't move around much, so naturally they are even more indifferent.
He was used to three people celebrating the New Year, so he didn't think there was anything wrong with being lonely.
He doesn't envy other people's families when they have a big family reunion with more than a dozen or dozens of people. He doesn't envy the bustle and excitement. Instead, he feels that having too many relatives means too much trouble.
What?
You said relatives have less money and less New Year's money?
But with more relatives, his parents gave out more New Year's money. When the time came, his parents gave less and made people laugh, so he simply didn't give it to anyone. Hu Lai didn't care about the New Year's money from his relatives, and his parents didn't care about it either.
There is no need to be looked down upon for giving lucky money.
We are obviously celebrating the New Year happily, but we still have to suffer. Who cares about celebrating the New Year with them?
