The next day, Hu Lai's father and mother went to work, leaving him alone at home.
After all, it is not the real Spring Festival, so there is no seven-day holiday.
His mother took a day off and still had to go back to work.
But Hu Lai didn't plan to stay at home and eat the leftovers.
He was going to visit his teammates on the high school team and also his school team head coach Li Ziqiang.
For this reason, he did not eat at home at noon, but went directly to school, found a restaurant on the small street in front of the school, and had a bowl of noodles.
Even as professional players, as long as they are not in the season, their dietary requirements are not that strict. Chinese players, especially Jincheng players, will also eat hot pot after the season. Chuanchuan is obviously not healthy.
food.
As long as you can work off the fat you've eaten during the holidays in pre-season training, the head coach doesn't care.
Because he was going back to his alma mater to visit his teammates, Hu Lai did not wear any disguise except for wearing a peaked cap. Unlike Zhang Qinghuan, who had to wear sunglasses wherever he went, it was just a show-off.
As a result, Hu Lai was surrounded by a group of people just as he walked out of the small restaurant after paying the bill.
These people were students wearing Dongchuan Middle School uniforms, both boys and girls. They stopped Hu Lai and asked tentatively: "Are you Hu Lai?"
"Uh, I am..." Hu Lai realized that he had been recognized.
After Hu Lai's guess was confirmed, the crowd burst into cheers.
Then everyone rushed up and handed the postcards, white paper, jerseys and markers to Hu Lai: "Can you sign your name for me?"
"Hu Lai, I am your fan! Please give me your autograph!"
"Hu Lai, this is your jersey from Flash Stars. I hope you can sign it!"
"Hu Lai, I didn't bring anything with me, can you just sign my school uniform?"
Both men and women rushed to get Hu Lai to sign their autographs, and more people were taking photos and videos with their mobile phones.
They are already preparing to make Douyin Kuaishou.
While Hu Lai complied with their requests, he asked curiously: "How did you know that I came to school?"
This was a last-minute idea and he didn't tell anyone at all.
"Someone took a photo of you eating, and then sent it to the class group, and you were recognized, hehe!" The student who got Hu Lai's signature was very happy and answered Hu Lai's question.
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Hu Lai kept signing autographs in the crowd. Some people outside were curious about why a large group of people suddenly gathered. They asked someone: "Classmate, which celebrity came to our school? Why didn't I see it online?"
"Celebrity? Oh, yes, it is indeed a star. Hu Lai is here!" The students who could not squeeze in could only stand outside and watch the excitement, looking around and answering each other's questions.
"Hu Lai? Which Hu Lai?"
The person in question withdrew his gaze and glanced at the other person curiously: "Isn't that right, classmate? Are you a student from Dongchuan? Which Hu Lai? Who else can there be? That Hu Lai on the school's honor list.
ah!"
The other party also suddenly realized: "Is it the Hu Lai in that photo?"
"Yes, who else can there be besides him? The only person in Dongchuan Middle School with such a... special name is this Hu Lai!"
"Fuck, this popularity..." After the other party figured out who the visitor was, he also cast his gaze over, then looked at the dark crowd and couldn't help but sigh. "Even so, is it too exaggerated? I thought it was
Which variety show star came to our school to film a show..."
"This classmate, are you a freshman in high school?" The person being asked stopped watching the fun and turned around to ask the other person seriously.
"Uh, yes, I am a freshman in high school..."
"Oh, that's no wonder. Do you know what kind of school our school is?"
"Save the key points?"
The student, who was obviously higher than the other student, pointed to the school gate across the street. There was a golden plaque on the concrete pillar: "Did you see it? A school with a strong football tradition. Our Dongchuan Middle School is a school with a football tradition.
In the early years, we won the Anton Cup for ten consecutive years, and now we are the champion of the national competition. You have also seen our school team, right? How popular is it in the school?"
The freshman in high school nodded repeatedly: "It's very popular. The stands are almost full every time we play home games..."
"Yes, in this football atmosphere, Hu Lai is the only professional player in our school... Oh, no, there is also Luo Kai, but Luo Kai hasn't been kicked out yet..." The senior paused, "Hu Lai
He was the first to be kicked out. It can be said that he is a professional star trained by our school. If he is placed in our school, he will be more popular than a variety show star!"
Seeing the senior's proud tone when he spoke, the freshman asked curiously: "Brother, who are you in your senior year?"
"Senior year of high school. I even watched Hu Lai's game!"
"Wow..." The freshman in high school thought to himself, no wonder you are so proud, senior brother, and he asked again: "Then why don't you go and ask for an autograph, senior brother?"
The boy snorted, and then said lightly: "I already have Hu Lai's signature."
"Ah?" The freshman in high school was really dumbfounded.
"Hey, after Hu Lai won the last Anton Cup, I asked him to get his autograph. Let me tell you, at that time I was very optimistic about Hu Lai and firmly believed that he would become a professional player in the future, and he would definitely
There will be great achievements!”
This senior high school student was so excited that he made the first year students stunned for a moment.
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After Hu Lai finally satisfied everyone's request for signatures, he squeezed out of the crowd and walked into the campus.
Naturally, the guard had noticed the movement at the school gate a long time ago.
However, after knowing that it was Hu Lai who had returned, he did not prevent Hu Lai from entering the school. Instead, he took out a brand new notebook and put it on the table: "Visitor Registration."
That's how I got Hu Lai's signature.
After Hu Lai entered the campus, he walked straight towards the school's football field.
There were also some people following him, wanting to see why he returned to his alma mater and what he was going to do.
When Hu Lai heard the whistle coming from the direction of the school stadium, the corners of his mouth curled up - just as he expected, even if he had left the team, the school team still retained the tradition of noon training...
This was also the reason why he chose to come at noon. If he hadn't forgotten, he remembered that the school team was not training this afternoon, so if he wanted to see everyone in the school team, he could only come at noon today.
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Li Ziqiang was leading the team in training when he heard noise coming from outside, getting louder and louder, and it was obviously coming towards the football field.
This surprised him a little.
The noise even affected the school team players who were training on the court, and they all turned their attention to the direction of the sound.
Li Ziqiang frowned, and then yelled: "What are you looking at? Don't be distracted!"
Hearing the roar of the head coach, the players quickly put all their energy into training.
It can be seen that everyone is still very afraid of this unsmiling head coach.
When the noise entered the stadium, Li Ziqiang cast his disgusted eyes over it.
He didn't think much of the noise. Every time the team trained, there would be many students watching in the stands, and they would make all kinds of noises.
What he hates is this sudden noise, which can easily distract people.
However, after casting his gaze over, Li Ziqiang was stunned. The first thing he saw was a large group of people walking into the stadium.
Then he saw a person walking alone in front of this large group of people. He was quite familiar with that person...
It’s Hu Lai!
He finally understood why the stands were so empty during today's training...it turned out that everyone ran to see this kid!
"Why are you here?" Li Ziqiang's tone was a bit disgusting.
Hu Lai said with a smile: "I'm here to see everyone, and I'm also here to see you, coach."
After speaking, he waved hello to the school team players who had stopped training behind Li Ziqiang.
Li Ziqiang turned around and saw the team that did not listen to his words and continued training. Even the team captain Xia Xiaoyu seemed a little out of sorts in front of Hu Lai's arrival. He was looking at Hu Lai with his feet up. If he hadn't been on the sidelines, he would probably have
Is he already running to Hu Lai?
Thinking of this, Li Ziqiang snorted and said to Hu Lai: "Go to the locker room to find a pair of shoes to change, and then train with them."
When everyone in the team heard this sentence, they all collectively said "Wow".
Hu Lai didn't object. After saying "Okay", he ran to the locker room in a hurry.
He did come to see the team and the coach. Although it was a little unexpected to see everyone in this way, it was actually better.
It will make him feel more comfortable than standing on the sidelines or in the stands watching everyone train, as if he has never left this team and is still a member of this team...
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Soon Hu Lai changed into his sneakers and appeared on the football field.
The students who followed Hu Lai to the stadium were already in the stands at this time. After seeing Hu Lai running out, they collectively cheered.
Not only them, the players of the Dongchuan Middle School football team were also very excited.
You know, Hu Lai, who is running on the court now, is a genuine professional player!
And they are not the kind of professional players who just train with the team but rarely play in games. They are real professional players who have played continuously in professional leagues and performed at the top level.
After playing only half a season in the China Construction League, he became the top scorer in the Flash Stars team, scoring in double figures - this kind of performance is enough to prove Hu Lai's level.
Such people can appear on the football field of a middle school and train with student players like them. That is a good thing that I have never dreamed of before!
"Let's warm up first." Li Ziqiang shook his head to Hu Lai.
So Hu Lai ran to the side to warm up alone.
Even during the warm-up, everyone was watching intently. None of the team's players continued training, and Li Ziqiang did not scold them when he saw this.
How professional players warm up is a very meaningful lesson for these school team players.
Even though he was only training with his school team students, Hu Lai was still very serious during the warm-up, and he went through all the warm-up moves he did before the Flashing Star training.
When he came back, Li Ziqiang specially arranged a training program for him.
He asked Xia Xiaoyu to pass a high ball from halfway, and then Hu Lai fought for a header in the penalty area, while he acted as a defensive player to intercept Hu Lai.
As soon as this training content was mentioned, everyone understood - the head coach wanted to test Hu Lai...
Xia Xiaoyu passed the football, and Hu Lai and Li Ziqiang ran towards the landing point at the same time. Their bodies were always entangled and their hands were constantly moving.
Li Ziqiang desperately pulled Hu Lai with his hands and raised his arms to push him away.
But in the end, it still couldn't stop Hu Lai from taking off.
He jumped up and hit Hu Lai in the air.
Successfully knocked Hu Lai off balance, but while losing balance, Hu Lai turned his head sideways to attack the goal, using an unconventional shooting action, throwing the football to the back point!
The goalkeeper of the Dongchuan Middle School football team was unprepared for Hu Lai's leaping head to attack the goal - he did not expect Hu Lai to be able to hit the football even though he was almost losing his balance, and he also pushed the football towards the goalkeeper.
goal.
He just stood there, raised his hand, and then watched the football fly into the goal.
"I'm going to——!!" A huge exclamation erupted from the stands. "It's beautiful!"
Hu Lai, who completely lost his balance, fell to the ground, rolled over, turned over, and lay down on the artificial turf.
Li Ziqiang landed firmly and looked back at the goal to confirm the result and found that the football was in the goal.
Then he turned to look at Hu Lai who was lying on the ground and said, "You are stronger than I thought."
Hu Lai sat up from the ground: "In the past three months, the team has been giving me targeted strength training."
"No wonder..." Li Ziqiang nodded thoughtfully, "You have joined a professional team, so you should really strengthen some strength training. Zhao Kangming really understands you."
Hu Lai got up from the ground with a smile, patted the grass clippings and rubber particles on his body, and said to Li Ziqiang: "I also think I'm okay. When you hit me, coach, I didn't fly out directly..."
Li Ziqiang glared at him: "That's because I'm showing mercy."
"You committed a foul if you didn't show mercy, coach." Hu Lai spread his hands and said with a smile. "This is in the penalty area."
Seeing this "proud disciple" whose smile made people feel like he was full of evil, Li Ziqiang just wanted to roll his eyes.
"Okay, let's go train with the team!" He didn't want to continue chatting with Hu Lai, otherwise he was afraid that his serious image in front of the players would be ruined by Hu Lai.
"Okay, coach." Hu Lai walked towards the team.
Xia Xiaoyu came up to him very excitedly: "Captain Hu, we are training on offensive routines. You and I will be in a group..."
Shen Yulin next to him was unhappy: "Why should I be paired with you, Xiaoyu? We need Captain Hu more here!"
Xia Xiaoyu and Shen Yulin looked at him at the same time: "What are you, a midfield engineer, arguing with us for? If you can pass the ball more than ten meters accurately, we will applaud you!"
As for the other players, especially those in the first and second years of high school, Hu Lai was no longer in the team when they joined the team. They had never trained or been in contact with Hu Lai. Today's players
In the scene, they could only watch from the side, not daring to come up and talk to Hu Lai, nor did they dare to compete with Team Xia, Deputy Chen and the others...
In the end, head coach Li Ziqiang came back and decided to let Hu Lai take turns to partner with other teammates.
This makes everyone feel satisfied.
After the whistle blew, the training started again. Hu Lai, wearing casual clothes and a pair of professional sneakers, joined the team's training.
The Dongchuan Middle School students in the stands were attentively appreciating Hu Lai's performance, cheering and applauding Hu Lai's wonderful performance from time to time. If Hu Lai made a mistake, the stands would remember the good-natured laughter.
Students came one after another from various places to watch Hu Lai train. In the end, many people even stood on the track on the sidelines and surrounded the entire football field with a human wall.
When Hu Lai swept the football into the goal with a semi-volley, the crowd burst into loud cheers.
Someone among the cheers said with emotion: "I'm going, it's just like a scene in a comic book. I finally know what 'returning home' is..."