Chapter 74 Alienation that I haven't seen for many years
After the noon training, the players first put all the training equipment in the equipment room, and then returned to the locker room to change clothes.
Of course Hu Lai didn't have to work with his juniors. He followed head coach Li Ziqiang back to the locker room.
"Coach, aren't you considering finding an assistant coach or something? There are so many people on the team, can you be the only coach busy enough?" Having entered the coach's office, Hu Lai found a place to sit down by himself.
Li Ziqiang looked at Hu Lai who was extremely self-conscious and said: "I don't have anything else to do, I have plenty of time."
"It's not a matter of time. A person's energy is limited." Hu Lai added, "Coach, do you have anything to do tonight? I would like to treat you to a meal."
"Why do you want to invite me to dinner?" Li Ziqiang asked casually while packing up his lesson plans.
"People should know how to be grateful. You see, I am now a serious professional player. This is all because I received good basic training from you. Otherwise, I would not be able to keep up with the rhythm when I went to the Poseidon Youth Team.
Ah..." Hu Lai said with a smile.
"Really want to invite?"
"Is this still a joke?" Hu Lai patted his chest, "Besides, coach, even though my annual salary is not very high now, I still have money for a treat."
"Okay, when I get off work, you come with me." Li Ziqiang nodded.
Although there is no training in the afternoon, Li Ziqiang will not get off work too early. He still has to wait until the school's normal dismissal time.
So how does Hu Lai spend his time from noon to get off work?
That's not something he needs to worry about.
After Li Ziqiang came out of his office, he saw the old principal of the school, Zhai Guangming.
He was looking at himself with a smile.
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In the honor room of the Dongchuan Middle School football team, Hu Lai wrote his name in the signature book specially prepared for him. A teacher in charge of publicity in the school recorded this scene with a SLR camera.
The old principal looked carefully at Hu Lai's signature and said with a smile: "The photos and signatures will be framed and placed in this honor room."
"Wow, I'm so flattered, principal..." Hu Lai said modestly, but in fact he was ecstatic inside.
Who doesn't like showing off?
"I would also like to trouble you to send us a flashing star jersey signed by you after you return to the team. It will also be framed and hung on the wall." Principal Zhai pointed to the wall, and it was indeed empty.
"Principal, look what you said is so outrageous! I am a student of our Dongchuan Middle School. Isn't it necessary to bring glory to Dongchuan Middle School? How can I say it's troublesome or not?"
Hu Lai patted his chest and said.
Principal Zhai smiled happily.
In the end, the two of them took a photo together standing in front of the championship trophy of the high school national competition that year.
However, this group photo will not appear in the school team’s honor room, but will be in Principal Zhai’s own private collection.
When he was in office, it would be placed on the desk in the principal's office. When he retires, this photo will be placed at home.
This shows his love for Hu Lai.
Ordinary people cannot enjoy this kind of treatment at all.
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When the school bell rang, Hu Lai followed Li Ziqiang and was the first to walk out of the campus.
It’s really hard to get off work...
Hu Lai couldn't help complaining in his heart.
Li Ziqiang seemed to know what he was thinking, and said, "If you don't leave early, I'm afraid you will be stuck in the campus by students after school. How will you treat me to dinner then?"
The coach saw through Hu Lai's thoughts, but he was not embarrassed at all. Instead, he smiled and flattered Li Ziqiang: "The coach is wise!"
Li Ziqiang looked back at Hu Lai's appearance, sighed, shook his head, and stopped talking.
Then he rode his bicycle towards his home.
He didn't care how he wanted to get there from Hu Lai. He could take a taxi, take the bus or any other means of transportation.
Hu Lai scanned a shared bicycle in front of the school and quickly followed it.
The two of them pedaled their bicycles in tandem and turned out of the small street at the entrance of the campus, joining the traffic on the avenue outside.
When he turned to the entrance of the alley where the coach's house was located, Hu Lai found that workers were already building a wall here.
It seemed that the house inside was also going to be demolished, so he asked curiously: "Coach, it seems that your place is also going to be demolished. Where will you live then?"
"I have rented a house near the school and will move when this month is over." Li Ziqiang said as he turned into the alley.
After riding to the door of his house, he locked the bicycle by the door, then took out the key and opened the door.
Hu Lai paid for his shared bicycle behind him.
After Li Ziqiang opened the door, he pushed the door open and shouted: "Qingqing, stop cooking, there is a treat tonight!"
Hu Lai, who had just finished paying the bill, paused when he heard the coach say this.
Then he saw a tall and beautiful figure jumping to the door: "Who is it, Dad?"
The two people's eyes met, and they exclaimed almost at the same time: "Yeah!"
Li Ziqiang watched coldly from the side and saw the reactions of the two people.
Hmm, it doesn’t look like I’m pretending on purpose...
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Sitting in a small private room of a Chinese restaurant, Hu Lai glared at Li Qingqing and took advantage of Li Ziqiang's opportunity to wash her hands and use the toilet to question her: "Why didn't you tell me when you came back?"
Li Qingqing smiled so hard that his eyes formed crescent moons: "I want to see if you will remember to come see my dad."
"What are you talking about? Do I look like an ungrateful villain?" Hu Lai rolled his eyes dissatisfied. "Besides, the debt between us has been settled again..."
Li Qingqing refused: "How can this be done? It's my dad you invited, not me!"
"Then will you eat?"
"eat!"
"Isn't this the end..." Hu Lai spread his hands.
"What you owe is my food, not my father's!" Li Qingqing refused to give in. "Unless you treat me to dinner."
Hu Lai was still about to refute when he saw Li Ziqiang walking in the aisle outside the door, so he had to shut up.
When Li Ziqiang walked into the room, he found that the two people were playing with their mobile phones, not communicating, and not even looking at each other.
He asked his daughter: "Qingqing, didn't you say that you and Hu Lai are friends? Why do you seem so unfamiliar to me?"
"Ah?" Li Qingqing didn't expect her father to see the problem from such a tricky angle. She was stunned for a moment and quickly explained: "Isn't there no contact information? I haven't contacted him for a long time. Of course it will be a bit..."
Hu Lai also nodded quickly: "Yes, yes, coach, Li Qingqing left suddenly without even saying hello. Today is the first time I see her again after that time..."
What he said was indeed the truth. Today was really the first time that the two of them met offline after seeing each other in high school.
Li Qingqing was stunned when she heard Hu Lai's words, because she had never realized this before. She could always chat with Hu Lai on WeChat, which gave her the illusion that Hu Lai could see him whenever he wanted. But in reality
Today was actually the first time they met face to face after they separated.
She left at the beginning of the first semester of high school, and if Hu Lai had continued to go to school now, he would have been in college. In a blink of an eye, it had been almost three years since we had been together so closely.
Then she thought, how can she make it look like it was the first time they met in three years?
Well, you can't be too enthusiastic, you can't talk too much...
So she watched Hu Lai chatting with his father with a smile, polite but not enthusiastic.
Hu Lai obviously had the same idea as her. He only had a few polite exchanges with Li Qingqing during the meal, and they were all superficial exchanges.
It fits the feeling of alienation that I haven't seen for many years.
After dinner, Hu Lai asked whether he should send the coach and Li Qingqing back, but Li Ziqiang refused.
So the three of them parted ways at the door of the hotel, Hu Lai went home, and Li Ziqiang took Li Qingqing back to the restaurant where they had dinner. It was not far from Li Ziqiang's home. They had walked here in the first place, and now they naturally walked back after eating. Quan Dang
walk.
On the way back, Li Qingqing curiously asked his father how he found Hu Lai.
This is a normal inquiry. If you don't even ask this kind of question, it might make people wonder if you are not friends? Why do you seem so indifferent?
Li Ziqiang told Hu Lai to go to school to find him and the team, and even trained with the school team at his request, and told his daughter about it.
"So interesting? If I had known I would have followed my father to school and trained with the school team!" Li Qingqing clapped her hands.
Li Ziqiang glanced at his daughter and thought to himself, it's a good thing I didn't ask you to go to school...
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After returning home, Hu Lai took a shower and lay on the bed in his bedroom. He took out his mobile phone and saw the WeChat message Li Qingqing sent to him: "Are you free tomorrow?"
"Yes, what's wrong?"
Hu Lai had just cut out after replying to see other news, when he found that Li Qingqing replied instantly: "Invite me to dinner!!!"
This woman also used three exclamation points...does she want to eat me?
Hu Lai complained in his heart, and then replied: "Please, please, don't be so excited..."
"You have invited my dad to dinner, so of course you should also invite me to dinner. I am your enlightenment coach!" Li Qingqing also posted a little man with his hands on his hips, looking arrogant.
"I didn't say I wouldn't invite you... It's your choice whether it's noon or evening tomorrow."
"My dad will come back from get off work at noon and evening..."
"What are you afraid of when you come back? Call the coach!"
"Then are you inviting me or my dad?"
"Please, please, please... let's just have lunch. What do you want to eat? Dongchuan's clear soup beef hot pot is very famous."
"Then eat this!"
"Okay, I'll take you to the most authentic and delicious restaurant."
"OK!"
"Tomorrow I will go to your house to find you in the morning, and then we will go together."
"good!"
Li Qingqing looked at the phone and laughed happily. This guy finally fulfilled his promise and invited me to dinner!
But even if he pays me this meal, he still owes me... one hundred and thirty-two meals!
Thinking of this, Li Qingqing opened the memo on her phone, found a note called "One Card", deleted the Arabic numeral 133 and replaced it with 132.
No one but her would understand what the notes in this memo meant.
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Hu Lai was checking his cell phone when he heard someone knocking on the door. He put down his cell phone and turned around to see that it was his mother.
"How does it feel to have dinner with your coach?"
"It's pretty good..." Hu Lai frowned, not understanding why her mother asked that.
"I saw in the interview on the "People Chronicles" program that the school team coach didn't seem to like you very much?"
It turns out that my mother was worried about this...
"It's a misunderstanding. It was a little bit at first, but later your son conquered him with his super talent and ability. We have a good relationship, so don't worry about it, Mom."
"real?"
"Really. And it's not just me and the coach, there's also the coach's daughter..."
"Coach's... daughter?"
"Oh, she used to be my classmate, and later she went to play professional football." Hu Lai did not elaborate.
But the mother was interested: "Women's football team?"
"Well, women's football. By the way, Mom, I won't be at home for lunch tomorrow."
Not eating at home?
Xie Lan nodded and agreed very simply: "Okay, you go!"
She didn't ask Hu Lai what he was going to do, so why did she need to ask?
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After coming out of Hu Lai's bedroom, she entered her own bedroom, then gently closed the door, then turned to her husband and said: "Lao Hu Lao Hu..."
"What are you doing?" Hu Lixin put down his phone and frowned when he saw his wife's appearance.
"Do you think our son...has a girlfriend?" Xie Lan lowered his voice.
Hu Lixin looked at his wife blankly, never expecting that she would ask such a question: "Who should I ask if you ask me?"
"That's right...you don't care about your son at all..."
"What does this have to do with whether I care about him or not?"
"I just went to inquire about him having dinner with the coach. Did you go?" Xie Lan asked.
"This is called caring? What does that have to do with my girlfriend?"
"He not only invited the coach, but also the coach's daughter. He also said that the daughter was his classmate in high school."
"What's the point?" Hu Lixin didn't understand.
"What's the point?" Xie Lan sneered, "He won't be at home for lunch tomorrow. Who do you think he went out to eat with?"
Hu Lixin immediately thought of the coach's daughter, and he frowned: "That's not true... You have too many associations, and there is no real evidence at all."
"What evidence do I need? Intuition is enough!" Xie Lan put his hands on his hips and said proudly, "Let me tell you, Lao Hu, the relationship between your son and that coach's daughter is definitely unusual!"
Hu Lixin laughed: "You... think that your son has a successful career, so you start worrying about him starting a family? You just think too much. Let me tell you, Xie Lan, don't think about these things, Hu Lai
He's only played well for half a season, and in your eyes, it's like he's already won the championship. He's still very early."
After saying that, he waved his hand and continued to look at his mobile phone, ignoring his wife.
Xie Lan didn't think she was just imagining things. Although there was no evidence, she just firmly believed in her intuition.
She couldn't help but wonder, what kind of person was that coach's daughter?
