David Miller put his hands in his jacket pockets, turned up his collar, and curled up his neck to resist the cold wind blowing from the corner, and walked quickly through the alley.
There are several children playing football against a wall in the front.
There is a goal painted in white paint on the wall.
They divided into two teams and competed with each other, with the ultimate goal of shooting the football into the "goal".
David saw this and walked around, not wanting to disturb these children playing football.
At this moment, a child volleyed the football into the "goal".
After a muffled bang, he jumped up happily, then turned and ran in the direction of David Miller.
Then David saw the child running and turning 180 degrees, crossing his hands and lowering them, stopping in front of him, and doing a "simplified version" of Hu Lai's celebration...
"Bah!!" he shouted. "I've made it!"
The other children shouted unconvinced: "No! You didn't jump at all! You jumped really high when you did this!"
"That's right, and your last wave of your hand wasn't neat enough! The sense of power is far behind!"
"Don't criticize me. If you have the ability, you can do it. Maybe you're not as good as me!"
The teenagers got into an argument over a celebration.
David Miller quickened his pace and left them.
He walked to the end of the alley, turned around, walked another fifty meters, and walked into the "White Rose" bar.
As soon as I entered, I saw Leeds City TV's video interview with Hu Lai playing on the TV hanging from the ceiling.
In the shot, Hulay is wearing Leeds City training clothes and sitting in the club gym, with various fitness equipment in the background.
"...Yes, I rejected the King of Madrid because I wanted to come to Leeds City...I am definitely not saying this to please you, I am telling the truth. I think I can get more opportunities in Leeds City, and the head coach here is very good.
Understand me. Facts have proved that I came to the right place."
Hu Lai on TV said this and grinned.
David looked back, asked the bartender behind the bar for a beer, and then walked to his friends.
Everyone is sighing.
Two more people didn't come.
No one asked why they didn't come, because the reason was obvious.
Leeds City has won three games in a row for the first time this season...no, it's been the first time since they were promoted to the Premier League.
The team's outstanding performance is not only reflected in the score, but also in the scene.
When the team is playing well and winning, most people naturally want to return to the stands.
In the past, everyone did not go to watch the game live. On the one hand, it was because they were dissatisfied with the club's series of operations, and on the other hand, they were also dissatisfied with the team's results.
If the club's performance is better than when Lauren Galli coached it after so many outrageous operations, I believe these fans will not make a fuss.
After all, no matter who is the head coach, the most important thing is that the team's performance is good. Otherwise, if the team is relegated, even if Lauren Galli is still the team's head coach, the fans will not give him a good look. At that time, it was probably these fans who were the first to stand up and demand that this meritorious coach should be dismissed from get out of class.
David Miller walked over, but no one greeted him. He didn't care. He didn't want to chat with anyone. He sat down by himself and started drinking without saying a word.
Sitting around a few tables were a group of Leeds City fans with mixed feelings.
On the TV hanging above their heads, Hu Lai was still speaking, and his English already had a bit of a local Leeds accent:
"'Liz Salute'? Of course, I know. The first day I came to the team, someone taught me how to do it." After saying that, Hu Lai raised his arm and knocked his right fist on his heart.
Two times.
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Yong Jun parked the car on the side of the road, turned to Hu Lai who was about to open the door and said, "Have fun, but don't be too crazy. I will pick you up when the time comes."
"Uncle Yong, it's very contradictory to say that. You have to be happy but not too crazy... So how do you play?"
"You make up your own mind." Yong Jun looked at Hu Lai, who was wearing a sports brand sweatshirt and jeans, and said with a smile: "You are not fashionable at all. Look at your teammates."
He pointed at Charlie Potter who was welcoming his teammates at the door of the nightclub in front. The latter was wearing a bright pink jacket, a green shirt underneath, and orange leather pants on his legs. Even the colorful neon lights of the nightclub sign were covered.
I can't help but be so charming about him.
Hu Lai grinned: "Uncle Yong, you call the traffic light 'tide'?"
Yong Jun himself was amused.
Hu Lai waved to him, opened the car door and got out: "Goodbye, Uncle Yong. I will call you when the time comes."
"Okay, pay attention to your image." Yong Jun added, reminding him that with his five-goal performance in three games, he has attracted a lot of attention in the eyes of the media, so he should not do anything outrageous to damage his image.
Hu Lai gave him an "OK" gesture.
Yong Jun saw him hugging Charlie Potter in the car and then walking into the nightclub before he turned around and left.
After winning three consecutive victories, the atmosphere within the Leeds City team was unprecedentedly relaxed, so someone invited their teammates to come out to have fun and relax. After all, considering the next game against the fifth-placed warship in the league, Leeds
I'm afraid the city is in danger. If we don't take the opportunity to relax now, we may lose the chance to the warship port.
As a major contributor to the team's three consecutive victories, Hu Lai naturally could not stay out of the matter. Charlie Potter even said that if Hu Lai did not come, everyone would have a very unhappy time - after all, this party was in name only.
"Welcome Hu Lai" banner, if the protagonist doesn't go, how can everyone still have fun?
So after receiving the invitation, Hu Lai came back and told Yong Jun, and Yong Jun agreed that Hu Lai should attend the party.
First of all, this is a normal social activity. It is also an indispensable part of European teams. As a newcomer to the team, it is impossible to refuse such an invitation. Unless you want to create a reputation in the minds of your teammates.
If you have an "unkind" and "difficult to get along with" personality, then you are waiting to be excluded. Otherwise, you should not refuse easily, especially if it is your first party invitation.
Secondly, Hu Lai is also a young man. It is unrealistic to ask him to cultivate his moral character like a middle-aged and old man like himself.
Young people must live like young people.
When he was in Flashing Star, he still had so many friends around him, and it was no problem to stay at home with his friends every day. But after coming to the UK, he and Yong Jun were the only two people here. Yong Jun was a middle-aged man, and he was a young man.
With nothing in common, Hu Lai will inevitably feel lonely. Let him play with his teammates, and maybe it can alleviate his homesickness a little.
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As soon as Hu Lai entered the nightclub, he was crowded into the booth by his teammates who had arrived earlier.
When he saw Pete Williams in the crowd, Hu Lai was a little surprised. He approached him and said, "I thought you wouldn't come."
Williams frowned and looked at him: "Why won't I come?"
"Because you always look very serious?" Hu Lai began to imitate Williams' tone and said: "Today is a very important game, we must win! Ah, well done everyone, congratulations, kicked out
It was a wonderful game!”
His vivid imitation made other teammates burst into laughter.
Amid the laughter of everyone, Williams launched a counterattack: "Really? To be honest, Hu, before I met you, I thought Chinese people were reserved, gentle and shy. You have destroyed my view of Chinese people."
imagination."
"Where am I not restrained, gentle or shy?" Hu Lai asked.
"Where are you reserved, where are you gentle, and where are you shy?" Williams asked rhetorically.
Hu Lai raised his hand: "Stop. Let's not continue in this endless cycle, otherwise we will be scolded again... I just want to say that there are many people in China, and everyone is different. For example, I know a person who
The position is the same as yours, Pete, but the playing style is completely different. He may be more open-minded than you foreigners, changing one woman a day. I once witnessed three women competing for who can win the night when eating out.
Got into bed with him and got into a fight..."
Not to mention Pete Williams, the other Leeds City players couldn't help but open their mouths when they heard Hu Lai say this.
Charlie Potter even exclaimed: "You are lying, Hu!"
Hu Lai sneered: "What's the point of lying to you? I'm bragging to someone else, my friend, not me."
Potter lowered his head and thought, it seems like this is really the case...
When others brag, they brag about how awesome they are. Hu Lai brags about how awesome his friends are. What’s the point?
"I also know a friend. Most of his fans are female fans, tens of thousands. Every time we go to away games, his female fans will surround him at the airport. I have personally seen female fans.
Because of his smile, I almost fainted from excitement..."
"Is it so... exaggerated?" Joe Taylor tried hard to imagine such a scene and felt incredible.
Hu Lai pouted: "In China, this is too normal. You know, how many people are there in China? It is more than the population of all of Europe combined. So anything done in China must be larger than what you are used to.
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Goalkeeper Mikael van der Ven was deeply impressed by what football director Nevin Ball said to Hulay when he first came to the team, so he asked: "Hulay, do you really have 20 million fans on the Internet in your country?"
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Hu Lai replied: "Ah, now it is 30 million."
He also took out his mobile phone to confirm, and then corrected his statement: "Thirty-eight.6 million."
Fan Dewen took a breath of air.
Hu Lai said nonchalantly: "I don't think that's too much. In China, there are celebrities with hundreds of millions of fans."
"Hundreds of millions..." Fan Dewen could no longer calculate.
"So, Peter, China is very big and there are many Chinese people, but don't think that all Chinese people are cut out of the same mold." Hu Lai finally turned his attention to Williams.
Williams curled his lips: "How do I know if you are talking nonsense?"
As soon as he finished speaking, Hu Lai's arm hugged him: "Oh, if I have the opportunity to introduce all my friends to you in the future, you will know if I am talking nonsense."
The two people were bickering, and everyone noticed a few girls outside looking towards them.
When they looked at where Hu Lai was, their eyes lit up and they shouted happily: "Hu! It's Hu! It's really him!"
Then they crowded up and said, "Can I take a photo with you, Hu?"
"I want your autograph, is that okay, Hu?"
Hu Lai was shocked - I didn't put on the charm essence lotion when I came out today...
He has been in Leeds City for more than a month, and it's not like he hasn't taken photos with fans and signed autographs, but they were all for male fans, especially Chinese students.
He really didn't expect to meet his female fans while playing in a nightclub.
After the initial shock, he agreed to the request of these female fans.
Stand up and take photos with them one by one and give them autographs.
After getting the autographs and photos, these female fans happily waved goodbye and left, much to the disappointment of other Leeds City players who were waiting to get close to these girls.
Hu Lai just regarded this as an interlude and continued to brag with his teammates. But his teammates refused to let Hu Lai buy them a drink, so Hu Lai had to pay for it out of his own pocket, which calmed the public anger...
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As Hulay said, Pete Williams is a very serious person. Although he is young, he knows what he wants and how to do it. He will not be too involved in playing around, so this
The party didn't last long, and at ten o'clock in the evening, Williams asked to break up.
Although Charlie Potter was still a little reluctant to leave, he could only agree. After all, despite Williams' youth, his status in the team is not low - it can be said that he is probably the oldest one in Leeds City.
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If the captain didn't come, he would be just like the captain.
He said so, and no one else had any objections.
Or even if you still want to continue playing, you will definitely not be able to continue playing in this nightclub.
After walking out of the nightclub, Charlie Potter put his arm around Hu Lai's shoulders and whispered in his ear: "How are you, Hu Lai? Did you not have enough fun? It's okay, we can continue, we just changed places..."
Hu Lai took out his mobile phone: "I have already called my agent, Charlie, he will pick me up right away."
Potter shook his head in disappointment: "It's really disappointing. How can you be so boring?"
Hu Lai smiled and said: "Charlie, when will you go to China with me? That is my home field. Then I will let you go to my villa party to see what an interesting person I am."
"Your villa party?" Hearing Hu Lai say this, Porter's eyes lit up, "What's that like?"
“There is a swimming pool, champagne, delicious barbecue, and beauties in bikinis...”
"Oh!" Charlie Potter couldn't wait to cheer before Hu Lai finished speaking. "I knew you understood it very well, Hu Lai, you really do understand it! Then what? Go on, what next?"
The other teammates nearby heard what Hu Lai said, and they were all very interested. Even Pete Williams listened with his ears pricked up.
"Then? Then we played a three-on-three match on the football field in the back garden of the villa, surrounded by beauties wearing only bikinis. Isn't it interesting..."
"Wait a minute, Hu..." The more Porter listened, the more something was wrong. He raised his hand to interrupt Hu Lai. "You found a group of big girls, all dressed up, and then... you ran to play a three-on-three game?
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"Yes, Charlie. Let me tell you, with the cheers of the beauties, we played very energetically! We played until almost eleven o'clock..."
"Damn it!" Porter yelled, "You are so perverted, Hu! You leave so many big girls in bikinis alone and go to play football? Your brain must be broken, Hu!"
The teammates around him burst into laughter.
Hu Lai spread his hands with an innocent face and asked: "Why is this so perverted? Are we going to let the bikini girls end up three on three, with a group of old men cheering them on? I think that's perverted, okay, Charlie
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Potter was speechless and shook his head: "I don't want to talk to you anymore, Hu... you ruined my beautiful fantasy of the villa party!"
Others were still laughing, and some even laughed so hard that they couldn't straighten their waists and could only squat on the ground holding their stomachs.
Until Yong Jun stopped in his car, some of them were still laughing.
Yong Jun looked at the overjoyed Leeds City players outside, and happily waved goodbye to his teammates as Hu Lai got into the car and said, "It looks like you guys had a good time tonight."
"Yes, everyone is happy except Charlie." Hu Lai turned to look at Porter who gave him the middle finger.
"Ha!" Yong Jun also saw it, and at the same time he knew that Hu Lai and Charlie Porter were probably the closest couple in the team, so he didn't really think that Porter and Hu Lai had a falling out, he just thought it was
A joke between two friends.
"Is there anything interesting?" Yong Jun asked while driving.
"A few girls came in the middle, they must be my fans, and they took photos with me and asked for my autograph."
Yong Jun turned his head and glanced at Hu Lai, who leaned back against the back of the passenger seat with his head slightly raised.
"Not bad, Hu Lai." He smiled.
"It's not bad, Uncle Yong..." Hu Lai complained, "Just because of this, I bought everyone in the team a drink. This bar is really expensive. I will never come here again!"
"
Yong Jun laughed when he heard this.
Hu Lai stopped talking, lowered his head and took out his mobile phone to send a WeChat message to Li Qingqing: "What are you doing?"
Li Qingqing soon replied: "I just took a shower and was lying on the bed. What about you?"
"Just finished attending the party..."
"Yo yo yo!"
"Check, how about a set of pancakes and fruits?"
"Don't change the subject, what kind of party is it? Are there any beauties?"
"Yes, I was tricked!"
"Ah? Tell me quickly!"
"It's a long story..."
"Then say it slowly, it's okay, I have plenty of time!"
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There is no time difference of six or seven hours, and the two people's messages come and go, flying rapidly over the English Channel.
Occasionally, Hu Lai's hand found a piece of paper in his sweater pocket. He took it out and glanced at it using the light of the street lamp outside, and found that it was a string of numbers, which should be a phone number.
He thought for a while, maybe some woman who took a photo with him at the party secretly slipped it in...
Hu Lai pouted at this, then rolled down the window, crumpled the note in his hand and threw it out.
After doing all this, he was free to continue chatting with Li Qingqing on WeChat.
Ding dong ding dong, the WeChat notification sounds non-stop.
In the driver's seat, Yong Jun concentrated on driving his car and did not ask who Hu Lai was talking to.
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