When Li Ziqiang saw his daughter and Hu Lai walking side by side, fully armed and walking out of the VIP channel of Dongsheng Airport, he was no longer as shocked as he was when he saw this scene this time last year.
Because his daughter told him in advance that Hu Lai would come to ride with the car again.
When he first heard his daughter's request, Li Ziqiang refused in his heart. But considering Hu Lai's influence and fame, if he was asked to take a taxi back alone...the World Cup was coming, and he was afraid of causing complications.
So I could only agree to it for the sake of the World Cup.
However, after seeing Hu Lai, he still didn't look good. He nodded to Hu Lai who was bowing and bowing seriously with a straight face. He didn't say anything considerate to himself. Then he turned around and showed a caring smile to his daughter:
"Are you tired from the journey?"
"You're not tired, Hu Lai is with you." Li Qingqing glanced at Hu Lai with a smile.
The old father felt that his chest was not breathing smoothly. He looked at Hu Lai again and said in a neutral tone: "I won the Premier League championship and the Golden Boot. Don't be too lazy, kid."
Hu Lai said quickly: "No, no, coach, how could I be floating? You know, people all over the world are floating, but I am still firmly rooted to the ground!"
"Okay, you can take care of yourself anyway." Li Ziqiang took his daughter's luggage trolley and pushed it ahead.
Behind him, Hu Lai pushed his luggage cart, and Li Qingqing continued to walk side by side with him.
Li Ziqiang occasionally turned around and could see his daughter's smiling eyes.
When they arrived at the parking lot, Hu Lai and Li Ziqiang loaded their suitcases into the trunk one by one. The unfit backpack still occupied half of the back seat.
This time, Li Ziqiang didn't need to say anything, Hu Lai consciously got into the passenger seat, leaving Li Qingqing behind with the luggage.
Li Ziqiang was the last one to get in the car. He sat on the driver's seat, put on his seat belt, and said to Hu Lai: "I'd better drive directly back to our community. Ask your mother to pick you up when the time comes. There are many roads in the city.
You’re not worried anymore, are you?”
Hu Lai had no objection and nodded repeatedly: "It's okay, coach. As long as you can take me back to Dongchuan, I can handle the rest myself."
Li Qingqing, who was sitting in the back, also became energetic: "Yes, a new home! A new home that I haven't been to yet!"
Hu Lai was surprised: "Li Qingqing, have you moved?"
"Hey, I also bought a house." Li Qingqing said proudly. "I bought it with the money I saved from playing football in the past few years. Although it is not as big as your house, I like it very much!"
"Then you are really awesome." Hu Lai turned around and gave a thumbs up.
Li Qingqing burst out laughing after receiving the compliment.
Listening to the two young people chatting and laughing in the car, Li Ziqiang decided to change the topic, so he asked Hu Lai while driving: "The training camp will be on the 15th, why do you have to go back to Dongchuan to go through this lap?"
If you didn't go back to Dongchuan and just stayed in Jincheng, nothing like this would have happened...
"Ah, I thought since Dongchuan and Jincheng are close to each other, I would like to take a trip home to see my parents." Hu Lai explained.
Hearing what he said, Li Ziqiang felt embarrassed to say anything. Could it be that people shouldn't go home to visit their parents? How could there be such a reason?
I have been chatting to death like this...
Fortunately, my daughter asked at this time: "Dad, how does it feel to live in the new house?"
"How is it? Just like that..."
"Will pipes burst in the community and the water supply be cut off every three days?" Li Qingqing asked with a smile.
"Hey you..." Li Ziqiang wanted to teach his daughter a few words, but when he remembered that there were outsiders in the car, he swallowed it back.
"Ah? Li Qingqing, your community used to have water cuts all the time?" Hu Lai asked curiously.
"Yes. Just last year we went home together and you left at the gate of the community. When my father and I came home, we found that the water supply was cut off. Let alone cooking, we couldn't even take a shower..." Li Qingqing told Hu Lai vividly.
Her experience of being on the road.
Li Ziqiang saw the two young men chatting happily again. This time he couldn't interrupt anymore, so he could only sigh quietly in his heart.
Last time Qingqing fell asleep not long after getting in the car. Why is she so energetic this time...
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Although I was quite excited after getting in the car, chatting non-stop, and acting as if no one was around, as if the person sitting in the driver's seat was not Li Ziqiang, but a dedicated chauffeur.
But as the car followed the traffic on the highway, as time passed, the two young men finally fell silent and fell asleep one after another.
Li Ziqiang looked at his daughter through the rearview mirror and found that she was leaning against the backpack next to her, resting her face on her hands, closing her eyes and nodding slightly.
He withdrew his gaze and looked at the slow-moving traffic ahead. His eyes softened and he was no longer so anxious.
Just let my daughter sleep a little longer...
But this tender moment was broken by a sudden snoring.
Li Ziqiang turned his head and saw Hu Lai sleeping soundly with his head tilted on the car window, with snoring coming from his open mouth...
Li Ziqiang felt the veins on his forehead throbbing.
If there were only myself and my daughter in the car, what a scene of loving father and daughter!
But...
He made up his mind that no matter what next year... he would never agree to his daughter's request again, no matter how coquettishly she acted!
Thinking of this, Li Ziqiang decided to speed up and rush home. If his daughter wanted to sleep, let her go home and sleep. How could she sleep well in such a crooked car?
So Li Ziqiang checked the distance between the cars in the rearview mirror, then turned on the turn signal, downshifted manually, stepped on the accelerator, and turned the steering wheel.
Change lanes and overtake in one go!
The snoring around me paused for a second...
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Li Ziqiang parked the car on the roadside next to the gate of Hailan Shengjing, and drove 20 meters further to the entrance of the underground garage, where he had to put Hu Lai down.
So he shouted: "We're here!"
The two young people in the car woke up one after another. They opened their sleepy eyes and looked at the scene outside the window, still a little confused.
Hu Lai rubbed his eyes and looked at the gate of the community outside the car window in a daze.
Li Qingqing turned around with her backpack in her arms, looked up at the street scene outside the window, and asked confusedly: "Dad, where are you?"
Li Ziqiang said to his daughter half-jokingly: "Hey, you haven't woken up from your nap? You chose it yourself, so you can't recognize it?"
Li Qingqing was lying by the window, looking at the gate of the community outside, and finally his eyes fell on the four gilded characters "Hailan Shengjing".
Her brain woke up little by little, and she exclaimed softly: "Ah, this is our home!"
Hu Lai, the co-pilot, was shocked at why the coach knew about his home and sent him home directly when he heard Li Qingqing's murmur. He was so shocked that he looked back at Li Qingqing and then at Li Ziqiang.
Noticing Hu Lai's gaze, Li Ziqiang asked with a straight face: "What are you doing?"
"Um...coach, your family lives here?" He pointed to the four words "Hailan Shengjing" outside.
"Yeah, what's wrong?"
"Uh..." Hu Lai looked at the coach's dark face and did not dare to say the words.
He could only shake his head: "Nothing, nothing. I'll get off the bus then, coach. Thank you coach..."
After saying that, he quickly opened the door, jumped out of the car, and went to the trunk to carry his luggage.
After unloading the luggage as quickly as possible, he waved to Li Qingqing: "Goodbye!"
Li Qingqing poked her head out of the rear window a little, smiled and waved to Hu Lai: "Goodbye!"
Before he finished speaking, the car had slowly driven out.
Hu Lai stood on the side of the road, watching the car turn in from the entrance of the underground garage in front. It was a little messy in the wind... but he quickly gathered his mood, put his bag on his back, picked up the two suitcases, and turned towards the gate of the community.
Go.
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After parking the car in the parking space of the underground garage, Li Ziqiang and his daughter unloaded all the luggage together, then pulled a suitcase on each hand, leaving Li Qingqing to carry a backpack and walk towards the door of the unit.
When there were only two of them left, Li Qingqing finally asked the question that he had been holding back for a long time: "Dad, I always feel...are you too harsh on Hu Lai?"
"Huh?" Li Ziqiang, who was walking in front, looked back at his daughter in surprise when he heard this.
"I see that he is a little sneaky in front of you... He is the biggest star in the country after all, but he is still like a student player in front of you..."
"It would be okay if he was really afraid of me!" Li Ziqiang snorted.
"Why?" Li Qingqing didn't understand.
Seeing this, Li Ziqiang simply stopped, turned around and said to his daughter: "You have already said that he is the biggest star in the country, so you must have seen how the domestic media and fans tout him and praise him, right?"
Li Qingqing nodded. In fact, after every Hu Lai game, she liked to go online to see how the fans and media reporters praised Hu Lai. In the past, Hu Lai was not famous, and it would take a long time for her to find praises like these.
It took some effort. But now she no longer needs to search for it deliberately. As long as she opens her Weibo account, the home page is basically full of various praises for Hu Lai from the people she follows.
"So there is no shortage of nice words around him. And I just want to say things he doesn't like to hear, and I want to treat him like I did before." Li Ziqiang said seriously, "I hope that at least when he is in front of me, he can still
Always remain humble and vigilant. Only in this way will he not be easily lost in those nice sounds."
Li Qingqing didn't expect her father to be so well-intentioned, and suddenly she laughed: "As expected of me, Dad, you are your proud disciple, you are still so caring about him!"
Hearing his daughter's words, Li Ziqiang forced out a smile and picked up the box again: "Let's go home!"
"Well, go home!" Li Qingqing, who was relieved of her knot, was very happy. She jumped ahead and opened and held the door of the unit building for her father. She also greeted like a doorman:
"Dad, please come in!"
When Li Ziqiang saw his daughter's strange appearance, he laughed from the bottom of his heart this time.
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Hu Lai pressed the elevator up button and stood at the door waiting for the car to rise from the second underground floor.
At the same time, he was thinking about whether he should tell Li Qingqing that they actually lived in the same community...
Li Qingqing is fine, Hu Lai is mainly worried about the coach.
I wonder if the coach will take Li Qingqing and move away overnight after knowing the truth...
Probably not?
Although he doesn't like me, he doesn't have to move around three times just to avoid me...
Just when Hu Lai was thinking wildly, there was a ding, the elevator stopped, and the car door slowly opened in front of him.
He looked up and stared into the elevator, and the people in the elevator also stared at him.
He saw two familiar faces, and the other party also saw him.
Li Ziqiang's eyes widened, and Li Qingqing exclaimed: "Yeah!"
Hu Lai stood at the door, completely stunned, so much so that when the elevator door slowly closed, he didn't even react.
Fortunately, Li Qingqing acted quickly and quickly pressed the door door button. Only then did the door reopen and she saw Hu Lai dragging the suitcase.
"Hu Lai, why are you here?" she asked in surprise and joy.
"I should ask you, why are you here?" Hu Lai pointed at his feet.
"This is my home!" Li Qingqing answered confidently.
"This is my home too!" Hu Lai said firmly.
Li Qingqing turned to look at his father and found that the latter was stunned.
So she turned to Hu Lai and waved to him: "Come in first, otherwise the elevator should alarm!"
Hu Lai just woke up from a dream, dragging two large suitcases and squeezed in. The elevator suddenly became a little crowded. Li Qingqing took a step back while pulling her suitcase. At the same time, she was still staring at Hu Lai's hand.
I plan to see which floor he presses.
After Hu Lai came in, he really planned to press the floor, but when he raised his hand, he found that "10" had already been pressed...
He looked back at Li Qingqing and thought to himself, it's not such a coincidence, right?
"Hu Lai, which floor do you live on?" Seeing Hu Lai's delay in making any move, Li Qingqing asked directly.
"I...uh, which floor do you live on?"
"I asked first!"
"Lady first……"
"Yes, that's why I asked first."
"I mean, ladies give priority to answering questions. Which floor do you live on?"
"What the hell!" Li Qingqing protested.
In the end, no one answered, because when they were noisy, the elevator had stopped at the tenth floor.
Hu Lai, who was on the outside, pulled his luggage down first, and then Li Qingqing and Li Ziqiang, who was silent, also dragged their suitcases out of the elevator.
Then the three people looked at each other in the elevator room. No matter how stupid Li Qingqing was, she should have guessed it at this time. Her eyes widened: "Isn't that right, Hu Lai? You live on the tenth floor too?!"
Hu Laixin said: Damn, why are you so bloody!
At the same time, he took a step forward, shoulder to shoulder with Li Qingqing, and then turned around to face the same direction.
"I live in 1004." he said.
"We live in...1003." Li Qingqing looked at the house number on his door and said.
Then they fell into silence at the same time, just turning their heads and looking at each other.
Even Li Ziqiang, who was standing behind them, said nothing and fell into a state of sluggishness.
The silence was broken until the door of 1004 was opened and accompanied by a hearty voice.
A middle-aged woman poked her head out of the door and said with a smile: "I figured it was almost time... I just said that I heard your kid's voice outside the door, but no one knocked on the door. But when I opened the door
, what are you doing standing there stupidly... eh?"
When Xie Lan opened the door and walked out, she saw her son and a girl standing side by side, staring at each other. The girl was tall and had a face that was so familiar to her.
Seeing this scene, Xie Lan couldn't say the rest of the words...
