"Pete is so unlucky. He finally made it to the World Cup, but he got injured before half the game. And now he has to be absent for such a long time... I think we should go see him." In the locker room,
Hu Lai suggested to a few friends around him who were having a good time.
Charlie Potter frowned: "I always feel that Hu, you don't really want to visit Peter..."
Hu Lai was confused: "Charlie, what you said is that if I wasn't going to visit Pete, what else could it be for?"
"To show off in front of him, you damn World Cup golden boot!"
Hu Lai spread his hands: "Charlie, you can't judge a gentleman with a villain's heart. If you didn't tell me, I never thought that I could win the World Cup Golden Boot with five goals in the World Cup..."
Kamala couldn't stand it anymore: "Hu, you better stop talking. The more you talk, the more I think you are showing off..."
Currently, in the Leeds City team, only Hulay, Peter Williams and Jay Adams have participated in this World Cup.
Ismail Kamara, who performed well in the league last season, was not able to participate.
The French team is really full of talents, and he only performed well last season, lacking enough evidence to prove that he can maintain a good condition. Therefore, he was not called up by the French team.
The French team, which did not even qualify for the group stage in the last World Cup, performed well this time and finally reached the semi-finals. In the third and fourth place finals, they defeated Belgium through a penalty shootout and won third place in the World Cup.
Some French media said that in fact, based on Kamara's performance in the Premier League last season, it should be a certainty to be selected for the French national team. But if he wants to participate in the World Cup in Spain and Portugal four years later, he still has to
If you continue to maintain this kind of performance and status, at least you can't have big ups and downs.
Charlie Potter's situation is very similar to Kamala's.
His performance in Leeds City was very good, especially last season. But he was not selected for the England team at all. Mainly because England has so many talents in the midfield, even players like Peter Williams and Jay Adams went to
He can only serve as a substitute, so he has no chance.
As one of the only three players on the team to participate in the World Cup, Hulay not only participated in the World Cup, he also scored goals.
Not only did he score a goal, he also scored five goals!
Not only did he score five goals, he also became the top scorer of this World Cup with five goals!
This makes people feel...very embarrassing.
You must know that this is the first World Cup for Hu Lai that boy!
Winning the Golden Boot in the first World Cup... Is there any precedent for this in world football?
Yes, among the Golden Boot winners in the first few World Cups, there must be those who participated in the World Cup for the first time. For example, the Golden Boot winner of the first World Cup, Brazilian player Pedelinho, became the winner of the World Cup with eight goals.
The golden boot is also the first golden boot in the history of the World Cup.
The top scorer of the second World Cup belonged to Italian striker Luca Valentini. He scored four goals and became the top scorer of the World Cup.
But precedents from ancient times mean little.
Since the beginning of the 21st century, no player has ever won the Golden Boot in the first World Cup he participated in.
Hu Lai did it.
For this reason, he even flew to New York, USA, to receive his World Cup Golden Boot trophy after the World Cup final.
Then take photos with those long-established superstars.
It can be said that in the same year, he won the Premier League championship, the Premier League top scorer and the World Cup top scorer. Hulay, who is only 22 years old, has reached the highest peak of his career so far.
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When everyone was making fun of Hu Lai, Jay Adams, who had been looking down at his phone without speaking, suddenly said: "I don't think we need to visit Pete."
"Why?" Everyone turned to ask him.
Adams picked up the phone and showed it to everyone.
On the screen is a piece of news:
"...Frustrated on the court and happy in love? Pete Williams has a private meeting with a beautiful woman..."
There is a photo below the title, which was probably taken outside Williams' home. He is leaning on a crutch with one hand and caressing the face of a brown-haired girl with the other hand.
A group of people were stunned.
After a while, Hu Lai suddenly slapped his thigh: "We should go see Pete!"
Charlie Potter reacted and nodded sharply: "Yes! You should care about him more!"
Adams looked at them, and the two of them also looked at Adams. Hu Lai asked him: "Jay, aren't you curious?"
Adams put away his phone and nodded: "Yes, we really should go visit Pete."
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When Pete Williams' grandmother opened the door and saw several Leeds City players outside, her eyes widened and she was speechless for a moment.
"Hello grandma! Is Pete at home?" Jay Adams, the leader, asked with a kind smile.
"Ah...oh, oh!" Grandma finally came to her senses. She nodded repeatedly, then turned sideways to let a few people into the house, "He's at home, he's at home."
After saying that, she turned and shouted upstairs: "Pete! Your teammates are here to see you!"
Soon there were footsteps coming from the stairs, and Peter Williams poked his head out there. They were surprised and happy to see Hu Lai and asked, "What's wrong with you?"
"We came to see you, Peter." Hu Lai said on behalf of everyone. "Everyone is very concerned about you."
Behind him, Charlie Potter, Jay Adams, Kamala and others all nodded vigorously.
Williams was very touched: "Thank you... thank you! Don't stand down there, come up and come to my room. I'm sorry that my legs and feet are not very convenient, so..."
"It's okay, Peter. Just wait there and we'll come up on our own." After saying that, Hu Lai turned back and glanced at the people who were following him. They all looked at each other and walked forward in unison at the same time.
Everyone who came up the stairs and saw Williams punched him in the chest and walked toward Williams' room in a noisy manner.
The grandma who saw this scene downstairs smiled happily.
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Williams was the last one to enter the room. As soon as he entered, Jay Adams, who was guarding the door, closed the door simultaneously.
Williams, who still had a smile on his face, was dragged to the bed by Charlie Potter and held down his hands.
Others quickly gathered around, looking at him closely.
The smile disappeared from Williams' face. He was startled and looked at his teammates: "Guys, what are you going to do?"
"What?" Hu Lai snorted, "You know better, Peter."
"Clear? What do I know?" Williams looked at his teammates whose faces suddenly changed, confused.
"Don't act stupid, we all saw it on the news!" Charlie sneered.
"News? What news? I did not renew my contract with the club. I only completed the renewal last season..."
"Don't try to get away with it!" Hulay said, then winked at Adams, who held the phone up to Williams' eyes and lit up the screen so he could see the news clearly.
"Frustrated on the court and happy in love? Pete Williams has a private meeting with a beautiful woman..."
Williams stared at the phone screen with his eyes wide open, and after a few seconds he uttered a curse word: "Damn it! Those damn paparazzi!"
"You've got the stolen goods, what else do you have to explain, Peter?" Hu Lai crossed his arms and winked at Charlie, indicating that he could let go of Williams.
So Charlie stood up and stood beside the bed with the others, staring down at Williams.
Williams turned his head and looked around: "Isn't it right, guys? You came to my house just to ask me this question?"
"What do you mean 'just to ask you this question'?" Hu Lai chuckled, "Is there anything more serious than this?"
"I'm injured!"
"Ah, we are very sorry, Peter." Charlie said with a deep tone next to him. "So we came to visit you specially, hoping that you can overcome the injury as soon as possible and return to the court. Well, you don't mind telling us next...
Who is that girl?"
Williams raised his hand and gave Charlie Potter his middle finger, and then sighed helplessly: "It's my French teacher..."
Before he could say anything, the young people in the room collectively exclaimed: "Tutor.AVI?!"
"OMG!"
"Peter, I misjudged you. I always thought you were the kind of upright person. I didn't expect you to be more playful than all of us!"
"Fuck!" Williams wrote with the middle finger of both hands at the same time, "She is really my French teacher! It was just because she came to comfort me after I was injured that we got together..."
"Peter, listen to what you say. I was a French teacher before. After I came to comfort you once, the two of you got together. Is there a layer of barrier between you two? After it was pierced, did the relationship suddenly change?
?" Hu Lai sneered. "I wouldn't believe it if you didn't have any evil intentions before!"
"What is a 'ghost'?" Williams glanced at Hu Lai fiercely, and then said with some dejection, "Okay...I admit that in the days of previous contact, I did gradually develop a liking for Delphine...
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Jay Adams sighed with some disappointment: "I thought there could be some twists and turns and bizarre stories between the two of them that were worthy of being published in tabloids... but the truth turned out to be so simple and plain..."
Hu Lai turned around and asked him: "What else do you want, Jay? I think this is more worthy of being in the tabloids than the story between the star and the nightclub queen. How strange is it that the core midfielder of Leeds City actually has a relationship with his French?
The teacher is in love!"
Kamala suddenly asked Williams: "Why do you want to learn French?"
Williams pouted: "I just want to communicate with you more conveniently..."
Hu Lai said "ha": "So, Ismail, are you still Peter's 'matchmaker'?"
Kamala looked confused: "What is 'hongniang'?"
"Oh, it's Cupid."
After getting the explanation, Kamala looked at Williams: "But Hu will help us translate..."
"That's the problem, Ismail. This kid will take my words out of context." Williams pointed at Hulay and said.
Hu Lai, who was pointed at, changed his face and said angrily: "What nonsense are you talking about? Why did I take it out of context? What I call extracting the central idea!"
"No matter how you define it, Hu, you have the right to interpret what I say, and I wanted to be able to communicate directly with Ismail, so I asked Delphine to teach me French," Williams continued.
"So you didn't learn French, but you got the teacher?" Charlie Potter complained.
"No, Delphine is a very good teacher and I learned French." Williams said this sentence in French.
Kamala's eyes lit up when she heard Williams actually speaking French.
Although he has now learned English and daily communication is no problem, he was still shocked by what Williams did. He did not expect that the other person actually learned a language for himself.
Others also expressed their admiration for Pete Williams.
Jay Adams shook his head: "I can't do this, Pete..."
Charlie Potter was thinking: "I heard that French girls are more open and romantic than British women. Maybe I should also learn French?"
Hu Lai mocked him: "You shouldn't learn French, you should go to Korea, Charlie."
"Go to South Korea? Why? Korean girls are more open-minded?"
"No. Korean plastic surgery technology is better."
"Go to hell, Hu! You have no right to criticize me!" Charlie rushed forward and knocked Hu Lai down on the bed, and the two made a fuss.
Just then, grandma shouted from outside the door: "Tea time, boys!"
Hu Lai, whose clothes were messy and his hair was twisted into a bird's nest, sat up from the bed and suggested: "Guys, we should let Pete treat us to dinner and introduce his girlfriend to us. In China, this is..."
But Adams raised his hand to stop him from continuing: "You don't want to do this, Hu."
"Why?" Hu Lai was very surprised. Is there something I, Hu Lai, don't want to take advantage of?
"Don't you always say that bachelors are dogs? When Peter and his girlfriend are making love to each other at the dinner table, you can only watch... This is not rice, it is clearly dog food. You can still eat it.
?" Adams explained.
Hu Lai was stunned for a moment and realized that Adams was right. That scene... was too cruel and not suitable for children.
So he waved his hand dejectedly: "Forget it... let's go have afternoon tea!"
Everyone walked downstairs playfully and saw that Williams' grandmother had prepared tea and biscuits.
She picked up the plate and said to Hu Lai, who was the first to come over: "Try it, Hu Lai. This is the 'bone biscuit' I baked specially."
Everyone looked at the pile of bone-shaped biscuits on the plate. They were stunned at first, and then burst into laughter, except Hu Lai.
Grandma looked at everyone who was laughing strangely, then looked at Hu Lai expectantly, motioning for him to try it.
Williams smiled happily and patted Hu Lai on the shoulder: "You're welcome, Hu. My grandma bakes the most delicious cookies!"
Hu Lai had no choice but to pick up a "bone" and put it in his mouth to chew.
"How is it?" Grandma looked at him expectantly.
Hu Lai nodded and showed a slightly exaggerated smile: "It tastes great! Thank you, grandma."
"You're too polite, Hu. I'm very happy that you can come and see Pete. Come, eat and play as you like. You are free to do whatever you want..." Grandma greeted everyone.
Everyone sat down obediently to drink tea and eat biscuits. Under grandma's kind gaze, they behaved like five or six-year-old children at first.
But soon they turned on the game consoles and started fighting while shouting.
Grandma was busy in the kitchen and would glance at the young people from time to time, and a heartfelt smile would appear on her face.
