Chapter 16: Face like a peach blossom, sweet smile
Just as Wang Shanshan hoped, the news that Li Qingqing greeted Hu Lai at the airport and stood side by side with him soon spread.
After all, CCTV was not the only media present at the scene, but there were also many media from China, France, the United Kingdom and other countries.
The annual European Ballon d'Or award ceremony and the Champions League draw ceremony are both major football events that can be called the World Footballer Award Ceremony hosted by FIFA at the beginning of each year. Naturally, there is no shortage of media attention.
Chinese fans are fine. They have heard a lot about the story of Hu Lai and Li Qingqing. Almost every Chinese fan is familiar with it. They know that Hu Lai and Li Qingqing have been classmates since high school. Li Qingqing was even Hu Lai's first coach. So
It's normal for two people to have a good relationship.
European fans find it very new. They did not expect that the two representatives of Chinese football in Europe have such a good relationship that they can go to the airport to greet each other...
“The two of them look so perfect together, so can anyone tell me what their relationship is?”
Some foreign fans raised such questions in the news.
In the hotel room, Delphine Isabella also hugged her boyfriend Pete Williams and asked with some confusion: "Pete, are you sure Hu doesn't have a girlfriend, right?"
Williams nodded solemnly, but then shook his head: "Honestly, Delphine...I'm not sure now. Do you think they look like a couple?"
Isabella thought carefully and replied: "I'm not very sure. It feels like the two of them have known each other for a long time. They are both used to having each other around - this kind of habit is not that kind of friend."
habit - but when it comes to loving each other...it doesn't seem to be the case. At least it's not like the two of us..."
Williams laughed when he heard Isabella's words: "How about the two of us?"
Isabella did not answer, but kissed him directly on the mouth, and then pushed him down on the bed...
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“The interview is over, thank you for your hard work, thank you for your hard work!” Wang Shanshan said to Hu Lai in front of her with a smile.
Hu Lai let out a long breath and stood up from the chair: "It's okay, okay. This interview has to be recorded twice..."
Wang Shanshan explained with a smile: "After all, you have to return to China after attending the award ceremony. We don't have time to conduct an exclusive interview with you, so we can only record it before the award ceremony. Naturally, we have to prepare two sets of plans to deal with two different results...
In fact, you can only record it once, and it will be based on the premise that you win the Best Young Player Award in Europe."
Hu Lai waved his hand quickly: "No, no, you can't lose your character."
“Thank you Hu Lai for coming to our interview. The content of the interview will be broadcast after you win the award...oh, it will be broadcast after the award ceremony.” Wang Shanshan extended her hand to Hu Lai.
The two shook hands lightly.
When Hu Lai opened the door and walked out of the room, he saw Li Qingqing sitting on a chair outside, waiting for him.
When she saw Hu Lai coming out, she stood up to greet him, smiled and asked, "Is it over?"
“Well, it’s over.”
“Then let’s go?”
“Okay.” Hu Lai nodded.
Li Qingqing waved to Wang Shanshan who followed him out: "Goodbye, Sister Shanshan."
“I won’t see you off. Anyway, there is a car to take you back to the hotel.” Wang Shanshan stood at the door with no intention of coming up to see her off.
“Okay, it’s okay, Sister Shanshan. Thank you for your hard work.” Li Qingqing nodded.
“Hey, why am I working hard? It’s you who are working hard, especially Hu Lai. We pulled him over as soon as he got off the plane... Go back to the hotel and rest!” Wang Shanshan waved her hand.
The two young men waved goodbye to her together, then turned and left.
Wang Shanshan just stood at the door and stared at the backs of the two people with her sweet smile that was often seen on the screen.
Cameraman Xiao Zhang came out and saw Wang Shanshan still looking at the direction the two people left, so he asked curiously: "Are you still looking at them?"
Wang Shanshan turned around and saw Xiao Zhang, she smiled and exclaimed: "That's great..."
“What’s good?” Xiao Zhang asked.
“They have come all the way from campus, and now that they are both successful and famous, they can still walk side by side like this... It’s great.” Wang Shanshan looked at the two figures in the distance that were about to disappear at the end of the corridor.
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In the elevator, Hu Lai turned to look at Li Qingqing. Li Qingqing held her jaw slightly and looked at him with wide eyes: "What are you looking at?"
"I mean, I saw you looked weird at the first sight at the airport..." Hu Lai frowned and said, "Are you wearing makeup?"
“Yes!” Li Qingqing stretched out her green-white fingers and made a V in front of her face, “How is it?”
“It’s not bad, but I’m not used to it. You don’t usually wear makeup.”
“I don’t think it’s troublesome. I spend two hours putting on makeup before training, and then it’s all done in fifteen minutes on the court... At most, I put on sunscreen.” Li Qingqing put down her hands and curled her lips.
“Li Qingqing, you don’t act like a girl sometimes…”
Li Qingqing puffed up her chest when she heard this: "What's different about it?"
Hu Lai moved his gaze upwards and looked at Li Qingqing's face: "You don't even put on makeup."
“Then do you want me to put on makeup?” Li Qingqing asked.
Hu Lai shook his head: "You still can't, right? You look pretty even without makeup."
Hearing Hu Lai say this, Li Qingqing’s big eyes turned into crescent moons when she smiled: “Really?”
“Hmm. Really.”
After receiving Hu Lai’s affirmative answer, Li Qingqing took out his mobile phone and said to Hu Lai: “That’s good, let’s take a photo together with just the two of us in the elevator!”
“What is there to take a photo with?” Hu Lai didn’t think about it.
Elevator, it's an ordinary elevator, it's not Disneyland, why do we need to take a group photo?
Li Qingqing rolled her eyes at him: "Because I put on makeup today, so I want to keep it as a souvenir."
After speaking, she raised her arm and held the phone in front of the two of them.
Hu Lai already knew what he should do. He tilted his head and turned sideways towards Li Qingqing.
Li Qingqing also tilted her head sideways.
The two of them seemed to be attracted to each other and moved closer to each other.
In the end, they were almost touching each other, so that their faces appeared in the viewfinder of the front camera of the mobile phone at the same time.
Li Qingqing laughed, and so did Hu Lai.
The camera program detects a smile and starts taking pictures on its own.
Another photo of Li Qingqing and Hu Lai was born.
Just after taking the photo, Li Qingqing heard a "ding" sound before she could put her arms down, and the elevator car door opened, revealing several strangers waiting outside.
They looked at the young man and woman leaning together in the elevator to take a selfie in surprise.
“Yeah!” Li Qingqing whispered, quickly put down her cell phone, and walked out of the elevator quickly with Hu Lai with her head lowered.
Amid whistles and cheers, the two men "fleeed".
They didn’t stop until they ran out of the gate, and then looked at each other.
Li Qingqing laughed out loud first.
“You’re still laughing! Damn it!” Hu Lai glared at her.
As a result, Li Qingqing laughed even more happily. She covered her stomach with laughter and bent down.
Seeing her like this, Hu Lai couldn't help being infected by the laughter. He started laughing, but he was still saying: "Okay, okay, stop laughing, what's so funny..."
Li Qingqing finally recovered from her happy laughter. She straightened up and wiped the corners of her eyes with her hands.
Hu Lai was speechless: "You burst into tears laughing? Do you want to be so exaggerated?"
Li Qingqing still had a smile on his face: "As soon as you said 'social death', I suddenly thought...if the elevator door opened and there were all reporters outside with cameras and cameras...then that would be real social death.
!ha!"
“So you laughed about this for a long time?” Hu Lai asked.
Li Qingqing nodded.
“You have such a strange smile...”
Li Qingqing glanced at Hu Lai, then took out her mobile phone and admired the selfie she had just taken with Hu Lai.
In the photo, she has a peach-like face and a sweet smile because of the makeup she put on.
It does feel completely different from usual...
Seeing her appearance, Li Qingqing was a little shy. Then she quickly glanced at Hu Lai next to her, and seeing that he wasn't paying attention to her, she immediately lit up the red heart representing collection under the photo.
At this time, the car that came to pick them up also arrived at the gate.
The window glass was lowered, and Song Jiajia's smiling face appeared on the driver's seat: "Looks like I came just in time? Ha! Ouch, Qingqing, are you wearing makeup? You're so beautiful!"
“Thank you!” Li Qingqing replied happily.
The two of them opened the car door and got into the back seat of the car one after another.
“How was it? Did the interview go well?” Song Jiajia asked after the two got in the car.
Hu Lai said: "It went very smoothly. I interviewed each one with different results."
"That's true, but in fact there is a difference. The interview length when I won the Women's Football Ballon d'Or was obviously shorter than when I didn't win it." Li Qingqing pointed at Hu Lai sitting next to him and said, "And he is just the opposite.
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“This shows that everyone actually agrees that Hu Lai can win this award. Hu Lai, have you thought about how to give a speech when accepting the award?”
“I didn’t think about it.”
“Would you like me to prepare one for you?”
"No, do you still need to prepare a speech to receive the award? Just open your mouth." Hu Lai shook his head.
"Okay. Just don't talk nonsense..."
“Hey, am I like that?”
“You are!” This time, before Song Jiajia could say anything, Li Qingqing made a pistol look and pointed at Hu Lai.
Seeing Hu Lai being stabbed in the back by Li Qingqing, Song Jiajia, who was driving the car out, burst into laughter.
"Let's go. I won't send you back to the hotel. It's hard for the three of us to get together alone. I'll treat you to dinner! Don't think about training or anything like that. Just relax and just have fun. Eat whatever you want.
Say whatever you want...Hu Lai, shut up and listen to Qingqing!"
Seeing Hu Lai shut his mouth, Li Qingqing said with a smile: "I know there is a restaurant. My teammates and I have eaten there. It tastes good."
“Okay, let’s go there!”
Black cars merged into the traffic flow, carrying young people, laughing and laughing all the way.
