Chapter 19: Welcome home, Hu Lai

Hu Lai, who was sitting in the car, looked at a completely different scene from Leeds outside the car window.
This is not the first time he has come to this city. At the time of the Madrid Olympics, they had visited here for training and competition.
However, unlike the previous time of passing by in a hurry, Hu Lai was obviously more serious when looking at the city this time.
Because this is where he will live for the next few years.
The biggest impression of the city of Madrid is that it is open, very open.
He raised his eyes to the horizon, unobstructed, as if he could see the other side of the earth at a glance.
As long as you don't cast your gaze in the direction of the city center, all you can see is this flat scene.
As the capital of Spain, this city has very few towering skyscrapers.
In the night, the lights of the city in the far distance are densely packed, like the starry sky is upside down, falling to the ground.
After watching this for a while, Hu Lai suddenly asked: "Huh, we didn't go to the city center?"
He noticed that the place where the "stars" was located was always far away, never close.
Relying on the memory of having been to Madrid before, he found that the car was always driving on the highway outside the city and did not enter the city.
"Why are you going to the city center?" Song Jiajia, who was sitting next to him, asked.
"The hotel is in the city center!" Hu Lai glanced at Song Jiajia, thinking that today's fat man is a bit strange, otherwise why would he ask such an idiot question.
"Ah...ha!" Song Jiajia couldn't help but laughed, "I forgot to tell you, that hotel is ours, you don't live in the hotel."
"I don't live in a hotel where I live..." Hu Lai suddenly reacted before he finished speaking. He looked at Song Jiajia and asked in surprise, "Have you bought your house?"
Song Jiajia smiled triumphantly: "That is, what efficiency do I do?"
Hu Lai nodded.
Although he hasn't seen what the new house looks like until now, since all he said is given to Song Jiajia, he naturally won't pick and choose after the house has been bought.
He believed in Song Jiajia, not just talking about it.
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The training base of the King of Madrid is to the north of the city of Madrid, and the training base of the Madrid Pirates is to the west of the city.
If on the map there are two lines extending from the zero-kilometer Spanish highway in Puerta del Sol in the city center as the center, one leads to the Benavente training base of the King of Madrid, and the other leads to Casa, the training base of Madrid pirates.
You will find that these two lines have just formed a very standard right angle.
The Casa Training Base of the Madrid Pirates was completed and put into use later than Benavente, so there have been rumors that the Madrid Pirates chose this place deliberately in order to form a right angle with Benavente, meaning the two teams Is a mortal enemy.
Although this rumor has not been officially recognized, everyone still talks about it as part of history.
In this city, you will find many similar examples that fully demonstrate how bad the relationship between the two parties is.
The legend of the training base is just one of them.
By the way, by the way, the Madrid Pirates’ training base was originally called Casa de Trabajadore. The translation is about "Workers’ House", but because the transliterated name is too long, the free translation of the name can’t let people connect with football. So the domestic media use the Spanish transliteration of "home", Casa, to call the training base of the Madrid pirates.
This training base is called this name because the Madrid pirates were originally established in the activity room of a factory, which was affectionately called the "workers' home" by the workers at the time.
In order to commemorate the history of the establishment of my club, even if the current training base and the workers' home of the year are geographically incompatible, the name has continued.
Because the name is too long, pirate fans and players in Madrid are used to calling it "home".
Going to train is called "going home".
So if a Spaniard says to you "Tomorrow I will take you home", you have to ask if he is a Madrid Pirates fan. If so, the meaning of this sentence may not be for you and want to take you home to see your parents. Instead, it will take you to the Madrid Pirates Training Base to wait for the players, to take a photo with autographs...
The transliteration of the name Casa by the domestic media is also out of respect for the history and culture of Madrid pirates and the habits of Madrid pirate fans.
Between Benavente and Casa, there is a small town called Herrera in the northwest corner of Madrid, right in the middle of the line between the two training bases.
The straight-line distance is the same whether you go to Benavente in the northeast or Casa in the southwest.
Herrera is a small town. Although the place is not big, the sparrow is small and has all the internal organs. There are large supermarkets, shopping malls, clinics, hospitals, schools, kindergartens, and various shops and restaurants...It can be said that people who live here do not have to go to the downtown area of ​​Madrid, and all living needs can be solved in the town.
There are mansions on the rolling hills a little bit north of the town. Many of these mansions belong to star players who play for two giant teams.
With their financial resources, owning a property of their own in this small town is not an effort.
The real estate that Song Jiajia prepared for Hu Lai and Li Qingqing is located in this town. (Note 1)
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When the commercial vehicle parked at the gate of a three-story villa, Song Jiajia said to Hu Lai, "Here."
Hulai looked up at the white roof behind the fenced courtyard wall, still a little unrealistic. Is this his home in Madrid? It looks very luxurious.
"How much is this house, fat man?"
"Actually it's not expensive, because it's not in the city center. It's 2.9 million, less than 3 million."
Song Jiajia said that it was an understatement. Hu Lai himself felt that a house less than three million yuan was indeed not expensive. After all, the house he bought in his hometown Dongchuan cost 2.7 million yuan, which is also more expensive than before. That's two hundred thousand...Fuck, it's a Euro!
Hu Lai suddenly reacted. All the money figures they are talking about now are in Euros!
Such a house sells for 2.9 million euros, which is about 21.1 million yuan, and tax has not been calculated yet...
He grinned, this is the most expensive thing he has ever bought.
Song Jiajia and Hu Lai got out of the car. At the same time, naturally others went to the back of the car and took off all Hu Lai's suitcases.
"I took a lot of thought to choose this house for you. See if there is no one?" Song Jiajia pointed to the left of the house.
Hu Lai looked over. About 70 or 80 meters away from them, there was a white three-story villa.
"That's Maxi Carey's home, the number one superstar of the Madrid Pirates, your teammates, your neighbors. And there..." Song Jiajia pointed to the right again. "Ettore Parotti, the house rented by the head coach of the Madrid Pirates. This building below the hill, Jonathan Hewell, the Belgian national gate, the best goalkeeper in the World Cup last year, is also your teammate."
"Good fellow..." Hu Lai said with emotion.
"Being neighbors with teammates on the same team will also help you integrate into the team. Just tell me whether this arrangement is good or not?" Song Jiajia asked for credit.
"Meow, meow!" Hu Lai nodded repeatedly, learning to scream.
Song Jiajia turned to the courtyard door of the house again and walked to the door.
"This house has everything that should be available, everything is available, and it is completely packed. And unlike the old European traditional building full of decadence, this is a building that has been armed with modern technology from the inside to the outside. The tooth's house."
As he said, he put his eyes together in front of a device on the wall outside the courtyard gate.
Then there was the sound of the door lock being opened.
"Iris recognizes the door lock, you can also use a password or fingerprint. This is a security key." Song Jiajia handed a key to Hu Lai. "You can use this key to open the door when you forget the password or when something goes wrong. There are two keys. It is recommended to keep them in the car."
Then the two men walked into the yard with their suitcases.
As he walked, Song Jiajia also introduced him: "The house on the left is a garage where you can park two cars. You left the car in Leeds with Morikawa, then you have to buy another one here."
"It's okay, you figure it out." Hu Lai said.
"Why do I figure it out again? Am I still part-time selling cars?" Song Jiajia said dissatisfied.
"Those who can do more, those who are able do more, ha!"
Song Jiajia gave him a white glance and pointed to the right again: "There is a lawn. You can eat here at ordinary times. Don't worry about rain. Madrid is not London... Behind the house is the backyard. There is an outdoor heated swimming pool in the backyard. There is another one. The big lawn has been carefully maintained at ordinary times. It is very flat and can be played directly as a football field when you put the goal on it. Of course, don't use too much force when you play. It is a troublesome thing to kick the ball out of the courtyard wall... "
The front yard was not big, and the two quickly walked to the door of the house.
Song Jiajia patted him on the shoulder: "I'm leaving, I will pick you up tomorrow."
"Eh, won't you go in?"
"Don't knock on the door, the room is too big. Knock on the door for fear that you won't be able to hear it, so just press the doorbell." Song Jiajia pointed to a button next to the door, then turned around and left.
Hu Lai turned to look at Song Jiajia's back, then looked up at the brightly lit villa.
He raised his hand and pressed the doorbell.
While waiting for the door to open ~EbookFREE.me~ he looked back again. Seeing Song Jiajia just got in the car, she waved at him again.
Then the car drove away.
Almost at the same time, the door of the room in front of him heard the sound of the lock cylinder turning, and the door was opened.
A beautiful shadow stood in the light, and the light in the room came from behind her, passing through her loose white long skirt, and protruding the graceful figure under her clothes in the form of shadows.
In the shadow, her eyes shone like thousands of lights gathered in one place.
A pleasant voice rang in Hu Lai's ears:
"Welcome home, Hu Lai!"
Li Qingqing opened his arms to him.
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Note 1: This place does not exist in reality, I made it up.
If there are similarities, we may have all crossed.