Chapter 23: Then and now, now and now

"There is a problem." After putting the pots, pans and chopsticks in the dishwasher, Li Qingqing said to Hu Lai, "Without football, how do we train?"
"Who said there is no football?"
Hu Lai ran upstairs after speaking.
Soon he walked down holding a football, Li Qingqing's eyes widened: "Are you willing?"
That was the first football that Hu Lai spent money to buy in his life, and it was a testimony of the two of them meeting.
Even to some extent, it can be regarded as..."a token of love".
Hu Lai has always been placed on the desk, looking very cherished.
Li Qingqing thinks that this football will become an eternal souvenir, and loses the attributes of football itself.
Unexpectedly, today Hu Lai took it off the desk and kicked it again?
"What's the reluctance of this? Isn't it a football originally? Besides, we should be anxious. Tomorrow let the fat man buy us a full set of training equipment, including the new football, so we can train at home." Hu Lai Toss the football up, and then head the ball towards Li Qingqing.
Li Qingqing raised his foot to stop the ball, and found that the football gas was enough, and there was no shortage of gas, which was in line with the conditions of use.
"Okay. Let's go after an hour's rest. Let me review Spanish first."
Song Jiajia invited a Spanish teacher to Li Qingqing, but he didn't come every day. He had three classes a week, three times.
When not coming, Li Qingqing reviews Spanish by herself.
This was the rule of her life when Hulay had not yet come to Madrid.
Now that there is Hu Lai, it is naturally different.
"Then I will help you review, and you can ask me if you can't." Hu Lai sat down beside Li Qingqing.
"good."
Li Qingqing promised readily at first, but she soon regretted it because...
"What are you doing?" she asked, turning her head.
"Looking at you." Hu Lai, who was next to him, put his head in one hand and looked at Li Qingqing slightly sideways and said.
"Then don't keep watching like this...I will be distracted!" Li Qingqing protested.
"You are so good-looking, can't you just take a few more glances?" Hu Lai said brazenly.
"Usually, just look at it, don't influence me here when I am studying!"
In the end, Hu Lai was blasted away by Li Qingqing.
"I will call you if I don't know how to do it!"
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Hu Lai, who was driven away, boarded the terrace on the second floor and looked far to the left, seeing the lights in the neighbor's house.
Said it is a neighbor, in fact, the two sides are separated by a distance of almost 100 meters.
There was a movement over there that I couldn't really hear it. The reverse is also true.
It's completely different from the domestic chop ribs upstairs, where the windows of your house are following the earthquake.
After two and a half years in Leeds, Hulay has gotten used to this kind of life.
At the very least, no one would easily disturb the two-person world between him and Li Qingqing.
He looked at his neighbors and remembered what Song Jiajia had said. It seemed that it was Maxi Carey's house over there.
Maxi Carey is so famous that Hu Lai has certainly heard of it.
Such a statement has been circulating in the market. Although it has never been confirmed, many people are willing to believe that it is true:
That is, if Maxi Carey is not for character reasons, he can actually compete with Alexandra Cerrados for the "Four Kings".
After all, before Cerrados won the World Cup, he was the weakest one of the "four kings".
Louis Francis is on the same team as him and is the top card of the Madrid Kings. The national team honors and club honors are all finished, and the football grand slam winner.
Not to mention Cerius Caesar in the Turin Bulls, the four kings have maintained a very good state to this day. The "Almighty Superman" of world football has almost no shortcomings, whether it is physical or technical. The club has taken all the honors it deserves, and all the personal honors have been taken. At the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, he helped Italy win the World Cup, leading the "Four Kings", both in ability and prestige, reaching the peak.
Grimand Elmer, the "Sun King" of Blue and White Munich, is a well-deserved tycoon of German football. Except for the European Cup champions who never got involved, the other championships were all finished.
Compared with the three of them, Cerrados is indeed a bit weak.
In the club, although he won a lot of championships, but it was the Madrid King after all. Isn’t it normal to win the championship with the Madrid Kings?
In terms of personal influence, before Francis retired, Cerrados could only be the "second gang leader" with the Madrid King, and the boss has always been Francis.
The national team's honor is zero, there is no World Cup, and there is no European Cup.
Before the United States and Canada won the World Cup, many people felt that Cerrados was forced to force the four kings.
Maxi Carey is the one who has the highest voice among the players who are considered to be the "Four Kings".
National team honors, Maxi Carey and Cerrados were zero at the time.
The club's honour is worse than a Champions League champion.
But he is a pirate in Madrid after all, not the King of Madrid, so being able to achieve such a result is enough to show his personal abilities.
In addition, Maxi Carey's style is chic and elegant, full of imagination, and it is better than Cerrados in terms of viewing.
In the eyes of the majority of fans, the popularity is naturally high.
Of course, there is nothing controversial about this issue now. Cerrados led the Spanish team to win the 2026 World Cup in the United States and Canada. He himself won the World Cup best player with four goals and two assists.
The debate about whether he is qualified to become the "Four Kings" comes to an abrupt end.
...
Maxi Carey is a very talented and talented top superstar, but his temper is not small...
Although Hu Lai has never been in contact with this superstar, he is also deeply impressed. The deepest one was last year's World Cup.
It was the first time the Chinese team players participated in the World Cup, they were a little nervous.
After hearing that Maxi Carey quit the World Cup due to an accidental injury, everyone became even more nervous. Even a slightly fierce fight in training can cause a skirmish.
So in fact, it can be said: The fuse of the conflict between Jiang Wanqing and Gao Chen was in Maxi Carey...
After that injury, Carey was at the airport where he left, facing the crowds of fans and media reporters, and said coolly: "Is it regrettable to be absent from the World Cup? No, it is not my regret that I can not participate in the World Cup, but the World Cup. Regret."
This sentence also left a deep impression on Hu Lai, because it really seemed to be pretending.
Of course, Maxi Carey is indeed called the "king of the king", especially pretending to be forced.
There are always a few players with special personality in world football, Maxi Carey is one of them.
In addition, after being criticized for his maverick personality, he once said this golden sentence:
"For those who don't like me, I have only one sentence: The mountain is there. Whether you like it or not, the mountain is there."
This sentence has become a classic quotation that can represent Maxi Carey.
as well as:
"Fuck it, my'MAX' is like that!"
His other nickname "MAX" also comes from this sentence.
Maxi Carey’s names MAXI and MAX are only one letter apart.
MAX also means the highest, the most, the largest, and the limit, so he uses this word to express that he is the most powerful player in the world.
A fanatic nicknamed "Marx" and a club like the "working class vanguard" really complement each other...
Hu Lai complained in his heart.
Such a person with full of personality is the number one star of his new club, why don't you think it's not easy to get along with...
But Hu Lai was not afraid.
He was a man who had come here since he was a child, and he did not know how to write the word "fear".
"Hu Lai!"
Li Qingqing's call sounded downstairs.
"Come on!"
Hu Lai quickly ran downstairs after answering.
His Li Qingqing needed him, so he drove Caiyun to go.
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After Li Qingqing had studied Spanish, the two changed clothes and appeared on the lawn in the backyard.
"To practice the left foot is actually very simple. It is to add restrictions in the training:'All touches can only be performed with the left foot.' Start with the ball bump, first develop the feeling of the left foot."
Li Qingqing said that to step on the football from the ground with his left foot is to press down on the football with his foot, let the football be squeezed and deformed and then jump up, and then use the foot to pick up the football.
She only used her left foot to kick the ball, and she seemed very skilled.
I can't tell at all that her dominant foot is her right foot. If there is a women's football game, Li Qingqing's inverted foot ability in the game should be at full value.
After a while, Li Qingqing gave the football to Hu Lai with his left foot: "Next! With the left foot!"
When Hu Lai reflexed and wanted to raise his right foot, she shouted.
Hu Lai hurriedly changed to his left foot and didn't stop.
He himself was a little embarrassed: "It's not counted this time, I'm not ready!"
He was really not ready, not an excuse.
Li Qingqing smiled happily, because she suddenly seemed to have returned to the secret base eight years ago.
"Don't come again, you can kick the ball with your left foot."
Li Qingqing arranged the task and watched.
Hu Lai leaned over, always reflexively accustomed to changing to the right foot. At this time, Li Qingqing would remind him aloud.
In fact, Hu Lai’s left foot did not say that he could not even the simplest ball bumping, but he usually uses his left and right feet to bump the ball. Once he is required to use his left foot to bump the ball, it is contrary to his habit. It always takes a while to get used to it.
Fortunately, it didn't take him long to get used to it.
After seeing that he got used to it, Li Qingqing didn't let him go on, but stopped and asked him to pass the football over with his left foot.
The two passed the ball to each other.
Pass with left foot and connect with left foot.
At first, it was passed in place and received in place. Later, after seeing Hu Lai gradually adapting, Li Qingqing started running to pass and pick up.
After the two went to the football park to "digest", this was actually the first time Hu Lai played with Li Qingqing after many years.
Hu Lai also had a new understanding of Li Qingqing's growth.
I have to say that leaving aside the innate gap between men's and women's football in physical confrontation, just talking about technology, Hu Lai believes that Li Qingqing should be one of the top players in football.
Especially the basic skills are very solid.
Don't look at it so far, it's just a simple pass, but the power of Li Qingqing's every pass... is exactly the same!
Do you dare to believe this?
It's like a ruthless serving machine. After setting the power and speed and other parameters, each foot is the same as the previous one. To what extent do you have to control your own muscle strength...
Hu Lai has always known that Li Qingqing is a genius of Chinese women's football and has a very high position in the world women's football. Otherwise, the King of Madrid would not spend so much money to sign her from Paris Eger.
But in fact, it is not until today that Hu Lai has a more profound and true understanding of how good Li Qingqing is.
He even thought, if he could live with Li Qingqing early, how fast his football level should improve...
Thinking of this, Hu Lai had a whim, entered the system space, and used his points to purchase [Advanced Training Reel: Passing] and [Advanced Training Reel: Receiving], as well as [Advanced Training Reel: Shooting] to use on himself.
He wanted to see if his way of training privately with Li Qingqing at home would be recognized as a "training class" by the system.
The result is... well, the system does not consider this to be a formal training session.
After using the scroll, an icon also appeared in the BUFF column, but the icon was gray...
The description did not take effect.
It seems that it is not feasible to eat the system bonus by turning on a small stove.
But Hu Lai himself was not too disappointed. After all, even without the bonus of the training scroll, as long as he trains honestly every day, his ability will be improved.
It's just that the speed will be slower.
Slowly go slow.
Just as Fatty Song said, he and Li Qingqing will still have a long life in the future...Why are they going through the night?
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The football rolled quickly on the lawn, rubbing and rustling.
Li Qingqing watched the football roll towards Hu Lai, with a smile on her face.
In private, she thought a lot about what would happen after she lived with Hu Lai.
Only I didn’t expect them to pass and catch each other in the yard like this...
But she was not disgusted, let alone disappointed.
She was even delighted.
She seemed to be back in 2019, eight years ago. She and Hu Lai met at a secret base and she became his coach.
They were both only sixteen years old at that time.
She was very fortunate that she met Hu Lai when she was sixteen years old when she didn't even know if she could continue to play football.
She is even more grateful that even after eight years, they can still play together like this.
Football is really good...
Li Qingqing kicked the football to Hu Lai~EbookFREE.me~ Hu Lai stopped the ball according to his previous habit, but the raised left foot was beaten back and almost missed the ball.
"Wow! Why did you suddenly increase your strength?" Hu Lai exclaimed.
Li Qingqing said solemnly: "Ah, I think you have adapted, so it's starting to increase the difficulty!"
Hu Lai looked at her suspiciously: "Is that so?"
"Of course! I'm your coach!" After saying that she hooked to Hu Lai, "pass the football back and increase her strength."
Hu Lai obediently followed suit.
Bang!
"You see if you use a little bit of force, the ball is not accurate." Li Qingqing turned to look at the football on the wall and said to Hu Lai.
Hu Lai opened his mouth and found that he had no way to refute, he could only say: "Come again!"