Chapter 42: Extraordinary ordinary people

Hu Lixin changed into his security uniform and walked to the front door of the community to replace his colleague Lao Fan.
He is about to start another day's work.
When Lao Fan saw Hu Lixin, he poked his head out of the guard room and waved to Hu Lixin.
"Lao Hu Lao Hu, your son is actually playing professional football?!"
When Hu Lixin walked in, he couldn't wait to ask.
Hearing these words, Hu Lixin frowned and looked at his colleague partner.
"I saw it by accident last night, Lao Hu, you hide so deeply..."
As he said, Old Fan gave him a punch and lightly hit him on the shoulder.
Hu Lixin figured out how Lao Fan knew-Anton TV broadcasted a trailer for "Characters" last night. It was also at that time that he knew that his son had actually appeared on Anton TV's trump card show.
Not only him, but even his wife was caught off guard.
At that time, the two people were watching Anton TV's anti-Japanese drama, and when the commercial was interrupted, such a trailer suddenly came.
When seeing the video of Hu Lai shooting on the screen, Hu Lixin couldn't even get up to smoke. He could only sit on the sofa and watch his son and said to him: "It's never too late to pursue your dream."
The wife was surprised at first, and then laughed happily, making people kick their legs in bed.
She was so happy because she saw her husband deflated.
Hu Lixin was sitting depressed on the sofa at the time, unexpectedly getting a backstab from Anton TV...
And then he realized the seriousness of this matter-Anton TV's "People in History" column is very well-known, I am afraid that soon everyone who knows their father and son will know that his son is playing professional football...
Sure enough, as soon as he came to work today, he was caught by Lao Fan.
"I said Lao Hu, so are you. Your sons are all big stars. How are you going to be a security guard... to experience life?" Lao Fan said half-jokingly.
The reason is "half joking", naturally, because in the eyes of Lao Fan, Hu Lixin's son Hu Lai, as a professional star, must make no less money-he really believes that Hu Lixin does not need to be a security guard for money now This hard work.
Hu Lixin glared at his colleague: "What nonsense? Are professional players so profitable?"
"Isn't it?" Lao Fan raised his eyes, "I don't think professional players always say that professional players drive luxury cars and buy luxury goods... Money is not easy to make, can you spend it like that?"
"You are a typical example of only seeing thieves eating meat, but not seeing thieves being beaten. How can there be any money in this world to make money? Professional players also get their lives in exchange for money..."
"Exaggerated, exaggerated. It's just playing football, but it's a life change? I tell you Lao Hu, as far as the performance of those players is concerned, I feel that I can do it up! Don't make too much money..."
Hu Lixin couldn't listen to Lao Fan's nonsense. He interrupted the other party: "Lao Fan, you can't do it."
Lao Fan looked at Hu Lixin's seriousness and couldn't help grinning: "Why, you are so sure, have you been a professional player?"
I really did...
Hu Lixin said this in his heart, but he immediately realized that he might not be qualified to say that, because he hadn't even played a professional game, even if he signed a contract, what kind of professional player is he?
The thought of this evoked Hu Lixin's sadness.
So he didn't want to talk about this topic with Lao Fan again, waved his hand, and prepared to stand guard.
Old Fan was still muttering, "...isn’t it just a shame to play? What can’t I do? Since they also lose when they go up and I also lose when they go up, why can’t I make this money? Hey!

Hu Lixin had already stood on the guard box, staring straight ahead and saluting every owner who entered and exited the gate of the community.
Turn a deaf ear to Lao Fan's whispers.
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Hu Lixin, who was sitting on the sofa watching TV and swiping his mobile phone, suddenly found his wife walking in front of him, putting a plate of peanut seeds and a plate of cut fruits on the coffee table in front of him.
Although the melon seeds and peanuts are on the same plate, they are very distinct. The dark brown melon seeds and the yellow-toothed peanuts were shown by Xie Lan as a Tai Chi Yin and Yang fish...
The apples, tooth by tooth, form a radial circle on the outermost part of the plate, and inside the circle are long strips of green leaves, arranged neatly in a radial circle, and the center of the circle is one after another. Of swollen fuchsia grapes.
There are just three layers, the innermost layer is red, the middle layer is turquoise, and the outermost layer is light yellow, which is pretty pretty.
"What are you doing with these fancy?" Hu Lixin was surprised.
"Festival." Xie Lan happily sat down on the sofa next to her husband, then took out the remote control, turned on the TV, and switched to Anton TV.
"It's never too late to pursue your dreams!"
Hu Lai's face and his voice appeared on TV again-this is a trailer for the "Characters" program.
Hu Lixin immediately understood what his wife was doing. Today, Wednesday, is the day when the latest issue of "Characters" is broadcast... She is so grand, just to watch her son go on TV!
Hu Lixin rolled his eyes and planned to get up and leave to smoke in the kitchen.
But this time he failed because he was held back by his wife: "Smoking is harmful to health!"
"Then I don't smoke..." Hu Lixin took out the cigarette case and lighter in his pocket and put it on the coffee table.
I would rather not smoke than watch TV.
Xie Lan is anxious: "You must watch it! Usually you don’t watch the game, but today’s son’s documentary must be watched! Hu Lixin, he is your son, not your enemy! You don’t know much about your son. Take a look at him. Wouldn’t it be great to know about him? Besides, you always complain that he was forbidden to touch football since he was a child. How did he like football in the end... Then you may know the answer after watching this documentary. What? So sit down for me and let's watch it together!"
She passed her hands through her husband's arms and put her arms around him hard, for fear that he would run away.
Hu Lixin used a bit of strength and found that it was difficult to drag his wife on the soft sofa. He lost all his strength when he exerted half of the strength, and fell back on the sofa again.
Upon seeing this, he had to agree: "Okay, I see. Don't keep dragging me..."
"No! I won't let go until I finish reading it!" Xie Lan shook her head and said firmly.
Hu Lixin was speechless, and pointed at the fruit plate on the coffee table: "Then how do you eat these carefully prepared things?"
Now that his wife is holding her left arm with both hands, how can she free her hands to eat?
"You feed me!" Xie Lan said it for granted.
Hu Lixin turned his head to look at his serious-looking wife, and finally sighed helplessly.
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Li Qingqing sat cross-legged on the bed, leaning back slightly against the head of the bed.
On top of her cross-legged, there is a plastic tray. She is holding a paper bag with melon seeds in one hand, and she keeps pulling out melon seeds from it with one hand, and then knocking them in her mouth.
The skin of the remaining melon seeds was naturally thrown into the scum tray on her leg.
Because of the broadcast rules of the Chinese League, she has never been able to see Hu Lai's game in Shanhai.
And this time, although it is a character documentary, there should also be a lot of scenes of the game.
Poor Li Qingqing can only see Hu Lai's game through this "curve to save the country" method.
At the beginning of the show, after the opening, the host appeared. He wore a dark suit and opened his mouth with a deep and magnetic voice. It was Ren Junsheng, Anton TV’s ace host: "...We always sing dreams, praise dreams, always put dreams on our lips, it seems that having dreams is A very proud thing. But many people seem to be limited to this-they decorate their lives with dreams and make it look sparkling and dazzling in the eyes of others. But such a dream is just an ornament. .Why is this? Because it is not easy to realize dreams. There will always be resistance of one kind or another... But it is precisely because dreams are difficult to realize that so many people are keen on pursuing dreams. So those who overcome all difficulties and obstacles , The talents who finally successfully complete their dreams are more worthy of our praise and respect..."
Li Qingqing didn't know when she stopped reaching out to grab melon seeds. She was still holding the packaging bag with melon seeds in her hand, and looked straight at the TV screen.
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"...Today, "Characters" will introduce you to a slightly special character. He is very young, but he has been in the limelight recently... Yes, he is today’s protagonist, Hu Lai. This name sounds a little bit "Hu Lai" young people have extraordinary life experiences... As we all know, if you want to be an outstanding professional player, you need to be trained from a very young age, with great effort and price, and at the same time It takes good luck to finally succeed. But Hu Lai, a young man, first came into contact with formal football training when he was sixteen years old in high school..."
Zhang Qinghuan, who had just opened a can of beer in front of the TV, was stunned when he heard the host say so.
His hand reaching for the beer can stopped halfway.
"What are you kidding?" Then he exclaimed.
I only started playing football at the age of 16, and now I am the best scorer in the Flash Star team...Should I be so exaggerated?
Nowadays, in order to create program effects, TV programs don't even need common sense!
He regretted that he would be upset, staying in the apartment and watching TV...
What's so good about this broken show?
But when he was going to get the remote control and turn off the TV, he hesitated again.
He hung his hand over the remote control, and finally turned back to pick up the beer can and poured himself a sip of wine.
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"...Now the number one scorer in the team who scored seven goals for Flash Star in only six games, he almost missed the Dongchuan Middle School team... Coach Li Ziqiang of the Dongchuan Middle School football team told us. He recruited new things from the school team..."
Li Ziqiang watched himself appear on the TV screen, facing the camera, as if to himself in front of the TV, saying: "...Actually, I didn't want to recruit him into the team at first. I don't like him very much. In the future... Hu Lai is a very special player, the most special in that team. I think he should not be able to endure hardships, and not to suffer... His foundation is really bad, so I arranged for him A lot of basic training, and did not intend to let him play... But he persisted, which was beyond my expectation. At that time, I thought, maybe he is really eager to play. The hunger and thirst of not playing well in 16 years was released... He knew that he was missing more classes than others. If he couldn't train harder than others now, he would never be able to make up..."
Li Ziqiang stared at himself on the TV, a bit unnatural.
But he struggled for a while, still did not turn off the TV, but kept watching.
After all, it's just like what the daughter said, this is his disciple, he should pay attention...
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"...In order for Hu Lai to carry out basic training with peace of mind, coach Li even did not hesitate to play the villain in the training. He set up a very difficult training program for him. With Hu Lai's level at the time, it was almost impossible to complete...but At that time, no one thought that Hu Lai would break Coach Li's game with a beautiful barb goal in training..."
The TV shows the training of the Dongchuan Middle School football team, but it is not what Hu Lai originally did.
Mao Xiao turned his head and said to his family: "I was on the court at the time! It was Hu Lai who I defended. As a result, under the defense of the Yan team and me, he still completed a barb shot! It's really beautiful, all of us. People are frightened stupid!"
In the restaurant, Yan Yan pointed to the TV screen to show off to his companions who were eating together: "I tell you, that ball... Hu Lai hit the ball on top of my head! It's a blast! At that time he was A beginner, I ended up in a world wave! Who can think of this? Our coach was so stupid at the time! It was the first time I saw the coach be so gaffe..."
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The TV screen gradually dimmed, and when it was lit again, some empty street scenes appeared.
At crossroads with people coming and going, crowded bus stations, subway stations, people flow up and down...
At the same time, music sounded in the background, and after the piano intro, a male voice sang:
"I'm ashamed to say, I'm still doing nothing; I'm waiting for the bus, changing the subway, grabbing seats..."
In the crowded subway car, a beautiful white-collar worker wearing a professional suit and delicate makeup is holding the ring with her hand, with her head hanging down and leaning on the arm that grasps the ring, gently swaying with the shaking of the subway train. It's like a leaf hanging on a branch and swaying in the wind.
"I thought I would get ahead; I tried my best to prove that I can. No one in this world cares about your efforts, only your achievements..."
A takeaway boy ran into an office building with a fast trot carrying a meal. He looked at the crowd crowded in front of the elevator. He finally chose to turn to the stairwell next to the elevator.
Another courier brother is on the street with heavy rain, trying to lift the food delivery battery car that fell on the ground, and he is soaked all over.
"...I used up my youth just to prove that I am a mediocre..."
On the empty last bus, a young man in a dark suit sat on the seat with a backpack on his feet, and on his thighs together, there was a small cake with a candle inserted.
The dim candlelight was reflected on the car window glass and also on the young man's face. He raised his hand and wiped his eyes with the back of his hand, and then blew out the birthday candles on the cake.
"It's sad to think about it, there is no more time to waste; I began to bow my head to flatter my fate and stop doing it right... People who are better than you work harder than you, and feel sad when you think of it; it turns out that I spent my whole life just to prove that The mediocre, I am the mediocre..."
Li Qingqing looked at the TV, and the scene she had seen on the podium of the Dongchuan Middle School Stadium appeared before her eyes.
That was her first physical education class in this school. The boys were playing football matches in the team. Hu Lai wanted to participate but was excluded. Everyone thought he played poorly and didn’t want to take him, no matter how he explained. , And no one cared about that thin figure.
In the end, everyone was chasing football on the pitch, but he could only stand on the sidelines alone, staring at the pitch blankly.
That lonely and stubborn figure stayed in Li Qingqing's memory for a long time.
It was also the direct reason that prompted her to go to the secret training base to find Hu Lai, she was really curious about the owner of this back...
At this moment, the scene of the secret training base suddenly appeared in front of her eyes-the small clearing that was already overgrown with weeds.
Li Qingqing thought she was dazzled, but she soon discovered that it was not her own illusion, but the real picture on the TV screen.
That's where she and Hu Lai used to play football training.
Now overgrown with weeds, a young man appeared in this wasteland.
He turned his back to the camera, stood in front of a dirty football, met the ball for a run-up, and then kicked the football against the opposite rock wall!
Although the upper left corner of the screen is marked with the comment "Scene Restoration", Li Qingqing feels that this is like a real shot at the time...
At the same time, the rapid and sharp electric guitar sound was added, and the original low-pitched male singer's voice also became high-pitched, as if he was declaring war against this mediocre life:
"I am not a mediocre! I will not be a mediocre! I believe there is still a chance! I am not! I am not..."
Just repeat the lyrics over and over again, yelling constantly.
As the teenager kicked the football towards the stone wall, the scene suddenly changed, and the original wild grass clearing disappeared like water waves. The cheers in the background sound changed from small to loud, as if the tide was coming up, flooding everyone in front of the TV.
In the game, Hu Lai, wearing a flashing star jersey, shot the ball towards the opponent's goal.
He ran to the stands.
The Flashstar fans in the stands jumped up and shouted.
They waved the flags in their hands, rushed from the stands to the first floor, extended their hands to Hu Lai and cheered loudly.
Amidst the singing and cheers, Hu Lai leaped high and made his signature celebration, proudly showing his name and number in the broadcast camera.
"I am not a mediocre! I will not be a mediocre! I believe there is still a chance! I am not! I am not..."
Xie Lan on the sofa hadn't grabbed her husband with her hands long ago, but Hu Lixin didn't get up and leave either. She glanced secretly and found that her husband was looking straight at the TV screen, and didn't notice her peeping at all.
As the song came to an end, the picture gradually dimmed, and the singer's voice recovered from its high pitch: "I gave up love and betrayed my faith. Maybe this is the truth of life, so desperate..."
In the black field, the show host Ren Junsheng’s magnetic voice sounded again:
Before Hu Lai decided to play professional football, both his father and his professional coach on the school team had told him about his career. The risky and cruel side of football. This is a kind of warning and a kind of worry... But Hu Lai finally chose to embark on this unknown road to pursue his dream."
The picture turned bright, and Hu Lai was standing alone on the training ground in the morning, sweating, with golden sunlight shining on him, and the sweat on his face was all lit by the rising sun.
"Romain Rowland once wrote in "The Biography of Michelangelo": There is only one kind of true heroism in the world, and that is to know the truth of life and still love it."
The camera zoomed in until it reached Hu Lai's eyes. A pair of eyes reflected the light of the morning sun, as if burning raging.
"For each of us, it may be a mediocre person in life, but we can all be not mediocre."
The picture was finally fixed on Hu Lai's back ~EbookFREE.me~ He faced the rising sun, the bright sun poured out, and a gold border was drawn around his slightly darker figure. More light overflowed from the outside of his body, cutting through the thin morning mist in the air, as if to give Hu Laian a pair of pale golden wings.
Subtitles appear on the screen:
It’s never too late to start following your dreams.
To those ordinary people who are not willing to be ordinary
Looking at this scene, Zhang Qinghuan asked a question in his mind:
How can a person...be so radiant?
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ps, the song that appears in this chapter is "Mediocre" by Antusheng.
About the outbreak... There will be a single chapter to talk with you later.
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