Chapter 74: Alienation not seen in years

After finishing the noon training, the players first put all the training equipment in the equipment room, and then returned to the locker room to change clothes.
Of course, Hu Lai didn't have to work with the schoolboys. He followed the head coach Li Ziqiang back to the locker room.
"Coach, don't you think about finding an assistant coach or something? With so many people on the team, are you the only coach busy?" Having entered the coach's office, Hu Lai found a place to sit down by himself.
Li Ziqiang looked at Hu Lai, who was extremely conscious, and said, "I have nothing else to do, I have time."
"It's not about having time or not. A person's energy is limited." Hu Lai said again, "Is the coach doing anything tonight? I want to treat you to dinner."
"Why are you inviting me to dinner?" Li Ziqiang asked casually while packing up his lesson plans.
"People need to know how to be grateful. You see, I'm also a serious professional player now. It's all because I have received good basic training here, otherwise I will not be able to keep up with the rhythm of the Poseidon Youth Team. Ah..." Hu Lai said with a smile.
"Really please?"
"Is this still fun?" Hu Lai patted his chest, "And coach, don't look at my current salary, but I still have money for a guest."
"That's OK, when I get off work, you will go with me." Li Ziqiang nodded.
Although there is no training in the afternoon, Li Ziqiang will not leave work too early. He still has to wait until the school's normal school time.
So how does Hu Lai spend the time between noon and get off work?
This doesn't have to worry him.
After coming out of Li Ziqiang's office, he saw Zhai Guangming, the old principal of the school.
He was looking at himself with a smile.
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In the honor room of the Dongchuan Middle School football team, Hu Lai wrote his name in an autograph book specially prepared for him. A teacher in charge of publicity at the school took a SLR camera and recorded this scene.
The old principal who carefully studied Hu Lai's signature chuckled, "The photos and signatures will be framed and placed in this honor room."
"Wow, I'm flattered, principal..." Hu Lai was humble, but he was actually ecstatic.
Does anyone dislike this pretending to be?
"I will trouble you to send us a flashing jersey signed by you after you return to the team. It will also be framed and hung on the wall." Principal Zhai pointed to the wall, and it was vacant.
"Look at what you said, the principal! I am a student of Dongchuan Middle School. Isn't it necessary to add honor to Dongchuan Middle School? Why is it troublesome?"
Hu Lai patted his chest and said.
Principal Zhai smiled happily.
The last two people stood together in front of the championship trophy of the high school national competition that year and took a picture together.
However, this group photo will not appear in the honor room of the school team, but in the private collection of President Zhai.
When he is in office, he will be placed on the desk of the principal's office. When he retires, this photo will be put back home by him.
This shows that he loves Hu Lai.
The average person does not enjoy this treatment at all.
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When the school bell rang, Hu Lai followed Li Ziqiang out of the campus first.
It's really stuck at get off work...
Hu Lai couldn't help but complain.
And Li Ziqiang seemed to know what he was thinking, and said: "If you don't leave early, I'm afraid you will be blocked by students after school. Then how will you invite me to dinner?"
Hu Lai was seen through his mind by the coach, but was not embarrassed at all. Instead, he smiled and slapped Li Ziqiang's flattery: "The coach is wise!"
Li Ziqiang looked back at Hu Lai's appearance, sighed, shook his head, and stopped talking.
Then he rode his bicycle towards his home.
He didn't care about how Hu Lai was going, he just took a taxi, bus or any other means of transportation.
Hu Lai swept a shared bicycle at the entrance of the school, and quickly followed.
The two of them rode their bicycles one after another and turned out of the small street at the entrance of the campus, and merged into the traffic on the road outside.
When he reached the entrance of the alley where the coach's house was, Hu Lai found that workers had already built a fence here.
It seemed that the house inside was going to be demolished, so he asked curiously: "Coach, it looks like you are going to be demolished here too, where will you live?"
"I have rented a house near the school, and I will move when this month is over." Li Ziqiang said as he turned into the alley.
After riding to his door, he locked the bicycle by the door and then took out the key to open the door.
Hu Lai checked out his shared bicycle behind him.
After Li Ziqiang opened the door, he pushed the door and shouted, "Qingqing, don't cook, someone will treat you tonight!"
Hu Lai, who had just settled the bill, paused when he heard the coach say so.
Then he saw a tall figure jumping to the door: "Who, Dad?"
The two eyes collided, and then they exclaimed almost at the same time: "Yeah!"
Li Ziqiang stood by with cold eyes, watching the reactions of both people in his eyes.
Well, it's not like it was pretended on purpose...
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Sitting in a small private room of a Chinese restaurant, Hu Lai glared at Li Qingqing, taking advantage of Li Ziqiang's opportunity to wash her hands and ask her: "Why don't you tell me when you come back?"
Li Qingqing smiled so that her eyes closed the crescent: "I want to see if you remember to visit my dad."
"What? I'm so like an ungrateful villain?" Hu Lai rolled his eyes dissatisfied. "In addition, the bill between us has been settled again..."
Li Qingqing quit: "How can this work? You hired my dad, not me!"
"Then you eat or not?"
"eat!"
"It's over..." Hu Lai spread his hands.
"What you owe is my food, not my dad!" Li Qingqing refused. "Unless you invite me to dinner."
Hu Lai wanted to refute, he saw Li Ziqiang walking in the aisle outside the door, so he had to shut up.
When Li Ziqiang walked into the house, he found that the two people were playing on their mobile phones, and they didn't communicate, and didn't even glance at each other.
He asked his daughter: "Qingqing, didn't you say that you and Hu Lai are friends? Why do I think you are very strange?"
"Huh?" Li Qingqing didn't expect her father to look at the problem from such a tricky angle. She was taken aback and quickly explained: "Isn't this there is no contact information, I haven't contacted for a long time, of course it will be a bit..."
Hu Lai also nodded quickly: "Yes, yes, coach, Li Qingqing left suddenly and didn't even say hello. Today is still the first time I saw her since that time..."
What he said was indeed the truth, and today was really the first time they had met after their high school separation...offline.
Li Qingqing was stunned when she heard Hu Lai's words, because she had never realized this before, and was always able to chat with Hu Lai on WeChat, which gave her the illusion that Hu Lai could see if she wanted to. But in fact today is actually the first time they face each other after they separated.
She left when the semester just started, and now if Hu Lai continues to go to school, he should be in college, and in a flash, he hasn't been so close together for almost three years.
Then she thought, how can she look like she has met for the first time in three years?
Well, not too enthusiastic, not too much talk...
So she watched Hu Lai chatting with her father with a smile, polite but not enthusiastic.
Obviously, Hu Lai had the same thoughts as she thought. There were only a few polite exchanges with Li Qingqing during a meal, and they were all kind of casual exchanges.
It fits the feeling of alienation that has not been seen for many years.
After dinner, Hu Lai also asked whether to send the coach and Li Qingqing back, but Li Ziqiang refused.
So the three people parted ways at the entrance of the restaurant, Hu Lai went home, and Li Ziqiang took Li Qingqing back-the restaurant was not far from Li Ziqiang’s home. They were walking here at the beginning, and now they naturally walk back after eating. Right to take a walk.
On the way back, Li Qingqing asked her father curiously, how did Hu Lai find him.
This is also a normal question. If you don't even ask such questions, it might make people suspicious-aren't you friends? Why do you seem indifferent?
Li Ziqiang took Hu Lai to the school to find him and the team. He also trained with the school team at his request and told his daughter.
"So funny? I knew I would go to school with my dad and train with the school team!" Li Qingqing clapped his hands.
Li Ziqiang glanced at his daughter, and said that it was good that he didn't ask you to go to school...
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Hu Lai, who came home and took a shower, lay on the bed in his bedroom, took out his mobile phone and saw Li Qingqing's WeChat message: "Are you free tomorrow?"
"Yes, what's wrong?"
Hu Lai just cut out after returning, wanted to see other news, and found that Li Qingqing responded in seconds: "Please eat me!!!"
This woman also used three exclamation marks... Does she want to eat me?
Hu Lai complained in his heart, and then replied: "Please, please, don't be so excited..."
"You have invited my dad to dinner, and of course you also want to invite me to dinner. I am your enlightenment coach!" Li Qingqing also posted a little man with his hands on his hips, with a proud face.
"I didn't say no, please... Tomorrow at noon or night, you can choose."
"At noon, my dad came home from get off work in the evening..."
"What are you afraid of when you come back, call the coach!"
"Then do you invite me or my dad?"
"Please, please invite you... Just lunch, what do you want to eat? Dongchuan's clear soup beef pot is very famous."
"Then eat this!"
"Yes, I will take you to the most authentic and delicious one."
"OK!"
"Tomorrow morning I will go to your house to find you, and then we will go together."
"it is good!"
Li Qingqing looked at the phone and laughed happily-this kid, finally going to fulfill his promise, invite me to dinner!
But even with this meal, he still owes me... one hundred and thirty-two meals!
Thinking of this, Li Qingqing opened the mobile memo and found a note called "One Card", deleted the Arabic numeral 133 and replaced it with 132.
Apart from her, no one understands the meaning of the notes in this memo.
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Hu Lai was swiping his mobile phone and heard someone knocking at the door. He put down the phone and turned his head to look and found that it was his mother.
"How does it feel to eat with your coach?"
"Very good..." Hu Lai frowned, wondering why his mother asked.
"I saw what was said in the interview on the "People" program, that school team coach doesn't seem to like you very much?"
So my mother was worried about this...
"Misunderstanding, it was a bit at the beginning, but then your son conquered him with his super talent and ability. The relationship between the two of us is good, so mom don't worry."
"Really?"
"Really. And it's not just me and the coach, but the coach's daughter..."
"The coach's...daughter?"
"Oh, she was also my classmate before, and then went to play professional football." Hu Lai did not elaborate.
But when the mother is concerned: "Women's football?"
"Well, women's football. By the way, mom, I won't be home to eat at noon tomorrow."
Not eating at home?
Xie Lan nodded and agreed very simply: "Okay, you go!"
She didn't ask Hu Lai what he was going to do. Does this still need to be asked?
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After coming out of Hu Lai’s bedroom, she entered her bedroom, then gently closed the door, then turned around and said to her husband: "Old Hu Lao Hu..."
"What are you doing?" Hu Lixin put down his phone and frowned when he saw his wife.
"You said our son... does he have a girlfriend?" Xie Lan lowered his voice.
Hu Lixin looked at his wife blankly, and never expected that she would ask such a question: "You ask me who do I ask?"
"That's right... You don't care about your son at all..."
"What does it have to do with whether I care about him?"
"I just went to find out about his meal with the coach, have you gone?" Xie Lan asked.
"This is called caring? What does that have to do with your girlfriend?"
"He invited not only the coach, but also the coach's daughter. He also said that the daughter was a classmate of his high school."
"What's the matter?" Hu Lixin didn't understand.
"What's the matter?" Xie Lan sneered. "He won't be home to eat at noon tomorrow~EbookFREE.me~ Guess who he went out for dinner with?"
Hu Lixin immediately thought of the coach's daughter, and he frowned: "It won't be... your association is too rich, there is no real evidence at all."
"What evidence do I need? Intuition is enough!" Xie Lan said triumphantly with her hands on her hips, "I tell you, Lao Hu, your son and the coach's daughter are definitely not normal!"
Hu Lixin chuckled: "You... think that your son's career is successful, and you start worrying about him getting married? You just think too much. Let me tell you, Xie Lan, don't think about these, Hu Lai. He has only played a good game for half a season. In your eyes, he is just as early as he has won the championship."
After speaking, he waved his hand and continued to look at his mobile phone, not caring about his wife anymore.
Xie Lan didn't think she was just thinking. Although there was no evidence, she just believed in her instinct.
She couldn't help but wonder, what kind of person is that coach's daughter?
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