Chapter 12: How do you spend this year?

"Uncle Yong, the boss called me today and told me that I would be included in the next round of the league."
Before starting dinner, Hu Lai said suddenly.
This made Yong Jun suddenly raised his head and stared at him.
"I'm not kidding, it's true." Hu Lai added.
A smile appeared on Yong Jun's face: "That's really great, Hu Lai. The next step is to seize this opportunity..."
"It's just being put on the big squad, can I even make it out?"
"Don't let you appear, what do you do to put you on the squad of the game? Do you want to perform'trick you' on the national fans on New Year's Day?"
"It's not impossible, or let me pay a new year to the national audience on the bench?"
Yong Jun glared at him vigorously: "Then do you want another section of Guankou to report the name of the dish?"
"Uncle Yong, do you still remember?" Hu Lai was embarrassed.
"Okay. I know you haven't been counseled on business..." Yong Jun lowered his head to eat again.
Hu Lai looked at the fragrant braised beef rice bowl in front of Uncle Yong, and swallowed: "Uncle Yong, I can actually eat beef..."
"Really? But I think Ms. Schmidt gave me the recipe you should eat chicken today."
Hu Lai looked down at the white and fat things on his plate: "Then what is this, Uncle Yong?"
"Dumplings. Filled with cabbage and chicken breast." Yong Jun pointed to the small dish next to his plate, "This is a vinegar dish and garlic paste. Don't worry, I chopped the meat into minced meat, which is not as difficult as I thought. have eaten."
Hu Lai sighed, forkped one, dipped in a vinegar dish, then stuffed it into his mouth, chewing mechanically numbly.
It has to be said that in order to make him eat well, Uncle Yong has worked hard every day, not to violate the requirements of the team's nutrition expert Ms. Mia Schmidt, and to take care of Hu Lai's mood as much as possible.
But the ingredients are just that few, it turns into flowers and eats too much, but it's greasy.
"By the way, did you tell your parents about your being selected for the big list?" asked Yong Jun who was eating.
"Nope."
"You didn't tell them the first time?" Yong Jun was a little surprised.
"I want to surprise them."
"What's so pleasant about this? You'll be known about your selection to the big list until the day before the game."
"Then wait until then to know-it happens to be New Year's Eve that day, it is a red envelope for the Spring Festival."
Yong Jun thought for a while and felt that Hu Lai was right, so he stopped talking.
Hu Lai continued to eat chicken breast dumplings without love. At the same time, he picked up his mobile phone and sent Li Qingqing WeChat: "I'm on the big list!"
Soon Li Qingqing's reply was sent: "Really?! Isn't it a few days before the game?"
"The boss told me in advance today. Maybe it's because I'm afraid I'm waiting in a hurry?"
"Haha, that's great, congratulations! Congratulations! I'll be waiting to watch your game then!"
"It's just to be on the squad, I don't know if I will be on the court."
"You can definitely go! Come on, Hu Lai! Try to get a good start!" Li Qingqing also sent him a face picture of a child with his fist clenched.
Hu Lai smiled as soon as he saw the emoticon made by Li Qingqing, feeling so naive...
From the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of Hu Lai’s change of expression and asked: "What? The dumplings are delicious again?"

It’s okay if you’re used to eating...
Hu Lai raised his head and said to Yong Jun,
Uncle Yong, I’m serious, or else you can open a restaurant in China that specializes in various fitness meals. Just your creative idea. Before getting tired of eating, I can really bluff many urban white-collar workers. It not only satisfies their desire for health, but also caters to their lazy mentality that they are reluctant to exercise. It can be regarded as creative cuisine, with three birds with one stone. Open in first-tier cities Let’s find some internet celebrity big V hype, it will definitely be a big hit! Just this chicken breast dumpling, I will tell you Uncle Yong, I have never seen anyone eat this before you..."
Yong Jun gave him a white look: "I think you are scolding me."
"No, how could it be possible?" Hu Lai shook his head and stuffed the last dumpling into his mouth, then put the fork away.
"Uncle Yong, I'm full."
He got up and took the phone and went to his room.
Listening to Dingdong Dingdong's new news prompts kept coming, Yong Jun smiled and shook his head.
He said that he wanted to surprise his parents. How could young people bear it?
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"Will you go to the Chinese New Year market tomorrow? Let's buy something for the New Year. The last day off before the holiday, and the New Year will be in a few days."
Hu Lixin went to the kitchen to smoke and went back to the bedroom, and asked his wife Xie Lan who was lying in bed and looking at her mobile phone.
Xie Lan ignored him and continued to look at her mobile phone.
"Eh, what do you want to say..."
"No!" Xie Lan replied stiffly.
"Why not? Don't you want to go in previous years?" Hu Lixin was surprised.
"This year is not new!"
Hearing these words, Hu Lixin came back to his senses. He asked, "What's wrong?"
Xie Lan sternly said: "People are reunited during the New Year, and there is no talk of it. Our family is just the two of us, deserted, what's better?"
"...Wasn't it the same in previous years?"
Xie Lan froze for a moment. It was true that in previous years, she and her husband were the only two people during the New Year, which was not really lively. In fact, she has to get used to this quietness.
But how can you admit that your husband is right?
"Our son went to Leeds. It's been almost a month since he didn't even make the big list. Do you still think about the New Year?"
Hu Lixin:? ? ?
At this moment, Xie Lan's mobile phone rang suddenly.
Xie Lan looked at the caller ID:
mom
Not knowing why, her heart suddenly tightened.
It's almost ten o'clock, why did the family call themselves suddenly?
Is it Dad...
She was a little bit afraid to answer the phone under her wild thoughts.
"Whose call, you answer..." Hu Lixin turned his head and glanced, and after seeing the caller, he looked at Xie Lan's dumbfounded look, guessing somewhat.
So he took out his mobile phone from his wife without saying a word, walked out of the bedroom to answer the phone: "Hey, mom..."
Xie Lan looked at the back of her husband leaving, and didn't say anything to stop him, just staring blankly, all kinds of thoughts flooded in her mind, and she couldn't care about the anger that her son did not appear.
Soon, the husband turned back and handed her the phone back: "Mom asked if we should go to Jincheng this Spring Festival."
"Huh?" Xie Lan hadn't recovered yet, "My dad..."
"I'm in good health. Mom said that Hu Lai was not around, and I was afraid that the two of us would be too deserted during the New Year. So let us go and let us live together."
Xie Lan's body relaxed, and she exhaled, "That's it?"
"How about it?"
"Oh, I was scared to death..." She patted her heart lightly.
"I'll tell you that I usually don't think about it a little bit, think too much, and scare myself." Hu Lixin took the opportunity to educate his wife, "Now there is no need to go to the New Year market, and I will take the high-speed rail to Jincheng on New Year's Eve."
"You promised?"
"How about it? Or are you still embarrassed to see your dad now?"
Xie Lan thought for a while, then shook his head: "That's not true."
"That's not enough. You used the parent-child relationship to educate Hu Lai and me, aren't you and your dad also..."
Xie Lan groaned: "You hate it! Don't talk about me!"
Hu Lixin smiled so that all the lines in his eyes were squeezed out. It was not easy to see his wife deflated.
But Xie Lan frowned quickly again and sighed.
"what happened again?"
"Isn’t it your uncomfortable son? Originally, we two celebrated the New Year. If he really didn’t make the big list, it would be fine. Now it’s better. We will go to Jincheng for the New Year’s Eve in front of so many people. My eldest brother asked what Hu Lai would do?"
Hu Lixin really did not expect his wife to think so much and so far...
"You...you want to be crazy all day long!" (Note 1)
He was completely speechless.
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"I won't tell you anymore, I'm still out shopping with my teammates."
After Li Qingqing sent this sentence on WeChat ~EbookFREE.me~, she put her phone away.
Lilith Raza, the blonde next to her, made an exaggerated expression: "God, you are finally over, Qingqing."
"Sorry, Lilith." Li Qingqing quickly apologized.
"It's okay, Qingqing." Lilith waved her hand, "I understand, your boyfriend can't ignore you... Just like if I talk to my boyfriend, if he dares to return to me one minute late, I will definitely not spare him! "
Li Qingqing: "No, Lilith. It's a friend."
"Friend?" Lilith stared at Li Qingqing with wide eyes.
"Well, good friend." Li Qingqing replied very seriously.
Lilith frowned: "My friend, why are you talking for so long? Am I not your friend? No, Qingqing, this is not fair. You came out to go shopping with me... I'm angry, you want to invite me to dinner! Of course, if it’s your boyfriend, it’s as if I didn’t say anything just now."
Looking at his teammate who was smiling slyly, Li Qingqing sighed: "I'd better invite you to dinner..."
This time it was Lilith's turn to be surprised: "Is it really a boyfriend?"
Li Qingqing shook his head: "Really not."
Lilith exaggeratedly exclaimed: "Oh my God! I really can't imagine that a beautiful girl like you will be single...or are you actually LES? Ah, Qingqing, do you want to consider me? Actually, I am LES or something. acceptable……"
"Go to hell!" Li Qingqing slapped his teammate's shoulder hard.
Lilith screamed and jumped up and avoided, then Li Qingqing chased after her.
Two tall young girls frolicking in the streets of Paris attracted the attention of many passersby and tourists, who all smiled and watched this beautiful scene.
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Note 1: Dialect, the meaning of cranky.
(End of this chapter)
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