Chapter 4: So young

"Pitt is really unlucky. He finally started in the World Cup, but he was injured before even halftime. Now he has to be absent for so long... I think we should go and see him." In the locker room, Hu Lai suggested to a few friends around him who had a good time.
Charlie Potter frowned: "I always think Hu, you don't really want to visit Pete..."
Hu Lai was very puzzled: "Charlie, what you said, if I didn't go to see Pete, what else could I do?"
"To show off in front of him, you World Cup golden boots!"
Hu Lai spread his hands: "Charlie, you can't save a gentleman's belly like a villain. Don't you say it, I never thought I could win the World Cup Golden Boot with five goals in the World Cup..."
Kamala can't stand it anymore: "Hu, don't say it anymore, the more you say it, the more I think you are showing off..."
Currently in the Leeds City team, only Hulay, Pete Williams and Jay Adams have participated in this World Cup.
Ismail Camara, who performed well in the league last season, failed to participate.
The French team is really talented, and he only performed well last season, lacking sufficient evidence to prove that he can maintain a good form. So it was not recruited by the French team.
The French team, which did not even qualify for the group stage in the last World Cup, performed well this time and eventually reached the semi-finals, and defeated Belgium in the third or fourth place finals through a penalty shootout and won the third place in the World Cup.
Some French media said that in fact, based on Kamara's performance in the Premier League last season, the next selection of the French national team should be a certainty, and he did not run. But if he wants to participate in the World Cup in Spain and Portugal four years later, he has to continue to maintain such a performance and state, at least not ups and downs.
Charlie Porter’s situation is very similar to Kamara.
His performance in Leeds is very good, especially last season. But he has never been selected for the England team. Mainly because England is full of talents in the midfield, even players like Pete Williams and Jay Adams can only serve as substitutes, and he is even more useless.
As one of the only three players in the team to participate in the World Cup, Hu Lai is not only as simple as participating in the World Cup, he also scored goals.
Not only is it as simple as scoring, he also scored five goals!
Not only is it as simple as scoring five goals, he also won the World Cup's top scorer with five goals!
This makes people feel... very embarrassing.
You know this is the first World Cup for that boy Hu Lai!
Get the golden boots in the first World Cup... Is there such a precedent in world football?
Yes, among the first few World Cup winners, some of the Golden Boot winners must have participated in the World Cup for the first time. For example, the first World Cup Golden Boot, Brazilian player Pedriño, he became the World Cup’s champion with eight goals. The golden boots are also the first golden boots in the history of the World Cup.
The top scorer of the second World Cup belongs to the Italian striker Luca Valentini, who scored four goals and won the World Cup top scorer.
But the precedents of ancient times are meaningless.
Since entering the 21st century, no player has ever been able to win the Golden Boot in the first World Cup he participated in.
Hu Lai did it.
For this reason, he also flew to New York, USA, and received his World Cup Golden Boot trophy after the World Cup finals.
Then take photos with those long-established superstars in the same frame.
It can be said that in the same year, he successively won the Premier League title, Premier League top scorer and World Cup top scorer. Hu Lai, who is only 22 years old, has reached the peak of his career so far.
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When everyone was teasing Hu Lai, Jay Adams, who had been looking down at his cell phone without speaking, suddenly said: "I don't think we need to visit Pete."
"Why?" Everyone turned to ask him.
Adams picked up the phone and showed it to everyone.
On the screen is a piece of news:
"...Frustrated on the stadium and proud of the love? Pete Williams meets the beautiful lady in private..."
There is a photo under this heading. The photo should have been taken outside Williams's house. He was on a crutches with one hand while the other hand was stroking the face of a brown-haired girl.
A group of people were dumbfounded.
After a while, Hu Lai suddenly slapped his thigh: "We should go see Pete!"
Charlie Potter reacted and nodded sharply: "Yes! You should care more about him!"
Adams looked at them, and the two of them looked at Adams. Hulay asked him, "Jay, aren't you curious?"
Adams put away his phone and nodded, "Yes, we should indeed visit Pete."
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When Pete Williams' grandmother opened the door and saw several Leeds City players outside, her eyes widened and she couldn't speak for a while.
"Hello grandma! Is Pete home?" Jay Adams, the leader, asked with a kind smile on his face.
"Ah...oh, oh!" Grandma finally reacted, she nodded repeatedly, and then let a few people into the house sideways, "At home, he is at home."
After speaking, she turned and shouted upstairs: "Pete--! Your teammates are coming to see you!"
Soon there was the sound of footsteps from the stairs, Pete Williams poked his head out there, and they were surprised and delighted when they saw Hu Lai: "What's wrong with you?"
"Let's come to see you, Pete." Hu Lai said on behalf of everyone. "Everyone cares about you."
Charlie Potter, Jay Adams, Camara and others behind him nodded vigorously.
Williams was very touched: "Thank you...Thank you! Don't stand below, come up, come to my room. I'm sorry that my legs are not very convenient, so..."
"It's okay, Pete. You wait there, and we will come up by ourselves." After speaking, Hu Lai looked back at the people who followed. They looked at each other and walked forward in a tacit understanding.
Everyone who walked up the stairs saw Williams, punched him in the chest, and made noisy walks to Williams' room.
The grandma who saw this scene downstairs gave a relieved smile.
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Williams was the last to enter the room. As soon as he entered, Jay Adams, who was guarding the door, closed the door simultaneously.
With a smile on his face, Williams was dragged onto the bed by Charlie Potter and pressed his hands.
Others quickly gathered around, looking at it.
The smile disappeared from Williams' face. He was taken aback and looked at his teammates: "Guys, what are you doing?"
"What are you doing?" Hu Lai hummed, "You know it yourself, Pete."
"Clear? What do I know?" Williams looked at his teammates who suddenly changed their faces, confused.
"Don't pretend to be a fool, we all saw it on the news!" Charlie sneered.
"News? What news? I didn't renew my contract with the club. I only completed the renewal last season..."
"Don't try to get through it!" Hu Lai said, and then winked at Adams. The other party held the phone in front of Williams' eyes and lit the screen so that he could see the news clearly.
"Frustrated on the court and proud of the love? Pete Williams' private meeting with the ladies..."
Williams stared at the phone screen in a daze, and after a few seconds he burst into a swear word: "Damn it! Those paparazzi!"
"People get stolen and get, what else do you want to confess, Pete?" Hu Lai crossed his arms and winked at Charlie, indicating that he could let Williams go.
So Charlie got up and stood beside the bed with the others, staring down at Williams.
Williams turned his head and looked around. "No, guys? You came to my house to ask me this question?"
"What is called'just to ask you this question'?" Hu Lai said, "Is there anything more serious than this?"
"I'm injured!"
"Ah, we're sorry, Pete." Charlie said in a painful tone next to him. "So we came to visit you specially, hoping that you can overcome the injury as soon as possible and return to the court. Okay, then you don't mind telling us...who is that girl?"
Williams raised his hand, raised his at Charlie Potter, and then sighed helplessly: "It's my French teacher..."
Before he could speak, the young people in the room exclaimed: "Tutor. AVI?!"
"My goodness!"
"Pete, I misunderstood you. I always thought you were the kind of upright person. I didn't expect you to be better at playing than all of us!"
"Fuck!" Williams made his with both hands at the same time, "She is really my French teacher! It's just that after I was injured, she came to comfort me and we were together..."
"Pete, listen to what you said. I used to be a French teacher. After I came to comfort you once, the two of you are together-there is a barrier between the two of you. After being pierced, the relationship between the characters will be changed all at once. Already?" Hu Lai sneered. "I wouldn't believe it if you didn't have any ghosts in your heart before!"
"What is a'ghost'?" Williams glared at Hu Lai fiercely, and then said somewhat sullenly, "Well...I admit that in the days I have been in contact, I have gradually developed a good impression of Delphine... …"
Jay Adams sighed with disappointment: "I thought there could be any bizarre story between the two of them that deserves to be reported in the tabloid... The truth turned out to be so simple and plain..."
Hu Lai turned around and asked him: "Otherwise, what do you want, Jay? I think this is more worthy of the tabloid than the story between the star and the queen of the nightclub. How strange — the core of Leeds City's midfielder and himself 'S French teacher falls in love!"
Camara suddenly asked Williams: "Why do you want to learn French?"
Williams curled his lips: "I don't want to facilitate communication with you..."
Hulai said "Ha": "So, Ismail, are you still Pete's "matchmaker"?"
Kamala looked puzzled: "What is ‘hongniang’?"
"Oh, it's Cupid."
After getting the explanation, Camara looked at Williams again: "But there are people who help us translate..."
"That's the problem, Ismail. This kid will take my words out of context." Williams pointed to Hulay and said.
Hu Lai, who was pointed at, changed his face and said angrily: "What nonsense? How did I take it out of context? I am called extracting the central idea!"
"No matter how you define it, Hu. In short, you have the right to interpret what I said, and I want to be able to communicate with Ismail directly, so I asked Delphine to teach me French." Williams continued.
"As a result, you didn't learn French, but you soaked the teacher?" Charlie Potter murmured.
"No, Delphine is a very good teacher, I learned French." Williams said this sentence in French.
Camara's eyes lit up when he heard Williams really speak French.
Although he has now learned English and daily communication is no longer a problem, he is still shocked by what Williams has done-he did not expect the other party to actually learn a language for himself.
Others also expressed their admiration for Pete Williams.
Jay Adams shook his head: "I can't do it like you, Pete..."
Charlie Porter was thinking: "I heard that French girls are more open and romantic than British women. Maybe I should also learn French?"
Hu Lai mocked him: "You shouldn't learn French, you should go to Korea, Charlie."
"Go to Korea? Why? Korean girls are more open?"
"No. Korean plastic surgery technology is better."
"Go to hell, Hu! You have no right to call me!" Charlie rushed forward and knocked Hu Lai onto the bed, and the two huddled together.
At this moment, grandma's yelling sounded outside the door: "Tea time, boys!"
Hu Lai, with messy clothes and her hair curled into a bird's nest, sat up from the bed and suggested, "Guys, we should let Pete invite us to dinner and introduce his girlfriend to us. In China, this is..."
Adams raised his hand to stop him from continuing: "You don't want to be like this, Hu."
"Why?" Hu Lai was very strange, and there was something that Hu Lai didn't want to eat?
"Don't you always say that a bachelor is a dog? At that time, Pete and his girlfriend are at the dinner table, you can only watch them by the side... Where is the meal? It is clearly dog ​​food. You can still eat it. Is it?" Adams explained.
Hu Lai was stunned and found that Adams was right. That scene... was too cruel and unsuitable for children.
So he waved his hand sullenly: "Forget it... let's have afternoon tea!"
Everyone frolicked downstairs and saw Williams' grandma had prepared tea and biscuits.
She picked up the plate and said to Hu Lai who came first: "Try it, Hu. This is the ‘bone biscuits’ I specially baked."
Everyone stared at the pile of small bone-shaped biscuits on the plate, for a moment, then burst into laughter, except for Hu Lai.
Grandma looked at everyone who was laughing strangely, then looked at Hu Lai with expectant eyes and motioned for him to taste.
Williams smiled happily and patted Hu Lai the shoulder: "You're welcome, Hu. The cookies my grandma baked are the best!"
Hu Lai had to pick up a piece of bone~EbookFREE.me~ and put it in his mouth to chew.
"How?" Grandma looked at him expectantly.
Hu Lai nodded, showing a slightly exaggerated smile: "It tastes great! Thank you, grandma."
"You are too polite, Hu. I am very happy that you can come to see Pete. Come, eat and play as you like. Feel free to..." Grandma greeted everyone.
Everyone sat down obediently to drink tea and eat biscuits. Under the kindly gaze of grandma, at first they were as good as five or six-year-old children.
But soon they turned on the game console and yelled into the battle.
Grandma was busy in the kitchen, and she glanced at the young people from time to time, and a smile from the heart appeared on her face.
She felt like she was younger again.
so good……
(End of this chapter)