Chapter 1246: On the Road
Two buses followed each other and drove along the G76 National Highway through the mountains and rivers.
The pink crossflower logo on the side of the car reveals its origin, and the passengers in the car are all players and staff of the women's club of Bee Football Club.
After more than half a year of fierce battles, they finished the league with the fourth place in the Women's Super League, except for the two international players who were selected to participate in the national team training camp, the other players and staff have been given long-awaited vacations. As is customary in previous years, everyone boarded the bus after a two-day break and took part in a group excursion organized by the club.
There are many destinations to choose from, and they can be used for different lengths of time. Considering the amount of travel funds given by the club, the girls reluctantly gave up the Maldives island tour, European style tour and other overseas projects that need to bear part of the cost, and chose to focus on domestic travel and even surrounding travel, and removed those places that have been there, and finally chose the ancient city of Changting located in the mountainous area of western Fujian.
Changting is close to the junction of Fujian and Jiangxi, to the west over a few mountain beams is the former red capital Ruijin, itself is the ancient city that was founded in the Tang Dynasty, there are still a lot of well-preserved ancient buildings and revolutionary sites of the Ming and Qing dynasties in the city, outside the city is the southern foot of Wuyi Mountain, the scenery is quite good, I am used to seeing the high-rise buildings in the city people and cars, it seems to be good to go to the mountains to experience the ancient city in late autumn.
There is another reason for choosing Changting, but it is related to their alma mater.
The Bee Club has the nickname of "Student Army", and a considerable number of members have the identity of college students, except for a few people who have poor grades in cultural courses, everyone else is studying at Luda Kah Kee College and even the headquarters under the sponsorship of the club, and they are all alumni of Atletico Madrid.
Eighty years ago, when the Japanese invaded the eastern university and generally moved to avoid disaster, Lu University did not go to the southwest to participate in the preparation for the establishment of the Southwest Associated University, but chose to move to Changting under the insistence of the then president Sa Bendong, and insisted on running the school in the mountainous area of western Fujian until the victory of the Anti-Japanese War. To this day, the gate of the primary school in Changting Central District still hangs the school sign of Lu University, which is a local scene.
Because of this relationship, Changting has become an inevitable place name in the school history class. In the past, there was no chance, but this time, since there is a chance to go, everyone is naturally willing to go and see it.
There are 400 kilometers of mountain road from Ludao to Changting, and it took nearly 20 days for the division commanders to walk this road. Eighty years later, they are only a few hours away.
Rao is so, the initial excitement of the girls is still gradually falling back with the extension of the distance, after seeing the legendary Lurong Highway and the 14-kilometer-long downhill "Devil's Road" in the river section, those who look at the mountain from the window have withdrawn their eyes and chatted sideways. Everyone either picked up the video to watch the game or put on headphones and closed their eyes and pretended to sleep, and the car gradually became quiet, and only the sound of the car TV was whispering.
In the middle seat, Meng Xin closed his eyes and listened to the song and fell asleep. Suddenly, she only felt that her arm was grabbed and shaken, and Li's loud voice came from her ears: "Xinxin! Xinxin! Look at this, it's super beautiful!"
"Huh?" she opened her eyes and turned her head, first at the other person, and then at the screen, but it was a white box.
"What is this?"
"Boss's new mobile phone! Haven't you read the news? The first mass-produced folding mobile phone!"
Meng Xin took it and looked at it, and quickly returned the phone, "It's just a release, let's talk about it when it's actually listed!"
Turning her head and closing her eyes, she said, "I'll sleep for a while, and then call me later." ”
"Oh," Lee was bored, so he turned his head and looked out the window.
After a short while, the mountains on both sides faded away, and a flat terrain appeared in front of the front of the car, and the outline of the town was faintly visible in the distance.
Pushing Meng Xin next to her, she asked excitedly, "Xinxin, take a look, is it coming?"
The latter squinted his eyes and looked out the window, and shook his head after a few seconds: "It's not here yet, it should be Kawada Town ahead." After there, walk another twenty or thirty kilometers to the county seat. ”
After saying this, she poked the phone in someone's hand angrily, "Please, if you have this kind of problem in the future, you can just ask GPS yourself!"
Li listened, but he squeezed his companion with a smile, "It's so troublesome to open GPS and maps, how can I ask you directly?"
Meng Xin rolled her eyes and turned her head away.
It's a pity that her actions are useless.
Li grabbed the other party's arm and asked urgently, "By the way, Xinxin, this Kawada is the Kawada that came out of Kawada chicken, right?"
Being tossed by her like this, Meng Xin's sleepiness that had just been brewing dissipated, and she turned her head to look at the other party: "Hey, when it comes to eating, your memory has recovered?"
The words were teasing, but Li completely ignored them, and straightened his small chest, "Of course." When you are an athlete, you are not allowed to eat it, and you are not allowed to touch it, so the chicken is safer, so you naturally have to pay more attention to it. ”
The food provided by the club to the players is specially designed by nutritionists, pursuing low-fat, high-calorie and high-protein, emphasizing raw vegetables and fruits, and implementing restrictions on takeaway snacks and beverages. Usually, there are some barbecues, stir-fried vegetables and other fats, but on the day of the competition, there are only biscuits, bread, boiled fish and ham, fresh vegetables, fruits and mineral water. Their condition is actually fine, those athletes who need to face doping tests from time to time are the real tragedy, not only barbecue hot pot, bottled drinks should be eaten less carefully, even melon seeds marinade, tea, coffee and chocolate can not be touched, which can be called a food disaster.
Beef and lamb are fatty and may contain clenbuterol, which is rarely found in the recipes of professional players, and is replaced by fish, chicken breast, eggs and milk.
Fatty taste is the sixth taste, food contains a small amount of fatty acids can bring pleasure, long-term consumption of low-fat monotonous food will inevitably affect appetite. In order to help the players improve their diet, the Bee Club occasionally provides some special fish and chicken, including hens and cooked chickens (gelding roosters) from Hetian Town, Changting County.
Kawada chickens are gorgeous, brave and combative, and used to be a fighting breed exclusively for the imperial court. Later, after the death of the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty, the children of the Eight Banners who occupied the capital preferred to walk birds, listen to plays, smoke snuff, pipe crickets, and fight cocks were unemployed and forced to turn to food. Broiler farming pursues easy management and fast growth, but the aggressive nature of Kawada chickens has become a defect, so they have to resort to castration as a surgical method. Because of the lack of hormones provided by eggs, the's comb, meat skirt, and tail feathers are poorly developed, and their appearance and temperament tend to be similar to those of hens, and the growth rate is faster than that of ordinary roosters.
With the deepening of exchanges between China and foreign countries, farmers from all over the world quickly thought of using exotic varieties to improve germplasm. Egg chickens are introduced into the bloodline of Italian white chickens, small hens are kept to lay eggs and small roosters are eliminated and slaughtered, and broiler chickens are introduced into the bloodline of American white feather chickens, which can be slaughtered and slaughtered in 45 days, but it saves the trouble of castration one by one.
It's just that if it's so fast, the nutritional flavor of chicken and eggs will inevitably be affected. With the gradual trend of consumption upgrading, rural eggs and mountain and forest chickens have become popular again. Kawada is a relatively isolated area due to its rugged mountain roads, and the local chicken breed has been able to maintain its original appearance, but it has become a well-known breed that is highly sought after.
Sitting up straight and looking out the window, Meng Xin quickly found the target she was looking for, and stretched out her hand to point to the small hill in front of her, "Yueyue, look there!"
"What's wrong, what's wrong?"
"That's the Kawada chicken farm you've never forgotten. ”
Li turned his head to look, but only saw a green bamboo forest, in which the top of the brown and gray objects could be faintly seen, "Why can't you see chickens?"
"This is not the northern prairie, and the little roosters and hens are all under the forest, so it's normal to not see them. ”
"Oh," Li nodded, retracting his gaze to look at his companions, "Everyone has arrived in Changting, this time you should be able to eat chicken casually, right?"
"Just know how to eat, eat, and look back to see how the physical trainer cleans you up!"
After complaining about his teammates, Meng Xin pointed to the front and introduced geography, "The front is Tingjiang." ”
The Tingjiang River originates from the southern foot of Wuyi Mountain, meanders all the way south into the Hanjiang River, and finally enters the sea in Chaoshan. Historically, the Han people in the north followed this river into southern Fujian and even Guangnan, and eventually evolved into the Hakka people who spread around the world, so it was called the Hakka mother river, and Changting, which was built near the river, was also regarded as the Hakka capital.
Now that I have seen Tingjiang, Changting is not far away. After crossing the bridge in front, the convoy drove northwest along a route roughly parallel to the Tingjiang River, and soon got off the highway and entered the county boundary.
Looking at the ordinary modern buildings on the side of the road, Li couldn't help but be a little disappointed, "It doesn't feel like anything?"
"It's nothing," Meng Xin asked her disapprovingly, "What's the matter?"
"Didn't you say that it was an old house in the ancient city? Why are there boxy matchboxes everywhere?"
"Old houses in the ancient city," Meng Xin pouted, "Traditional buildings have poor lighting, water and electricity are not connected, wooden beams and walls are easy to re-damp and attract termites, how can there be a comfortable modern house to live in? Most of the old houses were demolished decades ago, and the four city walls were also demolished." It is only in the last ten years that tourism has risen, and there are more ancient buildings. ”
"But then again," he said, turning his head to look at her, "you're here to eat chicken anyway, so what does it matter if there are ancient buildings or not?"
Hearing this, Li suddenly smiled, "There are also plum cabbage button meat, stuffed tofu, belly wrapped chicken, pickled pork kidney, fairy jelly, taro dumplings...... Oh, no, if you keep talking, you'll be choked to death by saliva!"
"By the way," Meng Xin reminded very "kindly", "why is there no unicorn born and rats?"
The unicorn is a complicated official dish, Li has never heard of it before, and he doesn't know the specific ingredients for it, but the materials used for the rat drying are unknown. Li can accept the soaked pork loin and the couple's lungs, but he can't accept the vole and the snake, and when he heard this, he immediately bared his teeth and claws in annoyance, and started to fight with Meng Xin.
"Okay, okay, you two stop!" Finally, the leader who was sitting in front of him couldn't look at it, and turned around to stop the two of them.
At the end of the season, their foreign coach flew back to China to reunite with his family after arranging his work. The latter is usually responsible for arranging trips to lead the team out to play away, but now it has switched to travel vacation mode, and some habits have not been adjusted for the time being.
Hundreds of meters ahead, there were more antique buildings on the side of the road, and two buses soon drove off the road and stopped in front of a three-story building with heavy eaves and tiles. Under the antique eaves hangs a plaque in a traditional style, with the words "home in Tingjiang" written on it, but there is no name at the place where the name is made, only a white symbol with a finger clicked.
Obviously, this is a theme hotel that belongs to Jiajing Dian Jia.
There is a common boss on the head, and the club arranges for everyone to stay here, which also means that the fat water does not flow into the fields of outsiders.
Jumping out of the car door and taking a deep breath of cool air, Litton felt his vitality fill his body again, "Whew!"
"Okay, don't be emotional," Meng Xin patted her in the back, "Don't forget that we still have something to do!"
After saying that, he ignored her and walked straight to the luggage compartment in the back of the car.
Li reacted, quickly followed his friend, and said nonchalantly: "Isn't it just playing futsal with primary and secondary school students, just deal with it with a few strokes, what's the big deal?"
In order to enhance its own influence, the bee women's football team actively participates in activities such as football into the community and campuses.
"Hey!" Meng Xin turned her head to look at her, "How can it be so easy? There is no problem in winning, but it is not easy to play well, you haven't read the supplementary requirements sent by the team leader in the group?"
"No," Li suddenly lowered his voice, "I blocked Deng Ma." What did she say again?"
"It's nothing, it's to raise the children's interest, and there are some extra requirements for the competition, and there are two things that have to do with you. ”
Although Meng Xin's expression was very flat, Li was still faintly uneasy, and asked, "What are your requirements?"
"It's nothing, it's just that you're not allowed to play groundball, and it's definitely hard for our former international lady. ”
There are only eight teams in the women's Super League and the women's league in the women's football team, and the selection is pitiful, and some people from major clubs have been selected into the national team. As the No. 2 scorer of the Bees women's football team, Lee also had the experience of national team training. It's a pity that this snack can't control her mouth, and before she can officially play for the national team, she was "returned" because of illegal takeout, snacks hidden in the dormitory, and confrontation with management personnel.
Li doesn't regret this, even if everyone jokes about the "former international" and she doesn't care. However, the rules she just heard still made her frown, she was not allowed to kick the ground, she could only kick the volley or simply use the header, these two kicks are good-looking, but they need to cooperate with teammates, and it is not easy to play well.
"Well, how can I kick this," she sighed, and she suddenly had an idea, and leaned over to her friend and threw out a long list of questions: "Just don't let the ground shoot? Or is it forbidden for any ground ball? Can I hook the ball up and head it over? Also, what will be the penalty if I kick the ground? It can't be a deduction from my salary, right?"
Meng Xin listened but didn't answer, pointed his finger diagonally forward and said, "Mother Deng is over there, you still have to ask her this question yourself." ”
Li looked up at the direction where the team leader was and stuck out his tongue, "Forget it, if you don't let you kick, you won't kick." ”
The space of the five-man field is small, in fact, it is not suitable for high ball, and the team leader did ask for it to be okay, but there is no prohibition on ground ball.
Hearing her say this, Meng Xin shook her head with a smile, took her luggage and flashed decisively, and at the same time reminded loudly: "It's better for you to ask the team leader!" 2k reading network