15. Chapter XV
15 Wanderers in Callao Square
It was just after one o'clock in the afternoon when Leo returned to Madrid, and he thought that his father should be working at the club at this time, and his younger brothers were either going to school or training, and his mother was the only one at home, and there was nothing to do when he went back. originally wanted to prepare a surprise for his brother's birthday - Ronaldo who fell from the sky, but he lost the bet, so he could only think of other ways to give his brother a special birthday gift.
With his mind in mind, Leo heads to Piazza Callao, Madrid's busiest shopping street, where he plans to spend the afternoon. Walk into a few shops along the square and take a look, clothes, shoes, backpacks, footballs, ...... There is no shortage of these things, and Leo himself can't be interested, let alone little Theo, who has been full of personality since he was a child.
Because it was a weekend, there were a lot of people coming and going in the square, Leo rarely didn't have a sports dress, white casual shoes, dark jeans, a black jacket over a white T-shirt, wide shoulders, thin waist and long legs, even if the hat was pressed very low and his face could not be seen clearly, but it still attracted frequent sideways glances from passers-by.
As he passed by a clearing in the middle of the square, he inadvertently looked up and noticed a wanderer coming from another side of the square. The man had long hair, a beard that covered most of his face, and a pair of sunglasses. It wasn't cold, but he wore a thick coat and gloves. He holds a soccer ball in one hand and a white puppy in the other.
Leo noticed this man because he walked in a strange way, obviously a middle-aged man who was a little blessed, but when he walked, he made people feel full of aura, which did not match his body shape and appearance at all.
The wanderer tied his dog to a chair on the side of the road, took a cardboard box from his backpack and placed it in the middle of the road, and he began to play joint football in the clearing. Alternately juggling the ball with the left and right feet, touching the ball with all parts of the body - knees, shoulders, and even the top of the head, and running with the ball among pedestrians...... Played almost all kinds of tricks.
However, no matter how hard he tried to show his skills, no one paid any attention to him for ten minutes.
Leo watched from a distance, his casual dribbling and interspersed dribbling less like a street soccer enthusiast and more like a professionally trained soccer player. It can be seen from the movements of his feet that his muscles are full of strength and responsiveness, and there is a subtle sense of disobedience with his slightly obese body.
Leo was almost certain that the man must have been carefully disguised. But what made him curious was who this person was, and he had a guess in his heart, but he was not sure.
Seeing that his skills could not attract the attention of passers-by, the wanderer offered to invite a gentleman to interact with him, but the gentleman waved his hand and walked away with a smile. He also noticed an old man with a newspaper in his hand, following him with the ball all the way, and the old man only smiled kindly, and had no intention of fighting him at all.
After a while, a long-haired beauty in a black trench coat came behind the wanderer, and he asked for the phone number of the person with one mouth, and the beauty had a frightened expression on her face, and dropped a sentence indifferently: "No, this is impossible." Then he hurried away. The wanderer didn't feel embarrassed at all, but Leo in the distance felt that this picture couldn't bear to look at directly, and couldn't help but want to ask for the psychological shadow area of the beauty.
Half an hour passed, and the wanderer, who had been laughing at himself, finally remembered his true purpose, picked up the cardboard boxes from the ground, and shook them one by one in front of passers-by, but no one threw money into them, and the box was still empty.
He stopped the ball on the back of his neck and fell to the ground, Leo thought he was going to do a few push-ups with the ball, but he only sighed deeply: "Alas, I'm exhausted." He lay on the ground for a few moments before he got up and sat down in the chair next to him. I took out a fruit from my bag and teased my dog while eating it.
Just when Leo thought he was going to call it a day and leave, he was full of food and drink and stood up again with the ball, and continued the trick he had just done again. This time he managed to attract onlookers from a crowd of passers-by, and even a black friend took his pass and bounced it twice, and then gave it back to him with his head.
Leo suddenly did something that even he didn't expect, and when he realized how impulsive he was, he had already walked in front of the wanderer, then took off his backpack and threw it aside, approaching to grab the ball at the wanderer's feet. The man reacted, and pulled his toes back nimbly, protecting the ball behind him just before Leo touched it.
The two of them started a fierce fight in the center of the square, and you come and go. Passers-by, who had just turned a blind eye to the homeless man, stopped to watch, and after a while, they surrounded the city in a circle. Many girls even held up their phones and clicked on Leo, and some took out change and threw it into the empty box.
This world of face is so unfair, although Leo hides half of his face in the shadow of the brim of his hat, just looking at his body can cause a scream.
The homeless dribbling skills are very high, Leo is not his opponent at all, and every time he is about to touch the ball, he is evaded by him, which is obviously deliberately teasing Leo.
Finally, a righteous little angel couldn't look at it, and a little boy in a blue coat in the crowd stepped forward and took the initiative to stand on Leo's side, and the two of them stepped forward left and right to follow the homeless man step by step, forcing him closely.
Although the wanderer's movements were smooth when facing Leo, he was obviously much more restrained in the face of the child's unscrupulous scramble, for fear that the movement would be too big and trip the child. Leo saw the moment and snatched the ball from his feet.
The homeless man was stunned for a moment, and immediately realized that he had been calculated by this big and small one, turned around and separated the two with his own body, firmly blocked the little boy behind him, and then grabbed the ball at Leo's feet on the spot.
Leo protected the ball at his feet and gestured for the boy to run to the receiving position. The wanderer stopped in front of Leo without giving an inch, and the two of them were deadlocked, Leo begged not to move, but the other party did not move. He suddenly had a flash of inspiration in his mind, and subconsciously made an unexpected action - Ronaldo's iconic cycling, striding frequently, but the upper body remained still, looking dazzling and very ornamental, attracting a burst of applause from the onlookers.
But his purpose was not to pass, his purpose was to make the opponent show his flaws, and he was satisfied to see the muscles on the opponent's face twitch imperceptibly, and just when he was so surprised that he forgot his next move, Leo gently pointed the ball to the side and sent it to the little boy's feet accurately.
The child laughed happily and rushed over to high-five and hug Leo. The wanderer picked up the football, walked to his backpack and fumbled for a while, took out a pen and walked back to the little boy, asked his name casually, and then wrote on the ball.
After writing, he handed the ball and pen to Leo, who took the ball and pen with a little hesitation, wrote Leo Fernandez underneath his signature, and handed it back.
After the signing, the jaw dropped, and the wanderer gave the little boy a hug, and took off his sunglasses, beard and wig in full view, revealing a face that everyone knew all too well. There was an immediate commotion in the crowd, screams came and went, and everyone shouted his name loudly at the idol who showed Lushan's true face, and the girls who had been filming Leo just now were all aimed at the 'wanderer' who had been ignored by them as air.
Leo was pushed out of the crowd by the frenzied fans who swarmed him, shrugging his shoulders, thinking that even if he took off his hat and showed his face, it wouldn't have this effect. Then he silently picked up his backpack and was about to leave. suddenly saw Ronaldo rushing out of the crowd with his change box, and without saying a word, he pulled himself to run to the other side of the square at a speed of 100 meters.
Behind them, it was not only the fanatical onlookers who were stunned by Ronaldo's sudden move, but also the security personnel and staff who looked overwhelmed.