Before the summer vacation, Carlos's training in La Masia was slowly on track, good exercise and a nutritious diet, the little golden retriever jumped taller again, his soft and pure blonde hair and his flowing and explosive ball skills have become a dazzling store in the team, the coach joked that only Carlos would take care of his hair every day.

In La Masia, the youth training system is very mature, most of the players are trained with the ball before the age of 15, will train the young players to control the ball, in order to ensure the creativity of the young players, all echelons of the club players never train more than a certain limit every day. Players aged U8 and U9 train three times a week, plus one match on Saturday. Echelons above U12 train four times a week, and U16 and above train five times a week.

The children who train here don't have to pay a penny, and the club allocates around 18 million euros a year to support the academy, not including the hardware.

As children grow up and need to be educated by their families, La Masia provides jobs for the parents of young players who have left their hometowns, and Carlos, an orphan, moves from the orphanage to La Masia's dormitory, where coaches hope he will fit in with the group — a psychological examination report shows that he suffers from low-risk depression.

The coaches haven't sued anyone yet. He was still young, and they hoped that La Masia, full of enthusiasm and youthful energy, would change him.

Every year in August, the football season begins, and the temperature of the Iberian Peninsula rises to its peak under the influence of the Mediterranean climate.

Su Qingjia was thinking about what kind of gift to give to this handsome blonde guy who will turn eleven this month.

Strange aunt is a bit square.

She asked Sister Rosa about Carlos's birthday, August 27, but Sister Rosa also told her that since Carlos came to the orphanage at the age of four, he never mentioned his birthday, and Sister Rosa had insisted on it, but she couldn't resist the more stubborn Carlos. For so many years afterward, the odd boy in the orphanage did not have a birthday, which was a common way for children to lash out at him in private.

Su Qingjia hopes that she can bring Carlos a good birthday memory, this teenager who works the road of his dreams is like a little sun, she doesn't want his childhood to be a barren place, crazy to grow wild grasses. That's so sad.

But what made the strange aunt feel square was that she really didn't know what kind of birthday gift she would give him.

Oh Dock, I really want to be quiet.

Carlos, who had already ushered in the summer vacation here, was not happy, and he borrowed a very nice glass flask from the coach to insert the plum blossoms that Bella gave him, and he mixed the salt water according to the ratio that a flower shop owner told him, and added the nutrient solution that he begged for, and put it in the sunniest place in his dormitory. Every morning, he could see the red flowers swaying in the golden sun, and he couldn't be better. But the good times didn't last long, even with intimate care, this plum blossom only lived for a month, and the roots were all rotten.

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Carlos felt that his heart was like a withered flower, and he was grateful.

It's all to blame for him, he practiced too long every day and didn't accompany Bella to give him a gift.

Carlos couldn't help but start picking his hair again.

For Carlos, who is still in the U11s, he has a paid leisurely summer vacation, but he does not want to waste it, and submits an application to the coach, Carlos trains with the players above the U16 who stay in La Masia, and after a few days, the big brothers with developed limbs are also used to having a little golden retriever who has been playing with the ball next to him, and he also points him twice from time to time.

When the players played against each other, Carlos would hold the ball in the audience and watch it very seriously, even though he had not yet started to learn the tactics, but that did not prevent him from doing so.

Carlos has an extraordinary understanding of football.

It was another bright morning, Carlos got up early, he looked at the empty glass bottle, he was a little downcast, it was time to return the bottle to the coach.

After washing up and combing his hair, Carlos had breakfast and headed to the playground for his regular warm-up jog before starting practice.

"Hey, boy, your little girlfriend has come to see you." Oleg is a member of the U17 team, he is very lively in the team, and he likes to joke, seeing that Carlos is puzzled, he raised his chin and pointed, "Where is it, on the sidelines, see?" I just ran into it when I was dribbling, and she came to you. Hey, little golden retriever, you found a ceramic doll, she looks very good, she's definitely a beauty when she grows up, if it's ......"

Carlos grabbed the ball that rolled off his shoulder, stabbed and ran, behind him Oleg was still shouting, "Hey, boy, you're too boring, hey, don't run, I'm not done yet!" ”

Stopping the car in front of Su Qingjia in time, Carlos was almost happy to jump up, "Bella, you, why are you here, I, I'm still training." "Oops, he said the wrong thing, why is he so stupid, he should have said I'm happy, how can it be that I am still training? Carlos was starting to get anxious again.

"Why, I am not welcome to come to you when you train, do you think I am troublesome?" Su Qingjia looked at the boy whose right ear was trembling like a sieve, and said, "It turns out that you don't welcome me, then I'll go." ”

"No, it's not, Bella, I, I'm welcome, I'm just not ready." Carlos hurriedly grabbed the corner of Su Qingjia's clothes, bit the corner of his mouth, and didn't know how to make up for it, "I have the smell of sweat all over my body, I want to change my clothes and take a shower." Bella, are you going to wait here? ”

Su Qingjia shook his head and said, "I still have to prepare, I'm not a big monster." Don't change your clothes, you're so good, pretty boy, you're as handsome as a little sun. Besides, when I used to train with you, you weren't sweating profusely one day. ”

Carlos listened to Su Qingjia's praise, and his heart was about to pop out, but in the next second, he said again: "Then is my hair okay today?" "He exercised for a while, and I don't know if my hair is messing around.

"Poof......" Su Qingjia laughed so unvividly, her stomach hurt, "Carlos, you are really, I don't even know what to say about you." Seeing Carlos looking at her suspiciously, Su Qingjia couldn't help but smile and coughed, "Okay, Carlos, your hair is very good today, not messy at all." Handsome~~~"

A pot of hydroponic pothos was turned out from the white paper bag next to it, but because it was too heavy, Su Qingjia didn't take it out, and the two children squatted down to look.

When she came, Su Jingkang sent her to the door, and later the lovely doorman uncle helped her carry her in.

"Do you like it?" Su Qingjia said as if offering a treasure, "This is for you." ”

Forgive Carlos for not waking up from the dead plum blossom, he seemed to have a brain short-circuit, "Give it to me, why?" ”

"It's called pothos, and it's a very tenacious plant, it can live in water or take root in the soil. It is very easy to survive, and as long as there is water, it can be satisfied. Su Qingjia did not answer his question, but started a small class of popular science, "The flower language of pothos is tenacity, kindness, and happiness." ”

Poked the somewhat sluggish beautiful boy, Su Qingjia pushed the pothos along with the bag a little bit, "Carlos, this is my first birthday gift to you, I wish you a happy birthday." ”

The teenagers on the pitch were running back and forth, practicing with each other, Carlos heard the wind, heard the shouts, heard the water, but he still heard the blessings clearly.

For a little boy who hasn't had a birthday for almost seven years, the phrase Happy Birthday is both foreign and familiar to him. In many cases, when classmates celebrate birthdays, he will also echo the words, "Happy Birthday", but he has not heard anyone say this to him for a long time, so long that he has forgotten that today is his birthday.

Carlos looked up at the girl who was smiling at him, she was wearing a strange dress today, with a cockline, her arms as thin as white jade were bare and exposed, but they were beautifully made, with many character patterns, and the whole skirt was split on one side of the leg, revealing a white calf when she squatted down. The red dress, Bella wears beautifully.

Perhaps at first, he just refused to celebrate his birthday with the children in the orphanage, and over time, no one mentioned it again, and he gradually forgot that every day was the same for him, nothing special, boring, boring, and cold.

"I love it and I love its flower language." Carlos touched the heart-shaped leaf of the pothos, "I will put it in the sunniest part of the dormitory and watch it every day." "He didn't want to mess up the gift anymore.

"Youth, pothos is shade-loving, it can't be exposed to direct sunlight." Su Qingjia stroked his forehead and looked at Carlos's surprised expression, "You don't think that all plants are to be raised in the sun, right?" ”

Carlos nodded, a little embarrassed in his big eyes. Isn't it? When he was in science class, the teacher said that green plants should absorb sunlight.

Su Qingjia couldn't cry or laugh: "Then don't, this bottle of pothos should be placed in a cool place, don't let it get sunburned, and you don't need to take care of it, just look at it and add some water when it runs out." Very well raised. ”

Carlos nodded knowingly, and looked his gift up and down: "Then I'll put it at the head of the bed, okay?" ”

"As long as it's not in direct sunlight, it doesn't matter." Su Qingjia tilted his head: "You put your things back in the dormitory first, today is your birthday, I and your coach have taken leave, you have to follow me today." ”

Carlos didn't know what to think, his cheeks turned red again, and his right ear trembled, "Then, I'll go to the dormitory, put my things, and I'll go with you." He jerked himself to his feet and ran.

After running fifty meters, he ran back silently, looked at Su Qingjia and said, "I was just practicing switchback running." Then he put the pothos from the ground in a paper bag and took it away.

The pothos was very heavy, and he could only use it, but it was very soon, because Su Qingjia's laughter behind him was too uncomfortable for him.

Su Qingjia: I was so excited that I forgot to take something, right?