The bell rang for the end of the school day, and soon students with school bags were coming out of the classrooms, appearing in the hallways, stairwells, and out of different school buildings.

Some of them ran to the school playground, and some walked to the school gate.

But in the teaching building of the third year of high school, not many people got up and left.

They still have evening self-study to attend, and now is not the time to leave school.

Chu Yifan put down the pen in his hand, lifted his head from behind the pile of books piled up on the table, and then took out a pair of crutches against the wall.

He struggled to his feet with his crutches, and slowly moved towards the classroom door.

"Chu Yifan, you still have to go to training after you're like this?"

Someone in the classroom asked.

"It's not training." Chu Yifan said with a smile. "It's to say goodbye."

"Ah, yes, you're retiring from the football team...... Shall I help you? ”

"Thanks, but no." When Chu Yifan said this, he had already seen Yan Yan standing at the door of his classroom.

"How's it going, it's inconvenient to go down the stairs? Do you want me to carry you? After Yan Yan saw Chu Yifan come out, he greeted him.

"Die, I need you to carry it?" Chu Yifan glared at him.

Yan Yan laughed, attracting the sideways glances of many people.

Seeing him like this, Chu Yifan complained: "You will be the captain of the team next, can you be more steady......"

Yan Yan shook his head with a smile and said nonchalantly, "I won't come steadily, Team Chu." Not everyone is like you. ”

"Alas......" Chu Yifan sighed, "I really don't know if you are suitable to be this captain now." ”

"Hey, hey." Yan Yan smiled and slowly moved towards the staircase at the speed of Chu Yifan.

"Don't help me." When he walked to the staircase, Chu Yifan said to Yan Yan.

Yan Yan raised his hands: "Okay, I won't help you." ”

But he still walked on the steps that were slightly two blocks ahead of Chu Yifan, so that if Chu Yifan didn't maintain a good balance and was about to fall, he could also help the Chu team below.

Chu Yifan leaned on the railing of the stairs, supported the cane with both hands, and carefully walked down the steps step by step.

"Team Chu, I actually thought about it." Yan Yan, who was walking in front, shook his head back and forth, first looked at his feet, and then turned back to look at Chu Yifan.

"What have you thought about?"

"When we went to find Luo Kai, I thought that if Luo Kai could really help the team enter the national competition, then when you retired, I could not be the captain, just let Luo Kai and let him be the captain."

Chu Yifan, who was looking down at the steps under his feet, heard these words, and stopped a little in surprise and looked up at Yan Yan.

"Really, I really thought that at the time, after we went to find Luo Kai and came back." Yan Yan stood below him, looked up at him and said. "As long as I can get the team to go to a national tournament, it doesn't matter if I can be the captain or not. Team Chu, you're right, I'm not actually a qualified candidate for captain. ”

"I didn't mean that, Yan Yan......"

"It's okay, Team Chu. I don't really want to be the captain myself, and the thought of being majestic in front of my teammates all the time makes me feel tired – you know I'm not that kind of person. I like to be a vice-captain who is not so serious, and occasionally use your name to come out and fake the tiger, ha! ”

Speaking of this, Yan Yan laughed.

But Chu Yifan couldn't laugh, he said to Yan Yan: "But Luo Kai is also gone." ”

"Yes, Luo Kai is also gone......" Yan Yan sighed.

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Hu Lai packed his schoolbag, took the sports bag containing the jersey from Song Jiajia's hand, and ran out of the classroom first: "See you on the court in a while, fat man!" ”

"Go, go......" Song Jiajia waved her hand, and then began to slowly pack her schoolbag.

In the classroom, many students saw Hu Lai running out, and after Hu Lai ran away, they started talking about it.

"So if you go to play in a national tournament, do you really want to become a professional player?"

"yes, yes, I still think it's a little incredible when I think about it now...... It's the first time I feel like school football and professional football are so close......"

"A little envious, I also want to be a professional player......"

"Huh? You think beautifully, you can't even get into the varsity team! ”

"Hey, don't you look down on me! Hulai was able to make it to the varsity team......"

"Hey, you're really not as good as Hulai! He scored three goals in this national competition, and the second scorer in the team was second only to Luo Kai's! ”

"You say that...... It's really incredible. Who would have thought that Hulai would be able to score three goals in the national competition...... Didn't you say you couldn't even kick the ball? ”

"Not really. We used to laugh at people, but now it seems that ...... Alas! ”

Song Jiajia listened to the discussion in the classroom, and kept packing up her things.

Before they could finish talking about the topic, their bags were packed.

Song Jiajia put his schoolbag on his back and got up from his seat, without looking around, just by glancing, he could see that there were two very special positions in this classroom.

Unlike other people's desks, which are piled up with books, it can even look a little messy.

The two seats are superficially clean, in stark contrast to the "overloaded" desks around them.

One of these two desks belongs to Li Qingqing, and the other belongs to Luo Kai.

Just three days after the school's football team returned from the national competition, Luo Kai came to school for the last time, and under the leadership of his parents, he cleaned up his desk, and then said a simple goodbye to the whole class and left the school.

After he left, there was rumor in the class that Luo Kai had dropped out of school to play professional football.

Everyone also came to ask Hu Lai, after all, Hu Lai and Luo Kai participated in the national competition together.

Hulay impatiently confirmed this statement.

So everyone knows that Luo Kai really passed a national competition, and was valued by professional football clubs, signed a contract, and became a professional player......

For Luo Kai's departure, the boys are generally envious, and at the same time a little proud, after all, if Luo Kai becomes a star in the future, then everyone can also be regarded as Luo Kai's classmates.

The girls were sad for several days, feeling that Prince Charming was getting farther and farther away from them, and they might be completely different people from two worlds in the future, and they would never have any intersection in their lives. All the fantasies about youth and ignorance in their hearts have come to naught......

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When Hulay entered the locker room to change clothes, he found that there were many fewer people in the locker room.

He was in a trance for a moment, and then remembered that his teammates in the third year of high school had withdrawn from the team, and the football team was only left with their sophomore and freshman players, wouldn't it be much less than usual?

"Oh, the locker room has become empty all of a sudden, and I'm still a little unaccustomed to it......" Meng Xi sighed.

Thirty-six people usually share a locker room, which does make this not too big locker room seem crowded, but everyone is used to this kind of crowding.

Meng Xi made a start, and everyone chatted.

"Anyway, I went to bed last night and dreamed that we were going to participate in the national competition......

"What do you say...... I still think the national competition is like a dream! A sweet dream that I don't want to wake up to! ”

"I wish I had a long sleep and didn't want to wake up...... You don't know how upset I was when I was woken up by my mom today! ”

"Out of breath!" Hu Lai raised his head and said, "Won't we go to the national competition next year?" Still dreaming every day? ”

Everyone in the locker room stopped talking, but turned their heads to look at Hulai.

"What? Did I say the wrong thing? Hulai was puzzled in the face of everyone's gaze.

"The wish is good, Hulai. However, I am afraid that it will be a bit difficult to implement......" said a teammate euphemistically.

"Why is it so difficult?" Hulay asked rhetorically. "Just because of the Chu team, they retreated?"

"Uh...... And Luo Kai is also gone......"

Hearing Luo Kai's name, Hu Lai snorted heavily from his nose: "He's gone, can't we participate in the national competition without him?" ”

"That's it! Hu Lai is right, after leaving Luo Butcher, will we have to eat hairy pigs? Meng Xi jumped out and formed a united front with Hu Lai.

Everyone looked at these two people and stopped talking.

That being said, anyone can say beautiful things. But the actual situation is indeed that as soon as Luo Kai left, the strength of the team was greatly reduced. You must know that the reason why they were able to participate in the national competition, Luo Kai is indeed indispensable, it can be said that without Luo Kai, they would not be able to go to the capital to play the national competition, there is nothing wrong with this.

However, everyone also knows that the relationship between Hu Lai and Luo Kai is not good, so Hu Lai must say so...... Everyone was embarrassed to refute him directly.

In any case, the second best performer in this national competition was Hulai. Rokai scored six goals and Hulai also had three and was the team's second-highest scorer......

Just when the atmosphere in the locker room was a little weird, the deputy captain Yan Yan appeared at the door: "Hurry up and change your clothes, the Chu team has all arrived." ”

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Chu Yifan stood in front of all the players with the support of his crutches, and everyone's eyes were always on the crutches and his right ankle.

In the match against Chongwen Middle School, the Chu team was injured and could not continue the game and was forced to substitute. That was the turning point of the team's rout.

Later, the injury of the Chu team was diagnosed as a torn ankle ligament.

It's a serious injury even for a professional player.

Everyone will inevitably feel a little depressed when they see the captain like this, on the one hand, because they woke up from the dream of the national competition, and they were eliminated from the competition, and on the other hand, because of the captain's injury.

Injuries are the last thing everyone who plays football will ever encounter, but they will have a high probability of encountering......

Chu Yifan ignored the eyes of his teammates looking at him, maintained his usual smile and said: "I have nothing to regret in my high school football career, thank you, I participated in a national competition for the first time in my life - since the first national competition, I have always dreamed that I can play in the national competition, when I was still in elementary school." I finally realized this dream in my junior year of high school, so I said that I have no regrets at all, and this is not self-deception. ”

Speaking of which, his smile even brightened a little, proving that he was not duplicitous.

"And we made it to the quarter-finals in the national tournament, which was far more than I had originally expected. I just thought I would be content if I could play a national tournament, but we ended up in the quarterfinals...... I couldn't go any further, but I was satisfied. So thank you! ”

Chu Yifan bowed to his teammates.

"Next, our senior players will quit the team. The future of the team depends on you, and I hope to see you again in the national competition next year, I don't want our Dongchuan Middle School football team to be just a flash in the pan. ”

When Chu Yifan said this, he glanced at Hu Lai.

He still remembered what Yan Yan once said to him - this is a chosen son who is valued by the head coach.

His performance in this national competition seems to prove it.

Every time the manager substitutes him on the pitch, he is sure to score.

After Chu Yifan was eliminated from the team, he even fantasized more than once, if he was not injured and let the head coach replace Hu Lai, would we have a chance to bring down Chongwen Middle School?

But now that's all hypothetical.

Luo Kai performed well in the national tournament and was selected by the professional team. Hu Lai continued to stay in the team, if there was anyone in this team who could make Chu Yifan pinned hope, it would definitely be him.

Thinking of this, he turned his gaze to Yan Yan and saw Yan Yan nodding at him.

He had talked to Yan Yan on the way here, and this decision was agreed to by both of them.

Chu Yifan, who retracted his gaze, cleared his throat and turned his head to look at head coach Li Ziqiang: "Coach, I have a reluctant request." ”

Li Ziqiang said: "What requirements? ”

"After I hand over the captain's armband to Yan Yan, can I let Hulai be the team's vice-captain?"

As soon as these words came out, the whole team was in an uproar!

Everyone looked at Chu Yifan with incredible eyes, including Hu Lai himself.

He waved his hand again and again: "No, Team Chu, I don't ......"

But before he finished his refusal, he heard Li Ziqiang say, "Yes." ”

This time there was no uproar, and there was silence on the pitch.

Everyone turned their heads and looked at the manager who had just nodded with incredible eyes.