That day, my mother was busy in the afternoon, cooking a large table of dishes, so rich that Hulai felt that he would probably have to eat leftovers for the next week.

Mom's explanation for this is "more than every year", Hu Lai thought to himself, Mom, have you really moved the New Year's customs unchanged?

Is that the New Year's money supposed to be given to me when I eat?

In the evening, when Dad got off work, the family sat around the dinner table and ate Chinese New Year's Eve dinner.

The general atmosphere of Hulai's meeting with his father was calm and awkward.

Calm means that two people meet without any unpleasant quarrels, and awkwardness means that the atmosphere is far from harmonious......

Although he called his dad out of respect, he didn't mean to talk to him.

And when the father greeted his son, he also fell silent.

Xie Lan looked at the two men sitting opposite each other at the dining table, so she had to act as an atmosphere adjuster, chatting with her husband for a while, and asking her son if this dish was delicious, what interesting things do you have in the team? What is the relationship between that Zhang Qinghuan and you...... This kind of thing.

Satisfy your curiosity by guiding Hulay to talk about his experiences with the professional team, but more importantly let her husband also learn about what his son has been through in the past.

She knows that men are stubborn, and men are dead to save face. The father and son fought against each other for so many years, and in the end, it was so fierce that the son ran away from home, and the husband never made a phone call...... Now if you want them to shake hands and make peace with a meal, how is it possible?

But in any case, being able to sit at the same table and eat for two people is already a big improvement.

Xie Lan is not in a hurry, the second half of her life is still very long, and she has time to rebuild the parent-child relationship between her husband and son.

She believes that with her continuous efforts, sooner or later, she will be able to see the picture of father and son enjoying themselves.

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Hulai lay on the bed he had slept in since he was a child, and felt that the bed was a little small.

In fact, it's not just that the bed is small, but when he comes back this time, he feels that the whole house is small.

When I was taking a bath in the toilet, I felt that it was difficult to turn around, and after eating in the living room, after the folding table was opened, there was no passage behind me.

The two-bedroom, 50-square-meter house had been his home for as long as he could remember, and he had heard his mother say it, but he was not born here, but moved here when he was four years old.

And then lived until now.

The former neighbors have now moved away, there are a lot of tenants, and the population flows frequently, so it is far from good in terms of community environment and safety.

The house itself is not comfortable to live in.

Narrow and dark corridors, corridor lights are often broken, and no one repairs them if they are broken. From time to time, the sewer smells back, and a foul smell permeates the toilet......

Although Hu Lai's rented house in Liucheng District, Jincheng is also an old community, both hardware and software are still much better than Dongchuan's home.

Or should they be given a new house......

It's just that since the opening of the high-speed railway, the housing prices in Dongchuan have risen wildly, and the price increase is almost catching up with the speed of the high-speed rail.

Now the new real estate in Dongchuan urban area has a unit price of 9,050 for a better one, and 8,000 for the worse.

To buy a 100-square-meter house, it costs almost 1 million.

Even if Uncle Yong helped him negotiate a new contract with an annual salary of one million, it would only be enough to buy a house, or on the premise of cultivating immortals without eating or drinking for a year...... Oh, in fact, a year is not enough, because this million is the annual salary before tax, and it would be good to get half of it after deducting taxes.

He suddenly could understand why Zhang Qinghuan did not buy a house after he was depressed, but used the money to buy a second-hand Ferrari.

Two million can buy a second-hand supercar, drive to training and go to nightclubs all day long, how eye-catching, it can be called a pickle girl, more cost-effective than Xiaomi's mobile phone.

The same amount of money may be enough to buy such a large bedroom in the capital where he is lying now.

Zhang Qinghuan, this kid, must have calculated the accounts, and then found that he was desperate, so he simply squandered the money in a fit of anger.

If you are in the capital, you probably don't even dare to buy a house......

How else to say that Zhang Qinghuan and his father are great? In order to train his son to play football, the house in the capital was sold as soon as he said it...... That's the house of the capital!

It's easy to sell, but it's hard to buy it back.

Chinese professional players have almost no commercial endorsement contracts because there has been too much negative news about Chinese football in the past ten years, because in the eyes of public opinion, Chinese football players are all negative images and walking scandal makers - they have Zhang Qinghuan as a "black sheep" to give them evidence - which company can't think of it, and only when the brain is in water will Chinese football players endorse their own companies or products, is it because their products sell too well?

Without this kind of commodity endorsement contract, the player's income is basically only his own annual salary and bonuses.

A few years ago, when the salary limit order was not introduced, everyone's income was still quite good. Later, with the salary limit order, the income of all players was affected. The maximum annual salary of domestic players in the Chinese Super League before tax cannot exceed 10 million, and if they are selected for the national team, they can be increased by 20% at most. The maximum salary of China A is 5 million yuan, and the maximum salary of China B is 3 million.

A club with a small budget like Twinkle Star is even less likely to offer players sky-high contracts. Although the salary cap of the Chinese League is five million, there are no players in the whole team of Shining Star who can meet this standard, and Qin Lin is only four million.

Therefore, if Zhang Qinghuan wants to rely on the income of Shining Star to buy a house in the capital, I am afraid that he will have to tighten his belt and live a hard life for a few years......

As for himself, Hu Lai felt that if Uncle Yong could negotiate an annual salary of one million for himself, with his consumption level, he should be able to save enough money to buy a 100-square-meter house in two years.

Of course, the premise is that you can save money as fast as house prices rise.

Fortunately, he just wants to buy a house in Dongchuan, a third-tier city, instead of buying a house in Jincheng, a quasi-first-tier city, otherwise, one million people in Jincheng may buy a house similar to his family's current one, which is not a good location or a good community.

I don't know what contract Uncle Yong will finally negotiate for himself, Uncle Yong said that the annual salary of one million is guaranteed, so how much can it be in the end?

When you have so much money, what else do you have to do with it except to buy a house?

Do you want to buy a car?

What kind of car did you buy without a driver's license? And didn't you say that Zhang Qinghuan bought the car?

Buying luxury goods?

What do you buy it for?

Hu Lai frowned and thought about it on the bed for a while, but he didn't understand what else he could buy if he had money, except to buy a house......

Do you want to save it and marry a wife in the future?

Oh, by the way, I didn't take my first salary to hire a personal trainer, I wonder if it will be sprayed on the Internet for not being professional enough?

Mainly because of his first month's salary of a few thousand yuan, he shouldn't be able to afford a decent personal trainer, right?

What, a personal trainer at the gym?

Don't be funny, okay......

Hulai fell asleep in this cranky thinking.

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After Hulai fell asleep, the door to his bedroom was gently shut.

Sheylan returned to her bedroom, where her husband was still sitting on the couch and scrolling through his phone.

"I fell asleep at half past ten......" Xie Lan glanced at the clock hanging on the wall.

"The habits that the professional team has developed, which shows that his work ethic is not bad." Hu Lixin said while holding his mobile phone.

"Why don't you say this to your son at the dinner table?" Xie Lan complained.

"Why am I telling him, I'm explaining it to you." Hu Lixin raised his head and looked at his wife.

"The second half of the sentence, praise him, say it to his face. Let him know that you love him. ”

Hu Lixin seemed to want to explain, but after his mouth opened, he shook his head: "I'm too lazy to say." ”

"You!" The wife naturally knows her husband's temper very well, so in the end, a thousand words can only be reduced to these two words.

Then she changed the subject: "Have you noticed that our son has grown taller?" ”

"Is there one?" Hu Lixin looked at his phone and replied casually.

"Why not? When you didn't get off work, I measured his height at home, and he is now 1.78 meters! When he said this, Xie Lan's tone was excited. I remember when he was a freshman in high school, he was only 1.7 meters! ”

Xie Lan, who is only 1.55 meters tall in shoes, has always been worried about the drag of her genes, which has caused the child to grow tall. Especially since Hulai is still a boy, height is even more important - she has even had nightmares before that she can't find a daughter-in-law because her child is not tall enough. It can be seen how obsessed she is with this.

Hearing the height number of one meter seven or eight, Hu Lixin nodded: "Now you are relieved, right?" I'll tell you that he doesn't have to worry about his height. ”

"Who knew for sure before?" Xie Lan said this on his mouth, and his face was still beautiful.

Today is really a happy day for her.

First of all, of course, her son has really come out of the risky road of professional football, and the future is bright at the moment.

The second is that although his son ran away from home and did not say goodbye, now he is willing to go home, which means that his son will not be like his father, who will not have the face to go back until his parents die. In this way, she naturally does not have to worry about her bleak old age in the future.

Third, it is the height of his son. One meter seven or eight is not tall, but it is not short either, and it is completely acceptable for her. What she had been worried about since the birth of the child finally did not come true, and she felt that the boulder that was pressing on her heart was gently removed.

This "year" has been perfect!

Thinking of this, Xie Lan, who was in a happy mood, came to her husband's side: "Husband, are you ...... today?" Well? ”

Hu Lixin raised his head and looked at his wife, who was winking at him, how could he not understand what she was going to do? He suddenly felt a headache: "Didn't you just do it the day before yesterday?" ”

"Then you ate the day before yesterday!" Xie Lan raised her eyebrows when she heard her husband's complaint. "Look at you like this, doesn't it mean that you have good physical strength to play football?"

"Who told you?" Hu Lixin's eyes widened in protest.

"Isn't that Zhang Qinghuan? Going to nightclubs all day long, the media said that he changed women every week......"

"Then didn't you see that Zhang Qinghuan was hollowed out?"

Speaking of Zhang Qinghuan, Xie Lan remembered again: "Oh, at dinner, Hu Lai also said that Zhang Qinghuan moved to the opposite door...... Don't spoil Hu Lai! One of our simple and obedient children......"

"You think too much......" Hu Lixin just said, and suddenly remembered that this seemed to be a good topic for his wife to divert his attention, so he changed his words: "Of course, your worries are completely justified. As I've said before, professional football is full of pitfalls and temptations, and if you're not careful, you can make a mistake and become a hate. Now that your son is becoming more and more famous, all kinds of bullshit will happen to him if the new season is not good, I advise you to prepare mentally first......"

"What mental preparation?" Xie Lan was a little confused.

"Hulai may suffer a setback in the second season, you have to be mentally prepared and don't be too anxious, he has only played in the professional game for half a season, and he still has a long career ahead of him......

Xie Lan was unhappy: "I said Hu Lixin, why don't you want our son to be good?" ”

"Tsk, I'm just telling the truth. Whether you like it or not, that's how it is. Have you ever heard of the 'Rookie Wall'? ”

"What's the 'rookie wall'?"

Sure enough, his wife became more and more interested in this topic, Hu Lixin praised his intelligence in his heart, and then began to explain the concept of "rookie wall" to his wife, and by extension, why Hu Lai's second season was extremely crucial, but also difficult.

This is his rare patience on the professional topic of football.

(End of chapter)