Shelan, who was at work, received a call from her son, Hulai.

"Mom, we've arrived, and we're waiting to pick up our luggage. The school has a car to pick us up, go back to school first, you don't have to worry about me. Also, I'm supposed to be home at the normal time from school......"

Xie Lan interrupted Hu Lai's report, but lowered his voice and asked, "Son, did you really sign a contract with that Poseidon Club?" ”

“…… I'm sorry, Mom, I didn't listen to you, I won't play after this session, I still want to play, I don't want to wait another year......" Hu Lai heard his mother mention this matter, thinking that his mother was going to ask the teacher for guilt, so he hurriedly took the initiative to apologize.

By the time Hulay said this, Sheran had gotten up from his desk and walked briskly out of the office, all the way to the end of the hallway.

When she leaned against the window, she sighed and said, "Hulai...... Mom doesn't blame you, it's just ...... It's really true that your dad is right, after you taste the sweetness of playing football, it is absolutely impossible to listen to me and give up the third year of high school without playing football. ”

"Dad?"

"I never told you that before your final, your dad found out that you were playing football from him, and he was very angry...... I was afraid that it would affect your performance in the game, so I never told you. Your dad won't approve of you going to that Aquaman Club......"

Hulai on the other end of the phone interrupted his mother with some eagerness: "I won the national championship, the top scorer and the best player, can't I make him change his mind?" ”

Xie Lan heard her son say this, there was still a faint expectation in her tone, and she was silent for a while before sighing: "It has nothing to do with these...... In fact, if you really just finish this tournament, you won't play football and prepare for the college entrance examination with peace of mind. What happened to you playing football in school before, your dad might be able to treat it as if it didn't happen and not pursue it...... But now you want to play professional football, he won't agree to it 100 per cent. ”

"Why? Mother? Why does my dad dislike me playing so much? I've never seen anyone so paranoid as him......"

Xie Lan was about to speak, when he saw the director poking his head out in the office, and after finding her, he beckoned to her.

She hurriedly said, "Mom has something to do here, so I won't tell you." In short, you listen to me, don't mention professional football when you see your dad at night, I'll help you persuade your dad first...... That's it, hang up first. ”

After speaking, Xie Lan ended the call, held the phone in his hand, and walked towards the office.

At the same time, in the bustling baggage hall, Hulai squatted against the wall, holding his mobile phone in his hand, looking at his teammates playing around the luggage conveyor belt in a daze.

A wave of unwillingness welled up in his heart.

Why is it that when you win such an honor as the national championship, everyone else is elated, looking forward to going back to report good news to your parents, but you have to go back and face a storm?

For a moment, he didn't even want to go home at the thought of his father's angry appearance.

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Hu Lai, who had changed back into his school uniform at Dongchuan Middle School, was still standing downstairs in his house, but he was not in a hurry to walk into the doorway of the dark unit building.

He had already seen his father's battery car parked in the doorway, charging.

That means his dad has returned.

That's why he didn't go in.

In fact, he's been wandering downstairs like this for quite some time.

Every time he wanted to go inside, he couldn't help but turn around and quit.

The black doorway was like a beast's den in the dark, as if he could never get out of it as soon as he walked in.

After wandering like this for a long time, Hu Lai gritted his teeth: is it a blessing or a curse, it is a disaster that cannot be avoided!

Then he stepped inside.

When he was about to climb to the fourth floor, he slowed down and wanted to hear what was going on in the house, such as if his mother and father were arguing fiercely...... I can let him know what is going on.

But he didn't hear anything, and the room was silent. If it weren't for the light leaking through the crack in the door, it would have been as quiet as if no one was home.

Hulay put his ear to the door and listened for a few minutes, during which time he did not hear a word of his own parents, except for the occasional movement in the kitchen.

In desperation, he had no choice but to raise his hand and knock on the door, and at the same time suppress the wild beating in his heart, he took a deep breath, and then slowly spit it out.

As the breath was being spat out, he saw the door open and his mother standing in the doorway.

After seeing him, his mother made a look at him, signaling him not to say superfluous words, and then let him in, and at the same time pretended to be calm and said, "Coming back?" Hurry up and put away your school bag, go wash your hands, and get ready to eat. ”

When he walked into the house, Hulai saw his father, who was sitting on the small sofa in the living room, looking down at the screen of his mobile phone, and hearing his mother's words, he didn't even raise his head.

So Hu Lai didn't say hello to him, quickly changed his shoes, went back to his room to put down his school bag, and then came out to wash his hands.

And the mother glanced at the two of them worriedly, and went to the kitchen to serve the food: "I'm going to eat immediately." ”

She wants to ease the tension between the two of them with the food she has worked so hard to make.

In fact, since her husband came back from work, he didn't say a word, just sat on the sofa and looked at his phone.

This made Xie Lan already have a hunch - tonight, I'm afraid it won't be good......

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Xie Lan's hunch was correct, and when Hu Lai finished washing his hands and sat down at the dining table, Hu Lixin put down the mobile phone in his hand, looked up at him and said, "The ball that has been played, forget it." But professional teams, not allowed to go. ”

Hu Lai cast a glance at his mother in some surprise - Mom, I didn't mention this stubble when I heard you, my father took the initiative to mention it......

Then he looked at his father, took a deep breath, and asked, "Why?" ”

"There's no why." Hu Lixin said expressionlessly. "If you are not allowed to go, you are not allowed to go."

"Dad, you're always like this!" Hulai couldn't help it and protested loudly, "In the past, when I was not allowed to play, I asked you why, and you said that there is no why, and if I don't play, don't kick...... I'm not a three-year-old anymore! In a few months I will be eighteen years old and an adult! ”

"No matter how adult, I'm also your old man!" Hu Lixin saw that Hu Lai dared to yell at him, and he slapped the table emotionally.

Xie Lan, who was serving food in the kitchen, heard the quarrel that broke out in the living room, put down the food plate again, put the food plate down again, put his hands on the stove, and pursed his lips tightly.

"What if you're my dad? You're my dad, and you can't restrict my personal freedom! You're my dad, and you can't let me do anything, I have to do it! There is no such thing in the world! Why don't you let me play?! If it's because I'm not talented, I'm telling you, Dad, I'm very talented right now! Even the scouts and managers of the professional teams say I'm talented! If you don't believe ......"

With that, Hulay turned and rushed into his bedroom, and when he came out again, he carried the schoolbag he had brought back, he pulled it open, took out the contents and laid them out one by one on the empty dining table.

A Golden Boot trophy, a Golden Ball trophy, and a gold medal.

"I led the team to the championship at the national tournament, I scored 12 goals, I was the top scorer and I was the best player in this national tournament! There are so many high schools in the country, and in the end, only 32 school teams can participate in the national competition, and I am the strongest in this! Even that Chen Xingyi is my subordinate! And it took me less than two years to do all this! I'm talented! Why can't I try professional football......"

Hulai asked questions loudly and repeatedly, as if to vent all the unwillingness and injustice in his heart.

But before his words fell, he was interrupted by his father's violent drinking: "Because it can't get through!" ”

"Can't get through? How do you know if you don't try it? Hulai snorted.

"I've walked through, and I know I can't get through!"

Hu Lai was stunned: "You...... Walked? ”

"Your dad...... Once a professional footballer. Mom's voice rang out.

Hulai turned his head to look and found that his mother was standing at the door of the kitchen at an unknown time, leaning against the door frame with some weakness.

He then turned his surprised gaze back to his father.

Hu Lixin, who was sitting on the sofa, snorted coldly: "What professional player? How can there be a 'professional player' who has never played a professional game? ”

Then he looked at Hulai, pinched his knee and said, "Do you know why my knee hurts on a rainy day?" ”

"It's not that ...... Rheumatism? Hulay gave the standard answer his parents had told him.

"Actually, it's not rheumatism, it's an injury from playing football...... Xie Lan said the correct answer.

"Kicking a ball with an injury?" Hu Lai was stunned for a moment, and then grinned, "Dad, you didn't go through this road because you were injured from playing football, so you won't let me take this road too?" ”

Although he didn't like his father, he never thought that his father would be a coward who shouted that football would not work because he was injured and retired......

"You know a!" Hu Lixin suddenly scolded, startling Hu Lai. "You think my knee was injured in a game? Or did I sprain it myself? I'll tell you, boy, my knee was kicked by my own teammates in training! ”

Hulay looked in shock at his father's right knee.

"Do you know why he kicked me in the knee? Because I'm competing with him for a place in the first team! Just for this place to sit on the cold bench in the first team, he black-footed me in training! Why wouldn't I want you to play professional football? Here's why! It's okay if you really don't have talent, but you say you're very talented, then you'll be a thorn in the side of that kind of person! Do you think professional football is what you see on TV? There are fans, there is money, they drive luxury cars, they live in luxury houses...... What you see is just an illusion! What is true professional football? It's thousands of ignorant boys like you competing for a spot! A successful person has countless losers under his feet!

"Those losers don't have luxury cars, no mansions, no fans, and no money! I put in the same effort as the winners, but in the end I became a loser for one reason or another! You don't think they're not trying hard enough, they're working ten times harder than you are now! But what?! China has only 16 Chinese Super League teams, 18 Chinese A teams, and 32 Chinese B teams...... Where the are there so many places for you! ”

Hu Lixin roared angrily, got up from the sofa, and he was half a head taller than his son, and he looked at Hu Lai condescendingly.

Seeing this, Xie Lan wanted to come up and persuade her husband, but Hu Lixin seemed to have a breath that he had been holding for decades and wanted to vomit out, and he had a lot to say in his heart, so he shook off his wife's arm and stared at Hu Lai with eyes that wanted to eat people.

"You think you're on a bright road?! No! It's a single-plank bridge! You know your ideals, your ideals, your ideals, and your ideals all the time...... Is the ideal to be able to eat or to be able to spend? Idealistic? I can't even afford a bigger house! You think I want to be a security guard? Do you think I want to stand outside the gate every day and salute people? Do you think I want to be scolded by those owners who drive luxury cars so much that I can't even lift my head! But if I have a degree and study for a few more years, can I go to work as a security guard?! Exercise! ”

Hu Lixin is always serious in Hu Lai's eyes, and often criticizes him, but it is the first time he has seen him like today, he is so full of swear words that he is almost out of shape, he is stupid, he doesn't know what to say, he can only look at his father directly.

Or, no longer a father, but just a furious middle-aged man.

Hu Lixin gasped and sat down slowly, his voice was finally no longer high-pitched, and he was much older: "I don't allow you to go to the Poseidon Captain Sea King Team, you give me an honest school to go to school and take the college entrance examination." No matter how bad you are, it's better than playing professional football! ”

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