In a meeting room within the IMG Academy.

"Su Zu, Coach Li, we are very sincere, and please believe in our strength. We can start by telling you that we are now running your diving team to endorse TAG Heuer. Matthew Straw said in a sincere tone.

He didn't talk to Su Zu Li Zhizhong about any specific brokerage contract as soon as he came up, and with Su Zu's age, he also knew that it was impossible at this stage, but explained to a few people how close the cooperation between IMG Group and China was.

Since the Asian Games in Tehran in 1974, there has been the first contact, and the first project is to facilitate the visit of boxing champion Ali to China. Later, in '94 and '95, he assisted the Football Association in establishing two major leagues, and since 1987, he has cooperated with CCTV, and most recently participated in the China Open tennis tournament again in 2004.

In addition to these, Matthew Straw also introduced IMG's influence in the world, what Miss World is the only authorized business partner, and how much influence IMG Entertainment has under her name.

Su Zu was still a little surprised when he heard this, the industry he was engaged in in in the previous life was completely incompatible with the sports circle, and in this life, he has been focusing on training, and he is an athlete with a pitiful small circle. Influenced by various Hollywood entertainment texts, what he knows about the agent company is CAA and several entertainment companies in China that are still in their infancy.

On the contrary, Li Zhizhong listened more carefully on the side, and frequently bowed his head, he has been in the sports circle for many years, even when he is lonely, he has paid attention to a lot of relevant information.

The few people chatted in the living room for more than an hour, and then it was over.

Matthew Straw didn't expect to be able to delve into many of the details in one step, it was just a preliminary contact.

As he said before, they have a wide coverage and a lot of cooperation with China, but they know many things that outsiders don't understand.

For example, Su Zu's business activities are now basically managed by the field management center, and the distribution of interests involved in this is not easy even if IMG handles it.

But in the face of the huge market and huge commercial value behind Su Zu, these business giants can't be unmoved.

After leaving the meeting room, Su Zu was also lamenting IMG's long-term planning, this year was not so much about talking about something, but rather about making an IMG sales pitch to him.

A broker who is proficient in Chinese introduced his development history and strength, leaving a good impression on him and laying the groundwork for future cooperation.

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On February 8, the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, Su Zu returned to his new home in Hedao to celebrate the New Year with his parents.

After the Athens Olympics, Su Yuanhua and Ye Qingmei were able to stay at home at first, but within a few days, they felt a little dizzy.

Last year, Su Zu won the gold medal in the City Games and the Asian Championships, in fact, there were a lot of sponsorships and condolences. But compared to after Athens this year, it's a world and a place.

Almost since September, there have been many businesses in Wuxing County, Jianping City or some surrounding areas, almost with money to find the door.

To be honest, if it weren't for Su Zu's successive efforts to take some competition bonuses home in the past few years, and Su Yuanhua had been a soldier when he was young, and he had been outside for a while, his eyelids were not so shallow, and the field management center notified the local culture and sports bureau in time to assist, maybe Su Zu would have a lot of trouble now.

After all, he is still underage, his parents are guardians, and many times when he signs it, the follow-up things are not so easy to handle.

As far as Su Zu now occasionally hears his parents say, the stacks of banknotes are all on the table, and I don't know how much it is, but it makes people dizzy.

Later, Hedao City rewarded the house, and Su Zu directly asked his parents to leave his hometown first to avoid this endless harassment.

When he turns 18, the mess will be much better.

The house rewarded by Hedao City is a community on the island, and after Su Yuanhua and Ye Qingmei came over, they are not used to living in it, after all, they have lived in the countryside for a long time, and there are no acquaintances, but they are slowly adapting.

After the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner in the evening, the family sat in the living room to watch the Spring Festival Gala.

The furniture at home was added by Su Yuanhua and Ye Qingmei later, and there is not necessarily much high-end foreign atmosphere, Su Zu doesn't care about these, as long as his parents think it is good, he can't live for a few days all year round.

The programs of the Spring Festival Gala on TV were one after another, and soon there was a sketch of "Magic Olympics".

"Alas, I heard that you athletes were invited to this year's Spring Festival Gala, why didn't you go?" Ye Qingmei, who had been busy since the beginning of the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, suddenly accidentally caught a glimpse of the Spring Festival Gala on TV, and immediately asked Su Zu.

During the time she lived in Hedao City, although she was still not used to it, she was enthusiastic, and soon met many old ladies and young women with children in the community, and heard people talk about this.

"What's so great about the Spring Festival Gala, my son is going abroad." Su Yuanhua leaned back on the sofa and muttered.

"My dad was right, I went abroad and they couldn't contact me."

Su Zu smiled, even if he didn't know anyone in China, he actually knew that it would definitely be a great honor to be able to go to the Spring Festival Gala. Father Su Yuanhua said this just to help, I was afraid that he would have a pimple in his heart.

But Su Zu really didn't care too much about this, he went abroad for winter training in October, and the program list had not yet been decided. By the time the people decided to invite, Su Zu was already far away in the United States. Moreover, it cost a lot of money to train at IMG Academy, and in the end, after negotiation, the field management center did not call him back.

Su Zu sat on the sofa, dialed an orange, and laughed happily at the program on TV.

It's not that the show is good-looking, but that several characters and lines have become different from what they once remembered, and the three performers of the sketch have also interspersed a relay project.

By the end of the show, sure enough, in addition to Liu Yangyu and several other Olympic champions, Chen Jian, Shen Yunbao and Yang Guangzong all appeared.

Especially when Liu Yangyu and Shen Yunbao said to the performers of the three programs one after another, "I heard, you want to compete with me", Su Zu almost burst into laughter.

I am very glad that I escaped this catastrophe, otherwise there would be one more person standing on the stage at this moment to explain the awkward conversation to the people of the whole country.

However, this kind of thing, the monk can't run the temple. Su Zu felt that he had avoided this year, but the year after next year, until 08, there would always be a day when he was caught.

"By the way, Su Zu, I'll discuss something with you." After watching the Spring Festival Gala, Su Zu saw that his father Su Yuanhua wanted to speak a little and stopped.

After Ye Qingmei heard this, she also glanced at the living room, and said unhappily: "Don't say it, you can't control it." ”

"What's the matter? Does anyone borrow money? Su Zu looked at the two of them suspiciously, not knowing why.

This family has a good situation, and it will naturally face more things.

It's not that it's really, in reality, it is very common for relatives and friends to borrow money for turnover, when he was in college, his brother-in-law and brother-in-law each paid 5,000 to help him pay for tuition. Later, a cousin opened a shop, and a few of them helped him get together and get started.

The relationship itself is like this, as far as Su Zu knows, his parents have lent tens of thousands of yuan to several relatives each, and they are going to open a small supermarket in Jiangnan Province. There's not much to say about this kind of thing. It's really like the kind of one who just comes to fight the autumn wind, it's not nothing, but basically you don't need your parents to come forward, and other relatives will stop you.

And his parents are not bad people, they are thrifty and thrifty, and they can carry these things clearly. People are not in their hometowns, and there are also reasons for living in Hedao City.

And many things his parents have told him, sometimes he himself can't help but sigh, he is very lucky, although his parents are not high in education, and their vision is limited, but they are really for his good, and in the face of many temptations of interests, he finally kept the bottom line of his heart.

And in terms of money, this is the case in the past and present lives, except for what Su Zu took the initiative to give to his family, the rest are under his own control. I occasionally told him to save and not spend indiscriminately, and his parents never asked for anything in this regard.

Now he lends a little money to his parents, and the rest is actually deposited in the bank by the two of them.

"I just think that our family is in good condition now, but we can't forget our roots." Su Yuanhua pondered for a while before continuing, "I talked to your Uncle Tianyou last time and wanted to do something. ”

"Uncle God?" When Su Zu heard this name, he was not impressed for a while.

"Tsk, it's the one in Yuhang." Next to Ye Qingmei reminded.

Saying this, Su Zu remembered.

Xu Tianyou, they have such a neighbor, belonging to and his father is small. However, he has moved away from his hometown very early on, and has taken root in the capital of Jiangnan Province.

In the original time and space, he should be the best one to go out and mix in his hometown Yangping Village. What I do is driving school training and motorcycle repair or something. When I was more than 90 years old, people drove back for the Spring Festival, and they could afford to buy a video camera to come back to shoot snow scenes.

"Dad, what do you want to do?" Su Zu asked.

"I've discussed it with your Uncle Tianyou, I'll take the lead, and then everyone will raise some money to repair a few roads in the village." Su Yuanhua thought for a while before he said slowly.

"I don't want your dad to do it." On the side, Ye Qingmei said, "I have said several times before that I have raised funds to build roads, but few are willing to get them." ”

"Isn't it different now?" Su Yuanhua soothed, "We and the Tianyou family will pay for a lead, and then they can make up some of them, and it's always no problem to do things." Su Zu, what do you say? ”

"yes, okay!" Su Zu nodded, "I definitely support it!" ”

He really didn't expect his father to suddenly tell him about this, the big project of building roads in his hometown in his previous life had to wait until the village connection project began, but during this period, there were actually several fundraising, but they were all widening the roadbed, and there was no money for asphalt cement at that time.

And to be able to do these things in this life, Su Zu has no opinion at all.

Why did he want to try something after becoming an athlete to see if he could find a way?

I guess that's where the root cause is.