Because He Ying had to rush to Mingyuan Club to sign the contract the next morning, neither of them dared to drink too much wine, and when it was almost twelve o'clock, Gao Jinsong went to settle the account, and He Ying did not stop him. The friendship between the two of them has long surpassed the kind of time when they need to compete to pay the bills, and in the previous conversation, Gao Jinsong had told him about the signing fee as an anecdote, and he knew that Gao Jinsong was rich now.

The two of them said a few kind words to Duan Lianrui and left the barbecue stall.

"Let's go, I'll walk with you for a while, anyway, it's not easy to find a taxi here, just go to the street and call another one." He Ying helped Gao Jinsong push the bicycle.

Gao Jinsong smiled, but did not speak. He also wanted to go with He Ying, in fact, even if He Ying didn't look for him today, he would find He Ying, because his life had changed dramatically in this day, and his originally bleak future was suddenly full of light, although there were still many things that could not be predicted now, but he knew that the impact of this change on him would be very huge, so huge that he didn't dare to imagine it now. He is now looking forward to the future. But the future was as unpredictable as a statue surrounded by a thick veil, as unpredictable as the weather in summer, and the unpredictable future made him feel uneasy and apprehensive, and at the same time made him somewhat afraid of his future.

He had a lot to say to his friends, but he couldn't find a reason to speak. He guessed that He Ying also wanted to say something to himself. Just like herself, Ho Ying also suffered almost the same thing as herself - if playing football was not their job but their career, then today, they have all found their careers and put their lives back on track......

"You say, I will sign a contract with Mingyuan tomorrow, will they also give me a signing fee?" He Ying, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly asked about it.

Gao Jin paused for a moment before saying, "It should be." "He wasn't sure, after all, in the year and a half they've been away from football, a lot of things have changed, such as the inexplicable signing fee, such as the "match subsidy" changed to the "appearance fee", such as the transfer and loan of the player...... The terms were so familiar and the things were so unfamiliar, they had to get used to it.

When the two came to the street, a taxi with empty lights drove by, He Ying subconsciously beckoned, and the car immediately turned around and stopped in front of them on the road where it was not allowed to turn around.

Gao Jinsong himself didn't know what was going on, he actually stretched out his hand to He Ying, and He Ying actually stretched out his hand and shook hands with him tightly.

When they shook hands, they suddenly felt a lot more mature. But at the same time, they also understood that there was another thing: the two of them were finally going to separate, and while their friendship would still be strong and reliable, they would be rivals on the court, and maybe not just for a while......

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"The matter of going to Mingyuan for trial, you think about it again, this is also an opportunity after all." Before leaving, He Ying told him this. He was a little grateful, and at the same time a little funny, could it be that just a handshake, He Ying's personality has changed? He would never have said such a thing before, and even if he did, he would never have said it so solemnly, let alone use the word "consider" that was very obscure to him. "It's an opportunity, after all." Gao Jinsong stared at the taxi in the distance and smiled, and the look on He Ying's face when he said this was rarely serious.

Do you want to go to Mingyuan for a trial?

On the way home, Gao Jinsong has been trying to think about this problem. In the end, he didn't come up with a good outcome. Not only did he not think it through, but he also felt that his head was groggy - he had drunk too much beer just now, and the cool breeze of the night blew, and by this time the strength of the wine had already come to his head. He simply stopped his bike, took off his T-shirt and hung it on the handlebars, and pedaled all the way back with his arms in hand.

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It was almost midnight when he returned to the rental house.

At this time, the bicycle parking place in the community had long been closed, so he had to carry the bicycle to his temporary room. Although he may not have the opportunity to use it for a long time, this car can be sold for dozens of dollars, and he is not willing to leave it downstairs at will. Even if you can't sell it, it's good to give it to someone, it's a personal favor. You can't give it away, right?

He opened the door, fumbled for the button to turn on the light in the living room, pushed the bike in, and placed it against the corner of the wall, and let out a long breath.

There seemed to be someone talking in the room, but the sound died down immediately.

Looks like I've had a bit of a drink tonight. Gao Jinsong laughed at himself in his heart, he was already hallucinating. At the same time, he also secretly warned himself that this kind of self-indulgence should be done less in the future, and any alcoholic beverages and cigarettes are taboo for athletes.

He went back to his room, put his satchel in a safe place, found two clean changes of clothes, came out, turned off the light in the living room, and prepared to take a shower. Only then did he realize that the other room was still lit, and a pale light peeked through from under the door. He could still hear people talking, and it was Mandarin as standard as a radio announcer.

These women are really capable, they have been working all day during the day, and they still have such a good spirit to chat at night......

He entered the bathroom in a cranky admiration.

After taking a shower and washing his changed clothes, he went back to his room to get the hanger, and took out the box of cigarettes that had been sitting for a long time from his satchel, and lifted the broken wooden chair. Once again, he sternly admonished himself that smoking was a bad habit, but he immediately justified his actions: he was as awake as if he had just gotten up in the morning, and there was always a rush of excitement in his chest, and he did not know how long it would take to calm down, and he had to take advantage of the cool breeze of the night on the balcony to force himself to calm down, or he would not want to sleep to-night.

He got dressed and sat down in a chair, and pressed his long legs comfortably against the low concrete parapet of the balcony, feeling for a cigarette. At this time, he realized that he did not have a lighter. He stood there in frustration for a long time, and finally found a good idea—wasn't the gas stove in the kitchen a ready-made lighter?

He could now sit comfortably in a wooden chair, while it was cool, while he puffed into the smoke and considered the use of the five thousand dollars with great pity.

He was immediately dismayed to find out that the money was not worth him. The second sister is studying medicine in Guangzhou, in order to save the travel expenses to help the family reduce some of the burden, she has not come back for two years, and now with this money can let her come back for a relaxing summer vacation, and she and the eldest sister do not need to worry about her expensive tuition fees next semester, he can still earn more than 10,000 yuan before the new semester starts, which is enough to cope. Thinking of this, he sighed so much, it's better to play football, free food, drink, free accommodation, free clothes to wear, and all salary subsidies and bonuses are all leftovers...... He can't help but look forward to the future of the team and himself, if the team can rush to the first B, if he and the club can renew the contract for next year and the year after, then how much can he earn? He quickly calculated in his heart, obediently, he could earn 100,000 miles in two years!

This terrible number took him by surprise.

He couldn't believe he could make so much money after two years of playing!

He immediately realized that he had made a mistake, according to his current contract with the team, his income is only 60,000 or 70,000 a year, and even if you count all kinds of bonuses and subsidies, it will be more than 100,000 at best...... The figure he just calculated was actually a miscalculation of his monthly salary - he thought of 5,000 as 50,000, an extra zero......

It was a little accident that made him laugh at himself. Are you too greedy and want to earn a million dollars in two years? In fact, saving more than 200,000 yuan in two years is already very good, in this way, he can at least buy a decent house for himself, and he doesn't have to be like now, he doesn't even have a fixed and stable place to stay. And with 200,000 words, not only will his own problem be solved, but he can also ensure that the second sister can finish college smoothly, and at the same time, the eldest sister who has been running the family for many years can really go to run her own home.

However, all these good hopes for the future are pinned on one thing - he can continue to play!

The conditions for him to continue playing are: the new era must rush to the first B and renew his contract; Or he finds a new club.

He no longer has any illusions about finding another club, because he has touched too many walls in the past year, and it is so difficult for a player like He Ying who has had experience in the national junior team to return to the court, let alone him? As long as people pull him to the field to practice, as long as the coach pays a little more attention, they will find out his fatal flaw, and the next thing is difficult to say, maybe it is a mockery and sarcasm, maybe it is white eyes and indifference, and it may even be humiliating......

He buried his head in pain, trying to forget the unpleasant experiences that suddenly came to mind.

He leaned back against the wall, dumbfounded.

Maybe I really should try my luck at Mingyuan Club.

The team gave him three days off to deal with personal matters, anyway, he has resigned, and the club doesn't know about this situation, so he still has enough time to try out in Mingyuan, maybe his bad luck in the past two years has come to an end? What if he can meet a Bole who appreciates him in Mingyuan, then won't he have everything? Although his own conditions are not good enough, he has a good body and does not suffer in fierce physical confrontations, the important thing is that his left and right feet can dribble, pass and shoot, which is also a skill; He can also play in a number of positions on the pitch, except for goalkeeper and central defender, and this is one of his strengths - he has honed all these skills to make up for that terrible flaw, and he has sweated more than others, but in the end it has not come in handy.

But he has already signed a contract with the new era, will it be considered a breach of contract to leave at this time? The penalty for breach of contract in the contract is clearly written, "the breaching party shall compensate for all losses caused to the non-breaching party as a result of the breach". What if the New Era Club is angry but does take him to court? Not to mention "all economic losses", even half of "everything" is not something he can bear.

But he was unwilling to be tied to the new era. He will not believe that the new era of lack of soldiers and major generals is more likely to be promoted to the first B than the strong Mingyuan, even if there is no obstacle to Mingyuan, as well as Guangdong Pearl and Qingdao Double Happiness, these two clubs were originally the favorites for promotion in the second division this year. Well, now, even if the new era is a hungry wolf, it is impossible to kill a way out under the siege of three roadblockers, right? What's more, is there any club in the second division that is not a hungry wolf? No one wants to take a bite out of someone! Who let the wolves have so many and only two pieces of meat......

He frowned and pondered. This fact is too big to be sloppy. There is no doubt that he has figured it out that he must not hang himself from the tree of the new era; At the same time, he also had to pay attention to another thing, that is, he couldn't let Sun Junshan and them know about his trial in Mingyuan, otherwise he wouldn't even be able to keep the retreat of the new era.

Now that he has made up his mind, he still has to contact He Ying tomorrow morning, where is the trial location of Mingyuan Club, he doesn't know at all.

By the way, there is another very important thing: the five thousand yuan has not been able to move for the past two days, and if Mingyuan's trial is passed, he will have to return the money to the new era. As for letting the second sister come back for the summer vacation, he can call tomorrow morning, anyway, he has saved more than 1,000 yuan, which is more than enough to buy a train ticket from Guangzhou to the provincial capital.

He was thinking about it when he heard the faint sound of slippers slapping across the concrete floor, and before he could react, someone else came to the balcony.

In the dark night, he couldn't tell for a while whether this graceful woman was Jiang Lihongli or her announcer friend.

The woman stood on the verandah, her head bowed and wiping her tears, but there was not even a sound of sobbing.

- It's Jiang Lihong!

Gao Jin froze. This girl doesn't sleep in the middle of the night, why is she crying here? Was she dumped by your boyfriend or was she angry with someone at the company? Or did you watch some bullshit TV series and come here to express the emotions that are depressed in your heart? Looking at the situation, I should have been moved by the sensational story in the TV series, this time is the heroine suffering from cancer or the male protagonist empathizing and not falling in love?

Only then did he realize that it didn't seem like a big deal for him to keep silent at this time.

But he didn't know how to teach her to know that she was here. He had no choice but to sit in the chair silently, look at the few stars in the sky, and then look at the gray demolition and resettlement building opposite, count how many windows are still lit, and finally when he turned back to look at Jiang Lihong, he saw that she was looking at him in a daze, and by the faint light, he could see that there was still some shiny things in her eyes.

An embarrassed smile involuntarily appeared on his face. He should say something reassuring, such as the TV series can't be taken seriously. But he couldn't say anything. He'd never seen anything like it before. He desperately recalled that in the stories He Ying told him, there was a plot of how to make girls happy that could be used for reference.

Before he could remember a similar story, Jiang Lihong was bowing her head and wiping her tears again.

What a fucking nuisance! He couldn't help but curse his mother in his stomach. He is not going to stay now. Although he is not familiar with her, he has been a colleague for a few days, and he is a man, how can he look at a little girl - in terms of height, Jiang Lihong is definitely a little girl in front of him, but in terms of age, he may not cry in front of him? No matter what he said, he had to comfort and enlighten him.

"Got a fight with your boyfriend?"

There was no answer.

It seems that I asked the wrong question.

"The good guys in the TV series have suffered again?" He asked, frowning. It's really amazing, if good people don't suffer in the TV series, can they still be called good people? Being a bad guy is always much smoother than being a good guy, of course, being a bad guy usually ends up miserable, if you can't turn back and rein in the cliff, it is estimated that the dead on the street are possible - even if the background of the story is in the past year or two. The only time he saw a corpse on the street was because of a car accident......

Jiang Lihong still ignored him.

So it seems that he is looking in the wrong direction again.

Since it wasn't because of a broken love or a TV series that deceived tears, he was completely gone. If she was wronged in the company, then she could solve it herself; If she gets fired from the company - this is no way to do it, life is always so cruel, she should learn how to deal with it. He wasn't going to persuade any more, and it wouldn't lead to anything anyway. He stood up and prepared to go back to sleep with his chair. If you go to Mingyuan Club for a trial tomorrow, then adequate rest is essential.

"Listen, hear, you...... Resigned? ”

Fortunately, it was the middle of the night, and fortunately his ears were quite good, otherwise he would not have heard what Jiang Lihong said.

"Yes."

There was silence again. His patience was running out of patience with this guy. He made up his mind, and was ready to go back to sleep without even saying hello. it! Anyway, he's going to move in two days, and it doesn't matter if he makes a bad impression of being rude, and in this big populated city, the chances of them seeing each other again are almost nil.

"You, why did you quit?"

This time it was his turn to be silent. He pondered in his heart whether it was necessary to be honest with her. After a long time, he said vaguely, "...... I found a new job. ”

"Go...... What to do? ”

Why do you have so many questions? He glanced at her. But he still answered this question that was not easy to answer: "Go to odd jobs for half a year." If you're lucky, you'll keep doing it there. He didn't know she had so many words.

Jiang Lihong was silent again. She stared out of the balcony with her head half-held high, as quiet as the dark night.

He's embarrassed to leave now. People have asked him so many questions, this is also a kind of concern and concern among acquaintances, he has to express a little bit of what he says, right? So he cautiously asked, "Have you encountered any troubles?" If you can trust me, let me help you with ideas. Even if I can't help you with ideas, you should feel better when you say it. Rest assured, I've already resigned from the company, and I guess it's very unlikely that I'll go back there in the future, so you don't have to worry about me getting the word out about you......"

Jiang Lihong just raised her hand to wipe the tears from the corners of her eyes as if she hadn't heard his words. After a few words with Gao Jinsong, she doesn't cry much now.

"What can you think of her?" Jiang Lihong's friend took over the conversation, she also turned on the light in the kitchen, walked over and took Jiang Lihong's hand, and asked her to go back to sleep.

The sudden flickering light made Gao Jinsong close his eyes, and then he heard the woman say: "Go back to the house, go to bed first, and I'll help you borrow money tomorrow." Don't worry, there will always be a way, how can a living person teach urine to suffocate to death? ”

Hearing her last words, Gao Jinsong couldn't help laughing. But his smile immediately froze on his face, and he finally knew the reason why Jiang Lihong was standing on the balcony in the middle of the night and crying - money! She needs money now! In an instant, several thoughts crossed his mind. He has money now, and he won't need it for a while, so he can lend it to her first. But he immediately rejected the idea. He and she are not familiar with each other at all, and besides, she is not a local yet, if she does not want to return it, where will he go to find her? But what if she just needs a few hundred dollars to save the mile? She wouldn't lie to herself for a few hundred dollars, and she cried tears...... No! Even if it is a few hundred dollars, he is not obliged to help her, life is cruel, and only this cruelty can make us sober......

He thought so in his heart, but said something else: "Can you tell me what's going on?" If I don't need much money, maybe I can help. ”

Jiang Lihong looked at him in surprise, and two flames of hope were immediately lit in her beautiful eyes. But the flame immediately dimmed. She remembered Gao Jinsong's room that was so simple that it was impossible to describe, and she could see how embarrassing his life was from those personal objects.

Her companion glanced at Gao Jinsong and said, "...... She wants to borrow three or four thousand, do you have one? ”

This number left Gao Jinsong speechless. He could have come up with the money, but that meant he had only one way left to go - to fulfill his contract with the new era! It also means that he could really only do odd jobs for half a year, or not even half a year, and if the team is eliminated in the group stage, he will only be able to do odd jobs for three months at most, after which he will have to run around for work again......

What's even more terrifying is that by doing so, he will lose an opportunity that could change his life!

He dismissed the idea of lending money to Jiang Lihong.

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Gao Jinsong lay on the bed and tossed and turned, but he couldn't sleep. As soon as he closed his eyes, he could see Jiang Lihong standing on the balcony crying silently, and he could hear her asking himself softly, "Why did you quit your job", and when he opened his eyes, he could see her eyes that were tormented by anxiety and lost their vitality, as well as the spark of hope and deeper despair that burst out in an instant......

I should help her! He thought so. The contemptuous look on his companion's face when he looked at him made him extremely angry, even if it was out of a man's pride, he should help her.

But is it worth it to use the great prospects you may have to help someone else you have just met?

He felt it was hard for him to make the right choice. Whether he helps or doesn't help, he has a lot of reasons to convince himself, which makes it even more difficult for him to choose. He was caught in a dilemma.

He sat up irritably, reached for the pillow and touched the cigarette, or only the cigarette could calm him, even if it was temporary, but it was much better than it was now.

His hands groped in the darkness, and only his satchel touched. There were no cigarettes in the satchel, just a notebook and a pen, as well as his various documents, and ...... And the hot pile of bills. Yes, hot banknotes, when he touched these papers with a completely different texture and feel, his fingers trembled involuntarily, and they retracted violently like an electric shock, and the paralyzing sensation spread rapidly from the tips of his fingers to his whole body, and finally even his brain seemed to tremble. At that moment, he even let out a cry of pain.

The shivering sensation made his whole body numb.

I don't know how much time passed, but he finally remembered what he wanted to do, and finally remembered where he left the box of cigarettes. He forgot the cigarette on the balcony, and when he walked back to his room in shame and embarrassment, he forgot to retrieve it.

He let out a long sigh, walked out of his room in the dark on his long tired legs, and went to the balcony to find the box of cigarettes. He was desperate for the feeling of his throat burning and his brain being paralyzed, to make him forget for a moment what had happened tonight.

When he turned on the kitchen light, he immediately saw the familiar figure, the cigarette case on the balcony parapet beside her.

"I ...... I'm looking for it, looking for my cigarettes. He swallowed and said with difficulty. He didn't dare to look at her at all, but walked over with a drooping eyebrow and grabbed the cigarette case.

"You're not sleeping yet?" He asked an idiotic question. As soon as the words came out, he was eager to pick them up and swallow them again. "Go to sleep, you've got to work tomorrow......" he said he couldn't go on.

"Hmm." Jiang Lihong nodded and shook her head.

He looked at her with a blank face, and then asked, "What are you borrowing so much money for all at once?" ”

She didn't speak, didn't even look at him, just stared at the endless night sky. The night sky was empty, not even a star, only a deep black blue with no end in sight.

"I can lend it to you!"

After saying this, he felt like he was in prostration, and at the same time, he felt that his legs, which were still heavy just now, had regained their vitality as if they had been filled with lead.

"Wait a minute." He immediately went back to his room, counted out forty of the stacks of bills and took them to the balcony, and handed them to Jiang Lihong. He even half-truthfully joked with her: "Put them away quickly, lest you teach me to see them—maybe I'll regret it!" ”

Under the light of the kitchen, which was not bright, Jiang Lihong's face suddenly turned red and immediately became as white as paper. How could she dare to believe that Gao Jinsong could really come up with so much money? How can you believe that he will really lend this money to his unknown self? He looked like a down-and-out worker, but he walked around the house like a trick and took out so much money...... She raised her head, wanting to see Gao Jinsong's expression clearly, to confirm whether this was true or not, but she immediately blushed and buried her head......

In order to retrieve the pack of cigarettes, Gao Jinsong only had a pair of boxers on his body......

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The money was lent out, and Gao Jinsong was finally able to sleep again. He no longer needs to worry about the trial of Mingyuan Club, and he doesn't have to look forward to the appearance of Bole who can know thousands of miles, he can only obediently report to the New Era Club now, the only hope is that the team can step on the shit, go all the way smoothly to the finals, and then drag two of the three recognized tigers to be stepping stones, and finally promote to A B - even if you can't renew the contract with the club, it doesn't matter, as long as the team is promoted to A B, the mess of money comes together, He was able to earn himself money to buy a decent house in the city, and at least he could pay a down payment on a mortgage on a new house......

He had just fallen asleep when he heard a knock on his door.

He muttered and complained, and reluctantly went to open the door for Jiang Lihong - only she would knock on the door so gently and rhythmically, and if it was her "characterful" companion, he would not be surprised even if he kicked the door.

He agreed, put on his clothes and shorts, turned on the light to open the door, and asked her, "You still don't go to sleep?" He joked, "Beware of wrinkles." ”

Jiang Lihong blushed and whispered, "I, I'll send you the IOU." She now dares to look at Gao Jinsong head-on.

This is something that Gao Jinsong didn't expect. He took the neatly handwritten note and said with a smile, "You don't need it, do you?" …… Go to sleep, you'll have to go to work in two or three hours, and you'll be scolded by the general manager for not having the energy to go to work. He restrained himself so that he didn't yawn, but he couldn't help but exhale slowly, and shook his chin that was a little sour and stiff.

"Thank you."

"Hmm." Gao Jinsong responded casually. He was so drowsy that he wanted to fall to the floor, and all he thought about was getting rid of the woman who was suddenly in too good spirits—didn't she want to sleep?

"You lent me the money...... Don't you want to know why I'm borrowing this money? ”

Don't want to! These words had already reached Gao Jinsong's mouth, but in the end he swallowed them back. He smiled and said, "If you want to say it, of course I ...... Of course," this time he couldn't hold back his yawn, and looked at Jiang Lihong with tearful eyes and sleepy eyes, "...... But I don't even have a place to sit in this house, or you can tell me again in the evening. "He was going to report to the club in the afternoon. As for whether the IOU can be cashed in - well, let's talk about it......

"My brother is getting married, and the woman's family still wants 800 yuan, and the family has no money...... Jiang Lihong didn't seem to notice Gao Jinsong's sleepiness, and said to herself. She didn't know why she had told him all this, but she always felt that if she hadn't told him, maybe he would have misunderstood her. "The brigade accountant said that if we don't make up the more than 2,000 yuan we owe when we built the road the year before, then they won't give a marriage certificate...... The younger siblings are in high school in the town, and what uniforms are going to be made, each of them will have more than a hundred ......"

Can a marriage license be linked to the construction of a road? High school, what a distant and sacred word, he has only studied until the fifth grade of primary school after 800 serious studies in his life, and he has not yet graduated! Do you dare to charge more than a hundred for a set of wrinkled school uniforms? This tailor shop is too dark, and it's almost time to catch up with the Olympic company; Jiang Lihong has just turned twenty, or is she the aunt of her "announcer" companion? This aunt is so young......

Gao Jinsong's mind was full of these things that didn't match, and he didn't even remember how he got back to bed, so he didn't know anything about sleeping.

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