Later in the afternoon of November 3, Gao Jinsong walked out of Wuhan Tianhe Airport with his much-shriveled travel bag wrapped in a crowd.

He immediately saw Guan Mingshan, who was obviously taller than everyone around him and was looking around.

Guan Mingshan is still the same, there are always a lot of unclean stubble on his chin, and he habitually brushes his hair with his hands, which is always not so subdued. Even in this cold weather, he only wore a thin sweater with a high neck, and then put on a sports jacket printed with the word Liaoning on the outside, the neckline of the sweater was not neatly folded, and a small section was pressed against the neck. If you look closely, you may be able to spot the half of the shoe prints on his leather shoes, which I don't know if someone stepped on them, or if they were simply kicked and thrown everywhere when he took off his shoes, and he didn't notice them.

Just when Gao Jinsong was about to quietly go around to surprise Guan Mingshan, Guan Mingshan also spotted him, and he didn't notice that his own height also made him a conspicuous target in the crowd.

The two large pairs of hands soon clasped tightly together.

"Good boy, you've finally arrived." Guan Mingshan excitedly punched Gao Jinsong on the shoulder. "I've been standing here for almost an hour, and maybe the police on duty are about to watch me as a thief." As if to cooperate with his words, a policeman not far away turned his back and gave a look to a companion further away, this is not the target that they need to focus on.

Gao Jinsong inhaled a cool breath and grinned, and said with a smile: "How is it possible." Tap. ......" He moved his shoulder, but fortunately, the bones were not broken. "When did you arrive?"

"Yesterday morning." Guan Mingshan said angrily, and scolded a very vulgar and popular Northeast vulgar sentence, "Wei Honglin's lamb forgot about his friends when he had a mother-in-law, took me from here to the hotel, threw me into the room, slammed the door and patted his ass and left, ignored me anymore, only gave me an invitation to his wedding banquet......" As he spoke, he took out a folded red post from his trouser pocket, "Oh, this is your ticket." Poor me, alone at night, counting the stars in an empty room......"

Gao Jinsong smiled. The second half of this sentence sounds quite familiar, as if when playing in Chengdu, there was a time when Gao Jinsong and Guan Mingshan met to go into the city to play without bringing Wei Honglin, Wei Honglin howled like this. After laughing, he asked curiously, "Why did you come here yesterday?" Didn't he tell you that tomorrow is the right day? ”

"Of course I know that tomorrow is the right day, but the airlines don't know, I just told them that it is right to fly to Wuhan today, and they will definitely not adjust the flight for me."

It turns out that this is the case, so who else can Guan Mingshan complain about.

As they spoke, the two of them had already walked to the taxi boarding point, Guan Mingshan beckoned to a taxi waiting in line, opened the car door and stuffed himself in, and when Gao Jinsong also hooked his head and squeezed into the small space of the Otto car, he told the driver: "Excuse me, Wuchang Yafeng Hotel." Then he turned his face to Gao Jinsong and said, "Now you and I pray together, don't get stuck in traffic on the Yangtze River Bridge, otherwise we may not be able to eat dinner when we can eat it." ”

Traffic. Can't you take a detour in a traffic jam?

Gao Jinsong didn't know about this, Guan Mingshan had an unforgettable memory of Wuhan, and this memory came from a very bad experience. In the summer of 1991, he went to Changsha with the team to participate in the Helong Cup football match, and after the game, the team came to Wuhan to play. That's four hours. It was dog days, the hottest time of the year, Wuhan is the famous "stove", so a whole car of people, including players and coaches plus a few officials from Liaoning and Wuhan local football associations, everyone baked in the furnace of this stove......

Gao Jinsong, who has not personally experienced what Wuhan is like in summer, can hardly imagine what it feels like, but the taxi driver is sympathetic and understanding, and can't help but explain to Guan Mingshan: Now that the Second Yangtze River Bridge has been opened to traffic, although the bridge will occasionally be blocked, there will definitely not be another wall that is four or five hours......

Gao Jinsong inquired with great interest about the experience of Mingshan on the Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge, and said to him: "Brother Guan, you don't have any extra money on you." ”

"Hmm. How much. I didn't have a few with me, but I still had more than 30,000 on my credit card. He didn't ask Gao Jinsong about the use of the money. This Northeast man who looks quite rough, but at some times he has a carefulness comparable to that of a woman. "If you have more, I'll get it when I get it."

Gao Jinsong quickly counted the possible spendings he took in his heart, and then instigated his lips and said, "Five thousand." But he immediately changed his words, "Lend me 10,000 yuan, and I will pay you back in a few days." "This way he can be more relaxed and deal with some unforeseen emergencies.

Guan Mingshan, who was digging out the money, stuffed the wallet back again: "I don't have so much on me, but the hotel used to have a Bank of Communications, a matter of a few minutes." ”

Guan Mingshan's cheerfulness made Gao Jinsong can't help but scold himself in his heart, on the plane to Wuhan, he was still thinking repeatedly about how to talk to Guan Mingshan and what kind of excuse to find. Now that his biggest trouble at the moment has been successfully solved, his mood has also relaxed, and he is also in the mood to say something else to Guan Mingshan.

"It's no longer a matter of the club buying the first and second qualifications, you know no."

"What." Guan Mingshan was surprised that the cigarette roll in his hand almost fell to his pants, and turned his head to look at Gao Jinsong. He stared at Gao Jinsong, as if he wanted to get a clue from his expression, whether Gao Jinsong was joking with him or talking to him about business, and asked suspiciously for a while, "Impossible." I received a phone call before I came yesterday, didn't I say that the contract would be signed in three or two days? Why did it go wrong again? Who has changed his mind again. ”

Gao Jinsong suddenly opened his mouth wide. Sign the contract. The contract was signed within these three or two days. How is this possible. Three days ago, the acquisition of the New Era Club had been terminated because of failure, and this matter had been reported, so Guan Mingshan didn't know anything about it. He stammered, "You...... Are you reading it wrong? Isn't that League B club already sold to Chengdu Ipson? ”

Guan Mingshan was a little confused: "Chengdu Ipsen." Didn't they already go to Guangdong? This matter has been filed with the Football Association. Even if they want to stick in one more sideways, it is difficult for them to raise two teams in one club. "This kind of association club relationship is prohibited by the Football Association, as long as it is verified, Chengdu Ipsen and their shadow club will only be disqualified from the B League, and will be fined heavily.

Gao Jinsong realized that after a long time, he and Guan Mingshan were not the same thing at all. The acquisition he mentioned was the acquisition of the New Era Club by the Guangdong League B Club, while the acquisition that Guan Mingshan said was the acquisition of another A B club by the New Era.

Wait. New Era acquires another club. Which one is that? Why didn't the slightest news come out of the newspapers and television?

"Changsha Qinyuan." Guan Mingshan said nonchalantly. "General Manager Sun and the club's lawyer are all stationed in Changsha. You know, there is an old brother of mine in Qinyuan, he said that he would retire after playing this year, and the Qinyuan club just didn't agree, and he reluctantly agreed to play in Changsha for another year, but the conditions given by Qinyuan are also generous, and he doesn't treat him badly, if it weren't for his parents still having to take care of him, maybe he even has a Changsha hukou......" Seeing Gao Jinsong frowning slightly, he reacted and said that he ran away, so he coughed embarrassedly and stroked his hair. "The major shareholder behind Qinyuan is doing real estate, relying on the reputation of the team to draw a good piece of land, and suddenly there is no mind to play football, in the middle of last month began to look for a home in Changsha, but no result is all over the province of Hunan to find, the result is naturally someone willing to take over and continue to engage, but several shareholders of Qinyuan are not happy. "He rolled down the window and threw out the cigarette butt before continuing, "Even their club is rumored to be forbidden by the Changsha Municipal Government, but two days ago, someone saw several big cadres of the club and Sun Junshan...... had dinner with Mr. Sun, and the next day I saw Mr. Qinyuan at the airport picking up Mr. Sun at Changsha Airport, and the news gradually couldn't be concealed. There are rumors in their club that they have noses and eyes, and they all say that everything has been negotiated and the contract has been signed in the past two days. ”

These words also confirmed Gao Jinsong's previous speculation. Although he had already guessed that this might be the result, when he heard the more definite news about this matter with his own ears, he was still surprised and excited for no reason, and a blush of excitement appeared on his face.

He finally didn't have to wander in a foreign land. He let out a sigh of relief and leaned back on the soft back of his seat.

"You don't know. Mr. Sun didn't tell you. You and he are in the same city, so there is no connection. Guan Mingshan asked strangely.

"I can't say it's unconnected." Gao Jinsong briefly recounted the experience of his meeting with Sun Junshan that night, "I guess it was Mr. Sun who talked too much in front of us in Chengdu last time, and the formation was too big, and people didn't move to report it in the newspaper, and things were messed up; This time, before he put things into practice, he was probably embarrassed to imagine a better future with me......"

This witty remark made Guan Mingshan stroke his hair and be happy.

Guan Mingshan asked, "You won't go to Qingdao again, will you?" Dai Zhenguo also invited him, not to mention all kinds of good conditions, and specifically mentioned that Gao Jinsong would also go to Qingdao. For Dai Zhenguo's kindness, he neither agreed nor refused directly, and like Gao Jinsong, he has been anxiously waiting for Sun Junshan's news in irritability and restlessness, and at the same time he has several invitations from A-B and B-level clubs, Qingdao is also one of the back roads he has reserved for himself.

Gao Jinsong immediately shook his head. Since the New Era Club has successfully "saved the country by curve", why did he go to Qingdao Shuangxi to sit on the cold bench. "What about you?" Dai Zhenguo naturally told him the same that Guan Mingshan would definitely go to Qingdao. A happy smile bloomed on his face again. I don't know when he was compared to the team's natural boss Guan Mingshan. Maybe it started from the moment Guan Mingshan handed the captain's armband to him......

"Of course I won't." Guan Ming's mountain shook like a rattle. "I haven't been jumping for two years, and when I go to Qingdao, I must be a substitute to sit on the bench, how can I compare the money I get with the main force. Not to mention being the main force in the new era, he is also a big brother, and if he can't run for two years, with you brothers to take care of, maybe I can mix up in the club and find two living money. With a wooden face, he stared at the advertisement printed on the driver's seat cover, and told Gao Jinsong everything in his heart. Besides, Mr. Sun is a good person, and it is not bad for those of us who work the field, even if he is still in the second division, I am willing to follow him; Director Zheng is also a good person, although he scares cats and dogs with a dark face all day long, the old man still has a few brushes, and he is also down-to-earth with such a coach......" He took out a cigarette and a lighter from his pocket, handed one to Gao Jinsong, and saw that Gao Jinsong waved his hand and didn't answer, so he lit it himself, and continued with a smoke, "I don't want to go back to A A, and I don't want to go back to A B, I just want to earn two years of stable money, so that I can buy a good dowry for my daughter...... I guess Chen Mingcan also means the same, I chatted with him on the phone for more than three hours last night, and he also regretted the things he did with the club at the beginning, and repeatedly asked me to say a few more good words in front of Mr. Sun. He didn't contact you. Seeing Gao Jinsong shaking his head, he said, "He also asked me to tell you and ask you to help him." He glanced at Gao Jinsong, "Lao Chen said, if there is anything that can't stand you in the past, don't worry about him...... There are times when people are blinded by lard. ”

Gao Jinsong listened to him in silence, pondering the taste of his words. He knew that Guan Mingshan and what he said were from his heart. These veterans are not what he thinks. He thinks about a higher sky and a wider stage, they want to make more money and a more stable life, which means that in the next year or two, they don't want too much turmoil for the club and the team, which not only refers to the club's relegation, but even the club's rush to A. Rushing A requires strength, relegation requires strength, and whatever happens, it means tougher games and more personnel adjustments, which will actually shake the role and status of the veteran players in the team, especially when they are getting worse, and this turmoil may force them to make the decision to retire......

Gao Jinsong was churning with all kinds of thoughts in his heart, but he said, "How can I have an opinion on Brother Chen." Even if there was a little friction in the past, it was just a small matter of teeth touching the tongue, and it was over. Speaking of saying good things for him in the club," Gao Jinsong pursed his lips and smiled, "I won't say a word for you if I say ten words." This slightly explicit greeting sentence made Guan Mingshan's originally wooden face show a smile. Gao Jinsong changed the topic again, "The club has just stepped into the first B, and most of the tasks next year are relegation, if you want to take root in the first B, it is unlikely that it will take three or two years, and the key for us now is how to strive for a passable result." Of course, we don't need to worry about it, and the club and Zheng guide them to know how to do it. ”

These words were all to the point, and they also entered Guan Mingshan's heart, and the corners of his mouth were now almost on the back of his head. Gao Jinsong has no opinion on Chen Mingcan, this is not only to reply to Chen Mingcan, but also to tell him Guan Mingshan, even if they are a little bumpy together in the future, it is just a trivial matter, and don't take each other to heart; To flatter him is to respect him and his future position in the team; In two or three years, he has laid a good foundation in the first B, which means that he will not make waves in the club before the two of them retire, shouting about promotion and rushing A; As for the relegation thing, hi. Do you need to say anything about this, who is willing to toss in the second division league after eating it.

The two of them were talking in the back seat, and they didn't think about avoiding suspicion, so the driver who was driving in front of them listened almost word for word. Since inquiring about the words "football", "club" and "A B A A", the master pricked up his ears, and he also thought that these two guests were foreign players who came to Wuhan Yafeng Club for trial, who knew that the more he listened, the more it was not the same thing. The master is a person who understands, and when he heard it, he was almost impressed by the young team member with a slightly dark face. He couldn't help but take a closer look at Gao Jinsong in the rearview mirror. Looking at this exquisite mind, if he can still have this half of the level on the court, this young man will definitely not be an easy role......

After a pause, Guan Mingshan asked, "Do you have any news of Director Zheng?" ”

Gao Jinsong's face immediately darkened. He contacted Zheng Changsheng several times during the holidays, and the old coach not only told him to pay attention to rest and recuperate, but also taught him to be cautious before signing a contract for the next season, and if he was not sure, he must tell him. Of course, none of these words can be said to Guan Mingshan. There is only one very bad news in the part that can tell Guan Mingshan. "Director Zheng probably won't come out to coach us again, he said he was too tired. And the League B has to be played from spring to autumn, and after such a long time, his physical condition does not allow ......"

Guan Mingshan nodded silently.

There was an unpleasant silence in the taxi, and the rapport that had been maintained since the two had met seemed to be disappearing with the windows of the building. In the end, it was Gao Jinsong who broke the silence, and he asked, "Have you ever seen a bride?" What it looks like. Wei Honglin is not worthy of others. ”

Guan Mingshan didn't know anything about it, and as soon as he talked about it, his anger didn't come out. Wei Honglin's lamb hasn't even shown his face since noon yesterday, and only called him and told him what time to pick up Gao Jinsong at the airport.

"You said, I flew thousands of miles from Shenyang to Wuhan, and I didn't say anything about the air ticket and travel allowance, so he asked me to have dinner and breakfast and lunch by myself. He didn't bring his daughter-in-law out to see me, and he sent me a reception messenger...... Don't stop me, I'll go and deal with him, if you don't pour him three bottles of white, I'll hit here and jump down. ”

Gao Jinsong looked at the magnificent momentum of the Yangtze River Bridge with a biased face, then looked at the toy-sized ferry on the river under the bridge, turned his head and looked up and down Guan Ming Mountain several times, nodded cautiously, and said very seriously: "I won't stop you." ”

The two laughed together.

Wei Honglin is not good at drinking, and he will blush like Guan Gong in the play when he drinks two or three glasses of beer, and he has repeatedly stated when he invited Guan Mingshan and Gao Jinsong to his wedding that the two of them have to block those good things who take it as their duty to drunk the groom......

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Guan Mingshan withdrew money for Gao Jinsong in the bank, and took him to a good Wuhan-style restaurant for a hearty dinner.

Wandering through the streets of Wuhan, Gao Jinsong felt the prosperity and splendor of the city for the first time.

The shops are full of colorful goods, and the streets are bustling with people coming and going. Large electronic billboards at the top of the heights change colors and patterns at regular intervals. The brilliance of neon interweaving is dazzling. Street lamps, car lights, and the lights of the shops on both sides of the road create a long river of light and shadow......

This is just a corner of Wuchang, so Hanyangli. And Hankow.

"Great Wuhan, Great Wuhan." Guan Mingshan also seems to be quite emotional, "Only the two cities of Wuhan and Shanghai can be called a 'big' word, and only they can be worthy of this 'big' word." ”

"What is Greater Shanghai like?" Gao Jinsong asked curiously.

"You'll know if you go, and we'll be able to go soon, there's a B club there, Shanghai Dongsheng, maybe I can teach Zhang Chi a lesson...... Although, if luck hadn't stood with us, I might have been taught a lesson by him. ”

Zhang Chi has signed a contract with Shanghai Dongsheng Club, and he will also make an appearance in the League B tomorrow.

Back at the hotel and staying in the room that Wei Honglin had booked for him early in the morning, Gao Jinsong took the time to hang up the phone to the groom and inform him of the news that he had arrived in time. However, he didn't say much to Wei Honglin. He could hear the noise on the other end of the phone, the adults were shouting to the children, and it was probably Wei Honglin's relatives who were putting the finishing touches on his new house. Gao Jinsong had attended two of his teammates' weddings before, and in the middle of the night, the parents of his teammates suddenly remembered something important, so he shouted at everyone and tossed them all over, and if he was unlucky, he would have to drop the bed again, and then ...... Then it's time for the groom to yawn and pick up the bride......

He took a bath, kicked his slippers and slipped to the next Guan Mingshan house to sit for a while, and talked about the borderless gossip of the mountains and seas, until Guan Mingshan was a little drunk, and his eyes were a little ignorant, and he went back to his room. I turned on the TV and looked at it, there was no news or any good programs, and then I looked at my watch, it was almost ten o'clock, so he turned off the TV and prepared to go to bed. Tomorrow I have to block the wine for Wei Honglin, this is a hard and clumsy job, if the rest is not good and the spirit is not good, maybe the person who blocks the wine will be the first to be put down by waves of guests, he can't teach Yafeng that group of guys to look down, this matter is not only related to his own face, but also related to the face of the club, maybe it can also have something to do with A A A A B......

He was thinking wildly, and he was about to turn off the lights in his room.

Suddenly, he heard someone knocking on his door, two long and one short, very rhythmic.

He bit his lip and wondered if he should open the door.

He knew what this knock meant. Some girls who do not follow the right path will often go out in places such as hotels and restaurants, where people come and go, and sell their bodies in exchange for money, and they will be harassed by them twice when they pass through the provincial capital, sometimes several times a night. He didn't have any affection for them, and certainly didn't have any ill feelings, and more often than not, he didn't even bother to open the door. In fact, he wasn't going to open the door right now. Generally, when they can't knock on the door, this kind of woman will change rooms to do business, and there are few people who stay dead and stay still, which is probably their professional ethics.

But this time he obviously met a woman with no professional ethics, knocking on the door several times without stopping, and Gao Jinsong also heard a woman's voice outside the door saying, "No, I just saw him go back to the house." I didn't see him go out. ”

"You read that right." It's a man's voice.

Gao Jinsong's head buzzed. Worst. He thought the person knocking on the door was a woman who did that kind of business, and now it seemed that he was completely thinking left. The one who knocked on the door was a man, and the woman who spoke earlier was probably a waiter on the floor of the hotel.

He didn't care about which man here besides Wei Honglin and Guan Mingshan would come to him at this time, and he didn't notice that even if the two of them came to him to talk about something, it would be impossible to knock on the door like this, most of them would bang the door and shout his name loudly. He hurriedly opened the door.

The man standing outside the door was completely unexpected, he had never expected to meet this person here.

"Sure enough, it's you." The middle-aged man stretched out his hand to him, "I caught a glimpse of you walking past in the lobby on the ground floor, and before I could say hello, you were gone." Fortunately, I have acquaintances here, otherwise the hotel would not have been able to tell me your room number. ”

You Shen held his hand tightly.

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