Adjacent to the highway stands a lonely two-story building, the second floor is dark and unlit, and the lobby downstairs is only open to the street, which has slipped away three or two wall lamps, reflecting the tables, chairs and benches in the hall in a dim yellow shadow. Between the first and second floors, an antique dripping eaves are made of tiles, but a section of shelter from the rain is connected, and the slender and long canopy is dragged from the entrance of the building to the side of the road, which looks more like a simple corridor or corridor. On both sides of the pergola, which stretches to the end of the building, there are two bicycles and a white van parked haphazardly, and on the other side are several men and women who are not from the city, shouting and playing mahjong. If it weren't for the fact that Gao Jinsong and Li Xiaolin had to walk back and forth from here several times a week, and if it weren't for the huge sign on the side of the road, maybe they wouldn't have known that this was actually a small restaurant.

A bunch of people playing mahjong also saw them, and a man playing cards looked them up and down with an inquiring look on his face. Looking at the clothes of the two of them, he knew that these were the players from the Yafeng base in front of him, but he couldn't understand what these two players were doing here for a while. Yafeng has been building his base here for more than a year, but his small restaurant has never received even a single club.

Li Xiaolin asked, "Is it still open here?" "I said this to this group of people. He couldn't figure out who was in charge of the business, so he had to say, "We haven't eaten yet." ”

Of course, it's not closed yet.

The man immediately stretched out his hand and wiped the cards indiscriminately, and before he could say hello, the people around the table dispersed, those who should go into the kitchen went to the kitchen, and those who should go to the counter went to the counter, the man rubbed the oil mud on his hands, and asked with a smile on his face, "How many of you." ”

"Two people." Li Xiaolin replied and asked, "Is there a private room?" ”

The man grinned. Where did he come from in this place? The previous restaurant owner had prepared a few rooms on the second floor, but after he bought this house, he had been looking at business and had no good looks, and a few private rooms rarely came in handy...... He shook his head with a wry smile and sighed. It seems that this business has fallen apart again. However, he didn't think it was a big deal if he couldn't let the two Yafeng players eat, but it was a pity that he had a good hand just now.

Li Xiaolin also frowned. It's not too early or too late, it's far from the city, and the key is that there is no suitable means of transportation in front of them, where else can they go. He suddenly felt a little regretful, he shouldn't have disposed of his second-hand car so quickly. He instigated Yahuazi and asked unwillingly: "...... There is no place for purification. ”

"Yes." This time, the restaurant owner answered very firmly. There is also a large private room on the second floor, with four tables on the floor, although the place is a little brighter, it seems that these two Yafeng team members are his last guests today, and the big private room is quasi-clean. Even if any more guests came, he wouldn't let them go up to the second floor. He can assure Li Xiaolin of this.

Listening to the restaurant's enthusiastic introduction and the guarantee that his chest was crackling, the corners of Li Xiaolin's mouth twitched a few times, which was a smile. He said, "Then it's the second floor." He turned his head and asked Gao Jinsong, "Look." ”

Gao Jinsong nodded noncommittally. Eat wherever you eat. He didn't think that Li Xiaolin would have anything to say to him, first, the two didn't have that friendship, second, they were going to go their separate ways, and third, they were going to ...... This dinner is not Li Xiaolin's sincerity to entertain himself, he didn't eat dinner himself, and he just can't erase his face when he shouts.

Although the restaurant is small, the means of receiving people and entertaining guests are still good, two people just sat down in the large private room on the second floor, and a waiter brought them herbal tea, turned around and handed over two steaming wet towels with a stainless steel tray, and waited for them to wipe their faces and hands to pick up and stop, and the waiter handed over the menu.

Li Xiaolin didn't look closely, so he pointed to the most expensive dishes on the menu and ordered them all the way, and then ordered a few meat and vegetarian cold dishes at random, and asked Gao Jinsong: "Do you drink white or red?" ”

Gao Jinsong hesitated for a moment and said, "...... Let's have a beer. "It's not the time to drink because there's a league game in two days, but if you just drink a beer, it won't be a problem.

Li Xiaolin glanced at him, and then said to the waiter, "Do you have any beer?" He pulled a cigarette and a lighter out of his pocket.

"There is only the locally produced 'East Lake'."

"Let's have a bottle of 'East Lake'." Gao Jinsong said before Li Xiaolin spoke.

"I want liquor." Li Xiaolin didn't force him, hesitated for a moment, and added, "Take your best liquor here." He didn't know if there was any good wine in this little restaurant, so he had to explain it like this.

He took the cigarette roll handed over by Li Xiaolin, didn't smoke it, just put the cigarette roll on the table, and looked around at the furnishings in the private room. At this time, he could not drink liquor. Unlike Li Xiaolin, who has been in the League A for a long time, he is still a new face, and his transfer has not yet had a final result, he still has to continue to work the field, at this time, every touch of the ball and every action will affect his future, so it is best not to touch alcohol and cigarettes.

Just like the owner of the restaurant introduced, the private room is quite large, with four round tables and a circle of leather-faced wooden chairs neatly stacked on the side of the table, and I don't feel that the space is crowded. The lights in the room were all on, and the snow-white walls were a little dazzling in the light. In the corner not far from them, an old cabinet air conditioner was babbling and whispering, and two red silk cloths wrapped around the fan pages were swaying weakly up and down, left and right. There is also a picture of the Tiger Descending from the Mountain hanging on the wall not far from the air conditioner, and he is sitting right in front of the painting. There is no doubt that the painting is definitely a tiger, the yellow and black stripes on the tiger's body and the black lines in the shape of the king on the tiger's head are all proof, but the tiger's eyes are neither majestic nor cold, but full of naughtiness, even its slightly bulging lips also show its true identity, it is not the tiger of the king of beasts, but a simple and bowable cat.

Gao Jinsong grinned.

Li Xiaolin, who was sitting diagonally opposite, was inexplicable. He cautiously examined himself from top to bottom to make sure there was nothing wrong, and then asked, half puzzled and half curious, "What are you laughing at?" ”

"That painting...... It's so funny. ”

"What's wrong with the painting?" Li Xiaolin turned his face to look at the painting as well. He immediately spotted the tiger drawn by the cat, and couldn't help laughing, laughing, and judging the painter and the innkeeper in vulgar terms.

A few cold dishes and snacks brought by the waiter interrupted their appreciation of the painting. While pouring himself wine, Li Xiaolin asked Gao Jinsong: "You can also have this." ”

Gao Jin frowned sadly and rejected his kindness.

Among the cold dishes is a plate of stinky tofu, a famous local snack in Wuhan, and four or five pieces of green, yellow, and red things are stacked on top of each other, and sauce is poured on them. There was also a lingering foul smell in the air. Gao Jinsong has an indescribable fear of this thing. When he first arrived in Wuhan, Wei Honglin warmly recommended this unique Wuhan snack to him, but the choking smell that was so strong that it could not be resolved finally made him lose the courage to try, and until now, he has never tasted a mouthful.

Li Xiaolin also seemed to know that Gao Jinsong was afraid of this stinky tofu, and explained with a somewhat embarrassed smile: "I like to eat this thing." He took a piece of tofu and threw it in his mouth, and said while tasting the taste, "When I came to Wuhan, I smelled this smell for the first time, I thought I was in the wrong place, and I was tired of this thing, but then I didn't know how to get addicted, and I didn't eat it for a few days." When I went home from the vacation after the league last year, I was in a hurry and forgot to bring some with me, and the result was ...... "He picked up another piece, and enthusiastically encouraged Gao Jinsong to try it again." "You can also taste it, it's really a good thing......" Seeing that Gao Jinsong was indifferent, he had to continue his previous words, "As a result, during the time I got home, I dreamed of this stinky tofu several times." He swallowed the piece of tofu in his mouth, paused before saying, "It's not easy to eat this in the future." I don't know if this casual sentence touched me, Li Xiaolin stopped talking, squinted his eyes and smacked his mouth, as if he was reminiscing, and as if he was reminiscing.

Gao Jinsong was silent with a beer.

The first one didn't like it because it didn't fit in; Later, I liked it because I got used to it. Isn't the process of Li Xiaolin's hatred to love for stinky tofu the process of adapting to Wuhan Yafeng from being unsuitable to adapting. Dozens of days back, during the days when he couldn't play, he also repeatedly asked himself in his heart whether he should come to Wuhan. At that time, he was even doubting his own ability, and fantasized over and over again that if he didn't accept You's caution, then he could continue to stay in the provincial city, continue to stay in the New Era Club, and then he could wander smoothly in the shallow pond of the first and b, and continue his football career with nourishment. But in a blink of an eye, he was chased by two A A, and he became more and more prominent in the Yafeng Club, the funny thing is that while he adapted to the A League and Wuhan Yafeng, he had to leave Hubei to go to a strange city, join a strange club, and then continue the process from not adapting to adapting......

Both of them were immersed in their own feelings and feelings, and they forgot to eat and drink for a while.

"Why didn't you two eat it? Is it that the taste of the dish is not to taste. I don't know when, the owner of the restaurant came to their table, saw that both of them stopped chopsticks, and misunderstood, while blaming the chef for not doing his job in his heart, he said earnestly, "If the taste of the food is not right, you can just open your mouth, and I will go and let them make it again." ”

Gao Jinsong hurriedly grabbed the restaurant owner who was about to teach the chef a lesson by rolling up his arms and sleeves, Li Xiaolin also hurriedly explained next to him, he and Gao Jinsong had lived in this neighborhood for so long, and they didn't know that there were such good things in this restaurant, not only the portion was sufficient, but the taste was good, compared to those famous restaurants and restaurants, it was not much worse, but the decoration and face could not be compared, but eating was the taste, so next time they must call all the friends on the team, so that they can also come here to taste authentic Hubei cuisine.

Li Xiaolin's words made the boss's face glow red when he heard it. In addition to being happy, he had to go down to the kitchen to show his hand to the two young people who knew the goods, this was the specialty dish of the restaurant he used to open, spicy chicken, and he relied on this skill to earn himself this small shop on the side of the road.

The diced spicy chicken was soon served, a full plate full of dried chili peppers cut into thumb-length and short red Yin Yin oil, and in a sea of red, a few pieces of chicken that had been fried black loomed. Gao Jinsong and Li Xiaolin really couldn't wipe off their face, so they had to pick and choose a chopstick, and then praised the boss for his first-class craftsmanship.

"Eat slowly, eat slowly." The owner of the restaurant was praised by two well-informed guests, and his vanity was greatly satisfied, and after some politeness, he went with the cigarette roll handed to him by Li Xiaolin in his hand, and went with a smile on his face. Gao Jinsong spit out the chicken that couldn't be chewed in his mouth, drank water and rinsed his mouth, raised his face and asked the waiter who came over to refill the tea for them: "This restaurant is really earned by your boss with spicy chicken." ”

The waiter cautiously glanced at the door of the private room, and then whispered, "How is it possible." He sold his house in the city to buy it. ”

Fortunately, except for the plate of diced chicken, other dishes are not the boss's craft, the two hungry people have no room for pickiness, and because of heavy concerns and no idea of talking, even the interesting incident of "painting the cat and the tiger" just now has not been able to shorten the distance between the two, so no one persuaded the wine to speak, just each stuffy head and drank the food, and the atmosphere at the dinner table seemed a little cold and awkward. However, eating like this does not affect people's appetite, and it is conducive to the speed of eating, for a while Gao Jinsong has eaten almost, looking at the back of the chair and breathing a long sigh of relief, and beckoning the waiter to ask for another bottle of beer.

Li Xiaolin was still drinking glass after glass with his eyebrows lowered.

He sat there and didn't move, and Gao Jinsong couldn't say that he would take a step first, so he had to continue to admire the "cat" with the tiger's head and tiger's brain on the torso of the painting.

Li Xiaolin held the wine glass and suddenly asked, "I haven't seen Yao Yuan in the past two days, what did he do?" ”

This cold remark made Gao Jinsong a little flustered, Yao Yuanming went back to Guangxi to visit relatives, and secretly went to Shenzhen for his affairs, but it was not good for the club to know. He blinked his eyes and said after a while, "He,...... It seems to be going back to visit relatives. ”

"Someone saw Yao Yuan in Shenzhen, and there were two people from Shenzhen Blue Sky who were with him."

"Yao Yuan has an old friend who is now in Shenzhen Blue Sky, and that person can also talk in the Blue Sky Club,,, Yao Yuan wants to have an event as soon as possible, and he will have a place to go next year." Gao Jinsong said. This is the rhetoric that he and Yao Yuan have discussed a long time ago. In order to make his transfer less uncertain, they have to try their best to cover up this matter before Shenzhen Lantian's transfer offer is officially transmitted to Wuhan Yafeng. He said indifferently as if he was talking about something that had nothing to do with him, "You know Yao Yuan's situation, he will definitely be cleared out by the club next year, if he hadn't been banned by the Football Association today, maybe he wouldn't be in Wuhan now......" He was a little puzzled, what did Li Xiaolin mean by suddenly mentioning Yao Yuan without thinking. What Yao Yuan does when he goes to Shenzhen has nothing to do with him Li Xiaolin, and the two of them usually don't have any friendship, so he cares about what he does about it. Besides, he is not from Wuhan Yafeng when he speaks, and he can still have leisure time to worry about Yao Yuan at this time.

Li Xiaolin poured himself wine again, but he didn't drink it, he was silent for a long time, and then said: "Are you going to transfer to the provincial capital Mingyuan in the summer?" ”

"Who said that."

"Words are good." But Li Xiaolin immediately changed his name, "It was said by Director Yan himself." He said this in his post-match press conference today. I don't know what the original words were, but what he meant was: as long as there is a club willing to come to Wuhan with cash, the Yafeng Club will definitely let you go. ”

Gao Jinsong didn't understand what was going on for a while. Isn't the Yafeng Club ready to exchange itself for the provincial city of Mingyuan. Moreover, since Yan Liangcheng will say this in front of many media reporters at the press conference, then this must be the instruction of the club, maybe this is still to pave the way for his transfer to Shenzhen Blue Sky in advance, after all, Yafeng is not good at prevaricating the matter of promising the provincial city of Mingyuan before, so he has to raise the shield of "cash transaction". Thinking of this, he couldn't help but admire Shenzhen Blue Sky's ability, and the work was done so solidly. But he still has a doubt, he doesn't know what kind of price Yafeng has marked for himself, and whether that price can be accepted by Shenzhen Blue Sky.

His mind was spinning around with cranky thoughts, and the look on his face was also uncertain, but Li Xiaolin didn't pay attention to these details, and only looked down and said: "You know, Cheng Dexing is going to come to Wuhan Yafeng Club to take office, and I have to leave, and the club I found is Shaanxi Tianhe." ”

Gao Jinsong looked up at him in surprise. The club is coaxing everywhere that Li Xiaolin is going to Sichuan Hongsheng to meet Yafeng's head coach last year, why did he suddenly change his mind and go to Tianhe, Shaanxi.

"I never said I was going to Sichuan, Shaanxi Tianhe was in contact with me last year, if Yafeng didn't let go, I would have been in Xi'an a long time ago,"

Gao Jinsong asked, "Yafeng...... The club has now promised to let you go. ”

A sneer hung on the corner of Li Xiaolin's mouth: "Can they not let me go." Cheng Dexing wants to be the head coach of Yafeng, how dare Yafeng leave me, the 'black sheep', in Wuhan again. ,, I'm afraid they want me to go as soon as possible. ”

Gao Jinsong was silent, he had vaguely heard some things about the relationship between Li Xiaolin and Cheng Dexing, but he didn't like to inquire about these old things about Chen Sesame and Rotten Grain, and he no longer understood how these two former masters and apprentices had come to the point where there is no one with me, and there can be such a deep and indissolvable hatred between people.

Li Xiaolin gritted his teeth and drank all the wine in the cup, sighed and said, "Don't talk about this, ask you, do you want to go to Xi'an with me." ”

Gao Jinsong was speechless in surprise, how could an ordinary dinner have such a result.

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