Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Boy in Chinatown

Madrid's Ursera district is considered a shantytown, a slum, and a well-known settlement for immigrants from all over the world, with the largest number of immigrants from South America.

But if a Chinese tourist comes to Nicolás Sánchez Street in Usela, they will definitely suspect that they have a "fake country", because the street is almost all Chinese signs and various symbols with Chinese characteristics, such as dragons, lions, red lanterns......

Various Chinese restaurants, Chinese supermarkets, and shopping malls decorate this small street with the same appearance as in China.

It makes people think that they have come to China in a trance.

But it is indeed real Spanish territory, an area under the jurisdiction of Madrid.

This is the famous Chinatown in China.

In Ursera district, the Chinese have become the third largest group of immigrants. The original Spaniards and shops on this street moved away, and all the Chinese immigrants moved in, thus turning the streets of Madrid into Chinatown.

Nearly 10,000 overseas Chinese live here, some of whom came to Spain for three generations, some who came to Spain decades ago, and some who have come here from China in the last decade or twenty to discover business opportunities.

Some of them have already become naturalized Spanish-speaking immigrants, while others are just working here to earn money, looking forward to the Chinese who will one day return to their roots.

But no matter what status, no matter what nationality. They all speak Chinese, eat Chinese food, and have the same cultural origins, which led them to gather in a three-kilometer radius centered on the intersection of Nicolás Sánchez Avenue and Dolores Barranco Street, and built a Chinese city and country in a foreign country little by little by ants moving bricks.

Dong Jin, wearing an Atletico Madrid jersey, carried a schoolbag and a football on the sidewalk of the crowded Nicolás Sanchez Street, the football seemed to be glued to his feet, he did not slow down, the football did not get out of control, he circled one pedestrian after another, and when he passed them, those pedestrians were shocked.

He dribbled smoothly, and then ran out of the street outside into his family's small restaurant like the wind, and when he was about to hit someone, he made a sharp stop and turned around, and Kankan ducked from the side.

Just when he was about to rush upstairs in one go, his mother grabbed him by the collar: "Ah Jin! You almost bumped into Grandpa! ”

"Grandpa, I'm sorry......" Dong Jin apologized to his grandfather very perfunctorily.

Grandpa smiled and said, "Be careful of falling, it hurts to fall." ”

"Abba, you still care if he falls and hurts......" The daughter said to her father helplessly, and at the same time she felt that her son in her hand broke free and wanted to run away, so she clenched it tighter.

"What's in your hand?" She asked.

"Newspapers, newspapers." Dong Jin raised the newspaper in his hand.

"Show me it." Mom grabbed it and saw Gao Zheng's photo in the newspaper, and she was stunned for a moment.

"Mom, don't you always say that Chinese can't play football well, and there is no future in football? Gao Zheng is the pride of our Chinese! Dong Jin said proudly beside him. You see that playing football still has a future, right? ”

When the mother angrily slapped the newspaper back into the palm of her son's hand: "What kind of ball?" Study hard! Why did I work so hard to make money? Is it to get you to play? You have to study hard, do you want to open a restaurant for the rest of your life? ”

"There's nothing wrong with opening a restaurant." Ah Gong said. "We Chinese are best at opening restaurants, and we can see everywhere we go." In any case, as long as there are Chinese, you need to eat Chinese food. If Ah Jin doesn't like to study, he will come to cook with Ah Gong, and when he grows up, he will have a skill, so it's not difficult to support himself......"

"Abba!" The daughter interrupted her father's "nonsense".

"Ah Jin, are you hungry? Ah Gong will give you the following ...... to eat," Ah Gong asked Dong Jin with a smile.

Dong Jin hurriedly shook his head: "I'm not hungry, I'll go upstairs!" ”

With that, he grabbed the newspaper and rushed upstairs.

"This stinky boy!" It's very helpless to be a mother. "The results are so bad, and you still have the heart to play!"

Ah Gong persuaded her: "Okay, okay, don't be too strict with Ah Jin, let it be......"

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Dong Jin ran to the attic on the third floor in one go, which was his space and his bedroom. After closing the door, he threw his schoolbag on the floor, and he couldn't wait to lie on the bed and open the newspaper to read.

He wanted to see what the local media in Madrid said about Gao Zheng's performance.

The first thing that catches your eye is a headline: "He silences the Bernabeu!" ”

"Cool!" Dong Jin whistled excitedly.

He then looked at the text.

“…… We can't say that in just one game, Gao conquered the discerning Atletico Madrid fans, because in last season's Champions League quarter-finals, Gao conquered Atletico Madrid fans with his hat-trick in Calderón. It is said that the reason why Atletico Madrid was so determined to bring in Gao was directly related to Gao's excellent performance in that game. It was after that match that Atletico Madrid and Simeone decided they should do whatever it took to sign Gao, and that goal yesterday at the Bernabeu Stadium illustrated that Atletico Madrid's decision was the right one......"

Dong Jin read the report over and over again, and finally his eyes fell on the large photo on the cover, in which Gao Zheng held his head high, his arms outstretched, and his body stood straight, as if he wanted to embrace the whole world, which was exactly what he celebrated after scoring a goal.

"So handsome!" Dong Jin turned over, lay on the bed, raised the newspaper with both hands, and looked at Gao Zheng so seriously.

Looking at it, he was in a trance in front of him, and the person wearing the Atletico Madrid jersey and posing like that seemed to have been replaced by him. Then the figure drew closer and closer to him, rushed to his face, and finally slapped him in the face......

"Ah......h

Dong Jin rubbed his face and rolled over from the bed, then pulled out a pair of scissors in a drawer, carefully cut Gao Zheng's photo from the newspaper, and then pasted it on the wall at the head of the bed with scotch tape.

After doing all this, he took two steps back and admired this self-made "star poster" with satisfaction.

As a boy born on Nicolás Sánchez Street, south of Madrid, he was born to play for Atletico Madrid.

And this time, because of Gao Zheng, Dong Jin felt that the dream was not as unattainable as before......