Before the Spring Festival in 2022, Wang Lei's family returned to China again.

In this season, Wang Lei's work is slightly easier than last season, after all, the team is on the right track, and the improvement of the player's ability has also entered a plateau, and Wang Lei does not need to stare at it all day and night.

With free time, Wang Lei also has time to spend with his family, his son Shanshan and his wife Ma Dongmei have been staying in the United States this season, with the company of his family, coupled with appropriate rest, Wang Lei's body that was consumed too much last season began to slowly recover.

For their daughter and grandson who have been staying in North America, although Ma Pingdong and Li Weihong are very dissatisfied, they still don't stop them too much, after all, they also know that what children need most is the company of their parents, and children brought up by grandparents are always slightly lacking than children brought up by their parents.

Xiao Shanshan, who is already more than a year old, can babble and open his mouth to speak at this time, and the boy has a slow voice when he is a child, but Xiao Shanshan is obviously bigger and develops faster than other babies of the same age.

Ma Dongmei took her son to the stadium every once in a while to watch her husband's team play or train, she and Xiaoshanshan are now in the Runners and Sacheng status and prestige are very high, the players of the Runners are also very fond of cute Xiaoshanshan, Blair, who has been exposed to a lot of oriental culture, even threatened to marry Wang Lei, his daughter is three years old this year, Blair even knows the saying of "female junior, hugging gold bricks", it is estimated that Turgun said it.

Sacheng fans have great respect for Wang Lei's wife and son, Ma Dongmei and Xiaoshanshan always receive requests for photos or autographs when they meet fans when they go out, and some loyal fans even set up a "protection" organization, saying that it is to protect Ma Dongmei and Xiaoshanshan, so that they can feel the enthusiasm of Sacheng fans, and enjoy a quiet life at the same time, their purpose is actually very simple, that is, to let Wang Lei stay in Sacheng for a long time.

The owner of the team, Francis Leonard, brought Wang Lei a real "lifetime contract" before Wang Lei returned to China during the Spring Festival, in this contract, just giving Wang Lei 10% of the shares of the entire Runners team is enough to impress any head coach in the world, and Francis also vacated the contract period, which he means to let Wang Lei fill it himself!

Francis's purpose is very clear, that is, he wants to tie Wang Lei with friendship.

Wang Lei did not give Francis a clear answer, the matter was too big, and he had to discuss it with his family.

The Runners have played nearly 50 games before the Spring Festival, and the Runners have only lost three games in 50 games, and these three games are only available after the Runners rotate the lineup.

Long-term victory will make the player's mentality change a lot, everyone will have pride, and victory is undoubtedly the easiest to breed pride, with pride, players will slack off in the game, it will be easy to have extreme thoughts, which Wang Lei does not want to see, because extreme thinking will even lead to the instability of the team's locker room.

Therefore, after completing the great feat of 41 consecutive wins, Wang Lei consciously controlled the team's rotation, so that the team's players would not be too proud, and at the same time maintain the team's current relatively stable state.

During this period, Wang Lei is also consciously cultivating his own coaching team, among which two assistant coaches Frank Harry and Todd Wilmons are Wang Lei's main training objects, and the two of them have grown up rapidly under the guidance of Wang Lei, although they cannot be compared with Wang Lei, but it is possible to maintain the stability of the team after Wang Lei takes a leave.

And the Runners also have a competent captain Blair, who understands how important the team's stability is, so in the locker room, Blair tries to do his job as well as cooperate with the coaching staff to complete the team's daily training and game tasks.

With these three, it doesn't matter if Wang Lei takes a slightly longer leave, this time when he returns to China during the Spring Festival, Wang Lei does take a longer vacation than before, and in a month's time, Wang Lei will even miss the All-Star Game because of this, as for why he took such a long leave, it was because of the physical problems of Old Man Ma.

A week before the Spring Festival, Wang Lei and his family returned to China, and at this time, the old man had been admitted to the special care ward.

After all, he is already a hundred years old, and the old man has suffered a lot of injuries in his early years.

The arrival of the great-grandson made the old man, who was already a little unrecognizable, recover a little, and he even wanted to struggle to hug his great-grandson, but he gave up under the obstruction of the medical staff.

The old man's condition has attracted the attention of many leaders, and the No. 1 chief has specially approved the instructions, hoping that the medical team can do their best, since the establishment of the republic, the old man Ma is the only remaining founding father, and his death will represent the end of an era.

Wang Lei and Ma Dongmei stayed in the hospital in shifts every day, although Xiao Shanshan still didn't understand what was going on, but seeing that the adults didn't have their usual smiling faces, Xiao Shanshan also seemed a lot quieter.

The old man's condition is getting worse day by day, and the experts of the medical team also reminded Ma Pingdong and Li Weihong to be prepared.

The day before the Spring Festival, the No. 1 chief and the No. 2 chief came to the hospital to visit the old man, and the No. 2 chief even hugged Xiaoshanshan cordially.

On the day of the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, the old man woke up from his coma, and he looked like he was suddenly much better, but everyone also understood.

Xiaoshanshan was put into the old man's arms, the old man smiled slightly, and then looked at Wang Lei, Wang Lei stepped forward and said softly in the old man's ear: "Don't worry, Xiaoshanshan will grow up well, and in the future, my second child with Meimei will be surnamed Ma." ”

Although Ma Pingdong had a lifelong temper with his father, at this time, he was in tears, and he knew that his father was leaving.

The old man, who got Wang Lei's promise, hugged Xiaoshanshan again, and then the old and withered hand finally fell.

Wang Lei let tears welled up, although he didn't stay with the old man for a long time, but he and the old man had a deep relationship, the old general of Rong Ma's life would always tell Wang Lei about the past in his spare time, and finally, he also had to follow his colleagues and subordinates.

This is the end of an era, but these departed heroes of this era will never be forgotten, they exchanged their blood and lives for this great country, and their spirit and will will always be remembered by those who come after.