Chapter 3: Two Sides of a Coin (Part I)

Chu Zhongtian thought that his next life would return to the right track, and he would never see that Princess Dons again, although she was a beauty, but as soon as she saw herself, she mentioned what team she joined, which really gave him a headache.

Two days later, Emily Stan came to her door again.

She brought the news of calling on everyone to donate, and at the same time, she also brought a news that made Chu Zhongtian feel a headache.

"I asked Young and he said that the game was voluntarily and without pay, and no one had ever paid for it, let alone a fifty pound appearance fee for a game." Emily smiled and looked at Chu Zhongtian, who was a little embarrassed because of the lie being exposed.

"You love to play, don't you?"

"I don't like it." Chu Zhongtian said with a gloomy face.

"You're lying."

"Did I lie to you if I got any money?" Chu Zhongtian felt funny, why did he deceive a stranger?

"Why are you always money, money, you are so vulgar......" Emily pouted.

"Your Highness the Princess." Chu Zhongtian pointed to the glass of dark beer in Emily's hand, "That thing is worth four pounds, can you drink it without money?" He then pointed to the drinkers who were debating how to donate, "Aren't you going to start a new club?" Can you do it without money? It's not me, it's the world vulgar. ”

Although I don't like Chu Zhongtian's argument, I must admit that what people say makes sense, this world needs money for everything, and there is no way to survive without money, so what else can you talk about?

But......

"But besides money, there must always be some other pursuits, right? Like ideals or something...... By the way, Chu, do you have ideals? ”

Chu Zhongtian didn't answer Emily's question right away, he fell into a deep thought.

Ideal...... I did, but it was three years ago in the middle of a decade. Since he began to formally learn to play football at the age of six, he has an ideal, in fact, it cannot be said to be an ideal at that time, it can only be a relatively vague idea, and then as he gets older and his knowledge increases, it slowly becomes an ideal.

That is - to play football, to keep playing like this, to make a living from this, not only to be able to satisfy your own hobbies, but also to eat and wear without worrying, how good! When you are older, you have watched TV, you know that there is a football league, and you can become a big star that everyone knows about in the limelight, and the ideal in your heart is even more impatient.

Becoming a big star is an ideal upgrade for him. At that time, he had evolved from satisfying food and clothing to wanting fame and fortune......

He also had the ideal of playing for the country and wearing the Chinese national team jersey to gallop on the field, when he was young, he didn't understand the dark side of Chinese football, and he was full of enthusiasm and youthful invincibility, so he wanted to rely on his own strength to reverse the situation of Chinese football being backward and beaten.

At that time, the most common dream was to lead the Chinese national team through five levels and six generals, what Iran, Saudi Arabia, Japan and South Korea all took revenge in front of him, and "Koreanophobia" became a thing of the past forever under his feet, so that Chinese fans will forever forget the tears and drizzle of Dalian Jinzhou. The final result of this dream is naturally to lead the Chinese team to the pinnacle of world football - to win the World Cup and become famous.

Thinking about it now, I was really naΓ―ve and ridiculous at that time. How can Chinese football change because it is alone? So he stopped having that dream. Now I don't want to serve the country anymore, because it's impossible. He looks down on some of the players in the national team, but he also knows that he is not even qualified for the national team.

"Chu?" Seeing Chu Zhongtian's sudden distraction, Emily was a little strange.

"Huh? Oh, ideals......" Chu Zhongtian came back to his senses, "Yes! ”

"What is it?" Emily looked expectantly at Chu Zhongtian behind the bar.

"Work hard to make money, find another wife, and have children."

There was silence between the two of them for a moment before Emily reacted, "That's it?" ”

"That's it." Chu Zhongtian nodded.

"You...... It's really cheesy! Emily turned away from Chu Zhongtian, jumped off the barstool, and walked over to the lively drinkers to answer their questions.

After all, donations, such as money, must not be sloppy, how to donate, how to manage the donated money, how to ensure that no one will use it to do things that have nothing to do with the establishment of the club, how to ensure that no one will embezzle...... and so on, these need to be answered by Emily, and by the way, I will pull Emily to chat a few words of homely things. Emily spent most of her time in the bar answering the fans' questions, never paying attention to Chu Zhongtian again.

Chu Zhongtian was happy to see it. It's best that Emily doesn't bother him in the future, he can work with peace of mind, go to school, and go all the way according to his "ideals". Football or something, just look at it......

Emily kept repeating what she had said countless times, reassuring the drinkers who had doubts. Chu Zhongtian was busy pouring wine for the dry-mouthed drinkers who were discussing, and it seemed that he had completely stopped thinking about playing football.

When he was free, Emily was still busy, and everyone gathered around her to listen to her describe the bright future of the new club, including the owner, Colin John.

Chu Zhongtian was deserted here, and he was lying on the bar, a little bored. The four coins Emily had bought were still on the table, and she didn't have time to take them back. He looked at the four coins in dissipation.

It suddenly occurred to him that he was very good at multiple-choice questions.

Chu Zhongtian found out that he was very good at doing multiple-choice questions when he was in high school, and his blind accuracy rate was very high, far higher than ordinary people. Some people come across a problem that they don't know how to do, so they write "a", "b", "c", "d" on the four sides of the eraser, and then roll the dice and fill in which one. Chu Zhongtian doesn't roll dice, at least not on the table. It was as if there was a dice in his mind, spinning and stopping, telling him which one to choose. It's mysterious, isn't it? In fact, it is blindness. Close your eyes and fill it in casually, but just like that, the accuracy of his mask is higher than that of ordinary people. Therefore, when taking the exam, if the multiple-choice questions account for more scores, his score is often very good.

It's not an ability, it's a talent.

With this gambling choice, he is often able to pick the right side. But if you want to gamble with this intuition, it won't work at all. This discovery made him depressed for a long time - he still dreamed that he could not play football and could go to Las Vegas to be a gambling king.

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Sports news is playing on the bar's big-screen TV. It's a follow-up report on the Wimbledon move.

Everyone stopped talking for a moment and looked up at the TV.

β€œβ€¦β€¦ The FA has agreed to Wimbledon's request to move to Milton Keynes at noon today......

There was silence in the bar, except for the sound of the television. Almost everyone expected such an outcome, and no one had unrealistic illusions.

This time, no one scolded Winckelmann, but instead they discussed how to donate, how to set up a trust fund, and how to carry out the work of the club. Emily was also in the crowd of discussions. In their words, there is a faint hint of something called "hope".

Chu Zhongtian felt that all this had nothing to do with him. He's not Dons, and he doesn't have any money to spare.

Emily decided to take her leave, and she walked up to Chu Zhongtian again: "I still hope you can think about it seriously, Chu." ”

"I thought you wouldn't have any unrealistic illusions about me again." Chu Zhongtian was a little surprised, he really didn't expect Emily to turn around and bring up the old matter again.

"Although you are very vulgar, you are right, it is the vulgar of this world, and we are all vulgar. It doesn't matter if you play football or not. Emily laughed.

"Why me?" Chu Zhongtian stretched out his hands to her.

"Because I just watched you play, because I just thought you played well, because we just needed people." Emily said three "becauses". "There's nothing to lose by trying. Are you worried that you won't be able to get elected? ”

Chu Zhongtian shook his head. He didn't want to go at all, worried about why he couldn't choose?

'I don't like to play and I don't play as well as you say. I'm sorry not interested in participating in your team tryouts, Miss Emily Stein. Chu Zhongtian refused. He thought to himself with a straight face that his words were so clear, did the other party still want to be bored with himself? Do you really think that the face of a beautiful woman is three points bigger than others? I'm sorry, I don't eat this set.

When Emily saw Chu Zhongtian like this, she couldn't say anything more. It was just a kind invitation, how did he make it look like he begged him to go? "It's a shame, but hopefully it won't affect our friendship." She stretched out her hand to Chu Zhongtian again.

Chu Zhongtian was a little puzzled, when did he become this girl's friend? As a matter of the most basic courtesy, he reached out and shook Emily's hand. As I felt last time, it was soft and warm.

With her hand withdrawn, Emily took her leave. Before leaving, she promised Boss John that she would come back in a few days, and everyone was very happy. No one noticed the preoccupied look on their bartender's face.

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Emily is gone, and the discussion about the future of football at Wimbledon continues.

Chu Zhongtian found that he had been thinking about Emily's words all the time, as if he had fallen into a demon, and he couldn't suppress it. He wasn't thinking about whether or not he was going to join that new team, but the fact that Emily came to him was always haunting his mind. Such a mental state is obviously not good for work, so he made several mistakes.

This caught the attention of Boss John. Chu Zhongtian knows that he is a hard-working, hard-working and conscientious young man, who rarely has problems at work, and it is even more unprecedented to make mistakes in a row.

After he found out that Emily was gone, Chu Zhongtian began to be distracted. So I rolled my eyes and knew why. "Emily is such a good girl." He said to Chu Zhongtian.

Chu Zhongtian was full of worries, so he naturally didn't care about the boss's words with strong hints. Just a "hmm" sound.

"I heard that there are many people who pursue her, but she can't look down on any of them."

What does this have to do with me? Chu Zhongtian finally came back to his senses, he said in his heart.

Seeing that Chu Zhongtian still didn't say anything, he simply asked directly: "What makes you so absent-minded, Chu?" ”

Chu Zhongtian hesitated, but decided to tell the truth. Boss John was nice to him, and he didn't have to lie to this good guy.

"Emily wants me to go to the trial at New Wimbledon......"

"Huh?" Boss John was a little surprised. "You know how to play?"

"Yes...... I used to be in China for a few years......"

Boss John, regardless of how many years he had been trained in China, asked, "Why didn't you tell me?" We've always been short of people in our team, and when you said you could play, I'll pull you in......" He seemed a little angry.

By "our team" he meant the teams that specialised in the Sunday League (sunday_league), which is an amateur league that is separate from the English league system, although teams that participate in this league can apply to join the league system. Most of these teams are made up of drinkers or players from the bar, also known as "bar teams" (pub_team). In many old bars in the UK, you can see rows of team family photos and honors, etc., on the wall of the Dons bar, Chu Zhongtian has seen a group photo of their team. Don't look at the boss fat, he has to go to the community court every Sunday to play football, and at that time he has to stay in the bar to take care of the business. But business will be a little bit worse on Sunday because everybody is going to play.

"But you didn't ask me, boss......" Chu Zhongtian looked aggrieved.

"Uh......" Boss John was also a little embarrassed, Chu Zhongtian said the truth, he didn't ask anyone, and people wouldn't know that his team was short of people. Keep talking, keep talking. ”

"She's seen me fight and she's going to let me go to a tryout."

"Then go ahead." As a die-hard Wimbledon fan, he will not think about anything else for the good of Wimbledon football. After saying this, he found that Chu Zhongtian had a difficult face. "Are you afraid that going over there to play football will delay my work? It's okay, it's okay. He waved his hand generously, "If you really go, I'll cheer you on." Besides, when school starts, you'll be working four hours a day, which is no different from playing football now. ”

"You can't do it alone, boss. Your business is so good here, sometimes I can't keep myself busy......"

"I'll recruit another one, don't worry I won't drive you away. If you really become a Wimbledon player, the living sign of my pub, how can I get rid of you? Hey! Boss John laughed at this.

Chu Zhongtian thought to himself that if there was really such a day, should he ask the boss for endorsement fees in turn?

"I think I can give it a try. But it's your own, and it's up to you in the end. If you want to go, then go, don't worry about my side. If you don't want to go, I don't have much to say. Don't put any pressure on me because I'm a Wimbledon fan and your boss, Chu. ”

Looking at this kind-faced boss, Chu Zhongtian nodded: "I'm not stressed, boss." "Because I don't want to go at all," he added to himself.

Boss John patted Chu Zhongtian on the shoulder and walked away without saying anything. He was anxious to discuss the future of the new Wimbledon with his old buddies.

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ps, today's first shift, there is a shift at six o'clock in the afternoon~~~

This chapter will do a brief review of Chu Zhongtian's past, and the setting of Chu Zhongtian's blind and high accuracy rate is really intuition, not an ability. Some people have a sharper instinct than the average person, and they always seem to be able to say the right thing about what is going to happen - in general, there are mostly bad things, and we usually call such people "crow's mouths...... Phew!

Because this is not an urban God of Gamblers legend, I set it to be impossible to gamble to get rich, I hope the students understand, after all, what you want to read is a football novel, not an urban fantasy novel......

ps2, the first week of the new book is basically naked, and please continue to vote, reward, collect, and promote support~~~~! Thank you!!

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