Now, every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, going to the school's Reader Services Department to buy the current issue of Sports Weekly has become an indispensable part of Sophie's life. Because Zhang Jun and Yang Pan went out of U University, their performance in the Netherlands naturally touched the hearts of U University students. Therefore, as the most detailed report on the two people, Li Yan and Wang Hua sent back two editions of each issue; The most authoritative As the first reporter in the country to conduct an exclusive interview with Zhang and Yang, Li Yan has won the trust of their friends; The gossip is that Li Yan even has photos of the two of them sleeping in sports newspapers, "Sports Weekly" is always sold out as soon as it arrives on campus.

In order not to miss the three appointments she had with Zhang Jun every week, Sophie always came to the reader service department at the back of the big cafeteria early to wait.

Sophie held the new newspaper and focused on the photo of Zhang Jun on the newspaper, and saw the red bracelet at a glance. It was a talisman she had woven for him with her own hands, and Zhang Junsheng said that she had sent it and asked him to wear it in the letter to avoid injury.

Yesterday, she received a call from Zhang Jun, and she didn't have to read what was written in the newspaper to make it clear. She just wanted to see Zhang Jun's photo, see Zhang Jun's sweaty figure, and see his excited smiling face. As long as Zhang Jun keeps scoring goals like this, she will always be able to see him in the newspapers and news.

The Cowherd and Weaver Girl, who are thousands of miles away, use such a way to fight against the barrier of time and space and maintain longing.

Hua Yang sat a delicate Louis Vuitton suitcase at his feet, standing somewhat blankly on the streets of Amsterdam. Looking at the people and traffic on the street, she didn't know where she should go, and for the first time she had a feeling of abandonment. The day before yesterday, she was still in Hong Kong, but today she is already standing on the streets of Europe.

The sun is shining, the breeze is breezy, there are few clouds, the sky is blue, Dutch, Amsterdam......

After being stunned for a while, Hua Yang picked up the suitcase and strolled aimlessly all the way. There is no direction, no goal, just follow this path all the way. When she felt tired, she realized that she had walked in front of Amsterdam Central Station, which was crowded with people, and everyone was just passers-by. There was a bus stop before the train war, and she walked over and looked at the sign that said: 110, Destination, Warrendam.

There was a No. 110 bus parked next to the platform, Hua Yang looked at the bus, looked at the stop sign, and finally lifted the box and stepped on.

The bus seemed to be waiting for her, and when she came up, the door slowly closed and drove away.

Life is like a journey without a station or a stop sign, and no one will know when the next stop will arrive, what the name is, and what kind of scenery there is. You only see countless things flash by through the window, and you miss them before you have time to look closely. When you arrive at the station and look back, you can't see anything clearly except the vast sky and earth. Some of the scenery is good, but I didn't catch it, and I missed it, which is a pity.

Hua Yang leaned his head against the car window and looked blankly at the fleeting scenery outside the window, until the scene in front of him never retreated. She came back to her senses and found that she was the only one left in the carriage.

"Miss, the finish line has arrived." The driver spoke politely to her in English.

It's a beautiful, quiet town, with Dutch boats docked along the river and clouds drifting from the red rooftops in the blue sky. A place that can make people feel happy, Hua Yang's frustrated heart is also a little better.

Now that you're here, why don't you have a good time?

Hua Yang bought a local English-language newspaper, but he didn't expect the front page headline to be a football news: "Warrendam beat Heer......enveen 2:1 at home" Below is a photo of the game, a player in an orange jersey is passing, behind him, an opposing player is sitting on the ground.

Football is a very popular sport in Hong Kong, and Hua Yang also knows a little bit about football. She perused the full text, and it turned out that it was two Chinese players who won the home team against the strong away team in the game.

There were two compatriots in the club, Hua Yang was a little interested and decided to go and have a look.

In today's training session, Adrianse was a little absent-minded. Zhang Jun and Yang Pan have been in good form recently, playing steadily, and are the number one contributors to the team's rising results. But the better Zhang Jun and Yang Pan played, the greater the worry and pressure in his heart, and just now Horns finally took the initiative to sign a new contract with Zhang Jun and Yang Pan. However, the conditions given are not high, at least there is still a gap between the salaries of players and several other Dutch Super League clubs, although this is already the determination of the miser of Horns to grit his teeth.

Now, the only advantage is that the two don't have a professional agent yet, and the club should be able to coax two kids with no professional experience into signing the contract. Although it was a little unbearable, Adrianse knew that it was for the good of the club and for his own good to let the two people stay. Therefore, there are times when unscrupulous means are required.

"Hey, Li Yan, we read your article "Is J Scale a Thing in the Pool", and it was written very well. But why do you think the two will leave Warrendam a year later? A colleague saw that there was nothing to see on the training ground, so he turned to chat with Li Yan on the side.

"If Zhang Jun and Yang Pan continue to develop at this rate, they will receive transfer invitations from European giants in less than a year. Isn't that obvious? The young stars of the Dutch league will eventually follow this path. Li Yan replied.

"That's true, but the problem is that we've heard that Warrendam is interested in offering both of them a new contract that will be offered a better package......

"No matter how high it is, can it compare to the top three in the Netherlands led by Ajax? Is it comparable to the giants of Europe? Li Yan was a little disdainful, "Hiddink almost didn't strangle the poor youth coach to death after knowing that Zhang Jun and Yang Pan had trained in the Eindhoven youth team for a while. I heard that he has always wanted to find a good partner for Kai Yueman. ”

"It's true that it's nothing compared to those teams. But the real problem is that Zhang Jun and Yang Pan don't have agents yet, do you think they can deal with businessman Horns with two twenty-year-old children? ”

Hua Yang, who was watching the training on the side, heard the reporter's words and his heart moved. After working hard in the mall for nearly ten years, she has developed the ability to not let go of every piece of information, and those things that outsiders think are useless may become the hens that lay golden eggs in the future.

Through the repeated reports in those newspapers, she has a general understanding of the potential value of the two Chinese teenagers, as the reporter said, in the future, European giants will compete to send them invitations, and the future is limitless. And at this time, they don't even have an agent! It's like two sparkling gems that fall to the ground and no one picks them up, God!

Hua Yang found his goal in life in an instant, and swept away the haze in his heart just now. Life is like a journey without a station or a stop sign, and no one will know when the next stop will arrive, what the name is, and what kind of scenery there is. Hua Yang thought that his journey had come to an end, "Miss, the end has arrived." "Just like what the driver said to her. Unexpectedly, she stepped out of the car, only to find that the outside suddenly opened up, a beautiful place with birds singing and flowers appeared in front of her, and she saw the light again!

Life, as expected, is full of dramatic surnames......

Li Yan was still arguing with the reporter, and Hua Yang had quietly left, and she knew what to do. Two children who are not deeply involved in the world, she likes it the most, hehe!

Zhang Jun and Yang Pan looked at the beautiful woman in front of them with some surprise, "You mean, you want to be our agent?" ”

Hua Yang nodded.

"But how do you make us believe you? You haven't even told me your name......"

Hua Yang smiled very kindly: "My name is Hua Fang, a Hong Kong native. He has a Harvard MBA certificate and has a lot of business experience, and has worked as a broker for a short time...... Most importantly, we are all Chinese. Compatriots don't hurt their compatriots, do they? ”

Zhang Jun only felt that the woman who called herself "Hua Fang" smiled very relatablely, and she and Sophie laughed differently. Sophie's smile is as clear as the blue sky and white clouds, brilliant as the sun, very pure. And Miss Hua Fang's smile is very mature, with a mature gentleness, which makes people feel very warm. Which one is better, Zhang Jun can't say.

"Well, I think we need to discuss it, after all, finding a broker is a big deal. So, we'll get back to you tomorrow morning after training, okay? Yang Pan said to Hua Yang.

"Alright, I'll wait for your reply at the training ground tomorrow morning." Hua Yang smiled and took his leave.

After Hua Yang left, the two returned to the restaurant to continue their unfinished dinner.

Yang Pan pulled out a chair and sat down: "Zhang Jun, do you say she is credible?" Suddenly he came to say that he wanted to be our agent, and he spoke fluent Chinese, but he said that he was from Hong Kong and said that he had an MBA certificate from Harvard...... During this time, there have been more people looking for us to be agents! ”

Zhang Jun shook his head: "What she said can be faked, but I am particularly impressed by her smile." I don't think people with that smile are bad people. ”

Yang Pan held the fork and thought for a while: "Although you say it very much like a dialogue in a comic...... Still, I trust your instincts! Hehe, your instincts have never let me down. ”

"That's, when did you waste your cross?"

"Hey! Give you a little sunshine and you will shine, give you a little flood and you will flood! Yang Pan tapped Zhang Jun's head with the handle of his fork.

"Hah! Don't make a fuss, let's eat, it's cold! Zhang Jun touched his head and buried himself in eating.

Yang Pan looked at the noodles on the plate: "So, promised her at noon tomorrow?" ”

"Hmm......" Zhang Jun replied with noodles wrapped in his mouth.

Hua Yang opened the LV suitcase, took out all the contents of the suitcase, and then put them back one by one.

Clothes, passports, all she had was these few things. Looking at the compartment in the box, she reached in and pulled out a frayed envelope. The envelope was taken over, and a photograph slipped out of the envelope. Hua Yang looked at the photo on the ground with some surprise, and then hurriedly picked it up as if he had woken up.

It's a yellowed photograph, and the original color is fading. Hua Yang looked at the photo in his hand, her grandmother had been dead for three years, and her smile had faded like this photo.

……

"Grandma, I'm the eldest lady, why do I still have to do this kind of quilt folding thing?"

"Yangyang, do you think that a person who can't even fold his own quilt can manage a business well?"

……

I have the impression that grandma always has a straight face, and in today's words, she is very cool, and she is fierce to Huayang. When she was a child, she hated her grandmother, but now she knows who is really good to her.

"Grandma, tomorrow I will start a new life. Don't call me Yang Yang anymore, my name is Hua Fang. ”

After the morning training, Zhang Jun and Yang Pan found Hua Yang, oh no, it should be Hua Fang now.

"Miss Huafang, we discussed it last night. You're right, everyone is Chinese. We have no doubts about you, you can be our broker. Yang Pan said to Hua Fang.

"That's great!" Hua Fang showed her impressive smile again, "I will prepare a contract tomorrow, you can sign it if you have no opinion, and the relationship between us will be legally valid." ”

The reporters found that after the training, Zhang Jun and Yang Pan did not leave, but talked to a beautiful woman on the sidelines.

"Wow! As soon as the player became famous, there was a scandal! A reporter raised his camera, trained to set the focus, and pressed the shutter, "Click!" Click! "There were more than a dozen shots.

When other reporters saw this, they were naturally unwilling, and they kept pressing their hands one by one.

Only Li Yan and Wang Hua did not move on the side, "A bunch of idiots, you didn't go to the Hong Kong paparazzi, it's really a loss for the Hong Kong entertainment industry!" Of course, he only dared to say this in his heart, otherwise he would definitely cause disputes in various newspapers and sports circles.

Wang Hua looked at Li Yan, Li Yan knew the truth about "Zhang Jun and Yang Pan had an intimate conversation with a mysterious beauty after training", as long as he called his mobile phone, Zhang Jun would tell him, and he couldn't join in the fun here. He stretched his waist and deliberately said loudly: "Let's go, Wang Hua!" The training is over, and there's no news to dig up! Call it a day! ”

In the morning training, Adrianse handed over to Stehl, and he and Horns were sorting out the contract, thinking in advance about the questions that the two Chinese teenagers might ask, and then studying the answers to make sure that nothing went wrong. Then Adrianse estimated that the training was about to end, and then rushed to the training ground to call the two to sign. But he found that there was an oriental woman standing next to Zhang Yang and the others, and the three of them talked happily.

Although he didn't know what they were talking about, Adrianse suddenly had a bad feeling. He approached the three of them and said in Dutch: "Zhang, Yang, the new contract is ready, you go and take a look, and then sign it." He saw Zhang Jun say a word to the woman beside him in Chinese, and then the woman immediately turned her face and smiled at him.

"Mr. Adrianse, I'm Hua Fang, the agent of Zhang Jun and Yang Panxin." Fluent in standard English, paired with a proper smile, "Now that my client has given me carte blanche to handle their new contract with the club, please contact me directly if you have any questions." ”

When he heard the "new agent", Adrianse's heart chuckled, the last thing he wanted to encounter happened, looking at the dress and speech and demeanor of this woman who called herself Huafang, she must be a shrewd and capable person. That contract......

"Sir?"

Adrianse came back to his senses, only to find that Hua Fang was still looking at him with a smile. "Uh, okay. So, please Miss Hua Fang come with me. "No matter what, at this point, you can only bite the bullet." Zhang, Yang, you two are also coming. ”

When he saw Hua Fang following Adrianse, Horns looked at Adrianse with a puzzled expression.

The head coach had no choice but to explain to the boss that this beautiful woman was Zhang Jun and Yang Pan's new agent, and that the signing of the new contract had been entrusted to her.

Hearing this, Horns' facial expression immediately changed, showing great disappointment.

Hua Fang had been observing the chubby club owner since he came in, and his disappointment was palpable when he heard Adrianse's introduction. A low-level opponent, Hua Fang gave Horns this evaluation in his heart. It's no wonder that his inn is only a little famous in a small town of Warrendam.

Disappointment to disappointment, the contract is already on the table, and Horns can only bite the bullet like Adrianse.

Hua Fang took the contract and looked at it very seriously, in fact, she only glanced at such a contract twice, she understood the contract too much, she saw too much, her purpose was to increase the silence in the room, put pressure on the other party, and pave the way for her next performance.

After a long time, Hua Fang raised her head, her beautiful face was a little disappointed, and she said to Horns in English, "Sir, what do you say?" I was a little disappointed that the package offered by the club was completely inconsistent with the performance of my two clients. The weekly salary of 1400 euros is considered to be in the middle and lower reaches of the entire Dutch Super League, but the performance of Zhang Jun and Yang Pan I think they can already be among the upper reaches of the league, right? Moreover, there is no goal bonus, no assist bonus. Moreover, the contract period is as long as five years! Hua Fang raised her voice slightly, "I think this is also very unreasonable. ”

"Miss Hua, you should know that Warrendam is a small club, and we don't have strong financial resources to build a foundation, so in terms of treatment, this is already the highest condition we can give. Butler, the team's number one star, earns only 2,400 euros a week. If Zhang Jun and Yang Pan's salaries are too high, it will cause dissatisfaction among other young players in the team. Horns argued.

"However, as far as I know, the most valuable young players in the team are not Zhang Jun and Yang Pan, but Kozel, who is on loan from Ajax, with a weekly salary of 2,300 euros, right?" Hua Fang said that these are all temporary questions asked by Zhang Jun and Yang Pan on the way here, you can't fight an unprepared battle, right? Grinding guns in battle, not fast and light.

At first, Horns thought that the other party was a female and would not be very powerful, but he didn't expect that every question she asked with a smile would make his vest sweat. "Well, it does, it does. But ......"

"But Zhang Jun and Yang Pan are Chinese, right? Chinese and Dutch can't be treated the same, right? Sir, I think you have racist tendencies......"

"Nope! No! Miss, you are mistaken! That was not what I meant! Being labelled as "racist" is not what Horns wants.

"And what do you mean, sir?" Huafang is pressing forward step by step.

"Well, I mean, can we both give each other a step?" Horns' fighting spirit has begun to fade.

"Let? How to make? This is in the vital interests of my client. Hua Fang raised her eyebrows, heroic and compelling.

"Well, weren't you just unhappy with the duration of the contract? We can shorten the contract period, but in terms of weekly salary...... There's really nothing you can do. Horns shrugged and spread his hands.

Hua Fang scolded in her heart: Idiot! I don't have a clear understanding of the strength of Zhang Jun and Yang Pan, if I were you, I would rather increase the weekly salary and find ways to keep the two of them in the team for an extended time. But now it's fine, just what she wants. Hua Fang turned her head and asked Zhang and Yang in Chinese: "He promised to shorten the contract period, but the weekly salary cannot be increased again, what do you think?" ”

Zhang Jun looked at Yang Pan, and they both understood their inner thoughts: their goal was the top European league.

The two nodded at Huafang, "The weekly salary is not important, the contract period should be shortened." ”

Hua Fang smiled at the two of them, then turned back to Horns and said, "Sir, my client has agreed to your proposal, but there are still conditions. We request that the contract be written for a period of two years, from 25 December 2002 to 25 December 2004, and that during these two years, starting from the next season, if any team from the top five European leagues approaches my client, the club will not block it or demand liquidated damages. ”

Horns had a "boom" in his head, a two-year contract, can the two of them leave casually and treat this place as a park? And you can't ask for liquidated damages! Is it hard to train him himself? The hard-earned star is given away?

"No! No way! It's a no-no! "Horns was a little excited, and they all said that the fat man had a wide heart and a fat body, but this fat man seemed to be a special case." A two-year contract is too short, at least three years! In addition, the latter one is completely unreasonable! ”

Seeing that the boss was angry, Zhang Jun was still a little scared in his heart, but Hua Fang always looked at each other with a smile, and when the fat man finished spitting all the stars, she said slowly: "Very good, you said it well." Then we can refuse to sign the contract now and then I can go back and contact the Dutch Premier League and the clubs in the big five leagues. I think with the strength of Zhang Jun and Yang Pan, it shouldn't be a problem to find a bigger club, and I know that when the club signed the contract with the two clients, the liquidated damages were not high, right? PSV Eindhoven and Ajax should still be able to afford this liquidated damages, right? ”

Hua Fang smiled the whole time, and said this at a moderate pace. It didn't look like a rejection, it looked like a casual conversation. But Horns couldn't sit still when he heard it, and this woman was to the point.

Adrianse remained silent, sitting on the side and watching the tiger fight. This woman is indeed very powerful, and it seems that Horns has no choice. Although she is older than her, it is better not to be her enemy.

There was a moment of silence, and then Horns straightened up in pain: "Well, I agree to your request. ”

On the way back to the apartment, Zhang Jun asked Hua Fang: "Well, sign the contract tomorrow, they won't regret it, right?" ”

Hua Fang smiled slightly: "They don't dare, because they have no choice." If they don't agree, you can leave right away, the winter break is almost here. I've read in the newspapers that quite a few clubs are already hitting your attention, and after Christmas, that fat guy won't be able to see you. If he agrees, at least you'll stay in Warrendam until the end of the season, and maybe win a trophy for the team! ”

"Championships?" Zhang and Yang looked at each other, and then laughed.

"What's wrong, did I say something wrong?" Hua Fang didn't understand.

"Miss, do you know anything about football?" Yang Pan covered his stomach and asked Hua Fang, "Warrendam is a small team that has to struggle even to be relegated, what kind of championship are you talking about?" Ha ha! ”

"Yes, yes! I was frightened when I saw what you said at the negotiating table just now......"

Hua Fang also smiled: "Hehe! Why not? Football is round, what can't happen? Why is it that the championship is all about those teams? ”

Zhang Jun and Yang Pan stopped smiling, they looked at each other. What kind of prince will Xiangning have? Who would have thought that Zhang Jun would score as soon as he came on the field? Who would have thought he would score a hat-trick in the second game? Who would have thought that Warrendam would reach the quarter-finals of the Cup? Football, it's really round, ah......;