Ribery's invitation, Chu Zhongtian planned to take Wang Hao to the appointment, Jiang Ran left, and Wang Hao stayed here alone, which was inevitably a little lonely. After all, he is an adult team, and he can only see Wang Hao once in a while, so he is obviously not a good partner. As the saying goes, "I miss my relatives every festive season", Christmas is such an important festival, if Wang Hao is left alone, I am afraid that it will deepen his thoughts and emotions, and when the time comes, it will affect the performance on the training ground and the competition field, and maybe it will also cause his future in Metz to become bleak.

As for the female companions...... Chu Zhongtian thought of Lin Beiyao, the cute girl who had been taking pictures of him and helping him build a bridge with the group of supporters in China, and Mathilde, the teacher who taught him French.

I don't know how they'll spend Christmas.

After Xu Xiaodi and Chu Zhongtian returned to Metz together, he stayed in the hotel temporarily, and he had to look at Chu Zhongtian's performance in the next few games to decide whether to stay in Mace. If Chu Zhongtian was just like a meteor, and he quickly sank after a good performance, then he would have to return to London, England in the end.

And once Chu Zhongtian continues to play well, or if he continues to get stable opportunities to play, and continues this situation, he may be sent by the club to stay in Mays.

Chu Zhongtian returned to Mace's rented apartment, which was still for two people two days ago, and he and Mr. Merry were in one room, but now he was the only one left. Mr. Merry had been in Paris yesterday and had flown back to London early this morning, and he had to spend Christmas with his family.

Chu Zhongtian took out Lin Beiyao's phone number from his mobile phone, intending to ask her if she was free.

"Huh? Party? Lin Beiyao was quite surprised to receive this call from Chu Zhongtian.

"Hmm...... Frank invited me and asked me to bring a friend. When the time comes, I will put on Wang Hao and want to ask if you are free. ”

"Uh...... I just agreed to accompany my classmates to Marseille and Cannes for a tour......" Lin Beiyao told the truth, just ten minutes before Chu Zhongtian called, she made an appointment with the sisters in her dormitory. If Chu Zhongtian had called eleven minutes earlier, she would not have gone to Marseille.

But in fact, she was really interested in the players' gatherings. You know, this kind of party is not just anyone can participate, if you let ** know, he will definitely envy himself again.

"Ah...... Is that right? Chu Zhongtian was a little regretful.

"I'm really sorry, Chu Zhongtian. I made an appointment with my classmates, and if I say something, I will count it......"

"Well, you're right. You might as well go on a tour. Merry Christmas to you! ”

"Hehe, I wish you a Merry Christmas too."

After Chu Zhongtian hung up Lin Beiyao's phone, his words to Lin Beiyao reminded him that others also have their own lives. So would it be okay to call Teacher Mathilde again in a reckless manner?

He thought about it for a while, and decided to make a phone call to ask, whether people have their own business or not, this phone call shows an attitude - I haven't forgotten you during the holidays.

※※※ Delphin. Mathilde never thought that she would be able to receive a call from Chu Zhongtian on his own initiative. Although they had kept each other's phone numbers, they had never called, and if there was anything, she would say it when she went to teach Chu Zhongtian every week. There was nothing else to do except class time.

So when she saw the caller's name displayed on the screen of her mobile phone, she even felt an inexplicable nervousness, as if she was afraid of something and was looking forward to something.

Why she has such emotions, she can't say clearly.

This sudden surge of emotions made her feel panicked, and her eyes kept glued to the phone screen but did not answer. I didn't react until the bell disappeared, and I quickly dialed it back.

※※※ Chu Zhongtian waited for a long time and didn't wait for the phone to be picked up, and hung up the phone with some disappointment, thinking that it seemed that only he and Wang Hao were going to the appointment, but he didn't expect the music on the mobile phone to ring at this time.

It turned out to be Teacher Mathilde's call.

"Hello, Mr. Mathilde. I thought you were out of the house, and you didn't have your phone with you. ”

"Hello, Chu. I'm sorry I didn't hear that. Mathilde lied, she could only lie, of course, she couldn't tell the fact that she was upset just now because she heard Chu call her, otherwise it would be misunderstood.

"Do you have anything to do with me?"

"That's right, Mr. Mathilde, are you free for Christmas Eve?"

"Christmas Eve?" Mathilde was taken aback. "I ...... Have free time. ”

"Haven't you lived with your family?"

"My home isn't in Metz, and I'm not coming home for Christmas." Mathilde replied.

Although the status of Christmas in the West is as important as the Chinese New Year, more and more people in China are unable to reunite with their families during the Spring Festival for various reasons, so it is normal not to spend Christmas Eve with their families in the West. Chu Zhongtian didn't think much about it, he said, "Then can I invite you, teacher, to our Christmas dinner?" ”

"Christmas dinner?"

"Yes, a friend of mine, that Frank. Ribery, you know...... You also advised me not to learn French from him? Ha ha! I have a good relationship with him now, and I can understand his dialect. He invited me to a dinner he organized on Christmas Eve, and asked me to put on my friends and go with me. That's when I thought of you...... You taught me French for half a year, and I should invite you too. Since you have time, why don't you come and play together? ”

Mathilde hesitated.

Chu Zhongtian thought that he was out of disgust for professional players: "I know you hate professional players, but professional players are not very annoying to everyone, there are always good and bad, and other professions are the same." You always say that professional footballers play with women when they are rich, but Frank is a good husband who loves his wife, and we are far from rich. Actually, we're just a bunch of young people who like to play, and you're younger than me, so don't be so deep......"

Mathilde nodded, "Okay, I'll go." Where will I see you then? ”

"Come to me on the afternoon of the 24th, and let's go to his house together."

"Okay, do I need anything to prepare?" Mathilde asked.

Chu Zhongtian thought for a while, and finally said cautiously: "If you can dress up a little, don't be so ...... Uh......"

He didn't know how to say it so that he wouldn't make a girl sad or angry. It's not a good thing to directly evaluate a girl as rustic.

"Rustic, huh?" Unexpectedly, Mathilde took the initiative to mention the biggest impression she left on Chu Zhongtian.

Chu Zhongtian was a little embarrassed, so he could only smirk.

"Don't worry, I won't let you lose face in front of your friends."

"That's not what I meant......" Before Chu Zhongtian could finish explaining, he heard Teacher Mathilde hang up the phone.

He looked at his phone helplessly, as if he had finally made the teacher angry...... Mathilde hung up the phone, and then walked to the bathroom, looking at himself in the mirror, with bangs covering his eyebrows in unison, huge black-framed glasses, and an expressionless face.

She pursed her lips and shifted her face to a different angle.

Then her eyes widened, and because of her nearsightedness, the lenses looked a little more exaggerated than they really were.

She smiled again, and the girl in the mirror was finally a little more pleasing to the eye.

Seeing herself like this, she frowned: "Is it really dirty?" ”

Then she took her eyes off and set them aside, looking at herself in the mirror again. Soon she untied both braids as well, scratched her hair with water on her hands, and looked in the mirror.

Nearsighted, she had to squint her eyes to see what she looked like.

The girl in the mirror with squinting eyes and messy and fluffy hair looks so strange.

※※※Winters in Metz are less sunny and snowy, and because they are located in the east-northerner region of France, the winters are very cold.

Rainy days will remind Chu Zhongtian of his hometown of Chengdu, Sichuan, and London, England. All three cities have some similarities in the cold and damp winters.

At this time, he was looking forward to the date of his return to London.

From the 21st to the 24th, Chu Zhongtian spent the three days like this:

Every morning after waking up, I run to the Holy Mountain Furion Field and back, and do another 500 sit-ups to exercise and stay fit. Continuing to learn French, his current level of French is limited to everyday conversations, but some deeper communication is not yet possible.

It has been raining outside for the past three days, and the whole city is shrouded in a rainy haze, Chu Zhongtian doesn't want to go out shopping, and there is nothing to do in the wet city. He plays games and watches DVDs in his apartment, or chats with his parents on the Internet, and then goes to Kang Jianbo's fan website for him, "We All Love Lin Danda", to browse domestic news reports about him. Fill the forum with water, chat with everyone, and there is no star shelf at all. Of course, he will also meet those who deliberately make trouble and scold him, and he will also be a little depressed, such as the "god sticker" that was put on the top of the whole forum, he later asked Kang Jianbo why the post that scolded him was put on the top, and Kang Jianbo told him that it was a whipping corpse to show the public.

When he doesn't play games or watch movies, and when he gets tired of chatting and watering, he simply sits in the house, looking out the window at the wet sky and the city in a daze, thinking about the year that is about to pass.

After half a season of hard work, he finally caught the last train at the end of 2004 and hoped to get a stable chance to play. Now he doesn't really want to rest, he feels that he has just stepped on the accelerator and has to brake suddenly, and he is uncomfortable.

"I really want to play football!" Chu Zhongtian shouted at the world outside the window.

He had just finished shouting when he heard the doorbell ring. Raise your wrist and look at your watch, it's 5:45 p.m.

Today is the twenty-fourth, and if nothing else, it should be Delphine who came to find himself at this time. Teacher Mathilde.

He opened the door, but his eyes flickered.

Standing outside his door was a woman he was somewhat familiar with, but more unfamiliar.

The first thing that caught Chu Zhongtian's attention was her hair, the bangs that covered her eyebrows and almost touched her eyes were gone, and they were combed diagonally to the side. The two ponytails were dissolved, and the fluffy hair was clearly blown. Chu Zhongtian didn't see the familiar black frames under his hair, there was nothing in front of those eyes, and his cheeks were a little ruddy, maybe they were cold, maybe they were blushing, but those pimples looked a lot lighter at a glance.

She didn't have dirty clothes and pants, a red coat wrapped around her body, and the exposed calf part Chu Zhongtian noticed that there was nothing but a pair of black stockings. Oh, and a pair of silver heels.

Her exposed breasts can be seen directly from the neckline of the coat, and the low-cut black dress. She even wore a necklace around her white and slender neck, which hung low on her cleavage.

Chu Zhongtian was completely stunned, he couldn't imagine that the girl standing in front of him would be his French teacher Delfen. Mathilde ...... "Good afternoon, Chu. Mathilde greeted Chu Zhongtian a little shyly.

However, Chu Zhongtian did not respond to her, but looked at her in a daze.

This made Mathilde even more shy, she lowered her head, and stood in the doorway to go in and not to go.

I wouldn't have dressed like this if I had known...... She complained to herself in her heart.

"Ah...... Yes! Good afternoon, good ...... The teacher ...... "Chu Zhongtian finally came back to his senses, and he stuttered a little. "Please, please come in!"

"Isn't it good?" Mathilde raised her head and asked Chu Zhongtian.

"No...... Very good, very good......" Chu Zhongtian finally returned to normal, and he praised Mathilde with a smile, "Very beautiful, teacher." You are beautiful. ”

Mathilde also smiled: "It won't make you embarrassed in front of your friends, right?" ”

Chu Zhongtian was embarrassed when he mentioned this: "That's not how things are...... Actually, you're the way you used to be, and I don't think there's anything wrong with that. Don't get me wrong, teacher...... Ah, wait, I'm going to change my clothes! Chu Zhongtian asked Teacher Mathilde to wait in the living room, turned around and ran into the bedroom, closed the door and began to change clothes.

Soon he came out in a slightly more formal, in fact, casual style.

"Let's go, teacher."

Mathilde hesitated: "Chu, I think...... At your friend's place for a while, don't call me 'teacher'......"

Chu Zhongtian also felt that this request made sense, but ......, "What should I call you?" Teacher. ”

"Call me Delphin."

Only people who are very close to him can call him by his first name, such as Chu Zhongtian and Emily. Between Stan, they are not called "Miss Stan" or "Stan", they are all called "Emily". But is the relationship between him and Masal Mathilde so good?

"This ...... Is that good, teacher? Chu Zhongtian hesitated.

"It's okay, it's too cold for you to call me 'teacher' on such an occasion." Mathilde is actually not only Chu Zhongtian's French teacher, but also teaches him a lot of French social etiquette, humanistic customs, and French personality characteristics, etc., which is really a good teacher.

"Okay, teacher......"

Mathilde pointed to Chu Zhongtian.

"Ah, Delfen......" Chu Zhongtian hurriedly changed his words. Let's go, Delphin. ”

He still felt a little awkward, and he had been calling "Teacher" and "Teacher Mathilde" for half a year, and it was really uncomfortable to call the girl in front of him so affectionately.

※※※ Standing downstairs Delphin wrapped his coat tightly, Chu Zhongtian, who was holding an umbrella for the two of them, looked at her and asked, "Are you cold, old ...... Delphin? ”

"Don't use 'you', it's awkward for you to call me by my name, and to call me 'you'." Delphin. Mathilde finished teaching Chu Zhongtian first, and then craned her neck: "It's a little ......"

Chu Zhongtian wanted to say, "If it's so cold, don't wear this." But he thought that it would hurt to make the teacher dress up a little more foreign, so he didn't say anything.

If they were lovers, he could reach out and hold each other in his arms and use his chest to warm Mathilde, but they weren't, and he couldn't do anything too out of the ordinary, for fear of arousing the teacher's disgust. Judging from the contact in the past six months, Teacher Mathilde is not the same as those ordinary French girls.

If he wants to avoid freezing, the only thing he can do now is to stop the car quickly. Taxi after taxi drove in front of him, but none of them were empty.

He rarely takes a taxi, runs to training, and walks when he goes out shopping. Now I find that it is quite inconvenient to take a taxi here, is it because it is raining today?

He looked at the street in the distance, and then turned to see Mathilde, who was holding his arms. "If it's cold, let's wait in the foyer, Delphine? I'll stop the car here, and I'll call you when I stop it. ”

Mathilde hesitated for a moment and accepted Chu Zhongtian's proposal. Chu Zhongtian sent him back, and then stood on the side of the road with an umbrella and waited for the car.

Speaking of today, it is really a bit evil, is it because today is Christmas Eve, which is equivalent to the thirtieth year of China's Chinese New Year's Eve, so everyone is in a hurry to go home for the holiday, resulting in fewer empty cars on the road?

Chu Zhongtian waited for almost half an hour, but he didn't wait for an empty car.

He was a little anxious, the appointed time was seven o'clock, and it looked like it was going to be half past six. People invite themselves to a banquet, and it's not good to be late.

Although the place where Chu Zhongtian lives is not far from the lively street, the door is just a secluded small street, and the traffic flow is small, and at this time, it is only a taxi for half a day, and there are still people sitting.

In the cold winter, and he couldn't find an empty taxi for half a day, this situation made Chu Zhongtian feel like he was in his hometown in Chengdu - on the streets of Chengdu, taxis were also very difficult to ride. In some places, you even need to grab to grab an empty car. And he also discovered that whether in China, France, or England, there is a law that can hardly be mistaken: when you don't need a taxi, one empty car after another appears in front of you, and when you need a car, you are guaranteed not to see one for half a day.

Just when Chu Zhongtian was getting more and more anxious as he waited, a huge engine roar came from a distance, and it came to him in the blink of an eye.

With this deafening roar, which made people feel like they were in real life and the rally scene, a black taxi pulled up in front of him.

The driver, who was wearing a blue French No. 10 jersey over his jacket, pressed the window, turned to him and said, "Do you want a car, man?" ”

When the driver turned his face, Chu Zhongtian clearly saw the "scar" shape on the right side of his hair......

(To be continued)