After leaving the Hongyuan Club, it was almost dinner time. Lee Byrne got in a car and went back to the hotel, his room was on the 13th floor, and his future mother-in-law lived on the 8th floor. After going back to take a shower and changing clothes, Li Byrne's internal phone call reached 807, and the two made an appointment to see each other downstairs in the lobby in half an hour.

Recently, I have been as busy as possible, and this time I have been free, and I unconsciously recalled the bits and pieces of the past.

That year, that is, in 1996, before the rebirth. As now, with his outstanding performance against Bayi in the FA Cup, Li Bern has a high voice among the people, and fans and the media generally believe that this young man will be the hope for the future of Chinese football. This point was naturally also seen by the Football Association, and Li Bern was selected into the 40-man squad for the U23 Asian Youth Championship that year. In his opinion, playing well and being selected for the national team to play for the country is the most beautiful thing and his lifelong goal. But the reality is that as a newcomer, you want to enter the national brand, strength is one thing, but some upper-class people in the football circle use their work as a tool to collect money. The teenager was at the time, and the other party's words of asking for bribes were completely incomprehensible to a 16-year-old boy, so he practiced every day, but was replaced by another overage player in the team.

Li Boen, who quit football, chose to return to campus, and after so many courses, he gritted his teeth to catch up with his grades, and was admitted to Xi'an Jiaotong University with a score of 674 in international economics and trade. With the strength of athletes to endure hardships, he earned his first pot of gold at the age of 27, and then at the age of 28, he took advantage of the stock market to double his assets, and turned his head to start his own entrepreneurial era, starting from foreign trade companies, then real estate, and then health care and education industries, and by the age of 43, he was already the chairman of a group with assets of more than 60 billion.

It can be said that as long as you want to, the wealth of this life can be easily obtained without effort. But Li Bourne still decided to insist on going the road of football to the end this time, for the regret of his past, and at the same time he was burdened with China's national fortune 400 years later. What's going on? is the teammate who just mentioned who spent money to buy the national youth quota, and met Li in the summer of 2023. In retaliation, the other party caused a serious traffic accident, and the teenager was also killed in that accident, which was brought back to 1996 by the system. This system is the one with only sound above, and the system is from the Earth in 2423. At that time, China was already the world's largest power, and Western countries led by the United States united to balance China. They are also very good at grasping the weakness, the United Nations voted, and finally came to a result, the permanent members of the permanent membership each year were changed to 7 seats, and the decision of these 7 seats was based on the results of the national football team.

Ladies and gentlemen, you must think that the national football team is already a regular to win the World Cup after 400 years, right? That's underestimating the level of our men's football team. Let's take a fragment from Lee Byrne's memories in 2023 and take a look:

At 8:01 p.m. on June 24, 2023, the final score on the huge screen of Xi'an International Football Center was particularly dazzling – China 0:1 Myanmar. The entire stadium of 60,000 people is packed, but at the moment you don't feel like it's a football match that has just ended. The Chinese men's football team lost, there was no usual abuse, quiet, eeriely quiet, The Myanmar team, which was celebrating with a few domestic fans around the field, was also stunned, and the players and staff all stopped thirty or forty people, looking at the injured and numb expressions of tens of thousands of Chinese fans in the seats, These athletes from small countries empathize, It was too late to celebrate their first entry into the round of 16 of the Asian Cup, They bowed neatly to the 60,000 people in the stadium, and then left the stadium silently from the players' tunnel with their hands folded, They may also be curious, China has created so many world wonders in less than a hundred years since the founding of the People's Republic of China, but only these 11 people have not been able to play the game.

The foreigners are gone, and the whole venue is only its own people, except for the media. The players and coaches of the national football team are also at a loss, the Asian Cup group was eliminated, they are ready to face the overwhelming national scolding, in fact, so many years have long been used to it, a week has passed, the days have to go on, and the money will not be less. But right now, this scene really scared them. Brother, no, fathers, grandfathers, ancestors, you scold a few words, brothers have never seen this posture, people are scary but can scare people to death. A very peculiar picture, in the middle of the field, there are long guns and short cannons of the media, 360-degree shooting of the scene that has never appeared in the history of human football. At the signal of the head coach, captain No. 7 Wu Lei walked to the stands with all the players, and was about to bow and thank the field, when an old fan of sixty or seventy years old, draped in the national flag, struggled to squeeze over from the back of the stands, grabbed the safety net with both hands, and the two eyeballs were about to burst out. The old man's mouth opened wide in pain, like a child who had lost his beloved toy, and suddenly a voice exploded from the old man's mouth, as if the Qin dialect had been carrying the power of the Hukou Waterfall for hundreds of years: "Chinese Football !!" The voice paused slightly, "Die, !!" Then the old man cried. Oh, yes! Everyone hates the national football team, but how deep this hatred is, how deep is the love hidden in the heart.

For decades, the fear of South Korea was not enough, then the fear of Japan, the fear of Saudi Arabia, the fear of Uzbekistan, the fear of Australia, Qatar, Iraq, Syria, Thailand, hehe. Now at this moment, we are terminally ill, a big country with a population of 1.4 billion, football does not make us look forward to being alone and seeking defeat, we will beg, we will not go to the world, and we will remain in the top 8 in Asia. Well, there's no one else in Asia. Hey! Someone predicted this! Now lose to Thailand, next to Vietnam, lose to Myanmar, there is no one to lose, no face.

This heart-rending scene of pain spread across the country in an instant through the signals of the media, making people feel extremely depressed and uncomfortable. Several hosts in the live broadcast room opened their mouths to say something to ease the atmosphere, but they couldn't say anything. As the camera in the live broadcast room returned to the stadium, the 60,000 people in the audience cried one after another from one person, several people, dozens of people, and hundreds of people, until all the cries converged together.

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Yes, this scene is what really happened. From this moment on, the national football team collapsed. So much so that by 2423, in 247 countries around the world, the men's football team ranked 193rd. Fortunately, our country was the first to develop a time-travel machine, and the first and most important task of this machine is to go back in time and find the most suitable person to save the national football team.

The Li Bourne in front of him is the person who is chosen by the future, the one who is not only burdened with the mission of saving the national football team.

Li Byrne, who was immersed in memories, was suddenly pulled back to reality by the rapid ringtone. Picking up the phone, it turned out that the future mother-in-law had arrived downstairs and said sorry, and Li also quickly got up and went downstairs.

As Miss Wang, who came to Guangzhou for the first time, that is, the future mother-in-law of our male protagonist, she doesn't seem to have a clue where to go for dinner. Lee Byrne smiled: "I'll decide."

The two took a taxi to the place, and when they got out of the car, Miss Wang looked up and saw --- Tao Taoju.

After taking a seat, looking at the crowded restaurant, Miss Wang said, "It's a very chic name, the business is so good, it looks like this restaurant should be very good."

Li Boen nodded: "Yes, Tao Taoju is a very famous restaurant in Yangcheng. There was a hotel in the Guangxu period. The great writer Lu Xun and Ba Jin have all been here. The other celebrities are too many to count."

Miss Wang looked at Li slyly and said, "Oh? I can't see that someone is familiar with this place, and it's not at all like I said I was coming to Yangcheng for the first time."

Li Byrne choked weakly, thinking that women are really not easy to deal with, and he has to be careful to show his feet at all times.

smiled awkwardly, and had to say that he had a friend here, and he also made a special trip to find someone to inquire this afternoon.

Looking at this little brother's flustered appearance, Miss Wang covered her mouth and giggled and said, "Okay, the first few times you come is not a very important issue, seeing that you look like someone has seen through the secret, the little brother is still very cute. Having said that, I still want to thank you today, this meal is mine, don't rob it."

Rushing to pay with you? Haha, that must be you thinking too much, it's not natural for a son-in-law to spend his mother-in-law's money. Li Bourne responded in his mouth, skillfully picked up the menu, and introduced himself while ordering: "The famous dishes here, such as pork brain fish soup, colorful fresh shrimp, stir-fried meat crab with ginger and shallots, West Lake chrysanthemum fish, shredded salt-baked chicken, sliced skin hanging oven duck, cloud leg refreshing belly, hidden treasures in the snow, braised chicken abalone wings, thin-skinned shrimp dumplings are all very good, and custard buns are also good. It's just two of us, 3-4 dishes and some snacks should be enough, right? But if you are pregnant, you still don't want crabs, Sister Wang, what do you think?"

"Okay, you look at the point, I don't pick."

After speaking, Miss Wang picked up the teapot in front of her and poured a glass of water for the two of them, and was about to drink a cup of water, when she saw a small basin on the table, and someone was disassembling his own tableware, putting it in the basin, and then pouring all the water from a teapot into it.

glanced at each other, the mother-in-law who had already handed the teacup to his mouth and the son-in-law who forgot to introduce the other party were embarrassed that they couldn't hide.

"Haha, I'm a cleanliness person." Or the son-in-law reacted quickly, which can be regarded as relieving the mother-in-law.

The meal time passed quickly, and the two slowly returned to the hotel, and they got to know each other along the way. After returning to the hotel and saying goodnight, Lee Byrne returned to his room.

As soon as I entered the room, I suddenly heard the system say: "One good thing to remind you is that I told you that when you go back in time, reconnect with the people in your past life, and change their lives, your original world will no longer exist, because the time track will run again to 2023, and those things that happened have not happened in this time and space, it is equivalent to a puzzle, and the new pieces replace the original pieces. The original fragments have been abandoned in space-time."

"I remember, before you were born again, what is a good thing?"

"It's just that the things that used to exist in the fragments of that world are now ownerless, but I can take whatever I want from the fragments. That means the wealth is yours now."

As he spoke, there was suddenly a pile of money in the room, and there were seven or eight cubes in sight.

"I'm rubbing! , this must be nearly 10 billion."

It's rare for the system to show off on itself: "How? In your current words, isn't it awesome?"

Strangely, the system waited for a complaint: "I'll go, this is the fifth version of the yuan. Big brother, it's 1996 and I'm using the fourth version of the RMB. Don't you have a brain? Isn't it high-tech artificial intelligence 400 years later? Speak!"

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