Fox in the Penalty Area

"Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!"

Li Qingqing squatted beside the piece of fried egg, laughing so hard that he couldn't lift his head, and the flowers trembled.

"Hey, it's too much!" Hu Lai stood beside her helplessly protesting. "The fried egg is not cold, how long will you laugh?"

"'It's time to show the real technology'? Haha! It really is the real technology! Hahahaha!" Li Qingqing raised his head and glanced at Hu Lai, and couldn't help but laugh.

"Occasionally just a mistake..."

Li Qingqing stood up from the ground holding her stomach, and then imitated Hu Lai's tone and said, "'Show your ugliness!' Hahahaha! Hu Lai, you are sincere!"

Hu Lai gave her a glance and gave up his defense.

Then he sniffed: "What's the smell?"

Li Qingqing, who was smiling happily, froze for a moment, her smile solidified, and then screamed: "Steak!"

She jumped to the stove, picked up the tongs and flipped the steak, and saw that the side next to the pan was already charred...

Hu Lai looked at the steak and smiled, "How mature is this?"

Li Qingqing glared at him: "I blame you!"

"It's the result of your schadenfreude!"

Li Qingqing changed the subject: "Are there any steaks?"

"Yes, there are, but it hasn't been defrosted..." Hu Lai said helplessly. "This piece was taken to the upper floor in advance to thaw before I went out for training today."

"Oh..." Li Qingqing sighed and tried to ask, "Why don't you just eat it? I cut off the batter?"

Hu Lai looked at her without speaking.

Li Qingqing herself felt outrageous, so she had to throw the steak that was reminiscent of carcinogens into the trash.

Then she asked: "What are we eating now?"

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Hu Lai and Li Qingqing sat opposite each other at the table.

On the table in the middle of them was a plate of fried potato cubes. In addition, there were two bowls with plates upside down, exuding a familiar fragrance.

Hu Lai glanced at the kitchen on the table with a timer: "Time is up!"

After he finished speaking, he opened the plates on the two bowls and was scalded: "Wow, it's hot..."

Li Qingqing looked at the bowl and asked, "Why do you have instant noodles here?"

Hu Lai replied while blowing his scalded fingers, "Huh... the logistics support materials brought by the Asian Cup national team. Originally, we rushed to the number of preparations to reach the semifinals, but we were out of the quarterfinals. , Hu... there are some left. I just want to bring some back to relieve their burden. Huh... this thing is not rare in China, but it's still a good thing on Leeds's side. Huhu..."

Li Qingqing got up and put the two fried eggs in the pan into the bowl, one for each.

Make the instant noodles in the bowl look more attractive.

But it is still instant noodles.

"I really didn't expect... I came to Leeds specifically, but you asked me to eat instant noodles." Li Qingqing was speechless.

"Instant noodles are also very good, don't you think that you can taste the taste of the motherland in a foreign country, it is very happy?" Hu Lai stirred up the noodles, blew, and sucked into his mouth.

Then he closed his eyes and looked intoxicated: "The taste of the motherland is... Laotan sauerkraut and beef!"

Li Qingqing was amused by his exaggerated performance, and also picked up the smell of noodles: "I have not eaten instant noodles for a long time. I used to eat instant noodles when I was young. My dad said it's bad for my health, but I just love to eat..."

She took a bite and closed her eyes like Hu Lai did, revealing a look of memories.

Hu Lai asked, "How is it? Didn't find the taste of childhood?"

Li Qingqing, who closed his eyes, laughed: "When I was young, what I loved to eat was the braised beef flavor..."

"Ah, there was also braised beef flavor at the time, but I didn't want...Xiaoxingxing and the others."

Li Qingqing opened her eyes and looked at Hu Lai, who was a little regretful: "When you said that, how come I feel that you are splitting up your luggage at the end of this Asian Cup? Braised beef noodles……"

Hu Lai was amused by Li Qingqing’s description: “It’s a bit interesting to say that if you didn’t have it... But in fact, everyone was very sad at the time, so the scene was not happy. After all, I just lost... now. It’s much better, you have to look forward. The local Asian Cup in four years’ time will definitely not be the case again."

Four years later, the 2031 Asian Cup will be hosted by China.

By then, Hu Lai was 27, Zhang Qinghuan was 31, Wang Guangwei was 29, Chen Xingyi was 28, Luo Kai was 27, Xia Xiaoyu was 26, and Zhou Zijing was 26. , Lin Zhiyuan is twenty-five years old...Everyone is in the mature stage of their respective careers, the team has a reasonable age structure, is young and has no lack of experience.

It's time to get results.

If such a team still can't hand over a satisfactory report card, then it can't be justified by any means.

"It's nice that you can think so." Li Qingqing said with relief.

Hu Lai heard it, and he asked, "What are you doing? Think I'm going to be depressed?"

Li Qingqing smiled without saying a word.

"Hey... don't underestimate me!"

Li Qingqing smiled and shook his head: "I don't underestimate it, you are the one who wants to win the World Cup!"

Hu Lai pointed at Li Qingqing: "Ironic?"

The girl waved her hand quickly, put away her smile, and looked at Hu Lai seriously: "Truly, Hu Lai. In such an environment at the time, you can say this goal, I admire you very much."

Hu Lai was suddenly embarrassed by Li Qingqing's serious gaze. It was rare that he didn't climb along the way: "Hey, I was scolded badly..."

Li Qingqing shook his head lightly: "Don't care about their truth, say what you want to say, do what you want to do, I will always support you."

After speaking, she put her cheek in one hand and just stared at the person in front of her.

Hu Lai became wary: "How many meals do I owe this time?"

Li Qingqing's posture and emotions were not stretched just now: "What!"

"Huh? Didn't you say that just for me to invite you to dinner?"

Li Qingqing was stunned for a moment, and then smiled: "You have to say that, indeed, then you owe me... ten meals!"

Saying that she took out her phone in front of Hu Lai, opened the memo, and edited it inside.

Upon seeing this, Hu Lai called out: "Good fellow, don't you need my consent now?"

Li Qingqing glanced at him: "Don't you want to invite?"

"Think about it, please, please!" Hu Lai nodded without saying a word. "Isn't it just eating? Can eating make me poor?"

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After a simple dinner, Hu Lai took Li Qingqing to briefly visit the villa he rented.

When entering Hu Lai's room, Li Qingqing saw the football on the table at a glance.

She opened her eyes wide, with a surprised expression: "Ah! You brought me to Leeds?"

She stepped forward and picked up the football. After turning around, she saw the phone number she wrote down.

The handwriting is slightly faded, but still clear.

Holding the football in hand, Li Qingqing looked back at Hu Lai.

Hu Lai pointed to the football in her hand and said: "This is my first football."

Li Qingqing lowered his head to re-evaluate the football in his hand, and then remembered the first time he had met the boy.

At that time, how could she think that she would be closely bound to him in the future, and she would be closely related to each other?

"What are you doing in a daze?" Hu Lai asked strangely when Li Qingqing suddenly became silent.

"Nothing, I suddenly thought of how we met..." Li Qingqing smiled and put the football down. "It feels like it hasn't been long, but it's actually almost ten years."

"Is it such an exaggeration?"

"From 2019 to 2027, what do you think?"

Hu Lai took a breath, and he realized that it has been almost eight years since he came to this time and space.

He was suddenly in a daze-if I didn't travel, then in the original time and space, would I still meet Li Qingqing in that secret base?

Is there Li Qingqing in that time and space?

What would happen to me if I didn't meet her?

It's just a person who is so ordinary that it can't be ordinary, will know some other people, and lead an ordinary life.

On the contrary, no matter what time and space Li Qingqing is in, I am afraid that he will eventually become the dazzling one...

"What are you in a daze?" Li Qingqing asked, tilting his head.

"When you say that, I think of high school."

"At that time, did you think that one day you would become a professional player and play in England?" Li Qingqing asked.

"Then who can think of it?" Hu Lai shook his head, "Can you think of today?"

"I couldn't think of it. At the time, I thought it would be good for you to be in the school team...Who would have thought that you are now playing in the Premier League! I think all your classmates can blow a wave: We rejected the Premier League gold Boots and the World Cup golden boots!" Li Qingqing laughed.

Hu Lai was speechless: "Do you still remember this mess?"

"Remember, why don't you remember? Even though so many years have passed, I still remember it." Li Qingqing leaned against the edge of the table.

"Have I told you that my dad actually didn't think much of you?"

Hu Lai nodded: "I heard you say."

"Then do you know what I thought then?"

"do not know."

"What I think is, if he doesn’t recruit you into the school team, then I will train you for one year, and wait until you are in the second year of high school before you sign up for the school team. After you enter the school team, I will go to my father and tell him you are me. Bring it out, haha!" Li Qingqing smiled and trembled.

"The result hasn't waited for a year, you ran away by yourself!"

"Oh, you were on the school team anyway at that time, what am I still doing in school?"

"But what if I wasn't on the school team?"

Hu Lai asked a question that was difficult for Li Qingqing to answer. She frowned and remained silent for a while before shook her head and said, "I don't know..."

"Idiot, of course I have to go! That's a chance to play professional football!" Hu Lai said anxiously.

Seeing him like this, Li Qingqing clapped his hands and said, "I remember!"

"What do you think of?" Hu Lai asked in a daze.

"Remember that you said the same thing back then, and you scolded me!"

Hu Lai showed a suspicious expression: "I scold you? What am I scolding you for?"

"You call me a'stupid woman'!" Li Qingqing pointed at Hu Lai who was sitting on the edge of the bed, squinting one eye and tilting his head slightly to make a aim.

"What's this?" Hu Lai frowned and asked.

"Of course. You said you want to wake me up as a "stupid woman"... I'm very vengeful! But if you can buy me ten more meals, I will have a lot to forget!" Li Qingqing's "pistol" Still aiming at Hu Lai.

Hu Lai raised his hand and surrendered: "I thought Charlie was the best person I have ever seen, but as a result, a mountain is higher than a mountain, and you are better than him..."

Seeing Hu Lai surrendered~www.readwn.com~ Li Qingqing smiled and put away his "weapon" and compared it with a "V".

Then she took out her phone and added the ten meals:

"Hu Lai, you owe more and more, but you have to work harder to pay it back!"

"Ha ha."

"What does ‘huh’ mean?"

"literal meaning."

"The attitude is not correct, ten more meals!"

"...Li Qingqing, haven't you heard a word?"

"What are you talking about?"

"Uncle is in debt!"

"..."

(End of this chapter)