Fox in the Penalty Area

"Oh! That reporter is quite fast! It turned out to be a reporter from "Lingnan Evening News"... Hu Lai, look, the media has already exposed your affairs on the Internet. I even found you on Douyin!"

After the field adaptation training, on the bus returning to the hotel from the stadium, some teammates shouted with their mobile phones.

When he said this, others took out their phones one after another, wanting to swipe to this video.

But not everyone can succeed: "Why are there all beautiful videos on my Douyin, but there are no Hu Lai..."

"Big data, that means Brother Han, you usually look at these beauties all the time!"

"Pfft, Han Xiangfei, did you expose something?"

"Really..." Wang Guangwei looked down at the "Lingnan Evening News" video on his mobile phone.

It was the video of Hu Lai being interviewed outside the airport. Facing the phone camera, Hu Lai said with a smile on his face: "...if it weren't for this grandson... the director was honest with me, saying that I have no future in the Poseidon Club, I will not make up my mind to leave Sea God and go to Shining Star..."

Seeing this, Wang Guangwei paused, and then asked Hu Lai: "Hu Lai, are you going to say 'this grandson' and then change your words temporarily?"

Hu Lai shook his head: "How is it possible? I have so much respect for this grandson... how could I do such a thing!"

Wang Guangwei nodded: "Okay, I understand."

Then he continued to watch.

Chen Xingyi paid more attention to what was said in the comments: "There are more than 200 comments... Let's see what they said?"

He signaled Wang Guangwei to stop watching the video and go directly to the comments. What did Hu Lai say, do we still need to understand it through video? Didn't everyone listened to it clearly at the time?

Wang Guangwei had no choice but to click on the comment.

The first hot comment was: "Did Hu Lai want to say 'this grandson' and then changed his words temporarily? Hahaha!"

Chen Xingyi raised his head and glanced at Wang Guangwei: "Did you send this old Wang?"

Wang Guangwei quickly waved his hand: "I only watch TikTok and don't comment."

They continued to scroll down.

The second hot comment: "Hu Lai's accusation is a bit serious. If there is no evidence, Sun He will sue him for defamation..."

Wang Guangwei and Chen Xingyi looked up at Hu Lai again, and Hu Lai spread his hands together: "Don't tell him he is my grandson."

The third hot comment: "This is true! I can testify! That Sun He is not a thing! If it weren't for him, Hu Lai should be a player of the Sea God's first team now, and he has played in the Super League!"

Both Chen Xingyi and Wang Guangwei looked at Hu Lai again with surprised eyes, and Hu Lai was also very surprised: "Damn, someone really testified for me?!"

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Gao Youjun has been busy on the Internet for a long time, but still found nothing.

Although Hu Lai's popularity is not low now, but at that time he was not well-known at all, and Sun He was far less controversial than he is now.

The two of them are ordinary people, and people don't pay much attention to them. There is even less evidence for this incident that is said to have happened on the sidelines of the training ground. After all, there were no reporters on the sidelines of the training field, so it was naturally impossible to leave any video records...

Now that Hu Lai is famous, some people will look up his past experiences and learn about his growth process, but none of these people have discovered the conversation between Hu Lai and Sun He.

Gao Youjun leaned on the back of the chair and closed his eyes to rest his mind. After resting for half a minute, he picked up his phone and decided to check the feedback after the short video was sent.

The playback volume has exceeded 50,000, and the results are not bad...

He muttered something in his heart, then looked at the more than 400 comments below, and clicked in.

The first hot comment made his eyes widen.

"It's true! I can testify! That Sun He is not a thing! If it weren't for him, Hu Lai would be a player in the first team of Poseidon by now, playing in the Super League!"

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"Haha, the Douyin account of Lingnan Evening News has contacted me!"

In dormitory 407 of No. 21 dormitory building of Nanshan University, Lao Wang yelled.

"What are you doing?" Everyone was curious.

"I left them a message saying that I can prove that Hu Lai is right!" Lao Wang said triumphantly. "When this tiktok was posted, the title was a question sentence, which means that the reporter is not sure whether it is true or not. I have seen in the comments that someone has washed the ground for Sun He and the sun thief, and I can't be more angry..."

Everyone in the dormitory knew about the ground-washing remarks. It was said that Hu Lai was still unknown at the time, so why did Sun He target him? Hu Lai must have suffered from persecution paranoia.

Some people also said that Hu Lai deliberately made such remarks in order to disturb the morale of the Poseidon team before the start of the FA Cup semi-finals.

There are many similar ground-washing remarks.

In addition, some people asked Hu Lai to present evidence objectively and neutrally.

How could there be any evidence for Hu Lai?

Under such circumstances, the fourth child in dormitory 407, that is, Old Wang, couldn't help leaving a message on Douyin.

Then, because he was the first person who said that he could testify to Hu Lai, his comment was immediately upvoted by many comments, and finally became the top commenter.

Everyone gathered around to see what the other party said when they contacted Lao Wang.

"Hi, I'm Gao Youjun, a reporter from Lingnan Evening News. Could you please provide your contact information? We want to interview you in detail on this issue."

"What should I do, Da Chu? Will you give it?" Old Wang turned his head to look at Chu Yifan who was standing behind him.

"Give it, why not give it? I don't know if anyone else knows about it, but we do. After we kept asking about it, Hu Lai told us. Now that we know it, we must not let it Hu Lai is wronged by this." Chu Yifan said.

"Okay then, let's have a good chat with this Evening News reporter!"

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"A Yan, have you watched this video?"

Team Poseidon captain Chen Faren shared a Douyin video with Liu Yan on WeChat, and then asked him.

Liu Yan knew what the captain was asking without clicking on it, he had seen it a long time ago... Even in the group of the U22 training team, everyone asked about Hu Lai collectively, and he was rejected by many people at that time. Circled.

Liu Yan replied: "I've already seen it, Captain Chen. Do you want to ask me if I know about it?"

"Yes, you and Hu Lai have known each other in the Olympic Games, have you heard him talk about it?"

"It wasn't there at the time, Team Chen. I only found out about it today. We just discussed it in the wechat group of our training team..."

"Then do you think what Hu Lai said is true or false?"

"Everyone in the training team asked him the same question today, and he said it was true..." Liu Yan remembered what Hu Lai said in the group at that time:

"...Of course it's true. It's a classic quotation from Director Sun. I can still recite it in full!"

"Okay, I see."

As soon as Chen Faren uttered these words, Liu Yan discovered that someone in the Wechat group of the Poseidon first team circled him.

I also sent a video and asked him if it really happened...

So Liu Yan asked Chen Faren in private: "Captain Chen, what should I say?"

"Tell the truth, say what you know."

"Okay, Team Chen."

Then Liu Yan repeated in the group what he said to Team Chen just now.

This remark sparked heated discussions in the group.

"If this is true, then someone will be unlucky..."

"I heard that the club only made 500,000 yuan from selling Hu Lai, which is the price of cabbage!"

"I have long said that Sun He's vision is not good, look, I have been right!"

"I think it's a bit exaggerated. Of course Sun He is an idiot. But letting go of Hu Lai is probably not as pity as some people on the Internet said. I'm not saying that Hu Lai can't do it, I just said that he went to Xingxing and kicked him out, he can't It proves that he can be kicked out even if he stays in Seagod. Sometimes he can really stand out in a different environment..."

Seeing everyone's discussion, Liu Yan didn't speak any more.

He just couldn't help thinking, if both Director Zhao and Hu Lai hadn't left the club, what would it be like now?

After being teammates with Hu Lai in the U22 training team for a period of time, Liu Yan felt that it was a happy thing to be an opponent with him, and it was a very headache to be an opponent with him at the same time. Know what he will do to you...

With Hu Lai's ability, he should be able to have a place in the Sea God's first team, right?

He doesn't know what performance Hu Lai can perform in the Chinese Super League, but no matter what he thinks, he should be similar to Guan Xinyan last season... no, maybe better than Guan Xinyan.

Well, anyway, it must be stronger than Guan Xinyan this season.

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Gao Youjun looked at the screenshot of the chat history in his mobile phone, which was sent to him by his interviewee just now.

The other party claimed to be Chu Yifan, Hu Lai's senior high school senior and the captain of Hu Lai's Dongchuan Middle School football team. This screenshot is a conversation between Chu Yifan and Hu Lai on WeChat.

The content of the conversation was related to Sun He. It was Chu Yifan who asked Hu Lai why he was in a bad mood. After many times of questioning, Hu Lai finally told his senior the truth about the matter.

Naturally, it was because he had been training in the Poseidon youth team for so long, and his hard work was wiped out by the words of the new youth training director Sun He.

Hu Lai confided his distress and emotions to his school team captain, and at the same time recounted what Sun He said to him in full.

"...Modern football has higher and higher requirements for center forwards, and they are becoming more and more comprehensive. What is the use of you who can only shoot? A center like you does not meet the requirements and definitions of modern football... Let me tell the truth, I It’s not that you have no future in Poseidon, I mean that even if you go to other teams, you have no future. Sorry, I’m a straightforward person, but I’m doing it for your own good. Instead of wasting everyone’s time like this, it’s better to find another team way out..."

Seeing what Hu Lai repeated, Gao Youjun couldn't help showing a stunned expression—he first heard Hu Lai say this, and thought Sun He meant that Hu Lai had no future in Sea God. That's actually understandable. After all, maybe Sun He thinks that Hu Lai does not conform to Poseidon's football philosophy and the tactical requirements of Poseidon. Now everyone knows that Hu Lai is a player with outstanding advantages and disadvantages. Maybe Sun He saw this at the time?

Now, isn't someone using Hu Lai to go to the flashing star to type out this reality to wash Sun He away? Said that if there was no Sun He's straightforward refusal, let Hu Lai continue to stay in Poseidon full of fantasy, maybe he would have missed the flashing star, and also missed the most important choice in his life?

Without knowing what Sun He said specifically, Gao Youjun felt that there was some truth to this statement.

But now he doesn't feel that way.

This is... really a grandson!

How does this mean that Hu Lai is not suitable for Poseidon's football philosophy? This is completely negating the value of Hu Lai as a professional player - what he said is very clear, not only in Poseidon, but in other teams, Hu Lai will not have a bright future. In the end, he simply hinted that Hu Lai would give up playing football and find another way out.

It is entirely conceivable that if Hu Lai was really not firm enough at the beginning, he listened to his grandson's instigation at the lowest point, gave up football, and found another way...

Then on the night of March 13, 2023, Chinese football may not have that hearty 3-0 game, and it will continue to "fear Korea". We Chinese fans are groping in the dark Maybe it will be extended for a while.

From this screenshot of the chat record, Gao Youjun can fully feel Hu Lai's depression and confusion at that time.

Who would have thought that the talented Hu Lai, who won the top scorer with five goals in the East Asian Cup and led the scorer list in the Chinese League One, would say "Team Chu, I really felt that this was my own goal at the time." The path I chose, I’m afraid I can’t even walk on my knees.”…

But fortunately, he didn't immerse himself in such self-pity for too long, and then Hu Lai mentioned to Chu Yifan in the chat that he had received a call from Zhao Kangming and planned to transfer back to Anton and join Flash Star. He believes that "the willows and flowers brighten another village, and the boat will naturally go straight to the bridge."

Seeing this, Gao Youjun breathed a sigh of relief like watching a suspense drama and finally all the suspense is about to come to light.

Because he knew what happened after Hu Lai went to Shining Star.

The future of Chinese football is secured...

After taking a deep breath, Gao Youjun became even more upset with Sun He.

Thinking of this, he began to devote himself to work with great enthusiasm. He wanted to make all the short videos and articles about this matter that will be released tomorrow.

He is not a Poseidon fan, nor is he a fan of the South China Tigers, the same city rival of the Sea God. He did not have the slightest prejudice against the Sea God team before, but now he has some personal grievances with this idiot named Sun He...

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Sun He had watched the video on Douyin a long time ago.

When he saw Hu Lai say those words, he really didn't expect that this matter would be brought out by Hu Lai himself.

His hand holding the phone was shaking angrily.

Is this bastard crazy!

You will be your football genius, and I will be my Poseidon youth training director. We all have a good life now, so don’t worry about the bad things in the past, okay?

He has always felt that as long as General Manager Zhang Qiang doesn't mention Hu Lai in front of him, he can completely pretend that the past has never happened.

In the end, Sun He never expected that Zhang Qiang didn't mention it, but Hu Lai did it himself!

He would actually expose his scars, expose his ugliness, and tell the reporter what he was humiliated by himself at the beginning...

Damn, this kid is too cheap!

Just when Sun He was crazily outputting Hu Lai in his heart, his phone rang.

After seeing the name of the caller, his heartbeat suddenly accelerated.

"Hey, Mr. Zhang, Mr. Zhang..." He felt his mouth dry.

Finally want it?

Is this day finally coming?

"Xiao Sun, if you don't have any plans tomorrow, come to Nanshan Stadium to watch the game together. I have reserved a seat for you on the rostrum." Zhang Qiang on the other end of the phone spoke softly.

Sun He was stunned. Didn't he come to ask him to ask his teacher for a crime?

"How about it, can you tell me, Xiao Sun."

"Okay, okay, no problem, no problem! Mr. Zhang, I will definitely be there on time!" Sun He quickly agreed.

Generally speaking, first-team matches have little to do with him as the director of youth training. He is not qualified to go to the rostrum to watch the game. If he wants to watch the game, he can go to the box to watch the game. But Sun He basically wouldn't join in the excitement.

Unexpectedly, Mr. Zhang took the initiative to invite him to watch the game on the rostrum today...

Sun He thought and thought, and felt that Mr. Zhang should not have seen the video on Douyin, so he didn't know what happened.

Otherwise, if Mr. Zhang watched the Douyin video, it would be impossible for him to speak to himself in such a gentle tone, and it would be impossible for him to invite himself to the rostrum to watch the game.

This is good, this is good...

In tomorrow's game, Flashing Star was eliminated and Hu Lai got out of everyone's sight completely. Even if Mr. Zhang knew about himself and Hu Lai, he would have something to say—look at Hu Lai's performance in the semi-finals of the FA Cup. You can't just say that Lao Tzu was in the middle class just because he was so successful in the middle class. Is your opinion wrong? Poseidon is a Chinese Super League team! He, Hu Lai, is only a middle-level player, so he is not worthy of playing in our Poseidon!

Sun He breathed a sigh of relief, feeling that his crisis was temporarily lifted.

Tomorrow, he will be dressed up to attend, waiting to witness Hu Lai's failure on the spot!