At family gatherings, the topic will naturally not always revolve around football.
After chatting about the national football team for a while, a few drunk elders began to change the topic to other things.
For example, [My Xiao Yan went on a blind date some time ago, but the woman didn’t have anything and was picky. 】【My nephew Wang Teng said he has a good chance of getting admitted to Peking University this year】.
The topic did not stop at football. Chen Mo chatted with him for more than half an hour. He felt that it was really boring, so he took two girls and a group of children from relatives to the backyard to go fishing.
It's summer, a crescent moon hangs in the sky, and the night wind blows gently beside the clear lake.
Listening to the chirping of insects and birds in his ears, and watching the little kids moving rocks to look for earthworms, Chen Mo, who was sitting under the willow tree and was a little tipsy, held the fishing rod in his right hand and smiled at the corner of his mouth.
"I said, when I retire, how about we find a yard like this, give birth to many babies, and live a relaxed and leisurely life?"
Yuechi Xun, who was sitting next to him peeling an apple, and Keli, who was chatting about lipstick numbers with her cousin, were stunned by the sudden words.
"good."
Yuechi Xun's voice was still gentle and steady, but the little finger of his right hand, which was stroking the black hair on his forehead, was raised unconsciously.
Keli blushed and wanted to say something, but she just moved her mouth. Finally, a smile appeared at the corner of her mouth, and she turned back to chat with her cousin about cosmetics.
The night sky was quiet, the chirping of insects and birds, the laughter of children mixed with the laughter of the elders chatting and drinking in the room, a cool night breeze blew through the willow tops, and the willow leaves swayed left and right on the lake.
The ripples rippled, the fishing rod moved slightly, and a big carp bit the bait on the hook. The fish looked at the shore with its dull eyes and held its chin. It looked at the night sky with a silly smile on its face. It had completely forgotten to pull the rod. The man in question and the two women behind him were also a little distracted.
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The next evening, Qianhu International Airport F1 Terminal.
"Why haven't you come out yet? You walk slowly with your short legs."
A Grand Cherokee parked at the exit. Under the surprised gaze of many passers-by, Chen Mo, who was wearing sunglasses, leaned against the car door with his arms folded and glanced at his watch, with a slightly unhappy expression on his face.
"Okay, this airport is a bit big, it's normal for it to be slow when you get out, okay. Now, let's have a bite."
Next to her, Keli, who was wearing a summer dress and with long platinum hair blowing in the wind, said with a smile. She used a small spoon to scoop out a small scoop from the ice cream cup in her hand and handed it to Chen Mo's mouth.
"Vanilla? Not bad."
Chen Mo turned his head and took a sip, then opened his mouth with a look of surprise on his face.
Yue Chixun in the car rolled his eyes and continued to look at the steering wheel, while the cousin next to him was speechless. However, after these two days of baptism, she gradually became accustomed to eating dog food.
In the eyes of my cousin, the man and the woman are just like each other.
"Gift Crab! What did I see?! Oh! Damn it, don't show affection on the street!"
Broken English mixed with Spanish.
As the airport's automatic doors opened to both sides, under Chen Mo's gaze, a combination of three short men, a tall and thin man, and a Latin beauty appeared in front of them.
It is Messi's little brother Aguero Di Maria and Antonella.
"finally come."
At the front, Aguero was screaming with excitement. Chen Mo raised a smile on his lips and walked quickly over under the gaze of many passers-by who raised their cameras to take pictures.
They are either teammates or childhood friends, and apart from Aguero, who is a familiar person, Chen Mo and Messi Di Maria have only not seen each other for a week. Naturally, there will be too many pretentious conversations when they meet again.
After a brief hug and greeting, Chen Mo got into the car with a few people chatting and laughing.
It was already evening, and few of them had eaten anything. Chen Mo also knew this, and this was why he brought his cousin with him this time - Longguo delicacies, which only local people know where.
The Grand Cherokee was walking through the streets of Dragon Country, looking at the exotic scenery on both sides of the road. Di Maria and Aguero were very curious, but Messi was different.
He is still unhappy because he lost the Champions League final. He never smiles, he just looks out the window with melancholy.
This scene directly made Chen Mo next to him laugh, but Chen Mo didn't say anything to comfort him.
Just kidding, it’s already fun enough to not have to touch up a few blows between best friends at this time.
Under the command of my cousin, the co-pilot, the car made many twists and turns, the road became narrower and narrower, and finally stopped at the entrance of a small alley.
As soon as he rolled down the window, Chen Mo smelled a strong fragrance. When he looked around, he saw a foggy food stall in the alley. A fat boss was cooking in front of the stove. His wife should be grilling a barbecue next to him.
Food stalls may sound unpretentious and look very simple, but in fact this kind of shop has almost no decoration and has no branding or advertising benefits, so its success depends purely on whether it tastes good or not.
It's not yet dinner time, and the tables are almost full. Most of them are young people wearing fashionable clothes, and some are middle-aged people who are shirtless, drinking and chatting.
Seeing that the scene was indeed not that promising, my cousin felt a little embarrassed and vaguely suggested that she try another store. However, before she could say anything, Di Maria and Aguero had already gotten out of the car.
Just kidding, Di Maria is a child who grew up in the slums, so who cares about this.
Aguero was even worse. He was also born in a slum, but when his mother was still pregnant with him, Argentina flooded and his family was swept away.
I almost had a miscarriage when I was eight months pregnant. I had no money to go to a big hospital, so I went directly to a small clinic and had the doctor use pliers to remove the baby.
Both of them grew up in poor places. In fact, they prefer this kind of place with a more social atmosphere to big hotels.
In this regard, Chen Mo and Messi are actually similar. The main reason is that both of them are more casual in their daily lives and prefer a relaxed and free environment.
The group of people got out of the car quietly, and when they parked, many diners had already noticed it.
After all, although the Grand Cherokee is not a luxury car, not everyone can afford to drive a car worth 600,000 to 700,000 yuan, not to mention that Yue Chi Xun is very beautiful in the driver's seat.
And when a group of people walked from the dim street lights at the entrance of the alley to the lights of the food stalls, revealing faces that were completely different from Chinese but very familiar, many diners were stunned.
"Fuck! Messi?!"
"Chen Mo?! Di Maria?! Damn it! I can actually see them here!"
"Hei Laozi, it's true or false!"
The diners were all a little confused. Not to mention the diners, the boss's rolling pot also stopped for a moment when he saw Chen Mo.
Of course, they were asked for autographs and photos. In exchange, Chen Mo expressed the hope that passersby would not publicize the fact that they ate here before they left.
Just shut up and change your signature, and it will happen naturally.
Of course, the most important thing is that smartphones have not yet appeared in this era. Let alone WeChat Moments, most mobile phones cannot run QQ in the background.
In this case, many things can only be communicated through text messages, which feels a bit "slow before".
What's more, before the popularity of the popular personality packaging products came out, people's views on celebrities were actually relatively rational. Celebrities positioned themselves not as celebrities, but as actors and entertainers. This was just a job, like Mr. Xing's Brother, they often take the bus and subway.
After appeasing the lucky passers-by and exchanging a photo with the boss for the promise of "eat whatever you want", Chen Mo was not polite.
Sauce pig trotters, grilled kebabs, grilled chicken feet, grilled crucian carp, pot sticker dumplings, preserved eggs mixed with tofu, fish-flavored shredded pork, plus some stir-fries and mutton hot pot.
However, Chen Mo specifically did not order tomato scrambled eggs.
Seeing Chen Mo's fingers sliding over his favorite tomato scrambled eggs, Messi, who had been keeping a straight face but was really hungry, finally broke the ice and grabbed the menu from Chen Mo's hand.
One hand pointed at the picture, and the other hand pointed at the boss lady. After clicking, he smiled silently and said "Wowo" to Chen Mo.
This immediately made everyone present laugh.
After talking and laughing, not long after, the boss lady also brought the dishes to the table one by one.
Looking at the dishes packed with people, Di Maria and Messi Antonella were fine. After all, they had a good relationship with Chen Mo, and Yue Chixun was also learning to make Longguo cuisine, and they occasionally ate it.
But Aguero was completely different, his eyes lit up when he looked at it!
Although Argentina is a South American country, most Argentinians are actually immigrants from Europe and the United States. In fact, there are not many delicious foods in European and American countries. Apart from barbecue, there are pies, cheese pies and the like. When have you ever seen these?
He ate and drank a lot, but when he was coaxed by Chen Mo to bite half of the [Dragon Kingdom's most delicious preserved egg with preserved pineapple], he felt smectant.
A group of people were enjoying the evening breeze and eating food stalls. The atmosphere was very lively. Not long after, it was time for the city management to get off work, so the boss moved the newly purchased LCD monitor outside the house.
By coincidence, the person sitting next to the host on TV happened to be an acquaintance - Fan Zhiyi.
Host: "We will play a friendly match with the Argentine national team in half a month. We viewers must know that this match will be very difficult. After all, Chen Mo is now the number one midfielder in world football. That is not the number one in European football. The midfielder is not the best midfielder in South America, but the best midfielder in the world. So, in this game, our general view from the outside is that friendship comes first and the game comes first."
"Stop, stop, stop, do you know what you are talking about?
Yes, I know that Chen Mo is very strong. Everyone who watches football in the world knows that he is strong. Just like the Maradona I watched before, and the Baggio and Ronaldo that your generation has seen, they are basically impossible to guard against.
Moreover, Messi, Di Maria and others are also top players, but I don’t know if you know that friendship is first and competition is second as promoted in your media. "
Under the gaze of Chen Mo chewing chicken feet, Fan Zhiyi interrupted the host on the screen and gestured with his fingers, his face a little angry: "Playing football is to win. If you don't want to win, then why play? The country gives so much money every year to support Well, so many people across the country are supporting you and buying tickets to see you go up and talk about friendship with others?
Does anyone want to talk about friendship with you? ?
Don't make excuses for yourself. You must change your mentality now, you know?
Many people use the words "friendship first, competition second" to numb themselves, but who are they talking to? That's for kids who don't understand anything!
That's to coax a kid out of frustration, but are the players kids?
He needs others to coax him to play well, so is he worthy of being a member of the national team? Is he worthy of representing the country on the international stage?
Not long ago, we were beaten 1-0 by Thailand in a warm-up match in Bangkok, and lost 1-4 to the United States in San Jose. If we continue like this, we might lose to Myanmar and Vietnam in the future, and it will get worse in the end!
Therefore, you must first adjust your mentality and don't find a way out for yourself in advance every time you encounter a strong opponent. This is a taboo in competitive sports, you know?
What will your players think?
[Anyway, friendship comes first if we lose. Anyway, Argentina is so strong, so if we lose, we lose. 】Let me tell you, any player who has such thoughts on the court will lose the game! Must lose!
It's really funny, everyone is shouting about five thousand years of cultural heritage every day, looking down on other people's this, and looking down on other people's that.
Why haven't we learned a little bit of the character and spirit of the ancients: "A man can wear golden armor in a hundred battles on the yellow sand, and he will never return it until he breaks Loulan"?
Why haven't we learned anything about the heroic spirit of ancient generals before they went to war?
Friendship, friendship is nothing! Respect and honor are all earned with blood and sweat! "
"General Fan is still fierce, and he dares to say such things."
"He's right! Damn it, what the hell is Thailand? The population is not as large as ours, and all the men are shemales. Why can they play football better than us?"
"That's it! Damn it, I thought it was just a start in 2002, but now I'm getting more and more involved!"
"Friendship comes first, competition comes second, this host is so damn unlucky!"
Fan Zhiyi's words were indeed very powerful, and many people eating at the food stalls started shouting.
Messi and the others couldn't understand Chinese, but they understood the cause and effect with Chen Mo's rough translation.
Aguero, who was chewing the sauced pig's trotters, had a strange expression and asked curiously: "Why can't a country with such a large population and such a passion for football fail to qualify for the World Cup?"
"Well, anyway, you will probably understand if you think of the Football Association here as a crazy version of the Argentine Football Association."
Chen Mo shrugged, and at this moment, a kid wearing a obviously too big and somewhat worn Dragon Country national team jersey ran up to him, pointed with his soft hand, and huffed angrily with a snotty face. Said: "So what about Argentina! Just wait, we will definitely defeat you!"
