8. Chapter 8
Jiang Hailian nodded blankly, and he quickly agreed, saying, "Okay, okay..."
There was no hesitation at all, as if whatever Chi Shen said was the truth.
Zhang Yuxuan had never seen Jiang Hailian like this before. Seeing her completely dumbfounded and stiffly repeating the same word, he couldn't help but laugh again.
I originally thought that the shaking of his hands was already the limit, but now it seems that he still wants to restrain himself. When this man saw Chi Shen, it was as if he couldn't think at all and couldn't even walk.
Jiang Hailian, who had already lost his composure in front of the two men, was completely unaware of his own foolish behavior. He continued to stare at Chi Mo without hesitation.
However, everything went against one's wishes, and the flag that had just been set was completely shattered by the team members who pushed the door open.
"What's going on? You're back just now after the driving lesson? Why are you blocking the door?" Hong Hansong, the starting player of Xiang Jiutian Road, said in surprise.
The scene in the lounge was like being robbed, with A4-sized papers all over the floor, making it hard not to notice.
The team members entered the room one by one, and almost everyone expressed the same doubt when they saw the paper on the ground.
"Hey? What is this on the ground? Why does it look so much like the BP paper of the Lotus Sect?" As the only player in the team who was not nearsighted, Li Ziweng, who was running around, saw the thing on the ground clearly at a glance, but he could not convince himself that the Lotus Sect would throw such an important thing on the ground.
Could it be that there was a quarrel among the coaching staff? Huo Qingchen, who was in the waterway position, raised his eyebrows at the always sensitive captain Xiang Jiu.
However, the others had no tact at all.
Hearing Li Ziweng's words, Hong Hansong, who was walking at the front of the team, leaned over and adjusted his glasses. "This is Coach A-Lian's BP paper, right?"
As soon as he finished speaking, the usually calm captain standing behind him suddenly screamed and cursed in a completely out of control: "Fuck! What is this!"
"Momo! It's Momo! The living Pool God!" The kid in the shooting position excitedly shook the assistant beside him who had been stunned for a long time: "Xu'er! Brother Momo is back!"
Young people have very loud voices, especially when they are excited, their voices can overturn the entire lounge.
The assistant's eyes instantly turned red when his name was called. He choked up and stammered, "Chi, Chi Shen, you're back?"
His voice was very soft, and every word he uttered was almost broken by sobs.
If the feelings of the other new generations towards Chi Mo are merely admiration and respect for his strength, then Xu Kangle has an additional layer of master-disciple relationship that no one else has.
Before Chi Mo chose to leave, in order to maintain the subsequent operation of the team, he specially trained Xu Kangle. Until now, his playing style is vaguely influenced by Chi Shen.
As the player who is most familiar with Chi Mo among the new generation, this kind of emotion is incomparable to other new generations.
Hearing Xu Kangle's voice, Chi Mo waved to him gently, just like every post-match review and teaching session three years ago: "Long time no see, Xiao Xu."
Hearing Chi Mo's voice, Xu Kangle could no longer hold back. His memory was instantly pulled back to three years ago when he learned that Captain Chi had retired, and tears welled up in his eyes.
He frantically wiped the hot tears from his face, knowing that he looked very out of control at the moment, but he really couldn't laugh, let alone pretend that nothing had happened.
Chi Mo didn't expect him to cry and wanted to comfort him, but before he could do anything, he was interrupted by a more familiar voice outside.
"What are you arguing about? You know you should keep quiet in the lounge? I heard everything outside." Yu Wenyu covered his ears with one hand and walked in with a look of disgust. He looked at Xu Kangle, who was crying like a cat with a frown on his face, thinking that there was some conflict going on, and instinctively showed the dignity of a leader.
Chi Mo was blocked by layers of people. He could only hear the voice but could not see the person.
At this moment, Zhang Yuxuan, who was standing next to him, suddenly leaned close to his ear and said out of the blue, "Be careful, there's a dog coming."
"Huh?" Chi Mo turned around in surprise. Before he could react to who Zhang Yuxuan was talking about, he was suddenly bent over by a bear hug.
"Momo! You still remember to come back!!!" Yu Wenyu shouted louder than the six contestants combined.
Chi Mo's ears tingled for a moment because of his shouting. After seeing clearly who was rushing towards him, he raised his hand and gently patted the person's back: "Wen Yu, I'm back."
The familiar voice echoed in his ears. Yu Wenyu's eyes, which were already filled with tears, could not bear the accumulation of tears. He bit his lower lip, and tears slowly fell down his cheeks. The bean-sized tears fell down like they were free.
Chi Mo didn't hear any response from the person in his arms. He lowered his head and wanted to ask if the person was angry with him and why he didn't say anything.
However, the moment he lowered his head, what responded to him was not Yu Wenyu's loud voice, but the sound of soft sobbing.
Chi Mo was stunned. He had never thought that he would make people cry one after another, but Captain Chi, who had first-class skills in coaxing people, still touched the person's head very skillfully. It was a head of small brown curly hair that felt very good.
Yu Wenyu, who already couldn't control her tears, couldn't bear it any more when someone touched her head like that.
He bit his lips even harder, fearing that he would really cry out and make Henry Zhang laugh.
——How can this person be so heartless? He left for three years and no one can find him!
Yu Wenyu said it over and over again in his heart.
He didn't know what kind of mood he was in at the moment. Sad? Angry? Or aggrieved?
It seems like both are true, but neither seems very accurate.
During the three years since Chi Mo left, Yuwen Yu has been thinking about him all the time. He really couldn't accept why the captain who led them to win the championship the day before chose to leave without saying goodbye the next morning.
He looked everywhere and asked everywhere, but he couldn't find the person. What he got was a Weibo post announcing his retirement.
Yu Wenyu really wanted to throw the man into the interrogation room and question him, but when he saw the real person, he couldn't bear to do so.
He didn't want to ask Chi Mo why he left. He just wanted to know if he had been doing well in the past three years and whether he had been wronged.
"Okay, stop crying. So many people are watching you. You don't want to embarrass yourself in front of the kids." Chi Mo said gently. His voice was like a breeze, and everyone in the lounge held their breath.
"Ahhh, really, you made me cry as soon as I came back, it's so ugly!" Yuwen Yu wiped his face randomly, pulled Zhang Yuxuan over, and wiped all his tears and snot on his clothes in revenge.
Zhang Yuxuan felt a dampness on his back and his pupils trembled. "You're a fucking dog! There's paper on the table, but you wipe it on me? I've spoiled you too much!"
As he said that, he quickly broke free from the other person's hand and went to the table in the lounge and threw a large pack of napkins on the table over.
"I'm just a dog, so what!" Yu Wenyu said stubbornly while holding a napkin. He had lost the bet anyway, so he certainly couldn't lose again in arguing with others.
Chi Mo looked at the noisy scene of the two of them and felt that time had suddenly returned to three years ago. They were fighting and making noises in the team at that time, and they were still making noises now.
"Captain! Look at him!" Zhang Yuxuan pointed at Yuwen Yu and Chi Mo and complained, as if he was back to three years ago.
Yu Wenyu got anxious when he heard this: "Why are you always complaining? You're such a grown-up, but you don't give in to me! I've never seen you call Captain Chi before. He's my captain, stay away!"
"Yo ho, give me yours and mine. Are we not on the same team? I think you deserve to be punished. Without Captain Chi, you've become more and more lawless in the past three years!" Zhang Yuxuan was really pissed off by this little kid. Back then, he relied on being the youngest to act lawless on the team. Now that he's retired, he still acts like the youngest. He's usually quite serious, but why does he seem to change as soon as he sees Chi Mo? It's really hard not to suspect that he's acting on purpose.
Yuwen Yu pushed Zhang Yuxuan like crazy, refusing to let him get close to Chi Mo: "Go away! Go away! You old scheming man, don't get close to Momo. He is mine, stay away!"
"I won't!" Zhang Yuxuan also got into a fight with the other person: "What? You want to hit me? Let's see if you can beat me!"
Yu Wenyu saw that he had no way to deal with this shameless man, so he quickly changed his strategy: "Brother, ignore him, just come with me."
After saying that, he pulled Chi Mo and wanted to take him away from the crowd.
The word "brother" immediately made Zhang Yuxuan show a disgusted expression. He uttered a sigh and said sarcastically, "You are calling me brother? I am older than you, so why don't you call me brother?"
Yu Wenyu rolled his eyes upon hearing this: "Huh, how can you compare to Chi Shen! Momo is my brother, the only brother I have in the game. What's wrong? Are you jealous because you can't call me brother anymore?"
"I think you really deserve a beating!" Zhang Yuxuan, whose sore spot was touched, picked up the pillow on the sofa and threw it over.
The two are old teammates. After retiring, they both work in the same club and have long been accustomed to this kind of fighting.
Like usual, Yuwen Yu subconsciously dodged to the side, but he forgot that the people around him were no longer familiar teammates or training group. By the time he realized something was wrong, the pillow had already hit Chi Mo's chin.
"Hey! Chi Shen, be careful!"
The surrounding players shouted at the same time.
Zhang Yuxuan threw it so fast that the pillow flew past before anyone else could react.
The moment he saw the pillow hit Chi Mo, Zhang Yuxuan was so scared that he lost his soul. He quickly ran over while shouting sorry.
Chi Mo covered his chin and shook his head to indicate that he was fine.
"Damn it! Zhang Yuxuan, are you crazy?" Yu Wenyu, who originally wanted to pull Chi Mo away, turned around and saw that someone was hit. His heart trembled. He cursed Zhang Yuxuan while looking over worriedly.
"Did you get hit by the zipper on the pillow? Does it hurt?" Yu Wenyu's face was full of apology. He and Zhang Yuxuan were used to quarreling with each other, and he didn't pay attention to the situation for a moment. He never thought that he would hit Chi Mo.
Looking at the two people who surrounded him, and the contestants and Jiang Hailian who were about to surround him.
Chi Mo quickly waved his hands and said, "I'm fine."
However, they acted as if they couldn't hear him. When Yu Wenyu urged him to look at his chin, Chi Mo smiled helplessly.
Chi Mo's skin is very white, and it turns red very noticeably when it is scratched lightly.
When he lowered his hand that was covering his chin, revealing the skin that had been hit, everyone around him who had been staring at him gasped.
"It's so red and you still say it's okay!" Yu Wenyu frowned when he saw it.
After saying that, he turned around and glared at Henry Zhang fiercely: “Are you going to die? You’re hitting me so hard!”
Knowing he was in the wrong, Zhang Yuxuan bowed his head and admitted his mistake: "It's my fault, it's my fault."
Chi Mo looked at the increasingly serious expressions of the people around him, thinking that something was amiss in the atmosphere. He quickly said, "I'm really fine, you don't have to..."
Before he could finish his words, Yu Wenyu held his arm and put his other hand around his waist and led him to sit on the sofa.
The people around him were staring at him the whole time, their eyes never leaving him.
Chi Mo was stunned by this overly cautious treatment.
He wondered in surprise—were they making such a fuss?
This little bump is no big deal, right? Even a child would just yell and it would be over, not to mention he's an adult.
But looking at their worried eyes and solemn expressions, Chi Mo was speechless.
——Forget it, let them do whatever they want, as long as they are happy.
After the incident in which a group of people offered him water and wet wipes and even wanted to go out and call the team doctor, but he flatly refused, was over.
Chi Mo breathed a sigh of relief. He felt that he had lived alone abroad for too long. Now that he suddenly came to the collective life of this team, he was still somewhat uncomfortable.
Just like now, with a lot of things coming up, he felt his head was buzzing.
"Can you two stop arguing and be quiet for a while?" Chi Mo rubbed his eyebrows and said helplessly as he looked at Yu Wenyu and Zhang Yuxuan who were still arguing about what had just happened.
Why did he remember that these two didn't talk so much when they were on the team before? How come after not seeing each other for three years, they both became chatterboxes?
Chi Mo once again felt that there seemed to be something wrong with his memory.
He asked them to be quiet with a try-it attitude, but he didn't expect that his words would actually work.
The two of them shut up instantly, even taking back their mid-sentences.
The words "Captain, I am very obedient" were almost written on his face.
This made Chi Mo couldn't help laughing.
——They really are all like little dogs.
Chi Mo sighed, and it was no wonder that he had such wild thoughts. The current state of these two people really looked like a little dog rubbing against people's legs on the side of the road.
Chi Mo raised his hand and couldn't help but touch Yu Wenyu's little curly hair.
Yu Wenyu's eyes widened in surprise. Seeing this, he took advantage of the situation and snuggled up to Chi Mo, resting his head on his shoulder.
"Yuwen Yu, are you shameless? You are such a grown-up and still rely on Chi Shen!" Zhang Yuxuan said gritting his teeth. When Chi Mo touched Yuwen Yu's head, his back teeth were about to break.
Why don't you touch me? Is it because I'm older? But I want it too!
Henry Zhang looked at Chi Mo eagerly.
His heart was extremely twisted - why could Yu Wenyu just cling to him so freely? According to his fan status, he had liked Chi Mo a year earlier than this guy! Why did this guy get more benefits than him?
After Yuwen Yu and Zhang Yuxuan stopped arguing, the lounge fell into a much quieter state. The contestants were scattered across three sofas, seemingly looking down at their phones, their minds already wandering.
Everyone was under a surge of emotion, and their peripheral vision kept looking in the same direction over and over again.
——I also want to be touched on the head by Chi Shen! I think if I am touched, I will be blessed by God during the game!
The six players on the Xiangjiu roster clenched their fists silently. None of them was paying attention to the mobile phone in their hands. They all watched their leader's every move with envy.
Jiang Hailian, who was sitting in another area, frowned, and the BP paper he had just sorted out in his hand was already crumpled.
He didn't know what he was depressed about. While he was distracted, his hand had silently written a line of small words on his meeting notebook - "The game is over, detain Yu Wenyu and make him write a 1,000-word self-criticism. If he can't finish it, he is not allowed to say a word to Chi Shen (not even physical contact)."
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