Chapter 19 Chapter 19 Flower Cake in My Arms
The conflict with Ferguson did not crush Beckham, and the flowers enthusiastically presented by the young ladies during the pre-match field adaptation made it possible.
The media all focused their cameras on the charming man trapped in the Spider Cave, and the commentators mercilessly used their famous mouths to stir up trouble. Seeing Beckham's embarrassed look of "I want to escape but I can't", they all gave Victoria some tips on how to train her husband.
Leandri had been taken to the sidelines by Valdano to watch the game, while the old man was busy dealing with officials from the Dragon Country.
Leandri, who was standing next to Morientes and Casillas, smacked his lips and looked at the flowers in Beckham's arms. His thoughts drifted back to the time he spent in Yunnan a few days ago. The flower cakes there were so delicious.
The Real Madrid team flew directly from Madrid to Yunnan. The old man couldn't resist his youngest son's coquetry, so he brought Ryan along. Looking at Ryan, who was excited on the plane and introduced to Guti and others how good Longguo was, the old man secretly wondered why his son liked Longguo so much.
How could Leandri not like it, especially since he hadn't come back to visit for a long time. When the plane was flying smoothly and everyone began to fall asleep, Leandri looked at the flashing aircraft signal lights coming through the window and slowly fell asleep with unspeakable nostalgia and anticipation.
In the restaurant, Karl Lagerfeld invited captain Raul and several superstars to sit at the same table with him. There were also people from Yunnan at the same table, and they were teaching the foreigners how to use chopsticks.
Official A politely poured wine for everyone. At first, the old man didn't want to accept it. After all, he was with Leandri, and even if he was sensible, he still had to be taken care of at night.
Ryan pulled his sleeves and said, "Now that you're here, drink something, Dad. It's okay."
The old man was chatting with people skillfully and was about to ask the waiter to bring a pair of knife and fork to Leandri when he found that his youngest son had already skillfully used chopsticks to swirl around in the stone pot and scoop out a large lump of rice noodles for himself.
Seeing his father looking at him, the old Buddha, who thought that he was too proud to save face to fish out the food and was too embarrassed to say anything, rolled his eyes and stood up to pick up the rice noodles from the steaming pot and stuffed them into his good father's porcelain bowl, "Dad, which one else do you want to eat?" Seeing the old Buddha shook his head, he lowered his head and began to show off what was in the bowl.
Leandri cried hard in his heart, he finally got to taste the long-lost Dragon Country cuisine!
Dragon Country Staff A: "Wow, kid, you are very skilled in using chopsticks!"
The translator mumbled something in Spanish, and then everyone's attention turned to Leandri, who wanted to shove his face into the bowl and was struggling to say thank you in Chinese.
I remember that Ryan was not a kid with a strong appetite. Several big guys at the table who were very familiar with Ryan were all puzzled.
They don’t understand, what they are eating is not rice noodles, but emotions!
Seeing that Zidane, who was sitting on the other side of Leandri, was still clumsily using chopsticks like a fork, Florentino slowly enjoyed the service of his youngest son.
The mushroom soup on the table looked very fresh. Long Guo also said that it was the most special local delicacy. The old lady was very surprised that Leandri, who was eating so much and picking up some food for himself, didn't even touch the soup and didn't serve himself any more.
The Longguo side also knew that the Real Madrid team had been traveling a long way and had other schedules after dinner, so they saw that it was almost time and stood up and raised their glasses to have a reunion drink.
"Once again, we welcome our friends from Real Madrid to Longguo and Yunnan. I hope you can have a more pleasant time in the next few days and feel the changes in our Longguo!" After waiting for the translator to finish another long speech, the pot-bellied Longguo official A clinked glasses with everyone present. When it came to Leandri, he found that the little guy took the initiative to tilt the mouth of his juice cup, and a crisp collision sound was heard under the outer edge of his cup.
Originally, Leandri didn't understand it either. It was because his supervisor took him out every day in his previous life to ask for research funds!
After watching "Dream of Colorful Yunnan" and the Torch Festival carnival, Florentino had something to discuss with Valdano, so he asked others to take Leandri back to the room.
Casillas took out a piece of cake wrapped in a napkin from his arms and put it into the child's arms. "This is a flower cake. Did you eat it just now? It's not too sweet. I think you will like it."
When Leandri looked at the flower cakes with painted patterns, he always felt like a poor little guy who was exiled to Ningguta in ancient times. His elder brother had to use a lot of connections to give him two cakes to eat on the road.
"It's really delicious." Ryan accepted it.
"Don't eat anymore. Tonight is the most he's eaten since I knew him. Look how round his belly is!" Zidane, who was in charge of delivering goods to customers' homes, saw Leandri peeling off the napkin and opening his mouth to take a bite, so he quickly stopped him.
"Burp!" Sure enough, he started burping before he finished speaking.
"What's wrong with you tonight?" Raul was also surprised. At dinner, he saw Leandri skillfully picking up dishes with chopsticks and slurping them into his mouth. However, his table manners were okay.
Leandri rubbed his belly and his eyes which were faintly starry, and couldn't help but act coquettishly, "It's delicious." Although there were various reasons, he did eat too much tonight.
"Are you sleepy?" Zidane asked.
Leandri nodded, and Zidane said goodbye to Casillas and Raul, who had already gone to their rooms, and sent the little guy to the suite with his father.
As soon as he entered the room, Leandri wanted to throw himself on the bed, but reason pulled him back, "Thank you Zidane, you should go back and rest early too."
Zidane did not leave immediately. He patted Ryan on the back and told him to lie down on the bed and rest. Then he sat down beside the bed in the puzzled look of the little guy.
Then he reached out and gently rubbed Leandri's stomach, "It will be uncomfortable to go to bed right after eating so much."
Although the 30-year-old Zidane has a bad temper and is tough on the court, he is also a very trustworthy adult off the court.
Leandri felt a little embarrassed, but he was really sleepy and tired. The excitement had passed, and the long flight and jet lag made it impossible for him to open his eyes. So he went to chat with Zhou Gong while Zidane was rubbing his belly regularly.
It feels like lying on a cloud.
When Zidane saw Leandri, who was motionless for a while, he realized that the child was very tired. To be honest, Leandri was the first "staff member" he met in the entire Real Madrid. In his transfer, the little guy who acted as a messenger in Monaco played a very dramatic role. As the most expensive player in the world of football, Zidane was invited by Florentino to dine with him after he came to Real Madrid. There were also several family dinners, so naturally he saw the young goalkeeper who was famous in La Fabrica very frequently.
The long eyelashes would flutter occasionally, and it seemed that the food in the stomach really made the little guy uncomfortable. The brown and black curly hair that was usually neatly groomed became a little messy because of lying on the pillow. A few strands of hair stretched out from the top of the head mischievously, and the ends of the hair were pressed down by the little head, forming a circle on the top of the head.
I remember that during dinner, while Leandri was indulging in the Dragon Country cuisine, he also paid some attention to worrying about his father who might not know how to use chopsticks. Zidane thought that maybe he should accept Veronica's suggestion. It would be nice to have a well-behaved child like Leandri.
The piece of flower cake that Casillas brought to Leandri still didn't enter Leandri's stomach the next day. Florentino never allowed his youngest son to eat overnight food outside. Leandri nodded, but still secretly took a small bite where Florentino couldn't see him before throwing it away.
Looking at the messy scene, Leandri thought of the discarded flower cake again, and swallowed his saliva, "David has so many flowers, he can make a lot of flower cakes."
Casillas was surprised that the little guy was obsessed with flower cakes. "I bought some in Yunnan and will eat them when I get back."
With the sky-high appearance fees, Real Madrid put all its main players into the game, with six superstars including Carlos, Beckham, Zidane, Ronaldo, Raul and Figo all taking the field. They were warming up in the rain with the Dragons, who were playing at home, at the Beijing Workers' Stadium. They were about to play their first friendly match of the Asian tour. This was also the first time that Beckham, who had just transferred to the team, wore a white jersey to play for Real Madrid.
For this game, Zhu Zhongguanglu and others even jointly persuaded the A-League to temporarily modify the league schedule, which shows its importance.
Although it was the Dragon Team's home court, what filled Leandri's ears were the broken voices of "Beckham, you're so handsome!" "Raul, I want to marry you!" "Figo Figo, look at me, look at me"... and of course the most numerous were the high notes that rivaled Domingo's "Ahhhhhhhhhh!" Leandri was listening to the familiar native language on the sidelines. He was wearing a well-fitting suit, but his eyes were filled with unstoppable joy.
Ryan could understand the madness of these fans. Two continents, more than 10,000 kilometers, and a time difference. This was the first time for the fans to see these superstars, and it was after SARS when everyone was suppressing their emotions and continuing to vent. He thought that if he could meet Edward Witten or Yang Zhenning, his behavior would not be much better, except that he did not want to marry them.
The fans are the most important part of football, both men and women.
Amid the cheers of tens of thousands of fans and with the referee's whistle, this much-anticipated commercial match finally kicked off.
The players who were chased and scolded by fans every day and shouted for a refund, although they conceded 9 goals in the group stage of the World Cup last year and failed to complete the task of "score a goal, win a game, and get a point", their overall strength was probably the most prosperous moment of Chinese men's football.
Facing the rolling waves brought by the setting sail of the Galactic Battleship, the Dragon Team insisted on defending and even fought back and forth for a while until the last minute of the first half, when Figo, who received the ball in the penalty area, broke through and pushed the ball into the net against defender Wang Xiao and goalkeeper Sun Gang.
Real Madrid took it seriously at that time and did not replace their main players until the 65th minute. Morientes, who replaced Ronaldo, scored two goals in the second half. Portillo, who replaced Makelele, also shot the ball into the goal in the 88th minute.
In this battle between Real Madrid and Figo, Real Madrid finally won 4-0, shattering the myth of "Invincible at Workers' Stadium". After the game, Figo drove away the Audi provided by the sponsor.
The eight-day trip to China is about to end. Florentino helps Leandri pack his things in the room. The little guy is good in everything except this. No matter what the old man says, it's useless.
Early the next morning, the Real Madrid team dressed up again, bid farewell to the Dragon Country, and headed for Japan where the flower season had passed.
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