Chapter 255: My loyal fan gets away with it because of my cuteness...
"Ah Quan, is this what Leo has been busy with lately?" Li Sishi looked at her assistant Ah Quan, who was sitting behind the driver's seat with a resigned expression.
"He just got his license recently. The guy sitting next to me is the original driver of these two buses. Plus, I risked my life to practice driving with him for so long, so safety isn't an issue." Assistant Quan sighed, his tone filled with utter helplessness. "It's a good thing he changed managers, otherwise who would let him take the time to do this event..."
"Yes, yes, this young man is really kind to us old folks. He's a good guy. You've got a lucky girl!" An old man behind him chimed in.
“Everyone, you’ve really misunderstood…” Li Sishi knew immediately that they still misunderstood the relationship between the two of them. “We are just good friends now.”
Before the old man could react, Ling Chen suddenly turned around again, seemingly to help explain but actually deliberately making things worse by saying, "Just now!"
"Hahahaha..." Seeing that the two young people were clearly on good terms, the group of old people immediately burst into laughter, "knowingly".
The old woman who had just helped Li Sishi into the car chuckled twice, then spoke up again: "Alright, alright, stop laughing. She's a young woman, still sensitive. Let her think what she wants."
As she said this, she reached out and gently patted Ling Chen's shoulder: "Try harder, and strive to turn the 'future tense' into the 'present continuous tense'..."
Just now, in the early hours of the morning, while driving halfway, he suddenly said he had to go pick up a friend. Actually, they had already teased this kind-hearted young man who accompanied the elderly to the mountain for a vegetarian meal once.
However, when he was alone in the early morning, he was quite shy and hesitant to admit it until the bus had already driven nearby. Then he pointed to the distance and said that his "good friend" was not far ahead.
Although their presbyopia made it difficult to see clearly, they could still tell that Li Sishi had a slender figure and elegant demeanor. She and the handsome young man in front of them, who had taken time out of his busy schedule to accompany the elderly, were a perfect match in appearance. So, many people on the street asked if she was his girlfriend.
So how did you answer in the early morning?
Although he was still hesitant this time, at least he gave a relatively accurate response: not yet.
These older folks don't watch movies much anymore, and it's been quite a while since Li Sishi and Ling Chen collaborated on a TV series. So even if they recognize Li Sishi and Ling Chen, they still need someone else to tell them who they are.
Only with a little prompting can one recall what roles Li Sishi and Ling Chen, this handsome young man and beautiful young woman, played on television and what dramas they acted in.
When these two are put together—oh wow, isn't this the legendary "golden couple" or "perfect match"?
It's likely that most elderly people enjoy seeing young people in pairs, which is why when the car stopped in front of Li Sishi and her group, a group of elderly people gathered around to look for Li Sishi.
"I have my own car. I'm just helping out here. I'll go back to my car in a bit." Although she has done a lot of charity work and has plenty of experience dealing with the elderly, Li Sishi knew she couldn't handle a group of elderly people pressuring her to get married...
Hurry up and get Qi Zhi and his group of young heartthrobs into the car so the old folks can tease and amuse them. Li Sishi is about to get out of the car and walk to her own.
"You even drove yourself here?" Ling Chen turned back again, somewhat astonished.
“Of course, not everyone can drive a double-decker bus like you…” Li Sishi smiled at him, then got off the bus and beckoned her uncle’s family back to her four-seater car.
I also made a phone call to have a tow truck remove the minibus with the flat tire.
"Then I'll trouble you to stay here. I'll lead the team over to Xiaoxitan Sports Field first." Qizhi's head coach, Lei Ma, said a few words to the minibus driver and was the last to board the double-decker bus that was being driven in the early morning.
"Alright then..." Ling Chen said with a slightly mournful tone, and a member of the Qizhi team who was passing by immediately reached out his hand.
"It's like nailing a flea on a tiger's head. There are so many of us from Qizhi here. Do you think we'll let you do whatever you want?" Although they were grateful that he had gone out of his way to give them a ride, such "small favors" could not sway their resolute hearts!
“I don’t mean that right now…” Ling Chen retorted softly.
It's true that reading more books is always a good thing. As soon as he made this response, the tense expressions and limbs of several young-looking members of the Qizhi team, who had been tense since they got in the car, instantly relaxed a lot.
Aside from Li Sishi's huge fan, Zhu Yu, who remained quite wary of everything around him, the others outwardly "accepted" him to some extent for the time being.
"You're in for a rough time." Assistant Quan, no longer using his assistant's identity, approached as an old classmate and friend, pointing to the group in the car who weren't exactly uncles but were closer to them than uncles, and among them was actually a cousin named Zhou Huiguang.
He chuckled softly in her ear as he looked towards his seat in the early morning.
"When God arranges a test, if you can withstand it, that's called success." Ling Chen didn't directly respond to his assistant A Quan's words, keeping his gaze fixed on the road ahead. Occasionally, he would glance at the rearview mirror and see the car following closely behind.
After a bumpy journey, when they arrived at Xiaoxitan Sports Field, they were almost 10 minutes late for the scheduled start time of the first round of the Group A league.
Upon discovering the problem, Qizhi's head coach and vice-captains, who were already mentally prepared, immediately began to divide the work: captain Lei Shenglin led the team to the locker room to prepare for the game, while head coach Lei Ma and vice-captain Lu Bing went to negotiate with the people from the Football Association, explained the reason for their lateness, and after confirming and honestly accepting the punishment of paying a fine, they also hurried back to the locker room to prepare for the game.
Lingchen was originally supposed to turn around and drive all the elderly people on the bus home, but there were two elderly football fans among them. The original driver of the double-decker bus "understood" that Lingchen hadn't found a girlfriend yet, so he took on the remaining pick-up and drop-off duties. Then, he turned around and stuffed the bewildered Lingchen into Li Sishi's audience...
"Why are you so late?" Li Sishi led the group toward the seats marked on the tickets. Before they even sat down, they saw three very familiar figures again—Lun Yongnan, Li Dewen, and Wen Huihui, who were wearing the fan version of the "Black Gold Lightning" jersey.
"Ah Vi, you like watching football too?" Li Sishi sat down and said with some surprise.
"Sigh, it's all thanks to this guy next to me!" Wen Huihui laughed and poked Li Dewen's shoulder. "He's a big fan of football, and under his influence, I had no choice but to 'accompany him to the end'."
Li Sishi laughed for a while after hearing this, then started tugging at her fan-themed jersey: "How does it feel?"
"The design is quite unique, but it would be great if there was a more vibrant women's version." Knowing that the sold-out Qizhi away jersey was designed by Li Sishi's cousin, Wen Huihui praised it while also expressing her opinion, "Reserve one for me before the next pre-sale..."
"Wow, they probably haven't even started drafting next year's jerseys yet, and you're already using connections to reserve one. These young people these days..." Lun Yongnan looked over, then changed his tone, "If I could reserve one, I'd like to reserve a player's version too. You can't even buy one now, preferably Lei Shenglin's number 10..."
Speaking of the number 10 jersey, Li
Dewen was so angry that he slapped his thigh: "I saw in the catalog that there was a set of player-version jerseys for sale. I know who has the other players' numbers, but I don't know which expert managed to snag the number 10 jersey—now the number 10 jersey is being sold for 20 times its original price!"
"Changchang, about next year's design and the issues that need to be addressed..." Li Sishi was about to relay the words of the three fans when she suddenly noticed Zhou Huichang sitting next to her looking rather restless. She immediately asked in confusion, "What happened?"
"That number 10 jersey was worn by me..." Zhou Huichang whispered in Li Sishi's ear.
(vi)
Then, quite embarrassed, he tugged at the jersey, which was particularly large on him, and said, "But I didn't get it; Shenglin gave it to me to thank us for designing such a nice jersey for their team..."
“Oh, I see, I understand now—” Li Sishi slowly drew out her words, her eyes filled with anticipation for a good show, as she glanced at Lei Shenglin’s authentic “player version” No. 10 jersey, which he had just led the team onto the field, and then looked at Zhou Huichang’s No. 10 jersey, which was made exactly according to the authentic body measurements.
Unexpectedly, this couple is in love and just one step away from confessing their feelings. Maybe her little cousin will actually be the one to date first, or even get married before her!
Well, it's normal to live in the entertainment industry these days. Late marriage and childbearing are the norm for artists of their generation, and their lifestyle is quite different from that of ordinary people.
While the atmosphere in the stands was harmonious and peaceful, Wu Wen, a substitute player sitting next to the water dispenser on the other side of the court, glared fiercely at Qi Zhi's team from the players' rest area.
Once upon a time, he was the vice-captain of Qizhi, enjoying immense prestige and always starting, unlike Lu Bing, the useless, invisible goalkeeper, and the rest of the bench players who could only sit on the sidelines and watch others shine...
Unfortunately, everything changed after Lei Shenglin arrived.
They wanted to sideline the inexperienced new captain and rallied their former friends from Qizhi to isolate him. They secretly sabotaged the matches. In the end, each of them performed exceptionally well, but Qizhi's record was severely poor. Before the end of the season, they were already relegated to Group B.
If a team is relegated, their players will have a legitimate reason to switch teams, and they can even wait to be recruited by stronger teams based on their performance last year—however, while stronger teams do come to recruit, the players they want to recruit are...
It's that bastard Lei Shenglin!
The only thing that gave them some "comfort" was that Lei Shenglin was a brainless Xihua. He refused to go to any of the strong teams in the south, and instead insisted on staying with Qizhi, which had been relegated to Group B. Together with his uncle, the head coach Lei Ma, he dug out a bunch of bench players and searched everywhere for new players to supplement the team, as if he wanted to make Qizhi rise from the ashes and be reborn.
Outsiders see Lei Shenglin as a tragic hero, but in their eyes, Lei Shenglin is nothing but a complete fool!
Those who don't understand the principle of striving for higher positions end up sinking along with the relegated Group B.
Watching Lei Shenglin running around, Wu Wen and his friends were secretly gloating. Later, they even signed with other top-tier teams and were able to return to the top-tier league.
Among the players, Wu Wen's team, "Qimingxing," is considered the best. The team itself has a very strong striker, and their ranking in the top division of the league is always in the upper middle range every year.
Unfortunately, for some reason, this "Morning Star" team just doesn't live up to its name. Wu Wen went in full of joy, but "Morning Star" had already suffered a terrible defeat last year, and when the end-of-season points tally came out, they were once again facing relegation...
Compared to Wu Wen's speechlessness, the owner of "Morning Star" was even more speechless. In addition, this owner believed in feng shui and consulted a master who found that the reason for the team's decline in strength was "dark clouds covering the sky, with no light ahead." After that, he simply became disheartened and thought about disbanding the team while it was still in the top division.
Especially Wu Wen, whose name sounds a lot like "dark cloud".
They spent several million to buy him back, but he not only caused Qizhi to be relegated, but also dragged their team down with them!
At first, they thought they were getting a bargain, but it turned out to be a huge burden—because both teams Wu Wen played for were destined for relegation, and those sponsors and the "Morning Star" team owners were more or less inclined to believe it was true...
So even though the owner of "Qimingxing" gritted his teeth and sold it at a loss, other top-tier teams were unwilling to take it over. In the end, they sold it to the Southern Football Team, along with "Qimingxing's" strong striker, as a buy-one-get-one-free deal. In order to get a good orange, they could only hold their noses and bring back a rotten orange.
However, the owner of the Southern Football Team is wealthy and powerful, lacking only talent but not mediocrity. Therefore, Wu Wen, who is considered unlucky by many, was relegated to the substitute position, essentially serving as a menial task to fetch tea and water for the starting players.
Work used.
Of course, an old hand like Wu Wen always assumes the worst about people's hearts, so after thinking about all these twists and turns, he harbored resentment towards both the newly formed Qizhi and the Southern Football Team that won the championship this year.
As the two teams battled back and forth on the field, Wu Wen stared intently at the green field with a vicious look that seemed to wish the players on both sides would start fighting at any moment.
With its billiards jersey design and its old and new grudges, wouldn't it be great if these physically strong but mentally weak young men like Kishi deliberately made extreme trades to cripple several starting players...?
Then he will be able to play again - God help him, he hasn't been able to play football on the field for several months. He also has difficulty integrating into the Southern Football Team's inner circle. It is extremely unpleasant to sit on the bench every day!
In any case, people like Wu Wen will not recall the "cause" of deliberately suppressing promising newcomers and making them sit on the bench for a long time; on the contrary, they will only feel unhappy about the "consequence" of being squeezed out to sit on the bench and be a water boy when they clearly have the ability.
"Hey, I'm calling you! What are you thinking about? Get back to reality—give me a glass of water, everyone!" During halftime, the Southern football team players, who were sweating profusely from playing football, all agreed.
All you do all day is drink, drink, drink, drink! You bunch of worthless bastards won't die from drinking!
While secretly cursing the starting players in his heart, Wu Wen maintained a friendly and approachable demeanor on the surface: "Okay, I'll pour it for you right away."
He had spilled the large bottle of mineral water while carrying it, so he filled up some water at the men's restroom tap to replace it—and seeing how robust these guys were, drinking tap water shouldn't be a problem for them…
The two teams switched sides in the second half, and the score between Qizhi and Nanfang is currently 1-1.
Both goals were scored by the captains of both teams, making for a thrilling first half that kept the spectators on the edge of their seats. If either side scores another goal in the second half, the top spot in the first round of this year's League One standings will be decided right before their eyes.
"What happened in the south?" Countless lights illuminated the entire field as bright as day. When Lun Yongnan and Li Dewen, two veteran fans, saw that several players on the southern team had lost their previous agility and strength, they immediately realized that something was wrong.
"It looks like your stomach isn't feeling well... Could it be that you ate something unclean?" Ling Chen chimed in.
"Impossible, even though the tap water here in Xiaoxitan..."
"The water filtration system occasionally malfunctions, but the Southern Football Team brings their own food and drinking water..." Lun Yongnan pondered for a moment, then could only think of another, less plausible explanation, "Maybe they drank too much water during halftime, so they got a little anxious?"
"Speaking of which, what do you usually do if you need to go to the restroom during a match?" Li Sishi asked curiously.
"Normally not, because during the game the players are constantly running and competing, and most of the water they drink will evaporate as sweat..." Li Dewen explained. "However, if there is such an emergency, try to hold it in if you can. If it is really hard to hold it in, some people will deliberately break the rules and take the opportunity to go to the bathroom to take care of it."
"Anyway, it's better than losing control of your bladder on the spot..." Although they weren't in the fan circle, as artists who often had to travel outside for performances and whose conditions were relatively inconvenient, when Ling Chen said this, not only Lun Yongnan and Li Dewen, but also Li Sishi and Wen Huihui all understood with a look of agreement.
It's now clear that the players in the south who were experiencing problems couldn't hold back any longer and tried to resolve the situation by committing minor fouls, but their performance suffered due to their physical condition. Lei Shenglin seized this opportunity of their relaxation and deliberately created an opening—
As soon as the whistle blew, Qizhi was awarded a penalty kick.
A 12-yard penalty is the distance from the penalty spot to the goal in football. According to the conversion standard, 1 yard is approximately equal to 0.91 meters, so it is only about 11 meters away from the opponent's goal. The standard goal size is more than 2 meters high and more than 7 meters wide.
Therefore, penalties are a type of punishment with a very high success rate in a match. Given the distance, the size of the goal, and the 1v1 challenge, even the best goalkeeper will find it difficult to save the ball. Of course, this doesn't mean that a penalty is impossible to save; there are plenty of instances where the goalkeeper performs exceptionally well or the ball is misjudged. It's just that the success rate is relatively lower than that of a successful penalty.
Lei Shenglin entrusted the penalty kick to Zhou Huiguang, one of the team's new strikers.
With less than 10 minutes left in the game, Zhou Huiguang spotted the right angle and unleashed a powerful shot, the penalty kick grazing the left side of the goal and going straight in.
"Yeah! You're awesome!" Li Sishi was overjoyed at the beautiful kick. After giving Wen Huihui, who was sitting on her left, a high five, she turned and moved her hands to her right.
Turning around, she was met with Ling Chen's smiling face. Li Sishi was a little confused and gave him a high five. Then her gaze went over his broad shoulders and looked suspiciously at Zhou Huichang, who was huddled in Ling Chen's original spot.
"Hehe, cousin, this jersey I'm wearing isn't very comfortable sitting close to them, so I temporarily changed seats to be a little further away. You can understand, right?" Zhou Huichang, who had deliberately changed seats while Li Sishi was focused on watching the game, pointedly tugged at her expensive jersey and chuckled as she tried to get away with it.
"How could I refuse when my loyal fans ask me for help?" Ling Chen tilted his head and explained very seriously.
Seeing that both of them were trying to get away with being "cute," Li Sishi was both annoyed and amused, so she gave each of them a light punch.
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