Chapter Seventy-Seven: The Times Change
When Gao Zheng stood in front of the door of the "Yang Wenlong Football Training Class" with his suitcase, he looked at the patent leather mottled signboard, and he was still in a trance, as if he had been away for a long time, but in fact, it was only half a year......
Gao Zheng, who was outside the door, heard the whistle coming from inside, and the old man's loud voice: "Pass!" Walk! Right! That's it! Shot! Okay, next! ”
Gao Zheng laughed, and when he heard the old man's energetic voice, he was relieved, the old man's health was fine.
He then walked in with his suitcase in tow.
The wheels roll and rub against the rough cement pavement, making a continuous noise.
The sound also caught the attention of the children who were training on the field, and they all diverted their attention and turned their eyes to the sidelines.
Yang Wenlong saw that the children were so unserious, and shouted angrily: "What are you doing, you are training, where are you looking!" ”
He also looked out of the field to see which guy had come to disturb his teaching.
Then he froze.
He saw a tall and handsome young man in casual clothes, standing outside the arena with a suitcase.
Gao Zheng took off his sunglasses, showed a sunny smile, and waved his hand to his mentor: "Hi, old man, I'm back!" ”
The children on the court were stunned for a moment, and then collectively exclaimed: "Wow! It's a high coach!! ”
Yang Wenlong sighed, knowing that today's training session could not continue, so he waved his hand: "Disband, disband, rest!" ”
The children cheered, and then ran to Gao Zheng.
"Coach Gao, why are you dark...... If it weren't for you, we wouldn't have recognized you! ”
"Coach Gao, where have you been? We asked Director Yang, and he didn't say anything...... We thought Director Yang was in arrears of your salary, so you ran away......"
Gao Zheng laughed when he heard the children's childish speculation, and then squeezed his eyes at Yang Wenlong: "Old man, look at your image!" ”
"!" Yang Wenlong stepped forward and waved his hand to disperse the young students, "If you're not tired, run a lap for me!" ”
The children hurriedly scattered the birds and beasts, but they did not run too far, and looked curiously at the side.
So Yang Wenlong pulled Gao Zheng into his office, closed the door and turned on the ceiling fan, but the heat in the room did not ease, because the ceiling fan blew hot air. After almost a day of sun exposure, the simple prefabricated house accumulates a lot of heat, like a steamer.
Gao Zheng didn't care about such harsh conditions, he lived in the old man's place last year, and slept in such a room, so he was used to it for a long time.
He didn't wait for Yang Wenlong to greet him, so he consciously sat on the broken sofa with the frayed skin and exposed the yellow sponge inside, and tilted his legs onto the coffee table where the patent leather fell.
Yang Wenlong glanced at him like this, and couldn't help but say: "Going to a professional team to train hasn't changed your appearance?" ”
Gao Zheng smiled: "Old man, this is my home, can't you feel comfortable when you go home?" ”
Yang Wenlong made a straight face: "I'm not your home here, your home is in Wuzhi, more than 2,000 kilometers away from here." You don't know your own home, why are you running to me? ”
Facing the serious Yang Wenlong, Gao Zheng still said with a hippie smile: "As the saying goes, one day is a teacher and a father is lifelong, and my father and mother are not as good as my father, of course I want to visit your old man as soon as possible." ”
"You don't want to go home."
Gao Zheng smiled: "Where can I be, after visiting your old man's home, I will go home." My small place doesn't have a direct flight from Milan, so I always have to come here for a transfer, so I'll take a look at you first...... Oh, don't be suspicious, old man. ”
Yang Wenlong snorted and accepted Gao Zheng's explanation, and then sat down on his own swivel chair that was also tattered and tattered, and when he sat down, the chair made a creaking sound, making people worry that the chair would collapse at any time.
"What's the catch in Sampdoria?" He asked, sitting down.
"Won a reserve league title." Gao Zheng made a "V" gesture at the old man.
"Out of breath!" The old man snorted.
Gao Zheng looked at the old man and smiled.
"How are you doing now?" Yang Wenlong asked again.
"I started the reserve team final, and I played almost 70 minutes."
"It's just a reserve game...... Take your time. Yang Wenlong sighed.
Then he asked Gao Zheng about the details of his life and training in Italy, and Gao Zheng answered him one by one.
Yang Wenlong was generally satisfied with Gao Zheng's performance in Italy, but he didn't offer any praise, but just nodded when Gao Zheng answered, even if it was an affirmation of his most proud disciple.
As a traditional Chinese man, he is always stingy to express his positive emotions, even if he is happy, humming a song is enough to express it. But when it comes to scolding people, there is no mercy.
Even Gao Zheng has been yelled at by him.
That's why Zhao Ju is so afraid of Coach Yang.
Most of the time, Yang Wenlong doesn't scold, and he is already in a good mood.
Gao Zheng turned his head to look out the window at the children who sneaked outside the board room to eavesdrop: "Old man, you are still in one class......
The faces he trained here today were all familiar to him, and of course some of them were gone.
Soccer training is actually a very hard thing, and no matter how much emphasis is placed on happy football, years of training will not make people feel so happy...... Not many people are able to persevere, let alone other factors that prevent the kids from continuing to play.
"I'm alone, what are you doing recruiting so many classes?" Yang Wenlong glared at the children outside the window, and immediately some of the children shrank down, and the timid ones ran away directly.
The power of a wrath......
"Looking for another coach......
"There's no need, there aren't so many students in this place, it's a waste of money." Yang Wenlong waved his hand.
Gao Zheng looked around the office again, there was a sense of tattered decay everywhere, just looking at this office made people feel that this is not a powerful and formal football training institution, any parent who comes with a child to sign up sees this scene, I am afraid that he will worry that he has paid the money today, and the old man will run away tomorrow......
Now he is really worried about whether the old man's training class will last until he is famous and helps him advertise.
Thinking of this, he took out his mobile phone and said to Yang Wenlong: "Old man, let's take a group photo." ”
"What?" Yang Wenlong was not very happy, frowning and wanting to refuse.
"Come on, come on, we haven't taken a picture together yet." Gao Zheng pulled Yang Wenlong's arm.
"Why not? What was the family photo you played football in when you were a kid? ”
"You said it was a family photo, and I said a photo of the two of us alone." Saying that, Gao Zheng opened the door.
As soon as the door was opened, the children who were eavesdropping on the door lost their balance and planted in.
"You ......," Yang Wenlong blew his beard and glared and scolded again.
Gao Zheng picked up one of them, and then stuffed the phone into his hand: "Come, Lin Yuan, take a picture of me and your Yang guide." ”
Lin Yuan took the square black mobile phone in the palm of his hand, and was a little embarrassed: "I'm ...... I wouldn't use ......."
This is the Apple iPhone 4 released in June last year, although it has been on sale for a year, but it is still not available to ordinary people in China, and the children who are trained in Yang Wenlong's football training class are generally not from rich families...... I don't dare to use it, for fear that it will be broken.
"Come, I'll teach you."
Gao Zheng taught Lin Yuan how to use the camera function of the Apple mobile phone, and asked Lin Yuan to take a few test shots.
Only then did he stand with the old man, with a smile on his face, and let Lin Yuan take several photos in one breath, knowing that the smile was almost stiff.
"Toss these ......" Yang Wenlong was a little embarrassed.
Gao Zheng looked at the photos in his mobile phone and was very satisfied with Lin Yuan's photography skills.
"Yes, the young man can be a photographer in the future!"
Lin Yuan snorted: "I want to be a professional star, I won't be a photographer!" ”
Hearing this childish sentence, Gao Zheng was happy: "Okay, come on!" ”
Lin Yuan heard the perfunctory tone in the coach's tone, he snorted heavily, and then ran away.
"Old man, in the future, wash out the photos, hang them on the wall, or print them on the enrollment brochure to ensure that your business is prosperous!" Gao Zheng didn't care about the child's attitude towards him.
"Crooked and heretical ......" Yang Wenlong scoffed.
"Oh, how is this crooked? This is marketing propaganda, old man, you have to keep up with the times...... Don't keep using old man's machine. ”
Gao Zheng looked at Nokia on the desk, and the sunlight outside the house reflected in and shone on the desk. Among the mottled spots is the equally mottled Nokia 3220, and the edges of the blue soft number buttons have all been whitened. There are two light strips on both sides of the mobile phone covered with plastic shells, whenever there is a call or text message, the colored lights will begin to flash, this was still a very trendy way to notify incoming calls, and now the four plastic covers have fallen half, and the remaining two are also crumbling, I don't know when I will follow in the footsteps of my companions.
It's such a tattered mobile phone, which the old man has been using since 2005.
In the impact of smartphones led by iPhone, the former mobile phone giant Nokia is also declining rapidly and has lost its due market position.
It's really like an old man.
When he was a football coach in Wuzhi, he was so high-spirited.
Now I can only struggling to support and run a football training class here.
"What's wrong with the old man's machine, the old man's machine has a good battery life. Why do I just make a phone call and ask for so many features? Yang Wenlong frowned.
"I'll change your phone, just as I honor your old man. Same as this one. Gao Zheng shook the iPhone4 in his hand.
"I don't want it!" Yang Wenlong stubbornly refused.
"Don't, old man. Now there is a software that is easy to use, called WeChat, which can be very convenient for contacts, no phone bills, as long as there is a network. You change your phone, I'll install a WeChat for you, I also have WeChat on my phone, let's add friends to each other, and you can contact me directly. Otherwise, you can't always count on Uncle Guo to send you a message, right? It's all 2011, and you're still looking for someone to talk to like in ancient times? ”
"I can't type......" Yang Wenlong's refusal tone was not so resolute.
"Hah! Never mind. WeChat now supports direct voice messaging...... Well, it's like this. Gao Zheng took out his mobile phone and gave Yang Wenlong a brief demonstration of how to use WeChat, "Isn't it convenient?" ”
Yang Wenlong stared at the shiny little mobile phone in Gao Zheng's hand, the screen was larger than his usual Nokia, and the appearance looked many times better, and he couldn't even understand the colorful icons on the screen, let alone use them.
He suddenly realized that he was really old.
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