Chapter 107: Happy New Year

On 7 February, a layer of ice had formed on the surface of the Manchester Canal. A hundred years ago, when Manchester was still the industrial center of the world, ships carrying textiles, ironware, muskets and other industrial goods sailed out of this canal every day, and cotton, tobacco and tea were brought back from the American continent. It was one of the busiest canals in the world at the time, and the City of Manchester would never allow it to freeze over.

Today, however, Manchester is no longer the industrial centre it once was, and the value of the canal has declined considerably. So it's no surprise that the canal freezes on winter mornings without enough manpower.

In fact, in recent years, England has seen a large influx of refugees from North Africa and the Middle East, and these bearded Arabs have come to England, and it seems that they have not been able to integrate into the British community, but have worsened the security situation here.

Of course, 99 percent of bearded people are kind.

However, in order to guard against the one percent, Li Qingshan still came to the hotel where Tian Shaohua was staying early in the morning.

Today is the 30th of the Chinese New Year's Eve, and Gao Meili asked Li Qingshan to get up early in the morning and take a taxi to pick up Tian Shaohua, who stayed in England for the New Year, to spend the Chinese New Year's Eve together.

Li Qingshan got out of the car and shivered from the harsh winter of February. He quickly tightened his carelessness. At this time, the gray sky was covered with snowflakes like goose feathers.

Li Qingshan put on the hat attached to his coat and looked up at the sky with a frown.

I don't know if the weather will have any impact on tomorrow's game against Chelsea.

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Tian Shaohua stood in front of the mirror, and on the chair at her feet, a pile of clothes was messily placed.

The one she was wearing was already the third outfit she had changed. Tian Shaohua frowned slightly, and seemed to be a little dissatisfied.

Just then, her phone rang.

It was a message from Li Qingshan.

At the moment, it was snowing outside, and Tian Shaohua would certainly not let Li Qingshan wait for a long time. So she could only look at the pile of clothes in the open suitcase on the other side with some regret, and then put on her coat and went out.

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Standing at the door of the hotel, Li Qingshan's eyes lit up and his eyes lit up.

Tian Shaohua walked out of the hotel gate, she was wearing a white cotton knitted hat, a red wool knitted scarf around her neck, the white coat that was about to wrap to her knees did not completely cover her delicate figure, and the black boots on her feet were even more slender.

Tian Shaohua, who walked out of the door, smiled, walked next to Li Qingshan, and helped him pat off the white snowflakes on his shoulders.

This time, Li Qingshan was not as stiff as Tian Shaohua gave him medicine last time. These days, Tian Shaohua has been a good translator and tour guide for Gao Meimei and his wife.

Li Qingshan hurriedly opened the door of the back seat of the taxi parked at the door, and only after Tian Shaohua got into the car did he close the door, and then walked to the front seat to get into the car.

The car slowly drove along Manchester's canals with snowflakes.

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When the two returned, at the door of the small apartment, Li Xiong was standing on a stool with a lantern hung.

Li Qingshan hurriedly came over, took the lantern from his father's hand, and hung it on the stool himself.

Li Qingshan quickly hung up the lantern, and then stood at the door and took a large number of the fruits of his labor. At the door, the door god and the Spring Festival couplets had already been pasted, Li Qingshan took a long breath, since he entered professional football and became a professional player, he has not had a good Lunar New Year.

The seasons in Europe are all New Year's Eve, and the Lunar New Year is not much holiday in the Chinese Super League, let alone in Europe. Therefore, because of his work, Li Qingshan has not felt the influence of this traditional culture for many years.

Tian Shaohua felt a warm current surging from the bottom of his heart. It's been a long time since she's had such a year-like year. Her parents have long since divorced, her mother is married to the United States, her father is in China to take care of the business, and she is going to Europe to study, although in terms of material conditions, she has never been in shortage, at that time, like now, the scene of the family celebrating the New Year together, she has not experienced since she can remember.

This is home.....

Just when Tian Shaohua glanced at Li Qingshan with some envy, Gao Meili came out of the door and enthusiastically pulled her into the house.

There was already a table of dishes ready in the house.

It stands to reason that the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve should be eaten on Chinese New Year's Eve. But because Manchester United's next game is tomorrow, they face strong rivals Liverpool at their home stadium. Therefore, it is definitely impossible for Li Qingshan to spend tonight in his own home. He needs to go to the pitch and join the team. Therefore, this Chinese New Year's Eve dinner was also changed to noon. And Li Qingshan also specially asked Ancelotti for half a day off for this reason.

These days, Tian Shaohua and Li Qingshan's family are already very familiar, and they are not restrained at this time, coupled with Gao Meimei's excessive enthusiasm, this Chinese New Year's Eve dinner at noon is undoubtedly warm.

Li Qingshan didn't eat too much, and after he ate some of every dish, he put down his chopsticks. There is a competition tomorrow, and he doesn't want to have any problems because of his overeating, plus Chinese food with a lot of oil and salt is actually very unsuitable for an athlete's diet.

However, Tian Shaohua must have eaten up, Gao Meili didn't care much about her baby son, but worked hard to pick up vegetables for Tian Shaohua.........

After eating, Li Qingshan took a taxi back to the training base.

At this time, the morning training has passed, and in the afternoon, there is basically no training content. The main thing is that before the game starts, the team has to have another tactical meeting. Then after this meeting, it's time for the players to be free.

It is said that it is free time, but it is not very free. Because at this time, Ancelotti did not allow the players to go back to live in their own homes.

Many coaches have this request, supposedly because they are worried that the players will go out and fool around before the game, or that the players with families will have sex too often before the game......

Of course, there's no evidence of any impact on the game. Nowadays, many new coaches believe that the nourishment of the family will make the players feel happier.

But Carlo Ancelotti certainly wasn't of that faction.

In the past, this was the time when the players were bored, some players would choose to go to the gym at this time, and some players would get together to play football games and so on.

Ancelotti, on the other hand, led the coaching team to attend the press conference.