A foreign city, dear you

Before he finished speaking, Guo Ci choked on a sip of water.

"What did you hear?" Cheng Dianfei asked.

Guo Zi waited until he stopped choking and his throat became more comfortable, then said: "I heard that each participating team member can invite their family members to come and watch."

"Really?" Cheng Dianfei felt curious: "You also invited family members?"

Guo Zi nodded: "Yes, probably through the participation of family members, the friendship between players (that is, colleagues) can be increased."

"Did Manager Cao invite his family members?" Cheng Dianfei asked in a casual tone.

Guo Zi glanced at Cheng Dianfei: "How do I know? Should I ask him this?"

Cheng Dianfei felt that she had asked too many questions, so she stopped with a smile. After a while, her eyes wandered away again.

"Why are you dazed? I've already finished eating. Hurry up and eat." Guo Zi wiped his mouth and urged Cheng Dianfei.

Cheng Dianfei came back to his senses and suddenly asked Guo Zi as if remembering something: "What time will they play in the afternoon?"

"Two thirty." Guo Zi looked at his watch: "There are still two hours."

Cheng Dianfei thought for a while and looked at Guo Zi. He seemed to have something to say in his heart, but he couldn't make up his mind to say it.

The rice on the plate has reached the bottom, and there are not many dishes left. After eating, it is time to pay and leave.

Cheng Dianfei finally made up his mind and asked Guo Zi: "Do we want to watch them play?"

"Us?" Guo Zi was very surprised: "Are we going to watch them play football? Didn't we agree to go to a movie in the afternoon?"

"What's so good about a movie? It's definitely not as good as a football game." Cheng Dianfei said without thinking.

Guo Zi was puzzled: "It's really strange. When did you become interested in watching football?"

Cheng Dianfei scratched the back of his head with his finger and found a high-sounding reason: "When people from our company compete with people from Youlang Company, they definitely need cheerleaders. We have to cheer for them, otherwise it will look like people from our company How ununited.”

"The two of us are nothing like a cheerleading team." Guo Zi disagreed.

"It's better than nothing." Cheng Dianfei argued.

Guo Zi shook his head: "I won't go, I'm not interested."

"Go ahead," Cheng Dianfei begged, "I'll treat you to a movie tonight."

Guo Zi's eyes lit up: "Really? Invite me to watch a movie tonight?"

Cheng Dianfei nodded seriously: "Really, more real than real gold."

"Okay then." Guo Zi agreed.

Cheng Dianfei said "Yeah!" in her heart and ate up the rest of the food on the plate.

*

Ye Lian and Lan Shan sat on the No. 365 bus.

Their position is almost in the middle of the carriage, with Ye Lian next to the window on the left, and the blue fir next to her next to the aisle on the right.

Every time she passed a stop, Ye Lian had to listen carefully to the driver's announcement and read the stop signs carefully, for fear of missing the stop she was about to get off at.

But it’s still early, I just got on the bus not long ago, so I don’t have to worry about missing the bus yet.

Ye Lian is going to watch Cao Xueqian play a football match.

Let's temporarily rewind time to last night and listen to the conversation between Cao Xueqian and Ye Lian.

Cao Xueqian: We have a football match tomorrow. Family members can go and watch it. Can you take Lanshan with you?

Ye Lian: Where?

Cao Xueqian: A football field near our company.

Ye Lian: It’s so far away, so forget it, I don’t want to go.

Cao Xueqian: Go ahead and relax. Moreover, it’s rare that your husband has a football match, and you don’t want to go and cheer for it? Besides, other colleagues’ families will also go. Your husband will be very disappointed if you don’t go, and others will think you don’t love your husband.

Ye Lian: I’ve never been there and don’t know how to get there.

Cao Xueqian: This is easy to do. You get on the 365 bus, get off at Yulon Building Station, and then call me. I will pick you up or I will ask someone else to pick you up. If you need anything on the way, call me. Even if I can't answer the call, I'll call you back when I see it.

Ye Lian: Okay then.

Cao Xueqian: Hardworking wife. It’s too late, otherwise I can drive back to pick you up.

……

Rewind time from last night to the present.

Maybe because it wasn't the rush hour, there weren't too many people on the bus, but there were also passengers standing in the aisle.

Ye Lian put a piece of ginger she brought with her in her mouth and looked at the street scene outside the window.

This is Ye Lian's second trip to the city.

The first time was when Cao Xueqian took her and Lanshan for a ride in the city to experience the most beautiful Shengnan Avenue;

In the past few years, Ye Lian has become accustomed to staying at home, and her activities are mostly near Xi Yayuan, basically not beyond Xiangyang Town. She hasn't been to places a little further away.

This time, Ye Lian made an exception when she went to the city to watch Cao Xueqian play a football match.

If it weren't for Cao Xueqian's strong request, Ye Lian wouldn't have wanted to go to this football match.

The journey is too long, it takes more than an hour, or maybe two hours if you go slowly;

Also, she has no interest in football, and she doesn’t see any merit in it;

In addition, Ye Lian is not good at getting along with outsiders. She was not familiar with Cao Xueqian's colleagues, but she was even less familiar with their family members. She was a little worried about how to deal with them.

But she had to go, otherwise she was afraid that Cao Xueqian would be unhappy.

Cao Xueqian has no other hobbies. He does not smoke or drink (except for those unavoidable social events), does not play cards or gamble. He occasionally plays the harmonica when he has time, and sometimes runs or plays badminton with her on weekends. He is not very enthusiastic about football, but he still likes it very much. He played it in school when he was in college and rarely played it after work. There was finally a football match, and he wanted her to go to it, so she had to go.

Contrary to Cao Xueqian's love for playing football, Ye Lian knows nothing about it except that playing football can strengthen the body.

She once asked Cao Xueqian innocently, what's the point of those world-class football games, in a huge football field, with a group of people chasing each other and not being able to score a goal for a long time?

Cao Xueqian just laughed, "Don't you understand this?" Then he described the wonderful aspects of football to Ye Lian with gusto:

Don’t worry if you can’t score a goal for a long time. The whole process of the game is actually very enjoyable to watch, or it can make people fearful, or it can make people excited.

After hearing this, Ye Lian disagreed and said, how could it be so mysterious?

Cao Xueqian is not annoyed, saying that football itself is complex and changeable. It integrates various sports performances such as running, high jumping, gymnastics, etc. If it is those football big names, they will also burst out with unexpected high-level sports skills, allowing People couldn't help but cheer. Things like those hanging upside down on golden hooks, leaping fish to the top, etc. are all combinations of the beauty of power and the beauty of movement that are rare and fleeting.

Ye Lian still shook her head and said, I can't understand it anyway.

Cao Xueqian said, you have to pay attention to the details, dribbling, taking off, sprinting, etc. It requires both skills and strategy...

Ye Lian didn't understand and said, "My eyes can't keep up. How can I still see the details?"

Cao Xueqian changed direction and said, "Look outside, you will see the grand stadium, the fanatical football fans, the ups and downs of the game results..."

Ye Lian laughed self-deprecatingly and said, "It's still full of ups and downs. I probably fell asleep just watching it."

Cao Xueqian looked at Ye Lian and sighed, uttering a long word: You——

Ye Lian laughed loudly and asked self-deprecatingly, did she feel helpless like "playing the piano to a cow"?

Cao Xueqian put his arm on Ye Lian's waist and said, how could it be weak?

……

Ye Lian couldn't help but raise the corners of her mouth. Thinking of Cao Xueqian's helpless look on her, she felt funny and a little sweet.

Ye Lian knew that in Cao Xueqian's heart, it didn't matter whether she understood the ball or not. The important thing is that he is willing to talk and she is willing to listen. With the last "haha", everything is forgotten.

Maybe this is what love feels like?

With love, the other person's shortcomings are no longer shortcomings, right? The other party’s ignorance no longer becomes ignorance, right? Being silly together and making trouble together is the common language between each other, right?

This time, Cao Xueqian asked her to watch a football match. It didn't matter whether she watched the football or not. What mattered was her appearance and presence.