ball magic

In the night of London's early winter, Byron, wearing a three-piece suit, wrapped in a cashmere coat and wearing a top hat, walked hurriedly through the brightly lit Regent Street, and continued to walk fast.

He soon came to a single-family house, and when he raised his eyes, he saw lights coming from the direction of the lounge on the second floor.He quickly opened the door with the key in his hand.After entering, he turned on the light, and the light poured down, illuminating the stained glass windows and carved friezes.Byron ignored all this and quickly walked towards the stairs. Under the dim light of the wall lamp on the stairs, he quickly stepped on the century-old pine stairs.

The rapid pace of "dongdongdong" sounded like his heart.

He quickly came out of the lounge, pushed the door open and entered without waiting for a knock.Behind the door is a warm world, with warm lighting and a fireplace with brisk flames. Sitting by the fireplace alone, leaning on a rocking chair and holding a book, the man in a thin blanket looks at him through the lens, "What happened? You are in such a hurry .”

"Your son! Your precious son! Your darling is going to pierce the sky!" Byron almost immediately pulled the man up and walked quickly to the entertainment room.

"I told you this morning, he's going to be on a football show, go to his football show! It's a fucking gossip show! They mentioned you—"

"Is Rafa going well?" Hughes asked, although it was a question, he thought he had guessed the answer.

"See for yourself! Wait for Sir David Spedding and Richard Dearlove to question you!"

After entering the lounge, Byron let go of his hand, quickly took out the DVD from the big pocket of his coat, quickly put it in the player, and muttered with the remote control: "24 minutes, 24 minutes... ...".

"Don't worry." Hughes, who was wearing a black turtleneck sweater, said, but his eyes had already fallen on the TV, even though the screen was jumping fast, he didn't look away.

"Fuck you! Don't worry! Your son is too good at making trouble!" Byron complained, he had already adjusted the progress, and pressed the play button.

"A good dancer gets the job," said Rafael on TV.

Hughes looked at his son on TV. Today's Raphael is so heroic, such a decent young gentleman, which made his eyes glisten with pride.

Stafia on the TV is asking Raphael, "Someone claimed to be your father before..."

He saw Raphael sneering coldly, ""Is he like me?Even if only one tenth. "

He saw his son asking in silence, "Have you seen the picture on his tombstone?"

At this moment, Hughes had mixed feelings in his heart.

He saw his Rafa in the silent studio, praised him for being handsome, praised him for his talents, called him...noble...

But Hughes has no pride, nor any complacency.

until that moment.

Raphael took the initiative to look at the camera, and declared in front of the world——

"He fulfilled what I, or any boy, could ever dream of as a father."

"He's a hero."

The tenderness and unreserved pride in the eyes of the "hero" and Raphael, as well as the remorse that has been growing all the time over the years, accompanied by the shame that roared like a stormy sea, completely overwhelmed Hughes.

hero?

Does he fit?

His eyes were filled with tears, and his blurred vision was like his heart gradually collapsing.He lowered his head, and his arms, which had always dared to bear everything, were completely crushed by the word that came from his son's mouth.

hero?What he did, in the eyes of Rafa, is it really a hero?

At this moment, Byron looked at Hughes hesitantly.

He has seen Hughes who has been tempered and baptized by war and is still strong; he has seen Hughes who still holds his head high in the face of a trial in a court-martial, raised his right hand to swear his loyalty to the motherland and has no regrets for his choice; he has seen Hughes who walked alone in the dark night without any fear and retreat; he has also seen this man's no regrets and unreserved concern for his only son when his life was dying, but he has never seen Hughes like this!

Just the undisguised love and longing from his son can easily knock him down?Make him look like a shattered glass doll?

why?

Is it just because he is the father of a child?

Byron has never enjoyed love, he has no family, and he has never been a father. He doesn't understand all this, but this makes him realize that Hughes...would be so fragile?

No, he is so strong!

Byron doesn't understand his paternal love, and his full of feelings, but he has always had doubts——

Why do I want to get rid of everything now, why can Hughes go on firmly?

Why didn't his faith collapse because he knew too many secrets?

Why can his ideal resist the constant breeding and erosion of darkness?

Why didn't his faith crumble with the fall of the empire?

He has scattered these in the world in the dark, why can Hughes face difficulties and obstacles, faltering and still move forward firmly?

At this moment, Byron thought, perhaps what made him persevere was not faith, ideals, or conviction, but persistence——

For these things, he gave up his loved ones, leaving only guilt and concern. What else can he lose?

"Al—" Byron stood behind him and gently hugged his shoulder.

He didn't need to comfort him, because he was never used to comforting Hughes, he was Hughes!

He just reminded his close friend, "You are his hero, and you should appear in front of the world like a hero."

This made Hughes raise his eyes, the eyes under the lens were still watery, and Byron seemed not to notice, and said in a faster tone than usual: "I got a piece of news, our current director and the next director are still I don’t know about this news, you know, after all, the news from Italy didn’t come so fast, but the news from the media came very quickly. Those tabloid reporters from the "Sun" and "News of the World" are already checking you. I will deal with it ! And you—you have to appear glamorous in front of everyone. Your son has praised you to the sky!"

That's not the plan.

There were no paparazzi shots in the original plan. Hughes took off his glasses and wiped away the moisture from the corners of his eyes with his index finger and thumb.

"Oh," Byron's tone suddenly gloated, "If you were found cheating, the Intelligence Agency will have to pinch your nose and admit it, and you will definitely be scolded."

Hughes looked at the TV, the picture had stopped, and he said softly, "I deserve it."

"Football Weekend" is one of the two most popular football programs in Italy, and it is also the program with the longest history. It has amazing influence in this Apennine Peninsula.

It is itself one of the programs with the highest ratings in the country, and Raphael's participation in the program this time gave Italian National Television full confidence in the ratings rushing to a new high.But they didn't expect the ratings to be so high!

If this is the real social era, this program can be said to be a certainty that it will immediately sweep all major social platforms around the world.But even in this era, whether it is the fainting female fan or the revelation of Rafael's father's identity, all Italian fans are talking at home with their relatives and friends.

Fans are like this, let alone the media?

What the hell is the "Victoria Cross"?Although... sounds like the Commonwealth of Nations?

The reporters in Italy were busy looking for military experts to inquire. The editor-in-chief of the "Sun", which was personally revealed by the old Robson, had assigned jobs to several reporters and asked them to dig out from all aspects.

For the British tabloids who dared to bribe the Queen's servants and eavesdropped on the royal family, there was no secret they couldn't dig out at this point.

Other newspaper colleagues on Fleet Street may have been a little slower, but the exchange of information from their Italian counterparts also let them know the shocking news very quickly. Almost all reporters were calling their familiar political and military contacts, I want to make one thing clear-

How many people have won the Victoria Cross?Who are they?Where can I find the exact list and photos of the honorees?

But no matter what network they turned to, they all got the same message: Victoria Crosses have been awarded 1856 times since 1, compared with 356 since World War II.

Only 13 times, not many.Many media can also get the results they want by following the pictures.

But no matter which newspaper or TV station these reporters worked for, in the not-so-long roster, they saw that incredibly young officer with just one glance!

In the photo, the young military officer who was honored by the Queen herself is unbelievably handsome, and both his blond hair and his eyebrows are so familiar...

The roster records: Major Albert Anthony Hughes fought bravely in the Falklands War. After the Falklands War ended in 1982, the Queen awarded the Victoria Cross at Buckingham Palace in recognition of his outstanding performance in the war.

Raphael's father, the hero in his heart, isn't this Major Hughes, who else could it be?

In the nightly news, both the BBC and Sky TV broke the news at the first time, which is the advantage that the TV station has.

The people who slept late discovered in the middle of the night that Raphael, the young genius whom they complained about, scolded, ridiculed, and damned jealous of his wealth in the summer, was actually British?

The newspaper industry was not willing to lag behind. In the morning papers of the next morning, even the four major newspapers, The Times, The Guardian, The Independent, and The Telegraph, reprinted and published the What Phil said on "Football Weekend" and what they unearthed about Hughes' life.

The leader of the tabloids, the "Sun", which is also the leader in the sales of British newspapers, used a birth certificate to make colleagues in other countries reprint their headlines——

That's Rafael's birth certificate.

It clearly stated in the birth certificate that Rafael Anthony Hughes was born on June 1980, 6, at St. Mary's Hospital, London, to Eva Rodriguez Iglesias, and The column for father is Albert Anthony Hughes!

What is a real hammer!

This is the hammer!

Waiting for the TV station to appear again is the moment to sum up the achievements of the colleagues.

For example, at his own dining table, old Robson, who can also watch the BBC in Italy, was shocked to find that Raphael declared yesterday that his father was his hero. !

The BBC also showed that birth certificate on TV!

So the old Robson was so surprised to find that Raphael... Raphael is an Englishman!He was obviously born in England!

Hughes' mother was the daughter of a wealthy businessman, and his father was a naval officer who became a judge after retiring from World War II.If you go back up, his family is still aristocratic, and his grandfather was a lord and participated in the First World War.If you keep going back, it may be a long enough family tree.

The young Hughes, the handsome Hughes, the versatile Hughes who had formed a band as Raphael said, became an excellent navy like his father and grandfather, and his series of outstanding performances also made him very happy. He was about to be selected for SAS, and maybe it was because of this that he participated in the Falklands War that made him lose his love.

But it was such an outstanding and promising young officer who lost his life because of saving people.

The BBC even interviewed the rescued. So far, she and her family will regularly go to Hughes's cemetery to lay flowers and thank him for everything he has done.

The BBC also unearthed many photos of Hughes, such as kindergarten entry photos wearing a small uniform, tie, pumpkin pants, white tube socks and small leather shoes; primary school graduation photos, photos of entering public school with classmates, Cambridge cricket He even saw a picture of Hughes wearing a jersey in the winning photo of the competition...

The impact of that moment almost made old Robson feel an unspeakable but suffocated feeling in his chest——

Hughes resembles Raphael so much that he thinks he's seeing the trajectory Raphael would have walked if he had grown up in England, and he should have donned the England white shirt and become the Three Lions under the St George's Cross Part of the Legion!

Mrs. Elsie looked at her husband's complicated expression, and finally just patted him on the shoulder to comfort him, "Rafa is right, his father is a hero. But even if he didn't die by accident, maybe they would Apart, Rafa will still grow up in Argentina."

Old Robson nodded, as if he had listened.After a while, the old gentleman said in a low voice: "I just think it's a pity, a pity. He's so young..."

Mrs. Elsie kissed him lightly on the cheek, encouraging him, "You have to take good care of Rafa."

Old Robson was reminded by his wife, and immediately swept away all the loss, regret and lingering complex emotions. He put on his coat, walked to the door and picked up his top hat from the hook, "I have to go to the base!"

He promised that there are countless media waiting outside the Pinettina training base today!This is the last training session before the Milan derby and he has to make sure there are no problems!

Mrs. Elsie sent her husband away, turned around and looked at the TV again, thought for a while and changed a channel, only to find that the same report was broadcast on the Italian TV station - she couldn't understand, but she saw Hughes hugging Smiley face with guitar into microphone.

What a pity.

thought Mrs Elsie.

Countless England fans are thinking the same at this moment.

In the just-concluded 98 World Cup, under the promotion of the media, countless fans blamed Beckham. Who made him impulsively retaliating for fouls and was banned by a red card?Otherwise they may go further.

But now another kind of regret follows.

Rafael didn't go to the World Cup because of his damn hair problem, which "helped" them beat Argentina.But Raphael should have belonged to England!He is British!

How far can an England with Raphael and Michael, an England with two "archangels" go?

The England fans were so heartbroken that they couldn't breathe!

Why did Raphael never say he was British?Are the FA officials full of shit!Why didn't they find out!Why wasn't he recruited!

The host of Sky Sports even said in the morning news: "We just passed him by like this. When a few years pass, or more than ten years, we will still regret it-we lost a player who can surpass Garth. Coyne, a genius who surpassed Sir Charlton's. The higher his future achievements, the more we will be saddened, and the more we will be immersed in the pain of losing him."

Mrs. Elsie shook her head, and she turned off the TV because she didn't want to see this young man who was so similar to Raphael but died young.But what she didn't know was that at this moment, "The Sun", the leader of the flower border, released a major exclusive news on its official website for exclusive headlines!

It was this news that directly made the name "Albert Hughes" "crossover", moving from the headline of the sports section to the headline of the entire page!

At the same time, Sir David Spedding, the soon-to-retire director of the Intelligence Service, and his successor, Richard Dearlove, were in a state of distress!Because even the foreign secretary at the time called David Spedding angrily after seeing this report, wanting to know what was going on!

"The Sun": "Resurrected from the dead? The Secretary of State revealed: Albert Hughes is suspected to be resurrected from the dead!"

The accompanying picture ironically chose the photo on Hughes' tombstone.

In the European and American official system, there are political officials and affairs officers.Political officials are elected, ranging from the president and prime minister to members of parliament, and their terms of office are not fixed.The grassroots civil servants who are really responsible for the work are the affairs officers.

"The Sun" also introduced their source on the official website, which is a certain affairs officer from a certain department.

The author has something to say: *The following is the number of free words*

The officer recognized Hughes' face and photo, which instantly reminded him of a job he had recently handled, so he immediately contacted the "Sun" to break the news——

Hughes' death may have been a misunderstanding, and he didn't want to reveal more because it might reveal his identity.But he made sure the man was alive!And only recently began to "live"!

The reporter also stated that they were already conducting an in-depth investigation before publishing the article.This is obviously implying to colleagues that the headlines belong to my family, so you don't have to work hard.

But such a quick reversal has attracted doubts from the British——

They just shed tears of regret for Hughes, helpless and heartbroken for missing Raphael, but is the person dead or alive now?

It doesn't matter if you die, you can still be called a hero.

But what if it's alive?Doesn't the government even know if a Victoria Cross winner is alive or dead?

The second watch that came later.