i am gun king

439 A Dream
Leadership is also learned and honed by oneself.
I remember that in David Wenner's book "Those Footwear" about the history of British football, it seems that he really linked the British style of football with the education of the upper class.Because British football was promoted by private public schools in the 19th century, advocating delicate footwork in these public schools was suspected of showing off, and teamwork was not the main purpose of the football training organized by the school at that time.Although football has changed from a public school to a mass sport in the future, the style of high-frequency running and scrambling and fast-paced offense seems to have remained unchanged.

The book showed me with relish that traditional British coaches would clap their hands and yell at the sidelines to put pressure on the players, "Quick! Quick! Go grab the ball! Go grab the ball!" He concluded with pride: "'Complain less, work harder'. You see, we Brits are like this on the pitch!" From the excited words of his friends, it can be heard that his high degree of recognition for his country's football is not only derived from the record, but also from the British values ​​it reflects.

Thinking of this, Li Yuxin became more confident!

And four days later, a strange dream strengthened his belief even more!

I remember that in that dream I was not Li Yuxin but Zhang Ke
The hazy drizzle has been falling all day, to be precise, it has been falling since last night.

The rain was not heavy, but intermittently.When I was sleeping last night, I could still hear the sound of rain coming from outside the window.

Paused for a short while this morning, then resumed downloading.

It went on like this until the afternoon.

Originally, a game with friends was arranged in the afternoon, but it could only be played in the rain.

Zhang Ke played the first half and was quite active in front of his former friends.

He scored three goals alone.

The youth team-mates have completely regarded him as a long-established first-team star and will no longer be surprised by his performance.

Zhang Ke and Yaya, who was also replaced, sat on the sidelines to relax, chatting while watching the game.

"This weather is too rare in the Northland. It has been raining all day..." Yaya looked up at the sky, the rain hit his face, and he narrowed his eyes.

It has been soaked by rain just now on the court.

Now he didn't feel anything cold and damp either.

I am used to staying in London, and Zhang Ke has also adapted to this feeling of continuous rain. I always feel that my whole body is damp and uncomfortable.

It is already spring in the Northland at the beginning of April.

In a place like Beidi, the spring rain is still quite cool.

"Hurry up and take a hot bath, don't catch a cold." Da Luo is very concerned about Zhang Ke's body.

Zhang Ke is now the team's treasure. He cannot be injured or ill. His state cannot fluctuate. He must maintain full attendance and maintain a high level of state.

It would be really stupid if you fell ill because of extra training...

Zhang Ke obediently returned to the locker room, took a hot shower, and changed his clothes.

When he walked out of the locker room again, he found Da Luo waiting for him outside.

"It's not easy to call a car in this weather. I'll take you back." Da Luo pointed to the parking lot.

After Zhang Ke bid farewell to Da Luo on the street, he ran into the apartment building in the rain.

Then, instead of taking the elevator up directly, he took out a sandbag from his bag, tied it to his leg, and started leaping up the stairwell.

After training every day, he always goes home like this.

Treating every detail in daily life as exercise and practice is Zhang Ke's special training.

After jumping to the eighth floor, he untied the sandbag and put it back in the bag. After packing, he took out the key to open the door.

When he turned the key, he suddenly found that someone had already opened the door—the door was locked before he left, and it should have been twisted twice to the right to open the door, but now he only twisted it once...and the door opened.

The room is London style
He froze for a moment, and then realized - Li Yuxin is back!
He slammed the door open, rushed into the room happily, and then shouted: "Li Yuxin!"

I haven't seen him for two months, and he still misses this big fat man a little bit.

But his cries did not get a response from Li Yuxin.

There was no Li Yuxin's huge brown suitcase in the living room, and there was no sound of splashing water in the bathroom, and the kitchen was quiet.

Without Li Yuxin.

When Zhang Ke came out of the kitchen suspiciously, he saw a person suddenly standing at the door of Li Yuxin's bedroom.

He was taken aback, and for a moment, he thought he had seen a ghost.

A beautiful black-haired girl stood at the door of Li Yuxin's bedroom, while the door of another bedroom beside her was open...

open?
Zhang Ke suddenly realized that the door was closed all year round, because it was Li Yuxin's daughter's room!

He suddenly realized who the person standing in front of him was.

It's not some beautiful female ghost who is specially here to absorb the man's yang essence, but Li Yuxin's daughter Li Na!

This is the first time Zhang Ke saw her growing up...

The downlight on the top, the wall lamp on the wall... The surrounding lights hit her from different angles, and the shadows cast on the wall behind her, and the ground under her feet, the skin and hair glowed with different luster, the eyes were in soft and faint shadows, and the lights made the facial features on her face look particularly three-dimensional.

She just stood under the light like a model.

Slim and graceful.

Especially those eyebrows, the rims of the eyes are a little red, making them even more charming, and the charming demeanor is pitiful...Huh?

Only then did Zhang Ke realize that something was wrong.

This girl... How could it give people the impression that she just cried?
"Uh..." He had just opened his mouth when the girl across from him asked first.

"You are Mr. Zhang?"

His voice was a little hoarse, showing obvious fatigue.

Zhang Ke nodded: "Yes, I am Mr. Zhang. You are... Li Na?"

Li Na also nodded: "Yes."

"Ah, it's you. I thought it was Li Yuxin who came back. I was so happy, ha..." Zhang Ke was a little embarrassed.

But the next moment, Li Na's soft-spoken words made Zhang Ke's dry laughter stop abruptly in order to cover up his embarrassment.

"Father, he...may not come back here again."

It should be a very happy thing to see the legendary Li Na who has grown up. Anyone who sees a pleasing beauty standing in front of him will feel refreshed.

But what Li Na said made the dry smile on Zhang Ke's face freeze.

"Father, he...may not come back here again."

Zhang Ke's mind stopped responding for a while, and then he came to his senses. He frowned and asked, "What do you mean by that?"

Li Na ignored his questioning, but continued talking with a low and hoarse voice.

"Sir, I want to tell you something...my father, in Germany..."

Zhang Ke stared at Li Na and found that her lips were trembling violently. A simple sentence was in her mouth, but it seemed that she had to use all her strength to say it.

Seeing her like this, Zhang Ke already had a bad premonition, his heart was slowly sinking into the cold night like the sunset in winter.

"...in Germany, in Germany...in Germany, encountered...encountered...car...car accident...died...death..."

Li Na could no longer speak, and two lines of tears flowed down her cheeks.

The night came so suddenly.

The neon lights of the building opposite the window were lit up, and colorful colors were reflected in through the window.

Their logo is reflected on the floor of the unlit living room.

Zhang Ke just stood in the dark, staring at Li Na in the opposite corridor, dumbfounded.

The room was so quiet that only the ticking of the second hand of the wall clock could be heard.

After a long time, Li Na said again: "I came back to pick up my father's belongings..."

Her words were interrupted by Zhang Ke: "Where is he? Where is Li Yuxin?"

He just looked straight at Li Na.

The taxi was driving slowly on the road on a rainy night.Because of the rain, the traffic in Northland was worse than usual, and the traffic in the city center became tight and paralyzed. The taxi driver patted the horn on the steering wheel, but the car's horn was quickly drowned out by other more horns.

Ahead, there is a patch of red brake lights.

"This damn rain! It doesn't stop!" the taxi driver cursed.

But neither of the two passengers in the car agreed with him.

After the two people got into the car, except for the girl reporting the destination, they never made any sound.

That's right, as Li Na said just now, Li Yuxin is... dead.

Dead, how did he die?

Is it dead?
Death is so strange and far away.

But why did it happen to me?

Zhang Ke felt a little unrealistic.

Li Na took Zhang Ke to the management office of a cemetery belonging to the church, where her father was temporarily stored.

After a series of formalities, the staff held out a black box for the two of them.

Li Na held the box and said to Zhang Ke: "The crash was too bad, so it was burned to ashes. I brought it back from Germany."

Her voice was low and she had no strength.Because every word she said was like looking back at the scene she had experienced.In the hospital morgue in Germany, the body bag was opened in the chilly air, revealing her father's pale, almost unrecognizable face. If it wasn't for the familiar wedding ring on his hand, she couldn't believe it was her father at all... She will never forget this scene.

Zhang Ke took the urn from her hand.

On the way here, he still didn't quite believe that Li Yuxin was really dead. Looking at the box now, he still didn't believe that Li Yuxin was dead.

Ever since he came to England, he had been surrounded by the tall and handsome guy.He never thought that he would leave him one day, or that he would leave himself.

He felt that he should always be Li Yuxin in the future.

Now Li Yuxin turned into ashes, lying in this box.

It's just... unbelievable.

On the way back to the car, Zhang Ke and Li Na also remained silent.

It was still raining, the roads were still congested, and the taxi drivers were still cursing the bad weather and the traffic jams.

Back home, Zhang Ke finally spoke to Li Na and said, "I still don't want to believe it..."

After speaking, he locked himself in his bedroom.

Li Na stood at the door, and then slowly leaned against the door frame of her room.

Zhang Ke didn't believe it, so why would she believe it?

Although she and her father would end up quarreling every time they called, even though she often felt that her father was too strict, she was 21 years old, and she still looked at it as a three-year-old child...

Now that her father is gone, she doesn't even know how to face the future for a while.

Suddenly she shivered.

In spring, on a cold rainy night, the chill wrapped her body.

She had to wrap her arms around her, curled up, then turned and walked back to her room.

When the door closed, she slid down against it and sat on the floor with her head buried in her arms and knees.

"dad……"

In the dark, she murmured in a low voice.

When Zhang Ke's biological clock woke him up at five o'clock on time, Zhang Ke turned over from the bed and sat up.

He felt that he had a nightmare. He dreamed that Li Yuxin died in a car accident in Germany. He didn't know that it was Li Yuxin's daughter Li Na who told him about it.

Speaking of which, Li Na in the dream is really beautiful, and she really looks like Li Yuxin's wife...

He put on his clothes, opened the door, and found that the doors of Li Yuxin's bedroom and Li Na's bedroom were tightly closed, as usual.

Yes, it must have been a dream, a terrible nightmare.But fortunately... it was a dream, just a dream.

Zhang Ke re-tied the sandbags on his legs, carried the football on his back, and went out.

The rain is still falling, not too much, but still pattering.If you don't spend a long time outdoors, you may not even need an umbrella.

But it's still annoying because it's raining and cold.

Zhang Ke ran against the wind, and the cold rain was blown against his face by the wind, and he had to squint his eyes.

He ran all the way and ran into the lakeside park.

After a simple warm-up, he took the football out of his backpack and threw it on the ground, and then he started running laps on the boulevard with the football.

Now he is very proficient at dribbling, and he doesn't need to use a two-meter-long net bag tied to his ankle to control it.He can handle the ball very skillfully.

But something is wrong today.

Zhang Ke took the ball with him, thinking of that nightmare.

Although he kept solidifying the concept "that was a dream" in his heart, his heart was shaking.

Every time he thought "this must be a dream" in his heart, he couldn't help but think "but..."

But so true...

Distracted, he tripped over the football he kicked and fell forward with a lunge.

The skin on the elbow was scratched and blood oozes out, and there was also scratches on the knee, and the palm of the hand was pressed to the ground, which hurt a little.

But Zhang Ke didn't care about these, he turned over and sat on the wet and cold ground.

Li Yuxin appeared beside him, holding a plastic bag in his hand.

"Even if it's special training, it doesn't have to be as scary as getting yourself covered in bruises. Take it."

After speaking, he threw the plastic bag over.

Zhang Ke quickly reached out to pick it up.

But nothing bumped into his chest, and his outstretched hand, palm up, didn't grab anything, only the cold rain fell, diluting the dirty water in his hand.

Zhang Ke took the lead to see again, where is there any Li Yuxin?
"Li Yuxin, you're a little silly..."

"You were a fool!"

Zhang Ke looked up at the sky and let the fine raindrops fall on his face. This time he didn't squint, but opened his eyes wide. He could see the raindrops dripping from the sky, forming fine white lines.

Hit him in the face and dripped into his eyes.

He blinked, and the rain overflowed from his eye sockets again, sliding down his cheeks.

Yes, how could it be a dream?So real...how could it be a dream?

Li Yuxin, why did he really die...

They could only lie in that narrow box, and were temporarily stored in the cemetery's management office, waiting to be buried in the soil.

There is a tombstone with his name engraved on it, and a bouquet of flowers.

Then when the flowers withered and were blown away by the wind, they were gradually forgotten by time.

Bastard Li Yuxin, you haven't become a leader and led Arsenal to win the Champions League, you don't mean anything!
what. . .

(End of this chapter)