After the recording of "The Feast of the Rich" ended, Li Wei's affairs in the capital were basically over.

Originally, he wanted to talk to Yang Chen and Shao Jiayi, two former Bundesliga big brothers. Unfortunately, these two BJ locals were not in the capital. Yang Chen went to Shenzhen, and Shao Jiayi went to the national team to report and prepare for the game.

The local Asian Cup in July had to be given up.

The next day, June 11, the National Youth Team announced the new training roster. As expected, Li Wei was not selected.

This basically cut off his thoughts about next year's World Youth Championship or even the 2008 Olympics. As the head coach, Krauchen can't even turn his promises into reality. This already illustrates some of the problems of the National Youth Championship.

Now...

Levi's defeat also triggered a new round of verbal criticism from fans. However, at this moment, the Football Association is using the feathers of "Olympic as the key link" as an arrow to kill the Buddha and the devil to kill the Buddha. It can be said that they are in the midst of their coexistence.

At the peak of the game, a little resistance from the fans will not be noticed.

Yan Ruo was filled with indignation about this, but he was still hoping that Li Wei would become the savior of Chinese football. What if he couldn't even get into the National Youth League?

So he held back his anger and wanted to write another battle message. It happened that Li Wei's affairs in BJ were settled and his official business at home was over. Yan Ruo separated from Li Wei and went south to Yangcheng alone to discuss countermeasures with Zhong Tao at the headquarters.

Before leaving, he gave Levi a suggestion. Because the latter's agent Andy Gray was a complete outsider to Chinese football, with no connections, no qualifications, and even no language skills, he suggested that Levi specialize in

Hire an agent who is responsible for domestic affairs to save him, an amateur player, from busy work.

Li Wei was naturally grateful for Yan Ruo's hard work these days, but he decided to put the matter of finding an agent in China aside for now. Firstly, he did not know a suitable candidate in China, and secondly, he might be able to find a manager in China within a few years.

There is no national team assignment, and there are probably not many opportunities for development in the country. It is better to let nature take its course, and maybe one day I will meet the right candidate.

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The day after bidding farewell to Yan Ruo, Li Wei also decided to go south.

This is the last thing he wants to do when he returns to China this summer - go home.

It has been more than a year and a half since he came to this world. It's time for him to go back "home" to see.

In fact, no matter how you look at it, after leaving Shanghai, returning to his hometown, which is only a hundred miles away, and then going to BJ is the most convenient and reasonable choice. However, he, who has always been very strong in action, has chickened out this time.

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The sound of the book outside the mountains is broken, and the winter comes back to spring.

I feel even more timid when I'm close to my hometown, and don't dare to ask anyone.

For Li Wei, who has lost his voice in the "alien world", the meaning of "cowardice" is much more complicated.

Are my parents still the parents of the previous life? Can they still recognize me? How should I face them? What is even more difficult is, is there another "I" in this world? If so, who is he?

Himself, or someone else?

Levi didn't dare to think deeply. He had heard of the "grandmother's paradox". If he had become "self" in this world, where would he come from?

But no matter what, he still has to go back.

Once he traveled through time, he had thrown away a lot of things, but there were some things that were thicker than water that he could not throw away, nor was he willing to throw away, even if he might not be able to truly possess them in this life.

Therefore, he has to take this step after all.

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Anhui Province is located in Luyang City between the Jianghuai River and the Huaihe River. It is a place that grandma does not love and uncles do not love. It is enough that the rich people in the south despise it, but the big men in the north do not like it either.

But in the gap between the north and the south, this city, which is called the provincial capital but is actually a bare-bones city, has grown wildly.

It is clear that Qinhuai Fengyue is a hundred miles away, Wu Nong Ruanyu, but somehow, it has managed to polish out a sharp, pungent, and rough temperament from the original land of Jianghuai.

Li Wei in his previous life was tempered here.

When he walked out of the airport and got into a taxi, the driver's long-lost local accent sounded in Levi's ears, making him feel like he was in another world.

If you add in the time he didn't go home in his previous life, he hasn't heard this familiar accent for more than two years.

At this time, Levi hadn't figured out how to contact his family, so he went to his neighborhood and found a hotel to settle down.

After settling in the hotel, Levi went out.

Although he hasn't figured out how to go to see his parents yet, he is already here and he can't help but go out for a walk.

Everything here is so familiar to him, yet so strange.

The sycamore trees on the side of the road were always pruned bare in my memory because their low branches hindered driving, but now they are still lush and leafy;

At the breakfast stall selling pot stickers and egg cakes on the street, the teapot half a person's height seems to have never been erected. Bowl after bowl of oil tea is steaming. Only the face of the boss who is quickly spreading the egg cakes is missing a few wrinkles and white spots.

Send;

At the corner, there is always a beef soup shop that bakes fried pancakes. In the pot, which is bigger than the stove, bubbles are constantly breaking through the overflowing red oil. The aroma seems to have been imprinted in Li Wei's mind, but the real taste

, but he couldn’t remember it.

Every plant, every tree, every branch and every leaf seems to be engraved in his memory, but it always seems to be slightly different from the memory.

Familiar, yet strange.

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Just walking around and shopping, Li Wei inadvertently walked to the door of his community.

Yes, no matter how familiar these streets and alleys are, how can we be familiar with this place before?

The source of everything, the starting point of everything, is here. Even if he is not ready yet, how can he not get in?

So, he walked in anyway.

It is said to be a community, but strictly speaking, it may not be counted. It is a house allocated to parents who worked in public institutions in the last century. When they were gathered together, it became a residential compound.

Because most of them are colleagues from his father's generation, he knows six or seven out of ten people who come in and out of the compound.

Especially when he met a few very familiar elders, he subconsciously wanted to say hello, but held back the words until they reached his lips, which seemed a bit weird.

This weirdness naturally attracted whispers from others:

"How do these heroes get the top spot?"

Li Wei could only smile bitterly at this.

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It was around five o'clock in the afternoon, and almost all the children in the courtyard had returned from school.

A few children set up two goals with schoolbags in the open space in the courtyard, and then divided the teams by turning the valve cores. Those who were assigned to strong teammates were naturally very proud, and the other team did not show weakness.<

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Levi, who was still wandering around, moved to the lawn next to the open space, made way for them, and then squatted there alone, watching their game with interest.

Of course, there is no referee in this kind of game. The venue does not even have a mid-line restricted area. If you go out of the steps at the edge of the open space, you will be out of bounds. The scoring is also very rough. If you fly over the edge in mid-air, you will probably have to pay for it.

Whether or not a goal is scored will be debated for a while.

Oh, by the way, if the ball flies out of the courtyard wall, it will probably be the biggest trouble, because the courtyard wall is full of broken glass, and the children can only go around the boss to pick up the ball.

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However, none of this can stop their enthusiasm for playing football. Although it is simple, they still play enthusiastically.

The only ones who can stop their competition are probably their parents who come to call them home for dinner.

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It had been several years since he had seen such a scene, and Levi thought that perhaps children more than ten years from now would have less enthusiasm for football.

Oh no, not necessarily. It’s more likely because he comes home later and later after working.

Think about it when I was a kid, before I entered junior high school, I played football in the yard just like the kids in front of me. I don’t know how many parents filed lawsuits because I kicked into other people’s small gardens or broke the glass, but

The ball still needs to be kicked.

When I entered junior high school, the venue was upgraded. I usually gathered my classmates after school and ran to the college football field not far next door to play.

Later, I thought about it. When I was in Nanqi Technical School, I seemed to have played on the field there more often when I was still in junior high school. It’s a bit embarrassing to think about it...

Eh? Wait!

If the "self" here is really myself, then I should leave school and go play football now! It's not easy to get in touch here, but what if you become a golfer first on the court? It seems to be easier to make friends.

Alright?

When I was in elementary school, I played football in the yard, and when I was in junior high school, I played football at Nanqi Technical School. But now in 2004, I started school a year early, and I should be in the first grade of junior high school!

Next stop, it’s time to go to the university campus that I haven’t seen for a long time!

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The university is not far from his home, only a ten-minute walk away. In comparison, the high school is much further away, in a new district thirty miles away...

So at that time, people often teased Li Wei, saying that his studies were getting closer and closer to home.

Enter from the east gate of the school and go straight, almost crossing the campus to the west gate, and you will reach your destination.

The court at Nanqi Technical School, if viewed from Levi's current perspective, was certainly nothing, but to his young self, the court with artificial turf was already the most perfect court he had ever seen.

Because the school's access control was not strict at that time, in addition to students, nearby middle school students like Levi and other residents would also come here to play football, so the stadium was often full of people.

Levi still remembered that if they had not arrived in the hot afternoon, they would probably not have been able to occupy the goal, and they would have had to use their schoolbags to build the goal.
To be continued...