At home in Songjiang, Shanghai, everyone was in a state of panic after learning the news about Li Zhao.

"What? There was no news at all before, but now he suddenly said that he was going to leave separately." Although everyone finally agreed with Li Zhao's approach, Dolsa was still not very happy about it.

"Xiao Sa, please understand. He must have done this because he really had no choice. As long as I know that he is safe, I will feel relieved." Zhao Xueqin said, mothers are always the most considerate of their sons.

"Girl, relax. If he has you in his heart, why do you have to worry. If he doesn't have you in his heart, why bother forcing him." It was Taoist priest Zhao Hong who said a fair word, which dispelled Doersa's uneasiness.

"This girl, Xiao Sa, usually seems very generous, but she is actually quite jealous! And after all, she didn't grow up here with us, so you should enlighten her more." Taoist priest Zhao Hong quietly said to Zhao Xueqin again.

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Their plan has not changed, but they have just advanced their flight tickets to the 28th, which is only one day later than Li Zhao and others.

At this moment, Li Zhao and Li Ruolan had already boarded the plane. They were taking a Lufthansa plane. They would have a short layover in Paris. The entire flight would last 26 hours, so they had a whole day to spend on the plane.

Yes, this is actually the first time the two of them have taken a plane together.

After chatting for a while, the two of them each took out a book to read. Interestingly, Li Zhao took out the "Cu Jing", while Li Ruolan took out the notebook.

Look through Mader's diary.

Li Zhao had learned a lot about Cuju before. When he was traveling in Linzi, Shandong Province, he even visited the Football Museum, which also contained the "Cuju Atlas" and "Shilin Guangji·Chengji" compiled by the Ming Dynasty.

The earliest professional football book.

Among them, Cuju activities are introduced, which are divided into two categories: one is a free kick without a goal, which is called "Bai Da"; the other is a competition with a goal, which is called "Buqiu". But no matter which type

, the kicker's hands cannot touch the ball, and must use feet, legs, knees, shoulders and other parts to catch, set or hit the ball.

Bai Tie does not have a goal. You just need to bring the ball, find a flat open space, and start kicking. It became very popular after the Tang Dynasty. Originally, two-person kicking (also known as "two-person court") was called "Bai Tie".

"Fighting", three-person corner kicking (also called "three-person field household") was called "officialdom". Later, one person kicked alone (also called "one-person field household") to ten-person kicking in turns (also called "ten-person field household").

”), they are all called “Baida”.

What really makes Cuju more enjoyable is the ball-building competition in the palace celebrations. What really interests Li Zhao is the various technical movements mentioned above. Unfortunately, the introduction of each movement is still a bit rough, making it unclear.

That's it. But today's "Ju Jing" has given good answers to some of my past questions.

This "Ju Jing" is exactly what Li Ruolan said. At first glance, I really thought it was a martial arts secret book. Several basic movements such as crutching, creeping, riding, kicking, and twisting have derived a number of classic technical movements.

It specifically lists the text and illustrations of twelve actions such as mandarin ducks turning around, turning the world, swallows returning to their nests, arranging flowers obliquely, placing lotuses in the wind, beads on the top of the Buddha's head, picking up fish on dry land, grinding the golden Buddha, carrying the moon on both shoulders, and kidnapping meteors. Some of them are

The movements of Cuju are quite similar to today’s popular football technical movements.

The most famous among them is the Yuanyangguai, also known as the dragon's tail swing or the scorpion's tail swing. This is also one of Gao Qiu's famous stunts. To achieve this action, you need a relatively superb ball-bobbing technique, which requires continuous left and right kicks.

After reaching the ball, you have to hit the ball all over your head, waist, shoulders, chest, and knees. There are more than a dozen sets of movements before and after. The most difficult thing is that you cannot move the ball during this period.

The ball fell to the ground. Of course, this was no problem for Li Zhao.

The rest of the movements are also very unique, and it is not easy to do them all well. The most classic ones are the Buddha's Crown Bead and the Kidnapping Meteor, which are also Gao Qiu's other two special skills.

Of course, movements such as Yan Returning to the Nest that obviously use some hands cannot be applied to modern football. Even so, Li Zhao can draw some lessons from it. Although Li Zhao can do it without landing

Although he is able to bounce the ball in such a high-tech and fast movement while still keeping the ball from hitting the ground, he still lacks a bit of enthusiasm. Generally speaking, this is also a direction in which he can learn and improve.

Generally speaking, these Cuju movements are more about skills without the ball hitting the ground, while the skills movements of modern football are more open and close, so in some aspects they can complement each other and can further

to improve his ball-handling skills.

He watched it completely from the beginning. Although the movements were roughly remembered in his mind, he could not practice on the plane. He could only change his goals and read some football magazines and some current information on European and American football.

It also comes alive on paper.

What surprised him the most was some things in South American football, which also made him understand that although that land is the cradle of football stars, it is also very chaotic. Especially Brazil, the most representative of them, has its league system.

It's even more complicated. But he doesn't pay too much attention to these. There are also the final rankings of the Brazilian League that have ended. Several clubs he is familiar with have failed to enter the top few this year, and Portugal is in the relegation zone.

There are four clubs: Vasco da Gama, Ponte Preta and Navigation Recife. However, this does not mean much to him at the moment, so after browsing for a while, he became a little bored.

"I've already taken a good look at this. You should also take a look. It should be helpful for you to understand the whole thing. Let's talk about it after you take a good look." At this time, Li Ruolan beside him also finished reading the diary in his hand and saw

Seeing that Li Zhao's mood was waning, he handed the diary in his hand to Li Zhao.

Li Zhao did not object, and immediately opened Nimad's diary. This diary was quite thick, with more than 400 pages. The original notebook only had more than 100 pages, with three pages.

Ordered together with notebook.

"August 26, 1938.

My name is Nimad, and I am a Portuguese missionary. My ancestor is the famous Matteo Ricci, so I have admired Eastern culture since I was a child.

About two years ago, I immigrated to the United States. Because of my friend Nelson, I joined a well-known local church. But since the bishop was changed this year, everything has changed. The church always seems to be influenced by another person called the Holy Knight.

's organizational influence, and working for them secretly seems to always be done mysteriously.

Recently, Nelson suddenly came to me and said that he had already joined that organization and hoped that I could join him, but I didn't agree and I had to think it over again." This is page 1 of the diary.

"Nimade, this name is amazing!" Li Zhao shook his head helplessly and continued to read.

"August 29th.

After three days of consideration, I decided to agree to him, because he said that the organization had several places to go to the far east this time, and the treatment was very generous. He also specially fought for me. If I could get there in time

Decide, then it’s done.

Great, I can go to this mysterious capital at noon to have a look." This is the content on page 2.

The following paragraph was about his experiences before arriving in country C, but it was not as outstanding as mine. It was not until I turned to page 35 of the diary that the content changed.

"October 10th.

The Japanese army launched a full-scale invasion of this country, and things were far worse than imagined. We were forced to follow their large forces to evacuate inland. I heard that the Japanese have now entered Hubei, and we must be more careful

Hurry up, otherwise you don't know what will happen if you are captured. The Nanjing government, oh no, or I should call it the Chongqing government now. Today is supposed to be their National Day, but I think this is more like

It’s a disaster day.”

There was a long section in the back where he described his escape experience. Then Li Zhao kept turning the book to page 118, and more than three years had passed.

"December 8, 1941.

I heard that the Japanese army attacked Pearl Harbor yesterday. They were really crazy. They never thought that they would provoke this opponent they shouldn't provoke. And this morning, the United States officially declared war on them. I think all this will be over soon.

Damn, they can't hold on much longer."

Then I scrolled down, and several years passed, including Japan's announcement of surrender on August 15, 1945. When the book reached nearly three hundred pages, some substantive content finally appeared.

"September 18, 1946.

It has been more than a year since the end of World War II. Thank God for allowing us all to survive. Today is also the eighth year since I came to this country. During this time, I have lived a good life and have gradually become accustomed to life here. But

After all, I still don’t belong here, so I still want to apply to return to my country after a while.”

"October 22nd.

I really didn’t expect that my application was rejected. But what’s even worse is that the organization assigned me a task. This task is a bit special. We are asked to pick up an officer named Rockmond in two days. From now on, we will

I will also take orders from him. I feel vaguely uneasy, but my friend Nelson always feels that I am overthinking."

"October 25th.

Although it was one day later than expected, we finally met the officer, Rockmund Delop to be exact. Although his military rank was not high, he was only a second lieutenant, but what he represented behind him was Germany.

The Lopp family is a profit-seeking interest group. Lieutenant Rockmond looked gloomy and felt like a difficult person to get along with. Moreover, he also brought five bodyguards with him. Fortunately, there were no further mission instructions for the time being.

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"October 27th.

What was supposed to come finally came. At noon today, Lieutenant Rockmond gave us new instructions. This time the mission was to go to a county in Sichuan called Lushan to carry out the task of stealing treasures. Since I am familiar with the local area, I

I became a guide. At first I was repelled by such an action, but the second lieutenant did not give me any extra choice. Either cooperate and be given a generous reward when the task is completed, or be killed. In the battle between life and death

Faced with the choice, I compromised."

"October 28th.

After resting for a day, we set off for Lushan County. A group of eight people took two cars. It went smoothly at first, but when we arrived in the mountainous area, we encountered a mudslide. The car behind us did not escape this.

In a sudden disaster, the three ensigns and their escorts in the car slid down the mountain together with the car. The car fell beyond recognition, and it seemed that the three men were basically in danger.

Fortunately, there were no other accidents in our journey, and we reached the entrance of the cave. According to the map, we could find the treasure room by following the secret passage in the mountain, and finally took the treasure and left. But after the explosion,

When we opened the treasure room, we also blew up the main road, so we had no choice but to blow up the exit again. But in this way, the main road at the other end was completely blocked. However,

This is not a big problem. We have enough explosives on hand. As long as there is a problem that cannot be solved, we can open a way through it. After a lot of effort, we finally opened the door of the treasure room.

There are six boxes in the room, each containing a stone ball, a book about Cuju, a bronze vessel, a pair of beautifully decorated emerald earrings, a luminous pearl and a Western figure sculpture. I really don’t understand why.

Our Western stuff appears here, but that's not important anymore.

Except that the stone ball and the book were worthless, everything else was good. The second lieutenant picked up the stone ball and looked at it before throwing it aside. Obviously he was not interested in this heavy and space-consuming thing, but the book was still

He put it away. I heard that he was also a football enthusiast, and he probably wanted to study Oriental Cuju.

Things have changed. Now there are only two guards left by the Second Lieutenant, so Nelson has other thoughts. While Second Lieutenant Rockmond was distracted, he snatched the pistol from his body and pointed it directly at him.

He fired one round, and the second lieutenant died on the spot. I watched him fall softly next to a box.

My friend's sudden attack surprised me because I never thought he would have such courage. I originally thought that the other two lieutenants' guards would quickly take action against him. In fact, one of the guards did the same.

He did it, but when he was about to draw his gun, another guard shot him in the back. This scene completely stunned me.
To be continued...