Ender's Football

After getting Mr. Tierner's guarantee, the most important thing in Ender's schedule suddenly became to grow taller quickly.

Li Mei and Stanzel also cooperated with him. Li Mei would bring him a glass of milk on the table every day, and Stanzel helped Ender use the extra wooden boards at home to build a measuring ruler that could stand up. In Ender's bedroom on the second floor, the little boy was allowed to measure how tall he had grown every day.

The atmosphere in the family became harmonious again in an instant—except for Ender and Helena who still didn't speak much.

Two days ago, he was full of grievances that he didn't play, and he didn't have time to think about family conflicts. Now that one matter has been resolved, Ander felt that he still had to give way to his sister in terms of family issues.

After dinner one night, he took the initiative to stop Helena and asked, "Are you free, Lena? Maybe we can talk."

As he spoke, he waved the Coke can in his hand—this was also one of the snacks that Li Mei and Stanzel explicitly prohibited little girls from enjoying frequently, but Ender had a small coffers from his grandma, and he could secretly buy them from outside and hide them away. Smuggled home in a schoolbag.

Helena was actually not interested in Coke. Miss Schneider felt that she was past the age of gluttonous children. She looked at Ender, hesitated for a moment, and said coyly, "Okay."

Ender smiled, and took Helena out of the house, ready to talk with his sister while walking.

"Helena," Ender asked her, "shall we go to the nearby community soccer field? I'll take you there."

Helena immediately shook her head: "No."

She still felt a little wronged in her heart as she spoke, and raised her eyes to stare at the older boy.

——Ander doesn't even know what he likes and dislikes. The community football field is obviously his favorite. Who knows if he will abandon himself and continue to "love each other" with his football?

Ender immediately sensed Helena's dissatisfaction, and he quickly made amends: "Then let's go to the badminton hall together? I remember you have a member there."

Helena put a blank face: "No."

——She really doesn't want to exercise now, not at all.Why are these damn boys so obsessed with sweaty sports?

Ender didn't understand Helena's inner thoughts at all, he "uh" in his heart for a moment, and finally asked cautiously: "Then... what do you want to play? Or do you want to eat? I can go with you..."

Helena felt his clumsy overtures, and the precocious little girl sighed and asked Ender, "If I want to make up with you, and ask you to go to the Latin club with me, would you agree?" ?”

"I don't... wait, Latin?" Ender's eyes widened in surprise, and he turned to look at the little girl in disbelief.

Helena wanted to sigh again, but she held back and saved some face for her stupid brother: "I have already mastered Spanish, German and French proficiently. Is there anything strange about learning Latin?"

"No, I'm just..." Ender subconsciously wanted to refute, but when he realized what Helena was asking, he changed his words immediately, "Yes...I'm surprised, Helena...Mom, and Stan Zell, do they know you're a genius?"

As he was talking, his brain recalled Helena saying that she was "No.1 all the time" at dinner a few days ago.At that time, Ender didn't think much about it, because he knew that Helena was indeed a very smart child, but he didn't expect that Helena was actually such... a genius.

"The whole family knows," Helena was speechless, "Didn't you notice that they didn't mean to force me to speak English at home?"

"I thought Germans were good at English?" Ender made a troubled expression, "Like Stanzel? He also..."

"People of my age are still stumbling through 'apple', 'banana' and 'orange'," Helena said blankly, "Germans are good at English, but it doesn't mean that German children will be born speaking English .”

"Well..." Ender said, "I'm sorry, Helena, I apologize... I didn't know you well before, and about speaking English at home."

"It's okay." Helena accepted his apology graciously, and then asked strangely: "If you don't understand, why do you follow them and call me 'genius'?"

"I thought that was just saying you're smart...well, I mean, I thought, just plain 'smart'..." Ender was tongue-tied, "Uh... anyway, it's not that you Not smart, Helena, do you understand?"

Helena is very disdainful of his language skills: "If you speak English so hard, I doubt you can learn German well."

"My progress in the language school is not bad," Ender wanted to shrug his shoulders, but when he thought that the sister in front of him was a real language genius, he immediately put away the little pride he had gained in the language school, "the teacher said If I can maintain this study progress until the end of the year, I will be able to enter school normally next year."

The siblings looked at each other.

Ender looked at Helena's serious look, was surprised, and felt a little funny.

But he didn't want the little girl to misunderstand again, so he raised his head to cover the corners of his upturned mouth, and then continued: "I've thought about what happened that day many times recently... Helena, are you angry because I laughed at that time?" ?”

Helena nodded straightforwardly: "Yes."

Ender looked at her solemnly: "Then I think you must have misunderstood me, Helena, I am not laughing at you, nor do I think your words are funny. I always knew you were excellent...Of course, just now you Refreshed my understanding of the word 'excellent', I have apologized to you for looking down on you before, and you have forgiven me, so, can we reconcile?"

Helena thought for a while, then nodded reservedly: "Yes."

Ender breathed a sigh of relief.

He didn't really know much about dealing with girls.

In the past, in China, boys and girls would not play together after class. If anyone gets close to a female classmate, most of them will attract other children's booing.Later, he went to Moscow to go to school. At the beginning, he couldn't understand the language, and the distance from the classmates in the class was even further. The same is true in Ukraine.Now at the language school, I only make friends with boys of the same age.

Helena and Li Mei are the only two women in his life who he has to deal with every day.

For Li Mei, Ender has complicated feelings, and this kind of mood will occasionally appear when facing Helena, which leads to the fact that at home, the person closest to him is Stanzel, not Li Mei who is related by blood. and Helena.

"So...Helena, I have one more thing to say," Ender said. "I'll talk to Stanzel and Mom about getting our family back into a German environment."

Helena looked at him.

Ender explained: "Before we all spoke English together because I didn't know German...I'm learning now and I need a lot of practice in my life, so you don't have to push yourself anymore."

"Oh." Helena replied calmly, but the corners of the little girl's mouth could not be concealed, "I agree with you."

*

"Hey, Sig, time to go! What are you looking at?"

In the locker room, Cohen leaned over and asked Sieghard to go out together, only to find that his teammate was looking for something with a stack of documents.

He walked up to Sighard, only to realize that the blond goalkeeper was flipping through their U19 schedule.

"I'll see the next game," Sieghard said.

"Aren't we going to play Frankfurt next time?" Cohen said. "The next game is the UEFA Youth League! We are going to play Manchester City."

His tone when he talked about the Champions League was obviously much more exciting than the regional leagues.

Sieghard was not excited. His eyes moved to the next line of the schedule, where the name of another team was written.

【Uwensburg U19】