Reemployment Guide for Laid-off Players

Li Zhenhe was in a daze for a moment, Xia Yao extinguished the half-burned cigarette from his fingers and put it in the ashtray, and said in a cold tone: "The tone of your words recently seems to be ten years old. Well, if you find life boring, find a—”

"Xia Yao, why are you so worried about Jiang An's return to the game?" The smile on Li Zhenhe's lips suddenly disappeared, and his expression turned serious.He put his hands on the table, moved closer, and continued to say to Xia Yao: "Last time you asked me, as Jiang An's teammate, if you believed he would play a match-fixing match. I will tell you very responsibly that Jiang An is impossible. In the same way, it is impossible for him to hide you in the youth training camp because he is afraid of you, who is extremely talented, do you understand?"

Seeing that Li Zhenhe got angry while talking, Xia Yao laughed instead, stood up and stared at Jiang An's live broadcast, and said after a long while: "Since you don't believe that he will play fake matches, have you ever thought about it?" Why did he make such a low-level mistake at that time?"

"you--"

"Have you ever thought about what happened at that time?"

After Xia Yao finished speaking, his hands clenched into fists unconsciously, his knuckles turned white. Li Zhenhe always felt that there was something in his words, so he frowned and asked, "Do you know anything?"

"Tan Qi called you today, what did Jiang An say?" Xia Yao didn't answer, but went back to the question just now, making up his mind that if Li Zhenhe didn't let go, he wouldn't let go.

Li Zhenhe was in a stalemate with him for a while, and finally lost. He waved his hand at him and sighed helplessly: "Okay, you can do it, I don't care what kind of grievances you have before, I don't care about this matter. I will tell you clearly." Said, the club now let me be the coach, how many results I can get in my hands is related to my reputation, if Jiang An returns to the game, which team he will go to, which team will be our number one enemy."

"Well, I know. So Tan Qi and Jiang An called, what did Jiang An say - you have never spoken so much before, what's going on today?"

"What's going on! You're ashamed to ask me what's going on!" Li Zhenhe suddenly jumped up, ripped off his tie completely, pointed at Xia Yao with one hand on his hip, and the sound of clattering keyboards downstairs disappeared in an instant. There was silence, only his furious voice was heard: "The club is having meetings and discussions every day because of you and Jiang An! I have meetings and meetings every day! Didn't you say you want to rest? You should rest!"

Xia Yao looked at the hand in front of him, coughed twice, pressed his wrist and pressed his arm down, and said, "Why did you come back again? It's not like you don't know about my latest problem. It's not because I didn't do it on purpose. ——Just tell me what Jiang An said, lest I keep asking you."

Li Zhen and anger came and went quickly, looking at Xia Yao's hand on his wrist, he pulled his wrist back and said in a cold voice: "He said we can talk another day, Tan Qi found him on WeChat later, and asked him out Even for a meal, he didn't refuse."

"Why does Tan Qi still have his WeChat?" Xia Yao frowned.

"...Is WeChat the key point? I have it too!" Li Zhenhe took out his phone and opened WeChat to Xia Yao as he spoke. It happened that Jiang An sent him a message, and the red dot Bright.

Xia Yao clenched his fingers again, and said to Li Zhen and Nu Nuzui, "Information."

"What message?" Li Zhenhe took back his mobile phone, and while replying to Jiang An, he said, "Oh, Tan Qi told him that I will go too when the time comes. I haven't seen you for a long time. Let's meet for dinner. Talk about the old days or something."

Xia Yao was silent for a while, tapped his index finger on the table, and said in a low voice, "I'll go too."

"Are you going? What are you going to do? Hey, hey, let me tell you, any grudges or grievances are over, and you still have to go to him for an offline battle?" Li Zhenhe rejected him vigilantly, and took Throwing the tie on the table and getting ready to leave.

Unexpectedly, Xia Yao grabbed his wrist when he turned around, pulling him so that his center of gravity was unstable and he almost fell backwards.

Xia Yao said: "I didn't want to fight with him, I said I didn't target him."

"Then what are you going to do?"

"Nothing, anyway, he recommended me to the club. Without him, I wouldn't be able to enter the professional circle." Xia Yao's tone was calm, without any emotional ups and downs.

Hearing what he said, Li Zhenhe thought something was wrong again, and raised his hand to pat him on the shoulder: "Jiang An is really not the kind of person who deliberately hides you, so don't mind. But let's have a meal and chat, okay?" No problem, I'll pick you up tomorrow afternoon."

After Li Zhenhe went downstairs and left, Xia Yao stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling glass for a while, and said to himself with a wry smile: "I really don't mind."

In fact, if you really want to count it, at the beginning, I still cared about it.

The next afternoon, when Jiang Anlin went out, he told Jiang Le who he was going to have this meal with. Jiang Le was so happy that he watched his brother without saying a word for a long time.

Jiang An raised his leg and kicked him, saying, "When you get hungry later, heat up the food before eating."

"Brother, don't say anything else, I'll wait for your good news!"

"How do you know this is good news?" Jiang An squatted down to tie his shoelaces and looked up at Jiang Le, smiled and said, "It's just been a long time since we saw each other. of."

Jiang Le narrowed his eyes with a smile: "The new season and the new league are about to start, I just invited you to have a meal to catch up on the old days? Brother, don't coax me, anyway, I acquiesce, you are! The next solo champion!"

"You see what your brother can do - go away, I may come back later, don't play too late."

After Jiang An finished speaking, he turned around and closed the door. There are two doors in this kind of old residential area. He reached out and pushed it outside with a bang, and a few pieces of rust fell from the iron door outside, and there was an echo in the corridor.

Tan Qi asked him for the address to pick him up. After he declined, he couldn't stand the man's enthusiastic request again and again, so he still sent the location of the nearby bus stop.

Now he was standing and waiting under the bus platform, but at five o'clock in the afternoon, he was also hot with fine beads of sweat on his forehead.He pulled his collar and looked around, and after waiting for more than ten minutes, Tan Qi's car finally appeared in his sight.

"Sorry, sorry, I was stuck at that intersection for more than ten minutes just now!"

Jiang An opened the door and got into the car, got into the co-pilot Tan Qi handed over a bottle of ice water, unscrewed the bottle cap while apologizing and greeted him: "Long time no see."

"Thank you, long time no see. It's a bit congested around here, maybe because there's a hospital opposite." Jiang An took the dripping bottle, nodded his thanks, and took a long gulp.

The two set off from the bus station to the hotel they had booked. They chatted a lot along the way, all related to Tayuexin's competition system. Tan Qi saw that they were almost there, so he tentatively said that Xia Yao was here today.

Jiang An was taken aback, but couldn't answer.

Tan Qi then said: "Don't worry, I don't mean anything else, that is, when he heard that I invited you and Lao Li to dinner, he insisted on coming! You also know that he—"

Jiang An then smiled helplessly: "It's okay, we all know each other, it's just a meal."

"Hey, that's right! That's right, that's right! We all know each other, it's just for a meal." After speaking, Tan Qi looked out the window with a guilty conscience, and buckled his thumb on the steering wheel.

Originally, according to Tan Qi's idea, this meal can be eaten at an ordinary restaurant, and you can talk about things wherever you eat, but after Xia Yao intervened, the place where you eat has suddenly become a star hotel.As soon as he parked in the underground garage, Jiang Anzheng untied his seat belt and said casually: "Actually, everyone eats and chats, there is no need to book such an expensive place."

"That...cough, the club cooperates with the hotel, and it doesn't cost money. It will be reimbursed, reimbursed."

Jiang An glanced at him, smiled with a "hmm", and got out of the car.

After Li Zhenhe and Xia Yao went to the private room first, they ordered half of the dishes. After considering their drinking capacity, they thought that he and Tan Qi would both drive after dinner. Of course, they didn't expect Jiang An and Xia Yao to have a good meal. Zhenhe returned the bottle of wine he had ordered.

Before pushing open the door of the private room, Tan Qi took a deep breath, as if he was more nervous than Jiang An.He walked in front, saw Li Zhenhe as soon as he entered the door, went up to say hello, turned around, and saw that Jiang An had already shaken hands with Xia Yao.

Jiang An was still a little uncomfortable seeing Xia Yao when he entered the door. Unexpectedly, Xia Yao stood up and stretched out his hand to him, and then said hello to him.

"haven't seen you for a long time."

Xia Yao had a polite smile on his face. Seeing that Jiang An was just staring at his outstretched hand without any response, he said again, "The last time we met was in the league."

It was the last game before Jiang An was "laid off". After Jiang An lost, everyone was in an uproar, and the next day he disappeared for more than a year in the semi-finals of the league.

Li Zhenhe rubbed the center of his eyebrows, stretched out his leg and kicked Xia Yao calmly.Before he came, he had repeatedly told him not to mention that game, but this person really didn't listen.

The buzzing in Jiang An's ears finally disappeared, and Xia Yao's familiar face on the field returned to his eyes. He came back to his senses and raised his hand to hold Xia Yao's hand. He also smiled politely and replied, "It's been a long time. Gone."

Tan Qi saw the needles and said haha: "Come on, come on, sit down and talk, sit down and talk, don't stand!"

Before sitting down, Li Zhenhe bypassed Xia Yao and walked in front of Jiang An. The two looked at each other for two seconds, and hugged each other generously, as if they had regained the tacit understanding they had on the field many years ago.

"We ordered a few dishes at random to see if there is anything you like."

As Li Zhenhe spoke, he pushed the menu in front of Jiang An, and Jiang An pushed it in front of Tan Qi, saying, "I don't have anything in particular, you can just order."

Sitting next to Tan Qi, Xia Yao pulled the menu out of his hand again. Under the astonished gaze, he calmly uttered three words: "Squirrel fish."

"You don't want to eat—" Li Zhenhe's first reaction was that Xia Yao didn't swim in the water very much, and then the word squirrel fish spun around in his mouth a few times, but he couldn't get it out no matter what.

He inadvertently caught a glimpse of Jiang An's expression, and some things from many years ago came to his mind. He could vaguely see the vague cheers and jumping crowd, and he repeated these three words several times in his heart like giving the name of a dish.

Squirrel fish——Squirrel fish seems to be a must-order dish for Jiang An at every celebration banquet in the past.

A celebration banquet... a celebration banquet? !

Li Zhenhe knocked off the chopsticks at hand with two coughs, pretended to bend down to pick them up, pulled Xia Yao off, turned his head and gritted his teeth, and whispered a "warning" in his ear: "You can make an agreement before you come here." , don't mess around!"

Xia Yao smiled silently, curled his lips and sat back in his seat to straighten out the sleeves that were messed up by Li Zhenhe.

With such a rare opportunity, it was a pity not to "twist" this person after finally finding him.Xia Yao calmly unscrewed the cap of the juice bottle, filled three cups and put them on the glass turntable, then gently picked the turntable with his fingers, and the orange juice slowly turned to Jiang An.

Jiang An picked up the glass, glanced at Xia Yao, and said solemnly, "Thank you."

"You're welcome."

Li Zhenhe was afraid of Xia Yao's politeness, he pretended to glance over Jiang An inadvertently, no one spoke, and the atmosphere fell into embarrassment for a while.

The dinner was organized by Tan Qi, but he knew even less than Li Zhenhe, and became the most comfortable person at the dinner table. He held out his hand and said, "Come here, replace the wine with fruit juice. Thank Anshen for giving me face, let's all have a meal and get together!"

Jiang An also raised his arms and said with a smile, "You're welcome, just call me Jiang An."

"Although it's not wine, let's drink together for the first cup." Li Zhenhe stretched out his arm, abducted Xia Yao with one hand, and said, "The last time we ate at the same table was two years ago, Jiang An."

"Well, I've had too many things on my own in the past year, and I haven't often invited a few friends to dinner." Jiang An slightly nodded to express his apology. Li Zhenhe smiled at him and asked:

"What have you been doing for more than a year?"

Before Jiang An could answer, Tan Qi took a big gulp of orange juice first, "Sit down and tell me, aren't you tired from standing? It's like a gathering of veteran cadres!"

Xia Yao also sat down after taking a symbolic sip, his eyes fell on Jiang An following Li Zhenhe's questioning.

And on his hands.

Jiang An found a topic and changed the subject, but did not answer Li Zhenhe. No one in the circle knew that he had a younger brother, let alone Jiang Le's illness.

He took advantage of the opportunity to chat with Li Zhenhe about the previous sparring, and this chat finally gave Xia Yao a chance to speak.

Xia Yao chuckled, and said with a bit of teasing and a bit of sarcasm: "It seems that I am still far behind Coach Li. Anshen and I don't bother to try our best solo."

"Ah, he didn't mean that..."

Seeing the corners of Jiang An's lips stiffen, Li Zhenhe hurriedly smoothed things over, but Tan Qique leaned close to Xia Yao's ear and asked him in a low voice, "What solo? Who won?"

"After two years, I finally had the opportunity to compete with Anshen. Anshen still took care of the younger generation as always, and gave me enough face in front of tens of thousands of people." Xia Yao stood up and raised his glass again, sending Jiang An off, and then Drink the rest of the juice in one gulp.

Now Li Zhenhe wanted to explain a few words to him, but he didn't know how to speak. Jiang An stared at him motionlessly, smiled after a while, and said, "Then let's discuss each other another day."

In Li Zhenhe's eyes, Xia Yao was waiting for this sentence. After Jiang An finished speaking, he pulled Xia Yao's wide sleeves back to the chair, and changed the subject very skillfully.

Li Zhenhe glanced at Tan Qi and asked Jiang An: "I heard that Tan Qi and the others want to sign you?"

"Are you here for dinner today or are you a lobbyist for TWR?" Jiang An still smiled, but Li Zhenhe has always been an old friend for many years, and the smile on his face became more natural.

"If I can convince you, I'll just pull you into the team, and I'll help them as a lobbyist? Cut." Li Zhenhe pouted at Tan Qi, and Tan Qi answered immediately:

"Hey, hey, you're here to make a living, so don't say a few words!" He secretly observed Xia Yao's expression while talking, and found that the man was playing with his mobile phone as if nothing had happened.

"As an old friend, it's only natural for me to be concerned about Jiang An's whereabouts. As the coach of Han Jiang Yingxue, I must be concerned about the whereabouts of our team's biggest opponent!"

"look at you……"

Xia Yao, who was playing with his mobile phone, looked up from time to time to see the three people who were chatting hotly. After answering a few WeChat questions from the youth trainees, he suddenly put his mobile phone on the table and abruptly joined the conversation with a technical question.

He asked Jiang An: "The new season balances the healing profession, which profession do you think will have the highest appearance rate?"

When he asked this, the three people, including Jiang An, were stunned. The topic that was going on at that time came to an abrupt end. Li Zhenhe and Tan Qi looked at each other in blank dismay. Jiang An obviously didn't expect that he had been silent for a long time and suddenly opened his mouth to ask such a question. question.

Jiang An didn't answer, and Xia Yao asked again under the watchful eyes of the other two: "In order to improve the competitive system and mode, Tayue gradually polished the original prismatic competition into a cylindrical shape. Which side to grind this season, calm the nerves." Have an idea?"

"I thought this was an ordinary dinner with friends?" Jiang An said with a smile.

Xia Yao patted Li Zhenhe's hand away, and said to himself, "Am I considered a friend?"