shadow striker

"Hi, I'd like a train ticket to Barcelona."

"Okay. Excuse me, do you have a pre-order?"

"Sorry, no."

"Sir, maybe I need to tell you that this train from Turin to Barcelona is a night train and it needs to be booked in advance."

"However, I just decided to go there on the spur of the moment today. Excuse me, can you help me?"

"I'm sorry sir, maybe I'm not... oh my God, are you Yue?"

Although Turin is the third largest city in Italy, the entire city only has a fixed population of 120 million.With the rapid improvement of the Turin team in the past two seasons, Yue Yihuang no longer dared to go to crowded places so openly.But he really didn't like those peaked caps, and he couldn't find a top with a hat temporarily, so he got himself a pure black autumn scarf and put it directly on his head.In this way, others will never be able to see his appearance clearly from the side. Even from the front, as long as the angle is not right, or the wind blows just right, people passing by in a hurry may not be able to see his appearance clearly.

And now, he is at the manual ticket window of Turin Prota Nova Railway Station.When he spoke the third sentence to the other party, the conductor at the window finally saw his appearance clearly and recognized him.

Yue Yihuang almost subconsciously wanted to tell the other party that he was not, but he stopped abruptly at this moment, and after a moment of hesitation, he said: "Yes, Yue is indeed my name."

"Oh! My God! You're from Torino..."

However, the female conductor who recognized him was about to shout out when she was stopped by Yue Yihuang's "shh" gesture.Yue Yihuang put his index finger on his lips, and then signaled the train conductor to follow him to the left first, and then to the right with him.

The train conductor immediately understood what Yue Yihuang meant, and quickly lowered his voice, "Sorry, you don't want people to find out, do you?"

"I think, yes."

Seeing Yue Yihuang say this with a gentle smile on his face, the train conductor quickly sat up straight, as excited as if he had shared a little secret with his favorite football star.

"I think I get it! Also, I've changed my mind. You know, I'm your fan, it's just a train ticket to Barcelona, ​​and I'll definitely get it for you! Let me see the train reservations first The system, it should not be shut down yet! I'll get you a pre-order right now! Please wait! It'll only take a few minutes."

"Okay, I'm in no hurry. If I remember correctly, this train is tonight?"

"Yes, the car will be dispatched at 21:06 tonight, and it will arrive at 10:20 tomorrow morning. It's still early, and we will definitely be able to catch up."

"Thank you."

As the train conductor said, he took out a piece of paper, fearing that Yue Yihuang would forget the departure and arrival time of the train, he wrote these two times on the piece of paper, and handed it to Yue Yihuang.To this, Yue Yihuang smiled gratefully.

Sure enough, after only waiting for 3 minutes, the conductor had successfully booked online for Yue Yihuang, issued the ticket, and handed over the train ticket and reservation form to Yue Yihuang.

"First-class carriage, a total of 149 euros."

But Yue Yihuang stared at the train ticket and the reservation form for a long time, then frowned and said, "No, the ticket is 149 Euros, and the reservation form is 84 Euros. So it should be 235 Euros in total."

The other party obviously didn't expect Yue Yihuang to find out about this on the spot, and said with some embarrassment: "The reservation form is not issued by my ticketing system here. So... I paid with my own credit card."

"Understood. Then I'll give you the change. I may have 84 euros in change."

Saying that, Yue Yihuang took out his wallet, found one fifty euros, one twenty euros, one ten euros, and searched all his pockets before finding two two euros in change. It did embarrass the train conductor.

"Actually, I still want to say... can you take a photo with me..."

"sure."

"But there are surveillance cameras here. It's not good for me to take pictures of you with my mobile phone."

"Then I'll take a picture with my phone and send it to you via Bluetooth."

As he said that, Yue Yihuang didn't have time to surprise the train conductor who helped him a lot, he just took out his mobile phone, used the shortcut key to call up the camera function, and then leaned towards the counter with his whole body. Pulling back the black scarf covering his face, he took a photo of himself and the woman who only had time to smile.

After Yue Yihuang said those words, he directly put those into reality without stopping, and thanked the other party again for the help she gave him, but the train conductor couldn't get out of this surprise anyway. Responded.It wasn't until Yue Yihuang left that she murmured:

"What a gentle gentleman..."

It was seven o'clock in the evening.There are still two hours before the departure of the train that Yue Yihuang is going to take.He wandered around the train station.Perhaps, he needs to finish his dinner within these two hours.Not all night trains have dinner, and one mistake in such a thing is enough to make people remember it all the time.

But after wandering around the train station, he couldn’t find what he wanted to eat, so he finally asked the owner of the cooked food stall in the self-service dining area to give him some without cheese or butter, just soaked in salt water Baked Potatoes.

As a football player who is responsible for his professional life, he needs to pay great attention to his diet.Although, some swimmers claim to eat ten hamburgers in one meal, and some basketball players eat a lot of beef early in the morning.But obviously, it is very irrational to follow the recipes of those people.

Although, Yue Yihuang's physique is not easy to get fat.But when it comes to the Italian-style strong cheese and butter flavor, he really has no confidence.When he was at home, he would prepare some food with lighter cooking techniques for himself.But once outside, he decided to be more cautious.

He bought a glass of mixed fruit juice by himself, took those baked potatoes and sat in an inconspicuous corner watching the people coming and going in the train station, feeling an indescribable emotion in his heart.

The familiar loneliness is attacking him again.However, this time, he felt that it was not as cold as the three years in Brescia.

After eating a baked potato bite by bite, Yue Yihuang's hand movements stopped.He put all the juice and the rest of dinner on the other side of the seat, took out a tissue and wiped his hands before taking out the old Spanish children's book in his backpack.

After opening the book, he found the photo on the first page.

At that time, they were still so childish.Although Igles, who is of Argentine descent, has grown very tall and has a very strong figure at the age of 14, the childishness on his face cannot be deceived.

Moreover, at that time...he was still wearing the Barcelona youth team jersey, not the garnet red Torino team jersey that is so flamboyant now.

Facing this photo, Yue Yihuang seemed to recall a lot in an instant.Regarding every detail of the derby against the Espanyol youth team in the same city, he can even remember how the goalkeeper of the Barcelona youth team was doing alone in front of the empty goal when Igles scored the first goal Roll over a foolish celebration.

Those memories... were actually clearer than any game he had experienced in the three years at Brescia.

At this time, the phone rang, and Yue Yihuang took out his phone, but the caller ID on the screen was a number that surprised him.After a moment of silence, he picked up the phone.

"Mother."

It was a Chinese pronunciation that was choked in the throat and finally uttered.On the other end of the phone, there was a gentle voice with a little pride and excitement.

"Yihuang, mom just saw your interview on TV! Yihuang is handsome again! Just now your brother Nino also watched TV and said he was proud of his brother!"

Hearing what his mother said, Yue Yihuang seemed to be able to recall his half-Chinese-Spanish younger brother waving his fist and saying that he would become such a man, so he smiled lightly.

"Is Nino okay?"

"Very good. But this kid always feels that he hasn't grown fast enough, saying that he will grow as tall as you tomorrow."

"Then tell him that if you grow slowly, you will be able to grow taller than your brother."

Speaking of his other son, Yue Yihuang's mother's voice became more vivid, almost across the phone, even across the border between Spain and France, Yue Yihuang on the other end of the phone could feel a strong emotion. maternal love.

But at this point, Yue Yihuang's mother lowered her voice, as if she was worried that her husband and the son who was beside her would hear these words, although... those two people didn't understand what she was saying at the moment language.

"Yihuang, mom is living a good life here. You...you'd better keep some of your salary for yourself, don't send me so much money anymore."

"It's okay, my salary is higher than before, and I don't spend much money in Turin. Uncle spent a lot of money for me before, and I should pay him back. You don't have a job in Barcelona, ​​​​before It's always bad to spend so much uncle's money for me. Now that I earn more, I can give him more, and you can always hold up your face in front of him. "

"Yihuang, Juan is very good to me. Really."

"I know. But you should understand that I'm not his child."

Yihuang's soft murmur was not a sigh, but comforting a mother in a dilemma.On the one hand, that mother has to think about her husband and her current family.But on the one hand, she was full of guilt for her other son.Guilt, but powerless.

"Give my regards to Uncle Juan, and please... take care of your health."

"I will. Yihuang should also take care of his body. When it's cold, he should keep warm."

The mother hung up the phone after giving her last advice to her other son, leaving Yue Yihuang sighing alone in the Prota Nova train station in Turin.

He raised his head again to look at the electronic stop sign in the train station, and found that the train to Barcelona had arrived.So he picked up his backpack, took the juice in his hand, took another big gulp and walked towards the platform No. [-] shown on the stop sign...