Chen Yingxiong officially signed a contract with Zenit St. Petersburg.
Considering that Chen Yingxiong and his father had been travelling Europe for a month but had not visited any tourist attractions, the team gave Chen Yingxiong two days off so that he could accompany his father in St. Petersburg.
St. Petersburg also has many tourist attractions.
The Winter Palace, the Peter and Paul Palace...these are all famous tourist attractions.
Chen Tao could finally breathe a sigh of relief and have some fun with his son.
In fact, he was not very interested in going to these tourist attractions - he was not a person who liked travelling.
If it weren't for his son, he might never have gone to Europe in his life...
I didn't expect that my first trip to Europe would take him to six countries, including Germany, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Italy, and Russia, covering tens of thousands of kilometres. He dared to talk to foreigners with only an atlas, a travel guide, and an electronic dictionary, something that was unimaginable in the past.
Thinking about it now, he was shocked.
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On the cruiser Aurora, his father chattered in his ear, while Chen Yingxiong held the steel railing of the cruiser and looked at the Neva River below. The wind from the river blew from upstream, lifting the hair, lapels and skirts of many people on the boat...
A female scream was heard, and Chen Yingxiong turned his head to look. He saw a blonde girl holding down her skirt that was blown up by the wind with her hands. Unfortunately, she covered the front but not the back and her round and perky buttocks fell into Chen Yingxiong's eyes.
"Oh, black lace! Damn! It's a thong!!" Chen Yingxiong couldn't help but whistle.
"Hero!" Chen Tao felt helpless about his son's performance and he coughed.
Chen Yingxiong quickly turned his face back, scratched his head apologetically, and smiled innocently.
"Hero... I'm leaving tomorrow, and now you're the only one here... This is the first time you've been out there alone... I'm telling you, you have to be strict with yourself, but lenient with others, do you hear me? Focus on football. After all, you're still a long way from the real professional level, so you have to train well. Be friendlier to others, it's always good to make more friends, get along well with your new teammates, and work hard to learn the language. Poor communication will lead to a lot of unnecessary misunderstandings. Do you hear me..." Chen Tao started his chattering again.
"I heard it, I heard it." While he responded, Chen Yingxiong's eyes were still searching for beauties.
He heard that there were a lot of beautiful women in Russia, all of them were blonde, tall, plump and sexy. But since he came to Russia, he had been in a nervous mood for some time, and his mind was full of thoughts about whether he could become a professional player. He really hadn't had the heart to focus on beautiful women.
Now that he had signed a two-year professional contract with the club, his biggest worry had been resolved, and his heart had settled down. He was now a little more interested in looking at girls. Chen Yingxiong had a girlfriend in China before. He was tall and had decent facial features after all. In addition, he had a good figure from playing football and doing sports, and his image and temperament were sunny. His personality was not dull, but cheerful, and he was good at talking. He was no stranger to girls.
He and his girlfriend had been together for less than a year, and then they got tired of each other and broke up. There was no sad story, no family pressure. They just felt that there was no passion or novelty in being together, and they only saw each other's shortcomings instead of positives. There were so many temptations in the outside world, why did they have to hang on to the same tree? In this case, they broke up.
But Chen Yingxiong did not lose out and wasn't a virgin anymore...
This was actually very important. In a football club, teammates always compete with each other, comparing money and women - who had more money and whose girlfriends were prettier. Of course, they also competed to see who had more experience in sex. Those who changed girlfriends frequently and partied every night were always the focus of the team.
They liked to brag about their experience in this area, and the group of rookies around them listened with relish. Their eyes sparkled, and they praised with both admiration and jealousy. "Brother X is amazing! This is the tenth one, right?"
Chen Yingxiong, who had previously had no experience with sex, did not raise his head in front of others back then. Otherwise, if someone asked, "Hero, do you have a girlfriend?"
"Of course."
"Yes? Have you done it?"
"No..."
The response he would gotten... – "Hahahahahahaha! Hero hasn't even slept with a woman yet, how lame! Do you want me to take you out to have some sex someday? It's so hard to find a 17-year-old virgin!"
After breaking up with his ex-girlfriend, Chen Yingxiong had no time to find another one because he was kicked out of the team. With no hope for the future, why would he still look for a girlfriend?
Don't give up when the times are tough!
Don't give up when you feel most helpless!
It was true that Russian girls were really pretty. They had good figures and fair skin. Since Chen Yingxiong was over 1.9 meters tall, it would be a bit stressful for him to find a girl who was 1.55 meters or 1.6 meters tall. So tall Russian beauties were quite in line with his aesthetics - his ex-girlfriend was 1.68 meters tall, which was considered tall among girls of the same age in southern China. When she walked with Chen Yingxiong, she still attracted a lot of attention because of the huge height difference.
However, it seems that the polarization of aesthetics is very serious. It was said that Russian women are beautiful before marriage, but they quickly gain weight and become middle-aged women after marriage.
If he found a Russian beauty for his wife, Chen Yingxiong would feel very stressed when he thought about opening his eyes the day after the wedding night and seeing a bloated and obese old lady lying next to him...
Okay, this was too exaggerated, but watching her body deform and swell day by day, like a blown-up balloon, it was also scary...
Dad's nagging never stopped, as if he had endless things to say.
But Chen Yingxiong's mind was not on this at all.
As a teenager, he always advocated freedom and liked an unfettered life.
When he was playing football in a domestic club, he would not go home if he could, and would rather live in the team dormitory. He would only go home once a week. Of course, there were still certain things he couldn't do. But now, he was truly free, alone in St. Petersburg, Russia, with his parents not around, and in China thousands of miles away. He could do whatever he wanted, and no one could control him.
This kind of life... Chen Yingxiong was looking forward to it.
It was like registering as a college freshman, just without all the tedious studying.
A completely new environment, unfamiliar but full of freshness. The excitement of being a professional player and the freedom of living alone all impacted the heart of this 18-year-old boy, making him full of longing and hope for the future.
As for what his father said, he actually didn't care at all.
Just like a bird that was about to be released from a cage, he had already started flapping his wings impatiently, waiting for the cage door to open so he could soar into the sky.
After taking a look around and discovering a few beauties, Chen Yingxiong finally turned his attention back to his father.
His father continued to chatter on, repeating the same sentence several times.
Chen Yingxiong suddenly felt strange. His father had never been such a long-winded person...
He interrupted his father and said, "Dad, I remembered something."
"Ah? What's going on?"
"Um... when we came out, we were two people. Now you're going back alone. How are you going to tell mom?"
This was indeed a big problem. After travelling around Europe, the father returned and his son was gone. How could a mother not be anxious?
Chen Tao hesitated for a moment, then tried to evade the question. "Don't worry about it. It has nothing to do with you..."
"You're not going to kneel on the washboard again, are you, Dad?" Chen Yingxiong asked.
Chen Tao blushed, then quickly returned to normal. "How could that be possible? I explained your situation to your mother. She also wanted to see you continue playing professional football..."
Chen Yingxiong curled his lips in disbelief. He didn't believe what his father said. He would definitely apologize as soon as he got home, and then explain the reason to his mother.
But deep down he was grateful for the sacrifices his father made for him.
Of course, it would be great to be a professional player, but he was not willing to stop just there. His goal was to become a hero on the court, just like his name. He was very grateful to his father for giving him this cool name.
In order to live up to this cool and domineering name my father gave me, I will also work hard to become a hero on the football field!
"Dad." Chen Yingxiong interrupted Chen Tao's nagging again.
"Hmm? What's your problem?"
"There are no broadcasts of the Russian Premier League in China, right?" he asked.
Chen Tao thought for a moment and said, "It seems that there really aren't..."
"What if you and Mom want to see me?"
Chen Tao was stunned for a moment. Yes, after he returned, his son's mother would be anxious if she couldn't see him. What should she do if she wanted to see him? If it was a major league, at least he could watch it on TV - if his son could make the match roster.
This was also why Chen Tao originally planned to go to countries housing the mainstream Leagues. If they hadn't known that his son would definitely not get a work permit in the UK...
Russia was really a helpless choice.
While Chen Tao was in a daze, Chen Yingxiong was thinking.
I don't know if Zenit is eligible to play in the UEFA Cup... But even if, the UEFA Cup is not broadcast in China. The only leagues broadcast in China are the Bundesliga, Serie A, Ligue 1, Premier League, La Liga... and the Brazilian and Argentine leagues, but not the Russian Premier League!
The Champions League is also broadcast, but is Zenit St. Petersburg qualified to play in the Champions League?
Chen Tao coughed and said, "Well, if I miss you, I'll just give you a call. When you get your salary, buy a computer first, and then we can chat online! Isn't online chatting popular now? I heard that you can even see each other..."
"Do you and my mom use the Internet?" Chen Yingxiong asked back.
Dad was silent again. Not many people of his generation know how to use computers...
"Dad."
"Um?"
"I, your son, will become a real hero. When you miss me, just turn on the TV." Chen Yingxiong pointed at himself with his thumb and said to his father.
Chen Tao smiled.
Chen Yingxiong took out his camera and said to his father, "Dad, let's take a photo together. Go back and tell Mom that if she really misses me, she can just look at the photo at first, before I make it big."
After saying that, he ran straight towards a blonde beauty in the distance, passing through countless tourists without stopping. When he ran in front of the beauty, he immediately looked shy and stammered to explain his purpose to the beauty. It took him a long time to bring the beauty over.
Chen Tao looked at his son who was thinking of girls at a time like this and scolded him with a smile. "This kid!"
The beauty was pulled over, and Chen Yingxiong taught her in halting English how to use his digital camera. He took the opportunity to have physical contact with the beauty several times.
After teaching the beauty, Chen Yingxiong ran back, stood next to his father, made a "V" gesture, and a smile of success appeared on his face.
Chen Tao stood beside his tall son, looking a little reserved and serious in front of the beautiful woman holding a camera. He put his hands together on his legs and stood straight, or rather stiff...
As the beauty counted down, the shutter was pressed. With a click, the figures of the father and son were permanently frozen on the bridge of the cruiser Aurora and in front of the Winter Palace in the distance.
One journey had ended, and another would soon begin.