Zhang Jun staggered and fell on the track. He did not get up immediately and then run as usual. This time he couldn't stand up even if he wanted to stand. Until the physical coach discovered that he had been lying on the track, curled up, buried his head in his arms, and pinching his left ankle with both hands.

The commotion rang out from all directions. The sound of footsteps, shouts, sighs, and then the sirens of the ambulance.

In front of many reporters, Zhang Jun was once again carried into an ambulance, the door was closed, and the riot behind him had nothing to do with it.

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"Bad doctor!" It was still the same doctor. He threw the medical record on the table. There was an X-ray on it. The doctor threw it so loudly. "What can be used to treat the wound and tear the ligament torn! What can be as good as before in three weeks! Where did the old man find a liar?! Which doctor dares to guarantee the patient like this? Does he know what the doctor is most taboo about? It is to guarantee the patient! How can he treat the patient like this!"

He asked angrily, but the others in the house didn't dare to speak out. Even the director was silent and let the doctor lose his temper. Who would make him the most authoritative orthopedic expert in this hospital? But it's a pity that the authority of the expert became a useless decoration in front of the so-called miracle doctor.

"Not only delayed treatment, but also further aggravated the injury! Although the ligament is not completely torn, it is also very dangerous. Now patients, even if they use the most advanced technology, they will definitely not be able to continue playing the football you want to see after they are cured! Hold a press conference!" He pointed to the door and said, "Tell everyone that Zhang Jun announced his retirement!"

This word is loud and loud, and every word is like a heavy hammer hitting the listener's heart.

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The director grabbed Chen Wei outside and said to him: "Director Xie was angry just now. In fact, it is not as serious as retirement. I am also an orthopedic doctor. Don't take it seriously. I think it doesn't mean that it can't be cured in other places. The Football Association can consider other places..."

Chen Wei nodded. Of course, he would not believe that Zhang Jun would retire. Zhang Jun is the hope of Chinese football. What does Zhang Jun fall mean? He knows this better than anyone else.

No matter what, Zhang Jun cannot be retired...

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After Yang Pan knew that Zhang Jun was injured again because of the quack doctor, he called Zhang Jun again, but it was still "the user you called was turned off"...

"Bang!" He punched the wall with a muffled sound. If he were in China, he would probably have to beat the quack doctor who was suspended and even the quack doctor was looking for his teeth. But now he is in Italy and can only regard the wall opposite as the quack doctor. So Yang Pan punched the wall one by one, as if he wanted to penetrate the wall.

He and Zhang Jun are brothers. Zhang Jun was injured and he was in pain!

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Zhang Jun was admitted to a single ward, which was the best ward in the hospital. Unfortunately, the ward level could not help him treat his injuries, and the comfortable environment would not help Zhang Jun's cheerful mood. When he fell down again, when he was sent back to the hospital again, he had collapsed. Fate made a joke on him, a big joke.

When he first fell down, he thought he was finished.

However, the appearance of the "miracle doctor" made him think he still had hope.

Everything was moving in a good direction, and he began to think that it was just an ordinary game injury, but the report from Milan laboratory made everyone feel a little nervous.

However, when he fell down the second time, the same part and the same feeling made Zhang Jun, who was still lucky, feel depressed.

It would never be a coincidence that the same injury was so short apart. Milan Laboratory was indeed not wrong. Everything last summer was not a conspiracy as some people speculated, but it was indeed because there were major hidden dangers in Zhang Jun's left ankle.

In short, everything is over. The Milan Laboratory's prediction is completely correct. Now he should seriously consider the issue of retirement, right? Robbie announced his retirement a few days ago, and he immediately followed closely. The two of them are indeed very destined! Zhang Jun smiled bitterly.

But Sophie's arrival surprised Zhang Jun.

"Su...Su Fei?" Zhang Jun looked at the familiar face in front of him with a little surprise. She was so tired, so anxious, so worried, so melancholy...

“Shouldn’t you be in school?”

"I've asked for leave, after seeing the news."

"Sorry, Sophie." Zhang Jun lowered his head.

"Why do you say sorry?"

"I, I can't play football anymore, and I can't give you that birthday gift on your birthday. I, I think I should retire. I don't want to continue playing football anymore. It's so tired, really, and it hurts... I want to go back to school with you to continue studying, graduate, and find a job..." Zhang Junyue said, his voice choked, and he wanted to cry. After enduring in front of everyone for so long, he now faced Sophie without any scruples.

"Raise your head and look at me, Zhang Jun." Sophie said, his tone calm and strong.

Zhang Jun raised his head, he looked at Sophie's beautiful face, and then he saw Sophie raise his hand, as if he was going to wipe his wet corners of his eyes.

"Bang!"

Zhang Jun turned his face to the side, but his eyes looked at Sophie with an angry face in surprise.

What a loud slap!

Zhang Jun's mother, who happened to walk to the door of the ward, heard the noise and wanted to push the door and go in and take a look, but was pulled by her husband. He shook his head at her.

"I didn't even take leave. I came to Wuhan by skipping classes. I just wanted to hear your unpromising words? Isn't it just an injury? Ronaldo was injured for two years, and he won the Golden Boots in the World Cup and won the Golden Cup? Baggio started surgery at the age of seventeen and was also respectfully kicked until now! Are you scared like this? Are you scared by that shitty physical examination report?" Sophie said angrily.

"Sophie, you don't understand! I'm different from them..."

"What's the difference? Don't you like football, Zhang Jun? But now the game is just beginning, you are clamoring to give up the game because of a foul by the other party and demand the end of the game! What are you thinking?"

"Even if my feet can be cured, I can no longer play football as flexibly as before. This is science, science!" Zhang Jun's voice also became louder.

Sophie stared at Zhang Jun for a long time, and her eyes seemed to be like Zhang Jun that she knew. "Science... I work hard in China alone. I think Zhang Jun will work hard and strong even if he is alone on the court. But today..." Her voice was very light, like muttering to herself. "Maybe the injury is really serious, but there are so many people supporting you. Why do you say such a rash word to retire? Have you forgotten so many things in the past?"

Sophie stopped talking, just stood by the bed and looked at Zhang Jun. She gasped heavily, and her heart had not yet calmed down from the excitement. Zhang Jun lowered his head and looked at the bed sheet without saying a word.

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Li Yongle decided to visit Zhang Jun. He must be lonely in the hospital alone now, so after dinner, he asked Qiu Suhui for two and a half hours off and took a bus to the hospital where Zhang Jun was.

Zhang Jun was alone in the ward, and his parents were not there. The door was hidden. Li Yongle knocked on it a few times before pushing it in and entering.

Zhang Jun seemed to be thinking something. It was not until Li Yongle walked in, put the flowers in the vase, then dragged a chair and sat next to Zhang Jun, coughed gently, and he seemed to have returned to the world and found that there was another person next to him.

"Are you better?" Li Yongle really didn't know what to say, so he asked a big nonsense.

Sure enough, Zhang Jun did not answer him, but instead said to himself: "Sophie is here."

Li Yongle was surprised: "Where did she come? When did they come?"

"... But she hit me and left again." Zhang Jun didn't seem to be saying that for Li Yongle. After saying this, he sat alone on the bed, not knowing what he was thinking. The lights were not on in the ward, it was very dim, and everything was like when Li Yongle came in just now.

The impact of these consecutive blows on Zhang Jun is huge, which can be seen from the fact that he often falls into silence for no reason or talks to himself. In the past, Zhang Jun often joked that he likes to hang his bright smile on his face if he has something to do and has good popularity, whether in the team or in the eyes of fans and reporters. While truly enjoying the joy of football, he also spreads this happiness to everyone around him.

But now...

Li Yongle sighed softly. He was not an expert in the degree of foot injury, and he was not sure whether he had reached the point of retirement. But he also knew that for a player in the right state, with a strong popularity and continuous goals, such a player in the cloud of happiness, the expert's diagnosis was a hundred times more painful than a foot injury.

There is also the "Doctor Hu", a man who deceived the world and robbed the world. I don't know where I jumped out, take Zhang Jun, take the National Olympic Team, and make fun of everyone who cares about Zhang Jun. For Zhang Jun, who is already physically and mentally, this kind of tossing is undoubtedly a sprinkling of salt on his wound.

But unfortunately, Li Yongle is just an ordinary player and has no way to do anything. He can only bring a few bouquets of flowers and say some words of comfort and encouragement when visiting Zhang Jun. As for whether Zhang Jun heard it, Li Yongle could not control it and could not know.

He decided to go back. Although he asked Qiu Suhui for two and a half hours off, there was still more time now, it was really very difficult to watch Zhang Jun in the ward like now... He had no choice and didn't want to see Zhang Jun like this.

Furthermore, if the reporter saw it outside and said something unknown in the newspaper, then the national Olympic team, which was already troubled, would be completely uneasy.

"Zhang Jun, I'm back. You're well recuperating, everyone is still waiting for you to go back!" Regardless of whether Zhang Jun heard or not, Li Yongle stood up and said goodbye, then turned around and walked out.

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When he passed by the bathroom, Li Yongle turned in. When he was convenient for him to come out to wash his hands outside, he heard everyone in the next female toilet crying. Although there was a sound of running water covering the crying, Li Yongle still heard it from the interval of the sound of water. It was indeed a woman's crying.

Maybe someone died in someone's family? Li Yongle thought of turning on the faucet, and the sound of water was rushing, and the crying was intermittent. Li Yongle put his hands into the water, and then stared at the big mirror on the wall in a daze.

I have to be a rival to Zhang Jun for the rest of my life, but now God has made Zhang Jun retire inexplicably. So what about me? I regained football because of Zhang Jun; I went to college because of Zhang Jun; I train hard every day without any obstacles; I joined the National Olympic Team because of Zhang Jun; I have to go to Europe to play football because of Zhang Jun... Now the goal is gone and falls all of a sudden. In this vast ocean, he has no reference for a while. Should he go left, right? Continue forward? Or turn his head back?

Why do you play football by yourself? Li Yongle held his hands by the sink, put his head close to the mirror, and looked at himself in the mirror. You asked. Your family is in good condition and you don’t need to play football for life. You don’t like the fame and fortune that journalists and fans are sought after. So why did you pick up the football that you gave up for four years from the corner in 1998, wipe off the dust from it, and then train hard every day, not daring to be slackened?

Is it because Zhang Jun, the leader who has always been ahead of you? It makes you have a desire to surpass and defeat him, the desire to be a passionate man.

Or are you just like football and are willing to give everything for it, even if you have broken hands and feet?

"Bang!" A big hand slapped the mirror. Li Yongle looked at the water that was still flowing, and suddenly realized that he was here to do something. He came to make things convenient, and after the convenience, he came out to wash his hands, but he heard the inexplicable crying next door, which made him feel inexplicably sad.

Li Yongle shook his head, then scooped up a handful of water and poured it on his face. He scooped up a handful of water and closed his eyes and poured it on his face. He did not rush to open his eyes, but bent down and let the water on his face fall down one by one. He heard the door of the next female toilet opened, and someone walked out, and then the man walked to the sink, turned on the faucet, washing his hands and face like Li Yongle, with the sound of water rustling.

Li Yongle shook his head gently and threw the water droplets off his face. Then he opened his eyes, but what he saw in the mirror made him stunned. The girl next to him had just washed her face, and when she opened her eyes, she saw Li Yongle in the mirror, and was also stunned.

Neither faucet is turned off, and the water is roaring.

"Li Yongle?" The girl called out first.

"Sophie?" Then there was Li Yongle.

Unfortunately, the two met here.

"I'll come to see Zhang Jun and listen to him talk about you." Li Yongle, who had returned to normal, turned off the faucet and said to Sophie.

"I came by train yesterday and just arrived at noon today." Sophie also lowered her head and turned off the faucet.

"You asked for leave?"

"No, skip class, didn't have time to ask."

Then there was an embarrassing silence. Sophie lowered her head and flipped through tissues in her bag, while Li Yongle looked at herself in the mirror. Occasionally, someone came in to use the toilet. Although she was wondering why the two of them stood at the door of the toilet, given Li Yongle's height, no one dared to glance at her.

"Well, you... go see him. Did he say anything to you?" Sophie asked with her head down, and she was rubbing her hands that had been dried up with a tissue.

"No, he just said you came to see him, then hit him, and then left. He was silent for the rest of the time." Li Yongle said truthfully.

There was another silence. In order not to make the atmosphere awkward, Li Yongle decided to ask for a word: "How long are you going to stay in Wuhan? Have you booked a hotel room? If not, I can help you book one in the hotel we stay for, and I...

"No need." Sophie shook her head and said softly. "I will go back to Hefei tonight, so I don't need to book a room for me."

"Let's leave tonight?" Li Yongle was surprised. "I finally came here, why are you in a hurry to leave? Don't you spend more time with Zhang Jun and your uncle and aunt?"

"..." Sophie said nothing.

"Sophie, Zhang Jun is very depressed now, he needs your encouragement." Li Yongle said seriously. He didn't know what happened, why Zhang Jun said that Sophie hit him, and then he never said anything again.

Sophie finally raised her head and smiled at Li Yongle: "You know, I hit Zhang Jun. That was the first time I hit him, and I slapped him. It was when we first entered college and we were having a quarrel. I never thought that I would hit him or Zhang Jun..." Under the incandescent lamp, her smiling face was pale. "But I didn't even ask for leave. I took the train overnight and stood all the way to Wuhan without a ticket. Do you think I was just to slap him? I also wanted to comfort him and encourage him. But when I came, I found that Zhang Jun was too weak and he was too dependent on me. Maybe the injury was really serious this time, but when he saw me, he told me that he was going to retire. He was only twenty-two years old, and he was going to say such things!"

After a moment of pause, Sophie looked at herself in the mirror and continued, "It's not that he can play football now, but whether he still wants to play football. The road ahead is still long. I can't always be by his side every moment, nor can he appear in front of him immediately to comfort and encourage him whenever he has any problems. He always has to face these problems alone, I have always believed in him, but he also has to believe in himself. I want him to understand this point. He must be really strong and not say depressed words at any time. I think I was too close to him before, so that he would have this kind of dependence. Maybe I should go away and leave him for a while before he will gradually become stronger..."

Sophie is strong. Li Yongle looked at Sophie and thought that in order to make Zhang Jun strong, she became strong first. However, Zhang Jun could not continue playing football. Except for Zhang Jun himself, the damage suffered by everyone was not as much as Sophie suffered alone. Zhang Jun was in pain, but Sophie felt in his heart. Moreover, her pain could not be mentioned to anyone. When she was sad and helpless, only one person ran into the toilet and cried with the sound of flushing. Then when the door opened, it was the usual Sophie. Unlike Zhang Jun, when he was injured, there were fans and fans who came to send flowers, leaders and leaders to comfort him, and even Sophie skipped class to comfort him.
To be continued...