Chapter 83
The news about Li Tian published in the Sports Weekly is like wildfires on the wasteland, spreading across China, as if making this winter no longer cold.
It was 7:30 in the morning when the staff went to work and the children went to school. However, today many passers-by were surprised to find that there was always a large group of people in front of the newsstands they passed along the way, as if they were buying something. From time to time, some people rushed out of the crowd with a newspaper excitedly cheering. But soon after, they heard the boss of the newsstand shouting loudly to the crowd, "No more, no more, I really have nothing here! You go to another house to see it!" The crowd immediately sighed disappointed.
The people who left the newsstand did not disperse, but rushed to another nearby newsstand like a group of locusts. However, when they arrived at the next newsstand, there were also a group of people gathered there, and the same sighs as they had just said in the crowd, so the two streams of people gathered into one and continued to kill to other newspaper sales points, and more people continued to join their team on the way.
It is mid-January, and the students in the school have entered the final review stage. In the final exam half a month later, the quality of the grades directly affects whether the students can spend the Spring Festival with peace of mind. However, during such a tense review time, Xiao Ting, the head teacher of the third class (2) of a key high school in L City, found strangely that in her English class, many boys had their heads drooped, their eyes obviously staring at the table, and they didn't care about her comments on yesterday's test papers, and they didn't even know that she walked to them.
Luo was once a football fan and the main player of the football team in the school. However, because he was already in his third year of high school, he had to withdraw from the school team. However, he has always cared about football and sports. Every issue of the Sports Weekly is a must-read. When he was in school this morning, he found that almost all the newspaper booths were buying this issue of the Sports Weekly. Realizing that there must be some big news, he risked his lateness and rushed on his bicycle for twenty minutes, and finally bought the last "Sports Weekly" in a relatively remote newsstand.
Finally, in class, Luo Zeng couldn't help but commit crimes against the wind under the eyes of his class teacher. When he was reading the reports that Li Tian refused invitations from many German clubs such as Bayern Munich and Cologne, he suddenly stretched out his hand from the top of his head and grabbed his newspaper.
"Stop making trouble, I'm just watching it!" Luo Zeng, who was already addicted to the newspaper and did not remember at all that he was still in class, pushed away the hand that grabbed the newspaper.
"Luo Zeng! Stand up for me!" At this time, the familiar voice of the head teacher rang in his ears like a huge thunder.
"Ah!" Only then did he realize who the owner of the hand was.
"Luo Zeng, do you think you have a good study and there is no problem in getting into college? When is this? Now is the time to sprint for the senior year, and you still have the time to read newspapers in class? Look at how many points you got in the exam yesterday, and then look at Huang Jian..." Xiao Ting's words stopped at this time because she found that Luo Zeng's deskmate, Huang Jian, who was the class study committee member, also had a red face, and was very uneasy to cover something with the test papers on the desktop.
Xiao Ting lifted up his test paper and found that there was also a "Sports Weekly" under the test paper. Huang Jian was extremely embarrassed to bury his head under the table. Xiao Ting angrily collected the newspaper, but she wanted to take a closer look at the magic in the newspaper that made these students so obsessed with them. When she saw the reports about Li Tian in the newspaper, she felt relieved, because as a local citizen of L City, she could not have known this local star who caused a national sensation half a year ago. Many students and young people in L City regarded Li Tian as their new idol worship, and took pride in being a person in L City like Li Tian.
"I'll put away the newspaper first. You'll take it back after school at noon. Now I'll listen to the class carefully." Luo and Huang and the others were relieved when they heard that the head teacher did not go into it in depth and did not intend to confiscate it. They were relieved that the current "Sports Weekly" has no place to buy it even if they have money.
Also in L City, Director Wu of the Sports Committee has been free since Li Tian studied in Germany. Although the results of G Province in the 10th National Games were not ideal, the results of the four gold and two silvers in L City have already made him very satisfied and received praise from the province. Now there are no major domestic competitions that make him worry about, and he also has the leisure to read newspapers and drink tea every morning, which is very free and easy.
At eight o'clock in the morning, Director Wu's secretary placed several domestic sports newspapers and magazines such as "Sports Weekly", "Contemporary Sports", and "Southern Sports" on his desk and made a cup of tea for him.
At 8:15, Director Wu appeared in his office on time, picked up the teacup and took a sip. When he opened a stack of newspapers and saw the front page photos of "Sports Weekly", a sip of hot tea that had not yet swallowed came out of his mouth. As one of the people who knew Li Tian the best, Director Wu recognized at first glance that the Chinese boy holding the football trophy in the photo was Li Tian, but he knew very well whether Li Tian had received football training. How could he suddenly get the championship of the National College Football Competition, second only to the German Professional League, and win the best player of the game. He didn't get any news about this before.
Just as he was thinking about it, the phone on the table rang. It was called by Director Zhang of the Provincial Bureau. He was shocked when he saw the news in the newspaper. Li Tian did not write about his strengths in football in the province's materials. As a key player in the province, Li Tian's performance is related to his future political achievements. He had to care about it, so he immediately called the municipal bureau to inquire about the situation.
"Director Zhang, I can guarantee that Li Tian had never trained football when he was in China, and he had never mentioned this to us. Maybe this was something he had only come into contact with after he arrived in Germany. With his ability, it is indeed very likely that such a miracle would be created in a short period of time. But don't you worry, he will not miss track and field training. Didn't you also see the newspaper report that he had a personal best result of 9.88 seconds?..." After replying to Director Zhang's inquiry, Director Wu immediately called Li Tian's parents and coaches, but they knew nothing about it. It seemed that they could only call Germany to ask Li Tian directly. After all, Germany is still at around 1 a.m.
In the headquarters building of "Sports Weekly" in Changsha, Hunan, the newspaper's president Qu Youyuan was listening to the editor-in-chief Shi Junyi excitedly reporting to him the latest sales statistics of the "Sports Weekly" issue.
"President, by nine o'clock in the morning, according to statistics sent back by more than 30 sub-printing points across the country, more than 2 million newspapers have been distributed, and the momentum is much stronger than the World Cup, and the sales and sales are still soaring. The 200,000 sub-printing parts sold in Changsha have been sold for more than 150,000. Now many newsstands are facing shortages. Do you want to let all sub-printing points be printed immediately?" Shi Junyi said excitedly. He didn't expect the momentum this time to be so hot. In this way, it will definitely break the highest record of 2.8 million units without 10 o'clock, and there will be a lot of room for improvement.
"Well! Let the sub-printing points in various places be printed in a total of 1 million copies in proportion, and I have to ensure that the employees in the position are on standby at any time. Maybe we will do a second printing." Yesterday, Shi Junyi came to him and asked him to print twice as much as usual. Now he just wants to see what kind of expression the bosses of opponents such as Football and Southern Sports News will look like when they see the 5 million single-item circulation of "Sports Weekly".
The heads of the newspaper were all smiling, but the employees below couldn't laugh at all. Starting from 7:30 in the morning, all the phones in the newspaper rang out at once. As soon as they entered the newspaper, it seemed as if they had walked into a phone ringing store, especially the hotlines of more than a dozen newspapers. They didn't stop for a second, and were almost beaten by enthusiastic sports fans who asked about Li Tian's situation. They were so busy that the responders had to pick up two microphones at the same time.
Chapter completed!