Chapter 13 Merry Christmas

Thanks to Schneider, Zhou Yi earned one hundred euros. For his parents, this one hundred euros was almost one-third of their respective wages.

He also got a kiss from a beautiful woman, even though that beauty was just playing on the occasion.

But anyway, after this trip to the bar, Zhou Yi's depression caused by homesickness finally improved.

Young people are always easy to divert their attention. Even if they are depressed, they will not be depressed for too long, otherwise they will be depressed.

And Zhou Yi is obviously not a person who will suffer from depression.

On Christmas Eve, Zhou Yi made a phone call with his parents who were far away in China, reported the recent situation, and greeted his parents a happy holiday.

On the phone, my father was still long-winded, while my mother still didn't talk much.

Listening to his parents' voices, Zhou Yi's restless heart completely calmed down.

During the month he was away from home, Zhou Yi had an unprecedented understanding of the concept of "home".

In the past, home was a very bookish concept. When it comes to "home", it has no other meaning except for the explanation in the dictionary.

But now, Zhou Yi has a more real and profound understanding of "home".

Whenever he feels depressed and depressed, he will regain the motivation to continue to struggle when he thinks of his parents at home.

The saying I read in books before is "home is a safe haven".

But Zhou Yi felt that if the "home" was a port, it was not for shelter from the wind, but for refueling and supplies.

Home is the place where every journey starts, and it is also the place where every journey ends.

Home is both the beginning and the end.

Home is the brightest star in the night sky. Whenever a wanderer gets lost in the dark night and looks up at the night sky, the brightest star can always guide him to find the way forward. Give him the courage to keep going.

After finishing the phone call with his parents, in the evening local time, the Mark family had a very sumptuous Christmas Eve dinner together.

Even Konata, who seldom goes home, rushed back.

That girl who looks arrogant and aggressive outside. Put away the edge of the body at home, looking like an ordinary daughter and sister.

Zhou Yi looked at her like this. It's really hard to relate what she was doing at the bar that day.

After seeing him, Konata also behaved normally, no matter in eyes or expression, Zhou Yi couldn't see the slightest embarrassment. It seems that she has forgotten the scene of having such passion with herself.

On the contrary, Zhou Yi was still a little embarrassed when he saw Cortana, his eyes would always unconsciously fall on those two lips of Cortana, reminiscing about the original feeling.

Regarding his first kiss, Zhou Yi once had some fantasies, but none of them were in a dimly lit room. It happened between a bar in a foreign country with loud music, and a woman who didn't see herself as smooth.

Seeing that Cortana didn't seem to care about kissing at all, Zhou Yi couldn't help feeling that foreign women were really open, and at the same time couldn't help but wonder if Cortana was very experienced? Otherwise, why is it so easy to retract and release?

Thinking of this, Zhou Yi felt a little confused.

Such a proud woman, would she be a very open person in that respect?

Zhou Yi felt that it was too split, it was really hard for him to understand and imagine...

"Zhouyi, Zhouyi!"

Mark was calling him, calling him back to God.

"what?"

"Merry Christmas!" Mark's mother, Mrs. Wagner, brought a box of wrapped gift bags on the ground. "This is your first Christmas at our house, Zhou Yi. I hope you like this little gift."

Zhou Yi saw the gift. Some hesitated: "But I didn't prepare a gift..."

"Hey, you don't need to prepare a gift." Mark said quickly, "Take it!"

Zhou Yi wrote Mrs. Wagner. Take the gift.

He remembered that it seemed polite for foreigners to unwrap presents on the spot, but just as he was about to unwrap presents, Old Wagner brought another gift box on the ground: "Merry Christmas, Zhou Yi!"

"Thank you Uncle Wagner." Zhou Yi accepted the gift.

Mark also handed over a gift: "I have a gift too!"

"Thank you Mark! But I didn't return the gift, so I had to give you a kiss!" Zhou Yi joked and kissed Mark.

"Thank you, I'm not interested in men!" Mark quickly avoided.

The two live treasures made Wagner's parents laugh.

But after Zhou Yi and Mark finished their fight, they saw Cortana's smiling face: "I have a present too, Merry Christmas."

When seeing Cortana, the expression on Zhou Yi's face was a little embarrassed.

He always felt that the faint smile on Cortana's face seemed to have some other profound meaning. Is it mocking, or teasing him?

Because what he had joked with Mark earlier was "kiss." And that happened to be the key word between him and Cortana.

Did Cortana misunderstand something when she was joking?

He hastily accepted Cortana's gift and said thank you.

The presents are all collected. Then it was time to unwrap the presents.

The person who gave the gift seemed to be more excited and looking forward to it than the person who received the gift. Mark and his mother kept urging Zhou Yi to open the gift.

Zhou Yi unwrapped the presents in the order they received them. The first one was given by Mrs. Wagner. Inside was a scarf with a good texture. Zhou Yi wrapped it around his neck, and suddenly felt that the circle around his neck was hot and very warm.

Mrs. Wagner saw Zhou Yi wearing a scarf and said with a smile: "It's quite suitable, but fortunately, I'm afraid that the color won't match."

"Thank you Mrs. Wagner, I love it!"

Old Wagner gave a pair of sneakers, and Zhou Yi also tried them on, and they fit well and were very comfortable to wear.

Mark sent a pair of... ps3 handles.

"Limited edition, exclusive to you!" Mark said proudly.

Zhou Yi looked at the black handle in his hand, no matter how it looked, it was very ordinary, without any limited edition appearance, and he couldn't tell how it was exclusive to himself.

"Turn it over," Mark said.

Zhou Yi turned the handle over, only to find that a Chinese character "Zhou" was engraved obliquely with a knife on the back of the handle... The handle was scratched in a mess by the knife.

"Mark made it himself, Zhou Yi's exclusive limited edition handle! There is only one in the world!" After seeing Zhou Yi discovering this, Mark raised his hands and announced triumphantly.

Zhou Yi suppressed the rolling of his eyes. Say, "Thank you!"

"You're welcome, you're welcome, hehe!" Mark really didn't hear the antonym in Zhou Yi's tone.

In the end, only the gift from Cortana remained.

After Zhou Yi unpacked the simple packaging. A book appeared in front of his eyes. The title of the book is...

"How to get rid of being single. Study hard, Chinese boy." Cortana blinked at Zhou Yi.

Zhou Yi looked at her smile. Listening to her tone, and looking down at the book in his hand, he felt Cortana's deep... malice!

Is this mocking myself as a beginner!

Damn, what happened to Chu Ge! Brother Chu also has human rights, brother Chu also has dignity!

So Zhou Yi gave Cortana a hard look, and Cortana, who was glared at by him, still had a faint smile on her face, as if she was laughing at Zhou Yi.

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Christmas is the most important festival in the West, similar in importance to the Spring Festival in China.

So during Christmas. The Bundesliga has to be suspended and has a holiday.

German football is different from English football. There is a winter break in Germany.

The winter break usually starts from mid-December until the end of January and the beginning of February. Players can enjoy half a month of vacation, fully relax and rest, and then assemble and start training in early January next year to prepare for the second half of the season.

On Christmas Eve, the most important thing in German football is the ownership of the winter break champion.

This year, the winter break champion unexpectedly belonged to a small team. Very, very small team - Hoffenheim from a small town with a population of only 3,000.

This team has only been promoted from the Bundesliga Bundesliga this season. When they first entered the first division, no one put them in their eyes and hearts. The analysts' judgment on their future was to relegate to the second division after one season. The Bundesliga is not a game that small teams like them can afford.

But when the league started, Hoffenheim shocked the whole of Germany and even Europe with its incredible performance.

They achieved 11 wins, 2 draws and 4 losses in the 17 rounds of the league, and finally won the winter break championship!

This simply stunned the whole of Germany.

You know, in the Bundesliga, the winter break championship is of great significance. According to statistics, the team that wins the winter break championship has a 70% probability of winning the league championship. In the 45-year history of the Bundesliga, 31 winter break champions have finally won the title.

Before and after Christmas, whether it's TV or newspapers. Or the Internet and radio are discussing whether Hoffenheim will repeat the "Kaiserslautern myth".

Kaiserslautern ranked last in the Bundesliga in the 1995-1996 season. Relegated to Class B. In the second season, they returned to the Bundesliga with the first place in the Bundesliga, and returned to the Bundesliga for the first season in the 1997-1998 season. He won the league championship.

But if Hoffenheim can win the Bundesliga championship, they will be even more magical than Kaizi Slautern back then.

Because Kaizi Slautern was already a strong team before relegation. They won the Bundesliga championship in the 1990-1991 season. This is a solid team.

But what about Hoffenheim? In 1989, they were still a small team for self-entertainment, playing in the seventh tier of Germany, and were relegated to the eighth tier that year...

Then they started seven consecutive jumps and shocked the world this season.

This matter has a great impact, and even in the city of Dortmund, people can see people discussing Hoffenheim everywhere.

A grassroots team was able to win half of the Bundesliga championship, and they became an inspirational role model.

It also brought a lot of touch to Zhou Yi.

In his view, Hoffenheim is his role model. What they can do, they can do too.

Hoffenheim has reached the first place in the Bundesliga, why can't I also complete the triple jump in the Dortmund youth team?

From u17 to u19, to the first team!

So even if he was on vacation, Zhou Yi didn't forget to stick to his physical training.

His biggest problem now is poor physical fitness. Physical fitness coach Bartlett told him that jogging at a constant speed in the park cannot improve his physical fitness. The most important thing about physical fitness is the ability to recover during the interval.

So he changed his strategy, instead of jogging at a constant speed in the park, he changed to jogging after a sprint, and then continued to sprint for a distance after jogging for a certain distance.

Just repeat the cycle, training his body's aerobic recovery ability after anaerobic exercise. (to be continued)