Chapter 141 I'm Back to Find Her

These past two weeks, the focus of world football has been on national team matches, with everyone striving for qualification for the 2014 Brazil World Cup finals.

Without Chen Yingxiong, the Chinese team, after one win and one loss, welcomed their strong group rival Iraq at home.

This was their chance to defeat Iraq because it was on home soil. But if they lost to Iraq, their chances of qualifying from the group would be slim.

However, this had nothing to do with Chen Yingxiong.

With no national team matches to play, Chen Yingxiong asked Dalglish for leave. Although the team had arranged an internal match with the youth team this weekend to help the first-team players who were still at Melwood maintain their form.

But Chen Yingxiong didn't want to participate. He didn't need to maintain his form.

"I want to ask for leave, boss," Chen Yingxiong said to Dalglish.

"Is something the matter, Hero?" Dalglish was a little surprised. Chen Yingxiong's first words were to ask for leave. Could something have happened?

"Nothing's the matter. I just want to take a vacation. The game against the youth team this weekend isn't important anyway..."

"You have a point..." Dalglish pondered for a moment, then nodded. "Alright, go ahead. I'll give you two days. I want to see you at Melwood on Monday morning." He was quite open to Chen Yingxiong's request for leave. The weekend was just a warm-up match, and it didn't matter whether Chen Yingxiong was there or not. Anyway, he was in good shape. Since he had personal matters to attend to, let him take care of them. It was as if he was also participating in a national team match...

Chen Yingxiong snapped his fingers. "No problem! I'm never late for training!"

"Can I ask where you're going on vacation?"

"Italy!" Chen Yingxiong replied with a smile.

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This was Cabrera's last week of vacation. After this long holiday, she would return to the company and wait to carry out various security tasks.

She had not left Naples during her three-month vacation, always staying at home to help discipline her eight younger siblings...

Now that her vacation was coming to an end, she finally ran out of the house. She felt that she should still go out and have fun during this vacation, otherwise, what was the difference between it and another job?

But where to go?

She thought for a long time, and finally decided to go to a place she was very familiar with. Compared to going to those beautiful scenic spots, she felt she had a little more interest in this place.

She didn't take a car or drive. She just wore a pair of neat, tight-fitting jeans, paired with a very ordinary t-shirt, and walked through the streets and alleys of Naples, wearing sunglasses.

She walked through narrow alleys, stepped on sewage spreading from garbage piles, and also walked through bright sunshine and dappled light and shadows. She climbed slopes, she went down steps, and she stood by the roadside, looking out at the distant blue sea to rest... Finally, she arrived at a two-story villa located on a hillside, with a panoramic view of the bay and the densely packed houses below.

There was a small garden in front of the villa, and the person-high fence was still very neat, showing that it was not lacking careful management. Even if no one lived here anymore, someone must have been hired to maintain it.

Through the fence, one could see that the curtains inside the windows were tightly closed, preventing people outside from easily seeing the situation inside.

The roadside outside the villa was not as full of media cars as before. The reporters were guarding in their cars, staying up all night, aiming their cameras at this villa. They knew that the person in the house could bring them a lot of news and eyeballs.

In addition, there were also fans wearing slogans, holding up caricatured posters, and protesting loudly here day and night. Across the street from them were police cars with flashing lights, guarded by policemen who didn't really take the protesting fans seriously.

Just four months ago, it was so lively here.

Now it was deserted.

This was not a tourist attraction. Cabrera came here to perform a ritual—to see the place where she had worked for three years one last time, and then turn around and leave, bidding farewell to the past, bidding farewell to every minute and every second of those three years.

She didn't stand here for too long, nor did she let the past replay in her mind like a movie, scene after scene.

She stood by the roadside, looked at the villa across the street, and in just three minutes, she decided to turn around and leave. She probably wouldn't come here again on purpose in the future...

Just as she turned around to leave, a taxi drove from a distance, and then braked sharply, stopping right in front of the villa's gate.

She noticed this scene, and suddenly stopped walking, instead, she stood sideways by the roadside, watching the sudden taxi across the street.

In her heart, something suddenly started to churn slowly from below...

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Chen Yingxiong felt that his disguise was very good. With a baseball cap and sunglasses on, no one should be able to recognize him. Although he was very burly, this was Europe, and there were many burly people. He wasn't exactly standing out.

Facts proved that his disguise was successful, because all the way from Liverpool to Milan, and then to Naples, no one recognized him on the way, and no media waited to block him at the airport—the hero of Naples' Champions League victory returning to the place where he had once fought, such a big thing was enough to cause a sensation among Naples fans, how could the media not be alerted?

But nothing happened.

Chen Yingxiong enjoyed a quiet journey.

At the airport, he stopped a taxi, gave the name of the street, but did not give the specific house number.

He didn't let the driver pull over until the car reached this place.

It was this one action that got him recognized.

The taxi driver excitedly yelled, took out his mobile phone to take a photo with Chen Yingxiong, and also took out a Naples scarf, wanting Chen Yingxiong to sign the scarf.

Chen Yingxiong was a little surprised. He didn't expect that after he left here so resolutely, the people here didn't seem to have forgotten him.

The signature request was satisfied, but as for taking a photo together, there was no way in the taxi's small interior space.

"Let's take a photo outside the car..." Chen Yingxiong said.

The driver nodded in agreement.

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Cabrera stood by the roadside, watching the taxi door being opened, and a fat driver ran out.

At the same time, the other door was also opened, and a tall figure emerged from the car.

When she saw this figure, Cabrera's pupils shrank.

The tall figure bent down slightly and leaned in with the taxi driver. The taxi driver wanted to take a selfie with his mobile phone, but he always felt that he couldn't tell how well he was shooting...

He still had to find someone to help.

He looked left and right, and at a glance, he saw Cabrera standing across the street.

"Hey, miss! Help me!" He waved to Cabrera.

Following his voice and gesture, Chen Yingxiong also looked over. When he saw Cabrera, he was obviously stunned.

Cabrera didn't expect the taxi driver to find her...

She walked over, looking very natural.

The taxi driver, completely unaware of the strange expression on Chen Yingxiong's face behind him, grabbed Cabrera and said to her, "Help me take a picture with him! Thank you!"

Cabrera took the mobile phone that had already been adjusted and aimed it at Chen Yingxiong.

Although Chen Yingxiong in the screen was wearing sunglasses, the stiff expression on his face could still be seen.

When the driver leaned in, the stiff expression disappeared, and a smile appeared on Chen Yingxiong's face.

"Okay." Cabrera pressed the shutter and froze the photo of the driver and Chen Yingxiong.

"Thank you! Thank you so much! Haha!" The taxi driver was very happy. After thanking Cabrera, he took the mobile phone and looked at it. The picture was taken well. He put it away with satisfaction. Then he turned around, shook hands with Chen Yingxiong, and thanked Chen Yingxiong for bringing the Champions League trophy to Naples.

Only then did he get back into the car and drive away.

The taxi driver left, but Cabrera did not leave. She stood in front of Chen Yingxiong, watching him with a calm expression.

Reuniting with Cabrera in this way made Chen Yingxiong a little...awkward. He took off his sunglasses and scratched his head. "What a coincidence, you're here too?"

"Why are you here?" Cabrera didn't answer Chen Yingxiong's question, but asked instead.

"I asked the club for two days off. Because I always felt like I left something in Napoli, so I came back to find it," Chen Yingxiong replied.

"What did you forget?" Cabrera asked.

"You know, Christine? Some things are really amazing. Just like bread always lands buttered-side down, every time you move, you always inexplicably lose something. When you go on a long trip, even if you pack your luggage carefully, there's always a nagging thought in your mind—I'm definitely going to forget something. And then when you finally leave, you realize...you really forgot something. So, I came back to find it."

Chen Yingxiong stared at Christine and said slowly, "When I moved, I left a person here, and I came back to find her. Her hair isn't long, well, of course...maybe it's a little longer now. Her eyebrows are a bit thick, raised up like two sharp swords. They might not look good on other women, but they set off her sharp eyes and make her look heroic. Her nose is very straight, even a little pointed, her lips are not thick, not sexy, most of the time she doesn't smile, but presses them together, but matched with her eyebrows, eyes, and nose, she looks very stylish... She doesn't like to wear skirts, so most of the time I can only see her wearing jeans, long or short. She's really not particular about what she wears, often just pairing them with a very ordinary t-shirt. She's about one meter seventy-eight tall, not fat or thin. Her earlobes are very soft and clean, without any decoration. She doesn't wear earrings or rings, and I've never seen her wear a necklace. She's not interested in anything that women should be interested in. She's very serious, she doesn't talk much... She doesn't seem like a woman, but she's the most beautiful woman I've ever seen."

In the bright, even dazzling, sunlight of Naples, there was a light flickering in Chen Yingxiong's eyes. He asked with a serious face, "Have you seen her?"

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