“……Talented teenager confirmed to join Barcelona, starting a trend of Chinese players studying abroad!”

On the soccer field, a boy ran up to Zhou Yi, who was juggling a ball, holding a newspaper: "Zhou Yi, Zhou Yi, isn't this He Ying from that reality show you were on?"

"Of course," Zhou Yi replied, still juggling the ball.

"Then why didn't you go to Barcelona?"

"Hey, I look down on Barcelona!" Zhou Yi flicked the ball onto his forehead, stopping it with his brow.

"Liar, it's more like Barcelona looks down on you!" the boy scoffed.

The boy looked again at He Ying's photo in the newspaper, and said with a longing tone: "Barcelona... so awesome! I wish I could play soccer for Barcelona too!"

"Barcelona is so big. When you go there for tourism, just take a soccer ball and kick it randomly. Wouldn't that count as playing soccer in Barcelona?" Zhou Yi said, his eyes fixed on the ball above his forehead.

"Who said anything about playing soccer in the city of Barcelona! I'm talking about Barcelona Club! Camp Nou! At Camp Nou stadium!" the boy retorted.

Zhou Yi let the ball fall from his forehead and trapped it with his foot.

"Camp Nou? That's not hard either. I have an idea for you—after you get to Barcelona, go visit Camp Nou. When you're visiting the bench, just throw the soccer ball onto the field! Then rush in… wouldn't that fulfill your dream of playing soccer at Camp Nou?"

Seeing Zhou Yi being so unserious, the boy rolled his eyes. "I'm not talking to you anymore!"

But after only a few seconds, the boy couldn't help but ask, "Hey, Zhou Yi, when are you leaving?"

"There's still some time, Dortmund needs to complete the formalities," Zhou Yi continued to juggle the ball.

"Sigh, actually Dortmund is also pretty good, at least you can go to a real soccer club to play. Unlike us, who can only stay in this crappy place..."

Zhou Yi smiled without saying a word.

"Do you think there will be a second season of *Green Field Inheritors*?"

"The response was so good, there should be, right?"

"Then I want to sign up too! I want to be spotted by Barcelona!"

"You? First try to snatch the ball from my feet." Zhou Yi suddenly flicked the soccer ball over the boy's head and ran behind him.

"Hey, don't underestimate me!" The boy turned and chased after him.

The two boys chased each other on a soccer field covered with a layer of yellow dirt, their shadows stretched long and thin by the setting sun.

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Club General Manager Zhang came out of the office and saw He Ying waiting outside.

He Ying stood up when he saw General Manager Zhang come out.

General Manager Zhang had a smile on his face: "Alright, He Ying. In another two weeks, you'll be a Barcelona player!"

Hearing these words, He Ying's face, which had been tense, relaxed into a smile.

"See, I didn't lie to you, right? I told you our club encourages and is happy to see players go abroad to compete and improve their skills. This time, the club really didn't create any obstacles for you."

"Thank you, Uncle Zhang," He Ying said with a smile.

"No need to thank me, we all hope to see more outstanding players emerge in our country. If you have any problems with your life over there, you can contact me at any time, and I will help you solve them." General Manager Zhang patted He Ying on the shoulder.

He really admired such a good seed cultivated by the club's youth training system. The absolute main player of the national youth team, as long as there are no accidents, the future is simply limitless.

However, if he continues to stay in China, it may interfere with his future. Such an excellent talent, playing in China, can no longer make any breakthroughs. He must go to high-level places, receive high-level soccer training, and compete with high-level opponents to grow rapidly.

General Manager Zhang usually works as a Serie A broadcast commentary guest on TV stations, and has an international perspective. He knows very well how much progress young players can make in a high-level soccer environment.

"The most important thing about playing soccer abroad is self-reliance and self-discipline. I will take care of myself, Uncle Zhang." He Ying politely declined the general manager's kindness.

"You..." General Manager Zhang was also familiar with He Ying's temper, and just shook his head at such an answer, without saying anything.

"Keep it up, the hope of our national soccer is all on your generation."

"I will, Uncle Zhang. This is also my motivation for playing soccer abroad," He Ying said seriously.

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"Zhou Yi, let me tell you, let me tell you. I've been spotted by Chelsea!"

Zhou Yi had to hold the phone away from his ear, because Sun Pan was shouting way too loudly.

"The club told me today! Damn! I thought I was dreaming! So awesome! Chelsea!" Sun Pan was still yelling loudly.

"Don't be happy too early, what if your team doesn't let you go?" Zhou Yi threw cold water on him, otherwise this kid would continue yelling for an hour, and repeating the same sentence over and over again, "Damn, Chelsea spotted me!"

"They wouldn't dare!" As a result, Sun Pan became even more excited. "If they don't let me go, I'll quit the team! I'll transfer as a free agent, and Chelsea won't have to pay a penny, perfect!"

"Okay, okay, you're awesome. I was just saying, you don't have to take it to heart," Zhou Yi quickly appeased him.

"Anyway, I'm determined to go abroad this time, it's no fun hanging around in China, it's better to go abroad. And there are Western women abroad, blonde Western women! I want to win glory for the country and spread my seed all over the world!"

"Can't you think of something normal?" Zhou Yi was speechless about Sun Pan's motivation for playing soccer abroad.

"Isn't this normal? Reproduction is a human instinct..."

"Okay, okay, you've been with Yang Muge for two months, and you can actually say such things. By the way, how is Yang Muge doing?" Zhou Yi cleverly changed the subject.

"Old Yang? He's also doing well, he seems to have been spotted by a German club too... but I don't know which one. Old Yang doesn't seem to know either."

"Oh? A German club? That's not bad, in the same country as me!" Zhou Yi was very happy.

"Yeah, you can see each other often in the future, and maybe even meet in a match!"

"Hey, what about Old Guo?"

"Old Guo? I don't know, I haven't contacted him..."

Sun Pan glossed over it in one sentence, and began to babble endlessly about his happy life in Europe.

However, Zhou Yi couldn't let go of the name Guo Nu in his heart.

They were the best of friends in the reality show, and now himself, He Ying, Sun Pan, and Yang Muge have all attracted interest from European teams, so what about Guo Nu?

Does he also have a team interested in him?

If everyone else goes to Europe, and only Old Guo stays in China... will he feel lost?

He remembered the first time everyone visited La Masia soccer school, Guo Nu looked up at the photos of those Barcelona stars on the wall with longing.

Like a child looking at the birthday present he dreamed of.

But unfortunately, Barcelona ultimately chose He Ying and didn't take a fancy to him.

At the time, everyone was congratulating He Ying, but Zhou Yi saw the disappointment in Old Guo's eyes.

I hope he can also have a good home...

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"Director Liu, do we have a player named 'guonu' on our first team?" A well-dressed club staff member found the first team coach, holding a fax paper in his hand.

"What was that name?" Coach Liu, wearing sportswear, didn't hear clearly.

The other party simply handed over the paper.

"This is..." Coach Liu couldn't understand.

"It's a fax, from Inter Milan club. They are inquiring about a player in our club named 'guonu', maybe they are interested in him," the club staff member explained.

"Inter Milan? Wow! Who on our team is so amazing? They've even attracted the attention of an Italian powerhouse?"

"So I came to ask you, do we have such a person on our first team? I don't remember having one."

"Hmm, let me see..." Coach Liu picked up the paper and examined it carefully, "Is this surname Guo? We do have two players with the surname Guo on our first team, but their names are all three characters long... Guo... Nu?"

After spelling out the name, Coach Liu's eyes lit up: "It's him!"

"You know who it is?"

"I know him too well! A notorious troublemaker in the youth team, with a very violent temper, not tall, but with extremely outstanding physical qualities. Wasn't he sent by our club to participate in that *Green Field Inheritors* reality show a while ago? He challenged European powerhouse youth teams with a temporarily assembled team... That explains it. It looks like he was spotted when playing against a powerhouse youth team. Several people from that group have been spotted by European clubs. He Ying, you know him, right?"

The staff member nodded: "The top player in the national youth team."

"That's right! He went to Barcelona!"

"So amazing?" The staff member was stunned. When could Chinese players be linked to Barcelona?

He wasn't so surprised to be linked with Inter Milan, after all, there had been a young goalkeeper who went to Inter Milan for a trial and rumors spread that Inter Milan had taken a fancy to him.

"It's not just him, that Zhou Yi, who was originally a high school student, was spotted by Dortmund because of this show! He went from an amateur player to a youth team player in a professional soccer club! His whole life is different!" Coach Liu said with great enthusiasm, it seemed he had watched every episode of *Green Field Inheritors*.

"I didn't expect that Guo Nu was also spotted. See, I told you, Hubei produces talent! Our club's youth training level is also very high, not worse than Shandong, Liaoning, Beijing, Shanghai, or Guangzhou!" Coach Liu, as a soccer professional, felt sincerely happy that players from his team could be recognized by European powerhouses.

"Hey, where are you going?" He was still talking happily when he saw the other party turn around and leave.

"To the youth team!"

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"Mom, I want to go abroad to study at university." Zheng Lulu walked to the entrance of the living room, hesitated for a moment, and said softly to her mother who was sitting on the sofa watching TV.

Her mother was stunned at first, but quickly reacted, turning her head to look at her daughter in surprise: "My baby, you finally figured it out? Oh, I told you, we have the ability to send you abroad to study, so why even take the *gaokao*! Look at you, staying up so late every day, getting up so early, endless homework, endless exams, your skin will get worse! By the time you're twenty, you'll look like you're forty... tell me, where do you want to go, America, Britain, Australia, Canada... your mother can take care of it for you..."

"I want to go to Germany to study..." Zheng Lulu bit her lip and said with her head lowered.

"What?!" Her mother's voice rose in shock.

"Is it... not okay?" Zheng Lulu raised her head, looked at her mother, and said with courage, "If it's not okay, then I won't go abroad."

"No, uh no... Germany, Germany is fine too. But baby, why choose Germany?"

"Can't it be Germany? Can't mom handle Germany?" Zheng Lulu asked back.

"Uh, no, no problem, Germany is no problem! As long as you're willing to study abroad, anywhere is no problem!"

Zheng Lulu smiled and said to her mother, "Thank you, Mom."

"Thank you for what, I'm your mom!"

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It was another Monday, and many students didn't seem to have recovered from the relaxed feeling of Saturday and Sunday's vacation. They stood in front of the flagpole platform listlessly, and some were yawning exaggeratedly, standing in the ranks with squinted eyes, swaying, as if they could fall asleep on the ground at any time.

But soon, there was a commotion among the students, because they found that old Principal Lin Xianrong actually appeared on the podium!

Didn't the old principal no longer attend the flag-raising ceremony every Monday? Why did he come today? Is today a special day?

While everyone was talking about it and feeling strange, Lin Xianrong walked forward and stood in front of the microphone.

"I know that the students are curious about my arrival. You must have thought that I'm so old that I can't even leave the office, right?"

Lin Xianrong's first sentence amused many students, and there was a burst of laughter from the audience.

The students were laughing, and the sleepiness and yawns were all laughed away.

But the teachers were quite frightened—when did Old Lin start saying such witty remarks?

Whether it was Wang Shunquan or other school leaders, the head teachers and teachers of each class below the stage also looked at their principal with surprised eyes. They felt that they didn't recognize Old Lin at all.

"So I should come even more. I'm here today, taking up some of everyone's time, hoping to chat with you students. Because recently I came into contact with someone your age, and he made me realize that maybe I've been in the office for too long, and I almost don't know what young people are like now, so I want to chat with you, maybe you can make me younger too?"

Watching Lin Xianrong speak like this, Wang Shunquan's mouth was so open that he could directly stuff a light bulb in it—the rigorous old principal was a very serious person, when would he chat with students at the flag-raising ceremony?

But the students were focused and eagerly looking at the podium, listening carefully to the leader's speech.

This was really the first time.

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"Did you bring enough things? Clothes to wear, Germany is very cold in winter, you have to pay attention to keeping warm, it's going to get colder when you go over there, I've checked the weather forecast... slippers, did you bring slippers?"

Zhou Jianliang squatted on the ground, in front of him, Zhou Yi's big suitcase was open, and he was rummaging through it on the spot, talking as he rummaged.

Zhou Yi stood beside him helplessly: "Dad, you've checked it three times at home."

"What do you know? You always forget to take something when you go out, but this time is different, you're going far away, and you'll be gone for a long time, if you forget to take something it'll be difficult to deal with, of course you have to be careful! Passport, did you take your passport?"

"It's here..." Zhou Yi raised the little red book in his hand helplessly.

"Put it away, put it away." Zhou Jianliang waved his hand quickly, "Don't wave it around in your hand, what if it falls? This thing is very important, you can't lose anything, but especially not this!"

"Oh, Dad, I've been abroad before..."

Zhou Jianliang was still saying something, when his wife Li Cuiyun went up and grabbed the suitcase, then slammed it shut: "Alright! What's with all the fuss? If you don't have enough clothes, go buy them over there, if you can't live independently alone, then don't play soccer!"

This time Zhou Yi stood on his mother's side: "That's right, Dad, don't worry, I'm not a three-year-old."

"What do you know?" This time Zhou Jianliang was talking to his wife, "Zhou Yi is not familiar with the place, and it's not easy to live alone when he doesn't speak the language..."

"If you don't speak the language, can't you learn it? He has to rely on himself, we can't rely on us for a lifetime, right?" Li Cuiyun didn't give in at all.

Just as the two were arguing, Tim Kist finally appeared.

Seeing him, Zhou Yi breathed a sigh of relief, and Zhou Jianliang and Li Cuiyun were embarrassed to argue in front of outsiders.

"Mr. Kist, I'm entrusting my son to you, please, please." Zhou Jianliang shook Kist's hand enthusiastically, constantly shaking it.

"Don't worry, Mr. Zhou. Zhou Yi is our club's treasure, I will take good care of him, and I will definitely not let him lose a single hair!" Kist said with a smile in Chinese.

"If the child does anything ignorant, please bear with him and take care of him..." Zhou Jianliang was still shaking the man's hand.

Zhou Yi rolled his eyes beside him.

"No, Mr. Zhou. Zhou Yi is a very sensible child."

"See!" Zhou Yi hummed. "As expected of a scout, his vision is good! He saw my inner qualities at a glance!"

"Shut up! You're getting cocky after they've said a few polite words!" Zhou Jianliang glared at Zhou Yi.

Li Cuiyun couldn't stand it either: "If you don't let go, they won't have time to go through security."

Zhou Jianliang then let go of Kist's hand, but he was still instructing: "Thank you, Mr. Kist, I'll have to trouble you to take care of him along the way..."

Then he said to Zhou Yi: "Call home when you get there, don't be afraid to spend money, you can't save on this."

"I know, I know, Dad." Zhou Yi cast a pleading look at his mother, he felt that if it continued like this, he wouldn't be able to leave today.

Li Cuiyun coughed: "Do you not want your son to play soccer in Germany anymore? I have no objection to that..."

Zhou Jianliang immediately waved to Zhou Yi and Kist: "Goodbye! Have a safe trip!"

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"...There are many things about him that we old folks would consider shortcomings. If we continue to look at it with that perspective, those are indeed shortcomings. But later I realized that wasn't the case, those are not shortcomings, they are just things that we old folks cannot understand with our old way of looking at people. To be honest, that kind of thing appears on him, and may also appear on everyone here. But that's not a shortcoming, I would rather call it 'possibility'."

As Lin Xianrong spoke, the playground was silent. The usually suppressed low-frequency buzzing chat sounds were completely inaudible today.

Those students who were playing with their phones and reading books put down what they were doing and looked up to listen to the old principal speak.

"Dear students, you have many, many possibilities, maybe many of them are not even noticed by yourselves, but they do exist. This is your greatest advantage, because compared to me, this old man, there are too many possibilities in life waiting for you to discover and create. That young man, according to the original standards, is not a good student, his academic performance is not good, and he is not diligent and hardworking enough in his studies. But now, he has decisively given up the route set for him by society and the masses, and has chosen a path that is completely different from the vast majority of his peers. Because he knows that there are many possibilities in him, and he is going to try it out. He may fail, but I will not laugh at him, because a person who earnestly tries all kinds of possibilities in life is worthy of respect. In addition to worrying about his failure, please also remember that he also has the possibility of success."

Some of the students and teachers had already heard who the principal was talking about, and many people were looking towards the high school Class Three formation.

Under the gaze of these eyes, Zhai Liying was a little uneasy—she didn't expect Old Lin to have such a high evaluation of the student who gave her the biggest headache.

So... am I wrong?

She wondered in her heart.

However, beside her, her students stood tall and proud—the principal is talking about our classmate!

Dean Wang Shunquan also heard who the old principal was talking about, and he looked at the old principal's back in surprise. He couldn't figure out why the old principal wanted to speak up for that notorious bad boy!

"Education is not about shaping you into completely identical replicas according to a unified standard. Dear students, each of you is an independent individual with an independent personality and mind. Education, while laying a good foundation for you, is actually about discovering the possibilities in each of you, so that your life has more possibilities and surprises. I hope that you students at Qingyang High School can become top students who are admitted to Tsinghua and Peking University, and you can also become painters, singers, designers, businessmen, soldiers, scientific researchers, sports athletes... But please remember that no matter what industry you want to engage in in the future, you must become a person who is responsible for yourself and useful to society."

Lin Xianrong looked far away, over the dense crowd of students below the stage, over the school walls and gates, and cast his eyes on the infinitely distant sky.

"This is what I, an old educator, expect of the students and teachers present. Thank you very much for listening to my words, thank you all!"

After speaking, he took a step back and bowed deeply to everyone present.

And after a moment of inertia-like silence on the playground, there was a sudden burst of huge applause and whistles, like rolling thunder, rolling over everyone's heads, stirring their hearts, and sparks seemed to be flashing in their eyes.

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After passing through security, Kist and Zhou Yi looked back and could still see Zhou Yi's parents standing outside the security checkpoint, looking at their figures.

Kist thought of the performance of Zhou Yi's parents just now and couldn't help but smile: "Zhou Yi, your father is really an interesting person."

"He always is, he's just a bit long-winded, you felt it, right?" Zhou Yi said.

"Yeah." Kist nodded, "But that's an expression of parents' love for their children, maybe you can't understand it yet..."

"No, Mr. Kist. I understand." Zhou Yi shook his head. "To me, they are the best dad and mom in the world."

Kist turned his gaze to Zhou Yi, and he saw that the expression on the child's face was quite serious when he said this, he wasn't joking.

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"Let's go, you can't see them anymore." Zhou Jianliang pulled his wife's hand, but his wife stood there, not moving.

"What's wrong..."

He turned his head to look, only to find that his wife was biting her lower lip tightly, her chin was trembling slightly, and her eyes were already red.

"You can't bear to part with him?"

His wife suddenly leaned on his shoulder and sobbed, "Nonsense! He's not just going for two weeks... two months..."

"If you can't bear to part with him, call him, you can't save on the money for international calls." Zhou Jianliang reached out and hugged his wife tightly.

"No, too many calls will make him homesick..." The wife shook her head again. "It's not conducive to his independence..."

"You..." He walked away, "Let's go, let's go back and enjoy our world of two!"

"Who wants to spend time with you in a world of two!" The wife pinched Zhou Jianliang's waist.

Zhou Jianliang gasped in pain, but he hugged his wife even tighter.

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ps, I finally finished writing this first volume on the plane from Madrid to Dubai.

It's really a coincidence that in the novel, I wrote that Zhou Yi took a plane to leave his hometown, and outside the novel, I myself am on the plane back home. Outside the porthole is a starry night sky, and we are flying over the Nile, the largest river on the African continent.

It's two hours from Dubai, thirteen hours from Beijing, and twenty-three hours from Chengdu, my home.

I myself am eager to return home, and Zhou Yi is probably more eager for and anticipates a new life while being reluctant to leave home.

I'm already like an old man who doesn't want to leave home, but Zhou Yi is a young lad who still has many possibilities.

The first volume mainly tells the story of Zhou Yi and his friends participating in a reality show and going from China to the world, as well as the things surrounding them and those people.

They have one thing in common, and that is that they all have unlimited possibilities.

It took me two and a half months to write 350,000 words, which was very slow, but I put a lot of effort into it. I thought about this last chapter for two days before I started writing it. For this last ending, I even went back and revised the relevant content in the previous text.

I hope everyone likes this story.

Anyway, I like it very much, I like these stories, and I like those people.

I am very happy to be able to walk through Zhou Yi's student days with everyone. Next, let us look forward to the stories of him and his friends in the professional soccer world!

There will be even more possibilities!

Another ps, a big chapter of seven thousand words! There's another update in the afternoon! Please give me monthly tickets and recommendation tickets!!