Ribery's invitation, Chu Zhongtian planned to take Wang Hao to the appointment, but Jiang Ran left, and Wang Hao was inevitably a little lonely staying here alone. After all, he was from the adult team and could only meet Wang Hao once occasionally, so he was obviously not a good partner. As the saying goes, "I miss my family more every holiday." If Wang Hao is such an important holiday, if Wang Hao is allowed to spend it alone, he will probably deepen his thoughts and emotions, which will affect his performance in the training field and the competition field at that time, and may also lead to his future in Metz becoming dim.

As for the female companion... Chu Zhongtian thought of Lin Beiyao, who kept taking photos of him and building bridges with the supporters in China, and Mathilde, a teacher who taught him French.

I don't know how their Christmas will be.

After Xu Xiaodi and Chu Zhongtian returned to Mets together, he temporarily stayed in the hotel. He had to look at Chu Zhongtian's performance in the next few games before he could decide whether to stay in Mets. If Chu Zhongtian was just like a meteor and quickly sank after performing well in one game, then he would eventually return to London, England.

Once Chu Zhongtian performs well in a row, or gets stable chances of playing continuously, and continues to continue this situation, he may be sent by the society to stay in Mess.

Chu Zhongtian returned to the apartment where Metz rented. The apartment was two people two days ago. He and Mr. Meri were one room with each other, and now he is the only one left. Mr. Meri went to Paris to watch the game yesterday and flew back to London early this morning. He had to spend Christmas with his family.

Chu Zhongtian took out Lin Beiyao's phone number from his phone and planned to ask her if she was free.

"Ah? Party?" Lin Beiyao was quite surprised when she received this call from Chu Zhongtian.

"Well... Frank invited me and asked me to bring my friends. I will wear Wang Hao at that time and want to ask if you are free."

"Uh... I just agreed to my classmates to accompany them to travel to Marseille and Cannes..." Lin Beiyao was telling the truth. Just ten minutes before Chu Zhongtian called, she made an appointment with the sisters in her dormitory. If Chu Zhongtian had called eleven minutes ago, she would not have gone to Marseille.

But in fact, she was really interested in the gatherings of those players. You must know that such gatherings are not something that anyone can attend casually. If Bobo knew about it, he would definitely envy himself to death.

"Ah...is that's the case?" Chu Zhongtian felt a little regretful.

"I'm so sorry, Chu Zhongtian. I made an appointment with my classmates and I have to keep my word after I say something..."

"Well, you're right. You'd better go on a trip. I wish you a Merry Christmas!"

"Haha, I wish you a Merry Christmas too."

After Chu Zhongtian hung up Lin Beiyao's phone call, his words to Lin Beiyao reminded him that others also had their own lives. So would he call Teacher Mathilde rashly?

He thought for a while and decided to call and ask. Regardless of whether he had his own affairs, the call showed an attitude - I did not forget you during the holidays.

※※※Delphin Mathilde never expected that he would receive a call from Chu Zhongtian. Although they had left their calls to each other, they had never called. If anything happened, she would say it when she would go to class for Chu Zhongtian every week. There was nothing else except class time.

So when she saw the name of the caller displayed on the screen of her phone, she even felt inexplicably nervous, as if she was afraid that she was looking forward to something.

She couldn't even explain why she had such an emotion.

The sudden emotion that surged into her heart made her feel panic. She kept staring at the screen of her phone but didn't answer. She didn't react until the ringtone disappeared and quickly dialed it back.

※※※ Chu Zhongtian waited for a long time but didn't wait until the phone was answered. He hung up the phone in disappointment. He thought that it seemed that he and Wang Hao were the only ones who went to the appointment. Unexpectedly, the music of his mobile phone rang at this time.

It turned out to be called back by Teacher Mathilde.

"Hello, Mr. Mathilde. I thought you were out and didn't bring your cell phone."

"Hello, Chu. I didn't hear it just now, I'm so embarrassed." Mathilde lied. She could only lie. Of course, she couldn't tell the things she was uneasy just now because she heard Chu call her, otherwise it would be misunderstood.

"Is there anything you have to do with me?"

"That's right, Mr. Mathilde, are you free on Christmas Eve?"

"Christmas Eve?" Mathilde was a little surprised. "I... have time."

“Don’t you live with your family?”

"My home is not in Metz, and I won't go home for Christmas," replied Mathilde.

Although the status of Christmas in the West is as important as that of the Chinese Spring Festival in China, more and more people in China cannot reunite with their families for various reasons, so it is normal not to spend Christmas Eve with their families in the West. Chu Zhongtian didn't think much about it, and he said, "So can I invite you to our Christmas dinner?"

“Christmas dinner?”

"Yes, one of my friends is Frank Ribery, you know... you advised me not to learn French from him? Haha! I have a good relationship with him now, and I can understand his dialect. He invited me to attend the dinner he organized on Christmas Eve, and asked me to wear friends with me. It was so crowded. I thought of you... You taught me French for half a year, and I should also invite you. Since you have time, why not come and have fun?"

Mathilde hesitated for a moment.

Chu Zhongtian thought he was out of disgust for professional players: "I know you hate professional players, but not everyone hates professional players. There are always good and bad things, and the same is true for other professions. You always say that professional players play with women because they have money, but Frank is a good husband who loves his wife, and we are far from being rich. In fact, we are just a group of young people who like to play. You are younger than me, so don't be so deep..."

Mathilde nodded: "Okay, I will go. Where will I see you then?"

"You can come to my place first on the afternoon of the 24th, let's go to his house together."

"Okay, do I need to prepare anything?" asked Mathilde.

Chu Zhongtian thought for a while, and finally said carefully: "If you can dress up a little, don't...uh..."

He doesn't know how to say it so that a girl won't be sad or angry. It's not a good thing to directly evaluate a girl's rustic spirit.

"Is it rustic?" Unexpectedly, Mathilde took the initiative to mention the biggest impression she left on Chu Zhongtian.

Chu Zhongtian was a little embarrassed and could only giggle.

"Don't worry, you won't be embarrassed in front of your friends."

"I don't mean that..." Before Chu Zhongtian finished explaining, he heard Teacher Mathilde hung up the phone.

He looked at his phone helplessly, as if he finally made the teacher angry...※※※Mathilde hung up the phone, then walked to the bathroom, looked at himself in the mirror, with bangs covering his eyebrows, huge black-framed glasses, expressionless.

She pouted and changed her observation angle to the side.

Then she widened her eyes, because of myopia lenses, it looked a little more exaggerated than their actual size.

She smiled again, and the girl in the mirror finally became more pleasing to the eye.

Seeing her like this, she frowned: "Is it really rustic?"

Then she took her eyes off and put them aside, then looked at herself in the mirror. Soon she untied her two braids, grabbed her hair with water, and looked in the mirror.

She was myopic and had to squint her eyes to see her appearance.

The girl in the mirror with her eyes squinting and messy hair looked strange no matter how she looked.

※※The winter in Metz is less sunny and rainy, because it is located in the northeastern region of France, and the winter is very cold.

The rainy days remind Chu Zhongtian of his hometown, Chengdu, Sichuan and London, England. These three cities are cold and humid in winter, with some similarities.

At this time, he was particularly looking forward to the date of returning to London.

This is how Chu Zhongtian spent the three days from the 21st to the 24th:

After getting up every morning, he ran to the Forian Stadium in the Holy Mountain and ran back, and did another 500 sit-ups to exercise and maintain physical fitness. He continued to learn French. His current French level was limited to daily conversations, but some deeper communication could not be done.

It has been raining outside these three days, and the whole city was shrouded in a cloudy and rainy mist. Chu Zhongtian didn't want to go out shopping, and there was no need to go shopping in the wet city. He just played games and watched videos in the apartment, or chatted with his parents online, and then went to the fan website "We all love Lindanda" to browse domestic news reports about himself. He fed water on the forum and chatted with everyone, but he had no star airs at all. Of course, he would also encounter those who deliberately messed up and scolded him, and he would also feel a little depressed, such as the "god post" that was topped by the entire forum. He later asked Kang Jianbo why the posts that scolded him were topped by the posts, and Kang Jianbo told him that it was a whip of the corpse.

When he didn't play games or watch movies, he was so tired of chatting that he just sat in the house, staring at the wet sky and the city outside the window, thinking about the year that was about to pass.

After working hard for half a season, he finally caught the last bus at the end of 2004 and had the hope of getting a stable chance to play. Now he doesn't want to rest. He feels that he has just stepped on the accelerator and wants to brake suddenly, and he feels uncomfortable all over.

"I really want to play football!" Chu Zhongtian shouted to the world outside the window.

He just finished shouting like this when he heard the doorbell ringing. He raised his wrist and looked at his watch. It was 5:45 in the afternoon.

Today is the 24th day. I came to find myself at this time. If nothing unexpected happens, it should be Mr. Delphin Mathilde.

He opened the door, but his eyes were shaken.

Standing outside his door was a woman who was somewhat familiar with him but felt more unfamiliar.

The first thing that caught Chu Zhongtian's attention was that her hair was her hair. The bangs that covered her eyebrows almost touched the eyes were missing and were combed to the side. The two ponytails were disbanded, and the fluffy hair was obviously blown. Chu Zhongtian did not see the familiar black frame under his hair. There was nothing in front of those eyes, his cheeks were a little rosy, maybe cold, maybe blushed, but the acne looked a lot lighter.

She had no rusty clothes and pants, and she wrapped her body in a red coat. The exposed calves Chu Zhongtian noticed that there was nothing but a pair of black stockings. Oh, and a pair of silver high heels.

From the collar of the coat, you can directly see her exposed breasts and a low-cut black dress. She even wore a necklace around her white and slender neck, which was just hanging down to her cleavage.

Chu Zhongtian was completely stunned. He could not have imagined that the girl standing in front of him would be his French teacher Delphin Mathilde... "Good afternoon, Chu." Mathilde greeted Chu Zhongtian shyly.

However, Chu Zhongtian did not respond to her, but stared at her in a daze.

This made Mathilde even more shy. She lowered her head and stood at the door and went in, not to leave.

If I had known, I would have not dressed like this... She complained to herself in her heart.

"Ah...ah! Good afternoon, good...teacher..." Chu Zhongtian finally came to his senses, and he stuttered a little. "Please, please come in!"

"Isn't it good?" Mathilde raised his head and asked Chu Zhongtian.

"No... very good, very good..." Chu Zhongtian finally returned to normal. He smiled and praised Mathilde, "It's very beautiful, teacher. You are very beautiful."

Mathilde also smiled: "I won't let you get in front of your friends, right?"

Chu Zhongtian was embarrassed when he mentioned this: "It's not like this... In fact, even if you were like that before, I wouldn't think there was anything. Don't get me wrong, teacher...ah, wait, I'll go change my clothes!" Chu Zhongtian asked Teacher Mathilde to wait in the living room, turned around and ran into the bedroom, closed the door and started changing clothes.

Soon he changed into a slightly formal outfit, but in fact he still came out in casual style.

"Let's go, teacher."

Mathilde hesitated for a moment: "Chu, I think... I'd better not call me 'teacher' in your friend's place later..."

Chu Zhongtian also felt that this request made sense, but... "What should I call you? Teacher."

"Call me Delphin."

Only people who are very close can call him directly. For example, between Chu Zhongtian and Emily Stan, they are not called "Miss Stan" or "Stan", they are both called "Emily". But is the relationship between him and Mr. Mathilde so good?

"Is this okay, teacher?" Chu Zhongtian hesitated a little.

"It's okay, if you call me 'teacher' in such an occasion, it would seem too cold." Mathilde was actually not only Chu Zhongtian's French teacher, but also taught him a lot of common sense about French social etiquette, humanistic customs, and French personality traits. He is really a good teacher.

"Okay, teacher..."

Mathilde pointed at Chu Zhongtian.

"Ah, Delphin..." Chu Zhongtian quickly changed his words. "Let's go, Delphin."
To be continued...