The Godfather of Greenery

Chapter 279
It is actually very convenient to return to Boulogne-sur-Mer from London, but it has been almost a year since he went to London, but Ribery has never returned.

There have been countless times when he and his wife wondered, would people in Boulogne know him?Will people here discuss him like they discuss Papan?Will those young people follow the news in the newspaper and pay attention to him?Will those adults set him up as a good example and teach their children a lesson?
All of this, he can only rely on thinking, because he never came back.

It was a very contradictory feeling, because he once told himself that he would never return to Boulogne until he became famous.

In London, Franck Ribery is a bold and fearless guy in the eyes of everyone. Compared with a year ago, the biggest difference between him is that he has taken off his brick-moving attire and his With a roguelike appearance, he gradually made himself look a little bit of a star, the only thing that remained unchanged was the shocking scar on his face.

People, which one doesn't the ass determine the head?
In London, as a Chelsea player, his performance was slightly better, a lot of reporters were chasing after him, who wanted to show his most embarrassed side, even Messi and Cesc Fabregas started to use The pomade came to wash his hair, and if Ribery didn't follow suit, he wouldn't be able to adapt to that environment at all.

Not only him, but even his wife has changed a lot, her taste in clothes is better, and she finally looks like a rich wife, and all of this is brought about by the environment, because they have to blend in That environment in Chelsea, London.

But all of this is just the surface!

Ribery's deepest thoughts are only known to two people, one is his wife and the other is his head coach!
Sometimes he believes in fate, so he believes that Ye Qiu's finding him is an opportunity brought to him by Allah, so he trusts Ye Qiu very much, and tells Ye Qiu everything, even if he wants to move to find a house, he will go Ask Ye Qiu for his opinion.

Just two days ago, when everyone was actively preparing for the Champions League final, Ye Qiu found Ribery, gave him dozens of tickets, and told him that the club arranged for the players' families and relatives. tickets, and he can arrange for his family to travel to Gelsenkirchen with the families of other players and staff in London.

Afterwards, Ye Qiu told him that the team will draft a new contract extension for him this summer and give him a salary increase, so his previous idea of ​​buying a house of his own near London can be fulfilled. In addition, Ye Qiu also told him that some things should be resolved, and don't let there be a knot in his heart all the time.

So today, Ribery took a day off and went home!

Although the taxi driver is not a fan, he recognizes Ribery for the simple reason of the scar on his face.

"You're the most recognizable player in the French national team and my son said you played great at Chelsea, it's amazing!"

Also because Franck Ribery signed a name for his son, the taxi driver refused to ask for his fare, and the moment he stepped off the taxi, he saw this familiar Boulogne, What I see is familiar, the neighborhood where I have lived since I was a child.

The city is not big, so it is easy to bump into acquaintances.

When Franck Ribery walked home, a young man walked up to him.

"Hi, the warriors of the Brownies!" Ribery habitually raised his hand in greeting.

"Fuck you warrior!" The young man passed by him cursingly, but stopped before taking two steps, turned his head and saw Ribery was still walking forward, he quickly turned around and chased him for two Step up, "Frank? It's really you, Frank!"

"You scolded me just now!" Ribery waved his fist, but his expression was smiling.

"Oh, please, who told you to laugh at me like you used to?" The Brownie kid justified with a smile, "You know, I haven't thrown stones at the pier for a long time, I'm going to play football now, I To be like you, to play in the professional league and enter the national team!"

Young people, it is always easy to follow the trend and learn from others. Ribery used to be like this, but he learned from Papin and Zidane, and now he has become the object of learning for the children here. up.

"Good job, warriors of the Brownies!" Frankly speaking, Ribery's smile was a bit hideous, but it was full of kindness.

Walking into the corridor, he quickly circled up the stairs, and soon came to the floor where his father was.

He should not be there at this time, so Franck Ribery walked to the gate with confidence and rang the doorbell. After two or three rings, he saw an old middle-aged woman come out to answer the door. It was his mother. Her actual age does not match, she looks a bit fat middle-aged woman.

"Frank!" The mother saw Ribery through the anti-theft door, her eyes immediately turned red, and the tears rolled down, because she hadn't seen her son for a long time, if she hadn't received him occasionally She even wondered if her son was dead.

"Mom!" Ribery hugged his mother the moment the door opened.

"Come in, come!" Mother pulled Ribery into the house.

"Is he there?" Ribery asked.

For a long time, Ribery has been very conflicted about his father, because his father is the most opposed to him playing football, and even forced him to work as a brick mover at one point, and after he secretly ran to London, his father still insisted on this. He lost his temper, scolded him as a completely irresponsible man, and even stated that he would never come back.

Ribery is a very proud person in his bones. He once made a promise to himself that he would not come back until he became famous, because he wanted to prove to his father that his persistence and persistence were not wrong at the beginning, and he It is true that he broke out of his own world by playing football.

The furnishings in the house are still so simple. The living room is full of all kinds of construction tools. They should all be moved from the construction site. They say that there is no place to put them, so they will be temporarily placed at home, but in fact, it is not for Save a little rent, instead of renting a warehouse, just use the living room at home as a warehouse?
Fortunately, there were not many guests at Ribery's house, and they were all acquaintances, so it was not surprising.

As soon as he entered the door, he was filled with the earthy smell of the construction site, which made Ribery very familiar, because he grew up in this atmosphere since he was a child, and he also lived on the construction site for a long time. His body There is a natural intimacy with this taste.

"You sit down first, I'll get you a glass of water!" Mother pulled Ribery to the sofa in the living room with many holes and sat down, "Your father recently hired a construction site, saying that he can earn some money, But you also know that fewer and fewer people are willing to do this kind of hard work, and no workers can be found, so he has to do it by himself, and he has to work until late every day before returning.”

For a middle-aged man in his fifties, one can imagine how hard it would be to do such physical work.

Franck Ribery sat on the sofa and looked around. He even found a newspaper at home.

It was as if Columbus had discovered the New World. Ribery couldn't help laughing, because in his impression, his father who was born with clay legs rarely read newspapers. In the past, during the district council elections, the senators gave every household that voted for him a newspaper, but that has been many years.

L'Equipe!

Franck Ribery took a newspaper and found that it turned out to be the team newspaper, and the cover was the scene where all the players took a photo with the Premier League champion Gold Cup at Stamford Bridge after Chelsea won the league title a few days ago. The sky was full of colored paper and the atmosphere was very warm .

However, in this photo, Franck Ribery found that someone had drawn one of them with a thick black pen, as if to make it easier to see, and this person was Franck Ribery.

There is also a photo of Ribery holding the championship gold cup and kissing, which was also opened and folded on the top.

Not only these two, Ribery quickly flipped through other newspapers, and found that almost all the newspapers were opened, and many newspapers were marked with black thick pens, obviously for the purpose of following Chelsea news, while Almost all reports related to Chelsea, especially Ribery, have been turned to the most prominent place.

Suddenly, Ribery felt as if his chest was blocked by something, very stuffy and hot.

Turning on the TV, I found that my father, who only watched those vulgar sitcoms, was watching the football channel. If he hadn’t seen all this with his own eyes, he would never have believed it was true. father?

"Your father has been to London several times!" Mother said, standing at the door of the kitchen and living room, with tears in her eyes.

Franck Ribery raised his head in disbelief, his eyes were red, he didn't know why, he just had a feeling that a stream of very sour and hot tears were about to rush out of his eye sockets, he endured desperately, but Still can't help it.

"He won't let me tell, but I can see that he is really happy!" Mother said with a smile, wiping away her tears.

"You know, he hasn't been to a big city in his life, and suddenly he went to London, and he didn't know what to do, and he didn't know how to go to your game, and he couldn't even speak English. , so the first time was a failure, I heard that in the end I went to a pub and watched the game with the people there, but that time, you didn't play!"

Franck Ribery didn't even know which game his mother was talking about, but this added a bit of authenticity, because they didn't understand football, the league, or anything. He even believed that his father went to London just to To watch his game.

"After he came back, he said that the fans in the tavern treated him well, and he also knew Franck Ribery, so he taught him how to go to the scene to watch the game, so he went again after a while, and this time he learned to be smart. I went directly to the stadium by taxi, but failed to buy a ticket, so I walked around outside the stadium for more than an hour, and didn’t leave until after the game.”

"But when he came back, he was very happy because he said that although he didn't understand English, he heard your name mentioned by many fans who left the field. Hearing from them, you performed very well in that game, and He also learned how to buy tickets to watch the game, but then he went back to the pub in London to watch live TV with those people because he said, your tickets are ridiculously expensive!"

"Although he has never been able to watch your game live, he often goes to London, because he said that he likes the feeling when the fans in the bar talk about you, very proud and proud!"

Listening to his mother's words, Ribery's tears fell down without disappointment.

Once, he thought that he was a very strong person who could take his feelings lightly, but in fact, when things happened, he discovered that there were many, many things that he had been brooding about all the time, and he had always been worried about them. Can't let go.

His father doesn't have much education and doesn't know how to get along with children. Beating and scolding are his best ways to train children. This once made Ribery doubt whether his father still loves him, but now, he suddenly discovered that it turned out that Not all love has to be spoken. In many cases, true love is not expressed by mouth.

While Ribery was chatting with his mother, he heard a sound of opening the security door, and they both stood up immediately, especially Ribery, who found that his father came back a little early today.

It was indeed his father who opened the door and came in, but there was a thin layer of bandage wrapped around his right arm, and blood was still oozing from it. When he entered the door, he was still cursing and saying how unlucky he was, and his arm was injured by the smash.

Working on a construction site, injuries and bleeding are unavoidable. Franck Ribery was often scratched or injured by bricks when he moved bricks by himself. These are very common, so seeing his father injured It's all commonplace.

When his father entered the door and saw Ribery, he was obviously stunned for a moment. The surprise on his face could not be concealed, but soon, he used his self-esteem as a father to suppress the surprise in his heart. Even in the past period of time, Franck Ribery is his pride, the topic of discussion and the envy of everyone in Boulogne, but in front of him, a son is a son.

Surprise was replaced by indifference. In front of outsiders, as a father, he could be proud of his son, but in front of his son, he had to put on a very cold and disapproving look. This is indeed the strangest thing in the world. one thing.

"I'll deliver the tickets!" Franck Ribery took out a whole stack of tickets from his pocket, and there were dozens of them. "The match will be held in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. It will be troublesome to go from Boulogne. You can go to London first, and I will ask Vahiba to accompany you."

When he said these words, Franck Ribery's tone was still a little hard, which was the usual tone of conversation between father and son in the past, but after he finished speaking, he obviously realized that his tone was not right, so he walked out of the sofa and walked to the In front of his father, he handed out a stack of tickets, "I hope you can come to our game, Dad!"

The word "Dad" made the old Ribery's hand visibly shake, and his eyes turned red, but he resisted it, but he let go of his hand lightly, and caught the hand that Ribery handed over. He was even thinking about a stack of football tickets, and he could proudly give them to workers, relatives and friends, to show off his son.

The father and son faced each other, but couldn't speak, and the atmosphere was awkward for a few seconds.

"I have to train early tomorrow morning, I'll go back first!" After speaking, Ribery was about to leave.

"Frank!" Old Ribery called out to his son as he passed by, "Since they are all back, let's leave after dinner. Anyway, there is no rush for this time."

Franck Ribery turned his head and saw his expectant mother. He knew that this was already his father's biggest concession.

Sometimes he couldn't understand why his own father couldn't be as generous and kind as other people's fathers?Isn't it hard to always put on a posture and show the majesty of the father?

If in the past, he didn't understand his father's thoughts and care, he would resist, but now, he doesn't resist.

"Okay!" Ribery nodded with a smile, but there was a warm radiance on his somewhat terrifying face.

The father turned his back to Franck Ribery, and at an angle that his son couldn't see, he showed a faint smile and walked to the living room, "In the future, you don't have to come in person to deliver tickets, just make a phone call That's fine, don't affect your training, if the head coach finds out, he will definitely be unhappy!"

The tone is very hard, but it is still out of love, out of concern.

"We treated me well, he made me come back!" Ribery followed his father and walked back to the living room.

"No matter how good you are, you have to play football well!" The father was still warning, he was afraid that his son would get carried away with a little fame, you know, Ribery was a rascal in the past.

"Okay, okay, Frank is back, don't say too much!" In any family, one parent always pretends to be kind and the other majestic, so Franck Ribery's mother was afraid that the father and son would get into trouble again, so she just stood up. Come out to resolve this problem, and the old Ribery just accepted it as soon as it was good, without saying anything more.

Sometimes he also reflects on himself. When his son grows up, many things are no longer under his control, and he is also very clear that he can't keep up with this era, and his thinking is a bit old and stubborn. Too much, but it may not be a good thing, it is better to let go and let your children go freely.

Father and son are father and son, blood is thicker than water, and there is no knot that cannot be dissolved or untied.

With a good start, the conversation between the father and son became much more pleasant.

During the meal, the old Ribery also specifically asked about the Champions League final. Seeing that his father is a bit knowledgable when it comes to football, he looks like a full-fledged fan, but he can't hide the truth about his fake fan. Bailey felt amused in his heart, but also a little moved, because he knew that his father learned about football because of him.

For the Champions League final, Ribery confessed that he should not be able to start, because Ye Qiu's tactics in this game must still be based on 4321. Ronaldinho and Lampard are in good condition. David After a long period of adjustment, Sri Lanka has recovered well and his physical fitness has also improved. He should still start.

But Ribery is a surprise weapon in Ye Qiu's hands. As long as the game is stalemate, Ye Qiu will use Ribery sooner or later, so Ribery is still very confident in his ability to play, because he has been in the past season. The best 12th player in Ye Qiu's hands.

Although the old Franck Ribery, like all fathers, hopes that his son will become a success and thinks his son is the best, but he also knows very well that his son used to play in the amateur league and only played in the professional league for a year. The substitute for the Champions League final is already a very remarkable thing, how can we expect more?
For this, the old Ribery is more content than his son!

(End of this chapter)