People in America: My Uncle Don Quixote

"Wardfa..."

The athletes behind Coach Miller could hardly believe their eyes. Even Travis himself hadn't expected Levi's physical abilities to be so exaggerated.

Li Wei pushed aside the two defensive tackles hanging on his body, stood up, took off his helmet, and spat out the mouthguard.

"Coach..." The assistant coach next to him swallowed hard, "Should we test it again...?"

"Shut up!" Coach Miller muttered, then took a deep breath and strode towards the edge of the end zone.

"Holy Mother Mary..." Miller glanced at the still-groaning defensive interceptor on the ground, then abruptly turned to the stunned players and roared, "Look! Look at this, you fucking idiots! Bruce Lee just crushed our defense like a dead pig! Tony! Especially you, you stupid pig! You just spread your legs like a whore and got headbutted by him!"

"Hey! Coach..." Tony tried to argue, "I just wasn't warmed up properly..."

"Shut up, Tony!" Miller strode over and pressed his forehead against Tony's. "I'm asking you! Tony, where are you from?"

"I..." Tony froze, "I...I'm from Queens—"

"Wrong! Utterly wrong!" Miller spat all over Tony's face. "You came from your mother's kitten! Remember what I said before? Some people come from their father's egg! Others come from their mother's kitten! I think you came from your mother's kitten! That's why you can't get an erection at all!"

These words made everyone except Li Wei turn pale.

"Evan! Get over here!" he yelled, turning around.

A pale-faced white boy walked over, clutching a quarterback training ball tightly in his hand.

"Evan, you're down to the reserves now," Miller snatched the training ball from Evan's hands and roughly shoved it into Levi's arms. "I mean what I say, Levi, you're now the backup quarterback for the starters!"

Li Wei raised an eyebrow, surprised that the black coach in front of him, who was full of profanity and whose vulgarity was second only to Don Quixote in a tirade, actually kept his promise and put him directly into the main team.

Generally, the football teams that can compete in the New York State high school league are all fully-fledged; Franklin K. Lane High School alone has three fully-fledged teams.

There are freshman teams, reserve teams, and main teams, and only the main teams are counted in the league and can compete with other schools.

Although he was a backup quarterback, he was essentially included in the starting lineup, which means he has embarked on this path.

Coach Miller blew the whistle hanging around his neck; the sound was sharp and piercing.

"Alright! That's all for today's training!" He dismissed the group and said to Levi and Travis, "You two new recruits, report to the sports department's tactics room at 3 PM on the first day of school!"

After thinking for a moment, he pulled a tactics manual from his back pocket and handed it to Li Wei.

"We'll make a copy of the electronic version when you get to the tactics room," he said. "Bruce Lee, put your Olympic brain to use and memorize this tactics manual as quickly as possible!"

"My name is Li Wei, Coach."

"I don't know your name. To me, you're Bruce Lee. Now get lost!"

After saying that, he blew his whistle again, signaling that Levi and Travis could get lost.

On the way back, Travis expressed his regret that he missed the opportunity to play today. He said that if he had played, he could have used his running back speed and change of direction to make those three defensive tackles run around in circles.

Li Wei casually flipped through the tactics manual Coach Miller had given him, while even more casually mumbled "uh-huh, oh, I see" to Travis, who was talking to himself.

A rugby tactics manual contains 50-100 different basic tactics, each with a series of codes, and each word corresponds to a different formation, action, and specific route.

Li Wei quickly flipped through Coach Miller's tactics manual. In just over ten minutes of walking, he had already flipped to the second half of the manual and memorized most of the first half.

Having gotten rid of Travis, Levi unexpectedly ran into Michael, whom he hadn't seen in a long time, as he left the school gate. He hadn't seen Michael since he reduced his visits to the gym.

Michael was taken aback when he saw Levi, then walked over excitedly and hugged him.

"Hey, long time no see," he patted Li Wei on the shoulder, "I'd completely forgotten that today is the placement test."

"If all goes well, we'll see each other in the AP class in a few days," Li Wei said. "How have you been lately?"

"I've been too busy lately. Didn't I tell you I have a brother who's involved in gangs?" Michael said with a wry smile. "Carl—that's my brother—his gang has run into some trouble recently. Apparently, it's because of a fight between two higher-ups, which has made the leader of Carl's small gang a bit restless. I recently had a big argument with him trying to persuade him to stop."

Michael then said that he had secretly saved up a sum of money, and once he had saved enough, he would send his brother to a drug rehabilitation center and also help him get out of the gang completely.

Li Wei originally wanted to advise Michael to sever ties with his brother as soon as possible, because a brother like that would only drag Michael into an endless abyss.

However, after thinking about it, he felt that it was a bit too forward for someone he didn't know well, so he just comforted Michael a couple of times and the two parted ways.

Since it was not yet 3 p.m., Li Wei decided to go to Dolores's boutique for another 3 hours to steal her wages.

Moreover, he discovered an advantage when he worked part-time in the afternoon: he could take away some of the desserts and snacks prepared for customers who made purchases that day. If they weren't used up before the end of the day, they would be left for the employees to use themselves—these were all top-quality items. According to Emma, ​​the purchase price of a single macaron was over $10.

How could Li Wei possibly let go of such an opportunity to openly steal welfare benefits? Besides, Emma was sending Li Wei messages every day, waiting for him to come and do the part-time job.

Discussing guests' fashion sense and behavior with Li Wei, as well as gossiping, is one of Emma's greatest hobbies.

Li Wei only realized this after a period of intense internet surfing—Emma probably thought of him as a work buddy.

When he arrived at Dolores's boutique and changed into his work clothes, Emma walked over excitedly, muttering to herself:

"Oh," she sighed, feigning regret, "a super pretty and elegant girl came to the store this morning, but unfortunately you weren't here and didn't see her."