As soon as the car stopped, Li Yu seemed to wake up from a dream and asked: "What's wrong?"
Tao Huayu unbuckled his seat belt and stared at him asking questions.
Li Yu finally couldn't hold it in anymore after being asked, so he hesitantly told him about the "special appointment".
When Tao Huayu heard this: "This is a good thing, why are you still frowning?"
Li Yu held a cup of milk tea that was almost cold and lowered his head. , biting the straw unconsciously: "Well... the cost of living is too high... I don't want to go..."
His voice was very low and soft, and a sprinkler truck happened to pass by again, and Tao Huayu heard a few scattered words: "What?"
Li Yu said it again.
Tao Huayu didn't understand the price level in country Y, but when he heard this amount, his intuition was outrageous. He took his mobile phone and started checking it himself, then threw the result to Li Yu and let him see it for himself.
Li Yu's eyes widened with an expression of disbelief: "How could it be so different?"
Tao Huayu simply didn't know whether to laugh or be angry: "Xiaoyu, you What are you doing? Use your brain that has taken the college entrance examination to think about it. Even if you are writing an argumentative essay, you must look at it dialectically. Why can't you read a few more entries before drawing a conclusion? "
In fact, in the final analysis, it comes from the fear caused by inner lack of confidence.
The blow he received from Du Yunkai made him doubt his professional abilities. Porcelain is such a big brand, why did it invite him to do design? Is he up to it?
Furthermore, country Y is a strange country to him, with strange people there and a strange living environment, all of which are unknown.
When he thought of this, Li Yu panicked.
So, he just subconsciously wanted to find an excuse to escape, and he happened to see the "50,000" post, which hit the target.
But at the same time, he also clearly realized that this was a very rare opportunity. Once missed, it would most likely not happen again.
Therefore, his mood is tangled, contradictory, and twisted, and he probably needs external force to help him break this confusion.
Tao Huayu knows Li Yu very well.
Li Yu may not have figured out all the emotions in his heart, but Tao Huayu made a lot of guesses.
He took the phone back and said deliberately: "I know, the boss Du Yunkai must be too harsh. Is he squeezing you too hard? I will give you Brother Qingsong a beating now Call him and ask him to talk to Du Yunkai, how can he treat our Xiaoyu like this? Really, we are part-time workers, not formal contract workers..."
Seeing that he really wanted to make a call, Li Yu immediately unfastened his seat belt and went to grab the phone. He also protected the milk tea from spilling in his car: "Brother, what are you doing? I'm not telling you this to complain. Why are you like this?" Huh?”
Tao Huayu stood up and knelt on one leg On the seat, he leaned his upper body against the backrest and stretched his arms toward the back seat. He stopped Li Yu with one hand: "Don't move. I don't have to make this call. Please tell me honestly what you think."
Forcing him to clarify his thoughts.
Li Yu sat back slowly and began to bite the straw again.
Tao Huayu stayed with him patiently until he finished speaking what was in his heart.
Tao Huayu stopped talking about this topic and asked him: "Have you told your dad about this?"
Li Yu looked at him and shook his head, not understanding why he asked that.
Tao Huayu stretched out his hand and almost slapped Li Yu's head, then fastened his seat belt and restarted the car: "Let's go to eat first. Have you done anything at school in the past few days?"
"No." "After dinner, go back and get your things and follow me back to Xi City."
On the same day, Tao Huayu sent Li Yu home.
The car did not drive in, but only parked at the gate of the community. Tao Huayu said: "Your dad has something that he probably hasn't told you yet. You should tell your dad about work first. Look at your dad. attitude, and then you will know how to make a decision.”
The community where Li Yu’s family lives is an old community, with a total of six and a half floors and no elevator. The house that Lao Li bought back then was also a second-hand house.
There are no security facilities in the community, and there is no access control in the unit building. The iron door facing the stairs has long been rusted, and the one on the left is open to the outside.
Li Yu stepped up the stairs under the dim light of the street lamp. Every time he reached a platform, he had to stamp his foot hard before the sensor light would turn on.
The sensor lights on the third and fourth floors have been broken for a long time, and no one has come to repair them.
Every time Li Yu used the light from the second floor to walk to the third floor, and then stamped his foot hard on the platform between the third and fourth floors. If he was lucky, the lights on the fifth floor would turn on. .
But I was unlucky today, or the sensor light on the fifth floor was broken. Li Yu was too lazy to try again, so there were windows in the stairwell. With the dim light, he walked to the door of his house holding on to the handrail of the stairs.
Knowing that his father was at home, he didn't dig into his bag to get the keys, but knocked on the door directly.
"Coming-" Lao Li's rich voice immediately came through the door.
As soon as the door opened, Lao Li looked at Li Yu with surprise and tenderness in his eyes: "Son? Why are you back? Come in quickly, have you eaten? I happened to order takeout. When you knocked on the door, I thought the takeaway guy was here. . ”
As soon as the door was closed, the knock on the door rang again, this time it was the real takeaway boy.
"I came back in Brother Huayu's car." Li Yu put a bag on the dining table, sat down, and hung his backpack on the back of the chair.
The TV is still on and the news broadcast is playing.
Lao Li came over with the takeout, opened it, and took out two boxes of rice and three boxes of stir-fry vegetables.
There was a full sale in the store, and what he bought was two meals. He originally planned to eat one portion tonight and another portion tomorrow morning, and then go to the construction site in the morning.
"I asked him to bring you something, but I didn't expect him to bring you back by the way." Old Li was happy thinking about it and handed the disposable tableware and rice to Li Yu.
Li Yu took it and opened the bag he brought back. There were also several boxes of side dishes inside, which looked much more exquisite than the takeout ordered by Lao Li.
"Brother Huayu bought them." Li Yu opened them one by one and started eating with Lao Li.
Tao Huayu had something to do when he went back, so he didn't eat dinner out. He passed by a store on the way and packed up two dishes for Li Yu to carry back. He knew that Lao Li would definitely not cook at home alone.
When Lao Li looked at the dishes, he said, "He will still enjoy it."
While eating, Lao Li asked about his son's life and study situation at school, how he got along with his teachers and classmates, etc.
Li Yu answered slowly one by one.
But Lao Li felt something was wrong. Usually his son took the initiative to share these things with him, and would also choose some interesting things to tell him.
But now, he clearly felt that his son was wandering in his mind when he spoke, and he must be pretending to be something, so he asked: "Xiaoyu, has something happened to you?"