Chapter 19 Like Him
"..."
Hu Li's pupils suddenly dilated a little.
His eyes fell on Lu Yao's face again.
Then... that charm turned into an unbridled smile.
It was like hearing some funny joke.
"Do you know where my home is?"
"I don't know, but I know where Mr. Xu's home is."
So, for some reason, her smile became brighter and she stood up directly.
I didn’t ask for wine, I just picked up the box of something that I don’t know if it was cigarettes or cigars:
"Let's go."
Lu Yao finally said hello to Sun Qian, and then led her towards the door.
As time went by, LINX ushered in the peak flow of people at around ten o'clock.
Very crowded.
People were coming in and out like a whirlpool.
This shows how popular its business is.
Lu Yao turned his head and glanced at the woman wearing a baseball cap. After thinking for a moment, he put one hand on her side and the other in front of her. After keeping a safe distance, he "half-wrapped" her together and pushed the drunken people. Han and pedestrians move forward.
When he finally walked out, the air at the door of the bar made him take a deep breath.
Subconsciously, he turned his head and glanced at Hu Li.
Haihou had a smile on her lips, her charm spreading unbridled.
"Sister Li, are you driving?"
"You didn't open it?"
Hu Li tilted his head:
"Didn't you drive away in the afternoon? I saw that you didn't drink a drop of wine just now, so I thought you came by car."
"I didn't drive, I took a taxi."
"You don't drink?"
"Drink."
"Then why didn't you drink just now?"
Lu Yaoxin said, why are you struggling with this kind of thing?
But he still replied:
"Mr. Xu may call me in the middle of the night, and I have to pick him up early tomorrow morning, so I definitely can't drink."
"That's it..."
Hu Li tilted his head again, as if he believed it, but also as if he didn't believe it.
But he didn’t hesitate and said to the security guard at the door:
"Go and get a car."
Only then did Lu Yao realize that there were several more security guards around him.
Is this business run by her family?
Isn't this Nicholas Tse's nightclub?
He was a little puzzled, but the security guard didn't dare to delay and took out a car key directly from the reception desk.
Lu Yao took it politely and discovered that it was a Bentley.
After pressing the unlock button, the white Bentley next to the door, separated by a courtesy tape, turned on.
"..."
He watched silently as the security guard opened the car door diligently and walked directly towards the driver's seat.
Soon, the Bentley drove away from the nightclub.
He was driving, and Hu Li was in the back seat.
"Sister Li, do you want to listen to some music?"
"I won't listen, it's too noisy."
"Okay."
Lu Yao fell silent again.
But this time it didn’t last long:
"Did you tell Xiaochu that I was here?"
"Yes, I see that you are alone, and you don't look like you are waiting for friends. You are drinking one glass of wine and you are a little worried, so I talked to Mr. Xu."
"Well..."
This time, because he didn't open the Bentley's rearview mirror, he could clearly feel the other person's eyes falling on him.
Or rather the silhouette.
After three traffic lights:
"How much does Primary School pay you in a month?"
"Uh..."
Lu Yao thought for a while and said:
"A thousand a day."
"I told her that starting tomorrow, you can follow me. As for the salary...two thousand a day, you can be on call whenever you want."
There is nothing "undoubted" in the words, but there is an attitude of "it should be taken for granted".
But after Lu Yao heard it, he shook his head and said:
"Sorry, Sister Li, I..."
"It's okay. I told her that when I feel you are bored, you can come back to her and I will make an agreement with her. Don't worry."
Lu Yaoxin said that it sounded like my shelf life was too short.
He continued to shake his head and said:
"No, Sister Li, I am not a full-time driver, but because of some fate, I worked as a temporary worker for Mr. Xu for ten days. Mr. Xu promoted me and paid me a thousand yuan a day to drive. I stopped working after ten days."
"...?"
At this time, the woman in the back row finally gave way to surprise on her face:
"Temporary worker?...Aren't you the driver she hired herself?"
Lu Yao always felt that there was something "problematic" about her words.
But I couldn’t tell what the problem was for a while, so I responded:
"No. My contract is only for 10 days... After all, today is the third day."
"Well..."
Hu Li thought for a while and said:
"That's just right. You will follow me after ten days. The salary and benefits are as I said before. In the past few days, you have applied for a passport, and then taught yourself English. You may be asked to take the international driver's license test in the future."
"..."
Lu Yaoxin said that I would just take the aircraft carrier driver's license test again.
However, he knew that no matter what the other person thought, or what he thought was "good" about him, the two thousand a day job was considered high and couldn't be higher.
To put it bluntly, even if he knows that the other party is not short of money, giving this price is too high for him.
So he quickly explained:
"Thank you, Sister Li, for admiring me so much, but I really can't do it. It's not that I don't have enough money, it's just... this is my part-time job during the summer. I can't do it for too long. I won't do it after school starts."
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"...?"
Hu Li was stunned for a moment, blinking his eyes several times in succession, feeling that his brain was a little down.
What...did he just say?
part time?
Don’t do it?
Summer...summer vacation?
"You..."
She continued to look at Lu Yao's profile and asked in an uncertain tone:
"A graduate student?"
"No, I just graduated from high school and finished the college entrance examination."
"????"
In an instant, Hu Li was also stunned.
"High school student!?"
Although she also thought that the driver had a tender face, she never thought that the driver was actually a high school student?
Subconsciously asked:
"How old are you?"
"Eighteen, but sister Li, don't worry, I have been driving for a long time. When I was fourteen or fifteen years old, I was already able to drive a large car and put it in storage."
"Eighteen!?"
The other party's tone was full of surprise.
Lu Yao nodded:
"Yes, eighteen."
"High school?"
"The college entrance examination is over."
"..."
Although Lu Yao emphasized repeatedly, Hu Li's alcohol-filled brain only had one thought left at this moment.
Goodbye, Xu Ruochu, with thick eyebrows and big eyes...
You're having fun... it's pretty cool!
……
"..."
Wearing a nightgown that seemed to be made of satin, Xu Ruochu stood in front of the parking space in the underground parking lot, holding her arms as she watched the Bentley slowly stop.
"Mr. Xu."
Lu Yao quickly said hello after getting off the car, then ran to the other side and opened the door for Hu Li.
"Sister Li, can I help you?"
"..."
In the parking lot, which was brighter than the lights in the nightclub, Hu Li raised his head and looked at Lu Yao's face carefully.
Then he shook his head, and after getting off the car, he said directly:
"Just drive to the door of the bar and give the key to the security guard."
"Okay, I understand."
"Well... you go."
Hearing this, Lu Yao glanced at Xu Ruochu who was speechless and just frowning.
After seeing that the other party didn't respond, he nodded:
"Okay."
With that said, he quickly walked to the driver's seat and said to Xu Ruochu:
"Mr. Xu, I will pick you up at five o'clock."
"..."
Xu Ruochu glanced at him again, then took out his phone and looked at it again. Nod:
"Okay...don't be late."
"Don't worry. Sister Li, please have a good rest."
After saying that, Lu Yao quickly got in the car and left.
Xu Ruochu helped Hu Li, who was not sure whether he was drunk or not, frowned and asked:
"What's going on? Why don't you go to the bar and drink alone?"
Hu Li didn't answer, but the charming half-smile appeared on his face again:
"You have a great time."
Xu Ruochu was a little confused:
"What do you mean?"
"Are you still pretending? My dear, we hired Miss Xu Ruochu, who is just an adult high school student."
"..."
The corner of Xu Ruochu's mouth twitched, but he still didn't explain, he just continued to ask:
"Didn't you go to dinner with others?"
Seeing that she was chasing after her, the smile on Hu Li's face slowly faded.
Instead, there was a touch of self-deprecation:
"They scolded me. They said I was unfilial. I didn't go home when I came back. I stayed in a hotel. They said I brought discredit on my family... Ha."
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"..."
Xu Ruochu pursed her lips and helped Hu Li walk into the lobby. As she walked, she said in a very rational tone:
"I told you a long time ago, go home and say hello first, don't lose your breath."
"I won't!"
Hu Li broke away from her support, but her tone became more fierce:
"Why should I live according to their wishes? When my father was alive, they looked down upon my mother and called her a vixen. As a result, my father died. While scolding my mother for killing my father, they let I want to have a baby quickly so that I can continue my career! Why should I obey their wishes while scolding me?”
Her tone became more fierce, but her eyes turned red.
But even though her eyes were red, she didn't cry.
Tears fell silently down her beautiful face, but she still stood upright and said word by word with gritted teeth:
"You say I'm a scoundrel?...Ha."
A sentence filled with sadness fell into Xu Ruochu's ears.
Just when she heard the harsh words "evil", her temples bulged slightly.
Then, she glanced at her friend's face where tears were flowing freely...
Suddenly I thought of a kind of warmth.
In other words, I thought of a warm hand.
That hand... did this.
So, she reached out her hand.
There was no such thing as "Okay, stop crying".
He just put one of his hands on Hu Li's head.
"Cry, Sister Xiaoli."
"I'm with you."
After saying these two sentences, Hu Li couldn't help but hugged her.
Tears flowed down Xu Ruochu's neck...
The original warmth turned into the sadness of the evening breeze.
Very wet, but silent.
……
"Huh... I'm a little drunk. No, I'm leaving first. Lu Yao, take Sun Qian back."
"Okay."
At the door of his house, it was almost 1 o'clock in the morning. Fatty Zhang, who had a lot of "big sister" contact information on his phone, staggered into the community with a swaying step.
"Have you told him?"
Lu Yao asked as he watched Fatty Zhang disappear under the streetlight.
"I told you, and his answer was: I understand. People are looking at the wine, not the fat guy like me."
After hearing Sun Qian's answer, Lu Yao understood that Zhang Ju's mind was still clear.
"Let's go, where do you live?"
“Express Hotel in front.”
"...Quick?"
Seeing Lu Yao's surprised expression, Sun Qian burst into laughter:
"Hey, what? No?"
"It's not impossible, but... I feel a bit unworthy of you."
"My mother saves money."
As the two of them walked towards the hotel, Sun Qian said:
"Also, although my uncle is rich, my mother said that a family should live a life of rough and tumble, and save what can be saved... In fact, we are still pretending to be rich. If we are really rich, we will Just like that sister tonight, tens of thousands of yuan worth of wine will be given away on demand..."
"Sister, just replace "we" with yourself."
Lu Yao couldn't laugh or cry.
"Hey."
The girl also laughed out loud, then took off the headband from her wrist, and tied her hair into a single ponytail under the street lamp.
Lu Yao looked in a daze again.
Because...she looked like this when she was a child.
As if she guessed what he was thinking, the girl asked playfully:
"Is it the same as when you were a child?"
"Hmm...exactly the same."
Lu Yao's eyes were full of softness.
Sun Qian showed her two little tiger teeth again:
"Speaking of which, we have walked this road countless times when we were children...sigh."
Suddenly, she stopped leaving.
He stood at the door of a closed Shaxian store and started looking around.
Lu Yao wanted to ask what was wrong, but after seeing the... somewhat sad expression on her face, he understood what she was thinking.
So he lit a cigarette.
Shrouded his sadness in the clouds.
"Lu Yao."
"Huh?"
"You said...if the house is sold, will I never be able to come back?"
"No..."
Lu Yao wanted to comfort him, but when he met the girl's eyes, he could no longer say anything.
yes.
Changed nationality.
Sold the house.
Here...except for the friends who can communicate on the phone, there is nothing else to think about, right?
Lu Yao doesn't know whether Canada is her new home.
But from now on...
Xianghe Street, XH District, even the Magic City, and even the Celestial Empire are all just her hometown.
For no reason, he remembered the song "Nostalgia" in Yu Guangzhong.
"I actually don't want to change my nationality because I'm not Canadian, I'm from China."
In Lu Yao's silence, the girl looked at the place where she grew up and said to herself:
"I don't like the United States either. It's so chaotic there, black people, white people... I really hate it. But there's nothing I can do about it. My uncle is very good to me, and he's also very good to my mother. He said he would never come back to us. Mom has changed too, and they have changed, so I want to change, but I really don’t like it..."
"..."
"But I know that they raised me. They hope to provide me with a better environment..."
"..."
"Huh..."
The girl's voice was trembling.
I can't talk anymore.
Then, she seemed to have thought of something and took out the digital camera from her bag again.
"Hey, lower your head."
Lu Yao bent down obediently.
The two faces were close together.
In the lens of a digital camera, it looks so sweet.
Even when other people see this photo, they will definitely mistakenly think that the two are a couple.
But Lu Yao and Sun Qian knew it in their hearts.
The other person in this photo is a childhood best friend.
"We have to smile! Right?"
"Yeah."
As a result, two smiling faces were frozen in the camera frame.
After taking the photo, Sun Qian continued to walk forward.
She seemed to have a lot to say, but she seemed unable to say anything.
We walked all the way to the hotel.
"Am I leaving?"
"Okay...when are you leaving?"
"Tomorrow."
"..."
Lu Yao's mouth twitched:
"In such a hurry?"
"Yeah. Anyway, the house is sold, and there are still things over there."
"Then...will someone see you off tomorrow?"
"Yes."
"...Good. Have a safe journey."
"Um...a hug?"
Looking at the girl's open arms, Lu Yao greeted her with a smile.
Goodbye,
my friend.
(End of chapter)