As soon as the car stopped, Li Yu seemed to wake up from a dream and asked, "What happened?"
Tao Huayu unbuckled his seat belt, stared at him and asked questions repeatedly.
Li Yu was asked so many questions that he could no longer hold back and told him the story of the "special contract" hesitantly.
Tao Huayu heard this and said, "This is a good thing. Why are you still frowning?"
Li Yu held a cup of milk tea, which was almost cold, in both hands, lowered his head, and bit the straw unconsciously: "Well... the cost of living is too high... I don't want to go..."
His voice was very low and soft. Just then a sprinkler truck passed by, and Tao Huayu heard a few words: "What?"
Li Yu said it again.
Tao Huayu didn't know the price level in Country Y, but when he heard the amount, he felt it was outrageous. He took his phone and started to check it himself, then threw the result to Li Yu and asked him to read it himself.
Li Yu's eyes widened with an expression of disbelief: "How can there be such a big difference?"
Tao Huayu didn't know whether to laugh or get angry: "Xiaoyu, what are you doing? Use your brain that has taken the college entrance examination to think carefully. Even if you are writing an argumentative essay, you should look at it dialectically. Why can't you read a few more entries before drawing a conclusion?"
In fact, it all comes down to the fear caused by inner lack of confidence.
The blow he received from Du Yunkai made him doubt his professional ability. Why would Porcelain, such a big brand, invite him to design? Is he qualified? Moreover, Country Y is a strange country to him, with strange people and a strange living environment. All of this is unknown.
When Li Yu thought of this, he felt panicked.
So, he just subconsciously wanted to find an excuse to escape, and it happened that the "50,000" post was seen by him, which hit the bull's eye.
But at the same time, he also clearly realized that this was a very rare opportunity. Once missed, there would most likely not be another one.
Therefore, his mood is tangled, contradictory, and twisted, and he probably needs external forces to help him break through this confusion.
Tao Huayu knows Li Yu very well.
Li Yu probably didn't even understand the emotions in his mind, so Tao Huayu guessed most of them.
He took the phone back and said deliberately, "I see. It must be that the boss Du Yunkai is too harsh. Is he exploiting you too much? I will call your brother Qingsong now 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 unbuckled his seat belt to grab the phone, and even protected the milk tea from spilling in his car: "Brother, what are you doing? I'm not telling you a complaint. Why are you like this?"
Tao Huayu stood up and half-knelt on the seat with one leg, leaning against the backrest and stretching his arms to the back seat. He used one hand to stop Li Yu: "Don't move. I don't have to make this call. Tell me the truth. What are you thinking?"
Force him to sort out his thoughts.
Li Yu sat back slowly and began to bite the straw again.
Tao Huayu accompanied him patiently until he finished speaking his heart out.
Tao Huayu didn't continue the conversation and asked him, "Have you told your father about this?"
Li Yu looked at him and shook his head, not understanding why he asked that.
Tao Huayu reached out and almost stroked Li Yu's head, then fastened his seat belt and started the car again: "Let's go and have dinner first. Do you have anything to do at school these days?"
"No."
"After dinner, go back and get your things, and follow me back to Xi City."
That day, Tao Huayu sent Li Yu back home.
The car did not drive in, but only stopped at the gate of the community. Tao Huayu said, "Your father probably hasn't told you something yet. Talk to your father about the work first and see what his attitude is. Then you will know how to make a decision."
The residential complex where Li Yu lives is an old one, with six and a half floors in total and no elevator. The house that Li bought was also a second-hand one.
The community had no security facilities and there was no access control in the apartment building. The iron doors facing the stairs had long been rusted, and the one on the left was open to the outside.
Li Yu walked up the stairs in the dim light of the street lamps. He had to stomp his feet hard every time he reached a platform before the sensor light would light up.
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, then stomped his feet hard on the platform between the third and fourth floors. If he was lucky, he would turn on the lights on the fifth floor.
But today was bad luck, or maybe the sensor light on the fifth floor was broken. Li Yu was too lazy to try again, so he simply walked to the door of his house with the dim light and the handrail of the stairs, thanks to the windows in the stairwell.
Knowing that his father was at home, he didn't search his bag for the key but just knocked on the door.
"Here it comes——" Lao Li's deep voice immediately came through the door.
As soon as the door opened, Old Li looked at Li Yu with surprise and tenderness: "Son? Why are you back? Come in, have you eaten? I just ordered takeout, and when you knocked on the door I thought the delivery guy had arrived."
As soon as I closed it, there was another knock on the door, and this time it was a real delivery guy.
"I came back in Brother Huayu's car." Li Yu put a takeout bag on the dining table, sat down, and hung his backpack on the back of the chair.
The TV was still on, with the news broadcast playing.
Lao Li came over with the takeaway, opened it, and took out two boxes of rice and three boxes of stir-fried vegetables.
The store had a discount for purchases over a certain amount, so he bought enough for two meals. He had planned to eat one tonight and another 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 on the way." Old Li was happy just 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 a few boxes of side dishes in it. They looked much more exquisite than the takeaway 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 else to do when he got home, so he didn't eat dinner outside. On the way, he passed a store and packed two dishes for Li Yu to bring back. He knew that Lao Li would definitely not cook when he was alone at home.
As soon as Lao Li saw the dishes, he said, "He still knows how to enjoy it."
While eating, Mr. Li asked about his son's life and studies in school, how he got along with his teachers and classmates, etc.
Li Yu answered slowly one by one.
But Mr. Li felt something was wrong, because his son usually shared these things with him on his own initiative and would even pick out some interesting things to tell him.
Now, he clearly felt that his son was daydreaming while he was talking, and that he must have something on his mind, so he asked, "Xiaoyu, did something happen to you?"
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