Chapter 63 Troubles
Everyone walked towards the cooking area together. Wenxi followed Li Yu and tried to persuade him.
However, when he walked under the awning, Li Yu still did not nod in agreement.
Put the things aside and go to the sink to wash your hands and face. There are rows of sinks built around the site, connected to water pipes, for the cooks to wash their food.
Tao Huayu and Yue Cheng washed a basin of peaches and brought them back. They all sat under the awning to take a rest, drink some water and eat some snacks.
Yue Cheng and Lan Xiaoxi brought a few more folding chairs in case someone else wanted to come and sit over. Now they are just right for Shen Nian'an and his son.
Liu Wangxue took out some snacks for cats and dogs. Youyou and Jinghe volunteered to take on the task, feeding one cat each.
Along the way, everyone kept their ears open and understood what Wenxi wanted Li Yu to do for him.
Among this group of people, Tao Huayu has spent the most time with Li Yu and therefore knows Li Yu best.
Li Yu, because of his experiences since childhood, has a low self-esteem. But after he met something he really liked and went to college, he gradually changed.
Although Tao Huayu was a poor student, he knew how difficult the College English Test Band 4 and Band 6 were - for him, it was as difficult as climbing to the sky. He took the Band 4 every year and scored more than 200 points every time. Not to mention the Band 6, he had never even tried it.
So, when he learned that Li Yu had scored 680 in the Level 6 test, his jaw dropped. The aura of the top student blinded him for the second time - the first time was Xu Qingsong.
Li Yu likes to eat crispy peaches. Tao Huayu handed him a peeled peach and helped Wen Xi persuade him.
In fact, what Li Yu needs most is encouragement and affirmation, not from others, but from himself.
Because of his low self-esteem, he works very hard to get recognition from people around him. But once others give him compliments, he worries that he will not do well next time and will disappoint others.
Because of his inferiority complex, he is not very good at dealing with others. He will only talk freely when talking about his profession. Once the topic changes, he will retreat into his shell again.
His father, Lao Li, has always been worried that he would be bullied again after entering society. Therefore, starting from his freshman year, he required Li Yu to follow his engineering team to the construction site every winter and summer vacation. Firstly, it was for practical learning, and secondly, he wanted him to interact with more people.
It was Lao Li who tried his best to negotiate with Tao Huayu to design Liu Wangxue's home. He thought Tao Huayu said he was helping an acquaintance, so he asked him to do a favor. The projects he took on all hired designers, and they looked down on his son who had not yet graduated from college.
After three years of experience, Li Yu has learned some tricks about home decoration design, so Mr. Li wants to give him a chance to try it.
Drawing the design for Liu Wangxue was a piece of cake. He knew why his father did this, because he didn't expect Liu Wangxue's family to be willing to hire him. So, he took the initiative to give the miniature garden to Liu Wangxue.
What he didn't expect was that Liu Wangxue liked it very much and even transferred extra money to him. At that time, he thought Liu Wangxue had made a mistake. After confirming that it was for him, he was so scared that he quickly took a screenshot and sent it to Tao Huayu, feeling extremely overwhelmed.
After being persuaded by Tao Huayu for a long time, he finally accepted it, feeling both happy and frightened.
But he never expected that just submitting a course assignment would lead to so many things happening today.
Li Yu knew Porcelain, an internationally renowned brand. He also understood how honored it was for his design to be liked by Joshua, something he never dared to dream of.
So he felt that he couldn't agree to Wenxi's request. His English pronunciation was very poor, and opening his mouth would be embarrassing. He also didn't want to upset others because of his personality, which would have a negative impact on Wenxi.
Li Yu would not accept Du Yunkai's invitation. Firstly, he had never been exposed to the relevant field; secondly, he felt that Du Yunkai did not invite him sincerely, and it seemed like he was deliberately challenging Wen Xi.
Li Yu had a bitter face and ate the peach mechanically, sighing in his heart one after another, but the people around him were all trying to persuade him.
Yue Cheng didn't understand why Li Yu had to worry. He had already heard Tao Huayu talk about Li Yu's CET-6 score: "What is there to worry about? You got such a high score in the CET-6. It's just talking. You've learned it. How can you not be able to speak it?"
Tao Huayu hit the nail on the head: "Think about your dad. He has been working on projects of all sizes over the past few years. Who is he doing it for? It's for you. First, he wants to teach you something, and second, he wants to give you a chance to exercise.
Now that such a good opportunity is in front of you, you actually want to give it up because you don't have confidence in your English level? Don't you think it's a pity? Anyway, if I had your ability, I would go with you.
If I perform well and leave a good impression on that young man, I will have a bright future and a good financial future."
He knew this brand. The girl in the store had been living on dirt for several months, claiming to lose weight, just to buy a bag from them. I really don't understand, how can a bag smell as good as rice?
Li Yu was slightly shaken after hearing what Tao Huayu said. His father was the one who hoped that he could grow up the most, and he was looking forward to him taking over the engineering team.
Li Yu glanced at Wenxi, then quickly lowered his head and said, "Well, the score is high, but it's just inflated. My listening and speaking skills are very poor, and my accent is very serious." He was often laughed at by his classmates in English class, which made him very nervous when he attended English class.
Shen Nian'an looked at the baby-faced boy who was troubled by his accent and thought of his past self. He smiled and said, "Accent is actually not a problem." He then spoke a few words in English and asked Li Yu, "Do you think I have an accent?"
Li Yu nodded and shook his head: "It seems similar to the M drama I watched, but it's a little different."
Shen Nian'an added: "To be honest, I used to feel inferior because of my accent. In ordinary rural areas or small towns like ours, the teaching staff is weak, and the qualifications of English teachers themselves are not very good.
I didn't learn English at all in primary school. I started to learn it after I passed the entrance examination to the town middle school. The English teacher in my class at that time couldn't even pronounce 'there' and 'they'. He either mixed them up or used them in reverse. He also always said 'he' as 'hey'.
You can imagine what I ended up learning. After I went to a big city for college, I was often laughed at. I practiced hard for a long time and even saved money to enroll in a pronunciation training class. But the results were not ideal.
Later, I learned a term called "language fossilization," which means that in the process of second language acquisition, we keep wrong habits for too long, making it difficult to correct them. "
Li Yu listened to Shen Nian'an's words and nodded frantically in his heart: Me too! It's exactly the same as me! He saw Shen Nian'an pause for a moment, and immediately asked: "What happened next?"
People like Xiaoyu will not praise themselves for their own strengths, but will completely deny themselves because of a shortcoming, even if it is a trivial one. He must break the shackles to change completely.
(End of this chapter)
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