After making the decision, Bai Yu immediately bought four tickets online and returned to Sanya that afternoon with Wang Hai, Li Shuang, and others.
As soon as Bai Yu got off the ring railway, he hailed a taxi at the station entrance and headed straight for the hotel where his father worked, which was also the hotel owned by Uncle Sun.
When the four of them arrived at the hotel, he didn't tell Bai's father or Uncle Sun. Even the hotel lobby manager had been replaced, and Bai Yu didn't know many people.
They booked a private room, sat down, and ordered eight dishes for the four of them before finally stopping.
There was no other way; Uncle Sun's hotel was now a star-rated establishment, so the portion sizes were very limited. If the four young men wanted to eat their fill, they would have to order more dishes.
When ordering food, Bai Yu ordered his father's specialties, such as his favorite braised mackerel and Jiaji duck.
Bai Yu originally planned to wait until the dishes were served, and then, if the dishes didn't taste right, he would ask the other party to call the head chef over, thus summoning his father.
But who knew that an acquaintance whom I hadn't seen since arriving at the hotel would run into me when the food was served?
This acquaintance was the waiter who served them the food; he was a senior waiter at the hotel, someone who had worked there for several years.
After all, Bai Yu had rarely come to Uncle Sun's hotel in the past two years, and only the old employees could recognize him. Then the employees told Bai's father about it.
Not long after, Mr. Bai, wearing a chef's hat, arrived at the private room.
"Xiao Yu, why did you come back without saying a word? Is something wrong with you at home?"
As Bai's father pushed open the door and entered, upon seeing that it was indeed Bai Yu and the other three, he pulled out a chair, sat down, and asked.
"Dad, Ah Hai and I just got back from the competition. There are no more competitions for a while, so the coach gave us a break. We just wanted to go fishing at sea to relax."
As luck would have it, the shipping company I knew in Haikou didn't have any spare boats, so I contacted the company in our town. They had a boat going out to sea the day after tomorrow, so we came together.
"Oh, right, since you're back now, I have something I'd like to discuss with you. Let's talk about it together when I get home tonight."
"Oh, you still have something to discuss with us now? It seems this is quite important. Could you tell me which aspect it involves? That way I can be mentally prepared."
"Dad, don't worry, it's nothing serious. I just have something I'd like to ask you for advice on. I just need your opinion. We'll talk about it when we get home tonight."
"If you're not too busy right now, would you like to join us for a bite?"
Bai Yu didn't plan to answer her father's question right now, but would wait until she got home that evening to talk to her mother.
Afterwards, Bai's father stayed in the private room for a while and inquired about Bai Yu's recent competition experience, which was very important.
Since Bai Yu joined the World League, he has brought countless honors to the Bai family, whether in the Asian Championships, the World Championships, or various other cup competitions.
As is widely known, besides football, our country is also not very good at another major sport, namely track and field events.
In any running sport, China rarely makes it to the finals, whether it's sprinting, middle-distance or long-distance running. In international competitions, you basically never see any Chinese athletes.
Apart from one person, that is, Flying Man Xiang, but since Flying Man Xiang retired, Chinese people have completely disappeared from running competitions.
Let alone people from our own country, you can hardly see any people of Asian descent.
However, since Bai Yu started competing, he has won many Asian championships, and he has even reached the finals of world-class competitions such as the World Championships, with his best result being a medal.
He won a silver medal at last year's World Championships, which was widely reported by major sports channels and news outlets in China.
The same was true for Bai Yu, the two-time champion of this Asian Championships. As soon as Bai Yu finished the competition and the results were announced, various news reports in China followed.
The news spread so quickly that by the time Bai Yu and his team returned home after the competition, all the news about Bai Yu had become a thing of the past, and hardly anyone was paying attention anymore.
It's perfectly normal that other people don't pay attention to it. After all, we live in an era where entertainment and traffic reign supreme. There are just too many news stories every day, so it's not surprising that sports-related topics don't get much attention.
However, as Bai Yu's father, Bai's father would definitely pay attention. No matter how much time had passed since these news reports, he would still ask about it the moment he saw Bai Yu.
After having dinner at the hotel, Bai Yu paid the bill, took the dinner his father had prepared for his mother, and drove home in his father's car.
Bai Yu should definitely pay the bill himself, since he ordered everything himself. There's no reason for his father to pay. Besides, Bai Yu isn't short of money these days.
Bai Yu used to think that athletes' salaries were not high, only their benefits were decent. However, this "decent" only applied while you were still an athlete. Once you retired, the benefits would be different.
That's why Bai Yu had the idea of giving up sports after having Tongzi.
In fact, what he thought was correct. Athletes' salaries are not high, but this only applies to ordinary athletes, not top athletes.
The salaries of top athletes are far beyond those of ordinary athletes. Moreover, top sports also offer performance rewards. Whether it's a domestic or international competition, as long as there are achievements, relevant departments and local governments will provide certain rewards.
Take Bai Yu for example. After two years of competition, he has won no fewer than ten international medals, several of which were China's first gold medals in long-distance running, which are of great significance.
As for Bai Yu now, he can be described as a successful person who has everything he could want: a car, a house, and savings.
The money he has saved up now is what he earned from the competitions over the past two years, amounting to a seven-figure sum.
The house is in Haikou. It was awarded to him by the Haikou Provincial Sports Bureau when he won the silver medal at the World Championships. Although it was only a silver medal, it was the first medal won by a Chinese person in this event, representing a breakthrough from nothing to something, and it deserved a house as a reward.
The car was only recently promised, but it hasn't arrived yet. It's a reward for his two Asian Championship titles, a commendation from our state-owned car brand, Hongqi.
With so much money, Bai Yu should have been content, but he was still uncertain about his future.
Because he discovered that besides owning a car, a house, savings, and two accounts with tens of millions of followers, he had nothing else.
Skills? Aside from making and editing videos, I can't do anything. Studying? I fall asleep as soon as I try to read; I can't learn anything.
Life? Aside from not being able to be waited on hand and foot, I basically have no life experience.
Looking at it this way, isn't Bai Yu just a complete good-for-nothing who can't do anything?
So in order to have a bright future, he had to start making plans for himself, such as something he was about to buy, a big thing that could make him rich: a ship!
It was explicitly forbidden by Old Master Bai that members of the Bai family could not work on ships, but Bai Yu wanted to buy a ship, and a big one at that.
When Bai Yu drove Wang Hai and the other two back to the village, he first dropped them off at Wang Hai's house before going home himself.
When he got home, his mother had already come home from get off work and was watching TV in the living room.
"Mom, I brought back the dinner Dad prepared for you. Eat it while it's hot."
"Okay, Xiaoyu, come here for a second. Your dad told me that you have something to discuss with us. What happened?"
Bai's mother took the dinner from Bai Yu's hands, then pointed to the sofa next to her and asked Bai Yu to sit down, inquiring about what she wanted to talk about that evening.
"Well, I have something I wanted to ask you. I've saved up some prize money from competitions over the past two years, and I'd like to use it to buy something. I was wondering if you two have any good suggestions."
"Buying things? Are you planning to buy a house? Are you planning to buy one in our city, or in Haikou? Are you planning to buy a three-bedroom house...?"
When Bai Yu heard that she wanted to use the prize money to buy things, Bai Yu's mother already thought that Bai Yu was planning to buy a house, which is why she consulted them for their opinion.
In fact, that's not the case at all. Before Bai Ma could even finish speaking, Bai Yu interrupted her.
"Mom, what I want to buy isn't a house. I already have a house in Haikou. What I want to buy is a boat. I want to use the bonuses I've earned in the last two years to buy a boat. I want to make money by fishing at sea in the future."
"Buy a boat?"
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