Yu Rui and Xie Li parted ways downstairs in the library and went to the house of the junior high school students who were tutoring at night.
Before leaving the school, he was called twice from behind: "Monitor!" "Brother Rui!"
Yu Rui looked back and saw that it was his classmate in the administration class of his first year of high school. Yu Rui smiled gently and lowered the corners of his eyes, "You also come to school for self-study?"
"yes."
The two who stepped forward exchanged glances, as if there was something difficult to say.
Yu Rui asked, "What's wrong?"
"... Brother Rui, are you familiar with Xie Li?" After a few seconds of embarrassment, one of them finally couldn't help but ask.
"Xie Li?" Yu Rui paused and smiled gently, "I'm not familiar with it, but I'm in the same class now, what's wrong?"
"Actually, we saw you in the afternoon. We originally wanted to go over and say hello to you, but when we went over, it turned out that Xie Li was sitting next to you..." He scratched his head embarrassedly, "We didn't dare to say hello to you. , I ran to the corner by myself."
Yu Rui smiled, "Is Xie Li that scary?"
"I don't feel like being offended, and let alone the students, the teacher doesn't even bother to take care of him."
"That's right, Brother Rui, you're amazing. This is the first time we've seen or heard of someone who is so close to Xie Li."
"Yeah, if it spreads, it will probably scare a bunch of people off."
"That's right hahaha..."
Yu Rui's eyes moved slightly.
He has always been the most troublesome, and Xie Li... No matter how you look at it, it is not a worry. In these fierce gossips, he felt that it would be better to clarify the relationship between himself and that person.
He thought that Xie Li didn't like trouble either.
Yu Rui walked out of the school side by side with them, and said with a smile, "If you spread it out, you don't want it. We just met downstairs in the library. It really makes people think that Xie Li and I are familiar with each other, and we will be let down in public in the future. Face, that's not worth the loss."
"Haha, that makes sense."
"Don't worry, squad leader, we're just joking, and we won't really say anything."
"That's right, and Xie Li's temperament, no one in the whole grade knows about it - we may not believe it if we say it."
"But it's strange, Xie Li actually came to school for self-study?"
Both felt astonished.
Hearing this, Yu Rui seemed to ask casually, "Did he never go to self-study in high school?"
"Yeah, I heard from his classmates before - not to mention self-study, his attendance rate in class in the first year of high school may not be 50%. This means good grades, otherwise he would have been persuaded by the teacher long ago. Return."
"The school is reluctant, the teachers will definitely protect this seedling that is likely to be the champion of science."
"Yeah, I really don't know how he got the grade..." The voice stopped abruptly, and he looked at Yu Rui embarrassedly, but didn't say anything.
"It doesn't matter." Yu Rui smiled brightly, making that person's embarrassment fade away quickly, "Xie Li's achievements are indeed very good, he is my goal, there is nothing hard to admit - there is a goal to have a direction. what?"
"As expected of the squad leader, you have a high level of consciousness."
"Speaking of which, no one except Xie Li in the grade can really compete with you, brother Rui. If Xie Li was not there, it would be really a lonely fight, it's too boring hahahaha..."
The three of them walked outside the school, and the other two went in a different direction from Yu Rui, and said goodbye in a few words.
The two walked away, and one of the joking voices came back: "Hey, sleep well in class and take the first place in the door. When will I have a brain like Xie Li? It's not fair, it's not fair..."
"… "
Yu Rui frowned.
Standing for a moment in the afterglow of the setting sun, he lowered his eyes and chuckled.
Being blessed does attract too much jealousy...
Sheryl.
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Yu Rui's part-time job is a small family of four. The father in the family is an executive of a small and medium-sized enterprise, and the mother owns a cafe. The family has two very cute twin daughters.
Yu Rui had been teaching at their home for more than half a year, and he was in charge of the sisters' mathematics and physics. Because they were teaching two children at the same time, the two parties negotiated a 1.5 times salary standard at the beginning.
This was obviously a perfect part-time job for Yu Rui who didn't have enough time.
However, when he arrived at his employer's house today, the first thing Yu Rui saw when he entered the door was the neatly packed and stacked boxes in the living room.
Seeing that it was Yu Rui, the hostess of the house hurriedly waved, "Xiao Rui, come in quickly."
Yu Rui nodded, "Auntie, this is..."
"Sorry, Yu Rui, I didn't have time to tell you before. Because of my husband's job transfer, we may have to move to another province."
Yu Rui was slightly startled and smiled, "It should be Uncle's job promotion, right? Congratulations to Uncle and Aunt."
The hostess was full of apologetics, "In this way, the family education may be..."
"I understand, it's nothing. So today is the last class, right? I have a few knowledge points to summarize for them, so I'll go to the study first."
"Hey? Good... You've worked hard, Xiao Rui."
"You're welcome, Auntie, as it should be."
Yu Rui is good-looking, has a gentle temper, and is not impatient at all when lecturing on topics. He is very patient, so the twin sisters in this family love Yu Rui, the little teacher. When they heard that they were going to move out before, the one they were most reluctant to bear was him.
Therefore, the last class of the night was not very efficient, and Yu Rui was surrounded by them almost all the time.
When he left the study, the two little girls could be heard scrambling from behind the closed door.
Yu Rui reluctantly walked to the living room.
The male owner of the house is on the phone on the balcony, and the female owner is sitting on the sofa in the living room. As soon as Yu Rui came out, the hostess stood up.
"Have you finished class?"
"Yeah," Yu Rui said a little embarrassedly, "but it's not very efficient, I only had time to sort out the knowledge points for the first half of the semester for them. Oh, that's right."
Yu Rui took out a folder from the backpack on his side, then took out two A4 sheets of paper and handed them to the hostess.
"This is a weak point in the knowledge structure for them to sort out separately. If you need to hire a tutor in a new city, you can show this to them, so that both sides will be able to get used to the teaching more easily."
The hostess was stunned for two seconds before taking it.
She looked down and looked over it, the writing was neat, and the different colored pens carefully marked the different problems of the sisters.
After watching for a few seconds, the hostess raised her head with emotion, "I really don't know what to say, Yu Rui. You are the most responsible child I have ever met."
Yu Rui smiled nonchalantly, "This is my job duty, Auntie, if you say that, you'll be out of the way."
The hostess nodded, turned around and took out an envelope from her backpack beside the sofa.
"This is the tutoring fee that our two children should pay this semester, and we will pay you two-thirds of the time."
Yu Rui was stunned, and then he took a half step back, "Auntie, this semester's classes haven't even started yet, so I definitely can't take your money."
"We gave you a temporary notice, and it is too late to make a part-time job change. You should treat it as liquidated damages, or compensation before you find your next part-time job."
"That's not so much-"
"Xiao Rui, don't talk to your uncles and aunts. We all see your help to Yi Xuan and Yi Ru. Without you last semester, their grades couldn't have improved so quickly; the most important thing is that you treated them well. We can also see the care and intentions of the people. Compared to those, this amount of money is nothing."
Yu Rui still wanted to resign.
The hostess whispered: "Don't make uncles and aunts feel guilty, okay?"
Having said that, it was obviously inappropriate for Yu Rui not to answer.
He could only accept the envelope to thank him.
The hostess hesitated, and took out another business card from her bag. "Although my uncle and aunt have moved far away, they can still help with anything in the future. If you need anything, feel free to contact us."
"this-"
"Yi Xuan and Yi Ru don't want to lose their connection with your little teacher. Give them hope. When you go there to play, you can coax them to work harder."
Yu Rui smiled when he heard the words, "Okay."
The hostess handed the business card to Yu Rui, then leaned forward slightly, lowering her voice jokingly, "They all like you, if it wasn't for fear that their sisters would make trouble over this matter, then I might I want you to be our son-in-law in the future."
"… "
Under the light in the living room, there was always a young man who was more calm than his peers for a while, and his fair face quickly turned a thin layer of red.
The hostess couldn't help laughing when she finally saw the youthful reaction of this young man who took up the responsibility prematurely.
After that, Yu Rui sat with the family of four for a while before getting up and leaving.
On weekends, Yu Li has been placed in a study room in the city by Yu Rui. Today, because the tutoring ended early, there is still one hour left before Yu Rui picks her up.
Yu Rui stopped when he walked out of the community and looked down at the envelope in his hand.
He has excellent grades, good character, and has a good reputation in tutoring and part-time jobs. In the past year, he has gradually been able to save the remaining money to cover the current family living expenses and tuition fees.
The account where the money was saved was jokingly called the "future account" by him and Yuli. It was a Class I bank card that Yu Rui had made after he turned 16 this year. The money in the card was going to be used for tuition and living expenses for him and Xiaoli in the future.
Two-thirds of the tutoring fee for a semester is not a small amount, and the thickness of the money in the envelope is considerable. If he can successfully find a new part-time tutor in the future, the money could have been deposited into his "future account".
but now…
Yu Rui put the envelope containing the money back in his backpack, and took out a card from the outermost pocket.
A string of addresses and a surname "Zhan" was scrawled on it.
The cards were given to him by the gangsters who blocked the door to collect debts during the day. The one on the card was, of course, the creditor of his alcoholic father.
Yu Rui lowered his eyes expressionlessly and scanned the address on the card.
The teenager under the street lamp frowned slightly, his side face stretched sharp lines, and his lips were pursed into sharp arcs. Different from the gentleness and comfort of the day, the boy's eyes at this time have a coolness like ice and snow.
But deeper and more exhausting.
After looking at it for two seconds and writing down the address, Yu Rui put the card back in his trousers pocket.
He put the backpack on his shoulders and turned to leave.