During the dinner, the two of them ate and talked. Yan Ke was surprised to find that he, a "child from other people's family" who had been compared since childhood, was very different from the stereotype in his impression. It seemed that people should get rid of prejudice and contact in many ways. .
"I can rest assured that Dongyan's shares have been handed over to you, and I don't mean to live up to my father's entrustment before his death." Yan Ke poured a glass of wine to toast him, "I don't have much to say, if you need help in the future, don't hesitate to ask. speak."
Lu Shang raised his glass in greeting, and the two drank it.
"Speaking of exhortation, we are both sympathetic to each other. My father died early, and your father is not much better. I still have a daughter, you..." Yan Ke got a little drunk and burped. Glancing at Li Sui, who was blocking the wine for Lu Shang, "Your father knows that you can't die of anger... No, you're so angry that you can come back to life."
What he said was inappropriate, but it was not malicious. Lu Shang seemed very calm, poured a cup of hot tea and drank it without answering.
After the meal, a group of them made a fuss about going to the soup. Li Sui drank too much and walked around in a daze. He almost walked into the female soup by mistake, and was teased by Yan Ke's friends. Although Yan Ke's character is not bad, his level of making friends is indeed a little worse. True literature and art depend on connotation, while pseudo-art is made of money. Yan Ke's friends are unfortunately the latter. Many of them looked down on the poor, and Li Sui, like Li Sui, fell in love with them looking for a sense of superiority.
This time, Lu Shang didn't have any smile on his face. He squatted down and helped Li Sui to put on his hot spring clothes, and asked, "Have you been here before?"
Li Sui shook his head.
Lu Shang patiently told him where is the locker, where is the changing room, how to use it, what the process is, and what are the precautions, just like parents of elementary school students during a spring outing.
"You are here, you are a guest, you can ask any waiter to solve your needs. If someone refuses your reasonable request, you can complain," Lu Shangdao. "If a guest makes you feel uncomfortable, you can also complain."
He was too serious, and the people around him gradually felt embarrassed by watching the jokes, and finally they all tucked their tails, and no one dared to joke about him until he left.
Lu Shang has always kept a low profile. Except for Yan Ke and Sun Mao, most people here don't know him. Before they came, they only knew that Mr. Yan wanted to invite a boring man like an old monk to dinner, but they didn't know who this man was. After hearing what Sun Maoyi said, they all beat their chests and feet with remorse, and were very annoyed. Of course, that's something for later.
The hot spring water will raise blood pressure, so Lu Shang didn't go into the water, he sat on the bank and watched Li Sui, and when he had enough playing in the soup pool by himself, he fished him up and took him home.
When Yan Ke heard about it, he came over to apologize, but Lu Shang didn't express his opinion, but Li Sui smiled and waved his hand against his face flushed by the hot spring water to say that it was okay.
In this regard, Lu Shang has his own stubbornness, which may be related to his experience. He can endure a person from low birth and poverty, but he can't bear a person who has no enterprising spirit. Just like people who always laugh at other people's low quotient, usually their own quotient is not high enough. People who seek superiority by belittling the weak are inferior to the weak, because you can't imagine what a humble heart is. , will need a false superiority to cover up. That's why, even though he knew that he didn't have much time, he still thought about La Lisui. This child is like a small whale in a long drought. He really wants to know what kind of waves he will make when he splashes it.
When I went home and passed the supermarket, a huge notice of business closure was posted on the glass door. Lushang planned to go in and buy something before closing the door, so he let the driver go back by himself.
The first time Li Sui came in, pushing the cart, he was dazzled and dazzled for a while. Lu Shang asked him twice what he wanted to eat, but he didn't hear him.
"Chocolate? Chips? Soda?"
Li Sui showed a familiar blank look, Lu Shang simply didn't ask, and put it directly into the stroller according to the taste of ordinary children. One stroller couldn't fit, so Li Sui raised a frame.
When paying the bill, Li Sui kept staring at the shelf next to the cashier.
"Take whichever you want." Lu Shang reminded.
Li Sui hesitated for a while, then took out a plate of dry milk.
For the first time, he put his desire into practice, and Lu Shang couldn't help staring at him for a while, then turned to the cashier and said, "This whole box is all."
"Do you like this?" Lu Shang put the bags in the cart into the trunk one by one, and asked when he closed the door.
Li Sui nodded while holding the nipple, then shook his head again, and finally he was lost, as if he was caught in some memory.
Lu Shang didn't ask any further, he turned his head to concentrate on driving, but when the car was about to arrive, Li Sui suddenly opened his mouth.
"Since I can remember, I have been living in a welfare home. The welfare home is very poor, and it is very difficult to provide three meals a day. Sometimes I am very hungry, so I go to steal milk powder with a few children to eat it. That kind of dry milk powder, grab a handful and stuff it into your mouth. I didn’t eat any snacks when I was a child, and I always thought that milk powder was the best food in the world. Later, I learned that we stole from the abandoned orphans in the orphanage. baby food."
Li Sui lowered his head and used his fingers to pick the milk tablet in his hand, and smiled slowly: "You brought me here today, I just realized that there are so many snacks in the world."
Hearing this, Lu Shang looked at him with a touch in his heart. Holding the steering wheel, he continued to look ahead and asked, "How have you been all these years?"
This tone didn't seem to be asking him, but it was like asking an old friend who had reunited after a long absence. Li Sui paused: "Are you asking me?"
Lu Shang stared at the road: "Well."
Li Sui turned his head and seemed to say something: "If you compare it with the present, it should be considered bad. After I was lost from the orphanage, I fell into the hands of traffickers. Li Yan's bar and stayed there for three years until you brought me back."
"Do you still remember what happened before you went to the orphanage?"
Li Sui was stunned, and then asked, "Before the orphanage?"
Lu Shang interrupted the conversation very quickly: "It's nothing, it's here."
After the New Year, Lu Shang obviously started to get busy, and he often couldn't see anyone all day long. Li Sui took advantage of this time to study hard, his level improved by leaps and bounds, and the teachers changed very quickly.
In addition to the written courses, Lu Shang also found a coach to guide him to exercise. Li Sui didn't understand at first: "Why exercise?"
"Strengthen your body so that you don't become a sick child like me." Lu Shang replied.
Li Sui looked at Lu Shang's eager eyes when he stared at his body, and always felt that something was not right. His eyes were obviously more like a gardener who raised flowers, looking forward to something growing.
After two months of training, Li Sui found out that his training content was different from others, and one day he finally couldn't help but ask the coach, "Why am I different from them? They all started to push their shoulders and push their chests. Are you doing crunches and planks?"
"The purpose of the practice is different, and the content will of course be different." The coach said.
"Different purposes?"
"Aren't you training your abdominal muscles, so that you can make your abdominal muscles more obvious."
Li Sui: "What? Isn't it good to keep fit?"
"Huh? Boss Lu told you that?" The coach looked embarrassed.
Li Sui: "…"
At first, Lu Shang went to observe his training every three weeks and five times. Later, he was too busy to take care of it. It was all up to the coach to arrange for him. Li Sui was also conscious that even without Lu Shang's supervision, he did not fall behind, and gradually achieved great results.
In the process of observing Li Sui, Lu Shang gradually realized that this child knows far more than he imagined, and it is not difficult to understand the root cause. After all, Li Sui has been at the bottom for so many years. He is well versed in the trick of "playing as a pig and eating a tiger". He hides his edge very well. . This prudence and low-keyness, which is almost inscribed in his bones, is actually exercised to survive in the cracks, and Lu Shang's focus in training him is to release this tenacity in his body and turn it into a profit in his hands. sword.
Spring and autumn come, and in a blink of an eye it is another cycle. This year's Spring Festival has just passed, and the sun has started to get longer. It seems that there is no such thing as spring in this city. It is taking the route of changing from winter to summer. A few days ago, the snow melted and it was so cold that people hit their teeth and turned their heads. The sun began to hang high as soon as it was scraped, and the hot-selling long johns in the store were quickly replaced by the main spring clothes.
On Qingming Festival, the fashionable women on the street were already wearing stockings and short skirts. Liang Zirui ran back from the United States on this sunny day. As soon as he entered the door, he began to feel the enthusiasm of the motherland to welcome him. water to drink. After staying abroad for more than a year, he has gained a lot of weight all over, and his cheeks are so rosy that he can't wait to glow. Lu Shang teased him that he had eaten Jinkela and was choked back, saying that Li Sui had changed more obviously than him, like a full As if pissed.
"Compared with children, it's really promising." Lu Shang handed him a glass of lemonade.
Liang Zirui called out immediately: "Oh, it's still a child." Turning his head, he winked at Lu Shang, meaning to ask if anything happened this year, but Lu Shang blocked his mouth with a piece of durian: "Eat yours."
Liang Zirui pouted, saying it was boring.
"Thank you for your concern, Dr. Liang, I will be the first to tell you when Boss Lu and I have substantial progress." Li Sui came down the stairs with the earphone cable hanging on one ear, with a calm expression on his face.
Liang Zirui was stunned for a while, secretly screaming in his heart that it would be bad, this kid had already rebelled behind his back while he was not paying attention, and changed to be on the same front as Lu Shang. Immediately, he couldn't help but sigh, growing up children really can't be underestimated. It's only been more than a year. From appearance to conversation, it's like a different person.
"Hey, it looks like I've been reduced to the bottom of the food chain." Liang Zirui was half a head taller than Li Sui, and he was suddenly depressed. The doctor who was hit angrily announced on the spot that both of them would go to Regal Hospital for examination tomorrow morning.
"I'm going too?" Li Sui was practicing listening recently. He had headphones on wherever he went, so he couldn't help raising his head when he heard this.
He has been eating and exercising hard for more than a year, and has been strengthened by Lu Shangyang. The malnutrition sunken on his face is no longer visible. Because of Lu Shang's urging to apply moisturizing cream every night, his skin is tender and tender. Yes, it looks good to knead.
Liang Zirui walked over to rub his hair in a mess, and said with a wicked smile, "Go, go and check how you are growing."
Chinese people have two skills that foreigners can't match. One is to be able to celebrate any festival as Valentine's Day, and the other is to be able to celebrate any festival as a shopping carnival. When I went out on Qingming Festival, the streets were still crowded. Now everyone stopped going to the graves and went to the streets. Uncle Yuan honked the horn all the way to no avail. There were businesses on the road giving free lottery tickets, and Li Sui opened the car window to pick up one.
He is more daring now, a little bit of a budding edge. Lu Shang is very tolerant to him, and he hardly controls him. He only explains the principled things, and the rest will develop with him. After Liang Zirui gave him auscultation, he couldn't help but reminded: "You are careful to raise tigers."
Lu Shang smiled slightly, expressing his reassurance. He does have the heart to raise tigers, and Li Sui is also a good seedling, but he knows the people he has taught.
Li Sui's inspection items were simpler than Lu Shang's. After the blood was drawn, Lu Shang asked him to go downstairs to have breakfast first. The Regal Hospital was next to the largest hospital in the city. Li Sui walked across the corridor and met an unexpected person—Li Yan.
He was wearing black clothes and a pair of sultry sunglasses, leaning in the corridor, talking to him next to a young woman, looking like a well-kept figure, no makeup, wearing big sunglasses and a mask, in fact, this kind of dress It looks dazzling in this place.
Li Sui turned his head to avoid him, but he was recognized first.
"Isn't this Lu Shang's little lover?" Li Yan put his hands in his pockets, with a cynical tone, "What are you running for, afraid that I will eat you?"
Li Sui turned his head, Li Yan looked at him, his tone was inexplicably hostile: "Why, he hasn't bored you yet?"
After not seeing Li Sui for a while, the change in Li Sui is very amazing. Li Yan sees it in his eyes, but the more he sees it, the more unhappy he is in his heart. Also, Li Sui was obviously a timid little boy when he was in the bar, but when he arrived at Lu Shang's place, his whole body changed. Became this radiant look. It's like giving someone a useless broken stone from his own house, but they took it back and threw the outer layer and found that it was a piece of rough jade inside.
Li Sui has learned a lot from Lu Shang's side these days. He knows Li Yan's mentality somewhat, and he can't help but feel that this person is extremely naive. So he adjusted his tone, polite and alienated: "What's the matter?"
"Tsk, this tone, I'm your ex-boss anyway," Li Yan took the number sheet from the woman next to her, "Do me a favor and get your sister-in-law a test result."
Li Sui looked up at the "sister-in-law" beside him, but the latter lowered his head and didn't look at him.
Not knowing what medicine was being sold, Li Sui had no choice but to help him go to the automatic counter to scan the barcode, and a list came out. Li Sui glanced at it and was stunned for a moment.
He walked over and asked, "What is this for?"
"Abortion." Li Yan did not shy away at all.
After finishing speaking, he joked: "Speaking of which, what are you doing in the hospital, wouldn't you also bring someone to have an abortion?"