Chapter 10 (1/2)
The next morning, the two families took a boat trip to the lake and fish.
The natural scenery of Qiandao Lake is beautiful and magnificent, but lishuo is not in the mood to enjoy it. His eyes are staring at the fish.
It's been several days since the incident happened. There's no real progress from the lawyer. He's really afraid of being trapped here, and he's not willing to ask his father for help.
A hand on his shoulder, he was scared, looked up, it was his father: ”Dad, did you catch any fish?”
”I just caught a big fish with a weight of 4 jin, and you can't come here. What do you want?”
Lishuo smiled: ”waiting for my big fish.”
Mr. Li sat on the stool beside him: ”Xiao Shuo, you are not in the right state these days. You are always in a state of mind. You are holding a phone all day long. Is there any problem with the office?”
”Oh, there's something wrong with one case. It's nothing serious. I'll call them to handle it.”
”I don't think it's a little bit of a situation, is it? You don't have a nervous personality. Your mother has long found out that you are not right. She wants to take you out to have fun and relax. As a result, you are still not good. Let me talk to you. ” Mr. Li said helplessly, ”in fact, I didn't want to come. You are so similar to me that you never want to bring any troubles back to your family. I also believe in my son's ability, but I can't beat your mother.”
Li Shuo feels warm in his heart. He feels that he is the luckiest person in the world. With such a perfect family, his parents have a good personality, respect and love each other. This is the marriage he yearns for. Even as a homosexual, he feels that he should find a gentle, kind and uncontested person like his mother, such as Li Chengxiu.
He looked at his father with a smile: ”Dad, thank you. You can rest assured that I can solve this problem. Isn't that the work? It's really no big deal if there is a problem and it's solved.”
”That's good.” Mr. Li patted his son's back. ”In fact, I really don't worry about you. Even if you fall down somewhere, you must be able to get up. If you can't get up, what will happen? What our family left for you is not enough for your decent life?”
Li Shuo said with a smile, ”Dad, if you had told me that when you were a child, I would have grown into a playboy.”
”You won't.” Mr. Li said proudly, ”the best thing in my life is not to start from scratch, but to marry a good wife and have a good son.”
”Dad, thank you.” Li Shuo sighs silently in his heart. He did not want his parents to worry about him, whether for filial piety or self-respect.
I remember that when he graduated from college, he gave up his master's degree in LSE and went to Africa to help teach for a year. His parents were very opposed, mainly worried about his safety. He has always been a high spirited kid. He was too idealistic when he was young. As a standard son of a rich family, he was very contradictory because of the deep love of licking the calf in the eastern family culture and the self-reliance of the western family culture. He could not bear to disobey his parents' excessive protection, and felt that his parents' shade made him feel helpless in his peers. He wanted to do something ”really meaningful”. So he thought A charity that doesn't need to spend parents' money.
He persuaded his parents to follow the volunteer team to Ethiopia.
He regretted the first day he got there. In his life, he has never experienced such a bad and poor environment or such a desperate backwardness, especially the suffering of local children, which makes his heart extremely depressed. He had a fever for three days after the first meal. He felt like an idiot, giving up his good life and top schools to come to this ghost place, which was the result of not listening to his parents.
But every time he talked to his parents on the phone, he didn't dare to say a word of bitterness. At first he felt ashamed, but later he couldn't bear to let his parents worry.
He ended up in that place for 15 months. From the initial regret and negativity, to the recognition and adaptation, to what he tried his best to do for the local children, these psychological changes accompanied his rapid growth, much more than he had learned and understood in the past two decades. Thanks for the experience of those 15 months, which cured all his hypocrisy and treason, made him understand a lot of truth thoroughly, and also made him become extremely tough and brave.
So he never asked his parents for help, never let them worry, not only because of filial piety, self-esteem, but also because he felt that all the things he experienced were meaningful.
Mr. Li chatted with him for a while, and then went fishing for his own fish. Li Shuo looked at the calm lake, and thought a lot. If he really can't go back to China, he would try to get Li Chengxiu to his side, and he didn't believe Shaoqun could keep him trapped all his life.
As soon as Mr. Li left, Zhao Jinxin came up and whispered, ”honey, what big fish are you waiting for?”
Li Shuo chuckled: ”it's not waiting for you anyway.”
”There's no interest in it.” Zhao Jinxin pouted and lowered his voice. Mysteriously, he said, ”I have a friend who specializes in the development of love interest products. He invented a mermaid suit. Do you want to see me wear it?”
Li Shuo gave him a sidelong look: ”what can you get from language tease?”Zhao Jinxin said with a smile: ”get the tune - play your fast - feeling.”
Li Shuo shook his head helplessly: ”don't talk, it will scare my fish.”
”Come on, your mind is not on the fish at all. Why are you so stubborn? Why don't you let me help you? Why don't you let your father help you? It's not a matter of dignity. It's stupid. ”
”I'm 34 years old, a man who has been on his feet for a long time. It's not just stupid that he has to go to his father who has heart problems when he's in trouble,” said Li Shuo calmly
”What about me? Is it so hard to accept my help? ”
Li Shuo looked at the lake in silence. As he said, he didn't want to owe Zhao Jinxin. Now Zhao Jinxin is pestering him in all kinds of ways. It's not more difficult for him to refuse to accept the help.
Zhao Jinxin sighed with disappointment, looked at the lake for a while, suddenly held half of his cheek in his hand, looked at lishuo and said: ”but Uncle Li is so handsome, I like you better.”
Li Shuo can't laugh or cry.
”Let's go to a bar tonight.” Zhao Jinxin said expectantly.
”There's no time tonight. When my lawyer wakes up, we have a long meeting to hold.”
”And tomorrow?”
”Tomorrow.”
”Your answer is too perfunctory. We'll stay here for four or five days. You promised me that you'd say what you say?”
Li Shuo couldn't help it. ”Tomorrow night.”
Zhao Jinxin smiled with satisfaction.
They cooked the fish on the boat, except for salt. Grilled fish, fish soup and sashimi were tender no matter how they ate them. They had the purest delicacy.
Both of them had a good time, talking and laughing.
In the afternoon, when they returned to the shore, they were tired and went to rest.
Li Shuo plunges into his room and calls home to find a relationship. In recent days, he has almost looked for all the friends he can find and preliminarily determined Shao Qun's purpose. Shao Qun mostly doesn't intend to get him in, which will cost a lot. Shao Qun wants to achieve the effect that he can't go back to China. This purpose is temporarily realized, but he doesn't eat it Su, he will make Shao Qun regret.
Before dinner, Zhao Jinxin came to Li Shuo to apply medicine. Li Shuo didn't want to be alone with him, so he moved the medicine box to the living room. He wiped the medicine and hot compress him in front of the elder and the housekeeper. Zhao Jinxin could only be honest, but his eyes were sad that he could not succeed.
Zhao Rongtian looked around for a while, and said with satisfaction, ”I think you two have a good chat. When you return to China, do a good job, start the northern trade, and continue the friendship of our generation. As for the Chinese, inheritance is the most important thing.”
Li Shuo said with a smile, ”you are right. I will help Jin Xin with my heart.”
Zhao Jinxin said straightforwardly, ”don't worry, Dad, I will do it well with brother.”
Zhao Jinxin deliberately emphasized a certain word seriously. Li Shuo was so angry that he wanted to kick him. How could this boy be so cheeky in front of his elders? He was short of drawing.
Zhao Rongtian left with satisfaction. Zhao Jinxin frowns at Li Shuo: ”you see, kiss my father, you really know me.”
Li Shuo narrowed his eyes and pinched Zhao Jinxin's fingers.
”Ah!” Zhao Jinxin cried out in pain.