There were people coming and going in the restaurant corridor. Xu Lie avoided his steps in a hurry. The waiter who was carrying the plate and carrying wine walked to a quiet corner, held his cell phone and listened to Lin Lan's words, and then declined her kindness on the phone: "Thank you, but I only take the money I should have."

"Don't think about it," Lin Lan seemed to be afraid of hurting the young man's self-esteem. "Auntie did not pay you more salary depending on your financial difficulties. She really felt that you spent more time on Kaikai and should get the corresponding reward. And my niece also told me that playing with her is a special profession now..."

Lin Lan just said this, and a girl who changed her mind rang out from the other end of the phone and was beaten to death and refused to admit her account: "When did I say it? Didn't Kaikai say it?"

After being stunned, Xu Lie laughed silently.

But he still said, "No, that's not a job for me."

"But you took the time after all."

“I’m relaxing, too.”

"Ah, that's it." Lin Lan suddenly realized, "It's right, it's right. It's a young man. It's good to play games and work and rest. Then you go and do it. Auntie won't bother you anymore. See you next weekend."

"good."

After hanging up the phone, Xu Lie returned to the private room.

Except for Xu Lie and Shi Jiayan, all of them were students from Nanzhou University, and more than a dozen people gathered around the table.

This dinner tonight was called by Shi Jiayan to Xu Lie.

These college students started their own businesses and established an online course platform for junior and senior high school students. They are currently recruiting new members with solid science skills and strong logical thinking, responsible for some behind-the-scenes work such as exercise sorting and courseware production.

Shi Jiayan's cousin is one of the team's management. Shi Jiayan heard about this news on the weekend and remembered that Xu Lie had a need to work, so he became an intermediary and introduced him to his cousin.

These college students happened to be building a team on the weekend. At the dinner, they invited several preparatory members, including Xu Lie. On the one hand, they talked to them about the project details, and on the other hand, they also explored their background. It can be said that it was a graceful recruitment interview.

In order to get this cost-effective job, Xu Lie came here.

There were only Xu Lie and Shi Jiayan on the dining table, and their two younger brothers were treated as protected animals and they did not touch a drop of wine.

Xu Lie returned to the private room, sat down next to Shi Jiayan, picked up the tea on the table and took a sip. The taste was a bit astringent, but he had been unpicky for a long time.

Shi Jiayan leaned over and asked, "What happened to the phone call just now? Your employer fired you?"

"No," Xu Lie turned around and drank the empty porcelain cup, "give salary."

"It's not bad! Then what about doing online courses? It won't affect your homework."

"Not affecting."

Shi Jiayan sighed and didn't persuade him much.

Recently, when he was in and out with Xu Lie at school, Shi Jiayan also had a rough understanding of his situation.

The bank loans and usury owed by the Xu family to go bankrupt were actually paid off before the New Year. But it was not the Xu family who paid it back by itself, but by Xu Lie's prospective brother-in-law Cheng Lang.

When Xu's mother took Xu Lie to flew away and flew away. If Cheng Lang hadn't helped him in time, Xu Lie's father and sister would have only the dead end of fate.

So even though Xu Lie was actually deceived by his mother from abroad, even if Xu Lie cut off contact with his mother after knowing the truth and refused to use the money one cent, he still thought he owed his sister and father.

Xu Lie's father later went to Southeast Asia to look for business opportunities with the help of Cheng Lang.

Xu Lie's sister thought he and his mother should have lived a stable life with money. It was only a few months after the incident that he had been suffering in the United States.

He worked as an illegal worker in the cheapest bar, eating leftovers, sleeping on the floor, and being beaten by guests.

It’s not that he can’t fight back, but that he can’t fight back. Because he will lose the job of surviving.

When my sister found him, he had gone from a noble and stinky pride in heaven to a taciturn boy who seemed to be too lazy to care about anything.

There is no goal of life, and nothing really cares about.

My sister wanted to take him back to China, but Xu Lie didn't want to be her boss, nor did she want to return to the circle of the young masters in the past.

So in the end, both sides took a step back - Xu Lie listened to his sister and continued to complete his studies. His sister allowed him to live far away from the North City, allowing him to be independent early, and bear the tuition and living expenses by himself.

The funds given to him by Xu Lie's brother-in-law now are equivalent to borrowing him.

After Shi Jiayan learned about this, he understood why Xu Lie had to work.

Because he has new debts every day.

Although his brother-in-law didn't care about this little money at all, he did this purely to reach an agreement with him to "take one step back", but Xu Lie couldn't let him go.

No one blames him, but he is blamed himself.

*

After a meal, Shi Jiayan's cousin was quite satisfied with Xu Lie's taciturn and steady personality. After all, behind-the-scenes work requires "no ruthless talk."

Several senior sisters were drunk and joked that their younger brother looked really nice and had a good personality. They wanted to add a WeChat account and were willing to wait for their younger brother to become an adult. They were scolded by Shi Jiayan's cousin with a smile.

After the dinner, everyone was about to go to the next stall. Xu Lie achieved his goal and did not join in the fun. He went to the bus station alone to wait for the bus back to school.

This area is still near the university town, and I met Su Hao the night before.

Recently, in order to rush to learn, Xu Lie saw a pharmacy next to him in front of the station sign. He went in to buy eye drops, took two boxes on the shelf, walked to the cashier to pay the bill, and saw a familiar girl walking in from the outskirts.

It was Xu Zhili, who was dressed similarly to the night before, wearing smoky makeup, wearing a pair of hatred and a pair of high-end shops in his hand, and walked to the cashier counter.

When she saw Xu Lie, she raised her eyebrows, as if she was surprised that it was such a coincidence.

But today, Su Hao's bond was gone, and neither of them wanted to say hello to each other. After a glance, Xu Lie scanned the code to pay the bill with his mobile phone, and Xu Zhili pushed a prescription to the cashier's younger sister: "Get a box of medicine."

"Okay, wait." The cashier was packing two boxes of eye drops from Xu Lie. He looked at Xu Zhili's prescription list with all his heart, and reminded her to pay attention first, "Accurate tonsillitis, be careful not to drink alcohol for three days before and after taking antibiotics. In severe cases, it will cause life danger, and it is not a joke."

Xu Zhili nodded, and her face was so tired that she couldn't hide her heavy makeup.

Xu Lie took the plastic bag, walked out of the pharmacy, and came to the bus stop. As soon as he stood still, he saw Xu Zhili again.

Maybe I'm here to wait for the car.

The bus station is very old. One of the two stainless steel waiting chairs broke. The curve of the other seat was smashed by some heavy object. It was uneven, but it was barely able to sit alone.

Xu Zhili was really tired of wearing high heels. Seeing Xu Lie standing aside, she occupied the seat and put the shopping bag in her hand on the seat. However, the bag was too heavy and the seat was too narrow. The shopping bag slid down the uneven curved surface, and the things inside fell out.

A glass bottle rolled out of the bag. The wall was thick and it was not broken. It rolled until Xu Lie's feet.

Xu Zhili's eyes flashed slightly, and she squatted down to pick up things.

Xu Lie looked down at the glass bottle at his feet and saw it clearly with the station light.

A bottle of white wine, a strong wine of more than fifty degrees.

Xu Zhili picked up the wine bottle and looked up and found that Xu Lie's eyes had changed.

This bottle of strong liquor, plus the medicine she just bought at the pharmacy, was fatal enough.

Xu Lie narrowed his eyes.

Xu Zhili stood up as if nothing had happened and smiled at him: "Don't get me wrong, I'll bring you wine."

He raised his eyebrows: "What is the misunderstanding?"

He said nothing, but she wanted to cover up and tell him not to misunderstand, just like the night before, she said to Su Hao, "Don't misunderstand, I'm not committing suicide by slitting my wrists."

"It's nothing." Xu Zhili put the wine bottle into the shopping bag, then went to pick up other things at her feet. When she squatted down, she stopped moving first.

That's something special for use - envelopes, letter paper, recorders.

It may not be anything else, but at this moment, Xu Zhili himself discovered that they are too similar to what a person who is about to leave this world and wants to leave behind in the end.

She raised her head and looked at Xu Lie.

His eyes really fell on these things.

He should have guessed what she was going to do, and he also guessed that what she told Su Hao was lies - she cut her wrists to commit suicide.

Xu Zhili slowly put all the things back into the shopping bag, and sighed when she stood up: "Don't tell her, okay?"

This "she" of course refers to Su Hao.

After all, Xu Zhili mistakenly thought that Xu Lie was Su Hao's boyfriend.

Xu Lie's eyes returned to calmness, and he looked at her and asked, "Reason?"

"Just do a favor, handsome guy." Xu Zhili curled her lips and smiled, showing off her mature woman's style that was not as good as her age.

Xu Lie didn't even lift his eyelids, obviously not taking this trick.

Xu Zhili said "Oh": "Yes, it doesn't make sense to help me, a stranger, deceive my girlfriend, and I'm not as good-looking as her."

Perhaps the time was wrong, Xu Lie did not clarify his identity and repeated: "So, reason?"

Xu Zhili knocked on her sore legs and sat down and said, "Didn't she tell you about me?"

Xu Lie stood aside in silence and waited for her to talk down.

"Where is me, I got to know a group of friends through her, so if she knew that I was not doing well, she would feel guilty, understand?"

Xu Lie looked at the night quietly: "Even if I don't say it, she will know."

"I promise to leave quietly this time. Are all the suicide note ready? It will make my parents handle it in a low-key manner. The last time the wrist cutting was really too big." Xu Zhili shrugged regretfully, "When I couldn't protect myself, I didn't care about so many others. When I met her yesterday, I remembered that she had a shadow on wrist cutting."

Xu Lie looked at her and frowned.

"You don't know," Xu Zhili's mouth was filled with a hint of teasing, "You haven't gotten out of the sheets yet? Haven't you seen the tattoo on her ankle?"

The impression of tattoos pulled Xu Lie away, so that before he could react to the three words "roll the sheets", he squinted his eyes and recalled them.

Xu Zhili guessed with a smile: "Oh, I've seen it, but she refused to say what it was? Then I'll tell you if it's not good."
To be continued...