I'm afraid I'm not interested in love

Chapter 494 The Son of an Old Friend
"I'm just working part-time as a waiter here, okay? Don't you know what a summer job is? Let me ask you!"

Zou Lian's face turned red and he could hardly control the volume of his voice.

When he first heard the words "going into the sea", he hadn't realized what they meant.

After he figured out what "going into the sea" meant, he began to wonder if there was something wrong with his ears.

Otherwise, why could the guy in front of me ask such an outrageous question with such a serious expression as if he was discussing academic issues?

What a big-headed sea! Poet's grip!!!

Su Chengyi had long expected that Zou Lian would definitely react like this, but the exact facts remained to be discussed.

"Just a waiter?"

"What else?! You..."

Zou Lian jumped up like a cat whose tail was stepped on, but thinking of his past experience, he could only take a deep breath and force himself to calm down.

No, you have to stay calm.

When facing a guy like Su Chengyi, the most taboo thing is to jump up and down and make a lot of noise, otherwise in contrast to his calmness, the other person will appear like a clown.

Zou Lian scratched his hair out of habit, and felt the cheap smell of hairspray from the hair salon. Suddenly, he lost the courage to have a big fight.

"Can you please stop being so dirty in your thoughts?"

In the end, he just said this weakly.

Su Chengyi realized belatedly that his question might have been a little too direct.

But there's something wrong with this matter no matter how you look at it.

"Why do you work during the summer vacation? Isn't your family rich?"

Su Chengyi asked.

In fact, he was not quite sure whether Zou Lian's family was rich, but from the limited impression he had during high school, they were definitely not short of money, and they were also a well-off family.

He was so popular among girls, partly because he was generous and often treated them to meals, milk tea, and movie nights.

"Can't I work during the summer vacation if my family is rich? Can't I experience life? Haven't you heard of hardship education? If you don't need money, don't let your children spend it."

Zou Lian shouted impatiently.

After a while, Zou Lian saw from Su Chengyi's eyes that his idea was "Guess whether I believe it or not". He choked and had to continue:

“I had a quarrel with my family a few days ago, and now I am homeless and have to work.

That’s it! Are you satisfied now? ! "

"This is more in line with the setting of a desperate situation where one is forced to go into the sea."

"I'm going to fuck your second aunt! If you, Su Chengyi, bring this up again, I'll strangle you to death."

Zou Lian's face looked as ugly as if he had eaten a plate of green-headed flies, and his back teeth were grinding.

Su Chengyi spread his hands and changed the subject.

"Why are you arguing?"

"The reason is not important. Have you ever quarreled with your family? It's just the most common reasons - the ones you see in various youth education films."

Zou Lian looked away and muttered with his head down.

Su Chengyi heard the evasiveness in his words and decided not to ask any further questions for the time being.

“Well, then just think of it as you running away from home during your rebellious teenage years.

But, you are a top student from Huaqing University, and your summer job is to work as a waiter in a KTV?

Is it that the tutoring market can no longer accommodate you? Even if we take a step back, can't you also edit videos?"

Su Chengyi laid out his doubts one by one.

Zou Lian is very clear about his video editing skills. After all, he personally directed the trailer for the game Disco Elysium, which received numerous praises and successfully fired the first shot in raising players' expectations.

In this way, Zou Lian is one of the contributors to the great success of "Disco Elysium".

"With your editing skills, it shouldn't be difficult to get some private orders, right?
Of all the options you could have chosen, you chose the most unexpected one, so I have to make an impolite guess about... going astray."

Su Chengyi almost said "go into the sea" again, but when he saw Zou Lian's murderous look, he changed his words temporarily.

He also gave himself a "rude" buff.

Zou Lian was silent for a while and felt that it didn’t matter whether to change the wording or not, none of them sounded good!

After a while, he snorted coldly and replied:
"You say it so easily, as if I haven't tried it before?
The summer vacation is almost over, and the tutoring market is already saturated. Families who have already found a regular teacher are unlikely to change to a new teacher at this point. Maybe the salary has already been settled, so who cares whether you are from Huaqing or Harvard?"

"I've thought about video editing, but you're just an ordinary college student. You haven't worked with any studios, and you don't have any famous editing works. You don't have any achievements to show for yourself. Why would the client pay attention to you?"

"Even if I wanted to take those cheap orders, I didn't have the equipment. After the fight, I just picked up a school bag and left. I didn't even take my computer or anything."

"I walked to the intersection 200 meters away from home, and felt my pocket. Wow, I only had 50 yuan. I spent it all on a night at the Internet cafe. Whether I could get the order was another matter. The computers in the Internet cafe might not be able to run the editing software."

Zou Lian spoke a lot of words like pouring beans.

Su Chengyi leaned against the wall with his arms folded, thinking that in just a few days, this spoiled young master must have a lot of grievances to express.

It’s a pity that the only person he could confide in was the person he unilaterally identified as his mortal enemy.

As soon as he finished speaking, he would regret it.

Su Chengyi thought so while continuing to listen with interest.

"So I first found a second-hand store and sold my watch because it was the least valuable thing I had.

This new gadget was just released this year for 2,000 yuan, but it sold for less than 1,000 yuan. The boss said that this is the market price.”

"I took a thousand dollars and thought about finding a place to live. Damn, I almost went around Tang'an City! In the end, I rented a cheap room that was paid by the day. Oh, you may not know what this means.

It means it’s paid per day, the cheapest is NT$20 per day, but you have to share a room with others, so I chose a single room for NT$40.”

“To be honest, the environment isn’t that great, I can hear the snoring of the person next door, but at least the bed is mine, so I don’t have to worry about stepping on someone’s face when I get out of bed.

Forty dollars a day plus thirty dollars for food, this amount of money is not enough to make it to the start of school, and I also need to buy a ticket back to school, and even the slowest green train costs more than five hundred dollars. "

"Then how can I survive if I don't find a part-time job? I've tried everything, such as handing out flyers and working as a temporary hotel worker. All these jobs are paid on a daily basis, so I have to eat one meal today and go hungry the next.

I was able to find a job here because I pestered the boss for half an hour. Damn it! The Huaqing signboard is almost broken in my hands!
Ha! I worked so hard to get 690 in the college entrance exam, and here I am being scolded for not being able to carry a few boxes of beer properly!"

When Zou Lian said this, it was as if he had finally vented out all the emotions that had been suppressed for many days. For a moment, his knees felt weak and he just wanted to sit in the corner for a while.

Su Chengyi listened quietly and lowered his eyes.

Zou Lian was obviously a person who had never lacked money since he was a child, so he had no idea how to make money, especially when the starting capital was zero.

Su Chengyi actually believed that if he could be given enough start-up capital, Zou Lian, with his intelligence and education, would have no problem supporting himself. But that was where the problem came from.

He was a person who didn't know what "poor" meant, so how could he know how to start from scratch and earn a living when he was penniless?
Xu Yang might be in a similar situation. He was also a naive young master, Su Cheng thought.

However, given Xu Yang's style, he obviously would not allow himself to suffer like this. After running away from home, his first stop would definitely be to seek refuge with President Yi.

If he is driven away, he will turn to his group of bad friends.

If these two tricks fail, Xu Yang will probably choose to "beg" at the gate of the Chu family manor.

All in all, I won't let myself suffer any hardship.

If the God's perspective had banned the channel for "help from relatives and friends", Xu Yang would have ended up meeting Zou Lian.

Of course, he would never swallow his anger and allow the manager to mock him like Zou Lian did. On the first day the manager picked a fight with him, Xu Yang would smash a wine bottle on the manager's carefully combed back hair.

Then he was successfully taken to the detention center and his parents were notified to pick him up, marking the end of this farce of running away from home.

It is impossible for Zou Lian to do this. What this guy values ​​most is his face and dignity.

Su Chengyi suspected that if they had not met by chance today, Zou Lian would not have asked his friends for help even if he starved himself to death.

Of course, if he knew in advance that he would meet Su Chengyi here, that would be a different story.

After all, there is a certain difference in the lethality between being embarrassed in front of friends and being embarrassed in front of your archenemy.

"Well? Are you satisfied? Have you heard enough? If you want to laugh, laugh now. If you laugh again later, be careful or I'll hit you with a bottle."

After Zou Lian recovered, he said unhappily.

As Su Chengyi expected, he began to regret it.

It doesn’t matter who I talk to, why do I have to talk to Su Chengyi?

He may not have realized it himself, but his face to his ears turned red, and he was in an extremely embarrassed state.

Su Chengyi was silent for a while, then shook his head and said:
"That's not funny. Sorry, I was just overthinking it."

Zou Lian was confused by his apology. He stared at him for a while and didn't say anything.

Just like you thought the other party would use a super evil killing move that could crush your faith, but he didn't. He even took out a bottle of healing potion from his pocket and threw it to you.

Su Chengyi thought about it and continued:

"But misunderstandings are inevitable. You're just a waiter, why are you dressed like this? And you even put on hairspray. Oh, you didn't put on powder, did you?"

Zou Lian: ".Get lost! What do you think I want to do? Look at the waiters here, who doesn't use hairspray to do their hair? I don't have any fucking makeup! Is it wrong to be white?"

Su Chengyi listened to his angry yelling and complained silently in his heart:

Well, although he was very angry, he had to say it.

Zou Lian's looks and temperament made him the most popular among girls in school. Even now in such occasions, his popularity is bound to be high.

Isn't this the handsome pretty boy that rich ladies love the most? The most expensive male model has appeared!
Of course, Su Chengyi definitely couldn't say this now.

Otherwise, Zou Lian would really fight him to the death on the spot.

Forget it, no matter what, it’s good to know that he didn’t go astray and there’s no turning back.

Su Chengyi leaned forward and patted Zou Lian on the shoulder.

"Very good, I'm very relieved."

Zou Lian: "."

Why did this person speak to him in such a kind and caring tone like an elder brother? Was it some leader who went to the countryside to inspect the humanities and customs?
"Hands off! Don't touch me."

Zou Lian took a step aside, but the expression on his face did not show disgust.

"I just went to the warehouse to help unload the goods. I'm covered in dust. If you want to get covered in dust, go ahead."

Su Chengyi wanted to laugh a little, and just as he was about to speak, a loud middle-aged man's voice came from the corner of the corridor:

"Where is that kid? You little bastard, you dare to challenge my son? Get out right here!"

"."

Okay, now the real drunkard is here.

Su Chengyi sighed and quickly said:

"Here, don't be so loud."

Soon all the other guests in the box would be led out to watch the fun. Those with a little chivalry would rush up and fight with this hateful father and son bullies when they saw them bullying a young summer intern.

When Su Zelang heard Su Chengyi's voice, he strode over and first twisted his shoulder to examine him 360 degrees.

"Son, you didn't fight, did you? If you did, did you suffer any loss?"

"Tsk."

Su Chengyi reluctantly cooperated with his movements and turned around, raising his hand to signal him to look at who was on the other side.

Su Zelang checked and made sure there were no signs of fighting on his body, then turned his head to look at the young man who looked like a waiter next to him.

".Eh?"

Su Zelang was stunned for a few seconds. At first he just felt that the boy looked very familiar. After a while, he remembered him.

"Ah! Is this the guy who smashed my flower basket before?"

Su Zelang suddenly realized.

During the last school anniversary celebration, he and Yang Liu came backstage to give Su Chengyi a flower basket, but this little classmate suddenly appeared and angrily smashed his flower basket to pieces.

Of course, Su Zelang also remembered the reasons.

This is the name that he and Yang Liu should never mention, the old friend, Zhong Qiuhe's son.

Su Zelang was also aware of the subsequent incident of jumping off the building.

After all, his own son risked his own life to save others, so he must know who the "lucky person" who was saved is, right?
But after knowing that the person who was rescued was Zou Lian, Su Zelang quietly took off the title of "lucky man".

After all, his desperate suicide attempt was closely related to his family education.

As for why there were problems in his family education, the reasons must be traced back to the emotional entanglements of the previous generation.

What a coincidence, Su Zelang is the absolute male protagonist in this bloody farce.

Su Zelang looked at Zou Lian's eyes and eyebrows, which were somewhat similar to those of an old friend. He stammered a few times, as if he wanted to say something, but in the end he just sighed.

(End of this chapter)