Outside the scenic area, several people met Zhou Chunhong head-on.
"Chaoyang, why did you come to the scenic spot?"
Li Mu said: "I don't have anything to do today. I'm going to hang out with my friends."
As he spoke, he turned around and said, "Yan Liang, Pu Pu, this is my mother."
Yan Liang and Pu Pu acted very sensible.
Immediately shouted: "Hello, aunt!"
Zhou Chunhong thought they were her son's classmates. Zhu Chaoyang was introverted and didn't have many friends at school. Today, she went to the scenic spot with her friends, which made her a little happy.
After all, I still hope that Chaoyang can be more active and make more friends after studying.
He smiled and said: "Yan Liang, Pupu, hello."
After chatting for a while, Li Mu led the two of them outside the scenic area.
Yan Liang, Pupu waved and said: "Goodbye, aunt!"
Zhou Chunhong also smiled and waved: "Goodbye, come and play at home when you have time."
"I understand, Auntie."
…
Seeing that the time had reached noon and preventing the incident from happening, Li Mu was very happy and took the two of them to a restaurant for a big meal.
It’s a smooth start, let’s celebrate a little.
On the way home, I bought another newspaper and compared the winning numbers. Naturally, I didn't win.
Li Mu is not discouraged. There is still some time before the end of the month, so he is patient.
…
The next morning, several people gathered together again. Li Mu bought some snacks, and they ate happily while strolling around. It was very comfortable.
At this time, Yan Liang suddenly said: "Chaoyang, I want to find a job."
Li Mu was stunned for a moment: "At your current age, you should go to school. Besides, if you are under eighteen years old, you are a minor and it is difficult to find a job."
Yan Liang was silent for a while, and then spoke again: "Chaoyang, Pu Pu and I are grateful to you now, but we have the hands and feet to make money on our own, and you can't do it alone."
"I want to find a job first, which can at least cover my and Pupu's daily expenses."
Li Mu frowned: "But you are a minor now, it is difficult to find a job, and you can't find any good job."
Yan Liang smiled and said: "I have already thought about going to the dock to help people unload goods, or working as a laborer at a construction site. The management is not strict in this area, there is no age limit, and I heard that you can earn a lot."
"I'm going to give it a try. Being idle all the time is not an option."
Li Mu wanted to persuade him again, but after thinking about it, he gave up.
Maybe it would be good to let Yan Liang suffer a little and get some exercise. Although Yan Liang in the play is a nice person, he is straightforward, loyal and has no scheming.
However, there is also a bad side: recklessness, aggressiveness, impulsive personality, and too strong self-esteem, or too much self-esteem.
How good Lao Chen was to him, and he really treated him as his own son, but Yan Liang didn't care at all, making all kinds of troubles, and didn't care about Lao Chen's efforts at all.
If you haven't experienced real suffering and are young and energetic, you won't be able to truly feel the kindness of others.
This can be seen from the fact that he asked a friend of his father to borrow 300,000 yuan. Let alone an underage child who escaped from an orphanage, even an adult could borrow 300,000 yuan by asking for it?
But in 2006, it was worth a house in a second-tier city.
No one with a little experience would be so naive.
Since Yan Liang wants to work part-time, it would be good to give him this opportunity to try out the hardships and fatigues of society and to practice himself.
Feel for yourself whether study is hard or working is tiring, and you are responsible for your own future.
Seeing that Li Mu no longer objected, Yan Liang was very happy, thinking that he could finally show off his talents.
In the next two days, Li Mu accompanied Yan Liang and Pu Pu around the docks and construction sites in Ningzhou, and finally found a job for Yan Liang moving bricks on the construction site.
The salary is half a month, 50 per day, which works out to 1,500 per month, which is not too small. In 2006, for a minor child, this salary was already very high.
After finding a job, Yan Liang was very excited. Li Mu found a small restaurant to celebrate for him.
Seeing his happy expression, Li Mu thought to himself, "You are happy too early. This is to move bricks at the construction site, not to play. There will be times when you cry."
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As expected, things went as Li Mu expected. Two days later, when he saw Yan Liang again, he had completely lost his usual liveliness. He lay motionless on the bed in the rental house. He was still in the mood to go shopping and play.
Moving bricks is a strenuous job, and even adults, let alone minors, will take a long time to get used to it if they are not used to it.
This is not a long time to endure.
Li Mu smiled and said: "Yan Liang, how are you? Is it hard to study or to move bricks? Now you know. Otherwise, forget it and stop moving."
Yan Liang wanted to nod in agreement. He had never done such heavy physical work before and couldn't imagine it. Now he falls asleep every day when he returns to the rental house. His energy is really exhausted while moving bricks.
Moreover, I couldn't adapt to doing such heavy physical work all of a sudden. Not only did my legs and arms hurt in the past few days, I also had several blisters on my hands and feet.
He had already retreated several times in his mind.
However, Haikou, which he had just boasted about, gave up in two days. It was not his style and he just held on.
I regretted it in my heart, but I said hard: "It's okay, I just can't get used to it these two days, it will be fine in a few days, just wait and see!"
Li Mu stared at him for a while, and seeing that he was serious, he stopped trying to persuade him: "Okay, you go ahead and do it first."
"Here, I bought you some food. Take a good rest and don't get exhausted."
As he spoke, he threw a large bag of vacuum-packed cooked food and snacks onto the bed.
I don't know how expensive firewood and rice are, and I only have a little living expenses. Yan Liangpupu has been very careful when buying food for the past two days, and he has never even touched meat and fish. It is really scary to live a penniless life.
Seeing so many delicious foods, Yan Liang immediately sat up, took out a chicken leg, two braised eggs, and some duck necks from the bag, drank them with boiled water, and ate them in big mouthfuls.
Seeing how delicious he was eating, Li Mu was a little hungry. He chatted with them for a while before leaving.
Starting tomorrow, he will have more things to do. He will also go to the Children's Palace to try out the Mathematical Olympiad class in the morning.
This is the most natural and reasonable opportunity for him and Zhang Dongsheng to come into contact and should not be missed. They can naturally get to know each other in other ways, but it seems too purposeful and can easily arouse unnecessary vigilance.
Only by becoming familiar with and understanding can we find ways to transform and guide Zhang Dongsheng.
On the way home, he passed by a lottery shop. Li Mu spent another 40 yuan and played 20 lottery tickets. This was the key to completing his mission.
Money is a good thing, but Zhang Dongsheng went to extremes because he had no money and was a failure in life.
As long as Zhang Dongsheng has a high-paying and stable job, even if love and marriage are gone and there is a way out, he will not go down the road of no return.
If you want to reform Zhang Dongsheng, it is most effective and thorough to start from the ideological aspect and reshape his three views.
However, Li Mu couldn't do it, and he didn't have the ability and knowledge reserves.
A country is easy to change, but a character is hard to change. This is not just a saying.
What's more, he is only a minor, a middle school student. It is too difficult to ideologically reform the thirty-year-old Zhang Dongsheng.
We can only settle for the next best thing and start from another direction, so that Zhang Dongsheng can have an excellent career, use his intelligence and ideals and ambitions, and realize the value of life.
With a good career and a high salary, although a person is still the same person, in a secular sense, he can be regarded as a successful person with some achievements.
The east is not bright and the west is bright, and I have lost my love and marriage; but I still have a successful career and a lot of wealth.
Will Zhang Dongsheng go to extremes like this? Obviously not.
No one will take this step unless they are forced into a corner and pushed to the edge. This is a road of no return.
Zhang Dongsheng is no exception.
With career and wealth as the foundation, people will have confidence. Without Xu Jing, there would still be Wang Jing, Liu Jing...
As Zhang Dongsheng's career improves, his self-confidence will naturally increase, his back will straighten, and his energy and energy will also be different.
There is a difference between a Zhang Dongsheng who is busy with his family, a failed career, a gloomy life, and low self-confidence; and a Zhang Dongsheng who has a successful career, full of confidence, high spirits, and a straight waist.
It's not that Xu Jing has never loved Zhang Dongsheng, but she loved the high-spirited Zhang Dongsheng back then, not the mediocre Zhang Dongsheng now.
When there is a gap between ideal and reality, love will naturally slowly dissipate.
After the change, Zhang Dongsheng will achieve worldly success, will show his unique charm again, and maybe Xu Jing will fall in love with him again.
This is the most perfect ending.
However, good dreams are fragile, and no one knows how the future will develop.