Chapter 22
Li Shuyi took a team to Lincheng. In addition to Tang Xue and the people in the company who have been following the ABC case, there are also professional lawyers in business and finance.
The negotiation process was not as smooth as expected. The internal management of Asia Broadcasting was relatively chaotic. There were debts missing in the previous review. Bai Shi acquired it with a wholly owned company and had to bear the debt issues together. So Li Shuyi now has to seize this point and lower the consideration with the other party.
Although Li Shuyi has reached this position today, he is an extremely independent person. He doesn't like a bunch of people surrounding him, so only Tang Xue will take care of his life.
Tang Xue felt a little distressed when she saw that she didn't even bother to take a sip of water when she was busy.
Now many people know that Ning Yue is back, and they also know that he has lived with Bai Jing. Three years ago, the matter between Li Shuyi and Bai Jing caused a storm. Many people are waiting to see his jokes, and those who have made enemies with him are even more unpleasant, saying that no matter how he works for others, they don’t want him to warm the bed.
Various rumors are circulating, and Tang Xue sometimes feels frustrated. She doesn't understand why Li Shuyi still works so hard. Anyway, these things are taken down, and they have nothing to do with him.
Of course this is Li Shuyi's personal problem. Tang Xue would not talk too much without knowing what to say. She could only do her best to reduce Li Shuyi's burden at work and in life.
Seeing that the negotiation deadline was approaching, Li Shuyi held a meeting with the lawyer every day. He was not anxious, but he was rigorous and had to fully understand all kinds of data and regulations before he could make the next decision.
The representatives of the Asia-Pacific region were very miserable. They had inquired about Li Shuyi earlier, but even if they were mentally prepared, they still couldn't stand it after confronting Li Shuyi head-on. Li Shuyi was not the main person, and he listened most of the time, but as soon as he opened his mouth, he would definitely fall into the key point and not say a word of nonsense. Moreover, his cold voice and a little cold face, somehow, would make people feel more stressed.
The day before the deadline, the two parties finally reached an agreement, and Li Shuyi stepped on the other party's bottom line to complete his negotiation goals. During the last meeting, Tang Xue felt that the people on Asia Guangxi looked blue when they saw Li Shuyi.
Another major event was settled, but Li Shuyi did not show any happy expression. He was not going to attend the dinner arranged by Asia Guangxi. He just explained to Tang Xue and left early. As for where to go, he didn't tell Tang Xue.
It's three in the afternoon now, and Li Shuyi didn't call the driver here. He took a taxi by himself. When the driver asked where to go, Li Shuyi said, "Tianhe Primary School."
The driver grinned and chatted with Li Shuyi: "Go to pick up the child?"
Li Shuyi responded casually, and the driver didn't speak anymore when he saw his delicate and high-end suit and a slightly tired expression on his face.
Tianhe Primary School is not far from Asia Guangxi's company. It arrives in about 20 minutes. Li Shuyi paid the car and got off.
There are usually two classes in elementary school afternoons, and now it is almost four o'clock, and there are already many parents waiting at the school gate.
Li Shuyi did not squeeze into the parents. He found a slightly offensive corner and stood there quietly, his eyes swept across the faces of the parents one by one.
After four o'clock, more and more parents were added, and even a lot of people stood in the stationery store at the entrance of the primary school.
When it was almost four o'clock, a man squeezed into the shop closest to the school gate and accidentally hit the cartoon sticker hanging by the boss at the door. He quickly bent down and picked it up, saying sorry and hung it back for the boss.
This man is not young anymore, about forty-five or six years old, looks ordinary and dresses very ordinary. He is a person he can never find if he is thrown into the crowd. But when Li Shuyi saw him, his eyes were locked tightly on him.
At 4:15, the primary school door opened and the child who had already finished school rushed out. The man stretched his neck and looked around in the crowd, until a crisp and tender voice shouted: "Dad!" Before the man could determine his position, a little girl rushed over and hugged his legs.
The expression on the man's face immediately became extremely gentle, and he bent down and led the little girl out.
As soon as they moved, Li Shuyi also walked out of the corner and followed them silently from a distance.
When there were fewer people around him, the man squatted down and straightened the little girl's crooked red scarf, and then took the bulging schoolbag of the beautiful goat on her back and slapped it in her hand. The little girl pointed to the stationery store and said something. The man took her in. When she came out, the little girl took a big cartoon sticker in her hand. She couldn't wait to tear one on the back of her hand, and then tear one on the back of the man's hand. The man stretched out his hand and let his daughter move with obediently, with her eyes full of pampering.
Li Shuyi followed them for a long time, and saw the little girl jumping and walking. The stickers in her hand swung up and down as she moved. When she passed by a place with fitness equipment, she would go up and touch this and that, which was very lively and cute. The man was not impatient at all, and always looked at his daughter playing with a smile. He occasionally told a few words to wait for the little girl to run back to him, and then touched her head and led her away.
Li Shu thought that this was enough.
Seeing that he and his daughter live well, he felt relieved and no longer had to disturb him.
He had decided to leave, but the man was about to lead his daughter across the road. When he turned around, his eyes fell on Li Shuyi. Then, he stood there in surprise and shock.
Li Shuyi did not hide, and slowly walked forward and shouted, "Uncle Zhao."
Zhao Hui still looked at him blankly: "Why are you..."
Li Shuyi said: "I happened to be on a business trip, so I'll come to see you."
Zhao Hui said "Oh" and then stopped talking.
The atmosphere was a bit awkward, and Li Shuyi pointed to the fast food restaurant on the road and said, "Why don't you go in and sit?"
Zhao Hui looked embarrassed, but the little girl suddenly pulled the corner of his clothes and said, "Dad, I want to eat ice cream!"
Zhao Hui was still a little hesitant. Seeing that his daughter's big eyes were full of desire, he nodded and said, "Okay."
The three of them entered the fast food restaurant. In addition to the ice cream, the little girl also asked for some other things. Li Shuyi wanted to pay, but Zhao Hui refused to let him go. The two pushed him a few times. Seeing that Zhao Hui was determined, Li Shuyi silently took his hand back.
They found a corner to sit down. The little girl held the egg roll in her hand, shook her head and hummed the song while eating, and her legs were shaking around in the air, making her very happy.
The two adults were extremely embarrassed.
Zhao Hui's eyes were all on his daughter, and he didn't look at Li Shuyi at all. He didn't even ask the girl to call him, and he didn't even have the most basic politeness.
However, Li Shuyi, who has always been indifferent to others, did not care at all. Instead, he looked at the father and daughter with some pleasingness.
Li Shuyi asked: "Uncle Zhao, are you doing well?"
Zhao Hui still didn't look up and avoided Li Shuyi's gaze and said, "It's...it's pretty good."
Li Shuyi asked again: "Do you have enough money? Where you need money..."
Zhao Hui interrupted him: "My money is enough."
Zhao Hui is old and the child has just entered elementary school. Li Shuyi has inquired before, and the couple’s income is not high. He stopped talking and took out a card from his wallet and handed it over and said, “There is not much money in this card, the password is…”
"Li Shuyi!" Zhao Hui suddenly called his name excitedly, and the voice was so loud that everyone around him looked over.
Li Shuyi was stunned.
Zhao Hui seemed to have been suppressed for a long time and finally broke out. He lowered his head and grabbed his hair with his hands, his expression full of pain: "Don't show up in front of me again, I beg you, don't come to me again..."
The little girl didn't know what happened. She was scared by her father's roar, and then she cried out in fear.
Zhao Hui came to his senses when he heard his daughter's crying and hurriedly picked up the girl to comfort her: "Qingqing, don't cry, dad is fine, don't cry."
Li Shuyi put the card on the table, his fingers trembled slightly, and he said hoarsely: "I'm sorry, it's all my fault, I'm sorry..."
He tossed and said sorry several times, but Zhao Hui refused to look up at him, but just hugged his daughter tightly, as if the girl would be snatched away by something.
Li Shuyi stood up, bit the tip of her tongue before swallowing it back into her throat, and barely said in a normal tone: "I'm sorry, I won't come again in the future."
He's leaving after he's finished speaking.
Zhao Hui called him: "Wait."
Li Shuyi stopped.
"Take this back." Zhao Hui looked at the card on the table, "If you take it back, I don't want to... have any connection with you anymore... I don't want to see you again."
Li Shuyi couldn't really hear what he was talking about. He just numbly took back the card and responded blindly: "Okay... OK... I understand..."
The girl's sobs were cut on his back like a knife. He strode away from the restaurant and walked out of the door without stopping. He thought in his mind that Zhao Hui didn't want to see him, so he had to go farther and farther a little further.
Li Shuyi walked through the crowd in panic, not knowing how many people he bumped into, how many scolds he received, and how far he walked, but he stopped at an alley entrance.
He stretched out his hand to support the wall with some force. Thinking of the situation just now, he slowly tightened his hand. The blue veins on the back of his hand swelled up, and the fingertips were bleeding from the thick wall.
He should have...had a little sister.
If she was still alive, it was time to go to junior high school now, and she would definitely be as lively and cute as the little girl just now.
But his little sister disappeared before she could see the world.
Chapter completed!