"By bye, Li Yu!"

"By bye, Zhou Zijun, thank you for your guidance!"

"By goodbye, buddy, when will I have time to drink together!"

"By bye, Wang Hongwei, please listen to it!"

“…”

Outside the cram school, Li Yu waved goodbye to each other with his newly met classmates, then carried the shopping bags containing the textbooks and set off on the way home easily.

In just over half a day, Li Yu felt a fresh experience in school that he had never had before. The courses taught by his teacher were unprecedented. With the guidance of his deskmate Zhou Zijun, he had already figured out some tricks and began to understand what mathematics is and what English is. The chat and fight with classmates during class also made Li Yu feel very relaxed. After coming to this era, he had never had such an experience of playing with his peers.

It is true that Li Yu has many friends now, from the older generation of Gao Shixin, Han Hongqi, Luo Weicheng, to the middle-aged generation of Ma Lei, Shen Jiaze, Ge Jianyu, Xu Yingying, Yan Wuliang, Jiang Jiongqing, etc., but all of these people are either seniors who need respect or have various interests with them, and it is difficult to get along without restraint.

The relationship between these students in the cram school and Li Yu seems very simple. They don’t know each other’s identities, and sitting in the same classroom is completely equal and has common pursuits, so it is easy to find a common language.

The first person Li Yu met Zhou Zijun and Wang Hongwei, one was a girl who served plates in a small restaurant, and the other was a security guard in a residential community. They all came from the countryside, had an average family, and their income in the city was only enough for their own food and drink. Li Yu did not reveal his wealth in front of them, but only said that he was doing odd jobs in a restaurant, serving plates and playing guest-starred security guards, and sometimes he had to go out to do procurement. This identity did not arouse their suspicion. After all, the most ordinary lower-level workers who attended classes here were all the most ordinary lower-level workers.

In order to avoid showing off his wealth, Li Yu did not dare to take a taxi after leaving, but took the bus as honestly as all his classmates. The location of the cram school was on the edge of Yuhai City. Li Yu had to change three trains to return to Huafuyuan where he lived. When he finally returned to the neighborhood, it was already the lights that he remembered that his supper had not yet been settled.

"Uncle Lin, come a portion of shredded pepper and two bowls of rice."

Li Yu walked into Songhan Restaurant, found a table to sit down, and greeted the boss Lin Songhan. Since Ge Jianyu and Xu Yingying rented another house and moved out, Li Yu started his life as a bachelor again. He was unwilling to make a fire and cook by himself, so if he didn't eat in the medicinal restaurant, he would usually eat on the small street in front of the door, and most of them chose this Songhan Restaurant.

Lin Songhan agreed and went to the kitchen to cook. Lin Shan, who was sitting at the counter doing homework, stood up, took a teacup, brought a teapot, walked to Li Yu, and poured him tea.

"Thank you." Li Yu was looking through his teaching materials seriously. When he saw Lin Shan coming to pour water for him, he thanked him without raising his head.

"Hey, why are you looking at the primary school students' teaching materials?" Lin Shan glanced at the teaching materials in Li Yu's hand and asked in surprise. Li Yu came to Songhan Restaurant for dinner a lot, and Lin Shan was familiar with him. She knew that Li Yu was a very polite and easy-going person, and she was about the same age as her, so she would chat with him from time to time.

"Why, you understand too?" Li Yu looked up at Lin Shan, and without thinking too much, he asked casually.

Lin Shan burst out laughing and said, "Please, I will be in the third year of high school at the beginning of school. Do you ask me if I understand this kind of thing in the fourth grade of elementary school?"

"Really?" Li Yu then switched his thinking. Today he was exposed to "math blindness" and "English blindness" like him, and subconsciously inserted Lin Shan into it. Now that he was choking Lin Shan, he realized that the girl in front of him was a high school student in the city.

"Lin Shan, please help me see what this question means." Li Yu was worried about not being able to find the teacher, and there happened to be someone in front of him, so he quickly grabbed it.

Lin Shan frowned and asked, "Li Yu, you really don't understand these things, right? This is something you should have learned in elementary school."

"I haven't been to elementary school." Li Yu said.

"How is this possible?" Lin Shan said, "My dad said you have a high level of education, especially your ancient Chinese mastery and your handwriting is beautiful. How could you not have been to elementary school?"

When Li Yu was having dinner at Songhan's restaurant, he would sometimes chat with Lin Songhan for a few casual words, and inadvertently he would also have a few ancient Chinese words, which made Lin Songhan look at him with admiration. After Lin Shan heard Lin Songhan talk too much, she had an impression of Li Yu, thinking that Li Yu must have received formal education and had a deep attainment. At first, she heard Li Yu say that she had never been to elementary school, and she instinctively felt that it was inconsistent.

Li Yu briefly talked about his situation. Lin Shan looked at him with interest as if she had met Li Yu again and said with a smile: "Well, this is a very inspiring story. It is not easy for an 18-year-old to start tutoring for elementary school courses now."

"I will be your teacher from now on. If I have something I don't understand, I will ask you, is that okay?" Li Yu asked.

"Yes." Lin Shan said, "Although I'm not a top student, I'm still more than enough to teach you something from elementary and junior high schools."

"What's more than enough?"

Lin Songhan walked over from the kitchen, holding a plate of freshly fried shredded pepper and two large bowls of rice. He didn't hear the previous words, and just heard his daughter say more than enough, so he asked nonsense.

"Dad, let me tell you that Li Yu is ambitious." Lin Shan helped her father take the food and put it in front of Li Yu, while happily telling Li Yu's story to Lin Songhan.

Lin Songhan glanced at the book in Li Yu's hand, and a trace of suspicion flashed through his eyes. Li Yu gave him too many surprises. All kinds of unreasonable situations were concentrated on this person, which made people unable to believe it, but they could not find any flaws. Could it be that what he said was true? If all this was just a kind of artificiality, then the price he paid for this artificiality was too high. In order to pretend that he was uneducated, he would not hesitate to go to the migrant workers' school to take the primary school courses. This assumption is really unreasonable.

"It's great, Xiao Li, you are still young now. You can make up for cultural courses while you are young so that you can have a good future in the future. Xiao Shan, if you can help Xiao Li, just help him. Xiao Li is not easy," said Lin Songhan.

"No problem!" Lin Shan said readily, "I like to be a teacher the most, especially for elementary school students."

"Then I will call you Teacher Lin from now on." Li Yu smiled.

"Okay, okay, I love listening." Lin Shan said with a giggle.

Li Yu found that he was busy inadvertently. On the side of the Medicinal Food House, Xu Yingying had an idea a day and asked him to discuss it from time to time. I don’t know if there were so many things, or just to remind him not to forget the role of the largest shareholder of the Medicinal Food House. After Luo Zhaoxue got several prescriptions provided by Li Yu, she began to conduct new drug experiments with great fanfare. Li Yu had to go over to attend an internal seminar every few days. Shen Jiaze had already quit his temporary job and began to devote all his efforts to the preparation of the new company, because the company’s funds came from Li Yu, and Shen Jiaze had to pull Li Yu to make a decision on both sides of the matter and sometimes he would ask Xu Yingying to play a guest role as a special consultant.

Li Yu spent all the rest of the time on tutoring. As a Ming Dynasty man who had never been exposed to mathematics, physics, chemistry and English, Li Yu felt that the modern compulsory education system was profound and had a sense of endless knowledge. He cherished this learning opportunity very much. Although the courses in the tutoring school were arranged in the evenings and weekends, Li Yu had almost never missed classes, and he would complete the homework assigned by the teacher without fail after each class.

Lin Shan and Xu Yingying both became his extracurricular tutors, and even Yan Wuliang and Jiang Jiongqing would sometimes give him some advice. In class, Zhou Zijun is worthy of being a competent deskmate, and he can often explain to him quietly and patiently when he can't understand the class. The little girl usually seems quite shy, but when explaining the course, she can explain it very clearly, allowing Li Yu to grasp the core of the problem at once.

"Zijun, Hongwei, will I treat you to supper?"

It was another weekend evening. Li Yu, Zhou Zijun and Wang Hongwei walked out of the school side by side and walked towards the bus station. When passing by a row of restaurants, Li Yu had a sudden idea and stopped and said to the two.

"Okay!" Wang Hongwei responded happily, "A bird faded out of his mouth, and he was thinking about where to go to eat meat!"

Zhou Zijun hesitated and said, "Li Yu, don't need it anymore, right? It's quite expensive to eat outside."

Li Yu said: "It doesn't matter. We have known each other for so long. You have helped me with such a great help in studying. It's okay for me to treat you to a meal. Tell me, if you want to eat something, if you think these restaurants are not suitable, we can take a bus back to the city and find a suitable restaurant."

"It's really not necessary, Li Yu..." Zhou Zijun was still persisting.

Wang Hongwei patted Zhou Zijun on the shoulder and said, "Sister Zijun, just ask Li Yu to invite him to a guest. You teach him questions every day, even if you charge his tutoring fees. Some owners in our community hire children for tutoring, which costs hundreds of dollars in an hour. Do you think, how many hours have you taught Li Yu for classes?"

"Yes, Zijun, if you don't accept it, I'm embarrassed to bother you again in the future." Li Yu advised with a smile.

Zhou Zijun didn't know what to say. She was not a wise person at first, so she could not resist Li Yu and Wang Hongwei's two mouths to persuade him. She looked around, picked a restaurant with the smallest storefront, and said:
Chapter completed!