Chapter 14 Take Your Life into Your Own Hands
"Brother Lu, that was just now."

In the business car, the driver asked Lu Mingfei.

The driver’s surname is Liu. He has been with Lu Tianming for many years. He is of the same age as Lu Tianming and has a daughter who is studying in a key high school in the city.

He had had a good chat with Lu Mingfei in the car before. Although Lu Mingfei was small, he had a lot of ideas, making him feel like he was chatting with someone of the same age.

Secondly, he also had a task assigned by his boss, which was to understand Lu Mingfei's basic situation.

After all, this child is one of the few friends who is particularly close to his son, and Chu Zihang asked him to stay and give him a tutoring job. Even if Lu Tianming simply cares about him, he must pay attention to him.

"That's my uncle's house."

Lu Mingfei explained: "My parents are abroad, and I stayed in China and was raised by my uncle."

"Is this a conflict?"

Uncle Liu asked with concern.

In his opinion, Lu Mingfei is a very mature child with good upbringing. To make this child run away from home, the whole story of the incident is worth speculating on.

Leaning on the passenger seat, Lu Mingfei held his bag and briefly recounted to Uncle Liu his experience at his uncle's house.

Lu Mingfei spoke calmly, as if he was telling a story.

"Then you made the right decision to come out this time. You should make the other party realize his own problem."

Uncle Liu was filled with indignation and thought for a while.

"Just like that magician with glasses, there's nothing wrong with expressing your resistance. Not choosing to resist is the problem. What's more, your parents have given you financial support, so there's no reason to blame you."

"Liu Shuyi also watches Harry Potter?"

Lu Mingfei raised his eyebrows, with surprise on his face.

Lu Mingze likes reading, so his aunt always buys various books for him to read. Lu Mingze is good at studying, so his aunt also takes him to the cinema to watch movies. Lu Mingfei, thanks to the influence of Master Ze, naturally gets the qualification to watch the movies and can even grab Lu Mingze's popcorn.

Come to think of it, his experience does overlap somewhat with Harry Potter's.

And considering my current abnormality, it is possible that I will have a mysterious school as a place for training in the future, and a big boss that I am destined to face.

When I think about it this way, I think I am a standard template for the protagonist of a fantasy novel?
Lu Mingfei felt more and more that he was getting closer and closer to the character of the Returning Dragon King that he had imagined in his dreams.

Could it be that one day a mysterious force would really come driving over to welcome me in front of everyone?
Lu Mingfei fell into deep thought. His life shouldn’t be so bloody.

“Haha, my daughter likes to watch it.”

Uncle Liu smiled brightly. Seeing that Lu Mingfei didn't seem to take the past experience to heart, he couldn't help but want to comfort him.

"It's good for you to try your luck on your own. Xiaolu, you look like a capable person. When your boss tested you, you spoke English and Japanese better than those foreigners."

He knew that children from such families would either be too strong, like a closed iceberg, or extremely timid, like a little hedgehog, curled up in their own little world. Anyone could kick them, but they would hold on tightly if they encountered a little warmth.

No matter what it becomes, it is definitely not happiness.

"Uncle Liu, what are you talking about?"

Lu Mingfei didn't know whether to laugh or cry, it seemed as if he was going to drop out of school to work the next second.

"I still have to study. I have to get a bachelor's degree at least."

He still has to investigate the college called Kassel in the future, and he definitely cannot give up his studies.

"Studying is good, and you will have more opportunities if you study well."

Uncle Liu continued to follow Lu Mingfei's words. Of course, he had no ill intentions.

"I just think that your decision, Brother Lu, is very brave and there will always be a better future."

“Just like me back then.”

Uncle Liu said with a somewhat vicissitudes of life. While waiting for the red light for a long time, he pulled the handbrake, took out the thermos cup, and drank some water to moisten his throat.

Whether it is out of comforting a young man he likes, or it is because a middle-aged man has a rare chance to find a suitable audience to share his awesome life with, and he has to pretend to be awesome, Uncle Liu said, holding the steering wheel.

"My hometown is in the mountains. There are seven or eight children in my family. They couldn't afford to send me to school. Later, they said I couldn't go to school and asked me to farm at home. The money for my education was given to my eldest son."

"At that time, I was studying in the school of the volunteer teacher, and my grades were among the best. However, my family still stubbornly believed that I had no future. Even when the teacher came to my house to do some work, I refused to listen and insisted that I go home to farm."

"I definitely wouldn't be willing to farm in my hometown for the rest of my life."

Uncle Liu chuckled.

"So when I was sixteen, just finished junior high school, and went to the town to apply for an ID card, I ran away with my ID card." Lu Mingfei became interested. He didn't know if it was because he had been educated by Seven for too long, but he really liked listening to these people who had experienced social torture talk about their life experiences.

He pulled his seat belt and turned his head to the side. His attitude of being ready to be a qualified listener made Uncle Liu secretly happy.

"When I first came to this city, I knew nothing. I only had an ID card in my hand. I hadn't even finished high school, and no one wanted me. I could only work as a waiter in a restaurant, helping the boss to serve food and so on. The salary was very low, but I was content as long as I could eat enough. I could have this thanks to the food from the boss."

"My boss always said that only when you are full can you have the strength to work, and he never treated me badly in terms of food."

"I learned to drive when I was 18 and started driving for other people, the kind of black cars. I got married while driving. My wife is a local. I met her while driving. We got married because we fell in love. My in-laws didn't ask for a dowry because they saw that I was single."

"After I had a child, my expenses went up. My father-in-law's family helped me a lot, but it wasn't a big deal. I couldn't get a taxi license, and driving a big truck was too far from home, so I couldn't make up my mind for a while."

"But not long after, I got the news from an old customer of mine. I met him when I sent him to the airport. He was in a hurry and stopped a lot of cars saying that he couldn't make it in time. It happened that I knew the route by heart, and I could go through the residential area to avoid several areas. My home is in the area, and I happened to be familiar with the security guard, so I took the most congested road and sent him there. After that, he took care of my business as soon as he came back."

"When he heard that I was in trouble, he recommended a hotel to me, the Regent Hotel in the city, and told me that they were hiring recently and asked me to give it a try."

"The foreman saw that I was tall and strong, and looked like a decent person, so he asked me to work in the parking lot. My daily task was to help those rich kids park their cars and keep an eye on their keys. Sometimes, I would even take them home when they needed something. Not only was the salary decent, but I also got a lot of tips."

"After that, I went back to my normal work life. Apart from my daily life, I would think about luxury cars when I had nothing to do. I got the hang of it faster and faster, and more and more customers were willing to take care of their cars for me."

"Then I picked up Mr. Lu. I drove him home that time. When I was waiting for the red light, I found that a mixer truck on the construction site opposite me had lost control and was heading straight towards me."

"I drove my car very steadily and well, and I reversed it in one go. Fortunately, the mixer truck didn't fall on my head."

"The accident was caught on camera and was listed by the Municipal Transportation Bureau as a standard for emergency vehicle accident handling. A driving school also invited me to give a speech."

Uncle Liu boasted about himself proudly.

"After that, Mr. Lu called me and asked if I wanted to be his driver. When I saw the good salary, I had no objection. Then I have been driving ever since."

Is Uncle Liu proud of his life experience?
That must be something to be proud of.

If he had not bravely made the choice to resist the unfair status quo and strive for every opportunity, he would not have met the noble people in his life. In the future, he would have to stay in the mountains, living a life facing the earth and back to the sky, and he might not be as decent as he is now.

He is already content with his current life. The choices and efforts he has made have ensured that his life will not rot in the dark mountains.

“Everyone can take their own life into their own hands, as long as you believe you can do it.”

“If you believe, you will work hard, and when you work hard, you are in control of your own destiny.”

Lu Mingfei said this, he knew that Uncle Liu was going to use his own story to inspire him.

Well, at least Uncle Liu reminded me that I should keep my ID card in my own hands.

He felt around in his schoolbag and took out a certificate with a loser's head printed on it.

I also have to be thankful that I attended an aristocratic school. Due to the requirements of the aristocratic school's activities, I applied for an ID card in advance, which saved me a lot of trouble.

"Haha, the young man is really well-educated. He is worthy of being a top student of Shilan Middle School."

Yes, the success achieved by those who dare to change is always admirable.

At least when faced with a reality that makes them uncomfortable, they will take action to change it instead of just thinking about it.

"Goo~"

A voice sounded at an inappropriate time.

"Didn't you eat?"

Uncle Liu looked at Lu Mingfei, who was covering his face with one hand to hide his expression, and finally found some youthfulness in him that was suitable for his age.

"really."

Lu Mingfei nodded somewhat awkwardly. After all, he was a person who needed to eat. He had been fighting intensively for the entire afternoon today, and then he asked Uncle Liu to go out with him. In total, he only ate some fruit with cream.

After all, he couldn't just sit down there to eat and then tell his aunt and the others that he was planning to leave his uncle's house and live alone, right?

Such a process of leaving home seems a bit abstract.

"Haha, then I'll take you out for dinner later. It's the same restaurant where I worked when I was young. The portions are big and the food is filling."

Uncle Liu smiled cheerfully and said, "I'll go back to the boss to exchange my car. You wait for me in the guard room."

"That's troublesome, uncle."

Lu Mingfei thanked him.

"Only when you are full can you have the energy to work."

(End of this chapter)