The salty life in Life of Pi

Chapter 76 Sponsorship
"Eat slowly, no one will snatch it from you"

Wu Xianyu personally fed Lin Miaomiao the wrapped pancake with his hands. Because she was holding a trash can in her hand, she couldn't hold it herself and had to let Wu Xianyu feed her.

"Shashasha, it's a little hot, huh, but it tastes good. Why did you think of making pancakes?"

"I just went to the supermarket to buy something and saw some semi-finished hand-pulled pancakes for sale, so I bought some."

"Not bad, it's delicious. Okay, I'll go take out the trash first, and you can make another one for me."

After saying that, Lin Miaomiao picked up the trash can and ran downstairs.

Wu Xianyu returned to the kitchen with a smile on his face, and made another pancake for Lin Miaomiao, filling it with her favorite food. He also found a pair of disposable gloves and continued to make the remaining pancakes while Lin Miaomiao was not back yet.

Not long after, Lin Miaomiao came back in a hurry, put the trash can in her hand at the door, ran in, and saw the scallion pancake on the table. She had been thinking of asking Wu Xianyu to feed her, but she found disposable gloves next to it. She felt a little regretful, but it did not affect Lin Miaomiao's appetite.

At this time, Wu Xianyu also took a piece of hand-grabbed pancake and came out of the kitchen, leaning against the door frame and looking at Lin Miaomiao.

"Hasn't Auntie cooked yet?"

"Nope"

Lin Miaomiao kept moving her mouth and took the time to answer Wu Xianyu's questions.
"I'm so hungry, luckily you sent me a message"

While eating a pancake, Wu Xianyu felt someone coming to the door. He turned around and saw

"Uh, auntie."

Lin Miaomiao stopped eating and slowly turned her head to look at the door. When she saw Wang Shengnan standing at the door with a dark face, she swallowed the last bite of the pancake with difficulty and forced a smile.

"mom"

Seeing this, Wu Xianyu quickly turned around and took out a few hand-pulled pancakes made in the kitchen, put them on a plate and handed them to Wang Shengnan.

"Auntie, I asked Lin Miaomiao to come and try the taste. I happened to have made a lot. Please have some, uncle and auntie."

As the saying goes, one should be grateful if one receives something from someone else. Wang Shengnan also felt a little hungry, so she didn't do anything to Lin Miaomiao. She picked up the plate and smiled at Wu Xianyu.

"Xiao Yu, your cooking skills are great. Auntie will not be shy about that."

"It's okay, I made it especially for you. I can't eat these five or six cakes by myself."

This is not Wu Xianyu's flattery, this is what he really thought. He didn't pay attention when he was making it, but he felt very relaxed when rolling the pancakes. He finished a set of ten pancakes while making them, so he just thought of giving them to Lin Miaomiao's family.

After talking to Wu Xianyu for a few words, Wang Shengnan turned her face to Lin Miaomiao again.

"Why don't you take the trash can up there?"

Lin Miaomiao obediently took the trash can and went back upstairs with Wang Shengnan.

Yuwan and Laotie followed behind with their tails erect, and not long after they went upstairs, they ran back on their own.

At Lin Miaomiao's house, the family was eating scallion pancakes. Lin Dawei was very grateful to Wu Xianyu. If it weren't for him, he would probably still be hungry.

After dinner, Wang Shengnan no longer forced the family to clean up. She put the garbage they had just made into the trash can and asked Lin Miaomiao to make another trip. That was basically all for today.

After taking a shower, Lin Miaomiao was so tired that she lay down on the bed and picked up her phone. Everyone in the group was discussing today's basketball game. It seemed that Jiang Tianhao had exploded and directly beat the opponent.

At this time, Wu Xianyu was also lying on the bed, listening to the dozen or so voice messages sent by Jiang Tianhao. Many of them were intermittent, and couldn't even form a sentence, which was enough to show his excitement.

Wu Xianyu moved the two cats in his arms aside, sat up, and replied to Jiang Tianhao's message.

Xianyu: Sure, as long as you don’t embarrass yourself. I saw people in the group discussing you, saying that you performed exceptionally well today and directly defeated the opponent. In the end, even the principal applauded you.

Wu Xianyu was not surprised that he didn't receive a reply, as he guessed that Haozi was still excited. He yawned, turned off his phone, and fell asleep to the snoring of the two cats.

The next morning, Lin Miaomiao got up from the bed with disheveled hair, put on her glasses, walked out of her room, washed up, and found that only Wang Shengnan was sitting in the living room, and there was no sign of Lin Dawei.

He opened his mouth and asked

"Mom, where is my dad?"

"He said someone wanted to see the house, so he left in a hurry."

Wang Shengnan was watching TV and casually replied:

"The porridge is in the rice cooker, and there are boiled eggs in the pot, serve yourself"

Lin Miaomiao ate her breakfast in a daze. Halfway through, she suddenly remembered something, picked up her breakfast and came to the coffee table, and said carefully to Wang Shengnan:

"Mom, I have something to tell you, please don't be angry."

"What's the matter? Tell me. If you're pregnant, don't tell me. Just get out of here."

Wang Shengnan stared at the TV without blinking, but Lin Miaomiao was too lazy to joke with her
"No, it's my dad. He drank alcohol once and had another woman's perfume on his body. But I guarantee that my dad came back sober that day, and he didn't come back too late, around 8 o'clock. I don't think he did anything to let you down."

Looking down at Lin Miaomiao, Wang Shengnan did not react at all.

"You are the one who has too many things to do. Your father's current job is like this. There is nothing you can do about drinking."

Lin Miaomiao thought that Wang Shengnan already knew about it, so she didn't say anything more. After finishing her meal, she put the dishes in the sink and went straight to Wu Xianyu's house.

Wang Shengnan, who stayed at home, had obviously lost her attention. The commercials had already started on TV, but she kept staring at it.

After a while, Wang Shengnan couldn't help it, picked up her mobile phone and called Lin Dawei.

Lin Dawei was looking at an apartment nearby with his family at the time. When he received Wang Shengnan's call, he answered the call immediately without hesitation. Wang Shengnan's voice came from the other end.
"Is it convenient for you now?"

Lin Dawei felt something was wrong, looked back at the family, and lowered his voice

"I'm showing a client a house. I'll get back to you later."

"kindness"

Hearing the hang-up sound from the other end of the phone, Lin Dawei was a little confused, wondering what had made the child's mother unhappy again.

After a while, after seeing the family off, Lin Dawei did not leave in a hurry. He called Wang Shengnan back on the bench downstairs in the community and was quickly connected.

"What's wrong? Is there anything wrong?" Lin Dawei's tone was normal, but Wang Shengnan's voice was even more calm.

"Why didn't you tell me there was a woman with you last time you drank?"

Hearing this, Lin Dawei felt a headache. He knew without a second thought that it was his precious daughter who had told the secret, but he couldn't say that she was wrong. He explained to the person on the phone with a bitter face.
"I didn't tell you because I was afraid you would imagine things. Besides, I came back safe and sound. I was conscious the whole time."

"Okay, I won't bother with you this time. Next time if you drink, tell me in advance and I'll pick you up."

"Okay, no problem at all. It's just an excuse to avoid drinking. You don't know how much I don't want to drink right now."

After a few more words, Lin Dawei hung up the phone, sighed, and stood up, supporting his knees. After entering this industry, he really realized how complicated it is. The agency fee is not up to him, but he has to discuss it with nearby agencies. If he charges too much or too little, he will be attacked by everyone.

There are also high-quality customers. Lin Dawei was targeted by a group of colleagues just because he had just entered the industry and revealed that he had a lot of high-quality customers. From time to time, he was called out for drinks and asked to divert customers in various ways. The male colleagues were okay, they just drank and ate, but the female colleagues were really cruel. Lin Dawei even regretted entering this industry.

But at his age, there is not much he can do. He entered this industry by chance, and as long as he can continue and make money, he doesn't want to give up easily.

After thinking about it, Lin Dawei decided not to stay outside any longer. He bought some fruits and went straight home. He had to coax his wife and discuss with her that if he wanted to escape from a drinking party in the future, he could just let Wang Shengnan pick him up.

Lin Miaomiao didn't know how distressed her old father was because of her informing. At this time, she was sitting on the sofa in Wu Xianyu's house, eating snacks, holding Yuwan in her arms, and watching the video on her mobile phone, which was the basketball game yesterday afternoon.

"Oh! Haozi is in great shape. He hit the opponent's ball directly away."

"It's more than good. You don't know that Haozi played the whole game. He is simply a superman."

Wu Xianyu was sitting on the other side of the sofa. Lao Tie didn't lie on him, but was lying on the armrest of the sofa, dozing off with his eyes closed.

"I also heard that the finals this week will be held at the Sports Bureau, and the champion will play against a foreign high school basketball team, against those old black and white people."

“Ugh, I feel choked up.”

"Who said it wasn't? Besides, I heard that the opponent in this final is Jiangzhou Middle School, which is famous for its sports students. It's still unknown whether Haozi can win the championship."

Sure enough, a week later, when Jiang Tianhao returned to school after the competition at the Sports Bureau and opened the door of his dormitory, his first words were
“Never fought”

Wu Xianyu put down the book and saw that Jiang Tianhao didn't look disappointed. He was curious.

"How come you don't look sad if you haven't been beaten?"

Hearing Wu Xianyu's question, Jiang Tianhao finally couldn't help grinning.

"Because I fought for the qualification to play against Hodge High School from my leader, hahahaha."

"Why are you still rushing to get beaten?"

Wu Xianyu didn't understand, so he continued to pick up the book and ignored Jiang Tianhao's excitement.

However, when I went to talk to the principal about this the next day, Principal Xie Weizhou didn't look very happy. Since when did a student decide on a school activity? Where did he put himself as a principal?

He was not interested in Jiang Tianhao's suggestion that the school provide funds to the basketball team to buy sportswear and shoes, but Jiang Tianhao looked like he would not give up until he got the money, which annoyed him so much that he picked up the phone.

"If you still mention this, I will call the leader and tell him that we will not compete with Hodge High School anymore."

Jiang Tianhao's lifeline was grasped, so he shut up.
"Okay, I'll go find a solution somewhere else."

Anyway, there is still half a month left. At worst, I can ask my family for some sponsorship. Jiang Tianhao walked out of the principal's office with this thought in mind.

However, asking for sponsorship from his family did not go smoothly. Jiang Tianhao's father Jiang Qilong directly refused.

"You have final exams coming up soon, why don't you focus on the exams instead of playing ball?"

Jiang Tianhao had no choice. Jiang Qilong had always been the one who had the final say at home. No one could persuade him except his mother. So he looked at his mother for help. But to Jiang Tianhao's surprise, his mother, who usually doted on him the most, also spoke for his father this time.
"Haohao, the exam is coming up soon, so just focus on it. You're almost a senior in high school, and you're still thinking about playing basketball?"

"Mom, this is because I'm about to enter my third year of high school. This is my last time representing the school in a competition, so I have to play well and at least wear the same uniform."

"Okay, I don't agree with this, so let's just leave it at that. Let's go to bed."

Jiang Qilong was too lazy to listen to Jiang Tianhao's chatter, so he interrupted him directly. After that, he got up and went back to his room to prepare for bed.

Not long after, Jiang Tianhao's mother Duan Xiaohong returned to the master bedroom with a sad look on her face.
"Is there really no other way? Do you really want to sell the hotel?"

"Ugh"

When it comes to this, Jiang Qilong's spirit suddenly fades a lot, and his face is full of fatigue.
"I have no money now, and I can't run the hotel at all. I should sell it while it's still famous to make up for the loss."

After hearing what her husband said, Duan Xiaohong gave up asking, and the couple fell asleep with sorrow in their hearts.

But Jiang Tianhao, who was staying in the second bedroom, was clearly not ready to give up asking his family for sponsorship. In his opinion, it was easy for his family to give him tens of thousands of dollars, and it was no exaggeration to say that it was a drop in the bucket.

At the dinner the next day, Jiang Qilong and his wife met Boss Meng through the introduction of middleman Deng Xinhua. They wanted to sell the restaurant to him, but Jiang Qilong looked at Boss Meng and felt that he was not very reliable. This man had a good reputation, but the reviews were not very good, which made him unsure.

However, when he saw the waiter pushing the food cart in, his heart skipped a beat. What did this guy want to do?
After the dishes were served, Jiang Tianhao stopped pretending, took off his mask, and stood not far from the crowd and spoke:

"Good evening, bosses. I'm Jiang Tianhao. I need your help. Our Elite High School is going to have a basketball game with Hodge High School in a foreign country. We are still short of sponsorship fees. Is there any boss who wants to sponsor? Then we can write the name of your store on the sportswear. The amount required is not much, thirty thousand will be enough."

"Jiang Tianhao!"

While Jiang Qilong was stunned for a while, Jiang Tianhao had almost finished speaking what he had prepared. When Jiang Qilong came to his senses, he quickly called him back, his face not looking very good.

"I'll give you 35,000 later, get out now"

"Okay, thank you Boss Jiang for your sponsorship. I will definitely write the name of Jiang's Kitchen in big letters when the time comes."

Seeing that his goal had been achieved, Jiang Tianhao pushed the food cart out happily with a smile on his face. He was already imagining the scene of the basketball team wearing uniform uniforms and beating up a group of foreigners on the opposite side.

However, after Jiang Tianhao left, the faces of the people in the hotel room were different. Jiang Qilong and Deng Xinhua both looked unhappy and barely maintained their smiles. The bosses of the other restaurants who were joining in the fun all looked like they were watching a good show, while the other protagonist of this drinking party, Boss Meng, looked like he was watching a joke.

"Boss Jiang, you have quite a lot of money on hand. You can just take tens of thousands of dollars and throw it into this basketball game. Who knows if it will make any splash."

"The kids like it, so as parents we can only pay for it. Okay, let's not talk about that embarrassing thing, let's drink, drink."

Everyone raised their glasses, with smiles on their faces, but they all had concerns in their hearts.

(End of this chapter)