mesbooks Chapter 2 My Dear Old Father
Chapter 2 My Dear Old Father
Remembering the phone call from the hospital he received the day before yesterday while discussing graduate school admission with his advisor, Lu Yuan looked at the selfless sun overhead and thought, "It's probably over 40 degrees Celsius again today. I really want to give up. Maybe we should just die."
Lu Yuan's father, Lu Guangzong, is a man who causes trouble for the whole family, and is still like a baby when he returns home. Lu Yuan is an only child born in response to the three-child policy. Although he is his parents' unborn child, he is the apple of his grandparents' eye. He is a spoiled brat who has been good for nothing since childhood.
He would check the box for "accepting adjustment" on his son's college application form, which caused Lu Yuan to be inexplicably assigned to a history major, a major with a C-level performance rating in the workplace after graduation.
This major had very few students back then, given the rise of artificial intelligence and the development of implantable chips. In 2074, many children from wealthy families will be born with legally implanted knowledge chips, giving them a huge head start. History majors typically only find jobs as middle or high school history teachers. And even those jobs are now largely being replaced by intelligent robots. Lu Yuan can only improve his professional standing by pursuing a master's and doctoral degree.
Yesterday, his elderly father, due to alcoholism, made a mistake at work and was cut in half by a factory machine. However, because the factory was legally equipped with a medical machine in the high-risk work area, Lu Guangzong was sent to the hospital with the help of the machine and said that he did not want to die. Therefore, Lu Yuan, his only relative and his son, had to give up his postgraduate studies and start looking for a job early to raise money for his father's surgery.
In fact, given Lu Yuan's family's original circumstances, it wouldn't have been difficult for them to afford the medical expenses. Although his grandparents, the only two people who could keep his father in check, passed away one after another two years ago, and his father started to let himself go, Lu Yuan knew that his father's salary was not low, and there was also his grandparents' inheritance and two houses as fixed assets.
But to his utter surprise, his elderly father, who was being kept alive by medical machines outside the intensive care unit, sued him, claiming that he had not only squandered the family fortune in less than two years but also incurred hundreds of thousands in debt. This was why his father had become an alcoholic and, while working, was preoccupied with how to pay off the debts, ultimately being severed in two by a machine.
How should I put it? Could this be karma?
Because of this, Lu Yuan hurriedly made a resume yesterday to catch the last day of the G Province 2074 Campus Summer Recruitment Fair.
He was already mentally prepared that his major might not be easy to find a job, but after spending an entire afternoon under the scorching sun without seeing a single suitable position, Lu Yuan was really feeling overwhelmed.
He wanted to give up treatment. After all, the medical machine could save his life for 5 days. If he couldn't find a job or get a loan within 5 days, he wouldn't be held responsible for his father's death. Although he would have to take on the debt of a medical machine from the factory because his father's mistake caused the work injury, the amount was less than the medical expenses. He could also work part-time while pursuing his master's degree to pay it off.
But even the most mischievous old man is still his only family. Lu Yuan still doesn't want to give up. He still needs to look for a job tomorrow, but he also needs to release his emo today. So, as if possessed, he walked into a bar on the street and inexplicably hugged a stranger and burst into tears.
At last……
He was left alone, gazing at the sky under the scorching sun.
Lu Yuan was still thinking about how to raise three million yuan for the surgery within five days, or even two hundred thousand yuan would be fine. With the help of high technology, his father could be cryopreserved for three years, so that Lu Yuan could finish his postgraduate studies and then look for a job. There would be more B-level jobs than C-level jobs, and the salary would be much higher. Then the problem of the surgery fee would be solved.
Two hundred thousand is a big problem for Lu Yuan right now. He was assigned to a dormitory by sheer bad luck at school and didn't get to share a room with a classmate from the same major. As a result, he wasn't very close to his classmates and the other two students from different majors in his dormitory.
However, it seems that the two classmates in the dormitory are from wealthy families, and one of them is the school's most handsome guy and the other is the department's most handsome guy. Lu Yuan doesn't know what kind of "handsome guys" they are, but the girls in the class all say that he got lucky to be assigned to this dormitory.
However, let's talk about how to borrow a large sum of money from someone you don't know at all.
"It's impossible!" Lu Yuan raised his hand to wipe the sweat from his forehead, and suddenly noticed that there was something on his ring finger, but it was definitely not there when he took a shower? Or was he just too absent-minded to notice?
"Could this be the payment for prostitution from that person?" Lu Yuan took the ring off his finger and examined it closely. He could tell at a glance that it wasn't gold, nor was it silver, but he couldn't tell the specific material. However, judging from Lu Yuan's own eyesight, this thing was worthless.
That's what he thought, but Lu Yuan still braved the scorching sun to go to the commercial complex next to the hotel and asked around at several gold shops.
"The result was expected. I'm such an idiot." Putting the ring back on, Lu Yuan slung his bag over his shoulder and headed towards the subway station. It was almost dinnertime; he hadn't eaten anything since the intense exercise last night, and he was probably only able to stay awake thanks to his faith. Now, short of money, he had no choice but to go back to school and eat at the student cafeteria.
Lu Yuan rushed back to school and went straight to the cafeteria. After finally getting to eat, he fainted at the cafeteria table as he swallowed the last bite of rice.