Chapter 132: Unwilling To Take Advantage Of Others
Among them, one person was especially close to the boy, and the boy called him the Wine Sage.
From the very beginning when he started walking and filming videos, the boy and the Wine Sage had a very good relationship.
This was a wonderful fate, because when the boy first met the Wine Sage, he had just recovered from his disability and could walk, but his legs and feet were still not convenient. He felt somewhat inferior and was not as talkative as before.
Many times he was so weak that he didn’t even have the confidence to sing, and sometimes he would become very nervous.
Whenever the boy sang poorly, no one else would say anything, only the Wine Sage would comment on the boy’s singing. Strangely, the boy didn’t feel anything was wrong and was very grateful that the Wine Sage could speak his mind. He thought that only in this way could he continuously improve.
The Wine Sage was a good buddy of the Wine God. Because he owed the Wine God a favor when he was young, the Wine God brought him over to help him as a sound engineer.
The boy used to hang out with him all the time, and they often drank together. After drinking too much, he would stay at the house the Wine Sage rented.
The Wine Sage had a large female dog, a real beast, that looked a bit like a big child. The boy didn’t know what breed it was.
Every time the boy stayed at the Wine Sage’s house, this big dog would cling to him and be boisterous. Since the boy had a separate room and the door wasn’t tightly closed, the big dog would run into his room and jump on the bed. No matter how the boy tried to get it out, it would always run back.
One time, the boy was really annoyed, so he hugged the big dog and had the dog lie on its side with him, using a pillow. The dog was restless and kept wanting to move. The boy hugged the dog’s neck, grabbed its throat, and applied a little pressure, and the dog dared not move. He said to the dog, “Be good and don’t move. If you dare to move, and then get up and step on me, not letting me sleep, then don’t blame me for choking you.”
The dog seemed to understand what the boy said, or perhaps it was afraid that if it moved randomly, the hand on its neck would suddenly choke it. It lay there honestly and slept through the night. The next day, when the boy woke up, the big dog hadn’t moved from its spot. Only after the boy released its neck did the dog dare to get up and bounce around.
One day, the Wine Sage went to the boy’s house to pick him up for a walk. On the way, he sighed, “You know, when other guys walk around, they have several young girls with them, but when the two of us go out drinking, there isn’t a single one. Damn! Where can we find two?”
“What do you mean? You want to find girls to drink with? Aren’t there plenty in KTV?” the boy teased the Wine Sage.
“No, I don’t mean that kind. I mean, where can we find two normal girls, and have them join us for a meal and drinks? It’s meaningless to just have the two of us tough guys drinking endlessly every time.”
After hearing this, the boy smiled, “Alright, I’ll see if I can find two for you. You drive slowly along the roadside.”
“Where are you going to find them?”
“Don’t worry about it, just keep driving slowly.”
Although the Wine Sage was very curious about what the boy meant, he didn’t ask further.
Not long after, by the doorway of a shop on the roadside, two girls were moving luggage.
The boy asked the Wine Sage to stop and stuck his head out the car window, shouting, “Hey, where are you two going?”
Seeing the boy’s actions, the Wine Sage was startled, and the two girls being called were also startled.
The boy said again, “Where are you two going?”
One of the bolder girls replied, “We’re going back to the city.”
Upon hearing this, the boy got out of the car and naturally walked over to help them with their luggage, “Let’s go, I’m going that way anyway, I can give you a ride.”
After putting the luggage in the trunk, the boy opened the car door and let the two girls get in.
After they got in, the boy first asked them for their specific destination, and the girls stated the address they were going to.
The boy sat for a while, then looked back and said, “So, can we add each other on WeChat? Let’s be friends.”
Upon hearing this, the Wine Sage slammed on the brakes and stopped in his tracks, staring at the boy with wide, incredulous eyes and asked, “What the hell, you don’t know them? I thought you guys knew each other.”
The boy laughed, “Damn, now we know each other.”
Afterwards, after dropping the two girls off, the boy invited them out for a meal.
The two girls agreed and said they needed to put on some makeup, which might take a while. The boy said it was fine, and he and the Wine Sage found a restaurant and sent the location to the girls.
Since it was dark when they had dropped the two girls off earlier and they hadn’t put on makeup yet, the Wine Sage hadn’t noticed much. After they had put on makeup, he was directly impressed.
The four of them had a very happy meal. The boy was very good at conversation and humorous, so there was no awkwardness of meeting for the first time. Instead, it felt like a reunion of old friends.
He didn’t do anything inappropriate with the two girls. After the meal, he took them back. Later, these two girls became good friends with the boy. When they were bored, they would get together for meals and casual chats, with no impropriety whatsoever.
It was from this incident that the Wine Sage greatly admired the boy. In the past, his impression of the boy was that he was very childlike and carefree. He never expected him to have such skills.
But for the boy, it wasn’t a big deal. In his eyes, he had simply met two friends by chance.
After working at the bar for a while, because the boy’s leg injury was still recovering, his mother was always worried about him getting hurt. She discussed with the boy the idea of him coming home to raise pigs. The boy was initially unwilling but was afraid of burdening his mother. After the third discussion, he agreed.
On the other side, a young man who had always wanted to follow the Wine God happened to return to the bar. The boy felt somewhat relieved, knowing that at least someone could help manage the bar.
The bar’s accounts had always been handled by the boy. From the very beginning, the boy had kept the bar’s finances separate from his own money. Even if he wanted to buy meat, which was available in the shop, he would use his own money to buy it from the neighboring supermarket.
Not a single cent was spent improperly. The first time he saved some money, the Wine God used it all. Even the money for drinks was paid out of his own pocket. When he was short on money, he would just greet the customer service and ask for credit, promising to pay back later.
Even when the Wine God told the boy to charge his wife, Xiao Ying, for any drinks she took from the bar, the boy agreed. Afterwards, when Sister-in-law Xiao Ying took drinks, the boy said nothing. After she left, he would use his own money to cover the cost. He worked at his older brother’s bar as if it were his own and meticulously kept the accounts separate.
Before leaving the bar to go home, not only did he not take any money, but he also subsidized the bar with a few hundred yuan. Although it wasn’t much, there probably wasn’t anyone else like him in the world.
While waiting for the car outside, Sister-in-law Xiao Ying returned and insisted on giving the boy five hundred yuan. This money was unrelated to the bar; it was money Sister-in-law Xiao Ying earned by teaching dance. She wanted to buy her younger brother some clothes. The boy refused, but Sister-in-law Xiao Ying said she wouldn’t be friends with him if he didn’t accept it, so the boy finally took the money.
This way, the money he had personally spent was returned to him.
You might wonder if this boy doesn’t care about money. Who doesn’t like money? But he had a peculiar nature; at that time, he always prioritized people and things over money. This might have been the main reason for his difficult times in those years. He was always the one at a disadvantage in his interactions, unwilling to take advantage of others.
