Wenhao: This child has been smart since he was young

Chapter 492 Retracing the Path

"Brother Xing, is Teacher Gu Lu's condition not very good?" Xiaolu said.

Old Xing rolled his eyes at Xiaolu. How could he be in good shape after something like this happened?

"Don't talk nonsense later." Old Xing reminded, "No matter what Mr. Gu's attitude is towards family affection, he is the benefactor of our Dukou District. We have no right to talk about him behind his back."

"I know for sure." Xiaolu said immediately. Recently, the Sha District saw that the Ferry District was booming, and they also wanted to grab the celebrity's former residence. After all, Gu Lu really studied at the Sha District No. 8 Middle School, and also lived in Jiafu Garden and Zijing Garden, both in the Sha District.

The biggest advantage of the Ferry District is its good relationship with Gu Lu. Xiaolu doesn't want his department to be cancelled or disbanded at all.

While the two were talking, the flight arrived, and Lao Xing and Xiao Lu's eyes widened immediately.

Gu Lu...did not look as depressed as imagined. On the contrary, his eyes were sharp, like a soldier about to go to the battlefield.

He went to greet him immediately. Lao Xing and Xiao Lu had just met Gu Lu last year, so they didn't feel unfamiliar with each other.

"Excuse me, Chief Xing, I need some help from our ferry district." Gu Lu went straight to the point.

"Please tell me, Mr. Gu, as long as there is no problem in principle, there will be no problem in our Dukou District." Old Xing responded immediately, "If there is a problem in principle, I will ask the leader, and I believe there will be no problem."

So Gu Lu stated his own demands, which was no big deal at all, and Old Xing would agree to it without asking his leader.

But... why go to Baiqun Community? Xiaolu's eyes flickered with doubt. Baiqun Community is a new community that was delivered in 2016, close to Dukou Park. Although Dukou Park has become the territory of square dancing for old men and grandfathers, it is still a selling point. I'm just a little confused, what is the relationship between Baiqun Community and Teacher Gu Lu?
On the first night back in the foggy city, I met with Teacher Li (now the vice principal of No. 37 Middle School), Teacher Gao (special teacher of No. 8 Middle School), and reporter Zhang.

"Xiao Gu... Teacher, don't worry. Teacher Gao has been prepared for this. We have kept a lot of evidence." Reporter Zhang said, "Besides, I have also used my connections to get a lot of professors and editors to help. We will definitely not lose in terms of public opinion."

I originally wanted to call him "Xiao Gu", after all, I watched him grow up. But when I thought of Gu Lu's deeds in recent years, I couldn't help but add the word "teacher".

In addition, the personal connection is a little bit more flattering. Professor Chen of Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, who founded the "Gu School", and Editor-in-Chief Kang of People's Literature, are the backbone members of the Gu School.

If you say that Ultraman does not exist, then it is normal for scholars who study Dream of the Red Chamber to fight you with their fists. Therefore, Professor Chen and Editor-in-Chief Kang volunteered to join the fight.

"Thank you, Teacher Gao." Gu Lu didn't expect that his junior high school teacher had noticed this matter a few years ago.

"What are you thanking me for?" Teacher Gao said in a heavy tone, "As parents, their actions were excessive."

ready!

Since the other party started the live broadcast, they would fight face to face. Gu Lu did not choose a press conference and also used the live broadcast mode.

However, the platform chosen was Bilibili, for no special reason, just because I already had an account on Bilibili.

Bilibili is definitely able to handle this huge amount of traffic, and directly put Gu Lu’s live broadcast on the homepage cover rotation - "Gu Lu: Let me tell you about what happened in the past two days."

When bilibili was spending a lot of money, it paid for many popular anchors. But they are basically out of fashion now… It can’t be said that the B-site community doesn’t like to watch live broadcasts, but the leaders’ little heads have never thought about why they would open this app to watch live broadcasts.

So the big money-spending didn't work out.

Gu Lu's current live broadcast easily broke the website's record for the number of viewers online at the same time, and even increased it several times.

It's also a matter of laughing and crying.

"I'm coming, I believe King Guru must have his own reasons." "It should have been made clear long ago." "Gu Lu doesn't deserve to be called a role model for the youth." "I'm a historian, this is history." "What else is there to explain?" "No one will really believe one-sided statements, right?"...

There were dense comments in the barrage, some were supportive, and some were on the front line of destroying the God.

The next day after returning to the Fog City, Gu Lu started broadcasting on time at 5 pm, one day earlier than the time he had agreed with Director Zhao.

What appears in the camera is the Walmart located in Xintianze Plaza in Dukou District.

"This Walmart has been open for ten years. Yes, it has been open for ten years. I think it opened in 2009." Gu Lu said, "I like this store very much because it has a lot of food tastings. Especially the prepared food area. If you are thick-skinned enough, you can eat a lot."

We don’t know exactly how many netizens are online, but judging from the data in the live broadcast room, there should be over 100,000.

How come it's so irrelevant? I asked you to explain the lack of family affection, what are you talking about? Netizens put a question mark on the public screen.

But Gu Lu seemed not to see it and arrived at the end of Xin Tianze Square very calmly.

"People in Fog City are more civilized now. There used to be a lot of garbage piled up here. Now they just throw it in the trash can." Gu Lu said, "But it's not convenient now."

The ones who helped with the filming were Xiaolu and Lao Xing. Originally, Gu Lu planned to shoot it handheld, but the Dukou District acted like "our area and Teacher Gu Lu will live and die together", so he couldn't refuse.

Go forward and you will reach the ferry park in a short while. Along the way, Gu Lu would occasionally explain a few words.

For example, "This place used to be a mess." "I feel that the average quality of us born after 1995 and 2000 is relatively high." and so on.

Is Teacher Gu Lu dissatisfied with the environment in our area? Why does he keep talking about this? Old Xing, who is good at guessing the leader's thoughts, couldn't figure it out at this moment.

Even the staff who were filming didn’t understand, let alone the netizens.

“What are you doing? Did I enter the wrong live broadcast room? This is actually an outdoor live broadcast?” “I don’t understand why you are saying all this, can you get to the point quickly?” “King Gulu, I support you, can we win?” “Brother, I guarantee you will lose!” “Quit, quit, I don’t know what you are doing”…

Amid the chaos in the live broadcast room, Gu Lu walked to the Baiqu District.

"Bai Community used to be a rehabilitation center. I came here often when I was in junior high school, at least twice a month, to help as a volunteer," said Gu Lu.

Now there is no trace of the rehabilitation center building, and instead there is neat and beautiful green space in the community.

The Dukou District authorities found a former caregiver from the rehabilitation center, who is now in his 60s. Old Xing appeared briefly and his identity was introduced.

"Auntie Yang, do you still remember Gu Lu who comes to volunteer every month?" Old Xing asked.

"Of course you remember. You've grown so tall and strong now. That's great." This was the first thing Aunt Yang said when she saw Gu Lu. The aunt didn't know that the person in front of her was a world-famous writer, but she was very happy that he had grown up safely.

Gu Lu smiled and nodded, "Aunt Yang is still in good health."

"It's not as good as before. My legs hurt when it rains. It's really rheumatism." Aunt Yang responded to the question at the beginning. "All the volunteers at our Kangfu Center are adults. This child is the only underage student. He was skinny and looked like a monkey. He came two or three times a month. Although he was young, he worked hard to help with the work every time he came."

Of course, because the original body doesn’t want to eat white rice, so he has to do more work.

"Have you found a girlfriend?" Aunt Yang said, "Now there is such a handsome guy."

"I found it," Gu Lu nodded.

"That's good," Aunt Yang said, "The rehabilitation center was going to close in 15. In fact, it couldn't survive in 14, but it seems that a kind-hearted person donated some money..." She talked about some things before the rehabilitation center closed. The kind-hearted person who donated money must be Gu Lu. He didn't mention it at the moment, because what he had to do today was to retrace his original fate.

Now that he was going to talk about it, he wanted everyone to know how hard a child had tried to live.

Gu's father, Meng Xia, and Huang Bao also looked at Gu Lu to see what he could say.

I found that Gu Lu was not busy explaining. On the contrary, the content was very abstract.

"He is worthy of being a novelist. He is very smart and knows how to use good people and good deeds to gain favorability." Huang Bao said when he saw this.

"What?" Father Gu was a little confused.

"This is the UP master's routine. If something happens, donate to the school, and then don't laugh at the challenge." Huang Bao said, "But this only proves that he was kind-hearted when he was studying, and it has nothing to do with his current disregard for his parents."

"Just apologize and admit your mistake, why make so much trouble?" said Gu's father.

There were also netizens in the barrage who said the same thing as Huang Bao.

The scolding has weakened a bit, but there are still a lot of question marks all over the screen.

The next stop - to be precise, on the way to No. 37 Middle School, Gu Lu pointed to an alley.

"Go in here, it used to be a scrap shop." Gu Lu said, "The boss looks honest, but if he sees you are a child, he will cheat on you or give you a low price."

Old Xing nodded on the surface, but he was very anxious in his heart. He shouted in his heart, "Teacher, please stop talking and explain it carefully. This is not a travel video. Even if it is a travel video, it should introduce some better scenery."

Arrived at No. 37 Middle School.

Gu Lu met Teacher Li who was waiting at the school gate.

As the vice-president and mentor of Gu Lu, Teacher Li is often invited to meetings to share various experiences, so he is not at all stage-frightened.

"Hello everyone in the live broadcast room, I am Li Riyao, the vice principal of No. 37 Middle School. I used to be Gu Lu's junior high school Chinese teacher and also the junior high school class teacher."

Teacher Li took the initiative to greet him, "I may be more familiar with Gu Lu's situation. I will add some information later."

Okay, let’s get started.

"Many friends in the comments said that my live broadcast today was incomprehensible," Gu Lu said. "I just want to introduce to you how a middle school student with no living expenses - well, this is not appropriate, it should be how a middle school student with no living expenses of more than 20 yuan a month lives."

The tone was very calm, but the content was like a 100,000-degree explosive exploding in the live broadcast room.

boom!
Xiaolu, who was holding the camera, seemed to be blown up and his hands shook. He had never expected such a reversal.

"20 yuan for living expenses? It should be yuan pocket money, right? The kind for eating at school and home." Someone immediately said in the comment.

Father Gu’s face turned pale, and dusty memories flooded into his mind, but he became very angry the next second.

"What nonsense, twenty yuan a day? Even though I earn less, I still got him a card!" Gu's father was furious and asked Huang Bao, "Can I talk to him? Let's talk face to face."

"I also posted the video on Bilibili. I'll try to apply for a connection using my account," said Huang Bao.

Gu Lu was not affected and continued, "Teacher Li knows that I am a day student. The twenty yuan I mentioned is living expenses, not pocket money."

"Because the father is busy, he only comes home once every one or two months. Every time he comes back, he gives me 10 to 20 yuan, and he doesn't buy food to keep at home." Gu Lu said, "In order to stay healthy, I have learned a few tricks since junior high school."

Gu Lu looked very calm, but in fact he was recounting the experience of his original body in his mind.

"During junior high school, Gu Lu's parents never came to the school for parent-teacher meetings or any activities, even taking graduation photos," said teacher Li. "I was very impressed by this because at first I thought the child was afraid to tell his parents, so I called him, but either no one answered or the call didn't go through."

"So he held all the parent-teacher conferences for himself during the three years of junior high school." Teacher Li's eyes were red. No matter how many times he heard it, he couldn't help it. He continued, "And Gu Lu never participated in any activities in junior high school that required payment."

"Picking up bottles to exchange for money? This is of course a basic exercise, but the cost-effectiveness is not high because it is very time-consuming." Gu Lu said, "The most cost-effective way is to volunteer at a rehabilitation center and get a sumptuous meal."

There are more question marks in the barrage.

"Fuck! Are you serious?" "Twenty bucks a month for living expenses, it's not like it's the 1990s, how can you get enough to eat?" "Now I understand why Gu Lu said when he saw the trash can that it was too clean and inconvenient, because everything was in the trash can and he had to rummage through..." "Can you really survive with this?" "I was curious at first, why he smiled when he talked about Walmart, I thought he had taken an advertising job", "The most useful episode of Walmart food tasting", and so many more.

As Gu Lu spoke, the comments became more and more numerous, so many that if you didn't set the density of the comments, you couldn't see them clearly. Oh, by the way, Gu Lu closed the reward channel from the beginning. He didn't want to make a fortune from the suffering of his original body.

"The happiest time is the Chinese New Year and the period before and after the Chinese New Year, because I can eat my fill. After the Chinese New Year, there are still a lot of food to eat at home." Gu Lu said, "I personally recommend porridge with bananas, it's delicious."

Eating porridge with bananas will cause diarrhea... The original person was unwilling to admit that the bananas were bad and insisted that his stomach had caught a cold.

“Beep, beep, beep!” Xiaolu immediately whispered, “Teacher Gu Lu, an account called [Gu Lu’s biological father] wants to link. I looked at the few videos posted on the other party’s homepage, and it should be him.”

"It would be better if the person involved can come to confront us." Gu Lu said directly, "Then just bring it in directly."

There are hundreds of thousands of people in the live broadcast room, and now there are likely more netizens who are very eager to know whether what Gu Lu said is true or false.

Quietly waiting for the confrontation between father and son.

As soon as the call was connected, Gu's father shouted impatiently, "I'm busy with work and rarely come home, but I clearly opened a bank card for you. I will transfer your living expenses every month."

That is to say, how could there be such an irresponsible father? Some netizens thought so.

But just as the above thought came to mind, Gu Lu took out a list, "This is the bank card you are talking about. This is the bank card transaction record. Except for the card opening fee deposited when the card was opened on the first day of 2010, no money was deposited into the account from 2010 to the end of 2012. Does it deposit living expenses every month?"

Bank card transactions can be checked for five years. If you retrieve them now, the bank may not have kept the records. But Gu Lu prepared these evidences several years ago.

When the lie was exposed, shame, shock and anger flashed across Gu's father's face.

He was about to say something else, but another witness invited by Gu Lu appeared. It was reporter Zhang. He said, "Hello, everyone. I am Zhang Tao. Around 2012, I was a reporter for the Pioneer newspaper. I had an exclusive interview with Teacher Gu."

"Because of the content of the interview, I was curious about what kind of family environment Xiao Gu grew up in," Zhang Tao said, "so I conducted some investigations and visits."

"I have a recording of that time here." Zhang Tao played it without hesitation. Because it cost a lot of money to record and there was a problem with the equipment, the sound was a little distorted.

It was a female voice. "You mean the kid on the third floor? There's often no one at home. One time, the power went out. He knocked on the door late at night and asked me to help. I admit that I was a bit aggressive at the time, after all, it was late at night, but seeing that the kid was pitiful and afraid of the dark, I still helped him."

"Why do I know that no one is often there? Because I am the landlord and the rent for their house is paid monthly, so I have to ask for the rent every month. Most of the time, he is the only one at home."

(End of this chapter)