"Brother Cheng, I already felt your generosity, and I get the sentint too, but I really can’t. My mom’s already cooked a whole table of dishes at ho and is just waiting for to go back and make up the numbers. It’s not that I don’t want to give you face, it’s really just bad timing."
Facing such a courteous and enthusiastic Little Cheng, Lin Li still declined, and he sounded a bit more serious than just now.
"All right then." Seeing how firm Lin Li was, Little Cheng nodded with so regret and watched Lin Li leave.
I’ll ask the coach for the guy’s contact later; I’ll treat him if I get the chance in the future.
...
Noon.
"Such a pity Lin Li didn’t want to co, I really wanted to thank him." When Little Cheng followed Yu Jian’an and Lv Gouguan into a restaurant, he sighed with regret.
Nothing went wrong because of that FLAG in the morning; Little Cheng passed subject four successfully, now he’s just waiting to get his driver’s license.
Hearing this, Yu Jian’an and Lv Gouguan both smiled and chid in a few words.
The three of them sat down at a table in the restaurant.
They stopped talking about Lin Li. Little Cheng waved his hand in a big gesture, brimming with heroism, and said to the two of them, "Coach Yu, and Coach Lv, you guys order. I’m easy, I can eat anything."
"Old Lv, you do it then, I’m not picky either." Yu Jian’an handed the nu to Lv Gouguan.
Lv Gouguan didn’t stand on ceremony. After being stifled all morning, he had to release the tiger in a man’s heart right now.
"Okay, leave it to then!"
"Let’s start with a bottle of Moutai, that’s the minimum! What’s the biggest abalone you’ve got here, lem see—oh, three-head. Feels like we gotta have at least three of those! Fish maw, five-year-aged, get so of that too..."
Little Cheng: "(゜▽゜)?"
Listening to this ordering style, Little Cheng rembered Lin Li’s reminder from not long ago.
No no no no no.
He took out his phone, checked the number in his WeChat Wallet, then calmly smiled.
Yes yes yes yes yes.
Little Cheng simply opened NetEase Cloud, picked a song, and started playing it from the chorus.
"~You better co back~ I can’t handle this all by myself~ you better co back~ life’s only wonderful ’cause of you~"
"Coach Yu, Coach Lv, you keep ordering, I gotta go take a call." The mont he heard the song, Little Cheng imdiately stood up and whispered to the two of them.
Then he tapped his screen dark and put the phone to his ear, talking as he walked toward the door: "Hello? Yeah, it’s , I’m eating right now, yeah I passed the test..."
Seeing Little Cheng already on the phone, Yu Jian’an didn’t say anything, just nodded, made an OK gesture with his hand, then lowered his head to look at his own phone.
Two minutes later.
His phone vibrated. Yu Jian’an glanced at the notification bar that popped up; it was a WeChat ssage from Little Cheng.
"Little Cheng: ’Transfer 88 yuan’"
Huh? Why is he suddenly transferring money?
Oh, I get it.
"Yu Jian’an: Little Cheng, why’d you suddenly transfer money? Extra red packet? Haha~"
"’Little Cheng’ has enabled friend verification. You are not his/her friend yet. Please send a friend request. You can chat after the other party passes your verification."
Yu Jian’an: "(;☉_☉)?"
Eh.
Did I just get deleted?
Silence, silence, silence is tonight’s Kang Bridge.
When Yu Jian’an finally reacted and stiffly turned his head, Lv Gouguan beside him was still muttering away excitedly:
"Damn, off-season big roe hairy crabs, oho, never tried those before, gotta get at least two, right? Tsk, wild large yellow croaker, the biggest one, if we don’t order it people will think we can’t afford it, let’s go..."
Yu Jian’an: "(゜▽゜)?"
Not good! Old Lv knows my ho address and also knows my family and friends; looks like I can’t just do a runner like Little Cheng!
Yu Jian’an took a deep breath—
"Ya ro!!!"
"Old Lv, for fuck’s sake stop ordering, stop for a sec, sothing urgent just ca up, we have to pause right now—"
"Old—! Lv—!"
"Little Cheng! Gouguan and I were joking with you! I’ll pay for his food, okay!! Co back! Co back!"
~You better co back~ I can’t handle this all by myself~ you better co back~ life’s only wonderful ’cause of you~
...
Downstairs, after tossing his empty takeout box into the community trash can, Lin Li looked at his phone, a bit confused.
Little Cheng, who’d added him on WeChat this morning, had just sent him a really weird ssage:
"Little Cheng: Sorry, bro, I still didn’t get your deeper aning. I’m just too dumb."
What the hell is this kid babbling about.
Did he go insane after passing the exam?
Lin Li couldn’t be bothered to dig into it. He replied perfunctorily with a couple of lines, then rode his bike to school.
The school gate was wide open, and even the fountain, for once, was on duty today.
Next ti he sees the fountain working will probably be the first day of next sester. No, even that day it might not be on; there won’t be any new students, after all.
There were quite a few students coming and going at the gate, but they were all wearing Nansang uniforms.
It’s not that there were a lot of Grade One and Grade Two students taking this competition; most of these were Grade Three livestock—they were supposed to be in school anyway.
The exam wouldn’t officially start until 2:30 in the afternoon, so there was no need for the competition students, whether from this school or others, to show up this early.
Lin Li didn’t linger at the teaching building or the gate; he went straight to the boys’ dorm.
His godson, Chen Tianming, needed him.
As for Chen Yu Ying, maybe because Middle Man knew that in Class Four’s competition list his daughter was the only girl, and among the boys there was also a dangerous creature like Lin Li, since he had so free ti today, he decided to personally see what ti his daughter arrived at school.
He was even planning to pick Chen Yu Ying up after the exam to take her ho for dinner, then send her back for evening classes.
Tsk tsk, he really doesn’t find that troubleso.
It’s like he’s scared that if he doesn’t co pick her up, Chen Yu Ying will go have dinner alone with so guy at night. Lin Li felt there’s no way that would happen—pure, textbook overthinking.
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