Chapter 14 How Heartbroken
After looking at several discount coupons, several people compared prices and finally chose a newly opened hot pot restaurant.
Grand opening bonus: 200 bottles of beer for 30 yuan, all you can drink. If you can’t finish it at once, you can store it for next time.
With such a favorable offer, won’t it explode?
This is probably the consumption concept of today's young people. They are reluctant to order a five-dollar drink after a meal costing several hundred yuan, but a ten-cent beer can be paired with several hundred-dollar side dishes.
Don’t they know this is a trick?
Of course I know that if four people each drink ten bottles, they will have to go five times to finish them, which will cost more than one thousand yuan.
But...30 bucks for 200 bottles of beer sounds really cool!
The four of them went to the hot pot restaurant in a large group. Business was booming and they waited for a table for half an hour.
Several people were sitting in the waiting area, sweating from the heat. The boss looked at Yin Jiu's face and said, "Why don't we go to another place? You've just recovered from your illness, don't let the heat cause you to get sick again."
Yin Jiu smiled and said, "It's nothing, just a minor problem, not that expensive."
Seeing that he looked normal and not even sweating much, the boss stopped trying to persuade him.
Not to mention being abnormal, Yin Jiu's complexion was rosy and he looked healthier than the other three.
This is probably because this is not a normal illness in itself.
Who would have thought that just last night, Yin Jiu's hands and feet were still weak from the illness, but by the seventh day, his body was as good as normal.
Yin Jiu also found it quite mysterious. He hadn't been so seriously ill for a long time. He didn't want to experience that kind of powerlessness again.
But it is estimated that this will not happen.
…
Finally we got our seat, and the four of us ordered a lot of food, but didn't drink much beer.
There are still few drunkards among the student population. They will just drink two bottles to liven up the mood. They are not here to drink water, so how can they really drink as much as they can?
So when it came time to pay the bill, I was shocked to find that there were still 193 bottles of beer left out of the 200 bottles. Except for Yin Jiu, the other three only drank two bottles each. The extra bottle was shared by the last three.
Holding the wine list, the third brother consoled himself: "It's okay. There's no set time anyway. I'll drink it slowly in the future. I don't believe that I can't finish it in four years of college! If I can't finish it, I'll pass it on to my juniors. This can be regarded as inheriting the precious wealth of my seniors!"
"I hope this store will still be there when that day comes." The second brother poured cold water on him.
"Crow's mouth!" the third brother cursed.
After leaving the store, the third brother suddenly held his stomach and said with an unpleasant expression: "Wait a minute, my stomach feels a little uncomfortable, I'm going to the toilet."
After saying that, he turned around and ran back to the store.
The second brother was speechless: "He is the one who has so many problems."
The eldest said, "There's no rush anyway, let's wait."
The three of them stood outside the store for a while, but the third brother didn't come out. The second brother sent a message to ask and found out that the toilet was crowded and there was a queue, and it was not his turn yet.
Bored of waiting, the three of them started playing with their mobile phones under a roadside tree.
Yin Jiu was playing with his mobile phone when he noticed someone looking at him and met a familiar gaze.
The man walked straight towards him, and just when Yin Jiu thought that the other party was coming to find him, when he was almost in front of him, the man turned around and walked into the hot pot restaurant without stopping.
It was hard to tell whether he felt relieved or something else, Yin Jiu licked his lips and looked away from the hot pot restaurant.
After waiting for a while, the third brother came out and cursed as soon as he saw me: "Fuck, this restaurant is not clean, I will never eat here again!"
This attitude was completely different from before. The eldest brother said something fair: "It's normal to have an upset stomach after eating hot pot, which is both cold and spicy."
As they walked and talked, the third brother was still complaining: "No, it's not about whether the food is clean or not. Anyway, I won't get sick after eating it. I mean the people in this store are not clean."
"You don't know, I just came out of the toilet and met a kid handing out flyers. He came to ask for his wages. It was such a hot day. From 5pm to 9pm, he handed out 800 flyers in four hours. 80 yuan is the market price. But that kid insisted that there were still dozens of flyers left to hand out and deducted 20 yuan from him!"
Thinking of what he just heard, the third brother felt extremely disgusted. "What the hell is that bastard saying? If the work is not completed, there will be no salary. There are not many people as conscientious as him. What the hell is that?"
The second brother was furious when he heard this: "How dare he do such dirty tricks to make money? He is really not a human being. Why didn't you go up and punch him?"
"Oh, I forgot. How about we go back and beat that grandson up?" The third brother said angrily.
"Okay." The eldest brother tried to smooth things over: "The kids themselves don't have any opinions, why are you guys getting involved and starting a fight? Don't you want to go home tonight?"
The third brother pouted in dissatisfaction and said nothing.
The eldest brother gave another piece of advice: "Every failure makes one wiser. People grow up in this way. If you really suffer a loss, other people's parents are not for show."
What he said made sense. The third brother thought about it and couldn't help but feel angry.
Forget it, forget it. He is not the boss. He can control them once, but can he control them for the rest of his life?
Yin Jiu didn't say anything, but his steps gradually slowed down.
That child is probably left unattended by his parents.
If someone was in charge, would they have to squat outside the bar late at night every day to feed mosquitoes?
If there were someone at home to take care of this, they would be so heartbroken.
Yin Jiu: “System.”
"I am here."
Yin Jiu: "Does Ning Changyue have parents?"
The system was silent for a moment before it said, "His father died of illness when he was very young, and his mother remarried and left him to his aunt, who is the mother of the protagonist, Shou Li Xinzhu."
Does that mean that no one really cares? Is that what you mean?
He stopped walking without realizing it.
The three people walking in front noticed that someone had fallen behind and looked back.
"Old Four? What are you standing there for?"
Yin Jiu curled his lips and said, "I suddenly remembered that I forgot to take something. I'm going home now. You guys go back first."
"Well, go early and come back early."
The four of them parted ways and Yin Jiu turned around and walked back.
The system observed his facial expression, which was very calm, but for some reason I felt that he was angry.
Since being bound, the system has been monitoring the host's emotional fluctuations. Although the host complains every day and is up and down, his emotions are actually very stable and rarely fluctuate greatly.
Even if he was threatened that he would die if he failed to complete the mission, the host did not show any emotion.
This kind of person is actually a bit scary.
Because he really seems to not care about anything and has no weaknesses.
…
Ten minutes later, Yin Jiu walked out of the hot pot restaurant again.
He dialed the phone number he had just obtained. After a few seconds of ringing, the call was connected.
He spoke calmly, without any emotion: "Where?"
There was no immediate response from the other end, but the signal was fine, with all sorts of noisy background sounds coming through.
Yin Jiu emphasized: "Where is the place to talk?"
He did not reveal his identity, as if he was sure that the person on the other end of the phone knew who he was.
“Romantic flower arrangement.”
Ning Changyue looked up at the sign and answered slowly.
"Wait there, I'll be right there."
Communication disconnected.
Ning Changyue held the phone and continued to stare at the hamster in the cage with her eyes lowered, her gaze following the hamster's movements left and right.
Outside the flower shop are shelves selling common and easy-to-raise small pets.
Pets are not allowed in university dormitories, but small animals like turtles, goldfish, hamsters, and rabbits are quiet, easy to keep, and have no odor, so they can be kept secretly without being strictly checked.
These days, after distributing flyers every day, Ning Changyue would come over to look at the hamsters and goldfish for a while.
He didn't buy it, and the boss, who was a nice guy, didn't chase him away.
Many children are like this. Their families don't allow them to have a baby or they don't have the conditions to do so. There's nothing to lose by letting them have one.
"Boss." Ning Changyue turned his eyes away from the hamster and looked at the middle-aged woman lying on the rocking chair, "Do you have cat food?"
"Yes." The boss was a little surprised, but he stood up immediately and said with a smile: "I have four or five kinds of cat food here, five yuan, ten yuan, twenty yuan, which one do you want?"
As she spoke, she showed him some bags of cat food.
Ning Changyue picked them up one by one, put them under his nose and sniffed them, then said, "I want a bag of these twenty-dollar ones."
This bag is the most expensive and also the smallest, only 250 grams.
When Yin Jiu came over, he saw him taking out money to buy something.
Watching the boss put cat food into the bag, Yin Jiu was a little surprised and asked, "You also have a cat?"
"No." After saying that, Ning Changyue turned around and stared, her eyelashes trembling slightly: "What about you?"
"I?"
"Of course I didn't."