"Forget it, I don't care," Lu Zhinan said, "It's just a bowl of noodles."
"Yeah, it's just a bowl of noodles," Chen Pan said with a smile, "It shows how generous you are."
Not counting it anymore...
He forced her to make this difficult choice and pestered her desperately, but in the end, he said he didn't care.
What a good guy who doesn't care.
"I'll go home after I finish walking down this street," Shen Pan didn't have the patience to wait for the ten o'clock he said, as she had to go to work tomorrow.
"Okay," Lu Zhinan agreed.
Shen Pan paused for a moment, and he was so happy to agree.
The two continued walking along the pedestrian street.
Passing by a stall selling turtles, goldfish and the like, many children gathered around to watch the colorful fish swimming around in the bathtub. A few children were curious and wanted to reach out and touch the turtles, but they were timid and didn't dare.
Lu Zhinan passed by and, like those others, was unable to move after seeing it.
"Have you ever raised one?" Lu Zhinan asked.
"Fish or turtle?" Shen Pan asked.
"Who has raised one?"
“I’ve never raised one.”
“…”
Chen Pan asked back: "Have you ever raised one?"
"No," Lu Zhinan said, "My brother raised a turtle."
"Oh," Shen Pan felt inexplicably lost.
Lu Zhishu never mentioned these things.
Seeing that the two seemed interested, the stall owner offered a promotion: "Young man, how about two for fun? They're not expensive, only twenty yuan each."
"Do you want it?" Lu Zhinan asked Chen Pan.
"No," Shen Pan said, "I don't have time to keep a pet, and I'm not interested in small animals."
"I'll support you, okay?" Lu Zhinan was about to take out his wallet when Chen Pan held him down.
"What's wrong?" Lu Zhinan was puzzled.
Shen Pan didn't explain, but pulled him out of the crowd.
Of course, she wasn't shameless enough to grab the other person's hand like he did. Shen Pan grabbed Lu Zhinan's sleeve.
After coming out, Shen Pan let him go and said speechlessly: "People who are stupid and have a lot of money are just like you."
"What do you mean?" Lu Zhinan didn't understand.
"If you walk a few steps further, you'll find this kind of stall still there," Chen Pan said. "Other places sell it for a maximum of ten and fifteen yuan, but here they sell it for twenty yuan. What do you think?"
Lu Zhinan looked indifferent. "It's just a few dollars. I'm not short of money. Or... are you worried that I'll overpay and get ripped off?"
Chen Pan: "If you want to buy it, then go ahead and buy it. I've already told you the tricks. If you want to be a sucker, I won't stop you."
Lu Zhinan: "If you really didn't want to stop me, you shouldn't have told me the 'tricks' here."
Chen Pan: "Didn't you say you weren't short of money? Do you know the ins and outs? Does it make a difference to someone like you who isn't short of money? You also said it was just a matter of a few dollars, so why did you refuse to buy it when I told you that? Or are you just like ordinary people like us? You know how to get ripped off, how to suffer a loss, how to get cheated, and you'll also haggle over a few dollars and feel uncomfortable?"
Hit the nail on the head.
Lu Zhinan did have this feeling, although he didn't want to admit it.
Chen Pan: "Are we angry about the few dollars? No, we're angry about being cheated and toyed with. I can also tell you that the turtles from these stalls will basically die after a few days after you buy them. They can't be kept for long. The same goes for those fish, and even those puppies and kittens you saw before. It's a simple logic. If these things could be kept for a long time, why would you buy them a second time?"
Lu Zhinan stared at Chen Pan in a daze.
When he heard her talk about these bloody and cruel facts, he was not surprised by them, but he did not expect that some phenomena in the lower class of society would have such cruel and realistic logic.
Harvesting, deceiving, fooling, everywhere.
Lu Zhinan always thought that he was the one who reaped, deceived, and fooled others. Today, if Chen Pan had not stopped him, he would have become the one who was harvested, deceived, and fooled.
This feeling... is really uncomfortable.
"Let's go," Lu Zhinan said, "I'll go shopping and then I'll take you back."
"Yeah." Shen Pan turned around and continued walking forward.
Lu Zhinan, who was following two meters behind her, kept his eyes fixed on Shen Pan's back.
For some reason, he couldn't help but stare at Shen Pan.
Look at her light green cotton coat wrapping her like a dumpling, look at the messy hair on the back of her head, and look at the many cotton balls on her black straight-leg wide-leg pants.
…
Looking back, she didn't even seem to be wearing makeup...
So sloppy.
There is indeed a reason why she and Lu Zhishu can become a pair.
"Hey, you..." Lu Zhinan thought for a moment and asked, "Do you want to look better?"
"Don't try to attack my appearance by asking me to get plastic surgery," Chen Pan said without looking back, "I'm very satisfied with my appearance."
"Who said anything about your looks?" Lu Zhinan walked forward irritably, walking side by side with her. "I mean, do you want to be more refined? At least... you have to dress up nicely in front of Lu Zhishu, right? Otherwise, how are you going to deal with those coquettish bitches out there?"
Chen Pan chuckled, "If Lu Zhishu goes to find some slutty bitch outside because of this, why should I let him be my husband?"
Lu Zhinan deliberately asked: "So, you will divorce Lu Zhishu?"
Chen Pan glared at him. "Do you always get double the score on your reading comprehension? You really have a knack for overinterpreting things."
Lu Zhinan was curious: "Then what will it take for you to divorce Lu Zhishu?"
Chen Pan: "Do you want to break us up? Or do you have any other ideas?"
Lu Zhinan: "I haven't thought about it yet. I'll tell you when I do."
"Tsk—" Chen Pan said disdainfully, "Then you can wait for the next life. Lu Zhishu and I will never get divorced in this life."
"Why? Didn't you just say that if Lu Zhishu went to find someone outside, you would divorce him?"
"Because I believe Lu Zhishu won't," Chen Pan said, "Although the time we've been dating is short, we've known each other for quite a while. I know what kind of person he is."
"Do you trust him so much?"
"What else?" Chen Pan asked back.
"Then why don't you trust me?" Lu Zhinan asked, "Why don't you trust the deal between you and me?"
"This isn't a deal," Chen Pan said. "This is forced upon me. You're forcing me into agreeing."
"I don't," Lu Zhinan said, "at least not now."
"Well," Chen Pan said, "Do you know why?"
"Why? Do you believe me too?"
"No," Chen Pan raised his eyelids and looked at him, "because in my eyes, you are just a 'stinky little brother'."
"..." Lu Zhinan's face turned black: "I'm older than you."
"You're older than me, yet you still do such childish things," Chen Pan chuckled and said, "You really know how to make people angry, and you do it on purpose. You remind me of my brother. He always does stupid things without thinking, and he dares not admit it after he's done it, always being stubborn. He only became obedient after my parents gave him a beating."
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