Li Chunjiao was on her way back to the dormitory when she was suddenly stopped by Zhao Jiabao.
Zhao Jiabao looked anxious, with an inexplicable heat in his eyes.
Li Chunjiao was shocked when she saw this, and thought, could it be that he is here to trick Jiang Suishun out again?
She no longer had the desire to cling to the rich and powerful, so she took two steps back and said weakly, "Brother Zhao, what do you want to talk to me about?"
Zhao Jiabao looked around and saw that no one was around, so he lowered his voice and asked, "Do you want a Rolex watch?"
“?!”
Li Chunjiao's first reaction was that he wanted to give her a Rolex watch, but then she immediately doubted herself, no, that wouldn't happen?
She suppressed her excitement and asked weakly, "Brother Zhao, what do you mean by this?"
Zhao Jiabao seemed a little annoyed: "Don't you like this watch on my hand? I'll sell it to you. Do you want it? Only two thousand yuan!"
Li Chunjiao's eyes instantly turned dead. As expected, she shouldn't have any expectations.
"Do you want it? If you miss this opportunity, you will miss this store. You can't even buy a Rolex watch if you want it!" Zhao Jiabao urged Li Chunjiao when he saw that she didn't answer.
Li Chunjiao looked a little incredulous: "Brother Zhao, you really flatter me... How can I afford something worth two thousand yuan?"
Zhao Jiabao scratched his hair irritably, as if he was not surprised by Li Chunjiao's answer, but he also seemed to be troubled by something and looked desperate.
Li Chunjiao asked, "Brother Zhao, this watch is in great condition. Why are you selling it? Are you in urgent need of money?"
Zhao Jiabao raised his head suddenly, and seemed to be a little angry and embarrassed: "What nonsense are you talking about?! Don't talk nonsense in front of others! I have too many watches. I am tired of wearing this one and don't want it anymore. I will sell it. Do you understand?"
"I understand, I understand!" Li Chunjiao quickly agreed, "Brother Zhao, I'm a commoner and can't afford this Rolex, but your friends must be rich people, they must be willing to buy it. Why not..."
After hearing this, Zhao Jiabao's face became even darker.
If he could have lowered himself to sell watches to his wealthy friends, would he have fallen to the point of seeking help from Li Chunjiao out of desperation?
If those people knew that he was selling watches for money, they would definitely laugh at him! And within a short time, everyone in his family would know about it.
"Forget it!" Zhao Jiabao said impatiently, "I knew you couldn't afford it, just pretend I didn't say anything! Don't tell anyone about what happened today, otherwise..."
He gave her a threatening look, and Li Chunjiao quickly closed her mouth and nodded, indicating that she would keep her mouth shut.
Then, seeing that Zhao Jiabao was indeed anxious, she added, "Brother Zhao, you don't have to sell this watch to someone close to you. You can go to a pawn shop to pawn it."
"Pawnshop?" Zhao Jiabao had never been short of money in all these years and had no idea what a pawnshop was.
Li Chunjiao nodded and said, "Walk two blocks from our school and there is a pawn shop on the street."
She smiled shyly, "A relative of mine has pawned something there before, and he said the price is fair. It's also good to keep the things, and you can redeem them when you have money in the future. Of course, you definitely don't need them! How about... Senior Brother Zhao, why don't you go there and take a look?"
Zhao Jiabao's expression changed for a while, and finally he gritted his teeth and asked, "That pawnshop will pawn anything?"
Li Chunjiao: "Of course, anything of value can be exchanged for money, but it is definitely not possible to pawn it at the original price, so there will be a discount."
Zhao Jiabao: "Then how much do you think my watch is worth?"
Li Chunjiao laughed dryly and said, "This... I can't say for sure..."
Zhao Jiabao frowned and said impatiently: "You roughly estimate the number, I will weigh it first."
Li Chunjiao had no choice but to say, "Maybe... one thousand yuan?"
"One thousand yuan? So little!" Zhao Jiabao was obviously not satisfied. He muttered softly, "I need ten watches to make up ten thousand yuan..."
"Brother Zhao, what did you say?" Li Chunjiao didn't hear the second half of his sentence clearly. "I'm not a pawnbroker, so I don't know how they estimate the value. I just said it casually! How about you go to the pawn shop and ask first?"
In fact, she was exaggerating! According to a relative of hers who often pawned things, getting 50% of the original price at a pawn shop was considered exceptionally good!
Zhao Jiabao pondered for a long time, finally touched the jade pendant in his pocket, gritted his teeth, and made a secret decision.
After thinking of a solution, Zhao Jiabao felt a little relieved: "Not bad, it's a good place to save trouble."
He rarely looked at Li Chunjiao straight in the eye, and said with some appreciation: "I appreciate your help. I will definitely benefit from you in the future."
Li Chunjiao didn't dare to agree, she quickly said: "It's nothing, it's my honor to help Senior Brother Zhao share his worries and solve his problems. If there's nothing else, I'll go back to the dormitory first."
Zhao Jiabao looked in the direction of the girls' dormitory and suddenly asked in a low voice: "How is Jiang Suisui doing recently? Has she told you anything?"
"What...what's going on?" Li Chunjiao didn't understand his question. "It's pretty good?"
"Tsk." Zhao Jiabao looked at her impatiently and said, "Didn't her target get hacked to death? Why didn't she react?"
Li Chunjiao: "There is a response... She makes delicious food for her partner every day."
"That's not what I'm talking about!" Zhao Jiabao thought for a moment and said, "Did she tell you the details of what happened, such as who paid the money to instruct someone to hack her target?"
Li Chunjiao was confused. Spending money to instruct others?
What happened? Jiang Suisui kept telling them that her boyfriend was robbed by a gangster with a knife, so he was stabbed.
Zhao Jiabao looked at Li Chunjiao's expression and felt relieved. It seemed that Jiang Suishun didn't know that he was the one behind it.
After feeling relieved, Zhao Jiabao didn't say anything to Li Chunjiao. He waved his hand and turned to leave, apparently heading out of the school.
Li Chunjiao's face immediately fell after he left, and she felt inexplicably depressed.
What did he mean by that? Could it be that...he was the one who did that to Jiang Suishun?
This association made Li Chunjiao shudder and feel a little scared. She shook her head and told herself not to think about it anymore.
But... How could a rich kid be this bad? He even had to pawn his watch to get money.
In ordinary families, this is something that only gamblers and spendthrifts would do.
Of course Li Chunjiao knew that Zhao Jiabao was a spendthrift who only knew how to eat, drink and have fun, but she never expected that with the Zhao family behind him, how could he ever be short of money?
If she had to live a life of pawning things for money with him, she might as well find a man like Wei Zhenhua!
Li Chunjiao shook her head, finally realizing that she had miscalculated, and returned to the dormitory with a depressed look on her face.
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Not long after drinking soup in the dormitory, Jiang Suinsui came back with an empty lunch box.
It was just after noon and most people were lying in bed preparing to take a nap.
Li Chunjiao had just come back from cleaning her lunch box and bumped into Jiang Suinsui at the door again.
In her hands she held an empty lunch box which had smelled of pork rib soup only minutes before.
Li Chunjiao inexplicably felt guilty. She secretly glanced at Jiang Suinsui and stood there awkwardly, unable to move forward or backward.
Jiang Suinsui glanced at the lunch box in her hand, raised the corners of her lips slightly, and said, "Is the soup delicious?"
Li Chunjiao was surprised that Jiang Suisui would take the initiative to talk to her, and she responded subconsciously: "It tastes good."
Jiang Suisui smiled and said, "That's good."
After saying that, she stopped chatting and turned around with her lunch box to wash up.
Li Chunjiao's eyes followed Jiang Suunsui as she left. She bit her lower lip, savoring the taste of the pork rib soup she had just had. Finally, she made up her mind and followed her.
At the sink, Jiang Suunsui turned on the water and was about to wash the lunch box. Li Chunjiao walked over silently and said, "Jiang Suunsui."
"Hmm?" Jiang Suinsui turned her head and gave her a strange look. "Anything else?"
Li Chunjiao saw the defensiveness in Jiang Suinsui's eyes, and felt a prick in her heart. She said, "Don't worry, I'm not here to quarrel with you."
"Oh..." Jiang Suinsui turned around and continued washing the lunch box, thinking, it's good that they are not quarreling, otherwise she would feel bad about giving away the pork rib soup.
Li Chunjiao: "I...I have something to tell you. It's about Zhao Jiabao."
"Oh?" Jiang Suinshun was a little surprised. Could it be that Li Chunjiao was finally ready to apologize to her for what happened before?
Li Chunjiao continued, "I know you were very angry when I took you to the cafeteria to meet Zhao Jiabao last time, but I still think I did nothing wrong. He just asked me to take you out and wanted to talk to you. I thought the cafeteria is a public place and he wouldn't do anything to you. So... so I think there is no problem. If you don't like him, just refuse him like you did last time, you can't blame me!"
Jiang Suishun was angry and amused at once. Just when she wanted to say something, Li Chunjiao suddenly said, "But that's not what I want to talk about today. For the sake of your pork chop soup, I'll tell you a piece of news."
Her voice suddenly dropped, and she looked around to make sure no one was around before she said, "Maybe Zhao Jiabao did what you did to me."
"What?!"
Seeing Jiang Sui Sui's surprised face, Li Chunjiao thought she didn't believe it, so she hurriedly said, "It's up to you whether you believe it or not. Anyway, this is just my guess."
She told Jiang Suisui everything about how Zhao Jiabao had stopped her, and finally said, "That's it. If you think I'm talking nonsense, that's fine. Anyway, you never take my words seriously."
After saying this, Li Chunjiao turned around and was about to leave.
"Wait!" Jiang Suisui quickly stopped her and asked, "You just said that Zhao Jiabao wanted to sell you a watch? And you were planning to pawn the watch at a pawn shop?"
Li Chunjiao was so angry that she stamped her feet: "How come you don't listen to the important points when listening to others? What I want to say is that he might have paid money to instigate————"
"I know." Jiang Suunsun comforted him, "Thank you for your information, it's very helpful. But I still want to ask, you just said, is he going to pawn his watch for money?"
Li Chunjiao looked confused by the question, but still answered, "Yes, I recommended the pawnshop two blocks outside the school to him, and he just ran out of the school after hearing it."
Jiang Suinsui listened to this with a thoughtful look on her face. After a while, she suddenly patted Li Chunjiao on the shoulder and said with a smile, "Thank you. I'll treat you to some pork rib soup next time I make it!"
After saying that, she quickly washed her lunch box under Li Chunjiao's puzzled gaze, turned around and left the dormitory building.