8: Chapter 8: Missed Out on Hundreds of Millions?
8: Chapter 8: Missed Out on Hundreds of Millions?
Wuyang Town Middle School, near the main gate, inside Ermao Restaurant.
Chen Hai and Lin Lan entered one after the other.
“Chen Hai, what would you like to eat?” Lin Lan asked.
“Just one of those one-yuan als, any will do!” Chen Hai replied.
The fast food sold in this kind of small restaurant consisted of big pot dishes that had been prepared in advance.
Compared to individual stir-fry dishes, they contained less oil and their taste was considerably worse, but they were quick and cheap.
The schools nowadays did not follow any sort of closed managent, and the food in the cafeteria was not only expensive but also poor in taste!
That was precisely why Chen Hai and Lin Lan had co outside.
These small restaurants near the school, if not during holidays, were usually packed.
In the classroom, they delayed for a while, but by the ti they reached Ermao Restaurant, it was already fully seated.
Seeing how Lin Lan acted, she seed to want to order two stir-fried dishes, but seeing the owner too busy, she had to give up for the mont.
There were absolutely no spare seats inside the restaurant, but outside, many people were squatting with their lunchboxes, starting to eat.
Eating in the cafeteria ant bad taste, but eating outside ant not finding a place to sit, which was the downside.
In a small place like Wuyang Town, there were plenty of bicycles but rarely could you find a car.
With no cars coming and going, squatting outside to eat ant you didn’t have to worry about eating dust.
“Lin Lan, after the college entrance exams, are you going straight back to Yuedong?”
“I’m not sure yet, a few days ago when my parents left, they said they would co to pick up, so I’ll leave whenever they co!”
“They ntioned they were using their connections to get to study abroad, I’m not sure how that’s going yet.”
“Studying abroad, congratulations, Lin Lan!”
“What’s there to congratulate?
I’d be in a foreign land, completely unfamiliar.
If not for my parents’ good intentions, which I can’t just decline, I wouldn’t want to go to such places!”
“After going back to Yuedong, I should go back to using my real na, I won’t be called Lin Lan anymore.”
“If not Lin Lan, then what?”
“My foster father’s surna is Lin, originally, I should be surnad Yang, called Yang Huilan!”
…
Chen Hai and Lin Lan were not fussy people, squatting by the roadside eating fast food was not sothing unacceptable to them.
While eating, they casually chatted.
In the morning, Chen Hai had learned about her background from Lin Lan and felt that she had a rough life.
But now, talking to her, he felt a sourness spread over him, feeling imnsely lost inside.
With two to three months left until the college entrance exams, Lin Lan’s future was already well-planned, ready to go abroad for studies.
But him?
If he couldn’t get into a university and didn’t want to stay at ho to tend to the land, his only option might be to head south, looking for factory work.
Thinking of these things, he suddenly felt a considerable distance between him and Lin Lan, as if they weren’t even in the sa world.
At the start of their casual talk, they laughed and chatted, but towards the end, Chen Hai was just focusing on eating, becoming completely silent.
“Wang Laoliu is really lucky, went up the mountain to chop wood and actually found a big snake!”
“That snake corpse, at least ten ters long and weighing over a hundred kilos, he was originally going to drag it back to cook a pot and cure the rest of the at!”
“But on the way, he encountered a wealthy businessman driving a car, who said such a big snake was rare and its at would definitely be nourishing.”
“He handed Wang Laoliu a stack of banknotes, and that businessman directly bought the snake’s corpse to take away.”
“That’s ten banknotes, a whole one thousand yuan.
If only I had Wang Laoliu’s luck, how great that would be!”
…
Not far away, several strong n, seemingly laborers, were squatting by the roadside with lunchboxes, chatting and eating.
At first, Chen Hai hadn’t paid attention to them.
It was when he heard one of them talking about soone finding a more than ten-ter-long snake, which sold for a thousand yuan, that his thoughts suddenly beca complicated.
“A snake that long must have beco a spirit!”
“How could such a big snake suddenly die, leaving only its body on the mountain?”
“Last night, when I transford into a leech, what I devoured was just the soul of the Snake Demon, but where was the Snake Demon’s actual body?
I didn’t even think to look for it!”
“Could it be that the snake corpse Wang Laoliu found was the very Snake Demon’s body that died at my hands…”
The more he thought about it, the more Chen Hai was convinced that his guess was the fact.
“That Snake Demon was probably from the Night Tour Realm.”
“Its demon soul died at the cliff, so its body must have been nearby at that ti.”
“After dealing with the demon soul, why the hell did I leave?
Why didn’t I think to search around that area?”
“That was a whole one thousand yuan.
Rounding up, I missed out on tens or even hundreds of thousands!”
Regret filled his heart, and thinking about that one thousand yuan earned by soone else made Chen Hai feel as if his heart were bleeding.
If he weren’t in such a public place right now, he would have desperately wanted to slap himself several tis.
Already sowhat depressed, he now looked completely filled with a sense of loss.
“Chen Hai, I’m done eating.
Want to head back to the classroom together?”
Lin Lan, who had already finished her al, noticed that Chen Hai seed a bit off, so she tentatively spoke up and invited him.
“There’s still so ti before the afternoon class starts.”
“Lin Lan, you go back to the classroom by yourself.
I have so things to attend to, I’ll return later!”
Chen Hai declined.
Right now, he was very annoyed and wanted to be alone.
“Chen Hai, are you alright?”
“What could possibly be wrong with ?
I can eat, I can drink, I can jump, and I can run.
I truly have so things to do, I’ll head back to school later.”
“Alright, Chen Hai.
Then I’ll go back to the classroom first!”
Since Chen Hai had already said as much, Lin Lan couldn’t keep following him.
After greeting Chen Hai, she pouted and walked towards the school gate.
Aimlessly, Chen Hai wandered alone.
Wuyang Town was just that small, with only two streets intersecting; it was barely considered bustling.
When he reached an alley, Zhang Yong, wearing a navy blue school uniform and with a crew cut, sprung from behind him and stood in his way.
“Chen Hai, do you know why I’m looking for you?”
“Let tell you, Lin Lan is the girl Brother Bing fancies; you better stop having any ideas about her.”
“I’m warning you right now, toad, stop dreaming of swan at.
If I see you cozying up to Lin Lan again, I’ll beat you up each ti, got it?”
Zhang Yong was incredibly hostile.
As he spoke, his finger was nearly poking Chen Hai’s nose.
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