Chapter 39: Chapter 38 Everyone’s 18th Birthday

    After hanging up the phone from Little Youzi, Cheng Zhu sprinted downstairs.

    Information obtained one: Little sister was hungry.

    Information obtained two: She’d only eat if I got there.

    Cheng Zhu ran faster than a sports student, like a wild dog off its leash.

    August in Hang City was scorchingly hot, so by the time he got to Yunlai Restaurant, he was dripping with sweat.

    Xu Yun looked at him, puzzled, “Where did you go?”

    ...

    “I didn’t go anywhere; I just ran here all the way from home. Fast, isn’t it?” Cheng Zhu was slightly proud.

    Just then, a pair of small hands suddenly appeared, holding two tissues: “Brother, wipe.”

    Little Youzi remembered her mother’s teaching: after sweating a lot, wipe it off before entering an air-conditioned room, or you might catch a cold.

    Cheng Zhu smiled and didn’t take the tissue but bent down to let Little Youzi help him wipe it off.

    After arriving at the restaurant, he suddenly recalled that he had promised Shen Minglang and Lin Lu to treat them to a meal here if he got the chance.

    At this moment, Cheng Zhu glanced at his sister and couldn’t help but straighten his back, thinking to himself, “Look at my status in my sister’s heart. Shen Minglang might have to find a place to cry!”

    During the meal, Cheng Zhu ‘casually’ mentioned to his mother, “Mom, didn’t I hear you talking with dad about wanting to open a fresh supermarket?”

    “Why do you bring this up?” asked Xu Yun.

    “I have a classmate whose family runs one,” Cheng Zhu began to bluff.

    “Oh?” Xu Yun got interested.

    “Seems like the business is doing quite well.” Cheng Zhu said indifferently, then continued eating with Cheng Youu.@@@@

    Xu Yun took out a bowl of mung bean soup from the fridge and placed it on the table for the siblings, saying, “Your dad and I indeed thought about it, but we haven’t found a suitable place nearby.”

    “You kids, don’t worry about these things. Just have fun during the summer vacation, and study hard when you’re at university...” Xu Yun started her usual nagging.

    But, funny enough, Cheng Zhu didn’t find it annoying; instead, he rather enjoyed listening.

    Speaking of which, Xu Yun worked as a cashier and half a waitress in the restaurant.

    She was replaceable; they could just hire another person.

    She could put all her energy into the community fresh supermarket.

    The restaurant didn’t serve breakfast, so Cheng could help in the morning.

    Cheng Zhu felt that if in the end his parents couldn’t make up their minds to start the business, it would still be okay.

    He would just come up with another plan, surely not letting his uncle swindle the money.

    As the day grew late, Cheng Zhu’s phone pinged, a WeChat message from Ye Zi.

    “Boss, I checked the store, sales have been pretty good recently, congratulations!” She had gotten used to calling Cheng Zhu ‘boss.’

    Speaking of which, she was a full seven years older than him.

    As for women, even less needs to be said.

    Now it’s 2014, the ethos isn’t like a few years later.

    A few years later, some online platforms are skirting the edges sharply.

    Thinking of quitting looking at lewd stuff? You’d need to disconnect from the internet, it’s all a hindrance!

    Cheng Zhu was well aware, do you think the buyer’s showcase in the comments of these kinds of products is really from buyers?

    Not really!

    The sellers have a bunch of pictures, they just find some customers to help out, send them the pictures, and have them include them when giving a good review.

    The pictures are provided by us. Add some coupons from the shop, and there will be a bunch of people willing to post.

    Ye Zi had been in nightlife, working for a year in bar marketing in Shanghai, then went to a pub to apprentice in bartending before coming to Hang City to become a bartender.

    In her circle of friends, there were no shortages of girls who were open-minded.

    Because in this line of work, they were always eager to add female friends to their social media. If you can bring girls to the party, surely men will come to spend!

    With this in mind, Cheng Zhu suddenly realized he’d overlooked something.

    “Some pictures don’t even need girls to take; Wang Anquan and I, two big men, can do it!” he thought to himself.

    The photos didn’t need people, just needed to capture the “battlefield” aftermath.

    People tend to fill in the blanks on their own!

    Moreover, asking some male customers to shoot a person, they might be extremely reluctant, but if you ask them to shoot a battlefield to show their “manly prowess,” they might get really excited!

    Oh ho, so impressive, discovered by the customer service girl? Ha ha, ha ha!

    Some people, it’s possible they even fake their own battlefield outcomes!

    Like taking a bottle of mineral water and repeatedly spraying the bed sheet.

    — Oh, men!

    Thinking this, Cheng Zhu immediately sent a WeChat to Wang Anquan.

    Wang Anquan was deeply impressed after reading it.

    “Brilliant, Brother Zhu, you are truly brilliant!” he admired him immensely.

    Wang Anquan thought about his classmates, each one either madly in love or hanging out in internet cafes.

    At their age, feeling utterly awesome just for getting a night package at an internet cafe?, bragging all day about getting a triple or quadruple kill in a game! A pentakill could fuel their bragging for a year!

    If they could have girls accompanying them to surf the internet, they might even think they’d won at life.

    Then looking at class monitor Li Rui, who was persistently warm every day.

    And Brother Zhu? He almost had his own QQ picture library now!

    While some classmates were still playing with QQ Show by getting a Super VIP for their QQ account, Brother Zhu was already playing with real-life QQ Show!

    Wild, just too wild!

    “Our eighteen years and Brother Zhu’s eighteen years seem quite different, don’t they?” Wang Anquan thought to himself.