SYLM Chapter 29
by VolareCompared to the busyness of others visiting relatives during the first and second days of the Lunar New Year, Chen Lu’s days were no different from usual.
During the holiday, Chen Lu specifically looked for some free math classes online to listen to.
She had fallen behind in math too much. No matter how smart she was, she was already in the second year of high school. If she didn’t study hard now, it would really be too late.
If she wanted to be an alumni with Gu Wan Jun, she had to score at least 120 points in math.
With a goal, as long as she was willing to work hard and give it her all, she would leave the results to time.
Besides studying, Chen Lu also had to take care of her financial problems.
When she was tired of studying math, Chen Lu would conceive novels. After the new year, she had three short suspense stories to submit.
These short stories for submission to earn money more or less contained content that Chen Lu herself didn’t particularly like, because in order to get approved, they had to meet the editor’s tastes, only in this way could she earn money.
And the novel “The Cage” that Gu Wan Jun had previously given suggestions on, was Chen Lu’s truly meaningful work created entirely from the heart, and also her first full-length novel, but it was not yet finished.
Regardless of whether “The Cage” could be successfully submitted and sold for a price in the future, Chen Lu planned to write to the end according to her own settings and ideas.
Looking at the savings in her deposit book, which were accumulated by writing and were about to break six figures, Chen Lu felt that all the effort was worth it.
But to be worthy of Gu Wan Jun, this was far from enough.
Being very sure of her feelings for Gu Wan Jun, Chen Lu knew that now was definitely not a good time to confess.
Teacher-student relationship, being both female, and being at a critical moment before the college entrance examination where one must study without distractions…
With all the buffs stacked together, Chen Lu knew very well that what she could do now was to hide this love in her heart, study hard, and fight for a good future for herself, only in this way would she be qualified to stand in front of someone as excellent as Gu Wan Jun and talk about love.
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The afternoon of the third day of the Lunar New Year.
After listening to four math classes in a row, Chen Lu was a little overwhelmed. When she got up to get an ice-cold cola from the refrigerator, the phone on the table vibrated twice.
It was a message from Fu Yi Wen.
The other party asked her if she wanted to go out to play.
Considering that it would take a long time to take the bus out of the old-fashioned residential area and that she hadn’t finished writing her novel, Chen Lu typed a reply saying she couldn’t go.
Probably considering that Chen Lu was busy, Fu Yi Wen didn’t pester her too much after a few words.
Chen Lu wasn’t going out, Jiang Zhen Zhen’s family went back to her grandmother’s house on the second day of the Lunar New Year and hadn’t returned yet, so it wasn’t interesting for Fu Yi Wen to go out alone either.
With a long sigh, Fu Yi Wen took off the new clothes she had put on half an hour ago, changed into a set of old clothes she usually wore, and prepared to go to the barbecue restaurant at home to help out.
In order to earn more money, Fu Yi Wen’s barbecue restaurant only rested on New Year’s Eve, and resumed business on the first day of the Lunar New Year.
Winter days were short and nights were long. The sun hadn’t set when Fu Yi Wen went out, but it was completely dark when she arrived at the barbecue restaurant.
All kinds of barbecue aromas wafted through the air. Even if you just passed by the door without going in, you could still smell this mouth-watering barbecue flavor.
Today was the third day of the Lunar New Year, and the restaurant was still crowded and lively. People were sitting around the tables in groups of three or five, toasting and eating barbecue, while chatting about life trivia. The seats in the restaurant were almost full.
After arriving, Fu’s mother asked her daughter why she didn’t go out to play. Fu Yi Wen replied that Chen Lu and the others were busy, while skillfully putting on work clothes, aprons, and hats, to prevent the barbecue smell from getting on her clothes and hair.
What Fu Yi Wen could usually do was nothing more than calculating accounts, serving dishes, cleaning up tables, sweeping the floor, and other chores, and today was no different.
A table of guests had checked out and left. In order to make room for later guests, Fu Yi Wen immediately took the trash can and rag to clean up.
The next second, the door of the barbecue restaurant opened, and a gust of cool wind rushed in unexpectedly.
“Welcome to Zhengdian Barbecue Restaurant, may I ask—”
The hand wiping the table suddenly stopped, and after looking up and seeing who it was, Fu Yi Wen’s last half of the sentence got stuck in her throat!
Maple-leaf red wavy long curly hair fell on a white fur coat, the usual long skirt had become a super-short A-line skirt paired with black stockings and long boots. Looking at each other, a puff of gray-white smoke was slowly exhaled, Tang Ying narrowed her eyes, and said in a cold voice:
“Four people, is there a seat?”
“…”
Fu Yi Wen smacked her lips. She really didn’t know how to describe her bad luck. The new year had just started and she had encountered this annoying person. Was God her enemy!?
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Tang Ying came with a party of four, and they were all women.
They happened to be sitting at the table that Fu Yi Wen had just cleaned up.
From the moment she entered the restaurant, Tang Ying’s cigarette hadn’t stopped.
This was the first time Fu Yi Wen had seen Tang Ying smoking.
Fu Yi Wen, who hated the smell of smoke, wrinkled her nose that was about to have a rhinitis attack. Seeing that her mother had gone to the back kitchen to help, she had no choice but to take the menu and walk towards Tang Ying’s table.
“Hello, may I ask what you would like to order?”
“Do you have any recommendations?”
Tang Ying asked this. She was sitting with her legs crossed, holding a half-smoked women’s cigarette in one hand and hugging her chest with the other, just staring straight at Fu Yi Wen standing next to the table.
If someone else asked this, Fu Yi Wen would definitely answer happily, but now that it came from Tang Ying’s mouth, she would only feel that this annoying person really knew how to boss people around, and even needed someone to recommend something, didn’t she have eyes herself?
…
After all, it was hard to earn money, even if Fu Yi Wen was unwilling, at this moment she had to lower her head and look at the menu, trying to be as polite as possible:
“Everything is marked on the menu. The first recommendation is our grilled pork skewers and grilled quail. These two are the most popular with regular customers.”
“What do you like to eat the most?”
“Me?”
Fu Yi Wen raised her eyebrows and looked over, only to see Tang Ying’s red lips slightly open, and the smoke rolled back.
Under the hazy smoke that was exhaled, those phoenix eyes with slightly upturned corners were staring at her.
Just with this one glance, for some reason, a blank space flashed in Fu Yi Wen’s brain, and she actually swallowed unconsciously!
Damn! What’s going on! Why is her heart suddenly beating so fast!?
Fu Yi Wen was puzzled.
…
Seeing that this person didn’t say a word after asking a question, Tang Ying was a little impatient. She frowned slightly, raised her chin and blew a puff of smoke at Fu Yi Wen, and said in a cold voice:
“Speak.”
“…”
Fu Yi Wen, who was immersed in thinking about whether she had a heart disease, was caught off guard and choked directly by this sudden puff of smoke. She subconsciously covered her itchy nose, turned around and rushed out of the barbecue restaurant, standing at the door sneezing wildly!
This time it was Tang Ying’s turn to be stunned.
Recalling when she first met and heard Fu Yi Wen complain that the perfume on her body smelled bad, Tang Ying grinded her back molars, lowered her eyes slightly, and directly extinguished the half-smoked cigarette in her hand in the ashtray on the table.
She forgot that this little chubby girl had rhinitis.
Hearing the sound, Fu Yi Wen’s mother, who was originally helping in the back kitchen, rushed over. While saying she was sorry, she was preparing to take the order for Tang Ying’s table.
At the same time, Fu Yi Wen, who had finished sneezing outside the door, also came back, her pair of round puppy eyes were red from being choked, and tears were still swirling in her eyes.
Seeing that several tables of regular customers got up to check out, Fu Yi Wen rubbed her red eyes. She asked her mother to check out, and she would continue to take orders.
Tang Ying didn’t ask Fu Yi Wen for any recommendations. She asked Fu Yi Wen to bring all the items on the menu, and then bring 4 cases of iced beer.
4 cases of beer, 24 bottles.
Fu Yi Wen stuck out her tongue and secretly exclaimed in her heart—
So this annoying person secretly smokes and drinks.
After Tang Ying finished ordering, Fu Yi Wen asked the other three if they wanted to order anything else, but they all waved their hands and refused, saying that they would just have what Tang Ying ordered.
Fu Yi Wen glanced at Tang Ying again, but this person didn’t say anything about letting her friends have some.
Could it be that this annoying person also has this cold and dictatorial attitude when getting along with friends?
Fu Yi Wen pursed her lips. She didn’t know if it was her illusion, but she always felt that Tang Ying and the other three seemed to be not very familiar.
…
While waiting for the barbecue, the other three were putting on makeup and chatting.
Seeing that Fu Yi Wen had gone to the back kitchen, Tang Ying re-lit a cigarette and held it between her fingers, casually looking at the environment of the barbecue restaurant.
The barbecue restaurant was not big, but it was cleaned up very well. It was said that this restaurant was very popular, and you had to queue up every time you came. Tang Ying also came after hearing someone’s recommendation, but she didn’t expect it to be opened by that little chubby girl’s family.
It really was true that enemies were destined to meet.
Tang Ying curled the corners of her lips.
…
After the iced beer was served, Tang Ying opened a bottle and drank it straight from the bottle.
When Fu Yi Wen was serving the barbecue, Tang Ying already had three empty bottles beside her.
…
A bright, beautiful, and generous woman who drinks is the focus of attention wherever she goes.
In the second half of the barbecue, the eyes of almost everyone in the restaurant were focused on Tang Ying’s table.
A middle-aged man at the next table got drunk and directly used the alcohol to ask Tang Ying for her WeChat account with his mobile phone.
“Girl, add me on WeChat, and I’ll treat you to a drink another day.”
“Do we know each other?” Tang Ying’s tone was cold, and she didn’t even look at the speaker.
“Won’t we know each other after adding WeChat?” The middle-aged man smiled, unwilling to give up: “Hey, I said girl, you are so beautiful, it’s so late and you’re not going home, aren’t your family worried about you? Do you have a boyfriend?”
“Yes, not just a boyfriend, I’ve even killed two husbands.”
“…”
While speaking, Tang Ying glared at him, and the middle-aged man’s face changed suddenly, but for the sake of face, the man forced a smile, not taking it seriously and said:
“Girl is really joking, well, let’s add WeChat first, and when there’s time—”
“No time, can you stop babbling in my ear, it’s annoying.” Tang Ying frowned and put down her chopsticks, her tone obviously impatient.
Seeing that everyone around was watching the excitement, the man felt a little embarrassed, and the previously diligent tone suddenly became fierce and mean:
“No, it’s just adding WeChat, it’s not like I’m going to do anything to you, you’re being a bit shameless, aren’t you?”
“Who’s shameless, who knows.”
“You! Who are you calling shameless?”
“Whoever is shameless, I’m talking about whoever.” Tang Ying’s tone was faint, and she even showed an ambiguous smile on her face.
“You!”
The man was exasperated, his face flushed red with alcohol. He just rolled up his sleeves to prepare to do something, but the next second someone suddenly rushed out and staggered him, and a basin of boiled peanuts was directly dumped into his arms!
His chest hair sweater was completely soaked, and this move was obviously adding fuel to the fire. The man was immediately furious. He was about to explode, but the next second he heard a voice:
“Oh, Uncle Li? Sorry, I’m really sorry, I was in a hurry to serve the dishes and didn’t see you standing here, are you okay! Hey? Uncle, you came alone? Where’s Auntie? Didn’t my sister come with you?”
“…”
The word “Uncle Li” made the man recognize that the person who bumped into him was the daughter of the old classmate of the restaurant owner. Then, when he heard the series of questions about the family, the anger that had just rushed up turned into guilt. The man glanced around, and his words became stammering:
“Oh, it’s Wen Wen, look at you kid, you’re not watching, you bumped into your uncle.”
“Yes, yes, yes, I’m sorry, Uncle Li, I was really too careless.”
While piling on a smiling face to apologize, Fu Yi Wen helped the man wipe with a rag used to wipe oil stains on the table in the restaurant. In a short while, the black sweater became ugly and smelly.
People around, including the man, seemed to have noticed something was wrong, but because of guilt, the man could only keep enumerating how careless Fu Yi Wen was, while loudly saying that the wool sweater he was wearing was not a cheap item.
Seeing that Fu Yi Wen had made the man suffer, the hand that was originally holding the beer bottle ready to give the man a headshot gradually loosened.
Tang Ying curled the corners of her lips, and her eyes showed a bit more appreciation towards Fu Yi Wen.