Chapter 415: Is My Cousin Pretty? (Part 2)
"Where did you get the phone?" Jiang Nian was stunned.
Li Hua had always been under strict parental control, only given cash for living expenses. Even when shopping online, he had to ask friends to buy things for him.
He used an old phone without a SIM card to watch movies, which was hardly presentable.
"Oh, my cousin gave it to his blind date," Li Hua said. "The other party wasn't interested, so my cousin didn't need it and gave it to me."
"Your cousin... what a jerk, inflating prices like that."
Hearing this, Li Hua was taken aback. He thought about it and felt that Jiang Nian was right, so he nodded solemnly.
"Don't worry, I'll use this simp phone with a critical attitude."
A moment passed.
"Old Ma, do you think tendonitis will affect my using the new phone?"
"Where did you get the phone?"
This kind of conversation happened multiple times in the morning.
After morning study, the whole class lay on their desks to catch up on sleep.
Zhang Ningzhi poked Jiang Nian's arm and lowered her voice to ask curiously.
"Has the squad leader gone mad?"
"Ignore him, he's hallucinating from being single," Jiang Nian said as he continued writing his test paper, but noticed a gaze on him.
He turned his head and saw Zhang Ningzhi looking at him wistfully.
"What's wrong?"
"Oh, nothing." She turned her head away, muttering softly, "Nothing at all, very normal."
Jiang Nian was puzzled, "?"
He reflected on himself and found that he wasn't at fault. He wasn't secretly flirting, nor was he nonchalantly harassing her.
As for everything else, it was no different from before.
So, what was wrong?
On Thursday morning, during the two-period English class at eight, Qianbao entered the room, first glancing at Jiang Nian with a smile waiting for praise.
Classmates were a bit confused, not knowing why Qianbao was in such a good mood today.
"Teacher, why are you so happy today?"
"Is there some good news?"
"Yeah, it's a kid from a friend's house." Qianbao covered her mouth, laughed for a while, and said, "Feels like a good match."
Jiang Nian, lying on the desk, rolled his eyes.
The old woman lied without even blinking. If he could master even a fraction of Qianbao's skill, he wouldn't worry about getting screwed.
Wait, what did he learn from the teacher?
[Ding! Standing at the crossroads of thirty-eight...]
A synthesized mechanical voice rang in his mind again, jolting the drowsy Jiang Nian awake in the morning.
He straightened up abruptly, looking at the task panel that appeared before him.
It's here!
[In half a year, your appearance and temperament have undergone a dramatic change, and your relationship with the three girls has become increasingly close.
Congratulations on completing the first deal of starting from scratch. The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Please continue to build your business empire.
Task: Complete a transaction and achieve an accumulated profit of one thousand yuan. Reward: Hundredfold return, Ex-wife Memory Fragment.]
Jiang Nian was completely baffled after reading it.
The hundredfold reward task was guessed correctly, but earning a thousand yuan wasn't too hard. He could first try transferring from one hand to the other.
But... the ex-wife memory fragment, that was a bit troubling.
He remembered the last time he saw the ex-wife was in [Xu Qianqian's Memory Fragment]. As for when they met...
Uh, Zhennan is too small.
Small enough that through a third person, you could find anyone.
If he had this fragment, it would have... zero usefulness for him. Whether the ex-wife appeared or not had nothing to do with him.
"Should I find her ahead of time and give her a beating, or..." Jiang Nian muttered, "But it seems she can't trick me anymore."
"Trick who?" Li Hua's ears pricked up.
"Your sister."
"Huh? My cousin?" Li Hua boasted, pointing at him, "You're born for her, my cousin is only in her third year of junior high."
"My dad's five years older than my mom, isn't that the same..." Jiang Nian remained calm, his gaze suddenly turning to Li Hua's pocket.
"By the way, can you sell your phone for a thousand yuan?"
"You beast, going after my cousin is bad enough," Li Hua looked terrified, "Damn, you're even going after your classmate's phone."
Jiang Nian couldn't be bothered to respond, his heart only longing for the hundredfold return, casually saying.
"Let me see your cousin."
"Chi Shi!"
"If the class finds out you added the junior class last time..." Jiang Nian continued easily, "You even said..."
Li Hua instantly panicked, grabbing Jiang Nian.
"Let's discuss this, okay? She has photos on her page."
"Who do you like?" Zhang Ningzhi leaned over again to ask Li Hua, "Squad leader, is your cousin pretty?"
"Pretty... not pretty, I don't know." Li Hua faltered, "I'm face-blind, damn the phone's broken."
Jiang Nian wasn't guilty at all since he was just looking at a photo.
"Oh, just checking out his cousin."
"By the way, Zhizhi, do you have a cousin? Last time you said you had a cousin who got married, so you must have a female cousin too, right?"
People in Zhennan should be like this, tough!
"Look at you!" Zhang Ningzhi huffed, angrily pinching his waist, "Don't talk to me!"
During the big break, Li Hua sneakily took out a photo of his cousin.
"Pretty, right?"
In the photo was a pure-looking girl with single eyelids smiling like a flower. From a few years back, she could have been a QQ Space influencer.
A photo that could be used as a profile picture even if the quality was ruined by re-posting.
"Ah, she doesn't look like you at all?" Jiang Nian was surprised, "You're so plain-looking, did uncle and auntie pick you up during a snowstorm?"
"Chi Shi, you were picked up," Li Hua put the phone away, "My cousin has so many people chasing her in junior high."
"And then?"
"They can't catch her; my uncle is..." Li Hua hesitated, "Forget it, let's not talk about this, don't think about my cousin anymore."
"No, not thinking about her." Jiang Nian said, "Her QQ is 2474639, right?"
"Damn, beast!" Li Hua was shocked and turned to look at him, "When the hell did you memorize that?"
"Just now."
The running bell had been ringing for a while, and the class was almost all downstairs.
Liu Yang called out, "The rest, hurry up and go run!"
Jiang Nian walked over to Liu Yang, threw the meal card Old Liu gave him on Liu Yang's desk, and casually dropped a sentence.
"Mark my attendance."
Li Hua witnessed this scene and was completely shocked.
"Damn, such a show-off?"
He, who was about to take out his new phone to show off to Liu Yang, quietly put it back into his pocket, thinking byd rich is amazing?
"Hua, are you eating?" Jiang Nian asked.
"Eating, bro, I'm eating." Li Hua's face changed instantly, then he added a reminder, "But you shouldn't set your sights on my cousin."
"Although she's pretty, she's got some personality issues. She's been spoiled by her family, and she's not easy to get along with."
"Oh, okay." Jiang Nian didn't take his words to heart.
During the big break.
Almost everyone went for the run, while Jiang Nian quietly strolled to the office to get a new meal card from Old Liu.
The balance was one thousand yuan, which delighted him.
This was a proper teacher's cafeteria card, for food that money couldn't buy, far better than the canteen's food.
"Thanks, teacher."
"Yes, you've earned it." Old Liu didn't ask why he didn't go for the run, hesitated for a moment, and said, "There's one more thing."
"Hmm?"
"It's about... classmates interacting. It's good to be united and friendly, but keep the friendliness from turning into romance."
Hearing this, Jiang Nian was stunned for a moment.
"Oh... okay."
Old Liu watched Jiang Nian's departing figure, his brows furrowing tightly. High risk, high reward, could he still make it to the other side?
Rustle, high school seniors finished their morning exercise.
A bunch of people came noisily upstairs, laughing, playing, bustling with excitement.
Yu Zhiyi and Zhou Yuting were chatting, happening to be talking about romantic topics. With the wisdom of experience, she earnestly said.
"A boyfriend who only apologizes isn't a good boyfriend. A truly qualified boyfriend should be one who can communicate effectively."
Zhou Yuting nodded along, smiling awkwardly.
"As long as he apologizes, that's fine, right?"
"Wrong, that's a fake apology, it doesn't solve the problem," Yu Zhiyi said seriously, "I know this very well."
Jiang Nian suddenly appeared from the side, glancing at her.
"This doesn't work, that doesn't work, how about a slap to see if you go crazy."