"Oh, so do you have a girlfriend?"
Chu Nan gave it some thought, back when he was with the Mercenary Organization, he never considered how to pick up girls; if he wanted any beauties, there were as many as he wanted.
"Not yet, but they said that once the bro opens a supermarket chain, they would marry me!"
Mashouzi said proudly.
"..."
Chu Nan felt that what Mashouzi said made a lot of sense; he was left speechless and had to switch topics, "Let's be serious, I need to go to school here, what should I do?"
"Oh, you want to transfer?"
Mashouzi inquired.
"Not transferring, just that I will attend school here!"
Chu Nan stated.
"That's going to be tough, in your case, you can only audit!"
Mashouzi shook his head after hearing that, "Looks like you're a drifter, buddy. I can only get you an auditor's permit. If you achieve great results in the final exams, you could be specially recruited, but looking at you, you don't seem here to study. That's all the same! After all, you're here to find chicks!"
Chu Nan thought to himself, why am I not here to study?
However, he couldn't refute what Mashouzi said next; he was indeed here to find his fiancée!
As night gradually fell, Chu Nan collapsed beside the dormitory's pile of goods; dinner time had been especially hectic for him.
He finally understood why Mashouzi was so eager to keep him around, realizing that this black market supermarket was actually so popular.
But after dinner, the crowd thinned out, and in Mashouzi's words, it was because these lazy bums were all holed up in their dorms playing games and unwilling to come out to shop.
While they were talking, Mashouzi received a phone call, then after a few grunts of agreement, he wrote a note and handed it to Chu Nan, "Buddy, we've got work. You start packing the goods, there will be a lot of delivery orders soon!"
"Okay!"
Chu Nan took the note and began bagging items listed on it, wondering to himself while packing, "Didn't you use to not make deliveries? How come there's business as soon as I show up?"
"Heh heh, don't get it, huh? I sent out a message in our school's various QQ and WeChat groups announcing that I'm delivering, so the orders came in," Mashouzi proudly explained, and before he finished, another call came through.
Chu Nan packed more than a hundred bags, and since the items were quite scattered, he couldn't carry anymore and finally headed out.
He first delivered goods within their building, then hopped on Mashouzi's bicycle to shuttle across campus.
Because the bicycle was laden with plastic bags on both sides, Chu Nan had to shout "Excuse me, excuse me, delivery coming through!" as he wove his way through.
Just up ahead under a streetlamp stood a boy and a girl, engrossed in conversation and taking up most of the narrow campus path, leaving Chu Nan unable to pass. He had to shout from a distance, "Excuse me, please!"
"Xuerou, doesn't the school have its own supermarket?"
The speaker was none other than Chen Youliang. Besides playing basketball, he usually wandered around school, seeking chance encounters with Lin Xuerou, and as luck would have it, he found one!
Seeing the "Uncle Fish Chain" logo on the supermarket bag Lin Xuerou was holding, Chen Youliang continued, "Do you really need to go out for these items? Even if you do go out, why didn't you ask me? My car is at your service 24/7!"
"Chen Youliang, thanks for the offer, but it's not necessary..."
Lin Xuerou was clearly a bit nervous, it was evening, and she was somewhat uneasy being alone with Chen Youliang.
There were many unpleasant rumors about Chen Youliang on campus, making Lin Xuerou afraid: "It's nothing, I'll just head back to the dorm..."
"Xuerou, let me walk you back then!"
Chen Youliang actually behaved quite politely, knowing that Lin Xuerou wasn't an easy target. However, the tougher the conquest, the greater the sense of achievement, much more interesting than those girls who threw themselves at him for money.
Using force was an option, but that would take away a lot of the fun. Unless absolutely necessary, Chen Youliang didn't want to resort to that, especially since Lin Xuerou was the school belle.
"No... no need, I can do it myself!"
Lin Xuerou carefully took a step back, ready to walk around Chen Youliang and move forward.
But Chen Youliang stuck to her shamelessly, reaching out to snatch Lin Xuerou's bag while attempting to touch her hand and take advantage of the situation.
"Damn it, go be lovey-dovey at home, will you? Do I have to run into you guys?"
Chu Nan was getting impatient. It's one thing for them to not make way, but they were scuffling in the middle of the road - if it wasn't for his non-motorized vehicle, any other would have run them over.
"Screech!"
Chu Nan braked hard, thankful for his childhood training that allowed him to leap from the bike and land steadily, but the plastic bags on the handlebars scattered all over the ground.
Chu Nan was furious, although he acknowledged the road wasn't his and couldn't demand others to make way. However, before he could explode, Chen Youliang beat him to it.
"What the hell, delivery boy, what's your problem?"
Chen Youliang kicked at Chu Nan's bicycle, bending several spokes, and cursed, "Didn't you see your Brother Leong here talking to a beauty? Looking for trouble, are you? Why didn't you just crash and die!"
"What?"
Chu Nan was immediately enraged. He hadn't even done anything, and this guy was already upset?
Muttering under his breath, Chu Nan was willing to let it go, but the kick to the bicycle was destroying his means of making money. "Kick it again? Do you believe I'll kick you to death?"
"Kick? What's it to you? I'm stepping on it!"
Chen Youliang was infuriated, especially seeing Lin Xuerou hiding to the side. He leapt three feet onto the bike and stomped on it like a trampoline, cursing as he bounced, "I step, I step, I keep on stepping!"
"Go to hell!"
Chu Nan kicked out, sending Chen Youliang flying with a yelp, crash-landing heavily into some bushes, struggling to get out.
"Hmph!"
Lin Xuerou glared at Chu Nan and hurriedly walked away. Only then did Chu Nan realize that this leading lady was the renowned school belle.
Chu Nan shook his head, feeling somewhat bewildered. She acted as though he had kicked her boyfriend – such a big grievance towards him!
Yet the girl was quite heartless, leaving her boyfriend behind and walking away.
Sorting through the plastic bags on the ground, luckily they were all well-tied, and nothing had fallen out.
The bicycle was unrideable, so Chu Nan could only push it to make deliveries.
Returning to the grocery store an hour later after completing the deliveries,
Mashouzi's eyes lit up upon seeing him: "Buddy, you're finally back, I've been waiting for you for a long time!"
"Yeah, my bike broke, took me longer," Chu Nan said, touched that Mashouzi had waited for him.
"Broke? Uh... then you'll have to walk for these," Mashouzi said, pointing to a pile of plastic bags on the ground. "I've packed them all, better hurry up!"