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Chapter 452: Chapter 310 Changed Opinion_2
Cui Yu: "You could try it."
He found Zhang Chi rather unsightly. Recently, Zhang Chi had become obsessed with money, always talking about how much someone had earned when chatting with them. He hadn’t forgotten the disdain Zhang Chi had shown when dealing with routers.
Zhang Chi: "If it’s trying, I’ll try."
Cui Yu: "Don’t forget your brothers when you strike it rich."
In the shade by the truck.
Zhang Chi was playing on his phone; he planned to @Geng Lu. Suddenly, from a distance, someone shouted:
"Quit f**king around with your phone and get back to work!"
Zhang Chi looked up and saw a young man in his early twenties sitting in the driver’s seat of a large machine, shouting at them with a hooligan-like appearance.
Because Zhang Chi owed money to others, he didn’t go home over the weekend. Instead, he found work at a nearby construction site, mainly processing concrete hollow bricks.
Manual labor, very tiring.
The young man was the boss’s son, and everyone called him "Little Boss."
Little Boss was in charge of operating the machines and managing the workers, while Zhang Chi was one of the laborers.
He got up reluctantly.
"Let’s team up, Xiao Zhang!" said a middle-aged man, his clothes covered in cement dust, his face dark and honest, weathered by hardship.
Zhang Chi cooperated with him, bending over to lift heavy bags of cement and pouring them into the machine’s hopper.
With the roaring of the heavy machinery, the production of concrete bricks began.
Little Boss shouted, "Hurry up, why are you so slow!"
Zhang Chi glanced at him. Little Boss sat inside the machine, his clothes clean.
Unlike Zhang Chi, filthy as can be, he suddenly felt a sense of injustice.
Little Boss impatiently yelled, "I’m talking to you, Xiao Zhang, what are you gaping at? Move it!"
Zhang Chi felt resentful: Damn it, why should he order me around?
Why am I working like an ox?
Especially after Little Boss finished speaking, he twisted open a bottle of Coke and took a satisfying gulp, making Zhang Chi even more annoyed.
...
Jiang Ning carried a bucket back home, progressing smoothly. When he reached the river dam, people saw the shrimp in the bucket and showed surprised faces.
Xue Yuantong was extremely satisfied.
Back at the bungalow, Xue Yuantong found a large basin, and Jiang Ning emptied the bucket into it, the shrimp pouring out with a splash.
The crawfish moved in the basin, muddying the water with silt.
Geng Lu said, "That’s really dirty."
Xue Chuchu: "That’s normal, we’ll give them a good clean later."
Jiang Ning fetched water, and repeatedly poured it into the basin, giving the crawfish a taste of the "real downpour."
After a few rinses, the crawfish were cleaned until they were spotless.
Xue Chuchu took a look and said, "This time the crawfish we caught have a lot of meat."
Geng Lu: "Can you tell?"
"Yes," Xue Chuchu knew a lot.
She squatted by the basin, picked up a crawfish: "Look at this one, big pincers, and the tail is hard and dark, it doesn’t have much meat."
Geng Lu: "I thought the big ones would have a lot of meat. Turns out it’s like this, so useless."
Xue Chuchu put the crawfish back into the basin and picked up another. She fiddled with the crawfish’s tail to reveal a clear vein.
"This kind isn’t dark; the color is very light, so it has a lot of meat."
"We caught a lot of shrimp like this; we’re really lucky."
At this time, Xue Yuantong came over with some worn toothbrushes and distributed one to each person.
She took a crawfish and ’brush brush brushed’, scrubbing away the dirt.
"The shrimp from the river are dirty; we need to clean them first."
Geng Lu thought it looked fun and started to scrub too. After scrubbing, she tossed them into another clean, clear basin.
Over a hundred shrimp, not a small workload.
The four of them grabbed small stools and found a cool spot to clean the crawfish.
One after another, the crawfish were thrown into the water basin, splashing droplets around.
Actually, this method couldn’t thoroughly clean the crawfish, but compared to those sold in restaurants, they were already much cleaner. 𝘯𝑜𝑣𝑝𝑢𝘣.𝑐𝑜𝑚
Jiang Ning, being rather fussy, cleaned the crawfish again with his "Spell," and finally, they became spotless.
Xue Yuantong looked at the crawfish in the bowl and cackled, "Enjoy the view, because next, I’m going to take a life!"
She caught a crawfish and mercilessly started to rip off its little legs, then pulled the vein from its tail before using scissors to "snip" off its head.
"Have you guys learned it? I’ll demonstrate one more time for you!" Xue Yuantong taught them how to process the crawfish.
Geng Lu followed Xue Yuantong’s demonstration closely and her perception of Xue Yuantong changed dramatically during the process.
Back in school, she remembered Xue Yuantong being lazy all the time, often sleeping in class, waking up to play on her phone and snack, with very little time devoted to studying.
Apart from bickering with Jiang Ning, she rarely interacted with anyone else.
Meals and such, Jiang Ning would always bring for her.
She had the impression of a genius favored by the heavens, but with little independent capability in daily life.
However, now, the skilled way in which Xue Yuantong was handling the crawfish was making Geng Lu reconsider her in many ways.
’She’s completely different from in school...’
’I heard she’s an excellent cook, like with the rabbit meat last time.’
Looking at it this way, Xue Yuantong was pretty impressive.
...
Internet cafe.
Ma Shicheng had asked the network manager for an adult card and was now playing games at the internet cafe.
More precisely, he was waiting for a match.
Suddenly, the QQ icon at the bottom right started flashing.
Cui Yu: "Brother Ma, do you know how to set up a virtual phone number so that when I send a text, they can’t see my phone number?"
Ma Shicheng typed on the keyboard: "That’s easy, I’ll send you the software."
Cui Yu: "Also, Brother Ma, if I send a text using a virtual number, can I still receive their text reply?"
Ma Shicheng: "Let me check, I haven’t actually done that before."
Cui Yu: "Is it a bother?"
After pondering, he decided not to bother: "Nevermind, Brother Ma, I’ll just use QQ."
Ma Shicheng: "Huh? Okay then."
Cui Yu said, "Brother Ma, do you remember that Zhang Chi and Yan Tianpeng had a fallout? They nearly fought during the big cleanup yesterday."
Cui Yu took delight in others’ misfortune.
Ma Shicheng wasn’t too concerned about these things, but he was indeed aware: "Longlong told me about it."
Cui Yu: "Zhang Chi said that Yan Tianpeng was calling out ’daddy’ everywhere."
Ma Shicheng: "Badass."
After chatting a bit more, Cui Yu’s words were full of disdain for Zhang Chi.
Ma Shicheng didn’t say much, but he figured out that Cui Yu asking about the virtual number was probably intended to use against Zhang Chi.
Speaking of Cui Yu, of their entire class 8, he was the most fond of causing trouble, first playing pranks on Miao Zhe by hiding his phone, then trying to mess with Shen Xu’s business, and later bothering Pang Jiao.
Ma Shicheng admired him for that.
...
River dam, Xue Family.
Lunch wasn’t eaten in the kitchen; Jiang Ning carried the dining table over to the hall near the door.
This spot was perfect for eating in the summer, sitting there, enjoying the through breeze; it was exceptionally cool and pleasant. Being close to the doorway, with just a turn of the head, one could see the large Yang Trees outside and the vast fields, which tended to broaden one’s mood.
Jiang Ning set up the table while Geng Lu moved the stools, bringing out five square stools for four people.
"There’s Sprite in the fridge," Jiang Ning said. Young people didn’t drink alcohol, so a chilled Sprite was pretty nice.
Jiang Ning returned to his own room, cast an invisibility spell, flicked the Storage Ring, and leaped onto the Flying Boat. Within one second, he accelerated to 200 meters per second and shot straight toward Hu Qi Mountain.
Jiang Ning maneuvered the Flying Boat into the Spirit Pond, enveloped by an Array that made it seem like a fairyland.
Without pausing, he reached down and from the chilly waters of the Spirit Pond below, a round, plump green watermelon with wave-like stripes burst forth.
Jiang Ning caught the watermelon, turned the boat around, and flew back towards the river dam.
The entire trip back to the Xue Family didn’t take him a minute.
’Having the Flying Boat really is convenient!’ he thought as he placed the watermelon on the table, reflecting on its usefulness.
In the past, it would have been impossible to do this.
Xue Chuchu brought a large platter over, and Geng Lu couldn’t help but exclaim, "Wow!"
The bowl was filled with spicy boiled crawfish, their appealing red color on full display, coated with sauce, and garnished with many strips of cucumber, the fragrance wafting enticingly.
Just by smelling it, Geng Lu’s mouth was watering.
