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Chapter 603: Chapter 507 Let’s Leave, Something is Off With This Smell (Happy Valentine’s Day!)_1
In the crowd.
"Jiaxue, your Tang Qing is really handsome. If he weren’t with you, I’d definitely pursue him." Zeng Rou said enviously into Lin Jiaxue’s ear, everyone loves beauty, it’s a biological instinct, she couldn’t escape it either.
Zeng Rou was just joking.
But this remark made Lin Jiaxue feel a bit on her guard. She wasn’t wary of Zeng Rou, but if Tang Qing kept staying at school, there might be many bold girls throwing themselves at him.
Although she trusted Tang Qing’s self-control, too many would still be annoying.
For the first time, Lin Jiaxue desperately wanted to live with Tang Qing at home.
"Sister Zeng, you’re so beautiful, I’m sure you’ll find someone you’re satisfied with," Lin Jiaxue said to Zeng Rou.
"I hope so," Zeng Rou smiled bitterly, thinking of the man arranged by her family, she felt a bit upset. Although her family spoiled her, she had no say in her own marriage. She was to marry a stranger after graduation. He was studying at the military school, she hadn’t even seen his face. This decision was only made by her family after the National College Entrance Examination.
Looking at thousands of eyes below, Tang Qing didn’t show any fear.
He smiled.
Picking up the microphone, he first finished reciting Jing Xiang’s speech. Seeing Tang Qing giving an impromptu speech, everyone didn’t doubt that a super achiever like him would find memorizing something difficult, it’s not surprising, is it?
"...Finally, I hope everyone will enjoy studying and living together in the future, and work hard to build our country. Oh, by the way, don’t have any thoughts about me. I’m engaged."
Yes, Tang Qing went ’off the script’ for the last sentence.
To avoid any wicked ideas, Tang Qing cracked a joke, albeit helplessly. The male students below all looked at him with indignant eyes, while the female students’ eyes were full of admiration.
As expected.
Once these words were spoken.
The students below were all shocked.
In such a serious situation, should you be talking about this? Moreover, most of us don’t even have girlfriends, not to mention fiancées. Aren’t you just disheartening us?
Jing Xiang covered her face.
Oh, no.
Now, Tang Qing was famous, and she guessed she would be too.
"Jiaxue, your Tang Qing is incredibly romantic," Zeng Rou said with twinkling eyes, looking at Tang Qing on the podium looking at them. It was extremely romantic for him to say something like this during such a serious occasion.
"Hmm."
Hearing Tang Qing publicly admit their relationship in such a large gathering, Lin Jiaxue looked at Tang Qing with eyes full of love.
But the school leaders who heard this were completely dumbfounded. Was this a speech? Only Qiu Jie couldn’t help but laugh, "Haha, this kid, he really knows how to stir things up." Recalling Tang Qing’s behavior in Thailand, Qiu Jie had a bit of understanding. This guy was definitely not afraid of causing trouble.
Of course, and the ability to handle things calmly.
"Old Qiu, do you know Tang Qing? the principal, who was next to him, asked curiously. He wouldn’t dare reprimand Tang Qing if he was a friend of Qiu Jie’s, otherwise, even if they wouldn’t penalize Tang Qing, they would definitely have a bad impression of him.
Qiu Jie reined in his laughter and said, "Principal Kong, I know him. Last time, Tang Qing did me a great favor. It was that time in Thailand."
"You’re saying that Tang Qing was that young man?" Principal Kong asked in surprise. Of course, he knew about Qiu Jie’s incident in Thailand, he also knew that an anonymity Chinese youth helped him. Even the local police weren’t of any use and were even arrested in the end.
This had become a ’legend’ among them.
"Yes, he’s a very righteous young man," Qiu Jie praised.
You love a person and everything about them. As long as you think a person is good, whatever they do is good, at most it is just a bit naughty. It is very appropriate to use this on Tang Qing. Qiu Jie just considered Tang Qing a junior.
"So it’s like that, haha, not a bad young man, let’s get to know him better later," Principal Kong was full of smiles. A person who can help a stranger in a foreign land, this kind of character is quite rare.
His impression of Tang Qing drastically improved, and the previous issue was immediately overlooked.
"Alright." Qiu Jie agreed. He had deliberately mentioned it earlier to ensure Principal Kong would hear.
After the speech.
Tang Qing stepped down from the rostrum.
Jing Xiang quickly approached him, seeing all the school leaders smiling on the stage, she finally let out a sigh of relief. She wasn’t worried about herself, but rather about Tang Qing giving the school leaders an impression of being ’indifferent to the overall situation’ and ’unbridled’. But now it seemed that the school leaders were not angry.
"Tang Qing, you scared me to death. Your sudden attack was a bit too much for me to handle," Jing Xiang said with a wry smile.
Tang Qing also felt a bit embarrassed. But since he had already said it, if he had to choose again, he would still say it. He comforted her, "Don’t worry Teacher Jing, look at how happy the school leaders are, they won’t blame you. Let me explain it to them later."
"Be humble later, okay?" Jing Xiang reminded him.
"I know, don’t worry." Tang Qing said confidently.
"..."
Jing Xiang was speechless.
You think I’m going to believe you?
You said the exact same thing to me earlier.
Look what you’ve done. She sighed, she could only apologize to the school leaders later.
"Tang Qing, you’re awesome," said Mi Rui, walking up to them with a thumbs up, with a big capital letter of admiration on his face.
"Come on. I just wanted to avoid some trouble and misunderstanding," Tang Qing shook his head.
"Tsk, tsk, who knows how many hearts you broke with your words just now. I wish I were as handsome as you." Looking at the female students avidly staring this way, Mi Rui sighed wistfully.
"Go to South Korea," Tang Qing replied with three words.
"...You’re paying." Mi Rui huffed.
"No way." Tang Qing quipped.
Mi Rui looked defeated as he was greeted by a chortle from Xuanji. "Ha ha ha... Tang Qing, I’m really glad that I made a friend like you."
"That depends on how you perform, my friend. It’s not that easy to earn my friendship." Tang Qing replied with a sarcastic smile.
"..."
Mi Rui was speechless and his smile froze there, but looking at Tang’s smile, he realized he had been duped again.
He burst into laughter again.
The two were just joking around. Mi Rui’s lively and cheerful manner made it easy for them to get along. With Tang Qing’s potent nerve telekinesis, he could easily tell truth from lies, which was why he was chatting with Mi Rui. Had Mi Rui been a pretentious person, Tang Qing wouldn’t have bothered.
A little while later.
After the last speech was completed.
The opening ceremony came to a successful conclusion.
Tang Qing saw Qiu Jie leading a few school leaders over.
"Little Tang, you really stole the show this time. I bet your gallant words got you recognized across campus." Qiu Jie started laughing.
"Really, I hope I wasn’t being too verbose." Tang Qing responded.
"No problem, we understand, this is college after all. Let me introduce you to Principal Kong from our school, Secretary Yu, and this is..." Qiu Jie introduced him to a few leaders. Tang Qing cordially greeted each one of them.
"Students Tang, while love is important, don’t neglect your studies." Principal Kong advised in a caring tone.
"Understood, I won’t let any of you down." Tang Qing assured.
"Good to hear."
Principal Kong boosted his morale with a few words and then left, as he was busy and couldn’t stay any longer.
"Little Tang, are you free tonight? How about having a meal at my place? I invited you last night, but I wanted to thank you properly today." Qiu Jie made the invitation after seeing the principal and secretary leave.
"Well...Okay."
Tang Qing reluctantly agreed. Despite his reluctance, he didn’t feel comfortable refusing and thought it wouldn’t hurt to get to know Qiu Jie better, to save himself from any future troubles at school, and have someone to rely on in case things go sideways.
After the meeting, the students returned to their respective classrooms for continuing enrollment education in the afternoon. As soon as Qiu Jie left, Tang Qing saw Li Jiaxue, along with her roommates, waiting for him.
Tang Qing quickly went over to them.
"Tang Qing, you’re a real man today." Zeng Rou straightforwardly praised.
"I always have been." Tang Qing begrudgingly said.
Zeng Rou ignored Tang Qing’s attitude and said, "Now, we can finally entrust our Snowball...I mean Lin Jiaxue, to you. In honor of what you did today, I’ll treat you all to a feast for lunch."
Soon after, Tang Qing, leading Lin Jiaxue, followed Zeng Rou to a certain place.
He saw the signboard.
"This is your idea of a feast?" Tang Qing pointed at the restaurant’s signage.
"Yeah, the hotpot here is delicious. I ate here once before the semester started." Zeng Rou said matter-of-factly.
"Alright."
Hot pot.
Tang Qing in his past life seldom ate it as he disliked spicy food and since Lin Jiaxue also dislikes them, he barely ever had it. But since he’s here now, having it once in a while won’t hurt.
On hearing Lin Jiaxue’s preference for non-spicy food, they ordered a two-flavored pot.
Soon enough, the soup started bubbling and the food arrived.
"Give it a try, the hotpot here is delicious, especially the spicy portion. It’s very authentic." Saying this, Zeng Rou began to heap up the spicy side of the pot with ingredients to the point where it stopped boiling.
Tang Qing wasn’t in a rush and began placing his food in the milder soup base.
Just then, a peculiar smell from the spicy soup permeated into Tang Qing’s senses. He was familiar with the smell...his expression changed abruptly. Damn, somebody is using this stuff in this day and age?
Indeed, what he smelled was of opium poppy shells. They were mixed amidst the strong spicy scent, but it wasn’t too hard for Tang Qing to identify. He hurriedly tasted the mild portion of the soup; it was free from this smell.
Just as he thought, these ingredients are usually added in spicy hot pots to stimulate taste, not in mild soups which fail to enhance flavors, just numbs one’s taste buds. Only prolonged consumption would lead to addiction.
"Stop eating everyone." Tang Qing abruptly interjected. Even though Zeng Rou only ate here once, and eating it again today wouldn’t have any significant impact since they weren’t consuming it daily, it didn’t mean Tang Qing could just do nothing.
"Tang Qing, what’s wrong?" Zeng Rou was taken aback.
"Let’s switch restaurants, this place serves unclean food." Tang Qing didn’t go into details to avoid any potential feud.
"Unclean, what do you mean?" Zeng Rou asked, her brow furrowed in confusion. Tang Qing had come in here and ordered food, so it couldn’t be because he was looking down on this meal.
"Literal meaning, let’s switch to another restaurant for now, we’ll talk about it once we’re out." Tang Qing’s way of handling situations never involved causing a ruckus. If he were to make a scene here, have a confrontational discussion or worse a fight, it would be ridiculous.
After all, he didn’t even take a bite here, and Zeng Rou only ate here one time.
Things like this.
Should be handled by subordinates. There is no point in wasting energy and time, he preferred to let others do the work.
Zeng Rou was startled.
Seeing Tang Qing stand up and lead Lin Jiaxue out, they quickly followed suit.
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