Chen Chu was a little guilty when he answered the phone, wondering if Shao Xiaohua had found out about his collaboration with Shao Xiaodong to trick Wang Yanan into submission.
"Whoosh..."
Chen Chu took a couple of breaths, feeling guilty after all. He was a little scared after doing it.
He then touched the jade thumb ring on his middle finger, exhaled, and said, "Oh, Xiaohua, what are you doing? I was just thinking about you, and then you came along... hehe..."
Shao Xiaohua frowned, wondering what kind of words these were. What did "coming on her period" mean? For women, "coming on her period" usually meant menstruation.
"Chen Chu...stop with your smooth talk. By the way, why didn't you come to work today? It's a good thing Sister Ya Nan didn't come, otherwise you'd be in big trouble. You just arrived yesterday, and you're already skipping work today? Let me tell you, even though you're a temporary worker now, if you perform well, you might be able to become a permanent employee later. Isn't that something Sister Ya Nan says? Besides, you're not going to amount to much if you just stay in the countryside all the time. And also, these days college graduates don't have it easy to find jobs. Even if you get into college later, it might not really be useful..."
Chen Chu breathed a sigh of relief, feeling a weight lifted from his shoulders.
She hurriedly asked, "Sister Xiaohua, have you eaten?"
"I haven't eaten! It's almost midnight, and it's not fun eating alone. I was thinking of having lunch with you. Anyway, we've almost finished buying all the grains and beans, and there's not much to do at the company. We've sent someone else to handle the remaining villages. Once the grain is brought back, we'll have it inspected. If it passes inspection, we can make the payment directly; if it doesn't, then it's fine..."
...
The two chatted for a few more minutes. Chen Chu wanted to take a taxi to find Shao Xiaohua, but the girl didn't have anything else to do, so she told Chen Chu to wait at Century Square while she came to find him...
Chen Chu thought about it and realized it made sense. This Joyoung Group was in a pretty bad location, and there really wasn't much good food there.
I decided to wander around Century Square. I had just slept with Wang Yanan five times and with Guo Mei once.
Although Chen Chu is in good health now, his legs still feel a little weak after six times.
However, he was sitting on a chair in a shopping mall, touching a jade thumb ring in his hand. Although he wasn't meditating, he was just sitting there in a daze, feeling colorful, gaseous substances constantly floating in front of him. These substances seemed to follow a certain pattern as they floated in front of him. Chen Chu's Yongquan acupoint on the sole of his foot kept extending upwards.
Through the breathing technique of expelling the old and taking in the new, it is as if breaths of stale air are being expelled from the body.
With each breath, Chen Chu felt as if he had completed a small circulation of Qi within his body, making the flow of Qi extremely comfortable.
It's as if the lost essence is being slowly replenished.
Each cycle feels like a little impurity in the body is exhaled, purifying the body's constitution.
During the sixteen years of his life, it was as if the impurities at the bottom of his body had accumulated into a thick layer, and his breathing could only remove the surface impurities, which were like dust.
The cultivation method left behind by Old Man Zhang states that ordinary people must first cleanse their marrow and remove impurities from their bodies to make them more resilient. Once these impurities are removed, the body becomes more agile, the limbs lighter, and the mind clearer and the thoughts sharper.
Anyway, this process of cleansing the body and marrow has many benefits.
At the very least, Chen Chu felt that this process of expelling the old and taking in the new had restored a lot of the strength he had lost earlier.
It felt like my legs weren't sore anymore, and I had energy again. If another woman came along, I could ride her and go at it three thousand times...
Chen Chu couldn't help but smile.
Just then, the phone rang. Chen Chu knew it was Shao Xiaohua who had arrived, so he answered it.
He glanced at the time and realized that more than twenty minutes had passed in the short time he had closed his eyes. He couldn't help but sigh. Life is like a fleeting dream, so twenty minutes was normal. Sometimes he would sleep for eight or nine hours a night without having any dreams, and when he closed his eyes, it would be dawn. Sometimes he wouldn't even have taken off his clothes...
Chen Chu felt that his expression and spirits were several times better than before.
"Hey… Sister Xiaohua…" Chen Chugang said.
Shao Xiaohua said somewhat angrily, "Chen Chu, I only have one yuan left on my phone, and I'm about to run out of credit. Also, how can you be so rude... Don't you know that when a girl calls you, you can't answer, you have to hang up and call me back?"
Chen Chu blinked, genuinely confused. No one had ever told him about this before.
She grunted twice, then nodded and said, "Okay, Xiaohua, I understand. I'll definitely call you back next time..."
Shao Xiaohua exploded even more: "Pah! I just told you we only had one yuan left! Didn't you know to hang up and transfer it to me right away? And couldn't you... couldn't you pay my phone bill when I wasn't looking? Did I have to tell you this myself? Chen Chu... I've taught you so much, even how to seduce girls, and after all this effort, can't you repay me even a little bit..."
Chen Chu was stunned. She immediately hung up the phone and started dialing back while looking for a phone booth to top up her phone credit.
Once you leave the mall, you can find a phone booth. While topping up your phone credit, Shao Xiaohua also answered the call.
"Hey, Chen Chu, where are you? Didn't I tell you to wait for me under that big sign? The one under Century Square? What? I didn't say that? So I'm not going to say it now?"
...
Chen Chu was speechless, wondering if Shao Xiaohua had taken some kind of poison today. It really was just like Shao Xiaodong said, that the woman was formidable. Was it because he had been traumatized by his sister since childhood? His sister was truly formidable.
Another text message came through on Shao Xiaohua's end.
She couldn't help but mutter again, "Chen Chu, you're so stingy. I took you shopping for clothes and gave you a bill of over two thousand yuan, and when I asked you to top up my account with ten yuan, you only topped up ten yuan? Couldn't you top up more? Alright, come on over there, stop dawdling, I'm starving... I need to eat my way back..."
"Hoo hoo..." Chen Chu was completely bewildered.
I thought to myself, if you weren't Sister Shao Xiaodong, and if Shao Xiaodong hadn't introduced me to girls for me to sleep with, I would definitely have slept with you.
...
Chen Chu arrived at the large sign in Century Square when a gust of wind blew by.
Everyone covered their heads and dodged, but at a food stall, a girl wearing a baseball cap and a leather jacket and pants had her cap blown off by the strong wind, her long curly hair dancing in the wind. She was eating a meat skewer and was trying to grab it with both hands.
Chen Chu smiled, thinking that Shao Xiaohua actually had such a cute side. Seeing the hat jump to a street lamp in the wind, Shao Xiaohua, like a little girl, stretched her two fair hands towards the sky, but couldn't reach it at all. The hat was blown four or five meters high. She stomped her feet in frustration, her face full of anxiety.
Chen Chu glanced at the streetlight a few times, then quickly took a few steps forward, leaped into the air, pressed his tongue against his upper teeth, and with a powerful push from his feet, lifted himself up a height of 1.78 meters. He then quickly stomped three times on the streetlight, propelling himself another two meters higher. Finally, Chen Chu straightened up, reached out with both hands, and grabbed the baseball cap in mid-air.
However, Chen Chu realized something was wrong; he was falling directly down from a height of four or five meters.
In a moment of desperation, Chen Chu used his waist to kick in mid-air, performing a somersault and landing on the ground.
Just as his foot landed on the ground, Chen Chu let out a breath. This was the first time he had ever done something like this before; he usually only did things like climbing walls. This time, he had actually shown off. It was his turn to shine.
Many people looked at him with surprise, and many girls gave him flirtatious glances.
Chen Chu handed the baseball cap to Shao Xiaohua.
"Sister Xiaohua, here's your hat..."
Shao Xiaohua grabbed him, her face flushed. She had been genuinely startled, afraid that Chen Chu would fall.
Just then, a young man in his twenties nearby shouted, "Bro, that's cool!"
Some girls pointed at Shao Xiaohua and said, "That girl is so lucky..."
Shao Xiaohua blushed, and someone behind her chimed in, "They seem to be about the same age, the guy might look a bit younger, but they're quite a good match..."
"They seem to be a young couple..."
Hearing this, Shao Xiaohua stared blankly, blushed, and quickly pulled Chen Chu away.
However, when Chen Chu jumped so high on the streetlight to catch her hat, she was not only afraid that he would fall, but also somewhat touched.
They directly pulled Chen Chu into the underground city.
Hancheng, this run-down place, also copied Chuncheng and built an underground shopping mall. However, everyone doing business there is crying their eyes out because the rent is too high. Moreover, Hancheng is not a good place for consumption to begin with, so few ordinary people come here to buy things. Many people go to the old market to buy clothes because the clothes in the old market are all second-hand, so they are very cheap.
You can buy one for a dollar or two and then wear it home to work.
Sometimes they wear it facing outwards.
Many of the clothes were donated by the military and various developed and underdeveloped cities during the 1998 floods. They were transported by train carload and sold in various places for about 50 cents or a dollar each, or sometimes by weight. Small vendors would set up stalls in the old market and sell them to nearby farmers for three to five dollars or two to three dollars. Of course, many city dwellers also bought them, including many poor city people.
They dress smartly during the day to save face, but when they get home they eat potatoes and cabbage. Some even get up in the middle of the night to rummage through trash cans and collect scraps. Many are forced by circumstances to do so, they have no other choice...
...
In Hancheng, it's hard to sell things at high prices. Given the average income, naturally fewer people will buy expensive items...
However, there is one thing: you lose money doing any business in the underground shopping mall except for eating and drinking... This is probably a characteristic of northern cities, or northerners.
You can lack anything but food. It's okay if you're poorly dressed, it's okay if you're poorly housed, it's okay if you don't have much money in your pocket, but you must eat well...
The underground shopping mall was deserted, with clothing, shoes, watches, and fabrics all sold out, and the jewelry stores were completely empty. But the food stalls were packed with people, so crowded you couldn't move! It was like a wedding banquet with a continuous stream of guests; one group left, and another wave of people arrived, leaving as soon as another group approached...
Chen Chu and Shao Xiaohua pushed and shoved forward like the Red Army climbing snow-capped mountains and crossing grasslands, with several young girls' buttocks rubbing against Chen Chu's penis.
Chen Chu cried out twice, thinking that this was good. If he squeezed a few more times, especially in places with lots of young girls, maybe he could squeeze out from the crowd below.
Chen Chu's avant-garde style, combined with Shao Xiaohua's styling, made him look like a male lead in a Korean drama. These girls are deeply addicted to Korean dramas; both men and women are lustful! They couldn't wait to squeeze close to Chen Chu, and their chubby little bottoms were quite a sight to behold.
Chen Chu wasn't a good person to begin with. When he saw someone's butt coming over, he couldn't wait to shove his crotch into it! This is what you call a slut meeting a big pervert.
Actually... sometimes women are even more lustful than men. If a tall, handsome guy appears, these women can't wait to hug him... can't wait to take advantage of him.
But all of this is considered normal. However, if a man sees a pretty woman and hugs her, does that mean he's being a pervert?
If a man touches a woman's butt and gets caught, the police can charge him with indecent assault and detain him for 24 hours.
If a man calls the police after a woman touches his butt, the police will probably just grin and say, "A grown man like you was touched! What's the point of making such a fuss?"
...
Chen Chu lingered inside, and some girls turned around and smiled at him, their eyes clearly trying to flirt. If Shao Xiaohua hadn't been there, he would have already struck up a conversation with the two girls.
After squeezing through countless obstacles, Shao Xiaohua finally found a seat that had just become available. She plopped down and then yelled at Chen Chu, "I'll hold this seat! You go buy some good food! I want..."
Shao Xiaohua spoke a lot of things loudly, not worried that Chen Chu wouldn't remember them.
She wanted to speak softly, but it was too noisy inside, and if she spoke softly, she couldn't be heard at all...