Chapter 525: The Landlord's Foolish Son

"Nuan Nuan, don't pay attention to this guy; his brain is filled with nothing but muscle."

After making Chen Dazhuang back down, Qin Tian looked at Xia Nuannuan and offered a word of comfort.

Xia Nuannuan nodded her head and buried herself in washing the clothes without a word.

Qin Tian glared fiercely at Chen Zhuang over there again.

Chen Zhuang gave him a simple, honest smile and nimbly began to pack his luggage.

"Has Cao Zei been in touch with you? When is he arriving?"

Qin Tian walked to his desk, sat down, and asked casually.

Chen Zhuang looked up at him, nodded with a chuckle, and said, "He called yesterday. He said around four or five o'clock, but if there's traffic, he might be a bit late."

Qin Tian gave an 'en' and added, "Hurry up and finish packing, then go to the neighboring dorms and shout for a few people to come with me to the Academic Affairs Office to move books."

"Move books? I definitely don't have a problem with that, but those lazy guys, they definitely won't want to put in the effort!"

Chen Zhuang said with a troubled expression.

"Then what should we do? Should we let the girls go move them? I don't care, this matter is left to you anyway, go figure it out yourself."

Qin Tian said in an unquestionable tone.

"Alright!"

Chen Zhuang agreed with a helpless look on his face.

There was no help for it; who told him to have such a loose mouth? He had to find a way to make up for it, otherwise, it would be dangerous!

After a while, Zhang Lang walked through the door with a cheeky grin.

"Yo, Brother Tian, Brother Zhuang, you're both here. Sister-in-law is here too, tsk tsk, Brother Tian really has good fortune!"

Upon seeing Xia Nuannuan busy over there, Zhang Lang's envy and jealousy were written all over his face.

Today, when he dropped his girlfriend off at her school dorm, she was the one helping him wash clothes, clean up, and even make the bed. Before leaving, he even treated a few of his girlfriend's dorm sisters to a meal.

Now, seeing this completely reversed scene, his mood was complicated, to say the least.

They were all boyfriends and girlfriends, so why was the difference so big!

Xia Nuannuan smiled a bit bashfully when she heard this.

"Where's your girlfriend? Didn't she come today?"

Qin Tian asked with a light laugh.

"Nope, I dropped her off at her school."

Zhang Lang answered casually.

"Wolf, you came at the right time. Go to your dorm and the one next door and tell them we're going to the Academic Affairs Office to move books right now."

Chen Zhuang spoke up.

Zhang Lang was stunned upon hearing this, and then his acting began.

"Oh my, Brother Zhuang, it's not that I don't want to go, but I just finished helping my girlfriend move her luggage to school. You know how it is, girls have so much luggage; my arms are sore, I can't even lift them."

"Is that so? Then come over here and let me see if you really can't lift them."

Chen Zhuang beckoned with a straight face.

"This... let's not, shall we!"

Zhang Lang shook his head with a dry laugh.

Chen Zhuang pointed toward the dorm door and said with a flat expression, "Then go find people, or do you want to see if I'll loosen your bones for you?"

Having said that, he mimicked Qin Tian's earlier gesture and cracked his finger joints with a 'click-clack' sound.

"Don't be impulsive, I'll go, alright?"

Zhang Lang immediately backed down, turned around, and left, muttering a few words under his breath.

"Crude martialist!"

Watching Zhang Lang walk out of the dorm, Qin Tian and Xia Nuannuan looked at each other and couldn't help but chuckle.

After Xia Nuannuan finished hanging up the washed sheets and quilt covers, she returned to the girls' dorm.

Zhang Lang was quite the talent; using Chen Zhuang's name and his own as Class Monitor, he pulled the banner to serve as a tiger skin and basically called over all the boys who had arrived.

Qin Tian led the group of boys to the Academic Affairs Office to collect the textbooks for each subject. After dividing them into two parts according to the number of people, one part was sent to the girls' dorm, and the other was brought back to the boys' dorm to be distributed.

Afterward, he played a few rounds of games with Chen Zhuang and the others in the dorm, a long-awaited session with a huge crowd behind them watching and giving directions—it was quite lively.

Amidst the noisy and happy atmosphere, Cao Zei and several other boys arrived one after another, and the sky outside gradually darkened.

At 7:30 in the evening, the boys from several dorms went together to the classroom for the evening roll call, laughing and joking along the way.

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There were no classes the next day, yet the boys got up early for a change.

One by one, they took out what they considered their most handsome gear from their closets to wear, then borrowed facial cleanser, mirrors, combs, hair wax, and so on from each other, and began to dress themselves up with all their might.

There was no other reason; today was the day for them, the sophomores, to welcome the cute freshmen girls.

Even those who already had girlfriends still wanted to show off their charm.

As for the single dogs who hadn't found a partner yet, that went without saying; they were dying to dress themselves up to the nines so that when they stood at the school gate later, they would be the most eye-catching puppies in the whole place.

"Cao Zei, do you have any decent shoes? Mine are almost worn through; it's a bit embarrassing to wear them out!"

Chen Zhuang looked toward Cao Mingliang and asked.

Cao Mingliang sat at his desk, holding a mirror in one hand and a comb in the other, carefully grooming his hairstyle.

While spraying setting spray on his head, Cao Mingliang replied, "Are you stupid? Can you even fit into my shoes?"

Chen Zhuang was stunned upon hearing this, and suddenly realized; his shoe size was a full six or seven sizes larger than Cao Mingliang's.

"Forget it, forget it, that's not important. For someone like me, I don't rely on these superficial things; I rely on my aura and my sense of security!"

"Ugh... can you not be so disgusting? I'm about to throw up the noodles I just ate."

Cao Mingliang struck back without any courtesy.

"Get lost, you don't know a damn thing."

Chen Zhuang glared at him.

Qin Tian and Zhuang Zhe naturally had no intention of drawing attention to themselves; they sat at their own desks, each holding a cup of soy milk and sipping slowly, watching these two clowns bicker with amusement.

They were hoping to have even less presence today so they could just slack off; otherwise, taking people to register in this sweltering heat was exhausting.

"Brother Liang!"

A head poked in from outside the dormitory door, a grin on its face.

"What?"

Cao Mingliang turned his head to look at him.

"Can I borrow a set of gear? My summer clothes are sitting in the closet unwashed, and they smell too strong!"

Ceng Xin said with a fawning smile.

The two were about the same build, so he should be able to wear Cao Mingliang's clothes.

Cao Mingliang rolled his eyes, gestured toward his own wardrobe with his chin, and said, "Find them yourself; remember to wash them clean for me after you wear them."

"Got it, thanks Brother Liang."

Ceng Xin walked into the dormitory with a chuckle, wearing nothing but a pair of boxers and flip-flops on his feet.

"Ceng Sanjin, you really are a talent!"

Chen Zhuang gave a thumbs-up in praise.

"Hehe... likewise."

Ceng Xin gave a lewd smile.

"Click! Click!"

Suddenly, the sound of a camera shutter rang out.

"Holy crap, Brother Liang, what are you doing!"

Ceng Xin reflexively covered his crotch with both hands, looking in shock at Cao Mingliang, who was snapping photos of him with a phone.

"When people borrow money, they have to sign a contract and take a photo; my clothes are all newly bought and very expensive, so I'm afraid you won't return them to me. I'm taking a few photos as collateral."

Cao Mingliang shook his phone, smiling like the foolish son of a landlord.

"Damn, Brother Liang, is it really necessary? Where's the trust between us brothers?"

"Business is business!"

"Fuck, for the sake of getting a girlfriend today, I'll endure it."