Chapter 7

Leaving Yu Yu Jiaoxi's courtyard, Lin Chen returned directly to the martial arts practice field.

Gu Fei took out two steamed buns from his bosom and handed them to Lin Chen: "You haven't eaten, right?"

"Hmm."

Lin Chen didn't stand on ceremony with Gu Fei and took the steamed buns Gu Fei handed over.

Although these two steamed buns were also deducted from the food sent from Gu Fei's home, as brothers, he wouldn't divide it so clearly with Gu Fei.

"Lin Chen, what do you mean by work-study?" Gu Fei asked curiously while Lin Chen was gnawing on the steamed buns.

"Yu Yu Jiaoxi found me a job, helping in the cafeteria, which can waive the meal fee."

Working in the cafeteria?

Gu Fei was very shocked, his eyes instantly widened.

"Lin Chen, don't be stupid."

Although they didn't do less work in the village, after arriving at the Wu Tang, they still had some sense of superiority deep in their hearts.

The most important thing is that doing dirty and tiring work in front of other students would probably be mocked by other students. He was afraid that Lin Chen couldn't endure it.

Seeing Gu Fei's worry, Lin Chen took the initiative to comfort him: "In the past half year, have there been few people mocking me? Forgot the martial arts legend stories I told you?"

"That's different. The story of 'Don't bully the young and poor' you told, that Xiao Yan or something, although mocked, didn't do rough work."

"The essence is the same. The more I am mocked now, when I achieve success in learning martial arts and slap them back in the face, won't it be satisfying enough?"

"That's true... but..."

"Alright, I finally got Yu Yu Jiaoxi to agree. Now even if I want to stop, I can't."

Hearing Lin Chen say this, Gu Fei curled his lips and finally cursed: "Your grandfather is really not a thing."

……

……

In the morning, Yu Yu Jiaoxi came to the martial arts practice field, watched the students practice martial arts for a while, and then left. But before leaving, he also gave Lin Chen a sentence, telling him he could go directly to the cafeteria at noon.

Lin Chen knew that Yu Yu Jiaoxi had already talked to the cafeteria manager.

Approaching mealtime, Lin Chen greeted Gu Fei and left a quarter of an hour early.

Arriving at the cafeteria, he requested to see the manager and reported his name.

"Yu Yu Jiaoxi did give instructions. In this case, you will be responsible for serving food to the students, and then dine with everyone."

"Thank you, Manager Zhang."

"No need to thank me. This is Yu Yu Jiaoxi's kindness. Just remember Yu Yu Jiaoxi."

Manager Zhang waved his hand. There were many jobs that could be done in the kitchen. The most bitter and tiring one was naturally collecting and washing the students' bowls and chopsticks, but he wouldn't arrange too tiring work for Lin Chen.

Although Yu Yu Jiaoxi only said to give Lin Chen a chance to work, the specific work was decided by him, the manager, but how could he really let Lin Chen do the most tiring and dirty work?

Mealtime arrived. Lin Chen stood at the beef window, holding an iron spoon.

"Lin Lin Shixiong, how many catties of beef do you want?"

"Lin Lin Shixiong? Aren't you that stingy... what's-his-name?"

"Lin Lin Shixiong, my surname is Lin."

"Lin Lin Shidi, sorry, I forgot for a moment. Give me two catties of beef."

Lin Chen nodded and placed two spoonfuls of beef on the other party's tray.

"How many catties of beef does this Lin Lin Shixiong want?"

Every time a student came, Lin Chen would call them Lin Lin Shixiong with a smile, his eyes very calm.

On the contrary, the students of the Wu Tang were a bit surprised to see Lin Chen at the window, their expressions carrying a trace of shock, but no one would mock him.

There was no grudge between Lin Chen and them. Even if they really mocked him, it would be in their hearts and wouldn't be shown in front of Lin Chen.

"How many catties of beef does Lin Lin Shixiong Zhao want?"

Zhao Zhao Jingchuan looked at Lin Chen in front of him, a bit surprised: "Lin Lin Shidi, why are you doing this?"

"Yu Yu Jiaoxi pities my family's poverty and lets me help in the cafeteria, which can waive the meal fee." Lin Chen answered very naturally.

"I see. Then please trouble Lin Lin Shidi to give me ten beef bone sticks."

"Lin Lin Shixiong, wait a moment."

Lin Chen turned his head and scooped ten beef bone sticks from another iron basin. Worthy of being one of the few wealthy students in their batch, this was generous. Beef bone sticks were not calculated by the catty, thirty wen per stick, so these ten sticks were three hundred wen.

There wasn't much beef on the beef bone sticks, but the beef marrow in the bones was stronger in nourishing Qi and blood than beef. In the Wu Tang, only a few people could afford it.

Zhao Zhao Jingchuan left with the beef bones. After a few more students passed by, Gu Fei appeared in front of Lin Chen and winked at Lin Chen: "Give me two catties of beef."

Lin Chen's expression didn't change, but these two spoonfuls used some force when reaching into the basin filled with beef, pressing it tightly.

With these two spoonfuls, there was a few more taels of beef.

The brothers smiled at each other, everything was understood without words.

"Yo, not practicing martial arts, but came to the cafeteria to do odd jobs?"

Zhang Tao appeared in front of Lin Chen again. Lin Chen's expression didn't change. He also knew the reason why Zhang Tao didn't like him.

Jealousy!

Zhang Tao's family background wasn't particularly good either. Seeing him go to scoop the cafeteria's beef soup, but he couldn't put down his face to do so, he had a twisted jealousy toward him.

This kind of person, he had met no less in his previous life.

In his previous life, when the class was evaluating poverty students, a classmate with a poor family background, because of self-esteem, was afraid of being mocked by classmates, so he didn't dare to apply for poverty subsidies. After other classmates took the poverty subsidies, he mocked these classmates with sarcasm.

This kind of person, who cares about face and suffers, is truly incompetent!

"Want to serve meat?" Lin Chen didn't answer Zhang Tao's words and asked directly.

"Give me two catties of beef." Zhang Tao snorted. There were students queuing behind him, so he didn't dare to delay too much time.

Lin Chen picked up the iron spoon and scooped a spoonful from the porcelain basin filled with beef, but after scooping, he shook his hand, and the few pieces of meat on top fell back into the basin.

Zhang Tao's expression went from surprise at the beginning to anger later.

"Two catties of meat are ready, next."

Lin Chen didn't care about Zhang Tao. He didn't give Zhang Tao less, just scooped more at the beginning, letting Zhang Tao think he had taken advantage, and then knocked down Zhang Tao's happy mood.

He understood that this job of serving food also had benefits.

When encountering familiar students, he could serve more, and if there was one or two taels more, the cafeteria wouldn't pursue it.

After all, the cafeteria didn't have a scale and couldn't be so precise that one spoonful counted as one catty.

"Are you done? If you're done, hurry up and move aside!"

Zhang Tao was about to get angry, but students behind him urged him. Facing the impatient tone of the students behind him, Zhang Tao had to move aside and leave with his meal.

Seeing this scene, Lin Chen felt even more disdain in his heart.

A person with an extremely sensitive and inferior heart, who satisfies his inner vanity by bullying people poorer than him, a bully of the weak, this kind of person will never achieve anything on the Martial Way in his life.

There were sixty students in the school in total. Lin Chen finished serving everyone in a quarter of an hour, but he still stood at the window and waited for another quarter of an hour. Some students would return to the dormitory first after practicing martial arts, change into clean clothes, and then come to the cafeteria to dine.

……

After the cafeteria closed, Lin Chen carried the remaining beef back to the kitchen and ate with the kitchen masters.

In the beef basin, there were still three or four catties of beef left.

"Eating, huh? I came at just the right time."

Manager Zhang's figure appeared on time and walked in.

"Manager Zhang, why not join us? It just so happens there is some leftover beef today." Master Wang greeted him.

"I've eaten, so I won't eat."

Manager Zhang waved his hand with a smile, walked up and glanced at the table, then looked at Lin Chen: "Little Lin needs to supplement his body for practicing martial arts, eat more beef."

"Thank you, Manager Zhang." Lin Chen said gratefully.

"Alright, you guys eat. I'm just walking around. Then I'll go first."

Manager Zhang came and went quickly, but the words he said made the expressions of the people in the kitchen different. Master Wang thought for a while and directly picked up the largest piece of meat and stuffed it into Lin Chen's bowl.

"Little Lin, eat more. In the future, if there is any leftover beef, just pick it up directly, don't be polite."

After speaking, the head chef looked at the others: "Little Lin needs to practice martial arts and needs to eat meat. You guys don't fight with Little Lin."

"I'm at this age, eating more meat is useless, leave it all for Little Lin."

"Little Lin, eat more, practice well. If you really succeed, our kitchen will also follow suit."

Regardless of what the people in the kitchen were thinking, after Manager Zhang came and the head chef spoke, they all urged Lin Chen to eat more.

Lin Chen didn't stand on ceremony. He came to the kitchen to work just to eat beef.

This kindness was given by Yu Yu Jiaoxi. If he acted too sensible and deliberately humble, that wouldn't be slick, that would be stupid.

The head chef looked at the beef in the basin and knew in his heart. It seemed that from tomorrow, he could buy one or two more catties of beef.

(End of chapter)