Chapter 73

Chen Tianming was beaten up.

It's human nature.

"So as long as I go help you get this contact info, you'll go on the autumn outing, right?" Lin Li said to Chen Tianming, who was lying on the ground because he felt it was cool, definitely not because he couldn't get up with three people sitting on him.

Chen Tianming nodded.

"Then I'll go ask this afternoon, but let's get this straight: if that girl doesn't give it, it's not my problem, and you still have to go on the autumn outing."

"Let me hesitate for a moment."

"Fine, hesitate. While you're hesitating, the three of us have nothing to do, so we'll just continue beating you. Take your time, we're not in a hurry."

"... Alright, but you must try your best to get it."

"I, Lin Li, have always been known for my trustworthiness throughout the world."

Lin Li, having finally completed the task satisfactorily, left with satisfaction.

"That's how it is. I abandoned the gold beneath my knees, the bread in my pocket, and discarded my dignity and face, begging as humbly as dust." Lin Li's expression was sad, then turned into a calm relief:

"Fortunately, my sacrifice was worth it. Class monitor, they changed their minds. They will vote for your plan and participate in the class meeting this afternoon."

Then Lin Li looked expectantly at Chen Yuying's reaction.

Chen Yuying blinked her eyes and looked at him.

Hmm, she didn't seem to believe his words at all.

"That... really was hard for you, wow." After thinking for a long time, Chen Yuying only managed to squeeze out this sentence, and it was a cold reading, completely devoid of emotion.

"It was unimaginably hard! Really!" Lin Li emphasized.

"So what do you mean?"

"Need to pay extra."

"How can you raise the price on the spot? I already paid you yesterday, we agreed!" Chen Yuying was a bit dissatisfied, turned her head away, and whispered: "I won't call you brother like I did yesterday!"

Wang Yuezhi, who had already gotten up in the front row to protect his ears, silently sat back down in his seat.

Wang Yuezhi was even wearing a cross necklace today, which was a decoration that violated school rules. He didn't know what he was thinking; it didn't match his style at all.

"No, no, no—" Lin Li didn't expect to be called brother again, and continued to ask: "Class monitor, do you have money on you? How much is left?"

Chen Yuying felt her pockets, found a few banknotes and coins, and said: "I only have a dozen yuan here. Are you out of money? If you are, I'll go back to my seat and get some; there's more in the drawer."

Lin Li had also 'invited' her to eat breakfast for several days, and just now Lin Li also said that when he was persuading the boys, he had spent money to bribe them.

Therefore, even if Lin Li asked her for money, Chen Yuying wouldn't feel too much resentment.

"No need to go get it, class monitor, just give me these first," Lin Li said.

"Oh, here you go." Chen Yuying handed the money to Lin Li.

Then she saw Lin Li hold the money for a while, then return it to her, and say: "Class monitor, the money is back to you, but give it to me one more time, and this time say, 'This is your reward'."

Chen Yuying: "?"

Not good, Lin Li is acting up again.

The top priority is to soothe the patient's emotions and prevent the condition from worsening.

So Chen Yuying did as she was told.

"Once more, say you want to buy this pen of mine..."

"Once more..."

After repeating it several times, she finally couldn't help but ask: "Lin Li, what are you doing now?"

Lin Li sighed in his heart; no tasks were triggered.

He didn't know if this kind of monetary transaction wasn't recognized, or if it didn't count as a condition at all.

Lin Li felt a bit regretful about this result. Facing Chen Yuying's question, he thought for a moment and answered seriously: "Helping Xiling boost its GDP so that the next county ranking will look better. That way, we, the Xiling people of the 'Yellow Banner', will have more face when we go out."

Chen Yuying: "..."

Inhale—

He's a fool, he's a fool, he's a fool, he's a fool.

Exhale—

Chen Yuying revealed a smile of 'I see', nodded at Lin Li: "Oh~~ okay, I thank you on behalf of everyone in Xiling."

Lin Li was very familiar with this smile.

Chen Yuying had shown it to her before, and he himself had shown it to Song Luping before.

Ruined, he was being coaxed like a fool again.

Lin Li felt his image couldn't be ruined like this.

There was still hope.

"Class monitor, give me your money one last time!" Lin Li said heavily.

Chen Yuying, with a kind and caring smile on her face, without any rebuttal or impatience, handed the money to Lin Li again.

Lin Li suddenly took a one-yuan coin from his pocket, counted the amount, slapped the money on Bai Bufan's desk, and said loudly:

"Class monitor, you gave me thirteen yuan, I'll return fourteen yuan to you!"

"This means if you give me a lifetime, I will return a lifetime to you! Just now it was actually hard for me to speak, but now I've prepared myself mentally and finally dared to say it. How about it, are you moved, class monitor?"

Chen Yuying's kind smile froze on her face.

She had also done a lot of mental preparation, but now it seemed that Lin Li's mental preparation was complete, but her own was far too little.

"Ha-hum-cough-cough—" Unstoppable laughter appeared.

There were only three people in the classroom; Lin Li didn't laugh, and Chen Yuying didn't laugh.

When Wang Yuezhi, who was covering his mouth and looking back, met Lin Li's eyes, he hurriedly waved his hand: "Sorry, you guys continue, Lin Li, you're impressive—"

Wang Yuezhi considered himself a love rival; even Bai Bufan on the sidelines could see that.

Wasn't he saying moving love words to Chen Yuying?

Why could he still laugh?

Lin Li, who had been praised, was not happy.

Class 17, Grade 1, was on the fourth floor.

Lin Li, surrounded by Chen Tianming, Bai Bufan, and the others, arrived at this unfamiliar floor.

There weren't many familiar faces in the hallway.

All four were quite tall for first-year students, and combined with their sneaky temperament, many people noticed them.

"They're all looking at us. In their eyes, are we the F4 of 'Meteor Garden'? I want to be Dao Ming Si!" Zhou Baowei whispered.

When Lin Li and Bai Bufan's gazes looked over at the same time, Zhou Baowei immediately raised his hands in surrender: "Sorry, pretend I didn't say anything, don't scold me, you two."

He was sensible.

"Wait for me—" After walking a few steps, Lin Li turned his head, preparing to tell the three his plan, only to see that these three wastes had tacitly stopped at the corner of the hallway a few meters away, as if blocked by a barrier, not taking a single step toward here.

"Good luck."

Chen Tianming cheered Lin Li on, nervous and excited.

It was clear that the three of them intended to provide all support except for action.

They seemed a bit too cowardly.

And they call themselves F4; three F5s is more like it.

"You three stand here and don't move, I'll go buy you some oranges. Really, don't move! I need to let your goddess catch a glimpse of you from afar later, that way the sincerity will be more sufficient." Lin Li had to say helplessly, and only after Chen Tianming nodded did he run to the battlefield alone.

"Hello classmate, are you from Class 17?" Lin Li caught a girl coming out of Class 17, started with a nonsense question, and without waiting for an answer, immediately followed up: "Can you help me call classmate Yao Qiaoqiao? I have something to ask her."

Lin Li didn't let a boy call her, because boys would usually shout at the door, bringing the whole class's attention to Yao Qiaoqiao and himself.

Lin Li himself was fine; although the system hadn't had time to strengthen his skin, whether he had the system or not could greatly affect a person's mentality, so it didn't matter. Lin Li was mainly worried that this would cause trouble for Yao Qiaoqiao.

Girls, on the other hand, usually encounter this situation and would quietly return to the class to tell Yao Qiaoqiao, letting her come out sneakily, which was better for both parties.

He was a warm person with meticulous attention to detail—

"Yao Qiaoqiao! Someone's looking for you! Him!" This girl's voice was louder than Bai Bufan's. The instantaneous explosion made Lin Li's eardrums ache.

Now it was great; students in the class and outside in the hallway were all looking at Lin Li, even those not in Class 17 were looking.

Lin Li: "..."

Judgment error. How could he judge the situation in Class 17 based on the situation in his own class?

Who could have imagined that this petite girl contained such massive power?

After she finished shouting, she walked toward the bathroom, leaving Lin Li alone at the door standing like he was on a foot-massage mat.

He could vaguely feel that the boys in the hallway still had some hostility toward him.

"It's classmate Yao, right?"

Because Chen Tianming had described Yao Qiaoqiao's general appearance to Lin Li, when a short-haired girl walked toward him with some confusion, he asked in a low voice.

Someone who could make Chen Tianming fall in love without even knowing her naturally didn't look bad.

They say people should focus on inner beauty, but without outer beauty, who the fuck cares about your inner beauty?

=9+Shu_ba

Yao Qiaoqiao nodded: "Is something the matter?"

"It's easy to block others at the door, it's not very good. Shall we go talk in that hallway?" Lin Li asked sincerely.

He felt the gazes from the boys in the hallway becoming even more dangerous and scorching.

"Hmm? Okay." Yao Qiaoqiao tilted her head slightly for a moment, then nodded.

"Actually, I have a friend who wants your contact info. Can you give me a QQ or WeChat?"

After increasing the distance from the class, Lin Li got straight to the point and took out paper and pen from his pocket.

Yao Qiaoqiao, hearing this reason, was stunned for a moment, then looked at Lin Li more carefully and asked curiously:

"This friend of yours..."

It was clear that Yao Qiaoqiao was a very poised girl. Most girls or boys would have already entered shy mode and started stammering at this point.

Lin Li still remembered his first experience of being asked for his QQ. When he returned from outside the classroom, listening to his classmates' teasing, his face was as hot as if it were on fire, his ears were blood-red, and it took him a long time to recover; when he came to his senses, his mind was blank.

But to be honest, it was also really satisfying.

When Bai Bufan and the others teased him about this, he pretended not to want to mention it, but in his heart, he was already fucking happy.

This is the greenness of youth.

"This friend this time really isn't me." Lin Li smiled and shook his head, pointing to the stairwell: "My friend was afraid that if he saw you, he would be too nervous to speak, so he entrusted me to ask. He's right there—"

Where is he?

Lin Li and Yao Qiaoqiao both looked in the direction Lin Li was pointing, only to find that there was no one there anymore.

Yao Qiaoqiao's expression was slightly strange.

"My friend has probably already died," Lin Li laughed.

He wasn't dead now, but he could go die later.

Three pieces of iron waste, especially Chen Tianming.

He had told him to stand there and not move.

"It's okay, I believe you."

Yao Qiaoqiao smiled and responded gently, then asked: "Is your friend good-looking?"

"He's quite a bit better-looking than me, only a little shorter than me, he's also very gentle, and his physique is comparable to a sports student." In this situation, Lin Li couldn't disparage Chen Tianming; naturally, he praised him to the skies.

"Better-looking than you? Then I can definitely give you my contact info. I hope you're not lying to me." Yao Qiaoqiao's tone was slightly surprised, then she laughed with some pleasant surprise, took the paper and pen from Lin Li's hand, wrote down a string of numbers, and then smiled at Lin Li:

"Add me too when the time comes, so that if I'm being lied to, there's someone to question~"

"Okay, thanks, then I'll go first, bye."

With the item in hand, Lin Li immediately said goodbye in one go.

Leaving Yao Qiaoqiao, who was still preparing to say something, in place.

Walking to the stairwell, he saw Chen Tianming and the other three had already retreated to the stairs below, showing only half their bodies.

"Didn't I fucking tell you to stand where you were?"

"Tianming was cowardly himself, you can't blame us two spectators." Zhou Baowei said innocently.

"How did it go!" Even though there was no one else at the stairwell, Chen Tianming still lowered his voice to ask.

"You guys are unreliable, but I am Lin Li, I got it." Lin Li waved the folded paper in his hand.

"Daddy! You're my real daddy! I must go on the autumn outing! Everyone go! Whoever doesn't go is an enemy of me, Chen Tianming!" Chen Tianming rushed over excitedly, snatched the paper away, and even kissed it excitedly.

It was a bit creepy. Rubbing his goosebump-covered arm, Lin Li thought for a moment and said:

"Tianming, through our brief conversation just now, this Yao Qiaoqiao's level might be much higher than yours, you idiot. Be careful, don't get played like a dog."

Why did Yao Qiaoqiao inexplicably ask him to add her too? And her words and actions at the time felt like they were carefully designed.

It felt very artificial, not natural.

"I'm already a King with seventeen stars at the beginning of the season, is she higher than me?" Chen Tianming was a bit troubled when he heard this. He thought gaming was a strength, and bringing a girl along was a great way to cultivate a relationship. If he couldn't use this method, it was a pity.

Lin Li: "..."

This fucking kid.

Looking at Chen Tianming, who had already fallen in love before the eight characters were even calculated, Lin Li shook his head helplessly.

He didn't emphasize it again; after all, this was just his own speculation. If it turned out to be a misunderstanding, the misunderstanding would shift to him.

And he figured that no matter what he said now, Chen Tianming wouldn't take it to heart.

Let's talk about it later.

The last class on Friday.

They had half a math class first, then it changed to a class meeting.

As a price, half or even the whole class meeting next Monday would have to be used for math class.

Without any surprises, Chen Yuying's autumn outing plan won overwhelmingly.

However, whether it could become the final plan for Class 4 still depended on the school's opinion, but it shouldn't be a big problem; Chen Yuying seemed to have already agreed with other classes.

"Pay attention to safety when going home after school." When the alarm went off, school was over, and Xue Jian left after leaving this sentence as usual.

The classroom immediately became noisy. Neither Lin Li nor Bai Bufan made a move.

After Xue Jian left, Bai Bufan openly took out his phone and asked Lin Li with a giggle:

"Did our Brother Ping send you the Death Note? Can we take action tonight?"

It was impossible for Bai Bufan to go home first and have his family drive him over on the weekend. One of the benefits of a boarding school was that you could stay at school on the weekend. Although the cafeteria wasn't open, the school gate was free to enter and exit at this time, so you could just go outside to eat and drink.

So Bai Bufan didn't plan to go home this week.

Lin Li sent a message directly to Song Luping.

"Lin Li: Brother Ping, I'm out of school. Although you highly approve of Tianhong, I still want to further compare and see if there are more suitable ones. Have you finished the map?"

"I hope he can give it to you this week, otherwise I stayed at school for nothing." Bai Bufan prayed while looking at the chat history.

Only when the item was in hand could Lin Li take him to show off his skills without any scruples.

The two waited in their seats for seven or eight minutes, and Song Luping finally replied to the message.

"Song Luping: Working overtime today, I'll definitely send it to you tomorrow, and it'll be during the day, it won't delay your business."

"Lin Li: Okay, thanks brother."

"Song Luping: What are you thanking me for between us brothers? Bufan, good luck on the weekend, but you must remember to follow the 103 rules I told you before. If you don't follow them, our relationship ends here. You do your whoring, I do mine, we're no longer of the same path, and you can't use my name to enjoy discounts anymore."

When Bai Bufan saw the words 'Bufan', the expression on his face was a mix of five flavors.

"Lin Li: No problem."

"Song Luping: 'Heart'"

"If nothing goes wrong, we'll act on Saturday night. I'm going home first, contact me via drift bottle if anything comes up!" Lin Li turned off his phone screen and said to Bai Bufan.

"No problem, my big blade is already hungry and thirsty!"

"You'd better hope it's only the big blade that's hungry and thirsty."

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