Chapter 331: Perfunctory

【Yeah, they're always up to dark, twisted schemes every day, and it doesn't really involve us.】

Wulongcha squeezed in to look a few times, then lost the mood to watch. Negative news easily affects its feelings. As long as Shi Yu doesn't hold Su Yu responsible, she doesn't want to get involved.

【Exactly!】

Su Yu looked at the small cake that was brought up, tilting her head to look at Su Xi.

Su Xi nodded, and Su Yu began eating! They paused halfway; Liang Yan, Tang Can and Guoguo chattered about the just‑finished interview, while the adults talked about their own selections.

Su Xi reminded Shi Xu to conduct a background check, then said nothing more.

Zhu Xueheng and the others were quite satisfied with the people Su Xi helped select, holding the resumes of the upcoming interview candidates and discussing them with each other.

In the afternoon they repeated the morning's procedure. Wulongcha first examined the resumes to check each person's life history; after finding no issues, used the Potential Card and the Character Card. For suitable ones Su Yu kept silent; for unsuitable ones Su Yu silently noted them, intending to tell her uncle after the student left that she didn't like them.

【Wulongcha, I think we drew cards for nothing.】

Wulongcha agreed, 【We got nervous for nothing; your uncle has excellent judgment, and Zhu Xueheng and the others have good eyes too. Looks like I underestimated humans!】

Wulongcha must investigate immediately to find out how that student is, while Su Xi can pick good people just by looking at appearance and speech—truly impressive! 【Yes, the people they chose are all good.】

Su Xi: … Actually I told them, but I can't say.

Su Xi believes the one million wasn't spent in vain; they hired a few high‑potential people, and they will earn it back for the company! A day passes, and when returning home, the adults and children sit in an extended luxury car heading home.

"Dad, today is so boring, why did you call me over?"

Guoguo pitter‑patters away from her seat, shuffling over to ask Shi Xu for a hug.

"You must study well, and later be like dad, responsible for recruiting. If you don't study well, you'll end up like those older brothers and sisters who came in, going to different places to answer other people's questions."

Guoguo thought for a moment, seems recruiting is more comfortable—you can sit without moving, and there's tasty food! Su Yu, Liang Yan and Tang Can didn't ask the parents any questions; they knew they were there to broaden their horizons.

They sat at school all day, Su Yu and the others were exhausted. After returning home and freshening up, they fell into a deep sleep, completely unaware of the online storm.

#PerfunctoryRecruitment#【Job Assistant: #PerfunctoryRecruitment# a netizen submitted that a certain group let a bunch of kids into the interview room…】

Su Xi looked at the hot search with only a few comments, and told Meng Xianle to investigate the mastermind behind it.

Su Yi pointed at the picture, "Look how they photographed Su Yu, she's skinny and ragged, really ugly! Someone who doesn't know would think we were abusing her!"

Su Yu exercises a lot and is still growing, so her figure is naturally slender. The unscrupulous online media edited her, making her in the picture look like a little bamboo pole, truly a pitiful creature!

"Go notify Zhu Xueheng, Ren Tiandu and Shi Xu."

Su Xi didn't want to listen to her younger brother's nonsense, so she dispatched a mission.

Su Yi muttered and went over to make phone calls to summon people.

When Zhu Xueheng arrived, he was bewildered, "Are they just idle after eating? Why are we bringing the kids over to see what it has to do with them?"

At this moment Zhu Xueheng wished he could find a hacker to investigate; if the people he hired dared to object to his bringing kids to tour the recruitment process, he would immediately terminate the agreement with them! Ren Tiandu lay on the sofa, "There are so many people who deserve scolding, can't finish them all!"

Shi Xu helplessly said, "I'm probably just a sitting duck, looking like a background prop, even though I'm so handsome! My daughter is so cute!"

In these photos Guoguo's figure is blocked; you can't see any edge of Guoguo's clothing in the pictures.

He does appear on camera, but only as a background prop.

Shi Xu stayed silent, Zhu Xueheng didn't look seriously and said, "Tsk, the three of us have such strong auras!"

Ren Tiandu casually dragged a book to cover his face, "Someone called me!"

He feared he couldn't help but critique Zhu Xueheng's outfit from head to toe! Su Xi and the others waited together for the result. Meanwhile, the legal departments of several groups repeatedly issued announcements that they would sue for malicious distortion of facts, fabricating false rumors to defame their companies' marketing accounts and individuals.

Some people venting job dissatisfaction online immediately deleted their comments, while the marketing accounts stubbornly didn't delete any.

Just a lawsuit; they've all seen lawyer letters before—who would spend that much money just to fight a case with them? The facts show that Su Xi and the others truly would go to great lengths, spending money on a lawsuit.

The next day, several major companies posted the lawyer letters and case acceptance notices.

Some netizens rallied to support the companies, admiring their approach of suing the marketing accounts.

Other netizens criticized the companies for wasting money and public resources! Some netizens watched the drama online, curious why they brought four kids over—just to watch the spectacle? Su Family's small villa

Early in the morning, after eating, they discussed in the study, "Who did we offend that idiot?"

Shui Shouhong inexplicably bought them a black hot search, blackening each child completely.

The seemingly background Guoguo was also blackened by those internet trolls, who slammed her with insults like "simple‑minded, overgrown limbs, overconfident," and so on.

Shi Xu, when he got home that night and saw it, was so angry he couldn't sleep all night.

His daughter doesn't need to inherit the company; she just needs to guard the money and not spend it recklessly. She's mischievous—so what? How can they call her simple‑minded? That's clearly appropriate!

Su Xi thought for a moment, "Our family has been pretty well‑behaved lately, no scheming."

Zhu Xueheng propped his head with his hand, "I've been busy every day caring for my daughter, assisting my wife, and have long forgotten about Shui Shouhong."

Ren Tiandu and Shi Xu also didn't do anything.

Ren Tiandu, irritated by this, said, "He blackened us, so we blackened him. His love life is quite rich; if a legitimate wife caught him cheating and it turned out to be all mistresses, that would shock the nation!"

"That's definitely a hot topic!" Zhu Xueheng gave a thumbs up, "Not bad!"

The families combined their efforts, and this coincidence quickly emerged.

Shui Shouhong's ten girlfriends each discovered, for different reasons, that their "boyfriend" had cheated!

Under the pretext of catching cheating men and mistresses, they pointed fingers at Shui Shouhong and other women, but after exchanging messages they found Shui Shouhong was indeed a man with multiple girlfriends! #ShuiKingShuiShouhong# also trended, but this time not bought by companies, but by the massive netizen effort; everyone was watching the spectacle! When Su Yu learned of this, she was just lying on the table resting.

【Just in time, so people won't think we have no temper!】

Sometimes, constantly being tolerant demonstrates one's own caliber, yet makes others unable to see others' caliber, assuming they're just cowards! It becomes increasingly disgusting! "Knock knock!"

"Hello, may I ask what you need?"

【How rude, didn't you see I'm sleeping? Why did you wake me up like that?】

There are twenty minutes for this break; after hearing gossip, Su Yu could still sleep fifteen minutes, and she didn't want to waste it. She had already buried her head, her refusal was crystal clear, yet someone still came up to disturb.

"Someone's looking for you!"

"Sorry, I don't know!"

Su Yu looked up briefly, didn't recognize, and buried her head again to keep sleeping.

The person who woke Su Yu was startled, went out to say a few words, then returned to the classroom and knocked on Su Yu's desk, "He told you to go out and talk to him!"

Su Yu looks up, "May I ask, do you not understand human speech, or are you a machine that can't comprehend human speech? I don't know you!" The other classmates still tended to protect that younger classmate.

"You yourself like to drag others into trouble!"

"Exactly, you two are always stuck together—what does it have to do with Su Yu? Looking for trouble for no reason?"

"Are you trying to scam Su Yu out of money?"

"Your attitude is really terrible!"

Su Yu buries her head and continues sleeping; that person still persistently knocks on the table, "It's just going out to say a few words!"

Liang Yan and Tang Can were woken by these successive actions, "What, class has started?"

Su Yu, with a dark face, says, "She insists I go out, it's simply unreasonable! If I go out I'll be kidnapped, or thrown down the stairs—can you compensate my life or my time?"

"It's not that serious, just classmates chatting!"

Tang Can, very irritable after waking, "Classmates? What kind of classmates are we? Didn't you say last time that the three of us were dragging down the class average?"

Midterm grades slapped them in the face; the three of them, as usual, occupied the top three—no dragging down, actually boosting! "The idiot outside is your boyfriend, right? What did you say last time?"

Liang Yan tilts his head, "Idiot, is that the pig‑dog‑worse thing?"

"Right!"

"Ah, keep your distance from me! You're too precocious, you'll make your boyfriend marry a rich family's daughter, then pretend innocence. I'm afraid standing next to me will contaminate the air around me, smelling weirdly disgusting!"

Liang Yan rudely insults! He didn't expect that when they insult the idiot, the idiot would stick to them! Truly irritating!

Some classmates quietly called the teacher, some classmates were secretly laughing.

They have phones, they understand everything they need to. Few youngsters talk about love!

They all want a better future and won't give up the ladder of studies! Su Yu and the three are a shortcut, but anyone with a brain knows these three are hard to approach. They've been at school so long that their small group hasn't added anyone; the three always go in and out together. Others who want to be their dogs are refused, and they even report proactively.

Therefore, the classmates maintain relatively harmonious relationships with the three, occasionally looking forward to the three treating everyone to food!

Su Yu rolls her eyes, "I'm only a few years old, your behavior is illegal!"

Hearing it involved Su Yu and the three, the teacher arrived quickly. The person who wanted Su Yu to go out had already run away. The remaining classmates in Su Yu's class tearfully complained.

"What's wrong with you?"

"Teacher, I just wanted her to go out and say a few words!"

"Is there anything worth saying?! We must respect a classmate's will; how can we force a classmate to do something she doesn't like? Su Yu, Liang Yan and Tang Can all have to participate in the competition, don't disturb their rest!"

The teacher, seeing them sleeping during break for the first time, reported to the Principal, fearing the three little darlings might be unwell.

Later learned they were bored and liked napping, so the teacher was relieved.

"You come with me!"

The teacher shouted the person away; Su Yu and the three fell onto the table on the spot, then continued sleeping. Other classmates weren't surprised and kept doing their own things.

At noon after school, Su Yu looks at the living room where Su Yi, Zhu Xueheng and Ren Tiandu wear dark faces, all confused.

"What's wrong with you guys?"

【Hot Search didn't go well? I can Draw card to fix Shui Shou Hong!】

Liang Yan puts down his backpack, "Dad, I'm hungry—should I get angry before eating, or eat before getting angry?"

Tang Can is very nonchalant, directly washes hands and eats.

She has nothing to say with Ren Tiandu!

"Your teacher called us about school matters."

"Oh, that thing—maybe there will be more later, I'll just ignore it!"

【Who let me be so rich? One comes, one gets angry, then I don't want to live!】

Su Yi hears Su Yu's inner voice and thinks she makes some sense.

"If only we had let you learn step by step."

At least a child Su Yu's age wouldn't mess with such chaotic stuff.

【Enough already! Bad people, regardless of age, will search info to harm others—why should I waste my time avoiding those dog things?】

"Dad, I'm hungry!"

"Okay, we eat!"

After eating, Xu Mingyue and the others also came back. Xu Mingyue specially introduced the three kids to the industry's "phoenix man" scheme.

She used to think the kids were too young, such things untimely. But bad people don't care about age, only their own goals.

Su Yu, Liang Yan and Tang Can saw many poisonous little tricks, becoming more determined to study seriously!

After that day, Su Yu and the three treated classmates more perfunctorily, only maintaining face; all their thoughts were on the competition.

As long as the three mobilize, they can secure the top three spots of projects! The school's Principal wishes they could be offered up!

The kids who previously disturbed their sleep were taken back by parents for education, suspended for a year to see their brains! Only the competition bothered Su Yu, Liang Yan and Tang Can, and they felt time passed quickly! One school year, two semesters, they were busy with various contests while also keeping up grades, exhausted! "Sigh, soon it's high school again!"

Liang Yan thinks the high‑school workload makes her want to cry! So many assignments—does she still have time to sleep? "It's still early, didn't we just graduate middle school?"

Another summer, Tang Can wants to keep following Su Yu to the mountain to study. The teachers' stuff is quite practical! "Yeah, little Yu sister, shall we still train there during summer vacation?"

Liang Yan actually doesn't really want to go. Training there works, but it's too tiring! Teachers seem to push them to their limits, always making them finish the whole course.

If the two little partners go, she'll go; if Su Yu doesn't go, she won't either.

Tang Can also looks forward, "My aunt said she'll take the baby there for postpartum confinement; it's too hot here! Not comfortable enough!"

After her aunt gave birth to a younger brother, she especially liked the mountains.

The younger brother's room is all green, and Tang Can finds it weird.

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ps: This chapter I don't know what characters were changed after checking; later I re‑read and tweaked a bit.