Chapter 11 (1/2)

Wen Ren Hui Yin

Zhou Jian opened his address book. He first dialed his high school cla.s.smate, Zhang De Zhong’s number. “De Zhong. How are you doing?”

“How well can I be. I’m in the lousy broken school practicing chanting.”

“Well, recently my hand is a little tight. Can you lend me 500 yuan? I want to go outstation. Two days later can return back to you.” Zhou Jian said to borrow but actually Zhang De Zhong still owed him 500 yuan. At that time, Zhang De Zhong’s girlfriend need to enter the hospital to have a minor surgery. Specifically what disease was it, Zhou Jian didn’t know but anyway it’s a woman’s disease. Moreover, it’s not the type that virgins could have. Thus, couldn’t use family’s money. Zhang De Zhong then looked for Zhou Jian for 500 yuan. Zhou Jian straight away sold his beloved Dragon King sword from the online game “Broken Day”. For a high school student, 500 yuan was not a small amount of money. Later, Zhou Jian also didn’t find Zhang De Zhong for it. After all, this matter of him and his girlfriend couldn’t be shared with the family.

Later, Zhang De Zhong wasn’t admitted to university, but he entered a vocational. He should still be able to produce 500 yuan. Even if money was tight, it’s no big deal, he would be able to get the money back later.

“Oh…. 500 ah.” Zhang De Zhong’s voice sounded a little worried. “Recently, my hand is also tight. My living expenses is also borrowed from cla.s.smate. Of course, I borrowed 500 from you, I still remember but I’d broke up with Xiao Qian …”

Zhou Jian heard this felt a little not tasteful. What did you mean by this? You told me that you’d broke up with Xiao Qian, you want me to go and take this 500 from Xiao Qian? Ah, had you forgotten about your merry times with Xiao Qian? You broke her body which resulted in her needing a gynecological surgery but now you don’t even want to pay?

If it’s the previous Zhou Jian, he would have hung up the phone, but now he still took Zhang De Zhong as a friend. “Zhang De Zhong, I don’t want you to pay back the money. I’m really short of money. I will pay you back two days later.”

“Bro Jian. Your brother here really don’t have any money now.”

“Can. I understand.”

Zhou Jian hanged up and sighed. After graduation will be far apart. Later, interaction in life will be less and less. Who will still regard him as a buddy.

He thought for a while. Then, Zhou Jian dialed Li Yun Fu’s number. Li Yun Fu and Zhang De Zhong’s case were the same. He also owed Zhou Jian 500 yuan, only difference was that this money was for the girlfriend to get an abortion.

The male-female relations.h.i.+p in Zhou Jian’s high school was a little chaotic. Many girls had been damaged. Zhou Jian earned some money by playing online games at that time. Although his family was poor but he could sell off the equipments to get money. So, some friends who were in situation where they were unable to open mouth to their parents could only borrow money from him.

“Yun Fu, is your pocket full? Lend me 500 yuan. I need to go outstation. I really need the money. Will pay you back two days later.”

“Bro Jian. It’s really unfortunate. I recently opened a Taobao (tl: China’s Ebay) shop with my cla.s.smates. I’d bought a large amount of stock that’s not sold off yet.”

“Oh. that’s how it is. What’s the URL of your shop? What are you selling there? If I have time, I’ll go there and have a look.”

“This….” Li Yun Fu awkwardly smiled. “My shop front is small. It doesn’t have anything attractive. This thing, you just forget it.”

“Haha. My family condition, you’re also aware of it. I can’t afford to visit large stores.”

“Ok, Bro Jian. I will tell you about it some other time. My cla.s.smates are waiting for me to have a meal now. I’ll hang up first…”

A busy signal came from the phone. Zhou Jian didn’t know how to feel. Just for the 500 yuan, you can lie so easily. The friends.h.i.+p that he had paid for in the past was too f**king cheap now.

He shook his head and deleted Li Yun Fu’s number. He swept his eyes across his address book and called Li Yun Fu’s girlfriend, Sun Li. Because of his relations.h.i.+p with Li Yun Fu at that time, his relations.h.i.+p with Sun Li was very good as well. Zhou Jian made this call wasn’t because he wanted back the 500 yuan abortion fee. Rather, he wanted to know if his friends.h.i.+p was really so cheap.

“You can’t be that miserable?” An exaggerate sound came from the phone. “I thought during high school time, you were very good at making money from playing online games?”

“I’m no longer playing that. I’d changed to a different one and invested a lot into it. But so far, there’s no return yet.”