Ch25 - Conjecture (2/2)
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Fu Liqun said, “Why are you always thinking about that?”
Yu Hao pondered for a bit. He motioned for Fu Liqun to stretch his hand out. The width of his wrist was about the same as Zhou Sheng’s, so Fu Liqun raised his hand to try wearing the bracelet.
“Did he?” Yu Hao raised his eyebrow and asked gently.
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“Yeah.” Fu Liqun didn’t try to hide it either, “He said he saw you buying charcoal and kerosene outside the college, and that you had brought a lighter even though you didn’t smoke. He thought it was a little strange, so he asked me to go look for you.”
Yu Hao’s heart began to thump violently as he asked, “Then where did he go?”
“He went to look for you too.” Fu Liqun said, “We split up to find you. Zhou Sheng was in charge of searching the area behind the field. I found you first, then I called him. Yu Hao, don’t keep thinking about that anymore.”
“Un.” Yu Hao said, “I know. Afterwards……did he only come over after you called him?”
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“I forgot.” Fu Liqun said, “But he went to the college’s infirmary by himself anyway, didn’t he? What about it?”
Yu Hao shook his head.
Fu Liqun smiled, then got up and went out for a bit. When he came back, he saw that Zhou Sheng had just taken a bath and was wearing slippers as he sat with his ankle on his knee. He had his left hand stretched out as Yu Hao tied a red rope bracelet on his wrist — the width was just right, and it strung through a dial-like golden wheel, so it looked like a watch.
Fu Liqun, “……”
“What are you looking at?” Zhou Sheng said.
Yu Hao, “Fu Liqun, there’s too much drama going on in your heart! I can hear it all!”
Fu Liqun quickly waved his hand. After the three of them ate dinner, Yu Hao thought of the fourth roommate whom he had never met before. Zhou Sheng said indifferently, “Sports Class 3, he failed too many subjects so he’s being persuaded to quit. He’s preparing to go abroad now, so you don’t need to care about him.”
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“Yu Hao, you’re worried about something?” Fu Liqun observed Yu Hao with a doubtful gaze. Yu Hao did seem like he was troubled by something these days — one moment he would be in high spirits, but in the next he would look like he was deep in thought.
“I’m not.” Yu Hao denied it. He saw off the two of them from the bus stop that night. Zhou Sheng whistled to him and drew a “phone” gesture, meaning that they should keep in touch at all times. Then they left.
Yu Hao walked back to the dormitory alone. He felt as lithe as a swallow and rolled onto his bed. When he lied down on his new bed, his heart was feeling conflicted, but he felt quite relaxed as well. He tapped around on his phone and scrolled through his friends’ QQ space.
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“General……” Yu Hao murmured, “Do you really want me to find you?”
He scrolled a few times before he suddenly saw Chen Yekai inviting him to King of Glory, so he entered the game. He was surprised to see Zhou Sheng and Fu Liqun inside too, they were already on the train.
【Yu Hao, get over here.】Zhou Sheng said the moment he saw Yu Hao.
Yu Hao chose Zhuang Zhou. He was baffled, why were there two sides? He was on one side with Chen Yekai, while the other side had Huang Ting, Zhou Sheng and Fu Liqun.
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【Cut the crap, let’s start.】Chen Yekai answered.
Yu Hao,【What’s going on……】He hadn’t even finished typing when the game started!
“Yu Hao! You’re finished!” Zhou Sheng sent him an angry voice message, but Chen Yekai said, 【You just need to clear my status effects, don’t be afraid of him.】
The battle was extremely chaotic. While Chen Yekai killed the other three, he was being hunted down by Zhou Sheng. Whenever Chen Yekai died, Yu Hao would quickly hide in the bushes. Zhou Sheng still selected Sun Wukong as usual. He saw Zhou Sheng walk around searching for people, but he didn’t dare to mount a sneak attack on him. When Chen Yekai came over, the two of them became locked in a scuffle in the middle of the road and Chen Yekai was killed again.
Yu Hao had just come out to support Chen Yekai when Sun Wukong circled around him twice, but didn’t touch him. As soon as Yu Hao ran, Sun Wukong began to chase him and Chen Yekai said in a hurry, “Stall him, I’ll take the pagoda down.”
Sun Wukong chased Zhuang Zhou into a corner, then the two of them stopped moving. When Huang Ting saw his ally and his enemy stuck together for half a day without separating, he lost his temper,【Are you guys dating or what?! Kill him!】
Yu Hao was about to ask Zhou Sheng something when Zhou Sheng suddenly went offline, and his opponent’s pagoda exploded. He won.
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Zhou Sheng sent him a message on QQ:【Kaikai wanted it to be a 1v3 just now.】
Yu Hao was about to explain when Zhou Sheng sent another message:【Be honest, did you spend the night at Kaikai’s house the day before court? I bought breakfast and went to your dormitory, but I didn’t see you.】
Yu Hao suddenly felt like he had been caught red-handed. He knew that he couldn’t hide it from Zhou Sheng, so he summoned up his courage to answer,【It’s not what you’re thinking!】
【What am I thinking?】Zhou Sheng sent him a ‘questioning’ expression,【Why don’t you tell me what I’m thinking? Can’t I just be curious?】
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Yu Hao wanted to throw his phone away. Zhou Sheng that bastard! He already managed to guess everything!
【After the holidays are over, I have something to talk to you about.】Yu Hao sent a message to Zhou Sheng, but there was no reply. Yu Hao waited apprehensively for a long time, but there was still no reply by the time it was midnight. Chen Yekai chatted with him for awhile, but Yu Hao was a little absent-minded. Then he went straight to bed.
Zhou Sheng’s reply came at 2am.
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【There was no signal when we were passing through a cave. What do you want to talk about? We can talk about it now.】
【Are you asleep? Then I’ll go sleep too, good night.】
Yu Hao read Zhou Sheng’s message in a drowsy state. He yawned before he went back to sleep. The next day, he tidied himself up and began a new round of work during the winter vacation.
His goal was to earn at least 3,000 yuan before the 28th of December. He wanted to buy some clothes, eat a good meal, pay his tuition fees after the New Year and buy a dryer for his dormitory. Business picked up everywhere before the New Year. The average salary in Ying city was very low, but the cost of living here was so high that it could rival New York. Yu Hao saw that the flower cafe was hiring staff, so he went to try his luck. Unexpectedly, they actually hired him. The working hours were from 10am to 10pm every day, 12 hours, he would have to rotate between the cash register and the coffee counter, and he would earn 200 a day. Yu Hao was practically over the moon, it really was very easy to earn money over the New Year.
But after a full day of standing, he realised that this 200 yuan wasn’t that easy to earn. Yu Hao’s back was about to break from standing for so long. He only had a 10-minute toilet break every 2 hours. The shop was understaffed — there were only two servers, yet it was a very busy cafe so they received orders nonstop. The boss even started a 1 for 1 promotion, so the end of the queue was barely in sight.
“Vanilla! I wanted four cups of Vanilla!” The customer shouted angrily at Yu Hao, “What are you doing? I’ve already repeated myself thrice!”
“Sorry sorry.” Yu Hao really wanted to turn into a sea monster with dozens of tentacles that could all press the buttons on the control panel. By the time it was 7pm, he was both ravenous and irritable, and he felt like he was going to explode. His whole body had broken out in sweat.
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“I’m sorry!” Their surroundings were really too noisy, and it was so noisy that it made Yu Hao’s head spin. He shouted, “I’ll redo them for you!”
The customers in the queue all turned silent within an instant. Yu Hao repeated, “I’ll go redo them right now.”
Yu Hao asked another waiter to come over to take orders. He tied his apron around him and went to make coffee for the customer. The customer was already drinking his Caramel Macchiato while he waited for Yu Hao’s four cups of Vanilla coffee. 1 for 1 meant that he had ordered 8 cups, and the money for 4 of these cups would come from Yu Hao’s own pockets. One cup costs 35, so it would be 140 in total. His work today was practically for naught.
This customer had changed his order thrice before. At first, he wanted two cups of Vanilla and two cups of Caramel Macchiato, then after he finished ordering he wanted another cup of Vanilla and Caramel Macchiato, as well as two cups of Winter Warmth Mocha. There was no more chocolate left to make the mochas, so the customer wanted four cups of Caramel Macchiatos in the end. Yu Hao was absolutely certain that the customer was thinking about Vanilla when he said Caramel, so his order was wrong.
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But it was pointless to argue with customers, not many would admit that it was their fault, so he could only wait for them to lodge a complaint against him. Good customers would at most say ‘forget it’, but you could tell that this customer had been working the whole day and was very exhausted, so he needed to vent his frustrations.
After Yu Hao made the coffee, he glanced at the customer when he was packing them and forced himself to smile, “You can think of those four cups as my treat.”
But his words had angered the customer for some reason, and a cup of coffee was suddenly thrown at him.
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“You’re yelling? What the hell are yelling at me for?! Laozi doesn’t want them anymore!” That customer shouted angrily.
Yu Hao had been splashed all over with coffee, and he stood there feeling a bit bewildered for a moment. When the customers in line saw that a fight had broken out, they all took their phones out one after the other and began taking photos.
The customer was a middle-aged man. He shouted at him, “Who do you think you are? Fuck you, you damn garbage! You dared to yell at me?”
“Forget it, forget it.” Someone tried to intervene. Yu Hao’s mind had gone blank as he looked at the coffee that had spilled on the coffee counter. He had been packing the coffees into the bag just now, so when he was unexpectedly hit by that paper cup, the coffee in his hands spilled all over the counter and onto the ground.