After hanging up the phone, Zhang Liang felt that he needed to find a place to drink some alcohol! He needed the alcohol to soothe the sadness of turning from a supplier into a second-hand dealer... And there’s another thing! Would his suppliers start doubting his integrity? He really hoped they wouldn’t suspect him of trying to pass off second-hand goods as new...
In fact, not only Zhang Liang had become a second-hand dealer, Zhen Yu was in the same boat!
After swapping computers with He Baihe, isn’t what she did—using them for a year and a half before reselling to Zhang Liang—essentially buying with one hand and selling with the other? The only difference was that she had an extra step of using them...
If Zhen Yu wanted, she could turn flipping computers into another business venture! The profit margin in between was quite attractive! However, the gold-buying incident rang alarm bells for Zhen Yu! She had barely bought one kilogram of gold and already attracted unwanted attention! If she wanted to flip computers, how much gold would she need to buy?! And after swapping them for hundreds or thousands of computers, how would she explain the origins of these items to Zhang Liang?
So Zhen Yu just let the idea of ’playing the reseller’ run through her mind for a moment before immediately tossing it aside!
She’d better just run her cybercafe peacefully! Even for the fifty computers she had got for her new cybercafe, she hadn’t figured out a reasonable way to present them to everyone yet!
For the Northeastern Region, the climate gradually warms up after Labor Day.
And planting trees at this time meant they were more likely to survive...
That’s why many schools in Qi City have the tradition—Labor Day is Tree Planting Day!
On Labor Day itself, the exercise session during the second long break was directly canceled! Students from each class clustered into small groups previously arranged by the homeroom teachers and headed to the designated spots—the open area inside the western compound wall of the school, where white circles were drawn on the ground.
After years of tree-planting activities, most of the area inside the compound wall had already become groves of Yang trees. Zhen Yu absurdly thought to herself, "After all this time, it turns out that the little grove in the school was planted by the students themselves..."
In groups of five, three boys took shovels and two girls held buckets, taking turns digging around a white circle.
Only after they had dug the holes and planted the saplings could they go to fetch water for watering.
"The ground is so hard! How long will it take to dig half a meter deep?" One of the boys in Zhen Yu’s group started to complain after digging just a few shovels’ worth.
Lu Huai kept on digging without raising his head and retorted, "With your digging like a chicken scratching the ground, it’s no wonder if it takes you a year!"
Another girl in the group immediately burst into laughter! "Pfft!"
Seeing that the boy was getting annoyed, another boy in the group quickly suggested an idea!
"Why don’t we pour some water over the ground to soften it first? It might make digging easier!"
"That’s a good idea! Then you go get the water!" Lu Huai immediately said.
Just as the boy was about to put down his shovel to fetch water, Zhen Yu immediately picked up a bucket, "I’ll go!"
The other girl in the group promptly grabbed the other bucket. "Then I’ll go too!"
The Water Room was quite far from the tree planting area, and it took Zhen Yu and her group member quite a while to get there after quickly making their way through the crowd.
Worried about spilling, both filled their buckets only halfway. On the way back, her group member still complained about the bucket handle hurting her hand and had to switch hands after walking a few steps, causing Zhen Yu to wait for her again and again.
The white circles in the tree planting area were very dense, and they had all been dug to varying depths! Next to each hole, piles of the excavated soil were mounded up! At this point, navigating through the crowd with a bucket of water was a bit of a struggle.
"Excuse me, excuse me!" Zhen Yu kept repeating this phrase, and the students made way for her.
A boy who turned around at the call of "excuse me" laughed when he saw Zhen Yu’s face.
"Huh? It’s you! I knew we had to be from the same school!"
"Excuse me!" Zhen Yu repeated, carrying a bucket.
"Ah? Oh! Go ahead! Go ahead!" The boy reacted after seeing the bucket in Zhen Yu’s hands, and quickly stepped aside to let her through between the two pits.
Because she recognized him as the ’unlucky guy’, Zhen Yu didn’t want to deal with him at all! After dropping a quick "Thank you," she walked on without looking back.
However, the boy followed right behind Zhen Yu and the girls in her group, asking as he walked, "Hey! What’s your name? Which year and class are you in?!"
Zhen Yu didn’t want to deal with him, so she didn’t respond.
But the curiosity of the girls in Zhen Yu’s group couldn’t be suppressed, especially when one of them recognized the boy! "Kang Jian! How do you know her?"
"Do you know me?" Kang Jian seemed a bit surprised, but all that surprise was just feigned! He was quite confident in his reputation at the Affiliated School.
"Our school’s ’talented young man’, how could I not know you?! Tell me! How do you know her?!" The girl flattered him and then continued to pry.
Kang Jian, as if he hadn’t heard the girl ask the same question twice already, stubbornly asked again, "What’s her name?"
"Zhen," the girl let out the surname, but Zhen Yu quickly turned her head to glance at her.
The girl wasn’t dumb and immediately corrected herself, "Haha! You ask her yourself!"
The girl’s remark was meant to pass the buck! Unexpectedly, Kang Jian really shifted his target and immediately asked Zhen Yu: "What is your name anyway?! You’re my lifesaver; how can I thank you if I don’t know your name?"
"Lifesaver?" The girl in the group stammered, the news was quite explosive!
Zhen Yu’s footsteps faltered a bit, this damn coincidence!
"I am not! You’ve got the wrong person! Stop bothering me!"
Not the one?! Is it really this hard to thank someone sincerely these days?!
The girls in the group looked innocently down, trying their best to reduce their presence.
It’s so tough to even follow a juicy story these days...
Seeing that her group’s tree pit was now within sight, Zhen Yu quickened her pace and placed the bucket down in front of Boy B.
"You do the pouring!"
At the same time, Lu Huai stopped digging and looked up, "Zhen Yu! Why did you only just come back? And, Kang Jian? What are you doing over at our class?"
She had a bad feeling about this...
"So it’s you, Zhen Yu! The top student of the grade! Zhen Wudi!" Kang Bin’s excited voice rang out not far behind Zhen Yu.
Zhen Yu calmly lifted her legs and walked away, circling to the other side of the pit, facing Kang Bin across the pit.
Lu Huai and the others simultaneously turned their heads: "..."
Zhen Yu was annoyed by the stares, but she didn’t want to waste more words!
So she could only urge them: "...Pour the water! Dig the pits!"
Boys A and B: "Oh! Oh!"