Chapter Twenty-Three: Liking Someone

  The arrival of Long Shu did not disrupt Li Sansheng's peaceful life, but only because he had a grudge against Lin Xueer. Li Sansheng felt that he had handled the situation with Lin Xueer slightly improperly. It takes a lot of courage for someone to cling to you like that, especially when they're a beautiful girl and not ugly or unwanted. Lin Xueer was known as the "Snow Angel" on the school's BBS, and her arrival directly raised the level of beauties in the school. This way, the boys could boast about their school with some capital and strength, so they wouldn't be embarrassed in front of their friends and classmates. What is a mother school? A mother school is where you can scold it eight or ten times a day, as much as you want, scolding the food in the cafeteria for being bad, scolding the teachers for teaching poorly, scolding the principal and leaders for being idiots, and even scolding the school's beauties for being too low-level and the handsome guys for being almost extinct. But you can scold it, just don't let others scold it. If someone dares to scold your mother school, you might pick up a nearby powerful weapon and slap them on the head. This is what they call a mother school.

  When they were young, Li Sansheng and Lao Meng also had many fights with thugs from other schools due to similar situations. At that time, whenever someone asked which school Li Sansheng was from, after he replied, if anyone dared to say his school was bad, Li Sansheng wouldn't hesitate to throw a punch, saying "You dare to scold my school? I'll beat you to death!"

  Li Sansheng is notorious for being ruthless in a fight, this can't be helped, ever since he was young, Long Shu taught him that when you're fighting with others, it's a matter of life and death, not like flirting with someone, so you must strike fast and strike hard.

  Once you've got the upper hand, go all out to make him submit, so that next time he sees you, he'll want to avoid you, and be afraid when your name is mentioned. Otherwise, let others remember that you're not someone to be trifled with. Now Li Sansheng is no longer like that, back then everyone was just a kid, they didn't hold grudges for long, after fighting they'd make up and become sworn brothers, without too much estrangement.

  Now things are different, in today's society if you don't have the power and influence, then don't pretend to be something you're not. You have the right to pretend, but I also have the ability to make you suffer. Who knows, maybe because of a small matter, you'll offend someone, and in the future, they'll make things difficult for you. You can't predict what will happen tomorrow, maybe that person who was selling garlic at the market yesterday will suddenly become rich and drive by you in a BMW with a beautiful woman. This kind of thing happens too often. Even the once-great Shanghai tycoon was just a humble wonton seller before. Who would have thought that this unassuming, easily-overlooked person would one day stand at the top of Shanghai? The fate that God has given us is always playing jokes on you and me that we can't even begin to understand. But small people also have their day in the sun, and small people also have times when they're desperate. When pushed to the limit, anyone can go crazy, so don't push things too far, leave a way out for yourself, and also leave a way out for others.

  So Li San Sheng, who used to be hot-tempered and loved to fight with others, had slowly suppressed his temper and mentality during his three years at Qinling College. Otherwise, when someone cut in line and scolded him at the school's snack street, Li San Sheng would have just smiled wryly and said it was not worth arguing with a group of kids, unless they crossed the bottom line.

  In Li Sansheng's opinion, the school's snack street is just a school version of an outside restaurant. As long as you have money, you can buy chicken, duck, fish, meat, and wine here. This is also what the school does to satisfy students' needs. Most of the students who come to this school are from wealthy families, and most of them didn't study hard in high school because they were too busy having fun. As a result, they relied on their family's wealth to get into university, where they just go through the motions to get a graduation certificate. The reason they chose to come to this school, which is known as one of the "four noble schools" in Xi'an, is that it costs three times more than public universities every year. How many poor families would be willing to waste their money sending their children here? Therefore, the snack street is always crowded with people, and you have to wait in line for a long time. Li Sansheng usually eats at other cafeterias because of this. It has to be said that this school is still quite humanized. In addition to the slightly higher-end snack street, there are six other cafeterias where the food isn't too bad and the portions are generous. At least for someone like Li Sansheng who isn't picky, as long as it can fill his stomach, he can eat anything.

  Sometimes Li Sansheng was really fed up with those students who wasted food every day, thinking that if they were not allowed to eat for several days and nights, as long as there was something edible in front of them, they would eat it, but still picky. However, after being disillusioned, Li Sansheng would mock himself, thinking that others' parents had money and didn't care about the cost, what's it got to do with him?

  "Foolish, if that little brat were me, I would have already smashed a bowl of rice on his head. This is because you're too kind, damn it! The guys in our 316 dormitory also dare to bully him." Lu Guangzhong felt a bit sympathetic towards Li Sansheng after seeing what just happened, and cursed at the same time.

  Li Sansheng put his rice on the table, looked at the boy who was wearing a pretty good Nike sports series, with a gold chain around his neck that he didn't know if it was real or fake, and said to Lu Guangzhong in a bad tone: "Alright, you little brat, if you're willing to pay for me, I don't mind going back to buy another bowl of rice as a prop."

  "Whatever, next time if I encounter this again, I'll be the first to take action. Although my dad said that one should be low-key, I don't mind being high-profile for the collective honor of dorm 316." Lu Guangzhong looked at the other person's nearly 1.9 meters height and his absolutely muscular physique from working out in the school gym, but still shook his head. He thought to himself that a good man doesn't take advantage of the present situation, now is an era where people use their brains, not an era for thugs. If he wants to deal with that guy, there's plenty of time, no need to worry about this moment.

  "Who knew our old Lu was the guardian deity of 316?" Qiao Mincheng said with a smile, holding up the boiled fish he had just gotten.

  When Ye Yansong also brought the dishes over, the four hungry ghosts from Room 316 started their own battle, eating hastily and wolfishly, making the surrounding flowers and grasses think that these three guys were from the Shennong Platform.

  "Hey, Old Four, look at that table over there. That's Lin Xue'er, the school flower of our grade. She's a total babe, dressed to kill and looking so sexy. And next to her are those few people... I think Jiang Xiao-xiao is dating the captain of our school basketball team now. As for Song Ya-ni, she may not be as pretty as the other two, but apparently her dad is some big shot in the city government - I heard that last time he came to visit, our vice principal personally went to pick him up." Qiao Min-cheng was known as the most well-informed person in dorm 316. As soon as the student union and clubs started recruiting new members, this kid eagerly joined the student union and now he's really making a name for himself - otherwise, these rumors wouldn't be coming out of his mouth.

  Li Sansheng turned his head and also saw the four major demon characters in his class, all of whom were the masters of national calamity and disaster. They were dressed in a sexy and charming manner, and many male students looking at Lin Xueer and several other beauties were drooling, unable to eat their meals. The beauty was enough to make one full, but how could they still have an appetite for food?

  "Lao Si, it seems you and they are in the same class!" Qiao Mincheng suddenly remembered that Li Sansheng was in the Tourism Management class, and his own information showed that these few big demons were also in the Tourism Management class. Isn't this the same class as Li Sansheng? This made Qiao Mincheng extremely happy.

  "Is it a classmate, can you see that I and others are able to communicate?" Li San Sheng pretended to be like me, a country bumpkin, and thought that there was no common language with others, but fortunately Lin Xue Er was having a cold war with herself, otherwise with Lin Xue Er's undisguised feelings towards him, the guys in the dormitory would definitely not be able to take it.

  Also, I think so too, "eight poles can't hit" Lu Guangzhong took a closer look at Li Sansheng, a small head outside the school for 80 cents, clothes that added up to no more than 200 yuan, and money on his body that was estimated to be less than 100 yuan. There was also that Nokia mobile phone that had been stolen by a thief and returned. How could this shabby appearance be associated with Lin Xueer? It's not that Lu Guangzhong looked down on Li Sansheng, he had never looked down on him because of his family background, because he himself had suffered hardships when he was young. In recent years, the north of Shaanxi province had become rich due to resources, especially the six counties of northern Yan'an, each of which was one of the top 100 counties in the west. But before 2000, people from those places were poor beyond the imagination of people from the southeastern coastal areas. There were no railways, coal and oil could not be transported out, and the prices of oil and coal at that time were far from the current crazy levels. Most coal mine owners owed a lot of debt and ended up with their families broken and ruined. Therefore, Lu Guangzhong had never looked down on his roommates, and most of the expenses in the dormitory were contributed by him. The electricity bill for the dormitory was paid by him alone, which was only a few dozen yuan per month, not worth mentioning. The cigarettes on the table were one pack after another, and Qiao Miancheng sometimes even put a pack in his own pocket. He had never frowned at this. The supply of fruit and snacks was also uninterrupted. It's just that Li Sansheng's appearance really made it impossible for him to associate the two people together.

  Just as Li Sansheng hadn't finished speaking, Song Yani, Jiang Xiaoxiao, and Yan Bing on the other side had already flashed their signature smiles at Li Sansheng's direction, and were whispering to Lin Xue'er. Jiang Xiaoxiao and Song Yani even gave Li Sansheng a flirtatious glance. These four women usually tried every trick in the book to tease Li Sansheng in class, but he had long since mentally written them off as impossible, and didn't dare take it too far in reality.

  "I'm going crazy, I haven't lost my eyesight, have I? Those beauties are smiling at me, they're flirting with me, haha!" Qiao Mincheng saw Jiang Xiaoxiao and Song Yani severely smiling in this direction, and even more so, throwing electrifying glances, one of them couldn't help but excitedly shout. This was because Qiao Mincheng happened to be sitting next to Li Sansheng, the three beauties' flirting with Li Sansheng made Qiao Mincheng think they were flirting with him, subconsciously filtering out Li Sansheng, thinking like Lu Guangzhong, very good, very strong, and very narcissistic.

  "Hmm, you didn't see wrong, want to go confess?" Li Sansheng said with a mischievous tone. What Li Sansheng didn't know was that the women on the other side were discussing him.

  "Xue Er, you really don't plan on talking to Li Yu Zhi anymore?" Jiang Xiao Xiao couldn't understand why her roommate, who was more proud than herself, more beautiful than herself, and from a better family background than herself, and who was the center of attention in school, would fall for someone like Li San Sheng, who was unremarkable and easily overlooked in class. This was something she couldn't figure out no matter how hard she thought about it.

  Even if you put aside his family background, Li Yuzhi's appearance is very ordinary, not handsome or cool, just comfortable to look at and not annoying. In class for so long, he didn't have any bad behavior, nor did he make any stunning moves. He dresses normally, and if you say something good about him, it's that his temper is a bit better. Even when Song Yani, Yan Bing, and three others bullied him or teased him, they never saw him get angry. His speech is just a bit witty and humorous, he likes to read books, and the books on his desk are always changing, but they're all books that put you to sleep as soon as you look at them. He's knowledgeable, I suppose, and his conversation is not bad, but there's nothing more than that to make him likable. However, people like this are a dime a dozen, too ordinary and too common, so Jiang Xiaoxiao can't understand it.

  Jiang Xiaoxiao couldn't figure it out, and neither could Yan Bing. The only one who had a slightly different idea was Song Yani, who just thought Li Yuzhi was a bit special, but that's all.

  So when Lin Xue's son said he might have a crush on Li Yu Zhi in the dorm, the three of them unhesitatingly chimed in unison "Are you crazy?"

  The reaction was so big that Lin Xueer found it a bit strange, but later the direction of the development made them all confused about what was going on in this society now. Was living itself just a tragedy? Because Lin Xueer never concealed her emotions, Li Yu Zhi, who they thought was a toad eating swan meat, always seemed to be evading them in a subtle way. They really didn't know how to explain such a situation, it was simply too ridiculous.

  "I think it's better this way, to avoid getting hurt in the end," Yan Bing said bluntly. Lin Xue'er, who was stubborn and strong-willed by nature, would definitely face opposition and suppression from their families if she were to be with Li Yu Zhi, a completely ordinary person. Even if Lin Xue'er herself insisted on being with him, there was no guarantee that Li Yu Zhi could withstand the various obstacles and temptations that the Lin family would throw at them. That's why Yan Bing never thought highly of Li Yu Zhi and Lin Xue'er being together.

  Song Ya Ni did not express her own opinion, because she could see the shadow of those people in Li Yu Zhi's father's official career, all with a very stable attitude, so stable that it gave people a feeling of hitting cotton, so Song Ya Ni just sighed.

  Lin Xue'er looked up and glanced at Li San Sheng, who was eating with his head down, and said to herself with a hint of sadness, "Stupid guy, are you avoiding me or don't you like me?"

  Little Prince Anthony once said a sentence: even if everyone in the world likes you, and the person you like doesn't like you, what can you do?