Chapter 24: The Birth of God

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  As he looked at the man leaning against the wall with his clothes in disarray, he still managed to pull out a crumpled pack of cigarettes from his undershirt pocket. The cigarettes were surprisingly good, soft and cloudy, the kind that was hard to come by during their student days. There were even a few left. Seeing the man's trembling hands rolling the cigarette, Su Can couldn't help but feel a little amused.

  This kid's family background seems to be pretty good, but this pack of cigarettes is very likely to have been stolen from his dad and smoked secretly. It looks like the kind of kid who, even if he has more pocket money than ordinary students, can't afford such good cigarettes, let alone dare to smoke them openly. Even Liu Rui and Xue Yang, when they get a craving, sneakily swipe a few cigarettes from their fathers - material goods are really scarce.

  The other person threw a cigarette over to Su Can, but it fell to the ground due to his shaking hands. Su Can smiled, picked up the cigarette, wiped off the dust on it, and lightly sniffed it, standing still where he was.

  He thought Su Can wouldn't spare a smoke, and the man was even more pleased with himself. "Good cigarette... go ahead and smoke it, you can't get one like this!" Su Can's outfit at the moment looked very plain compared to others in this era.

  "Can you walk? Go to the hospital and take a look, don't leave any aftereffects."

  The other party obviously did not expect Su Can to say such words calmly after experiencing a beating that would make an ordinary person's legs go soft.

  He moved slightly, although his body ached severely, but he was fine. Since childhood, he had not been in many fights and had strong resistance to blows. Moreover, the opponent did not dare to really attack his vital parts, so when swinging the stick, although it was severe, relying on his thick skin, he felt no big deal. However, earlier he had taken a few hits, now holding things made him tremble. "Damn it! Those two from Yangmu dared to ambush me, I'll get them back sooner or later! I've got this favor noted down, which grade are you in? Which class? Why haven't I seen you around before? You don't look like much, but those two harsh words earlier showed some guts!"

  Su Can didn't respond, towards these high school students who were fiercely arguing, he didn't have much of a good impression. He smiled instead of answering, "You'd better go back and find a clinic to get checked out, take some medicine, and in the future, try not to stir up so much trouble. You're all just students, what kind of grudges do you need to fight to the death over? Try not to cause your parents too much trouble."

  Who would have thought that as soon as this was mentioned, the other person suddenly widened their eyes and turned hostile, "You think you're busy just because you've been bothered by me for a bit, and now you're speaking to me in a tone of reprimand? You're not even qualified to teach me, who do you think you are? My dad, my mom? They probably can't wait for me to die!"

  Looks like another delinquent teenager in the midst of a rebellious youth, Su Can smiled faintly, flicking the cigarette into a parabola and catching it again with his hand, "You take care of yourself."

  After finishing speaking, the other party was stunned, and just as he was about to make another outburst like "You look down on me!", Su Can had already turned around and left.

  Everyone has a heart of compassion, but if placed in the big cities of later generations, encountering similar events, Su Can would only be like all the numb passersby, hastily passing by, as if he had seen nothing.

  In the midst of a vast and crowded city, individuals are already extremely insignificant. Because they can recognize the pressure to survive and their own insignificance, they dare not take responsibility. In this grand environment, it is rare for someone to have the courage to face injustice and unfairness head-on, standing at the forefront of the storm.

  Su Can was just one of the countless ordinary people before his rebirth, but after his rebirth, this familiar city and this exciting new beginning made him involuntarily fill that icy numb heart with hot blood and passion.

  Perhaps what people really need is not a rebirth, nor an elixir of regret. But rather something like this, a fervor and passion that has long since disappeared from the masses of later generations.

  It's rare to have an early dismissal due to physical education class, Su Canzhuo was thinking that he had been busy reviewing various subjects and felt a bit tired, so he went straight to his family's store.

  Getting off at the station, I saw the sign and banner of my family's store from afar. The reputation of being a designated procurement unit for the city is indeed impressive. From a behavioral psychology perspective, it gave the masses a reassurance. Most of the markets in this district are dominated by our family, and due to this festive atmosphere, the market seems to have been activated, and its potential has been tapped. Moreover, my mother's procurement channels have become increasingly diversified, with a wide variety of goods on display, attracting many students from nearby to come and make purchases.

  Mom saw me from afar and hurriedly greeted me to come in. Father, because the store had hired someone, didn't often come either, after all his work couldn't be completely abandoned.

  Su Can did see a new aunt, Li Yulian saw Su Can was still a bit shy, but after Su Can's bright smile and wave, the shyness disappeared. There was another new girl in the store, wearing a tight sweater and jeans, looking no different from a student, half a head taller than Su Can, with a clear and beautiful appearance, also a beauty. The other person seemed to be arranging the goods cabinet, hearing the movement at the door, looked over.

  Su Can and the girl almost simultaneously exclaimed, "It's you!?"

  Zeng Ke was surprised, "How... Su Can you know Wang Yue sister?"

  Wang Yue nodded hastily and said "uh-huh", "I've seen him before."

  Seeing his mother's inquiring expression, Su Can smiled slightly, "We met before at Municipal Third Middle School, didn't we?"

  Zeng Ke suddenly said, "Hey, it turns out we're alumni. Oh no, Su Can, you should call her senior sister from now on. When you have time, tell your senior sister that after graduating from high school, she didn't want to study anymore. You should learn something, otherwise, you'll always be working for others, which is not a good solution..."

  To avoid her mother's annoying nagging, Wang Yue made an excuse to go out and buy drinks with someone. The two of them entered the flower bed inside the government compound, where the tender leaves of the yellow fruit tree were topped with sunlight that had not yet fallen from the distant mountains, and everything was thriving.

  Su Can couldn't forget this girl, especially on the first day he mysteriously reincarnated in front of Sanzhong Middle School, when he asked himself about the time he crossed over at that grocery store, he faced Wang Yue who was supporting her cheek with a thoughtful expression.

  "How old are you, what month and day?" Wang Yue stepped on the small road, looking at Su Can in shock, really couldn't react, "Xia Hai Cultural Goods Store is your family's?"

  "Hmm... To be exact, I'm Soo Chan." Soo Chan cleared his throat.

  "Oh, sorry..." Wang Yue's face turned red. Seeing Su Can's serious expression again, her mood sank, "Just now... thank you."

  "Uh-huh." Su Can nodded, then a pair of clear eyes stared straight into Wang Yue's eyes, "You didn't tell the truth to our family, did you?"

  Su Can's tone wasn't severe, but accompanied by his gaze, that intangible pressure suddenly made Wang Yue, who was several years older than him, flustered. She already had a guilty conscience and was taken aback by Su Can's mature questioning, which belied his youthful appearance. "I..."

  "Your family used to run a stationery and sundries store at the entrance of Sanzhong Middle School, it was your stepmother's business, you should have been able to become a small boss... but instead you deliberately lowered yourself, applying for a sales position in our company. What do you want to gain? Our procurement channels? Our corporate client resources? Or are you planning to infiltrate as a commercial spy and profit from it?"

  Su Can's words were increasingly severe, step by step, and he used mature language that was inconsistent with his age and personality, stimulating Wang Yue to peel off the layers of the onion.

  "No...I'm not..." Wang Yue, under immense pressure, rebounded with a red rim around her eyes, "It's completely not what you imagined! The procurement channel, who doesn't know it's the stationery wholesale market? Your orders are all designated by the municipal government, they have quotas! How could our small one mu and three fen of land possibly be able to move them?! You say I'm a spy...what did I steal?! What did I hide from your family?!"

  Seeing Wang Yue's tearful expression and explosive anger, Su Can couldn't help but feel amused. It seemed that this girl didn't even know the nature of commercial espionage. Looking at her struggling to defend herself, Su Can's tone softened, "Everyone has motives for their actions. If someone wants to kill but fails, their motive is enough to lead to crime. Your behavior may not be illegal, but it shows your motive is impure and violates our trust. Since you're so angry, there must be a reason. I want to know what that reason is."

  Wang Yue herself was three or four years older than Su Can, but in the face of Su Can's current soft and hard tactics, she couldn't help but admit defeat. "It's not because... your family opened a store later than ours, but business is very good and developing rapidly... especially recently, we also got the city's designated procurement unit quota... I just don't want to spend my whole life like my mother, guarding that store, I just want to learn from these experiences... I don't want to stay in this city all my life, I just want to go further..."

  Perhaps it was said to her soft spot, Wang's crystal-like tears unconsciously flowed out.

  Sitting with her on the flower stand, Su Can looked at this girl and said after a while, "Why don't you study? After graduating from high school, taking an entrance exam to a good school, can't you leave this city?"

  Rubbing her slightly upturned nose, Wang Yue shook her head. "My grades weren't good, and when I graduated from Municipal Third Middle School, I could only get into the worst school... Rather than being looked down on like that, I wanted to go into business for myself. What I told your mom wasn't entirely a lie - at least I want to prove that there's another way out besides studying hard and getting a diploma!"

  This is the dream. The same kind of clear and great dream.

  Su Can nodded, "Let's go back."

  Wiping away her tears, Wang Yue forced a smile at Su Can, "I haven't told my mom about these things, I've cried so much... thank you, I'll make it clear to Aunt Zeng when I get back, no need for you all to rush me, I'll leave on my own..."

  "Who said they wanted you to leave?"

  Wang Yue was stunned, "But... you just..."

  "Have you ever considered having your store join forces with ours? It can exist as one of our branches. To be honest, if we want to develop our store, it's impossible to just stay in one place, we need to do chain operations. If you're willing, we can discuss the cooperation part. You don't want to prove to everyone that not reading books can also lead to success, right? If you want a stage, I can provide you with this stage of our family!"

  "Of course." Su Can added, "I can persuade my mom, I have a lot of say in the family..."

  Wang Yue was suddenly shrouded in great surprise, staring blankly at Su Can. Recently, from Zeng Ke's proud boasting, she had already known about Su Can's abilities, his creative ideas for the store, his strong demands to participate in the bidding conference, and even his sudden surge in scores during the college entrance exams, as well as his astonishing work of reminding his elder brother-in-law to sell stocks, which helped him avoid losing tens of millions.

  In Wang Yue's eyes, what was outlined was nothing more than a young person of small age, yet extremely intelligent.

  So just now in Su Can's inquiry, there was also a factor of innate awe at work, otherwise it would not have been forced to this point by Su Can, who is several years younger than himself.

  "Do you trust me?" Su Can suddenly spoke up.

  Wang Yue nodded, looking at Su Can who was half a head shorter than herself, and then hesitated and shook her head.

  Su Can raised his head, facing the sunset that was casting down through the gaps between the yellow horn tree leaves, with a golden glow on his face. "If you trust me, I can promise you that I will work hard to make sure you go far in the future, leave this city and go to a bigger world. The outside world may not be as beautiful as you imagine, but as long as you keep your current dreams, you will definitely create a splendor that you dare not even imagine!"

  Looking at Wang Yan's stunned expression as Su Can talked on and on.

  Su Can felt that at this moment, he was probably like a god stick.