Cooperate and make a lot of money together

  Ding ding.

  The bell rang for class dismissal.

  "Well, that's it for today. I'll head back to the dorm and take a shower before bed. Don't know what else to say... Winter is coming soon, gotta focus on the final exams... Alright, class dismissed."

  The students under Teacher Bi's podium nodded, stood up, tucked the teaching materials under their arms, and swaggered out of the classroom with a big belly.

  Two figures, one tall and one short, with a strong sense of hierarchy, quickly darted across the passageway between the first and second groups, disappearing from view in just a few breaths at the doorway.

  Yezai had been paying attention to those two, and his eyes lit up instantly. He grabbed his bag and quickly chased after them.

  Chu Yunfei rushed past the podium and almost collided with him.

  They exchanged an awkward glance, nodded at each other, and simultaneously took a step back, adjusting their direction to chase after the door.

  Two figures of different heights walked side by side in the corridor outside the classroom, the shorter one lowering his head and constantly looking around, while the taller one held his head high and was on a phone call.

  Ye Cai and Chu Yunfei sped up in perfect sync, chasing after him.

  At the same time that Chu Feiyun slowed down his pace, Ye Cai turned around, having been chased to a distance far beyond what was reasonable. Her shoulder bag swung out in a lively arc as if she had spun around too quickly. A sly smile played on her lips as she greeted Luo Li with a nod of her head.

  "What? Wait a bit longer?"

  Luo Li, who was talking on the phone, and Ye Cai and Chu Fei Yun, who had rushed over, all waved their hands to signal not to make a sound.

  With a sulky expression, Ye Cai shrugged and stepped aside, deliberately lingering for a moment before following behind the three boys.

  "Alright... I'll wait for you, yeah, just outside the school gate, uh, it's settled then."

  Luoluo hung up the phone and turned her head to look at Chuyunfei, smiling: "A Fei Ge, changed your mind?"

  Embarrassed by his enemy Ma Jian being present, Chu Yunfei deliberately made a disapproving "tsk" sound and turned away, neither confirming nor denying.

  It seems that he had seen through the mind of his good friend from the past, and Luo Li didn't mind his arrogant attitude either. He turned back, just about to tease Ye Cai if he also wanted to join in on the fun, but he couldn't help but freeze up.

  With an innocent and pure face, Ye Cai looked up at him with her hands behind her back.

  Luoluo's footsteps stopped, a small team of four people, all stopped in their tracks.

  "Cough..."

  Luo Li, who came back to his senses, felt extremely embarrassed. He turned his head and continued to lead the team forward without looking back, pretending to be nonchalant and asked: "Are you going too, Hua Ge? Can you handle it?"

  "Hmm..."

  Ye Cai's tone was unusually calm and peaceful, her words neither provocative nor confrontational. This made Luo Li, who couldn't see her face or expression, feel a bit uneasy. In his eyes, Ye Cai, this "medicine girl", was absolutely not a calm and gentle person. Through several encounters, he could sense a cunning intelligence similar to that of a fox spirit from Ye Cai, and to be honest, she was indeed clever and had her ways.

  "Uh..."

  Luo Lixiu was already at a loss for words, and now he was even more confused, not knowing where to start. Just then, Chu Yunfei, who had been quietly standing on his left side, raised her eyes and gave him a resentful look. He subconsciously met her gaze, and then Chu Yunfei quickly lowered her head in embarrassment.

  "Heh heh, Ah Fei Ge, are you mentally prepared?" With a slightly neurotic and carefree smile, Luo Li raised his right arm and put it around Chu Yunfei's shoulder, shaking him vigorously to show their close relationship. "We're going to fight, and who knows, we might even bleed."

  Chu Yunfei turned his face back, silent, with a hint of confident smile at the corner of his mouth, but this arc was slightly distorted, as if he himself had suffered humiliation, with a thread of shameful anger and stubbornness.

  How could Luo Li not see the awkwardness under that smile of a middle school student, so it's a bit embarrassing. Moreover, he is also a nominal strong man with a height of nearly 1.8 meters, unlike Ye Cai who is too cunning and good at making choices. For someone like Chu Yunfei, who has an excessive sense of self-esteem due to his height, it's better not to advise him.

  A forced smile, took it as a silent agreement from the other party, then the four of them kept an unusual silence, walking slowly towards the school gate.

  "Huh, you're going now?"

  Yeh Ts'ai, who was following behind with a bag slung over her shoulder, suddenly asked.

  Lu Liren was taken aback, then turned around and scolded: "Didn't I tell you not to go? What can you do with your small body? Are you looking for trouble?"

  With a snort of laughter, Ye Cai pursed her lips and couldn't help but swing her fists, saying "Don't underestimate me, I've actually practiced before."

  Everyone's heart moved, Ma Jian and Chu Yunfei turned around at the same time to look at Ye Cai with a somewhat surprised gaze.

  "What kind of martial arts have you practiced to become so frail? Is it the Nine Yin White Bone Claw or some other obscure technique?" Luo Li said disapprovingly, rolling her eyes. Seeing Ye Cai's unsatisfied and anxious expression despite being speechless, she felt a headache coming on. After thinking for a moment, she suggested: "You can come along with us, just follow Yang Jian and the others later. If things don't look good... Ah, just don't interfere blindly, okay?"

  She nodded vigorously as if excited and accepted with a smile: "Mm, okay."

  Forced a smile, Luo Li turned around and led the team forward.

  Ye Cai, who was following behind, didn't lower her head and sent a message with her mobile phone.

  Written for her dad.

  "Dad, are you busy now?"

  After sending the message, Ye Cai immediately turned off the screen light and held it in his hand, pretending to be leisurely and carefree, shaking his arm back and forth.

  The three men in front naturally did not notice Ye Cai's small movements behind them.

  He walked to the school gate, Luo Li directly swiped his card and went out of the school gate. Then he took three little friends to the flower bed where an old locust tree was planted inside, turned around, squatted down, pulled out a pack of cigarettes from his inner pocket, fiddled with it for a while, and lit one up.

  Ma Jian and Chu Yunfei, without thinking, imitated his mannerisms, squatting on the flower bed one by one, then took the cigarette handed over by Luo Li and lit it up.

  Ye Cai didn't follow, intentionally or unintentionally leaning against the wall outside the guard room. A branch of the old locust tree across from her had a white incandescent lamp hanging from it, casting a bright light that shone down at an angle. Her shadow, cast by the light, was compressed into a ball and stuffed into the base of the wall as she bowed her head to play with her phone.

  She was texting her dad back - "Okay, that's good. Don't turn off your phone within the next four hours, I'll contact you when something big happens."

  And her dad replied like this: What, you're worried about me? Don't worry, your old man won't need you to worry about him for a while. These things I'm doing are just troublesome and don't require much physical effort.

  After Ye Cai finished sending the text message, she locked her phone screen and slowly raised her face to glance over there with a normal gaze. The atmosphere was surprisingly harmonious, and those three men were chatting enthusiastically with flying eyebrows and colorful expressions.

  Luoluo can be let go, after all, his thoughts cannot be measured by ordinary people's standards. But what is the mentality of Ma Jian and Chu Yunfei, who were arguing with each other just a few hours ago and almost came to blows? Why can they look at each other and laugh so freely? Even if you two have shaken hands and let bygones be bygones, but at least you've only just become familiar with each other, is it really appropriate to reveal your true feelings so frankly?

  Ye Cai soon realized that the main factor leading to this abnormal state was a certain person among those two newly acquainted good friends, who played a key role in guiding the atmosphere and diverting the topic.

  And so, under the passionate topic, a similar affection arose between heroes, then covering up and thoroughly throwing away, naturally feeling sorry for each other, saying sorry to each other, and in embarrassment and shyness, someone took advantage of the situation, and they immediately became a couple.

  Speechless, he shook his head and turned away, as if unable to bear the sight. His gaze drifted and caught a very eye-catching scene.

  "Hey, isn't that Yang Jian? He seems to be coming over."

  At the sound, Luo Li and those newly acquainted good friends all looked far away in the direction Ye Cai had said.

  Through the school gate, from a distance, you can notice that four or five figures with long shadows cast by the lights gradually emerged from the darkness of the central road. Yang Jian and his four companions, who were basically similar in build, wearing grayish-brown leather jackets, white tank tops, and smoking cigarettes, approached the school gate while frolicking.

  The security guard, Uncle Li, forced a few smiles on his old face and nodded at him. Yang Jian took out a cigarette from the pack and tossed it over to him, then chatted with him for a bit in a perfunctory manner. After finishing up, he waved his hand and walked over towards Luo Li's direction with an air of nonchalance, accompanied by four younger companions.

  Yang Jian's arrogant gaze wandered among the four people, but didn't focus on Luo Li, probably because his attention was caught by the band-aid on his nose. His gaze finally stopped on Ye Cai's face, who was sneering at him, and he looked embarrassed for a while before pointing at Ye Cai and turning to ask his friends, "Is this the famous 'Flower Brother' of grade 2?...Brother?"

  Everyone understood the underlying meaning and burst out laughing with ulterior motives. Someone gazed at Ye Cai from a distance, then teased him with a sentence, "So beautiful."

  Ye Cai's face turned pale, but before she could say anything, Ma Jian, who had only taken a few puffs of his cigarette, suddenly let out a loud cough and looked at her with sympathy. Luo Li, who had a somewhat similar understanding of the truth, awkwardly smiled and explained to Yang Jian and the others: "He's a man..."

  "I know, I know... Hehe..." Yang Jian raised an eyebrow playfully and continued: "But some people still love this type, the bathroom in the nearby internet cafe is plastered with ads, hehehe..."

  Luolihanchan nodded and said, "I'll go hail a taxi first..."

  Luo Lai was flagging down a taxi with Ma Jian and Chu Yunfei when Yang Jian's gang came to harass Ye Cai again.

  Yang Jian smiled and said with a bad smile: "Miss, how about cooperating with me to make money? I guarantee you'll get rich."

  Looking at the five evil faces with almost the same tone, Ye Cai vaguely guessed that it wasn't a serious matter. However, since the other party was Jian Ge from the High Three Group, she naturally wouldn't easily provoke him. She smiled awkwardly and pretended to be curious: "Cooperation? What's this about? But I'm a bit busy, and I'm afraid I don't have time for this...".

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  Volume 1 [People should live happily] · End

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