Chapter 191 I Feel She Likes You
The radio station started running smoothly.
At first Xu Cheng was still wondering what to do if the school came to cause trouble. After all, this was purely a private hobby for them and there was no official authorization.
But after broadcasting for more than a week, the school didn't even ask about the radio station, which surprised him very much.
He asked Pei Xueqi several times, but she always gave him the answer perfunctorily.
On the weekend, Pei Xueqi generously treated the radio station members to a meal as their first team-building activity.
The dinner location was a Chinese restaurant with exquisite decoration in the city center. Everyone arrived very early, but Xu Cheng and Lin Wanzhou were the last to arrive.
The weather was very hot and a group of people hid under the shade of the trees next to the restaurant.
"Xu Cheng, Zhou Zhou, you are so slow." Pei Xueqi complained to them.
"Excuse me."
"Zhou Zhou, your clothes are very beautiful today. Is it the one you bought when we went shopping together last week?"
"Yes, that one. Senior is also very beautiful. Um... Xia Yue is also very beautiful."
All three girls wore skirts today. They all looked slim and tall, and paired with a pair of simple sneakers, they looked very youthful.
Qiao Yiming was still the same as usual, wearing headphones, hiding far away, quietly listening to English songs in his headphones.
Xu Cheng went over to greet him.
"What brand of headphones are they, Sony?"
Qiao Yiming took off his headphones, hung them around his neck, and shook his head when he heard this.
"No, the 'quiet listening' ones are cheaper in China, and I feel the workmanship is not much worse than that in foreign countries."
Xu Cheng was surprised. He didn't even know that Jing'an Communications now even made headphones.
After taking it from Qiao Yiming and listening to it for a while, he found that the sound quality was far behind that of Sony , but he was looking forward to its subsequent development. After all, the most difficult part of anything is the step from 0 to 1.
I listened to the melody in my headphones for a while.
"Numb, you like Linzi Park."
"Wow, have you heard of Xu Cheng?"
Although boys like Qiao Yiming are not very good at chatting up girls, once they start talking about areas of interest such as the second dimension and technology, they will start talking nonstop and very excitedly.
Xia Yue caught a glimpse of them talking, and her eyes suddenly dimmed.
"Qiao Yiming has said more to Xu Cheng in just a short while than he has to me in a week. Does he hate me so much..."
"How could that be? Xia Yue is so cute."
"Don't ever think like that!"
Lin Wanzhou and Pei Xueqi hurriedly comforted her, which helped her cheer up a little.
As a senior, Pei Xueqi very politely ordered a table full of dishes, including almond tofu, king oyster mushroom with sauce, minced meat eggplant, salt and pepper shrimp, crispy pork, braised pig's trotter with peanuts, and braised beef brisket pot.
Girls rarely choose stir-fried dishes when they go out to eat. Even if they do, they prefer to order some small vegetarian dishes that are good for beauty and skin, which is different from boys.
Of course, dessert is also an indispensable part of their meal. The table was filled with matcha snow, ice cream, daifuku and sweet potato soup.
"cheers."
The four freshmen were all drinking various beverages, except Pei Xueqi who was gulping down beer.
She put down the cup, wiped her lips, looked around at her subordinates with satisfaction, and considerately picked up a piece of pig's trotter for Lin Wanzhou.
"Zhou Zhou, eat more of this, it's good for you."
The benefit Pei Xueqi mentioned is naturally breast enhancement, and pig's trotters are the secret to breast enhancement passed down by word of mouth among girls.
"Thank you, Senior."
Lin Wanzhou agreed modestly.
Xia Yue is obviously not much older than me...
She took a small bite, and then when no one was paying attention, she secretly picked up a piece of crispy meat for Xu Cheng who was sitting next to her.
Xu Cheng had mentioned his four favorite dishes before, and she still remembered them, so she specially ordered the crispy pork and salt and pepper shrimp for him just now.
Xu Cheng naturally put the food into his mouth along with the rice. For some reason he felt that this dish seemed to be much more delicious than before.
It would be nice if there was a girl who could always pick food for him like this.
He can eat three big bowls of rice in a row!
Xia Yue saw this scene, and she also plucked up the courage to imitate Lin Wanzhou, picked up a piece of eggplant and quietly passed it to Qiao Yiming's bowl, then looked at him expectantly.
Qiao Yiming frowned.
"Eat your own food, don't pick it up for me..."
Xia Yue took back her chopsticks with a wronged look on her face, and the color in her eyes faded again.
After dinner, Pei Xueqi took the two girls shopping, and Xu Cheng and Qiao Yiming followed behind.
"What a waste of time. How can there be such a boring thing as shopping?" Qiao Yiming couldn't help but complain. He felt that he was completely wasting his weekend.
Xu Cheng smiled and tentatively asked him about his relationship issues.
"Old Qiao, why do I feel that Xia Yue likes you?"
"How is that possible!"
Qiao Yiming almost jumped up.
Boys don't hide these topics when they talk about them.
"She is just familiar with me, so she seems to take good care of me. Like me? I have never dared to think about such a thing. She always likes to be a big sister and meddle in other people's affairs..."
When Xu Cheng heard this, he had a rough idea in his mind.
This guy seemed to interpret Xia Yue's affection for him as almsgiving.
Really.
These two are too troublesome...
Can we just confess and be together?!
After chatting with him for a long time, when Qiao Yiming had almost opened up, Xu Cheng told him about Hapi.com.
Qiao Yiming had heard a little bit about Hapi.com. When Xu Cheng said that he was the founder of this website, he was immediately shocked.
"That's amazing! I never thought I could create a website."
"How about it? Are you interested in joining me and starting a business?"
Entrepreneurship, what a wonderful word.
Just like the three sworn brothers in Peach Garden, no one cares about salary or benefits, they just work together towards a great cause, and then they drink and eat meat .
After all, Qiao Yiming was young and easy to fool. Xu Cheng only gave him a brief outline of the future, and he began to fantasize about buying a small island in the Pacific Ocean to bask in the sun.
“You are the next Zuckerberg!”
"Okay, I'll join!"
Xu Cheng was overjoyed, "It's a deal, whoever goes back on his word will be the grandson..."
"no problem."
Xu Cheng was afraid that he would go back on his word.
For a newly started website, it is not easy to have talented people, and it is even more difficult to have cheap and good talents.
When Penguin first started, there were only a few programmers who worked for passion. They had little income and were looking for a better tomorrow. Later, they became what everyone called the Five Tigers of Penguin.
Xu Cheng hopes to have such a team.
It’s good to have Qiao Yiming to help him. He is too poor now and can’t afford to hire anyone powerful.
The Internet has always been a money-burning hole. Hapi.com is not as simple as the original 16 URL navigation. 16 only needs to spend money on the server, but Hapi.com is not like that.
As an SNS website, if you want to develop, you have to spend money on everything, especially advertising.
This is because after experiencing the Internet winter, everyone has become cautious and restrained, and is not as introverted as before.
Before the Internet bubble, the Internet industry was almost like this:
A carnival for investors and a grand celebration for entrepreneurs.
It is so extravagant that the advertising expenses of a website can reach more than 20 times the company's revenue. There is even a pet website that spent a lot of money to buy an advertisement in the 2000 American Super Bowl. (Super Bowl: its status is roughly equivalent to that of the Chinese Spring Festival Gala.)
The five of them strolled for a while under the scorching sun when Xia Yue suddenly felt unwell, with weakness in her limbs and dizziness.
"It may be heatstroke." Xu Cheng guessed.
Qiao Yiming became visibly nervous. Pei Xueqi helped Xia Yue to a shady place, simply lowered her temperature, and let her drink some water. Only then did Xia Yue feel a little more comfortable.
Xu Cheng thought for a moment and said, "Hurry up and take a taxi to send her back to rest."
Qiao Yiming expressed it very proactively.
"Let me take her there. I know where her home is... I'm also familiar with her parents."
Hearing this, Pei Xueqi looked towards Xia Yue.
"Xia Yue, is this okay?"
"Um."
Xia Yue nodded gently, with a hint of happy shyness on her little face.
Seeing that everyone involved nodded, the three of them had no choice but to agree. After all, one car could not accommodate five people.
They stopped a car on the side of the road and told Xia Yue to let her know in their radio station's QQ group when she got back, and then the two of them left in the car.
After this happened, the remaining three people suddenly became uninterested.
"Let me treat you to some sweet soup." Pei Xueqi suddenly suggested.
"All right."
"There's nothing to do when I get back anyway."
Xu Cheng and Lin Wanzhou had no objections.
Pei Xueqi took them to the entrance of an alley and turned a few corners. Unexpectedly, there was an old sweet soup shop hidden here. The decoration was very much in the Hong Kong style of the last century.
She skillfully ordered double skin milk, grass jelly and curry fish balls. The three of them sat down in a small corner of the store and the food was served quickly.
"Try it and see how it tastes?"
Xu Cheng took a small sip with a spoon to taste it.
“It’s delicious.”
Lin Wanzhou also nodded.
"Senior, do you know such a place?"
"Yeah, I thought a drunkard like you only knew about taverns."
"Hey, how are you talking to the stationmaster?"
Pei Xueqi's lips curled up slightly, "My sister brought me here to eat before."
Xu Cheng remembered that last time she got drunk, she mentioned her sister.
"My real sister?"
"Of course I kiss you."
"How many years apart?"
"She's seven years old. I've had her since I was very young."
Lin Wanzhou calculated, "7 years old? Then he must be 22 years old now. Is he in college?"
Pei Xueqi smiled bitterly, "No, no, she has been dead for a long time..."
"ah?"
Lin Wanzhou exclaimed.
Unexpectedly, such a thing happened in Pei Xueqi's family. She and Xu Cheng became nervous.
However, Pei Xueqi's mood didn't seem to be affected.
"It's okay. Whenever I think of her, I will come here to drink sweet water. When I was little, she often brought me here to drink."
Xu Cheng thought about it.
"I remember you said when you were drunk before that your sister was the founder of the radio station."
Only then did he realize that it was no wonder that she looked like she was determined to fight the school to the end. Perhaps in her eyes, the radio station was something left behind by her sister, and she had special hopes placed on it.
Pei Xueqi smiled.
"Did I say all this after I got drunk? Then did I ever tell anyone that the principal is my mother?"
"!!!"
"ah?"
Both of them looked at her in surprise.
Xu Cheng slapped his forehead.
No wonder I felt her mother looked familiar the last time I went to her house.
This also explains why the radio station, as a private organization, could broadcast in the school for such a long time so arbitrarily.
This is...my dear daughter!
"If that's the case, then why should we worry about the school canceling the radio station? You should discuss this with your mother..."
"I would have done it a long time ago if I could."
Pei Xueqi smiled bitterly, then lowered her head and took a bite of the fairy grass.
"When my sister started it, she was very opposed to it, thinking it would affect her studies. Later, when my sister's test scores dropped slightly, she thought it was because she was not concentrating on her studies, so she asked her to stop all extracurricular activities."
She paused for a long time before continuing, "But she never realized how much pressure she put on her, otherwise my sister wouldn't have..."
By the end of her speech, she had already buried her head.
Neither Xu Cheng nor Lin Wanzhou had expected that there was such a hidden story here.
“Senior…”
Lin Wanzhou touched her hand to comfort her.
Pei Xueqi smiled, wiped the corners of her eyes and raised her head again.
"I'm sorry, so the radio station was cancelled. Actually, it was also my fault. It was my fault for not studying well. Maybe if I hadn't joined the radio station in the first place, the radio station wouldn't have been in trouble."
Xu Cheng and Lin Wanzhou were speechless. She smiled and asked them.
"It's been so long since I told you, you don't want to quit, do you?"
“No…”
"Humph, I won't let you retreat even if you want to."
She returned to her usual carefree self and started arguing with Lin Wanzhou.
After coming out of the sweet water shop, Xu Cheng and the other two said goodbye to Pei Xueqi because it was not on their way and took the bus home.
The two of them sat in the back seat and waved at Pei Xueqi who was waving at them outside the window. The car started with a rumble and Pei Xueqi's figure disappeared through the window.
"I didn't expect that my senior sister actually had such a story. She is always laughing and joking, but she must be under a lot of pressure."
"Yes." Xu Cheng nodded.
"By the way, Qiao Yiming is also very different today."
Lin Wanzhou was very surprised. "I usually thought he didn't like Xia Yue at all, but I didn't expect that he would be so nervous when Xia Yue got into trouble."
"That's what childhood sweethearts are like. Qiao Yiming just pretends not to care..."
Lin Wanzhou looked at him straight.
"What about you? Do you usually care about me?"
"I……"
Xu Cheng turned his head away.
Lin Wanzhou's gaze made him feel a little embarrassed.
Damn it, why at this moment, he and Qiao Yiming have the same character...
Lin Wanzhou shook her feet gently and muttered softly.
"Do you remember when we were little and we went to the Internet cafe, I was bullied by a big kid and you jumped up to protect me..."
"I have protected you so many times, how could I remember?" Xu Cheng thought it must be because of the imported sugar from Lin Wanzhou he ate a few days ago. His mouth must have become hard from her infection.
"snort."
Lin Wanzhou turned her head away and said, "I still prefer the old Xu Cheng!"
Xu Cheng turned around and saw that her shoelaces were undone and fell to the ground, so he picked up one of her legs and placed it on his knees, and carefully tied it for her.
"Hello!"
"I can't hit me to help you tie your shoe, can I?"
The girl puffed her lips and said nothing more.
It seems that he would help her tie her shoelaces when they were little.
Although I have grown up.
But this big Xu Cheng is also pretty good...
