Chapter 2 — Memorable Admission Day

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One week before the first day of school, the homeroom teacher held a farewell party for the class. The class next to us is our "brother" class, so the two classes are held together. Order at a buffet restaurant, charge per person. I also ate here in my previous life, it was delicious. Because of this meal, I starved all day, just waiting to eat it tonight. I was excited to go to the party, but as soon as I entered the door, I was stopped by Hua Le Chi. She frowned, looking annoyed: "Why didn't you tell my mother that we were going together? If you were willing to tell me, my plane ticket would have been booked now! It's good now, you want to leave me alone on the train, right? You're going too far!" I raised my eyebrows. Once I accepted that she had a problem with her mind, no matter what she said, I no longer found it strange. I leisurely replied: "First, from beginning to end I never said I would go to school with you, so there is no 'abandonment' at all. Second, you want me to take the train with you? Okay, you pay the refund fee for my plane ticket. Third, if you lie to your mother, that's it, don't drag me in." Hua Le Chi's face immediately turned pale, she quickly argued: "I didn't lie! We go to the same school, we should help each other, right?"

"Now I give you a chance to save our friendship. You buy me an extra plane ticket, and there's a guy from the next class going with you. We'll go with you, so you're not alone anymore. You pay for the ticket too!"

Can you two come with me so I won't be lonely? Are you going on the same journey, or are you sending me off to the next world? If other people say so, I can believe in the story of "from the same hometown helping each other". But if that person is Hua Le Chi, I can only be drained of my blood by her. Three people going together? Are we the candies in “Candy Crush”? Place three pills close together and then disappear? Seeing that she was still about to open her mouth to continue speaking, I immediately quickly walked inside: "I'm too lazy to argue with you, don't stop me, I have to go eat to get my money's worth." Being stopped by her for a while, I missed the first batch of crayfish on the table. Seeing others pick it all up, I sadly turned to the roast duck stall to try to make up for some of the disadvantages.

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I was happily munching on grilled meat, when a girl from the next class sat down next to me, with a mysterious look on her face: "You were talking to Hua Le Chi just now, are you two very close?" I still had a piece of grilled pork belly in my mouth. Before I could swallow it, I shook my head. She and I are not too close, but sometimes we sit and chat with each other a few times. Each time it's not much, but it's all "high quality" news. I believe she will make my buffet today more attractive. She understood and said softly: "Tell you what, this year there are only three people in our class who got into city A, one is you, two is Hua Le Chi, three is Trieu Van Binh from my class." I immediately perked up my ears. This is exactly the topic I'm interested in, it sounds delicious. Because Hua Le Chi's "boyfriend" is her classmate. I waved my hand: "Wait, let me get the grilled durian." Having said that, I ran to get two portions of grilled durian, one placed in front of me, the other gave to the other girl. Having finished preparing, I stared at her, eagerly waiting to hear more of the story. I don't dare to imagine how "wishing" what she is about to say will be. Seeing that I seemed interested, she leaned closer, her voice even lower: "That guy has a problem at home and has no money. These days he's been figuring out how to go to school." I became more and more interested, so I asked again: "So how does he plan to go?"

"Ticket evasion, right? Trieu Van Binh said that when his parents were in school, the train staff loved students, and ticket checking was not too strict. Just buy a ticket for two short stops, hide in the bathroom when checking the ticket, and save a lot of money."

It turns out that this idea of fare evasion was thought up by Trieu Van Binh. She continued: "But recently, Trieu Van Binh boasted that he had found a way and even bought a plane ticket."

“Airline tickets?”

Currently, the plane ticket from my city to city A is up to three thousand yuan. Trieu Van Binh couldn't even buy a bed ticket for five hundred yuan, so why did he have enough money to buy a plane ticket? My friend and I glanced at each other, she nodded, her voice lowered even further: "It was Hua Le Chi who paid. The two of them planned to sit together and fly straight to city A. Trieu Van Binh even bragged about this all over the class. Now my whole class knows about 'the rich big sister' Hua Le Chi." I patted my thigh, made an extremely shocked face, and deliberately said loudly: "No wonder why Hua Le Chi was talking to me in a confusing way just now, but it turned out she was planning to play tricks on me too! She intended to force me to pay for plane tickets for both her and her boyfriend, and then she went around showing off that she was rich? So I'm the stupid one who was taken advantage of!" The music in the restaurant seemed to fade away. The sound of knives and forks could no longer be heard clearly. As soon as Hua Le Chi held a bowl of fried rice and walked towards me, her face immediately turned pale.

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As soon as she saw Hua Le Chi's face change, the girl next to her quickly ran away. I looked at her in surprise: "No wonder why you kept saying strange things just now, making you feel uneasy about letting me fly alone. It turns out you were already planning on me to pay for tickets for both you and your 'lover'?" The more I talked, the angrier I became, thinking about the past life that she had harmed me, the more I didn't hold back and scolded her directly: "If you want to fly, buy it yourself. What do you mean by using my money to raise men? Do you think this is feudal times? I have arms and legs, do I need someone to accompany me? Why, now that I'm raising men for you, in the future when you have children, you have to let me be your slave too, right?" Without waiting for Hua Le Chi to open her mouth, I continued: "If your boyfriend has any self-respect, he should either earn his own money to go to school, or not go at all. For a man to cling to a woman like that, I feel humiliated for you!" Very good, finally scolded! A man who is a freeloader of women, a woman with no skills, who only knows how to find someone else to feed her son. These two guys, I scold everyone. Before Hua Le Chi could react, Trieu Van Binh stood up.

“Du Vu, we are classmates, helping each other is the right thing to do.”

I slapped the table: "That's his head! Are you right that you're poor? If your family doesn't have money, why do you keep staring at my money? Oh no, you're staring at Hua Le Chi's money, and Hua Le Chi is staring at mine!"

"Help each other? Help must be reciprocal. Have you helped me? What have you two done for me? I just see that when I eat the buffet, it hinders me, making me miss out on the crayfish!"

I pointed at the bowl of fried rice in Hua Le Chi's hand: "Besides, Hua Le Chi! What are you holding in your hand? Fried rice? I go to the buffet and have to eat fried rice? You deliberately don't want me to eat well, right?" My angry appearance successfully made Trieu Van Binh speechless. Meanwhile, Hua Le Chi, who had been silent all this time, suddenly covered her face and ran out. I immediately added another question: "Someone else's daughter still has shame, but you, a man, can still sit here?" Trieu Van Binh hesitated for a long time, but in the end he still did not follow. I smirked, sat down and continued eating. His family's economic situation is difficult, he has already spent money on this party, how can he leave it halfway? A person can make such brazen demands, to him, face is no longer important. At this moment, a plate was pushed in front of me. I turned my head to look, it was the girl who had just told the story earlier. She gave me a thumbs up: "That's your portion of crayfish, I went into the kitchen and 'stole' it back. You 'acted' very well just now!"