I have few friends, but many childhood sweethearts.

Chapter 174. Is Xu Qingfan a time traveler?
After leaving Zhujiang New Town, Zhang Chunxue took him around to inspect other industries, giving him the feeling that this was the empire she had built for him.

After more than five years of development, Haowei Duck Neck now has two 12-story buildings and a headquarters park covering more than 50 acres in Sanhe Town.

The land was sold or given away by the local government at half price, and the money to build the headquarters building was all from low-interest bank loans. Just as mentioned during the inspection in Chuxi Village, the delicious duck neck has now become a beautiful postcard of Sanhe Town. In five years, the local tax revenue has increased nearly fivefold, and the future is still promising.

Zhong Wenqing had received a call in advance and stood at the entrance to greet him early. As soon as the Maybach drove into the park, she jogged over.

"Sister Qingqing." Xu Qingfan leaned his head against the car window and waved to greet her.

"Little rascal." Zhong Wenqing patted his head and then greeted Zhang Chunxue on the other side of the car, "Sister Zhang."

"Wenqing, why did you go to all that trouble to come down here?" Zhang Chunxue smiled and nodded in acknowledgment.

"I happen to have some questions about dealing with government departments that I'd like to ask Sister Zhang for advice."

"Let's go upstairs and talk about it." Xu Qingfan got out of the car.

"Why are you still so short? You're almost in the second year of junior high, aren't you?" Zhong Wenqing said with a laugh, gesturing to the height difference between the two of them.

"Our friendship is over!" Xu Qingfan rolled his eyes at her, walked to the other side, and took Zhang Chunxue's arm.

"Hahaha~" The two adults were amused by his little antics and smiled broadly.

Zhang Chunxue doesn't come to headquarters very often, so the passing employees only greeted Zhong Wenqing and then secretly sized up the fashionable and beautiful lady with curious eyes.

As evening approached, the two office buildings were still brightly lit. The four of them took the elevator to Zhong Wenqing's office on the eighth floor.

The main reason for this trip is the launch of Haowei Takeout; the launch of the takeout platform requires cooperation from headquarters.

After Zhang Chunxue sat down, she quickly started talking about serious business with Zhong Wenqing, while Xu Qingfan remained uninvolved and couldn't get a word in edgewise.

Since Haowei Takeaway doesn't have any shares in Zhong Wenqing, things like platform commission and rider delivery fees need to be negotiated. Zhang Chunxue took the documents from the secretary and explained the plan she had prepared to Zhong Wenqing.

The two talked until almost seven o'clock before ending their conversation. Having spent the whole day with Zhang Chunxue, Xu Qingfan had benefited greatly.

He suddenly understood what Ziru had said in front of the camera in his previous life: "Even if I do nothing all day, just watching her hold meetings and listening to what she says and does every day, I would feel very happy."

You can definitely learn a lot by working alongside a top entrepreneur.

Although Zhang Chunxue may not be considered a top entrepreneur now, she is beautiful!
It was almost nine o'clock when Xu Qingfan returned to Licheng. He rubbed his sore bottom from sitting for so long as he went home. No matter what price a car is, sitting for a long time will still make your butt hurt.

Yao Jinping was going to play mahjong, while Xu Aiguo was going fishing. The two elders' nightlife wouldn't end until 10:30 p.m., but the front door of their house was always open and the lights were on. You didn't need to ask to know that Xia Xiaoxiao was inside.

"Xia Xiaoxiao, come out and pour me a cup of tea!" Xu Qingfan shouted into the living room after changing into his slippers. Sure enough, Xia Xiaoxiao came out of his bedroom, along with her heart-shaped boomerang slippers.

"Why did it take you so long?" The girl took her slippers back from his hand and put them on.

"I'm exhausted. I went back to Chuxi Village again. Go get me a glass of water. I don't want to move!" Xu Qingfan said, lying back on the living room sofa without any regard for his image.

"You're so lazy!" Xia Xiaoxiao glared at him and turned to walk into the kitchen.

Not long after, the girl returned with a glass of water and handed it to Xu Qingfan, saying, "I spat in this!"

"Such a good thing?" His eyes lit up, and he took the water glass and drank it all in one gulp.

Xia Xiaoxiao:
Xia Xiaoxiao hesitated, wanting to speak but stopping herself, and finally could only angrily punch Xu Qingfan on the head before taking the water glass back and putting it back in the kitchen.

"You went to Guagreen Square for karaoke?" Xu Qingfan asked after Xia Xiaoxiao came out.

"If we don't go to Guagreen Square for karaoke, where else can we go?" Xia Xiaoxiao gave him a knowing look. "By the way, can you take a look at this for me?"

The girl seemed to have thought of something, and hurriedly ran back to her room. A moment later, she handed him a registration form.

"2009 Hunan TV Super Girl Audition Application Form?" Xu Qingfan read the title at the top of the page in fits and starts.

"Yes, a strange man gave it to us when we left after singing. He even asked for my phone number, but I didn't give it to him," Xia Xiaoxiao explained.

The registration form was made of rough paper, and it felt very uncomfortable to hold and rub against your hands. Xu Qingfan's first instinct was that the other party was a fraudster.

Some idle individuals in society specifically target teenage girls who are less vigilant and harbor fantasies of becoming stars, setting traps to swindle them out of money and sexually assault them.

Even worse, some will force girls to engage in illegal and criminal activities after signing unequal treaties.

"Don't even think about it, this person is definitely a scammer. I remember that you have to be 18 years old to register for Super Girl, right? You two will only be 13 after your birthdays this year, what the hell are you going to do!" Xu Qingfan said without even thinking.

"I told you it was a scam! Ruan Wen was trying to sneak into the registration without her parents' knowledge. I'm going to talk to her!" Xia Xiaoxiao immediately ran back to her room and contacted Xiao Ruan Wen on QQ.

Xu Qingfan followed her into the room, where the girl was already typing on the computer.

[If you are well, then it is a sunny day: Ruan Wen, Xu Qingfan said that person is a fraud. You have to be at least 18 to register. Don't be fooled!]

Xiao Ruanwen was probably busy and didn't reply, so Xu Qingfan patted Xia Xiaoxiao's hand and took the mouse.

After opening his browser and entering "2009 Super Girl auditions" into the search engine, the screen only showed related reports from before 06. He then changed the sorting time to recent, but still could not find any information about the 09 Super Girl auditions.

"See? You can't even find it online. Besides, Super Girl hasn't been held for years. Whether it will be held in 09 is another question," Xu Qingfan said, shrugging.

Xia Xiaoxiao nodded and then showed Xiao Ruanwen a screenshot of the search page on her browser.

【Ruan Wen, look, there's no registration notice for the 09 Super Girl competition here. Don't be fooled!】

Seeing Xia Xiaoxiao's concern, Xu Qingfan asked in confusion, "What, did Ruan Wen leave her phone number with that scammer?"

"No, the scammer gave her a business card and said to call the number on it if she was sure she wanted to make a decision."

"Having a phone makes things much easier. They're even trying to scam me! Do they think my anti-fraud center is just for show?"

"What is that?" Xia Xiaoxiao looked at him in confusion.

Xu Qingfan realized he had let something slip and quickly tried to salvage the situation, saying, "What I meant was to call the police and have them arrested!"

"Let's go together tomorrow!" Xia Xiaoxiao said, feeling disgusted by the lewd look the man had given her that afternoon.

After waiting a moment, Xiao Ruanwen replied in the input box with two crying emojis and one withered rose emoji.

[Sad][Sad][Withered]

[The world is bad, but I'm gentle: I just went to take a shower, and it turns out I was a scammer! How awful! [Angry]]

After Xiao Ruanwen finished typing, she clicked the video call request, and Xu Qingfan moved the mouse and clicked confirm. "Oh? Brother Fan, you're here too!" On the other end of the video, Xiao Ruanwen was only wearing a pink nightgown, her long hair was wet and draped over her left shoulder, and she was patiently drying it with a towel.

"Good evening! I heard you almost got scammed?" Xu Qingfan waved and greeted him.

"Who knew there would be a scammer? How awful! I'm going to throw away his business card right now!" Xiao Ruanwen said angrily, pouting.

"Don't throw away the business card yet. Tomorrow we'll go to the Licheng Police Station together to report the crime and arrest that swindler so he can stop harming people!"

"Huh? He didn't even succeed in scamming anyone, so how can you report this to the police?" Xiao Ruanwen asked, puzzled.

Xu Qingfan smiled without saying a word. Under normal circumstances, he would not, but who was he, Xu? Because of the anti-fraud incident, he had already become familiar with the big shots of the Licheng General Bureau. Moreover, those people knew that he was close to Zhang Chaoqun, so it was impossible for them not to help with this small matter.

"Could we all report this to the police first, so that no one else gets scammed?" Xia Xiaoxiao, clearly a young girl with a strong sense of justice, said.

"Yes!"

"You two chat first, I'm going to take a shower, I'm exhausted." Xu Qingfan waved and left the camera's range, opening the wardrobe to find a change of clothes.

"Ahhhh~ Why do I have to be 18 to register? I really want to participate in Super Girl!" After Xu Qingfan left, Xiao Ruanwen couldn't help but share her feelings with her best friend.

“Xu Qingfan used to say he would continue releasing songs when he grew up, but I think he’s forgotten all about it!” Xia Xiaoxiao said, glaring at the photo of Xu Qingfan in the frame.

“Yeah, yeah, Xiao Xiao, remind Brother Fan to keep writing songs for us!” Xiao Ruanwen said, humming the tune of “Looking Out the Window” that Xu Qingfan had written back then.

"Don't you find it strange? I've never seen him read any music theory books, so how did he learn to write songs? We were still in first grade back then!" Xia Xiaoxiao, who had been with Xu Qingfan every day since birth, found it increasingly odd and said.

"Maybe Fan listens to a lot of songs. Isn't it said that if you can read three hundred Tang poems, you can steal them even if you can't compose poetry?" After so many years of getting along, Xiao Ruanwen had long felt that Xu Qingfan was omnipotent, and she defended him.

"It still feels strange. Do you think he might be like the characters in Magic Phone, someone who traveled back from the future?" Xia Xiaoxiao asked, her imagination running wild.

"Then Brother Fan will become Brother Silly. The Chinese brand 2060 mobile phone, Brother Silly is at your service. Please enter the power-on password, hahahahaha." Xiao Ruanwen laughed as she spoke.

Xia Xiaoxiao smiled knowingly and said, "I always felt there was something strange about him. I've been with him since I can remember. When we were kids, he was like a little shadow, following me wherever I went."

Before Xia Xiaoxiao could finish speaking, Xiao Ruanwen interrupted, "How come Brother Fan is so amazing now?"

"Yeah, I wanted to ask too. I remember it was when I was in kindergarten, that's when I met Wan Ning. Xu Qingfan suddenly changed his attitude and rushed up and kicked away the three naughty kids who were trying to lift Wan Ning's skirt."

"Haha~ I didn't know Brother Fan was so good at kicking! I'll have to find him and spar with him sometime!"

Xia Xiaoxiao glared at her best friend and continued, "Sometimes I feel like he's as mature as an adult, but when I see him scaring the dog downstairs for no reason or waving a tree branch around like an idiot, I think I'm just overthinking it."

Xia Xiaoxiao seemed to have opened a floodgate, telling Xiao Ruanwen about the funny things that happened when he was a child. "When he first went to kindergarten, he even pooped his pants. I was the one who smelled the stench and took him to the teacher to change his pants. I also remember once a boy stole his pencil case. That pencil case was a gift from someone else. It was a very pretty Digimon pencil case. I was the one who got it back for him!"

The pencil case was a gift from Xia Guofu, Xia Xiaoxiao paused for a moment before changing her words.

"I envy you so much, you've been studying and going to school with Fan since you were little." Xiao Ruanwen stopped drying her hair at some point and listened patiently to Xia Xiaoxiao while holding her cheeks in her hands.

Xia Xiaoxiao's secretly pleased expression flashed by, and she said haughtily, "What's so good about you? You're such a nuisance!"

"So, Xiaoxiao, do you prefer the younger Fan Ge more, or the changed Fan Ge more?" Xiao Ruanwen asked.

"Hmm," Xia Xiaoxiao said after a long pause, "They're all annoying people, I don't like any of them!"

If you don't like them, you like them all. As for which one you like better, even Xia Xiaoxiao herself might not be able to say for sure.

Xu Qingfan quickly finished showering and returned to his room. The two women tacitly ended their conversation about Xu Qingfan.

Xia Xiaoxiao said, "Then let's meet at the secret base at nine o'clock tomorrow, and then go to the police station to report the case!"

"Okay, let's invite Wan Ning and Yi Yi together. Xiao Yu won't be back until the afternoon, right?"

"Remember to bring the business card and registration form he gave you," Xu Qingfan reminded him.

"I know, Brother Fan, I'm not stupid!" Xiao Ruanwen gave him a disdainful look.

"You're not stupid, otherwise you would have fallen for our tricks!"

"Ugh~ Fan-ge, you're so annoying!"

“He’s always been annoying!” Xia Xiaoxiao chimed in.

"Fine, fine, I hate it the most. Only the two of you are so lovable, like flowers blooming for you."

“That’s exactly right!” Xiao Ruanwen said with a smug smile.

Xu Qingfan shook his head with amusement, "Get some rest, I'm so sleepy, I want to go to sleep."

"Okay, goodnight, Brother Fan, goodnight little one!"

"Good night."

After saying goodnight to each other, Xu Qingfan hung up the video call.

"Have you taken a shower?" Xu Qingfan asked, patting Xia Xiaoxiao on the shoulder.

"I already showered. Lin Wanning left you more than a dozen messages, why haven't you replied?"

"Holy crap! I forgot!"

Xu Qingfan quickly opened the chat window with Lin Wanning; the latest message had been sent just a minute earlier.

Youth is like sugar, sweet to the point of sadness: Is Brother Qingfan taking a shower? Yiyi is home, why hasn't he replied yet! [Feeling wronged][Withered]

Xia Xiaoxiao pouted; a girl's thoughts are easy to guess.

After Xu Qingfan explained Xiao Ruanwen's encounter with a scammer on QQ, Lin Wanning immediately and generously said: I knew Brother Qingfan was busy with something!
After agreeing with the girl to meet at the secret base at nine o'clock tomorrow, it seemed that the last thing for today was also done.

"Goodnight, turn off the light for me." He patted Xia Xiaoxiao's shoulder and then lay down on his bed.

Xia Xiaoxiao shook her head in disgust, turned off the computer, adjusted the air conditioner to 26 degrees Celsius, and then helped him turn off the lights and close the door.

"Goodnight, you silly dog," the girl said, leaning against the bedroom door in a voice only she could hear.

(End of this chapter)