I have few friends, but many childhood sweethearts.

Chapter 186. The Signs of a Scumbag
After escaping from Xu Qingfan's house, Xia Xiaoxiao ran back to her own home without stopping. She slammed the living room door shut and then rushed into the bathroom, feeling both ashamed and anxious.

Five minutes later, the girl sat on the toilet, covering her face with her hands, too ashamed to show her face.

The pink cartoon panties were pulled down to her knees, and could be clearly seen from Xia Xiaoxiao's sitting position.

The pants, which were originally dry and clean, were somehow stained in a small area, and the pattern had even formed a rabbit in a rather artistic way.

She felt she must have gone mad, otherwise why would she have inexplicably lay on the bed for more than ten minutes before realizing she needed to run away?

"Ugh, so annoying!" Xia Xiaoxiao muttered to herself in the bathroom like a crazy woman, while constantly slapping her smooth face.

Recalling the electric shock she had just experienced, she shyly tucked her toes in. A fiery blush spread across her face in the mirror. Xia Xiaoxiao couldn't tell whether her blush was from embarrassment or from being hit by her earlier.

She didn't have much confidence when she said "It's all Xu Qingfan's fault," so her voice was weak.

Xia Xiaoxiao put her hands inside her clothes and tried to move them gently, just like Xu Qingfan had done, but she couldn't feel anything.

"Why can't I feel anything at all?" The girl blinked in confusion, not understanding why she couldn't move as if she had been frozen in place when Xu Qingfan touched her.

Touching her belly was already her limit; anything further was something only bad girls would do, at least that's what Xia Xiaoxiao thought.

A few minutes later, the girl took off her clothes and turned on the shower. As the warm water flowed down from her head, the first unspeakable secret of her adolescence was completely buried in her heart.

For the next two days, Xia Xiaoxiao seemed like a different person. She stopped bickering with Xu Qingfan as usual, stopped going to his bedroom to play QQ Speed, and avoided him as if she had encountered something dirty when he approached.

Xu Qingfan was completely baffled, unable to understand why the girl's personality had changed so drastically.

They stayed at home for the three days of New Year's Day. They usually don't travel during statutory holidays. Rather than traveling in crowded places, they prefer to have fun during winter and summer vacations.

The five girls spent the two days of New Year's Day in the Gale Kingdom, diligently contributing to Lao Ma's business. Xu Qingfan, on the other hand, was taken by Zhang Chunxue to inspect factories, have meals, and broaden his horizons.

After nearly half a month of hard work, Haowei Takeaway has basically established a foothold in the port city. At its peak, the website had nearly 50,000 concurrent users, and in just two weeks, it delivered nearly 200,000 takeaway orders, nearly half of which were contributed by college students.

The next step is to further explore the university market, and coincidentally, Zhang Chunxue's sister-in-law works in the education system.
Street vendors around universities have always been a headache for schools. On the one hand, they affect the appearance of the city and pose a threat to hygiene and safety; on the other hand, the students' growing material needs need to be met.

Haowei Takeaway clearly had the ability to reconcile the conflict between the two parties. With Xu Qingfan's suggestion and Zhang Chunxue's improvements, the university food court project came into being.

The specific operation involves Good Taste Delivery investing in or buying or building a food court outside the school (on-campus). They first use the guise of free services to attract mobile vendors to move in, and then start collecting rent after the vendors have made money.

At the same time, the school was promised that the equity would be donated to the school free of charge after the food court recovered its costs. As for how much the costs were, a professional accountant would calculate that. The completed food court could also be mortgaged to the bank for a loan, so no matter what, there would be no loss.

Of course, the premise of the donation is that their delivery riders can freely enter and exit the campus. Currently, all of Haowei Delivery's riders are formal employees with signed labor contracts and social insurance and housing fund contributions, so their safety can be guaranteed.

In this way, the school's unpleasant appearance problem can be solved, the contradiction of college students wanting to improve their meals can be resolved, the purpose of mobile vendors wanting to make money can also be solved, and Haowei Takeaway can take this opportunity to capture the entire college market without spending a penny on advertising.

It sounds easy, but it's not in practice.

After all, most leaders don't really care whether the school can profit; they care more about whether they can take this opportunity to gain enough benefits.

But these were not difficult tasks for Zhang Chunxue, after all
If Haowei Takeaway can capture the national university market before 12, it will have an invincible moat from the start, and no matter how much money later entrants spend to catch up, they will only be able to look on in the dust.

Good Taste Delivery is rising with unstoppable momentum.

New Year's Day was over in the blink of an eye, but Yao Jinping's enthusiasm for him only lasted for one day. On the second day of the holiday, she started calling him "loser" and asking him to cook.

After saving the text document on his computer, Xu Qingfan checked the time in the lower right corner.

"It's almost midnight, time to go buy groceries." He shut down his computer, stood up, and patted his back.

Stepping out of the room, the living room was empty.

"What's Xia Xiaoxiao up to?" Xu Qingfan shook his head helplessly, thinking that Xia Xiaoxiao hadn't visited his house for the past two days.

After taking the money and keys, he put on his shoes and went out. When he arrived at Xia Xiaoxiao's house next door, the door was locked. Because the security was not as good as before, the tenants of Lianhua Courtyard now lock their doors even during the day.

Xu Qingfan knew the girl was playing games inside, since he had just checked QQ and it showed her computer was online.

He originally intended to knock on the door directly, but considering that Xia Xiaoxiao might be playing games, he decided to go back to his own home first, take her spare key, and then go out.

The door wasn't locked from the inside; it opened easily with a gentle twist of the key. Xu Qingfan took off his shoes and walked barefoot in the living room.

When I arrived at Xia Xiaoxiao's bedroom door, the girl was indeed wearing headphones and playing QQ Speed ​​on her computer.

He sat down next to the girl without making a sound, and after she crossed the finish line, he patted her on the shoulder and asked, "I'm going to buy groceries, do you want to come with me?"

Xia Xiaoxiao clearly did not expect that someone would suddenly appear next to her, and that person was Xu Qingfan, whom she had been ashamed to face these past few days!

"Ah~" She shuddered in fright, then jumped up and rolled around on the bed as if guarding against a bad guy, grabbing a pillow and hiding far away. "Don't come any closer!"

This scene looked exactly like a movie scene where the female lead is about to be defiled by a minotaur, and Xu Qingfan's ridiculous sense of humor was inexplicably funny.

"Hehehe~ You can scream your lungs out and no one will come to save you!" He grinned wickedly and raised his claws to approach the girl.

"Go away, I'm not playing with you!" However, Xia Xiaoxiao didn't take it as a joke. She thought Xu Qingfan was trying to use the same immobilization spell to bully her as he had that day. She angrily threw the pillow at him, then put on her slippers and ran out of the bedroom.

Xu Qingfan froze on the spot. He had spent nearly thirty years with the girl across both his lives. He knew that Xia Xiaoxiao was really angry, but he didn't understand why she was angry.

Xu Qingfan suddenly remembered that Xia Xiaoxiao seemed to have started to drift apart from him during junior high school in his previous life. He originally thought there was some misunderstanding and that the two of them had drifted apart because they hadn't explained things clearly.

Now it seems that this is not the case. Perhaps Xia Xiaoxiao has entered puberty and understands the differences between boys and girls, so she deliberately distances herself from him.

Although he had said long ago that he would only ever consider Xia Xiaoxiao his daughter and sister, Xu Qingfan still couldn't help but feel disappointed when she actually disliked him.

He really didn't want to see the two of them drift apart like they had in his previous life, but he couldn't understand the girl's thoughts, and he didn't know what Xia Xiaoxiao was thinking.

"Am I too lacking in boundaries?" Xu Qingfan sighed and left Xia Xiaoxiao's room.

He didn't see the girl in the living room, so he guessed she had hidden in the bathroom.

"Does he really not want to see me?" he continued to mutter to himself. He had originally intended to go straight out, but after thinking about it, he walked to the bathroom door, knocked, and said, "I'm going to buy groceries."

Xia Xiaoxiao in the bathroom wasn't angry as he had imagined. Instead, she was shyly staring blankly at the mirror, her cheeks cupped in her hands.

The girl clearly hadn't expected Xu Qingfan to misunderstand, and being the proud girl she was, she didn't reply. Seeing that there was still no sound from the restroom, Xu Qingfan shrugged helplessly and left Xia Xiaoxiao's house somewhat dejectedly.

After hearing the door close again, Xia Xiaoxiao came out of the bathroom and ran to the doorway to wait for Xu Qingfan's departing figure to appear.

She didn't return home until his figure was completely out of sight.

[I hate it, I keep dreaming about him these past few days.] Xia Xiaoxiao picked up the Totoro plushie next to her pillow and stared blankly.

Clearly, this is the real reason she's been avoiding Xu Qingfan these past few days.

After leaving the Lotus Courtyard, Xu Qingfan became increasingly angry the more he thought about it.

Why are you the only one who's special during puberty? Lin Wanning still clings to his arm and acts cute, just like when they were kids, calling him "Brother Qingfan, Brother Qingfan."

[Even Wu Lingyu, Zhang Yiyi, and Xiao Ruanwen didn't say anything like you!]
Fortunately, he didn't hang himself on a crooked tree in this life. Xu Qingfan immediately took out his phone and called Lin Wanning.

The phone rang a few times and was quickly answered.

"Brother Qingfan~" Lin Wanning's sweet voice came from the phone.

This simple sound might not be heard by even a dozen or so captains who have tipped on Bilibili in a decade or two.

"What is Wan Ning doing?" Xu Qingfan's previously stern face instantly broke into a smile.

"Um, I haven't been playing games all the time!" Lin Wanning replied somewhat guiltily, thinking that Xu Qingfan always supervised her like a nagging father, telling her not to play games for too long.

Xu Qingfan chuckled inwardly at Lin Wanning's inability to lie, but didn't expose her: "So obedient! I'm at the market buying groceries now. The fruit shop already has strawberries for sale. Wanning, would you like some?"

He picked up a polyploid strawberry whose tip was still a little unripe and asked the vendor, "How much?"

"Hey handsome, this is fifty dollars!"

"I want to eat, I want to eat! Brother Qingfan, hurry up and buy some!" Greenhouse cultivation technology is not yet widely available, so it's quite difficult to eat strawberries in January. Lin Wanning hasn't had any in a long time.

"Okay~ I'll buy it right away." Even though the price was outrageously expensive, Lin Wanning wanted to eat it, so of course I had to buy it for her!

Xu Qingfan was picking out strawberries while talking on the phone with Lin Wanning. After selecting a large bag, he handed it to the shopkeeper to weigh.

Worried that the other party might use an oversized scale, he took out his portable electronic tensile scale from his eco-friendly bag and held it up to indicate that the other party should not try anything funny.

"Young man, you can rest assured, I've been running this business with integrity for over twenty years!"

Xu Qingfan nodded and continued chatting with Lin Wanning: "You only got a 30-day A-class car? Old Ma is so wicked, he actually cheated people!"

"Exactly! The event clearly stated that you would get a permanent A-class car if you stayed online for two hours, but when I went to the official website, I found out that it was a chance-based event!" Lin Wanning said angrily.

"Haha~ It's okay, thirty days is enough. There's another chance during the Spring Festival." Xu Qingfan paid two hundred yuan and left the fruit shop with four catties of strawberries.

After he went outside, he weighed himself on his own scale, and the shop owner even gave him half an ounce as a gift. He was indeed an honest man.

"Okay, I'll eat later!" Lin Wanning suddenly said out of the blue.

"What's wrong?" Xu Qingfan asked, puzzled.

"My mom called me to eat, but I said I'd eat later," Lin Wanning explained without hiding anything.

"Then go eat quickly, good children can't skip meals!" Xu Qingfan knew she was reluctant to hang up the phone, and smiled helplessly.

"Okay~ After we finish eating, will you still call me, Brother Qingfan?" The girl let out a pitiful sob.

"Aren't we all supposed to gather at the secret base after dinner? I've already packed it for you!"

"Hehe~ Goodbye, Brother Qingfan!"

"Okay." Xu Qingfan hung up the phone.

After calling Lin Wanning, he felt much better. Following the principle of treating everyone equally, he then called Zhang Yiyi, Wu Lingyu, and Xiao Ruanwen separately.

"Want some of my cooking? I'll make it for you this afternoon!"

"I want more, prawns, braised in oil!"

"Do it, do it for us one by one!"

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"Auntie made a lot of chili sauce again? And fried eggplant fritters too? We're in for a treat tonight!"

"I also made some steamed buns. I don't know if you like them, Brother Fan."

"I definitely love Xiaoyu brand steamed buns!"

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"A new song? The new song is already written. Just call me Fan Ge the coolest guy in the world and say that I admire Fan Ge the most. I'll give it to you."

"Ugh, Fan-ge, you're so annoying~ Fan-ge is the most handsome guy in the world, I admire Fan-ge the most."

"Hahaha, say it again!"

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After making calls to everyone, Xu Qingfan felt much better.

[Is this what it feels like to be a jerk?] he thought to himself.

Xu Qingfan carried the groceries he had bought home. He realized that you really can't put all your eggs in one basket; the old saying was true!
[You stubborn jerk, let's see how long you can keep being so arrogant!] He couldn't help but think smugly.

Xia Xiaoxiao, who was still at home being an internet addict, had no idea that in such a short time, her house had been robbed several times.

(End of this chapter)