Rebirth: At the beginning, the cool school beauty was caught stealing in the supermarket

Chapter 817 This semester has seen so many changes.

"Crack".

Beside the wood-burning stove, Cao Shuang broke off a piece of wood and put it into the stove. The fire didn't start, but he didn't notice. He just stared blankly at the stove wall blackened by the smoke.

He seemed to see the outline of a tomboy's smiling face in the image above.

Cao Shuang stared intently, and as he stared, he seemed to hear that loud, sincere voice calling out "Brother Shuang" in his ears.

"Brother Shuang".

"Brother Shuang!"

He snapped out of his daze and realized that the fire in the stove hadn't caught. So, expressionless, he picked up the fire poker and reached it in. The poker lifted the scarlet firewood below. Cao Shuang puffed out his cheeks and blew on it, and soot flew into his face and landed on him. He didn't care; he had always been covered in soot since he was a child.

The fire started.

Cao Shuang added a few more pieces of firewood. Lost in thought, he looked out of the kitchen and saw a thin-faced woman sitting at the kitchen door.

When the woman saw her son looking at her, she smiled and moved her wheelchair forward a little further.

Cao Shuang laughed heartily, immediately added a few pieces of firewood to the stove, clapped his hands, and walked out.

"Mom, why are you out here? It's cold in the yard at night."

The woman stared at her son's face for a while, as if she had figured something out. She said softly, "Let me help you. I can practice standing up now, and I can basically stand up for half an hour without getting tired."

"No, it's too smoky inside, and your lungs aren't healthy to begin with."

Without saying a word, Cao Shuang pushed her wheelchair into the inner room, took a blanket from the bedroom, and covered her mother's legs with it.

"Wait a little longer, the food will be ready soon." Cao Shuang said and walked towards the kitchen, just as her mother's voice came from behind her.

"Xiaoshuang, Mom can actually take good care of herself. Your aunt often comes to see me too. Try not to come back during holidays like this in the future. It's too much trouble. Spend more time having fun with your friends in Zhucheng."

Cao Shuang turned around and replied, "No trouble at all."

He smiled and went back to the kitchen.

But your mother sees you're unhappy... The woman murmured to herself as she watched her son's retreating figure.

Back in the kitchen, Cao Shuang sat down on a small stool.

He added a few more pieces of firewood before taking out his phone to look at the group chat. The chat contained a bunch of casual chatter from Ruan Yueru, as if she were talking to herself. Cao Shuang was about to reply when he scrolled down and found that Lu Yuanqiu had already replied for him.

He stopped typing, switched back to his private chat with Lu Yuanqiu, and typed: "Brother Qiu, I'm fine, don't worry, I can handle it myself."

"Drip drip."

Lu Yuanqiu took out his phone and glanced at it.

The night breeze caressed the willows along the Happiness River.

The car then circled around the Happiness River, turned onto Happiness Road, and was about to enter the gate of the Happiness Lane residential area when Bai Songzhe looked at the road sign outside the window and suddenly murmured, "Everyone here has a name with the word 'happiness' in it."

Bai Qingxia, who was standing next to her father, joked, "It's very effective. I fell for it the first time I came here, and Dad will fall for it too."

Baek Song-cheol: "Hahaha."

"Wow~ Really? Is it really that blissful?" Lu Yuanqiu in the front row made an exaggerated expression of surprise.

Bai Qingxia's face tightened, and she suddenly lost the desire to laugh with her father.

……

Three days later, at Xia Yiwan Noodles shop in Zhuhai. "Interesting, really damn interesting. Who exactly is the owner of Xia Yiwan Noodles?"

Looking at Wei Zhiyu standing behind the counter with a world-weary expression, Liang Jingfeng sat at a round table in the corner of the shop and couldn't help but mutter a complaint.

Wei Zhiyu, behind the counter, didn't hear her and continued to impatiently greet the customers. Most of the customers who came to the store these days were freshmen. Most of them came to see the rumored "Noodle School Beauty", but they all ended up coming here to see a joke.

The landlady wasn't there; she hadn't been around for several days.

Sitting at the round table, Liu Wangchun replied, "Xiaxia has something to do."

Xu Siyang: "Lu Yuanqiu is quite strange. Except for sleeping at night, he has hardly been seen in the dormitory these past few days."

Fingel: "They didn't go to a hotel, did they?"

"Who opens a hotel room in broad daylight? Are you that thirsty?" Liang Jingfeng asked with a look of surprise.

Long Liandong, who was sitting in the corner reading a book, looked up at him. Seeing that she still couldn't see Lu Yuanqiu this time, she closed the book and got up to leave.

"Oh, oh, oh, someone's going to leave disappointed again~" Liu Wangchun seized the opportunity to mock.

Long Liandong ignored him, turned her head without looking back, put on her mask, and silently left the crowd.

Liu Wangchun then looked at Liang Jingfeng: "Young Master Liang, don't you know what's been going on at your branch company lately?"

Having heard the title "Young Master Liang" so many times, Liang Jingfeng was practically desensitized to it. Even if Liu Wangchun called out to him now, Liang Jingfeng would only feel a slight sense of pleasure.

Liang Jingfeng replied matter-of-factly, "Of course I know, it's about developing new products and launching them soon."

Liu Wangchun, holding a straw, drank orange juice and looked up to ask, "You don't know what the new product is?"

Liang Jingfeng waved his right index finger at her, saying smugly, "Sorry~ it's a trade secret, not to be told to outsiders~"

He really didn't know... Liu Wangchun glanced sideways and thought to himself, if he knew, he wouldn't have such an infuriating expression.

"Oh dear, an order has come in. Excuse me, everyone." Xu Siyang saw Chi Caocao waving at him from the counter and quickly got up and ran over.

Only Fingel, Liu Wangchun, and Liang Jingfeng remained at the table. Liang Jingfeng suddenly sighed and remarked, "This semester has changed so much; we can't even get everyone together anymore."

"Zhong Jincheng and his wife are busy with the milk tea shop. As soon as Zheng Yifeng went abroad, Teacher Su also focused on her work. Lu Yuanqiu and Bai Qingxia are busy with something all day long. It's just a few of us who have nothing to do."

Fingel tentatively asked, "Why don't you invite Lu Yuanqiu's third sister over to chat with us?"

Liang Jingfeng: "I tried it. I couldn't even have a complete conversation with her third sister for half a day. In the end, we only managed to exchange a couple of precious quotes when we squatted down together to watch ants moving house."

"You actually had the chance to spend half a day with her?" Fingel asked, biting his straw and glaring at Liang Jingfeng.

Liu Wangchun: "Where's your senior, Mengmeng?"

"Uh." Liang Jingfeng's eyes suddenly darted away, and he cleared his throat, saying, "I haven't been in contact with her for a while."

Liu Wangchun clicked his tongue: "You promised to help them find a job, but you haven't done it yet. They must have a problem with you, okay?"

Liang Jingfeng panicked and tried to save face: "That's because the branch office was in turmoil recently, but it has stabilized now. I was planning to contact her in the next few days and take her to the branch office in person. I happen to know someone in HR, so I can easily arrange a well-paying position for her."

Liu Wangchun shook his head: "I don't believe it."

"What's there to disbelieve?"

"I just don't believe it."

"Do you believe I'll call her right now?"

(End of this chapter)