Age of Legends

Chapter 68 Passing the Cup
Wang Shuowei's communication skills are amazing to Zhang Chen. When he was a child, he was arranged to attend various cram schools and the Children's Palace, and he also played football, so he got to know a lot of people.

It can be said that she is a social butterfly in the three departments and four courts. Of course, this is also due to her father's previous reputation, so it is not surprising.

Among the four people from the Cultural Bureau compound, one couple was particularly conspicuous. After introduction, the boy was named Li Bin and the girl was named Yang Lu.

Li Bin has fair skin but looks a bit effeminate. Yang Lu, on the other hand, is very outstanding in appearance, the kind that will catch your eye the moment you first appear. She has some ethnic minority blood, so she looks like she has a straight nose and a sharp face.

The four people in the Cultural Bureau compound all looked brightly dressed. As soon as they sat down, Li Bin took out his Nokia phone and played with it, attracting everyone's attention.

The Cultural Bureau where Li Bin works has been doing quite well these days. They manage all the dance halls, nightclubs, KTVs, billiard halls and video game halls in Rongcheng. In addition, they also own several art centers and large book chain stores. These guys in the Cultural Bureau are really rich.

"Li Bin, what kind of phone did you buy? Let's take a look. A 4,000 yuan phone? What kind of phone is it?"

Someone in the crowd spoke up, and after being asked several times, Li Bin pretended to be nonchalant but actually proud as he handed the phone over.

It was a Nokia 3210, which was a mobile phone that had gotten rid of the bulky shape of big brothers and began to present a simple and classic candy-bar shape with a large screen.

The official selling price of Li Bin's mobile phone is 3459, but he has to say it is . However, when you add some forced bundled package consumption, it is about the same.

However, a mobile phone that costs four thousand yuan is quite expensive nowadays. Even if they save as much as they can from their daily living expenses or New Year's money, they cannot afford to buy one.

Everyone passed it around, and Li Bin was quite proud of it. Since he bought it, this phone has brought him great fame and infinite emotional value. So it is not difficult to understand why some people like to be in the spotlight and pay a premium to buy some fast-moving consumer goods. If they can get in front of others, they can naturally enjoy this kind of glory.

When the iPhone was released, some people even sold their kidneys. You could say that Apple was arrogant or didn't value the domestic market. Anyway, it sold all over the mainland. When the iPod was released the next year, Wang Shuowei bought one. There were dozens of languages, but not Chinese. As time goes by, the offensive and defensive positions have changed in just a dozen or twenty years.

Zhang Chen took it and looked at it carefully, nodding his head. After all, Zhang Chen was a man of several decades, and he thought that since he had spent money on it, he shouldn't be able to decorate it a bit, so as not to spoil the fun when he was out. He looked at the phone with a curious look of retro style, as if he was seeing an old friend at the beginning of the explosion of information technology.

Wang Shuowei was not very interested. Firstly, he and Zhang Chen had experienced the whole planning and development of the Star of Tomorrow, and knew how much money Zhang Chen had now. If they wanted this 4,000 yuan phone, they could buy it easily, so they would not feel like they could not get the peaches from heaven.

Secondly, he was the first to get all kinds of electronic technology since he was a child. He prefers game consoles and is disenchanted with these things. It doesn't matter if he doesn't have them.

On the other hand, he loves all kinds of cutting-edge technology magazines. His ideal mobile phone is like the one in science fiction movies, which directly displays various data, information and images on a glass plate, and can play games with performance that exceeds that of a computer. In his opinion, the current Nokia phone is far from his ideal mobile phone.

This is the advantage of imaginative children, they always have more cutting-edge ideas. In fact, the so-called knowledge does not necessarily come from the road you have walked. The books you have read and the world you have imagined can all serve as a teacher.

Wang Shuowei also joked with Li Bin, "Don't drop your phone into the river!"

Li Bin looked at the river next to him, stood up silently and changed seats with his girlfriend Yang Lu. As soon as the phone lit up and attracted everyone's attention, Li Bin began to speak eloquently. Others were called over one after another. Some were classmates, or people from nearby communities, who had known each other since childhood. In addition, Wang Shuowei had a wide range of friends, so they came as soon as they were called.

At that moment, there were four girls and six boys at the scene. Two of the four girls were from the Cultural Bureau, Yang Lu and Chen Yuexin. The others were people they knew and belonged to the same circle, Yu Jiao and Wang Dan.

Among the six boys, except Zhang Chen and Wang Shuowei, the other four boys are: Li Bin is very flamboyant, Huang Xu is a fat boy with a lively personality, Xie Feng is a little silent, and Liu Bo can support anyone who speaks, a bit like a jack of all trades.

But to be honest, both Yang Lu and Chen Kexin are good-looking, with Yang Lu being the most outstanding. Chen Kexin also has a pair of peach blossom eyes, and her outfit looks familiar to Zhang Chen, a sweater and casual pants, but he can't remember where he's seen her before.

When Li Bin was talking, Yang Lu was standing beside him and looking at him with a smile. They were childhood sweethearts and grew up together in the Cultural Bureau compound. Li Bin was flamboyant, while Yang Lu was quite calm. Moreover, Yang Lu was indeed a well-known beauty. With her cute and cuddly look next to Li Bin, everyone at the table felt like they had eaten some dog food.

Wang Shuowei even wanted Li Bin not to come next time because it was an eyesore!

Since Yang Lu, the big beauty, has Li Bin, Chen Yuexin, the second beauty, naturally attracts a lot of attention from other boys. Everyone communicates with each other in the intervals when Li Bin is talking, and they all have the intention of winning Chen Yuexin's favor.

Wang Shuowei was probably restrained by Zhang Chen's reminder, so he didn't talk about Zhang Chen's moral education in public this time. In fact, he also considered the situation. The reason why he mentioned Zhang Chen in front of Gu Zhiyu and others last time was because Gu Zhiyu was a fraternity, a high-end circle, and he had face to mention it. But now Li Bin and others were just ordinary people, and Wang Shuowei felt that it was ordinary and there was no need to compare.

Li Bin and his group were from the same circle. They saw Zhang Chen for the first time and heard Wang Shuowei talk about such a person. They were a group of people who were more or less wealthy, and as high school students they all had cell phones. Seeing that Zhang Chen was generous with his praises, they did not take him seriously.

When Wang Dan mentioned that he and Zhang Chen were in the same kindergarten, several girls looked at Zhang Chen openly, because Zhang Chen was indeed handsome and had a sunny and youthful look, which was an appearance that could easily win people's favor. In other words, he could be said to be harmless.

During this time, Yang Lu only glanced at Zhang Chen and compared him with Li Bin, whom she liked. She felt that Li Bin was not worse looking than Zhang Chen, and Li Bin was eloquent. Zhang Chen's high praise for Li Bin when he looked at his phone just now made her naturally put Zhang Chen in the position of those who usually praised Li Bin, so she just passed him over.

Chen Yuexin was probably very good at this kind of socializing. It was better to have handsome guys in this kind of occasion. Even if nothing happened, it would make her feel good. So she actually looked at Zhang Chen when she came. Now, after hearing Wang Dan's words, she picked up the beer glass and said with a smile: "Wang Dan and I have a good relationship. You are her kindergarten classmate, so let's clink glasses to show that we know each other."

Zhang Chen smiled and said, "I'll have orange juice..." He looked at the drink in front of him.

Wang Shuowei then spoke up: "He can't drink much. He won't drink. Just drink a beverage." Zhang Chen can't drink much and doesn't like to drink. Wang Shuowei knows that and he will help him to drink outside. He never forces it. This is just a young Zhang Chen. Later, Zhang Chen graduated from college and became a slave. Wine is a must-have in social occasions. How can he still be protected like he was when he was a teenager?
The result immediately caused a lot of ridicule. Chen Yuexin looked at Zhang Chen with a smile, then drank the small cup of beer in front of her in one gulp.

Zhang Chen picked up Wang Shuowei's cup and drank it.

Chen Yuexin put down the cup, looked at him with a smile, then turned her eyes away and continued chatting with the sister next to her.

(End of this chapter)