Huayu 1995

Chapter 18 I Understand Zhou Xun Better Than Zhou Xun Herself

Chapter 18 I Understand Zhou Xun Better Than Zhou Xun Herself
"By the way, I borrowed 250 from Xiaodong and 150 from Lü Bu a couple of days ago. I'm returning the money to you now."

Su Chao took out the money he had earned that day and began distributing it.

My career is indeed at a critical juncture, and I urgently need money in all aspects.

Especially Zhang Yu next month.

If "The Moon Caused the Trouble" weren't on sale, it might cost tens of thousands of dollars to buy.

You must save a large sum of money for emergencies.

However, Su Chao felt that the money had to be returned.

You can't feed your brothers by just making empty promises.

Lu Bu and Guo Xiaodong knew perfectly well that you were making a fortune, yet you comfortably let them continue to tighten their belts.

If it were Su Chao, he would definitely quit.

Anyway, once the money is paid back... you can borrow it again.

Su Chao not only had to repay the money, but he even took out a few bills to pay his salary.

"If you guys work for me now, I definitely won't treat you badly, brothers. I'll tentatively pay you two hundred yuan a month..."

Lu Bu received two hundred, Guo Xiaodong received two hundred, Guo Xiaofeng... also received two hundred.

These days, a worker's monthly salary is only three to five hundred yuan, and they generally can't earn more than two hundred yuan by working as an extra.

"This……"

Lu Bu didn't know which to refuse: the money he was supposed to lend to Su Chao, or the salary Su Chao was supposed to pay him.

But he wanted both.

“You need money right now, and we haven’t really done anything. We haven’t been able to do the things you asked us to do.”

Guo Xiaodong refused both.

His brother also shook his head repeatedly, he didn't understand what had happened either.

When did you join?

"Don't worry, we'll be very busy in a few days, and you might not even have time to do odd jobs."

Su Chao insisted that they accept it.

He paid back 400 yuan, received 600 yuan in wages, and in one go, he gave away 1,000 yuan.

"Brother Bo~"

Su Chao then looked at Huang Bo.

"what?"

Huang Bo quickly wiped his drool, wondering if he had anything to do with this.

"Would you like to work together?"

Su Chao handed him a lamb skewer, with alternating layers of fat and meat, which had just been served and was still sizzling with oil.

"Do...what?"

Huang Bo looked stunned.

"Just do it, we'll talk about it later. You won't suffer any losses."

Throughout your life, every time you give an acceptance speech, you will cry and say thank you to Brother Chao, because it was Brother Chao who led you onto the right path of acting.

Without Brother Chao, I wouldn't be who I am today.

"Hehe, where's my salary?"

As Huang Bo said before, his problem is not whether he is poor or not. Although he is not as successful as Wu Xiubo and Sha Baoliang in the bar, he still earns over a thousand yuan a month, which is definitely middle class in this era.

His problem is that he sees no hope.

From the boundless anticipation he felt when he first arrived to the stark reality he has now come to, he has seen something different in Su Chao.

Since we're all just getting by anyway, why can't we just coast along?

"I'll give you two hundred too."

Without hesitation, Su Chao pulled out two large bills and handed them to Huang Bo.

"Fine...fine, so I'm the only one being excluded, right?"

Zhou Xun lit a cigarette. She finally understood that she was superfluous here.

"You have a family to support, so it's not convenient for you to join us in this nonsense..."

Su Chao had no plans to recruit her.

Zhou Xun should stick to her original path.

They have nothing to help them, nothing to save them.

Tell her now not to have so many boyfriends.

That's just insane.

Su Chao has no romantic feelings for Zhou Xun other than friendship. She is loyal and supportive, and the nickname "Little Red Riding Hood" suits her perfectly.

"I'm just curious what you're planning to do, rob a bank?"

Huang Bo saw no hope, and Zhou Xun was in a similar situation.

She has been in Casablanca for over a month, and under normal circumstances, she should be able to get a permanent position and start earning a base salary.

Unfortunately, she always got into conflicts with the customers.

She's fine with customers she gets along with; it's not that she's bad at communication. The problem is that some customers are really awful, and she doesn't want to put up with them.

Sister Hong helped her deal with the customers, but her chances of getting a permanent position seemed increasingly slim.

In this city of dreams, she lived in a house converted from an air-raid shelter, which was dark and damp, and even her boyfriend's musical instruments would get moldy and damp.

And she felt like she was about to rot away.

"Actually, there's nothing we can't say. We plan to open an art exam training class to train students who are going to take the art exam."

Su Chao appeared very calm.

"Pfft~"

The person who sprayed the alcohol was not Zhou Xun; she hadn't been drinking at the time.

Poor Huang Bo, he had just taken a big gulp and spat it all out—luckily he turned his head in time, otherwise everyone would have to eat his saliva today.

Be more polite~

Su Chao asked the boss to bring out another batch of skewers.

There's no way around it; these days everyone craves meat, and once you finally get to eat it, it's hard to stop.

"I have to thank Brother Chao today. The last time I ate meat like this was more than a year ago," Guo Xiaodong broke the silence and said with emotion, "That time I ate a pack of instant noodles for three days. After I got my salary, I went out and ate a bowl of braised pork with seven or eight big steamed buns. I ate until I threw up."

"Did you throw up?" Lu Bu asked.

He could understand Huang Bo. When he and Guo Xiaodong first heard Su Chao talk about the training course, their reactions weren't much better than Huang Bo's.

"No way, I wouldn't even want to throw up."

Guo Xiaodong was actually implying that no matter what Su Chao does, as long as you follow someone as capable as Su Chao, you won't lack for opportunities.

Huang Bo had obviously thought of this as well.

So it was Zhou Xun who raised the question, and she asked without any beating around the bush, "Then aren't you lying to people?"

"We'll take it one step at a time. If things really don't work out, we'll just wait until our training courses start, then you can come and listen and you'll see."

Su Chao was full of confidence; he even thought Zhou Xun might stay to listen to the lecture.

Because Su Chao has so much to teach Zhou Xun.

In my past life, the training classes taught people how to act, and they often used Zhou Xun as an example. The teachers in the training classes have long since stripped Zhou Xun bare.

They know Zhou Xun better than Zhou Xun herself.

Although Zhou Xun was incredibly talented at this time, she was nowhere near her peak. She was like a rough, unpolished gem.

Su Chao knows better than anyone how to develop her potential.

"Okay, I'll go check out your classes when they start."

After they had eaten and drunk their fill, the group dispersed.

They all live in different directions.

Huang Bo and Zhou Xun were going the same way, so Huang Bo was responsible for delivering Zhou Xun to her boyfriend.

Su Chao and his group happened to run into a minibus.

He did not forget to practice martial arts, and when they were almost at their lodgings, he told Lü Bu to go back first.

He himself spent half an hour wandering around in the small park.

When Su Chao returned, Lü Bu was arguing with someone.

To be precise, it was the rock 'n' roll kid in the room who was being sarcastic.

He was already being sarcastic and sarcastic from the very first day Su Chao arrived.

They said another farmer had come, and the place was becoming uninhabitable.

Su Chao originally wanted to build a relationship with him.

Hearing this, they didn't immediately go up and beat him up because Su Chao always preferred to win people over with virtue.

He didn't stop even though he came home late yesterday.

Here we are again today...

"Damn it, he's been nagging on and on for ages. I asked him to come down and fight me one-on-one, but he's too scared. It's so annoying."

Lu Bu hated this kind of person the most.

"Hey buddy, calm down. Living in a place like this, anyone can come home late just to make a living. If you feel disturbed, then go rent a single room yourself."

Su Chao went over and patted the rock youth on the shoulder in a comforting manner.

Although he didn't exert any force, the rock youth still almost couldn't catch his breath.

“You see, he thinks I’m right, he nodded.”

Su Chao was very pleased that his roommate was so understanding.

Lu Bu observed for a moment and, seeing that the rocker was still moving, finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Go to sleep, go to sleep. It's so late. Everyone has to go to work tomorrow."

Su Chao carried two plastic buckets to fetch water for a shower.

This time, at least no one barged in while he was taking a shower.

"what are you doing?"

Perhaps it was because the original owner had practiced martial arts since childhood, and Su Chao was used to rolling things up, that made him particularly alert, always ready to jump up and roll things up until they were smoking.

So the next morning, still half asleep, he discovered someone was touching his guitar.

"I...I'll just take a look."

The rock youth put down his guitar and said, trying to appear calm.

"What are you trying to do by looking at my guitar? What do you think it is?"

Su Chao sat up, scratching his hair in frustration.

There's an old saying: "You can be a thief for a thousand days, but you can't guard against thieves for a thousand days."

It seems we have to get rid of him.

"Where did you get such a nice guitar? Did you steal it? Or did you sleep with some rich woman? Look at you... Hey, what are you doing? Let go of me..."

"Stealing! This guy stole my guitar! I caught him red-handed! He almost stole it! Help!"

Su Chao grabbed the rocker with one hand and hung the guitar on the rocker's back with the other.

There were six people in the dormitory, and one of them ran away around 5 a.m.

Lu Bu, along with two others, were also awakened by the noise.

Even the people in the other rooms of the courtyard came running when they heard the noise.

When one place is in trouble, people from all sides watch.

We Chinese people have no shortage of onlookers.

In his past life, Su Chao had a friend who was waiting for his girlfriend by the roadside when a man rushed up to him, asking if he could help him take her to the XX Hotel.

My friend said, "We're not a taxi or a ride-hailing service, why should we give you a ride?"

The man said he was going to catch his wife cheating.

Su Chao's eyes lit up. He didn't even wait for his girlfriend anymore. He dragged her along to catch the man cheating, and even rushed in with him to help lift the blanket and take pictures.

While catching a thief may not be as popular as catching someone cheating, it can still be a topic of conversation over tea.

Those who hadn't gone out to work yet all came out to watch the excitement.

"What happened?"

The landlady arrived quickly as well.

The entire courtyard is occupied by her tenants, so she will definitely be implicated if something happens.

"I didn't steal anything from him!"

The rock musician was so angry he almost fainted; for the first few dozen seconds, he didn't understand what was happening.

"I'm just asking you, did you take my guitar?"

Su Chao practically lifted the rocker with one hand, making it impossible for the man to escape his grip.

"Longhair, did you take it or not?"

Landlady hates thieves the most. Last year, a tenant ran away because he couldn't pay the rent. You mean, if you're going to run away, why did you steal from all your roommates?

"I took it, but I didn't steal it!"

The rock musician felt very wronged.

"You took it while I was asleep, didn't you? Taking something without asking is theft, and you still say you didn't steal it?"

It's not that Su Chao is being too arrogant.

The main problem is that this rock musician is disgusting.

He plays rock music and often has his days and nights reversed.

The darkness gave him dark circles under his eyes, but he used them to roll his eyes.

When Su Chao came back to pick something up on his way back last time, he found this guy fast asleep.

Su Chao and Lü Bu returned late, but it didn't affect his rest at all.

The others didn't say anything, but he kept rambling on like a gossipy old woman.

Most importantly, a grudge has already been formed.

He touched Su Chao's guitar without Su Chao's permission or even his knowledge.