Chapter 93#
Yan Heqing didn’t know whether to cooperate with Chu Ziyu. After hesitating for two seconds, Chu Ziyu laughed loudly first, “Couldn’t guess it, right! I’m Little Chu!”
Yan Heqing cooperated, “Hello.”
“Hahaha, I knew you couldn’t guess it.” Chu Ziyu was enthusiastic, “I’m at the arcade near Peking University now. I won a bucket of tokens and can’t finish spending them. I heard you live nearby, come help me use them up?”
Yan Heqing had a keen mind. He was surprised at the first sentence, but by the second sentence, he realized that Lu Lin had asked Chu Ziyu to invite him.
Lu Lin wanted to…
Introduce him to his friends?
Because of his sentence “You have a very good relationship with them”?
Yan Heqing planned to go to the library in the afternoon, but Chu Ziyu called. He didn’t want to refuse the kindness, whether it was Lu Lin or Chu Ziyu. He took a taxi to the address Chu Ziyu mentioned.
Ruixing Plaza, not far from his rental place. He had once eaten hot pot here with Lin Fengzhi.
It was Yan Heqing’s first time entering an arcade.
The entrance was decorated in a dreamy pink style, filled with various claw machines.
He didn’t call Chu Ziyu but went straight in to find him.
It was full of people during the holiday, mostly children and young people. Yan Heqing saw Chu Ziyu at the VR motorcycles.
Quite a few people were watching. Chu Ziyu was playing online with three people, two boys and one girl.
Yan Heqing waited by the side. After a while, Chu Ziyu won.
He took off the VR glasses and high-fived the three people enthusiastically.
“You play really well. We’re going to play speed racing, want to join?” One of the boys invited him.
So they didn’t know each other before.
Chu Ziyu smiled, “Have an appointment today, maybe next time when I’m free!”
The three left first. Chu Ziyu calculated that the time was about right. He was carrying a dreamy pink square bag printed with a princess head, which was extremely mismatched with his appearance.
Looking down and rummaging through the bag for his phone to contact Yan Heqing, someone walked up to him.
“Mr. Chu.”
Chu Ziyu looked up and grinned, “No, no, Mr. Chu sounds so serious. Call me Little Chu or Brother Chu!”
He didn’t realize at all that these two titles contradicted each other.
Yan Heqing chose a compromise, “Let’s just use names.”
Chu Ziyu had no objection. He grabbed a handful of game tokens from the square bag, “Let’s go, let’s go, play whatever you want, plenty of tokens!”
Thinking of something, he blinked and explained, “I’m not a pervert! This bag belongs to my niece. I overslept on her 6th birthday this year, so she punished me to carry her bag for a month.”
Yan Heqing could already imagine the cute appearance of the little girl. He smiled, “Very beautiful.”
“Of course.” Chu Ziyu fiddled with the pearl bag chain, smiling proudly, “My niece chose it herself.”
This arcade had two floors and was particularly large. Chu Ziyu led Yan Heqing for a while and vaguely discovered the reason why Lu Lin asked him to take Yan Heqing out to play.
It seemed that it was Yan Heqing’s first time at an arcade, and he had never played these things?
Chu Ziyu was shocked in his heart but didn’t show it on his face. He didn’t ask Yan Heqing either, grinning, “I want to play basketball!”
Yan Heqing nodded.
The two walked to the basketball shooting area. Chu Ziyu inserted tokens and threw a few symbolically first, then let Yan Heqing try.
This wasn’t difficult. Chu Ziyu made all the shots, and Yan Heqing made two-thirds. The machine churned out tickets.
“Great!” Chu Ziyu happily took the tickets and put them into the princess bag. There was already a large roll of tickets.
He grinned, “Today’s goal is to redeem the biggest prize!”
Next, Chu Ziyu led the play the whole time: racing, lucky wheel, archery, billiards, dance machine…
Finally, the redeemed tickets couldn’t fit anymore, so Chu Ziyu had to go redeem them first.
Ridiculously, he exchanged for a far-infrared rice cooker and a super large plush toy.
“Rice cooker for you, plush toy for me.” Chu Ziyu grinned, “In case my niece is delighted to receive the plush toy, she might pardon my sentence.”
Chu Ziyu’s kindness was obvious. Yan Heqing accepted the rice cooker.
Coming out of the arcade, it was dinner time. Chu Ziyu, holding a bear as big as a bucket, still had a hand to drag Yan Heqing to eat.
“Hehe, there’s a delicious shop not far from here. Don’t know if it’s still there. I’m going to take advantage of you today, you treat!”
Yan Heqing nodded.
The shop Chu Ziyu mentioned was on the Peking University food street, and it was still there.
Small storefront, tables placed by the roadside. It was a sour and spicy hot pot place. Meat skewers were 50 cents each, vegetable skewers were 20 cents each. 50 yuan per person to eat until full.
Other places were crowded during holidays, but the Peking University food street was quieter than on school days.
Usually, there was a wait for tables, but today they could sit anywhere.
Taking two baskets of meat and vegetables, Chu Ziyu found an empty table. Afraid that Yan Heqing would misunderstand, he sat down and took the initiative to say: “Didn’t mean to save you money. I used to come to Peking University to find A-Lin. He was often busy until night. I got hungry waiting and ate here a few times. The taste is better than five-star hotels!”
He sighed, “It’s been almost ten years. Everywhere has changed, only here hasn’t changed.”
Yan Heqing suddenly thought of something.
Lu Lin knew about the food street; Chu Ziyu must have told him.
He withdrew his thoughts. The waiter happened to bring the pot base over.
Orange-red soup base, floating with tomato slices and green garlic leaves, with a strong aroma.
“I didn’t like eating at roadside stalls before.” Chu Ziyu put a bundle of pork into the soup pot and narrowed his eyes mischievously, “Me, having a little money at home, was quite arrogant. Later I met A-Lin. He didn’t have the style of a rich kid at all.”
He laughed loudly, “To this day, my dad is especially grateful to A-Lin.”
Then Chu Ziyu talked about some things about Lu Lin in junior and senior high school.
“He was so cool in high school. Not just high school, he was cool in elementary and junior high too!”
Chu Ziyu got more excited as he spoke, “What I remember most clearly is that in the third year of junior high, there was a so-called school boss. The girl he was chasing liked A-Lin. That boss called a few people to block A-Lin after school.”
“Hahaha…” Before finishing, Chu Ziyu simply laughed until tears came out, “As a result, A-Lin called the dean to go over together, hahahahahahaha… That boss was dumbfounded on the spot…”
Yan Heqing listened quietly and seriously.
The Lu Lin in Chu Ziyu’s mouth was different from the current Lu Lin, but also the same. That was the Lu Lin he missed.
After finishing the sour and spicy hot pot, the two adult men only spent 99 yuan.
Just as Yan Heqing finished paying the bill, Lu Lin’s call came in.
“Where are you? I’ll come pick you up.”
Chu Ziyu was very tactful, “Yo yo yo, Old President Lu is here, then I’ll withdraw first!”
He held the big bear steady and said goodbye to Yan Heqing, “Let’s play together again next time. I’m super good at playing, guarantee no repetition!”
Yan Heqing agreed.
Chu Ziyu took a different route, and Yan Heqing walked towards the entrance of the food street.
After walking a few steps, he saw Lu Lin walking from a distance.
It was seven or eight o’clock at this time, and the sky was already dark. The small shops on both sides lit up with neon lights. Yan Heqing’s pace was fairly even at first, then gradually faster.
Lu Lin also saw Yan Heqing early. He stopped at the same time as him at the boiled meatball shop where Yan Heqing treated him.
They also spoke at the same time.
“Have you eaten?”
“Bought a rice cooker?”
Yan Heqing answered first, “Redeemed from playing games.”
Lu Lin naturally took the rice cooker, “Ate. Went to the company to deal with some matters, and ate by the way.”
Yan Heqing thought of Lu Lin’s new decision. He stopped, and complex emotions filled his light-colored pupils.
Did you find out?
For the first time, he wanted to ask Lu Lin.
Lu Lin didn’t notice Yan Heqing falling behind at first and continued walking. But after just two or three steps, he looked back, his black eyes calm, “What’s wrong?”
Eyes meeting, after a few seconds, Yan Heqing put away the emotions in his eyes. He shook his head and stepped forward to catch up with Lu Lin, “Nothing.”
Returning to Yan Heqing’s residence, this time Lu Lin went upstairs and stayed until almost ten o’clock before leaving.
School tomorrow. Yan Heqing read a book for a while, took a shower, and went to sleep.
In the following week, Yan Heqing’s time was filled to the brim every day: school, experiments, and checking the renovation of the family housing.
Lu Lin was also busy recently, only video calling Yan Heqing for about an hour at night.
On Friday night, Lu Lin sent a design of a bookcase with a fish tank, then started a video call, “Are you satisfied with this design?”
In the middle was a rectangular fish tank with lights, and above and below were walnut bookcases. It was indeed stunning.
Yan Heqing nodded, “Satisfied.”
Lu Lin smiled, “Want to go fishing tomorrow?”
“Next week.” Yan Heqing curved his lips, “I have something to deal with tomorrow.”
After a while, Yan Heqing received a message from Lu Muchi.
“Tomorrow afternoon at five, Five Lakes Hotel.”
…
Lu Muchi was trying on suits in the ward. The huge room was full of mobile clothes racks, hung with shirts and suits of different styles and colors.
Lu Muchi’s cast was removed, but he still had to be careful with his movements. Lu Changcheng didn’t agree to let him be discharged, observing for a few more days.
Lu Muchi changed one set after another, and finally settled on a dark blue suit.
He was certain that Yan Heqing was waiting for him to be successful in his career. Once he was no longer controlled by his grandfather, it would be easier to be with him. He wanted to show more of his mature side in front of Yan Heqing.
Using the injury to propose Yan Heqing’s participation in his new project this time, firstly, he wanted to take the opportunity to see Yan Heqing more. Secondly, Yan Heqing was once a top student in software engineering and had the ability to participate. Thirdly, he was conveying a message to Yan Heqing that he was willing to let Yan Heqing participate in everything of his, including the most important company.
Originally, the new project was a sure thing, only lacking the signing of the contract with Cheng Jian. But suddenly a technology company popped up to snatch the project, backed by Lu Group holdings…
His uncle invested in this technology company.
Lu Muchi didn’t think Lu Lin was tripping him up. His uncle didn’t need to target him. Moreover, this project was a big project for others, but had no attraction for Lu Lin.
Lu Muchi was determined to win this project.
This was no longer just to prove to his grandfather that he was not much worse than Lu Lin, but also a love letter he gave to Yan Heqing.
A love letter worth tens of billions.
Lu Muchi’s chest was warm. He had already started looking at his watch, counting down the time to meet Yan Heqing.
He wanted to see Yan Heqing too much.
The next day came in Lu Muchi’s eager expectation. He arrived at the Five Lakes Hotel at three o’clock to wait for Yan Heqing. At four-thirty, Yan Heqing arrived.
Lu Muchi looked at Yan Heqing the whole time and briefly explained the problem with the project, “Don’t worry, the problem isn’t big. Cheng Jian, my partner, is more anxious to sign the contract than I am.”
Lu Muchi’s brows were full of tenderness, “Asking you to come today is because I want you to learn more things that are not in school. Later when you enter the company…” He coughed, “I mean my uncle’s com… You haven’t met my uncle. He is a very powerful figure. He has several companies related to your new major under him. I’ll take you to meet him when I have time.”
At the same time, Lu Lin received a call from his assistant.
“President Lu, Cheng Jian and Little President Lu are meeting at the Five Lakes Hotel today.”
Lu Lin was processing documents and didn’t care.
The technology company he newly invested in had great potential. Plus his financial support, Lu Muchi’s cooperation with Cheng Jian would only make Lu Muchi learn a bigger lesson.
However, with the assistant’s next sentence, Lu Lin closed the document.
“Also, Student Yan has also arrived at the Five Lakes Hotel.”