Chapter 60: 060 Settle The Score, Just You Wait
Sunday naturally didn’t require work, and there were no classes, let alone the troubles of an Asura Field. Wang Heng strolled idly around the campus with his hands in his pockets, glancing at the library then at the teaching building, aimlessly, without needing to specially arrange a mission for himself.
What a wonderful life, of course it would be even better with a bit more money… Looking at the Porsche squeezed among a bunch of affordable cars in the parking lot, Wang Heng couldn’t help but feel a little envious.
He didn’t particularly like cars; he just yearned for the financial power to splurge a million on a mere means of transportation.
Suddenly, the notification sound for a mobile phone text message rang.
Wang Heng pulled out his mobile phone and saw it was a notification from the bank: nearly five thousand in salary had arrived.
“Not bad, generous!”
Working just a mere week to get this much salary was obviously not the norm for a student part-time job. On one hand, it might be because Lu Qi was looking out for him; on the other hand, more importantly, it was himself.
Without Wang Heng’s prophetic hint, the project team would definitely have spent much more time and taken detours in the development progress. In that case, the extra expenditure on their project would probably have been in the six figures… Thinking this way, the one who benefited the most was indeed the capitalist.
“No problem, accumulate quickly, and soon turn things around to become the master of capital.”
He muttered to himself as he arrived at the free fitness area in the corner of the sports field. He grabbed the parallel bars with both hands and slowly pulled himself up.
Things like typing and reading done for too long always made him feel the need for some exercise. In this sense, he clearly wasn’t a pure shut-in.
After wandering like this for more than an hour, the appointed time with Pei Ningle finally arrived.
Wang Heng strolled to the school gate and saw the young girl walking over quickly.
Against the backdrop of many university students around her, Pei Ningle looked like a middle school student, even from the junior high department. That tracksuit of hers really resembled the school uniform of some middle school. Her usual single ponytail hairstyle wasn’t as youthful as the pigtails in the video, but it was still a common style among middle school girls, so despite the surrounding university students being the same age as her, she really didn’t look it.
“How much longer until we earn a living?” As soon as they met, Pei Ningle asked impatiently.
Wang Heng: “About an hour, what’s up, are you already hungry?”
The young girl touched her belly: “I only ate two slices of bread at noon.”
“You… okay, then we’ll go soon. Around four o’clock, the canteen should start having meals. Walking over slowly from here, buying a beverage or something, it should be about right.”
Saying this, Wang Heng led Pei Ningle strolling along the campus avenue to the doorway of the campus supermarket and turned inside.
He took a bottle of jasmine green tea from the freezer, then asked: “What do you want to drink?”
Pei Ningle looked at the dazzling array in the freezer and on the shelves: “…Isn’t this a bit luxurious?”
Wang Heng: “Drinking a beverage is considered luxurious?”
The young girl said solemnly: “It’s more expensive than my lunch…”
Wang Heng took out his mobile phone and showed her the salary arrival text message.
Then he pocketed his mobile phone and said dashingly: “Just one beverage, I can afford it.”
But Pei Ningle shook her head: “No need for you to pay. If you want to drink, drink it yourself, I don’t need any!”
Wang Heng suddenly remembered—these four girls who had sharpened their cleavers all had strong self-esteem. Pei Ningle might be the most indifferent among the four, but if she had a choice, she didn’t like taking advantage of others. The first time they went to the bar to sing a few days ago, she had nearly used all the two hundred yuan earned that night to pay off debt, which was proof enough.
Even up to today, Pei Ningle hadn’t fully paid back the money she owed him, so she definitely didn’t want him to pay anymore.
Wang Heng thought for a moment and put the jasmine green tea back in the freezer.
Then he clapped his hands and said: “Let’s go, then to the canteen.”
Entering the canteen, they indeed immediately got their meals. Wang Heng noticed that Pei Ningle’s dinner plate was full of vegetable dishes, not even a shred of meat.
Wang Heng couldn’t help asking: “Like this, can you eat your fill?”
“Of course, bean sprouts, cabbage, radish, these things are very filling,” the young girl picked up a piece of white radish, chewing as she said, “Anyway, better than those two slices of bread.”
“But just eating these isn’t great for body development, right?” Wang Heng held back the second half of the sentence, which was—you with this junior high student-like size, aren’t you afraid it’s from malnutrition since childhood?
Pei Ningle glared at him: “I’m already 18, how could I still be developing? After 18, boys might still grow taller, but girls won’t, I checked online!”
Because she really cared, she specially went online to check?
Wang Heng smiled, and in a slip of the tongue, blurted out: “Development isn’t just about height.”
Pei Ningle suddenly stopped her chopsticks: “Then what else?”
“For example…” Wang Heng touched his nose tip, “IQ.”
Pei Ningle pouted: “Are you saying my IQ is low?”
Wang Heng quickly changed the topic: “Of course not! By the way, how’s that video of yours doing now?”
Talking about the video, the young girl melancholically put down her chopsticks: “Views went up to a few dozen, then stopped. Comments say it’s nice, but only three… Really no splash at all, who knows when it’ll start getting advertisements?”
Wang Heng comforted: “No problem, don’t aim to shoot to fame overnight, take it slow.”
Pei Ningle: “That two thousand yuan I owe you, I can only pay back slowly too. The money from the bar, I still need for buying food, paying rent and utilities… Sigh, if you don’t leave home once, you’ll never know how important money is!”
After sighing, the young girl picked up her chopsticks again and ate her bean sprouts cabbage radish set meal. The stuff on her dinner plate was so plain, paired with her current expression, it had a Buddhist air of ‘all beings suffer.’
Wang Heng silently picked a piece of pork ribs from his own dinner plate and placed it on her rice.
Then he said: “This doesn’t count as money, friendship aid.”
Pei Ningle bit into the meat, practically tearing up: “Thank you, benefactor…”
Wang Heng’s mouth twitched: “No need to exaggerate. I mean it, you don’t have to rush to pay back my two thousand, and treating you to a couple more meals is no big deal.”
Swallowing another big mouthful of rice, the young girl blinked in confusion: “No big deal? You said we have to settle food expenses daily, not a penny short!”
Wang Heng was immediately choked up.
What more could he say? He couldn’t possibly say that was an excuse to dissuade her, right?
“No need to be so precise, my salary has come in, I’m not short on money.”
But the young girl still shook her head: “Whether you’re short on money is your business. Wait and see, once I scrape together next month’s rent, I’ll start paying back your part!”
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