A hundred flavors of life

Chapter 1372 Zhao Ye: Getting More and More Like a Scoundrel! (Please Subscribe!)

Zhao Ye thought this debt collection company was a bit ridiculous. He pointed to the words "as large as billions" on the screen and asked with a laugh:

"A billion? Dude, do you think we run a bank? And you're taking on a ten-dollar bill? Is that even enough for your internet fee?"

Hua Shier glanced at him with the look of someone looking at an idiot, and said earnestly:

"Have you ever earned a single dollar on your own? You still think ten dollars isn't enough!"

"So what if it's ten yuan? Even a small mosquito bite is still meat!"

"Besides, in our line of work, recovering even a single dollar is a testament to the company's reputation and capability!"

"Ten dollars today, twenty dollars tomorrow, little by little, you understand? Gradually, your reputation will grow, and then big business will come knocking."

Zhao Ye was taken aback by what he said, but still felt it was unreliable:
"Then, what about the debt of one billion? You really think you can get it back?"

Hua Shier chuckled, patted Zhao Ye on the shoulder, and said in a tone that said, "Young man, you're still too naive."

"Huohua, you need to broaden your horizons! One hundred million is just a small goal; one billion is just the beginning!"

"Whether we can get it back or not is another matter, but we can't lose in terms of momentum! It's an advertisement, after all, who will watch it if we don't exaggerate?"

Zhao Ye: "." He felt like he had boarded a pirate ship.

Hua Twelve then smiled meaningfully:
"Besides, how do you know I won't get that billion back?"

The two spent the whole day in the internet cafe, but didn't get any business. Instead, Red Alert was flying high.

Red Alert 2 was just released this year and is very popular. Most young people love to play it, and Zhao Ye is no exception. He dragged Hua Shier to play against him.

Zhao Ye chose the Soviet Union and immediately started developing the game, building things up rapidly to produce Apocalypse Tanks.

As a result, Hua Twelve started with a fast-push tactic that no one had seen before at the time: quickly building two suicide vehicles, then selling the base vehicle to quickly produce infantry and advance.

Use dogs to scout Zhao Ye's location, then use suicide vehicles to launch a suicide attack and destroy Zhao Ye's base.

What's even more outrageous is that he also used conscripts to capture key buildings in Zhao Ye's base. While the suicide vehicles were advancing, a large number of infantrymen were also advancing in coordination, and Zhao Ye's base was destroyed within two minutes.

Zhao Ye was completely dumbfounded. His tank hadn't even come out yet, what was going on?
"I refuse to accept this! My tank isn't even out yet! Let's play another round, and I'll avenge this defeat!"

Seeing Zhao Ye's sullen expression, Hua Shier chuckled:

"Since you're so serious, how about we win something?"

Zhao Ye immediately chickened out: "I...I don't have any money!"

"How can we talk about money, bro? We're winning clothes, one shirt per hand, and if we run out of shirts, we'll take pants. You dare to do it?"

Zhao Ye hesitated.

Hua Shier made a disdainful expression: "You don't even dare to play if you don't win money? Forget it, I'll just play with someone else!"

Zhao Ye was provoked and instantly fell for it, his face turning red and his head spinning:
"Whoever says I wouldn't dare, I'll win the clothes. Anyone who tries to back out is a bastard!"

Hua Shier gave a thumbs up: "Great, let's get started!"

Half an hour later, Hua Twelve shook his head and sighed:
"Stop playing!"

Zhao Ye urged anxiously, "Don't stop playing! Let's play one more round, just one more round!"

Hua Twelve looked at him speechlessly:
"You've lost so many rounds already, you even lost your underwear to me, what else do you have to play with me? Tell me, when are you going to take off this outfit and give it to me!"

Zhao Ye then realized that he had no way to lose anymore, and couldn't help but make a bitter face:
"It's not that I want to renege on my debt, it's just that I don't know how to give it to you here. How about I bring the clothes to school tomorrow?"

Hua Shier snorted: "They say there are no fathers and sons in a casino, so even if I were a son, I wouldn't acknowledge him at the gambling table."

Zhao Ye: "I feel like you're taking advantage of me!"

Hua Shier couldn't suppress the smirk on his face: "Your intuition is really accurate."

"you"

"What do you mean 'what do you mean'? Stop interrupting and take off your clothes!"

Zhao Ye clutched his chest, his voice sounding like a submissive: "Can't we not take it off?!"

"Alright, from now on I'm your big brother. If I tell you to go east, you can't go west; if I tell you to beat a dog, you can't catch a chicken!"

Hua Shier was just teasing him. Besides, most time travelers take on followers, so what does he lack? Taking on a errand boy to buy water would be just fine.

Faced with the choice between public humiliation and compromising one's principles, Zhao Ye cried out from the bottom of his heart:
"Brother Twelve!"

Hua Shier's QQ hadn't rung at all. He checked the time, then pushed the keyboard aside:
"Come on, bro, let's go eat!"

He was alone at home and too lazy to cook when he got back, so Hua Shier took Zhao Ye to a restaurant, ordered a few dishes, and the two of them also drank a bottle of beer.

Zhao Ye ate while doing the math:
"Well, before the business is even halfway done, I've already lost tens of dollars!"

After eating and drinking their fill, the two got on their bicycles and drove home separately, pretending to be drunk.

Nothing happened that night. The next day, Hua Shier got up early for school. When he rode his bike out of the neighborhood, he ran into Fang Hui, who was also riding her bike out. When she saw him, she blushed like a mouse seeing a cat and sped up to leave.

Upon arriving at school, before class even began, Hua Shier overheard Qiao Ran whispering to Zhao Ye:

"We saw you leave with that guy yesterday. What were you doing with him?"

After Chen Xun finished speaking, he gestured towards Hua Shier with his lip!
Zhao Ye, remembering how he'd lost even his underwear yesterday and was forced to acknowledge the elder brother, was too embarrassed to mention it, only saying:
"I thought he was tall, so I wanted to recruit him to the basketball team!"

Both of them knew that Zhao Ye was a sports specialist and a member of the school basketball team, so they both believed it to be true. Chen Xun curled his lip and said:
"Him? Being tall doesn't necessarily mean being agile; he might just be a clumsy, stupid fool!"

Hua Twelve, with his keen ears, stretched and yawned, saying:

"It's funny that even the gossipy old women at the edge of the village can become class leaders!"

Chen Xun's voice wasn't loud, but Hua Shier's voice was quite loud, and everyone in the class heard it. They all turned to look at him, and then back at Chen Xun, wondering why the two of them were at odds.

Chen Xun's face flushed red instantly. He stood up and snapped, "Who are you calling a gossipy old woman!"

"Anyone who talks behind my back, I'll expose them!"

Chen Xun wanted to say something, but Qiao Ran and Zhao Ye quickly pressed him back into his seat. Qiao Ran whispered a reminder:

"They've already said that. If you continue to cause trouble for him, aren't you just admitting it?"

Chen Xun thought about it and realized he was right. He glared at Hua Shier angrily, then turned away and ignored him.

During class, Hua Shier propped up his textbook, then slumped onto the desk and began to daydream.

Because he sat in the last row and didn't make any noise, the teacher didn't notice him.

But the tree wanted to be still, but the wind wouldn't stop. Suddenly, a woman's voice said:
"Teacher, Hua Shier, a student in the last row, wasn't paying attention!"

This was a physics class, and the teacher was a middle-aged man who looked kind and honest.

The physics teacher adjusted his glasses: "Hua Shier, please stand up and answer the question!"

Hua Shier stood up and glanced at the female classmate who had reported him, Men Lingcao, whom some in the class called Xiaocao.

At that moment, the doorbell plant was proudly raising its chin at him. The physics teacher asked:
"I just talked about the conservation of mechanical energy. Now I'd like to ask you, if a small ball rolls down an inclined plane, ignoring friction, what does its speed at the bottom depend on?"

Hua Twelve replied without hesitation:
"This is a philosophical question. My answer is that it has to do with whether the ball wants to roll or not. If the ball were conscious, it might not want to roll at all, or it might change its mind halfway down the path."

The whole class burst into laughter.

The physics teacher's face turned pale: "This is a physics class; you should answer questions from a physics perspective!"

Hua Shier then said helplessly, "Alright, ignoring friction, the speed at which the ball reaches the bottom should be related to the initial height and the acceleration due to gravity!"

The physics teacher's expression softened considerably, and he waved his hand.

"Sit down. Don't think about philosophical questions during physics class anymore, or I'll think you're asleep!"

The classmates burst into laughter again. Fang Hui turned to look at Hua Shier, her eyes filled with even more complexity.

After school, Hua Shier dragged Zhao Ye to the internet cafe again, asking him on the way:

"Is that doorbell grass crazy? Why would she report me for no reason!"

Zhao Ye chuckled: "Xiao Cao has a crush on Chen Xun, and you and Chen Xun don't get along, you get it!"

"Damn, this is so melodramatic. If Xiaocao reports me next time, I'll beat up Chen Xun!"

Chen Xun: Holy crap!
After Hua Shier sent out the advertisement, no business came in for two days. He and Zhao Ye went to internet cafes after school. Watching the internet fees flow away, Zhao Ye was very worried, fearing that this "entrepreneurship" would make his "big brother" lose everything.

Fortunately, on the third day, when the two were conducting counter-terrorism operations, Hua Shier heard the QQ message notification sound.

After the game ended, Hua Shier saw QQ flashing; someone had added him as a friend, and the secret code in the nickname matched: "Anything is fine."

"A customer has arrived!" Zhao Ye, who was standing nearby, perked up and urged Hua Shier to hurry up and get through.

After Hua accepted the request at 12 o'clock, he saw that the other party's profile picture was a cartoon dinosaur, and immediately sent a message:

Can you break someone's leg? Price negotiable!

Hua Shier and Zhao Ye exchanged a glance. The latter shrank back and whispered:
"Damn, they're this ruthless right from the start? I can't take this!"

"What do you think? It's illegal!"

Hua Shier rolled her eyes at Zhao Ye and replied:
Dude, we're a legitimate company, our main focus is on being legal and ethical. What grudge do you have that you want a person's leg?

The other party replied instantly:

He stole my lollipop! And he stole my girlfriend too! How can I tolerate this?!

Hua Twelve: "."

Zhao Ye leaned closer to take a look and almost slipped off his chair: "A lollipop?"

Hua Shier took a deep breath and typed on the keyboard, asking:

[Excuse me, how old are you this year?]

The other party: [I'm seven years old and in first grade. I saw your ad on my sister's computer. My sister laughed so hard after seeing it that she said you guys are idiots.]

Hua Shier silently closed the chat window, stared at the computer screen for two seconds in silence, then turned to Zhao Ye and said earnestly:
"I always heard teachers say that knowledge changes destiny, and now I finally understand. These days, even kids who learn to use computers can find thugs online. If we help him, wouldn't we be helping his classmate change his destiny?"

Zhao Ye was laughing so hard he was practically falling off his keyboard.

Just as he was laughing, Hua Shier's QQ rang again, still a message asking to add him as a friend.

This time, the person who contacted them was still a primary school student who claimed to have been introduced by the "lollipop" guy from before, and it sounded like a "big business deal".

The other party claimed that a classmate borrowed 20 yuan from him to buy the latest four-wheel drive car, promising to pay it back in a week, but a month has passed and the classmate hasn't mentioned it at all.

He didn't care about the twenty yuan; he just couldn't swallow his anger and was willing to pay a fifty-yuan 'service fee' to have Hua Shier and the others help him get the money back.

"Fifty yuan!" Zhao Ye calculated that after deducting the ten yuan for internet fees today, he could still make a net profit of forty yuan. However, the task of collecting debts from elementary school students...
He looked at Hua Shier and saw that the other party was typing rapidly:
"No problem. Tell me the details: name, school. I guarantee the task will be completed within 48 hours!"

Hua Shier calmly accepted the task, then said to Zhao Ye, "You take this order."

Zhao Ye:
"Isn't this bullying elementary school students? Why should I be the one to go?"

Hua Shier looked at him and slowly asked, "If there's a deal worth hundreds of millions, can you get it back?"

Zhao Ye honestly shook his head.

"Then it's over!"

Hua Shier spread his hands: "You can't do the big ones, and you don't want to do the small ones, so you're good for nothing? Do you still want to make money? Do you still want to achieve spicy snack freedom?"

Zhao Ye:
The two did not take any action that day. The next day, Hua Shier gave Zhao Ye a note containing information he had obtained through special methods. It contained the class and name of the elementary school student who owed money, as well as a secret about the student.

Zhao Ye stared at the note, dumbfounded: "Where did you get these?"

Hua Shier smiled mysteriously: "Trade secret. Remember, we are civilized people, and our main strategy is psychological intimidation. Go to their classroom door, call him out, and say what I told you to say."

At noon, the two went to each other's primary school. They met with the employer first, and then the employer found the student who owed him money. The student was a chubby little boy.

Zhao Ye steeled himself and stepped forward, lowering his voice to say:
"Hey chubby, you owe my brother twenty yuan, right? If you don't pay me back today, I'll tell that girl with the pigtails in the next class about you still wetting the bed. I know you have a crush on her, right? Just wait and see how embarrassing you become!"

The fat man's eyes widened and his face turned purple; he had clearly been hit where it hurt by Zhao Ye.

Without saying a word, he shakily pulled out twenty yuan in change from his pocket, stuffed it into the young employer's hand, and begged Zhao Ye in a tearful voice not to say anything.

After the chubby boy left, Hua Shier successfully collected 50 yuan from the small employer. The small employer happily said, "I didn't expect your company to be legitimate. I'll contact you again if I need anything in the future."

On the way back, Hua Shier gave Zhao Ye fifteen yuan, as per their original agreement of a 30/70 split.

"See that? Starting from scratch, building my own business, starting with... cough cough, starting with serving elementary school students!"

Zhao Ye asked with some hesitation:

"Aren't we being a bit unethical? It feels like we're bullying a child!"

Hua Shier grinned: "What do you mean by 'immoral'? We're upholding justice. So just because someone is a child, they can owe money and not pay it back? Your thinking is flawed, your values ​​are warped!"

After he finished speaking, he hooked his arm around Zhao Ye's neck:

"Come on, let me treat you to a jianbing guozi, with two eggs! We only made fifty this time, but who knows, maybe we'll get a big job next time!"

Zhao Ye felt a chill run down his spine for no apparent reason. He felt that following Hua Shier, his older brother, was making his high school life increasingly unpredictable!
He now only hopes that he will never get any more "jobs" so that this guy's business will come to an end without any problems. Otherwise, if it happens again, what will happen if the elementary school student tells the teacher?

But that's how things are sometimes; good things don't come true, but bad things do. Two days later, the two received a big job. Someone added them as a friend and, after exchanging a secret code, left a message on QQ saying that they saw the boasting on the BBS and came here specifically to ask if they could handle a job worth 300,000.
After Hua Shier got through, he contacted the other party and typed just one word:

"You only pay after you get your money back! No charge if you don't get it back!"

The other party directly stated the content:
“We are migrant workers working on a construction site in Beijing. Our contractor owes more than a dozen of us wages, totaling more than 300,000 yuan. He said the developer won’t pay him and there’s nothing he can do. Can you help us get our money back from the developer?”

"Our foreman said that the developer is involved in organized crime and has a bunch of thugs. If you can't handle it, then forget it. But if you can, we'll definitely pay you!"

Hua Shier replied directly, "Okay, absolutely!"

Zhao Ye slapped his forehead. "Developer, buddy, this is too much!"
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