Back to the prime of life

Chapter 10: Suddenly Drawing a Gun
Coming out of the electronics hypermarket, just across the street is the Suguo Supermarket. Lu Changge originally wanted to go across, but Xu Qiuxue went straight along Liansheng Road to find smaller shops along the street.

Lu Changge didn't say much. Supermarkets actually have clearly marked prices, so they might be more expensive, but the prices quoted in small stores are a bit too casual. Especially since she doesn't seem to be someone who can bargain, the probability of being at a disadvantage is greater.

In every store she entered, Xu Qiuxue would always try to avoid the proprietress, playing it like a cat and mouse. This wasn't a good idea, as merchants would immediately notice if you were honest and rip you off.

Lu Changge naturally wouldn't let this happen. After Xu Qiuxue chose one, he would talk about issues such as materials, colors, etc.

The quoted price was 240, and he directly cut it down to 120.

"Oh, you're kidding me, young man! I'm going to pay you back for 120!"

The proprietress looked exaggeratedly surprised and even had a helpless smile on her face, as if she had heard the funniest joke in the world, which made Xu Qiuxue feel a little embarrassed.

Lu Changge kept a fake smile on his face. "It's okay. I won't let you do a business that loses money. Let's go to another one."

He gestured to Xu Qiuxue to leave with him.

The girl was young, and for some reason she listened to him, put down her suitcase and really followed him.

The lady in the store chased after him three steps, "Don't go, if this doesn't work, try something else."

"I didn't like anything else. Just the 120 one."

"120 is really not enough. No one bargains like you. I'll sell it to you for 180."

"Just 120."

"Tsk. Then I really can't do your business."

Xu Qiuxue wanted to say something, but seeing Lu Changge's firm attitude, she remained silent.

When we went out to another store, she said, "If we keep doing this, we might not be able to buy a suitable suitcase today."

"That's my bargaining tactic."

“It’s a strategy that’s working.”

A good child learns to speak in a sarcastic way from others.

Lu Changge said, "I just want to tell you that you are the buyer and she is the seller, so don't hide from her. Look, even if the business doesn't work out now, there won't be any consequences."

Xu Qiuxue was quite intelligent. She did not rush to refute, but nodded after thinking about it.

"Then I'll bargain later."

"Okay, cut it in half."

The force was too great and the second one also failed.

Moreover, when the other party said no, Xu Qiuxue didn't say a word and just put it down and left. It made people feel that she had no sincerity in buying it.

Unexpectedly, the owner of the third store agreed, on the condition that two must be purchased.

Lu Changge was amused when he saw it. "I can tell you know how to do business, boss. The other two companies said they couldn't make it work."

This person is a thin middle-aged man, shaking his head and looking a little smart.

"No, the main thing is that you guys are really too ruthless. I'm selling at a low profit but in large quantities. Otherwise, making only ten or eight yuan wouldn't be that meaningful. So, do you want one too?"

"Don't you want to choose a bigger one?" Xu Qiuxue was a little surprised.

"No, just this. I don't have much."

"But this is white..."

"Just pay, it's okay."

This kind of thing doesn't matter to him. He can even accept using urea bags to carry luggage. He has no idol baggage at all. His main focus is to never waste time.

Xu Qiuxue really didn't expect that he would actually agree, but she wasn't very good at expressing herself, so she just looked at him with gratitude and then went to pay the bill.

Then the two of them each pulled an empty box and went out.

Lu Changge noticed that Xu Qiuxue would deliberately look for flat roads to protect the newly acquired box. But he was rather rough, and the small wheels made a clattering sound.

"Don't you like it, so you don't care about it?"

Lu Changge explained, "No. I just think that flowers in a greenhouse can't grow big. They need to endure some hardships." "Wrong logic."

As the two were walking side by side, someone suddenly called out "Lu Changge".

He and Xu Qiuxue turned their heads at the same time to look for the source of the sound.

The person who called him was a girl wearing a white shirt and jeans. He took a quick look at her and found that her hips wrapped in jeans were very round and her waist was very slender. She had thin lips and a straight nose. Although she had single eyelids, her eyelids were thin and her eyes were big, so she was not ugly.

There was a boy next to her.

This girl gave Lu Changge a sense of déjà vu, but he couldn't immediately place her name. He had to look at her carefully like a pervert before he finally recalled some of her and recognized her as Li Ruoqi, whom Zhu Xingyu and He Fei'er had mentioned earlier.

A classmate in his senior year of high school, he must have confessed his feelings to her before, but the girl refused him. However, she always expressed her desire to be friends with him.

The eighteen-year-old Lu Changge didn't understand this trick and was kept in the dark for a long time.

"Is it really you?"

The girl was surprised for a moment, then looked at Xu Qiuxue. When she saw that Xu Qiuxue's facial features were more delicate than hers, her expression immediately became strange.

"Hello." Lu Changge nodded. He had nothing else to say.

Li Ruoqi felt he was being cold and indifferent, thinking it was probably because of this girl. "No wonder you haven't messaged me in the past few days. Have you changed your target?"

Xu Qiuxue glanced at Lu Changge. She was quite slow in the store, but at this moment she suddenly became sensitive and realized that Lu Changge might have an unusual relationship with this girl.

But there was a boy next to the girl.

She looked at Lu Changge with some worry. After watching too many idol dramas, she thought Lu Changge would be jealous and sad?
In fact, Lu Changge didn't have much expression. He acted very normal. "If there's nothing else, we'll leave first."

Lu Changge gave her an awkward but polite smile, but was too lazy to answer the question. He really didn't want to use his brain or waste his words.

Li Ruoqi stood there in a daze, thinking that Lu Changge must have a new love, otherwise he wouldn't treat her like this.

Walk away for a distance,
Xu Qiuxue asked: "Do you like her?

"You're not stupid. You guessed that?"

"If you don't explain my identity, won't she misunderstand me?"

Lu Changge said, "No need. I liked her before, but not anymore. It's just a misunderstanding."

"Really? It's a good thing I didn't explain it for you."

"What do you mean?"

"There's a boy next to her. If I say she's yours... wouldn't that give you the upper hand? She already looks a bit arrogant."

Lu Changge felt a touch of warmth. He didn't know it back then, but Xu Qiuxue's intelligence and kindness had been revealed since she was a child.

He thought so in his heart, but he still spoke in a frivolous manner and asked, "What did you just say was mine?"

Xu Qiuxue stared at him. She was originally thinking back to how this guy took care of her when she bought the phone, and in return, she had just taken care of him.

She never thought that this guy would joke with her like this.

"Nothing, don't talk nonsense."

She looked fierce and aggressive. When Lu Changge saw the way she was staring at him, he was afraid that she would say "I am your father".

Later, he bought himself a mobile phone, the LG KG90, which was newly released this year and sold for 2450. It has Internet access, but that is almost negligible, but it does have mobile QQ.

He also added Xu Qiuxue's QQ, and after buying a phone card, he left her phone number and said to her, "When I make a lot of money, I'll buy each of us a Nokia."

Xu Qiuxue just thought it was a nice thing to say and didn't take it seriously.

But Lu Changge was serious. He wanted to make money to make his family live a better life. In the movie "Green Book", the male protagonist Tony Lip once said that he was a bastard who was busy putting food on the table every day.

Very well said.

On the other hand, after Xu Qiuxue returned to her aunt's house, she logged into QQ using her aunt's computer because she wanted to accept Lu Changge's friend request.

But when she saw that the guy's online name was "Suddenly Pulling Out a Gun", she was so angry that she secretly cursed him as a vulgar bastard.

(End of this chapter)