Lin Chuan looked down at the wrought iron gate in front of him. It was obvious that it hadn't been used for a long time, and the lock was rusty. He reached out and grasped the rusty lock.

"What do you want to do?" Wang Xu asked.

"Unlock it, can't you tell?" Lin Chuan said. Although it was possible to slip things in through the gaps in the ironwork without opening the door, it felt a bit troublesome, since they had bought quite a few.

"You don't even have a key, what lock are you going to open?" Wang Xu said.

Lin Chuan didn't answer. Instead, he picked up a stone from the ground and took the iron lock with his other hand. After looking at it for a while, he gently tapped it from top to bottom. After a few taps, the rusty iron lock snapped open from the inside.

"Holy crap, this actually works?" Wang Xu exclaimed in surprise.

"Wow, class monitor, this looks like you're damaging public property!" Zhao Jiajia said.

"It's not broken, it can be put back on," Lin Chuan said calmly, removing the iron lock.

At this moment, an uncle dressed in black came to the iron gate, pushing a large cart full of cardboard boxes. There was no way to squeeze so many cardboard boxes through the iron gaps, so it seemed that his act of unlocking the gate was correct.

"Boss, this is Lin Chuan from the phone," Lin Chuan said.

"Lin, all the disposable insoles you ordered are here," the uncle said. "Please check them."

"it is good."

Lin Chuan gestured to the two people beside him to open the cardboard boxes and do a quick check. After confirming that everything was in order, he nodded and said, "Everything is here. Thank you for bringing it over, Uncle."

"It's alright, it's not far," the uncle said with a smile.

The three of them brought in all the cardboard boxes. After doing all that, Lin Chuan finally put the padlock he had "pried open" back on and locked it.

"Did you buy too much? Does our class need that much?" Wang Xu asked, somewhat puzzled.

"Who told you that only our class bought it?" Lin Chuan said.

"What do you mean?" Wang Xu was taken aback.

"I contacted other classes yesterday. Since we all need to make purchases anyway, why not buy more and make a little profit on the difference?" Lin Chuan said. He doesn't make money off his own classmates, but that doesn't mean he won't make money off other classes.

"Wow, that's impressive, Lao Lin," Wang Xu said. "I never imagined something like this could happen."

"It's just making a little money," Lin Chuan said. It's not that his small business is particularly impressive; it's just a difference in understanding and experience. Some decisions that were wrong in the past, when looked back upon, seem so obvious.

A boy who has just entered high school certainly doesn't have the mindset of making money, nor does he think about it.

A few minutes later, many more students arrived, all from other classes, including class monitors and classmates. Lin Chuan greeted them, "I'm Lin Chuan, the class monitor of Class 5. Are you here to collect your class's insoles?"

"Yes," the students responded.

"Then you line up, and I'll distribute them to you in order. It'll be quick." Lin Chuan directed Wang Xu and Zhao Jiajia to distribute insoles to students in other classes. He knew exactly how many insoles each class needed, and he had even divided the orders when he placed them with the boss.

Soon, most of the cardboard boxes on the ground were distributed, leaving only two boxes.

"Zhao Jiajia, could you please escort the girls to their dorm? Lao Wang, could you please escort the boys to their dorm? I don't live on campus, so it's inconvenient for me to go into the dorm," Lin Chuan said.

"Oh, oh." Zhao Jiajia picked up a box of insoles. It wasn't heavy at all; she could easily lift it by herself.

"Wait a minute." Lin Chuan took out a hundred yuan from his pocket. "Here, this is your payment for the work."

"Hey, class monitor is so generous." Zhao Jiajia said with a smile. In this day and age, a hundred yuan is not a small amount of money.

"It's alright," Lin Chuan said with a smile. He had already calculated it last night, and he estimated that he could earn a thousand or eight hundred yuan in pocket money from this trip. He should still pay these two people who helped him.

"What about me?" Wang Xu asked quickly.

Lin Chuan took out a hundred yuan bill, waved it, and said, "This is yours, but I'm worried you might spend it recklessly, so I'll keep it safe for you."

"Damn it! You're a heartless boss, aren't you? Withholding your employees' wages!" Wang Xu exclaimed indignantly. "I'm going to report you to the homeroom teacher!"

"Go ahead, go ahead," Lin Chuan said with a smile. "Old Xue's office is the second one on the left on the second floor."

While Lin Chuan was waving his hand, Wang Xu "snatched" the hundred yuan and then ran away with his cardboard box.

Lin Chuan grinned, picked up the small package next to him, and then sent Chen Xiyu a message, "Where is it?"

A few seconds later, the phone vibrated again: "Just arrived at the playground."

"Wait for me there." Lin Chuan put away his phone and walked towards the entrance of the playground.

After walking for a while, Lin Chuan saw Chen Xiyu. After all, she was still quite eye-catching, even though she was only wearing military training clothes. Lin Chuan walked over and handed her the bag.

"What is it?" Chen Xiyu asked curiously.

"Your insoles," Lin Chuan said.

Chen Xiyu took out the individually packaged insole and touched it. "Hey, is this the insole you wholesale? The quality is pretty good."

"You bought this separately," Lin Chuan said.

"Huh? You bought this for me?" Chen Xiyu asked.

"Um."

"So generous?"

"Because the pizza was really good last night."

"Hmm..." Chen Xiyu took out a pair of new insoles from inside and said to Lin Chuan, "Don't move." Then she took off one of her shoes, revealing that she was wearing light gray socks.

She stood on one leg, wanting to squat down to put the insole in place, but it was a bit inconvenient. She was swaying a little and could only hold onto Lin Chuan's arm to prevent herself from falling to the ground.

"Why don't you just sit on the ground?" Lin Chuan said. "You'll be sitting on the ground during breaks in military training anyway."

"I just wanted to try and see if this would help me change my shoes," Chen Xiyu said, but she failed several times.

"Miss Chen, you'd better stop with your stunts," Lin Chuan retorted.

He half-squatted in front of Chen Xiyu, took the insole from her hand, put it into the military training shoe and tidied it up a bit, then placed the shoe next to her feet. Chen Xiyu only needed to put her foot in.

When it was Lin Chuan's turn, he didn't do as many fancy tricks. He simply sat on the playground floor, took off his two military training shoes, and started putting on the insoles and shoes. The whole process was completed in a few dozen seconds.

Lin Chuan stood up, casually brushed the dust off his backside, and said, "Let's go, time for military training."

…………

Morning, break time during military training.

"Hello, Cheng Xue." Liu Hao went over and greeted the girl next to him. In the past few days, he had been hanging out with various small groups and had met everyone in the class. This was also a way for him to prepare for the re-election of class monitor after the military training.

"Hello." Cheng Xue simply nodded politely.

Then a silence fell between the two of them.

"Military training is really tough," Liu Hao said.

"Mm," Cheng Xue replied politely as she sat there, rubbing her feet.

Liu Hao felt a little awkward, so he could only try to start a conversation, "By the way, did you buy any shoe insoles?"

"without."

"Didn't someone in our class do the group shopping? Don't you girls do it?" Liu Hao asked.

"Of course there are girls, I even sent them," Zhao Jiajia chimed in from the side, "but Xiaoxue doesn't want them."

Liu Hao smiled and said, "Thank you for your hard work, you even helped the class buy insoles."

"The class monitor is in charge of buying shoe insoles for the class."

"Huh?" Liu Hao was taken aback. It was Wang Xu who contacted him, so he didn't ask and assumed that Wang Xu was doing these things because he wanted to show off.

"Your portion was also purchased with the class monitor's help, and it was at the cheapest wholesale price. Other classes have to pay extra," Zhao Jiajia reminded her.

Liu Hao was taken aback, but said, "Isn't that doing business?"

"Yeah, so I think the class monitor is pretty amazing, he even thought of making money from this," Zhao Jiajia said.

"Doing business?" Liu Hao frowned and muttered to himself. Seeing that the break time was almost over, he got up and returned to his seat.

With no one around, Zhao Jiajia suddenly rested her chin on Cheng Xue's shoulder and asked in a low voice, "Xiao Xue, if you think buying so many insoles is too expensive? We have some extras here that we can give you for free." Although she felt that Cheng Xue didn't seem like the kind of person who couldn't afford to buy them, she still asked the question.

"Give it to me?"

"Yeah, yeah, the class monitor said that if anyone in our class doesn't have money to buy insoles, we can give them to them, but just don't tell anyone." Zhao Jiajia made a shushing gesture, "Otherwise, if the classmate who bought them finds out, some might be unhappy."

Cheng Xue was taken aback, then said calmly, "No need, thank you."

"oh oh."

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