I met my whole family through Baidu Tieba.

At the end of Xiaodong Street, a new store has appeared.

Standing at the entrance, you are greeted by a large double glass door with a green and white sign above it that reads "Jiahe Laundry Chain".

The name "Jiahe" was chosen by He Qiuzhu, and it is unknown whether it was influenced by Shen Kang's "Anjia".

As for the "laundry chain"... according to Shen Kang, the boasting started first, and adding "chain" would give everyone more confidence, wouldn't it?

Upon entering, the laundry drop-off area is on the left and the pick-up area is on the right. Further inside, the area is no longer accessible to customers; it is the laundry's work area.

At this moment, wisps of smoke rise from this work area.

In front of the five industrial washing machines, there was an altar with incense and candles, and a fruit plate with bananas, grapes and other fruits as offerings.

Shen Kang was dressed in a Taoist robe but not wearing a Taoist crown. He held a peach wood sword with the tip pointing diagonally upwards, standing still while muttering incantations.

With the opening of the new store, Master Shen naturally had to bring out his traditional skills.

But this time, he wasn't alone.

Dai Qiu, the vice dean of the School of Computer Science, was dressed in a suit and tie, wearing a Taoist hat, and holding a plastic basin containing some cinnabar.

He circled around Shen Kang, his feet moving in the Seven Stars Step, his right hand forming a sword incantation, occasionally scattering some cinnabar on the ground, faintly forming a mysterious pattern.

Two employees stood by and watched silently, trying their best to keep their expressions in check, even though it was difficult for them to maintain composure.

Fortunately, the two masters finished their work and called it a day after a short while.

"Thank you very much, Dean Dai."

As Shen Kang took off his Taoist robe, he said, "Judging from your demeanor, Dean Dai, are you from the Lushan Sect?"

To avoid suspicion, Qian Ming'en didn't come today, but instead sent Dai Qiu to congratulate him on the opening of his new store.

As a result, when Dai Qiu saw that he was going to set up an altar and perform a ritual, he was also eager to try. So Shen Kang gave him the Taoist hat, and the two of them worked together.

"He knows how to do it. It seems that Dean Dai has a high level of computer skills," Shen Kang thought to himself.

Dai Qiu removed his Taoist hat, revealing his bald head, and said with some lingering enthusiasm, "Well, I studied with a teacher from the Lushan Sect for a while, so I guess I can be considered a member of the Lushan Sect."

He had been teaching at the school all his life, and he had never really used what he had learned. But today, when he saw that Shen Kang was going to perform a ritual, he couldn't help but feel an irresistible urge to try it himself.

Xiao Bonian's adopted son is quite a character.

"I can't tell which faction you belong to," Dai Qiu asked.

"I'm considered a member of the Maoshan Sect..."

Shen Kang sent the two employees out to work, while he cleaned up the scene and chatted with Dai Qiu. As they talked, they went from discussing the inheritance of Taoist teachings to the opening and marketing of the laundry.

"...I feel that laundry is a basic necessity, and the most important thing is to let students know that a laundry room has been opened here, and that the price is cheap. That's enough. So I hired more than a dozen people to stand at the entrance of all the dormitory management stations for a day, handing out flyers to let everyone know that there is a laundry room on campus."

Speaking of this, Shen Kang recalled another matter: "Dean Dai, I also went to our school's student forum to play games, and it turns out that our school's student forum wasn't run by our own students. I heard it was created by a senior from Yangcheng Business School?"

Dai Qiu nodded: "Our school's students originally had their own student forum, but they started too late. By then, the forum run by students from Yangcheng Business School had already taken off, and their GG sponsors were stable. It was a case of the big fish eating the small fish, and our school's student forum couldn't continue. Now, the students at the universities in the Beilu District University Town are all using the forum run by students from Yangcheng Business School."

Mentioning this matter, Dai Qiu felt a headache coming on: He had represented the school and provided some assistance to that student from Yangke University, but that student started too late and his business acumen was not as good as that of the student from Yangcheng Business School, so in the end he couldn't compete and the forum created by the student from Yangcheng Business School unified several universities in Beilu District.

Every time I meet with the vice dean of the computer science department at Yangcheng Business School at any meeting or event, he brings up this matter, constantly showing off and making sarcastic remarks.

After all, the Computer Science Department of Yangcheng University of Science and Technology surpasses Yangcheng Business School in many academic indicators, but in the matter of the student forum, Yangcheng Business School actually dominates.

This really bothered Dai Qiu.

Shen Kang observed this, seemingly lost in thought.

……

September 15th was an eventful day.

Besides the opening of Jiahe Laundry, on this day, among Old Mei's "Big Five" investment banks, Merrill Lynch was acquired, Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy, Bear Stearns was acquired at a low price earlier in the first half of the year, and the stock prices of Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley fell by 70% within a month, teetering on the brink of collapse, and the global financial crisis officially broke out.

But all of this has nothing to do with Wang Pan.

For Wang Pan, September 15th was just the first day after military training ended.

At this moment, Wang Pan, Feng Moquan, and Jin Chao were walking towards the dormitory management station entrance, intending to have breakfast at the second canteen.

Military training has ended, but classes haven't officially started yet. They only have one class today in the afternoon, "University Student Career Planning," which is their first class after enrollment. So they have nothing to do in the morning and don't need to get up early.

However, the three of them had probably been in military training for more than ten days, and their biological clocks couldn't be adjusted all at once. They all woke up automatically at the appointed time, so they had no choice but to go out to find food.

"Wang Pan, wouldn't it have been so much better if you had just brought us breakfast? You had to drag us along too."

"Bullshit, why didn't you just say you were bringing it for me?"

"You have absolutely no spirit of dedication, and you call yourself the class monitor..."

The three of them were bickering as they left the dormitory management station when a man approached them and handed them three flyers.

"How about checking out the laundry room?"

All three of them were taken aback, and subconsciously took the flyer, whereupon they saw the pictures and slogans.

"Yangtze University of Science and Technology's first chain laundry service is now online! Beautiful cashiers, license plates issued in-store!"

"Only 3 yuan a pot, the best value for money!"

"Industrial-grade washing machine, powerful industrial-grade laundry detergent, for a more thorough cleaning!"

"All laundry is protected in laundry bags during washing, ensuring your clothes are well cared for!"

……

After a moment of silence, Feng Moquan let out a scream: "Damn it, why didn't you come sooner! Military training is already over!"

What bothered him most over the past ten days or so was having to wash his military training uniform every night. He wished this laundry room had opened sooner!

"wrong!"

Wang Pan suddenly spoke up, his expression grave: "Didn't we make a bet with Shen Kang? He said he'd magically create a laundry room on campus within two months?"

Feng Moquan was taken aback, only then remembering this matter, and exclaimed in shock: "Holy crap, could Shen Kang really be a fortune teller?!"

He had just finished speaking when he remembered something else, and his face turned pale instantly—he had thought of something else.

That night in the toilet, he said that if the school really built a laundry room in a while, he would let Shen Kang go there to poop, and he would eat as much of Shen Kang's poop as he could.

Shen Kang refused the bet, but the man insisted on adding it, saying it was a gift from him to Shen Kang...

Jin Chao suddenly blurted out, "A Taoist master on campus?"

It was mainly because he had recently read a book called "Martial Arts Masters on Campus" that made the thought of it subconsciously.

Fortunately, the three of them were still college students from a second-tier university, and their IQs were still online. After discussing for a while, they came up with the most likely truth—this laundry room was owned by Shen Kang! This truth was obviously much more scientific than "Shen Kang can tell fortunes".

Of course, it's science, but it's still science fiction.

Does this mean that the ruthless academic genius in their dorm opened a laundry room on campus just over ten days after starting their freshman year?