Trading system, I exchanged vegetables for golden pills.

"Wouldn't that be a bad idea? Those young people might make a mess of it. I think we should just forget about it!"

Second Uncle hesitated.

Ye Chen waved his hand: "It's alright, the more the merrier. Let's have a duck soup hotpot, it's simpler, otherwise we really won't be able to finish all this duck soup!"

Ye Chen tasted it; the freshly stewed duck soup had no spiritual energy, it was just ordinary duck soup.

It's just a bit fresher, relatively speaking.

So it would be good to have Tingting's roommates come over and finish it off together!

"Forget it, I'll talk to her!" Ye Chen said, and immediately called Chen Tingting.

"Hey Tingting, you haven't eaten yet, have you? Come over here and have some hot pot. Bring your roommates too!" Ye Chen got straight to the point.

"Oh, it's not just my roommates, there are six of us in total, isn't that a bit much?" Chen Tingting hesitated.

"What's wrong with that? It's okay, come on over. I'll prepare the ingredients, we'll have hot pot!" Ye Chen made the decision immediately.

"Oh, I see. I'll ask them if they're willing to go!" came the hushed discussion from the other end of the phone.

A moment later, Chen Tingting spoke up: "Brother, let's go over there, there are six of us!"

"Yeah, it's okay, come on over, I'll be waiting for you!" Ye Chen said with a smile.

After the two ended their call, Ye Chen looked at his second uncle and said, "I've called your daughter over. Go prepare the ingredients; we're having duck soup hot pot!"

"Hey, well, in the end, all the dirty and tiring work will fall on me again!" Second Uncle laughed as he got to work.

"You can pick some vegetables from the backyard; fresh ones are easier to catch!" Ye Chen called out.

"I know, you're so young and you're growing vegetables pretty well!" Uncle's voice came from afar.

Ye Chen called the security guards in advance and asked them to let people in later.

About 30 minutes later, Chen Tingting and her group of six arrived in front of Ye Chen's villa.

The group consisted of two men and four women. Two of the women were Chen Tingting's two roommates, while the other three were unfamiliar faces to Ye Chen.

Ye Chen opened the door and welcomed them in: "Hehe, you're here, come in, come in all of you, was there any traffic on the way?"

"Brother, let me introduce them. These two don't need me to introduce them, right? Liu Yiyi and Wang Zhaodi!" Chen Tingting said.

"Brother, you haven't forgotten me, have you?" Liu Yiyi blinked her big eyes!

"I haven't forgotten. I'm not an old man; I still have a good memory!" Ye Chen laughed.

"This is also my roommate, Qi Lirong!" Chen Tingting said, pointing to a rather quiet girl.

Ye Chen nodded to the other person as a greeting.

"This is our class monitor, Wang Xin!" Chen Tingting pointed to a boy wearing round-framed glasses and introduced him.

"Brother, hello, I'm sorry to bother you tonight!" Wang Xin said politely with a smile.

Ye Chen smiled slightly: "We're all classmates, Tingting. Don't be so formal about bothering us."

"Brother, this is Fu Ziming!" Chen Tingting pointed to a handsome young man and introduced him at the end.

"Brother, hello. My name is Fu Ziming. Fu means Grand Tutor, Zi means Confucius, and Ming means sun, moon, and bright!"

"Good, good, come in, everyone, the ingredients are ready!" Ye Chen called out to the crowd.

Ye Chen noticed a detail: Fu Ziming was walking next to Chen Tingting intentionally or unintentionally, which meant he was also one of his cousin's suitors.

Indeed, Chen Tingting was able to receive a public confession, so her looks must be among the best in her class.

It's normal to have suitors.

When they saw their second uncle, they all greeted him warmly, especially Fu Ziming, who took the initiative to help set out the bowls and chopsticks.

She wanted to impress her father-in-law.

Chen Tingting didn't seem to mind at all!

Ye Chen didn't care; he'd just let things take their course.

Apart from Liu Yiyi and Fu Ziming, everyone else was a bit reserved, including Wang Xin, who was the class monitor.

The steaming hot pot, shrouded in mist, creates a veil-like atmosphere, instantly elevating the ambiance.

My second uncle treated everyone to several rounds of food, and he quickly ate some before getting up and leaving, leaving the time for the younger generation!

After all, he's from a different generation, so it's hard for everyone to relax too much.

Halfway through the meal, perhaps because they were mostly young people, everyone relaxed a bit.

Throughout the meal, Fu Ziming kept the atmosphere lively and repeatedly tried to curry favor with Chen Tingting.

Liu Yiyi is also quite talkative, so with the two of them around, the atmosphere doesn't get awkward.

Fu Ziming spoke eloquently, mentioning several times that his family owned a shoe factory, that he was the only son in his family, and that he was just wasting his time at university.

After graduation, he went back to help his parents manage their business, but he wanted to build his own business empire based on his own abilities.

Perhaps what he said had a Versailles-like feel to it, but one has to admit that his family is probably quite well-off.

However, since everyone was only freshmen, it was too early to talk about these things, and the others didn't pay much attention to what he was saying.

Or perhaps I didn't feel anything at all.

After all, who doesn't enter university full of youthful vigor?

Who hasn't dreamed of earning a five-figure monthly salary after graduation, sitting in an air-conditioned office?

So at this point, it's definitely a case of "you can brag all you want, but I'm not convinced."

But now that we've gotten to this point, everyone has shared what they want to do in the future.

Chen Tingting, Liu Yiyi, and Wang Zhaodi all want to take the civil service exam and have a stable job; they don't care about anything else.

Qi Lirong, on the other hand, wanted to go to impoverished areas to teach.

Ye Chen took another look at the quiet girl and had to admit that she was quite perceptive.

Teaching in impoverished areas is not something most people would think about, nor is it something most people would do.

If she really did it, Ye Chen would definitely give her a thumbs up and praise her as an amazing person.

No wonder Chen Tingting, Liu Yiyi, and Wang Zhaodi are often together; birds of a feather flock together.

Wang Xin said he wants to become a writer and has already started writing articles to earn royalties. He has already earned his first royalty payment of 500 yuan!

He believes he is the future legend!

So you, a small shoe factory owner, dare to be so insolent in front of me? I'm not impressed at all!

Just then, Fu Ziming's phone rang. He glanced at the caller ID and said calmly, "My family is calling. I'll go answer it!"

Nobody took it seriously.

Ye Chen raised an eyebrow slightly as he noticed the nickname: Baby!

What a familiar note!

Why do guys like to call girls "baby" in their phone numbers?

Fu Ziming has a girlfriend!

Just as Ye Chen had predicted, Fu Ziming went to a quiet place, answered the phone, and asked, "Wife, what's wrong?"

"Oh, my roommate and I are in the library. Why is it so quiet?"

"Okay, honey, love you, muah!"

"Okay, go ahead!"

Fu Ziming was unaware that Ye Chen, who had excellent hearing, had overheard everything he said.

Of course, now there's one more person with good hearing; my second uncle's hearing has improved too...

The second uncle, scrolling through videos on the second floor, smiled and shook his head.

"Haha, young people these days call their wives 'wife' all the time, but I wonder if they'd even be able to say it when they actually have one!"