Oops, something seems to be wrong with my love life

The driver panicked and started changing the subject.

The taxi industry in the entire campus is monopolized, and taxis can only be booked through the Campus Smart Communication Platform.

The system will rely on positioning to match the nearest empty vehicle. Drivers have no right to refuse orders, and if they are reasonably reported by passengers, this part-time job will be gone.

Li Tao rubbed his nose, looked at the embarrassed driver and asked, "Is that place crowded?"

The driver was stunned for a moment, and the light turned red. He braked and turned back to look at Li Tao.

"Oh, little brother, have you never been to Fuziyu before?"

"Correct."

The driver nodded and said confidently, "Young man, you must have rented a house there. Is this your first time there?"

The Master said that this area has a characteristic, that is, the buildings are very, very, very densely packed together.

The gaps between buildings are so small that you can jump from the window to the flat window of the building opposite.

So you can imagine how narrow and winding the nine-turn road on the ground is.

As for why the driver was certain that Li Tao was renting a house, it was because of Li Tao's temperament.

He did not have the fear and confusion of a freshman who had just come into contact with a university of Luma's style. Instead, he was very calm.

"How did you get it?"

Li Tao neither admitted nor denied it. He actually liked the feeling that others couldn't see through him.

"Oh, I have a classmate like you, who is similar to you..."

Then the driver began to explain that there are many residential communities in Fuziyue and they are very densely populated, so the prices are very low.

Landlords will advertise online, such as through pop-up ads, with limited-time special offers, allowing you to pay a deposit within an hour and rent the house at a very low price.

But he only talked about the residential area, and never mentioned the crowdedness and chaos in the area, omitting its dirty and messy living environment.

So based on the price alone, no one would not be tempted.

These landlords will also look for suitable targets to take over the houses, and these targets are precisely those students who have suddenly fallen on hard times.

The Master said that for most students who are not in poverty, slums are very unfamiliar. Many mediocre students don’t even know the existence of slums after graduating from college after four years.

As for the victims, when they were cheated, they were often suddenly down and out and then found this cheap apartment on the Internet.

Considering that there are law enforcement agencies on campus, they couldn't wait to pay the money and then go to the site to view the house.

But the problem is that the landlord did not provide false information for advertising. These old foxes just hid the unfavorable information, so the student union naturally cannot eliminate them.

In the driver's eyes, Li Tao was just a student who suddenly fell into poverty and had to take advantage of small opportunities and was deceived.

"That's right, but I feel like the school is so big, with so much open space, why are they all crowded into one place?"

The driver shook his head and said helplessly: “This is the process of social evolution. The reason why Luma University can promote the formation of an independently operated social system within the school is that it does not interfere.”

That’s right, an ordinary university cannot become a society even if it is blocked, because the intervention of the school makes it just a school.

"Okay, brother, just stop here. The road ahead is really narrow and it's difficult to turn around." Li Tao said sympathetically.

"Hey, thank you for your understanding. The food stall you want to go to is at the end of this road. Turn right for 100 meters, then turn left and you will see it."

……

After getting off the car, Li Tao couldn't help but cover his mouth and nose with his hands because the smell was very pungent.

It's the smell of cooking fumes from open-air street food stalls. If it were outside a school, it would have been taken away by the urban management department long ago.

Not far away, there was a black-gray boundary marker stuck in the ground with the three words "Master Said" written on it. For some reason, whenever Li Tao looked at it, he always had a feeling of "unfulfilled ambitions".

After a few dry coughs, Li Tao got used to the smell and walked into one of the dirtiest and messiest places on campus.

The width of the road can accommodate about 1.5 cars, or one and a half cars.

If there are cars coming from both directions at the same time, there will basically be a traffic jam.

"Boric acid... food stall, this name is more appetizing than acetic acid..."

Li Tao imagined the process of drinking the boric acid and couldn't help shivering before he pushed the door open and walked in.

At this time, nearly 70% of the seats in the stall were occupied.

Although it was past one in the afternoon, there were not many people eating there. Most of them came here to chat and enjoy the air conditioning.

Of course, this stall, or even the entire Fuziyue, must only have Li Tao, a freshman, at this moment. Other freshmen would not know this place at all.

Li Tao looked around the room, his eyes finally fell on a corner, he frowned and walked over.

"What are you doing? Why are you drinking? Are you not going to work this afternoon?"

Li Tao snatched the bottle of wine from her hand, and looking at Xiang Lian's pretty face flushed by the alcohol, he felt more and more uncomfortable.

"You give me the wine, and go to work? I might as well go to my own grave!"

Xiang Lian stood up from the chair and wanted to take back the bottle, but she drank so much that she felt dizzy and fell directly into Li Tao's arms.

Hugs always have a stimulating effect on people's emotions. Xiang Lian finally couldn't help it. She cried as she did on the phone again, hugged Li Tao's waist and sobbed.

"I was punished for going to the auto repair shop during work hours yesterday. In the morning, I received news that the pen was missing. My mind went blank and I went back without thinking."

"The office director called me but I didn't dare answer. She texted me saying that I had been neglecting my duties and had no respect for discipline despite repeated warnings, and she asked me to suspend my work for three days to reflect on myself. Woohoo~"

"Ah~"

Li Tao stroked her brown hair. Besides blaming himself, he was also thinking about how to make it up to her.

"Is the director a man or a woman? You are not a student. Why is he teaching you repeatedly? He is scolding you like a child. How high does he think he is?"

Li Tao patted Xiang Lian's back gently, standing up for her like a boyfriend.

Buried in Li Tao's arms, Xiang Lian's voice was unclear: "He's a man. He is in charge of all the counselors in the School of Art. He is responsible for managing all the teachers with government titles in the school."

"Okay, stop crying. I'll go explain to him later that it was all my fault that you skipped work. If I hadn't driven your car, none of this would have happened."

Xiang Lian suddenly raised her head, looked at Li Tao's chin, and howled drunkenly: "Steal!"

"Okay, okay, it's stealing."

Many eyes in the food stall were focused on the two men and women. Li Tao nodded to others apologetically, and of course they all politely looked away.

"Sit down first, dear~"

"Woo~"

Xiang Lian nudged her head against Li Tao's chest a few times, and the sound she made was one of reluctance and rejection.

Li Tao smiled bitterly, the two of them standing there really looked like a monkey show. He, a grown man, didn't need to care about his image, but Xiang Lian was a teacher, and a stern old teacher who was too concerned about her reputation, so she would definitely hang herself after she sobered up.

"Sit down and listen."

Li Tao originally wanted to force her onto the chair, but he was led to sit on the chair ahead of time, and Xiang Lian, who was hooked around his neck, sat on his thighs right after.

This posture was very ambiguous. Li Tao felt like he was holding a child, and Xiang Lian's body was very soft, so it was easy for him to have dirty thoughts while she sat on his lap.

Xiang Lianzuihong's eyes were already blurry. She was afraid that she would slip, so she instinctively put her arm over the back of Li Tao's neck and placed it on the other shoulder.

Maybe it was because the alcohol numbed her sense of her body. In fact, Li Tao's chin was now against her upright side, but she knew nothing about it.

Li Tao didn't want to keep feeling it, he just wanted to avoid embarrassment, because if Li Tao made it clear, it would make Xiang Lian very embarrassed.

"You know how much that pen means to me. I feel like I have nothing now, do you understand?"

"Goooooooo~"

After shouting, Xianglian grabbed a bottle of beer with her other hand and tilted her head back to drink it.

However, she only drank one-third of it. The remaining two-thirds overflowed from the corners of her mouth, stuck to her skin, crawled over her smooth neck, and finally gathered into a trickle and poured into the canyon.

Although Xiang Lian was wearing a professional white shirt, she was sitting sideways on Li Tao, and Li Tao was able to witness the spectacular sight of the waterfall through the gap between the buttons.

"I don't have a pen anymore, and I don't have anything to think about anymore. What's the point of living? I'd rather die!"

Li Tao's eyes were almost blurry from the dazzling whiteness. Even drinking a pound of wine had no such effect.

"Can you please stop breathing so hard? My jaw is suffering..."

"Woo woo, you are so mean to me~"

Li Tao tried to tilt his neck back, and just when he reached the point where he could look directly at the ceiling, Xiang Lian tightened her grip on his neck.

His chin hit him again, and Li Tao felt that many of his eye capillaries burst at this moment.

"Goooooooo~"

Xiang Lian was crying and drinking at the same time, and Li Tao could see that her body was visibly turning red.

"You can't drink anymore... your shirt is wet..."

"I'm going to drink, you have no right to stop me, I'm going to drink all the wine on the table!"

Li Tao frowned deeply. He didn't know his alcohol tolerance. Apart from the medicinal wine for nourishing the body, he had never drunk any other alcohol.

Beer should be fine though.

Thinking of this, Li Tao directly picked up a bottle of green wine and poured it into his mouth.

"I'll drink them all, let's see how you drink!" Li Tao clamped Xiang Lian's hands with one arm. She could only watch with tears in her eyes as Li Tao drank three or four bottles in one breath.

"You bastard, I bought the wine with my points!" Xiang Lian was so angry that she struggled violently, and Li Tao's chin was forced to experience a massage.

"It's just a pen. Do you have to drop everything to look for it?"

"You know nothing, Xue'er gave it to me when I was in college!"

Xianglian also graduated from Luma University. This pen was given to Xianglian by Xiangxue when she was admitted to Luma University.

"My freshman year was the first time my sister and I were separated since we were young. Luma closed the school, and she knew about it. She spent all her money before school started, selling her things and doing homework for others to make the money."

"She said that this pen is for her to accompany her sister. Since I got it, I carry it with me almost every day...but you...wuwu~"

Li Tao felt like there was something stuck in his throat. He apologized in a hoarse voice and picked up the beer bottle again and drank the whole bottle.

"Then how did you get to this point?"

Xianglian stopped sobbing, and her lips turned white when she heard this question.

"She also enrolled in Luma University in order to find me, but..."

Xianglian's mother died unexpectedly when she and her daughter were very young, and it was Xiang's father who took care of them.