31: Chapter 31 The Right Way to Use a Friend Who Is a Fool

Hearing the word "blind date" seemed to trigger Old Yu's memory. Originally relaxed, he suddenly slapped his forehead. "Holy crap! I completely forgot about that. Luckily, I haven't gone home yet!"

“You forgot?” Chen Sheng, who had just sat down and was about to pull chopsticks from the container, and An Xiaonuan, who was reaching for disposable dishes, both froze. They looked at Old Yu with eyes full of mockery.

“Oh ho~ It looks like those legs really can't be saved this time,” Chen Sheng said, kicking him while he was down.

“Impressive~” An Xiaonuan added, twisting the knife.

“Sigh~ Isn't it just forgetting a blind date? What's the big deal!”

Unexpectedly, once Old Yu snapped out of it, he sat down across from the two of them as if nothing had happened. He fished out two bottles of beer from a nearby crate, popped them open with an opener, handed one to Chen Sheng, and said to An Xiaonuan, “I won't worry about you. Call the boss for whatever you want to drink.”

An Xiaonuan waved her hand; what she drank wasn't important—gossip was the first choice for a fun-seeker. She urged, “Don't worry about me, tell us quickly how you plan to deal with it? Let's get this straight first: our place won't take you in.”

Old Yu had a prior record.

Before his wedding house was finished being renovated, whenever Old Yu ran away from home with nowhere to go, he would stay with his college roommate, Chen Sheng, several times.

“How to deal with it?” Old Yu filled his glass while gesturing for Chen Sheng to follow suit. Once the glass was full, he said with a proud tone, “My skin naturally heals fast; I'll be fine after two days of rest. It just so happens that a fishing buddy shared a fishing spot yesterday. They say the fish are biting really well. I'll go check it out tomorrow. If the biting is good, I'll just stay until the day after before coming back.”

“It just happens to be the weekend. I'll have the matchmaker change the time then. The elderly couple definitely won't have any objections.”

Old Yu proudly downed a glass, his face practically screaming 'praise me.'

However, the two of them weren't going to praise him... No, not only would they not praise him, they would continue to twist the knife. An Xiaonuan asked, “What about the blind date partner? You're changing the time unilaterally; aren't you afraid they'll be unhappy?”

Chen Sheng swallowed the food in his mouth and chimed in, “Exactly! I've heard from colleagues that the women entering the blind date market now see one person today and another tomorrow. They have several sessions a day; their schedules are packed.”

“Then you can't blame me,” Old Yu said, still indifferent. “She can wait or not. Anyway, I don't plan on burying myself in a grave before I'm thirty.”

Old Yu clearly didn't want to talk about the "blind date" topic. After dropping that line, he shifted the conversation to Chen Sheng's card drawing. “Old Chen, I remember you never played cards. Why did you think of going to draw cards today?”

“Sigh~ It's because the company went bankrupt and I had nothing to do, just wandering around~”

“What?” Old Yu quickly swallowed the beer in his mouth and asked in surprise, “When did your company go bankrupt?”

“Did I not say?”

“Did you say?”

Alright! It seemed he really hadn't mentioned this to anyone outside.

However...

He wouldn't admit it.

“It happened just a few days ago. Affected by the special period, the company owed a lot of external debt. The boss couldn't pay it back, so he just took his Sister-in-law and ran off.”

“Holy crap! That's so explosive, tell me more!” Old Yu indicated that he, too, was a fun-seeker who loved hearing gossip.

“What's there to tell in detail? Just search 'Beating the Male Homewrecker' online. The related videos are already on the Local Trending List. You actually didn't know? I really don't know if you're even a modern person anymore.”

“Sigh! Didn't I just get back from fishing!” Since there were related videos online, Old Yu didn't plan to ask Chen Sheng further and directly pulled out his phone to search.

Old Yu finished watching all the related videos before putting his phone down again, sighing with great regret, “Ah! It's a pity I wasn't at the scene at the time.”

Chen Sheng put down his grilled skewer again and said crossly, “Stop sighing. If you don't eat soon, we're going to finish it all.”

While Old Yu was watching the videos, he and An Xiaonuan hadn't been polite at all. By now, he felt he was already about half-full.

“Holy crap! You guys didn't even think to wait for me.” Old Yu hurriedly protected several skewers of his favorite food in the bowl in front of him, then suggested while eating, “Old Chen, since your company went bankrupt, why not go fishing with me tomorrow?”

“This fishing spot is really certified by Fishing Buddies. Combined with my secret recipe, the catch will definitely be huge.”

Chen Sheng rubbed his chin, feeling a bit tempted, and subconsciously looked at An Xiaonuan.

An Xiaonuan glared back at him crossly. “What are you looking at me for? If you want to go, then go! But you can't stay out overnight; that's the bottom line.”

While their attention was on the conversation, An Xiaonuan quietly reached her hand under the table and accurately pinched the inside of Chen Sheng's thigh, then gave it a hard twist. That sharp sensation made Chen Sheng's features twitch instantly; it was incredibly intense.

“Hiss~” Just as he was about to cry out, a 'smile of death' arrived from An Xiaonuan. Chen Sheng with difficulty swallowed the words that were already stuck in his throat.

Blinking his pitiful and innocent eyes, he asked silently, “Am I going or not?”

An Xiaonuan repeated with certainty, “I'm really letting you go, just to relax a bit.”

She wasn't the kind of wicked woman who made her husband work like an ox without giving him any fodder. Alternating between loose and tight was wisdom.

Smart women in life will praise their husbands more; after all, praising someone is much easier than doing the work.

Besides, with just a few simple acts of performance, she could get a hardworking ox in return; this deal wasn't a loss.

“I say, Old Chen, even your wife has agreed. What are you still hesitating for?” Old Yu urged.

With Chen Sheng there, when The elderly couple asked about this later, he could completely push the blame onto him.

This was called the proper use of a bad friend.

“Where is the place? If it's too far, forget it,” Chen Sheng asked.

“It's not far, right at the Dongshan Reservoir near Jintang. It's less than a two-hour drive.”

Having the location, Chen Sheng looked at An Xiaonuan tentatively. “Then... tomorrow I'll follow along and fish for a bit?”

“Go ahead!”

Seeing An Xiaonuan give the final word, Old Yu immediately took charge. “Then it's settled. I'll send you the specific location in a bit. Tomorrow you only need to bring your fishing rod; I'll handle all the bait and everything. I guarantee you'll experience the joy of a massive catch.”

“Heh~” Chen Sheng raised his glass to Old Yu with a look of annoyance.

massive catch? Ever since he was led into the pit of fishing by him, he hadn't seen Old Yu have a massive catch more than a few times; instead, coming home empty-handed was a common sight.

“What do you mean?” Old Yu was indignant. “You don't believe in my secret recipe?”

“What do you think?” All those fragrances, attractants, and messy stuff—even a dog wouldn't eat it.

“Fine! You're so noble, you're so great. If you have the guts, don't get jealous and use my secret recipe when you see me catching fish tomorrow.”

“I'm not interested!”

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After the dinner ended, An Xiaonuan drove the drinking Chen Sheng home. As for Old Yu, who had also been drinking, whether he was standing in the cold wind to sober up or waiting for a designated driver in the cold wind...

Who cared?

The two returned home. Since An Xiaonuan was pregnant, many exciting nighttime entertainment activities had to be temporarily canceled. The two could only cuddle together and watch TV for a while before honestly entering dreamland.

The next day!

At six in the morning, Chen Sheng was woken up by a dry throat after drinking. He got out of bed to find a sip of water. No longer sleepy, Chen Sheng simply sat on the sofa and opened the system panel.

host: Chen Sheng

Level: Level 1

Upgrade EXP: 12/100

Unread Intelligence: 2

He tapped on the unread intelligence with his finger.

【Today's Intelligence 1: Recently at the Dongshan Reservoir in Jintang...】

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