Chapter 88 — Let's See You Keep Up the Act
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"Here's a hundred yuan, keep the change." Zou Ruoming pulled out a hundred-yuan note and slapped it down in front of Tang's mother. He didn't want to stay a minute longer. With Wei Zhao watching, he felt uncomfortable all over.
"Now that won't do..." Tang's mother wanted to give him change, but Zou Ruoming waved her off with a bitter smile, then turned and walked away without looking back.
Originally, Tang's mother had assumed she would never recover a single yuan from Zou Ruoming's meal. Those several of them had ordered fifty or sixty yuan's worth of food and drink. She barely earned a hundred yuan on a good day behind her stall, so this would have wiped out most of her earnings. Although she felt it was a pity, she didn't dare ask Zou Ruoming for the money, and could only resign herself to bad luck.
But to her surprise, a single word from Wei Zhao and Zou Ruoming obediently paid up, and even overpaid by several dozen yuan, telling her to keep the change. Her heart filled with gratitude toward Wei Zhao. She thought, these rich boys from the school are supposedly all the same, but what a difference in how they carry themselves! Look at Wei Zhao - gentle and refined from head to toe. Look at Zou Ruoming - he might as well have written "local tyrant" right across his own face!
Yet the tyrant had been slapped by the refined one and hadn't even dared to complain, slinking away with his tail between his legs! Thinking of this, Tang's mother found Wei Zhao's face much more pleasant to look at. Seeing Tang Zhi still standing there, glaring at Wei Zhao and Kang Xiaofeng, clearly lost in some thought she couldn't fathom, she suddenly grew unhappy. "Yun'er, what are you doing? Come help serve your classmates!"
Tang Zhi hadn't expected Wei Zhao and Kang Xiaofeng to simply plant themselves at her family's barbecue stall and order food. In her view, Kang Xiaofeng stepping up to confront Zou Ruoming earlier had most likely been at Wei Zhao's instigation. She feared his intentions were no different from Zou Ruoming's - that he was after her too. Beyond that, Tang Zhi couldn't think of anything else that might earn the attention of these rich young masters.
Although Wei Zhao wasn't as blatant as Zou Ruoming, and instead appeared gentle and refined and didn't try to cozy up to her, Tang Zhi found Wei Zhao even more hypocritical. Just moments ago he had thrown punches at Zou Ruoming and the broad-faced fatty without a care in the world, and now he sat here like some model student - who was he putting on the act for? Especially since her mother seemed to have rather a good impression of Wei Zhao and had even called her over to serve them. Tang Zhi was furious. She thought, he just helped you get a hundred yuan back, and you've been taken in that easily?
Tang Zhi was like a little hedgehog. Years of hardship had long since locked her heart up tight. Whenever a boy came near, Tang Zhi's first instinct was to raise her defenses.
But her mother had called her, so reluctant as she was, Tang Zhi could only respond. She went to the side of the stall, grabbed two bottles of beer, turned and set them down on Wei Zhao and Kang Xiaofeng's table, then without so much as glancing at them, she walked back to her mother's side.
"A bottle opener..." Kang Xiaofeng saw that Tang Zhi had only brought the beer and forgotten the opener, and sensing that she seemed unhappy, he could only smile ruefully and ask carefully.
"Yun'er, what's wrong with you? Open the beer for your classmates." Tang's mother couldn't understand what had gotten into Tang Zhi. She had been perfectly fine a moment ago, and now she wore a cold face. When facing Zou Ruoming she had bowed her head looking utterly wronged, but now with Wei Zhao - seeing that he was gentle and refined - she was throwing attitude?