Wu Yusen suddenly felt that being too idle was not a good thing. Being moderately busy was good for one's physical and mental health.
He specifically found a few tasks of moderate difficulty and took Lin Fan to do them without stopping.
Lin Fan followed him and successfully completed one task after another. Everything went smoothly and easily.
She felt that she had gradually gotten rid of her newbie status and had firmly stepped into the ranks of experienced taskmasters.
That day, the two of them completed another task. They were eating hot pot and singing in the cafeteria. Lin Fan and Wang Fengfeng were gossiping happily when someone ran towards John Woo from a distance.
"Brother Wu!" Zhao He had heard that it was easy to find John Woo in the cafeteria, and it turned out to be true!
Lin Fan turned around and saw a boy of about sixteen or seventeen, wearing a school uniform from an unknown middle school, with a black schoolbag slung across his body.
He had slightly curly hair, a few reddish pimples on his face, and a tall, thin build, the typical high school student's build these days. Not sturdy, like a little chicken.
He stared at Wu Yusen with a look of surprise, his eyes shining, completely ignoring everyone else.
"Hey, Xiao He, you only see your brother Wu?" Wang Fengfeng teased, "I'm such a big living person, how could you not see me?"
Wang Fengfeng and John Woo sat in a row, and Lin Fan sat opposite them, facing Wang Fengfeng, making it convenient for them to gossip.
Zhao He then looked at Wang Fengfeng shyly, "Brother Wang, and this..."
"This is Minister Lin from the Mobile Department..." Wang Fengfeng introduced.
"Minister Lin..." Zhao He was so surprised and delighted when he heard this that his entire face flushed. He murmured, "Hello, Minister Lin."
"Haha, Xiao He is shy." Wang Fengfeng laughed like a brothel owner.
Seeing Zhao He's head buried in his neck, Lin Fan kicked Wang Fengfeng under the table. The laughter stopped abruptly.
"Please sit down." Wu Yusen said with a smile, "What do you want to talk to me about?"
Zhao He obediently sat down in the empty seat next to Lin Fan, but he didn't dare sit down firmly. Half of his butt was still exposed, and his hands were resting loosely on the corner of the table.
He lowered his head, glanced at John Woo in front of him, then glanced at Lin Fan next to him, his ears red as if they were about to bleed.
"I came to you to ask for your help. Please go to the grocery store for me." Zhao He replied obediently, and then kept glancing at Lin Fan beside him.
It was the first time that Lin Fan saw such a shy boy. He found it very interesting and stopped eating. He unconsciously looked at him a few more times.
As a result, when Zhao He raised his eyes, he immediately retracted them when they met her gaze, and then shrank away.
Lin Fan suddenly felt like a bully bullying a good family. He looked away awkwardly and continued to eat the meat as if nothing had happened.
"That's just his personality. It'll be fine once you get to know him better." Wang Fengfeng explained in a low voice, which made Lin Fan feel a little better.
Over there, Wu Yusen was already chatting with Zhao He, "Is it inconvenient for you to go?"
"I don't have time." Zhao He looked up and faced John Woo, finally able to speak normally.
"I'll be a senior next semester, and the school is very strict right now. We only have Saturday night and Sunday morning off. I looked for her last week and last night, but didn't see her. So I'm asking you, if you have time, could you run a few times for me?"
Lin Fan listened to the tight study schedule of the soon-to-be senior high school students and felt filled with sympathy. He raised his Coke and clinked glasses with Wang Fengfeng.
"I do have the time, and it's no problem for me to run a run for you, but what do you want to buy?" John Woo did not refuse and asked with a smile.
"Card, please help me see if there are any new blank cards." Zhao He felt relieved when he heard his promise, "I only have one blank card..."
He glanced at Lin Fan again stealthily, "So I hope to buy some more blank cards to replenish them."
"Okay, I got it. I'll go help you later." Wu Yusen thought it was not difficult and agreed immediately. "Have you had dinner? Eat some more?"
As he said this, he was about to help Zhao He arrange the chopsticks.
"No, I'm not eating anymore. I have to go back quickly. If I'm any later, my mom will definitely find out that I took sick leave and sneaked out for evening study." Zhao He put the note in his hand on the table and glanced at Lin Fan again.
Oops, she heard me lying about skipping school!
"Then I'll give it to you..." John Woo took the note, looked at it, and stood up.
"No, no, no, I'll go by myself, I'll go by myself..." Zhao He said as he retreated and soon disappeared.
"This kid... is he from the institute too?" Lin Fan rested his chin on the hand holding the chopsticks, watching him flee in thought. "Is he afraid of me?"
"No, it's quite the opposite of what you think. He really admires you." Wang Fengfeng laughed heartily. "But he's shy when he meets strangers, it's true, hahahaha..."
"When he first met me, he wasn't much better than before. He got better after we met more." Wu Yusen continued to put vegetables into the hot pot and comforted Lin Fan, "Don't take it to heart. He will be fine after seeing each other a few more times."
"Oh." Lin Fan nodded, scooped up a piece of meat from the pot, and asked, "Then why did he ask you to buy something? What's so hard to buy? Is it some internet-famous snack that requires a long queue?"
"No," Wang Fengfeng interrupted, "it's that the place where you buy things is special."
"Isn't it a grocery store?" Lin Fan looked up at the two people across from him. "What's so unusual about that?"
John Woo just smiled and said nothing, leaving the right of interpretation to Wang Fengfeng.
"The grocery store we are talking about is not an ordinary convenience store." Wang Fengfeng's eyebrows immediately lit up when he talked about gossip.
"Oh? Tell me quickly." Lin Fan didn't even bother to eat and listened to the gossip intently.
"As for the grocery store, I don't know where it comes from, but it usually appears at night." Wang Fengfeng placed his chopsticks on the bowl. "It is said that those who can see it and enter it are destined to be together."
"My soulmate?" Lin Fan showed a look of disgust. "Why does he sound like a liar?"
"That's not true!" Wang Fengfeng waved his hand. "We are the ones who decided who we are. The owner didn't say that. The main thing is, the things in her shop are really rare."
"What are they?" Lin Fan asked curiously.
"There are so many, like the regret pills you'll regret taking; the diet pills that make you lose weight instantly with no side effects; the safety ropes you wear on your wrist to keep you safe; and the peach blossom ropes that instantly increase your romantic luck..."
Wang Fengfeng was talking with his mouth full of saliva, and Lin Fan's expression became more and more strange as he listened.
Why do I feel more and more that this is a rip-off store?
"Get to the point!" Wu Yusen filled the bowl in front of Lin Fan, but Wang Fengfeng still hadn't gotten to the point.
If he had not been there himself and knew the truth, he would have felt that he was being cheated just by listening to what Wang Fengfeng said.
"Here's the point! Here comes the point," Wang Fengfeng chuckled. "Even though it sounds ridiculous, the things sold in this store are all genuinely useful and good."
"For example, Zhao He's card. For another example..." Wang Fengfeng glanced at Wu Yusen, who was laughing and eating meat next to him, "my brother Wu's Vajra amulet."
John Woo held the chopsticks in one hand, which were still in the hot pot, and with the other hand he pulled out the black rope that had been hanging around his neck, with a silver plate hanging on it.
He smiled and showed it to Lin Fan. "Look, this is it."
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