Mo Jingchun pushed his shopping cart around aimlessly. Before long, he found himself in the clothing section. One glance was all it took for him to spot an incredibly, incredibly cute hat. He couldn't take his eyes off it.
There was only one thought in Mo Jingchun's mind: Buy, buy, buy!
He had to get it!
The pink, fleece-lined bunny earflap hat was just too adorable.
Just imagining the cute little thing wearing that adorable hat made Mo Jingchun eager to see how much cuter Candy would look with the two cuteness factors combined.
It had been getting colder lately, too. At this rate, the Capital City in the north might see snow as early as December.
It was so cold up north. He couldn't let the little one freeze.
Otherwise, when winter break came in January and he took her home, he couldn't exactly bring back a cute little girl with rosy cheeks and frostbitten ears.
Mo Jingchun checked the price. Erm, a hat cost 99 yuan? It was way too easy to make money off kids.
The merchants had parents' psychology all figured out.
After a brief sigh, Mo Jingchun still asked the sales assistant to get him an unopened pink, fleece-lined bunny earflap hat.
After leaving the clothing section, Mo Jingchun muttered to himself, "Let's go, let's go. If I keep shopping, I'll end up buying more stuff again."
Pushing his cart, Mo Jingchun took the escalator down from the Third Floor, making his way to the first floor to queue up at the checkout.
Whenever Mo Jingchun thought about the design of big shopping centers, he couldn't help complaining.
Without exception, the escalators going up and down were never in the same place. You had to walk all the way around the mall before you could get on another escalator.
Even worse, people had gotten so used to it that they didn't even notice anymore.
It was Saturday, and the mall was pretty crowded, though it still had nothing on a big hospital.
As Mo Jingchun waited in line, his phone chimed and vibrated. He didn't think much of it and took it out to check.
Just a text message! Mo Jingchun was a little disappointed. He'd thought someone had messaged him on WeChat.
He hadn't received a single message from any of his friends in days.
Back when school had just started, quite a few of his high school classmates still kept in touch with him. But as time went by, they barely contacted him at all.
But when he opened the text, Mo Jingchun's heart started racing uncontrollably. Thump, thump, thump!
After the 66, there were one, two, three, four zeros!
660,000 yuan had hit his account!
Just now, 660,000 yuan had been deposited into the bank card the school had issued him.
If he hadn't been in a crowded mall, Mo Jingchun would have burst out laughing.
So this was what it felt like to have money! He was incredibly excited! Sure, 660,000 yuan might not mean much to many businesspeople, and some could make over a million in profit from a single deal. But for Mo Jingchun, who had never earned money before, 660,000 yuan was a huge sum.
He'd have been thrilled to earn money for the first time even if it had only been 10,000 yuan, let alone 660,000.
Behind Mo Jingchun, the six-foot-three Li Dazhuang caught sight of the text on his phone.
When he read the message, Li Dazhuang, like Mo Jingchun, silently counted the digits all the way up to the hundred-thousands place.
660,000 yuan deposited just from a trip to the supermarket. Sure enough, there were plenty of rich people in the Capital City.
Unlike him, a sports major whose future was still uncertain. Was he really going to sell his looks and become a personal trainer after graduation?
"Sigh!"
Hearing the sigh, Mo Jingchun turned around and saw the hulking Li Dazhuang.
He sized the man up. This was someone he couldn't beat.
Mo Jingchun silently locked his phone and slipped it back into his pocket. He decided to pay and get out of there as quickly as possible.
With his little sister Candy on his back and two big bags of bread in his hands, Mo Jingchun escaped the mall. The moment he got on the bus, his phone started ringing.
Mo Jingchun took out his phone, saw that it was a scam call, and immediately hung up.
The 660,000 had barely hit his account before the scammers called. The troubles of being rich!
A little while after he hung up, his phone rang again. Mo Jingchun checked the caller ID and grinned. Another scam call from a new number.
Was it the same gang? They could at least call from a regular mobile number. Then he might actually answer instead of hanging up immediately.
He hung up!
Mo Jingchun thought that was the end of it, but his phone rang again. This time, it really was a normal number, and the caller ID showed that it was from the Capital City.
Mo Jingchun hesitated, then answered.
"Hello. Who is this?"
"It's me, Qin Yuzhu—your Sister Qin. Why'd you hang up on me twice just now, you brat?"
Twice? Hadn't those been scam calls? Probably...
Or maybe not.
"Forget it. Next time, I'll just call you from my personal number. Save my number in your phone."
"Oh, right. You got the 660,000, didn't you?"
Mo Jingchun murmured in reply. "I got it, Sister Qin."
Qin Yuzhu picked at her ear and spoke into the phone. "From the sound of your voice, you seem to be on a bus. Don't wander around for no reason. You might get yourself into trouble."
"All right, your big sister's swamped. I'm not wasting time chatting with a little brat like you."
Beep, beep, beep~
Looking at the phone that had been hung up on, Mo Jingchun lowered his head and met the eyes of his little sister Candy in his arms. He had no idea what Qin Yuzhu meant by telling him not to go wandering around or he'd get into trouble.
By the time he got back to school, it was already noon.
Mo Jingchun first made a bottle of milk to tide his little sister Candy over, then started cooking.
As usual, he simmered millet porridge for the little one in a small crock, while he made rice and stir-fried fresh green peppers and meat strips he'd bought at the supermarket.
They were crisp and crunchy, and the tender meat strips made every bite delicious.
Mo Jingchun teased the little one without letting her have any. He'd been laughing happily, but the next second, extreme joy turned to sorrow.
The little one was so mad that she sank her tiny baby teeth into the back of Mo Jingchun's hand. The pain made him suck in a sharp breath.
Who said babies didn't hurt when they bit? Mo Jingchun wanted to punch them!
It hurt like crazy.
When the little one finally let go, her saliva and two little tooth marks were left on the back of Mo Jingchun's left hand.
"You little rascal, why'd you get so worked up?"
"If you could eat it, do you think I'd refuse to share? Hm? Hmph!"
Mo Jingchun sounded as if he were talking to Candy, but also as if he were talking to himself. He sighed and said:
"In this whole world, I'm the only one who'll love you with all my heart and ask for nothing in return."
"You little rascal, who knows how you'll find ways to annoy the people closest to you when you grow up?"
"You won't pull out your big brother's oxygen tube when I'm old just because I always tease you, will you? Hahaha."
"Guo-ge~" Whenever the little one heard the word "big brother," she would call him "Guo-ge" in her unclear little voice.
Mo Jingchun pinched the little one's cheeks. "It's big brother, not Guo-ge."
"Guo-ge~"
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