The Little Coal Stove and Briquettes Were the Strength of the Thermos-Hugging Girl

Gao Cunyi took out a folded piece of paper from his waist pouch, unfolded it, and handed it to Liu Chang'an.

The handwriting is delicate and small; these days, it's rare to see someone write so many words so carefully and neatly, instead of a long, printed document.

However, it didn't look like Gao Cunyi's handwriting. The direction and force of the strokes were more like a girl's handwriting, so Liu Chang'an looked at Gao Cunyi.

"My girlfriend helped me write the proposal," Gao Cunyi explained.

"You have a girlfriend?"

"That time I came here, I rode my bicycle back and splashed her with water. I offered to pay for her laundry, but she refused. Later, when I was hospitalized, I didn't realize she was a nurse at that hospital..." Gao Cunyi said somewhat embarrassedly.

"It's fate," Liu Chang'an nodded.

"It all comes down to you."

"You think I'll injure you and send you to the hospital?"

Gao Cunyi laughed and nodded.

Silly boy.

After reading the plan, Liu Chang'an found that the core point was that Gao Cunyi was Pu Shougeng's disciple, a fact that could not be erased simply by the disbandment of the martial arts school or Pu Shougeng's disappearance.

Now that Pu Shougeng's reputation is ruined, with Ma Benwei's live stream featuring Liu Chang'an's challenge, mainstream online opinion naturally treats Pu Shougeng as a clown, making fun of him and generating numerous bizarre and satirical videos.

Gao Cunyi to re-establish himself in the South Hunan martial arts circle by opening a martial arts school has generated significant negative public opinion. The solution lies with the person who created the problem. If he can invite Liu Chang'an to join the school as a coach or consultant, or even just to lend his name, he can achieve twice the result with half the effort and eliminate the negative impact of the "Pu Shougeng" label on Gao Cunyi.

Otherwise, if people say that the martial arts school owner is the disciple of Pu Shougeng, the one whose school was challenged by a high school student, who would still want to come to Gao Cunyi's martial arts school?

"Alright, I'll just be a nominal member. As for the salary, that's unnecessary. Our old rule was that for nominal members, those who were more respectable didn't receive a monthly salary. You just needed to get some chicken, duck, fish, meat, and seasonal fruit during holidays." Liu Chang'an nodded. "Of course, as a nominal member, you wouldn't be expected to step in if anything happened at the martial arts school. You also had no obligation to stand up for yourself if you encountered a tough opponent. You'd have to handle it yourself."

"It's fine if you only have a nominal position, but you still need to receive your monthly salary. How about I give you some shares instead?" Gao Cunyi said happily. He hadn't expected Liu Chang'an to be so easy to talk to, completely different from when he had visited him three times to ask for his help. It seemed that he shouldn't have brought up the matter with him in the first place. This kind of person was very principled; he would never agree to something he wasn't going to, and there was no need to argue with him about things he was willing to help with.

"Whatever I say goes." Liu Chang'an handed the proposal back.

Gao Cunyi dared not waste any more words. The man before him sat under the sycamore tree, possessing an extraordinary bearing and the air of a grandmaster. Otherwise, how could Gao Cunyi address him as "Brother Liu" so readily, even though he knew his age?

"You don't need to treat me to dinner. Go back. If you need to shoot posters or other promotional materials, just let me know in advance." Liu Chang'an thought he looked pretty good on camera; people always complimented him on his looks during his live streams.

"Alright, thank you." Gao Cunyi didn't waste any more words, cupped his hands in greeting, and left.

Liu Chang'an watched Gao Cunyi leave, then stood up to prepare lunch, glancing down at Shangguan Dandan.

Shangguan Dandan glanced at Liu Chang'an and shook her head. He hadn't finished eating the sweet potato slices yet, so he couldn't work or talk.

Liu Chang'an went upstairs by himself and started cooking rice in the kitchen. After a while, Shangguan Dandan, who had finally gotten rid of the sweet potato scraper, came to the kitchen and stood by the door frame watching Liu Chang'an busy at work.

Liu Chang'an glanced back at her, Shangguan Dandan shrank back a little.

"Help me pick the vegetables." Liu Chang'an no longer asked her with his eyes whether she wanted to help make lunch; he made the request directly.

"I don't know how," Shangguan Dandan gave the same reason, and her eyes showed her refusal to learn.

"Then boil some water for me." Liu Chang'an gave her something she couldn't admit she couldn't do; if she didn't know how to boil water, where would she get the hot water she used to dissolve effervescent tablets every day?

Shangguan Dandan at the kitchen equipment, especially the enormous kettle, which was far larger than her own. She shook her head in slight resistance, hugged it to her chest, then, after observing the diameter of her embrace, shrank it slightly to show Liu Chang'an, saying, "I can only boil kettles this big."

"What's the difference between boiling water in a big pot and a small pot?" Liu Chang'an couldn't understand.

"I can't lift that big pot!" Shangguan Dandan pointed to her thin arms. "Besides, it looks dangerous. What if it explodes?"

"You can jump up a tree, but you can't lift a big water jug?" Liu Chang'an sometimes didn't bother to come up with a plausible excuse, so she could easily sense that her excuse was too fake.

Shangguan Dandan nodded, shrinking out of the doorway with only half her face showing as she looked at Liu Chang'an. She said somewhat angrily, "And if you insist on making me work, I'll get very annoyed and need to rest. I might not come out until the day after tomorrow."

"You have so much money on you, and you can really hold back until the day after tomorrow before you come out to play cards?" Liu Chang'an didn't believe it.

"Let me put it this way first." Shangguan Dandan thought for a moment. Why question her? Honestly, whatever she says goes. Just listen to her. What I hate most is when people always find problems to question what she says.

Liu Chang'an was too lazy to talk anymore. He could have easily done the work himself by asking her to do it.

Seeing that Liu Chang'an seemed unwilling to let her do any chores, Shangguan Dandan went into the kitchen, turned on the faucet which seemed different from the one downstairs, checked the water meter for three minutes, pressed every button on the juicer, and then gave Liu Chang'an a suggestion, "Why don't you use the small coal stove? I heard that liquefied gas is dangerous; it can explode and poison people."

"Thanks, but you don't need to worry about it." Liu Chang'an couldn't accept guidance from someone who did nothing but talk the talk.

Shangguan Dandan was somewhat worried. She couldn't possibly not care about him, after all, he was her only family and support. Although he was poisoned, it shouldn't be a big problem, but poisoning was still not a good thing.

"I'll go and bring up the small stove downstairs for you to use."

After Shangguan Dandan finished speaking, she went downstairs, and Liu Chang'an didn't pay any attention to her.

Shangguan Dandan went downstairs to her room. There was still some embers in the small stove. Shangguan Dandan put a kettle of water on top to keep it warm so as not to waste the heat from the coal. She took out the burnt-out coal and added a new one. Then she lifted the small stove.

It's so heavy, I can't lift it.

Shangguan Dandan gave up and went to the kitchen to report to Liu Chang'an, "I wanted to help you with the chores, but I can't lift that small stove!"

Liu Chang'an nodded. She probably never intended to bring it up in the first place, right?

Shangguan Dandan wiped her forehead again. "If you want to use the small stove in the future, you can come downstairs to use it. But we're almost out of coal briquettes. If you want to use it, you'll have to buy some. I only have a hundred yuan, so I can only buy a little bit."

Liu Chang'an finally understood. Shangguan Dandan risked doing housework and ran around performing all that, actually because her little stove was out of coal briquettes. If Liu Chang'an wanted to use it, he would have to buy coal briquettes, and then she could lick the coal briquettes for the little stove every day, and then boil water herself to fill her precious thermos, continuing to be her thermos-carrying girl.

Liu Chang'an glared at her, washed his hands, grabbed his phone, and called the coal deliveryman, asking him to deliver a truckload of coal briquettes that afternoon.

After listening to Liu Chang'an's phone call, Shangguan Dandan was very happy and took the initiative to lift Liu Chang'an's large kettle and put it under the tap to fill it with water.

"Ouch... Ouch!"

Shangguan Dandan Dowager didn't want to work, but rather that she simply didn't have the strength; she had already done her best.

"Get out of here!"

Liu Chang'an pushed Shangguan Dandan out of the kitchen and simply closed the door, lest she pretend to cause trouble even if she wasn't doing anything.

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