Setting Off Together

{Ding, negative emotion from Xiao Wu +199}

{Ding, negative emotion from Tang San +299}

{Ding, ding, ding--}

Tang San, Xiao Wu, and the Notting City residents watching their performance all stared speechlessly at Luo Yihe and Xiao Chenghe, who stood less than five meters apart.

Notting City, in a small restaurant--

Xiao Chenghe asked, "Brother Luo, how many did we sell?"

Luo Yihe lay sprawled across the table and said helplessly, "What an ignorant bunch. I only sold a little over seven hundred phones, yet they returned over six hundred of them. What an ignorant bunch of fools."

Xiao Wu curled her lip and cut in, "It's obviously because your phones are too expensive, okay? A phone only costs nine silver soul coins and nine copper coins, but everything on it costs extra. Sister Xiao Wu only played Snake for one afternoon, and it deducted fifteen silver soul coins from me. Xiao Yi, can you give Sister Xiao Wu her silver soul coins back?"

Xiao Wu suddenly made a huge turn at the end, nearly throwing Luo Yihe's back out.

Xiao Wu put on a pitiful expression and stared straight at Luo Yihe.

Luo Yihe retorted, "You got carried away playing, so how is that my fault? Besides, I didn't take the money that got deducted. What do you know? This is called high technology. Don't talk to me yet. With your brain, you're only fit to sit at a table with babies who've just been weaned."

{Ding, negative emotion from Xiao Wu +399}

Xiao Wu was just about to blow up when Tang San beat her to it. "Luo Yihe, what kind of thing is that to say? Xiao Wu was only giving you a reasonable analysis. Don't be so ungrateful. Besides, that thing of yours is completely corrupting people, especially those games you developed. What was it called, Douluo Escape? And especially Fight the Nobles, that game—you..."

"Stop, stop, stop. You think I wasn't talking about you? You're only a little better than Xiao Wu's undeveloped rabbit brain, and you've got the nerve to lecture me?"

Luo Yihe said impatiently.

{Ding, negative emotion from Xiao Wu +499}

{Ding, negative emotion from Tang San +299}

"Food's here~"

Just as the group was about to start arguing again, the waiter finally brought the dishes over.

Luo Yihe immediately lost all interest in bickering with them. He and Xiao Chenghe started stuffing themselves like starving ghosts reincarnated. But it wasn't their fault—the two brothers were truly poor. Not only did they have to support themselves, they also had to help out Xiao Family Village.

Now that they had finally come to a proper restaurant, how could they not eat their fill?

Xiao Wu and Tang San had clearly seen the two of them eat like this before. They said nothing and hurriedly started eating too. Otherwise, they would not even get a chance to lick the plates.

Luo Yihe glanced at Xiao Chenghe's eating speed. "Um, Big Bear..."

"Don't talk yet. Eat first. I'm starving to death."

Xiao Chenghe wolfed down his food. Bowl after bowl of rice disappeared, and plate after plate of dishes was dumped into his bowl.

"Burp."

"Brother Luo, what did you want to say?"

Luo Yihe directly set down his bowl of rice, waved his hand, and said calmly, "Oh, it's nothing now. I just saw a fly in your bowl earlier, but you already ate it."

{Ding, negative emotion from Xiao Chenghe +499}

{Ding, negative emotion from Xiao Wu +999}

{Ding, negative emotion from Tang San +499}

"Fuck, Brother Luo, why didn't you tell me sooner?"

"Bleurgh~"

"Bleurgh~"

"Bleurgh~"

Tang San and Xiao Wu, who were still shoveling food into their mouths, immediately vomited their guts out.

Luo Yihe said innocently, "Didn't you say to wait until you finished eating before telling you anything?"

"Bleurgh, couldn't you have stopped me for something like this?"

Xiao Wu's face was pale, her eyes seeming ready to spit fire as she gritted her teeth. "Luo Yihe, you..."

Tang San also glared at Luo Yihe, vomiting as though his life depended on it.

Luo Yihe was speechless. "Stop, stop, stop. Why are you two throwing up? I found it in Xiao Chenghe's bowl, not in the dishes."

{Ding, negative emotion from Xiao Chenghe +777}

Xiao Wu and Tang San instantly felt as though the storm had passed, and their moods improved considerably. Still, they had no appetite left.

Xiao Chenghe slapped the table in fury. "Boss! Boss!"

A plump boss hurried over eagerly. "Honored guests, have you finished eating?"

Xiao Chenghe pointed at the plates irritably. "Why was there a fly in my rice?"

The fat boss shook his head firmly. "Impossible. I won't claim my hygiene is the best on the entire continent, but it's definitely the best in Notting City. There couldn't possibly be flies."

Xiao Chenghe said, "I'm not lying to you. There really was a fly."

The fat boss lowered his head and looked at the completely empty plates, plates cleaner than the ones he had washed himself. Helplessly, he asked, "Where's the fly?"

"I ate it."

The fat boss's expression changed. Before, he had looked helpless, thinking he had encountered people trying to dine and dash. But now he thought—this kid might be a drooling idiot.

The fat boss directly looked at Luo Yihe. "Is he your friend?"

Luo Yihe hurriedly shook his head. "We were just sharing a table. This little girl is with me. That dark kid is with him, and I heard they even became sworn brothers."

{Ding, negative emotion from Tang San +399}

{Ding, negative emotion from Xiao Chenghe +799}

After saying that, Luo Yihe grabbed Xiao Wu and headed outside, while Xiao Wu was still giggling foolishly.

Tang San and Xiao Chenghe also hurriedly got up and headed outside. But after only a few steps, Tang San slipped and crashed to the ground.

"Tsk! Damn it, which person with a death wish threw a watermelon rind around?"

After the four had eaten and drunk their fill, they walked through the streets of Notting City. This time, they finally were not arguing. Instead, they discussed where they would go after graduating tomorrow.

Tang San spoke first. "Luo Yihe, no matter what, I'll accept your phone, and thank you for being willing to go to Shrek Academy. Because of you two, my teacher has practically worried himself gray."

Luo Yihe did not care at all. He casually waved his hand. "It's nothing. This Divine Lord observed the stars at night and saw a lost maiden. She is this Divine Lord's consort, and she is walking a road of no return. This Divine Lord is just—ow."

Xiao Wu kicked Luo Yihe in the butt, sending him straight to the ground. She then straddled him and clamped both hands tightly around his neck.

"Luo Yihe, you really are a bastard."

"Fuck! Xiao Wu, are you asking to eat shit? This Divine Lord has already demoted you to a 'concubine.' Keep angering this Divine Lord, and believe it or not, I'll banish you to the cold palace."

"Go die! Even if Sister Xiao Wu starves to death or jumps from Notting City Lord's Residence, I will never agree to become some concubine of yours! Do you take Sister Xiao Wu for a three-year-old? I'll strangle you to death."

Seeing that this rabbit was not so easy to fool anymore, Luo Yihe stopped holding back and directly tickled Xiao Wu's waist. The two immediately began roughhousing in the street.

Xiao Chenghe did not care in the slightest and even cheered Luo Yihe on from the side. Seeing this scene, Tang San honestly felt a little jealous. Ever since he was young, his father had not loved him and his mother had not been around. He had lived like an orphan.

He had actually considered taking the initiative to ease his relationship with Luo Yihe, but his teacher and Luo Yihe were simply incompatible. Whenever they met, they either argued or exposed each other's dirty secrets. If the academy rules did not prohibit fighting—and especially prohibit putting teachers in sacks—Yu Xiaogang would have been beaten to death by the Luo Yihe brothers long ago.

Oh, the rule against putting teachers in sacks had been added a year ago. As for the reason... it could not be said. It could not be said.