Yu Huiyin's feelings were extremely complicated at the moment. After going home yesterday, she had asked her grandfather just who Su Yi was.
But her grandfather hadn't told her. He had only said that since Su Yi hadn't thrown her out, she could try taking him as her master. Even if that failed, becoming friends would be fine too.
When she wanted to ask more, Yu Guoan told her not to ask any further and simply do as he said.
Take Su Yi as her master? Yu Huiyin didn't even know what she would have him teach her.
Could her grandfather also know that Su Yi recognized those ancient characters?
Surely she couldn't have Su Yi teach her to drink?
Su Yi, however, also knew that all of this was Yu Guoan's idea: testing the waters step by step, then finally having Yu Huiyin become his friend.
He was somewhat displeased with Yu Guoan's calculated approach, but he didn't dislike Yu Huiyin.
"Sit down and eat." As Su Yi spoke, he found a clean table and called out, "Boss, we'd like to order."
Despite everything that had just happened, Su Yi acted as though nothing had happened at all.
No matter the era, good food was the one constant.
Yu Huiyin didn't stand on ceremony either and sat down across from Su Yi.
Lin Yiyun and the others, however, weren't sure whether they should join them. Su Yi beckoned to them. "Come sit down."
Since Lin Yiyun and the others were already here, leaving now would be awkward. They might as well go over and sit down without making a fuss.
Wang Junlin and the others, on the other hand, were feeling rather uncomfortable. With goddesses like Yu Huiyin and Lin Yiyun sharing the table, they really felt too shy to join them.
"What are you still standing there for? Come sit down." Su Yi smiled. "My treat."
Yu Huiyin almost asked him, "Do you have any money?"
As soon as Su Yi sat down and took out his phone, he said to Yu Huiyin, "Oh, right, didn't I borrow money from you yesterday? I'll pay you back. Let's add each other on WeChat."
Having only just learned how to use a phone and WeChat, Su Yi was like a playful child. Adding contacts, making transfers, and paying for things were rather interesting.
Yu Huiyin didn't stand on ceremony either. She took out her phone, opened her QR code, and let Su Yi scan it. "Just send whatever you think is right."
Su Yi had only started working yesterday, and Yu Huiyin didn't even know how much money he had. It wouldn't be good if he didn't have enough left after transferring the money to her.
After adding her on WeChat, Su Yi transferred her 1,500 outright and asked, "Is that enough?"
Yu Huiyin tapped to accept the transfer, her dimples showing as she smiled with narrowed eyes. "How generous, boss."
The owner handed over the menu and asked a little nervously, "What would you like to order?"
How could he not be nervous?
Su Yi seemed even more overbearing than Yu Xinghe. Could he afford to offend him?
Young masters from wealthy families like these weren't people an ordinary man like him could afford to provoke.
Su Yi looked over the menu. The prices were clearly marked and weren't particularly high. Vegetable dishes were around twenty, and even the large meat dishes were only a little over sixty.
He still had five hundred left. That should be enough, surely, but he couldn't eat this meal and have nothing for the next.
Zhang Ting had advanced him 2,000 last night. He wouldn't feel right asking for another advance on his wages afterward, which meant these five hundred had to last him until the end of the month.
"One mapo tofu, one cucumber and century egg soup, one fish-fragrant shredded pork, and one..." Su Yi glanced at Lin Yiyun, handed her the menu, and said, "You order."
"I'll pass." Lin Yiyun waved her hand. "Just order whatever you think is good."
Yu Huiyin casually took the menu, glanced at it, and said lightly, "Let's have two jin of spicy crayfish, plus braised beef, dry-fried swamp eel, and another..."
"You really don't hold back. I'm poor, you know that." Su Yi wasn't embarrassed in the slightest to say he was poor. The words came right out, without any concern for saving face.
Many men cared about saving face in front of women. Even if they had no money, in a situation like this, even if they had no money, they would certainly grit their teeth and play the big spender.
Yu Huiyin smiled. "And here I thought you'd come into money, classmate Su."
Su Yi ignored her and told the owner directly, "Of everything she just mentioned, just bring one jin of crayfish. None of the rest."
One jin of crayfish cost 58. Getting her one jin was already generous enough.
Of course, most importantly, Su Yi had never tried spicy crayfish.
At 58 a jin, it had to be somewhat interesting.
Crayfish were native to North America, introduced to Japan from the United States in 1918, then to China from Japan in 1929, and lived in the rivers, lakes, ponds, and marshes of southern China.
It was only after reform and opening-up, as people from Hunan spread throughout the country promoting Hunan cuisine, that they began to grow popular.
Su Yi had eaten all the other things, but he really had never tried crayfish.
Although he was poor, he could still try something new. Good steel had to be used on the blade's edge, and money naturally had to be spent where it counted too.
"Add me on WeChat too." Su Yi held his QR code out to Lin Yiyun.
Asking someone to add him on WeChat on their second meeting, and even holding out his own QR code-Jiang Biao and the others beside him still found Su Yi pretty brazen.
Most importantly, he had just added Yu Huiyin on WeChat right in front of Lin Yiyun, and now he was asking her to add him.
Damn it, did being handsome mean you could do whatever you wanted?
Jiang Biao and the others all stared at Lin Yiyun, wanting to know whether she would actually add him.
Lin Yiyun hesitated. She didn't particularly like Su Yi, but he gave her a very strange feeling.
Logically speaking, everyone moved in different circles.
Why would a rich second-generation wastrel like Zhao Yin be afraid of Su Yi?
Su Yi even dared to provoke Yu Xinghe, and he knew Yu Huiyin too.
By that logic, Su Yi ought to be from a wealthy family.
But when he ordered just now, if it hadn't been for Yu Huiyin, almost all the dishes would have been vegetarian, and he had openly said he had no money.
Just... what kind of person was he?
Lin Yiyun looked into Su Yi's eyes. They were clear and deep, nothing at all like those rich second-generation kids such as Zhao Yin.
If I refuse to add him on WeChat in front of all these people now, won't that make him lose face?
At worst, I can just add him and not chat with him.
In the end, Lin Yuyun added Su Yi on WeChat. His profile picture was an adorable little duck...
Hmm, a duck?
His WeChat name was even more straightforward: Su Yi.
Was he an old man or something?
The profile picture and WeChat name created a stark sense of mismatch.
"I'll add you too!" Ding Miaomiao took out her phone with a bright smile, then scanned his code as well and added him as a friend.
Watching this whole sequence of events made the dorm trio's mental state explode.
Was he even human?
He had only been at school for two days, and he had already hooked up with three beauties.
Leaving aside stunning beauties on Yu Huiyin and Lin Yiyun's level, the three of them had still harbored some fantasies when they saw Ding Miaomiao. After all, if Su Yi got the goddesses, he ought to leave this cute beauty beside them for the others, right?
And what happened? The stars in Ding Miaomiao's eyes clearly showed that she was interested in Su Yi!
Taking the whole lot? Bro, isn't that a bit too ruthless?
It really was a case of some dying of drought while others drowned in floods.