"By the way, what do your custom-made work uniforms look like?"
At the water bar, Song Yunshen asked with some curiosity.
Song Jiaxuan didn't hide anything and took out her phone to show him the reference image. "I had it custom-made. They just sent me the image today, but they haven't started making it yet."
Song Yunshen leaned over for a glance, then frowned slightly. "The upper body is fine, it looks great. But why is it a skirt? People come to the cat cafe to pet the cats, not to see how pretty the staff are. Why is she wearing a skirt?"
Upon hearing this, Song Jiaxuan rolled her eyes in exasperation. "I only showed you the first page; there's another page after that. This is an apron, not a skirt. The second page shows pants."
"Oh, oh." Song Yunshen nodded in realization, flipped the page, and sure enough, saw a pair of ordinary-looking trousers.
After looking through it several times, Song Yunshen nodded in satisfaction. "It's very good, quite nice. Sister Xuanxuan has excellent taste."
Seeing how quickly his expression changed, Song Jiaxuan didn't bother with him. She put her phone away and said, "Order today, it'll arrive in a couple of days. I'll send you two sets then, you can take them to Yunuo to try on."
"Sister Xuanxuan, you don't need two sets, one is enough." Xia Yunuo quickly waved her hand, "After school starts, I'll only be free to come over on weekends, there's no need for two sets."
"It's just work clothes, you can keep it." Song Jiaxuan was quite the domineering female CEO in this regard.
Song Yunshen nodded in agreement, then suggested, "You can change into a dress for the second outfit." "What... what do you mean?" Song Jiaxuan looked at him speechlessly.
"Ahem... It's nothing, I was just saying." Song Yunshen coughed twice, looked out the window with a guilty look, and whistled twice.
Xia Yunuo blushed and lowered her head shyly, but did not refuse.
Song Jiaxuan shook her head helplessly, neither agreeing nor disagreeing, but simply clicked her tongue and turned to leave the bar counter. "Let's go, let's go, time to pet the cat."
Around 11 a. m., everyone had finished playing, so Song Yunshen called everyone to go have lunch, saying that he and Xia Yunuo would treat them to lunch today.
Originally, Song Yunshen didn't plan to treat anyone, since he usually split the bill when he ate out with his classmates.
Besides, since this is a visit to a cat cafe, if Song Jiaxuan and Song Jiayao also come to eat, Song Jiaxuan will likely offer to treat them, so they won't have to pay at all.
But as dinner time approached, Xia Yunuo took the initiative to approach Song Yunshen and discuss treating him to dinner.
After all, the two had previously agreed that he would treat Song Jiaxuan to a meal to thank her after the cat cafe opened.
After all, Xia Yunuo had received a consultation fee of 1,000 yuan from Song Jiaxuan, and she would feel bad if she didn't reciprocate.
It just so happens that today is the perfect day, so I'll just have my classmate and sister treat me together. Although it will cost a little more money, Xia Yunuo has quite a bit of spare cash these days, so she's being a bit generous with her spending.
Last month, I earned 3,000 yuan a month. I gave my mother 1,000 yuan, and with the 500 yuan I earned from Song Jiaxuan, I had a total of 2,500 yuan.
After buying clothes, I still have over 2000 yuan left.
Of course, if Xia Yunuo simply had a little over 2,000 yuan in pocket money, she wouldn't spend it recklessly.
But now she not only has a month's salary for summer vacation waiting for her, but she can also frequently work part-time at the cat cafe.
Song Jiaxuan paid her 30 yuan per hour. If she could work a full day every weekend, she would earn nearly 500 yuan a week.
In a month, you can make around 2000 yuan.
This was a huge sum of money for Xia Yunuo.
With this anticipated long-term income, Xia Yunuo became unusually generous when it came to treating people to meals.
However, Song Yunshen didn't intend for her to spend money, so he simply took everyone to a barbecue restaurant. The eight of them shared two adjacent tables, and the total cost was only a little over 600 yuan.
If divided among one person, it would be a little over 300.
Xu Zhuoyue and the others were clearly surprised that Song Yunshen and Xia Yunuo would offer to treat them, and they were a little embarrassed. But after the two explained the reason, they understood that it was because Song Jiaxuan had given them money earlier.
Song Jiaxuan laughed and said, "Then I'll treat you, okay?"
"That's great, you even gave Yunshen 1000 yuan." Song Jiayao said sarcastically from the side, "But before, when your own sister asked you for help, you insisted that I work to earn the money myself."
"They helped me, but what did you give me?" Song Jiaxuan rolled her eyes at her sister. "If you really need money, just find a boyfriend. Mom will definitely give you a huge dating fund. You wouldn't be short of money, would you?"
"Get lost! I'll never bow down to money!" Song Jiayao said defiantly, raising her chin.
Seeing Song Yunshen immediately added fuel to the fire, saying, " Sister Yaoyao that unless she finds someone like her brother-in-law, she won't be interested in any other man."
"Get lost! You're just spouting nonsense." Song Jiayao punched him in annoyance.
Song Jiaxuan covered her mouth and chuckled, "It's a pity your brother-in-law is an only child and doesn't have a younger brother, otherwise I could really introduce him to you."
"I was just saying it offhand, I'm not really looking for someone." Song Jiayao pouted. "Dating is too much trouble, it's better to go out and have fun with my best friends."
"Just don't regret it later," Song Jiaxuan said, shaking her head. "Mom is right about one thing: if you don't date in college, it'll be really hard to find someone after graduation."
"Why?" Xia Yunuo sat down next to Song Yunshen, placing some grilled meat onto his plate, and asked curiously, "Can't we date after graduating from university?"
"Of course we can date, but it's not as pure as it was in our student days," Song Jiaxuan said candidly. "When we dated in school, we only cared about whether we liked the other person or not. We didn't pay much attention to their job, status, earning power, or family background." "There were also things like our parents' personalities, mother-in-law/daughter-in-law relationships, whether to have children, and how many we planned to have—a lot of things to consider."
"Even if it's a romantic relationship from your student days, you still have to consider these issues when it comes to actually getting married."
"But often, it's either when the relationship has reached a certain stage that people start to seriously consider these things, or before they've even started dating, that these are actually two different scenarios."
"Would you rather discuss the complexities of marriage with someone you've shared many wonderful moments with, or would you prefer to start a relationship with someone you've never met before, addressing these issues upfront?"
Song Jiaxuan asked the question with a smile, which immediately silenced Song Jiayao.
Xia Yunuo thought about it carefully and found that what she said made a lot of sense, so she nodded seriously and said, "Then the first one is definitely better. The second one doesn't feel like dating; it feels more like making a transaction."
"That makes sense." Song Jiaxuan nodded with a smile.
Song Jiayao, who was standing to the side, was getting a little impatient and said with a speechless expression, "Are you a messenger sent by Mom? You're deliberately targeting me."
"Your mom and I didn't force you, we were just trying to reason with you," Song Jiaxuan said. "If you can't even stand this, what would happen if you were in a family that forced their daughter to go on blind dates? Wouldn't you go crazy?"
Song Jiayao grumbled and mumbled, knowing she couldn't win the argument with her sister, so she simply stopped talking and buried her head in her food.
As a result, she saw Xia Yunuo occasionally putting a few slices of grilled meat on Song Yunshen next to her, which left her speechless.
"I should have known better than to sit at the same table with these people. I would have preferred to sit with my brother's classmates." Thinking this, Song Jiayao glanced at the next table and saw Chen Yue and Deng Shitao feeding each other. She immediately turned back with a look of disgust.
What's wrong with young people these days?
That's going too far!
Wait a minute, I'm young too... Song Jiayao's lips twitched, feeling like the whole world was against her.
Song Yunshen had no idea what his Sister Yaoyao was thinking. He happily ate his barbecue and then casually put a few pieces on Xia Yunuo's plate.
When we were halfway through our meal, we heard Xu Zhuoyue from the next table suggest, "Are you guys free this afternoon? How about we go play some ball? I'll ask around and see if anyone else wants to come."
Zhong Long and Deng Shitao both nodded, indicating that there was no problem.
Song Yunshen frowned slightly and turned to look at Xia Yunuo.
Xia Yunuo gently and said softly, "Go play ball with them. It's not very interesting to accompany me and Yingying to class every day."
"Okay." After getting Xia Yunuo's agreement, Song Yunshen looked at Xu Zhuoyue at the next table, "Then you call some people, we can play together later, but I can probably only play until a little after 3 o'clock."
"Oh, no problem." Xu Zhuoyue knew that he had a tutor coming to his home for an English lesson in the afternoon, so he nodded understandingly. Then he took out his phone and started calling for people in the class group.
By the time they finished eating the barbecue, he had already gathered seven or eight people, and the fight was scheduled to start promptly at 1 p. m. Song Jiaxuan and Song Jiayao drove the six of them back to Tangning New Residence before saying goodbye and leaving.
Seeing that there was still some time before 1 o'clock, Song Yunshen invited everyone to come to his house and sit for a while.
It was Zhong Long and Deng Shitao's first time visiting Song Yunshen's home. They took the elevator to the 18th floor and curiously looked around at Song Yunshen door.
Xia Yunuo, on the other hand, acted very skillfully, following Song Yunshen to the shoe cabinet, and helped to take out the guest slippers and hand them to Chen Yue and the others.
Then she took out her own pair of navy blue slippers and put them on. Her cheeks were slightly flushed, but she was also a little proud. When she put on the slippers, she even puffed out her chest slightly.
Neither Xu Zhuoyue nor Deng Shitao had that kind of insight, but Zhong Long, as a middleman, was best at reading people and easily noticed that something was wrong with Xia Yunuo's slippers.
All four classmates were wearing identical gray slippers, except for Xia Yunuo's, which were a different color and had a more refined style.
Zhong Long's eyes darted around, sensing that he was about to collect several more bags of snacks.
Brother Shen is truly amazing! This is incredible!
The prettiest and most aloof girl in the class has changed so much in just one summer vacation.
That's unbelievable.
However, Zhong Long glanced at Song Yunshen's very authoritative and handsome face again, and felt that he could understand it a little. Song Yunshen welcomed the group into his home, took some drinks from the refrigerator in the kitchen, and then everyone sat down on the sofa in the living room.
However, after hearing Xu Zhuoyue say that he had a 5090 at home, Deng Shitao and Zhong Long's eyes lit up immediately, and they hurriedly urged each other to go to the study to take a look.
So Song Yunshen got up again and led the three boys into the study, reluctantly showing them his skills, which made Zhong Long and Deng Shitao drool.
Zhong Long's family is of modest means; they didn't even provide him with a computer. Whenever they asked him to play PUBG, he would go to his cousin's house next door to use their computer.
Deng Shitao's family was well-off, but they couldn't afford to provide him with such a high-end computer.
The two boys were so captivated by the computer that they couldn't tear themselves away. They waited until several other boys from their class also came to Song Yunshen's house, crowding together in the study and watching for a while before Song Yunshen finally kicked them out.
One of the boys grabbed a bottle of drink from Song Yunshen's house and went downstairs, and then seven or eight boys rushed to the basketball court to start playing.
Chen Yue originally wanted to go downstairs too, but she felt it would be a bit boring to just watch them play ball. When she heard that Xia Yunuo wasn't going either, saying she was going next door to give Song Yunshen's cousin a lesson, she became interested and asked if she could come along.
Xia Yunuo asked Song Yunshen for his opinion, and after seeing that he agreed, she took Chen Yue to her uncle's house next door.
At this time, Zhao Zeheng was still fast asleep in the house, while Ruan Zheng went to give Xia Kening and the others math tutoring.
Yingying lives alone at home.
Chen Yue was surprised to find that Song Yunshen's cousin was only three or four years old; she had thought she was at least in elementary or middle school. Seeing Yingying and hearing her sweetly call her "sister," her heart melted instantly.
But when she heard Yingying call Xia Yunuo" pretty sister," her lips twitched slightly, as if she had been unexpectedly hit by something.
"Why isn't brother coming again?" Yingying asked, sitting in Xia Yunuo's lap after a while of class.
"Your brother is playing basketball with his classmates downstairs," Chen Yue said from the side.
" Yingying wants to play basketball too!" Upon hearing that Song Yunshen was downstairs and it wasn't anything important, Yingying immediately snuggled up in Xia Yunuo Xia Yunuo's arms, clinging to her and acting coquettishly.
"We still have class." Xia Yunuo was also quite interested in going to see it, but since it was class time, and she had already received the money, she couldn't just do it half-heartedly.
"Didn't that pretty older sister and brother accompany me to the children's amusement park last time?"
"That's different," Xia Yunuo explained. "Last time it was an outdoor practical lesson."
Chen Yue glanced at Xia Yunuo and thought to herself that this word definitely wasn't Xia Yunuo's idea; only Song Yunshen could come up with such an excuse.
"Then playing basketball can also be an outdoor practical lesson," Yingying retorted immediately, her mind quick and sharp.
"This..." Xia Yunuo was momentarily speechless, feeling somewhat embarrassed.
Seeing this, Chen Yue took the initiative to say, "Why don't you ask Song Yunshen? If he agrees, we can go down." "Okay." Xia Yunuo nodded slightly upon hearing this, and took out her phone to call Song Yunshen.
Song Yunshen, of course, couldn't possibly disagree and immediately agreed. But Xia Yunuo still felt it was a bit inappropriate, so she simply said, "Then I'll take Yingying to class first, until 2 o'clock, and then take her downstairs for an hour of playtime."
After everything was settled, Yingying obediently began attending classes.
It wasn't until 2 p. m. that the three of them eagerly changed their shoes, took the elevator downstairs, and quickly arrived at the basketball court.
When the other boys saw the three of them approaching and noticed that Xia Yunuo was holding a child, they exchanged puzzled glances. Upon hearing that the child was Song Yunshen's cousin, they suddenly realized what was going on and began making faces at each other.
"You scared me! Anyone who didn't know better would have thought you and Xia Yunuo were together, Brother Shen," a boy teased with a laugh.
The others immediately burst into laughter.
"Get out of here." Song Yunshen his eyes, then went over and picked up Yingying. After thinking it over, he simply put her on his shoulders and strolled all the way to the basketball hoop.
Seeing this, Xu Zhuoyue chuckled and handed the basketball to Yingying, saying, " Yingying, come and shoot one."
Yingying enthusiastically grabbed the basketball, threw it up with a whoosh, but it still missed quite a distance and didn't even touch the rim.
Xia Yunuo watched from the side, feeling a little envious.
[If Song Yunshen puts me on his shoulders, can I throw myself into them?] Song Yunshen, who was supporting Yingying, suddenly heard Xia Yunuo's inner thoughts. His expression immediately faltered, and he suddenly imagined himself putting Xia Yunuo on his shoulders.
[If it were Xia Yunuo, and she wore that dress, with her two fair and tender legs draped over my shoulders, and I supporting her with my hands, that would really be...]
Hearing Song Yunshen Xia Yunuo's face flushed red. She thought to herself, "This bad guy, how could he think of such a thing!"
He just wanted to touch his own leg, didn't he?!
After playing with Yingying for a while, Song Yunshen took her back to Xia Yunuo's side and asked her to keep an eye on Yingying and prevent her from running around.
After playing basketball until 3 o'clock, Song Yunshen and Xia Yunuo took Yingying home first, Chen Yue also said goodbye to Deng Shitao and left, and then the others also dispersed and went home.
Xu Zhuoyue and Zhong Long happened to be going the same way, so after leaving the residential area, they first went to a convenience store on the roadside to buy a bottle of drink.
As they were leaving, they happened to see Song Yunshen riding an electric scooter out of the residential area.
"Isn't that Brother Shen?" Zhong Long, with his sharp eyes, spotted Song Yunshen and immediately patted Xu Zhuoyue on the shoulder.
Xu Zhuoyue glanced around, initially disbelieving, but upon seeing it, he realized it was true. "Why would he ride an electric scooter out at this hour?"
"I don't know, should I go up and say hello?" Zhong Long said, and started to walk over there. But Xu Zhuoyue immediately pressed down on his shoulder and said in a deep voice, "Don't move, something's not right, look!"
"Huh?" Zhong Long was a little confused, then he noticed that Song Yunshen had ridden his electric bike out and stopped at the roadside near the entrance of the residential area, in front of a slender figure. "Holy crap! What the hell?"
"This kid..." Xu Zhuoyue felt a pang of pain in his teeth upon seeing this scene.
Xu Zhuoyue and Zhong Long were stunned, especially when the girl, who was exceptionally beautiful just by looking at her, took the initiative to straddle Song Yunshen's back seat and even reached out to hug him.
"That shouldn't be Xia Yunuo, right?" Zhong Long asked in a low voice.
"Definitely not, Xia Yunuo is wearing her school uniform today," Xu Zhuoyue said irritably. "Let's get a little closer and take a peek when he drives over."
"Isn't this a bit inappropriate?"
"You middleman, what are you saying, good or bad?" Xu Zhuoyue rolled his eyes and quickly dragged him to a tree by the roadside.
When Song Yunshen rode by on his electric bike, the two people who had been facing away from the roadside turned their heads and glanced at the girl. Their eyes fell on her face, and they were immediately amazed.
Immediately, Xu Zhuoyue realized that he seemed to have seen this girl before.
It seems to be the tutor he met at Song Yunshen's house last time, right?
But... what kind of tutor is this? What kind of tutor would ride on a student's electric scooter and hold on so tightly?
"Holy crap... Brother Shen is just too awesome..." Zhong Long couldn't help but exclaim in Shenshen admiration, "Even she..."
Upon hearing this, Xu Zhuoyue frowned, immediately sensing something was amiss. "What do you mean by that? Do you know that girl?"
"Of course I know her, how could I not?" Zhong Long immediately replied. "She's Xia Jinshu, a sophomore in high school, but she'll be a senior after the new semester starts. She was first in her grade in the midterm exams last semester and even gave a speech at the flag-raising ceremony."
"Holy crap!" Xu Zhuoyue was stunned upon hearing this. "She's not a college student?"
When Song Yunshen introduced the other party as a private tutor, Xu Zhuoyue never considered that the other party was a high school student. He thought the other party was a college student. It turned out that the other party was not!
"Why do you think she's a college student? She doesn't look old at all," Zhong Long asked, looking completely bewildered.
Xu Zhuoyue's lips twitched. "You'll have to ask him. I can't say for sure."
Seeing Song Yunshen's "affair" was, after all, just an accident, and it was only because Zhong Long witnessed it that it was overlooked.
However, Song Yunshen didn't say that he could mention the tutor to outsiders, Xu Zhuoyue didn't say it directly either.
Zhong Long didn't ask any more questions, silently keeping the doubt in his mind, planning to test Song Yunshen again when he had the chance.
If this news could be sold, it wouldn't just be a matter of a few bags of snacks. Xia Jinshu was a prominent figure in their grade, yet she was secretly meeting with Song Yunshen.
Although Song Yunshen had inquired about Xia Jinshu's whereabouts before, he hadn't seen the two of them interact since.
Zhong Long thought the matter was long over, but it turns out there was more to come!
At this moment, he couldn't think of any other adjective to describe Brother Shen as awesome.
"What about Xia Yunuo?" Zhong Long couldn't help but ask.
"You're asking me that? Who the hell am I supposed to ask?" Xu Zhuoyue said irritably. "It's not like I'm two-timing you, so ask who the scumbag is."
Zhong Long didn't know, but Xu Zhuoyue knew very well that his cousin, who often played games with them, had an ambiguous relationship with Song Yunshen.
It's really hard to say how many men this bastard is juggling!