I Am A Big Villain Chapter 37

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Translator: Kies.h.i.+

Editor/Proofreader: Mona

Status: Edited

“Second brother, your family's Xinyin is here for you.”

Huang Jiajun came in from outside the dormitory with several lunch boxes in his hand.

“Eldest brother, your sour soup and fat beef rice bowl. Fourth brother, your green pepper beef rice bowl.” He said as he put a few lunch boxes on each person's table.

“Beasts of burden, get up quickly, but it's okay, you two have to help me bring food tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, ah.”

"Okay."

The eldest brother in the dormitory was a fat man with a very simple and honest appearance, which belonged to the type that was particularly very fat. However, he was better than Fatty White[1], who was quite likable.

Fu Manduo wiped his face, and his bed hair was in a complete mess. Without was.h.i.+ng his face and brus.h.i.+ng his teeth, he picked up the lunch box on the table and ate it.

“Second brother, you take Xinyin to eat something at noon. Your lunch box, dàgē reluctantly solved it for you.” Fu Manduo smiled and took the fish-flavored eggplant rice bowl that the third brother brought from Yan Chu's table.

“Divide in half, Eldest brother, leave me half a box.”

The fourth brother had the opposite body shape with the eldest Fu Manduo in the dormitory. He looked like a skinny monkey. He grew up to like the island country[2] and a very wretched zháinán[3]. However, after getting along with him, you would find that he was a young man with a flowery mouth[4]. In truth, he was a stupid young man who was a little close to the girls.

“I stayed up all night yesterday, because I was starving. Fortunately, Xinyin came to see you. She just gave me half of your lunch box. You can rest a.s.sured that I'll pack your lunch with Eldest brother tomorrow.” Hou Ye said to Yan Chu.

They all knew that Yan Chu's family conditions were not very good. At this time, his girlfriend came to him. It's estimated that lunch would be settled outside. Meng Xinyin's family conditions were good. Even if they ate in the school canteen, they went to the restaurant to order some dishes.

Before that, they all asked Huang Jiajun, who had cla.s.ses in the morning, to buy a lunch box. It was only nine kuài[5] for a lunch box. For Yan Chu, it was also an expense.

Compared with Yan Chu, who was born in the countryside and had two elder sisters, the three of them had much better conditions. However, considering the self-esteem of this good brother, every time they wanted to help him, they were all tactful. They were afraid that they had done it carelessly and hurt Yan Chu.

Yan Chu was not the original body. He did not have such strong self-esteem. He patted two good brothers on the shoulder, picked up his shoulder bag, and walked out.

“Do you think Yan Chu can really be with our department flower?”

When Yan Chu went away, Huang Jiajun picking up the rice and said to Eldest brother Fu Manduo and Fourth brother Hou Ye.

“In the past, where did our department flower Meng spend eat in the cafeteria, ah? Every meal settled in the restaurant outside. If you look at the bags they carry, there are several ten thousands of them. Even if we graduate, we don't know how many bags we can afford for a year's salary. Now we are pa.s.sionate about drinking. When we graduate and enter society, it's estimated that the matter of the two will be mysterious.”

Huang Jiajun was not optimistic about the relations.h.i.+p between Yan Chu and Meng Xinyin.

Who was Meng Xinyin? The Department flower of Oil Painting Department of Tianshui University, whose father was Meng Guohua, a famous oil painting master, and could easily make a painting worth over one million. Her mother, Yu Qiuyue was the female boss of her own business, and her personal wealth ranked first in Jins.h.i.+.

As the only daughter of the two, Meng Xinyin meant great wealth. If anyone could marry her, they could hardly struggle for 300 years, ah.

What's more, Meng Xinyin was not ugly, and could even be said to be very beautiful. With the addition of the artist's temperament, she was a template of the G.o.ddess in most men's hearts, ah.

Everyone was thinking about what kind of man such a G.o.ddess needed to be worthy of. There was a perennial red sticker in the school post-bar. It predicted that this Oil Painting Department's flower would be picked by the warrior at last. But n.o.body expected that the flower of Gaoling picked by an unknown third-year university student in the Computer Science Department.

Actually, it was not absolute to say that he was not famous. In fact, when the start of a new term Yan Chu, because of his outstanding appearance, was also popular among girls in the school for a while.

He was slender, tall and straight, fair skin, handsome facial features, no greasy feeling of boys. Whenever he appeared in front of people, he cleaned himself up. His clothes and pants were full of a refres.h.i.+ng saponified fragrance. He always wore simple s.h.i.+rts and pants, just like the school gra.s.s[6] characters in mànhuà[7], which just the light of the messy house men in the computer science department.

With this appearance, everyone who didn't know thinks that this was a kind of high-cla.s.s family, at least a child from a middle-cla.s.s family. After Yan Chu's former cla.s.smates pointed out, everyone knew that his hometown was a poor county, and he was also a phoenix man from the poorest village in that poor county.

He also had two elder sisters. One was five years older than him, married a lame man. One was three years older than him and married an old man, who was 20 years older than her. It said that he could go to university with the dowry money of his two elder sisters.

It doesn't matter if the news was true or not. Anyway, his old cla.s.smates, who came out with the news, could never stand him.

Before that, the girls who had good feelings for Yan Chu hesitated. This was the age of family planning. Two girls in the family had sons. It was not about the preference of boys over girls. If it was like the rumor, the hearts of the family were black. It was not a good thing that Yan Chu could use his sisters' money to study.

Even those who didn't believe it beat the return drum[8] after hearing Yan Chu's origin.

This was not the time when a poor family gave birth to a son. College students were not worth the money. If you looked at the current house prices in Jins.h.i.+, they were almost 51 thousand flat. You had worked hard for a year, not eating or drinking, even a toilet. They couldn't afford it yet.

With Yan Chu's family condition, could he give her the down payment for the house? If he worked hard, he would have to wait for hundreds of years, and the dishes would be cold[9].

To have situation felt full, just from drinking enough water, you would die of malnutrition.

So although Yan Chu was good-looking, he didn't have a girl who liked him until his third-year, but no one thought that he had a good time with Department Flower Meng and surprised a lot of people's eyes.

“What's wrong with Second brother? How many of the students in our school have started to work independently since their third-year? His family condition is a little worse, but isn't Meng Xinyin helping him make up for this?”

Fu Manduo ate a lot of food, and his words were a bit vague. Before that, he also thought Yan Chu was too arrogant even though he had good grades and good looks. Until one time, he had gastroenteritis and diarrhea, Third brother and Fourth brother were not in the dormitory. Yan Chu accompanied him to the hospital, helped him to run up and down the register, paid for the medicine and took care of him for several days. He didn't complain at all. At that time, he thought he seemed to have wronged him.

In fact, Yan Chu was cold on the outside but warm-hearted man. He looked aloof and hard to touch, but he was more warm-hearted and valued loyalty than most people.

“That's right, he has Departement flower Meng. You don't have a portion of Second brother's sincerity, do you understand?” Hou Ye's expression was like singing a big show, looked disgusting.

“Besides, others chase our Departement flower Meng for money. I'm sure our Second brother, it is definitely because of true love.” Hou Ye patted his chest, watching Fu Manduo reached his chopsticks on the sirloin in his lunch box while he was talking with Huang Jiajun. He screamed and fought with him.

A bowl of beef with green peppers rice bowl, just a few sirloins was easy for him.

Huang Jiajun looked at his two good brothers who were so optimistic about the future of Yan Chu and Meng Xinyin, but still had some worries in his eyes.

How could it be that simple? According to the conditions of Yan Chu's family, could Meng Xinyin's parents rest a.s.sured that their daughter could teach him? He had the heart to persuade Yan Chu not to sink too deep, but how to say this kind of words? It was an arduous and thankless task[10]. In case of anything in the future, he also worries that the Second brother blamed him for being jealous.

How many parents in the world were really open-minded and didn't talk about family status? The existence of the word “the families were well-matched in terms of social status”[11] was certainly his argument.

*****

"Yinyin."

Yan Chu came out of the stairs and saw a girl waiting outside.

Meng Xinyin was quite tall with 172 cm. In winter, she wore thermal underwear, a high-neck white cashmere sweater, a camel coat that reached to her calf, and knee-length shoes have a little heel. Fortunately, Yan Chu was a tall man. Otherwise, he would a little be humiliated standing next to his girlfriend.

“Why are you dressing like this?”

"Ugly."

Meng Xinyin's voice was very inconsistent with her appearance. It was clear that she had the appearance of a high and cold imperial older sister, but contrarily, there was a baby voice that didn't sound anything like coquetry.

“Ugly is better than freezing cold.”

Yan Chu helped her to wrap the scarf securely and then held her hand tightly. She had just waited downstairs for a while. Her hands were cold. He stared at this disobedient little girl and knew that she was coquettish. He put her hand in his hand to warm up.

Meng Xinyin smiled sweetly: “Today I want to have a sweet and sour baby ribs in Window 1[12].”

She knew that Yan Chu has been picking up some small programming and saving some money. Yan Chu had good grades and had scholars.h.i.+ps every year, but she knew more about the situation of Yan Chu's family.

“Let's have some good food today. Let's eat at Fragrant Cauldron Land[13], OK? Don't you like the boiled fish of that family best?”

Fragrant Cauldron Land was a very well decorated Sichuan family restaurant outside the school. The price was on the high side of the student street. However, because of its good taste, many students like to go there to improve their meals.

Yan Chu held Meng Xinyin's hand. He knew that Meng Xinyin's desire to eat sweet and sour baby ribs in Window 1 was due to his accommodation. In fact, the sweet and sour baby ribs in the school wrapped in a lot of flour. Almost all of them were bones, thickened with cornstarch to spa.r.s.e and fragmentary. The seasoning depended on the chef's control that day. Meng Xinyin, who used to the exotic delicacies, didn't really like it, ah.

“Yan Chu, did your game program get sold?”

Meng Xinyin guessed why Yan Chu was suddenly so generous today and said happily.

“Èn.[14]” Yan Chu nodded. Thanks to the super hacker skill purchased in the previous life and the memory of the original body of this life, the initial funding for entrepreneurs.h.i.+p was finally available.

“Great. I'll have boiled fish and sour soup with beef.”

Meng Xinyin didn't ask Yan Chu how much money he made, and she happily pointed her finger to order. Thinking that Yan Chu was still a third-year university student, at this stage, the price of the little games he could be sold was also reasonable. After eating the meal, she would buy more fruit for him to send in the evening.

"Yinyin."

Just as she was leaving the school gate, a girl in a white down jacket ran over. She took Meng Xinyin's hand, and swept across Yan Chu's peripheral vision, her eyes having autumn ripples[15].

Yan Chu was expressionless, and Meng Xinyin was unaware of all this.

“I was just about to find you. You're also not very kind. I, this close sister, will be abandoned when you are together with Yan Chu. Why? I'm going to go out and have fun today. Would you mind taking me, this 200-Watt light bulb[16], ah?”

Jiang Moli said jokingly while holding Meng Xinyin's arm.

“This——” Meng Xinyin hesitated, thinking that she didn't make an appointment with Moli for a long time, but Yan Chu was busy with the game program a few days ago, and they hadn't eaten together for many days. She didn't want to be disturbed.

But Meng Xinyin was not a person who refused people. Especially Jiang Moli was still her good friend. She tangled up for a while and agreed.

As for the extra money of one person, she planned to give it to Yan Chu in Jiang Moli's name.

Let's Talk Corner:
Kies.h.i.+: Look like this arc is lighter from before *wipes sweat in relief*. Your wish came true, Monsan (OvO)/
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[1] 白胖子 [bái pàng zi]: Fatty White; Big Hero 6 Baymax

[2] 岛国 [dǎoguó]: the island country; in some cases, referred specifically to j.a.pan

[3] 宅男 [zháinán]: male addicted to computers, computer games, adult cartoons, etc (2000s Taiwan slang, derived from j.a.panese otaku 御宅男 house male); fan of computer games; by extension, nerd

[4] 嘴花花 [zuǐ huā huā]: flowery mouth; derogatory term of slick tongue

[5] 块 [kuài]: measure word for money and currency units, the colloquial term for yuan

[6] 校草 [xiàocǎo]: school gra.s.s; the most handsome boy in the school

[7] 漫画 [mànhuà]: comic; caricature; cartoon; j.a.panese manga

[8] 打退堂鼓 [dǎ tuìtáng gǔ]: lit. to beat the return drum (idiom); fig. to give up; to turn tail

[9] 黄花菜都凉了 [huánghuācài dōu liáng le]: lit. the dishes are cold (idiom); fig. to arrive late; to take one's sweet time

[10] 吃力不讨好 [chīlì bù tǎohǎo]: arduous and thankless task (idiom); strenuous and unrewarding

[11] 门当户对 [méndāng hùduì]: the families are well-matched in terms of social status (idiom); (of a prospective marriage partner) an appropriate match

[12] 一号窗口 [yīhào chuāngkǒu]: Window 1 (Kies.h.i.+: a Public Canteen's name?)

[13] 鼎香园 [dǐng xiāng yuán]: Fragrant Cauldron Land,

鼎 [dǐng]: ancient cooking cauldron with two looped handles and three or four legs; pot (dialect); to enter upon a period of (cla.s.sical); Kangxi radical 206; one of the 64 hexagrams of the Book of Changes

香 [xiāng]: fragrant; sweet-smelling; aromatic; savory or appetizing; (to eat) with relish; (of sleep) sound; perfume or spice; joss or incense stick

园 [yuán]: land used for growing plants; site used for public recreation; (Chinese surname)

[14] 嗯 [èn]: nonverbal grunt as interjection indicating approval, appreciation or agreement

[15] 秋波 [qiūbō]: autumn ripples; (fig.) luminous eyes of a woman; amorous glance

[16] 电灯泡 [diàndēng pào]: light bulb; (slang) unwanted third guest