In mid-March, it rained in Jinling City, which meant the arrival of the first spring rain in 2001.
In the following days, the weather became warmer day by day.
Chen Nuo started skipping classes again.
He would often appear in school, wander around, and then disappear.
Sometimes he doesn't show up all morning, and only comes to order a meal in the afternoon.
Because of Lao Sun's relationship, the head teacher, Teacher Wu, knew that Chen Nuo was working part-time, so he was particularly tolerant of him.
Of course, there is also a reason for this. During the midterm exam, Chen Nuo once again got a good score.
His grades were decent and his family background was special. These two reasons combined were enough for the teacher to turn a blind eye to Chen Nuo's behavior of skipping classes.
Anyway, No. 8 Middle School is not a key school. Students like Chen Nuo, whose family background is somewhat poor, are not as bad as those other bastards, but they can still get good grades and work... then work.
If you can't get into college, there must be a way out.
But in the eyes of Sun Keke and Li Yingwan, they felt that Chen Nuo's recent behavior was very suspicious.
During class, Sun Keke often looked at Chen Nuo secretly and found that he was always holding a notebook and writing and drawing there.
I tried to sneak a peek several times during class breaks, but was guarded tightly by him.
Sun Keke always felt that this young man seemed to be planning or preparing something secretly.
School beauty Sun even skipped class twice and went directly to Brother Lei's car dealership to find Chen Nuo.
As a result, both attempts failed.
Although Brother Lei showed off his acting skills in front of the school beauty Sun, saying that he sent Chen Nuo out to do something.
But Sun Keke always has some doubts...
The main thing is that this bald brother Lei is too polite to Chen Nuo.
It doesn't look like the boss's attitude towards his little boy at all.
But Sun Keke had no choice but to ask any more questions.
Brother Lei looks very busy. The size of the original car dealership has more than doubled, and he has also taken over the shop next door, opening up the two shops.
There are also many brand new electric vehicles on display in the store.
Sun Keke went there twice, and happened to be doing a promotional promotion, and the business was quite booming.
The girl was shy. Seeing that Brother Lei was very busy and didn't take up much of other people's time, he could only leave in disappointment.
Sun Keke's idea is the same thing.
But Li Yingwan's thoughts were another matter.
The long-legged girl regards this Chen Nuo Oppa as the kind of superhero hidden in the world... It's no wonder that the girl's previous encounter, the scene of Chen Nuo falling from the sky, was really impressive.
In Li Yingwan's opinion, this superhero Oppa may be planning some secret operation...perhaps to defeat the devil and save the world.
Well, actually at this age, the second grade is not just for teenagers, sometimes girls can also be the second grade.
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Bang bang bang.
Sun Keke, who was watching cartoons with Chen Xiaoye in the living room, turned to look at the door.
Chen Nuo emerged from the kitchen, rolled up his sleeves, and moved his wet hands to open the door.
Sun Keke was a little surprised when he saw it.
In the crack of the door, standing outside the door was clearly a bald man.
Brother Lei's image is so recognizable.
"Why are you here so late?" Chen Nuo smiled.
Brother Lei chuckled, took out a kraft paper document bag from his arms, stuffed a bulging stack into Chen Nuo: "I just got it this afternoon, I was afraid that you needed it urgently, so I sent it here first."
Chen Nuo took the envelope, held it in his hand without opening it, and nodded: "Thank you for your hard work."
"That's what I said! No hard work, no hard work!" Brother Lei secretly glanced at the door and happened to see school beauty Sun sitting in the living room. He immediately gave up the idea of entering.
Look, maybe Brother Lei is a sensible person.
Chen Nuo understood the smile in Brother Lei's eyes. Instead of explaining, he stepped out of the door and closed the door ajar with his backhand.
"Everything is ready. We have found professional people to handle it and prepared it according to your list. It has been sent out today. When you get to the place, you can just sign for it."
"Yes." Chen Nuo nodded steadily and glanced at Brother Lei again: "Is everything okay in the store recently? That Li Qingshan..."
"No, the old boy didn't do anything. I heard that last time, after soaking in the water for a while, the old boy fell ill and almost died of pneumonia. Hahaha! At that age, he deserved it.
I’ve been honest lately.”
Chen Nuo nodded: "If anything happens, you can call me."
Brother Lei laughed a few times, then picked up the topic and left directly.
Chen Nuo turned around and entered the room, and saw school beauty Sun looking up at him in the living room.
"Why do I feel that you are hiding something from me?"
Chen Nuo smiled: "What do you mean by hiding this?"
He came over, sat on the sofa in the living room, grabbed Chen Xiaoye, put him on his lap, and gently scratched the little girl's nose.
Chen Xiaoye felt a little itchy and laughed.
Chen Nuo put her down again and rubbed the little girl's hair: "Go and wash your hands and get ready for dinner."
Seeing the little girl jumping away, Chen Nuo turned to look at school beauty Sun: "Well, I have something to tell you."
"...What?" School Beauty Sun was a little surprised.
"I'm going to go out of town for a while. I'll be there for three or four days."
"Ah?" School Beauty Sun was stunned for a moment, then realized: "What are you doing out there? Where are you going? Are you going to skip class again?"
"On business trip."
Chen Nuo lied without batting an eyelid: "Brother Lei brought a batch of cars into the store and negotiated a deal with the manufacturer. I went with him on a business trip to learn the process and how to do things in the future."
"..."
Sun Keke was about to speak but stopped.
I feel that something is wrong with this matter. But if I think about it carefully, I don’t know what is wrong with it.
Chen Nuo is busy working and skipping school on weekdays. It seems that he has no intention of going to college. Moreover, he now has a younger sister to support.
According to this article, there is nothing wrong with focusing more on work now.
But...but I always feel like something is wrong.
Chen Nuo said slowly: "It just so happens that I am on a business trip and it is a weekend. Little Leaf Kindergarten does not have classes on the weekend. Can you help me take care of her for two days?"
"When are you leaving?"
"Next Friday."
"Ah?" The girl calculated the days in her mind and hesitated: "Then when will you come back?"
"Three or four days, I'll go there on Friday, spend the weekend, and come back around Tuesday of the following week."
Sun Keke was relieved. She breathed out and blushed: "Okay, I...I'll go home and tell my dad. It should be fine. I'll pick up Ye Zi home next Friday."
In fact, classmate Sun Keke had something hidden in her heart that she didn't say.
Come back on Tuesday...you should be able to catch up.
Because that Wednesday was March 25th—the birthday of school beauty Sun.
Well, according to Jinling's algorithm, after this birthday, School Beauty Sun will be eighteen years old.
The girl's face burned a little when she thought of this, but she suddenly saw the kraft paper file bag on the table: "What is this?"
"Oh, the customer manufacturer's information." Chen Nuo waved his hand, picked up the document bag, turned around and went into the back room. After a while, when he came out, he greeted Sun Keke: "Come, have a meal. I will take you back after dinner."
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March 20, 2001
Around four o'clock in the evening.
The capital of Nepal, Kathmandu.
In 2001, Kathmandu looked dilapidated and dirty.
The streets are narrow and the buildings are low... In this era, except for the temples in tourist attractions, the entire Kathmandu actually looks like a huge slum.
Of course, it will be slightly better after 20 years, but in fact it is about the same.
There are many pedestrians on the narrow streets, and most locals wear brown and gray. Ragged motor vehicles and motorcycles shuttle through the crowded and narrow streets, making constant beeping sounds.
The air is filled with pungent exhaust fumes and dust.
Many locals use scarf-like cloth to cover their faces, mouth and nose.
Children in dirty clothes were running and playing on the streets, and some were even barefoot.
Just such a place, twenty years later, some people on the Internet who pretend to be literary and artistic actually declared it to be the city with the highest happiness index in the world.
It's such a shabby place, with heaps of rubbish thrown away everywhere in the streets and alleys, narrow streets, dilapidated houses, and telephone poles and wires at intersections like honeycombs.
The residents are dirty and dirty, and the Huaguo County in the 1980s was more than a little better than it.
There are also suspicious-looking people in the alleys, ready to sell you some kind of leaves...
How do you call this one of the highest happiness indexes in the world?
These are all soft advertising articles produced by a group of guys with travel marketing accounts to coax those brainless literary and artistic young people to go on a pilgrimage on a budget.
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In front of a hotel called Casa Mandap.
The brown and red brick building is a typical British colonial style. The four-story building looks very dilapidated. The handmade carpet on the ground in front of the hotel has been stepped on so that the original color cannot be seen.
In the narrow lobby, behind a wooden counter with copper corners, the receptionist wearing a uniform that obviously didn't fit was lazily dazed.
There was a jingle and the door was pushed open.
A figure wandered up to the front desk.
"Check in, I have a reservation."
Standard British English.
The receptionist raised his head and glanced lazily at the guest.
He is of medium build, with short hair, wearing a black jacket and a scarf wrapped around his face.
The guest slowly took off the scarf around his neck, revealing that his mouth and nose were covered.
There is also some dust on my face from traveling all the way, and the skin color below the eyes is obviously different from the color above.
Chen Nuo smiled slightly, showing his white teeth, and took out his passport and a stack of U.S. dollars from his coat pocket and placed them on the counter.
"Give me a room with 24-hour hot water. Also, bring me a dinner, not local food, just some bread, Western style."
Kathmandu in 2001, if we have to make a similar analogy, is actually very similar to Asan.
Well, Dirty and messy are almost the same model.
So does food.
In this day and age, if you dare to eat local food, you will suffer from diarrhea and dehydration.
The front desk clerk lazily went through the formalities and then threw a key on the table.
Chen Nuo thought for a while, took out ten dollars and put it on the table: "I have some things that were mailed to me here. Please check it for me. If it has been delivered, please help send it to my room."
The green dollar bills immediately cheered up the waiter.