Chapter 496: – Roommates
The next day, Lin Jin showed up as usual at her dad's milk tea shop around ten o'clock.
That guy called Chen Jin had gone back home last night. He probably thought it would be better to go on his computer at home than hanging out around here. Though, it did indeed seem to be the case.
"You're here. There’s a delivery order, you go?" Her dad just happened to have finished making a few cups of milk tea, packed them into a delivery bag, and handed it to Lin Jin.
"Oh." Lin Jin had just woken up and didn’t have too much energy. She looked lifeless as she took the takeout bag.
"Where's that boyfriend of yours?" Her dad stood over at the counter, his two hands pressed against the countertop. He leaned forward and asked "I think that young man is pretty good. I’ve met him once before and had a good impression."
"Others need to work, okay?"
"Then bring him over tonight?" Her dad felt that Xia Tian was really to his liking. Yesterday, he even had Xia Tian accompany him to drink. He could clearly tell that Xia Tian wasn't much of a drinker, but he still tried to down the cup in one go, ending up coughing like crazy.
"Up to him. I'm off to deliver this."
Lin Jin pouted. She didn't know what kind of magic potion Xia Tian had given her dad to make her dad actually like him so much.
She got on the take out delivery bicycle. Lin Jin put the takeout bag in the front basket and leisurely rode away.
Lin Jin was very used to this take out delivery thing, the only difference now was that she was delivering to residential buildings instead of school dormitories. But the residential buildings around here were all seven or eight stories high yet didn’t even have elevators. If the customer's home was on the top floor, she would have to climb a ton of stairs.
After delivering the order, Lin Jin started feeling bored again. Resting her chin on one hand, she sat in the milk tea shop and idly watched shows using the shop’s WiFi.
Her dad was bored too. After making her a cup of milk tea, he just went to hang out next door, leaving Lin Jin sitting alone to watch the shop.
Come to think of it, if she remembered correctly, wasn’t Wu Min a Xiamen local?
Lin Jin paused for a moment and carefully thought about it. Even if Wu Min wasn’t a local, he at least lived here. So she immediately gave him a call.
"Hello, Wu Min, come hang out with me at school." Lin Jin's call quickly connected and she got straight to the point. "I'm in Xiamen now too, just staying over near the school’s back gate. Come hang out with me?"
"I'm really busy."
"Busy my ass, you’re definitely just playing on your computer at home all day. Oh right, where’s Wen Xuan from? If he’s in Xiamen too, call him as well. Let's go find something good to eat."
"He also lives in Xiamen I think.. I'll call and ask." Wu Min, realizing he had been exposed, didn't say much more and decided to cheat Wen Xuan over too.
"Nice, just come directly to the school back gate."
After ending the call, Lin Jin went back to watching TV shows on her phone. There were quite a few airing during the summer break, so she just randomly picked one she found interesting and started watching.
Each episode was about forty minutes, and Lin Jin had watched a full three episodes before getting a call from Wu Min, saying that he and Wen Xuan were almost there.
She originally thought that their ‘almost there’ was at least enough for her to watch another episode. But as soon as she opened up the next episode, Lin Jin heard Wu Min and Wen Xuan’s voices outside the milk tea shop.
"Lin Jin said she's near the school back gate." Wu Min said to Wen Xuan beside him. "I’m not sure if she's in this shop."
Lin Jin poked her head out of the shop and saw Wu Min and Wen Xuan, who were just about to come in.
"Oh, I just remembered, this is your family's shop, right?" Wu Min's memory was simply embarrassing. He had even helped hand out flyers when the shop first opened but had apparently never actually visited.
"Yeah, and you guys have never visited." Lin Jin rolled her eyes, then looked at Wen Xuan.
This Wen Xuan guy had gotten a lot flashier than before. He had grown his hair out and permed it into slightly curly hair. It seemed to have even been dyed a subtle shade of purple that could only really be seen under the sun.
"Not bad, you’re getting more stylish." Lin Jin raised an eyebrow at Wen Xuan. This shut in Wen Xuan actually went and got his hair permed and dyed.
"I needed to, okay?"
She invited the two to sit inside. Although Lin Jin had never made milk tea before, she had seen it done enough times to try making two cups of wildberry milk tea and handed it to them.
"So, where are we going?" Lin Jin looked at the two people across from her with a smile "Are there any especially good buffets around? Let's go eat them out of business."
Wen Xuan paused, then said without hesitation: "There is, I saw one on Dianping a couple of days ago. 200 yuan per person, all seafood."
"Two hundred?!" Wu Min’s eyebrows jumped "Isn’t that too expensive?"
"It’s not expensive, okay? In the pictures I’ve seen, lobster, steak, and stuff are all you can eat." Wen Xuan was clearly excited about the place and tried his best to convince Wu Min.
Lin Jin didn't care about the price, she had over a thousand yuan saved up anyway.
Resting her chin on her hands, she watched the two argue over there. Wen Xuan took out his phone and showed Wu Min the pictures from the reviews, but Wu Min remained unmoved.
Even though Wu Min’s family lived in Xiamen, he couldn’t be considered too well off.
"If we're going to eat, I need to call my dad back to watch the shop."
Lin Jin was really interested in that supposedly all you can eat with lobster, crabs, and steak. All the buffets she had been to were usually under sixty yuan, she had never heard of one costing two hundred per person.
It must be super fancy and delicious, right?
Thinking of this, Lin Jin unhesitantly agreed for Wu Min: "Then I'll agree for Wu Min! Let's go eat in a bit! Where's it at?"
"It's just in Jimei District, a taxi probably won’t even cost twenty yuan." Wen Xuan grinned and said "I originally planned to invite you guys after school started, but since we're all here, let's go together."
Wu Min glanced at Lin Jin and helplessly nodded.
Reuniting once more with her two roommates, Lin Jin felt a bit unfamiliar at first. But after some joking around, Lin Jin’s feeling of unfamiliarity with them faded a lot.
Lin Jin was about to get up and find her dad to watch the shop, but he happened to come back just then. Seeing two young guys in the shop, he was momentarily surprised, then smiled and asked: "Lin Jin, your classmates?"
"Yeah, I'm going to hang out with them later. You watch the shop." Lin Jin looked up at her dad. "I'll be back around seven."
"Go ahead." Her dad waved his hand and sat behind the counter, casually asking, "Do you two want some milk tea?"
"They already had some, haven't paid yet."
Lin Jin rolled her eyes.