The Most Random System

Chapter 1124 - 501: This Guy’s Actually Pretty Nice (2)

As expected."Hehe." Lin Li raised his middle finger.

Bai Bufan, who originally wanted to respond to Lin Li’s cold shoulder, suddenly frowned and fell into thought, looking up to ask after a brief half-second:

"Lin Li, Bao Wei, tell me, in ancient times without airplanes, how did those boys who started to surge through adolescence get through it? Wouldn’t they be suffocated?"

Zhou Baowei: "Isn’t the answer in poetry—’sing to express aspirations’."

Lin Li snorted even more: "The concept of adolescence didn’t exist in ancient times, what’s there to get through?"

"Master, you saying that has enlightened me!"

Laughing and joking to the entrance, the three parted ways and went home.

Instead of going directly to Brother Sun, Lin Li, in school uniform, knew it might cause unnecessary trouble, and there was still time before the appointment. So he went home, changed into casual clothes, had a quick dinner, and then biked to Brother Sun’s barbecue shop.

This was the time when such late-night barbecue shops should start operating, but Lin Li had told Brother Sun if there was a schedule conflict, they could shift it to tomorrow day or let himself negotiate with the agent. Brother Sun said it didn’t matter.

Of course, the shop wasn’t closed; Brother Sun’s answer was—

"No wife in a wife, no strawberries in a strawberry tart, no cookies in a cow pie, no essence in an essence lotion, what’s the big deal if Brother Sun’s BBQ doesn’t have a Brother Sun? No problem."

Thorough understanding.

Upon arrival, the barbecue shop was indeed operating, but it seemed recently opened, without any customers.

In the middle of the shop, an older bald man could be seen scolding Brother Sun.

From the looks, they seemed to be father and son.

Understood, no wonder the shop operates without Brother Sun, looks like it’s Grandpa Sun’s BBQ tonight.

Brother Sun also noticed Lin Li’s arrival, while accepting a talking-to, he gestured to Lin Li to wait a moment.

Lin Li nodded, locked his bike at the entrance, and glanced at his phone.

"Bai Bufan: Having sons is like raising pigs @Zhou Baowei, having daughters is like growing cabbages; some fathers feel gratified, for all the years of pig-rearing are now set to bump into others’ cabbage, while some fathers feel sorrowful, their well-tended cabbages are getting bumped by other people’s pigs @Lin Li.

Some fathers are furious that their own pigs are bumping their own cabbages, while some are utterly desperate when their pigs bump into others’ pigs @Wang Ze.

Of course, some fathers are confused when they discover their cabbages self-identify as tomatoes; even worse, some who painstakingly plant cabbages hoping for a good pig to come along find their owned cabbages wanting to bump themselves.

The most frustrating is when a father finds his pigs, raised to the end, have turned into cabbage waiting for other pigs to bump.

Some cabbages grow up and sell themselves at the market.

Super-low price! Special sale!

@Everyone! I have a cabbage resource here, five hundred per piece, anyone interested?"

"Zhang Haoyang: Is Yan Kingdom’s map that long?"

"Zhou Baowei: I have a hunch that after spending five hundred, Bai Bufan will really send a pound of cabbage."

"Wang Ze: Who wants to bump me? @Everyone."

"Wang Ze: Hey hey hey? No one?"

"Wang Ze: Who wants to be bumped by me? @Everyone."

"Wang Ze: Hey hey hey? No one?"

"Yang Bangjie: ’Schematic drawing.’

"Bai Bufan: You kind of don’t trust my character, Bao Wei."

"Bai Bufan: Actually, I’m too lazy to even send real cabbages, I’d just take the money and run."

"..."

OK, sometimes Lin Li regrets checking his phone too.

Feels like this group chat is wrapped in the Tang Dynasty, but not quite.

——In this chat, Tang is extraordinarily Tang, with someone endlessly quoting poems, sparking poetry inspiration, yet ironically little poetry is there.

This half-Tang feels the worst, lacking ordinary normalcy and the carefree nature of full Tang.

But deep down, Lin Li is just honest but doesn’t show it.

Group chats, dasiki~~

"Whew—I’m here, Lin Li."

Lin Li’s thoughts were pulled back by Brother Sun’s voice beside him, looking up, Brother Sun scratched his head and smiled nodding at him.

Looking back to the shop’s interior to where Grandpa Sun was heading to the kitchen, Lin Li smiled as he spoke:

"So is the all-capable Brother Sun being disciplined by Grandpa Sun?"

Brother Sun wasn’t embarrassed, chuckling and waving it off:

"Family affairs are hard to judge even for honest officials, my dad’s like that. He knows I’m doing the right thing, but because he’s my father, he just has to say something, I’m used to it."

Hearing this, Lin Li took a deep breath, placed a hand on Brother Sun’s shoulder, looked at him sincerely, and with seriousness in his tone:

"Brother Sun, you’re younger than your dad, you’re stronger than your dad, are you really willing to always be a son... A person can actually have ambitions..."

Brother Sun: "(;☉_☉)?"

No, hang on a second.

Brother Sun was so shocked he forgot to breathe naturally, having to switch to manual breathing.

Is this something a human could possibly say?

What kind of ambition is this?

Not wanting to be a son all life, is he gonna be his own grandpa???

"You brat, what, are you already conspiring to become your dad’s dad?" Brother Sun joked with a scolding, "Say that to your dad, and won’t he beat you, ha—"

Lin Li: "My dad passed away when I was very young."

Brother Sun’s laugh was cut short: "TAT."

"Aba aba aba—"

"..."

Damn it, I truly deserve to die (choking up).