An Impossible to Reject Confession - Chapter 20
On Saturday, Xu Youyou ran to Qiaomu’s house after breakfast, and after saying hello to Grandma Qiao, she brought Qiaomu out, which made Qiaomu speechless.
Lu Shi scratched his messy hair and asked Grandma Qiao: “Grandma, aren’t you curious about what they are going out for?”
Grandma Qiao: “You can do anything, it’s better than staying at home. Mumu’s current appearance is what a sixteen-year-old child should look like.”
Lu Shi: “Cousin is so honest, aren’t you afraid that Xu Youyou will bully him?”
Grandma Qiao: “Mumu is a boy, so he will never suffer.”
Lu Shi was stunned for a moment, then gave his grandma a thumbs up with an expression of admiration: “Incisive, wise, Jiang is still old and hot.”
Grandma Qiao smiled cheerfully.
“Thank you for helping me, or my grandmother will not be worried about me coming out.” On the bus, Qiao Mu thanked Xu Youyou.
“It’s just a small matter, it just so happens that I haven’t been to the main city, so I can just go shopping.” Xu Youyou asked, “When did you sign up for this competition.”
“Last weekend, Li Xiuran sent me the poster.” With that said, Qiao Mu showed Xu Youyou the poster Li Xiuran sent him, “I thought about it for two days before I signed up.”
“The first place in the city will receive a bonus of 5,000 yuan, the first place in the province will receive a bonus of 30,000 yuan, and the first place in the country will receive a bonus of 80,000 yuan.” All the things on the poster, Xu Youyou can only understand the bonus .
“When I get the bonus, I’ll give you a gift.” Xu Youyou gave him a lot of encouragement for him to take this step again.
“What’s your budget then?” Xu Youyou asked.
Qiao Mu was stunned, can this gift recipient directly ask about the budget?
“Anything within the bonus range is fine.” Qiao Mu replied.
“Then can I pick the most expensive one?” Xu Youyou poked the poster with her hand to mark the location of the bonus.
Qiao Mu smiled: “I will try my best.”
Amateur Go competitions are screened by region. Go players first register in the city. Only the top three players in the city can go to the province to participate in the competition for one step forward. The top three in the province participate in the national competition.
Hongluo Town is not far from the main urban area of J City. It takes half an hour by bus to arrive. After getting off the bus, the two transfer to the subway. After about 20 minutes, they arrived at the Go game. site.
“I’ll be in the game in a while, what are your plans?” Qiao Mu asked Xu Youyou.
“How long do you want to stay?” Xu Youyou asked.
“Almost an hour.” With Qiaomu’s chess power, he could hardly meet any opponents in urban competitions, and a game of chess would soon end.
“Then I’ll go shopping nearby, and when you’re done, we’ll have lunch together.” Xu Youyou said.
“Also, there is a pedestrian street behind this guild hall, you can go for a walk.” This guild hall often holds Go games, Qiao Mu came here a few times when he was a child, and he was familiar with the surroundings.
“Yeah.” Xu Youyou nodded, “You’re done, come and find me.”
“Okay, then I’ll go in.”
“Come on, don’t be nervous.”
Qiao Mu paused for a while, then turned back with some amusing: “Relax, this level is not enough.”
Xu Youyou raised her eyebrows, she was so confident, she didn’t know who she was, she said so pitifully last night.
Xu Youyou and other Qiaomu entered the clubhouse, turned around and went to the pedestrian street that Qiaomu just mentioned. Perhaps because of its proximity to the Go Club, there are many Go-related shops on the pedestrian street. The store is very commercialized. In addition to traditional Go and chessboards, there are many fashionable and lovely peripherals. Xu Youyou strolled around and stopped in front of a custom phone case.
“Little sister, do you want to customize the phone case?” The boss is a middle-aged man in his forties. He swings out a folding fan. He is chubby and looks very kind.
“I think you have restrictions here.” Xu Youyou asked, pointing to the note on the side.
“Yes, my mobile phone case here can only customize things related to Go. You can choose a game from ancient and modern chess books, or you can play a game on the spot. If you win me, The phone case is free.” The boss laughed.
“You won’t lose money like this?” Xu Youyou couldn’t help asking.
The boss laughed and laughed: “You can’t make a lot of money selling mobile phone cases in this kind of place, just play it. By the way, find some friends and play chess together.”
Xu Youyou understood: “Unfortunately, I can’t play Go.” PanPan
The boss waved his hand indifferently: “Gobang is also fine, as long as you can beat me, I will give you free.”
There are still exams in the clubhouse at the moment, there are no customers on the pedestrian street, the boss is idle and bored, and wants to find someone for the next round.
The rules of backgammon are very simple, Xu Youyou can understand it after listening to it once, but after playing three games in a row, she couldn’t hold it for five minutes in the hands of the boss, Xu Youyou couldn’t help but admire : “Boss, you are too good, it seems that you have all counted where I go next.”
The boss chuckled: “It’s nothing to me. If you meet a good Go player, you will be good at chess.”
Xu Youyou: “Boss, how many levels of Go do you have?”
Boss: “Amateur five paragraphs.”
Xu Youyou’s eyes lit up: “Are you finished so soon?”
Arbor: “It’s faster than expected.”
His opponent was a 50-year-old middle-aged uncle. The uncle had average chess skills, but his eyesight was very strong. The two played for only ten minutes, and he felt the difference between the two. The gap in strength immediately conceded defeat.
“I’m…” Xu Youyou glanced at the boss.
“Number 192.” The boss reminded.
“Shop No. 192.” Xu Youyou said.
“Okay, I’ll be right here.”
At this time, three stylishly dressed teenagers entered the store. These three teenagers seemed to be very familiar with the store. As soon as they came in, they shouted to the boss: “Boss Wang, play chess with others again. What about the phone case?”
“Yes.” The boss replied with a smile.
“Did you win?”
“This little sister can’t go chess, I changed it to gobang, but unfortunately she still failed to win.” Boss Wang laughed.
“Boss Wang, you are too inauthentic. You are a Go player and compare Gobang with others. Isn’t this bullying people?”
Boss Wang nodded, but still said: “It is indeed a bit bullying, but the rules are the rules, if you don’t win, the phone case can’t be free?”
“It’s okay, I’ll buy one.” Xu Youyou got up and walked to the door.
Xu Youyou was wearing a white sweater with embroidery today, her long hair was tied into a half ponytail with a hairpin given to her by Shen Lili, and there were a few strands of hair loosely scattered in front of her forehead. Bright eyes with a shallow smile, delicate facial features are eye-catching, stepping into the sun from the dim room, like an elves entering the world.
The three teenagers who were laughing and teasing the boss just now calmed down. One of them was wearing a red coat and was very avant-garde. His eyes suddenly lit up, and he stepped forward and stopped in front of Xu Youyou. .
Xu Youyou stopped and looked suspiciously at the boy who suddenly stopped her.
“Hello, my name is Shen Sicong.” The boy introduced himself.
“Hello.” Xu Youyou nodded, turned sideways to avoid the boy, and walked to the cabinet where the phone case was placed at the door.
I won, give the phone case to this classmate.”
Boss Wang laughed, his eyes full of understanding: “Anyway, if you lose the phone case, it’s free. As for whether you want to use it for yourself or give it away, you can do whatever you want.”
“No need, boss, I’ll buy one.” Xu Youyou refused.
“The market price of this phone case is only 30 yuan. The boss sells it here for 100 yuan. If you spend money to buy it, you will be at a loss. I am a student of the dojo. It’s a shell.” Shen Sicong hurriedly finished speaking, but he was afraid that Xu Youyou would not know the meaning of the dojo, so he explained, “Do you know the dojo? It’s…”
“I know, but I don’t need it, I’ll buy it myself.” As Xu Youyou said, she took out her mobile phone and scanned the QR code.
In a hurry, Shen Sicong blocked the QR code on the counter with his hand.
Xu Youyou frowned and looked at the boy.
Xu Youyou was stunned for a while, but it took a long while to realize that she had been approached. It’s not that she is slow to respond, but that she, who is twenty-six years old, can’t imagine herself being approached by a sixteen-year-old child.
When Qiao Mu followed the house number, he happened to see this scene, he saw a handsome young man approaching Xu Youyou, and Xu Youyou not only did not refuse, but even turned to the other party Laughed.
The excuse to strike up a conversation is just a phone case? !
“I…”
“Youyou.” Qiao Mu walked into the store.
“Arbor? Are you here?” Xu Youyou leaned in the direction of Arbor.
“Well, what are you doing? Have you met an acquaintance?” Qiao Mu pretended not to know.
“No, this classmate said he wanted to help me win a mobile phone case when he saw that I couldn’t beat the boss at chess.” Xu Youyou explained the matter in a few words.
“Phone case?” Qiao Mu glanced at the instructions posted next to the counter and read it out, “Play a game with the boss, you can customize the phone case for free, do you want it?”
“I just think it’s fun.” Xu Youyou said.
“Then I’ll help you win, don’t bother others.” Qiao Mu said.
“Okay.” Xu Youyou is not particularly interested in mobile phone cases, but she just feels that the boss played several games of backgammon with her, and it would be rude if she didn’t buy something.
However, if Qiao Muken helps her win one, it will be another matter.
“Boss, can we play the game now?” Qiao Mu turned and asked Boss Wang.
Boss Wang laughed again, his eyes turned back and forth between Shen Sicong and Qiao Mu, and then nodded: “Of course, but little classmate, you just came out of the competition in the club hall, Don’t take a break?”
The game of Go is the most tiring. Boss Wang has also participated in the game of Go before. After each game, he wants to sleep and recover.
“No.” Qiao Mu smiled and shook his head.
“I’m very confident.” Boss Wang walked in with a smile, “Come on then.”
Qiao Mu followed and walked in, Xu Youyou was about to follow, but Shen Sicong stopped her again: “Classmate, can you add WeChat?”
Xu Youyou smiled and shook her head: “Someone has already helped me win a phone case.”
Xu Youyou said this, just to politely reject the boy’s request to add WeChat, but she underestimated the boy’s competitiveness.
Shen Sicong and Qiao Mu have never said a word or even made eye contact, but Shen Sicong has a keen intuition, Qiao Mu deliberately interrupted him just now of. That sentence, don’t bother others, was also aimed at him on purpose.
Isn’t that an amateur Go player? What’s there to rant about?
“Wait…” Shen Sicong stopped the two of them, “I will compare with you.”
Arbor frowned.
“If I lose, I’ll give you two of the phone cases. But if I win…” Shen Sicong looked at Xu Youyou, “Give me WeChat.”
Boss Wang and Shen Sicong’s two classmates were shocked at first, and then turned into expressions of eating melons at the same time.
Xu Youyou, the person of Hongyan disaster, was very speechless about this bizarre development, secretly said, the brain circuit of this rebellious period is really different from that of normal people.
“I refuse.” Whether winning or losing, Qiao Mu will never compare Xu Youyou’s WeChat with others.
“What, you’re cowardly? Yes, you are an amateur chess player, but I am going to participate in this year’s fixed stage competition. There must be differences in our chess skills. In this way, I will give you two more pieces.” Shen Sicong looked arrogant, and his tone was full of contempt for Qiao Mu.
“I don’t compare with you.” Qiao Mu still refused.
“You are afraid of both your sons. If you are like this, you are still not a man.”
“You can compare, but you can’t bet on your WeChat.” Qiao Mu said.
“Don’t be a coward, I’ll bet on you to win.” Xu Youyou said.
Qiao Mu was stunned for a moment, then the corner of his mouth raised slightly, and he spit out a sentence: “Okay.”
Shen Sicong’s blood suddenly surged up, why did he feel like he had already lost before the comparison?