The Black Card Chapter 55 - Second Date

Chapter 55 - Second Date

Translator: Lav

Editor: Levs

Zhang Liangliang stretched out her hands. Shi Lei didn’t understand what she meant until she swore: “Idiot, tissue! My eyes are swollen!” Shi Lei then realised and pa.s.sed her a few more tissues. He had a thought and pa.s.sed the entire tissue box to her.

“Are you still willing to eat with me?” Zhang Liangliang asked after she dried her tears.

Shi Lei was surprised: “Why wouldn’t I?”

“I asked you to go have supper but you didn’t want to go!”

“Please, I was really full at that time. I almost died from eating too much. I just finished eating and you asked me to eat again!”

Zhang Liangliang glowered at Shi Lei: “But I didn’t eat anything. I was too busy being angry at you and only ate some fruit. I almost starved to death after I came back!”

“Well, I didn’t tell you not to eat, it was so expensive too……”

“You are doing it again!” Zhang Liangliang panicked.

Shi Lei cupped his hands and begged: “Ok, ok, ok, I’ll stop.”

“Are you really willing to eat with me?”

“I said yes. You are paying anyways and I don’t need to spend money, why not……”

“You are still talking about money!” Shi Lei giggled and Zhang Liangliang also laughed.

But quickly, she asked: “If you are willing to eat with me, why did you want to talk to my Mum? You want to ditch me.”

Shi Lei waved his hand and explained: “I just think that I actually won’t be much of a help. The questions I gave you yesterday, not to mention the me right now, even the me during middle or high school, I don’t think I could’ve done it better than you. So, I honestly don’t think I can help you much. If I keep receiving money from your mother for tutoring, I don’t think it’s appropriate. So, I wanted to talk to your mother and at least let her know about this. If she thinks it’s worth to pay me to come and supervise you to do the work, then I’ll continue. But if she doesn’t think you need it anymore then she won’t need me anymore. I can’t keep lying to her for the money, that’s a scam! Your mother is a lawyer, what if she sues me?”

“Really?” Zhang Liangliang laughed in belief.

Shi Lei nodded earnestly and said: “Really.”

“Fine!” After pondering for a while, she then said: “Actually, don’t bother talk to my Mum about it. She doesn’t care about this money anyways. You don’t need to worry about her seeking trouble with you. She probably realised what you said already but she just wants someone who can supervise me so I don’t run outside. I changed so many tutors within a year and she’s happy that finally someone came who won’t be driven away by me. Plus, you already told me this so I won’t let her trouble you.”

“I still need to let her know. If it’s like what you said, your mother will still let me be your tutor, right?”

“Do what you please!” Zhang Liangliang sat on the bed and swung her thin and long legs.

Seeing that Zhang Liangliang had calmed down and that she shouldn't make any more fusses, Shi Lei said: “Did you have any homework from school this week? You probably didn’t do it.”

Zhang Liangliang blushed and said: “I don’t know what the homework is, usually, I don’t really listen.”

Shi Lei was speechless. He could only say: “Call your friend and ask. Don’t tell me that your friends don’t listen either.”

“You are so annoying. You just said that I don’t have any problems with middle school work. If that’s the case, why do I have to do homework?”

Shi Lei explained patiently: “It doesn’t matter how good your grades are in middle school. You would forget most of them after you go into university. Is it because they didn’t learn these things? It’s only because it’s been too long and they forgot about it. You have half a year till middle school graduation exams, don’t tell me you are going for a random high school? For your level, you should be at least aiming for foreign language schools.”

Zhang Liangliang had a thought and said gloomily: “Ok then, but you will eat with me today.”

Shi Lei said: “A nearby restaurant. And you must finish all your homework!”

“Deal!”

Zhang Liangliang jumped off her bed, found her phone and called her friend.

Quickly, her friend sent her the list of homework on WeChat. Zhang Liangliang found all the textbooks and began to do those questions in concentration.

In the blink of an eye, three hours pa.s.sed. When Zhang Liangliang stretched and declared that she finished her homework, it was already dark outside and it was already past 6.

“I’m hungry, hurry up and let’s go eat!” Zhang Liangliang rolled her numb wrist from writing too much.

Shi Lei checked the homework roughly. He didn’t know whether it was correct or not, but at least they all seemed to be done nicely.

“Seeing that you are so obedient today, I’ll pay for it today. But it can’t go over 120 yuan!”

“Stringy!” Zhang Liangliang twitched her lips.

Shi Lei threw up his hands and said: “Well, I can’t help you, I only earned 120 yuan from you today!”

“I wasted a lot of your time today, it had been three hours, I’ll pay you four hours worth!”

“It doesn’t matter. I’m not busy anyways. The discussed amount is fine! Ok, I’ll treat you, let’s go!”

“Ok!” Zhang Liangliang agreed happily and said to herself in silence: second date.

Her place was not far from Wu Dong University. Zhang Liangliang suggested to eat snacks in a street next to the university and Shi Lei agreed.

The street for snacks was a small alley next to the school. Because it was around the dorms for the teaching staff, and it was a university with thousands of students, a lot of restaurants from all around the country gathered there. Nowadays, every restaurant had a variety of taste and it was impossible to know the original taste of that dish.

Shi Lei didn’t know why but Zhang Liangliang was extremely excited to see all sorts of small restaurants. She wanted skewers, Chinese pancakes, jelly bean curd, stinky tofu……

Shi Lei felt like what he had in his hands were enough to feed pigs, but Zhang Liangliang wanted to try everything she saw.

“Please, we can’t even finish what we have already ok? Are you the reincarnation of a ghost who had been starved to death? Or do you not want to eat again forever after this meal? This place isn’t far from your house, why can’t you try one thing every time you come? Do you have to get all these today and waste them?”

“But it’s rare that you are treating me!” Zhang Liangliang’s laughter attracted so many university students’ attention.

“If you want to eat these things, you will be full with 10 or 20 yuan, I have no problem treating you more often!”

Zhang Liangliang laughed and patted his shoulder, and happily said: “Deal! That’s it, you can’t go back on your words!”

They finally found a place to sit down. Shi Lei spread the food in his hands on the table and thought, how could they possibly finish this, unless Zhang Mo the pig was here.

Sometimes, you can’t think, otherwise something will really happen.

Shi Lei half hoped that someone will share this with them, but at the same time he didn’t want anyone he knew to see him together with Zhang Liangliang, otherwise it will definitely cause misunderstandings.

But an accident happened anyway. 

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