Chapter 38 - Thirty-Three: The Legend of Nothingness

In the end, there definitely was no fight; Zhao Hao was scared to death. Zhao Hao probably racked his brains but couldn’t understand why the freshman Zhou Yuwen had suddenly gathered over seventy buddies! Shit, the guys across really were from the underworld. Being a senior about to graduate, why should he create unnecessary trouble with them? "Brother, it’s all a misunderstanding!" Zhao Hao already started begging for peace without even letting Liu Shuo speak again. "Misunderstanding my ass! Didn’t you want a fight? Come on, is it a gang fight or a one-on-one?" Liu Shuo was really floating on air. Shit, with seventy brothers behind me, what do I have to fear! "No, no, Brother, we’re all civilized people," Zhao Hao said with a forced smile, and then he looked at Zhou Yuwen pleadingly for help. At that moment, Zhou Yuwen hadn’t expected such a day himself. He said, "Didn’t you just ask me about going about this civilly or with force? How would we go civilly? And how about with force?" Hearing this, shame covered Zhao Hao’s face. Without another word, he asked the barbecue store owner for three bottles of beer, took one, and raised it towards Zhou Yuwen, "Brother Zhou, today’s misunderstanding is my fault. I’ll down this one!" As he spoke, he showed off a trick to Zhou Yuwen. It wasn’t easy to finish the trick. "Just one bottle?" Liu Shuo crossed his arms and looked at the barbecue, rather enjoying the underworld style. Zhao Hao glanced at Zhou Yuwen and, seeing that he said nothing, thought about catching his breath before showing off another bottle. But just as he was about to pick up the bottle, Zhou Yuwen said, "Let it go, this incident was indeed my girlfriend’s fault." Zhao Hao finally breathed a sigh of relief. Zhou Yuwen continued, "She just started university and doesn’t understand many societal norms and etiquettes." "No, no, it was my sister who was ignorant. Brother, I actually didn’t take it seriously at all. After all, agents know that those who lower prices can’t last long, just that my sister insisted. Ah, never mind. Brother, let’s not bring it up again!" Zhao Hao quickly waved his hand. Zhou Yuwen said, "Look, why don’t I compensate for those few who made the cards?" "No, no, I’m about to graduate. If Sister Jin Ken wants to get a card, just make one for her! Brother, this really is a trivial matter!" Zhao Hao, very tactful when it came to societal norms, just didn’t want to get entangled with Zhou Yuwen in any bad blood. As a result, after that day, when they saw the rumors online, they actually thought, "Fuck, the person who took us out for dinner last night was so awesome!" The class leader from Electromechanical Class 2 always bowed his head a bit when he saw Liu Shuo afterwards and offered Liu Shuo a cigarette, saying, "Brother, are you really from the Xu Huai Society? "What?" Liu Shuo was already fond of bragging, and as a result of this new development, he bragged even more vigorously! Zhou Yuwen did truly want to study seriously in college, but Liu Shuo had been messing around in vocational school. Since that night, everyone who saw Liu Shuo thought he was awesome, and he himself claimed to be the great protector of the Xu Huai Society. Then a few hot-blooded youths, fired up by hearing Liu Shuo brag, said, "Brother! I want to join the Xu Huai Society!" "Hey! We Xu Huai Society don’t just take anyone!" In truth, all these stories were just formed among everyone bragging, but it all indeed brought great convenience to Zhou Yuwen and Liu Shuo. Starting with Zhou Yuwen’s side, he had secured his position as the campus general agent. For the next three years, even if Zhou Yuwen wanted to do something excessive, other agents definitely wouldn’t dare to challenge him openly. "You’re jealous of him? Do you know there was an agent under Jin Ken who got beat up by a group called by Zhou Yuwen because he challenged him!" "Beat up? For real? What era are we living in!" "I advise you not to mess with him! He’s the boss of the Xu Huai Society!" At least, that’s what people would really say when they were bragging. As for Liu Shuo, this guy was truly impressive. Initially, it was people he had brought in, but later on, those people he recruited totally believed in him. Latter on, after entering the school’s Ministry of External Relations, even the Minister of External Relations was enormously polite to Liu Shuo. Further down the line, the Minister of External Relations, who liked to exploit students, made students work at weddings as laborers, saying the daily wage was 150 yuan. But the embracive and ruthless Minister of External Relations from the Mechanical and Electrical Engineering told freshmen it was 100 yuan a day and pocketing the remaining 50 yuan for himself. The students didn’t know at first and felt earning 100 yuan a day was quite a lot, and were grateful to the Minister of External Relations. But a month after school started, when they learned the truth, they definitely pointed at the Minister’s spine and cursed. "Damn it, isn’t this beastly?! Earning money off students’ hard work!?" "Shuo bro, aren’t you part of the Xu Huai Society?! We are all your brothers! You have to speak for us!" "Of course I’ll help! Damn it! Taking my brothers’ money is like taking my money!""