After Being Reborn, I became a firefighter again?

Chapter 431: Chapter 350: Do You Want to Go Home, or Go to a Place Like Home?

French meal, what a feast for the wallet.

To stir up a revolution.

Fang Huai was a wealthy landowner and had the self-awareness of one. He successfully shut up all the young ladies.

French foie gras, butter escargot, Bouillabaisse, duck confit, cheese, oysters, beef steak, shrimp, scallops...

The reason Fang Huai didn’t want to eat Japanese food wasn’t about national resentment; he just thought of the radioactive wastewater and couldn’t be sure when Japan had started discharging it.

After all, when pee bubbles start floating in the swimming pool, whoever peed must have been having a good time for quite a while; it doesn’t necessarily start only when they drop their trousers in public.

So, the so-called appetizers turned into a flowing feast.

They were directly served until they were full.

During the meal, Yang Shaoqing introduced the five girls by name, saying they were roommates.

While Fang Huai was busy peeling shrimp for Yang Shaoqing, sweet and clingy, he nodded along to the conversation, making sure not to say anything that would give them a reason to gossip, focusing on showing off their affection.

The group’s opinion of Fang Huai rose quite quickly.

But the girls were quite uninhibited when eating; they just ate and chatted away. As soon as the waiter put down a dish, they would finish it, and he’d come back to pick up the plate. Oh boy, within more than an hour, the food was served and shown off in all its glory.

The only thing restraining them was the speed of the service.

You can imagine, when Yang Shaoqing first called him while she was eating Spicy Hot Pot, and she took his call, chatting with him for a long time, what she missed out on.

What Yang Shaoqing might have had that day was probably just the hotpot broth.

Fang Huai asked Student Little Yang tenderly if she still wanted to eat anything else.

Yang Shaoqing appeared very shy, obediently saying no more.

Finished eating at 7:15.

"Ah! It’s almost 8 o’clock! Let’s stop eating, it’s time for the good babies to go home!"

"Right, we still have classes at night!"

"Let’s go, let’s go!"

Fang Huai listened, secretly thrilled inside.

They were sensible enough to leave after eating, not hanging around and glowing like lightbulbs. This meal was worth it!

The thrill hadn’t lasted a few seconds.

"Shaoqing, let’s go back!" Yang Shaoqing’s loyal best friend Sun Ya wiped her mouth clean of oil and started to tear down the bridge after crossing, planning to drag Yang Shaoqing back to school.

Fang Huai was dumbstruck.

But, he reacted quickly and grabbed hold of Yang Shaoqing.

"What are you doing? I still have to buy her clothes!"

That’s when Sun Ya halted in her steps.

"Emm... Okay, there’s a shop downstairs, we’ll go with you. Don’t get any funny ideas, oh, Shaoqing has to go back to the dormitory today!"

Upon hearing this, Fang Huai let out a light chuckle, wrapped his arm around Yang Shaoqing’s shoulder, and said:

"What’s the rush, as if you’re racing back to the Planet of Happiness? After all this worrying, we’re going to get married. Why the rush now?"

A brief silence.

"Oh..." The former theft-prevention squad erupted into a teasing buzz.

Yang Shaoqing’s shoulder was warm under Fang Huai’s hand.

His words warmed her heart as well.

She looked at Fang Huai, flashing a smile that outshone all others.

Fang Huai only took one look, and he was already a bit mesmerized.

...

Chengdu in 2008 was still a "Three Lines" city.

The star-studded and internet-famous Taikoo Li was nothing but mud at that time, and the IFS Global Center, the most luxurious in the Southwest, was just a blueprint.

In a decade’s time, three rings became six, and "Three Lines" became new first-tier, as if someone had covered it with a cloth and performed magic.

At that point, if you had money you went to Chunxi Road, if not, to Lotus Pond.

They had almost walked all of Chunxi Road. Not many clothes had been bought. Yang Shaoqing liked affordable things, but it seemed she was very interested in window shopping, full of enthusiasm.

Buffet Fang held onto cute Yang’s paw while shopping, repeatedly smoothing and caressing it, as his gaze fell on a roadside hot pot restaurant steaming with heat, suddenly feeling the stores in Shanghai weren’t worth investing in after all.

After all, he had a Red Oil Stomach.

"Let’s invest in some shops here in the future. When I retire, we can become landlords and landladies, and I’m used to the food here," he suggested.

Yang Shaoqing just kept obediently responding, "Mmm, mmm, mmm."

Whatever Fang Huai said, she agreed with an "Mmm."

But Fang Huai’s remark sparked a buzz among the girls.

"Oh... Fang Huai, your family is very wealthy, right?"

"Yeah, the shops here are very expensive."

Fang Huai laughed and said, "Not that much, just a little over a billion, enough to buy some shops. Yang Shaoqing won’t have to live a hard life with me."

It was appropriate to display his strength when needed. With three years of college ahead, Fang Huai knew what college girls liked to talk about. He couldn’t let them chatter daily about dating a rich soldier’s girlfriend.

Although being a rich girlfriend was attractive, having been reborn, was it really to be young again, just to sell his kidneys?

A soldier still had to earn some face for the Troops.

"Wow... A rich guy, huh!" The girls got excited again.

Deep down, Yang Shaoqing was actually very anxious.

In the beginning, she worried that Fang Huai was under a lot of pressure, but now, she felt the pressure.

Just in Sichuan, Uncle Fang had donated more than four million in total.

As the affectionate little cotton coat of her elders, she naturally knew that Uncle Fang and Aunt Zhang were currently opening stores and investing everywhere in Sichuan.

She had heard that it was all money Fang Huai earned from writing songs, and the idea to open the stores had also come from him.

While obtaining such honor in the Troops, he had also made so much money. This boy, once so naïve, was becoming ever more dazzling.

Seeing him peel shrimp for her with such a pampering gaze just now, she felt that he was still that silly boy.

She really wanted to stay with him forever, to have that kind of love where they clung to each other every day.

But she couldn’t hold him back.

Yang Shaoqing’s eyes cautiously skimmed over Fang Huai’s face for a while before she tentatively asked,

"Are you going off to that training in Chongqing soon?... When will you be heading back?"

"How do you know?" Fang Huai blurted out, then felt a bit redundant.

Brother Yang counted his days more precisely than his own. Yesterday, when they spoke on the phone, he was even checking the weather forecast for Chongqing for him.

"Yeah... I just found out how troublesome buying plane tickets is. When I came here, I bought the tickets to Chongqing as well, I’m heading over the day after tomorrow, going back home to recuperate a bit."

As Fang Huai spoke, he unintentionally glanced at his own foot.

Yang Shaoqing’s eyes suddenly widened: "Right, your foot..."

"No worries, it’s healed, it wasn’t twisted too badly that day. That doctor just wanted to put me in plaster to make money off me," Fang Huai quickly kicked the ground to prove his point.

Just then, two fire engines passed by silently with their lights flashing, the neon splashing against Chengdu’s busiest street, making it look especially beautiful.

The girls beside started chattering again.

"Hey, Fang Huai, why didn’t they activate the siren?"

"It depends on the situation. In the evening, when there are a lot of people around, they generally don’t, because they’re definitely on a task. The lights are to make pedestrians yield. If the sirens were going off at night, it might mean that the situation is very urgent."

"Oh... When would it be considered very urgent?"

Fang Huai smiled, "When you guys feel it’s very urgent."

"Um... I often see your vehicles on the road; you guys are pretty busy."

Sun Ya nodded, then added, "But that’s no excuse for not caring about Yang Shaoqing. You must call her every day to stop her from worrying about you, you know? She often checks for disasters in your area on her computer! She’s afraid you’ll be dispatched without telling her!"

Yang Shaoqing hurriedly explained, "Hey! We have rules in the military, okay! We can’t carry cell phones anytime!"

Fang Huai laughed, "Next year, perhaps. Once I get promoted to officer, I’ll be able to use my cell phone 24 hours a day."

"Next year? Are you sure?" Yang Shaoqing’s eyes lit up with surprise.

Fang Huai nodded, "Pretty much."

The girls around, although they didn’t quite understand what being an officer meant, sensed that it was about promotion.

"Wow, Fang Huai, are you very impressive in the military?"

"Yeah!" Yang Shaoqing immediately answered with pride, "He’s very impressive! He became squad leader just in the year he joined the military!"

Yang Shaoqing was very proud, but she seemed unsure of how to boast.

This left the few girls around her utterly perplexed.

There are squad leaders in the military, too?

"How many people do you manage in the military?"

Fang Huai knew how to brag, "Well... it’s not important how many people I manage. But I’ve participated in a whole province martial arts competition and won first place. There are five thousand people in our Provincial Group, and this year, I’m also going to the national competition. There are more than a hundred thousand troops in the firefighting forces nationwide. If I manage to become an officer, then it means I’ve placed in the top three in the nation."

That really put things into perspective.

First place among five thousand, top three among over a hundred thousand.

"Wow... you’re in the special forces, aren’t you?"

"Yeah, firefighter special forces. And if I succeed, I’ll become the captain of the special forces."

"Wow..."

The girls’ mouths hung open.

"So, how many sports students from our school could you fight?"

"... What sports students from your music school?"

"We just want to know how strong you are!"

Fang Huai smirked, "If your school doesn’t have sports students, I could take on a hundred. If it does, forget I said anything."

"Hahaha..."

"Goose, goose, goose..."

They found Fang Huai very amusing, and so they didn’t hail a cab, but instead chatted with him all the way to the school gates.

"You should go inside."

When Fang Huai saw the school gate, his gaze lingered regretfully over Brother Yang’s snow-white long legs, but he still decided to act with integrity.

But, Brother Yang seemed keen on testing the cadres, telling her roommates,

"You all go ahead, I want to talk with him for a while."

The group of girls, realizing they had reached the school gate, could only say,

"Then come in early, it’ll be closing soon."

Sun Ya pretended to be fierce, squeezing her fist at Fang Huai, "Don’t you dare lure her out! You hear me?"

All bark and no bite, probably.

Actually, escorting Yang Shaoqing here was her own choice; they couldn’t control her.

Fang Huai, seeing his opportunity, felt his heart rate hit 180, but he dared not hastily agree. He just waved at them.

Once they left, the faint fragrance of gardenia from Yang Shaoqing became more pronounced.

Fang Huai swallowed hard.

He had always restrained himself well because whenever Yang Shaoqing visited him, they were in the courtyard of the military base, and he couldn’t go out—there was no opportunity.

But today... they could go anywhere.

"Shall we sit somewhere?" Yang Shaoqing suddenly asked softly.

"... Sure," Fang Huai replied with dry lips.

If Yang Shaoqing lived in the future, she would definitely be classed as pure desire style—innocently sexy. But right now, with her face flushed and a clear hint of allure in her eyes,

"Have you... booked a hotel?"

"No!" Fang Huai denied outright.

Dammit, hotels are too far to book at this hour, and with the traffic, we’d arrive to find the spring night’s charm gone cold.

Yang Shaoqing’s brows relaxed, as if she had found a suitable reason.

"Then... let me book it for you. You came all this way, I should treat you well."

"Alright," Fang Huai managed all his strength for facial control.

"So... do you want one closer or further away?"

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After some thought, Fang Huai said, "Closer, I suppose. That way, after we sit for a while, I can escort you back."

Yang Shaoqing turned to look at the school gate, then turned back and said with a soft laugh, "Let’s choose one further away."

"Alright!" Fang Huai couldn’t contain himself this time.

If he had to climb to the hotel tonight, he’d do it even if it meant getting a ladder!

...

At the hotel entrance.

There was only one thought in Fang Huai’s mind.

Do you want to go back home or to a comfortable hotel?

If it has to be home, I don’t have one!

"Give me your ID card, and I’ll go book it," commanded Yang Shaoqing, and Fang Huai’s wallet went straight into her hands.

That breathtaking sparkle of long legs vanished into the hotel.

When she came out, Fang Huai stared blankly at the two room cards in the hands of the beaming Yang Shaoqing, dumbfounded and unsure of her intention.

"One is for you, one is for me; this way, I can keep you company a little longer before I go to sleep," said Yang Shaoqing contentedly.

"Before I go to sleep..."

"Go to sleep..."

Fang Huai felt like he was in a scene where Yi Ping keeps asking her father for money.

His spirits got doused by the rain.