Chapter 54: Informing Leng Qing Qiu About the Entrepreneurship Plan (Additional Update 14)
After staying outside for a long time, Leng Qing Qiu, carrying a large bag of whole wheat bread and a carton of fresh milk, began her journey back to the hospital.
The night wind was even more biting than when she had first come out, causing her clothes to flutter incessantly.
Head lowered, she still hadn’t figured out how to deal with the desires she always spontaneously felt for Lu Zhiyin.
The time spent alone outside seemed to have been completely wasted; she hadn’t figured anything out.
“Sigh…”
With a sigh, the girl’s face appeared in her mind for the nth time, and she unconsciously quickened her pace.
In life, there are many times when you don’t need to think too much.
She quickly returned to the hospital. The items in her hands weren’t heavy, and she didn’t sweat a drop on her way back to the hospital entrance.
When Leng Qing Qiu entered the hospital lobby, the nurse who had been Long Qinxin’s informant had returned to her original position.
She watched Leng Qing Qiu enter the hospital with bags in her hands and felt inexplicably curious about the relationship between Long Qinxin, Lu Zhiyin, and Leng Qing Qiu.
Her mind spontaneously conjured up a grand drama.
A rich young lady deeply loved a determined but disabled girl, but the girl was unmoved by money, only loving her childhood friend. She resolutely left the rich young lady.
The rich young lady still persistently pursued her. The kind girl, to avoid hurting the rich young lady’s feelings, concealed her relationship with her childhood friend and tried to break up with the rich young lady peacefully in a gentler way.
The rich young lady couldn’t accept it, turning love into hate. She hired someone to track the girl, just to have an opportunity to make a comeback and seize the girl’s heart.
And she herself was playing the role of the tracker.
“…Pfft, pfft, pfft… I’m overthinking it…”
Leng Qing Qiu had been gone for a while before the nurse snapped back to reality, patting her face.
“As expected, I can’t read too many of these brain-dumbing novels…”
In reality, someone who concealed their relationship with another person would only be a scumbag, not some kind female protagonist.
The nurse even began to feel sorry for the patron who hired her.
…
“Zhiyin, I’m back.”
She pushed open the ward door, walked into the room, placed the milk in her hands by the bed, and set the entire loaf of whole wheat bread on the bedside table.
What met Leng Qing Qiu’s eyes was stacks of banknotes scattered on the bed.
She frowned, slightly disliking the somewhat messy scene, but didn’t say much.
“…En, you’ve worked hard.”
Long Qinxin had left not long ago, and Leng Qing Qiu returned. Lu Zhiyin was relieved that she hadn’t kept Long Qinxin there too long, otherwise, who knew what accidents might have happened.
Breathing a sigh of relief, she noticed Long Qinxin’s slightly furrowed brow and used her body to shift laboriously towards the bedside.
“Hmm…? What’s wrong? Flowing Bell Ring ‘Wo San Mi si Ba Ba Wu Ba Ba Si'”
Noticing Lu Zhiyin’s movement, Leng Qing Qiu leaned closer to the bedside.
“Don’t always frown. If there’s anything that makes you unhappy, just say it.”
Lu Zhiyin touched Leng Qing Qiu’s forehead, smoothing out the girl’s furrowed brow with a very gentle voice.
She had become accustomed to feigning a gentle demeanor, hiding all her true emotions.
“Mhm.”
With a soft hum, Leng Qing Qiu sat on the edge of the bed.
She tidied her hair, which had been messed up by the night wind, then tore open the bread packaging and took out a carton of milk from the milk carton.
Tearing off a small piece from the large loaf of bread, and then inserting a straw into the milk carton, Lu Zhiyin handed the milk to Leng Qing Qiu and then fed the torn piece of bread into Lu Zhiyin’s mouth.
“Mmm… Thank you.”
As the bread entered her mouth, its faint sweetness mixed with the aroma of wheat. It had no flaws except for being a bit dry.
Lu Zhiyin took a sip of milk. Diluted by the milk, the food in her mouth became delicious. At least, compared to the porridge before, it was delicious.
As time passed, the strange faint seafood taste in Lu Zhiyin’s mouth was gone, so she wouldn’t feel disgusted.
After swallowing the food in her mouth, Lu Zhiyin took another sip of milk. Leng Qing Qiu also conveniently fed another small piece of bread into the girl’s mouth.
“Why did you take out the money?”
She pointed to the banknotes on the bed, leisurely tearing off small pieces of bread with one hand while tidying up the money on the bed and putting it back into the original bag.
“Gulp… Because I was a bit bored, so I poured out the money and counted it.”
Swallowing the food Leng Qing Qiu fed her again, Lu Zhiyin blinked her eyes.
“Here, not much, not much, exactly a hundred thousand yuan. It really is a huge sum.”
With a slight upturn of her lips, Lu Zhiyin took the money bag from Leng Qing Qiu.
“You’ve helped me a lot before. I plan to use some of this money to repay you, and with the rest, I plan to start a business.”
Lu Zhiyin decided to share her entrepreneurship plan with Leng Qing Qiu.
Brothels were, after all, a grey industry. For a disabled person like herself to go to the red-light district to negotiate business would be very dangerous, wouldn’t it? She needed someone to help her, and Leng Qing Qiu was a very suitable candidate.
She remembered Leng Qing Qiu telling her about her sources of income.
Killing and robbing, and occasionally fighting in underground boxing matches. She had promised not to kill anymore, so her only source of income left was underground boxing.
Leng Qing Qiu had previously complained that underground boxing was slow to earn money and troublesome, so she should need a way to earn money safely and stably.
She probably wouldn’t refuse her proposal.
Thinking this, Lu Zhiyin didn’t speak immediately, but first organized her arguments in her mind.
“…Well, the first time I went out to cooperate with you and was used as bait, I discovered that most brothels in the red-light district do not have vending machines. Nor are there convenient ways to purchase condoms. To prevent infections, customers with a little money can only bring their own condoms. Some girls in the red-light district who don’t want to take birth control pills also spend their own money to buy condoms from outside the red-light district for guests to use. We can talk to the brothel owners in the red-light district about cooperation, place vending machines there, and stock them with essential items like condoms. It’s likely to make a profit.”
Lu Zhiyin slowly explained her ideas to Leng Qing Qiu, grabbing Leng Qing Qiu’s hand that was about to put another piece of bread into her mouth.
“After I’m discharged from the hospital, Leng Qing Qiu, can you accompany me to wholesale condoms and then negotiate cooperation with the brothel owners? We’ll split the profits fifty-fifty, and you won’t have to cover any losses; I’ll bear them myself.”
As soon as she finished speaking, Lu Zhiyin leaned her face closer, bit the small piece of bread Leng Qing Qiu was holding with her fingertip, and then inadvertently licked Leng Qing Qiu’s fingertip.
Leng Qing Qiu was somewhat dazed.
“Mhm… No problem.”
Agreeing to Lu Zhiyin’s proposal, in this terrible world, quick ways to make money were always intertwined with sex.
Leng Qing Qiu didn’t find Lu Zhiyin’s idea strange at all.
She looked at her own crystal-clear fingertips, then at Lu Zhiyin, who was chewing bread. In the end, she said nothing, but continued to feed Lu Zhiyin.
Leaning close enough, Leng Qing Qiu could smell the faint scent on Lu Zhiyin that didn’t belong to Lu Zhiyin herself.
She thought, Long Qinxin had probably visited. But Leng Qing Qiu no longer wanted to mention that person.
Since she hadn’t shown off in front of her, she herself was too lazy to find trouble with her.
With this thought, after feeding Lu Zhiyin, Leng Qing Qiu soon leaned on the edge of the bed and fell asleep.
