42. Damn it, you all really deserve it!
Lin Yibai paused at the street outside the hotel.
He wanted to try the taste of the seaside, but it’s well-known that seafood by the sea is not cheap.
Some items are even more expensive than in the mountainous inland areas!
Lin Yibai declined the waiter’s enthusiastic recommendation of fish noodles and only ordered a relatively affordable meal: “A portion of egg fried rice, plus a complimentary seaweed soup, thank you.”
The boy’s simple and ordinary thoughts made it hard for him to bring himself to order a bowl of fish noodles that cost dozens of yuan. He didn’t know how other girls managed to be delicate “pig girls.”
All he knew was that everything related to food and living expenses required spending money!!
Spending his own money made him feel pained!
Egg fried rice with seaweed soup might be criticized by many for being greasy and salty and doesn’t relate to anything delicate, but Lin Yibai thought very simply: “Isn’t it enough to just be full?”
If you insist on pointing out the greasiness and spiciness,
then he could start mentioning the things girls rave about, like bubble tea buckets, bubble tea topped with pan-fried buns, barbecues, hot pots, crayfish, and so on.
Not greasy, not salty, not spicy?
If this is the life of a delicate pig girl, Lin Yibai frowned: “I want that too!! But…”
He touched his pocket and then the balance in his bank card on his phone, quickly dousing himself with cold water—let’s just drop it!
Lin Yibai still wouldn’t admit that he was a girl, just an ordinary college student with a brief transformation ability, so he ate this egg fried rice labeled with heavy oil and heavy salt, which was unrelated to anything delicate.
He stated: Not burdensome at all.
Their delicate pig lives have nothing to do with me, a boy!
After finishing his meal, Lin Yibai rested in the shop under the air conditioning, also glancing at the hotel’s entrance and exit.
It was approximately three or four in the afternoon.
The small shop didn’t mind having more people enjoy the air conditioning, but the waiter was still very enthusiastic: “Aren’t you going to try our fish noodles? They’ve been featured on an internet celebrity livestream, and they taste great.”
Lin Yibai kindly declined: “No thanks.”
“Why not?”
“Too expensive.”
“Are you saying our pricing is unreasonable?”
“No, no, no, that’s not what I mean.” Lin Yibai quickly shook his head and after a while subtly said, “I’m not saying your shop’s prices are high, I just think the seafood products in the Binhai area are all too expensive, even more than what they sell in my hometown, which is not by the sea.”
“Ah! So that’s what you meant!” The waiter suddenly burst out laughing, showing no ill intent: “No wonder you have such thoughts; thinking seafood by the seaside is inherently cheap is a mistaken belief—what a pity!!”
Lin Yibai: “Hmm? Isn’t seafood near the sea supposed to be cheaper?”
The waiter glanced over at the counter.
Seeing the boss calculating accounts, they whispered, “If you want to eat cheaper, just go out of Binhai City and find a random village by the sea. The premium seafood might be hard to find, but the regular seafood is cheaper than pork. You can eat until you’re full! Do you know that shrimp that costs several dozen yuan per pound? We throw the unsightly ones to feed the ducks; this stuff used to be for feeding chickens and ducks, and it’s not tasty—I don’t know how it got so popular.”
Local people, luxurious?
Lin Yibai: “What the hell?”
The waiter continued: “Binhai is a tourist city; even I, a local, think the seafood prices are ridiculously high. What’s more, you outsiders, haha!”
“……”
From a cost-performance perspective,
it seems very necessary to take a trip to the fishing village below Binhai to realize the freedom of seafood!
But girls.
Going to a small village alone?
With Lin Yibai’s straightforward personality, he definitely wouldn’t take that risk!
In the evening, the shop became busy again.
Lin Yibai also felt embarrassed to stay there any longer.
Fortunately, it wasn’t as hot by the seaside in the evening; he leaned against a lamp post by the road and finally said, “Wow, are you finally going out to play?”
After all, they came on a self-driving tour.
Resting until evening to go play is normal.
Xia Changyu and Gu Xiaoxue went to find a place to eat first, followed closely by Yang Yueping and others exiting the hotel.
Not long after, a few boys appeared, but it seemed there was quite a dispute.
Those guys… more precisely, the boyfriends of Yang Yueping and others, seemed very dissatisfied with this May Day trip: “Yang Yueping, what are you doing? Didn’t we agree it would be reimbursed?”
“Yeah, what about the reimbursement?” another boy expressed his dissatisfaction, complaining: “The round trip transportation costs and accommodation, coming out to play has cost me my entire month’s living expenses.”
“We came to help you.”
“……”
Lin Yibai pretended to take tourist photos but actually captured their entire group.
He had regretted missing the last opportunity in the library for a long time.
This time, he wouldn’t miss out again.
Yang Yueping’s expression also began to sour as she angrily said, “What are you yelling for? How was I supposed to know that Xiaoxue’s boyfriend suddenly became so stingy? If it weren’t for Xiaoxue pestering him, he wouldn’t even want to pay for our travel expenses, hum.”
“Ha!” Lin Yibai chuckled.
It seems according to Yang Yueping and their logic, they originally wanted Xia Changyu to pay for their travel expenses along with their boyfriends or male friends!
Even the biggest loser wouldn’t do such a thing!
Lin Yibai suddenly felt a mix of dread and relief: “Fortunately, I broke up early, tsk!”
Those people seemed to not come to an agreement because of the expenses, and the little boat of love was nearly capsized.
They even started blaming each other.
In a moment of desperation, Yang Yueping directly attacked: “Lian Haifeng, are you still my boyfriend? Sun Shangyang, are you still my best male friend? You’re getting all red-faced and heated over something like this.”
“That’s a month’s living expenses…” the two boys tried to argue.
“Enough!!”
“I’ve seen through you all.” Yang Yueping initially wanted to break up, but since she still needed their help, she changed her words: “I will discuss this with Xiaoxue. I’ll try to cover some of your travel expenses. Even if I can’t reimburse all of it, just think of it as a trip out; as men, you shouldn’t be so unreasonable, right?”
As for how much they would reimburse, she didn’t mention a sum at all.
A few hundred or thousand yuan is reimbursed.
What about a few dozen yuan—aren’t they reimbursed?
Yang Yueping snorted coldly, intentionally saying: “And about what I asked you to do—you’d better do it beautifully.”
The few boys said: “When the time comes, you lead that Xia guy to the End of the Road Alley; we’ve already checked the surrounding environment, and there won’t be any problems. We’ll beat him like a dog.”
Tsk, poor rival in love!
He’s already set up by his girlfriend’s female friends to be beaten like a dead dog.
This was, Yang Yueping’s boyfriend added, to certify their capability: “Just like when we beat Lin Yibai, it was like dealing with a grandson.”
Lin Yibai: ?
Damn it!
You all really deserve it!
