Chapter 25 Training Center for the Fittest (1)
In the early morning of this day, as usual, Gao Chen was awakened by Meng Xiangjun's knock on the door. This little girl always seems to be able to hit the right time and knock on the door before he wakes up.
It often rains in July in Qinggang City. The rain dissipates the sultry heat and makes people feel like they are back in spring. They also wear long sleeves that are warmer.
Meng Xiangjun may have just taken a shower. His long, silky hair was deftly tied into a bun, revealing his long, snow-white neck. He was wearing a pair of ordinary house slippers, and his white toes could be seen through the top of the slippers.
He had never noticed before that after the girl changed to flat shoes, she was actually a head shorter than him. Her whole body was significantly smaller, but she was still about 1.65 meters tall.
Meng Xiangjun handed over a plate: "Here, your breakfast."
Gao Chen took the plate from the girl's hand, with two fried dough sticks neatly placed on it, and a cup with freshly squeezed soy milk in it: "Did you make this?"
"Otherwise? The fried dough sticks sold in breakfast shops are not as clean and hygienic as those made by me. The most important thing is that the ones I make are better than theirs."
Not only does he cook well, but he can also make breakfast. Bottomless, classmate Meng.
Gao Chen said politely: "Thank you."
"Is this gone?"
Meng Xiangjun came closer, with his face raised and his hands behind his back, staring into his eyes.
"Um......"
To be honest, Gao Chen tried to refuse her breakfast, but every time he was retorted by saying, "If you are weak, you should eat more." He thought for a moment and said, "How about I give you some money? I happened to send you a message." The salary is paid.”
"Who wants your money?" Meng Xiangjun snorted, "Are you free today?"
"I have to go to work, is there something wrong?"
Gao Chen took a bite of the fried dough sticks and found that the fried dough sticks were no worse than those made in breakfast shops. They were crispy and tasted sweet, probably because milk was added.
"I want to go to the building materials market on Nanshan Road at noon to buy some experimental materials."
Meng Xiangjun said: "It's not very safe over there recently. If I go there alone, my dad won't let me go there alone..."
The implication is that she hopes to find someone to accompany her.
"Let's talk about it at noon."
Gao Chen said: "If you decide to go then, just call me, but make sure you agree first that I may not be available."
After getting her cell phone number, Gao Chen gave her cell phone number to Meng Xiangjun, but he couldn't tell her because she had to force it after she found out.
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Morning exercise is still running, half an hour and ten kilometers is not a big amount of training, at least for this body.
After the training, Gao Chen rode his bicycle to work. He encountered many patrols on the road, checking suspicious pedestrians passing by. A week had passed since the incident, and the Knight Foundation had found nothing. The intensity of the investigation was still increasing.
When we arrived at the restaurant, there were already customers having morning tea.
The morning's work was not too busy. Gao Chen only delivered twenty orders and the work for the day was over.
"Hoo! I have a half-day off in the afternoon. I want to go to the Internet cafe and spend the afternoon traveling through time!"
Fatty Wang took off his apron, with a happy look on his face. He came to Gao Chen's side and said, "Remember to come find your buddy when you're done. I'm leaving first."
"bye."
Gao Chen waved, and the fat man had already ran out of the restaurant and went straight to the bus stop.
"After buying the ingredients, go to the building materials market. The shelves in the warehouse are a bit loose and need a few nails to reinforce them."
At the front desk, Luo Ning came out after settling the accounts: "I have something urgent to do so I'll leave first. You will take Qing Mo to ride a bike later, please be slower."
"Received, received." Gao Chen held the key and called to the girl at the front desk who was helping with the calculation: "Let's go buy groceries."
Arranging for the taciturn Qing Mo to go with him, probably because he was worried that he didn't know how to choose vegetables, so he bought a bunch of expired ingredients.
But looking at the way the girl lowered her head to change into casual clothes, she didn't look like the kind of person who often went out to buy groceries. I'm afraid she had to let him come this time.
"Jingle Bell..."
As soon as Luo Ning left, the phone in Gao Chen's pocket rang. He took it out and found that it was from classmate Meng: "Hey, I'm not free now. I have something to do at the restaurant. You can go alone -"
In fact, this trip happened to be going to the building materials market, so I could take her with me. But Gao Chen really didn't want to be pestered by Meng Xiangjun and had to go to the training hall in the afternoon, so he simply said he didn't have time.
The boss had already left, and Gao Chen behind him was responsible for locking the door. Before closing the door, he looked at Qing Mo and asked, "Do you have a helmet?"
Qing Mo took out a full-face helmet from behind the front desk, black, just like the one in his hand.
"Okay, let's go. Finish shopping early and get off work early."
After locking the door, Gao Chen walked into the backyard from the back door, pushed the motorcycle out backwards, and put on his helmet. However, he saw Qing Mo still standing there blankly: "Put on your helmet, and then get in the car."
"Oh, alright."
Qing Mo quickly responded in a low voice, clumsily adjusting the size of his helmet.
Gao Chen turned his head and started the motorcycle without urging her, for fear that she would be too stupid and accidentally get her neck stuck.
But he inadvertently looked through the rearview mirror and saw Qing Mo taking off his peaked cap. The face that had been hidden before came to light again at this moment.
The face has soft lines, slightly melancholic thin eyebrows, and charming peach blossom eyes, but there is a soft light in the eyes. The two pairs of small hands with no place to place seemed slightly nervous. When adjusting the helmet, he made several misadjustments until the end. It took a few tries to find the right size for her.
"It doesn't look like a person at all..."
Gao Chen murmured in his heart. To be honest, when the girl took off her cap, he almost mistakenly thought that the girl was not the taciturn colleague.
"Well, get in the car, let's go."
Gao Chen felt the back seat float slightly. He glanced at the rearview mirror and saw that the girl had already sat on it: "Hold on, the road conditions in this alley are not good. Don't be knocked down then."
Qing Mo said softly, "Hmm", and his little hands grabbed the iron frame of the back seat in panic.
boom--
As soon as he turned the accelerator, Gao Chen heard the girl panic: "You...can you slow down a little?"
"Um, I haven't moved yet."
Gao Chen tightened the clutch, turned around and said, "If you feel unsafe, you can go back first. I will go alone."
"No, that's not possible." Qing Mo whispered, "Sister Luo told me that I had to come buy the groceries."
"..."
Gao Chen said speechlessly: "Okay, hold on to the fuel tank, so it won't fall."
"is this okay?"
Qing Mo may have never been so close to a boy in his entire life, especially now that Gao Chen had to hold the gas tank by himself. This action almost made him press against him.
"It's okay, I don't mind."
Gao Chen said generously.
"That...that's okay."
Qing Mo leaned forward slightly and carefully held the fuel tank. From this distance, he could feel the body temperature on his back, and his cheeks turned red under the helmet.
Gao Chen didn't care so much, started his motorcycle and drove towards the vegetable market.
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After buying vegetables, he had to go to the building materials market, so Gao Chen went directly to the vegetable market on Nanshan Road. Then he could stop by the building materials market.
The insect infestation is rampant, there are not many people in the vegetable market, and there are not many open pawn shops, but there are many more soldiers being trained than customers.
"Did the boss give you the shopping list?"
When Gao Chen walked into the vegetable market with Qing Mo, the girl kept shrinking two steps away from him, acting as if she was resistant to the things around her.
Especially when she met the special forces with guns, she wanted to stick to Gao Chen directly, but due to the relationship between men and women, this did not happen.
"..."
Qing Mo silently took out a piece of paper with black and white writing on it, pointed at it, and then pointed at the seafood stall over there.
Gao Chen was speechless and took the note directly. There were not many ingredients written on it. For example, vegetables and some meat would be delivered to the store every day. Because these ingredients need to be fresh enough, the ingredients to be purchased this time should be It was specifically requested by some special order customers.
Five hairy crabs, five herrings, five hairtails, two pounds of mountain bamboo shoots...
When he came to the seafood stall, Gao Chen glanced at the fish boxes, pointed to the box containing hairy crabs, and asked: "Boss, how much do these crabs cost per pound?"
A middle-aged man with a round belly, a cigarette in his mouth, said in a deadly tone: "One hundred and one."
"Is it fresh?" Gao Chen has never bought hairy crabs before, and this is his first time.
"Fresh, guaranteed to be fresh. If it's not fresh, you don't have to pay." The middle-aged man flicked the ashes from his cigarette and said, "Little brother, how many do you want?"
Gao Chen looked at it and saw that the crabs in the box were still moving. They should be the ones caught recently: "I want five."
"Okay!"
The middle-aged man smiled instantly, threw away the half-burned cigarette, and prepared to catch crabs with a net.
"It's too... too expensive." Qing Mo on the side hesitated, tugged on Gao Chen's clothes again, and whispered: "This is not worth a hundred."
"Boss, wait a minute." Gao Chen turned to look at her and asked, "How did you tell?"
"Little girl, don't talk nonsense. This hairy crab of mine was just caught. It's big and very fresh. Why is it not worth it?" The middle-aged man was obviously dissatisfied, and his face suddenly turned cold.
Qing Mo was frightened and did not dare to look up at the seafood stall owner. He gently tugged at the hem of Gao's dressing gown and said, "You must buy hairy crabs with blue shells, white bellies, and yellow fluff, otherwise they are stale..." ..."
Gao Chen looked at the hairy crabs in the box and found that none of them had the characteristics Qing Mo mentioned. They were all as desperate as the pawnshop owners.
"Boss, did you hear? These are not fresh." Gao Chen said, "You are not kind in doing business. You still want to sell me one hundred crabs for these stale crabs."
Seeing that he was exposed, the boss started to chase people away: "If you want to buy, buy it. If you don't buy, just leave. Don't affect my business."
"Me, let's buy it next door." Qing Mo moved back and said.
Gao Chen was too lazy to talk to this unscrupulous businessman, so he followed him to the pawn shop next door.
"How is this place?" Gao Chen asked.
Qing Mo squatted down and carefully inspected each crab, "It's fresher than the one just now."
"Little girl, don't worry. The hairy crabs I have here have green backs and white bellies, and golden claws and yellow hair. They are all beautiful things that just came out of the water this morning." The boss here is also a middle-aged uncle, and he noticed these two just now. Young man, he lowered his voice and said, "The guarantee here is much better than that of the guy next door."
Gao Chen looked at Qing Mo, saw her nodding, and said, "How much?"
"Eighty, it's cheaper than here." The boss patted his chest and said, "If you go back to eat and feel it's not fresh, ask me for a refund or exchange."
"Want five."
"Sure, I'll get it for you now."
When the middle-aged man next door saw this scene, his face turned dark.
Then they bought the remaining ingredients and rode to the building materials market.
On the way, Gao Chen curiously asked Qing Mo why he knew so much about these fish products, and then he learned that the girl was from Songhua City, an offshore city where most people make a living by fishing.
"Then why did you want to come to us?"
Gao Chen remembered that Songhua City is located in Guangnan. Although it is not classified as an important economic area, it can be regarded as a lane of rapid development. Now it is developing much better than 18th-tier cities like Qinggang.
Qing Mo in the back seat didn't speak. He held the fuel tank with his two small hands and didn't know what he was thinking.
Forget it if you don’t say it. Gao Chen didn't ask any more questions and waited until he arrived at the building materials market: "Wait for me here. I'll buy a few nails and come back. Don't walk around."
"Yeah." Qing Mo nodded obediently, hugging his helmet honestly and squatting next to the motorcycle.
The building materials market consists of many roads or lanes, and the place where the last insect infestation occurred is right next door.
Soon, Gao Chen came back with a box of screws, got back on his motorcycle, and said to Qing Mo beside the car: "Let's take the things back to the restaurant now, and then I'll take you home."
"okay."
Qing Mo put on his helmet, sat in the back seat, and rested his hands on the fuel tank.
Afterwards, the two drove off Nanshan Road on their motorcycles.
At the same time, at the door of a shop in the building materials market, a girl wearing a white shirt skirt and small leather shoes looked at the two people who were gradually moving away, biting her lips and clenching her white fists red: "Gao Chen, you This bastard who eats everything inside and outside!"
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"Is your home right here?"
At the intersection of a dense housing area, Gao Chen was surprised when he looked at this area. The place where Qing Mo lived was just one street away from the community where he lived, in a bungalow area.
Qinggang City's development focus has been on the new urban area. As a result, many old houses in the old urban area have survived, including the area where Qingmo is currently renting.
This is one of the earliest residential buildings in the industrial area. The houses have long been dilapidated. More than 40 bungalows are crowded together. The largest one is only 20 square meters in area. There is not even a toilet. Tenants need to use public toilets, even for bathing. All use public bathrooms.
"You go back first, I can go in alone." Qing Mo put on the peaked cap again. Except for the peach blossom eyes that were revealed inadvertently, it would be really difficult for others to know her true appearance.
"Okay, then you can walk the rest of the way by yourself."
Gao Chen is also preparing to rush to the training hall. There are less than forty days left before the assessment, so strength training must start today.
Gao Chen biked to the fitness training center on Beiqiao Street. He heard that this venue is the best training center in the old city. There are many excellent local candidates for fitness, or students who want to become fitness students, as well as excellent coaches. It's all here.
Ten minutes later, Beiqiao Street Fitness Training Center.
Gao Chen stood outside the gate of the venue, looking up at the huge driver model hanging on the outer wall. He touched the banknotes in his pocket, wondering if his salary was enough to apply for a monthly card.
Later, when Gao Chen was about to step into the door, he heard someone behind him calling his name: "Gao Chen?"
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