h4Chapter 145: Chapter 131: Swiping the Card/h4

    Hearing the sarcasm in his tone, Jiang Ruan looked up while holding a spoon and retorted, "What do you know."

    "Someone like you, born into a wealthy family and raised in luxury, of course, cannot understand how tough life can be for us, the pennilessmoners. The weakest part of the hemp rope always breaks, and when Lu Jie and I first came to Beijing, we relied on each other to survive. Those days I will never forget."

    "Thinking back now, it was actually quite beautiful. At least I wasn’t alone and helpless."

    As Jiang Ruan spoke, a happy curve formed on her lips.

    Her little face smiled sweetly.

    Falling into Bao Ye’s eyes, aplex light shed in his dark pupils. Who says he can’t understand hardship?

    The life of a wealthy young master isn’t as good as she imagines.

    Before Bao Ye was seventeen, he was strictly trained by his grandfather.

    While other kids yed, he studied finance.

    He started learning middle school textbooks in the first grade.

    He skipped grades in his studies.

    Skipped quite a few grades, in fact.

    It resulted in all his time being spent on studies, and from childhood to adulthood, he didn’t have many good friends.

    The words were at the tip of his tongue, but Bao Ye held them back in the end.

    He’s a grown man,paring hardships with her would be embarrassing.

    Jiang Ruan finished a whole bowl of wontons.

    Setting down the spoon, she saw Bao Ye had also stopped. The big bowl seemed no different from a basin to him.

    No matter how tasty the wontons were, once full, he couldn’t eat any more.

    Before he could speak, Jiang Ruan said, "Boss, the bill."

    The owner they spoke to earlier came over.

    "Finished, Nannan? How was it, good?"

    Jiang Ruan praised, "Just as delicious as before."

    "Handsome, how did you find it?"

    Being looked at with a smile by the owner, Bao Ye courteously replied, "Delicious."

    The owner was even happier with the praise.

    "Great that it’s delicious."

    "That’ll be 26 in total."

    Big bowl, fourteen; small bowl, twelve.

    This price in Beijing is considered very cheap.

    When Jiang Ruan first came to Beijing, it was this price, and it hasn’t changed over the years.

    Just as Jiang Ruan was about to open her phone’s WeChat, she saw the man beside her hand a card over.

    Bao Ye held the card with his long fingers, his angr face full of maturity and steadiness as he said in a low voice, "I’ll pay."

    It was a ck card.

    Looking at the card, the owner was momentarily stunned.

    "Ah? Pay with card?"

    Seeing the owner’s reaction, a hint of confusion shed in Bao Ye’s eyes. Could it be that the shop doesn’t ept cards?

    He then heard a chuckle from beside him; Jiang Ruan couldn’t hold it in anymore and nudged Bao Ye’s card back with his phone.

    "This isn’t a mall; you can’t use a card."

    "I’ll do it instead."

    Then she decisively raised her phone, scanned the shop’s QR code, entered the amount, and paid.

    "All done, boss."

    Jiang Ruan blinked, waving her screen for the owner to see.

    The owner: "Oh, okay."

    Bao Ye, with a sullen expression, put the card back into his wallet.

    The owner smiled, "Handsome, we don’t ept cards here, only WeChat or Alipay."

    With the stubbornness in Bao Ye’s bones, he replied politely, "I’ll know for next time."

    As they walked out of the wonton shop, it was pitch dark outside.

    They had just walked a few meters out.

    Jiang Ruan couldn’t hold it in anymore,ughing so hard her stomach hurt. She clutched her belly and looked at him, "Using a card to pay for wontons haha, it’s my first time seeing someone use a card for wontons."

    Bao Ye: "..."

    His lips twitched, "Noughing."

    For the sake of his pride, he asked, "Why can’t you use a card for wontons? Lacking a card machine is the shop’s issue; public consumption ces should have card machines."

    Jiang Ruanughed even more uncontrobly at his words.

    She coughed, trying to stifle herughter, and nodded, "You have a point... hahahah..."

    In the end, she couldn’t hold it back.

    "For a bowl of wontons... twelve bucks... paying with a card hahahaha."

    Bao Ye: "..."