Qian Xiaoke felt that he was a little crazy. He followed Jiang Tongyan and whispered, “Lu Xun1Chinese writer and literary critic said that if you don’t explode in the movement, you will perish in the movement.”
He looked at the lake and began to think that he should just take Jiang Tongyan with him to die together.
Just as he was thinking about the feasibility of this, Jiang Tongyan stopped in his tracks.
“Hey, you are still there?”
Qian Xiaoke: “Hehe.”
Jiang Tongyan asked him calmly, “Why aren’t you leaving?”
Qian Xiaoke was really unhappy at this moment and turned away from him with a sad face.
“I thought you left just now.” Jiang Tongyan walked over pretentiously and approached him, “Do you want to take a walk with me so much?”
“Say less.” Qian Xiaoke said, “I’m afraid that you will be thrown into the lake from here.”
Jiang Tongyan looked at him and smiled, “Seriously, why didn’t you leave by yourself?”
He wanted to say: Could it be that you really can’t bear to leave me?
Of course not. Qian Xiaoke was not reluctant to part with him but reluctant to part with the time he had spent!
Qian Xiaoke said, “You must have never heard of this word before.”
“Huh? What word?” Jiang Tongyan asked, “Devoted? Loyal? Inseparable? Dependent through life and death?”
“… Do you know what ‘sunk cost’ is?” Qian Xiaoke said proudly, “You definitely don’t know.”
Jiang Tongyan looked at him in confusion.
“This is a word that often appears in the economic field,” Qian Xiaoke was so proud that his tail was almost raised, and he felt that he was very handsome now. “It means that I have wasted so much time, energy and physical strength on you, and these are all costs. In order not to let my costs go to waste, I have to bite my teeth and persevere to the end. Do you understand? Read more books.”
“…” Jiang Tongyan looked at him incredulously and then smiled, “Little friend, the same words are given to you. Read more books, and don’t start to interpret things by yourself when you only know a little about everything.”
He smiled slightly, “Also, a friendly reminder from Big Brother: in investment, we always have to exclude the interference of sunk costs and pay more attention to opportunity costs. Do you know ‘opportunity cost’? Have you heard of it?”
“Ah?” Qian Xiaoke was dumbfounded.
Jiang Tongyan rolled his eyes and suddenly slapped Qian Xiaoke in front of him, “Snap! Go hit your fly!”
Jiang Tongyan, who had ridiculed Qian Xiaoke, was in a good mood and decided to spare this uneducated little fool.
“Okay, I’m done relaxing.”
Qian Xiaoke’s eyes lit up immediately, and he no longer wondered what Jiang Tongyan meant by what he just said, “Going home?”
“Going home?” Jiang Tongyan narrowed his eyes and smiled, “You want to take me home? Why are you so vulgar and wretched?”
“…”Qian Xiaoke felt that thanks to the subway security check he now went out without a machete, or else Jiang Tongyan would definitely die a horrible death here today!
“Just joking.” Jiang Tongyan raised his eyebrows and smiled, “Let’s go, gege is in a good mood. I’ll give you a ride back.”
Sometimes, a word could save a person.
After Qian Xiaoke heard his words, his waist and legs were no longer sore. He could run directly to the park’s gate in one breath and stop a taxi along the way.
However, just when the two of them were about to reach the gate of the park, Jiang Tongyan touched his pocket and said, “fvck, where’s my wallet?”
Qian Xiaoke was shocked and felt that something was wrong.
He turned around, “Don’t tease me.”
“I’m not teasing you.” Jiang Tongyan’s mobile phone and wallet were gone.
It was already dark at this time. The two looked back in the direction they came from. There were not many people walking.
“My mobile phone is gone too.”
“… In the prosperous and peaceful times, how could such a thing happen under my nose?” Qian Xiaoke said, “It must not be a thief; it must be you who lost it.”
Jiang Tongyan: “…I didn’t say there was a thief.”
Now, Qian Xiaoke was a little panicked.
Although he really wanted to complain, it was really troublesome to lose a wallet. Qian Xiaoke lost his wallet once when he was in college. After that, he had to apply for a new ID card and report the loss of his bank card. It was so troublesome.
Jiang Tongyan came back from abroad, so he probably has more documents. If he lost them, it would be quite troublesome.
Qian Xiaoke was exhausted, both physically and mentally, but he still said, “Let’s go back and look for it. Maybe it fell on the ground.”
Jiang Tongyan glanced at Qian Xiaoke, hesitated momentarily, and then said, “Forget it.”
“Forget it?” Qian Xiaoke was shocked, “Are you tricking me again?”
Of course not.
Jiang Tongyan’s mobile phone and wallet were really missing, but he looked at how tired Qian Xiaoke was. He didn’t have the heart to let the other party continue to entangle with him, and he was not sure whether it was worth it. What if he was exhausted after searching for a circle but found nothing? Wouldn’t it be a big loss?
“There’s only a few hundred dollars in my wallet. With what had been spent, my wallet wasn’t worth much.”
“…”Qian Xiaoke was speechless. He thought was this something worth being happy about?
“What about your cell phone?” Qian Xiaoke said, “You don’t want it anymore?”
“You can buy another cell phone. The card inside is a spare card I bought when I returned here.” Jiang Tongyan was shy and embarrassed to say that he didn’t want anything in order not to tire Qian Xiaoke to death, “Let’s go back first.”
Qian Xiaoke stood there looking at him, and after a long time he squeezed out a sentence, “It’s good to have money.”
It was good to have money. You could just throw away such an expensive wallet and you could just ‘buy another one’ without even looking for your cell phone after losing it.
Qian Xiaoke smacked his lips and felt like he had just chewed a lemon.
“Are you sure?” Qian Xiaoke said, “It’s troublesome to lose these two things.”
“It’s okay,” Jiang Tongyan said, “I used that cell phone specifically for returning to China. I didn’t keep any important things in it.”
Qian Xiaoke pouted, still a little uneasy.
“Let’s go, let’s go, what time is it.” Jiang Tongyan actually felt a bit regretful. Losing things that day served as a lesson for him—he should have avoided playing tricks on people in the future.
He raised his hand to stop a taxi, but was suddenly pushed down by Qian Xiaoke.
“What’s wrong with you?” Jiang Tongyan asked, “Did you lose your wallet too?”
“I suddenly thought of something!” Qian Xiaoke’s eyes widened, “You don’t have any money now.”
“Obviously.”
“No mobile phone either.”
“Obviously.”
“Then why did you take a taxi?” Qian Xiaoke glared at him, “Do you have money to pay for the taxi fare?”
“Don’t you have money?” Jiang Tongyan was too lazy to tease him, “Let’s take a taxi back first, I’ll pay you back another day.”
Qian Xiaoke was almost shocked to death by this sentence.
He, Qian Xiaoke, had a principle in life, that is, he would never lend money to others even if he died!
He could have his head cut and blood flow; it didn’t matter how close or distant he was. There was no way he would lend money!
What’s more, for someone like Jiang Tongyan, who could basically be defined by anything but the relationship they have, borrowing money was even less of an option. The only history they have together was lying in the same bed, questioning life for a few hours, eating spicy hotpot together, and spending over an hour in a park. They had no real connection, and it was very likely that this person could just run off to another country one day. If he lent this kind of person money, it would be giving him an opportunity to exploit and kill him!
Yes, for Qian Xiaoke, having his money taken away was just the same as killing him!
Qian Xiaoke was not stupid, he would not do such a thing.
“You won’t do that?” Jiang Tongyan said, “I have plenty of money, I don’t need your little bit.”
“Who knows?” Qian Xiaoke said very cautiously, “Life is always unpredictable. What if you go bankrupt tomorrow?”
“… Buddy, can’t you hope for something good for me?”
Qian Xiaoke was in pain now, because he suddenly realised that if he was unwilling to pay for the taxi first, then they had only one way to go, that was to say, his few hours today were really like a 10,000-ton ship that had sunk.
Qian Xiaoke stood under the street lights in the autumn night, looking at Jiang Tongyan, who was half a head taller than him. He felt as if he was watching his Titanic sinking into the sea, but he could do nothing about it. He couldn’t help but feel sad.
“Hey, what are you thinking about?” Jiang Tongyan looked at the person in front of him and felt that this little guy’s thinking was really jumpy and even a little scary.
“First, I’m not called Hey.” Qian Xiaoke pouted, “Second, what I think has nothing to do with you.”
He took a deep breath with grievance, feeling heartbroken and miserable.
“Okay, whatever you want.” Jiang Tongyan wanted to stop the car again, but was stopped by Qian Xiaoke.
“Chairman Jiang.” Qian Xiaoke said, “You can’t do that.”
Jiang Tongyan looked at him in confusion.
“Forget about taking a taxi. You know our current financial situation,” Qian Xiaoke said, “I can lend you money to take the subway.”
“Subway?”
“Yes, subway.” Qian Xiaoke really couldn’t bear to leave Jiang Tongyan alone here without money, but he couldn’t pay for the taxi fare himself. This was the best he could do. He could barely afford the eight yuan subway fare. If Jiang Tongyan didn’t pay him back in the future, he wouldn’t lose too much.
Qian Xiaoke was exactly the kind of meticulous, frugal, and calculating young man of the new era who excelled at managing his resources with precision.
Jiang Tongyan asked him, “Aren’t you tired?”
“I am tired,” Qian Xiaoke said, “but I am willing!”
He grabbed Jiang Tongyan’s wrist and dragged him to the nearby subway station, “Let’s hurry up. Life is short, and we’ve already wasted too much time. In these prime years, we should seize every moment!”
Jiang Tongyan looked at the back of Qian Xiaoke’s head with a smile and let him pull him forward.
He smiled and said, “What nonsense are you talking about?”
“No nonsense.” Qian Xiaoke regretted it but thought about it again. This is also an important lesson in life: “Teacher Jiang, I have waited for you for too long!”
Alright.
Jiang Tongyan could see that this kid was crazy.
However, this little madman was also very interesting.
Jiang Tongyan was being pulled forward by him, feeling the chilly wind and watching as the hair on the back of this guy’s head was blown into a spiky mess. The smile in his eyes seemed to reach up to the moon.
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