Astral Apostle Chapter 22: Small

Zhou Jing's eyes moved, and he swiped the record. This was the chat message at more than 8 o'clock last night.

[Li Xiaoyin: Brothers, come out for dinner! @Everyone]

[Xu Lingyun: As a qualified social fringe, I refuse to participate in all activities that spend money]

[Li Xiaoyin: Don't worry, this time I will treat you as a guest, and then I will announce a big event! ]

[Xu Lingyun: If you want to say that, then I can have a good meal at the venue... Listen to it]

[Zhang Xiao: What's the big deal? Someone is willing to marry you? ]

[Xu Lingyun: Who is the victim? Is he currently emotionally stable? ]

[Li Xiaoyin: Humph, it will be nonsense! Let me tell you, this time I really changed my life against the sky! Wa hahaha! ! ! ]

[Xu Lingyun: Got it, I have caught a Kaizi]

[Li Xiaoyin: Do you want to loosen the skin? is not it? ! ]

The corners of Zhou Jing's mouth twitched unconsciously, and the whole person relaxed.

Best friend... This group chat includes him. There are a total of four people in it, all of whom are hard-core friends who have grown up together since childhood.

We played together when we were young, and we were also together when we were in school, and we had a pretty good relationship.

It wasn't until graduation, when everyone was busy with their own business, that they met less often, but they still often chatted and farted in the group, and made dinner appointments.

When I was in school, Zhou Jing was well-liked and had many friends, but only those three who could be called best friends were the only ones who were young.

He continued to scroll down the message log.

[Li Xiaoyin: Seriously, how about going out for dinner tonight? If I don't tell you the good news today, I can't sleep! (rolling)]

[Zhang Xiao: You don’t have a dinner appointment until after eight o’clock? ! Eldest sister, don't think about it, I've already finished my meal! ]

[Xu Lingyun: Anyway, I'm fine. I haven't eaten all day, and I'm still hungry. As long as someone treats a guest, I'll crawl over it too! ]

[Zhang Xiao: After all, what is the good news, you can say it now]

[Li Xiaoyin: No, this is a major event in my life. It is too unceremonious to say it in the group, so I have to say it face to face]

[Zhang Xiao: Did you find a job like me? ]

[Xu Lingyun: What? look for a job? Why do you want to be conceited and let everyone do noble rice bugs together? What about the wool of interstellar colonialism? @Everyone]

[Zhang Xiao: ? ? ? Who told you that]

[Li Xiaoyin: @张晓, you can pull it down, do you call it looking for a job, you go to work in your own company! Your family pays you wages, and the money is digested internally, so what do you earn, it is not the same as pocket money! ]

【Zhang Xiao: You don't have to think so clearly...】

[Li Xiaoyin: @周京, Jingjing, why don't you speak, when will you have time to send a letter of approval! ]

[Li Xiaoyin: Did you fall asleep? Hey baby, get up! @周景】

The next few consecutive messages are all from Aite.

Zhou Jing thought for a while, then picked up the phone and returned it.

[Zhou Jing: I fell asleep before and didn't look at my phone, I have time during the day]

The message was sent, he saw that it was a little late, and he planned to put down his mobile phone and go to eat something.

However, he did not expect that there would be an immediate response in the group.

[Li Xiaoyin: Haha, Jingjing is finally bubbling up! ]

[Xu Lingyun: Good guy, what are you doing right now? You went to bed after eight o'clock last night? ! ]

[Zhang Xiao: Jing, are you delusional? ]

The corner of Zhou Jing's mouth twitched.

What the hell, you're all awake at this point, don't you all need to sleep? !

[Li Xiaoyin: Oh, everyone is awake, why don't we just make an appointment for a late-night snack, just to share my good news, so that I can sleep well tonight and start walking! ]

[Zhang Xiao: Well, I feel ok, I happened to be hungry after playing games]

[Xu Lingyun: I'm ready to eat another day when I'm hungry, but I'm eating now, tsk, no challenge]

[Zhou Jing: This is too sudden, I haven't even brushed my teeth...]

[Li Xiaoyin: @周静, let's go, anyway, you just woke up, you should have breakfast! ]

Zhou Jing scratched his head.

Decided to go out for a late night snack in the middle of the night? It really looks like something a bunch of buddies can do.

In this era, the nightlife is already rich, and many shops are open around the clock... The main reason is that the mechanical workers do not need to rest, and can be squeezed unlimitedly, not to mention 996, all of them are 007.

Zhou Jing thought about it for a while, but it's not impossible. Anyway, he just returned, and there are still more than ten hours to cool down, so there is nothing urgent.

People are iron rice or steel. If you don't eat a meal, you will be so hungry. It's the same wherever you go to cook. It saves money if you treat someone. After all, I don't have enough money at the moment.

In addition, Zhou Jing is also a little curious, what is the good news that Li Xiaoyin said.

Although this woman is always like this, shouting every day that she has found an opportunity to change her life against the sky, and she has since reached the peak of her life, but with her financial situation, there are not many cases where she is excited to treat guests. see you.

"Then let's rub it."

Thinking of this, Zhou Jing didn't refuse. After setting the place and time for the supper in the group, he put on his sweater and went out to make an appointment.

…

…

Even in the middle of the night, the sky is rendered colorful by the flashing neon, like a city that never sleeps.

Zhou Jing took a public speeder and came to the dinner place.

As soon as he got out of the car, he noticed a man squatting on the curb, wearing a long-sleeved coat with two hands in his sleeves, like an old farmer.

This person also noticed Zhou Jing, his eyes lit up, he hurriedly raised his hands in his sleeves above his head, waved repeatedly, and shouted:

"Brother, brother, I'm here!"

Zhou Jing took a look and saw that this man was a handsome man with sword eyebrows and star eyes, but his chin was full of sparse stubble that he was too lazy to shave, and his body exuded a decadent and lazy temperament.

It was his own childhood, Xu Lingyun.

Zhou Jing walked over: "What about the other two?"

"Those two goods didn't arrive, I was the first to come." Xu Lingyun still squatted on the ground and answered with his head raised.

Seeing this, Zhou Jing also squatted down and said strangely:

"When are you usually not late, why are you the earliest today?"

Xu Lingyun hummed: "I've been hungry all day, so I'm just waiting for a meal. Of course I have to come earlier."

"It's just a meal, you can't..."

"No, but my deposit has its own ideas." Xu Lingyun shrugged.

The corner of Zhou Jing's mouth twitched.

He almost forgot that Xu Lingyun lived a very stable life - very stable poor.

This young man had a rough life. His parents were originally from a rice bug family, but due to the physical defect of one of them, he was unable to make up the three places for the maternity welfare fund, and finally could not bear to divorce. The mother formed a new family with others, and the father was eyeing the immigration welfare allowance, joined the first few batches of interstellar immigrants, abandoned him, and was left to live alone.

Xu Lingyun didn't choose to go to a nursing home, so he grew up just like that, and no one cared about it.

He has also made efforts to change the status quo, but it has never been a situation where he can immediately change the reality with determination, and many times he doesn't even know how to start. A life of poverty and suffering is sometimes like seaweed, trying to break free but falling deeper and deeper into a vicious circle.

Later, Xu Lingyun had to live by it. He said more than once that his life plan was to live on welfare. Anyway, in this day and age, he basically wouldn't starve to death.

Zhou Jing shook his head, shaking off these thoughts.

He patted Xu Lingyun on the shoulder and joked: "It's fine, just rely on your appearance, take care of yourself a little bit, and casually hang out with a rich woman, good days will come."

"Pull it down." Xu Lingyun rolled his eyes and pouted, "I have no interest in doing manual work."

After a pause, Xu Lingyun suddenly pushed Zhou Jing with his elbow and laughed wickedly:

"Then how have you been recently? I know that there are many big sisters who like your tender and gentle little meat. Please tell me honestly, have you been in a relationship recently? Have you been given by the beauty of the world? Corrupted?"

"How can I have such thoughts." Zhou Jing shook his head and laughed.

"That's right, I almost forgot. When I was in school, those female classmates confessed, half to you and half to me. I promised at least two or three times, but you didn't agree once..."

Xu Lingyun said, hesitated for a while, and asked quietly:

"You don't like girls, do you?"

"I think you're an eagle burping -- the chickens eat too much, they're talking shit."

Zhou Jing is not in a good mood.

I'm just concentrating on my studies, okay?

Xu Lingyun shook his head and sighed in a pretentious manner: "There is something wrong with your designation. It's so hard to cleanse yourself with looks like the two of us."

Zhou Jing rolled his eyes: "Just pretend, when I don't know? You blush when you hold a girl's little hand, why do you pretend to be a lover with me?"

"What blush is not... I have a lot of blood vessels in my face, and I accidentally congested!"

Xu Lingyun was embarrassed.

Zhou Jing didn't bother to break him, stood up, kicked Xu Lingyun's butt, and said:

"Stop chatting with you, don't squat here, go to the restaurant and wait, I'm a little cold."

After speaking, he was about to take a step, but found that Xu Lingyun was still squatting on the spot, looking up at himself.

"Why are you still squatting, let's go." Zhou Jing wondered.

"Pull brother, I don't have the strength to stand up." Xu Lingyun reached out for a hug.

Nonsense, I've been hungry all day, it's strange that I have the strength...

Zhou Jing was helpless. He was about to reach out and grab Xu Lingyun when he suddenly stopped.

"By the way, you didn't go to the restaurant before, but you squatted here all the time. Wouldn't you just be waiting for someone to come and help you up?"

"You're smart, so hurry up!"

Zhou Jing's face twitched, grabbed Xu Lingyun's hand, and pulled him up from the ground.

Xu Lingyun had a rescued expression on his face, his legs were numb after squatting for too long, and he helped Zhou Jing to move slowly.

Not long after, the two finally reached the agreed restaurant, found a booth in the corner, ordered drinks and waited.

About five minutes later, a man and a woman walked into the restaurant, and it was the other two who were young.

The man's name is Zhang Xiao. He is a chubby little guy, wearing a woolen trench coat, a beige scarf around his neck, and a well-made mechanical watch on his hand.

The other woman was Li Xiaoyin, who was dressed simply, with wide white and green striped short sleeves, blue casual trousers, black and white flat canvas shoes, and no other accessories.

The skin is fair, the gooseneck is slender, and the facial features are not stunning, but there is a clean and agile look, with a neat ponytail, which shakes as he walks.

Li Xiaoyin looked around the restaurant and saw Zhou Jing and Xu Lingyun, her eyes lit up, and she said hello directly:

"Yo brothers!"

The voice was really loud, and other diners in the restaurant couldn't help but turn their heads and cast strange eyes.

Li Xiaoyin was not embarrassed at all, she smiled heartily, raised her hand calmly and made an apologetic gesture to the other diners, then ignored other people's eyes, trotted all the way to the seats of Zhou Jing and the two, and sat down. .

Zhang Xiao was a little embarrassed. He pretended not to notice the gazes of other diners.

"You two came together?" Zhou Jing was a little curious.

"Haha, doesn't this guy have a car? My house is far away, so I asked him to drive me here."

Li Xiaoyin laughed and patted Zhang Xiao's back carelessly, making a muffled thud.

Zhang Xiao grinned, moved his aching back, and said angrily, "Let's order first."

"Click! Anything! I'll treat you to me today!"

Li Xiaoyin waved her hand with a bold tone.

Xu Lingyun smiled and said, "No wonder you are so beautiful today, you caught everyone's eyes when you came in."

"Is there any necessary connection?" Zhang Xiao couldn't help but question.

"The person who treats guests is always the best looking!" Xu Lingyun gave a thumbs up.

Zhang Xiao suddenly became angry: "I have treated guests a lot, and I don't see you complimenting me."

"First of all, you have to have the basic conditions, at least look like a person, otherwise praise will be like a mockery, then do you have this condition? Obviously you don't."

"Hey, I'm not convinced, you..."

Zhang Xiao rolled up his sleeves, and he had to tear it apart.

Zhou Jing rolled his eyes, ignoring the bickering between the two, and looked at Li Xiaoyin curiously.

"Have you found a job? Are you so happy today?"

Li Xiaoyin waved her hand and said, "That's not true. I haven't been looking for a job for a few months after graduation."

"What are you doing? What is the good news in your group?" Zhou Jing was surprised.

"Hey, don't be scared."

Li Xiaoyin smiled proudly, put her thumb on her chest, and said aloud:

"Sister, I am now a power user!"

The air suddenly became quiet.