The store is open, of course we have to make it festive. The signboard has been replaced and the name is XiXi Cold Drink Shop. A cold drink machine cost more than 1000 yuan, and a ice cream machine cost more than 6500 yuan. Several sets of tables, chairs and benches didn't cost much money. Inside the store, there are various fruits such as bananas, apples, oranges, watermelons etc., two refrigerators are used for chilling and also contain some drinks and mineral water.

Nowadays, the main products sold in the cold drink shop are fruit shaved ice and various flavors of cold drinks like chocolate flavor or banana flavor etc.. There is also a sun umbrella placed next to a flower bed with two sets of tables and chairs specifically for people to cool off under. All these took Jia Simiao's and Zhang Xixi's one day time.

They spent all their money without earning any income on that day by investing everything they earned from selling ice-cold watermelon over these few days into this business venture. However Zhang Xixi did not feel distressed about spending so much money because if she doesn't spend any money how can she earn? Looking at everything being arranged nicely made her very happy as her dream shop had finally opened.

However when she first started out she never thought that she would be running a cold drink shop but now whatever Jia Simiao does she follows along with him because he only knows how to take advantage of situations without losing anything himself which means following him will definitely not go wrong. After working together for ten days or so they developed some tacit understanding between them.

Since it was the opening day of their business venture they naturally wanted to invite some friends over but unfortunately Jia Simiao didn't have any friends while Zhang Xixi only had Tang Ziyu and Shen Jun'ao who were willing to come even though they had to skip classes or work.

Shen Jun'ao was very happy that her big wound had really healed, her arm had recovered as if nothing happened and there wasn't even a scar on her skin. This made them all secretly amazed. With other people the longer you know them the better you understand them but with Jia Simiao it's just the opposite, the longer you know him the more confused you become because he seems to have an infinite amount of magic power which always allows him to come up with some new and amazing things.

Looking at their lounge area Tang Ziyu asked: "Xixi, what is Jia Ge doing in the lounge? What secret thing is he doing in there?"

Zhang Xixi shook her head and said: "I don't know."

"Then...what time does your cold drink shop officially open?"

"At eight o'clock we will be officially open for business. You can come with me outside and help set off firecrackers."

Ten thousand loud pops of firecrackers were arranged into a number '8' shape on the sidewalk in front of their store. Zhang Xixi, Shen Jun'ao and Tang Ziyu sat inside their store feeling nervous yet trying to remain calm but they couldn't hide their excitement from showing on their faces. Every now and then they would look at the clock wondering why time seemed so slow?

Just then a voice came from outside: "Excuse me, are Zhang Xixi and Jia Simiao here?"

"Hmm?" Zhang Xixi jumped up looking out only to see a young man approaching.

He dressed quite tastefully wearing an inexpensive suit jacket over blue jeans paired with Liberation brand rubber shoes. The most unique feature about him was his hair styled down-the-middle using either gel or something else making it shiny; combined with his thin build along with somewhat sleazy facial expression he didn't look like a good person. If this was during the Anti-Japanese War period he would definitely be considered a traitor.

Zhang Xixi finally realized that it was Li Ergou, who had come out from Lijia Slope. They had known each other for more than ten days and Jia Simiao had saved Old Li's life so he was extremely grateful to him. This morning at the West City fruit wholesale market, he heard that Jia Simiao and Zhang Xixi's cold drink shop opened so he quickly packed up and came over.

Li Ergou was still a bit restrained. When he saw Tang Ziyu and Shen Jun'ao standing next to Zhang Xixi, he became even more nervous. He licked his finger and wiped it on his hair, then took out a wooden comb and small mirror from his pocket to tidy up before laughing nervously: "Um...um, that shop you and Jia Ge started? "

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Tang Ziyu and Shen Jun'ao were both dumbfounded, not understanding how Zhang Xixi knew such an extreme friend.

Zhang Xixi proudly said: "How is it? Not bad right?"

Li Ergou grinned: "More than just not bad, it's really well done."

Zhang Xixi said with a smile: "Come in and sit down. Do you have anything to do today? If not, help me out here for a bit. We'll go out for dinner tonight."

Li Ergou vigorously nodded his head: "I don't have anything to do. I want to help but I don't know how to do anything. I'm afraid of causing trouble."

Zhang Xixi said: "Come in and sit down. There must be something you can do." Then she introduced him to Tang Ziyu and Shen Jun'ao who were very generous; Shen Jun'ao even reached out his hand for Li Ergou to shake hands with him which made Li Ergou very nervous - so much so that sweat dripped from his forehead as he rubbed his hand against the pants before carefully shaking hands with Shen Jun’ao while stuttering “You…you guys are friends of XiXi & Jia Ge which makes us friends too! If there’s anything I can help with just say the word.”

This person is extraordinary!

Shen Jun’ao was a criminal investigator who had studied psychology; through someone's thinking or expression etc., he could generally judge what kind of person they were. Of course, Jia Simiao was an exception; that guy wasn't human. Looking at Li Ergou being very nervous, it wasn't a pretense - he really was nervous. Having lived in Lijia Gully for so many years and then coming to the city to sell watermelons, wherever he went no one would look him straight in the eye and he couldn’t even muster up the courage to touch Wang Guawu who was bathing next door.

However, this person's mentality is very strong.

Not because of anything else but because of something he said: if there’s anything I can help with just say the word. For someone like him struggling at the bottom rung of society, there isn’t any sense of inferiority whatsoever. In his heart, subconsciously it's only him helping others rather than others helping him. As for Jia Simiao? Saving his father was purely coincidental; Li Ergou didn't know how to treat illnesses so when faced with such situations anyone would be helpless.

Tang Ziyu didn't care about all that and asked: "Your name is Li Ergou? That name is really interesting! Why did your dad give you this name?"

"Um...when my mother gave birth to me that year we had two dogs at home so they named me Second Dog."

Li Ergou sat opposite her feeling restrained wanting to sneak a peek but not daring too which made Tang Ziyu find it funny and wanted to tease him more. She smiled and asked: "Ergou, how old are you this year? Do you have a girlfriend?"

"I'm twenty-two years old and don't have a girlfriend."

"So what kind of girl do you want?"

"This...I think I should marry someone pretty like both you and XiXi who are both beautiful - much more beautiful than Wang Guawu when she was young. But my favorite is...hey, this Miss Shen..."

"Oh?" Zhang Xixi also became interested and asked: "Why do you want to marry someone like Jun'ao?"

A woman with big breasts and a big butt can give birth to sons."

"Ah? Haha."

Zhang Xixi and Tang Ziyu laughed until tears were streaming down their faces, making Shen Junao embarrassed. Her face turned red as she glared fiercely at Li Ergou, scaring him into not daring to say anything more.

At this moment, Jia Simiao pushed open the door of the lounge and walked out. He greeted Li Ergou and smiled, "What are you laughing about? This isn't funny."

"Tiger said that women like Junao can give birth to sons..."

Shen Junao knocked on her forehead and scolded her angrily, "You little brat! How dare you talk nonsense? Do you believe I'll tear your mouth apart?"

Jia Simiao stared at Shen Junao for a while before nodding his head. "I think what Tiger said makes sense."

"Jia Simiao, do you want to die?"

Shen Junao pounced directly at Jia Simiao but he quickly dodged away. He laughed and said, "Alright alright, I was just joking. Xixi it's 8 o'clock now."

Zhang Xixi looked at the clock on the wall and shouted: "Oh my god! Our cold drink shop should be opening!"

Jia Simiao lit up a cigarette while Zhang Xixi took two puffs which made her cough but she still ran onto the street telling everyone to be careful because she was going to set off firecrackers.

Bang bang! The sound of firecrackers echoed through the air as Xixi Cold Drink Shop finally opened for business.