Chapter 113: The Black Bear Spirit Pulls Out a QR Code!

Chapter 113: The Black Bear Spirit Pulls Out a QR Code!

Zhang Zhao, who worked at the police station, was well-versed in reading people and situations.

He could easily tell that Chu Jiajia initially looked down on Zhang Lin, mistaking him for an ordinary farm employee because he rode a scooter.

While it was understandable for a girl to want a man with good prospects, it was quite another to show disdain and then suddenly act interested when she found out he was wealthy. It made her seem too opportunistic.

At the very least, she could have been a bit more subtle.

Zhang Zhao quickly changed the subject, turning to Zhao Jie and saying, "Now that we have the tickets, let's head into the farm and have some fun!"

He didn't want his girlfriend introducing Zhang Lin to Chu Jiajia.

If Chu Jiajia managed to get Zhang Lin's contact information and seduce him, that would be on her own merit.

After all, Chu Jiajia was indeed attractive, with a fantastic figure that turned heads.

Zhao Jie clearly understood her boyfriend's intentions and pretended not to hear Chu Jiajia's comments. She turned to her two friends and said, "Wu Ling, Jiajia, let's go into the farm. Since the Black Bear Spirit's fruit stand isn't open yet, we can start by visiting the flower fields!"

Chu Jiajia knew Zhao Jie had heard her but was now pretending otherwise. This made her even more irritated, feeling that her friend had only mentioned introducing her to Zhang Lin to mock her.

However, the thought of Zhang Lin being the owner of the Lishan Farm made her heart race. He was so young, and if she could win his favor, not only would she have a life of luxury, but she could also boast about being the lady of the Lishan Farm, a status that would give her considerable prestige in You City.

So, despite her irritation, she decided to be patient.

When they reached the service center, she was too preoccupied to appreciate the well-designed building. She tugged at Zhao Jie's sleeve and said, "Xiaojie, we've known each other for so long. Introduce me to Zhang Lin, will you? If it works out, we'll still be family."

Zhao Jie found herself in a difficult position when Chu Jiajia brought up the subject again. She glanced at her boyfriend, who clearly didn't want her involved.

Just then, a voice saved her, "Zhang Zhao, Xiaojie, you're here to visit the farm too?"

"Father, what are you doing here?" Zhang Zhao asked, surprised.

The voice belonged to Zhang He.

Zhao Jie quickly greeted him respectfully, "Uncle, hello!"

"Ah, hello!" Zhang Zhao responded happily, knowing that if his son and the girl could get along, she would be his future daughter-in-law.

"Father, what are you doing here?" Zhang Zhao asked curiously.

"Xiaolin ordered a lot of work uniforms from me, so I'm delivering a batch to him!" Zhang Zhao explained. He then noticed a group of tourists laughing and taking photos with a young girl.

Fu Yao, having finished with the enthusiastic tourists, approached Zhang Zhao with a receipt. "Uncle, here's your receipt!"

She tried to be as polite as possible.

Technically, it wasn't her job to deliver the receipt, but she couldn't refuse when the kind uncle invited her to help count the uniforms delivered to his mother.

Naturally, after the counting was done, it fell to her to deliver the receipt.

She couldn't let the uncle's mother do it, could she?

"Fu Yao, thank you for your help," Zhang He said with a smile, then introduced her to the others, "Zhang Zhao, let me introduce you to Fu Yao, Zhang Lin's girlfriend!"

"..." Fu Yao was clearly caught off guard by the sudden introduction and felt a bit embarrassed.

She and the uncle weren't in that kind of relationship, yet she was being introduced as Zhang Lin's girlfriend to his family.

This...

Zhang Zhao and the others instinctively looked at Fu Yao.

They had some idea who she was, knowing she had been the farm's initial model and seemed quite young.

What a surprise!

Feeling the attention, Fu Yao became even more uncomfortable. Fortunately, a phone call saved her. She answered it, said a quick goodbye, and hurried off.

"Zhang Zhao, have a good time with Xiaojie. I need to get back to the factory!" Zhang He said to his son before leaving.

"Jiajia, see, Zhang Lin has a girlfriend," Zhao Jie said, feeling a bit relieved.

This way, she could handle her friend without upsetting her boyfriend.

But Chu Jiajia didn't care at all. She said urgently, "Xiaojie, she's just his girlfriend, not his wife. She's just younger than me!"

She rarely had the chance to meet such a young and successful man. She wasn't about to let this opportunity slip away easily.

She believed she had the means to win him over. As long as she could create opportunities to interact with him, she was confident that her charm and beauty would secure her a place in his life.

"But I don't have Zhang Lin's contact information or WeChat!" Zhao Jie finally gave in, trying to placate her friend.

WeChat, yes, but she couldn't give it to her in front of her boyfriend; it would upset him.

If this friend had a bit more patience and asked privately, she might have given it to her in secret!

"Fine, then." Chu Jiajia's face fell, and she said, "I'm not feeling well, I need to go back."

Before she left, she turned to Wu Ling and said, "Wu Ling, let's go back!"

Wu Ling, feeling awkward, replied, "Jiajia, you know I don't get much time off."

"You knew me first!" Chu Jiajia suddenly blurted out.

The situation became even more awkward.

It felt like she was forcing Wu Ling to choose sides.

Wu Ling decided to stay silent.

She hadn't seen this side of her friend before. Was she having a brain freeze today?

The key was that Zhao Jie's current boyfriend came from a good family, and his cousin was the owner of Liyuan Farm. The connections and resources were clearly better than Chu Jiajia's, whose parents were farmers and who had no significant education or skills.

They weren't kids anymore; how could she treat Zhao Jie this way?

They were adults; who cared who they met first?

"Fine, don't regret it!" Chu Jiajia clearly grew more upset, said this, and then turned to leave.

The scene left both Wu Ling and Zhao Jie feeling very awkward.

Especially Zhao Jie, who had rarely brought her friend and boyfriend out together. This was really embarrassing.

"Xiaojie, Wu Ling, do you want some fruit? The fruit from Zhang Lin's farm is really delicious." Zhang Zhao quickly changed the subject, trying to avoid letting this ruin their mood for the rest of the trip.

He worked at the police station and was used to such situations. It was just a fight between friends.

In the cases they handled, such arguments between friends were common, with all sorts of reasons.

He had even seen a pair of friends argue over who should drink the cream first, leading to a fight that ended up at the police station.

Neither Zhao Jie nor Wu Ling had the mood for fruit anymore.

At that moment, a conversation nearby caught their attention.

"The farm just posted a video. The Black Bear Spirit is already open for business. Let's go check it out!"

"It seems to be behind the office center. Do you know where that is?"

Zhao Jie, who had come for this, quickly composed herself and said, "Let's go check it out!"

The three of them followed the signs toward the office center.

Inside the office center, they saw a new sign pointing to the Black Bear Spirit fruit stand.

"It's this way," Zhao Jie said.

They immediately walked in and found that many tourists had already gathered. It seemed the sight of the Black Bear Spirit in a monk's robe, leading a white dragon horse, had attracted a lot of attention.

At the fruit stand, they saw several bags of fruit neatly arranged, and a crowd of people discussing the anime-style drawings posted around the stand.

"This Liyuan Farm is really something! These drawings are hilarious!"

"Haha, the drawings make perfect sense!"

"..."

Zhang Zhao, Zhao Jie, and Wu Ling also moved closer to see the drawings clearly.

They saw a Black Bear Spirit holding a monk's robe in one hand and leading a white dragon horse in the other, running desperately with wind and fire wheels under his feet. Behind him, Sun Wukong, Zhu Bajie, Sha Wujing, and Nezha were chasing him with weapons, and far behind them was Tang Sanzang, with a speech bubble above his head saying, "Give me back my robe, give me back my white dragon horse!"

The drawings were vivid and humorous, clearly showing that the Black Bear Spirit had stolen the robe and the white dragon horse from Tang Sanzang.

However, everyone noticed a problem: the fruit stand was set up, but the bear wasn't there!

Without the bear, calling it the Black Bear Spirit fruit stand and posting anime drawings wasn't just like those tourist attractions that treated visitors like fools?

Many tourists complained.

"Where's the bear? I came to see the Black Bear Spirit, not a fruit stand."

"I came all the way here just to see a fruit stand and some drawings?"

"Liyuan Farm, please be reasonable. I have a good impression of you, don't ruin it!"

"Exactly, don't ruin it!"

"..."

Just as the tourists were grumbling, a familiar BGM started playing, making the 90s generation feel a surge of nostalgia. It was the music from Journey to the West when the Black Bear Spirit appeared.

Then, a playful voice echoed:

"Who's there? Oh, it's the stable boy! Hahaha, a mere stable boy for the Jade Emperor!"

"I took the robe, and I dare you to take it back!"

The lines confirmed it: it was the Black Bear Spirit mocking Sun Wukong, just like in the original Journey to the West.

At that moment, all the tourists saw a door behind the fruit stand suddenly open, and two elaborately dressed and rather cute fairy girls ran out.

These two fairy girls were none other than the animal keepers Yuan Bingbing and Lin Lele, who were cosplaying. The two girls had a natural talent for performance; as soon as they came out, they stood at the door and loudly announced, "We welcome the Great Black Wind King and congratulate him on the opening of his fruit stand!"

With their shouts, all the tourists' attention was drawn. They saw a small black bear wearing a monk's robe, one hand holding a white horse and the other holding a large sign, slide out from behind the door on roller skates.

Moreover, it was wearing a hat, which looked like the hat of Tang Monk.

In that instant, all the tourists took out their phones and started taking pictures, their faces filled with excitement.

Before, they had thought the scene in the video was too much of a coincidence, thinking how could a black bear possibly skate so well.

Now, seeing it move its legs and glide so effortlessly, it was incredibly agile and smooth.

Many tourists couldn't help but exclaim:

"This bear is amazing, I don't think I can skate as well as it does!"

"I remember how I couldn't learn to skate no matter how hard I tried, and a bear actually managed to learn."

"You guys are joking, those are wind-fire wheels, do they even need to be learned?"

"..."

At this moment, some tourists were also drawn to the sign the black bear was holding, curious about what it said.

The small black bear, wearing the monk's robe and leading the white horse, approached the gathered tourists and placed the sign in front of them.

The tourists then saw that the sign read:

"I, the Black Bear Spirit, got severely injured in a battle with Sun Wukong and his brothers over the theft of the monk's robe and the White Dragon Horse. Now, unable to transform, I have come to Liyuan Farm to sell fruits to raise funds for medicine to heal my wounds. I hope that any passing tourists will buy some fruit to help me. Once I can transform again, I will surely repay your kindness!"

One tourist read the content aloud, and many burst out laughing.

"This is too funny," Zhao Jie couldn't help but laugh until her sides ached.

It wasn't just the content of the sign that was amusing, but the combination of the black bear wearing a monk's robe and leading a white horse made it impossible not to laugh.

Wu Ling also chimed in, "This makes the story of the Black Bear Spirit stealing the monk's robe much richer."

As the tourists couldn't stop laughing and frantically took pictures, the small black bear had already moved closer and pulled a bungee cord from its shoulder. A small sign popped out from the hat it was wearing, which read: "Do you believe I am the Black Bear Spirit?"

This only made the tourists laugh even harder.

"Is this bear really that smart?" Zhang Zhao couldn't help but be surprised.

Zhao Jie, with a melting smile, moved closer and asked, "They said the Black Bear Spirit is selling fruits, so how does it sell them?"

This sparked more curiosity among the surrounding tourists.

Yes, the Black Bear Spirit needed to sell fruits to raise funds for medicine, but how would it do that?

Yuan Bingbing and Lin Lele also moved forward.

Yuan Bingbing immediately introduced herself, "Ladies and gentlemen, I am Bingbing, a little demon under the Great Black Wind King. This is the Black Wind King's fruit stand. Each bag of fruit costs 10 yuan. You can take them yourself, and the Black Wind King will collect the money from you."

Lin Lele also chimed in, "That's right. The Black Wind King is very honest. For any dishonest tourists, the Black Wind King doesn't mind having a hearty meal!"

This statement only increased the tourists' curiosity.

Was this black bear really smart enough to collect money?

How smart would it have to be?

Everyone was skeptical.

"I want to buy some fruit!" Zhao Jie, curious about how the Black Bear Spirit would collect money, immediately raised her hand and shouted.

At the same time, she took two bags of fruit from the stand. As she wondered how the Black Bear Spirit would collect the money, she saw the black bear skate over to her and do something that left everyone speechless.

It lifted the monk's robe it was wearing, and on the other side, there were multiple WeChat Pay QR codes!

The small black bear revealed the WeChat Pay QR codes and grinned at Zhao Jie, showing its white teeth!

(End of Chapter)

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