Chapter 78 - The Results of Squad Leader Haos Special Training (1/2)

Just who was Qin Fen? He lived his entire life at the lowest social class. He had eaten many a food more disgusting than this. The first mouthful felt disgusting only because he became used to eating the military meals in recent times. This was the only reason why he was a bit unused to it.

He recalled those bleak days of the past, and Qin Fen ate this meal with incomparable happiness. He even felt thanks for this cook and his assistant, for this meal had reminded him the arduous life that he must not ever forget at all times. That stage of his life was his life’s treasure.

He cleaned his plate of the nutritious meal and stood once more before the cook. “Is there more?”

“Are you sure you can keep on eating?”

“Yep! I can eat a bit more for dinner, then go for a bit of exercise.” Qin Fen beamed as he said, “Is there more?”

“Yes, there is….”

Two servings of the nutritious meal. Three servings of the nutritious meal….

The cook’s expression turned from initial shock to that of horror, while the assistant cook had his expression gradually turned from shock into delight then finally ecstasy.

“Hey, master. Do you still remember the bet we made on this one who came in? You lose if he’s able to eat one serving of the nutritious meal. If he’s able to eat two servings, you pay up double. Three servings, triple. Four servings, then….” The assistant cook laughed with pleasure. He was going to win big this time around.

Qin Fen suddenly stopped eating mid-meal. He raised his head to look at the assistant cook. “Can you split half the money you win with me?”

“Split some of the money with you?” The cook’s assistant was very surprised. He had spoken very softly, yet this person, who was engrossed in eating, had actually heard him.

“Yep.” Qin Fen nodded. He wouldn’t let go any opportunity to make money. “I can eat five servings for you, if you agree.”

“Five servings….” The cook’s eyes were practically bulging out from their sockets. “Don’t you wreck your body just for the sake of making money.”

“I won’t.” Qin Fen spoke with the utmost confidence, “Five servings won’t harm my body. Any more than that would be harmful. I know my body well, and I’m not the type of person to kid around with my body.”

The assistant cook studied Qin Fen. He had never seen such a money loving recruit, someone who wasn’t the least bit angry to hear that he was the object of a bet. Instead, Qin Fen was very interested to get in on it. How very strange.

“I’m not splitting the money.” The assistant cook’s was very straightforward as well, “You won’t feel good if you don’t eat till your full, which you won’t if you don’t eat five servings. Why should I split the money with you? I won’t split! The five hundred dollars is mine!”

Qin Fen raised his spoon in silence for a few seconds. He turned his attention to the cook. “Did your bet include the customer vomiting the food from disgust? Did it include this case?”

“Yes!” The cook’s face burst with happiness. He knew what Qin Fen was asking, “If you throw up, he’ll have to pay me five times the original bet. I’ll split half the winning with you, kid, if I win!”

Qin Fen now placed all of his attention on the young assistant cook, “Now what about you?”

The young assistant cook stared blankly at Qin Fen. Had this recruit gone crazy from being poor? There were very few places where one could spend money in this military camp. Why did he look so thirsty for money? Why did he make the situation so serious just to make a few hundred dollars?

“You’re really something!” The young assistant cook sighed heavily, “Then I’ll split half with you as well.”

Qin Fen gently shook his head. He slowly opened his hand and re-clenched his fingers into a fist. He slowly said, “I want it all.”

“What?” The young assistant cook’s voice suddenly went loud, “Are you crazy? Why should I give all my winnings to you?”

Qin Fen laughed. His calm nature didn’t mean that he possessed a slow brain.

He definitely was in no way lacking to be looked upon by geniuses such as Enzo Rota and Lin Liqiang!

Living often just above the poverty line, Qin Fen had an intuition and foresight that was incomparably sharp when it came to money. He ate a mouthful of his nutritious meal before saying, “You can choose to not make any money, or you can choose to lose five hundred dollars. The choice is yours.”

The assistant cook was simply stupefied, while the cook himself had his eyes bloom with a radiance of admiration. This young man’s counter attack was quite sharp and fierce. He cut through to the most crucial spot in an instant.

Qin Fen took another bite of the nutritious meal. His tone was very indifferent as he said, “How long are you going to think about this for?”

His indifferent words possessed no urgency, but an incomparable threat seeped them.

The assistant cook really wanted to go grab a kitchen knife and give Qin Fen a good hacking. His rare chance of making money was actually all going to go towards this cheap fellow.

The assistant cook thought about how Qin Fen had walked out from the gravity chambers, and he thought about how he wasn’t a match for Qin Fen. He nodded in hate, “You’re really something!”

“Give up the money.” Qin Fen extended a hand.

By asking for the money before the meal was finished, the assistant cook didn’t even have the chance to back out of the deal.

The assistant cook could only first put up the five hundred dollars. Qin Fen took out a hundred dollars from among the bills and placed them in the assistant cook’s hand. “I’m the object of the bet. You should be paying me for my labor when you use me to make money. Next time don’t refuse to pay what I am owed. Thank-you very much.”

The assistant cook held the hundred dollars stunned. He gave Qin Fen a very bizarre look. What in the world was going through the mind of this young recruit?

“I know it’s hard to make money, and gambling is also high risk. I know this very well.” Qin Fen grabbed his fourth serving of the nutritious meal and said, “This money is what you should get as the return for your risky investment.”

The cook wasn’t frustrated from losing money. Instead, he looked at Qin Fen with great interest and asked, “Kid, whose soldier are you?”

“Second Squad, First Platoon, Third Company, Second Battalion, Seventy-Fifth Brigade. My squad leader is Squad Leader Hao.”

“So your Old Hao’s soldier~~” The cook smiled in great delight, “No wonder. Such an interesting recruit could only be under the tutelage of those few scum.”