After playing with the Deep Blue Baby for two weeks, Jiang Nian roughly figured out so rules.
Small money, skill, slightly larger money, skill.
If you insert them into a 38-year-old Jiang Nian from another ti and space, these things are like carrots.
They can’t fill you up nor let you starve, requiring constant exertion of subjective initiative.
It’s not extrely simple; it’s just that compared to going to work, the system is more cost-effective, and indeed, the system continuously motivates 38-year-old Jiang Nian to make a coback.
However, when the system falls on Jiang Nian, the carrot becos a state banquet.
Tasks are advantageous everywhere, the money can’t possibly be spent.
All he can say is, praise the Deep Blue Baby.
After a nap.
Waking up groggily, Jiang Nian made the most of his ti by doing two sets of papers, one in math and one in physics. Both subjects were his weak points and couldn’t be ignored.
Being in the third year of high school, with the foundation covered, it’s really hard not to work hard.
Not going to bars or dance clubs, at least pursue a love for shake-shake.
Life, isn’t the aning of living all about striving?
The pri of youth is exactly the ti for passionate struggle.
Sleep? There’ll be plenty of ti to sleep after you’re dead!
....
Buzzzz!!!
Beside a dimly-lit desk, the "corpse"—Jiang Nian lay asleep peacefully on the table. Awakened by the urgent ringing of his phone, he groggily got up.
"Shit, just finished a paper, why is it byd almost dark?"
Buzzz, the phone on the desk kept ringing, the screen’s light piercingly bright.
The call was from Qianqian, Jiang Nian was startled for a mont. He rembered he had agreed to et Xu Qianqian at six to go grocery shopping; a sudden glance at the ti showed it was already 5:40.
With a sigh of relief, he answered the call.
"Hello?"
"Are we going or not?" Xu Qianqian said resentfully.
"We’re going, we’re going. I just got caught up writing papers and forgot the ti." Jiang Nian got straight up from the chair, rubbed his hair on his forehead with his hand, and rushed out of the room.
"My bad, my bad, got too engrossed in solving the problems."
Xu Qianqian’s voice ca through the phone, slightly relieved, "Alright then, knock on my door once you’re ready."
Hurriedly leaving, at the mont of holding onto the doorknob, he suddenly paused for a brief mont. He quickly glanced around the room, confirming everything before closing the door with a bang.
Jiang Nian hurried past the living room, which was illuminated by only one yellow light.
"Mom, I’m riding out to have so fun!"
"Ride slowly."
"Got it."
Jiang Nian grabbed the keys and headed out the door, ready to knock on the door opposite. Before he could knock, Xu Qianqian ca out fully dressed, unusually wearing a dark brown plaid long skirt with little white shoes.
The upper body was a stark white inner shirt paired with a green woolen sweater, making her look both obedient and gentle.
Of course, Jiang Nian was only distracted for a second.
"You look quite nice in this outfit, not that you don’t look good normally. Let’s just say each has its own style; this set looks three percent better than usual."
Xu Qianqian opened her mouth but couldn’t say a word. She thought to herself that Jiang Nian must have been punched often for his loose mouth; how can he speak with so many layers?
"Thanks for the complint."
Jiang Nian shook the keys in his hand, "Get on the bike."
On South Second Street, the electric bike wove through the road.
Jiang Nian rode all the way, chattering all the way. He hated drivers when cycling and cursed all the way, Xu Qianqian told him to stop cursing.
He had his reasons, "The drivers are probably cursing too, so I’m not losing by cursing back."
"Can’t you be normal? You swear every day," Xu Qianqian hadn’t finished her sentence when a car suddenly swerved over, scaring her into a scream.
Jiang Nian stayed silent, and Xu Qianqian was also silent.
After a long ti, she couldn’t help it, "Are you not going to curse at all?"
"Didn’t you dislike my foul language?" Jiang Nian flatly said, "Well, what’s wrong with cursing? At least I feel clean inside after swearing it out."
The night breeze blew, Xu Qianqian felt a bit embarrassed.
"Where do you get such twisted reasoning? But I do agree that the driver just now was indeed...."
Jiang Nian casually finished the sentence, "an idiot."
Xu Qianqian blushed, "A little bit."
The entrance of the new supermarket was crowded with electric bikes. Jiang Nian parked in the gaps, turned off the keys in one fluid motion, and turned to et Xu Qianqian at the bustling supermarket entrance.
It was the opening day, too many people; they squeezed their way through for a long ti.
To save resources, they shared one shopping cart.
With a budget of four hundred, they split it evenly. Each had to keep track of expenses to avoid using up the other’s quota.
"Do you have enough money?" Xu Qianqian asked worriedly, "Don’t strain yourself to be generous, I still have so money left...."
"I have enough, I could buy dozens of truckloads of snacks."
"Blowhard you are."
While Xu Qianqian was calculating how much to spend on chips, she turned and found Jiang Nian was gone. After walking around, she found him playing with rice in the grains section with a scoop.
Really, do all boys act this childish?!
"What are you doing?" Xu Qianqian stood behind him.
"These mung beans, oh, so smooth!" Jiang Nian, like a pervert, poked at the mung beans with the scoop, then poked at the neighboring northeast rice.
"This rice, so smooth, too."
Xu Qianqian was speechless, "You rembered the post-positive adjectives well, but your tone is really perverted!"
Roaming through the snack aisle.
"Spend one hundred and fifty to get a lucky draw, so we’ll pay separately." Xu Qianqian pinched the bag of chips to make sure it wasn’t leaking and tossed it into the cart.
The supermarket’s snacks weren’t cost-effective, but there were various promotional offers for the opening. In comparison, the prices of the sa kind were even cheaper than those in snack shops.
However, only so snacks were relatively cheaper, requiring pre-made strategies.
"There’s an eight off thirty discount on chips, unfortunately, I don’t eat them." Jiang Nian turned his eyes to the fruit section; buying a waterlon was asking for death, as October waterlons were more expensive than his life.
He picked little pastries, along with a box of the popular college jerk’s single item fruit milk. He took a dozen cans of Coke and Sprite, and ran to the deli section to get so spicy duck feet.
Returning to the fruit milk section, he found Xu Qianqian had already marked things out, so he just copied her "howork." In the end, they managed to reach four hundred, grabbed an abandoned cart to separate the checkout.
"Jiang Nian, what did you win in the draw?"
"Tsk, a Red Bull." Jiang Nian carried the heavy shopping bags on one end, Xu Qianqian on the other, just needing to get to the electric bike.
"What about you, what did you win?"
"A cutting board, but we don’t need it at ho, you can use it at your place." Xu Qianqian shoved a bamboo cutting board into his hand, "You..."
Before she finished speaking, Xu Qianqian suddenly felt the weight on her side mysteriously start to increase, her face changed instantly.
"Jiang Nian, are you even a man!"
"Huh? Does this hurt you?" Jiang Nian silently pulled up the drooping shopping bag, "I figured, you ntioned wanting to lose weight."
The snack bag was very heavy as the two of them carried it upstairs.
Xu Qianqian couldn’t carry it any longer, resting at the last flight of stairs. The motion sensor lights occasionally lit up, and fine beads of sweat seeped from her forehead like a layer of warm honey.
Jiang Nian wasn’t even slightly out of breath, leaning against the wall, looking at her with a smile.
She knew Jiang Nian was doing it on purpose, preferring to wait rather than help her!
But there’s no need, I, Xu Qianqian, have always acted on my own, never needing help from others!
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