Chapter 50 Soft Rice

Before returning to the classroom from the cafeteria at noon, Jiang Nian habitually bought a bottle of drink. Feeling awkward drinking alone, he bought a box of fruit milk for Li Qingrong.

That’s right, the versatile fruit milk. This item generally doesn’t go wrong when given to girls.

If it does, then pretend I didn’t say anything.

Li Qingrong looked at the campus scumbag’s signature item handed to her, her eyes slightly lowered.

“Thank you.”

“Mm, no problem.” Jiang Nian didn’t take it to Heart-Nature, and walked towards the teaching building on his own. He casually brought up the mission panel, as he hadn’t had time to look at it carefully during class.

After entering the classroom and sitting down, he had already clarified the content of the System’s mission.

It must be said, this System is truly insidious.

Completing missions requires spending money, but because he is a high school student, he spends less. Some missions are even no-cost, which is why Jiang Nian was able to save a lot of money.

The Jiang Nian in another parallel dimension probably wasn’t so lucky. He probably only had twenty to thirty thousand left in capital. If he only had ten to twenty thousand, he’d probably cry.

Jiang Nian roughly calculated that he had fifty-seven thousand left, all of which was money given by the System. According to the mission requirements, whatever he spent would be refunded three times over.

This also meant that if he spent fifty-seven thousand, he would get one hundred seventy-one thousand RMB.

What kind of money can a high school student spend? Buying the largest bottle of eight-yuan iced red tea. Topping up one hundred yuan at an internet cafe, playing to his heart’s content on a five-yuan rotten machine in the hall.

The noble six-yuan chicken leg rice in the cafeteria, or the five to six-yuan buffet outside the school’s west gate. The most expensive mineral water at the convenience store is seven yuan, and the hand-beaten beef balls at the school gate are ten yuan.

Spending all fifty-seven thousand without a single cent left, tsk, just thinking about it felt good.

He suddenly realized that a Godly Tycoon System like this was truly unreasonable. The impact on a high school student was too great; after completing this mission, he could almost buy a car.

This also greatly tested his self-control. He had to spend money, but couldn’t spend it recklessly. Otherwise, he might lose the capital for the next mission, and ultimately suffer more losses than gains.

What money should be spent and what shouldn’t, in a sense, was also a way to temper his Heart-Nature.

After thinking for a moment, he wrote two lines on a piece of paper and began to list his wish list. Last time he bought shoes for the whole family, this time he would buy clothes, and then consider the family’s fixed expenses.

If there were large fixed expenses, he would pay for them himself. Then he would consider updating home appliances, and save three thousand for his personal budget. Last time, Xu Qianqian treated him to a movie.

Although he loved to freeload, he couldn’t fish without bait.

After roughly listing them, he pulled out the paper and casually put it in his backpack. The specific operations could wait until the holidays in a few days; for now, he’d just freeload for a few days.

Qianqian is the best!

That’s right, Jiang Nian didn’t plan to spend any more money, and his meal card was also running low. He would rely on Xu Qianqian for a few days; after all, he had done this kind of thing before.

He could just pay her back later. No point letting the money flow into the System’s field.

In the afternoon, during physics, chemistry, and biology class, they reviewed materials. The lesson was still dry and boring. A row of people took turns standing at the back, and the ceiling fan creaked and swayed, like a lullaby.

During evening self-study, a group of people secretly snuck out of the classroom and stood in the corridor to watch the sunset.

Li Hua had already emerged from the shadow of the noon sports class and asked enthusiastically.

“What’s your relationship with the class monitor?”

“Classmates.”

Hearing this, Li Hua let out a long sigh of relief.

“Don’t lie to your brother, okay?”

Jiang Nian was still wondering how to solve dinner that afternoon. He definitely wouldn’t find Xu Qianqian after school. Grabbing food in the cafeteria was especially competitive in the afternoon.

At this moment, he glanced at Li Hua and suddenly felt that he could save the triple meal money.

“Do you like her?”

“H-how could that be!” Li Hua’s face instantly turned red, redder than the sunset. “I’m just curious about your relationship, she’s the class monitor after all!”

“If you don’t want me to die, don’t you dare spread rumors everywhere!”

Jiang Nian nodded thoughtfully, and the more he looked at Li Hua, the more he resembled a six-yuan chicken leg rice. He reached out and patted Li Hua’s shoulder, his voice wavering.

“Hua, you wouldn’t want the secret of your crush on the class monitor to be known, would you?”

“You old hag!”

After school in the evening, on the crowded stairs. Old Toad Yu Tongjie walked down with the flow of people, looking dejected. The dignity of a third-year old man was completely gone.

If you’re handsome and gentle, you’re a warm guy. If you’re ugly and gentle, you’re a burning goblin?

Yu Tongjie’s favorite anime character used to be Jiraiya from Naruto, the underdog who became the inheritor of Mount Myōboku and could summon many toads.

He used to identify with Jiraiya, but now he could only identify with the old toad.

Damn it!

Casually looking up, Yu Tongjie saw a familiar figure at the door of the only Olympiad class on the third floor. Jiang Nian was talking to a pretty girl.

Zhang Ningzhi? Doesn’t look like her, who is that?

How could Jiang Nian be so fickle?

What the heck, are you even managing my private life now? In your previous life, you must have been a high-ranking chief eunuch, right?

Jiang Nian also saw Yu Tongjie; idiots always stood out. But to say there was hatred was an exaggeration; between classmates, it was at most a conflict, not a deep-seated grudge.

Turning his head, he asked.

“Xu Qianqian, lend me a hundred yuan.”

“Call me mommy.” Xu Qianqian snorted, annoyed. “If you don’t call me, I won’t…”

“Mommy.”

“You, you…” Xu Qianqian gained a new understanding of Jiang Nian’s shamelessness and said fiercely, “Didn’t you earn a lot of money? Did you spend it all?”

“Don’t you dare gamble, Aunt Li will break your hands if she finds out!”

“No, I plan to buy them some winter clothes.” Jiang Nian never hesitated to lie. “After calculating, all the money I earned last month will be used up.”

“Oh, oh.” Only then did Xu Qianqian relax.

The two walked along the tree-lined path towards the school gate. The dim yellow light fell on the shoulders of the day students going home. In the crowd, two figures, one tall and one short, walked some distance apart.

“Hey, will a hundred be enough?” Xu Qianqian counted on her fingers, carrying her backpack. “There are still ten, twenty-one, two, three, twenty-three days left until the end of the month.”

“Yeah, can you help me out a bit more?”

“Then I’ll have to see how much money I have left. As long as you don’t starve to death, it’s fine.” Xu Qianqian enthusiastically pulled out her phone from her backpack. “My little stash can’t be touched. This month I have eight hundred twenty-six yuan and three cents left.”

Jiang Nian’s eyelids twitched, knowing that this didn’t include the money on her meal card.

“A rich loli! How much is hidden in your little stash?”

“Who’s a loli?” Xu Qianqian was displeased. “Pervert.”

“Anyone shorter than me is.” Jiang Nian had already walked out of the school gate. “Your pocket money lasts longer than my life. If you’re not a rich loli, who is?”

“Hmph, you’re much richer than me, don’t think I don’t know!” Xu Qianqian flipped her ponytail. “I’m not lending it to you. Go find someone else, starve to death.”

“If I starve to death, then I’ll help you watch your room before the first seven days.” Jiang Nian felt no guilt. “When you’re asleep, I’ll hang from the ceiling and watch you.”

Xu Qianqian immediately recoiled, “Go to hell, Jiang Nian!”