Chapter 50: Soft rice

Before Jiang Nian returned to the classroom from the cafeteria at noon, he habitually bought a bottle of drink. He felt embarrassed to drink it alone, so he bought a box of fruit-grain milk for Li Li Qingrong.

That's right, the all-purpose fruit-grain milk; sending this to a girl basically won't step on a mine.

If I did step on one, pretend I didn't say anything.

Li Li Qingrong looked at the campus toxic guy staple handed to her, her eyes drooping slightly.

"Thank you."

"Yeah, no problem." Jiang Nian didn't take it to heart and walked toward the teaching building on his own. He conveniently pulled up the task panel; 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 task.

I have to say, this system is truly wicked.

Doing tasks requires spending money, and because he is a high school student, he spends less. Some tasks are even cost-free, which is why Jiang Nian has been able to save up quite a bit of money.

The one in the other parallel universe... probably isn't as lucky. He probably only has twenty or thirty thousand left in his principal, and if he only had ten or twenty thousand left, he'd probably be crying.

Jiang Nian roughly calculated that he had fifty-seven thousand left, all of which was money given by the system. According to the task requirements, whatever he spends is directly returned three times over.

This also means that if he spends fifty-seven thousand, he will get one hundred and seventy-one thousand RMB.

What can a high school student spend money on at this age? Buying the largest bottle of eight-yuan iced black tea. Topping up one hundred yuan at an internet cafe, playing to his heart's content on the crappy machines in the lobby for five yuan.

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

Spending all fifty-seven thousand without a cent left—tsk, just thinking about it is comfortable.

He suddenly realized that something like a god-tier system is truly unreasonable. The impact on a high school student is too great; after completing this task, he could almost buy a car.

This also greatly tested his self-control; money must be spent, but it cannot be spent recklessly. Otherwise, it would be easy to lose the principal for the next task, and in the end, it would be a loss that outweighs the gain.

What money should be spent and what shouldn't be spent is, in a sense, also tempering his character.

After thinking about it, 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'd buy clothes, and then consider the family's fixed expenses.

If there are large fixed expenses, he'll pay for them himself. Then he'll consider upgrading home appliances, leave three thousand for his own personal budget, and last time Xu Xu Qianqian treated him to a movie...

Although he quite likes eating soft rice, he can't stop baiting the hook while fishing.

After roughly listing it, he pulled out the paper and casually put it into his school bag. He'll deal with the specific operations when he has a holiday in a few days; for these few days, he'll just make do with eating soft rice.

Xu Qianqian is the best!!

That's right, Jiang Nian doesn't intend to spend any more money. For every yuan spent, he loses three; who can stand that? He'll rely on Xu Xu Qianqian to live for a few days; anyway, it's not like he hasn't done this kind of thing before.

He'll just compensate her later; the fat water won't flow into the system's field.

In the afternoon, physics, chemistry, and biology, reviewing materials, the courses were still dull and boring. A row of people stood in the back in turns, the ceiling fan creaking and swaying, like a lullaby.

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

Li Hua had already walked out of the shadow of the noon physical education class and asked excitedly:

"What's your relationship with the Class Monitor?"

"Classmate relationship."

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

"Don't lie to your brother, oh."

Jiang Nian was still thinking about how to solve the afternoon meal; he definitely wouldn't be able to find Xu Xu Qianqian's shadow after school. Grabbing food in the cafeteria, the competition in the afternoon was particularly fierce.

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

"Do you like her?"

"How... how is that possible!" Li Hua blushed instantly, redder than the sunset. "I'm just curious about your relationship; that's the Class Monitor!"

"If you don't want me to die, don't... go around talking nonsense!"

Jiang Nian nodded thoughtfully, looking at Li Hua more and more like a six-yuan chicken leg rice. He reached out and patted Li Hua on the shoulder, his voice drifting.

"Hua, you wouldn't want the secret of your secret crush on the Class Monitor to be known by others, would you?"

"Your grandma's!"

After school at night, on the crowded stairs, the old toad Yu Tongjie walked down with the crowd, looking dejected. The dignity of an old senior was completely gone.

If you're handsome and gentle, you're a warm man; if you're ugly and gentle, you're a hot goblin?

Melancholy, dark goblin. Cold face, frost goblin. Good figure, strong goblin. If you learn to dress up, you're called a pervert, sleazy to the core.

Yu Tongjie's favorite anime character was Jiraiya from Naruto, a crane-tail counterattack. He became the successor of Mount Myoboku and could summon many toads.

In the past, he identified with Jiraiya; now he identifies with the old toad.

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

Zhang Zhang Ningzhi? Doesn't look like it, who is that?

How is Jiang Nian so unfaithful?

Damn, buddy, are you managing my private life now? In your past life, were you a grand steward with a plaque?

Jiang Nian also saw Yu Tongjie; idiots are always particularly conspicuous. But it couldn't be called hatred; between classmates, it was at most a conflict, with no deep hatred.

Turning back, he asked:

"Xu Xu Qianqian, lend me one hundred yuan."

"Call me Mom." Xu Xu Qianqian hummed, not in a good mood. "If you don't call me, I won't..."

"Mom."

"You... you..." Xu Xu Qianqian had 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 touch gambling or anything like that; Aunt Li will break your hands if she finds out!"

"That's not the case, I plan to buy some clothes for my parents." Jiang Nian never needed a draft to lie. "Let's calculate, all the money I earned last month will have to be spent."

"Oh, oh." Xu Xu Qianqian was relieved.

The two walked along the tree-lined path toward the school gate, the dim yellow lights falling on the shoulders of the commuting students. In the crowd, two figures, one tall and one short, were separated by some distance.

"Hey, won't one hundred be enough?" Xu Xu Qianqian counted her fingers with her school bag on her back. "There are ten, twenty-one, two, three... twenty-five days left until the end of the month."

"Yeah, can you help me out a bit more?"

"Then I have to see how much money is left; as long as you don't starve to death." Xu Xu Qianqian excitedly dug her phone out of her school bag. "The small treasury can't be touched; there are eight hundred and twenty-six yuan and three jiao left this month."

Jiang Nian's eyelids twitched, knowing that this didn't include the money in the meal card.

"Rich loli! How much did you hide in your small treasury?"

"Who is a loli?" Xu Xu Qianqian was dissatisfied. "Pervert."

"Do you want me to report your height?" Jiang Nian had already walked out of the school gate. "Your pocket money is longer than my life; if you're not a rich loli, who is?"

"Hmph, you have more money than me, don't think I don't know!" Xu Xu Qianqian flicked her ponytail. "I'm not lending it to you, find someone else, go starve to death."

"If I starve to death, I'll watch your room for you before the seventh day." Jiang Nian felt no guilt in his heart. "When you fall asleep, I'll hang from the ceiling and watch you."

Xu Xu Qianqian felt a chill instantly. "Get lost!" ===== CHAPTER 51 =====