Chapter 333: Campus Scholar System (5)

The next morning, Xie Yang was dropped off at the school gate by her driver.

As she got out of the car, she ran into Jiang Yinian, who was riding his bike to school.

He was likely in a rush and riding fast, as fine beads of sweat had formed on his forehead, and his neat buzz cut looked a bit damp.

However, he didn't look at her; after pushing his bicycle through the school gate, he turned left toward the bike shed.

Last night, Xie Yang had spent a sum of points to obtain Jiang Yinian's background check from the Main System.

There were only two people in his family: him and his seventy-year-old grandmother.

When he was in the second grade of elementary school, his father died of a sudden illness, and half a year later, his mother remarried her first love and moved away to live with him.

From then on, the grandmother and grandson relied on each other for survival.

It wasn't that Jiang Nainai didn't have other children; she also had a younger son.

It was just that, shortly after the eldest son passed away, the younger son had his eye on a large apartment and was short a few hundred thousand for the down payment, so he urged her to sell the two-bedroom apartment belonging to the eldest son's family, claiming that since the son had passed away, the mother was entitled to a share of the inheritance. He told her to sell the house and lend him the inheritance she was due for his down payment.

Jiang Nainai refused; if she sold the house, where would her eldest grandson live in the future?

Her Yinian had a miserable enough life as it was—his father died of illness, his mother remarried, and he had to endure so much misfortune at such a young age.

As his grandmother, she didn't have the ability to give him a good life, so how could she take away his only place to settle down?

No matter how much the younger son begged, Jiang Nainai would not agree to sell the eldest son's house.

After that, the younger son acted as if she didn't exist; let alone a few hundred in monthly support, he wouldn't even pay for medical expenses when she was sick.

"Don't you only have eyes for your eldest grandson? Fine! Then go live with your eldest grandson! Don't come looking for me again! I won't give you a single cent!"

Jiang Nainai was so angry she fell ill.

It was also at that time that she was diagnosed with heart failure; if this condition were managed ideally, she could live another ten or twenty years without issue, but it required lifelong medication.

The reimbursement ratio for some of the medicine was very low, and after a month, the cost of the medicine alone was five or six hundred.

Just taking medicine for control was fine, but when the seasons changed or during peak seasons for infectious diseases, if she caught a cold and suffered from severe wheezing and chest tightness, she would have to go to the hospital for auxiliary treatments like oxygen inhalation and nebulization.

For the grandmother and grandson who had no source of income, this was truly adding frost to snow.

Fortunately, Jiang Grandpa had the foresight to worry that his two sons might not be filial in the future, so before he passed away, he secretly left his personal savings to Jiang Nainai, telling her not to tell anyone and not to use it unless absolutely necessary.

Over these years, they had relied entirely on this money to support the two of them.

But this money wasn't much, totaling only around Wanyi, and no matter how frugal they were, it wouldn't last many more years.

Fortunately, Jiang Yinian had been sensible since he was young; in elementary school, Jiang Nainai wouldn't let him run far, so he would pick up scrap to sell for money inside and outside the residential complex.

After entering middle school, he would pick up scrap during his free time, and during winter and summer breaks, he would run to popular tourist spots to peddle low-cost food—selling ice water, popsicles, and iced Sour Plum Soup in the summer, and hot ginger tea, milk tea, and hot fruit tea in the winter.

By the time he graduated from middle school, he was recommended to First High School with a brilliant score that ranked first in the entire district, and in addition to a high scholarship, his tuition and miscellaneous fees for three years were waived.

That summer, many parents in the complex with children in elementary or middle school took turns asking him to tutor their kids.

Compared to running to tourist spots to peddle food during breaks, tutoring in an air-conditioned room was the most cost-effective part-time job.

Moreover, once the results of the tutoring showed, he didn't need to peddle or shout everywhere; other parents would hear the news and come to him.

Five nights a week plus weekends, winter and summer breaks, he was booked solid without a gap.

After browsing through his part-time career over these years, even Xie Yang couldn't help but sigh: He's really hardworking! Harder working than she was when chopping trees in the Disaster Game.

Xie Yang stepped into the classroom almost exactly as the bell rang.

At 6:50, back at the International High School, she would still be fast asleep in the dormitory.

The daily schedule at Deya International High School was modeled after foreign high schools, with classes starting at 8:30 and ending at 4:30, no evening self-study, and a long stretch of free time for sports activities after school.

Even with such a relaxed schedule, the original owner rarely arrived at the classroom on time because she stayed up late playing games and couldn't get up in the morning.

So much so that it was difficult for Xie Yang's biological clock to adjust all at once.

Unable to sleep at night and not getting enough sleep in the morning, Xie Yang—the health expert who had always had a regular schedule like a veteran Cadre—had one day experienced the hardship of being someone who struggled to get out of bed.

She yawned, carried her schoolbag, and lazily walked to her seat, looking like she hadn't woken up yet.

Jiang Yinian had entered the school gate at the same time as her, yet he had already finished a specialized test paper and was currently reciting a classical Chinese text from memory...

Xie Yang: "..."

Good grief! He's really hardworking!

In reality, Jiang Yinian was grinding the daily Tasks issued by the Scholar system:

【Ding! Classical Chinese recitation completed, reward has been credited!】

【Ding! English vocabulary dictation completed, reward has been credited!】

【Ding! English text recitation completed, reward has been credited!】

【Ding! Physics specialized test paper completed, reward has been credited!】

【Ding! Chemical equation dictation completed, reward has been credited!】

【Ding!...】

Before morning self-study was even over, Jiang Yinian had finished today's study Tasks, with a total of 570 in Financial Aid credited.

The Strongest Scholar System fell into a crash.

After restarting—

【Ding! Given that the Host is completing Tasks too quickly, which does not fit the "underachiever comeback" track, a suitable track is now being re-planned for the Host, and the main Task will be adjusted.】

【Ding! Main Task now issued: Please tutor an underachiever who does not love studying into an all-around 985 Scholar; completion reward is 10 million in Financial Aid.】

"???"

Jiang Yinian's pitch-black eyes, like the night sky, had a moment of blankness.

When he came to his senses, the Scholar system had already issued him a series of Tasks, all revolving around... his new deskmate next to him.

【Task 1: Supervise the underachiever deskmate to recite a classical Chinese text, completion reward 20 in Financial Aid (Pending)】

【Task 2: Supervise the underachiever classmate to recite 20 English words, completion reward 30 in Financial Aid (Pending)】

【Task 3: Supervise the underachiever classmate to recite an English text, completion reward 50 in Financial Aid (Pending)】

【Task 4: Supervise a slacker classmate in reciting 20 chemical equations, reward upon completion: 50 yuan Financial Aid (Pending)】

【Task 5: Help the slacker deskmate solve a major math problem, reward upon completion: 100 yuan Financial Aid (Pending)】

【Task 6: Help the slacker deskmate solve a major physics problem, reward upon completion: 100 yuan Financial Aid (Pending)】

【Task 7: Help a slacker classmate correct a newly taken exam paper, reward upon completion: 100 yuan Financial Aid (Pending)】

【Task 8: ……】

【Task 9: ……】

【Task 10: ……】

【Ding! Today's Daily Learning Task has been released. Complete all for double the Financial Aid reward; failure or giving up results in a 3-second electric shock.】

"……"

Jiang Yinian was first dazzled by the recurring phrase "slacker deskmate," and after seeing the content clearly, he laughed in anger.

It was one thing that the easy rewards had drifted away from him and the task difficulty had increased significantly, but it even came up with an electric shock punishment?

This extraterrestrial product had quite a few tricks up its sleeve.

The Scholar System expressed that it felt very wronged: it had already tried its best to arrange a track suitable for its Host.