Chapter 339: Campus Scholar System (11)

However, he had no time to go to the Canteen, so before leaving, he gave his meal card to Xie Yang: "Use mine."

"You're not going to the Canteen?"

"Yeah."

He was in a rush, gave a hurried reply, then grabbed his bicycle key and headed straight for the bike shed.

Du Huaiyao turned his head to enlighten Xie Yang: "God Yinian has a part-time job at noon, he usually doesn't eat at school."

"He has a part-time job at noon? Doing what?" Xie Yang asked curiously.

"It seems he delivers meals for one of his students," Du Huaiyao had learned this by chance, "The child he tutors on weekends is extremely picky. The school food is bad, so the kid would rather starve, even starving until they had stomach cramps and fainted from low blood pressure a few times, so the family decided to have lunch delivered. But the parents are busy with business, so they hired an hourly worker to come over and make lunch. The hourly worker has to rush to the next house after finishing theirs and doesn't have time to deliver the meal, so they hired God Yinian to run the errand. It seems he gets 30 for one trip. It doesn't look like much, but the road isn't short; just the round trip takes over forty minutes of cycling."

Xie Yang frowned: "Then what about his own lunch? Does he even have time to eat?"

"I don't know. Every time I ask him, he says he's already eaten. Maybe he just makes do with a couple of steamed buns or mantou bought outside."

As the lunch break was about to end, Xie Yang saw Jiang Yinian hurriedly step into the classroom.

As he sat down, she turned her head and said: "Why are you back so late? The meal I brought you is already cold."

Jiang Yinian was stunned for a moment before he noticed a packed Yangzhou fried rice in the desk cubby.

His Adam's apple bobbed.

His stomach also gave a timely growl.

Before he could say anything to cover his embarrassment, Xie Yang had already naturally turned her head back: "Eat quickly, if you don't eat it now, it really will become cold rice."

"Thank you."

"You're welcome, anyway, it was your own meal card I swiped."

"..."

The first and second periods in the afternoon easily make people sleepy.

Especially in English; as they listened, one student after another propped up their textbooks and slumped down.

Xie Yang couldn't help but yawn as well.

She turned her head to look at Jiang Yinian, who was still listening to the lecture and doing problems with high spirits, demonstrating the ultimate in multitasking.

She couldn't help but sigh: So this is how a Scholar is forged!

Compared to him, she back then was probably a fake Scholar.

"What don't you understand?" Jiang Yinian sensed her gaze and tilted his head to look at her, "Or you can take notes first, and I'll explain it to you after class."

Xie Yang thought for a moment, leaned closer to him, and whispered: "My foundation is poor, there's too much I don't understand. My family is looking for a tutor for me, but I've listened to a few and they aren't very good; it's not as easy to understand as your explanations. Why don't you tutor me?"

Not giving him a chance to speak, Xie Yang continued to lobby: "The gossip mill says your hourly rate for tutoring middle school students outside is fifty; this price is bullying you too much! For a middle school student, especially one facing the high school entrance exam, one-on-one should be at least two hundred to start, right? If you tutor me, I promise not to bully you, and I will definitely pay you the market rate for a high school student. Will you consider it?"

"..."

The more Xie Yang thought about it, the more she felt this was a good idea.

This way, he would have plenty of time to grind Tasks, and she could also use this opportunity to gradually improve her grades. This would avoid scaring her parents by suddenly turning from a poor student into a Scholar.

Once she regained the feeling of being a Scholar and returned to the throne of a Scholar, getting into a 985 university wouldn't be too abrupt. By then, he would be able to get the Ultimate Financial Aid, and she would be able to successfully complete the Sub-system's recovery task. A win-win!

Jiang Yinian stared at her, discovering that her expression was serious and she didn't seem to be joking.

【Hurry and agree! Agree! Host, what are you hesitating for with such a good opportunity?】

The Scholar System couldn't help but urge him.

【Aren't you tutoring students because you're short on money? Now there's such a good part-time job; you can earn more money in the same amount of time, and you can also grind Tasks and earn Financial Aid along the way. It's practically tailor-made for you, Host! Anyone who doesn't agree is a fool!】

【Besides, she's your classmate and your deskmate. If you tutor her, it's disguised as reviewing for yourself. It's like earning someone else's money to review for yourself, how great is that!】

【Compared to those students of yours—who either space out and slack off in class, requiring you to painstakingly explain problems over and over, or act like a servant delivering meals and won't let you teach if you don't—this deskmate of yours is simply a beautiful and kind little fairy, sent specifically to save you!】

【Host, what are you still hesitating about with such a good thing? Hurry and agree! If you don't agree, you're a blockhead and a big idiot!】

"..."

Jiang Yinian's brain ached from the buzzing electronic sound in his head.

He pressed his temples and replied to Xie Yang in a low voice: "Let's have class first, we'll talk after class."

Scholar System: 【Oh my! This System is so mad!】

After class, Xie Yang pushed the exercise sheet handed out in English class toward Jiang Yinian: "Come on, Teacher Jiang, we can start our tutoring plan today."

Jiang Yinian: "..."

Isn't she quite fluent at this?

He thought for a moment and said: "Actually, I feel your foundation is okay; you can catch up with a little effort. Just ask me whenever you don't understand something; there's no need to specifically find time for tutoring."

"But you have to be there for that, aren't you gone when I want to ask you a question at noon?"

"..."

Xie Yang paused, propped her chin on her hand, and said: "Sigh, my parents get such headaches over my studies. For the sake of their health, I've made up my mind to study hard, but my foundation is really too poor..."

"Your foundation isn't considered very poor."

"Whether it's poor or not, don't I know it myself?" Of course she wasn't poor.

"..."

However, the tutoring fee she offered did indeed tempt him.

Honestly, even if she hadn't proposed tutoring, this part-time job of delivering meals to students at noon wouldn't last long.

That student complained every time that he was late delivering the meal and made him go hungry, and had complained to the parents more than once, which led the student's parents to have opinions about him too. They believed that since he had taken this job, he should have delivered the meal as soon as their son finished class, and shouldn't have let their son go hungry.

They had completely forgotten that this errand was something they had strongly requested he take on in the first place.

At the time, he had repeatedly stated that he didn't finish class until 11:50, and it would take at least until 12:30 to cycle to their house to pick up the meal and then deliver it to the student.

At the time, the student's parents said it didn't matter, late was better than the child being picky and not eating lunch. However, as time went on, they forgot the bitterness of not being able to find anyone to deliver the meal back then and started complaining.

"You did this on purpose, didn't you? You intentionally delivered my meal this late?"

When delivering meals to students at noon today, that student shouted at him once again:

"My mom said, if you make me go hungry again, don't even think about teaching my weekend classes, hmph!"

At the time, Jiang Yinian still felt a bit regretful; although this family didn't speak pleasantly, they were quite prompt with payments.

Unlike another family, who usually had a good attitude but played dumb whenever it was time to pay, requiring him to remind them multiple times before they acted as if they had just remembered to settle the bill, and even then, they would try to haggle or round down the total.

Therefore, it was hard for him not to be tempted by Xie Yang's proposal.

With this income, plus the Financial Aid earned from completing Tasks every day, he would be able to take his grandmother to live in the city where the university was located a year from now, regardless of whether he obtained that twenty-million Ultimate Financial Aid or not.