Chapter 20
The next day, Yunmian was still obsessed with the naming rights for her dog.
While her mother was cooking, she put the three little dogs into a big rice bag, locked them up to prevent them from running around, and then enthusiastically discussed with Uncle System what names to give each dog.
"This one has white fur, and is called Cloud, because it is as white as the clouds in the sky. It looks so delicious!"
"This furry one is called... Mud! It's as gray as the mud I rolled in when I first came here. It's impossible to wash it clean."
"This one looks pretty good, and it's really fierce. It always likes to bite the ears of Cloud and Mud! How about asking it to bite their ears?!"
The system listened to her increasingly outrageous names, and as the little girl's eyes sparkled with anticipation, it replied dryly, "...I think, why don't you ask your mother to come?"
Yun Mian puffed up her cheeks and put her hands on her hips: "Uncle System, you are so biased, do you want to change my mother to be the host?!"
The system remained silent with a guilty conscience.
Although I think so, you shouldn't always say such big truths. It will affect the relationship between the system and the host.
Silence means acquiescence. Yunmian felt that she had been greatly hurt. She snorted angrily and did not even give the puppy a name. She ran to the kitchen and complained to her mother!
system:"……"
Yun Jin was so busy that she could only free up one hand to pat her daughter on the head perfunctorily: "Okay, okay, okay, okay, mommy gets it. It's really too much. Mian Mian, go play with the dog and don't come to the kitchen, be good."
The kid who reported the incident was kicked out again without knowing why.
Yunmian: “……!”
I was so angry that I put my hands on my hips.
However, after finishing her meal, Yun Mian tried her best and after much pestering, she finally won the right to name one third of the puppies.
"The gray one will be called Pingping, the white one will be called Anan, and you can give the remaining one any fancy name you want." Yun Jin decided the lifelong events of the two dogs in a casual manner. The remaining one will be used to amuse the child, and she only hopes that the little girl will stop crying and rolling on the ground covered in dust.
Yun Mian smiled happily with her dirty little face showing her white teeth. Her black and white eyes stared at the remaining fierce little dog as if she was looking at a treasure. After staring at it for a long time, she cleared her throat and announced loudly: "From today on, you are called Little Gray Wolf!"
In the dream when she was unconscious, her mother told her the story of the scary big bad wolf. However, the dog is too small now, so she can only be called Little Bad Wolf for now, and change the name when it grows up.
"..." After waiting for a long time and thinking that she would give a name, Yun Jin and the system fell silent.
On the contrary, the little gray wolf seemed to be very satisfied with his name. After Yunmian finished speaking, he raised his head and cooperated in a very human way: "Woof! Awooo~"
Laba Festival comes soon after winter. As the saying goes, the New Year comes after Laba Festival. This is also the first New Year that Yunmian has celebrated since coming to this world.
Early in the morning, her mother pulled her out of bed, put on a festive red cotton jacket that she had bought in the county town two days ago, and then sent her to the commune to buy some fruit candies to sweeten her mouth.
This is also the first thing Yunmian did during the Chinese New Year in my memory.
Because they had no relatives in the world to visit and wish each other a happy new year, and Yunmian was not like other children who could receive red envelopes of blessings from their elders, her mother would put a few dimes in her pocket on the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year every year, and she would go to the commune to buy some candies to sweeten her mouth, meaning that she would only eat sweet things and not bitter things in the new year.
"Ping'an, little gray wolf, stop eating, let's go buy some candy!" Yun Mian put on her shoes and went to get the three dogs' food bowls. She squinted her eyes and watched the dogs anxiously gathering around her feet, barking and wagging their tails.
Sometimes the system really feels that its host might be born in the year of the dog... She has nothing to do with anything that humans do!
"Yunmian! When I count to three, you put the dog bowl down!" Yunjin was almost knocked over by her daughter in the morning.
Amid her mother's rising murderous anger, Yun Mian shrank back, threw the dog bowl away, picked up a dog and ran out. The whole action was done in one go and was so skillful that people who didn't know her would have thought she was a dog thief.
Even after running out of the yard, Yunmian could still hear her mother's piercing roar behind her.
She stopped in the thick snow, looked down at the puppy she had "stolen", and her eyes lit up when she saw it clearly.
"Little Gray Wolf!" She touched the little gray wolf's plump belly, bent down and put it down, but did not move forward.
The system squatted on her shoulder as if it was used to it, and waited with her.
Sure enough, within three seconds, two chubby little dogs crawled out from the yard and pounced on the little gray wolf from a distance as if they had seen their own family.
The three puppies are complete.
Yunmian went to the commune to buy candy with his three little followers in a threatening manner.
The uncles, aunts, grandparents who passed by would all joke with the four little ones when they saw them. If Yunmian said something auspicious like "Happy New Year" or "May you make a fortune", she would get a handful of fried peanuts or the cheapest candy sold in the commune in the next second.
Yunmian didn't eat alone. After peeling the fried peanuts, she squatted in the snow and happily shared them with the three puppies.
"Pingping, don't snatch An'an's peanuts, I still have some in my pocket!"
"An An, don't push your own into the little wolf's mouth! How can a dog be so partial?"
"Little Gray Wolf, don't bite my hand! Your peanuts are on the ground, this is my hand!!"
"Stop yelling, stop yelling. I need to take some peanuts back home for mom to eat. The rest are mine. You guys don't have any left. Jump up and bite me if you dare. You naughty An An, don't bite my shoes!!"
At first, Zhao Xiaoli didn't recognize who the child squatting there in round clothes like a red dumpling was. But as she got closer and heard the familiar mumbling, Zhao Xiaoli felt mixed up and wanted to sigh.
Why does Yunmian even bully dogs? !
The little gray wolf was the most alert. When Zhao Xiaoli just approached, it stared at her vigilantly and barked twice in a threatening manner. The little dog raised its head in the snow, with a fierce look in its eyes.
Yun Mian turned around and was a little surprised when she saw Zhao Xiaoli. She stood up and trotted over to her, wrinkling her face and complaining, "Why don't you come to play with me? I asked Ping Ping An and Little Gray Wolf to send you a letter, but you didn't reply to any of them! Don't you want to be friends with me anymore?!"
When she asked the last question, her tone was extremely fierce, as fierce as the dog at her feet that was staring at people with its head tilted up.
Zhao Xiaoli was filled with questions: "What letter? Who is Ping Ping An An? Who is Little Gray Wolf?"
"That's them!" Yun Mian pointed to the ground.
Among the three puppies that were named, one ran too fast and was buried in the snow and was struggling desperately, another one was foolishly chasing and biting its own tail for fun, and the last one was still looking up and staring at Zhao Xiaoli fiercely, trying to intimidate her.
Zhao Xiaoli: “…”
After five full seconds of silence, Zhao Xiaoli asked with a smile, "Are you sure your dog really delivered the letter to me?"
Yun Mian thought for a moment, and then secretly asked the system under her gaze, which suddenly seemed more confident than hers: "Uncle System, did the dogs deliver the letter?"
The system cleared its throat like Yunmian did, and answered in a clear voice, "No, they took it out and tore it apart for fun, and finally the whole thing ended up in the dog's stomach."
Yunmian leaned back in shock: "Then why didn't you tell me?!"
"Because I think it makes no difference whether your letter is delivered or not." The system replied slowly.
In other words, it is better not to deliver it than to deliver it.
After all, the protagonist of this world does not have the special skill to identify ghost paintings. If it was not around when Yun Mian was writing, it would not be able to understand what world-class confidential information she wanted to convey after looking at the paper full of strange ghost things.
“……”This time it was Yunmian who felt guilty.
Facing Zhao Xiaoli's questioning gaze, Yun Mian clenched her fingers nervously and argued softly: "But, but why don't you come and play with me?"
I can no longer be confident and self-righteous, and I even feel a little bit cowardly.
Zhao Xiaoli stared at her for a moment, lowered her head, took out a piece of candy from her pocket and handed it to her: "Here, I'll give it to you."
After Yunmian put the candy into her mouth, Zhao Xiaoli leaned closer with her hands behind her back and asked, "Now that you've eaten my candy, can you still be my good friend?"
Yunmian: “…”
Mom is right, you should be soft-hearted when you eat someone’s food!
The little girl nodded slowly with her cheeks bulging with candy, but this time she still remembered the rules: "Then you have to come play with me in the future, otherwise I will only be friends with dogs!"
The threat was quite strong. Zhao Xiaoli didn't want to be reduced to talking to a dog, so she agreed to the condition seriously.
After becoming good friends again, Yunmian happily introduced her three little followers to her. After introducing Ping An An and Little Gray Wolf, she curiously asked, "Do your parents also give you money to buy candy?"
Zhao Xiaoli's expression changed for a moment, and she smiled bitterly and said, "No, I sneaked out."
Although the Zhao family has split up, they are still connected and have to get together to celebrate the New Year on days like today.
But as soon as they got together, these people began to compare in a sarcastic way about who was living a better life after the separation. On the one hand, they were proud of their own good lives and looked down on those who were living poorly, and on the other hand, they said all kinds of sour words about those who were living better. They compared everything from the price of fabric for the new clothes they wore during the New Year to which family had more sons... In short, every aspect could be compared.
Zhao Xiaoli's parents have only one daughter, and she has always been disliked by the other two families and even Zhao Guangcheng and his wife. Now that she has met her parents, they have been trampled into the mud with their words.
It would be fine if her parents could stand up straight, but Zhao Xiaoli looked at her parents' sad faces with cold eyes and knew that what they actually wanted in their hearts was a son.
So after just half an hour, Zhao Xiaoli couldn't stay any longer. She reached out to grab the candy from Zhao Yunbo's hand and slipped out amid his crying.
As for how she would be scolded when she returns, she is now completely barefoot and is not afraid of wearing shoes, so let them do whatever they want.
Zhao Xiaoli didn't expect to meet Yunmian, whom she hadn't seen for a long time, but seeing the little girl's angry look, she generously gave the candy she had snatched from Zhao Yunbo to Yunmian.
Who doesn't eat it? Yunmian can still be her good friend after eating it, it's worth it!
Yunmian didn't quite understand what Zhao Xiaoli was talking about, the family intrigues. She only caught one thing: "Zhao Yunbo is crying?"
Seeing Yunmian's eyes suddenly light up, Zhao Xiaoli's mouth twitched and she nodded helplessly: "You cried so loudly."
Yunmian looked around, and the dog came closer and whispered, "Does he have a lot of candy?"
Zhao Xiaoli's eyelids twitched, and she quickly interrupted her: "Don't think about anything else. Whether it's stealing his candy again or pulling him out and beating him up and then stealing his candy again, it's not okay!"
Ever since Yunmian endured the punches and kicks from the three Zhao brothers and beat Zhao Yunbo until he was bruised and swollen more than two months ago, Third Aunt was so distressed that she wanted to eat the two troublemakers alive. Even Third Aunt's own son, Third Brother, was scolded at home every day. Zhao Xiaoli dared to snatch a candy from Zhao Yunbo at most, but she didn't dare to make trouble with Yunmian.
Yun Mian looked innocent: "...I didn't say I wanted to steal his candy!"
"Then what do you want to do?" Zhao Xiaoli crossed her arms.
"I want to exchange with him." Yun Mian reached out and picked up the little gray wolf, held it in front of Zhao Xiaoli, and said as if offering a treasure: "I will let him touch Ping An An and the little gray wolf. If he touches me, he will give me a candy. I'm sure he will agree!"
What kid doesn’t like dogs? Yunmian likes them, and Zhao Yunbo must like them too!
Zhao Xiaoli: "...No, I've already used this trick before, go and trick other kids."
She just used this trick to coax Zhao Yunbo into giving her the candy by saying that she took him to pet the neighbor's dog. But who knew that the neighbor's dog was not at home today, so Zhao Yunbo failed to pet the dog and lost the candy instead. Now he is still crying. If she does it again, he will definitely not believe it.
"You are so bad!" Yunmian was amazed. "Will you lie to me too? Mom said that children who don't study are the easiest to lie to. If you lie to me, can you tell me in advance?"
Zhao Xiaoli: “…”
Whose family did this stupid kid come from?
She inhaled and exhaled, finally calming down, and asked with a fake smile, "Is there anything about you that's worth me lying to you?"
Even the piece of candy in her mouth was tricked from Zhao Yunbo to coax the child!
The question made sense. Yun Mian put aside her fear of being scammed, put the little gray wolf back on the ground, then grabbed Zhao Xiaoli and ran away.
Zhao Xiaoli, who was caught off guard and had a mouthful of cold wind and snow, took a deep breath again, clenched her fists, and urged herself to stay calm and not to bother with the little brat.
Five minutes later, at the entrance of the commune, two little kids dressed festively and as fair-skinned as dolls in New Year paintings were squatting under the eaves. Three chubby little dogs were squatting at their feet, shouting at the top of their lungs.
"One candy can get you one petting of the puppy!"
"Three candies get you five pets of the puppy!"
"Five candies can let me pick up the puppy and play with it~"
"You can feed peanuts to your dog with just ten candies~!"
"If you touch it, you win. First come, first served. Come and see, come and touch it. There are three dogs waiting to be touched~"
"Woof!"
The girl's crisp voice was particularly clear in the heavy snow, and mixed with the puppy's tender cry, the adults just thought it was interesting, and they smiled and joked about it, but to the children, it was full of mysterious bewitching power, making their eyes unconsciously stick to the puppy, and their steps shifted again and again...
"Can I really touch a puppy for a piece of candy?" Zhao Yunle stood in front of Yunmian, staring at An An, whose fur was the whitest and prettiest, and asked, "Can I touch more? Can I choose which one to touch? I only want to touch this dog. What's his name?"
There were so many questions, but there were many children nearby who were paying close attention. Zhao Xiaoli's eyes turned and she answered before Yunmian: "Sure! The first three people who come to touch the puppies can get two more chances to touch a dog. You can touch any dog you want. Our dogs are very well behaved and won't bite! This little white dog is called An An, and it's looking at you. You are the first place, and now you can touch it three times with just one candy. You'll win if you touch it!"
Zhao Yunle: “!!!”
Is there such a good thing?!
The children watching nearby also became agitated, and came closer one after another to try to occupy the top three spots. Seeing this, Zhao Yunle quickly took out a candy and threw it into Yunmian's arms, then happily touched An An, the puppy who was squatting obediently under the eaves.
With the intensified promotional activities and the positive comments from the children who looked very satisfied after touching the dogs, the three puppies earned a lot of candies for their little owners Yunmian and Zhao Xiaoli with their bodies.
The dog-touching trade continued to be popular until almost noon, when the children who had been out playing were called home by their parents for lunch, and then it gradually became quiet.
Yunmian had a pocket full of candies and she and Zhao Xiaoli huddled together, counting the candies one by one with their heads close together.
"Forty-seven candies in total! We are going to be rich!!" This was the first time Zhao Xiaoli was so excited after her rebirth.
Yun Mian nodded fiercely, and then showed her true nature as a profiteer: "Let's come back in the afternoon. I'll sell the dogs and you sell the candies. This way we can definitely make more money!!"
Zhao Xiaoli's excitement was choked in her throat. She stared at Yunmian's clear eyes for a long time before she stammered, "You are such a good candidate..."
A good candidate for being a profiteer.
She didn't finish her words and Yunmian didn't understand. She was just very happy that she had received a lot of praise, which meant that her method must be useful. So the matter was decided happily!
Due to the complicated situation of the Zhao family, all the candies earned in the morning were put back by Yunmian in his hat.
As soon as she got home, Yunmian couldn't wait to tell her mother about her great achievements this morning. At the end, under her mother's complicated gaze, she sighed a little regretfully: "Zhao Yunbo's candy is really delicious. When will he be willing to spend candy to pet my dog?"
Yun Jin: “…”
She didn't have any special thoughts, but she felt a little sorry for the three dogs who had to earn money to support Yunmian at such a young age.
But Ping'an'an and the little gray wolf didn't feel that they were working hard. As soon as they came back, they still circled around Yunmian and wagged their tails. If Yunmian was willing to give them one more peanut, they would really want to shake their tails off. They were so servile.
Perhaps because she really felt sorry for the dogs, Yun Jin specially added several more pieces of meat and sweet potatoes to the New Year's dinner at noon, and the three little ones ate so happily without even raising their heads.
In the afternoon, Yunmian took the beautiful blue cloth bag specially given to her by her mother, filled with candies, fried peanuts, fried popcorn, fried beans and other snacks, and went to meet Zhao Xiaoli with her three little followers.
As soon as they met, the two girls' opening remarks for the New Year were remarkably consistent: "Did you get beaten when you got home?"
After asking, the two looked at each other tacitly, and laughed happily the next second.
Yunmian puffed out her chest and said proudly, "My mother said that children should not be beaten during the New Year!"
Zhao Xiaoli was not to be outdone: "My grandma said the same thing!"
So the two little girls who were causing trouble before going out successfully escaped.
The system flew behind them and could hear the conversation between the host and the protagonist.
"It would be great if every day was New Year's Day, then I wouldn't have to get beaten anymore!"
"Yes, yes, but tomorrow is Chinese New Year, and it will last until the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. I can still bully Zhao Yunbo for ten more days!"
"Wow!! This is awesome, can you give me some candy?"
"...No, I tried to trick him into giving me a piece of spareribs during dinner, but he complained to his mom. How stingy!"
"Yeah, you're so stingy! I'll save my ribs for you to eat tonight!"
"...That's not necessary, just eat it yourself."
"Well, this is something you don't want..."
System: “…” Is this the strange friendship between children?
Relying on a piece of candy and a piece of pie in the sky? ?
I don't understand the system, and my CPU is about to burn out but I still don't understand what's going on.
It could only watch as its host and the protagonist joined forces, one selling dogs and the other selling candies and snacks, going back and forth all afternoon to make all the New Year's money in the children's pockets.
Don't think that they don't earn much money by doing small things. The system watched helplessly as a child gave the candy in his hand to Yunmian in exchange for the chance to touch the dog three times, then turned around and took out money to buy new candies from Zhao Xiaoli to continue touching the dog, emptying his pockets and telling Yunmian to wait for him until he went back to his grandmother to get some money to continue touching the dog.
The key point is that he was not the only one who did this, but one after another, the children who fell under the attack of the furry little puppy basically could not escape.
Until dark, Yunmian and Zhao Xiaoli earned all the pocket money of all the children in the brigade under their real names, and made an appointment with them to continue tomorrow!
system:"……"
It takes back what it said about buying one and getting one free for binding Yunmian. This is not buy one and get one free, but one is better than six!
From today on, it will no longer say that little Yun Mianmian is a little fool given by her mother!
Originally, it and the two children thought that this was the biggest gain of the day, but Zhao Xiaoli suddenly slipped halfway through the journey and fell. Amid Yun Mian's nervous questioning, she climbed up with a handful of snow and a strange look on her face.
System: “…” The protagonist’s koi luck arrived as expected on the first day of the Lunar New Year, which was really no surprise.
"What is this?" Yun Mian stared at the thing in Zhao Xiaoli's hand curiously.
After shaking off the snow, Zhao Xiaoli looked at the thing in her hand, remained silent for a while, and then slowly replied: "A piece of gold."
A piece of gold weighing nearly half a pound.
Yunmian took a deep breath: "I know! It can be exchanged for a lot of money!!"
Zhao Xiaoli held the gold and sighed, "Yes, it can be exchanged for a lot of money, and it will never depreciate. It's really a great thing."
But the question is: Who would throw a piece of gold on the roadside during the New Year? There is no such rich man in Zhaojiagou who regards gold as dirt!
Zhao Xiaoli knew that that strange good luck had appeared again, and this time it was even more outrageous than last time, as if it was afraid that she would have no money to spend.
But…what decent kid would go out to dig ginseng or pick up gold??!
After listening to Zhao Xiaoli's complaints, Yun Mian tilted her head and stared at the piece of gold. After a long while, she said, "Can a naughty child pick up gold? Then I want to be a naughty child too!"
Zhao Xiaoli: "..." That's not what I meant! !
Zhao Xiaoli shook her head speechlessly. The melancholy in her heart when she just picked up the gold was completely dispelled by Yun Mian's words.
No matter how it came from, how many people dream of being able to exchange their luck for real money? She spent her luck, so she should get some return, right?
As usual, after agreeing with Yunmian that this was a secret that no one could tell, Zhao Xiaoli borrowed Yunmian's blue cloth bag. As the girl repeatedly urged her to return it tomorrow, she walked away briskly.
"Uncle System, why can Zhao Xiaoli always pick up valuable and precious things?" Yun Mian asked in confusion on the way back.
The system thought for a moment and gave an answer: "Because she is the center of a world and the only protagonist in the plot. The whole world will revolve around her in the plot."
Yun Mian was confused by what she heard, and with her limited cultural level she tried to understand that Zhao Xiaoli was the most important person in the world, so the world would give her all the good things.
"That's great~" She couldn't help but sigh with envy: "She has a father, a mother, a brother, and a whole world!"
Not at all like myself.
However, Yun Mian was only envious. She carried An An and walked back in the snow, one step deep and one step shallow. Her clear eyes paid close attention to every step she took, and she did not feel any jealousy or resentment towards the protagonist's treatment.
The system curiously asked her if she would like to be someone like Zhao Xiaoli and exchange lives with her if she could choose, Yun Mian shook her head without hesitation.
"No!" Yun Mian frowned slightly, unable to accept the situation described by the system uncle.
"Why?" The system's curiosity was aroused once again.
"Because you didn't tell me what my mother is like. If I had a different life, would the person who gave birth to me not be my mother? Where is my mother? Will she have another baby? Will she still love me?"
"And even though Zhao Xiaoli is so amazing, she doesn't seem happy..." Yun Mian hugged An An and said firmly, "My mother is the best in the world. I don't want to trade her with Zhao Xiaoli!"
I get angry just thinking about it!
Mom is Mianmian’s mother, she will never exchange it. Even if you give her a lot of ginseng and gold, she will not exchange it even a little bit!
The little girl stood in the snow, her wrinkled face refutating what Uncle System had just said without question, and then she asked back: "Does Uncle System want to become another system?"
System: “…Not really.”
Although more than three thousand hosts have died, although it has been at the bottom of the Quick Travel Bureau so far, although it has not succeeded in the novice world even once, although... it always envies those powerful systems with super high task completion rates, but if it really wants to carry out a life exchange, its subconscious reaction is to resist.
The kids all happily reached a consensus and continued walking home, stepping on the thick snow that was creaking under their feet, one step deep and one step shallow.
After the New Year’s Eve dinner, Yunmian finally received the New Year’s money from her mother.
That’s a full 50 cents!
The little girl was so happy that her eyes curved into tiny crescents. She held the five slightly wrinkled dimes in her hand and counted them over and over again like a little money-grubber.
The system read it about thirteen or fourteen times, and in the end, it could hardly recognize the "one" on the money. It couldn't help but say, "Mianmian, you and the protagonist earned more than five dollars this afternoon, right? Why didn't you count the money?"
But he was so happy that he was holding the pitiful fifty cents in his hand.
Hearing the voice of the system uncle, Mianmian was stunned for a moment, then suddenly came back to her senses and shouted loudly for her mother.
After the mother's summoning spell was successful, Mianmian pulled her mother's sleeve and shook her back and forth: "Mom, haven't you given enough New Year's money yet? Uncle System still has no New Year's money. We all have new clothes, delicious food and New Year's money, but Uncle System has nothing. How pitiful!"
Even the three little dogs can have a few more bones and meat during the New Year, but Uncle System has nothing.
The fair and just Yun Mianmian would never allow such a thing to happen.
The system that was suddenly asked to help ask for New Year's money: "...I, I don't need it, right?"
If the system's body could change color, it would probably have turned as red as the paper lanterns on the outside, right?
After all, she had lived through the novice world more than three thousand times with the previous hosts, which was equivalent to living for more than three thousand lifetimes...but now Mianmian was grabbing her mother's sleeve to ask for New Year's money or something.
I guess if you put it outside in the snow now, Yunmian can hear the crackling sound made by the high-temperature pre-cooling.
Yun Jin was also startled by her daughter's sudden whim. After she came to her senses, she wiped her wet hands on her apron, followed her daughter's words and took out a dollar directly from her pocket. After asking her daughter where the other party was, she gently placed the money on the small table where the system was squatting.
"Although I don't know what you are, I have seen your companionship and help to Mianmian over the past few months. I don't know what gift to give you during the New Year, so this dollar is just for good luck and happiness. I hope that everything will go well for you and me in the coming year."
"Happy New Year."
"Happy New Year..." The system responded mumblingly, stopping behind the one dollar, and remained in a daze until Yun Jin left.
It is even worse than Yunmian, the five-year-old girl. This is the first time it has received New Year's money from the host's family since it has experienced more than three thousand mission worlds. It is also the first time it has received serious blessings.
This feeling... It is difficult for the system to capture the data currently flowing around in its body, but it inexplicably thinks of a metaphor often used by humans.
It was like walking alone in the ice and snow for a long, long time, and then suddenly falling into a steaming hot spring. At first, it struggled in fear to get out of the water, but when the slightly hot warmth dispelled the coldness inside and outside the body, it began to be greedy, fall, and sink...
The system originally thought that it would fall into this unprecedented warmth, but when a sinful little hand reached out to it and took away the one dollar in front of it, the system suddenly woke up.
"Mianmian?!" It looked in astonishment at Yunmian who took away its New Year's money.
Yun Mian smiled obediently at the system uncle: "Uncle, you said Happy New Year this morning, but it was a pity that you didn't have money to send me a red envelope. Now you have it, don't you?"
The little girl held the red dollar and waved it in front of it like teasing a cat, then she solemnly put it away and put it in her pocket.
The system choked and struggled in vain for a long time: "But..."
But if that’s the case, I won’t get any New Year’s money?
Although it is useless for a system to take the New Year's money from humans, if it is taken away just as it is received, even a system will feel a little disappointed.
Seeing that Uncle System was frustrated and silent, Yun Mian's eyes flashed with cunning. She took out her other hand, which had been behind her back, and slapped it heavily in front of the system.
"I was kidding you! Uncle System is so stupid. I'm going to be a stupid uncle in the New Year~~"
The little girl cheered with a smile on her face. On the small table in front of her, in front of the system, a brand new five-dollar bill was placed neatly.
"This is the New Year's money that my mother and I prepared for Uncle System!" Yunmian stretched out her paws and pushed the money in front of the system, lying on the table and looking at it eagerly: "Uncle, I only have 50 cents, but you have a full 5 yuan, you are so rich, you must be the richest Uncle System in the world!"
The system froze for a long time before it found its own conversation program. After responding vaguely, it became a little nervous: "Isn't this too much? You need the money more, why don't you give it back to your mother."
"Not much." Yunmian answered obediently: "My mother told me last night that Uncle System taught me a lot of words, which are more precious than money. In addition, Uncle System will continue to teach me to read in the future. It's very hard for him. What we gave him is not much at all."
My mother also said that Uncle System can’t use the money, but there should be a way to put it away. In this way, even if it can’t be used to buy favorite things and food, it can be kept as a commemoration. It’s the New Year, the whole family should be happy and neat, and Uncle System should be happy too.
"...Thank you." The system seemed to have suddenly lost its ability to speak. After saying thank you dryly, it was at a loss as to what to do.
However, little Yun Mianmian has never known what a dull occasion is. With her around, the place is always lively.
She quickly found a small wooden box for the system. Judging from the prints on it, it was probably quite old, but fortunately it was usable.
In front of the system, Yunmian put the five yuan into the wooden box, muttering: "This is the New Year's money that my mother gave to my uncle. I put it in here for my uncle. From now on, all your money will be placed in here. No one can touch it, not even Ping An An and Little Gray Wolf!"
After putting it away, she took out the one dollar she had put in from her pocket, flattened it and put it back in neatly, and continued to mutter in a low voice: "This is the New Year's money I give to my uncle. My uncle flies around with me every day and teaches me to read. It's very hard. Mianmian earned money for the first time today. I will give one dollar to my uncle, one dollar to myself, and the remaining two dollars to my mother."
As for the other four dollars, of course it belongs to our partner Zhao Xiaoli!
The system looked at the little girl who was talking to herself, and suddenly the scene when she first came to this world appeared in the database.
Mianmian, who had finally picked wild persimmons that day, also distributed the bags of wild persimmons carefully, muttering to herself.
Mingming has been in this world for almost half a year, and she has clearly experienced a life-and-death crisis, but looking back now, Yunmian seems to have always been the same Yunmian. She has not become a different person like other hosts because of the mission or the influence of the strange world.
On the first day of the Lunar New Year, Yunjin received the two yuan her daughter handed in for selling the dog. Yunmian earned her first four yuan in her life by selling the dog. Uncle System was also recognized as a member of the family for his efforts in the past six months and received a super rich New Year's red envelope of six yuan.
Even the three dogs, Ping'an'an and Little Gray Wolf, successfully won the heart of their parent Yun Jin by selling their furry and chubby bodies, so that each dog ate two more bones and three more pieces of meat today!
At last, Yun Mianmian curled up in her mother's warm embrace and counted her fingers carefully. Finally, she came to the conclusion: "Although Uncle System will be a stupid uncle for a whole year, everyone in our family will make a fortune this year!!"
Yun Jin amusedly pinched the soft flesh that had finally grown on her daughter's face and said, "Why didn't I realize before that you were a little superstitious?"
Not only is she superstitious, she is also obsessed with money. When the little girl was counting the money, she was almost obsessed with it.
"But you're right." She smiled and agreed, "The first day of the new year is a good start. The whole year will be safe and smooth, without illness or disaster, and you will make money every day."
"Okay, go to bed quickly, or you won't be able to sleep for the whole year."
Yun Mian closed her eyes for a second, fearing that she would never be able to sleep again for the next year.
Outside the window, heavy snow was falling. The system stopped under the eaves, looking through the window at the three puppies sleeping huddled together in the doghouse in the woodshed. Feeling the quiet and festive night under the sky, I suddenly wanted to go back to the General Administration.
I want to go back and tell them that my current host is such a cute child and she has a very smart mother.
I shouldn’t fail again in this novice mission world, right?
With this rare thought of relaxation in mind, the system adjusted itself to a fairly comfortable position, nestling in the empty swallow's nest under the beam, happily blocking out the outside world and taking a short hibernation.
Throughout the New Year, Yunmian and Zhao Xiaoli's business of selling dogs and candies can be described as "booming". Later, fearing that the lack of novelty would not be enough to attract children, they even developed a business of helping to build snowmen and letting dogs play snowball fights together.
In short, the three dogs were used to their fullest potential, and because the children always had a lot of snacks to eat, Ping An'an and Little Gray Wolf would not go home until their bellies were full every day, and even the dog meals at home were saved.
During this New Year, Yunmian and Zhao Xiaoli took the dog everywhere, and the most common thing they heard from the adults was their lamentations about the heavy snow.
"It snowed really heavily this year. If it had been in previous years, I'm afraid many people would have frozen to death with such heavy snow, right?"
"Who says it's not true? It's been many years since we've had such a heavy snowfall in this mountain village. I don't know what the weather will be like next year."
"Don't worry, my nephew is a scholar. He said that the books say that auspicious snow means a good harvest. The snow is so heavy and thick that it must have frozen the insects in the soil to death. Only then will the crops grow better tomorrow. This is a good thing."
“The book even teaches this…”
Whenever she heard these sentiments, the joy of the New Year on Zhao Xiaoli's face would fade a lot.
After hearing it so many times, she became sad every day. Even the dogs bullying Zhao Yuntao and rubbing Yunmian could not make her happy. There was no smile on her face.
Perhaps it was affected by her emotions, or perhaps it was the memories of the plot given by the system uncle, slowly, Yun Mian seemed to have a heavier heart.
Uncle System said that one or ten locusts are not scary, but a locust plague is a densely packed population of countless insects that will cover the sky. They will eat up all the food that everyone has worked so hard to grow, leaving nothing behind.
Yunmian didn’t know how terrible the locust plague was, but she knew that hunger was terrible, and starving to death was more terrible than dying from illness.
I'm a V! Happy New Year to Mianmian, and to all the readers~ Today, you will receive a small red envelope if you comment on this chapter. Love you guys!
Thanks to the little angel who cast the mine:
Aoaoaoaoteman, Central Sixteen 1;
Thanks to the little angel who irrigated the nutrient solution:
2 bottles of Zhimao Zhao;
Today's Flammulina enoki mushrooms include 1 bottle of melon, bear under the lamp, and legs;
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