Chapter 306
In early spring, the evening clouds were painted red and golden by the setting sun. Parents at the kindergarten gate were waiting outside the school gate early, chatting in groups of three or four with familiar parents.
On the streets near the school gate, vendors have also set up stalls selling goods one after another, busy with their movements. One can imagine that after the little ones in the kindergarten rush out, they will scatter in front of these stalls, looking up with their little faces, holding up money, and choosing their favorite snacks and toys in a baby voice.
This was supposed to be a very ordinary day.
Before the money game completely cast its shadow over the world, every day that people spent was peaceful and ordinary enough, with hardly any waves.
But something is a little different on this street today.
Passersby and vendors setting up stalls could not restrain their curiosity and turned their heads to look in a certain direction.
If you follow their gaze, you can see a short and stocky little girl next to a fruit stall, busy putting toys on the stall with her butt sticking out.
Today, it was Grandpa who brought Yunmian over with all the toys.
In the previous few days, the family had made sufficient preparations for setting up a stall to sell toys.
In addition to setting up the stall, we also specially printed a payment code for the child to hang on her chest, and gave her a small stool that can be folded up. This small toy stall is officially open.
Grandpa Chen Yuanzhe left after delivering Yunmian, without even helping to set up the stall. Yunmian carefully placed the toys one by one in front of the stall, facing the curious and puzzled looks from people passing by. Then he sat on a small stool, staring at the "potential customers" who came and went with his eager and expectant eyes.
Buying toys?
Want to buy some fun toys?
It's very cheap, buy one.
Little Yun Mianmian imagined many scenes of selling things in her mind. She pursed her lips, held the cup filled with warm water given by her grandmother, and waited obediently for someone to come and buy toys.
When the cheerful school bell rang in the kindergarten, Yunmian quickly stood up, holding up her little face and looking eagerly in the direction of the school gate.
Not only her, perhaps every stall owner was looking at the school gate, waiting for their little customers to come out quickly.
"Uncle, I hope I can sell it for ten dollars today!" Yun Mian encouraged herself ambitiously.
System: “…I will definitely do it.”
As they were talking, the children in the kindergarten came out one after another, carrying their own small schoolbags, greeted by their parents.
Soon the streets were filled with parents bringing their children for a stroll.
Yunmian also saw an auntie with her son. Both mother and son were standing in front of a barbecue stall. Each of them took out a few dollars to buy snacks.
In addition to the bustling sounds of vendors and inquiries on the street, the aroma of various foods gradually lingers, which can be smelled from a long distance away, making people unable to stop salivating.
Yunmian swallowed, tried hard to take her eyes away from the fried rice stall not far away, and lowered her head to take a sip of the water her grandmother had filled for her.
"Little boy, where are your parents? How much do you sell this for?" A voice sounded in front of him.
Yunmian suddenly raised her head and looked at her sister who was squatting in front of the stall and playing with a 4-order Rubik's Cube. After a second of hesitation, she immediately smiled and said crisply, "Sister, this is 15 yuan. I am setting up the stall by myself. There is no adult here."
After saying that, Yunmian was afraid that her sister would think it was expensive, so she whispered obediently: "Sister, my mother set the price for this toy for me. If you think it's too expensive, I can give you a little less..."
Perhaps because she had never seen a merchant who decided to offer discounts without telling anyone, the woman squatting in front of the stall flipping the Rubik's Cube was stunned for a second, then smiled and took out her phone: "Then I'll buy this. Little friend, that's the payment code on your chest, right?"
“Yeah!” Yunmian quickly put the payment code under her phone. When her sister turned the phone over to show her the payment information, she smiled so much that her eyes curved into thin crescents: “Thank you, sister~ You are such a good person!”
There is no discount, my sister paid 15 yuan!
Yunmian happily took a bag and put the Rubik's Cube in it. After watching this kind sister leave, she took out another Rubik's Cube from the cardboard box and put it on the stall. At this time, she was no longer as worried as before that no one would buy her toy.
After many merchants receive payment through the payment code on their stalls, a small machine will directly report the payment. This can effectively avoid collecting the wrong money or missing money. However, Yunmian’s situation is special, so the system responsible for helping with the payment is invisible to anyone.
The system squatted on top of the host's head, waiting for the next customer to arrive with the child.
When there are no guests, the system chats with the host and listens to her carefully counting from 1 to 100 over and over again in her mind. It is responsible for both accounting and correcting numbers for Mianmian.
However, perhaps because the sight of a five-year-old girl sitting there and setting up a stall seriously was very novel, many people came forward to ask about prices or chat with Yunmian after learning that she was a child selling toys alone.
Someone asked her why her family didn't come.
Someone asked her if she was afraid to go out by herself and whether her parents would be worried.
Some people asked her why she started to earn money at such a young age, and whether it was to experience life.
So many questions seemed to overwhelm Yunmian, but she was neither timid nor afraid. She answered generously when asked, with a bright smile in her eyes and always looked at everyone equally.
"Grandma, this little frog is very cheap, only 7 yuan."
"Auntie, I don't have a father, and my mother is blind, so she can't come out with me to set up the stall."
"Uncle, I remember you. Thank you for giving my grandma the paper shell that day. I also bought her a sweet lollipop that day!"
"What do you mean by experience life? Auntie, the little sister likes this doll very much, can you buy it for her? I can give you a cheaper one, please~"
"I'm not afraid. Grandma said there's a police station next to the kindergarten. There are police officers and kindergarten security guards protecting us. There are also kind people on the street. If I encounter bad guys, I will run to the police."
"My grandparents work very hard, so I want to earn more money... I don't know how much a lot is, just a lot of money~"
The child answered everyone's questions generously. It is human nature to join in the fun and gossip. So soon, almost everyone who stopped to buy things on this street knew about the little girl who set up a stall to sell toys. Her life was quite miserable. She was a poor girl. Her family was not well off. The elderly were picking up garbage to support the family. Her mother was blind, so she had to set up a stall at such a young age.
People tend to sympathize with the weak, and with neighbors who knew Yunmian's family loudly spreading her life story, soon everyone looked at her with pity and sympathy.
Yunmian was confused by everyone and didn't quite understand what they wanted to express.
But she doesn't need to understand, after all, few people in this society will pay for pity and sympathy.
Yunmian didn't care how people talked about her, and the sighs, whether loud or soft, didn't affect her. A five-year-old child couldn't understand the unspoken meaning and emotions in the adults' words.
She still happily smiled to every adult and child who came to buy toys. When there was no one around, she held the payment code hanging around her neck like a little hamster, imagining how happy her mother would be at home listening to the payment sound coming from her mobile phone.
Before I knew it, the sky above my head gradually darkened.
The kindergarten has closed, and the vendors nearby have begun to pack up their stalls and prepare to go home or go to other night markets to continue selling.
Yunmian sat on the increasingly deserted street, watching everyone leave one after another, and began to carefully put the toys in front of her back into the big box behind her.
The system really wanted to help, but it didn't have a body to do so, so it could only squat in a corner of the box and talk to Mianmian so that the child would not look so lonely.
"Mianmian, we earned 132 yuan today. After deducting the cost of buying toys, our net profit was more than 40 yuan!" The system's tone couldn't help but hide some excitement.
Originally, she could have earned more, but the pricing was unscrupulous and Mianmian herself had no concept of money, so she always sold at a lower price to others. Many times, she could only make a profit of less than one dollar, which was no profit at all.
Yunmian nodded heavily and smiled with her white millet teeth under the street light: "Then let's continue to sell toys tomorrow. Thank you uncle for always accompanying me and helping me keep track of a lot of money."
The system jumped proudly: "It's just a small matter. If we work hard together, Mianmian will definitely be able to live a good life with her mother and grandparents in the future!"
After putting away all the toys, Yunmian moved a small stool and sat in front of the cardboard box, looking towards the end of the street, hoping that her grandma or grandpa would soon appear at the end of the street.
When she got bored of waiting, the system taught her how to unfold the system panel of the "Money Game". There were many rules on it, most of which were what the voice had read in her ears when she first came to this world.
Taking advantage of the time, the system simply squatted on Mianmian's shoulder and explained the rules of the game to her one by one.
"Rule one: When you are broke, you may not sell your own organs or anyone else's."
“Rule 2: When you have wealth, don’t play around with the lives of the poor.”
“Rule Three: If you lose your money, you lose everything you have.”
The system deliberately ignores the sentence "Even if this will allow you to gain..." after several rules. This blatant and straightforward temptation is both disgusting and malicious.
"Mianmian, there is no penalty for these three rules. In this money game, they are not actually required to be followed. But I hope you will strictly follow the first two rules, cherish yourself and don't hurt others, because that is the real beginning of this game's temptation to your depravity."
The system said seriously to the ignorant child, "In the money game, the head determines the butt. Violence is always the lowest level of wealth aesthetics, and those who are high and mighty will also worry about falling into the dust one day. Therefore, the unspoken rules that every player must follow are: Do not harm other players and their families by violence, assassination, beating, hiring a killer, etc. Once discovered, he will be wanted by the game supervisor and attacked by all players, and completely lose everything he currently has."
"However, there are always people who don't follow the rules, and there are always people who try to exploit loopholes in the rules. So, Mianmian, in addition to having money, we must also have enough self-protection capabilities to prevent other players from using illegal means to harm you and your family."
In the rules of the game, there is only one rule that must be followed otherwise it will be erased, and the rest of the rules are all deliberate temptations.
The unspoken rules are followed by all players, and their weight is only slightly lower than the elimination rules.
Moreover, the unspoken rules only target players and do not restrict the use of these harsh means against non-players. Only in this way can the world rot fast enough.
Thanks to the little angel who cast the mine:
50122688, passerby K 1;
Thanks to the little angel who irrigated the nutrient solution:
Fu Nianbai 40 bottles;
Find 7 bottles;
Tea, twelve and five bottles;
Lotus root and pork ribs soup, loofah and shredded pork soup, Lingqinjiu! 1 bottle;
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