Chapter 181 The Mall Update
A second-class Jinshi (successful candidate in the highest imperial examination), her brother is really amazing!
"Then I'll wait for my older brother to come back today, and I'll ask him if he's adjusting well."
"What's wrong with saying that?"
Ji Yingying nodded in satisfaction and then said, "Brother is so smart, unlike me. I'm not suited to be an official. It's a pity that the Emperor won't give me an official position."
"Don't even think about it, just do your job well!" Fang Yulan was also worried about her. However, with her like this, the Emperor would never let her go. In this life, she could only make a living from this job.
"Hehe... Mother, I'm going back now. I'll come back when my older brother returns."
"Since you have some free time, why don't you go and take a stroll around the Hanlin Academy?"
"No, I'm going to read storybooks instead."
Ji Yingying went back to her room. She actually preferred to stay inside, where she didn't have to do any work, was served food and slept, and read storybooks after waking up. Ideally, she wouldn't have to do anything.
I lay down and read a couple of pages, but I got bored. Should I go out for a walk? It's so cold, I don't want to move.
[Xiangxiang, haven't you finished updating yet? It's been almost ten days.]
I'm tired of reading storybooks; it's the same few stories every day.
[Host, you finally missed me!]
Have you finished updating?
[Yes, it's updated! Ta-da! Check out the latest update—all the essentials for gossiping are here, including melon seeds, a melon-monger blocking tool, and more.]
Ji Yingying first looked at the supermarket, which had been replaced by a shopping mall. It was a five-story mall that offered everything from food and drink to accommodation and transportation.
Even more importantly, there's solar energy; she loves that stuff.
[Host, take a look at the gossip. The gossip you've read is saved, and you can also search for it with one click. The gossip blocker is for the gossip owner of the gossip you've read; they will be blocked. This only applies to big gossip; small gossip won't be blocked. In other words, if you read a big gossip in the future, the owner's gossip will be blocked, and a list will be compiled for reporting. This is to facilitate collecting merit.]
Wow, they can even compile them into a booklet! This will make submitting memorials to the emperor so much easier in the future.
Ji Yingying likes this; if she weren't an official, she wouldn't even look at it.
Yes, yes, this arrangement is based on the size of the melons we've recently encountered. The merit lists are also clearly laid out, making it easier to check our merits in the future. If our merits are immeasurable, we might even be together again after you're reborn. This is a good arrangement, after all.
Okay, okay... none of that matters. The important thing is to quickly check out the mall.
Ji Yingying wasn't worried about anything else, but she was worried that large items would require merit points to exchange, which would be difficult!
Sure enough, there were still quite a few difficult things to do. For items worth more than a thousand yuan in modern terms, both silver and merit points had to be exchanged together.
She currently only has 500 merit points, and those 500 merit points are used to open up the shopping mall. If she has less than 500, she won't be able to open it.
"What would I buy for a few hundred yuan?"
Ji Yingying chose two bunches of grapes, washed them in the space, and then ate them while planning to go shopping.
Shopping malls are great places!
Supermarkets, clothing stores, KFC, McDonald's, beauty salons, nail salons, and various food shops.
She also has her favorite snacks.
There are also pharmacies, bookstores, and so on—basically, whatever you want, you can find it.
[Xiangxiang, this is such a wonderful place, I love it!]
"Then eat more melons, otherwise you won't be able to buy something worth hundreds of taels."
[This is the only way. However, it seems the ministers don't have any more juicy gossip to share. We were already quite busy gossiping before, and everyone involved got arrested. If we're going to gossip, we should catch the culprits.]
When Xiangxiang saw how ambitious she was, she immediately said a lot of revolutionary rhetoric and even came up with slogans for her, just to urge her to hurry up and eat melons.
[Xiangxiang, ours will be a little later, don't be too anxious. The mountains are snowbound now, we can't see anyone or eat any melons, so let's be patient with everything.]
[What do you mean by "heavy snow blocking the mountains"? You're in the city, in the city! This isn't some mountain forest; it's the city. You can still go out for tea and some melon.]
But I don't want to move. Let me have some good news in a couple of days.
[Watch out, or I might close the mall.]
What? You can turn it off?
【Yes. 】
If you dare shut this down, I'll cut ties with you. Let's see if you dare mess with me again.
Ji Yingying was too lazy to pay attention to it. She thought to herself, "I don't believe I can't deal with it."
The next second, she was forced to leave the mall while she was still shopping.
[Hehe, I specially updated this feature. Otherwise, since you don't even try, host, now all you need to do is eat a melon, and you can enter the mall. Come on, let's go out and eat some melons.]
Are you threatening me?
No, I'm not threatening you, I just hope you can take this as just watching the drama unfold!
Ji Yingying didn't want to go out. Since she couldn't get into the mall, she would just sleep. She could be the goddess of sleep, or any other god, but she couldn't be threatened.
[Host, host, host...] Xiangxiang was furious. Even this couldn't subdue her. She originally thought she could control her, but it turned out she was the one who was controlled.
"Don't wake me, I'm asleep."
When Ji Yingying woke up, Ji Jiaming had returned from court. After washing up, she went to his courtyard.
"Hello, big brother!"
"Sister, aren't you going to court today?"
"No, you can't go even if I go to court." A sixth-rank official hasn't reached the rank required to attend court.
Ji Jiaming couldn't help but pinch her and asked, "Then how many days will you rest at home?"
"You've been resting for several days, what's wrong, brother?"
Ji Jiaming reached out and patted her head, saying, "Then you can stay home these next few days and help your mother with your second brother's wedding."
"What?" Ji Yingying looked at him in disbelief. What did arranging the wedding have to do with her?
【I scoff. No way! Let my mother handle this. It's her wedding, not mine. She wants me to get involved? I have no choice.】
[Host, you might even get to watch the drama unfold while you're handling this, why don't you give it a try?]
I won't try, I won't try, I decline.
"Sigh!" Ji Jiaming suddenly sighed.
"Brother, why are you sighing? Is it because you also want to get married? But your destined one hasn't appeared yet."
"Cough...no, no, I'm not in a hurry. I'm just worried about Mother. Our family is getting married into the Yan family, and Mother probably wants to make things better."
[Yes, yes, Big Brother is right. He truly lives up to his reputation as our Big Brother.] Xiangxiang is incredibly opportunistic; she'll do anything to persuade her to go eat melon seeds!
"Brother, let's eat as much as we can afford, and not think about unnecessary things."
Ji Yingying sighed. What happened?
Ji Jiaming was also quite helpless. It was only after the system told him to eat more gossip that he thought of giving more advice.
"Alright, brother, stop thinking about it. Minister Gong brought a lot of things, including vegetables. Come on, let's boil some vegetables for dinner tonight."
Ji Yingying wanted to eat hot pot. The vegetables were fresh and tender, and it was such a cold day. It would be so delicious to eat this.
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