Chapter 34 Chapter 34 Gold Miner
"You are such a bad mother. You don't teach good things but only teach bad things."
After sweeping the ice chips from his hair into the collar of Benjamin's clothes, Jason felt relieved as he watched Benjamin dancing with the laser beams.
Li Hua came down from upstairs and said, "Everyone, I just realized a small problem. We don't have a bed or a mattress."
Wouldn't they have to spread the sheets on the floor and sleep on the floor at night?
Although it is not unacceptable, after all, they have been sleeping like this in the wild these days, and they don’t even have sheets or quilts.
I slept on the floor before renting the house, and I still sleep on the floor after renting the house... I feel like I rented this house for nothing.
Jason: "Let Ben become the alien Poison Ivy man and weave a vine bed for us?"
Benjamin: "That's called Swampfire-Swamp-Fire! Don't give my alien hero a nickname."
Jason: "You're still talking about me? I'm the immortal Manserlo from Manser Star. Swampfire is just a nickname."
Li Hua ignored his friends' elementary school quarrel. After all, the two of them were sure to hear what he said. "I just realized that freshly grown vines should have a lot of moisture in them, right? If the vines are not dried in the sun, they will definitely mold and rot in this coastal climate. We have to drag these three heavy things down from the second floor, which will probably smell terrible..."
"That's better than the second-hand nickname of Alien Poison Ivy!" Benjamin counterattacked Jason and replied to Li Hua, "It's okay, I can burn them with swamp fire when the time comes."
"Even if we had 14 dry ice fire extinguishers floating around the house, your idea is still unrealistic," Jason said. "And your actions are completely inconsistent with your Poison Ivy persona. We're all plants, we share the same roots, so why rush into it?"
Li Hua petted the head of a cub, who was barking more rapidly, alternately at Benjamin and Jason, and was clearly agitated. He checked the badge on its wrist and said, "Fourth child, right? Don't worry. Your parents and godfather are just engaging in some friendly human communication."
After saying that, Li Hua turned to his two friends who had stopped chatting after hearing the noise, "So what should we do tonight? It's getting dark. Will the order be delivered in time?"
Jason: "It's too late, tomorrow at the latest, and our little coffers are running out of money. But I'm not starting a business right now—to be more precise, I don't have the energy to do that."
They had been working non-stop for four days, and Jason now felt that even if he sat on a plastic chair in an open-air food stall, he could fall asleep in a second.
What's more, they are now in a safe house that is sheltered from wind and rain and has bright lights. They bought quilts, pillows and sheets. After entering the house, they changed into clean home slippers at Li Hua's strong request. The tiles on the floor were cleaned by Benjamin in Kryptonian form so that they were shiny. It is not a cold season now, so sleeping on the floor is not a problem at all.
Benjamin and Li Hua were in a similar situation. Everyone was tired.
Especially Benjamin, who is the main person taking care of the children. A big part of the purpose of his quarrel with Jason just now was to refresh his mind.
Benjamin yawned. "Let's put the quilt on the floor, cover it with the sheets, and use the pillows. That'll be enough for the night. Tomorrow we'll go to the second-hand market and see if there's any cheap furniture we can use. We'll buy some."
He and Kevin had gone to a second-hand mall before, where they could buy a usable old sofa for $35 and a lot of used clothes for $5 each.
There is no need to mail it. You can just take Didi to call Kryptonian like today, and you can save the postage.
Jason: "Good idea. I can check if there's a laundromat nearby."
Li Hua: "Are there any washing machines for sale in second-hand stores? I could buy one."
Jason: "I don't think so. Besides, a washing machine is too expensive. We only have $500 on hand right now. We can use the laundromat first."
Li Hua: "Does a washing machine cost... a lot? There are only four of us, so buying a brand new one shouldn't be too expensive, right?"
"I once had a college student in the same ward. He slipped and fell while using the restroom late at night. According to this guy, the four of them only spent a little over three hundred yuan on an 8.2kg washing machine. Even if it were four hundred yuan, that's only $55 at the exchange rate. A used washing machine would probably be even cheaper, right? Jason, why are you quiet?"
"...No, I'm just wondering." Jason rubbed his face and asked, "Does that washing machine you mentioned have a dryer?"
Compared with the new washing machines that cost hundreds or even thousands of dollars locally, it is really too terrible. I might as well go to Li Hua’s hometown and buy a washing machine!
Li Hua: "Probably not...it would be more expensive if we did. Anyway, my washing machine doesn't have a dryer, so it doesn't matter. We can buy a clothes drying rack. I saw the sun this morning, so the clothes will definitely dry quickly."
Benjamin: "Ah, this... isn't good. We're in the city, and there are neighbors around."
Li Hua: "What does this have to do with me drying my clothes... Oh, I get it. Don't worry, just hang them on the balcony. I really don't want to show off my pile of magic boy costumes to others."
Jason: "But the neighbors also have balconies, and they will still complain if they see it."
Li Hua took a deep breath and said, "It's okay. When the time comes, I'll just go ahead and tell him why he assumed my gender!"
Gotham has a Chinatown, and Jason quickly understood the source of Li Hua's misunderstanding. "It's not about what clothes you posted, but the act of posting clothes itself. In some of our communities, hanging clothes will be reported, and the police may even be called."
Li Hua: "Haha, you're so humorous. How could there be such a stupid rule? Where else should we dry it if not outside?"
"Why do you think there are so many laundromats on the street?" Jason said, "Just search on your phone now."
"Okay, okay~" Li Hua happily opened the browser, intending to expose Jason and Benjamin's prank, but the more he searched, the more his smile froze on the corners of his mouth.
It must be a foreign clickbait title, it must be.
Li Hua didn't believe it, so he switched back to his native Chinese and went to a website where he could communicate with his compatriots without having to use a VPN, and entered keywords into the search engine.
As he watched, Li Hua's smile gradually disappeared, replaced by horror.
“Does anyone still wash shoes and clothes together in a washing machine in a public laundry?”
"How much? How much is an American washing machine? Where did these thousand-dollar washing machines come from? ...And $2,200? No? I understand the exchange rate issue, but even if this is—oh, there are 12-kilogram tumble dryer washing machines in China for tens of thousands of yuan, then it's fine... What the hell! Why is it so expensive? Is there nuclear fusion technology hidden in it? Don't other brands have tumble dryer washing machines of the same size and function? Why do they only sell them for 2,000 or 5,000 yuan? And 12-kilogram washing machines without a drying function and without a tumble dryer can be bought for just over a thousand, or even less than a thousand, so why is this so expensive?"
"Wait... the exchange rate for a $2,200 washing machine is... 15,952.86 yuan??? Why is it still over 5,000 yuan more expensive? Isn't it? Why? Why is the price difference so astronomical for the same features?"
"Why can't I just buy a dryer? I can take the clothes out of the washing machine and hang them on the balcony to dry, or put them in a dryer that only costs three hundred dollars. Plus the four hundred dollar washing machine, that's only seven hundred dollars, which is only a little over ninety dollars less than a hundred dollars in US dollars. Why spend so much money? I don't understand!"
"I go to XianO and buy second-hand ones and pick them up myself, and they're even cheaper!"
Jason stood silently behind the cursing Li Hua, watching him angrily searching through the Orange Shopping App. His head automatically ran through the exchange rates, and he wrote down the most favorable shopping plan that Li Hua mentioned.
But Li Hua's shock did not end there.
"Well, we can just make do with drying clothes inside... Huh? You can't even dry clothes in your own room?"
"I'm a gold miner. I know at a glance that this is divine gold. The people who make these rules are cheap silver!"
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After Li Hua finished scolding him, Jason handed him a glass of water and said, "I suddenly have a brilliant idea. It should be daytime in Huaxia now. Li Hua, why don't you take Ben over to buy some things and then bring them back."
"Is this smuggling? Ugh!" Jason covered Li Hua's mouth. "How can this be called smuggling? This is called purchasing on behalf of others! Strictly speaking, it's not even purchasing on behalf of others. We only use it ourselves and don't sell it. Besides, two of the three of us are deceased, two people who don't belong to this world. Even if you insist, we can still be considered carbon-based creatures. Strictly speaking, none of us three are 'from the local world', so the law can't control us."
"If you really want to be picky, even picking up tables and chairs from other countries can be considered smuggling."
"Huh? Does it count?" Benjamin didn't expect the question to be about him. "Does picking up things from the trash can count? But no one wants them anymore."
"...Go look at your cub!"
"oh……"
Jason continued to persuade him: "Besides, if you can bring a normal appliance like this on a plane, then why can't you take a Benjamin? Why can we bring a refrigerator but not a bed? Don't you want to sleep in a bed at night? We haven't hurt anyone, we just want to sleep in a bed and do laundry, right?"
Li Hua pondered for a moment and nodded slowly.
He didn't want to throw his clothes into the public washing machine where other people washed their shoes, and he didn't want to risk his clothes getting other people's athlete's foot!
"Then I'll go to the bank to exchange money now." Jason jumped off the chair, put on his coat and was about to go out, but was driven back by Benjamin's words.
Benjamin: "The bank closed early. Where are you going to exchange Huayuan at this time? You might as well wait until nine o'clock tomorrow morning."
Jason: "But it was already past ten o'clock in the evening in China. What shops were still open?"
Li Hua: "Restaurants and convenience stores that don't sell electronics."
Jason: "...So for us right now, isn't it the same as not opening it?"
At this time, no one would be willing to pick up the goods.
Doesn't that mean that if he wants to go to China to buy electrical appliances, he has to wait until tomorrow morning when they have exchanged money in Haven, Bruder, and then go to China to buy the appliances in the evening, which will take a whole day?
In the end, the problem is back to square one...that is, they have to sleep on the floor tonight.
"Oh, the night is so hard."
Lying on the mat on the floor, Jason couldn't help but sigh. Suddenly, he felt a chill that penetrated into his bones from the soles of his feet. He suddenly turned over and sat up, lifted the quilt, grabbed the scoop net, and glared.
"Who is it? Which little bastard is spitting ice on my toes? I've been putting up with you for so long!"
All the sleepiness I had accumulated with great difficulty was gone!
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"I'm sleepy."
Nightwing complained bitterly to the Oracle on the other end of the phone.
"I've been in class all day, memorizing legal documents, and now I have to stay up all night investigating this mysterious creature that's been elusive and has stolen a bunch of shipping containers... and the problem is, I haven't found anything."
"According to the confessions of the criminals at the Bludhaven Police Department, the blue creature that haunted Gotham called itself 'Ice Ghost,' and Mr. Plant, who might go crazy when Poison Ivy sees him, is 'Swampfire.' They both have the ability to communicate with each other," the Oracle said. "So what do you think the Ice Ghost wanted to do by stealing the container?"
"How am I supposed to know what those mysterious creatures are thinking? Throwing parties, feasting, building nests... who knows?"
Nightwing squatted on the eaves, looking at the city below, which seemed to be sleeping, but was actually brewing evil everywhere.
"I checked the information from the Bludhaven Police Department. The two creatures who called themselves 'Ice Ghost' and 'Swampfire' acted with discretion. Those who were frozen didn't even suffer severe frostbite. Even though their entire bodies except for their heads were sealed in ice. Considering that it and its companions didn't hurt anyone, I'm more inclined to believe that they are able to communicate and stand on the side of justice. Eating metal and stealing money is likely because they encountered some difficulties. And..."
"And what?"
"I feel like Ice Ghost and Swampfire aren't too old," Nightwing said. "Think about it, the other two are typical teenagers, and there's no obvious leadership relationship between them, but being able to play with two teenagers... their mental ages are probably similar."
"Wow," the Oracle said. "Four teenagers, two of whom are non-humans with special abilities... good luck."
Nightwing sighed in despair, "Wish me luck, and wish Bludhaven good luck."
God bless, I hope that when he finds these four teenagers, nothing irreversible has happened.
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The author has something to say: To the three teenagers who were fishing for the cubs: Something irreversible has happened! Someone has died! (Aliens are human, too!)
Nightwing and Barbara use "it" to refer to Swampfire and Ice Ghost because they cannot determine the gender of the two alien forms, so they use the nickname "it" they got from the drug dealer.
The drug dealer thought it was "it" because the three kids didn't call out gender aliases when they were fighting, they just called out code names, and it was difficult to correct them. After all... with the precedent of the Ice Ghost, who would dare to assume the gender of the alien?
PS: The prices in this article are based on foreign bloggers' store visits videos I searched. The brand new washing machine that cost over 300 yuan is the one I'm using. The domestic washing machine that cost 10,000 yuan was the one that popped up when I searched Taobao. I was shocked when I saw it.
I was surprised that it thought so highly of me that it actually appeared on my homepage. I reasonably suspect that the big data read that I searched for the price of American washing machines on my browser. Otherwise, I really don't understand why a 10,000 yuan washing machine would appear among a bunch of washing machines that cost only 300 yuan on the homepage. I thought I had entered the wrong number.
The following are reference sources:
Note: The reference source is only from the website keyword search. I have not known UP before, so please do not mention me under the video.
The description of the second-hand market price in the article comes from the B station UP "Old Wine Accompanying Study in the United States", video number BV1TN41177hU
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