"Host, you're unjustly accusing this system; you'll be struck by lightning! You were the one who said you wanted to come back, and this system kindly brought you back without even asking for travel expenses! What you're saying hurts this system's feelings so much, sob sob..."
Hearing the series of feignedly modest sobs behind her, Xiang Wan couldn't help but feel a headache coming on. She seriously suspected that 007 was definitely not an adult yet, otherwise why would he cry so much?
"Alright, alright, I admit I misspoke. But you still need to give me an explanation for what you've been hiding from me." Xiang Wan took out a biscuit and stuffed it into her mouth as she walked down the mountain. "Also, please don't call me host anymore. It feels like I'm being parasitized."
System: ...After experiencing so many worlds, you only just remembered the issue of address? You're a bit too slow, aren't you?
"...Since you're in a bad mood, this system will let it slide!"
"Hmm, let me think... You can call me Master, or Lord, Your Excellency, Queen, or... Princess, forget it, how about just call me Baby? That way it'll feel like I'm being pampered, hehehehe!"
"You feel better now that you've bullied this system, huh? I don't know who was crying their eyes out just now, oh my, so heartbroken, even this system couldn't stand it, tsk tsk tsk!"
Xiang Wan suddenly fell silent, stopping her eating. 007 stopped talking, wondering if he had touched a nerve with his host. Honestly, he was just indulging in momentary pleasure and forgot that Xiang Wan was still grieving.
The system hesitated, wondering whether to apologize, when it saw Xiang Wan quickly run forward. She reached a person who had fallen, and just as she was about to help her up, she thought for a moment, took out her phone from her pocket, turned on the video call, and placed it in her shirt pocket with the camera lens exposed. Only then did she reach out to help the elderly woman who had fallen to the ground. The system looked closely and realized it was the same elderly woman who sold kites.
"Oh dear, who was that damned bastard who couldn't watch where they were going? Good heavens, my old bones have been injured! How am I going to live from now on? It's so pitiful that I'm just an old woman trying to make a living on this mountain, with no one to help me. I'm really suffering!"
"Auntie, are you alright?"
Xiang Wan supported the old woman's back with one hand and held her arm with the other to prevent her from falling when she got up. She then looked around and didn't see anyone passing by.
"I knew it! Why did you have to block my way, young lady? Look how badly I fell! I think I've broken some bones. Don't run away, you have to come with me to the hospital!"
Xiang Wan frowned. Could it be that this old lady was trying to extort money from her?
"Auntie, take a good look and see who I am?"
The old woman looked up and carefully examined Xiang Wan, recognizing her: "This morning you bought a kite from me, complaining it was too expensive and trying to bargain. Don't think that just because we did a small business deal, we're some kind of friend. At this hour, who's still loitering around here? It must have been you, complaining that my things were too expensive and taking this opportunity to get revenge. I've got you, don't even think about running away, or I'll call for help!"
Xiang Wan was so angry she laughed. She had finally shown some kindness, and if she were to be extorted like this, even Dou E wouldn't have been as wronged as her.
"Auntie, I respectfully address you as 'Auntie' because of your age. We've been taught since childhood to respect, love, and help the elderly, but seniors should also act like elders. You see, the path up and down the mountain is long and uneven; it's common for elderly people with mobility issues to slip and fall. It's only natural for us young people to help them up. But you can't take advantage of your fall to falsely accuse me of pushing you and use that to blackmail me. While the law sympathizes with the vulnerable, it still requires evidence."
You see no one around and no security cameras, but you've forgotten about satellite maps. Everything happening on Earth every moment can be found online. Whether I pushed you or I helped you up after you fell, it's all clear online. Since you're so insistent that I pushed you, I can't explain myself right now. We'll have to wait for the police to arrive and investigate. Then you'll have to pay me for reputational and emotional distress damages, which won't be a small amount. I doubt your small stall could sell enough for five years to cover the costs.
"Even so, you still insist on saying I pushed you? I don't care, I'm bored anyway, but Auntie, if your injury drags on, no one will manage your stall, you'll lose your source of income, and if you hire a lawyer to fight a lawsuit, you won't just fail to make money, you'll also lose a lot of money, and in the end everyone will know what kind of person you are, who will dare to buy your things in the future?"
The old woman was stunned by Xiang Wan's words and didn't know how to respond for a moment. Xiang Wan narrowed her eyes and continued, "Now everyone goes online. If things get out of hand online, not only will you lose face, but your family will also be implicated. Not only will you lose face, but your reputation will also be ruined. Your children and grandchildren will be looked down upon when they go to school, and they will have difficulty finding jobs. Without jobs and money, conflicts will easily arise in the family, and arguments will become commonplace. The best outcome would be for the family to not break up."
As soon as she finished speaking, the old woman shoved Xiang Wan halfway away and said fiercely, "You, you have no manners when you speak, ptooey ptooey ptooey, Amitabha, may Buddha protect me, I'll just consider this old woman's bad luck, you hurry up and leave, I don't need your help. Humph, young people these days are more and more unreliable, they're nothing like the honest people of our generation."
"Hehe," Xiang Wan laughed, standing up as she said, "Are honest people destined to be taken advantage of? Auntie, let me give you one last piece of advice: if you're not upright, your family won't be well-managed; if the upper beam is crooked, the lower beam will be crooked too. Even if you risk your life to earn money for your descendants, you'll easily squander it all because of your bad character, and in the end, whether you can enjoy your old age in peace will be a question. If you act uprightly and honestly, your descendants will follow your example, and they won't need your meager savings for their coffins. It's laughable that many people don't understand this, thinking that earning money for their descendants is doing good for them, not realizing that moral character and cultivation are the greatest wealth. Auntie, let me give you a piece of advice: think about your own future, or I might just be right, hahaha..."
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