The man on the edge of the kang looked to be about thirty years old, with a fair face and delicate features, like an older scholar.
Shen Cui looked at him for a long time without saying a word - because the person changed by the system was none other than Mu Cheng!
It’s the missing husband of the original body!
Chen Cui's journey through time and space was filled with many bad things, but not many good things.
What probably made her happiest was that she had neither a man nor the pain of childbirth, and she got a filial and well-behaved fat son for free.
Who would have thought that the system was so unlucky that it chose neither Mu Erpang nor Mu Yunchuan, but Mu Chengbian instead.
Shen Cui almost forgot that she had a cheap husband on her data panel!
"I don't look like that anymore?" Seeing that Chen Cui remained silent for a long time, he touched his face and asked curiously.
Now it was easy to tell them apart. The face was still Mu Cheng's face, but the voice was the clear, deep voice that Chen Cui was familiar with.
Moreover, in the original body's memory, although Mu Cheng looked like a scholar, he was actually dull and honest in character.
The one created by the system has much more lively eyes and expression.
Therefore, the transformation of the system does not really make you become that person, it just creates a similar body.
It's just like she traveled through time. There's no visible difference in her body, but her core is different, and it can't fool people who are truly familiar with her original body.
"It's not that you look like Mu Cheng, but... why did you suddenly become like Mu Cheng?"
"The No. 1 training candidate is in the academy next door. It will be his school day soon, so he may become ineffective at any time. As for Mu Yunchuan... the host seems to want to hit me."
You know what, he's quite well-behaved and is becoming more and more like a real person.
While the system was talking to her, it sat properly with its hands on its knees, looking around the room.
His eyes were clean and curious, which didn't make Shen Cui feel disgusted.
But that face... still made Shen Cui feel very strange. She turned her head away from him and said, "Okay, I already know your new function. You can go back."
"This... so fast?" A moment of confusion appeared on his face, and then he said: "I can do a lot of things for the host. You have spent all your shopping points, so why don't you let me do something?"
He said he wanted to help, but his face showed eagerness, as if he was a young boy looking forward to exploring the new world.
The effects of the system's transformation and the Disguise Pill are somewhat different. The duration of the Disguise Pill can be stored, and you can change back halfway within 12 hours.
But the system's transformation is only once. If it fails in the middle, you will have to pay again to come out.
Considering her host's usual stingy nature, it's easy to imagine how difficult it would be to get her to spend more shopping points!
"Even a mosquito's legs are still flesh. The host has spent all his money, and I have only been out for a quarter of an hour..."
He suddenly looked pitiful, which made Shen Cui feel a little sorry for him. "Then help me..."
She looked around the room. Zhou's small business was booming recently, and he was drawing blueprints today, so he didn't come to clean her room.
"Then help me clean up the house."
He immediately stood up and walked around the room excitedly, but he didn't know where to start, so he took the broom and started sweeping the floor.
At that time, the houses did not have any flooring, just mud. When sweeping on such a floor, you needed to sprinkle water, otherwise dust would fly everywhere when you swept with the broom.
He obviously hadn't thought of this. Shen Cui coughed: "Don't you need to do housework in your world?"
"No need. In our world, it..." He stopped talking, probably because it was not easy to talk about this aspect, and said vaguely: "Anyway, there is no such thing."
Chen Cui waved her hand and said forget it, "It's getting late, and I'll have to rest soon. There's nothing for you to do today. Besides, Er Pang will be out of school soon. If he sees the light on in my room, he will definitely come to see me. How do you explain the extra person?"
"Okay." The system sighed helplessly, and disappeared on the spot the next moment.
Shen Cui breathed a sigh of relief when her vision cleared, and she was able to communicate with him normally in her mind.
[I just noticed that you are curious about everything. Have you never been to this dimension? 】
[I’ve never been here. I’m just a spirit in this world. In this context, it's probably the 'soul body'? I can understand this world through the host, but it is completely different from what I can actually feel with a body. 】
Shen Cui paused for a while and said with a smile: [Isn’t this the real reason why you chose to become Mu Cheng? After all, there can't be two fat guys in the family, and Mu Yunchuan can't return home at this time. But if you use Mu Cheng's identity, he didn't appear in the original book anyway, and his life or death is unknown. You can use his identity to experience this world openly... It's not that you're afraid of me beating you, right? 】
The little thing is quite cunning, and is planning to transform into a permanent shape!
The system coughed again, somewhat awkwardly.
Chen Cui took off her coat and lay down in bed, then heard him say: [Host, I actually know a lot. I can also solve those math problems you learned last time. I am not very good at the housework that Zhou does, but I can learn...】
[Don’t think about it for now.] 】 After Chen Cui finished speaking, she paused and thought carefully about this new function of the system in her mind. Don’t mention it, she actually thought of a clever use...
But there was no rush, so she continued: [There are usually no outsiders in the village, and everyone nearby knows everything. If there is suddenly one more person, it will easily arouse suspicion. Later, I will go to the provincial capital with Erpang, and our academy will move, so I will recruit more people. But even if we 'recruit people' and let you imitate real people, it will cost you two to three hundred shopping points a day. So please let me think about it and wait a moment. 】
To be fair, Brother Tongzi was very good to her and a reliable person. If he could have a body at 10 o'clock, he could be a handyman in the academy.
The thought of being able to hire a high-level interstellar worker who doesn't need to be paid, doesn't need to eat, drink, defecate or urinate, and doesn't need to worry about his loyalty makes a capitalist named Shen smile crookedly.
[Then why don’t I just become Mu Cheng…]
[Shut up, Mu Ben and I are just strangers. I have no interest in being a cheap husband. And let Erpang and Mu Yunchuan know that their "daddy" is back. They will definitely get close to you and ask you what you have been doing during the time you disappeared. Erpang is okay, as the last time he saw his father was before he became enlightened, and he didn't have a deep impression of him. How could someone as meticulous as Mu Yunchuan not recognize his own father? You're not pretending to be someone you are not, even I can tell the difference. 】
The system quietly defended: [I have collected a lot of data on Mu Cheng, and it can be very similar. This isn’t in front of you, I didn’t mean to pretend…】
[No matter how similar we are, it won’t do. Once ‘he’ shows up, I will never be able to separate from Mu Yunchuan in this lifetime. We’ll have to live together forever. 】
[Then I can use my original appearance. My appearance is a little different from yours. I need a simple disguise. It is much cheaper than changing into someone else. 100 shopping points a day...]
The system was still trying hard to promote itself, but after writing all day and reading a lot of system announcements, Chen Cui was so tired that she fell asleep.
…………
After the system update, Chen Cui went on with her life as usual. She did morning exercises first, and then waited for her daily routine to finish while eating breakfast.
Then she turned on the time gain and completed the daily tasks of the academy first.
After finishing her daily tasks, Shen Cui would quickly check the status of everyone in the academy before returning to her own work.
Didn’t the Wei family send many beautifully bound books before? There were of course the serious books for imperial examinations such as the Four Books and Five Classics, but there were also many vernacular books, travel notes, local records, and even miscellaneous books such as agricultural books and medical books.
In addition to practicing calligraphy, Chen Cui has been reading miscellaneous books with great interest recently.
Firstly, these books are really interesting and reading them can broaden her horizons. Secondly, the more books she reads, the easier it will be for her to come up with something new that is not in line with the cognition of people of this era.
If she got tired of reading or writing, Shen Cui would take out her needlework and do it - she was planning to upgrade her needlework to level 2 so that she could make something for the three boys that could increase their luck.
After picking and choosing among the items recommended by Level 1 needlework, Chen Cui decided to choose the shoe insole. A pair of insoles costs 60 shopping points, and they are not very useful. They just prevent people from getting tired easily when standing or walking for a long time. However, the material is a high-end product, which absorbs sweat and deodorizes. As long as you can ignore the centipede-like stitches, the user experience is not particularly bad.
This thing can only be used all year round, especially for people like Mu Erpang and Wei Shu whose feet are still growing, and Lao Buyu who stand on their feet every day, as they wear out the insoles very much.
Chen Cui counted the people, including Zhou, and made five pairs of replacements for each person, which meant she had to do 30 more needleworks, and soon she would be able to upgrade to make things that increase her luck value.
In April, before Wei Shu's death, Chen Cui received a new main task - [Send one person from the academy to participate in the college examination].
This task is also free, but the reward is not that fancy, it is just a shopping point.
The points are obtained based on the ranking. The better Wei Shu performs in the exam, the more shopping points he will be given.
At the same time, the system also recommends that Chen Cui upgrade the academy again, so that you can not only see everyone's Q version figures on the academy map.
You can see what the subject is doing from a farther distance.
Of course, to upgrade further, you will need 2,000 shopping points.
Shen Cui did not have enough shopping points, and she was thinking of using the shopping points to upgrade her needlework to increase the luck of the three boys. Moreover, this "long distance" also required her to be in the same city as the academy staff. Even if she upgraded now, she could not see the situation of Wei Shu who was far away in the provincial capital.
She just said she would wait until she had more money.
Although Wei Shu was far away in the city, Chen Cui could not know the real-time situation there, but she could roughly judge the situation through Wei Shu's mood value.
The entrance to the provincial examination had to start at the hour of Mao, so Chen Cui got up before daybreak, lit a candle, picked up the needle and thread on the table on the kang, and began to skillfully make insoles, while opening Wei Shu's data panel to observe.
At about 1:00 a.m., Wei Shu became nervous, and Chen Cui guessed that he was probably undergoing an initial inspection and body search, preparing to enter.
By the time the sky brightened, Wei Shu's mood had slowly recovered, so he should be able to reach his examination seat safely.
Gradually, there were voices outside. Mu Erpang and Zhou got up one after another. Chen Cui also got up, washed up, and prepared to start a day of tutoring.
Lao Buyu and the others were obviously concerned about Wei Shu's fate today. Everyone's concentration levels, which were usually close to full, were a little lower today.
"It's okay, Ah Shu can hold his ground." Shen Cui was very confident in Wei Shu. After all, as the system said, Wei Shu had the highest overall quality among the three teenagers, and he was also a loyal fan of the simulated room.
The high-pressure environment that others saw was something he had practiced too many times.
However, as soon as he finished saying this, Wei Shu's mood dropped visibly, and his state directly turned into shock!
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