Chapter 51: Historical Debt
The next day, five children with bruised faces and noses came to the school, and the classmates gathered around them with curiosity.
It's not their fault that they are surprised. Mr. Zhuang has always been strict in management, and the biggest conflict in the school is just quarreling. The last fight happened outside the school, and was mainly caused by two outsiders - Bai Shan and Ertou.
This time was different. Some people asked Bai Erlang, while others quietly asked Manbao, "Did you fight?"
Manbao didn't think there was anything shameful about this, so he nodded and said, "Yes."
But she also knew that fighting was bad, and she knew to complain first, so she said, "They started it first, and they set an ambush!"
A classmate asked curiously, "Why are you fighting?"
Manbao was stunned and touched his head and thought, yes, why are they fighting?
So she turned around and dragged Bai Shan to find Bai Erlang and asked, "Why did you hit us?"
Bai Erlang was beaten and scolded again last night, and his face was very sour. However, after being re-educated by his grandmother, parents, he already knew that it would be impossible for him to fight with Bai Shan again in the future, otherwise he would definitely be retaliated by his grandmother, his father, or even his mother. So when he heard Manbao's question, his face became even more sour.
He said, "It's none of your business. I was only targeting him. You deserve it for coming up to me."
Manbao looked at him, then at Bai Shan, and snorted at Bai Erlang.
She and Bai Shan had a new grudge, but the new grudge has been reconciled. The most important thing is that after they went through life and death yesterday, she felt that their relationship had risen from ordinary deskmates to the stage of good friends.
So facing Bai Erlang, who had been holding a grudge for a long time, Manbao stood by Bai Shan without hesitation, pulled Bai Shan back and whispered to him, "When will your house be built? I'll ask my eldest brother and second brother to help."
She said, "Bai Erlang is a bad guy. You live in his house, and he might not even notice if you get bullied by him. Besides, you are a guest, and it is not good for you to fight with the host. Just wait until you move out. If he bullies you again, I will ask my eldest nephew to help you fight back."
He added: "If my eldest nephew can't beat me, I still have my fifth and sixth brothers. Let me tell you, my sixth brother is really good at fighting. No other kid in the village can compare to him."
Bai Shan didn't want to live in his uncle's house anymore, as he felt it was inconvenient, so he whispered to Man Bao, "My grandmother is choosing a place, and I heard from my mother that if we move quickly, we can move out before the New Year."
Bai Shan had never seen a house being built before, and thought it would be fast if they could move out before the New Year, but Manbao was not like that. She exclaimed, "It took so long. Go home and ask your grandmother to choose a place quickly. I'll talk to my father and ask my eldest brother and the others to help. I have six brothers. I can call some people from the village and the house will be built for you in three to five days."
"So fast?"
"Not fast, not fast anymore," Manbao said, "Last time the village chief wanted to build a house for Sanzhu to marry a wife, my eldest brother and his friends worked together and built it for him in two days."
Obviously, Manbao didn't know that there are differences between houses.
Bai Shan didn't know anything about it. He was waiting for the school to end excitedly. He received the homework assigned by Mr. Zhuang and went home.
Mr. Zhuang is not blind. He can tell from the five students’ bruised and swollen faces that they had been fighting.
Upon questioning, he found out it was still a private fight, so he fined them again.
Bai Erlang and the other three accepted the punishment with bitter faces, but Manbao and Baishan were extremely excited, because both children felt that reading requires writing.
What kind of punishment is this?
The two of them went back to their respective homes happily. Manbao was particularly responsible today. She first organized Datou and Daya and taught them a few words, and recited four sentences of "Thousand Character Classic". Then she just sat there doing nothing.
She went to the mall again to take a look at the tube of green liquid and asked greedily, "Koko, can't you really give it to me on credit first?"
The system said helplessly: "Host, I can only connect to the mall. Transactions are completed by a third party. If I had the points, I could buy it myself and give it to you on credit. You can pay me back the points in the future. But the problem now is that I don't have that many points."
The system doesn't mind letting Manbao see its own points, since there aren't that many.
It came here accidentally because it encountered a space storm during the launch process. After contacting the main system, the main system said that the space channel for interstellar contact was not open, and a large amount of points needed to be opened.
Logically, the points should be paid by the host, but where did the host get the points at that time? Without points, the channel cannot be opened, the things it has collected cannot be returned to the encyclopedia, and the system cannot determine the points given to it and the host.
This is almost a vicious circle.
The most terrifying thing was that because the channel could not be opened, and it had spent a lot of energy to protect itself while passing through the storm, it could no longer go back by itself.
So Koko could only spend his own points to open the channel, and then find a person with the highest IQ detected at the time to live with nearby.
It was dizzy at the time and didn't see Manbao's appearance clearly. It only recognized the soul. Who knew it was a doll?
Let her be a doll, after all it is legal and the channel is open. Even if Manbao cannot pay the fee for the channel in the end, when she dies in the future, the system can be recycled and will not be lost in the interstellar space.
For intelligent systems like these, if they cannot generate revenue for the interstellar system, their main system will definitely be disconnected. Once the connection is severed, it will be no different from death.
So it really has no points to help Manbao. The points it earned by buying candies to lure Manbao over the years were squeezed out of its teeth. Of course, Manbao just paid it back not long ago.
She can also be congratulated for going from negative assets to having positive assets.
Like Manbao, Keke is also very confident in her, because in a short period of time, she not only achieved positive growth in assets, but also successfully opened a mall. What does this mean?
This shows that the plasticity of its host is very great. The current dilemma is only because its host is too young. It will be fine once it grows up a little.
As for Manbao's character, Koko, who grew up with her, thinks he knows her best. This is the kind of person who won't leave even when beaten, and will go back even when persuaded.
But she has another advantage, as long as there is benefit, she will do it.
This benefit is that there are things she likes, delicious things, fun things, things that are good for her family, or things that her family really needs.
Koko thought he could leave the potion here to keep Manbao hooked, but the points required to do so were too high and there seemed to be no hope, so he said, "Manbao, the rooster you bought for your mother has been eaten. According to the doctor, your mother's most fundamental problem is anemia, so she needs nutritional supplements. If she can eat meat every day, her health should be much better, at least until you earn enough points to buy potions."
Upon hearing this, Manbao began to count all his coins from the system and found that he still had enough to buy a chicken.
So she wanted to take the money to find his second brother, but the system reminded her again, "Your family may not be willing to buy chickens."
Manbao stopped, tilted his head and thought for a while, then put the copper coins in his pocket and walked out.