Translator: Dj2203
Editor: Dj2203
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The next day, Lu Huan got up before the cock crowed as usual. The typhoid fever had lasted for three days and was finally completely eradicated from his body. The feeling of lightheadedness had finally disappeared.
Although his face was still a little pale, Lu Huan let out a long breath, stood up and went down the mountain to fetch water.
Before he left, he calmly left a tiny gap on the wooden door and window that only he could notice.
He also sprinkled a few beans on the roof, in various places in the yard, and beside the bed, leaving subtle traces that only he could notice.
If someone else sneaked in, he would be able to discover it and even know the rough size of the other person’s footprints.
He didn’t know who did this and what their purpose was.
Maybe it was a new trap.
A hint of coldness appeared in Lu Huan’s dark eyes. He had to find the person out as soon as possible.
Perhaps because they were severely punished by Lu Wenxiu, Lu Jia kept covering his buttocks while walking and stumbled, while Lu Yi kept covering his face, and when he took his hands away, clear red slap marks could be seen.
These two people always liked to make trouble for Lu Huan, but after being taught a lesson, they became much more obedient. They dared not go to Lu Huan’s wooden door and kitchen easily. When they got close, they acted as if they saw a ghost, showing terrified expressions and quickened their pace to leave.
Lu Huan had no time to care about what happened to them. He had to work with the servants in Ning Wang’s mansion, fetching water and chopping firewood. Therefore, he did not return to his own firewood yard until the sun set.
When he returned to the firewood yard, he put down the pile of firewood and went to check everywhere.
However, today the house was empty and there was nothing unusual. Nothing was new, and nothing had been moved or repaired.
The traces that he had specially laid out had not been touched.
Was it because the other party discovered that he had made arrangements, so they didn’t act rashly?
Or was it just because there was no action today?
Lu Huan naturally did not let down his guard and laid traces for three consecutive days.
However, just like that day, there was nothing unusual in the next three days.
Lu Huan breathed a sigh of relief.
…..
Meanwhile, Su Xi was so worried about the phone call from her aunt that she had no time to think about the game.
She called a few of her good friends and asked them if they knew where she could earn a living by writing homework for others.
“What are you doing? Why are you suddenly short of money?” Gu Qin slipped into the corridor during class break to video chat with Su Xi: “My brother’s training school needs tutors, but they have to be home tutors. You can’t move your legs now.”
Su Xi asked: “Is there any online one?”
Huo Jingchuan passed by in the corridor and leaned over with a smile, saying, “Su Xi, why do you need to rely on talent when you can rely on your looks? The people chasing you are almost lining up at the high school across the street. Why don’t I help you post on the campus forum? Five hundred yuan for a date. The money will be earned quickly.”
This guy had always been a frivolous person, so Su Xi replied, “Get lost.”
After hanging up the phone, Su Xi looked sad and buried her face in the pillow.
For a high school student, money was not easy to earn. Su Xi didn’t expect to help her parents with the huge sum of 100,000 yuan, but when she looked at the plaster on her leg, she always felt that she was a “spendthrift” who had to go to the hospital every other day.
Although they didn’t know why Su Xi needed to borrow money, Gu Qin and Huo Jingchuan thought that her family might have encountered some trouble. If she didn’t say it, they wouldn’t ask too much. But since they were friends since childhood, how could they just sit there and do nothing? So they called a few good friends over.
Gu Qin said, “Let’s discuss it and raise some money for Su Xi. Let’s raise as much as we can.”
Here, Su Xi didn’t know that his friends were discussing lending her money.
Because her parents were a bit busy, they didn’t come today. So, she went to the hospital cafeteria to eat alone, all the while leaning on her crutches, and then returned to the ward alone to do her homework.
After finishing her homework, she couldn’t help but glance at the game app on her phone.
She hadn’t been online for a whole day, and she didn’t know how her game character was doing, whether he was hungry or cold, and she actually missed him a little. However, she didn’t have money to spend on games, so she should just study hard and make progress every day.
It’s just a game, don’t get addicted.
Su Xi shook her head, trying hard to put aside the urge to open the game, and took the textbook to continue reading.
But at this moment, a message popped up on the system.
“Go buy a lottery ticket now.”
Su Xi glanced at his phone, somewhat puzzled: “Buy lottery tickets? Why would I buy lottery tickets?”
The system said, “I told you that when you accumulate 10 points, you can redeem the first koi. You are almost there. Are you sure you want to give up now?”
“I don’t believe it.” Su Xi didn’t believe in the koi or not. The system’s words were all a lie. It must be a gimmick made up by the game planner.
Besides, how can you win the lottery just by thinking about it? The probability was even lower than her getting into Tsinghua University or Peking University!
Instead of hoping to win the lottery, it would be better to hope that their house would suddenly be demolished.
The system suddenly said, “You won’t die if you try it. You are not the only poor person who has this idea.”
Su Xi: “…”
Damn it, can you please just talk nicely if you have something to say? Instead of making targeted personal attacks, this is a broken system!
Probably because she hadn’t played games for a whole day, she was indeed a little itchy. So, Su Xi couldn’t control herself and opened the familiar “The Road to Emperor: The Yandere Prince Loves You Only” app. When the nurse came in, she blinked her eyes and asked her to go to the convenience store downstairs to buy her some fruit and a lottery ticket.
Su Xi had black hair, fair skin, and a gentle and non-aggressive appearance. Such that even the nurse couldn’t stand saying no to her.
The nurse was very nice and helped her buy it back quickly.
After getting a two-dollar lottery ticket, Su Xi stuffed it into her trouser pocket, thinking that it wouldn’t kill her to give it a try, then entered the game interface while chewing an apple.
It was daytime again in the game, snow was falling from the sky, the woodshed was empty, and her game character was not there again.
Su Xi felt a little melancholy. Damn Ning Wang mansion, why did the villains oppress her game character all day long? She finally logged into the game but her character was not there. And other places had not been unlocked yet. Su Xi didn’t know where the character could be, so naturally there was no way to find him.
There were 37 gold coins and 7 points in the upper right corner.
Su Xi held her chin and thought for a while.
According to the system, points could be obtained from five aspects: skills, interpersonal relationships, appearance and environment, physical fitness, and main line.
Now the first main task (gaining the appreciation of the old lady in Ning Wang’s Mansion) had not yet been started, and the skills had not yet been unlocked. Of course, she could only start by improving the environment in which the game characters lived.
Su Xi clicked into the firewood house and realized once again that it was really simple. Although the door and the roof had been repaired and there was no leakage, the empty house had no tables, chairs, or pots, and the bed was hard and looked very cold.
Even the back kitchen had charcoal fire, but there was none in her game figurine’s house!
Little cabbage, your life is so hard.
Su Xi was very sad, and without thinking, she opened the mall and scrolled to the basic items column, intending to pick out a pot of charcoal fire. Unexpectedly, the system mall had a wide variety of products, even charcoal fire had many kinds, with seventy or eighty on a row of shelves.
The indifferent system became excited when it saw her start shopping, and immediately recommended enthusiastically: “Dear, take a look at this gilded copper furnace with exotic beast patterns. It only costs 999999 gold coins–“
Before the message was finished, Su Xi swiped it away coldly: “Get out of my way.”
She scrolled to the end and chose the most common “pot of charcoal”, which cost 8 gold coins.
After selecting the charcoal, Su Xi moved her fingers up and down on the screen and placed the charcoal in a more ventilated corner, which would be warmer and less prone to carbon monoxide poisoning. Of course, after moving, she realized that this was a game world, and there was no carbon monoxide! Was she too immersed in the game?
The room was still lacking tables, chairs and teacups.
Su Xi bought the cheapest set in the mall. Although it was a simple table made of wooden strips, it was usable and she believed that the character would not mind.
With such crazy spending, the gold coin balance in the upper right corner soon dropped to only 7 gold coins.
Su Xi felt so distressed that she searched the mall sadly to see if there was any bargain she could pick up.
Her fingers suddenly paused, and she found a pair of clean and simple black boots – exactly 7 gold coins.
Su Xi was delighted. She noticed last night that her game character had been kneeling somewhere all day and his boots were worn out. Worn-out boots must be very cold, so it was a good opportunity to change to a new pair.
Su Xi happily spent all the gold coins, and then placed the boots neatly next to the bed in the house.
In this way, with the addition of tables, chairs and a charcoal basin, the room actually looked a bit livelier.
Su Xi asked happily, “I have improved the environment, how many points can I get?”
The system popped up: “Congratulations on the successful improvement of the external basic environment. You will receive a gold coin reward of +3 and a point reward of +1.”
Su Xi: “??? Why is there only 1 point reward?”
The system said, “Because your behavior is judged as gaining something without any effort, the task is too simple. Simply spending gold coins is not enough to gain more points. Moreover, improving the environment itself does not gain many points. If you want to gain more points, please try to start with interpersonal relationships and main quests.”
Su Xi: …
Just when Su Xi was cursing like crazy in her heart, footsteps were heard outside. The footsteps paused slightly when they reached the door.
Lu Huan looked carefully at the traces outside the door and found that his arrangements had not been touched, so there should be no unusual situation today.
So he walked to the corner of the yard, put down the basket he was carrying, pushed open the door and walked in.
However, when his casual gaze fell into the house, his pupils suddenly froze.
The doors and windows were clearly not moved, which meant that no one came in through them, but –
Why were there so many things in the house out of nowhere?!
There was an extra table for placing things, and the teapot was moved from the windowsill to it.
There were extra chairs to sit on, and they were wiped clean.
There was also a pot of charcoal fire in the corner. Although it was not an expensive stove, it did warm up the air in the whole house.
Lu Huan was covered in snow and wind, his clothes were covered with frost, and the skin on his slender and clean wrists was frozen white, but the heat blowing towards him actually melted the coldness at the corners of his clothes and gently wrapped around his unconscious skin.
He seldom warmed himself.
Therefore, when this trace of warmth fell on the corners of his eyes and eyebrows, it was so strange that it made his eyebrows twitch nervously.
Lu Huan didn’t know what to think for a moment, his face was still cold, and when a pair of black boots beside the bed caught his sight, he was even more shocked.
He frowned, walked over quickly and picked up the black boots.
All he saw was that the stitches were densely packed and the workmanship was rough.
But they were clean, new boots, with no needles or anything else hidden inside.
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