Chapter 39

It’s a good thing that Shuan Zi had only eaten a few bites of Mrs. Chen’s food earlier. After vomiting twice, he stopped himself and then turned around and ran!

At this point, Shen Cui had finally scooped out all the dry ingredients from the pot, and the system evaluated that she had completed the task, immediately sending her a completion notification.

【Task Reward: 50 Shopping Points.】

Shen Cui couldn’t help but laugh, 【I spent 80 Shopping Points to complete the task, and you’re giving me 50 points as a reward. Brother System, you’re really good at accounting.】

【Well… think about it in a positive way, Host. The Academy tasks don’t require the Host, who is the head of the academy, to cook every day. There will be other tasks in the future. Compared to the unpredictable mainline tasks, this is a stable income.】

That makes sense. Mainline tasks are issued irregularly, and the income of Shopping Points is very unstable.

Now, with such a daily task, the income is a stable 1500 Shopping Points per month.

Of course, the premise is as the system said, not every daily task requires spending Shopping Points. Otherwise, even if Shen Cui finds a loophole, gets the ingredients for dumplings, and makes a pot of soup for everyone in the Academy to share, she can only earn 10 points for that task.

Shen Cui sighed softly, 【You’ve really learned bad habits. You weren’t like this before.】

【Yes, because the Host ‘helped’ me fix some bugs a few times before. I have indeed added a lot of new knowledge about Blue Star recently. I just learned a phrase, ‘near vermilion, near ink, near black.’】

Top of Form

After imagining that after work, Shen Cui would have to use her spare time to study Blue Star knowledge, she pursed her lips and smiled, saying, “I’m ‘ink,’ then what are you?”

“I am naturally ‘vermilion,'” the system replied.

Shen Cui couldn’t help but chuckle, “It’s the first time I’ve heard someone eagerly admit to being a pig.”

After receiving the reward, Shen Cui wiped her mouth with a handkerchief and went out to look for Shuan Zi.

After running out of the kitchen, Shuan Zi took a few deep breaths of fresh air and then shouted, “Mom, Mom, come and see! Auntie is also eating that soup by herself. She ate the remaining half pot all by herself!”

The more Shuan Zi talked, the more scared he became, and he even had a hint of crying in his voice.

Just now, his mother said that if Auntie didn’t eat, he wouldn’t have to eat either! But now, Auntie was eating more than anyone else. If he came here, wouldn’t that mean… he didn’t dare to think about it!

“On such a good day, why is this child making a fuss?” In the main hall, although Zheng Shi scolded Shuan Zi, she was looking at her eldest daughter-in-law, Chen Shi, obviously knowing that she was the one causing trouble.

Chen Shi didn’t expect Shuan Zi to rush out of the kitchen so quickly. She quickly got up and smiled apologetically, “I don’t know what happened. I’ll go and check on him.”

As she spoke,Chen Shi went out and pulled him aside, gritting her teeth and saying, “What’s wrong with you, child? Didn’t we agree that you should get along with your aunt? Mommy will buy you candied haws when she goes back if you behave well!”

When he heard about eating, Shuan Zi didn’t have the excitement he had before. With a pale face, he weakly waved his hand, “Mom, stop talking, stop talking! I don’t want to eat anything!”

As soon as he thought about eating, Shuan Zi remembered the scene from earlier and felt even more nauseous. Unfortunately, his stomach was already empty, and he couldn’t even vomit after dry heaving twice.

He stood in the courtyard dry heaving, while everyone in the main hall was eating.

Chen Shi quickly covered Shuan Zi’s mouth.

Shen Cui came out at this moment and saw Shuan Zi’s pale face as Chen Shi covered his mouth. She felt a bit sorry for him and spoke up, “Sister-in-law, don’t force Shuan Zi. Let’s talk openly about this. Studying is not something that can be forced by others. Ask Er Pang and Xiao Xi if they genuinely want to learn or if they are being forced.”

“He’s still young. How would he understand what’s good for him?” Chen Shi answered, glaring at her disobedient son while speaking harshly. “After he studies here for a few years, he will understand!”

As soon as Shuan Zi heard that his mother hadn’t given up on making him follow Aunt Shen Cui, he immediately started crying, saying, “I don’t want to be with Aunt! I never wanted to study, I hate studying. When you took me back to Grandma’s house before, and asked Big Niu to teach me how to recognize characters, I couldn’t recognize a single character… I just can’t remember, I just don’t like it, I hate it!”

Chen Shi was really angry this time and raised her hand as if to hit the child.

“Enough!” Zheng Shi also came out of the main hall, hands on hips, and shouted angrily, immediately silencing both Mrs. Chen and Shuan Zi. “If the child doesn’t want to, why are you jumping up and down here all day? Are your eyes really blind?!”

Things had already escalated, and Zheng Shi apologized to Lao Buyu and Wei Xi with regret, “The children at home are ignorant and have made Master and Young Master Wei laugh.”

Lao Buyu and Wei Xi naturally shook their heads, saying it was no bother.

Afterwards, Zheng Shi didn’t linger. She said that they had eaten enough and it was time to go home.

Seeing Zheng Shi really angry, Shen’s old man and the other younger generations naturally didn’t dare to say a word, and each of them put down their chopsticks.

In less than half an hour, the Shen family had all left early.

“It’s nothing, just a small family conflict that my mother can handle,” Shen Cui sat at the table, “For those who haven’t finished eating, continue eating. For those who have finished, do whatever you need to do.”

There was still a lot of food left on the table, but she couldn’t eat anymore after finishing half a pot of dumpling soup.

Lao Buyu, Mu Er Pang, and Mrs. Zhou hadn’t finished eating yet, so they continued to eat.

After Shen Cui finished speaking, she looked at Wei Xi. Although the system had indicated that his constitution had increased by 1 point, it was still the first time he had eaten something so unappetizing, and seeing Shuan Zi dry heaving in the yard had inevitably affected his appetite.

Wei Xi smiled and bent his lips, continuing to eat with them, indicating that he really wasn’t affected.

With only their own family left, everyone ate more casually. While eating, Lao Buyu suddenly said, “No wonder Madam Mu specially cooked today, it turns out to be for…”

As he spoke, he was quite happy. He didn’t expect Shen Cui to come up with such a “trick” to test whether her nephew would accept a bit of hardship in studying. At eight years old, children are not ignorant. If they really want to learn, they will not be scared off by a pot of dumpling soup.