CH 16

Ji Zhile was still a little dazed: “Pick up the bottle?”

Can you make money by picking up bottles?

Xiao Yuan has already enthusiastically explained to him: “You can pick up the bottles in the trash can. Others will throw them away after drinking the water and you can pick them up and sell them for money.”

Xiao Yuan’s words brought back some memories of Ji Zhile. He saw the grandparents who used to dig through the trash can to pick up bottles outside, but Ji Zhile always thought that they were going to drink the unfinished water in the bottle.

Because it is written in the storybooks that Ji Zhile has heard, a homeless man who could not get enough to eat would pick up the food that others had eaten to stay alive.

It turned out that it was not to drink the water but to pick up bottles and sell them for money. Ji Zhile suddenly realized.

Xiao Yuan said: “After you pick up the bottle, you can take it to the recycling station and sell it for money, so you can make money.”

“This kid and an adult can do it!”

Ji Zhile was fascinated by Xiao Yuan’s words “money” on the left and “money” on the right and even added that even a child can do it. Ji Zhile immediately decided that he was going to pick up bottles and sell them for money!

At the same time, he thought of the bottles he had thrown away after drinking the water, and Ji Zhile felt heartbroken. If he collected them all and sold them for money, maybe their family would not be so poor.

Xiao Yuan asked, “Zhile, do you want to pick up the bottle?”

Ji Zhile nodded solemnly: “I’m going.”

Xiao Yuan’s eyes lit up immediately: “Let’s go together!”

“I know which bottles sell for money and I know where the garbage collection station is!”

Ji Zhile moved and said: “Thank you, Xiao Yuan. After I get the money, I will treat you to eat…”

Originally, he wanted to talk about eating KFC, but eating KFC once made their family poor. Ji Zhile felt that he could not afford it, so he changed his words and said, “Please eat ice cream.”

Xiao Yuan said, “Okay.”

When the class was over, the two children went hand in hand to see every trash can in the kindergarten. Unfortunately, there was not a single bottle and the two children were very disappointed.

“Why not?” Xiao Yuan was puzzled.

Ji Zhile said: “I know, because everyone brings their own cups to the kindergarten, so there will be no bottles to be thrown away after drinking.”

“That’s right.” Xiao Yuan asked, “Then where can we pick up bottles?”

Ji Zhile’s little head turned quickly and quickly locked on to several locations: “In the park, in the amusement park, on the street.”

Xiao Yuan said: “Then let’s go to these places to pick up bottles!”

But after class is so short, they will definitely not be able to go, and in the afternoon, after school, their mother will come to pick up people quickly, and it will definitely not work. Ji Zhile said: “We can go on the weekend and then I will go to your house to find you.”

The two children made an appointment like this. Ji Zhile was a little excited and could not wait for the arrival of the weekend.

When school was over in the afternoon, Ji Zhile went out of the kindergarten with the students in the small class. He and Xiao Yuan walked last, planning to pick up bottles on the weekend.

“What are you talking about?” A female voice interrupted.

It’s Xiaoya, Ji Zhile doesn’t want to talk to her because she is super vengeful. Xiaoya sued his mother yesterday.

Ji Zhile snorted softly and did not want to talk to her, but Xiaoya had already spoken again: “Ji Zhile, will your mother come to pick you up today?”

“Of course!”

Xiaoya said: “My mother will also come to pick me up. My mother will be the most beautiful today.”

Ji Zhile immediately retorted: “My mother is the most beautiful.”

Xiaoya said seriously: “Yesterday your mother was the most beautiful, but my mother can wear skirts today, so she is the prettiest.”

Ji Zhile: “My mother can also wear skirts!”

The two children almost quarreled and they both thought their mother was the most beautiful.

Other children also gathered around. Si Tian came to pick up Ji Zhile late yesterday and there were not many children who saw her, but these few children agreed with Ji Zhile’s point of view very much.

“Ji Zhile’s mother is really beautiful.”

“Like a fairy, she has long hair, wears a beautiful skirt, and smells good on her body.”

Xiaoya refused to admit defeat and said, “My mother will too, just wait.”

The students in the small class were all waiting enthusiastically. Sure enough, as soon as the school was over, they heard someone calling Xiaoya and Ji Zhile looked over immediately.

As expected, Xiaoya’s mother was wearing a skirt and had long hair, and the other children were discussing in low voices.

Ji Zhile snorted softly, turned his head away, and resolutely refused to look at other people’s mothers.

Xiaoya was about to go home, so she walked around in front of Ji Zhile and said triumphantly, “I said my mother would wear beautiful dresses.”

Just as Ji Zhile was about to say that his mother would do the same, he heard Si Tian’s voice.

“Ji Zhile.”

Ji Zhile immediately raised his head excitedly, but the moment he saw Si Tian, ​​the light in his eyes disappeared.

Xiao Yuan immediately said, “Zhile, your mother looks good even without a skirt.”

Ji Zhile felt that Xiaoya was inferior to him. He thought that wearing a skirt was the most beautiful, but her mother did not wear it today.

Si Tian walked to Ji Zhile’s side, lifted his school bag, and let it go: “What are you doing standing here?”

Ji Zhile looked sleepy and lacked energy, Si Tian touched his forehead suspiciously: “Are you sick?”

Xiao Yuan said, “Auntie, Zhile is not sick, he just…”

“Don’t say it!” Ji Zhile quickly interrupted him, tugging at the hem of Si Tian’s clothes, “Mom, let’s go home.”

“You can’t be rude.” Si Tian said, “Apologies to your classmate.”

Ji Zhile pouted and just about to speak, Xiao Yuan ran away quickly: “It’s okay.”

“Mom, let’s go home.” Ji Zhile said again, “I still have to pick up Brother.”

He did not want to stay here anymore. He felt that other children seemed to be looking at him. He clearly said that his mother would wear a skirt, but her mother didn’t. Ji Zhile felt his face was a little hot.

Si Tian took Ji Zhile’s hand and left.

After getting in the car, Ji Zhile was quiet for a long time. When he was about to go to his brother’s school, he finally asked Si Tian: “Mom, why aren’t you wearing a skirt today?”

Ji Zhile believes that as long as her mother wears a skirt, she must be the most beautiful mother in kindergarten, and no one can compare her.

Si Tian did not wear it purely because of trouble. Yesterday was the first time she picked up Ji Zhile. She gave each a sense of ritual, so let’s not use it today.

But Si Tian was not going to tell Ji Zhile the truth, she could not let the children learn of her laziness, so Si Tian said, “Yesterday’s skirt was washed off and it hasn’t dried yet.”

Ji Zhile’s eyes widened in surprise: “Does Mom only have one skirt?”

He remembered that his mother had a lot of skirts before, why are there none now?

Si Tian cheekily said “Yes”. She put the original owner’s clothes in other places. The original owner’s preferences are different from hers, so she now has no more than five skirts, rounding up to about one is fine.

Ji Zhile’s face suddenly fell. He felt that his mother was so pitiful. The girls in his class had many skirts, but his mother only had one.

Mom used to have a lot of them, but now they are gone. Is it because their family has become poor?

Ji Zhile thought, when he goes to pick up bottles on weekends, he must try his best to pick up more and sell them for more money so that their family will not be so poor.

Ji Zhile decided not to tell his mother about the match between Xiaoya and him today. If his mother knew that she had lost, she would be very sad.

Ji Zhile tried his best to comfort her: “Mom looks good even without a skirt.”

Si Tian chuckled and pinched Ji Zhile’s face lightly: “Why do you speak so nicely today?”

Could it be that her poverty-stricken education has worked and that a poor environment is more conducive to improving the relationship between mother and child?

Ji Zhile rubbed the place where his mother had just pinched him but did not say anything. He did not like others pinching his face, but it was already very sad for his mother not to be able to wear a beautiful dress, so Ji Zhile decided to sacrifice a little by himself.

After receiving Ji Ningyi, Si Tian asked, “What do you want to eat tonight?”

Ji Zhile said, “Let’s go home and eat!”

You have to give money to eat out, but you don’t have to at home.

“What about Ningyi?”

Ji Ningyi said: “Mom, I think the same as Zhile.”

“Okay.” Si Tian was still planning to eat some barbecue outside. Although the meals made by the chef in the villa were nutritious and delicious, she wanted to eat some unhealthy food.

At dinner tonight, Ji Zhile showed obedient behavior that he had never seen before. Even Si Tian scooped a spoonful of the most hated carrot and put it in his bowl, he also finished eating it with a frown. Not at all like before, he did not even eat the rice that was touched by carrots.

Si Tian thinks that the sun is coming out from the west today. Ji Zhile was not used to being so obedient, so she deliberately provoked trouble and gave Ji Zhile another spoonful of carrots, waiting for Ji Zhile’s reaction.

Sure enough, Ji Zhile was not the kind of child who was always obedient. He frowned and said angrily, “I won’t eat it!”

Seeing this scene, Si Tian thought about it and she said slowly: “Carrots have the effect of nourishing the liver and improving eyesight, eat well, eat more.”

Everyone should have experienced being persuaded by adults to eat food, and the words are still those few words, eating is good for the body, eat more.

Si Tian was drenched in the rain, and now, she is going to tear up Ji Zhile’s umbrella.

Ji Ningyi also said: “Yes, Zhile, we need to eat more carrots.”

After saying that, Ji Ningyi set an example and ate a big mouthful.

Ji Zhile pouted: “Brother doesn’t hate carrots.”

Ji Zhile pushed the carrots to the edge of the bowl and scooped up the rice carefully with a spoon, but managed not to touch the carrots at all. The carrots were still there after the bowl of rice was finished.

Si Tian saw it and thought it was wrong.

“Ji Zhile, didn’t you say you can’t waste it this morning?”

Ji Zhile plausibly said: “Carrots are not wasted.”

He glanced at the carrots with a disgusted expression on his face.

“Carrots are also very expensive. They cost eight yuan a catty.”

When Ji Zhile heard about the money, Ji Zhile’s original firm expression was a little shaken. He did not forget that their family was very poor, so poor that his mother only had one skirt and could only eat unpalatable eggs.

Ji Zhile scooped up the carrot, closed his eyes, stuffed it into his mouth, chewed it with a death-like expression, and finally swallowed it. He said: “Mom, we won’t buy carrots in the future.”

Si Tian suppressed her smile: “Okay.”

After dinner, Si Tian heard the system announcement as she wished.

[Congratulations to the host for completing the mission and gaining 1.5 days of life.]

That’s right, Si Tian was completing a mission just now. The mission dropped by the system was: Let the two children eat nutritious vegetables. And also listed several items later, such as carrots, kelp, spinach, and so on.

Si Tian randomly picked carrots and tried kelp tomorrow.

She had to admit that she did it on purpose. Knowing that Ji Zhile hated carrots the most, she chose carrots first.

“Xiao Ai, why is the range of missions you drop getting wider and wider?”

Not only caring about the hearts of the two cubs but now even eating is involved.

Xiao Ai said: [Material is the foundation. Our mission involves all aspects. As long as the host follows the mission, the final mission will definitely be completed.]

“Okay.” Si Tian said, “But how can you still drop 1.5 days of survival time?”

It turned out to be all whole numbers before, which gave Si Tian a bad premonition. The time is calculated according to integers, the lowest is 1, but there must be a decimal point, isn’t that just letting it play?

Xiao Ai said: [1.5 days is 36 hours, which is 12 hours more than last time.]

Si Tian said, “All right.”

She thought of Ji Zhile’s obedience today and said to the system quite complacently: “I think my poverty education is effective. You can see how much Ji Zhile has changed.”

Xiao Ai’s system can’t educate children, but it will flatter and immediately say: [Yes, the host is really powerful and it is getting faster and better to complete the mission.]

Si Tian said, “I think so too.”

At the beginning of the book, Si Tian still felt that the battle line of this mission was too long and it was a bit tricky to train the two future vicious male partners into good young people with the correct three views.

But now Si Tian thinks that Ji Ningyi doesn’t need to be raised at all. If he lives on the current trajectory, he will definitely not repeat the same mistakes in the future. Now Ji Ningyi is the best-behaved child Si Tian has ever seen. Ji Ningyi is pampering her.

As for Ji Zhile, after her poor education, he is no longer a bear child, no picky eater, and no swearing. The future is indeed promising.

Si Tian did not have to worry if the battle line was stretched. After all, her husband did not like to go home and would only send money to her. Si Tian felt that there was nothing wrong with living like this for the rest of her life.

In the blink of an eye, it was the weekend. When Si Tian went to pick up the two children on Friday, she found Ji Zhile very excited. When she took his hand, he looked directly at the other side.

Si Tian felt strange, following Ji Zhile’s gaze, an old woman was picking up bottles in the trash can.

Ji Zhile’s eyes brightened: “Mom, I’m going to play at Xiao Yuan’s house tomorrow.”

Knowing that they are good friends, Si Tian readily agreed, “Do you want me to take you there?”

“Okay, I have an appointment with Xiao Yuan at eight o’clock.”

Si Tian: …

“Then let the driver take you there.”

Why is this kid so energetic?

Adults meet in the afternoon.

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Translator’s Comment:

Hahaha… Just say that you are too lazy to wake up early, Si Tian.

Btw, Ji Zhile has become more and more adorable. He is really thinking about how to help his family out of poverty. Huhuhu… Mom is so proud of you, Zhile!