Chapter 35:
Dad, wake up! Someone gave me five yuan. Now, I can buy you food, so dont keep sleeping!
With a splitting headache, Su Yuyang barely opened his eyes. Right in front of him was a dirty-looking child, appearing to be about 2 or 3 years old. However, his eyes beheld a suspicious gleam, proving he was not as innocent as another of his age. They were full of worry.
Hmm.
Su Yuyang reluctantly responded. Instead of choosing to receive the plot right away, he propped up his upper body and sat up reluctantly.
He couldnt bear to let such a small child worry for him.
Dad, look, we have money!
When Su Yuyang sat up, the little boy immediately jumped into Su Yuyangs arms, stuffed his money in front of him, and looked like he was asking for praise.New novel chapters are published on
Baobao is really awesome.
(TNote: Baobao = treasure/darling/baby.)
Without having any memory of this life, Su Yuyang didnt know the childs name, so he resorted to only praising him like this.
Dad, what did you call me?
The little boy froze.
Baobao.
Was it unpopular to call children Baobao these days?
I thought my name was Little Bas*ard? You always called me that, and said it was a special name for me and Dad, and to keep it a secret from Mom.
The little boy was puzzled.
Damn it, what kind of crazy person calls their children bas*artd!?
Dad was wrong. You are called Baobao. Little Bas*ard is a curse word. Dad was confused before, so I wont call you that anymore.
Su Yuyang immediately hugged the child heartily. No wonder the child is so small, skinny and so fragile. He was sure the Dad was scum.
But the kid really stank, did he pick him up in the trash?
Oh.
The boy nodded and seemed to understand.
Then Su Yuyang heard a low rumbling sound. Evidently, it came from a hungry stomach or two, one from him and one from the child.
Is Baobao hungry? Lets go get some food.
Su Yuyang saw that there was a steamed stuffed bun shop across the road, but he didnt know what daily expenses were like in this era. How many steamed stuffed buns could be bought for 10 yuan?
Okay!
When he heard that they were going to buy food, the little boys face burst into a smile, and all his worries were thrown to the back of his mind.
Indeed, a childs world is the simplest.
Even though he knew that he would enter the body of the villains father every time, Su Yuyang never regarded his children as villains.
No matter what happens in the future, right now, he was just an ordinary and precious child.
Five yuan got him 6 large meat buns and two bottles of water, with a yuan to spare.
After thinking about it, he didnt immediately pass the water and bun to his wide-eyed son.
Baobao, Dad is tired. I want to go home and sit down and eat with Baobao, okay?
Soon after, he found a big bag. Then,after clearing its contents, he rummaged through the trash cans for discarded beverage bottles and boxes of waste paper.
The original owner had no survival skills, and he didnt have a dime on him and a way to get rich, but he was confident he could walk out of this problem.
Host, host, what are you doing? You want to eat garbage?
The system didnt understand.
Im trying to make money! Eat what garbage?! Do you want me to borrow points from you some more?
In truth, he wasnt mindless in borrowing points. Furthermore, he had come to understand some rules that governed point borrowing. Firstly, there was an upper limit to the total amount of points that could be lent out. Secondly, when he asks the system to borrow points to complete the task, the score and points he would receive from completing tasks will decrease. He noticed this by comparing the scores and points earned from the previous two worlds.
The system was stupid not to notice, but he wasnt stupid.
Sure enough, the Lord God called Jinjiang wasnt stupid. Otherwise, with another one or two hosts like him, who had the guts to do this and match with a stupid system, wouldnt that Lord God be ruined?
On top of that, the rules didnt stipulate that the host couldnt borrow points. Instead, it spells out the maximum amount of credit that can be given in the system manual, making the mission hosts think that this can be borrowed casually.
Just, when the host borrows points, they will find that the task points earned in the end would have had interest deducted from it, with interest rates absolutely unfavorable to the hosts.
It was clearly a trap for the hosts to jump into.
So, this time, he will return the credit points first, and then find the system to lend points.
As for the rest of the rules, he would need to figure out the rest of them after completing several more tasks.
Of course, if the situation requires it, he would turn to the system for help.
No, I dont want to! Its just that the host is acting so strange like this, like a completely different person.
After saying that, the system quickly disappeared. It was rare for the host to show kindness. Thus, it did not want to continue to stay here, wondering what if the host cheated it?
Was this so strange?
Su Yuyang was speechless. Though, after thinking about it for a moment, he realized he didnt care so much. He glanced at his son again and saw that he was still sleeping soundly over there, before continuing what he was doing earlier.
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Time flew by, and it was now just a matter of days before the trafficker was almost ready to abduct his son.
He had to be on full alert.
Also, what he was doing before was not eating garbage. He was scouring the trash for recyclables.
People in this era still didnt know the concept of waste recycling, let alone that these things were renewable resources. However, the country was now beginning to vigorously promote environmental protection and subsidize this industry a lot.
As long as he was willing to endure hardships and reuse the knowledge in his head, he would have no problem in taking advantage of this.
He was completely unlike the original owner, who could only work in his father-in-laws friends factory as a grunt worker, working to death everyday, since his highest qualification was a technicians certificate he earned after graduating from a technical secondary school. Fortunately, he met his wife at an exhibition. He looked good, so he was able to charm the girl.
This was the only reason he was able to marry this wife who came from a very good family, and have a child with her, even though he had nothing, and that his family was a rural family.
Thanks to the bragging from his mouth, he was considered a big deal. Also, he was good with words, slowly coaxing his father-in-law and wife for more and more money. Otherwise, how else could they have lost all their savings? After realizing his devious ways, his father-in-law and wife became tougher on him.
This time, he wanted to completely turn over a new leaf, so that his wife and father-in-law could see the changes in him and so that he could get back together with his wife.
Thinking about it, Su Yuyang felt utter disappointment towards the original owner. He had both hands and feet, and did not suffer from diseases or problems. He could have worked to live after divorcing his wife. Instead, he wandered off aimlessly with his son, became a beggar, and let a young child beg to support him. What a real piece of work!
Nowadays, no one would rummage through the trash cans, and some people would even move far away when they saw a trash can. With no competition, Su Yuyangs returns from recycling couldnt have been more lucrative.
With just one trash can, he could find, on average, half a bag of aluminum cans and plastic bottles, as well as three or four books and a small bundle of cardboard boxes.
Also, the trash cans in this era were quite big, unlike during his time, where there were small trash cans everywhere, and the garbage scattered.
Saying it was a trash can, actually this was just a big green metal box. The surrounding neighbors would drop off the waste products from their homes. Every once in a while, a garbage truck comes to take all the trash to a landfill.
Once he was done, he tidied up the bags of recyclables, and his son woke up.
When his son woke up to see his father nowhere nearby, he froze in fear. However, after looking around in anxiety, he let out the breath caught in his throat when he saw Su Yuyang sorting through a large pile of trash not too far away.