"Ah! I absolutely can't endure this, who's responsible! Bastard!"
Ma Dongqiang's system reward arrived a bit earlier than Xiang Beifei had anticipated. He bossed the vendors around every day, scavenging all sorts of things in the market, so the collection was quickly complete.
Therefore, when the vendors were closing up shop and Ma Dongqiang's angry howls rose from the other side, Xiang Qingde still found it strange.
"What's wrong with him?"
Xiang Qingde looked at Ma Dongqiang puzzled as he hopped up and down in agitation.
"Don't know, maybe he's constipated."
With two thousand yuan in his pocket, Xiang Beifei watched Ma Dongqiang like an onlooker eating melon seeds.
"Is that so!"
Xiang Qingde suddenly understood, then whispered after a moment, "You see, what goes around comes around. That's why it's better to be kind."
He seemed rather satisfied.
But Ma Dongqiang was on the verge of going mad with anger!
Originally he was happy to have saved enough endurance value, and with much excitement, he went to claim his reward that he had accumulated over several months, only to find that the system had glitched!
Ma Dongqiang's face turned green on the spot!
[Please learn to hold back and remain silent. Avoid getting agitated, or endurance points will be deducted.]
"All my things are gone, how can I possibly hold back?"
Ma Dongqiang roared.
[The host failed to hold back, endurance value -1, current endurance value is 2]
"I'm so done with this!"
[The host failed to hold back, endurance value -1, current endurance value is 1]
Ma Dongqiang took a sharp breath and hurriedly shut his mouth, his face turning white.
His [Endure and Swallow Your Voice] system had two ways of acquiring points.
If others chose to endure and swallow their voices against his actions, he could accumulate endurance value. If he himself endured and swallowed his voice in response to others' actions, he could also accumulate endurance value.
Enduring and swallowing one's voice was a two-way street.
Thus if his task reward was lost, he had to endure it too!
If he couldn't endure, then it would be disastrous!
He had finally accrued 21,003 points by exploiting these vendors, and after exchanging them for his task reward, now both the Primordial Strengthening Pill and two thousand yuan were gone.
He had been domineering for so long, lost his cool for a moment, threw a fit, and as a result, had his endurance value docked too!
Ma Dongqiang saw the customers and vendors around him all pointing and whispering, and he felt like his lungs would explode with rage!
But he dared not lash out.
"I have basically figured it out. I'm thinking about how to complete tasks."
"Is the first system task difficult? Can I help in any way?" Xiang Qingde asked.
Xiang Beifei shook his head: "I need to complete it independently."
"Complete it independently?"
Xiang Qingde understood. If the system required tasks to be completed independently, then others couldn't intervene, otherwise, it would be considered a failure.
"In any case, you need to take your system seriously. Ask more if you don't understand, and be sure to speak up if you have needs. Don't hold back. Grandpa is here! I will definitely help you," Xiang Qingde instructed.
"Understood."
Xiang Beifei nodded and then glanced at his grandfather's system again.
That snowflake panel always made him feel puzzled.
What had happened to make his grandfather's system turn out like this?
But he did not feel it was appropriate to inquire, so he had to suppress this curiosity for the time being.
——
The dishes were served quickly.
Xiang Qingde kept putting food onto Xiang Beifei's plate while he himself ate rice. He hardly touched the three dishes, only occasionally using his chopsticks to dip into the sauce to touch up his rice with a bit of taste.
"Aren't you eating, Grandpa?"
"I am eating, I am. You hurry up and eat more. It's time for you to grow," Xiang Qingde said with a smile.
Xiang Beifei didn't say much, ate half, then put down his chopsticks and said, "I'm full."
"Full already? Eat some more, you're growing."
"This meal doesn't suit my taste. I don't want to eat out next time—it's not tasty," Xiang Beifei said.
"Not tasty? Oh, I knew we shouldn't have come here, and there's still so much left..."
Xiang Qingde looked somewhat distressed at the three plates of food that Xiang Beifei had barely touched.
Xiang Beifei said, "If we can't finish it, let's just leave it. Toss it out."
"How can we do that? We can't waste food like that, how can we just throw it away? You better eat some more," Xiang Qingde hurriedly shook his head, urging Xiang Beifei to continue eating. But Xiang Beifei looked disgusted, and Xiang Qingde had no choice but to eat some of the dishes himself.
Eventually, he had the leftover dishes packed up.
Actually, the food at the restaurant was cooked better than at home, and Xiang Beifei was aware of this fact.
But when eating out, his grandfather always claimed not to like the food, then left the tasty things for him to eat, barely eating much himself.
However, Xiang Beifei knew how to get the thrifty and frugal old man to pick up his chopsticks and join him in eating.
Just say it should be thrown away.
A simple matter.
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