Chapter 582: Chapter 13: Journey Home from School (Part 2)
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"I can’t believe even Lady Serlin is wary of the Wang Family." Zhou Ziang had inquired about the Wang Family before, and knew that this generation had many outstanding descendants and were mostly very strict, yet he had not found out anything specific.
"I’m telling you the truth, even if Quinn and Locke both recommend you for the selection trial at Cangqiong Palace, if you want to return safely from there, you still need me. So, Zhou Ziang, as long as you still have concerns in this world, don’t repeatedly defy my wishes. Go back to your hometown and clarify matters with the Wang Family." Serlin spoke with a threatening tone. The ones who had returned from Cangqiong Palace were only three people, be it her in the United States, or that old ghost in Europe, or those lying low in China.
"Obedience is better than respect. By the way, Lady Elsa, compared to your current blonde hair, I think your former mixed-colored hair suited you better," Zhou Ziang turned around and walked out.
Serlin was taken aback, a foreboding feeling rising in her heart. He had actually guessed that the portrait hanging on the wall was indeed Serlin herself.
Everyone who entered this office, including her daughter Elsa, mistook this anonymously painted portrait of a woman as an ancestor of the Roster family.
Serlin made a phone call: "How’s the matter with the Feng Bird going?"
"Mother, rest assured, half of the tobacco plantations in Cuba have already fallen into the hands of the Roster family. I’m tired of staying on the island, so let me handle the matters in China," Elsa said gleefully from the other end of the phone.
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Before leaving the Huake Institute, Zhang Yiyi was still humming incessantly due to toothache: "Xiao Xian, are you sure we should go home? It’s a 500 Heaven-defying Value round trip. My Heaven Card only has a few tens of Heaven-defying Values left. Maybe I shouldn’t go out." Zhang Yiyi was indeed tempted by the food outside, but just thinking about the 1000 Heaven-defying Value needed for a round trip sent chills colder than those she felt when buried in the deserts of Zone C.
"Don’t worry so much, we can definitely earn the Heaven-defying Values back. Besides, without you as labor, who would I find to move out so many cushions," Xiao Xian had also considered this issue, so before leaving the campus, she made another move by dividing the month’s work of cushions into two batches; one batch experimentally taken to the strategic center for sale, and the other carried out by Mao Dazhu.
The more you use your brain, the more exquisite your craftsmanship becomes, now the cushions Xiao Xian woven were using less material and were more sturdy.
One day during dinner, Xiao Xian accidentally spilled hot soup on a cushion and found that the soup did not soak into the cushion at all.
This time when she goes home, she was going to get Mao Dazhu’s help to find more weaving pattern books to try out more designs.
Zhang Yiyi had recently gained more strength, filling up on more food and moving things had become much more efficient.
However, unlike before, when she used to gain weight just from eating more, her body now looked even more solid and lean, except her face was still chubby, not sharpening at all, in her words, her family had the genes for a ’baozi face’.
Xiao Xian and Zhang Yiyi cut off the electricity and water supply from their dormitory, each carrying a dozen of cushions, and walked towards the Strategic Materials Center.
Romeo One, as usual, was doing cleaning nearby, and silently rotated under Xiao Xian and her companion’s feet when guests entered.
Xiao Xian had been cutting cattail for half a month, and it was thanks to her help that nearby cattail had recently been trimmed neatly.
For this, Romeo One had even received praise from the Central Computer Shakespeare.
"Romeo, I need to take a couple of days off, I need to go home, you’ll have to find someone else for cutting grass," Xiao Xian had recently found a basketful of advantages of studying in the Reverse Genius Class at Huake Institute.
For instance, North Campus would arrange cultural lessons based on the students’ knowledge system, typically taught online with flexible scheduling.
If students were diligent enough, they could still participate in various domestic exams and obtain the corresponding diplomas.
However, since entering the Reverse Genius Class at Huake Institute, few people would want to follow the path of ordinary people.
Also, the vacation system of the Reverse Genius Class.
According to the regulations of the Central Computer, beginner students must attend a minimum of 28 academic hours per week, and those who do not complete the hours would be forcibly locked in the "network blackout" until they completed the corresponding study.
As for other times, they could be arranged at will, including leaving the campus, but students without special reasons could not leave the campus for more than 72 hours, excluding the annual holidays.
"Besides this, I have a batch of cushions here, and I want to store them in the center for sale, you first inspect them," repeated dealings with Romeo made Xiao Xian also figure out the supply method and frequency of the Strategic Materials Center.
The Strategic Materials Center in Zone C replenishes its stock approximately every week. The advantage of robotic management is that once there are nearly expired products, Romeo One would dispose of them unequivocally. However, the downside of robotic management is it does not understand purchasing or replacing products based on human needs and preferences.
Instant noodles only ever had the Master Niu’s braised beef flavor, mats only had straw mats, even the thickness of the bedding was always standard.
Not to mention some small miscellaneous daily necessities that female students like, none of those were inside. Otherwise, Zhang Yiyi wouldn’t have brought a heap of strange things that baffled Wang Shuai last time they went out.
"Please show the cushions," Romeo did not hear Xiao Xian and Zhang Yiyi’s whispers. It just followed the instructions assigned by the Central Computer and accepted the cushions handed over by Xiao Xian.
"Xiao Xian, do you think it, just a pile of junk metal, would be able to recognize the benefits of your woven cushions?" Zhang Yiyi had also previously regarded Xiao Xian’s woven cushions merely as a seat cushion, but after discovering that no matter how big the temperature difference between day and night, the temperature of the cushions remained consistent, she realized the wonders of the cushions.
"..." Romeo put the cushions on its forehead, performing an assessment. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to Qidian () to cast a recommendation ticket, monthly ticket. Your support is my greatest motivation.)
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