rebirth from small pockets

Chapter 5 The power of pocket money

"Hiccup~!"

"Hiccup~!"

Chen Li burped while circling in the dam of the grain station.

I had no choice but to eat a bit too much at noon, so I had to walk around to digest it.

He had just quietly collected the rewards for the two tasks he had completed before, and now he had completed 299 two-yuan tasks.

According to his estimate of the system, the system should be able to be upgraded once the number of tasks reaches about 300.

If there is no upgrade, the number of tasks will most likely reach 500.

Of course, this is just Chen Li's guess. Only the system itself knows the specifics.

Although there had been a "white rain" before, the midday sun was still a bit scorching at this moment.

It felt like Chen Li's body had already begun to sweat even before he had walked for a long time.

"It's only June now, how can we spend July and August?"

After taking two quick steps, Chen Li hid under the eaves of a nearby house.

At this time in 1997, it was estimated that no house in Erlong Town had air conditioning. If anyone had a refrigerator or something at home, that would be a big deal.

In fact, apart from the tuck shops that do business and buy freezers, there are not many people in town who can afford to use refrigerators.

However, the grain depot does have one, which was bought by the family of Stationmaster Li of the grain depot.

It was said that he had participated in a lottery in the county town, but who at the grain station didn't know that he actually bought it with his own money?

In fact, refrigerators are very expensive these days, but if you really grit your teeth, many families in the grain station can actually afford them.

It's just that no one will spend money on it. Besides, Stationmaster Li has one at home.

Anyway, in the end, the Li family's refrigerator became almost public. Almost every household in the grain station would freeze something in Stationmaster Li's refrigerator.

Don't talk about whether it's troublesome or not. We are all colleagues who have worked in the same grain station for several years or even more than ten years. We still need to help with this small favor.

So every time it's time to cook, there are always a lot of people in the Li family's kitchen getting ingredients.

Of course, everyone knows what they are doing, and basically they won’t go overboard.

Maybe Stationmaster Li's family was a little dissatisfied at first, but later they got used to it, and even occasionally froze some popsicles for the children at the grain station.

Chen Li has eaten popsicles made of juice mixed with water several times.

One end is sweet and boring, and the other is bland, but it's actually okay to trick your mouth.

"Oh haha, I fell into the pond."

Just when Chen was thinking about how to spend this summer in such a hot weather, a crisp shout rang out from in front of him.

When Chen Li looked up, he saw several children holding table tennis rackets in their hands. Instead of playing ball, they were gathered around the small pond at the grain station.

When he saw this scene, Chen Li was instantly happy. There was no need to guess that the table tennis ball fell into the pond.

It's quite funny. Perhaps for the sake of symmetry, when the people at the grain station were repairing the two table tennis tables, they chose to be parallel to the small pond.

After the construction was completed, a problem was discovered. If you use too much force when smashing the ball, there is a high chance that the table tennis ball will fall into the pond.

So this situation actually happens quite often.

There are only four places in Erlong Town with table tennis tables, primary schools, middle schools, government and grain stations.

Moreover, none of the four table tennis tables are standard, all are made of cement or prefabricated boards.

But even so, except for the government table tennis table, the table tennis tables in every other place are played almost every day.

So China’s table tennis is great! It’s just like the football that Brazilians have played all over the streets since childhood.

With the mass base, the overall level can be improved. The reason why the national football team is so bad is because it is divorced from the mass base.

These children are not from the grain station. In fact, most of the time, the table tennis table at the grain station is played here by some children from the town or students from the nearby Erlong Middle School.

At this time, an older child skillfully picked up the two bamboo poles next to him and picked up the table tennis balls that had fallen into the pond.

There is no way to verify when and who brought these two bamboo poles. Anyway, they were here before Chen Li was reborn.

The purpose of the bamboo pole is to catch table tennis balls.

After the table tennis ball was picked up, several children put the bamboo pole back in place and continued to play table tennis. After a while, if the table tennis ball dropped again, the operation would have to be done again.

Chen Li flexed his muscles and planned to take a class with these boys to let them feel the pros and cons of being the table tennis champion at Erlong Liang Station.

But before Chen Li stepped forward, a voice came from behind.

"Brother, wait for me."

The person coming was naturally Chen Li's sister Chen Xue, but this girl should be taking a nap right now. Why did she come out?

It’s quite funny to say that when Chen Li was in school in his previous life, the most annoying thing was that his parents arranged for him to take a nap.

But after his rebirth, Chen Li also began to supervise his sister's nap.

There is no way. Students these days really don’t get enough sleep.

Take Erlong Middle School as an example: all students start running exercises at 6 a.m., then go to morning self-study, then morning self-study at 7 o'clock, an hour of breakfast time, and formal classes at 8 o'clock.

After four classes in the morning, school is over at 12 o'clock. Class is at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, school is over at 5 o'clock, evening self-study is at 7 o'clock, and evening self-study is at 9 o'clock.

This is only the schedule for the first and second grade of junior high school and the first and second grade of high school.

In the third year of junior high school and the third year of high school, the time for evening self-study will be moved forward by one hour.

Coupled with the homework assigned by the teacher, if the teacher takes over the class during self-study, it will be almost midnight by the time you finish your homework and rest.

This has also resulted in a serious lack of rest time for contemporary students every day.

Today is Saturday. As a sophomore in high school, Chen Li is on vacation, so he doesn't need to take a nap.

But Chen Xue is in the third grade of junior high school and has to go to class on Saturday.

"What are you doing out here without sleeping?"

Chen Li had a straight face and tried to scare his sister into going back to take a nap.

"I can't sleep today. I have to go to the classroom to draw a blackboard report."

Chen Xue didn't care at all about her brother's expression. They were both brothers and sisters. She was really familiar with her brother.

"Oh~ then go ahead! If you finish it early, you can lie down in the classroom for a while."

Chen Li nodded. There was nothing he could do about the blackboard report.

"Hey. Brother, give me three dollars."

Chen Xue wiped the sweat from her forehead, stretched out her hand towards Chen Li and said.

"You want money again? Didn't I give you two yuan? What did you do?"

Chen Li rolled his eyes. He had just given this girl two dollars two days ago. Although it was not much, who child these days could always carry money in his pocket like Chen Xue?

"I want to buy a tape."

Chen Xue pouted her mouth, and the baby fat on her face was particularly obvious.

At this time, Chen Xue was actually a little chubby. Although she might not look that good-looking, she was quite cute.

Unfortunately, after entering high school, perhaps because of the heavy academic pressure, Chen Xue began to "draw money".

Although Chen Xue, who has become taller and thinner, has become a little beauty, Chen Li seems to prefer the little girl with baby fat on her face.

"What tape? Have you started learning English for the first year of high school?"

Chen Li didn't think much and asked casually while taking money out of his trouser pocket.

"Hehe~ It's not an English tape. I want to buy "Heart Is Too Soft" by Ren Xianqi."

"Well!"

Chen Li was a little slower in taking out the money, even hesitant. He was going to educate Chen Xue.

"I don't object to buying tapes, but there's one thing! You can't let your grades fall behind."

"If you don't do well in this high school entrance examination, your pocket money will be gone."

But it was obvious that Chen Xue didn't take this trick and even stretched out his hand in front of Chen Li.

"Hmph~. Don't worry!"

"Anyway, we agreed. As long as I study hard, you have to buy me whatever I want. Give me money!"

In the end, Chen Li chose to pay, after all, this was his sister's kiss!

"With the extra dollar, you can buy ice cream for yourself."

Chen Li handed the four yuan to Chen Xue. He was very generous to his sister.

In fact, during this time in the previous life, the relationship between Chen Li and Chen Xue was not particularly close.

At that time, Chen Li had already entered a rebellious stage, and Chen Xue's study pressure also became relatively high.

But now because Chen Li has been reborn, he seems to be quite tolerant of his sister.

Coupled with the temptation of pocket money, Chen Li has simply become a model of "good brother" in Chen Xue's mind, so the relationship between the two brothers and sisters is really close now.

But perhaps the main reason for this is that pocket money is more powerful!

Well. It’s just so realistic!

(End of chapter)