Chapter 134: So Annoyed

A line of text appeared on the system panel:

You can exchange the courtyard house for the complete set of books, or wait for future missions to unlock them. But if the host wants to read them, you can borrow them like before.

Fu Mingxue: ...?

Your previous mission reward was clearly a full set of physical books.

Now, you’re only giving out the one book she already paid to read.

There’s a curse word on the tip of her tongue, but she’s not sure if she should say it.

“System, this isn’t right! I worked so hard to complete the mission, you can’t just change the rules like this!”

Unfortunately, the system didn’t respond.

Instead, another line of text appeared:

The mission reward books are advanced and can’t be shown to anyone except the host.

Fu Mingxue: ...?

I really want to curse right now.

No matter how long she tried to communicate, the system didn’t budge.

She let out a deep sigh.

At least the book in her hand was hers now, but the problem was, she’d already finished reading it.

And she couldn’t lend it to anyone else.

Could she at least copy it down and share it with others?

But she quickly dismissed that idea—she really didn’t have the time.

Of course, if they wanted her to exchange the courtyard house for the full set of physics books, there was no way she’d do it.

That courtyard could be worth tens of millions in the future.

Even if she had to pay to rent the books, it wouldn’t cost that much, and besides, there would be more missions later on.

Plus, she needed to thoroughly understand each book one by one.

Forget it, she’d just leave it for now!

She’d focus on studying the book she had in hand, not just memorizing it, but really understanding the deeper concepts.

It’s like with math formulas—even if you can recite them, you still need to know how to apply them in different situations!

She still had to do her daily tasks—those small rewards mattered, since she was broke.

Read for an hour, practice calligraphy for an hour—though now, she’d just copy the reward book as her calligraphy practice.

Who says copying isn’t practicing calligraphy?

——

The next day, Fu Mingxue got up early.

But her mom was up even earlier than she was.

When her mother saw her, she pointed at the chicken coop and said,

“Mingxue, you’re up just in time. We can’t finish this chicken ourselves. Today, take this chicken and some rice and flour over to the Qin family!”

The two of them, mother and daughter, plus the two kids, could only bring the winter clothes they absolutely needed—there really wasn’t room for much else.

Fu Mingxue nodded. “Okay. I’ll go a bit later. Maybe we won’t even need to deliver it—someone from the Qin family might come over.”

As soon as she finished speaking, there was a knock at the door.

Fu Mingxue went to open it, and was surprised to see her mother-in-law. “Mom, how come you’re here so early?”

Mother Qin said, “Aren’t you leaving tomorrow? I wanted to see if you needed help packing—I can help you tidy up.”

“Even if I can’t help pack, I can at least look after the two kids for you.”

Fu’s mother was delighted to see her. “In-law, you’re just in time. Later, you’ll have to take those things of ours, or else they’ll spoil.”

She didn’t want to waste a single grain of food.

Mother Qin nodded. “Alright!”

“How about this: you pack up everything you need to take, and later I’ll have Wenze take them to the post office for you, and send them straight to Wenhuo’s unit.”

“That way, you won’t arrive empty-handed.”

Before, when her son wasn’t married, he could only stay in the dorms.

After he adopted his comrade’s two children, he went to the leadership to ask for a house.

That courtyard was only a temporary arrangement.

But now things were different—he was married, and with his rank, he could bring his family with him.

Housing wasn’t a problem, but as for everything else, they had nothing.

They’d have to get all the daily necessities themselves."