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Chapter 188 Consumption Concept
"Okay, remember what you said today. I hope you won't let me down. By the way, this mission is a secret mission assigned to you alone. I don't want to hear the content of the mission from anyone other than you and me. Do you understand what I mean?" Lin Chuyi still had a smile on his face, but the words he said were extremely oppressive.
Yuan Qizi's heart skipped a beat, and he bowed to Lin Chuyi, "I understand."
"That's good to know. I've said everything I want to say. You can spend the next two days thinking about what to do next. Now go back and rest, so as not to arouse suspicion."
"Yes." Yuan Qizi saluted again and turned back.
When Yuan Qizhi returned to the carriage with the backpack, Wang Dachui, who was sitting in the same carriage, opened his eyes immediately. He looked at Yuan Qizhi, who was squatting and packing his luggage, and asked curiously, "Brother Qizhi, I saw the girl talking to you alone just now. What did she say to you? Why is she so mysterious?"
On the way back, Yuan Qizi had thought about the possibility that he would be asked this question after getting on the carriage, and he had already thought about how to answer it.
Therefore, when faced with Wang Dachui's questioning, his face remained calm, without any panic, and he even did not pause to pack his luggage.
"Although the young lady doesn't allow me to call her Master, this doesn't change the fact that she is our Master. Since the Master came to talk to me alone, she naturally doesn't want you to know. You still want to find out even though the Master doesn't allow you to. Do you think you are living too comfortably?"
Wang Dachui choked, then snorted in disdain, muttering in a low voice: "If you don't want to say it, then don't say it. You're trying to lecture me. You're using chicken feathers as a token of authority. What a big shot you're pretending to be."
The carriage had limited space, and although Wang Dachui's voice was small, it still reached the ears of others. However, everyone else pretended to be asleep, and no one made a sound to interfere.
Yuan Qizi naturally heard what Wang Dachui said, but he didn't care.
He is a student in the liberal arts class, and Wang Dachui is a student in the martial arts class. According to normal development, there would not be much intersection between the two of them.
He has now taken on the secret mission assigned to him by the girl, which means that this journey to Lanzhou will most likely be their last encounter.
So, it doesn’t matter to Yuan Qizi whether someone he will probably never see again in the future likes or hates him.
Yuan Qizi's purpose was to divert Wang Dachui's attention away from what the girl wanted to talk to him about. Obviously, he had succeeded.
Seeing that Yuan Qizi ignored him, Wang Dachui felt bored and simply closed his eyes and went to sleep.
Seeing that everyone was asleep, Yuan Qizi packed his things more slowly. After packing his own luggage, he sat back in his original seat, closed his eyes and dozed off, while he began to think about his next plan of action.
After an unknown amount of time, he also fell asleep.
It was a calm night. When the sky began to turn pale, Lin Wu woke up the three grooms and eight students.
The coachmen hurried to harness the carriages, and the students also got off the carriages to relieve themselves. About half a cup of tea later, the team set out again, and after traveling for nearly an hour without stopping, the carriages finally drove into the town.
Lin Chuyi asked the driver to stop the carriage in front of an inn nearby, invited everyone to come in and eat, and asked the waiter to take the horses to drink water and feed grass.
Lin Chuyi was also very generous. In addition to breakfast items like steamed buns and soy milk, he also ordered several of the inn's signature dishes for each table.
Before paying the bill, Lin Chuyi asked the shop assistant to pack up a lot of steamed buns and roast chicken. These things can be taken on the road, so there is no need to stop to light a fire and cook at noon, which can save a lot of time.
The students were shocked when they saw Lin Chuyi taking out one or two taels of silver to pay the bill. The food here was delicious, but the price was too expensive. Who could afford to spend one or two taels of silver for a whole meal?
Some students who are good at arithmetic have already calculated their per capita consumption in their minds.
This tael of silver was actually the common expenses for two meals for the fourteen of them. On average, each person spent thirty-five copper coins per meal.
The price of a meal here is enough to buy several meals at a wonton stall outside. If you only buy steamed buns, you can probably eat them for many days.
Although they didn't spend any money on the meal at the inn, they still felt very painful because it was all money.
As soon as Lin Chu saw their expressions, she knew what they were thinking, but she had no intention of forcibly changing their consumption concepts.
The reason these students think this way is because of their previous difficult experiences.
They used to live by begging, and the copper coins they had could be counted on one hand. It was understandable that they developed a character that was reluctant to spend money.
After she brought them to the Lin residence, they were able to quickly absorb new knowledge, master new skills through the instruction of the three clones, and happily accept the material rewards brought by various assessments.
Now, they feel genuinely happy and satisfied just by watching the copper coins in their hands accumulate.
But this does not mean that their long-established consumption concepts will change because of their experience at the Lin residence.
They are not confident in their bones. They do not believe that such good days will always belong to them. They think that everything they have now is just a mirage. Sooner or later, they will return to their original life.
This idea is deeply rooted in their minds, so many of them treat every day in the Lin residence as their last day, trying to seize every opportunity to accumulate wealth for themselves and pave the way for their future.
This kind of thinking cannot be changed by words of encouragement from her or the teachers who taught them, so Lin Chuyi was unwilling to waste her words on such matters.
In fact, she didn't need to say much. As long as she brought people to Lanzhou, their ideas would naturally change.
In Lanzhou, each of them will get a job and earn a stable income. With a fixed salary, their hearts will gradually settle down.
But after arriving in Lanzhou, there were no cooks or housekeepers to help them with food, clothing, housing and transportation. They needed to be self-reliant. No matter whether they were cooking alone or living together with several people, they inevitably needed to deal with the outside world.
Once they integrate into the new environment and adapt to the new life, their consumption concepts will change subtly in the days full of fireworks.
When that time really comes, maybe they will be more willing to spend money than her, Lin Chuyi thought so, and the corners of her mouth curled up slightly.