MM Racing Chapter 83: Marriage and Egg Laying are Allowed
Chapter 83: Marriage and Egg Laying are Allowed
The next morning, the mobile phone that Zhou Gangxun bought finally arrived from the port city by boat.
Ruan Zhijuan opened the door for the delivery person while munching on a crispy fried chicken leg, and signed for the package.
It's a cell phone, the cell phone Zhou Gangxun bought for him.
Hehe, he has a cell phone now.
Ruan Zhijuan happily opened the beautifully packaged box, inside which was a white-cased phone, the kind that shimmered like a pearl shell—it was so pretty!
It's a flat, rectangular block about half the size of a palm, with the screen taking up most of it. Below that are three main buttons, and sliding down the side reveals a keyboard with 26 letters, which is half the size of the device. It's so high-tech, like a mini computer.
He blinked, suddenly realizing that buying such a phone for a little over a thousand yuan was actually acceptable, hehe.
Inside the box were a user manual, a spare battery, a pair of earphones, and a charger.
There's another piece of... pink paper.
Ruan Zhijuan unfolded the pink paper and saw the purchase price written on it. He counted the digits from back to front: ones, tens, hundreds, thousands...ten thousand?
Zhou Gangxun came out of the kitchen when he heard the door open and saw Ruan Zhijuan looking at an invoice in her hand.
He immediately frowned, his face grim as he typed on his phone. But the heavy, rapid keystrokes revealed his burning desire to curse, though his upbringing wouldn't allow it. "You're bankrupt too? You brought over a ten-thousand-yuan phone with the receipt?"
Not long after, he received a reply from Huo Wenyong: "Isn't that because you're giving away that cheap wife who practically threw herself at you? How will he know how much the phone you're giving away is worth if you don't put a price tag on it?"
Huo Wenyong and Zhou Gangxun were childhood friends, and their parents knew each other. However, Huo Wenyong was one of the wealthiest young men in Hong Kong, while Zhou Gangxun came from an upper-middle-class family. But the two were kindred spirits and had maintained a close relationship over the years, with many related and cooperative businesses.
However, after Zhou Gangxun went bankrupt, the two seemed to have lost contact with each other.
After all, Zhou Gangxun's case is not simply about bankruptcy; it involves suspected economic crimes, such as the district chief he supports being corrupt, accepting bribes, and laundering money. It's difficult for him, as the supporter, to remain completely unaffected. Although nothing has been found on his end, it could potentially implicate Huo Wenyong's businesses, leading to reports and smear campaigns by malicious individuals, which could damage his reputation and stock price. There's no need for that.
"Trying to show off your intelligence?" Zhou Gangxun typed back. As soon as he finished sending the message, Ruan Zhijuan came running over.
Ruan Zhijuan tiptoed and skillfully used her lips to whisper in Zhou Gangxun's ear, asking closely, "Zhou Gangxun, the price of this phone on this piece of paper is five figures. Why is it five figures? Teacher Wen said that four figures are for thousands, so this phone cost ten thousand yuan, right?"
"Zhou Gangxun, didn't you say this phone only cost a little over a thousand?"
After speaking, Ruan Zhijuan put her feet firmly on the ground, turned her head, and looked up at Zhou Gangxun with her two almond-shaped eyes, waiting for his reply.
Zhou Gangxun also pretended to be stupid, staring blankly at Ruan Zhijuan, pretending not to hear.
Thinking to myself, "Wow, she's really amazing. She's learned so much in just a few days. This little fool isn't so easily fooled."
Seeing that Zhou Gangxun seemed not to hear her, Ruan Zhijuan leaned closer to his ear and asked again anxiously, "Zhou Gangxun, I just asked, how can a cell phone cost ten thousand yuan? Zhou Gangxun... don't pretend you can't hear me..."
"Ten thousand yuan... Zhou Gangxun, have you been scammed...?"
Ruan Zhijuan muttered to himself. Just thinking about how this phone might really cost ten thousand yuan made him feel suffocated and uncomfortable all over.
A small metal box costs 10,000 yuan, while the registration fee and a week's worth of medicine for Zhou Gangxun's deafness only cost 200 yuan.
His two glasses and vision correction device cost 1,400 yuan. Zhou Gangxun's leg is damaged, and we don't even know if he has gone to get it properly treated.
Ruan Zhijuan felt increasingly uneasy, as if something was wrong with everything. He buried his head on Zhou Gangxun's shoulder, his eyes wet with tears. The system had said that he was Zhou Gangxun's wife, and Zhou Gangxun should spend money on him.
Moreover, he also feeds Zhou Gangxun every day, so it's not just a one-sided demand. Why does his heart still feel so uncomfortable?
Ruan Zhijuan muttered unhappily in Zhou Gangxun's ear, "Zhou Gangxun, I don't want this phone anymore, go and return it."
Zhou Gangxun gritted his teeth and cursed Huo Wenyong in his mind again, repeatedly whipping his corpse. He picked up Ruan Zhijuan by the waist, put her on his body, and sat on the sofa together. Looking at the contents of the receipt, he began to make up a story, "There is no ten thousand yuan."
"The phone was manufactured a few years ago. The invoice shows the price at that time. Now, not many people buy it. The boss sells it for a couple thousand."
With red eyes, Ruan Zhijuan leaned close to Zhou Gangxun's ear, her lips trembling slightly, and asked uncertainly, "Is...is it really that much lower?"
"Hmm, just a thousand dollars." Zhou Gangxun turned his head, his nose rubbing against Ruan Zhijuan's soft face and neck, inhaling deeply the scent emanating from Ruan Zhijuan. With his other hand supporting Ruan Zhijuan's buttocks, he said in a convincing tone, "There's plenty of money at home, and there will be plenty of money in the future, so don't worry."
As he spoke, he turned on his new phone. "Let's see what functions this phone has..."
His wife's views on money are still hard to change at the moment. If he told her the truth, she probably wouldn't be able to sleep for the next few nights, and it might even cause her health problems in the long run.
He can only be cured when the maximum unit of measurement in his wife's mind becomes tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions, or even tens of millions.
"Buzz...buzz..."
Zhou Gangxun's phone vibrated slightly, and a message from Huo Wenyong popped up: [Let me tell you, this phone isn't easy to get.]
[These were limited editions when they came out, so we had to get a new one for you from the manufacturer. Your wife's initials are engraved on the top of the phone, and it even has a Tamagotchi feature. Remember to show these two things to your wife.]
Huo Wenyong paused for a moment, then sent another message to add to the message.
Do you know what a Tamagotchi is? You old fogey probably don't.
[The prototype is a popular electronic pet toy egg from overseas. When the mobile phone was released, they included a similar mini-game, a pixelated game like feeding a pet. I'm planning to invest in it; the market here in Hong Kong is very good right now.]
Old...stubborn.
Zhou Gangxun's eyes were deep as he pressed his fingertip against Ruan Zhijuan's phone, bringing up the pixel pet game. "You can raise virtual pets on your phone. With this mode enabled, you can raise them on the screen and interact with them directly."
Ruan Zhijuan, unfamiliar with the world, was drawn over. Her ostrich-like head peeked out, staring longingly at the little eggshell on the phone screen. "A digital pet... what is it... a little black dog on a phone?"
"Similarly, it starts with hatching an egg, um... because they are alien creatures," Zhou Gangxun explained. "From the time they grow from cubs to old age, they might grow into random pets like curly-haired, big-eyed rabbits or puppies, each with a different personality. You can feed them, clean them, play with them, and they might get sick or sleep with them."
Zhou Gangxun showed the status to Ruan Zhijuan. The screen displayed the pet egg waiting to be hatched and the current status icons (hungry/happy/pooping/sick/sleeping). Both happy and hungry were represented by four small hearts.
"Each lifespan is 7-20 days. After a lifetime, you can reset and get a new egg."
As Zhou Gangxun spoke, he clicked on the last page of the introduction: Pets can get married after reaching adulthood (regardless of gender) and lay 1-2 eggs. The new eggs hatch and then enter the next generation.
"They can get married and lay eggs."
As he was speaking, a crack suddenly appeared on the egg on the screen, and a pixelated little rabbit with curly fur emerged. It looked curiously at Zhou Gangxun and Ruan Zhijuan, and began to remind them that it needed to be fed. It also used pixelated expressions to act cute and charming towards the two of them.
"Wow...what a cute thing..." Ruan Zhijuan blinked her eyes, reached out, and began to accept the phone.
Zhou Gangxun watched Ruan Zhijuan feeding the pixelated rabbit and, remembering what the game instructions had mentioned about marriage and laying eggs, sent a message to Huo Wenyong: "My phone doesn't have a digital pet."
Very quickly, in less than three seconds, the message came back: 【??? Zhou Gangxun, have you been possessed??】