Chapter 93: The Substitute is Here

　　Jiang Youtao didn't expect System No. 9 to be so tough.

　　She is particularly curious about one thing: [ Tongzi, do your systems and world consciousness have genders? ]

　　The melon-eating system used to treat Jiang Youtao as a host, but now it is different. It treats Jiang Youtao as a sponsor and a client. It becomes particularly sincere and enthusiastic when answering Jiang Youtao's questions: [ Host, our system and the small world consciousness are genderless, but in the process of our formation, we will be more or less affected by some bad ideas. ]

　　[ No. 9's Little World heard this masculine talk from somewhere, and it cannot represent the consciousness of the entire Little World. ]

　　The melon-eating system acted cute and spoke in a clattering voice, which really confused Jiang Youtao.

　　[ Does the host still need to beat up No. 9? I can record a video. ] The melon-eating system actively attracts business.

　　Now the advanced system that usually does not show up in the system space has also come out, and red envelopes are flying everywhere. The melon-eating system also wants to get close to the advanced system, but it does not have enough melon coins, so it has to work hard to save them up.

　　Jiang Youtao recalled the dramatic remarks made by System No. 9: [ As long as you can't kill them, beat them to death, and we'll settle the account with melon coins after the fight. ]

　　What Jiang Youtao hated most in her life was that some people equated a woman's life being complete with whether or not she was married.

　　Aren't women also independent individuals? Can't they have their own thoughts? Does a woman's life have no other meaning except getting married and having children?

　　Why must they be tied to a man for a lifetime to be happy? Don't they have the right to choose to be single?

　　Jiang Youtao felt a surge of anger rising just thinking about it.

　　Whether to get married or not is a woman's own choice, not a definition.

　　The melon-eating system was ready to go towards the small world No. 9. The melon-eating system had plenty of energy, and the small world No. 9 was defeated again and again. Finally, it was cornered and beaten by the melon-eating system.

　　After this, it sent the video to Jiang Youtao, who clicked on it to watch.

　　At the beginning, a white, transparent, round thing that looks as soft as jelly walks towards a black jelly in the corner. The black jelly moves backwards and is then pressed in the corner by the transparent jelly. The transparent limbs separate and it sits astride the black jelly and beats it up like people fighting.

　　Jiang Youtao: The last time a system was beaten, it just sent an audio file, but this time it sent a video directly.

　　The appearance of the system and the small world consciousness is somewhat cute. However, compared with the dark small world consciousness, the melon-eating system is still cute.

　　Because the melon-eating system was so cute, Jiang Youtao readily gave it melon coins and even more reward money.

　　The melon-eating system was very happy: [ Host, I will give you another task, and I won't charge you any melon coins. I will let the consciousness of the No. 9 small world roam freely in the marriage copy. I have collected a lot of dramas recently, and I will put the consciousness of the No. 9 small world in it later. ]

　　Jiang Youtao was immediately happy: [ Doesn't it think that a woman can only show her value by getting married? Let it watch those ethical dramas on a loop. Let it also experience the feeling of being complete. Tongzi, you are really great! ]

　　The melon-eating system blushed with praise. As it came into contact with more and more small worlds, the functions of the melon-eating system became more and more complete. It had been with Jiang Youtao for a long time and loved eating melons. It even collected a lot of materials in the system space and compiled them into a book to savor slowly.

　　Otherwise, why would its melon coins be spent so quickly? The melon-eating system thought of the five folders of melon-eating materials and felt that this business would surely make money.

　　Not only can you make money from the host, but you can also make money from other systems.

　　After all, the hosts who can bind to the system of their Space-Time Administration are all positive characters, and everyone has long been fed up with some weird small world consciousnesses.

　　Jiang Youtao didn't expect the system to be so smart now, and it could draw inferences from one instance. She waved her hand and said, "Alright. Get the melon coins yourself."

　　Another twenty melon coins were credited to the account. In just a short while, the Melon Eating System had earned more than sixty melon coins from Jiang Youtao.

　　The melon-eating system suddenly remembered how it had been playing tricks on Jiang Youtao for a few dozen melon coins when it had just bound itself to her. Suddenly, tears streamed down its face. If it had known that the way to make money was so simple, how could it have taken such a risk!

　　After beating No. 9, Jiang Youtao finally calmed down and fell asleep successfully.

　　The next day she woke up to the sound of rain. She opened the curtains and looked out. Water drops were falling along the eaves like pearls broken off a string.

　　There was already a lot of water in the yard, and the raindrops dripped onto it, creating ripples on it.

　　Jiang got up again, took out an umbrella from behind the door, got a shovel from the firewood shed, walked to the yard door, cleared the drainage hole, and cleared out a lot of yellow leaves and sand.

　　After the drainage hole was cleared, the water in the yard flowed out and fell into the gutter at the door.

　　Jiang Youtao opened the yard door and saw Gu Hanqing also cleaning the drainage hole with an umbrella. She smiled at Jiang Youtao and Jiang Youtao smiled back at her.

　　Gu Hanqing went back holding an umbrella.

　　Jiang Youtao also turned around and went back to the house.

　　Jiang Youtao thought that if Gu Hanqing didn't have a mother like Liang Shufen, she would be happy to make friends with Gu Hanqing. Thinking about what Liang Shufen said the day before yesterday, Jiang Youtao secretly said in her heart, what a pity.

　　When she returned, Zhong Qianxi and Meng Linyi were both up. The three beds that had been laid out last night were neatly stacked and placed in the kangqin at the end of the kang.

　　Zhong Qianxi and Meng Linyi both had to go to work, so they had to leave. Jiang Youtao tried to invite them to have breakfast, but they refused.

　　"Our food supplies are all in the cafeteria. Today is not the weekend. If we don't have breakfast, it will be a bargain for others. We'll leave first. We still have to go back to wash up." Zhong Qianxi took the umbrella given by Jiang Youtao and left, leaving very happily.

　　Meng Linyi also said: "Xixi is right, I also want to go to the cafeteria to eat, so I won't stay here."

　　Meng Linyi also left holding Jiang Youtao's umbrella. Her dormitory was in Xingfu Lane. Walk in the direction of the public toilet, pass by Liang Shufen's house and Old Lady Zhang's house, and you will reach her dormitory.

　　She returned to the dormitory and washed up. She held her own umbrella, handed Jiang Youtao's umbrella to her, and then went to work.

　　Jiang Youtao had also finished washing up and was about to go to rest when Fu Shaohua came and bring Jiang Youtao some tofu pudding and steamed dumplings.

　　"This morning I saw that the state-owned restaurant had a limited supply of these two items. I thought you would like them, so I bought them for you." Fu Shaohua put the tofu pudding on the kitchen table and wrapped it in oil paper next to it.

　　The dumplings were still warm, the tofu pudding was salty, and the sauce for the tofu pudding contained minced meat, black fungus, day lily, and something she couldn't taste.

　　Clearly layered.

　　Jiang Youtao is not picky about food. She likes both sweet and salty tofu pudding. Putting dumplings in the salty tofu pudding tastes absolutely amazing.

　　"Have you eaten?" Jiang Youtao asked Fu Shaohua.

　　It was still raining heavily outside. When Fu Shaohua walked over, a large area of his clothes was wet.

　　Before he could answer, Fu Shaohua sneezed.

　　Jiang Youtao looked at his thin clothes and asked, "Do you have a cold?"

　　Fu Shaohua said: "Our dormitory was leaking a little last night. I got up in the middle of the night to fix the roof. I guess I caught a cold from the rain."

　　Jiang Youtao looked at Fu Shaohua's face carefully. Seeing that his face was a little red, she frowned and reached out to touch the temperature of his head: "You have a fever. Let's go to the hospital."

　　Minor colds can still be cured in today's health centers.

　　Fu Shaohua took Jiang Youtao's hand and held it. It felt soft, as if it had no bones at all. He pinched it a few more times unconsciously: "Eat first, and then we'll go after you finish eating. It won't take a while."

　　Fu Shaohua has always been in good health, and he hasn't had a cold for a year or two. He felt uncomfortable when he got up this morning. He had been planning to go to the health center to pick up some food. When he passed by the state-owned restaurant, he saw the limited supply today, turned around, and brought breakfast to Jiang Youtao.

　　It turns out that girls' hands are so soft, Fu Shaohua thought.

　　This was the first time Jiang Youtao and Fu Shaohua held hands. Fu Shaohua's hands were as delicate as he was, white, slender, with round fingertips and full crescents. After so many years of reading and writing, his hands had not deformed at all.

　　There were thin calluses on his palms, and because of the fever, his palms were very hot and dry.

　　This was also the first time Jiang Youtao held hands with a man. The feeling was really good, but it would have been better if the scene was different and Fu Shaohua didn't have a fever.

　　"You haven't answered me yet, have you eaten?"

　　"No." Fu Shaohua had no appetite.

　　Jiang Youtao went to get a bowl and poured him a cup of hot water: "Drink more hot water."

　　After saying this, Jiang Youtao felt that she was a bit of a scumbag. She poured out half of the tofu pudding in the lunch box that Fu Shaohua brought and pushed it in front of Fu Shaohua.

　　"Come, let's eat together."

　　Fu Shaohua took a sip of water, and then under Jiang Youtao's gaze, he finished half a bowl of tofu pudding and ate four or five steamed dumplings.

　　After the two finished their breakfast, the rain was still falling outside, with no sign of stopping.

　　It was a bit chilly in the north after the rain. Jiang Youtao put on a coat over her shirt and went to the health center with Fu Shaohua.

　　There were not many people in the health center. Meng Linyi just prescribed some medicine for Fu Shaohua and considered that as his treatment. At that time in the countryside, the boundaries between doctors and nurses were not so clear.

　　Jiang Youtao took the medicine, and a girl in her twenties came in with an umbrella: "Xiao Meng, Xiao Meng, your fiancé is here to see you."

　　As soon as she finished speaking, a dishevelled figure appeared behind her.

　　The man was wearing a suit that didn't fit him well and pointed leather shoes that looked like boats. His hair was parted in a 2:8 ratio and hung down on both sides of his head because it was wet from the rain. He had a pair of black-framed glasses on his nose.

　　He's not ugly, but he's not handsome either.

　　In that book, Ji Youshang was no more than 22 or 23 years old, but now he looks like he is in his 30s. He looks a little too old.

　　Meng Linyi lost her first love during her freshman year in college. He was only about 20 years old, still a young boy, and had nothing in common with the slightly mature man in front of him.

　　That's it? Bai Yueguang's substitute? How can Meng Linyi be so disappointed?!

　　Isn't this like finding an uncle for yourself?

　　Is the brain of No. 9's small world consciousness filled with straw?

　　Jiang Youtao couldn't hold back her beautiful Chinese words any longer, "Destroy this fucking little world consciousness."