Abnormal Gourmet Chronicle-Chapter 1157 - 556: Reciprocity (Part 3)

At the same time, An Youyou is a very ambitious and proactive spirit. Even knowing she had failed, she didn't choose to end it all and start over; instead, she tried hard to salvage it. 𝒻𝑟𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝑛𝘰𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝘤𝘰𝘮

For six whole years, An Youyou worked diligently in Jinling, trying to earn money and save every penny she could. She didn't squander any of the Da yang sent by Little Ninth every half a year; she saved it all, hoping that one day she could return to Shanghai in splendor, gather 13 little brothers, and reclaim everything that belonged to the Boss.

"Boss, you have no idea how hard I worked in that life to get a promotion and a raise. Being a bookkeeper had no future, and neither did simply knowing how to read but not write. During those six years, I not only worked hard to learn writing, but also arithmetic, learned mathematical formulas, and then calculus which I couldn't understand, and even learned foreign languages, several of them."

"My eyes became nearsighted from all that studying!"

"Of course, my hard work paid off. Our employer valued me greatly, and in the end, my salary was raised to a whopping 12 Da yang a month. I originally planned to work there for ten or twenty years, save enough money, and then return to Shanghai to become a beggar."

"Through studying, I came to understand that Jiang Weiguo was both right and wrong. Begging can be the best job in the world, but only if the world is stable. When times are unstable, you can't get a meal, but if everyone has food, begging can make you rich."

"Our rice shop only gave bonuses when we made money; no bonuses when we didn't."

"I was always waiting for an opportunity, but I didn't expect that after failing to cross the tribulation, my body would be so weak."

"I just scrimped a little, ate two meals of spoiled food, and got dysentery. I only wanted to save a bit and didn't want to use the ridiculously expensive western medicine, so I ended up being run to death by diarrhoea."

At this point, An Youyou sighed deeply: "If I had known, I wouldn't have been so frugal. I should've saved for a few more years, gone back to Shanghai with my gang, and maybe, with some luck, I could've succeeded in crossing the tribulation on the first try."

Qin Huai: ...

Who would have thought that when An Youyou was a beggar, she didn't die from eating spoiled food and getting diarrhea, but after getting a stable job, she died because of being too stingy and eating spoiled food again.

"Before I died, I wrote Chen Shun a letter, telling him where I hid my money. What a windfall for him. His salary was lower than mine at the time, and I saved for so many years only to not use it myself, and he got all of it in the end."

"What's Chen Shun's deal? What kind of spirit is he?"

"I don't know what kind of spirit he is. He's definitely not a Three-legged Golden Toad. And he's quite unlucky; he's only in his second life yet he remembers a lot from his first life, but he can't remember why he failed to cross the tribulation."

Qin Huai was stunned: "Is that possible? Forget everything and remember nothing? Not even the type?"

"He doesn't remember a thing," An Youyou said. "He almost remembers everything about his first life but forgot what his obsession was, so he could only go by instinct. He left Shanghai to work outside because he felt he couldn't succeed in crossing the tribulation by staying there."

"In the end, his mother starved to death in Shanghai."

Qin Huai was taken aback.

"Starved to death?"

An Youyou sighed: "About half a year after I went to Jinling, Jiang Weiguo wrote to tell me that Sister-in-law Chen had starved to death."

"At that time, there was a severe food shortage in Shanghai and grain prices were sky-high. Chen Shun could send money from Jinling to Shanghai but couldn't directly send food back. It's said that Sister-in-law Chen saved what little to eat for the kids and ate very little herself, eventually starving to death."

"That event hit Chen Shun hard. I rarely saw him after that. Then, because I was valued by my employer and was busy practicing my writing every day, I had no time to see him anyway."

"Thinking back, Chen Shun really lucked out. I hadn't seen him for four years before I died, he barely spent any money on me, and in the end, he got all my inheritance."

"I wonder if he succeeded in crossing the tribulation. Can I post a missing person's notice? If he happened to succeed recently and sees it, he might contact me and give me all his wealth."

"Reciprocation."

Qin Huai: ...

Qin Huai didn't know why, but ever since An Youyou woke up, he's been using ellipses a lot.

When in doubt, just use an ellipsis.