Chapter 25: Making Money Gossip
Speaking of this, He Rui looked aggrieved. He had finally gotten a vacation and could go home to hug his wife, but ended up being assigned to lead the new students’ military training. Sigh, who had it worse than him?!
Lin Xi sympathetically looked at He Rui and patted his shoulder comfortingly. “Do you think if I became the chief instructor, you could escape?”
He Rui thought about it, and his heart went bleep bleep bleep…
Yeah, with their boss’s style, he’d be either chief instructor or deputy instructor anyway—he couldn’t escape. Who told him to finish his mission with nothing to do?
“Sigh, this annual military training for each university isn’t a tribulation for the students, but for us instructors!” Thinking that his good brothers who weren’t on missions had also been assigned as instructors to other schools, He Rui felt a bit comforted.
“I just hope this batch of new students will be less trouble and not cause me any issues! During military training, no sudden events should happen…” He Rui prayed.
Lin Xi glanced at He Rui. “Shut your jinx mouth. I want it easy too!”
He Rui immediately shut up and awkwardly scratched his head.
Then he ingratiatingly sidled up to Lin Xi. “Brother Lin, during military training, you take on more work. I’m just a big rough guy and only a mecha soldier, not good at command. You sit in charge and give ideas, and I’ll carry them out!”
“Tch.” Lin Xi was speechless. “No, why did your boss assign you this chief instructor mission? Do you two have a grudge?”
He Rui grinned cheekily. “No grudge, no grudge. I just drew the short straw with my bad luck, and since our boss knew you were here, he confidently sent me!”
Lin Xi: “…” At this moment, he reasonably suspected that he had been schemed against by Shi Anfeng and An Yi, that uncle-nephew pair!
“Bastard!” Lin Xi cursed at his good friend. This guy was too cunning. He reasonably suspected that from the start, this guy had plotted to get him to come so he could take care of his two younger sisters!
Shi Anfeng, who had already arrived at Edge Star, felt his nose itch. Thinking of his blocked good friend, he embarrassedly touched his nose. When he got back, he’d return his mint to him!
Here, all the students had gathered and were boarding the starship one after another, preparing to depart.
The teachers and class advisors watched them from behind. The moment the starship took off, everyone prayed for everything to go smoothly and for them to return safely!
It wasn’t surprising that everyone was worried—every year’s military training had students who didn’t come back, because too many sudden events occurred, and the training during military training was real combat.
Once Shi An’an and the others boarded the starship, they were arranged in the Botany Department area and told not to run around casually, but to stay obediently on the starship and wait to reach the destination.
Everyone was very excited. They didn’t want to rest in their rooms, so they gathered in the hall to sit together and chat—except for Lin Miao.
“Where do you think we’ll go for military training this time? I remember the previous batch went to F123 Planet.” Ding Hui, the boy who had first refuted Lin Miao, spoke first.
“I know, I know. I heard that after the previous military training, 11 students didn’t come back.”
“Ah? Did they encounter danger?”
“Probably, but the school didn’t elaborate.”
“Don’t make a fuss. It’s not just the previous batch—every year’s military training has accidents. So we must be careful and stay vigilant at all times.”
“Okay, sigh, now that you say it, I’m scared. My physical fitness isn’t good to begin with…”
“Cough cough, which one of us in the Botany Department has good physical fitness? If I had good physical fitness, I’d have applied to the Command Department…” The speaking student muttered softly.
Hearing this, everyone fell silent.
Shi Lele was unhappy. “Who said that? My physical fitness is A+! I like plants, that’s why I applied to the Botany Department! Besides, poor physical fitness doesn’t mean you have to apply to the Botany Department. You must be interested in plants to have applied, just like the chef department—some people like cooking and specifically apply there.”
The others perked up instantly upon hearing this. “Yeah, when I was little, I raised a pothos, and it grew so well, all lush and green. My mom said I had talent, so that’s why I applied to the Botany Department!”
“Me too! I like green plants. I hope green plants can cover every planet, so birds have habitats…”
“Not just birds—animals and humans all like green plant forests.”
“Yeah, and green plants are so precious now, not easy to keep alive. My family bought a pot of spider plant last time for thirty million, but it only lived a week. It broke my parents’ hearts…”
“Who says otherwise? My mom bought a bunch of plant nutrient solution to save it, but it didn’t work…”
“Don’t talk about that. Just before school started, my family went to a restaurant, and a plate of vegetables cost twenty thousand coins—not even enough for one bite per person. So expensive!”
“Yeah, after one meal, we weren’t full. Better to just drink a high-grade nutrient solution each!”
“Hey, speaking of nutrient solution, did you buy the new super strawberry-flavored one? Is it better tasting than before?”
……
Shi An’an sat in the corner, listening with great interest to everyone’s chat. From it, she learned about Capital Star prices, some things about other planets, and some school gossip.
Shi An’an felt that all she needed now was a handful of sunflower seeds. The two things she loved most in life were making money and gossip!
Only then would life be wonderful.
“By the way, do you know? Last night I heard from my uncle’s wife’s younger sister’s husband’s father’s ex-daughter-in-law’s younger brother… that this year, a student in our Botany Department cultivated an S-grade tail grass. It’s said to have grown super perfectly, and the seeds reached S-grade too…” Ding Hui whispered his insider info to the person next to him.
“S-grade! Oh my god, who? Who? Real or fake?” The classmates who heard this all looked at the people around them, who shook their heads.
“Mine just barely passed. I almost got transferred to the logistics data department…”
“Me too. My friend didn’t pass and got transferred to the chef department.” A girl said with relief.
“I’m okay—my tail grass reached B-grade!” A boy was somewhat happy, but thinking of the investment behind it, he wilted. “But I spent all my pocket money from the past eighteen years—bought so much high-grade nutrient solution, insecticide, dark agent… Sigh.”
Ling Xi thought of his empty pockets and the unfair agreement he signed before school for living expenses, feeling heartbroken.
The other classmates, hearing this, instantly slumped their shoulders. Sigh, who wasn’t like that!
“Sigh, I also bought a lot of nutrient solution… My pocket money is down by a good half!” Shi Lele said bitterly next to Shi An’an.
Shi An’an listened to her classmates’ sob stories silently. She was afraid that if she said she hadn’t spent a single cent, they’d explode her head.
