Chapter 345 House Rules

"This is the price."

The little girl knew early on that everything has a price.

Because her family told her so.

Or rather, there is a rule in her family that reminds her all the time that everything has a price.

Those cubes are not just her toys, but also "currency".

The little girl needs to pay money to use the items at home.

She needs to pay the chef fee to the robot at home for meals, pay rent to her mother every month, and pay the water fee for bathing and electricity fee for home appliances every month.

All these need to be paid with cubes.

She also needs to help clean the yard at home or do other housework in exchange for cubes, which are what she needs to survive.

The little girl never thought there was any problem, because she asked many classmates, and the classmates told her that they would also help with housework at home in exchange for pocket money.

It's just that in the little girl's family, the form of pocket money is a little special.

This also made her develop a character that considers the cost of everything she does.

However, in the little girl's family, there is one thing that does not require payment.

That is, her mother plays with her.

Because her mother said to her: "If I play with you, you need to pay me. If you play with me, I also need to pay you. This cancels out each other."

The little girl quickly understood this truth.

For this reason, she also asked her father for a "trade".

Pay a certain amount of cubes to let her father play with her.

But her father told her: "You can't afford my fee."

Indeed, her father's time is very important. The cubes that the little girl has saved for a long time are not worth mentioning to him.

The price is not enough.

"Mom, how many cubes do I need to pay before Dad will play with me." She once asked her mother.

But her mother was silent, she couldn't give an accurate answer.

"As long as you save enough, you can definitely let Dad play with you." The mother touched the little girl's head and said gently.

The little girl could only work hard to save cubes.

As she grew older, the little girl also found that the cubes she earned from her labor were increasing. She also asked her mother about this, and the answer she got was: your value has increased.

Her time is becoming more and more important, so she needs more and more cubes.

The little girl was of course very happy, because it meant that she was saving cubes faster and faster.

She could also eat more delicious food and try out the expensive appliances at home.

Everything seemed to be getting better.

"So, I can't take away Aunt Lin Nian's favorite things for no reason without paying the price." The little girl looked at the girl in front of her seriously and explained.

Lin Nian was stunned for a long time before she came back to her senses from the little girl's strange experience.

"Is this the house rule of your family?" She asked curiously, holding the cubes.

"Yes." The little girl didn't think her house rules were special.

"What if you don't have cubes to eat?"

"That was something that happened when I was very young. Now I'm very rich." The little girl said, while taking out a lot of cubes from her pocket and shaking them in front of Lin Nian.

Lin Nian looked at the shiny cubes and was silent for a long time.

The little girl continued to tell her story.

"When I first started primary school, I thought that the outside world was the same as home, and that I had to pay a price..."

The little girl at that time walked to school alone because she didn't have enough cubes to pay for the "accompanying fee".

In this era when transportation has become popular in every household, the little girl is the only child who came to school alone without taking transportation and without her parents.

She walked from the suburbs to the city, walked up the high skyway, and came to the gate of the primary school.

She walked directly to the payment office after bypassing the dense crowd.

"You can't go to school without money."

She had already exchanged cubes for some common currency in the outside world in advance, which was the cost of her schooling.

The teacher at the payment office looked at the little girl who came to pay tuition alone with curiosity.

"Little friend, where are your parents?"

"At home, this is the tuition fee." The little girl replied coldly, tiptoed, and put her little hand with a watch on the table.

The teacher saw that the little girl was struggling so hard, and quickly scanned the little girl's watch with the payment device.

"Have you finished collecting? Do you need the teacher to take you to the classroom?"

The teacher looked at the cute little girl and couldn't help but feel close to her.

"No, thank you."

The little girl still had a cold face, but was very polite. After refusing the teacher's company, she walked to the classroom alone.

"Take me to the classroom, there should be a price, right?" The little girl thought to herself, she didn't want to waste the cubes in a useless place.

She found the classroom according to the class division table.

At this time, the classroom was already noisy, and those parents were tit-for-tat about the seats. Although they didn't argue for face, the air was already filled with a strong smell of gunpowder.

The parents gathered in front of the classroom, and no one let them go. They all wanted their children to sit in the front.

The little girl took a look and went straight to the last row.

"The seats here should not be expensive."

She stuffed her schoolbag into the drawer, sat down, and then looked at her school through the window.

Because she didn't have enough cubes to pay for the tuition, she could only choose a public school that was very far from home. Because of the long journey, she had to get up early.

Fortunately, this school looked pretty good.

The parents in front of the classroom were still tit-for-tat, and some parents even sat down on their seats, completely ignoring the accusations around them, which made them feel like one man blocking the pass and ten thousand men unable to break through.

This also made the gunpowder smell more intense, and some irritable parents even gave up their sarcasm and started cursing.

"Here we go again."

The little girl took out the cubes and started playing on the table.

"It's so noisy, if only I could hide inside."

Just as she was building a house with cubes, several little faces appeared on the reflective metal surface.

It turned out that before she knew it, several children had gathered around her. They were all curious about the cubes, and they didn't dare to say anything, watching the little girl build the cubes higher and higher.

The little girl was very resistant to the feeling of being watched by others. With a wave of her hand, the cubes fell into her bag again.

"Why don't you build anymore?" asked the kid next to her.

"Yes, keep building. I want to see how high it can go."

The kids were talking at once, but this made the little girl even more uncomfortable.

Until a chubby kid took out a snack from his pocket and put it on the little girl's table.

"Are you tired? This is delicious. You'll have more energy after eating it."