The growth system comes at the age of 30

Chapter 199 The Eye of the Prodigal Son - The Whole Family Bucket! (4K)

"Is there anything wrong?" Chen Jingle asked.

"No one is at home this afternoon." Zhou Manlin said, "Come over here for a moment. I have something for you."

Chen Jingle just gave a question mark expression.

You can let me go, but why do you emphasize that there is no one at home?!
It's as if he's going to do something bad.

"What?" he asked puzzledly.

Zhou Manlin said: "It's kept secret for now, you'll know when you come."

"If you don't tell me, I won't go."

Chen Jingle frowned. What? So mysterious.

"I won't eat you, so what are you afraid of? It's a good thing anyway, just come!" Zhou Manlin replied.

Chen Jingle was somewhat speechless: "Can't you explain it clearly?"

Zhou Manlin: "No! If I tell you, it will lose its mystery."

The sense of mystery is ok.

Chen Jingle was eating a pear and lost in thought, hoping it wouldn't be a sack or a club.

So I agreed and asked, "What time in the afternoon?"

"Any time is fine. I won't go out in the afternoon." Zhou Manlin replied.

"Is half past four okay?"

"can."

"Then it's half past four. I'm going to bed first." After replying the message, Chen Jingle threw the fruit core into the trash can, washed his hands and prepared for a nap.

Although Zhou Manlin sometimes has a quirky personality, she would not try to trick him. To say that it is a good thing, Chen Jingle cannot imagine what the problem will be.

You will know the details when you arrive there in the afternoon.

……

At 4:30 in the afternoon, Chen Jingle drove to Zhou Manlin's house.

This is his third time here.

But the first two times I just went to the door and left.

This time the door was open, and Zhou Manlin, wearing pajamas, stood in the living room and shouted at him, "Just come in!"

Chen Jingle took a quick glance and saw that there was indeed no one else at home, so he immediately pushed open the low door in the yard and went in.

Zhou Manlin's pajamas are a loose-fitting top and pants. Not only are they not sexy at all, they even have a childish Crayon Shin-chan pattern on them, which is somewhat unexpected.

But this also explains why she sometimes speaks so harshly.

Watch Crayon Shin-chan!
"Are your parents not at home?" Chen Jingle poked his head in.

Zhou Manlin smiled and said, "If they were here, I'm afraid you wouldn't dare to come in."

Chen Jingle: "That's not necessary. As your friend, I just need to be thick-skinned and buy some fruits as a gift when I visit you."

Zhou Manlin looked at him with a smile.

"Do you want to change your shoes?"

"No, just come in."

"What about the things you were talking about?"

"Second floor."

"Why do you have to go upstairs?"

Chen Jingle was really afraid that someone was lying in ambush at the stairs, and would hit him with a stick, and then he would wake up to find himself lying in a bathtub full of ice, with not a single bit of his kidney left on his body.

"Stop talking nonsense and just follow me!"

Zhou Manlin walked in front and led the way: "After your improvement of the formula, the business of the store has increased significantly in the past few days, and the turnover has increased by almost 20%. The key is that there are more and more repeat customers, and this is all thanks to you."

"Congratulations, but I don't want to take credit for it." Chen Jingle was surprised. He didn't expect it to work so quickly.

Zhou Manlin led him to the living room on the second floor, pointed at a computer on the coffee table and said to him, "I said before that I would give you a gift as a thank you. Here, I have prepared it for you."

"Don't tell me the mysterious gift you mentioned is this."

Chen Jingle's eyes widened.

Although he was not a computer expert, he was familiar with the famous Eye of Prodigal Son.

ASUS ROG is called the "Eye of Prodigal Son" by users because of its high-end product positioning, high price and its logo design that looks like an eye.

As we all know, the more fancy the computers and peripherals are, the more expensive they are. Just looking at the cool appearance of this white case, you can tell it is not cheap.

Zhou Manlin asked in surprise: "Don't you like it?"

Chen Jingle did not answer directly, but asked in return: "How much did you spend?"

"Not much."

"Not much, so how much is it?"

"It's not expensive anyway." Zhou Manlin said vaguely.

Chen Jingle was silent for a few seconds, then took a deep breath and sighed, "It's not expensive, but it's ok. This case alone is estimated to cost 3000 yuan, and my computer host is about the same price. You didn't buy a whole ROG family bucket, did you?"

At this moment, his scalp was tingling.

"No." Zhou Manlin shook her head.

However, Chen Jingle didn't have time to breathe a sigh of relief.

Zhou Manlin added: "I was originally planning to buy the ROG family bucket, they all said this was good. But the blogger told me that Intel's 13th and 14th generation CPUs had just exploded some time ago, and suggested that I switch to AMD's 9800X3D, so I listened to him and switched to AMD. Most of the others are ROG."

I had thought about giving Chen Jingle a gift to express my gratitude.

After searching online, she found that everyone said to give away digital products, and the best gift would be 4090, so she searched what 4090 was.

I found out it cost 20,000 yuan, which seemed okay to me.

Then I saw someone say that if the budget is enough, just give him the ROG top-of-the-line family package. This is the best gift for men.

So she searched what the ROG family bucket was, and her budget came to more than 40,000.

It's actually fine.

She bought the accessories online and asked someone to come to her home to install them. The total cost was just over 45000 yuan. Thanks to the recent Double Eleven event, the prices seemed to be slightly cheaper than usual.

She doesn't know how much cheaper it is, and she doesn't care about that.

It was just that the guy who helped with the installation of the computer was very envious and kept talking, and only then did I understand a little bit.

But when he heard that she was giving it as a gift, he stopped talking and kept muttering "Why, why" before leaving.

Chen Jingle: “…”

Isn't this still the ROG family bucket? Intel is not from ROG!

"What model of graphics card is it?" Chen Jingle swallowed his dry throat.

Zhou Manlin thought for a moment and said, "It seems to be 4090 Raptor or something, I forgot."

Chen Jingle: “…”

Well, just by hearing about 9800X3D+ASUS ROG4090 White Raptor, you know that the other accessories will definitely not be bad.

Maybe it is fully equipped, most likely it is fully equipped!
If the CPU and graphics card are both top-notch, the motherboard cannot be bad, and the same goes for the memory and solid-state drive.

If someone who likes to play games sees it, his eyes will probably light up and he will want to hold it in his arms while sleeping.

Chen Jingle was silent for a long time, then shook his head and said, "It's too expensive. I can't accept it."

Why would he need a 4090 when he only uses his computer to watch videos and browse forums and websites, and rarely plays games? Is he just looking at Master Lu's running scores when he has nothing to do?
When a woman gives a man 4090, it means he will be shorter for the rest of his life!
Just as he had said to Li Beixing before, don't give gifts that are too valuable, as this will put pressure on the recipient.

At this moment, what he felt was more than just pressure. It was like a huge rock was pressing down on his head!

Zhou Manlin glanced at him and said, "If you don't want it, I'll throw it in the trash can. Don't disbelieve me, I can really do it."

Chen Jingle: "..., are you seriously ill? How can you force someone to accept a gift like this?"

"Maybe."

Zhou Manlin was not angry either. She just laughed and said, "Anyway, thank you very much for helping me adjust the milk tea recipe. You deserve it. You always think you are the one who got the advantage, but you don't know that I am the one who got the most advantage. The extra profit I created can buy several computers of this level every year."

Chen Jingle frowned: "You can make money, that's your ability. Some people can only get a fixed salary even if I write down the way to make money clearly and hand it to them. You seized the opportunity yourself, it has nothing to do with me."

"You helped create the opportunity, didn't you?" Zhou Manlin looked at him.

Chen Jingle: "I just helped out with something insignificant because we are friends."

Zhou Manlin blinked: "Then do you know that what you think is insignificant is a huge help to me? Similarly, a computer may be very valuable in your eyes, but to me, it is just so-so. So I don't know what you are so entangled about."

Chen Jingle was silent.

It’s time to come to the familiar part of subjective theory of value.

Based on labor value, even for the same thing, everyone's judgment of its value is different.

Zhou Manlin waved her hand and said, "Stop talking so much and move out quickly, so my family won't see us when they come back."

Chen Jingle: “???”

It’s okay if I’m afraid my family will see it, but do we have some shameful relationship?
Chen Jingle was silent for a long time before he blurted out, "When you rich people give gifts, can you consider the feelings of the recipients?"

He resists accepting high-value gifts from others from the bottom of his heart.

This would remind him of some not-so-nice memories of his time in the provincial capital.

Zhou Manlin tilted her head and asked, "What did Xingbao give you?"

Chen Jingle shook his head: "No. I didn't want it."

Zhou Manlin: "What do you want to give me first?"

"Hasselblad camera." Chen Jingle glanced at her and then looked away.

Zhou Manlin suddenly realized: "Oh, that one, I saw her using it before. Just take it if I give it to you. She only uses it a few times a year anyway, and it's so heavy and bulky. A mobile phone is more convenient."

Chen Jingle didn't know what to say.

The most common problem when people from different classes interact with each other is the difference in consumption concepts.

Your annual salary may not even be enough for someone's meal.

In this situation, everyone can be friends, but it is very troublesome to get along for a long time, and various conflicts of ideas are bound to arise during the process.

It’s not something that can be solved just by having correct outlooks.

Moreover, such an expensive gift made him feel more and more like a gigolo.

The problem is that he has no need to live off someone.

He has now solved the problem of survival anxiety. Even if he chooses to continue lying down, it is based on the contradiction between the current social productivity and production relations, his inner denial of alienated labor, his protest against the exploitation system, and his disgust for materialism.

I don't have too high aspirations for a luxurious life.

Otherwise, he should work hard to save money to buy a Rolls-Royce, Bentley or Ferrari, instead of being satisfied with driving a small A4L.

For Chen Jingle, happiness does not belong to the poor or the rich, it belongs to those who are content.

……

Chen Jingle hesitated for a long time: "Are you sure you really want to give this to me?"

Zhou Manlin was silent for two seconds, then suddenly sneered: "Xingbao is your friend, but I am not, am I?"

At this moment, she was already a little upset in her heart, and she wanted to punch this guy twice.

Chen Jingle was helpless: "I said, I didn't accept her gift. If you really treat me as a friend, you should give me something to make me less stressed."

To be fair, in his heart, Li Beixing does mean more to him than an ordinary friend.

Even though it made him a little uncomfortable.

Zhou Manlin said, "Then just think of it as something I lent you to play with. When you don't want to play with it anymore, you can return it to me. Or you can think of a way to give me some other gifts, and we can exchange them, isn't that fine?"

Chen Jingle was speechless, wondering if the two of you had discussed this beforehand? Why did you both say you were lending it to someone else?

As for exchanging gifts...

Chen Jingle thought for two seconds and nodded immediately: "Okay! I'll write you a dessert recipe, you take it back and sell it in the milk tea shop to see if there are any customers who like it. Give me paper and pen!"

It's not a good idea to keep being in this stalemate. If you have to take something away, just leave something behind so that you can feel more at ease.

"Okay!"

Zhou Manlin smiled and did not refuse.

If this drink sells well, she will continue to give out other gifts.

The more you refuse to accept it, the more she will give it to you!
After Chen Jingle finished writing, he handed the notebook to Zhou Manlin.

Brown sugar ginger jujube milk tea?

After reading it, Zhou Manlin raised her eyebrows.

As the owner of four milk tea shops, she is very familiar with milk tea drinks. As far as the recipe is concerned, there is nothing wrong with it, but whether it works or not still needs to be verified.

Chen Jingle explained: "Winter is coming soon, so we can have some healthy hot drinks, such as this brown sugar ginger and jujube milk tea, which is suitable for dispelling cold and dampness, strengthening the spleen and stomach, promoting blood circulation and warming the uterus, and beautifying the skin."

This brown sugar ginger and jujube tea is similar to the previous red sugar ginger and jujube soup, but it is a little different and is more like a drink.

"Okay, I'll let them try later."

Zhou Manlin thought that the health-preserving hot drink that Chen Jingle mentioned was interesting. Although it was not something new, it had never appeared in Jiangbei.

If she were the customer, between ordinary milk tea and the health-promoting ginger and jujube milk tea, she would most likely choose the latter.

The vast majority of users of milk tea shops are young girls, so when you think about it, it seems that there is still a big market for it.

After all, Chen Jingle accepted Zhou Manlin's gift in the form of gift exchange. Otherwise, it would have been a pity if it was really thrown away.

Just think of it as her leaving her here with you!
Just like the Hasselblad, it’s probably not used very often.

The ROG family package is very good, but the 3000 yuan host he bought himself is enough.

He is the kind of person who is very nostalgic.

If you really want to use it, you will have to equip it with an expensive 4K large screen, and even the gaming room will have to be rearranged.

Very troublesome.

……

When she was carrying the console out of the house, Zhou Manlin suddenly said, "Xingbao is not as complicated as you think. She just wants to be good to you. Don't let what I did today affect your impression of her."

Chen Jingle paused and turned to look at her.

Zhou Manlin snorted: "Only because I'm a woman, otherwise you wouldn't have any chance."

Chen Jingle: “…”

I don’t want to talk and I don’t know what to say.

"Let's go, see you later!"

"OK Bye Bye."

Zhou Manlin stared at the black Audi driving away, unable to come back to her senses for a long time.

(End of this chapter)