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Chapter 18 Wearing this school uniform, even frivolous spending becomes a balance of work and rest (Please read on!)

The two of them set off after having a meal.

The mall where the claw machine was located was a bit far, so Shen Yuan and Li Zhi took a taxi there.

Jiyang is a small place, a county-level city.

Many people come here looking for opportunities, but many also fail.

Otherwise, how could new stores keep opening up?
According to Shen Yuan's incomplete statistics, from junior high school to senior high school, excluding chain stores, no more than 30% of the small individual shops he ate at in the first year were still open in the second year.

Only 5% remained in the third year.

This is an exaggerated number.

For a while, Shen Yuan even wondered if he was cursed, because every restaurant he tried to work for went bankrupt.

Li Zhi is also poisonous.

Because all the businesses that went bankrupt were ones that I went to with Li Zhi.

happy.

Upon arriving at the mall, Li Zhi couldn't wait to get out of the car.

"Let's go! I'm going to catch it all!"

"Full in, full out" is a dialect term from Jiyang, meaning "a lot" or "to fill a container to the brim."

The phrase "both incompetent and playful" perfectly describes Li Zhi.

However, Shen Yuan was not in a hurry to go to the doll shop.

"I ordered milk tea, I'll go get it first."

Li Zhi raised an eyebrow: "Then I'll treat you to the claw machine!"

Are you asking me to arrest you? You clearly want to embezzle the money.

"Crash..."

Inside the claw machine arcade, passersby can't help but glance at the pretty girl holding a cup of mango pomelo sago.

good looking.

Youthful and full of energy.

Li Zhiwang's mere presence is enough to spark conversations among passersby about "the pretty girl from my high school days."

Then there's the Jiyang Middle School uniform, which symbolizes the strength of Jiyang's strongest high school.

She is good-looking and academically excellent.

Even the act of putting bright red bills into the machine has changed from reckless spending to a balance between work and rest.

Which window did God close for her?

Shen Yuan can say with certainty that God is fair.

Because Li Zhi doesn't know how to play claw machines.

100 yuan, 300 game coins.

Li Zhi only took 20 of the experience slots.

The beautiful girl is very self-aware.

Clutching the game tokens in his hand, Li Zhi looked longingly at the basket full of game tokens that Shen Yuan had placed in the trolley.

"Catch at least 15, no, 20!"

Shen Yuan chuckled to himself, thinking to himself that this was somewhat disrespectful to his buddy.

"Alright, alright, I'll make it up to you if I can't catch it! Go see if there's anything you want."

Li Zhi nodded and set off to "inspect" the shops.

As for Shen Yuan, he is free to improvise.

Shen Yuan didn't start grabbing immediately, but wandered around the shop for a while.

Perhaps it's because it's newly opened, or maybe the owner has a conscience.

The dolls in the store are of surprisingly good quality; they're not the kind you get for 30 yuan for 100 at a time.

But good quality also means something else.

The claws of claw machines will be looser.

A little conscience, but not much.

In just three minutes, Shen Yuan saw Li Zhi walk over with an unhappy expression.

Shen Yuan glanced at Li Zhi; good heavens, not a single grain of rice had been harvested.

However, when Li Zhi walked to Shen Yuan's side, the unhappiness on her face immediately disappeared.

Shen Yuan has already taken three.

An average of one per minute.

Looking at the doll on the stroller, Li Zhi asked in surprise, "How did you grab it?"

"I reached in and took it."

"If you don't want to talk about it, then forget it." Shen Yuan chuckled, glancing at a little kid who walked away from a machine with an unhappy expression, and then quickly stepped in front of that machine.

"Let me tell you a secret: one of the tricks to winning at claw machines is to be patient. Go to machines where people are already playing, and wait until they give up after failing before you try again. If they succeed, then switch to another machine and wait."

As Shen Yuan spoke, he dropped in three coins, aimed them, and then slapped them together.

The claws steadily gripped SpongeBob and carried him up.

Very good, good teamwork.

Seeing the surprise in the beautiful girl's eyes, Shen Yuan casually grabbed a handful of coins from the basket and put them in Li Zhi's hand.

"Give it a try, just stake out the spot and you're good to go."

The pretty girl, clutching a handful of game tokens, happily went to try her luck at winning a prize.

Shen Yuan observed Li Zhi while wandering around the shop.

If you see someone leaving empty-handed, go up and grab one.

I caught a plush toy by using the hook tag, and then I caught another one thanks to the machine's own guaranteed minimum.

Since others will trigger the guaranteed reward anyway, I might as well trigger it myself.

It's good to have one more to trade for a bigger doll.

Then Shen Yuan saw Li Zhi happily take out an ugly-cute little chick doll from the machine.

"Look, look, I caught it!"

Li Zhi proudly showed off the adorably ugly chick in his hand, his face beaming with a charming smile.

Shen Yuan bluntly retorted, "It's quite ugly. Take it and exchange it later."

"No! I caught this!" Li Zhi placed the ugly-cute chick on his chest, looking at Shen Yuan with wary eyes.

Shen Yuan suddenly felt a little envious of the ugly-cute chick.

No, he should be killed!

"What's so good about something so ugly?"

"I don't care, I just like it!"

Li Zhi placed the ugly-cute chick in the stroller and said seriously to Shen Yuan, "Don't touch it!"

"Good good."

As he spoke, Shen Yuan leaned close to Li Zhi and whispered, "See? My method worked, didn't it?"

Li Zhi nodded, his eyes bright: "Yeah, I just saw a kid stop playing tag, so I went over and caught him in no time! But..."

After glancing at the ugly-cute chick, Li Zhi curled his lip and said, "It is indeed a bit ugly."

Shen Yuan was amused.

After the initial excitement wore off, the beautiful girl began to show her disdain.

……

"I heard that the dolls in this doll shop are of good quality and easy to win, so I'll give it a try."

Guo Weifeng stopped in front of the doll shop, a smile on his face that he thought was sunny.

"Really? But I don't know how to use a chopstick."

Tong Churou maintained her signature smile, her facial expression perfectly controlled.

However, if Shen Yuan were here, he would most likely say something that sounded a bit perfunctory.

Actually, Li Zhi was wrong about one thing.

After the witch from the lower realm entered the upper realm, she discovered that it was easier to seduce people in the upper realm than in the lower realm.

Although the geniuses of the upper realm possess extraordinary intelligence, it is precisely because of this that they have very little experience in love.

Unlike the passionate, life-and-death love in the mortal realm.

The geniuses of the upper realm are all busy making a fuss.

With a few simple tricks, the witch from the lower realms rendered the prodigy before her delirious.

Hearing Tong Churou's words, Guo Weifeng smiled brightly: "It's okay, it's just a game, the most important thing is to have fun."

Guo Weifeng scanned 100 yuan on the machine.

This feeling of spending "a fortune" made him feel good about himself.

Guo Weifeng's family was well-off; 100 yuan was just a small amount of money for him.

As she watched the game coins flow out, Tong Churou's face also showed an expectant expression.

Of course, in addition to this, there is also the coordination of language.

"Wei Feng, there are so many game coins! I've never seen so many in my life."

Upon hearing this, Guo Weifeng wished he could spend another 100 yuan to hear the clinking sound of the game coins.

Seeing Guo Weifeng's satisfied expression, a hint of displeasure flashed in Tong Churou's eyes.

What are you thinking about? In the time it takes to play this claw machine, I could have learned a whole new concept!
(End of this chapter)