Chapter 472: 472
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Fangzheng turned even more worried after sending off Yang Hua . He had a good impression of Qi Liya . Although she was not considered pretty, had an average figure not taller than 1 . 6 meters and average intelligence, she was a gentle girl with a little frailty to her . Fangzheng had once seen Qi Liya buy two meal boxes for an entire week . She would eat one herself and give the other box to a vagrant the entire time until the vagrant left the school's vicinity .
With this in mind, Fangzheng turned even more worried for Qi Liya . Could it be that she had encountered something similar?
With this in mind, Fangzheng could no longer sit still . However the moment he thought of the remote south, the fact that his pockets were empty posed a trouble . Ignoring airplane tickets, just train tickets were not cheap either!
"System, you have collected so much incense money . Can you give me a bit of it?" asked Fangzheng bitterly .
"I can!"
Fangzheng was surprised, but he sneered . "Can we not have the huge pauses in between your sentences? Just say it directly . Can you or can you not?"
"I can . "
Fangzheng was completely taken aback as he attempted to confirm . "You really can?"
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"I can!"
"Are you sure you can?" Fangzheng asked again .
"Can you stop being irritating? If you don't want it, forget it . I'll keep it!" The System was infuriated .
"Then why all this idle talk? Take it all out for This Penniless Monk!" Fangzheng exclaimed .
"All? Dream on! Up to this month, the total merit you earned has exceeded 2500 . You have fulfilled the minimum requirement . You can obtain ten percent of the merit money for your living expenses . "
Fangzheng was immediately excited when he heard that . The System was really not pulling a fast one on him this time . He would really have money he could use! Therefore Fangzheng immediately asked, "How much money do I have now? How much can I draw out? Also, why didn't you say it earlier?"
"What's the use of saying it earlier? Without sufficient merit points, you can't get a thing . Fantasizing about something, having your attention diverted, and wasting your efforts to pursue something is not necessarily a good thing," said the System matter-of-factly .
Fangzheng already no longer felt that the System was a sore sight . He did not care what the System said, since it was always able to sound reasonable .
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The System continued . "Up to now, you have received incense offerings totaling 68,736 yuan! The amount you can get in cash is 6,873 . 60 yuan . "
"That much?" Fangzheng was truly given a fright . On careful thought, Fatty, Monkey, and company had all donated quite generously . Yang Hua had done the same too . There were also many visitors . Dozens of visitors came every day, and even if they placed only a few yuan, that would not be something trivial when accumulated . But on second thought, the money he needed to upgrade his divine powers required more than hundred thousand a pop . Fangzheng suddenly realized how poor he was!
However that wasn't important at the moment . He immediately withdrew the money, and instantly, there was a wad of cash in his hands . Fangzheng's eyes squinted into a tiny sliver from his smiling . He leaned against the wall and began counting! One, two, three…
"Counting cash feels awesome!" Fangzheng beamed . All this while, although he had held wads of cash, it had always been money he could see but not spend . Now that he could finally spend some money, he felt elated .
However, moments after his elation, Fangzheng took out his cell phone and sat under the bodhi tree .
As expected, Fangzheng saw Liu Dacheng send him another message .
"Fangzheng, have you thought about it?" When will you be coming?" Liu Dacheng went straight to the point .
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An idea came to Fangzheng as his eyes darted around . "No . Too poor . This Penniless Monk doesn't have enough money to buy a plane ticket, so This Penniless Monk can't go despite wanting to go . Sigh, the money hasn't been disbursed by the country . This Penniless Monk won't be able to go now . Why don't we talk about it at the end of the year?"
Boom!
A lightning bolt struck the spot in front of Fangzheng . He grinned as he had fully known that it was not a white lie . Actual lying would result in lightning strikes, but he was already accustomed to it and thought nothing of it .
Liu Dacheng said: "Why don't you just borrow some money from the villagers?"
A cold glimmer flashed in Fangzheng's eyes when he saw that . Liu Dacheng was indeed problematic . However Fangzheng still continued: "This Penniless Monk would not borrow from others unless necessary . "
It was the truth, so there was no lightning .
Liu Dacheng fell silent and only after a long while did he reply with the message: "Sigh, you are really troublesome . Alright, send me a picture of your identification document . I'll get my secretary to book a plane ticket for you . "
Fangzheng was stunned . Had he been wrong about Liu Dacheng? In any case, he sent a picture of his identification document .
Liu Dacheng replied with an emoji with an OK hand gesture . He then vanished saying that he had a meeting .
In the afternoon, Liu Dacheng replied: "I got my secretary to book a ticket for you, but all the tickets have been sold out . Since you apparently have not taken a plane before, it would be troublesome if you had to do it now . Planes these days are delayed for no particular reason . A train would be more convenient . I took a look at the high-speed rails . There's no direct line, so I got you an ordinary express ticket with a hard seat . Sigh, it's really troublesome these days with students on break in July . Just buying a hard berth ticket is so difficult . I used a contact in the rail department to help you buy the ticket . How about it? Shouldn't you thank me?"
Fangzheng was in no hurry to buy Liu Dacheng's story . Instead, he searched on the Internet . Indeed there were no more normal plane tickets, but there were still first-class tickets available! And there were clearly plenty of train tickets left . Why did he say that there were none? There were indeed no ordinary hard berth tickets, but there were soft berth ones!
Fangzheng pricked up his brows and replied: "Is that so? That's fine, This Penniless Monk is used to hard seats . It's fine if it's a hard seat . "
"Okay, great . You just need to retrieve the tickets when you reach the train station . " Liu Dacheng then sent a picture which indicated how Fangzheng could retrieve the ticket . He repeatedly exhorted him not to miss that particular train .
Fangzheng was finding it more and more curious . Wasn't this Liu Dacheng a little too enthusiastic? Was he really inviting him to have fun because they were former classmates? This matter was likely not as simple .
The train tickets were for nine in the morning the next day . Time was a little tight, but now, Fangzheng had money . He was no longer worried . Besides, he still had his disciple!
The next day, Fangzheng called out to Red Boy just as the sky lit up slightly . Then the child was made to carry Fangzheng with his eyes hardly open . They rushed for Black Mountain City using the GPS on their phones . It had to be said that Red Boy's flying speed was really good . Wind howled in Fangzheng's ears, and he arrived in Black Mountain City after taking only slightly more than twenty minutes . He told Red Boy to return home as he stood by the train station's entrance . He carried a huge cloth bag, and in it were Crystal Rice dumplings . Although he had announced to the public that there were none left, for Fangzheng himself eating these was too simple . He could make them at anytime . He would always make some dumplings and bring them along with him so that he would not starve to death .
It did not take long before the train arrived . Fangzheng joined the long lines to board the train . Fangzheng realized that the trains were indeed occupied by students . There were young faces everywhere as they chatted merrily . It added an additional youthful feeling to the train carriage . Fangzheng could not help but sigh inwardly . "It's indeed good to be young… Uh, it seems I'm not that old either!"