CHAPTER 282: CHAPTER 281 ADD SOME ENGLISH

The next morning after breakfast, Mrs. Zhen left the house. Around nine o’clock, she came back with an electric blanket and chased Zhen Yu out of bed to lay it out for her.

"Mom! You actually bought it!"

"Of course! If I want to buy something, even if I have to dig through cracks in the ground, I’ll dig it out!"

Hearing her mother’s words, Zhen Yu understood.

Mrs. Zhen must have pressured the shop owner to dig through their inventory again. Who knows which unlucky owner got caught by her...

Mrs. Zhen had been out for a little over an hour and was quite worried about the business downstairs.

"Alright! Just lie down! I need to go downstairs to check on things! Call me if you need anything."

Zhen Yu felt her mother was making a big deal out of nothing. It’s not like she couldn’t take care of herself...

"You go ahead, I can handle myself! I’m not missing any limbs or anything."

"Tsk, tsk, tsk! Child’s prattle!" Mrs. Zhen gently slapped her daughter and glared, "Don’t jinx it by talking nonsense!"

"Yes, yes, yes! You go ahead downstairs!" said Zhen Yu, playing cute.

Mrs. Zhen didn’t say more to her daughter and immediately went downstairs.

—

Zhen Yu was already on summer vacation, and now with a stomach ache, she had even more reason to justifiably laze around in bed.

If it were up to Mrs. Zhen, she would have liked to serve all three meals a day to Zhen Yu in bed...

Zhen Yu was afraid her mother would spoil her too much, so she firmly refused.

After lying in bed for three days, she mostly spent her time reading books, and she would only write her novel, "Game Master," when inspiration struck.

She expected the book to be about 1.5 to 2 million characters long, but so far, she had only written about 350,000 characters.

At this rate, it would take about a year and a half to finish the book.

But Zhen Yu was not in a hurry, as she could clearly distinguish her priorities—she knew her primary task was to study, and writing was just a hobby.

—

On Friday night before bed, Zhen Yu opened the system panel and saw that she had accumulated 60 ability points over two months.

She spent 10 ability points to raise her Martial Force to 80, and another 30 ability points to raise her Burst to 80, bringing all her basic data except for her Appearance and damaged Constitution to 80.

With 20 ability points left, Zhen Yu carefully considered and decided to try adding points to Language.

"Add 20 to English!"

[Ding! It is detected that the host’s current knowledge is insufficient to support the skill level upgrade, a maximum of 60 points can be added. Do you want to add points?]

Damn... forgot about not being able to skip levels! Adding 19 points is also fine! That one point doesn’t matter!

"Add!"

A white light flashed, and the English category under Language turned blood-red and started blinking unstablely!

"What’s happening?"

Just as Zhen Yu asked, the system notification belatedly arrived...

[Ding! Ding! It is detected that the host’s vocabulary reserve is insufficient to support this skill’s value increase, please replenish within 30 days! Please replenish within 30 days! Otherwise, it will fall back to the original value!]

"...Bad review! Absolutely a bad review! If it drops back, aren’t my 19 ability points wasted?!"

"Hey! Is there any customer service? I want to complain!"

"Hello!!!"

"Can’t I open a consulting service?!"

No matter what Zhen Yu said, as soon as the system’s prompt tone ended, it returned to silence, completely ignoring Zhen Yu’s words.

Zhen Yu clenched her fists tight with a crackling sound, and threw a punch in the air!

It’s not like she could touch the system display screen that could only be seen...

After comforting herself for a while, Zhen Yu had to force herself to accept this frustrating host setting.

"Looks like I need to get up early tomorrow to visit the bookstore and audio store... Oh right! I was supposed to get up anyway, and I have to pick up Uncle Han and his family!"

Thinking about Han Mingyue’s visit tomorrow, Zhen Yu didn’t care about the last remaining ability point, she swiftly shut down the system and snuggled into her quil...

—

Early on Saturday, Zhen Yu tidied herself up neatly, sat at the dining table, and while serving porridge, mentioned, "Mom! I’m going to buy some English books and tapes later, can you give me some money?"

Mrs. Zhen immediately asked with concern, "Is your stomach not hurting anymore? If it’s still bothering you, just keep lying down! I’ll go buy them for you later."

"You don’t know what to buy, and besides, I’ve been lying down for three days and it’s not that painful anymore! It’s just still a bit uncomfortable."

Seeing her daughter looking quite energetic, Mrs. Zhen agreed.

"Alright then! How much do you need?"

"I still have some money left, just give me fifty more! Oh right! I need to buy an English dictionary too!"

While taking out the money, Mrs. Zhen reminded her, "Make sure to come back early! I still need to pick up your Uncle Han and his family before noon!"

"I’ll go!"

"Why are you going!" Mrs. Zhen glared at her daughter, "You just got better and now you’re showing off! Hurry up and come home and stay put after buying the books!"

Zhen Yu: "..."

Her mother being so nervous about her, she feels a bit out of place, what to do?

—

Fortunately, with several universities in the First High School area, Zhen Yu found some reference materials like "College English Test Item Banks" in the bookstore.

She picked out some suitable for her current use, paid for them together with the dictionary, and then headed to the nearby audio store.

The audio store had a huge selection, not just English tapes, but also English original soundtracks with bilingual subtitles on DVDs.

Zhen Yu wasn’t sure if they were authentically licensed or pirated. That’s just how things were around here, with limited options and no choice.

So, she directly picked up the "First Blood" trilogy pack and took it home, which she could play on the computer each morning after her jog, when the game arcade was less crowded.

—

"Mom, I’m back!"

Mrs. Zhen glanced at the clock on the wall, "Hurry up! Take your stuff upstairs then come back down! Aunt Han said they’re catching the earliest bus, I need to leave!"

"Got it." Zhen Yu quickly ran up and down the stairs, watching her mother leave.

As soon as Mrs. Zhen was away, Li Si’er sauntered over. This week he was on the day shift, while Zhang San was on the night shift.

"Boss! Are we expecting guests today?"

"Yep, my uncle’s family is coming over to buy a house." As she said this, Zhen Yu suddenly remembered that it was Li Si’er who found their shop space, and jokingly asked, "Brother Li Si! Know of any places selling shop spaces?"

Li Si’er laughed upon hearing that, "Hey! This time I really don’t know! I’ve been wrapped up in the game arcade every day, haven’t had the time to stroll around and survey places!"

"Right! Let’s ask around ourselves later! If we come across something good, that’s it. If not, we’ll see!"

"Buying a house is just like that!" Li Si’er agreed, then broached another subject, "Zhen Yu! At the beginning of July, I heard some news! Couldn’t confirm it, so thought of waiting till your summer holidays to tell you."