Siheyuan (courtyard house): My name is Shazhu!

After returning home and starting a fire, less than ten minutes later, He Yushui let out a scream, as if her tail had been stepped on.

"What's wrong with the rain? Aren't you supposed to be studying? What are you yelling about?"

"Brother, look at my pencil case, and the pencils inside." He Yushui said in a tearful voice, handing the pencil case to He Yuzhu.

Seeing the pencil case in He Yushui's hand, He Yuzhu burst into laughter. Finally, something as pathetic as his bicycle appeared, and he felt a sense of balance.

"Hahaha, Rain, your pencil case looks terrible. This is the price you pay for hitting the robber with your schoolbag. Look at your brother's bicycle, isn't it in a terrible state too?"

"It's okay, the pencil case is completely flat, we'll buy another one tomorrow. I'll try to straighten it for you, to make it look as nice as possible, or you can use my old pencil case from school."

"Brother, not only is the pencil case broken, but the pencils inside are broken too. We need them for class tomorrow."

"You still have pencils at home. Sharpen the broken ones. If the lead is broken and you can't use them, throw them away. Keep the ones that are usable. It won't affect your class tomorrow."

"You little brat, you hit someone so hard you broke a pencil! Next time, hit someone with the back of your backpack; at least the pencil case inside won't be flattened."

After He Yuzhu finished speaking, he took two new pencils from the drawer and handed them to He Yushui. He then took her pencil case and began to break them apart.

The effect is very good; it now looks like a pencil box, and the damage is not too severe.

The metal sheet of the pencil case is very thin and easy to bend. You can no longer see that it is flat from the front, but you can still see from the side that it has been straightened.

"Brother, that's great! My pencil case looks pretty good after being broken like this. I'll use it for now, and get a new one when it breaks. Brother works very hard to earn money, so we should be careful with our money."

Nowadays, children also know how to save money for their families. They sew up their schoolbags when they are worn out, and put a small tube on their pencils so that they can use them as long as possible. Both adults and children save money.

Including He Yushui's calligraphy practice books and homework books, no one taught her to write on both sides, and she was still saving money.

"Brother, the old pencils are no longer usable. The leads have all broken from the vibrations. We can only use new pencils." He Yushui had only managed to sharpen the two old pencils to the base, and they were no longer usable.

"Use new pencils. If you run out, there are more in the second drawer. Take them and use them yourself," He Yuzhu instructed.

"Okay, brother."

"After you finish sharpening your pencils, go back to your room and sleep. We need to take the bus to school tomorrow, so we have to get up half an hour early. Is the stove in your room lit?"

"Taking the car to school means getting up even earlier, I'm so sleepy. I've lit the stove and sealed it off, the house will get warm soon."

After sharpening the pencil, He Yushui happily went back to her room to rest.

He Yuzhu looked at the bicycle, which was already 'half-broken', and felt like crying.

The steel handlebars bent at a 30-degree angle, a sign of force used to strike someone, bending them as a result of the impact of the robber's body.

It can be bent over and should still work, but the front wheel is in terrible condition, bent at a 40-degree angle from a horizontal rim in one direction.

Another part is bent in another direction, and the front wheel is broken and I can't fix it myself. I don't know if any repair shops have wheels from imported Phoenix brand bicycles.

Even if you could find them, the wheels would need to be newer, and they wouldn't be cheap. You can't buy new wheels for less than 500,000 to 600,000 yuan.

During the Republic of China era, a brand-new Phoenix-headed car was priced at approximately four million in today's currency.

After thinking for a moment, He Yuzhu decided to buy it in the system store and told He Yushui that he had changed the front wheel of the car while she was sleeping.

I bought a front wheel for five gold coins, and it came with an invoice—a legitimate invoice from a nearby repair shop. The front wheel cost 500,000. The system seems incredibly powerful.

Installation and debugging complete. Wash your hands and rest. No need to get up early tomorrow.

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"Brother, wasn't the bicycle broken? How come it can be ridden again?" He Yushui was indeed very surprised to see that the bicycle could be ridden. Children grow up and are not easily fooled.

"I straightened the handlebars and went to the bike shop to get new wheels while you were sleeping last night, so you can ride to school this morning."

"Brother, will it cost a lot of money? Will those robbers pay us back?" He Yushui knew that compensation was required.

"I doubt they'll pay us back. If robbers had money, they wouldn't bother robbing people. We'll just have to accept our bad luck."

"It's all their fault, we're going to have to spend a lot of money again." He Yushui felt bad about the money.

"At least we don't have to get up too early, unlike the price we pay when fighting robbers."

"All right."

Just after ten o'clock, the fourth senior brother came to work and told the restaurant about He Yuzhu's achievements last night, which startled the kitchen staff.

"Zhu Zi, you're still amazing. You took on nine masked men all by yourself. Be careful next time. They don't have guns, so things might change next time."

There are many robbers. Give them the money and they won't hurt you. If they dare to hurt you, then fight them to the death.

And then there's Xiaoyushui, a girl, and you've taught her to be so aggressive and violent. That's not good. Girls should be gentler. "Master is right," he said, reprimanding He Yuzhu.

"Master, I'll change next time. I acted impulsively at the time. I saw they didn't have guns, so I rushed over and fought them," He Yuzhu explained.

"Zhu Zi is awesome, just like Zhao Yun, Zhao Zilong in his white robe, white horse, and silver spear back then, who fought his way in and out of Changban Slope in Dangyang seven times, and no one could stop him."

In the past, he would surely have been a mighty and invincible general, whose name would be etched in history. "Xiao Guizi still thinks He Yuzhu is right."

My dear brother, you don't know, according to more authoritative historical records from later generations, it wasn't Zhao Yun's superior martial arts skills that made him able to fight at Changban Slope in Dangyang, but rather other factors that determined his ability to win.

First, it was A Dou in his arms. If it weren't for A Dou cawing in front of him, with eighteen true dragons protecting him, Zhao Yun would have been hanging from a tree on the southeast branch of Changban Slope long ago.

Secondly, Zhao Yun was a woman, and a beautiful one at that. Otherwise, why would she have stayed by Liu Bei's side all the time, while the other four tiger generals were all sent out?

Third, the great Prime Minister Cao recognized her as a beautiful female general. He heard the rumors and exclaimed, "Who is this female general? She is so beautiful, I must capture her!"

The messenger, sensing something amiss, said, "Whose general is this? He's so ruthless; I must capture him." This was to save face for Prime Minister Cao.

Otherwise, he would have been shot into mincemeat by Cao Cao's 129,600 archers long ago, and there would be no Zhao Yun's valor.

"Let's fight less, let's fight less." He Yuzhu remained very humble.

"The robbers in the east are rampant, but things are a bit better in the west."

Everyone rolled their eyes when they heard what the fifth senior brother said.

After exchanging a few words, the group started talking about other things, namely the rising price of meat. Grain prices hadn't increased after the autumn harvest, but meat prices had risen by 20%, and it was difficult to buy.

Manager Wang is issuing a reward: anyone who buys 50 jin of meat each day, regardless of who they are, will receive 150,000 yuan. The reward exceeds 20% of the meat price, which is quite generous.

"Manager Wang rewarded us several times before the Lunar New Year. We weren't the purchasing agents, so sometimes we didn't know. If we didn't have meat for the New Year, our restaurant would have closed down long ago."