Chapter 5: Chapter 5 Knowledge is Money
Translator: 549690339
Class three's classroom.
Zhao Yi shifted his attention to the system, the outcome of sleeping during English class was very good.
[Extra rest, Study Coin+2.]
Checking personal attributes---
[Energy: 97/102.]
"Sleeping is indeed the best way to recover, not only does it restore energy, but it also earns more Study Coins!"
Lin Xiaoqing twisted around and looked at him, her eyes sharp.
Zhao Yi awkwardly chuckled.
The surrounding air seemed to freeze.
Lin Xiaoqing packed away her aggressive gaze, and brought up the topic of the questions, "How did you guess the answers correctly? If you tell me, I won't give you a hard time."
"What guess?"
Zhao Yi snorted and remarked, "I just humbly said something, and you took it seriously! This is my might!"
Lin Xiaoqing continued to glare at him, "In the second year final exams, your Mathematics was barely passing and English was just fifty. Yet today, you got all the English and Mathematics multiple-choice questions right."
Zhao Yi realized he had overdone his show.
Under the stark gaze from Lin Xiaoqing, his only recourse was to continually stress 'luck'. Then Sun Liang's shout gave him an escape route.
"Zhao Yi, going to the restroom?"
"Sure!"
Next class is Chinese.
Chinese is a subject that requires accumulation, not much can be taught in a class.
Zhao Yi intended to listen attentively, but Teacher Wang's storytelling ability was too strong, starting from open-ended essay topics to Socrates, and from Socrates to modern poetry?
Sleepy figures were everywhere in the classroom.
Zhao Yi simply lied on his desk, deciding to supplement his sleep. Extra sleep could not only restore energy but it could also bring growth in Study Coins.
"Ring ring ring~~"
Class dismissed.
Zhao Yi, who was groggy, lifted his head, only to hear someone yelling from the doorway, "Zhao Yi, come out!"
"The class adviser is calling you!"
"It must be because Demon King Niu snitched, you're in for it!"
"Maybe it's Teacher Shen Yan!"
"Hmph! Serves you right!"
With Lin Xiaoqing gloating coldly, Zhao Yi walked out of the classroom door.
Class adviser Teacher Sun was waiting outside.
Teacher Sun, around forty, was only about 1.5 meters tall, her petite and frail stature contrasted a very resolute personality. She sternly stared at Zhao Yi, "I heard from Teacher Niu, you were sleeping in Mathematics and didn't pay attention in class. Were you deliberately disrupting during problem solving?"
"That... I really didn't understand it!" Zhao Yi retorted, feeling wronged.
"That's why you need to listen carefully. Math and Physics complement each other. For some problems that are hard to comprehend, you need to listen more, practice more. There's a saying, 'practice makes perfect', you are just too lazy. Look at your performance during the end-of-term…"
"@#￥%..."
Teacher Sun gave him a nonstop twenty-minute reprimand.
Zhao Yi continually nodded, "Yes, Teacher Sun, that's right!"
"I think so too."
"I'll definitely correct myself next time, I promise I will listen attentively in class..."
Perhaps it was due to Zhao Yi's attitude towards admitting his mistake, or perhaps her mouth was running dry, Teacher Sun stopped and began to seriously discuss another matter, "The day after tomorrow, there will be a school-wide meeting for the twelfth graders, do you know about that?"
Zhao Yi was struck by realization.
Every year, just before the school year began, the twelfth grade held a meeting which included the students' parents. The school used this meeting to stress the importance of the twelfth-grade, and the teachers would interact with each student's parents.
In such a meeting, Zhao Yi was selected as the student representative to give a speech.
He was chosen as the student representative not because he was academically excellent, but because he was relatively articulate and not nervous on stage.
Moreover, it was luck.
Sure enough!
Teacher Sun nodded and continued, "During the previous two twelfth-grade meetings, the student representatives were all high-achievers. This time, the school board's policy is to value all students equally and not discriminate based on grades."
"The principal's idea is to have three student representatives give a speech. So Lin Xiaoqing from our class will go, and I've also put your name down."
Zhao Yi wasn't too keen about it.
Back in high school, being selected as a representative to give a speech felt like a big accomplishment.
But not now, his mentality had changed.
A speech?
Making a script and then giving a speech on stage would keep him busy for a long time and had no benefits at all.
Teacher Sun continued to plead with him, "In our class, the only one suitable for speech is you. The other classes don't even have anyone capable of this...blah blah blah…"
Pressing his hurting forehead, Zhao Yi finally nodded in agreement.
...
School was dismissed in the afternoon.
Zhao Yi headed straight to the lottery kiosk as making money was very important.
Scratch-off lottery tickets!
Two dollars for a ticket, luck game!
It's very unlikely to hit the jackpot with scratch-off tickets, but the chances of getting five or ten dollars were not low.
Zhao Yi asked the boss for some unscratched tickets, he formulates a question in his mind--
[Which ticket amongst the scratch-offs in front of me is not a losing ticket?]
[A. All of them]
[B, C, D ...]
[Causality Law!]
[Failure, no related clues!]
Still not possible!
Even though he was prepared for it, Zhao Yi still felt a sense of regret.
He scratched open a ticket.
"Thank you for your patronage!" A four-word sentence followed by a colon gave him a very cordial feeling.
Zhao Yi took out the last five yuan from his pocket, feeling uncomfortable all over.
He rode his bike home.
Upon arriving at his residential area, he received a system notification--
[Exercise, Study Coin+1.]
"So sports can also increase Study Coins, might as well run to and from school in the future!"
Zhao Yi thought.
The run-down environment of the residential area hadn't changed much in more than a decade. Clothes hanging on the racks extending from the windows made it feel even hotter. However, it all seemed to be filled with memories.
Zhao Yi stood outside his house, hesitated for a while before knocking on the door, blurting out, "Mom, I'm back!"
"Creak~~"
The door opened.
A woman in her forties was hunching at the door, continuously nagging, "Why are you little late today? Did you go play soccer again?"
"School let out late!"
Zhao Yi responded while feeling a sense of warmth in his heart.
Before going to college, his mom Liu Jing had always been like this. Although she was not highly educated and couldn't help him much with his studies, she understood the importance of it. She was always supervising him to study seriously every day. Otherwise, he would not have been able to attend college.
Zhao Yi went into the living room, turned on the TV and switched to the news channel, then got nagged by his mom again, "Just came back and you're already watching TV!"
Liu Jing came over with a watermelon, cut it in half and handed him a spoon.
Zhao Yi took a delicious bite of the watermelon and asked with his head raised, "What time will my Dad be home?"
Liu Jing rolled her eyes and complained, "Probably working overtime again! Who knows what time! I'll go cook dinner, and if he doesn't come home by the time it's ready, he can just eat it cold!"
"Sure, that works!"
Zhao Yi cheerfully responded, then focused his attention on the news. Watching news from the past was quite an interesting experience. The news was reporting on the successful launch of the Shenzhou spaceship.
Shenzhou Spaceship?
In his previous life, he also paid attention to some national events during his busy work hours. Before the time travel, space exploration had developed to the point of establishing an international space station and launching lunar explorers, right?
Zhao Zhenxi, his dad, still managed to return home just in time for dinner.
He was carrying a big box.
Zhao Yi went over to bring the box inside and heard Zhao Zhenxi rush to say, "Don't knock or bump it! What's inside is precious!"
"What is it?"
Zhao Zhenxi carefully took the box and slowly put it down, "A computer. A computer from abroad!"
"Dad, you're the best, you even bought me a computer?" Zhao Yi excitedly wanted to open the package.
Zhao Zhenxi pushed him away impatiently, saying "Who said anything about buying a computer! You haven't even started college yet. Even if you were in college, we'd have to consider it. Besides, you can't afford the computer in this box!"
"A server?" Zhao Yi gaped in surprise.
"Mac, you wouldn't understand anyway!" Zhao Zhenxi placed the box in the corner and sat down on the sofa to watch TV, not forgetting to remind, "Don't mess with it, this is our boss's computer. He asked me to repair it."
"Just a Mac, can't afford it." Zhao Yi mumbled with a pout, but he didn't continue to hover around the computer. His dad's concern was justified.
Ten years later, spending tens of thousands wouldn't be much of a problem.
But it was different now.
Zhao Zhenxi is a technician in a factory, considered to be a high-income class, but he can't earn tens of thousands in a year. A computer worth over ten thousand is still quite a luxury.
Father and son sat on the sofa watching TV.
Zhao Yi curiously asked, "Dad, you know how to fix computers?"
If his memory wasn't wrong, his dad only knew how to repair some mechanical stuff, and ten years later he wouldn't even understand how to use a mobile phone.
"How would I know how to fix a computer!" Zhao Zhenxi quickly shook his head, "Our manager's new computer broke and he asked me to take a look. If I can fix it, great. If not, it'll be sent back to the factory."
"What happened to it?"
"Seems like it won't turn on, can't login to the account." Zhao Zhenxi shook his head and vaguely replied, "I don't really understand."
From the kitchen, Liu Jing shouted, "Dinner's ready, come over quickly, serve the rice!"
"Alright, alright!"
Zhao Zhenxi shivered all over and quickly went into the kitchen to help serve the dishes.
Zhao Yi looked over and pursed his lips. What he couldn't understand the most was his dad's name.
Zhenxi.
Suppressing the West!
Even if butcher Zheng, who bullied the old man and his daughter and was punched to death by Lu Zhishen, was certainly a hot-tempered tough guy.
And then there was Zhao Zhenxi.
What a waste of the name 'Zhenxi'.
But it's a good thing.
Apart from Liu Jing's constant nagging during dinner, talking about Zhao Yi's studies at times and complaining about Zhao Zhenxi coming home too late at other times, both father and son remained silent and listened. Having dinner together seemed pleasant and harmonious, like a happy family.
After dinner, Zhao Zhenxi began fiddling with the computer.
Zhao Yi watched from the sidelines.
Once the computer successfully booted, Zhao Yi figured out what was 'wrong'—their boss had forgotten the registration account for Mac and had also forgotten the account password setup on the computer, resulting in it being completely inaccessible.
In this situation, the only option was to go to customer service.
Zhao Zhenxi didn't understand computers at all, he just pressed this button, pressed that button, the computer restarted several times but it was all in vain.
Zhao Yi suddenly thought of a way to make money.
In his previous life, while working, the company was developing software for the iOS system.
Zhao Yi had done research specifically for the iOS system and had particularly looked at some public vulnerability data, trying to find a way to circumvent the payment system. He also learned about many vulnerabilities that had appeared in the iOS system in the past.
Including Mac, iMac, AirPort and other computer operating systems.
And the mobile phone operating system for iPhone.
Even the Apple Watch.
In his previous life, he knew about these vulnerabilities when they had already been fixed, but now that he knew about it in advance, it was quite valuable.
Knowledge is money!
Gifts
-- Gift
received Weekly Power Status
-- Power
Ranking 
-- Power
stone