The next morning.
After getting up, Chen Shouyi went to the bathroom and took a shower.
When he finished and was just about to brush his teeth, someone knocked on the door.
"Brother, are you done yet? It's almost seven!" Chen Xingyue urged.
"Why so early? They probably aren't even up yet," Chen Shouyi said. He glanced at the watch on the washstand. It wasn't even half past six.
She never fussed this much over her own brother.
"Don't you still have to go buy a gift?" Chen Xingyue said.
"Wait!" Chen Shouyi replied gloomily.
"Then hurry up!"
After washing up, he took a set of clothes from the wardrobe and began to get dressed. At the same time, he whispered to Shell Girl, who had already darted beneath the quilt, alert and wary, "Stay home and get some more sleep. I'm going to see the bad giant."
As soon as he finished speaking, a little head poked out from under the quilt. With a solemn expression, she whispered, "Oh! Go ahead. Little Dot will be good."
"Stay here and behave. I'll be right back."
Then he opened the storage cabinet. Inside was a mountain of cash.
His monthly martial artist allowance and salary now came to 1.5 million, and that was only a small part of his income. Most of it came from mission bonuses.
As a martial artist, he earned at least two million for each mission, and as much as five million.
Last month, for instance, he had earned 6.5 million for carrying out a high-risk mission in Ningzhou.
Society was unstable these days, and money in the bank wasn't safe.
So whenever he got paid, Chen Shouyi withdrew a pile of cash from the bank and kept it at home. There was now more than ten