What Could One Yuan a Day Buy?

(This story has brains, though maybe not many.)

(Everyone is welcome to point out any problems. I'm very open to advice and will fix my mistakes right away.)

[Congratulations to the host on successfully transmigrating]

[Binding the Transmigration Daily Check-In Benefits System]

[Hurry and check in to claim today's one yuan!]

What the hell!

I finally got a system after all that.

And checking in for a whole day only got me one yuan?

What could one yuan buy!

Who are you looking down on!

I graduated from a prestigious university and spent years as a corporate beast of burden at a major company. I had a bald spot before I even turned thirty. That's what you call proof of ability!

I could make three or four hundred thousand yuan a year.

Did I need your one yuan a day!

Who are you insulting!

I'm done transmigrating!

I want to go back!

[Check-in complete. One yuan successfully claimed]

All right, I couldn't go back...

I'd already transmigrated.

Since I was here, I might as well make the best of it.

One yuan was still money.

I could still buy things with it.

Besides, something about these surroundings felt off!

Who was I!

Where was I!

Could someone help me!

Liang Xin rubbed the thick, luxuriant hair on top of his head in frustration.

He couldn't help laughing out loud.

The corners of his mouth were harder to keep down than an AK.

The feel of real hair was so much better than a wig.

Not to mention how thick it was!

Originally, he had planned to work himself hard, then work himself even harder.

Before he turned thirty-five, when people would start looking down on him and he would face the risk of being laid off,

he would save up enough for retirement, fire his boss first, and then start enjoying a wonderful retired life.

Instead, he had worked so hard that he had actually worked himself to death.

He had died suddenly before he even turned thirty.

Sigh, looking back, it really wasn't fucking worth it!

Especially those savings of over a million yuan. Who knew who ended up getting them!

Dying once and coming back to life gave Liang Xin a sense of complete enlightenment.

For a person, being alive was good enough. Being alive was the most important thing!

Health came second!

He had made up his mind. Since heaven had given him another chance at life,

he would enjoy himself this time around and make up for every wonderful thing he had missed.

He would never again work himself to death for that filthy lucre!

"System, where's my one yuan!"

"You promised me one yuan for checking in! Where is it!"

"Give me my one yuan, or I'll fight you to the death!"

"Oh, it's in my head, and there's a shop too? Never mind, then."

"There's not much in this shop! Just these few things?"

"And what's with these prices?"

"Rice is thirteen cents a jin? That's not a mistake, is it? Both the one and the three are after the zero and the decimal point? It really is thirteen cents?"

"Pork is seventy cents? That price really isn't a mistake?"

"What on earth went wrong?"

Just then, the door was pushed open.

Liang Xin frowned unconsciously.

Who was this, coming in without even knocking!

If this were one of his subordinates, he might have given him a good face-washing with his spit.

The surroundings were shabby, the room was small, and that battered wooden door looked so worn that it was full of the flavor of the times.

But that was no reason to come in without knocking.

Huh? Where was the person?

Oh, I had to look down.

Liang Xin lowered his gaze and saw a little head timidly peeking in.

Judging by her appearance, this little one didn't seem to reach his thigh?

"Big Brother Liang, my mom told me to call you over for a meal."

The little girl, her face sallow and very thin, spoke in a quiet voice.

Seeing her, a fragment of memory welled up.

She was the little girl from Auntie He's family next door.

Her mother, Auntie He Ting, was his colleague and also the comrade the neighborhood office had arranged to help take care of him!

He had just graduated from high school and hadn't gotten into college.

But he could read and write, so he had been recruited into the supply and marketing cooperative system and become a glorious worker.

He was now a procurement agent!

"Whoa, so I do have the original owner's memories after all, but they have to be triggered, and I have to dig them out myself?"

"Is it because I couldn't handle them all flooding in at once?"

At the mention of food, Liang Xin's stomach immediately sent him a signal.

Hungry, very hungry!

He wanted to eat!

So he had no time to think about the memories.

First he had to attend to his temple of the five viscera!

"Little girl, I know. You go back first. I'll be right over."

After sending the little girl away, Liang Xin wondered what he should bring to the meal.

He was already used to never showing up empty-handed.

But looking around this home, so full of the flavor of the times, there didn't seem to be anything he could bring.

"Right, don't I have a system?"

Liang Xin sent his consciousness into the system in his mind.

Looking at the crude shop, he still couldn't understand what era this was, or who had designed this lousy shop to be so crude and poorly stocked.

There were only a few products, things like rice, white flour, pork, sorghum, and corn.

And you had the nerve to call this a shop?

You might as well rename it the Farm and Sideline Products App!

No, what app? You didn't deserve the name!

Even the smallest grain and oil store had a wider selection than this!

"How could I go to someone's home empty-handed?"

"I only have one yuan, but these eggs are only fifty cents a jin? How about two jin?"

The next moment, a stiff paper basket appeared in front of him, with a great pile of small eggs inside.

At a glance, there were definitely more than twenty.

"Why do these eggs look so small? Free-range eggs from the countryside? Little free-range chicken eggs?"

"Forget it. Whatever kind of eggs they are, they're fine as long as they're edible."

"They seem a little embarrassing to give as a gift, but there's nothing else."

"This will have to do for now."

Liang Xin picked up the eggs and went out.

He hadn't expected that the two jin of eggs he looked down on and was rather embarrassed to give would be something they refused to accept no matter what!

They thought they were too valuable!