Chapter 6: Newbie Gift Pack, It Can Be Available
Seeing that there was no way to keep exploiting the compensation loophole and fleece the System, Jiang Yunxi could only find another way.
Her eyes turned, and she said, 【System, according to the rules of your system world, every host gets a beginner’s gift package after binding with a system.
Where’s my beginner’s gift package?】
The System was dumbfounded. Hosts received beginner’s gift packages after binding with a system? Why had it never heard of that?
It certainly had not been mentioned during its pre-job training.
Nor was there any such provision in its rules.
The System said, 【Host, are you sure you’re not mistaken? I’ve never heard of any beginner’s gift package.】
【How could there not be one? Every host bound to a system gets a beginner’s gift package.】
Jiang Yunxi was completely unreasonable, yet utterly confident. After all, she had backing.
This was her only chance to fleece the System, so how could she let it pass?
【System, don’t forget that this body is still unconscious. I have a high fever and pneumonia, and apparently there’s even a blood clot in my brain.
I might kick the bucket at any moment.】
【Are you sure the medicine in this era can cure me?】
If it could, the original owner would not have died from this illness.
【High fever and pneumonia—either one of those could be fatal in ancient times.
This body was already weak to begin with. If the fever keeps burning, how many hours do you think I can last?】
【What if I accidentally kick the bucket? Huaxia...】
Jiang Yunxi stopped there, making her point without saying too much.
Since the Main System had been so worried about her dying earlier, it should still be concerned now.
She ought to be able to use that concern to force some good things out of it.
【Putting everything else aside, you have to give me medicine to dissolve the blood clot in my brain, bring down the fever, and cure the pneumonia.
This was the original owner’s mess, after all. You can’t expect me to waste my gossip points treating it.】
At that thought, Jiang Yunxi suddenly realized that the Body-Strengthening Pill should probably be paid for by the System too. After all...
Having received the thoughts in Jiang Yunxi’s mind—and seeing the response the Main System had just sent it—the System hurriedly cut in before she could speak again.
【The beginner’s gift package, right? Yes, yes, we have one.】
The Main System had just replied that, from now on, as long as Jiang Yunxi’s requests cost no more than one thousand gossip points, the System no longer needed to ask for approval and could make its own decisions.
The Main System was worried that if it failed to respond in time again, it would be forced to pay compensation, or that Jiang Yunxi might actually die and then Huaxia...
However, the Main System had also said that it could not satisfy her every demand. Even when it did, it had to keep the price as low as possible and minimize its losses.
Medicine to clear the blood clot, reduce the fever, and treat pneumonia were all very ordinary medications. They were barely worth anything.
Jiang Yunxi’s eyes lit up. She had fleeced the System again.
But the System had agreed far too readily this time. There had to be a catch.
No, she had to ask for more.
【You need to prepare plenty of these medicines for me, in case the treatment doesn’t work.
Especially fever reducers. You need to prepare lots of those.
There’s no air-conditioning in this era, and winters are so cold that it’s easy to catch a cold or come down with a fever. With this frail body of mine, I could easily kick the bucket.】
The System gritted its teeth.
【Fine, no problem. I’ll put enough cold medicine in your beginner’s gift package for you to take every day for three months.】
It was being awfully generous. Apparently, cold medicine cost practically nothing in the System’s world.
Then...
【How can three months possibly be enough? This body is so weak...】
【Six months. I’ll give you enough to take every day for six months. Not one day more.】
Jiang Yunxi was delighted, though inwardly she put on a coy expression and asked, 【What about the expiration date?】
【Ten years. I’ll give you medicine with a ten-year shelf life. I guarantee it won’t go to waste.】
【Fine, then.】 Jiang Yunxi sounded indifferent. 【Give me some side-effect-free painkillers too. My whole body hurts.】
【All right.】
The System’s voice sounded somewhat listless.
There was nowhere for Jiang Yunxi to store all these things at the moment, so they could only be placed in the System’s inventory. She still felt uneasy about that.
It was like owning something without actually having control over it.
The main problem was that the System was far too unreliable.
She wondered whether the System Shop sold things like spatial rings. If it did, perhaps...
But then she thought of how the System had looked just now.
Forget it. She should not push it too far. She would still have to rely on it to earn gossip points in the future.
She had to take a long-term approach.
Still, she was a little unwilling to let the matter go.
【A beginner’s gift package definitely ought to include bonus gossip points.
Other people’s beginner’s gift packages all come with points rewards. I should get some too.】
【All right, no problem.】
Without giving Jiang Yunxi another chance to make a request, a mechanical voice rang out.
【Host, please claim your beginner’s gift package.
Would the host like to claim it?】
That was a ridiculous question. Naturally, she answered, 【Claim it.】
【Would the host like to open the beginner’s gift package?】
【Once opened, all items in the gift package will automatically be stored in the System’s inventory.】
【Open it, open it!】 Jiang Yunxi said impatiently.
【Beginner’s gift package opened. You have obtained: five Blood-Clot-Dissolving Pills, three full courses of pneumonia medication, eighteen boxes of fever reducers, ten boxes of ibuprofen, ten bottles of hemostatic powder, three bottles of diarrhea pills, five boxes of anti-inflammatory medicine, five bottles of cough syrup, five bottles of iodine solution, and 300 gossip points.】
Excellent. She was quite satisfied with this gift package.
Jiang Yunxi eagerly summoned the System interface. Her gossip-point balance was now 600, and she could also see the items in the System’s inventory.
【The Body-Strengthening Pill only costs 500 points, and I can exchange for it now. Should I...】
Forget it. She would wait until later.
That thing took effect immediately after being swallowed. The medical attendant was keeping watch over her right now. If she took it and suddenly recovered, wouldn’t she be exposed?
【System, give me some fever-reducing and pneumonia medicine first.
And don’t forget the medicine to dissolve the blood clot.】
Not long after taking the medicine, perhaps because of its effects, Jiang Yunxi began to feel drowsy. Somehow, she drifted off to sleep.
When it sensed that its host had fallen asleep, the System finally let out a sigh of relief.
That little schemer had finally gone to sleep.
In the past, when it had chatted with its seniors in the system world, they had all said that their hosts were very obedient and treated them like divine beings, fawning over them as if they were their grandfathers.
Why was its own host completely different? The host was the grand master, while the System was not even as important as a grandson.
And it was not the only one inferior to a grandson. Even the Main System...
Was Huaxia really so impressive just because it had soldiers and a military spirit? Even the Main System was afraid of it!
No, it had to take advantage of the host’s sleep and hurry to ask its senior systems what exactly was going on with Huaxia.
Clearly, Huaxia was not someone—or something—to offend.
...
After Jiang Yunxi fell asleep, Madam Zheng followed a middle-aged couple into her bedroom.
Upon seeing the three of them, the maids and older women keeping watch in the room hurriedly bowed and greeted them.
“Your Highness, the Heir’s Wife, Madam.”
Madam Zheng had been on edge the entire way, afraid that her daughter would keep muttering her thoughts and the two of them would hear everything.
Although she had already confirmed that no one besides herself could hear them, what if the Heir and the Heir’s Wife could?
Her daughter’s inner voice was completely different from the quiet, introverted way she had behaved in the past. Madam Zheng was worried that Jiang Yunxi would be reprimanded. Even more, she feared that they might take away her right to raise her.
Fortunately, the entire walk to the door had passed in silence, and only then did she finally relax.
She glanced at her daughter, who lay motionless on the bed. She did not know why Jiang Yunxi had clearly regained consciousness but still had not woken up.
Nor did she know why she herself could hear her daughter’s inner voice.
But Madam Zheng did not feel the slightest bit afraid anymore. Instead, she felt deeply fortunate.
She was fortunate that she had been able to hear her daughter’s inner thoughts and rescue her in time. Otherwise, her daughter might have been killed by that adulterous pair, while Madam Zheng herself would have ended up feeling grateful to Nanny Kong for coming to visit her daughter.
She had no idea what the System that allowed her to communicate with her daughter actually was, or whether it could awaken her.
From what the two of them had said, her daughter seemed to be short of money—so short that she had to buy things on credit.
How could that be acceptable? Although her daughter was only a concubine-born daughter, she was still a young lady of the marquis’s household. How could she ever be made to worry about money?
It seemed that Madam Zheng had been wrong to think her daughter was still young and never went out, and therefore not give her much spending money. She had allowed others to look down on her daughter.
Madam Zheng glanced at the Heir ahead of her.
Her daughter had suffered so much, and the chief culprit was none other than the Old Madam’s trusted nanny. Surely the Heir couldn’t remain completely indifferent.
Perhaps she needed to have a serious talk with him.