Enemies Are All Nourishment for My Fungi-Chapter 152: The Poor Turn Their Fortunes Through Mutation (2)

"Mom, the main reason big sister brought this is for you. At my age, I can only eat a few pieces at most. Even if I wanted to, I can’t digest more, and it would be even less worth it if I end up in the hospital," Yu Jiao said, hugging Yu Qing’s arm and acting coquettishly. "Those drinks and snacks are what big sister brought for me."

It wasn’t until then that Yu Qing had a moment to take a look, and she was startled by the quantity.

"Wow, she brought so much?"

"It’s just some snacks. The two of you can share them; they’ll be gone in a few days."

While Ye Nai was speaking, her phone rang. She stepped out for a moment and came back with an armful of groceries.

"Let’s eat."

Yu Qing immediately went to wash her hands and change her clothes. The sisters grabbed bowls and served themselves rice, efficiently starting their dinner.

Ye Nai watched them eating Mutant Beast Meat. The younger sister indeed felt like there was a pressure in her chest after trying just a piece of each type of meat, which made it hard for her to even finish her dinner, and Ye Nai sent her away from the table.

Given her weight, Yu Qing could eat a few more pieces, but she also stopped after feeling that pressure. With Ye Nai watching, she wouldn’t let them overeat.

The amount left in the bowls was just enough for the two of them to have another meal the next day.

After dinner and cleaning up, Yu Qing left the page of cautionary notes on the table to study later, and she properly stored the box of medicine in the family’s medicine cabinet.

During dinner, Ye Nai had explained carefully how expensive the treatment and medication for poor digestion of Mutant Beast Meat were because the ingredients for the medication came from the Secret Realm. The box of medicine she brought, with a total of six tablets, cost over eight hundred yuan, which averages out to more than one hundred yuan per tablet.

And such medication was only for alleviating minor discomforts. If it didn’t work, one would have to go to the hospital and spend even more, because health insurance only covered half the costs, which included the hospital bed, basic medications, medical consumables, and care. The actual cost of the medication had to come out of pocket.

It was a societal joke that this system’s purpose was to make Ordinary people think twice about their wallets before they couldn’t control their craving.

Yu Qing had to store the medicine carefully; even the regular medicine in the cabinet wasn’t as expensive as this one box.

After sitting for a while, Ye Nai left. Before leaving, she promised to bring more Mutant Beast Meat for them the next time she came into town.

Yu Qing thought of her two sons and asked her daughter about them.

"Them? Are they at home now or staying at school?"

"They’re boarding at school. Your dad still doesn’t want to give them living expenses, but luckily they’re loud enough to have secured their allowance. I heard your dad was livid."

"If they’re boarding, they can forget about eating Mutant Beast Meat. You need to read that notice carefully. Adolescents have a kind of addiction-like need for the energy from Mutant Beast Meat during puberty."

"Ah? Addicted?"

"Not really addicted, it just appears that way. It means they really want to eat it, and even after eating some, they want more. If they don’t get enough, they become restless and exceedingly uncomfortable. They must get it because you don’t know what they might do just for a bite of the meat."

"My goodness?" Yu Qing was incredibly surprised. "Why is that? Is the little one okay?"

"She’s fine. Having eaten it early has this advantage for her, her body has gotten used to it, so she can get through puberty smoothly. But for Ordinary people who haven’t had it before and only get their first taste during puberty, the whole family has to strengthen their management, regularly and quantitatively provide it, to satisfy the body’s energy needs without overeating. If it’s well managed, it could also help push for an Awakening, especially if they’re Intermediate."

Yu Qing thought hard and weighed her options before finally shaking her head.

"Forget it, they’re boarding at school, and with the way your dad is, he won’t care if they eat Mutant Beast Meat or not. Let’s just leave it be. If your younger sister could be supported through school too, that’d be good. Having one Awakener in the family is a blessing to be thankful for."

"Alright, as long as you’re sure about it, and don’t change your mind after a night’s sleep."

"If it weren’t such a troublesome thing, I’d definitely try to help them out if I had the money and could keep an eye on the two boys, but it’s just not possible."

"Good, you’re aware you don’t have money. Study hard and go for the Intermediate Accounting exam. After getting promoted and a salary raise, you’ll have everything."

"Enough, I got it."

"Also, keep your mouth shut. Don’t go around telling people you’ve eaten Mutant Beast Meat. You know perfectly well the income level of your colleagues and the neighbors in this complex. Don’t go inviting trouble for yourself."

"I know, I know, I understand this better than you do."

Yu Qing patted Ye Nai’s arm and felt her skin hard as iron. She instinctively wanted to comment but then closed her mouth again.

After all, working as a laborer in the Secret Realm, it’s better to have some muscles. After seeing so many muscular, masculine men, it’s likely she won’t have much interest in ordinary men who don’t exercise and have soft bodies.

Just as Ye Nai was about to open the door, her mother pulled her back, hurriedly fetching a set of keys from her bedroom and giving one to her daughter.

"This is the house key. You take it."

"The landlord gave extra keys?"

"Hmph, the landlord went out of town. Before leaving, he asked me to change the lock cylinder. This is brand new. In the future, you can come directly home when you come into the city."

"Okay."

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Ye Nai pocketed the key, opened the door, and left, walking alone towards the elevator in the middle of the corridor. She was going to head back to the hostel near her polytechnic to rest for the night.

Yu Qing stood at the door, watching as her elder daughter disappeared around the corner before she closed the door. Turning around, she saw her younger daughter squatting in front of the drink cooler, choosing a bottle to take back to her room to sip while doing homework. Yu Qing picked up the list of precautions on the table and went to her room to study, aiming to pass the Intermediate Accounting exam.

Before long, Ye Nai, back at the hostel and getting ready to wash up for bed, received a message from an unknown number. It was from her two younger brothers who said they had memorized her phone number during the New Year and now had borrowed a classmate’s phone to send her a message, hoping she would see it.

They sent a lengthy text, which Ye Nai quickly summarized. They were in trouble. Their monthly underage stipend was only eight hundred yuan, and their father didn’t give them a penny more. That money was only enough for meals at school, while other expenses were utterly beyond their means. Their mother had to support their sister and pay the rent and had no extra money to take care of two sons, so they had no choice but to ask their elder sister for help.

Ye Nai researched online how much living expenses would be sufficient for her brothers’ situation and realized that calculating it based on college student living expenses would be adequate, as they needed to buy everything themselves, including toothpaste, toothbrushes, and toilet paper.

The next day at noon, Ye Nai went to her brothers’ middle school, meeting them as they got out for lunch and taking them to have a meal on the street. She saw the bank cards they had opened with their household registrations, onto which their underage subsidies would be deposited directly, without going through their father’s account and then being handed over to them.

This was what they had secured for themselves, following their elder sister’s advice. Otherwise, with their father’s character, even getting hands on that eight hundred yuan a month would not be guaranteed.

After lunch, Ye Nai took them to a mobile phone store and bought each a student model cell phone. Then she proceeded to get them phone plans. With her there as their adult elder sister, she was able to use their student IDs to get student talk plans for both. The total talk plans for a year cost less than one thousand yuan, which Ye Nai paid in full.

Using the store’s free Wi-Fi, Ye Nai helped them bind their bank cards to a mobile payment app and complete the real-name verification process. She then transferred eight hundred yuan to each of them.