On the first day of contracting the new mine, Xiaomei dug three pieces of ore. On the second day, she dug five pieces. Although the quantity was not large, the quality was high. In the following days, they steadily earned at least 200 points every day, and Ronggui finally felt at ease.
The initial points required to go to the next city are 50,000. In this way, they only need to work hard for 250 days. Er... Because Xiaomei wants to earn points for two people, it takes 500 days...
After calculating with the built-in calculator in his body, Ronggui felt that he finally saw hope.
You know, it was Xiaomei who was amazing. Other miners basically produced 100 points a day, and it was not stable. There were always one or two days a week when they basically had no harvest.
People like Xiaomei who stably dug 200 points every day were simply high-yield chickens... high-yield robots!
"Xiaomei is really amazing!" Ronggui said whatever he thought of, and immediately praised Xiaomei happily. He also told Xiaomei the results of his calculations. Although Xiaomei might be able to finish all the small calculations in just one second, this did not prevent Ronggui from wanting to share with Xiaomei. In case Xiaomei had not yet settled the accounts, wouldn't he at least help Xiaomei save a minute?
One minute is also time!
Hmm~
After the report, Ronggui looked at Xiaomei with an expression of seeking praise.
Xiaomei:...
Only calculating output but not expenditure, this guy's math is really not even graduated from elementary school.
Of course, this sentence still flashed through his mind. After packing up the backpack, Xiaomei stuffed Ronggui, who was waiting for praise, into the front backpack and left again.
This time they were not the last to leave. Unknowingly, Xiaomei had become the second miner in the team to be tested, second only to the little leader.
But what they lacked was only quantity, not quality←The little leader was big and could carry back more ore overall!
Ronggui felt that Xiaomei was not defeated, it was just because she was small and not strong~
Not interested in listening to the test results of other miners, Xiaomei packed up and left, but Ronggui in his arms said goodbye to other miners and administrators loudly.
Of course, no one paid attention to him.
But Ronggui didn't care.
He got on the bus with familiarity, got off the bus and found Dahuang in the parking lot. Almost as soon as the bus started, Ronggui realized that this was not the way home, but -
"Are you going shopping?" Ronggui immediately recognized that this was the road to the market!
"Go buy some things." Xiaomei said lightly.
"Oh oh oh~" Ronggui suddenly became excited.
He felt very good about the market he went to last time. The people there were very polite (?), and the stall owners were super enthusiastic (?). He always wanted to go back when he had money.
"Can I buy some fruit? I saw a stall selling fruit last time! They are round and juicy, just like the apples in our place!" He immediately added an item to his shopping list.
"I still have some money left from my last salary, so I can use that to buy it." He didn't need to spend Xiaomei's hard-earned salary, as he had his own money~
Xiaomei didn't agree immediately, but she didn't object.
Driving the Dahuang, they soon arrived at the entrance of the market.
Like last time, Xiaomei was still wearing a ragged miner's uniform, tied her waist bag inside the miner's uniform, and then thought about it, and put Ronggui in her chest again like last time.
Although he still couldn't figure out why he got so many preferential treatments at the market last time, he was sensitive enough to realize that it should be related to the miner's uniform he was wearing.
So he came in the same outfit as last time, which was safe.
The "big-breasted and thick-waisted" "female dwarf" visited the market again.
They were browsing in order. Ronggui noticed that Xiaomei's target this time didn't seem to be the ores. She barely glanced at the ores stall, but her eyes were always on the metal stall.
He immediately thought of the bodies of the two people.
Xiaomei really cares about their current metal bodies!
It would be nice if she could care so much about the bodies buried underground - Ronggui thought.
In short, Xiaomei visited several stalls. She just glanced at some stalls and left ← because she didn't like them, while she looked at some stalls for a long time, but after the boss enthusiastically introduced the prices, she still left ← because she thought they were too expensive.
Since entering the market, Ronggui's calculator panel in his head has never been closed. He simply added up the items on the stalls that Xiaomei liked, and then smacked his lips in his heart: Xiaomei is worthy of it. Everything she likes is so expensive!
If he buys this, he will have to fill in all the points he has earned in the past few days.
He could calculate the account clearly, and Xiaomei knew it better, so he just looked and didn't buy anything.
Next, Xiaomei visited a few more stores, but didn't find the right one.
Just at this time, a fruit stand appeared in front of them on the left. Xiaomei paused and walked over.
"Don't want the yellow ones, the ones that are wrinkled and have little moisture, want the red ones! Those are ripe! Sweet!" Ronggui was commanding Xiaomei in his head. When he saw the fruit, his head was excited. With his excitement, Xiaomei's front zipper was pulled open a little more. Others on the stall hurriedly looked straight ahead, fearing that they would see something they shouldn't see.
Xiaomei, on the other hand, had no idea what others were thinking. He followed Ronggui's instructions and flipped through the fruits.
Ronggui's sight was completely focused on the fruit at first.
Yellow fruit, green fruit, and red~red~fruit!
It had been too long since he had seen something like the original product of his hometown, and it had been too long since he had seen normal food. He was very excited until-
He accidentally saw Xiaomei's hands.
Xiaomei was wearing gloves now. They were the kind of miner's gloves, which usually had zippers that could be connected to the miner's uniforms, and were made of the same material as the miner's uniforms. Rough and wear-resistant, it is extremely strong. It is said that even if a stone falls from above, it cannot penetrate the cloth and hurt the miners' bodies. In accidents, many miners rely on this suit to keep their bodies intact.
It was because of hearing this that Ronggui repeatedly reminded Xiaomei from the first day of work that she must abide by the rules and wear the uniform carefully, and the gas mask must not be left behind. Xiaomei did wear it obediently, but she was not so serious about washing it, and there was no condition for it, so this uniform became dirtier and dirtier, and soon it was no different from the dirty uniforms of other miners.
What caught Ronggui's attention was not the new stains on the gloves, nor the slight wear and tear on the gloves, but -
Ronggui suddenly spoke in Xiaomei's mind:
"Put down the apple, Xiaomei, and go to a place where there is no one next to you."
His voice was cold and serious, and Xiaomei had never heard him speak in such a tone.
Perhaps it was too strange, Xiaomei paused, thinking that he really had an important discovery, so he put down the fruit he had picked in his hand, walked for a long time, and then found a place next to him where he could avoid people.
"?" Xiaomei asked a question in her mind.
"Take off the gloves." Ronggui's voice was still serious, even more serious.
There was even a sense of oppression.
A strange feeling--Xiaomei thought, and obediently pulled the gloves off the miner's uniform, revealing a pair of mechanical hands underneath, a pair of...horrible mechanical hands.
It didn't fall apart, but the knuckles of the four fingers were all flattened.
"Unzip it a little more." The voice was still cold, but Ronggui's voice had begun to tremble.
He had no hands. If he had hands, he would have rushed over to pull it himself.
This time, Xiaomei did not do what he wanted.
However, Ronggui could no longer wait, and he didn't know how it happened. After a while, he actually fell from Xiaomei's arms.
At first, Ronggui thought that his will was too strong, and he broke free from Xiaomei's arms, but later he found out: it was not him who broke free, but--
Xiaomei's half body fell apart. Only half of her body was left standing, and the upper half of Xiaomei fell off.
Xiaomei's head also rolled down, and Ronggui saw his head, which was also flattened...
If there were human eyes, Ronggui would bet that his eyes were flattened now.
His eyes flattened and tears flowed.
"What's going on?" Ronggui said in a low voice.
"Today, when digging for raw stones in the mine, the mine collapsed on a small scale and was crushed underneath." Xiaomei's head just rolled next to his head, and the green hat was almost pressed into her head. Her two eyes were also deformed because of the twisted head. Xiaomei looked terrible now.
However, Ronggui was not afraid at all, he was just sad, very sad.
Is it because the music was too loud? He was unaware of the collapse of the opposite side. When he was happily listening to music, Xiaomei was crushed by the ore. If Xiaomei hadn't climbed out from under the stone herself, would it be...
Would he never see Xiaomei again?
Ronggui suddenly got scared.
Very scared.
Because if he didn't buy materials, he couldn't move anymore, so Xiaomei came to buy materials? Otherwise, according to Xiaomei's personality, she would probably just make do with it and use other materials to repair it casually. She didn't care much about the appearance, and she didn't care much about the materials themselves.
Thinking of this, Ronggui was even more sad.
Why didn't Xiaomei say anything, for himself who was just thinking about buying apples.
He made a decision quickly: "Your points, plus the money we have left before, all add up, and let's go buy the best materials."
"...That little points and money can't buy the best materials." Xiaomei was already reassembling her body. Fortunately, she had a miner's suit. Although he was a little broken, there was no missing parts, all scattered in the clothes.
"Buy the best materials we can buy with our money." Ronggui said stubbornly.
"We also need to buy fruit." Xiaomei had quickly fixed her head and was putting on gloves.
"What fruit? Fix your body first. You are the only laborer in our family now!" If Ronggui had hands, he would definitely hit his head!
Uh... can't hit the head. Xiaomei's head is already very flat. If it is flattened again, it will be flat as an omelette.
Using her flattened fingers to pick up Ronggui and stuff him back into her chest, Xiaomei buttoned up again.
Then, the two went shopping again.
Ignoring the fruit stalls passing by, Ronggui urged Xiaomei to go to the stalls they had taken a fancy to before.
Using all the money and points they had, they bought the best materials they could buy at the stalls.
That night, when Xiaomei was repairing her body, Ronggui was thankful more than once: Fortunately, he found a little clue. Xiaomei is now falling apart while repairing~ Obviously, she can't hold on until tomorrow!
So, he earnestly told Xiaomei: "Xiaomei, you must take good care of your body in the future. If I break, you can't break. If I break, you can fix me, but if you break me... I can't fix you!"
"Apples and other things are not important. Our family's money is important for you to use~"
For fear that Xiaomei would not listen, Ronggui kept nagging beside him all night until he ran out of power.
Then, when Xiaomei connected his head to the power supply and started charging, he automatically restarted and continued to nag.
As Ronggui was nagging, Xiaomei took her head apart bit by bit, moved her brain out, and then flattened the flat parts and added new materials. Some parts were not smooth, so Ronggui repeatedly instructed until Xiaomei adjusted all the imperfect parts to perfect positions, and the same was true for other places. Although he could not give Xiaomei any help in terms of technology, Ronggui still thought he was much better than Xiaomei in terms of aesthetics~
In this way, Xiaomei's body was repaired bit by bit. The little red flower on her ear was still there, and the golden sister's hair was still there, but there were more patches on her body, and...
Xiaomei's head became rounder, round, like a yellow apple.
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Ronggui thought with satisfaction, admiring Xiaomei's newly repaired body, which he provided styling guidance for, over and over again.
Finally, he finally made a decision.
"Xiaomei, help me modify my body too. It doesn't have to be as delicate as before. As long as it can walk and carry things, I want to go to the mine with you!"
"?" Xiaomei, who was tightening the last screw, glanced at him.
"If you get hit again, I can help you pull your body together, and... you can only find five ores each time because you can't carry them, right? I'll help you move the ores!" Ronggui's big head said naively on the socket.
"... With the current materials, the body that can be made will be very ugly." Without a clear refusal, Xiaomei just said objectively.
Sure enough... Ronggui shuddered slightly.
However, he quickly defeated himself, and said bravely with a rather bleak look:
"Kang Muang! Come on!"
Xiaomei looked at him again, and after confirming that Ronggui really wanted to do this, finally-
He started working again.
When dawn came, an hour before they were about to start work, Ronggui's new body was finally ready:
Looking at himself deeply with a palm-sized mirror, Ronggui looked bleak:
He is no longer a Ronggui robot now, he has become a Ronggui trailer.