Back at the Knowledge Youth Institute, the male youth on duty had already brewed ginger soup. He handed each female comrade a bowl to help them fend off the cold.
Once Deng Yuyuan returned to her room, she finally had the peace of mind to examine the money the staff member had stuffed into her hands. It was all in small change, but the loose bills added up to a solid twenty yuan. Mixed in were two milk powder ration coupons, two meat coupons, and one cloth coupon. This was even more than Zhang Jiahua's mandated annual child support. Such generosity didn't seem like a simple reimbursement for medical expenses.
"She was tripping you up on one hand while helping you on the other. How strange," the AI customer service remarked.
"People are inherently contradictory and unpredictable," Deng Yuyuan said. She neatly gathered the money and coupons, extracted five yuan in change, one meat coupon, and one milk powder coupon, and hid the rest in her wardrobe.
