Chapter 53: Does Money Matter?
3 days is just a blink of an eye for people who have nothing to do, but for Tang Xiaoxiang, it seems to be longer than 3 centuries.
"Tang Xiaoxiang, it's been 3 days! I'll pick you up!"
When the girl simulated by the system reappeared in this space, she saw Tang Xiaoxiang sitting on the ground in a daze, muttering in pieces:
"Why is there so much pain and misfortune!
Tang Xiaoxiang's mind is now full of unfortunate and painful pictures of the past three days!
He's going crazy, he doesn't understand what the system is doing to make him watch this, he's just an ordinary person, there's nothing he can do, the only thing he can do is watch everything happen like a movie...
He regretted why he chose to stay here for three days, if he could choose again, he would rather be trapped in the system for three years, thirty years than choose to stay in this world full of miserable pictures for three days!
"Tang Xiaoxiang, let's get out of here with me first!" the girl who came to Tang Xiaoxiang's side and whispered.
"Why did you let me stay here for three days? Are you trying to get revenge on me for not letting you earn the sky-high fee?" Tang Xiaoxiang's eyes were red, and his voice was hoarse and he asked the system.
"I'll take you somewhere else!"
After the system finished speaking, he disappeared from the spot with Tang Xiaoxiang.
When Tang Xiaoxiang raised his head again, his eyes were still a space full of virtual displays, and the difference between it and the space just now may be that this space is full of warm colors in color tones and most of the monitors have no pictures, and there are only dozens of screens in front of him.
"Look at the picture here!" The system pointed to the dozens of screens with pictures and said to Tang Xiaoxiang.
"It's still those sad pictures! Don't you think I've been tortured enough?" Tang Xiaoxiang refused, he didn't want to see those sad pictures anymore, he didn't want to look at them.
"Not this time, this time it's all about you!" the system counted softly.
"Something to do with me?"
Tang Xiaoxiang subconsciously focused his eyes on the virtual screen in front of him!
"This, this is..." Tang Xiaoxiang's eyes showed a surprised expression the moment he saw the picture.
In the picture, he saw the woman who was about to commit suicide by cutting her veins at home because of the sacrifice of her husband, and stopped the blade that was about to slide after hearing a song.
That song is familiar....
I'm sure you're still here
My love watches over you like an angel
If life is only here, there will be no me
I will find an angel to love you for me
If life is only here, dear you must live bravely, because there will be an angel to love you for me in the future!
Nail!
The blade fell to the ground.
The woman crouched on the ground and cried loudly.
The picture changes: Country M, which has always liked to provoke wars in order to gain the wealth of war, is about to ask Congress to pass a military attack on another small country with resources, when dozens of women appear outside the Congress, holding a banner:
“Yes, there were lots of things you didn't do。
But you put up with me, and loved me, and protected me。
There were lots of things I wanted to make up to you
when you returned from battlefield。
But you didn't。
No more tragedies, we refuse war!”
Yes, there are many things that you have not done, and you have tolerated me, loved me, protected me, and there are many, many things that I want to repay you, waiting for you to return from the battlefield, but you have not.
No more tragedy, we refuse war!
More and more people saw this banner and joined the anti-war crowd, and the crowd soon changed from dozens of people to hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands...
In the end, Congress did not pass the use of force against that small country.
Tang Xiaoxiang, who watched these two pictures, was stunned, how could it be that one of his songs saved a person who wanted to commit suicide, and his other anti-war poem was used as an anti-war slogan by foreigners so quickly, and successfully prevented a war?
How is this possible! When did you have such great power?
"This.... Are these all true?" Tang Xiaoxiang stumbled and asked.
The system did not answer his question, but pointed to another picture and said to Tang Xiaoxiang: "You go on!"
Tang Xiaoxiang followed the system's pointing and looked at the other screen;
What appeared on the other screen was that the child who was about to drop out of school in the miserable world received an envelope, and when he opened it, there was 300 yuan, which was not much but enough for him to pay his tuition!
The kid laughed!
Then there was another picture, it was the migrant worker who was hiding in the corner crying with the diagnosis certificate before, and he also received an envelope like the child just now, but it contained 1,000 yuan, he kept crying and laughing and chanting to the sky: "Thank you to the good Samaritan, thank you to the good Samaritan!"
The picture changes again, in the sad world, the children who are suffering from hunger due to natural disasters are now receiving bags of relief supplies accompanied by adults.
These supplies, each person did not get much, but they gave them hope to live.
At this point, the picture is gone....
"These things also have something to do with me?" Although Tang Xiaoxiang was also happy for these people on the screen, he felt a little puzzled.
These last few things don't seem to have anything to do with him!
The system did not answer him what he had to do with these things, but asked him softly:
"Tang Xiaoxiang, do you say money is important?"
"It's important, just like these people in the later picture, they don't have money for what to eat, what to drink, what to wear, what to live in, how to study, how to go to the hospital when they are sick!" Tang Xiaoxiang thought about it for a while and said.
"Then if you don't have to worry about eating and drinking, you don't wear famous brands but you are decent and decent, the house is not big but warm and loving, you have books to read, you have loved people by your side, and you have money to see if you are sick, do you still think money is important?" the system continued to ask.
"If there is no shortage of those, money is not so important!"
After listening to the system's words, Tang Xiaoxiang thought that he had never been a person who pursued material life, he loved money, but that was based on the fact that he could not meet his necessary material needs now.
If one day he can meet those necessary material needs, it seems that money really doesn't matter that much.
Not to mention that you can buy brand-name things with more money, that's just a psychological need!
Is a 10,000 yuan bag really better than 50 yuan? Aren't they all the same stuff?
Is it true that a foreign brand-name sports car is better than a domestic flatbread?
In the third ring of the off-duty point, everyone has never raced a two-wheeled electric car!
"You're wrong! Even if you really don't have to worry about food and clothing, with a home and her, money is still very important!" said the system quietly.