Chapter 162 - 113: There Must Be a Purpose

Chapter 162: Chapter 113: There Must Be a Purpose

Zhao Jie was stunned by the sight of the black bear. It wore a goofy, wide grin that showed off its teeth. And when it lifted its Kasaya, she saw that there was indeed a QR code underneath.

"Jie, it probably wants you to scan the code to pay!" Wu Ling reminded her.

Zhao Jie snapped out of it, immediately took out her phone, scanned the QR code, and sent 10 yuan.

The sound of a payment notification then came from the black bear: ’WeChat payment received: 10 yuan!’

After Zhao Jie paid, however, she noticed the black bear was still staring at her. Its smile had vanished, and it bared its teeth even more, looking like it was about to bite.

She was totally baffled.

’But I already paid.’

To the astonishment of all the tourists, the Little Black Bear then held up two paws toward Zhao Jie.

Seeing this, Wu Ling immediately reminded her, "Jie, you took two bags of fruit. You need to pay 20 yuan!"

"Huh?" Only then did Zhao Jie realize, and she looked incredulously at the black bear’s two outstretched paws.

The tourists all cried out in amazement:

"Holy crap, this black bear has become a spirit! It even knows it wasn’t paid enough!"

"I thought there was a rule against animals becoming spirits after the founding of the nation?"

"You’re mistaken. Do you think the Black Bear Spirit only just became a spirit?"

"He’s been a spirit since the Tang Dynasty!"

"..."

As the tourists laughed, they all started piling on with the jokes.

Zhao Jie immediately took out her phone and scanned another 10 yuan. This time, as expected, she saw the Black Bear Spirit lower its Kasaya and ignore her.

This piqued the other tourists’ interest. One man stepped forward and grabbed two bags as well. He looked at the black bear, and sure enough, it ran over, lifted its Kasaya again, and revealed the QR code.

"It really has become a spirit, hasn’t it?" The tourist, his face full of amazement, took out his phone and scanned the QR code for 20 yuan.

But after he paid the 20 yuan, he noticed the black bear was still staring at him. It hadn’t lowered its Kasaya and was baring its snow-white teeth even more.

"What gives? I paid 20 yuan!" The tourist froze for a second, only to see the black bear also holding up two paws at him.

The tourist: "???"

A nearby tourist figured it out. "The bear probably doesn’t understand the concept of 10 or 20 yuan. It probably only understands the concept of ’once’ or ’twice.’ One bag of fruit means one payment; two bags means two payments!"

This made the tourist exclaim, "Holy crap! What a ripoff! Forget it, forget it. I’m not going to argue with a bear over 10 yuan. Just put those teeth away."

With that, he took out his phone again and scanned another 10-yuan payment.

This time, Xiaohai finally let him off the hook, lowering its Kasaya.

Zhang Zhao watched from the side for a long time, genuinely curious where his cousin had found such a smart black bear.

His girlfriend was excitedly filming the whole thing, which made him feel playful. He stepped forward and picked up two bags of fruit. When the black bear lifted its Kasaya, he grabbed a third bag.

This action made the Little Black Bear freeze. In front of all the tourists, it actually started counting on its paws, but after trying a few times, it seemed to get confused.

All at once, it looked just like a little kid struggling with arithmetic.

This scene made all the tourists burst into laughter.

The black bear was clearly smart, but its math skills were a bit lacking.

Finally, the Little Black Bear seemed to have figured it out. It pulled up its Kasaya at Zhang Zhao again, signaling for him to pay.

Zhang Zhao smiled and deliberately paid 10 yuan.

As expected, the black bear pointed two paws at him again, meaning he had to pay twice.

Zhang Zhao paid another 10 yuan and said with a smile to Zhao Li, "This way, I should have gotten a bag of fruit for free, right?"

But the words had barely left his mouth when the black bear grinned and bared its teeth at him again, once more pointing two paws in his direction.

Zhang Zhao was stunned.

When he didn’t move, the Little Black Bear grew anxious. It opened its mouth wide and started crying out at him, as if to hurry him up.

"..." Zhang Zhao’s face darkened. Seeing so many tourists watching, he quickly took out his phone and scanned the QR code two more times, sending another 20 yuan over.

"You really suffered a double loss on that one!" Zhao Jie couldn’t help but say.

The surrounding crowd burst into laughter, many of them referencing the old comedy sketch where a character calculates that 11 plus 2 equals 112.

But clearly, the black bear was a huge hit with the tourists. Naturally, they all started uploading the videos they’d filmed to the internet. In no time, the clips caught the attention of netizens and started trending.

The hilarious antics of the bear demanding payment, in particular, made people who were eating at the time nearly choke with laughter.

This spurred even more people to buy tickets to go see the Black Bear Spirit for themselves.

「You City Tourism Bureau.」

Zhao Han had been keeping a close eye on Li Yuan Farm ever since returning from Zhang Lin’s office. Boss Zhang had mentioned that a new attraction would either increase tourist numbers or, at the very least, maintain them, so Zhao Han was curious to see what it was.

He never expected Boss Zhang to pull a stunt like this with a couple of animals.

’The real question is, where did Boss Zhang find such a smart black bear?’

Just as he was looking into it, Wang Yu suddenly rushed in. "Director, we’ve received some complaints from parents. They’re asking if the facilities at Li Yuan Farm’s Black Bear Spirit fruit stand are up to code. That little fence—what if the bear rushes out and scares the children? They also want to know if Li Yuan Farm has the proper permits and licenses for the black bear!"

"Are you sure it was parents who reported it?" Zhao Han asked with a frown.

’What’s going on?’

’People are complaining about this now?’

Wang Yu replied awkwardly, "It seems so. When the call came in, you could hear a child crying and throwing a tantrum in the background. Our best guess is that the bear at Li Yuan Farm was too much of a hit. The child probably refused to leave, and the parent, frustrated and at their wit’s end, decided to take it out on the farm by filing a complaint."