Chapter 23 Malfunction

James enjoyed the feeling of being surrounded by people's attention. Most of the guests' eyes were on him, which made James very happy. He deliberately waited a few minutes, letting the interest of the crowd escalate before speaking slowly. "It's a simple math problem." "Two hundred bamboo sticks, plus some banana leaves, these materials can build a house, which means there's an income of eighty points." "And these things, Catherine gave us as labor fees, converted into points, it's ninety." Jack wasn't good at math, and he was getting impatient hearing this. Jack couldn't see the relevance between this arithmetic and whether Catherine had made a loss or not. He said, "Uncle James, just get to the point, how much is Catherine losing?" James laughed confidently. "I won't go into the extra steps! I'll be straight, the more bamboo and banana leaves we collect, the more Catherine loses! As long as we persist for a long enough time, like three days, she might even owe us p