【Ding, mission completed!】
【Lickdog value +2. Current lickdog value: 4】
【Money value +100. Current money value: 100】
Li Chuchu didn't click the cash - out button this time. She didn't need money badly at the moment, so she decided to leave it in the system for now.
Looking at the balance, Li Chuchu suddenly felt a sense of melancholy, as if to say "life is not worth living".
Other people's systems are like supermarkets or shopping malls, where they can take things at will. But for her, even after time - traveling, she still had to toil for the system just to earn a meager income.
When there was an empty cooking stove outside, Li Chuchu prepared to take out the groceries she bought and cook them for lunch.
...
In the room,
After Li Chuchu left,
Shen Yanshan remained seated in his original position.
He lowered his eyes, and his thick black eyelashes cast a shadow under his eyes. He lazily lifted his eyelids slightly and glanced at the cold - medicine box beside the bed.
It was imported from Hong Kong, not cheap, and hard to come by in the market.
Shen Yanshan couldn't figure out why Li Chuchu would give him such good medicine. Why was she suddenly being so nice to him?
What was she after?
He rubbed his forehead slightly, feeling a bit irritable.
The branches of the banyan tree outside were swaying faintly. Suddenly, a pebble fell from the roof, startling a flock of chirping birds.
For money.
Suddenly, it was as if an icicle had stabbed deeply into his throbbing temple, causing a sharp pain in his brain and forcing him to calm down.
However, Li Chuchu's face suddenly popped up in his mind. For a moment, she had branded herself in his mind.
He didn't like this feeling.
He hated things he couldn't control.
Shen Yanshan was in a turmoil. The cold medicine was gradually taking effect, and the uncomfortable feeling of being half - cold and half - hot all over his body had completely disappeared.
He was going out.
Li Chuchu was cooking. She heard some movement from the room and turned to look inside. She only saw Shen Yanshan, still looking pallid from the illness, walking straight out.
"The meal will be ready soon. Do you want to join me?"
Shen Yanshan was busy planning what to do in the afternoon. Suddenly hearing this voice, his body turned around before his mind could react.
His throat rolled slightly, and the taste of last night's mung - bean soup seemed to resurface in his mouth.
"Is there... mung - bean soup?"
Shen Yanshan himself didn't seem to expect that he would say such a thing.
Li Chuchu was taken aback.
"Sorry, there isn't. But there's lean pork and Chinese cabbage congee today."
Lean pork and Chinese cabbage congee.
In an instant, Shen Yanshan seemed to hear the gurgling sound of the casserole being pushed up by steam outside the door, and smelled the fragrant rice, as well as the aroma of meat and vegetables filling the courtyard.
He swallowed hard.
Li Chuchu carried the casserole into the room with a cloth and filled two small bowls with the congee. She handed one to Shen Yanshan.
"Have a taste. It's a bit hot."
The two sat facing each other in silence.
Shen Yanshan quietly lowered his head and sipped the congee.
The hot congee, along with the summer heat, gradually soothed his empty and aching stomach, but it also stirred up his heart that had been calm for more than twenty years like still water.
He couldn't find the source of this restlessness, only feeling extremely irritable.
The lunch was very quiet. The two hardly said a word.
Li Chuchu put down her chopsticks, feeling a bit embarrassed.
She wasn't used to having meals with people she didn't know well. When she invited Shen Yanshan, she originally thought he would decline.
Li Chuchu was experiencing for the first time what it felt like to "lift a rock only to drop it on one's own foot".
Fortunately, Shen Yanshan finished eating quickly. He got up, cleared the dishes on the table, and took them outside to the sink to wash.
The air in the room suddenly felt fresher.
Finally, she could breathe freely.
Li Chuchu let out a long sigh.
Suddenly, an untimely "ding" sounded in her mind. 【Cooking for the villain, lickdog value +2】
It turned out that she could discover such hidden missions on her own, but there was no other reward this time.
...
Aunt Wang's family had just finished their meal. When Aunt Wang came out with the leftover plates and bowls of the whole family, she happened to see this scene.
Oh my! Isn't this Shen Yanshan?
I wonder if the palm - print is still there. His wife has quite a temper. They might have quarreled last night because of this.
Aunt Wang's gossip spirit flared up. She stared intently at Shen Yanshan's left cheek.
She looked left and right but couldn't find anything. All she saw was Shen Yanshan doing the dirty work that most men in the neighborhood were reluctant to do. He washed the dishes quickly and cleanly.
Aunt Wang felt a bit disappointed. She looked back at her old husband and scolded him disdainfully, "All you know is to smoke that lousy cigarette."
Uncle Wang looked utterly confused: What did he do wrong this time?
...
After Shen Yanshan finished cleaning up, he went out.
When he reached the door, he paused for a moment and suddenly said, "I won't be back for dinner tonight. You can eat first."
Li Chuchu was stunned and replied two beats later, "Okay."
Not getting the response he wanted, for some reason, Shen Yanshan felt his heart suddenly sink.
Without looking back, he strode out of the door.
...
Li Chuchu tidied up the house a bit.
It took her a while to realize that the words Shen Yanshan said before leaving were actually reporting his schedule.
This really flattered her. Did this mean that the villain wasn't as averse to her as before?
After all, her sincerity as a "lickdog" in the past few days was obvious to all!
Li Chuchu casually picked up the collar of her clothes and smelled them.
She almost vomited.
The stench of sweat was really strong.
She was going to take a bath, but there wasn't even a decent piece of soap at home.
Before time - traveling, Li Chuchu was at least a little rich second - generation. She had grown up in comfort, so she really wasn't used to such a hard life.
Remembering that among the stack of vouchers Shen Yanshan gave her yesterday, there seemed to be a few soap vouchers and cloth vouchers, she decided to spend a "fortune" to buy some daily necessities.
Li Chuchu slung her small bag over her shoulder, filled a glass of warm water from the table, and then prepared to set off.
She left the alley, asked a passerby for directions, and then headed towards the department store.
At the entrance of the department store,
This was the busiest place in the whole city.
There were many trendy things inside.
Li Chuchu went straight to the soap section. She took out a Lighthouse soap voucher and fifty cents and put them on the counter. Pointing at the goods on the shelf, she said,
"Please give me a bar of Lighthouse soap. Thank you."
The shop assistant checked the voucher, then took out a long bar of soap from the counter and handed it to her along with the change.
The bar of soap was about the size of her palm.
I have to say, the products in this era were really durable. Everything was made so solidly.
Li Chuchu put the soap in her pocket and was about to go back.
Unknowingly, a person quietly followed behind her.
Behind her,
Wu Gui was sneaking after her.
A few days ago, after he came to the city, he first went to find his younger sister. His sister arranged for him to stay in a hostel and told him that it was hard to find a job and asked him to wait for a few more days.
Hard to find a job? It was obvious that she didn't really want to help him!
Since that way didn't work, Wu Gui decided to go and talk to Li Chuchu himself. He didn't believe that as a grown man, he couldn't handle a little girl.
He didn't know Li Chuchu's address. He only got a general location from his sister.
Wu Gui had been lurking around here for a few days. Unexpectedly, he finally spotted her at the department store.
He stared at Li Chuchu with a sinister look in his eyes, like a venomous snake.
Humph, it was this little girl who stole his job.
He must teach her a lesson!