Chapter 214 Three Wishes
The bowl of curry chicken rice in a large brown paper box became hot again after the other party took it out of the microwave. Shen Qiu watched the other party use a bag to tie the curry rice and disposable tableware together, and immediately took off the scarf around her neck and carefully wrapped it up. There was
nothing that Shen Qiu and her group could not tell others about their experience, and she agreed to the deal with the idea of giving it a try.
The temperature was too low, and even though the curry rice was placed in the compartment with the air conditioner and heater turned on, it was completely cold and even frozen in the short time she was talking about.
Of course, it was not that the other party had to get the information before she was willing to complete the transaction, but she did not want to finish the meal alone here.
The rice was translucent and soft, and the fried chicken was crispy on the outside and tender on the inside. It was cut into strips and neatly placed on the rice. The golden curry sauce was poured on top. There were carrots and broccoli in the curry.
She hadn't eaten rice, fried chicken or vegetables for a long time.
Biscuits, bread with a long shelf life, canned meat, ham, instant noodles, noodles... When they left school at first, most of them took these things in their bags. Rice
was too heavy and difficult to cook. They, the young people, didn't even know how much water to use to cook rice, so how could they possibly bring it with them?
In order to lose weight in the past, Shen Qiu seldom ate rice, and it was very rare for her to eat high-calorie foods like fried chicken. Every time Mu Kelian ate these beside her, she had enough willpower to hold back.
But now, just by smelling the smell of curry, she felt that her whole stomach began to churn. She was afraid that once she took the first bite, she would never be able to stop.
She wanted to take the rice back to eat with Mu Kelian. Mu Kelian loved it in the past, but now every day is torture for her. Thinking of her friend's expression when she saw this bowl of curry rice, Shen Qiu smiled happily while holding the tightly wrapped food.
You Xi looked at her indifferently. Although this was someone else's business and had little to do with her, she always disliked those who could not see the current situation clearly, only knew to ask friends for things, and were only self-centered.
Some people do more than they say, like Shen Qiu.
Some people say more than they do, and their subconscious reactions at critical moments can be seen at a glance.
So, when Shen Qiu thanked her again respectfully, she stopped her and said, "Have you heard the story of the fairy godmother?"
"Ah?"
You Xi leaned on the window sill, supporting her fair and beautiful chin with one hand, and gently curled her lips at her: "Little girl, we are quite predestined. I will give you three chances to make a wish now. If you encounter a problem that you can't solve, go to the top floor and say 'Star House, please, I need help' ten times, then I will appear, do you understand?"
Shen Qiu: ... dumbfounded.jpg
You·Witch·Xi continued to smile and said, "Nod if you understand."
Shen Qiu looked at the other party's smile and nodded subconsciously.
"Good boy." You Witch Xi was very satisfied. She took out a lollipop from the Star House warehouse and handed it over.
Shen Qiu didn't want to take more things from others, but when she saw the lollipop, her eyes lit up.
It was a starry sky lollipop!
The transparent plastic film wrapped the sweet candy ball, and inside the candy ball was a beautiful nebula pattern. Even girls who don't like sweets will be attracted by such a beautiful lollipop.
"Thank you!" Shen Qiu took it, looked at the candy in her hand, and when she wanted to speak again with gratitude, the RV in front of her and the masked woman in the RV disappeared in front of her in an instant.
Shen Qiu: !!!
She, she really met the fairy godmother! ?
**
Shen Qiu wrapped the food in the scarf with her coat and went downstairs carefully and quickly.
On the stairs from the 14th floor to the 15th floor, Mu Kelian, wrapped in a down jacket, was waiting there anxiously. When she saw Shen Qiu, she rushed up and twisted her foot because she was too anxious.
"Slow down, don't get hurt!" Shen Qiu quickly extended a hand to help her.
"Qiuqiu, you finally came down! I was so scared just now, why didn't you follow me downstairs!" Mu Kelian reached out and held the other person's hand, pouting and blaming herself, "I'm sorry, I was so scared just now that I just remembered to run. When I ran back here, I found that you didn't follow me..."
"It's okay, actually I wanted to run too, but my legs were weak for a moment..." Shen Qiu glanced at the other person's feet, "Are you hurt?"
"It hurts a little..." She noticed the bulging coat of the other person, "Qiuqiu, what's this?"
Shen Qiu made a snorting gesture at her, pulled her back to the fourteenth floor, and found an empty room at the other end of the corridor.
"Qiuqiu, it's so cold, let's go back and warm ourselves by the fire. Aren't you cold? I was standing there waiting for you just now, and my feet are almost frozen--" Her words stopped as Shen Qiu took out the brown paper bowl wrapped in a scarf. She smelled the aroma of curry. How is it possible! ?
But as Shen Qiu opened the lid of the bowl, she was completely stunned. It was actually curry rice!
"Fried chicken fillet! And carrots and broccoli! Qiuqiu, what's going on?" Mu Kelian swallowed her saliva, staring at the curry rice with her eyes almost popping out.
"It's a long story. The beautiful sister in the mask just now gave it to me."
"Then... can I eat it?" She said so, but her hand had already reached out involuntarily to grab the chicken fillet.
"Of course you can - don't use your hands, it's too dirty, there are chopsticks here!" Shen Qiu couldn't stop her, Mu Kelian had already pinched a piece of chicken steak and stuffed it into her mouth. She chewed and nodded vigorously to her friend, saying that it was delicious!
Shen Qiu shook her head at the way she ate, then put the brown paper bowl in Mu Kelian's hand and took out the disposable tableware bag in the bag, which contained a pair of chopsticks and a spoon. She gave the more useful spoon to her, and at this time Mu Kelian had already finished the second piece of chicken steak.
"Qiuqiu, eat quickly, it's still hot!"
"Are you not afraid of ghosts now?"
Mu Kelian stuffed a big mouthful of rice into her mouth, puffed up her cheeks and replied vaguely: "The ghost that can give us such delicious rice must be a good ghost..."
But in just a few minutes, the extra-large bowl of curry chicken chop rice was almost eaten by the two of them. There was only one piece of chicken chop left in the bowl. According to the number of pieces eaten by the two, it should belong to Shen Qiu, but she always likes to save some good things to taste slowly at the end, so she only took a small bite of this piece of chicken chop.
Mu Kelian licked the spoon and looked at the chicken chop eagerly: "Qiuqiu, eat quickly..."
Shen Qiu looked at her: "Do you want to eat?"
"Can I eat it? But I've already eaten a lot..."
"Eat it if you want." Shen Qiu knew that the other party was not full. In fact, she was not full either. She also wanted to eat this chicken steak, but she was willing to give it to her friend who wanted it more. "
Then...then I can eat it!" Mu Kelian looked at the other party for a few times, stretched out her hand to pick up the chicken steak, and stuffed the whole thing into her mouth.
Shen Qiu watched the other party finish the last piece of chicken steak, and reached out to touch the starry sky lollipop in her pocket.
It doesn't matter, she still has this...
This candy is so beautiful, and it can't fill her stomach. She didn't plan to take it out to eat, but wanted to keep it with her as a sustenance.
Until this moment, her heart was still beating.
The rice is real, the candy is real, so the three wishes the other party said must be real!
Unlike the sweet and lovely Mu Kelian, Shen Qiu has always been an ordinary girl since she was a child. She is not particularly beautiful, at most she is pretty.
She would worry about the fat on her belly, and would be worried about her grades that could not be improved despite repeated efforts. She has never been favored by God while growing up, and even her escape has been blocked everywhere.
And this experience is like a dream to her, just like a ray of light suddenly appeared in her originally dark and hopeless life, giving her hope again.
She will survive, everyone will survive!
Definitely.
**
While the girl downstairs quickly shared the curry rice in the cold room, You Xi was helping to prepare dinner in the kitchen in the Star House on the top floor.
Handling lobsters is a cumbersome job. After removing the head and tail, the middle part of the lobster needs to be shelled first, then the shrimp thread is removed, and finally the lobster meat needs to be sliced into slices of moderate thickness.
While controlling the force to avoid damaging the cutting board, she told Fan Qi and You Feng about the situation.
"Even if this is the northernmost part of China, it is April now, and this temperature and heavy snow are not normal for this season." You Feng sighed as he looked out the window.
"According to the other party, before they were trapped, it was always winter here, but because of the changes in plants and animals, the temperature is higher than in previous winters, there are many plants, and the insects are also very noisy.
In addition, the 'mammoths' we saw before were there when the changes just started. The zoo is just to the west of the city. There are several animals in it that have the ability to resist the cold. After escaping, they made trouble everywhere in the city, and finally left the city and went north. Those elephants have changed. They are very smart, and they seem to know that there is a lot of food in the city, so they have not left.
This heavy snow has suppressed the rampage of animals and plants, but for animals with the ability to resist the cold, the impact may not be great. They have been trapped underground for many days, and now they don’t know much about the other conditions in the city, nor do they know how many survivors are left in the city. "
Fan Qi also looked at the heavy snow outside the window: "If the weather outside is always like this this month, we will stay in the Star House for the time being this month."
"If you want to go out, it’s actually okay." You Xi was in a hurry with his mission before, and he didn’t have time to share the new [Sunscreen Spray] that appeared in the Star House Mall with his parents. At this moment, he explained the function of the new star tool to them.
You Feng didn’t say anything, but he felt that such a star tool came very timely and practical.
Fan Qi, on the other hand, looked up at the location of the black door upstairs, and thought: "Your system seems to be really good to you... By the way, when the system speaks, is the voice male or female?"
"It has no gender, neither male nor female."
Fan Qi nodded and put away his thoughtful expression.
[……]
Youxi: My mother is praising you, what are you speechless about?
[…………]
The whole family worked together and soon prepared dinner.
Youxi spread a disposable tablecloth on the long dining table on the terrace of the Star House, put out a flat electric baking tray, and connected it to the power supply. After thinking about it, he placed a small square table with high legs in front of the dining table near the glass wall, then took out the stretch screen that he had bought in the last world, turned it on, and selected a lively travel variety show.
"Mom, the last world is different from the worlds I've been to before. The planet is much bigger, the landforms are different, and the human society is also different, so the variety shows and TV series are different. All the good movies, TV series and variety shows in that world have been downloaded here, so you can choose whatever you want to watch.
The screen is stretchable, so you can operate it directly after turning it on. It's very simple. If you want to watch it downstairs, you can just fold up the stretchable screen and take it down. It's very light, but the charger is different from the one here. I'll teach you later."
"Okay, baby." Fan Qi looked at her daughter's fair face and reached out to caress it lovingly.
If she hadn't mentioned it herself, she and You Feng would not have taken the initiative to ask her about the mission world. Every world is apocalyptic, and it doesn't seem to be a good experience.
If she wanted to talk, they would listen carefully. If she didn't want to talk, they would just hug her and not ask anything.
The variety show started, and the world outside the terrace darkened.
It was dark, and the snow was still falling. The glass looked insecure, but it firmly separated the two worlds inside and outside.
Behind them, the originally inconspicuous light in the grid of the circular glass planting wall gradually stood out because of the dim light from the outside world. 280 planting grids, 280 green hopes, 280 pieces of soft light, illuminated the entire terrace area.
The family of three sat at the long table. Youxi used tongs to lightly roast the M12 eye ribs, then cut them open and put them on the plate in front of her parents.
The two of them were getting older and used to eat less meat at night, but the beef this time was so delicious. With a little rose sea salt, it melted in the mouth, tender and delicious.
There was also lobster sashimi on the ice. Because of Youxi's ice control ability, the thin ice slices never melted, and the lobster meat was not soaked in ice water, always maintaining a soft and chewy refreshing elasticity, just neutralizing the slight greasy feeling after eating too much beef.
There was also beef bone soup, with a mellow and fragrant taste, plus white radish slices absorbed by the soup. Drinking it slowly on such a snowy night, every mouthful was like savoring life.
Fan Qi felt very happy, very, very happy.
Because her daughter was carrying the burden in a place she couldn't see, in exchange for such a comfortable life for the family.
Their lives are so ordinary, yet so extraordinary.
Before going to bed that night, Youxi took out two [Strong Anti-Sugar Pills] and asked her parents to take them separately.
Regardless of whether they decide to go outside the Star House this month, she has to prepare in advance. This anti-sugar pill is their third one, and after taking it, their physical fitness units will reach around 340 to 350.
Starting tomorrow, she will develop a new physical training plan for them to be fully prepared for their outing.
At night, the lights in the simulated apartment were dimmed, and the faint light in the planting wall on the terrace of the Star House was still on, but the light inside could not be seen from outside the glass.
For the next two days, heavy snow continued to fall every day, and You Xi suspected that if the snow continued to fall like this, it would submerge all the low-rise buildings in the city.
On the third day, half of the planting grids in the glass planting wall had tender green buds.
Some crops with short growth cycles have sprouted, and even if only some of them have, the speed of germination has surprised Youxi.
[Growing grids and nutrient solution will accelerate crop germination, which is a normal phenomenon.]
"So, the actual harvest time will be much shorter than planting outside?"
[Yes, it is about one-fifth of the growth time of crops on this planet.]
This news surprised Youxi and Fan Qi very much. The happiest moment of growing vegetables and fruits is the harvest moment. Fan Qi now goes to the terrace every day when he has nothing to do. In addition to drinking tea, watching snow, eating snacks, and watching dramas, it is an extremely happy thing to look at those tender little sprouts.
On the night of the fourth day, when everyone was asleep, the outside world quietly changed.
In the early morning, Youxi woke up and found that the heavy snow outside the window had stopped.
Instead, it was replaced by heavy rain.
The rain must have been falling for several hours. The thick snow covering the city roads had been melted and assimilated by the rain. The heavy rain washed every building in the city, and the walls that were originally covered by the ice and snow were exposed again.
Youxi opened the door and quickly went up the stairs to the terrace and used an astronomical telescope to check the city outside.
The white snowy city gradually restored its original appearance.
Broken buildings, rusty windows, damaged roads, and withered vines that once covered the walls of every building and died in the cold and heavy snow...
Suddenly, she saw the withered vines on the outer wall of a building move.
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