Chapter 13
"Grandpa...Grandpa Li..."
While sleeping, Old Li heard a strange voice calling in his ear. His head was dizzy and his consciousness kept wanting to fall.
However, there was always a subtle energy released from his heart, maintaining his vitality.
After an unknown amount of time, he opened his eyes drowsily.
Old man Li first saw the familiar scenery outside his home, and then turned around and saw the young man's happy and cheerful smile.
"Grandpa Li, you're awake!"
Tang Yu'an said happily, "We're here. How do I get in?"
Old Li's home was in the same residential complex as Granny Guo's. Tang Yu'an had marked it before, so he was able to find the place very accurately. It would normally take them an hour or two to walk, but they arrived in less than half an hour.
But how to get in still needs guidance from Old Li.
Old Li looked at Tang Yu'an, his memory was a little disconnected. After a while, he raised his hand tremblingly and pointed to a big rock on the side of the road.
"There's a mechanism next to it..."
Under the guidance of Old Li, Tang Yu'an quickly found an iron bar next to the big rock. He broke it hard, and the big rock moved to the side, revealing the rope ladder behind it.
Tang Yu'an couldn't help but open his eyes wide and looked curiously.
"My house... is upstairs..."
I don’t know if it is to guard against mutant creatures, but Old Li and Grandma Guo’s houses are built on high places.
Tang Yu'an first climbed up the rope ladder. With the help of the light body technique, he climbed to the top easily. After reaching out to push open a stone slab, he saw a house of considerable size.
Compared to Granny Guo’s “cultivation garden”, Old Li’s home looks more like a human house.
There are not only doors and windows, but also some simple furniture and even a kitchen with a stove, the kind that uses firewood to burn earthen stoves.
It is daytime now and the indoor lighting is good, so no additional light source is needed.
Zhou Qi also climbed up carrying Old Li on his back and placed him on the wooden bed in the house. He looked around the room full of clutter and couldn't help frowning.
A clean and tidy environment is conducive to the recovery of injuries, otherwise the wound will easily become infected.
He first carried Old Li to a chair and then began to make his bed.
"I'll help too!"
Tang Yu'an found a broom and swept the floor around the bed.
Old Li's bed wasn't really dirty, just a lot of debris piled on it. After moving it to another place, Zhou Qi wiped it with alcohol.
"Grandpa Li, where are your clothes?"
Hearing the question, Old Li, who had closed his eyes while sitting on the chair, opened his eyes again. He reacted for a while before slowly pointing under the bed.
There were two wooden boxes underneath. Zhou Qi pulled them out, opened them, and took out a set of clean clothes. He then took off the old man's tattered clothes that were covered with mud and sand, changed into them, and then carried him back to bed.
Zhou Qi's movements were quick and skillful when doing these tasks, because that was how he took care of his grandmother during the months she was bedridden before she passed away.
Old Li lay on the bed, and after covering himself with the quilt, he finally felt a little warmth in his cold body.
I was truly saved...
Old Li finally felt something was real in his heart. He turned his head to look at Zhou Qi and was about to say thank you when Tang Yu'an came to the bedside with a cup of hot water.
When Tang Yu'an went out in the morning, he prepared hot water. Because he had kept it in his portable storage, it was still boiling hot.
He poured a cup and added salt and glucose to it to replenish electrolytes and energy for Old Li. After stirring and melting, the water temperature also dropped.
"Grandpa Li, drink some water first."
Zhou Qi helped Old Li up and let him sit on the bed, while Tang Yu'an carefully fed him.
After drinking a cup of sugar and salt water, Old Li finally recovered. Although he was still very weak, at least his hands and feet no longer felt cold and trembling.
"Grandpa, how are you?" Tang Yu'an asked.
There was no expression on Old Li's face. He was a lonely and silent old man. He did not show any special enthusiasm or gratitude to the two young men who saved his life.
He nodded slightly, looked at Tang Yu'an, then looked at Zhou Qi, with thought in his eyes.
Then, he silently pointed to the old clothes that had just been changed, and motioned Tang Yu'an to give them to him.
"Do you want this?"
Tang Yu'an picked up the dirty clothes and handed them to him. He saw the old man rummaging through the clothes and finally took out a small bag from the secret compartment.
He stretched out his hand tremblingly and handed the small bag to Tang Yu'an.
Tang Yu'an understood what he meant and said, "Because we saved you, are you going to give this to us?"
Old Li nodded and said "hmm".
Tang Yu'an thought about it and reached out to take it.
The emergency rescue mission has not been completed yet, he has to at least make a deal with Old Li. Since he took the initiative to propose it, he doesn't have to make excuses.
And this bag is so small, it can’t be something particularly valuable, right?
You completed a transaction with a new customer and gained a profit, earning +200 points and +3 experience points.
Congratulations on completing the normal mission "Emergency Rescue." Points +20, Lucky Wheel draw +1.
Tang Yuan: 0.0
What the heck is this? Such a tiny thing is worth 200 points!
Tang Yu'an curiously untied the bag and poured out the contents, only to find a blue crystal the size of a fingernail.
The surface of the crystal is irregular and feels cool to the touch, which feels very comfortable.
When Tang Yu'an took out the crystal, Zhou Qi, who was standing beside him and watching him, suddenly had a faint red light in his eyes.
When Zhou Qi came to his senses, he had already grabbed Tang Yu'an's hand and snatched the crystal away.
Realizing what he had just done, Zhou Qi was shocked.
What happened to him just now?
Why would you try to snatch this crystal?
Because the red light in his eyes only flashed for a moment, Tang Yu'an didn't notice anything unusual about him. In his opinion, since Brother Xiaoqi wanted this crystal, then he should give it to him.
With 200 points earned at once, Tang Yu'an looked at Old Li again, and his smile became much warmer.
"Grandpa Li, do you know Granny Guo?"
Old Li was stunned for a moment, then nodded.
“What a coincidence!”
Tang Yu'an took out the fruit he had exchanged from Granny Guo and showed it to him as proof.
"She...never mentioned you to me." Old Li opened his mouth slightly and said in a hoarse voice.
Tang Yu'an then made him another cup of glucose water, and after watching him drink it, he said, "My brother just met her yesterday, and I didn't expect to run into her again today."
Old Li showed a look of sudden realization, "You... exchanged salt with her?"
It seems that Grandma Guo mentioned this matter when she came to see him yesterday.
"Yes, we want to go to the market town. Do you know the way?" Tang Yu'an continued.
Old Li nodded.
"When you're healed, can you take us there?" Tang Yu'an said eagerly, "If we go by ourselves, we might get lost, and Granny Guo said it would be better if someone we know takes us there."
Hearing this, Old Li hesitated a bit, but the young man smiled and said, "Take us there, and I'll treat you to some candy."
He took out two small bags of rock sugar, poured out one, and stuffed it into Old Li's mouth without saying a word.
Old Li opened his eyes wide, and his reaction was exactly the same as Grandma Guo and the others.
He held the high-concentration sugar cube in his mouth, and the dizziness caused by excessive blood loss was suddenly relieved a lot.
This candy was obviously something he couldn't refuse.
Old Li finally nodded, "...Okay."
"Hehe, thank you Grandpa Li!" Tang Yu'an poured out the rock sugar, put it on the bedside with a piece of paper, so that he could take it whenever he needed it.
According to the system's judgment, he made another losing deal.
The profit and loss determined by the grocery store system seemed to be based on physical objects. Actions such as saving people and leading the way were not considered valuable.
However, this is not the case in reality.
Next to him, Zhou Qi saw that Old Li looked drowsy, so he quickly calmed down and temporarily put the blue crystal into his personal storage.
He glanced at the wooden table beside the bed. There were a few fruits on the table, which were obviously exchanged by Old Li from Granny Guo.
He said, "Grandpa Li, do you still need salt? Can I trade this bag of salt for three fruits?"
Old Li glanced at him and nodded, "Okay."
He had heard about their deal from Granny Guo, and the price was indeed quite affordable.
So Zhou Qi put down the salt powder and took three fruits from the table.
[Employee Zhou Qi completed a transaction with a regular customer and made a profit. Points +15, Experience +1]
Maybe these fruits have been stored for a long time, the skin is a little wrinkled, and the quality is not as good as before, so the points for each one are a little low, but it is still very good.
After all, that small packet of salt is about 3 grams, which is only 0.3 points when converted.
[Congratulations on completing the weekly task (1), points +10]
[Congratulations on completing all weekly tasks, points +50, Lucky Wheel draw number +1]
The weekly task of making 10 profitable trades has also been completed. Surprisingly, after completing both weekly tasks, there are even more generous rewards!
Tang Yu'an smiled happily.
Old Li tried to stay awake and talked to them for a while, but finally he couldn't resist the sleepiness. After letting them do as they pleased, he fell into a deep sleep again.
"Brother Xiaoqi, shall we leave now?" Tang Yu'an whispered.
Zhou Qi thought about it and shook his head: "Wait a little longer."
He stood up and walked towards the kitchen. Tang Yu'an followed him curiously, watching him fiddling with the earthen stove and firewood, and soon he started the fire.
Then, Zhou Qi took a clay pot next to him, grabbed two or three handfuls of rice from his portable storage, and put them in the clay pot to wash.
"Brother Xiaoqi, do you want to cook porridge?" Tang Yu'an asked.
"Yeah." Zhou Qi explained to him, "Looking at Grandpa Li's condition, he probably won't be able to get out of bed today. We cooked some porridge and put it next to his bed so he can eat it when he wakes up."
Having said that, he paused, looked up at Tang Yu'an, and asked, "What do you think?"
"sure."
Tang Yu'an nodded. A can of porridge was not worth many points.
Just looking at the clay pot on the fire, he couldn't help but frown and said, "How long will it take to cook like this?"
Cooking porridge directly with rice would take at least 40 to 50 minutes...
Zhou Qi was just about to say something to comfort the child when he saw Tang Yu'an looking outside furtively, then reaching out and pulling out a...
Pressure cooker.
"Brother Xiaoqi, using a pressure cooker will cook faster and save firewood!"
Seeing the child holding the pressure cooker in front of him with sparkling eyes, Zhou Qi's mouth twitched.
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