Chapter 107 Economic Pressure
Hu Li was very obedient. He didn't ask any questions after hearing Yu Sheng's instructions. He picked up Irene's oil painting and stuffed it into his tail, turned around, walked out of the room, and ran towards the attic.
Irene stayed in bed, still fantasizing: "Hey, Yu Sheng, do you think something miraculous will happen..."
Before he could finish his words, the eyes of the two little dolls dimmed at the same time as if the power was cut off, and then they fell straight onto the bed.
Yu Sheng watched this scene expressionlessly, then looked at the ceiling at a 45-degree angle: "It seems not."
A few seconds later, he shouted outside: "Hu Li! You can come back now!"
There were hurried footsteps outside the door, and Hu Li quickly ran down from the attic again. After entering the door, he took out the painting frame from his tail and handed it to Yu Sheng: "My benefactor! Here you go!"
The two little dolls on the bed sat up suddenly, both of them looking a little dazed.
Yu Sheng casually hung the oil painting on the back of one of them, turning her into P1 Irene.
As a result, when Irene "woke up", she didn't immediately lament that no miracle had happened, but stared at Hu Li blankly: "Can't you clean up the inside of your tail?"
Yu Sheng was a little curious when he heard it: "Ah? Did you see inside her tail? What was inside?"
He felt something was wrong when he said this, as if it would be a grammatical error in any other context. But when he thought about it carefully, he couldn't find any fault with it at all - he could only blame the rocket-assisted Doraemon's tail for being so unique that it felt a bit crazy to describe its function...
"It was pitch black inside, and I didn't know how big it was. Anyway, I couldn't see the edge. In the middle was a pile of things like a mountain of garbage, and on the top were all food and leftovers," Irene gestured to Yu Sheng to introduce the scene she saw. "When I opened my eyes in the oil painting, I saw a half-box of instant noodles in front of me, and a half-eaten roast chicken inside..."
"I, I didn't steal it," Hu Li explained quickly, looking very nervous, "I told my benefactor about it. The same goes for the leftovers. It would be a pity to throw them away, so I took them. Anyway, they won't go bad if I put them in my tail."
"Then you should at least clean it up! How can you pile it up like a mountain of garbage? No, next time you go out shopping, buy two shelves to put at the end. The shelves used in supermarkets to organize goods are very cheap."
As Yu Sheng heard the topic getting more and more weird, he finally couldn't help but interrupt: "... Let's talk about Irene."
The puppet and the fox girl then ended their discussion on "whether mixing passenger and cargo, and raw and cooked food in the tail is in line with food safety" and "whether to put two shelves in the fox demon's tail" and turned their attention to Irene's two bodies.
"Ahem, now it's confirmed that at least one of the puppet bodies must be within five meters of the painting, otherwise the connection will be broken and Irene's soul will return to the painting," Yu Sheng cleared his throat and began to arrange the next test. "Next, let's try to see how far the 'secondary body' can go while the 'main body' is carrying the painting."
"How do I try this? There may not be enough space at home," Irene thought for a moment, "Go out? Go to the city? But to do this kind of test, I have to hide from ordinary people, which seems a bit troublesome..."
"So there is a more suitable place than in the city." Yu Sheng showed a smile on his face.
Before he could continue, Irene reacted immediately, and the two puppets said in unison: "Valley!"
"The area is huge, far enough from one end of the valley to the other, and there's absolutely no need to worry about being disturbed," Yu Sheng nodded, "but before we go there, we still have to go out, and I'll buy some things while we're there."
When it comes to shopping, Irene seems particularly excited for some reason. The two dolls moved to the bed together: "Hey? Going shopping? What to buy? Clothes? Food? Or are you finally going to buy me something? Actually, I also want to change into new clothes. Although the set I transformed from myself is also very good, but sometimes I also want to change... Hey, don’t you know? This set of clothes of mine can be changed! I don’t have anything else to wear... You have to buy a new coat too. The one you wore yesterday was covered in blood and it has such a big hole. You definitely can’t keep it..."
The two puppets chattered a lot. Yu Sheng didn't think much of it at first, but when Irene gradually changed from "speaking in unison" to "speaking separately", he began to feel something was wrong. This little puppet was obviously quickly adapting to the state of having two bodies. She began to speak with two mouths in turn, and after a while, it became two mouths speaking at the same time but saying different things...
Yu Sheng finally realized that his "research spirit" might...have caused trouble.
Now there are two noisy Bibiji! "You speak with one body! Don't chatter together!" Yu Sheng hurriedly stopped the little puppet from making noise, "I am overwhelmed - and it will be the same in the future! Stop making so much noise!"
"Hey, I was just about to say that I find it very efficient to talk this way," Irene, who was carrying an oil painting on her back, curled her lips immediately, then looked up and blinked, "You haven't told me what you're going to buy yet."
"Let's buy some more food first. I'll buy two boxes of instant noodles and plastic-wrapped chicken legs for Hu Li as 'reserve'. Then I'll buy some vegetable seeds. Well, I also have to buy some farm tools," Yu Sheng began to list his shopping list one by one, calculating quickly in his mind as he spoke. "Oh, by the way, I also have to go to the building materials market...why not take it easy? This expense may be a bit high."
At this point, he looked a little worried. If he made another big purchase, his savings would really be depleted. Now he hadn't found a new manuscript yet, and the "hotel" didn't have any serious business. Yesterday, he went with Little Red Riding Hood to carry out a commission, and he didn't know when the remuneration would be paid. Although the other party said that it would be credited to the account today at the earliest, he also specifically emphasized that it was "at the earliest".
These days, my expenses are completely beyond my income - there is no "income" at all, only expenses.
Moreover, the bulk of the expenses are on Hu Li. Clothes and daily necessities are at least one-time consumption in the short term, but the expenses to feed her every day are extraordinary.
But Yu Sheng had to admit that every penny spent on Hu Li's food was not in vain. After all, twenty chicken legs and a tail may sound like a lot, but to put it another way, where can you find the price of twenty chicken legs and a cruise missile?
If he were given a chicken farm, he even thought he could get this girl to cover the entire old city with firepower...
On the other hand, Irene's spending at home is almost zero.
Apart from the materials used to reshape her body (all cheap materials were used), I never bought her clothes or food. I only bought her a small red hairpin when Little Red Riding Hood took her shopping. It was a "little thing" that looked like a child's toy, and it made the doll happy all day long...
Thinking of this, Yu Sheng even felt that he was quite sorry for this doll.
She is noisy, bad-tempered, nagging, flattering, incompetent and jumpy - but she is really good at what she does.
"If all else fails, we can only use the little 'disaster recovery fund'. If we really can't get through, we can contact the Secret Service and see if we can sell the 'iron lump' we found last time directly to them..."
Yu Sheng muttered, which aroused Irene's curiosity: "What are you talking about?"
"It's okay, pack up and get ready to go out," Yu Sheng waved his hand and said as he stood up, "We won't go far this time, we should be able to buy everything at the farmer's market near the old city. Also, you should let Hu Li carry you out, and make a 'disguise' - bring the oil painting with you, in case it gets disconnected on the way."
"Oh," Irene nodded, and controlled her other body to sit up against the bed. Then, she very unfamiliarly controlled her "main body" carrying the painting to crawl down from the bedside, staggered a few steps on the floor, and then breathed a sigh of relief. "Not bad, if the other body stays still, it will be much easier to control this side alone. By the way, how do we get there? Take a taxi?"
"...There are no coordinates left there, otherwise I would have just opened the door and saved some taxi fare," Yu Sheng sighed, "I can only take a taxi there."
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Ten minutes later, Yu Sheng brought the fox transformed into a girl with long black hair to the nearest intersection, waiting for the arrival of the online car-hailing service.
"When we have money, we still have to buy a car, right?" Irene's voice echoed in Yu Sheng's heart, sounding full of expectations for the future. "We can't always take online ride-hailing cars..."
Yu Sheng turned his head to look at Irene who was held in Hu Li's arms, and raised his eyebrows: "What if it's another Secret Service car?"
“…It’s not as good as online car-hailing.”
Yu Sheng grinned, and couldn't help but let his thoughts wander: "In fact, I think we should just buy an electric scooter, a bigger one that can carry one person. Then let Hu Li sit in the back and ride normally in the city. When we get to a deserted place, let her turn on the tail. The nine-tailed rocket propels the small electric donkey. It consumes 20 cents of electricity and three steamed buns per 100 kilometers. It would be even better if the electric scooter can be driven and recycled. The electricity bill can be paid for..."
"You have a very vivid imagination," Irene muttered, and then she realized, "Oh no, where do I sit then?!"
"Put it in the basket in front of you."
"...Yu Sheng, your uncle!"
As he was speaking, a small car with smooth silver-gray lines suddenly came into Yu Sheng's sight. Irene, who was about to bite someone when no one was around, instantly calmed down and continued to lie in Hu Li's arms with her limbs drooping to maintain her "camouflage".
With a creak, the car stopped in front of Yu Sheng.
Hu Li came up to Yu Sheng and asked curiously, "My benefactor, did you call the car? It arrived so soon?"
Yu Sheng was also stunned for a moment, and glanced at the taxi app on his phone, comparing the license plate number of the car parked in front of him: "...No, the car I called is still waiting for the red light two intersections away."
While he was wondering, the window of the silver-gray car had been lowered.
Good news, this is not Xu Jiali's old Xiali that trembles when driving.
Bad news, the person who appeared when the driver's window was rolled down was an acquaintance, and it was an acquaintance who gave Yu Sheng a headache.
Ren Wenwen smiled brightly: "It's you guys! Are you going out?"
(End of this chapter)
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