Chapter 48 Oil Fruit
After three days of flight, Wen Le and his companions finally reached their destination, Shui Jupiter. This planet is a combination of agriculture and tourism, and many residents of surrounding planets choose to come here for their holidays when they don't want to travel too far. With its beautiful scenery and pleasant climate, it's a great tourist destination. Because it's an agricultural planet, it's rich in grain, supplying food to several nearby planets.
The thing that is least lacking here is food.
There is a mining planet right next to Mercury and Jupiter, and the mining tools there are the most complete. The mining planet is only three hours away from Mercury and Jupiter, so it is possible to travel back and forth in one day.
Xu Dongdong had chosen this place with this in mind. They could buy the supplies they needed nearby, and they could also have fun to their heart's content. One summer vacation was enough time for them to explore the entire planet.
Xu Dongdong told her friends about her travel plans and said, "Next we are going to go on a round-the-world trip at any time~"
This proposal was unanimously agreed upon by the friends.
As for supplies you need to buy, you can go to the visitor center to reserve them and pick them up when you leave. They also have a purchasing service here. For example, if Wen Le wants to buy mining tools, they can help him buy them from the neighboring mining star for a certain service fee.
Xu Dongdong and the others had come here to accommodate him, and he didn't want to waste their time just to save the "running errands" fee. Since they were just out for a few minutes, they could just have fun. Worrying about all that would only make the fun worse. He used half his savings to buy supplies, arranged a pickup time with the visitor center staff, and had them help process the food into nutrient solution. After that was done, he went out to play with his friends.
Mercury is neither big nor small, with 23 cities of varying sizes. Each city is named after a local specialty, so visitors can easily find the local specialty by searching for the local specialty they're interested in.
It's so simple, crude and direct.
But I have to admit that this method does work.
The four people studied the travel route and those cities, and finally decided to start from the oil fruit city closest to them so that they could eat along the way along the route.
There are special train lines between the cities of Jupiter and Mercury. The appearance of these trains is modeled after the high-speed trains of the Earth period. This is also an attraction for interstellar people, but it is very familiar to Wen Le.
After buying my ticket and entering the train, I discovered that the interior was decorated to resemble the ancient trains of Earth's time. But that was just an attempt at resemblance. Even as a true Earthling, Wen Le could see many differences, though these differences made it more convenient to use.
As a user, it is natural to do whatever is convenient. Wen Le will not bother with these things that are similar in spirit but not in form.
Even though the train's speed was designed to mimic that of the trains of the ancient Earth era, it was still significantly faster. Wen Le and the others arrived at their destination in the blink of an eye. It wasn't even ten minutes, so it was no wonder they didn't even notice anything. Xu Dongdong, still fascinated by trains, was clamoring to come ride one of these someday when she had the time.
Other tourists shared this sentiment, saying they'd set aside a day to enjoy this kind of ride. It was like Wen Le and his friends riding a horse-drawn carriage at a tourist attraction back on Earth. At first, it felt incredibly fresh, and everything seemed new and exciting. Those who'd been there before, however, were no longer surprised by the experience and seemed remarkably calm.
The key point was that Xu Dongdong was dancing and talking so loudly that the tourists nearby were all looking over. Lily thought he was being so embarrassing and slapped him on the back of the head: "Shut up!" She really didn't want to know him, it was too embarrassing.
The tourists nearby couldn't help but smile at their interaction, thinking that these parents were really brave, letting their children play on their own. And just now, watching these children seriously studying the tourist route was quite entertaining.
With the increasing security level in the interstellar era, and many parents too busy with work to accompany their children on outings, many children have formed groups to play on their own. As long as they don't go to dangerous places, tourist cities like Mercury and Jupiter are still very safe.
Occasionally, you can see groups of children coming here to play, so although the tourists around think that this is a bit inappropriate and unsafe, they don’t have any other thoughts.
If this happened on Earth, if a few children appeared in a tourist attraction in such a brazen manner without their parents, enthusiastic tourists would probably call the police.
Wen Le and his companions arrived just in time. The oil fruit market in Youguo City had a bumper harvest of oil fruit, and the area was hosting its annual Oil Fruit Harvest Festival. The oil fruit trees lining the streets were laden with bright red fruit, emitting a unique sweet aroma. Beneath the trees were stalls set up by locals, selling a variety of oil fruit-related products.
Wen Le and the others looked over and saw a stall owner demonstrating how to collect the vegetable oil from the oil fruit. He first skillfully cut a slit in the fruit's stem, then placed the slit in the fruit on a specially made container with a rack. He aligned the slit with the container's opening, and soon, something like oil began to drip out.
Wen Le's eyes widened at the sight. Initially, he'd thought the oil fruit was a variant of the avocado, lost over time due to the "cow" character. He hadn't expected it to actually be an "oil" fruit. The place's naming was a bit too straightforward, but calling an oil-producing fruit an oil fruit seemed reasonable.
The man put away the oil-producing fruit that needed to be drained, then picked up the drained fruit pulp nearby, sliced it into thin slices, and grilled it in a frying pan nearby. Soon, a fragrant aroma wafted into the air. Xu Dongdong sniffed the aroma and couldn't help smacking her lips. "Hey, this smells quite similar." She just didn't know if it would taste as good as the brochure said.
"Shall we go try it too?" Xu Dongdong asked his friends for their opinion. Lily had really let herself go since leaving school, and she'd pin him to the ground and beat him up if she didn't like him. Back at school, she'd been somewhat restrained, but now that she was out, she'd gone from tigress to Godzilla, her fighting power had skyrocketed.
Even though Xu Dongdong was a big, muscular man, he couldn't withstand a beating. The punches still hurt. Having just been beaten, the pain was still fresh in his body, so he didn't dare to act rashly. Although he really wanted to try something new, he was a little hesitant without the mother Tyrannosaurus's permission.
"Let's go and try it." Lily said, and Xu Dongdong immediately ran over happily like a husky that had been untied from its leash, wanting to wag his tail at the stall owner.
When the stall owner saw Wen Le and the other four children, he smiled and picked up a piece of fried fruit pulp from the pot for each of them: "It's a little hot, eat slowly and be careful not to burn yourself."
The fried oil fruit flesh is crispy with a hint of the unique sweetness of the fruit. It is fragrant and refreshing, leaving you with an endless aftertaste.
The stall owner asked them if it tasted good, and all four of them nodded in unison. Wen Le even gave him a thumbs-up and said incoherently, "Super delicious." To be honest, the taste of the fried fruit pulp was a little light, but just the right amount. It didn't seem bland nor did it make people feel greasy. It could be used as an afternoon tea snack.
The stall owner laughed heartily at the compliment and said, "There are even better ones."
As he spoke, he took out a piece of marinated meat from a nearby fresh-keeping box, smeared it with a layer of vegetable oil from the oil fruit, and then put it on the grill to start grilling. After it was cooked, he divided it into four portions and handed them to Wen Le, "Try this one."
The four people tasted it and found that the barbecue had a subtle fruity aroma, which made the barbecue taste even better and made the barbecue less greasy.
Wen Le felt sorry for Jin Cancan. It couldn't eat such delicious meat. It was really a loss for it.
Jin Cancan couldn't pass customs due to his size, and couldn't board the spaceship. Furthermore, the tourist planet didn't allow tourists to bring large pets, so they had no choice but to send him to Susan's place for a while. Before leaving, Wen Le agreed to many conditions to appease the little ancestor and even generously bought him a large box of food from the system store. He bought a month's supply of pet food, beef jerky, and chew sticks, fearing that the picky little thing would go hungry if he returned too late.
At this time, the system said: "You can put it in the system space~" so that the little master can eat it~
Wen Le rolled his eyes: "Didn't you say that nothing can be placed in the space except things related to medicine?" This is too unprincipled. There are restrictions when he uses it, but there are no such restrictions when Jin Cancan uses it. Even if he has a good attitude, he can't help but complain.
"That's right. The space the system gives the host is an exclusive space, and can only hold designated items. And when the young master was born, the family bound a private space to the system to hold the young master's personal belongings. There's no conflict between the two."
Wen Le: “…”
It hurts.
They actually equipped the cub with a private space alone, which is so inhumane.
After this year, Wen Le is no longer as clueless as before. Private spaces like this are very expensive on the market. A one cubic meter space item costs 100,000 credit points. This is quite common. Many people can buy it by gritting their teeth and spending several years' savings.
Those that are larger than ten square meters are not only priced sky-high, but are also in short supply.
Houses are not valuable in this era. Their prices are like private cars in the Earth era. Everyone can buy one. The only difference is the size of the house and its location.
The most in-demand item of this era is mecha, and the second is these space items. These space items are so convenient and practical that as long as there is enough space, you can fit your entire home in them and take them with you.
In Earth times, marriages required buying a house; in interstellar times, marriages required space objects. Wen Le sometimes felt that times were changing, and people’s pursuits were different.
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