Chapter 17

Half an hour later.

Jiang Li stood at the door of Morton's Pharmacy.

Through the glass window, he saw rows of magic potions of various colors neatly arranged on the shelves inside, some of which were emitting strange bubbles.

Originally, he wanted to go to Ethan's Pharmacy at the entrance of the shopping street. According to customers, the cold medicine in that pharmacy would taste better. Even though the cold medicine in Ethan's Pharmacy needs to be drunk more often and is relatively more expensive, Jiang Li's supermarket has been in business for so long that those instant foods have accumulated a lot of wealth from the other world for him. For him, this is not a problem.

But it just happened.

When he walked into Ethan's Pharmacy, the clerk told him apologetically: "The weather has been getting colder recently, and more people are getting sick. Cold medicine is selling very fast. Just before you came in, the last bottle of cold medicine was sold out. We have to wait until tomorrow to get a new one."

Jiang Li: "..."

So, Jiang Li had to go to another pharmacy.

He looked at the dark environment inside the store. Unlike the bright style of Ethan's Pharmacy, Morton's Pharmacy really fits his stereotype of potions. It is dark, damp, and the corners are covered with moss.

Jiang Li's courage was raised again and again, but he was really afraid to go in.

At this moment, a voice came from the store: "Be careful!"

What? Jiang Li looked up.

Several toads jumped out of the store. One of them stopped at Jiang Li's feet. Jiang Li looked down and met two black frog eyes. The toad from another world was as big as his feet. There were ugly pimples and pustules on its dark brown back, and it was leaking an unknown black and purple liquid.

"Gu Gua——"

Jiang Li: "..." He

was just a little bit away from dying on the spot.

Fortunately, when the toad jumped up and was about to attack him, a hand reached out and quickly grabbed it and threw it into the barrel, and then covered it with a lid to prevent it from escaping again. Those toads that escaped have been arrested.

Jiang Li let out a long sigh of relief: "Thank you."

The one who caught the toad was Mr. Morton, the owner of Morton's Pharmacy. He was a middle-aged man with a gloomy look. Morton first looked at him gloomily, then walked into the store without saying a word. Jiang Li thought about it and followed him in.

He first put the wooden barrel in the medicine production room at the back, and when he came out, Morton had taken off his gloves and washed his hands. He took a medicine from the shelf and put it in front of Jiang Li.

Without waiting for Jiang Li to ask, he said, "Twenty silver coins."

Jiang Li: "What?"

Morton said, "Cold syrup."

Jiang Li suddenly realized and quickly took money out of his pocket. He also noticed that there was a price tag next to the cold syrup on the shelf, and the number on it was fifty copper coins more than what Morton charged him .

Although he didn't know why, it didn't stop Jiang Li from thinking that he was a good person.

He put down the silver coins and asked casually, "What were those toads just now?"

"They are materials for making medicine." Morton said gloomily, "The liver of that kind of toad is an important material for an antidote. Similarly, the pus on its body is also a material for a poison. Its skin..." When it comes to his own area of ​​knowledge, Morton talked incessantly.

Jiang Li held the cold medicine in his hand, his face was numb.

"Mr. Jiang Li." Morton took another medicine from the shelf and asked, "Do you need this?"

Jiang Li was curious: "What is this?"

Morton said, "Beauty medicine."

Jiang Li: "..."

"A handsome man like you should need these." Morton raised his lips, but his appearance was too gloomy, and his smile was more like selling a poison. "In Dore City and nearby cities, the beauty medicine in my store is the most effective, and the ladies in the city often come to patronize it."

"...No, no." Jiang Li politely refused and said, "I don't really need it."

Morton looked at him for a long time, and when he was sure that he was not the target customer, he put down the beauty medicine with some regret.

He took a few more kinds from the shelf.

"Hair growth potion." Morton pointed at the magic potions in front of him and introduced them one by one: "Slimming potion, whitening potion, and growth potion."

"Growth potion?"

"It can help you grow taller." Morton: "But the price is very high. With your height, you really don't need it."

"..."

"But other potions..." He pointed at the hair growth potion and slimming potion and said: "The nobles in the city are particularly fond of them. In a few years, maybe you will need them. And my place is the best pharmacy in the whole city of Dolei."

Jiang Li: "..."

It must be said that Jiang Li was shamefully tempted.

Although he is still a young man with thick hair and standard weight, his roommates may not be. The heavy workload took away a lot of their hair, the 996 work schedule made their already poor hairline even worse, and their bad living habits also made them gain weight day by day.

Thinking of the few friends who cried in the roommate group every day, he coughed and said, "Give me one of each of the hair growth potion and slimming potion."

Morton packed the two potions for him. Compared with the cold potion, the hair growth potion and slimming potion were expensive, and only the nobles would buy them. When paying the bill, he kindly gave Jiang Li a small change.

Jiang Li thanked him: "Thank you."

"You're welcome. Welcome to come again next time." Morton looked back at the half-open door of the medicine production room, raised his lips, and said grimly: "The hot pot base sold in your supermarket is very delicious and has helped me a lot."

Jiang Li: "…………"

...Did you use the hot pot base as medicine!

...

Jiang Li returned to the modern world with the magic potion he bought.

Looking at the street view outside through the glass, and then looking at the hair growth potion and slimming potion in his hand, he didn't know what to do with it for a while.

He himself doesn't need them, and even if his friends need them, he can't give them directly. He can't tell them that this is a magic potion he brought back from another world, and it must be very effective, right? If it is a modern technology product, with no brand and no quality inspection, even if Jiang Li dares to give it to them, they will suspect that he has met a scammer.

Unable to give it out for the time being, Jiang Li put them away casually.

Then there is the cold medicine.

The potion is in a small bottle, and from the outside, it is hard to tell whether it has any magic. Fortunately, its color looks similar to cold medicine. Jiang Li pulled out the cork from the bottle, thinking of it as an ordinary cold medicine in his heart, closed his eyes, and drank it in one breath.

The moment he took a sip, an extremely horrible smell immediately attacked his tongue and invaded all his senses, like the smelly socks in the boys' dormitory that had not been washed for three months, or like stinky pickled vegetables that had fermented for several years. Jiang Li's eyes went dark and he was about to faint.

No wonder even the native residents of the alien world are afraid!

The magic potion in the alien world is too scary! !

But soon, his ears began to steam. As the gas dissipated, the dizziness and bloating disappeared, his nose became unobstructed, and his cold was cured immediately.

Jiang Li hurried to rinse his mouth, and finally wiped off the horrible taste left in his mouth. When he came out again, he became visibly weak.

His body is healthy.

But he feels that his spirit has suffered a huge impact.

...

On the other side.

At noon, Chris and his friends set up a stove in the yard of the hotel where they were staying.

There were several people like them in the yard. In the past, after finishing their mission, they would go to the restaurant to solve their three meals a day, but since the supermarket was built, adventurers who were not afraid of trouble would start to cook their own food. After all, hot pot does not require any skills at all, and it tastes the same even if you go to the restaurant.

But Chris and his friends' lunch today was different from usual.

They bought new products from the supermarket.

Although the pictures on the outer packaging were tempting, the names were very unfamiliar. According to the supermarket owner, this was just a dish to go with the staple food, so they also bought bread.

Chris looked at a few samples and asked his companions: "Let's eat the pork with preserved vegetables first?"

No one else had any objection.

So Chris threw the pork with preserved vegetables into the boiling water in the pot.

According to the supermarket owner, this kind of food only needs to be heated before it can be eaten, and does not require any processing at all. They waited patiently for a few minutes, and then couldn't wait to take it out of the pot. The tin packaging was boiling, and Chris turned his hands back and forth, tearing the packaging along the sawtooth edge, and his companion next to him immediately handed over the prepared plate.

When the pork with preserved vegetables was poured out, the fragrance came out.

A fragrance that they had never smelled before.

The vegetables seemed to have been pickled and smelled a bit sour. From the outside, the dried vegetables on top were also a strange black color, but the large piece of fat underneath was an attractive color.

Out of trust in the supermarket and the lingering fragrance, the five people couldn't wait to put this kind of preserved vegetable and pork into their mouths.

Then, they all widened their eyes.

This... this is a kind of deliciousness that can't be described!

The strange-looking dried vegetables were full of a rich fragrance that was completely opposite to their appearance. The salty and fresh taste was accompanied by a hint of sweetness. The meat slices were already very soft and melted in the mouth. It was obviously a large piece of fat, but it didn't taste greasy at all. It was also soaked in the fragrance of dried vegetables and had a rich taste. In Lalan

Continent, there has never been such a taste!

It was like the first time I ate instant noodles. The moment I ate them, I was immediately amazed by how delicious they were.

It was indeed a supermarket product!

The five of us devoured it without stopping. Unfortunately, the portion of pork with preserved vegetables was too small. Each person took a few bites, and it was eaten up in a short while, leaving only the soup at the bottom of the plate.

Irene looked at the empty plate with lingering thoughts: "I should have bought a few more..."

"If only I could eat this pork with preserved vegetables again..."

"Damn it, why is the supermarket only open in the morning? Do I have to wait until tomorrow?!"

Glancing at the bread next to him, Chris suddenly had an idea and picked up a piece of bread and dipped it in the soup at the bottom of the plate. It was a very strange combination, but the moment he took a bite, he was also surprised and widened his eyes.

After the bread was soaked in the soup, the taste did not become strange, but complemented each other. The wheat was more sweet under the salty taste, and the slightly salty soup became moderately salty and sweet under the background of the wheat.

Noticing his action, the other companions did not think much about it, and reached out to the bread without hesitation, scraping off the remaining soup.

"Huh!"

"Is it my illusion? Why does it feel better to eat it this way?"

"By the way, Mr. Jiang Li has long said that it is just a dish to be eaten with staple food."

"If you use preserved vegetable and pork as bread filling, it will definitely be very delicious!"

Unfortunately, there was not much soup left, and it was scraped cleanly by several people with bread.

Their movements here soon attracted the attention of other adventurers in the yard. Originally, the aroma of the hot pot had covered the aroma of preserved vegetable and pork, but looking at the expressions of Chris and others, everyone knew that something new must have appeared.

They came over and saw that it was indeed food they had never seen before.

"Chris, are you guys here to promote the supermarket again?"

"What new products have appeared in the supermarket?"

After eating the pork with preserved vegetables, Chris couldn't wait to put the second package into the pot, which was a food called sweet and sour pork tenderloin.

However, this time, when he tore open the package and poured out the sweet and sour pork tenderloin, before he could taste it first, several impatient hands stretched out from the side and chopped up the sweet and sour pork tenderloin in the blink of an eye. He only had time to grab the last bite.

"What does this taste like?!"

"Sweet and sour, a bit like tomato hotpot, but even sourer than tomato hotpot."

"The meat tastes crispy on the outside and tender on the inside!"

With so many people, each person only had time to get a bite, and before they could taste it carefully, it had already been swallowed into the stomach.

But even with just one bite, they knew that the supermarket had launched a new product that was especially delicious, and it was no less delicious than everyone's favorite hot pot.

Chris and the others' eyelids jumped, and suddenly they had a bad feeling.

They looked up and saw these adventurers surrounding them, drooling over the remaining two packages of food.

"Chris, what's left? Let's all taste it!"