Chapter 258
"Father Xiong, get up——"
The cub took off his shoes, climbed onto the bed, and pounced on him, pressing down on him with a weight that was neither heavy nor light.
Qi Heng was hit in the abdomen and opened his eyes, only to meet a silly and happy face.
In a safe environment, he was not very vigilant, and if something really happened, the system would also sound an alarm, so he relaxed a lot in the past two days.
So much so that he didn't get up the moment Qi Xi opened the door, but instead let the cub find new fun - waking him up.
The cub opened its round puppy eyes and kept chattering at him.
"Hero father, are you awake???"
He raised his hand, slapped the kid on the face, and pushed him aside.
"You came to call me, how come I'm not awake yet?"
"whee."
"Then, father Xiong, please get up quickly. You promised to take me out to play today."
Qi Xi wore a simple, comfortable overalls suit and straddled him, swinging her chubby legs. "I still have to go see my brother."
He sat up with the weight on his shoulders, put his hands under the cub's arms, lifted it up and put it aside.
"I haven't forgotten."
He stood up and walked to the cabinet next to him to get his clothes. "Have you had breakfast?"
Qi Xi looked at his back and shook her head. "No, my father-in-law said we have to wait a while."
Qi Heng picked a black shirt, and from what he said he knew that today's breakfast was not a nutritious one.
If it were him, for the sake of convenience, he would prefer to use nutritional supplements to solve his three meals a day. But that was when he was not picky about convenience. He would still be happy to open his mouth and eat normal meals.
You don't have to do it yourself anyway.
The premise is that the food is normal, but Chu Xiu’s cooking skills are quite good, and he can cook simple ingredients well.
After Ji Lin delivered supplies to Tianyun Star this time, the dishes on the table finally had some variety - except that they were expensive, there was nothing wrong with them.
Among the supplies, there is a part that accounts for less than 0.5% of the total, which is firewood, rice, oil, salt, dehydrated vegetables, meat, canned fruits and the like. At present, Tianyun Star is not able to be self-sufficient in these supplies.
Unlike cheap and low-threshold nutritional supplements, there are requirements for exchanging these supplies. The first requirement for exchanging them is to meet a certain contribution threshold.
In fact, the threshold he set for contribution was not high. Most of the Zerg participating in the civilization revival plan only needed to work hard for a month or so.
The original intention was to motivate everyone and give them a direction to work towards. Otherwise, if they only make money but have no place to spend it, it would easily make them lose motivation.
Then, once their contribution reaches the required level, they can spend credit points to purchase it.
Since the transportation of supplies has priority, although the amount transported in is not small, compared with the seven-digit Zerg number, it accounts for less than 0.5%. If the exchange is liberalized, it will not be able to meet the needs of so many Zerg.
Therefore, in addition to setting a contribution threshold, Qi Heng also imposed purchase restrictions, which were not only restrictive but also very expensive.
How expensive is it?
It would be painful if he spent his credit points to redeem it.
Let’s put it this way, contribution points are not a problem for him, and it is easier for him to obtain credit points than most Zergs.
——It’s so funny. If a person works several jobs and the salary is not high, he will really go on strike.
Each of Qi Heng's vests has an identity and a job, so when he sets the salary, no matter what job the vest does, there will be some salary.
I get more than 7,000 credit points a month.
With the current average salary of 2,000 credit points and subsidies for purchasing nutritional supplements, the most expensive necessity is the terminal, which costs 500 credit points.
Other daily necessities, depending on their attributes as daily necessities or life improvement items, are priced in two to three digits.
What about these pre-known canned and dehydrated vegetables?
A 400g can of meat costs 1,200 points, a 100g pack of dehydrated vegetables costs 800 points...these are not the most expensive things, the seasonings are more expensive.
It's not that he deliberately set the price so high to squeeze his subordinates' wages.
If so, there is no need for him to limit purchases.
In his opinion, these things can be used to improve life and give everyone hope to work hard and actively. When life is not so tight in the future, he will also relax the exchange restrictions.
But now, no.
He took off his short-sleeved T-shirt that was wrinkled after a night of sleeping, put on the shirt he had taken out, and buttoned it up from bottom to top in an orderly manner.
I had been living on the aircraft before, so I never thought about improving the food.
Since he would be staying here for nearly ten days, he bought some ingredients for pre-prepared meals online.
The reason why he didn't buy the finished product was not because it was not available in the Wujin Mall, but mainly because he had no money. The price of raw materials was much lower than that of the finished product.
It is estimated that for a long time in the future, it will be a slow-selling product with no insects in demand.
Of course he has to take the lead in following the rules he set himself.
The only thing that can be considered as abusing his power for personal gain is probably that he took advantage of the convenience of online shopping in advance.
[Wujin Mall] Currently, there are only two items open to the gathering place, one is a large amount of nutrient supplements, and the other is a sales terminal.
We have received quite a few orders so far, all of which were placed by the Zerg from Ji Lin’s Chamber of Commerce before they left. Once we confirm that the express delivery procedures are in order after the winter season ends, we will start delivering them one after another.
The list of exchangeable goods will also change with the living conditions of the Zerg in the gathering place.
Before this, items like those in his mall window that can be ordered directly online and delivered can only be purchased in offline shopping malls that are being prepared and will open in the future.
——In order to facilitate purchases for employees’ families, he added family accounts. As long as the binding is activated, the same permissions can be shared with the bound account.
This can also be considered an employee benefit.
Normally, contribution points are not interchangeable in the civilian currency system.
Should he talk to Chu Xiu and ask him not to spend all his salary on food... He hesitated for a moment, and finally decided to forget it.
Chu Xiu would probably refuse him with excuses like he didn't have much money to spend and Qi Xi liked it too.
It's not that he is narcissistic.
Before he did that, Chu Xiu had never thought that the food could be improved in this way - just look at Qi Xi who drank nutritional supplements for a week and only ate mashed cassava occasionally.
...At worst, I can just ask A0 to buy it and send it over. My salary is just a waste of money anyway, so I can just consider it as food expenses.
Thinking that he had been doing nothing but eating for the past two days, Qi Heng felt a little helpless.
It's not like he hasn't tried before, but the food he made... couldn't be said to be bad, but the way it turned out was just a waste of the ingredients he bought.
It’s so expensive, it would be a waste if it doesn’t taste good.
While buttoning his cufflinks, he turned around and looked at the kid rolling around on his bed.
"Do you know what your father-in-law makes for breakfast?"
"It's delicious and smells good."
Qi Xi tilted his head. It was too difficult for him to tell him what he wanted to eat.
Qi Heng: “…”
It can be seen that this child is definitely a biological child and he only knows how to eat.
He went to wash up.
The cub on the bed moved its buttocks out of bed and followed him eagerly, "The mother father said to make some delicious food and bring some for brother too."
Qi Heng hummed twice perfunctorily.
He was used to Qi Xi following him like a little shadow. There was nothing he could do even if he was not used to it. He couldn't ask Qi Xi to stop following him.
If you don't let me follow you, just wait for the kid to cry.
If the child was making a fuss and crying loudly, Qi Heng could pretend not to see it. After all, children should not be spoiled. The more they are spoiled, the more unreasonable they will become.
But Qi Xi made no sound when she cried. She just stared at you pitifully, tears dropping down her face. It was so heartbreaking to watch that scene for any longer.
Being good-looking gives you an advantage in every aspect.
Qi Xi's appearance resembles Chu Xiu.
But compared to Chu Xiu's current delicate appearance as a young man, or the appearance of the young man he had seen in his memory.
Qi Xi, who only looked to be four or five years old, was soft and cute. Baby fat could be seen on his soft face, and his eyes were black.
No matter how you look at it, he's a cute little cub, so how can I bear to see him crying all the time?
After leaving the bathroom, he walked past the person standing at the door waiting for his breath, bent down, and picked up Qi Xi with one arm.
Qi Xi came up to him and put her face to face, then kissed him on the side of his cheek, "Good morning kiss."
"Well, good morning kiss." He bent down and kissed the kid's forehead casually, and picked up the coat hanging on the hook on the side before leaving the room.
"Let's go and see what delicious food your father-in-law has made."
"Great—"
Qi Xi put one arm around his neck and the other on his chest, smiling with her eyes curved.
There is a kitchen on the fourth floor.
Considering the number of rooms here, the kitchen is quite large and can accommodate five or six people.
Before they even reached the kitchen, the baby in their arms couldn't wait to start yelling.
"Father, I'm going to wake up the father."
Qi Heng took two steps at a time and approached the kitchen, just in time to see Chu Xiu turning around.
He said, "Do you need help?"
"No need, it will be ready soon." Chu Xiu moved the corners of his mouth and showed a faint smile.
"Why do you still want your father to hold you?" He said this to Qi Xi.
Qi Xi put both hands around his neck and said with a smile: "It's not me who wants to be hugged, it's Father Xiong who hugged me."
Chu Xiu was helpless.
It was obvious that he was the one who was unfamiliar with the cub at the beginning, and he was always accommodating when interacting with the cub. Now he has even worsened and is completely indulging and pampering the cub.
Chu Xiu turned around and stirred the breakfast in the pot with chopsticks.
"Uncle Xiong, uncle Xiong, come a little closer." Qi Xi urged him, stretching his neck to see what was in the pot.
“You can’t see it here.”
Qi Heng walked over and glanced at the dough on the table that was kneaded into the size of ping-pong balls, as well as some objects that were flattened and rolled into pancake shapes.
In the wooden bowl on the side, there is a filling made of mixed vegetables and meat.
Five minutes later.
They sat at the table with freshly fried pancakes on a plate in front of them.
Qi Xi chopped up the food on his plate, put a spoon in his hand, and he started eating.
It looks like it's easy to feed and not picky about food at all.
Qi Heng took a bite and found it a little hot, slightly salty and a bit fragrant.
The seasoning is just right.
Even Qi Xi could eat two pancakes, so the portion was certainly not much.
After finishing his portion, he looked at the pancakes that Chu Xiu had deliberately left aside. The portion there was more than what the three of them could eat.
"Those are for Qi Lan."
Chu Xiu nodded, "Yeah, I haven't seen him since I moved out."
"Xizi likes it, I think Qilan should like it too..."
"Qi Lan will like it very much." It's just that the quantity is a little small.
However, he also knew that it was a fantasy to feed Qi Lan with ordinary food. The amount Chu Xiu prepared was already quite a lot, at least enough for Qi Lan to have a taste.
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