Save the Family Doctor (XI)
Following the system navigation, we soon arrived at the pig trotter shop.
Jiang Yuanshi looked up, pointed at the doorplate and asked the system snake, "How did you know it was a pig's trotter shop?"
It says [xxx Fan Store] on it.
Z01 looked at the host, spitting out his tongue and replying in his mind: "My navigation shows that this restaurant sells pork trotter rice."
Jiang Yuanshi took out his phone, frowned, and tapped the screen. He then held the screen close to the snake and said, "Look, even my map and food delivery app are stickers."
At first, I thought it was a bug because I couldn’t open it no matter how hard I tried. Who knew I could download it back from the App Store after deleting it? But the store only has this one map and food delivery app, so it saves a lot of money.
Jiang Yuanshi sighed. If takeout was available, he wouldn't want to go out at all. He would be so sleepy.
He opened the door of the shop, and the scene inside made him go dark again. In the blank space stood a figure wearing an apron, probably the boss.
"Can we still eat like this?"
“…Not sure.” Z01 didn’t expect the department to save money so much that they didn’t even sell food.
Jiang Yuanshi stepped forward and asked, "Excuse me, do you sell food here?"
“…”
As expected, there was no reply. Jiang Yuanshi did not stay, but just thanked the humanoid and turned away.
After closing the shop door, Jiang Yuanshi stood there, looking up, thinking about something. Z01: "Host, do you want to go to other shops?"
Jiang Yuanshi shook his head and said, "No need."
"But you need to eat."
"Indeed, but it's not me. It should be this body." Jiang Yuanshi subconsciously tapped the snake's head with his hand. "System, is there anything in the plot that Jiang Shi has eaten or a place he has been to, or a place where the protagonists have eaten."
"The original novel simply mentions that Jiang Shi pays attention to his health and buys food to cook when he has free time. The place the two protagonists visited where they could eat and where the incident occurred was a supermarket."
Jiang Yuanshi sighed and fumbled with his fingertips: "Then let's go to the supermarket and take a look. There should be a model of the place where it happened."
"Okay, I'll guide you there."
"How long will it take?"
"Don't you want to leave?" Z01 asked. Jiang Yuanshi answered sincerely, "Not really. Everything here looks the same. It feels like I'll never be able to finish this journey."
"Okay, please stand still and don't move."
"And then you go buy me some oranges?"
"I will apply to open any door for you."
"Oh, sorry for saying that."
"We are not father and son, or do you really want to eat oranges?"
Jiang Yuanshi's stomach was empty, so he said to himself, "If you take me home right now and give me something delicious, I'll call you dad right away."
Z01: "It's a pity that I can't do that. I can't be your father."
Jiang Yuanshi: I give in.
As the saying goes, "Birds of a feather flock together." Jiang Yuanshi felt that the system had been corrupted by him. The black and red little snake tilted its head slightly. Jiang Yuanshi rubbed the snake's head. A door appeared in front of him. Jiang Yuanshi stretched out his hand to open it. The layout of the supermarket inside the door came into view. It seemed that it existed.
Jiang Yuanshi walked in.
【Welcome to Fanli Supermarket】
The red banner is hung high, making it hard not to see it.
"So the supermarket is also owned by the protagonist, the top and the bottom."
"In the original novel, most of the city's catering services were controlled by the Fandian Group."
"Okay, as long as I can eat." Jiang Yuanshi pulled a shopping cart into the supermarket. He didn't have time, so he couldn't tell whether it was a weekday or not. However, there were plenty of black figures in the supermarket, and someone so hungry didn't care. He pushed the shopping cart through the snack area. When the cart was mostly filled with snacks, Z01 realized something was wrong. "Host, don't you want to eat?"
Jiang Yuanshi: "Yes, I'm buying it."
“But these are snacks.”
"The only thing that fills you up is rice. If I had to make it myself, I'd buy instant noodles."
“But these are not healthy.”
Jiang Yuanshi was really confused at this moment: "But I'm not very good at cooking."
"Maybe you can buy some vegetables as a token of your gratitude." Z01 never thought that he would be able to fool people one day, but this situation was indeed unethical of the department.
Jiang Yuanshi pushed the cart to the vegetable market, picked some vegetables, winter melon, and corn, bought a few pieces of pork and beef, and also picked up a bunch of frozen foods and a small electric cooker. If he couldn't use fire, he couldn't use electricity.
The cart was pushed into a small mountain. Z01 thought the other party had bought too much, but Jiang Yuanshi said, "Aren't you going to eat?"
After saying this, he was also stunned, "I forgot that the system doesn't need to eat."
Z01 didn't say anything. The small black and red snake slithered on Jiang Yuanshi's hand. After a long pause, he said, "Excuse me, did you buy any coffee?"
Jiang Yuanshi shook his head subconsciously, "What's wrong?"
The system remained silent. The little snake pointed at itself with the tip of its tail. Jiang Yuanshi blinked and said a little late: "You want to drink?"
The little snake nodded.
"Okay, let's go."
Jiang Yuanshi's tone was naturally calm, but he pushed the cart a little faster. The little snake coiled around the host's finger, with its head resting on the nail, looking up at the other person, looking through the body into the other person's soul, and did not speak for a long time.
Jiang Yuanshi raised his hand and held the little snake in front of the shelf, letting the system choose by itself. The system said nothing, but just tilted its head, facing the row of coffee, stretching its body from time to time and sniffing.
The little snake sniffed as Jiang Yuanshi followed, and finally picked out a favorite instant coffee. However, just as Jiang Yuanshi took the shelf, the little snake's gaze passed over his hand, and its vertical pupils stared at a corner. Jiang Yuanshi had never seen the system like this, so he followed its gaze.
A row of brewed milk tea.
Jiang Yuanshi picked up a set of milk tea and asked, "Would you like to drink this?"
It turns out that snakes can also recognize frowns. After a long analysis, the system said, "This is unhealthy."
Jiang Yuanshi smiled and said, "If you say that, coffee isn't healthy either."
"But coffee is stimulating."
"But milk tea is more refreshing. Some milk teas contain more caffeine than coffee. If you don't believe me, search your big data yourself."
Upon hearing this, Z01 ran to search and found that it was indeed the case. Jiang Yuanshi looked at the troubled little snake and put the milk tea directly in the car: "Then I'll take it. This is a mixed pack with every flavor. Do you want anything else?"
The little snake looked up at its host, then looked at the milk tea in the car, and finally shook its head.
It looked very calm and human-like, but the tip of its tail was wagging like a puppy, and it patted the back of Jiang Yuanshi's hand from time to time, obviously liking it very much.
When checking out, one person and one snake divided the work. One took the things in the front of the cart, and the other wrapped its tail around the wire of the cart and used its body to carry the things up from the back. When the snake was picking up things before, the human figures had no reaction to this, so the system appeared to help at the instigation of Jiang Yuanshi.
We are all not human, who is scarier than who?
When checking out, Jiang Yuanshi took out the business card given by Fan Dian. Since he couldn't use it, he changed to mobile payment. It must be said that this world is outrageous. Everything is a sticker except the payment app. If you don't work, you will have no money. It's too realistic.
The humanoid took action, took the gold card and swiped it on the machine.
“Ding, payment successful.”
The humanoid handed Jiang Yuanshi a roll of receipts. Jiang Yuanshi took the long receipt and left the counter with the snake, stopping in a corner. "System, how do we get back? Should we continue through the portal?"
"Yes, but you need to wait 5 minutes. It takes time to activate the non-emergency status."
"Okay, let's go somewhere else. It seems there are other stores on this floor of the supermarket." Jiang Yuanshi, who got the approval, pushed the cart around the floor. There were many places selling food, and the food handed over to the humanoids was actually physical.
Jiang Yuanshi tried to buy some skewers. After successfully swiping his card, he felt like he had found sweet spring water. He turned around to buy two glasses of lemonade, found an empty table and started eating.
The taste of food eaten alive, the slight spiciness stimulates the tongue, extends to the nerves, and brings a feeling of fullness to the stomach.
Jiang Yuanshi shared some with Z01. He couldn't eat spicy food, so he only ordered mild spicy. However, the mild spicy food in this restaurant was obviously not mild at all. The spiciness made the rookie Jiang Yuanshi so bad that he took a sip of lemonade. When he looked up, he found that Xiaoshe was also holding another cup of water in his mouth, and the water level dropped rapidly.
Great, two noobs.
Jiang Yuanshi hissed, his tongue burning. "System, are you okay?"
The system was silent and just kept hissing.
The man and the snake finished eating while hissing.
Jiang Yuanshi, who had eaten something, came back to life and teased the system while holding a glass of lemonade: "Didn't they say that the system doesn't eat?"
Z01 wrapped around the straw and said, "No, you don't need it, but you can eat it."
"So what have you eaten?"
"I haven't eaten anything."
"Why? Aren't you curious?"
Z01 didn't really understand why: "I was curious. Eating might help me input data, but instinct told me it wasn't necessary, so I never tried it."
"Then why did you break the rules today?"
"I don't know. I haven't analyzed it. Maybe it became the snake's appetite after leaving the space."
Jiang Yuanshi propped his arm on the table, his chin resting on one hand. The little snake looked small, but it could still swallow a large piece of meat when it opened its mouth. When it drank water, you could see the movement of its throat. This was quite magical for Jiang Yuanshi, who had never kept a pet before. He asked, "So, after today's experience, how did it taste?"
"…Not bad." Z01 took a few more sips and said, "The scope can be expanded in the future."
"Good idea, but now I have to go back and pretend to cook." Jiang Yuanshi was a little distressed. His cooking skills were only enough for his own survival. "System, can you cook?"
Z01 shook his head: "I haven't done that."
Jiang Yuanshi: "If you've never made it before, you can give it a try. Maybe you're a cooking genius. It doesn't hurt to have one more skill."
It's a good idea, but Z01 knows exactly what the host is thinking: "You just want me to cook."
Jiang Yuanshi: "If you want to see me blow up the kitchen, that's fine, but I'm afraid your department doesn't have enough funds. Then we'll have to sleep on the streets. Oh no, there won't even be any streets. It'll be a blank slate."
..., Z01 imagined that scene and decided to compromise: "I can cook, but you have to eat it, no matter if it tastes good or not."
Jiang Yuanshi nodded twice and then shook his head, "No, if it tastes good, I can eat it. If it doesn't taste good, I won't eat it. If I get sick from it, I'll need treatment. Jiang Shi is the only doctor in this world."
"The reason is valid. I agree."
The man and the snake reached an agreement. Jiang Yuanshi stretched out his hand, and Z01 was puzzled but stretched out his tail. Jiang Yuanshi pinched the snake's tail, and the snake's tail wrapped around his fingertips, shaking it up and down - the agreement was reached.
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