The sequel to OE that "we" expect (13)
It's strange lately, the store's sales are surprisingly good.
Ever since Z01 posted their temporary marriage certificate and adoption certificate at the door, more and more NPCs have been coming to the store.
Do NPCs also like gossip? Jiang Yuanshi couldn't figure it out, but that wasn't the point right now.
The little dragon flapped its wings, chewed gold coins in one hand, and sowed seeds in the field at the same time.
Jiang Yuanshi is on this side, Z01 is on that side.
Originally, his low stamina was completely useless, but Jiang Yuanshi was too curious about what it was like to work in the game world. Finally, with Z01's promise of safe care, Jiang Yuanshi rushed into the field with a handful of seeds in his hand.
In the game, all he had to do was click to sow, but in this world, he could manually throw the seeds into the fields. Although it was simple, it was quite fun for him who had never seen it before. It was boring, but he was addicted and couldn't stop.
Human potential is unlimited. In order to find a different way to play Jiang Yuanshi, he found that as long as he worked while eating, his physical strength would remain conserved as long as he ate fast enough.
That’s too easy, Jiang Yuanshi said while holding the gold coin in his mouth.
The shop was just left aside, since no one would really steal it anyway. Jiang Yuanshi and Z01 worked secretly in the fields outside the city. When they were tired, they slept in the self-built house beside the fields. The only useful things in the empty villa were the kitchen and a double bed.
Every day when I open my eyes, I start farming, building a ranch, learning magic to build a constant temperature greenhouse. After the greenhouse is built, I buy seeds and plant all the crops for each season, collect illustrations, and when there is nothing to do, I go into the forest to fight monsters and have a buffet. If I don’t want to work, I just stay in the house and mess around.
According to the progress of the game, these tasks would take many days to complete, but because they were rich and strong, Jiang Yuanshi and Z01 finished them all within a week. They just waited for the plants and animals to grow up to help them complete the illustrated achievements.
In fact, Jiang Yuanshi didn't care much about the complete illustrated encyclopedia. Instead, he was interested in Z01. After all, this system was a workaholic and had obsessive-compulsive disorder. It was normal for him to finish the game as work. Anyway, Z01 didn't force others, so they could do it themselves. He also had no intention of letting the host get started, unless the host really wanted to. Otherwise, Z01 usually wanted Jiang Yuanshi to lie on him and rest, and not be too far away.
After all, they were too far apart when they were farming. Z01 would unconsciously touch the empty shoulder from time to time, feeling as if a piece of his program was missing.
Jiang Yuanshi yawned, patted his hands after spreading the seeds, and flew over to Z01. Seeing Z01 touching one shoulder and a complicated ball of yarn popping out of his head, Jiang Yuanshi took the biscuit and asked with concern, "What's wrong? Is your shoulder hurting?"
Z01 shook his head, but Jiang Yuanshi touched his stomach, thinking that he had always been on Z01's right shoulder for no reason. Could it be...
He was a little worried: "Did I stay on your shoulder for too long and cause you to have frozen shoulder?"
Z01 was somewhat speechless but replied, "No."
Jiang Yuanshi was unconvinced. "Then why were you touching my shoulder?" He stared at Z01 with one eye, one large and one small, and made a sinister guess. "By the way, will you have uneven shoulders in the future? Or should I just fly on my own? I've gained a lot of strength lately."
Jiang Yuanshi's words came from the bottom of his heart. He was really worried that the other party would walk up and down with an expressionless face in the future. His meals were very good recently. When he was hungry, he could not only help himself but also be fed by Z01. In addition to working, his physical strength had increased from 10 to 99 in a week. However, staying on Z01's shoulders gradually became a habit, and he himself was not aware of it. Now thinking about it, it seemed that he was not respecting Z01 enough.
But little did he know that Jiang Yuanshi's thoughtfulness at this moment was tantamount to bad news for Z01. Z01 shook his head more vigorously than ever before and said in a serious tone, "You are very light, and the system itself will not feel tired. Please rest assured and continue to use me."
"."
What a serious and affirmative statement.
Jiang Yuanshi opened his mouth, not knowing what to say, so he simply stuffed the biscuit in his hand back into his mouth, said "oh" vaguely, and sat back on Z01's shoulder very naturally.
At that moment, it was as if the missing components were finally assembled, and Z01's face showed: (I_I)
Jiang Yuanshi looked up at the expression in the pop-up bubble: (II)
Jiang Yuanshi: …………
Although I haven't seen Z01 smiling, I've seen the expression in this bubble box quite often recently, and I have to say it's a bit strange.
When Jiang Yuanshi saw this expression for the first time, he somehow gave up the idea of seeing Z01 smile. It was hard to imagine that such an expression would appear on Z01's face. It was too scary. Jiang Yuanshi couldn't bear to see it at all.
But after watching it for a long time, Jiang Yuanshi got used to it. He watched it no less than ten times a week. Every time, it was either when Jiang Yuanshi flew back, when he said goodnight before going to bed, or when he accepted the flowers he gave her every day...
I don't understand.
Forget it, as long as he is happy, although Jiang Yuanshi doesn’t understand what Z01 is happy about. Maybe this is the generation gap between humans and systems.
Regarding the flowers, I originally thought that the other party had bought some kind of bouquet for confession, but when Jiang Yuanshi took it, he found that there was no such information. It was just an ordinary mix of various flowers, but the aesthetic was very systematic, blue, red, yellow, white, green, purple, pink, green, black, red... and so on, a bunch every day, weird, no idea where they came from. Even the maker Jiang Yuanshi sometimes couldn't remember that there were so many colors and varieties of flowers?
Jiang Yuanshi didn't understand but took it, and then put it in the vase at home, the vase in the store, and the decorative basket in the mailbox... Everywhere he went, there were strange flowers, and he got used to it after seeing them for a long time.
Strange flowers are still being updated daily.
But the store remains the same and will never restock until the goods are sold out, unless the boxes made by the owners can no longer hold them.
Then this kind of bad behavior was met with feedback and complaints from customers, but Jiang Yuanshi and Z01 were unscrupulous businessmen, they didn't care, the most important thing was that they were happy, and they were busy farming and opening up new land.
Even though the farming is almost done, I still don't try to win the favor of NPCs. The reason is very simple. It's okay in the game, but if I become a character in the game, I won't socialize. I stick to the same principle as living in the real world, and I won't socialize if I can.
Jiang Yuanshi, who had nothing to do at home, also had a new way of doing things. He started to drag Z01 to play games. After all, he had made a lot of small games in the game, so he was very busy and played with Z01 until late at night every day.
Jiang Yuanshi, who has always been a single-player player, has an online friend in this world. He competes with him every day. The battle is fierce. Z01 closes his database and fights Jiang Yuanshi fairly like an ordinary person.
From not being able to operate it at the beginning, he gradually made rapid progress under the guidance of his master Jiang Yuanshi. Fortunately, the master was strong enough and did not teach his apprentice to starve himself to death. However, the battle situation changed from Jiang Yuanshi's complete victory to a draw in the end.
But Jiang Yuanshi was very happy, because this way he didn't have to let the other party win anymore. The man and the dragon fought fiercely and were evenly matched. Gradually, the two people who had been talking politely at first began to argue about winning or losing, quarreling, and playing tricks. Sometimes they would even take turns to be so angry that they had to sleep on the floor at night, live separately, and have you cook and wash dishes tomorrow.
Z01 lost today. He lay straight on the floor beside the bed, looking up at the sky with an expressionless face and expressing silent dissatisfaction.
Lying on his stomach with his hands spread out on the bed, Xiaoshilong said, "Hey, why are you like this again?" "Isn't it just a loss?"
Z01 calmly analyzed, "One round is still one round. To maintain balance, I suggest another round."
Jiang Yuanshi decisively refused: "No."
Z01: "Why? It's just one round. You're so good, you shouldn't be afraid of losing."
Nowadays, the polite address "you" seems sarcastic.
Jiang Yuanshi: "Don't be polite. It sounds like you are scolding me."
"An unexpected disaster." Z01, who studies anthropology, used a four-character idiom to summarize his experience, then continued, "Can't we play another round?"
“…No.”
"Why?"
"...Because my claws hurt. You have to know that it is really uncomfortable for a dragon to hold the handle." Jiang Yuanshi raised his claws to look at himself. They were rubbed into roasted pig's trotters.
"Then come here, I'll apply medicine for you." Z01 stretched out his hand towards the bed. Jiang Yuanshi glanced at him and said, "I don't want to go over there."
According to the previous Z01, he would have gone over to Jiang Yuanshi as soon as he said this, but now, they were having a quarrel over a game.
Jiang Yuanshi didn't move, and Z01 didn't move either.
Jiang Yuanshi: "..."
Z01: "..."
The air was quiet, but after a while, the sound of clothes rubbing against each other could be heard in the room.
Z01 moved closer to the bed.
Jiang Yuanshi moved closer to the bed.
Move, move, and the sound of fabric rustling stopped.
As one hand rested on the bed with its palm open, a small paw reached out.
Just like that, the two childish ghosts grabbed the edge of the bed, each stretched out a hand, and used their big hands to apply medicine to their little paws.
Z01 said, "What are you planning to eat tomorrow, Yuanyuan?"
Jiang Yuanshi yawned and said, "I don't know. As long as I have food to eat, that's fine. By the way, why are you talking like my grandma now? She only talks about eating every day."
"You don't want to eat?"
"eat."
"Does grandma also say wishes?"
"Well, my name was changed by my grandma."
Z01 didn't quite understand and asked, "Why change the name?"
Jiang Yuanshi replied: "Because the name my parents originally gave me was not nice. It sounded very resentful."
Although Jiang Yuanshi couldn't see Z01's face while lying in bed, he could see the huge question mark bubble on the other side. Jiang Yuanshi said, "My original name was Jiang Yuanshi, which means complaining."
Jiang Yuanshi rarely spoke of his experiences in life, and Z01 had no intention of prying. However, this time, he took the initiative to speak, which Z01 could not understand: "But... most of the names humans give their children have beautiful meanings."
"Yeah, because my parents felt I was born at the wrong time and blamed me," Jiang Yuanshi said nonchalantly. "After all, I'm an accident. If the doctor hadn't said my mother might not have children after the abortion, they probably wouldn't have kept me. Who wants an accident to happen when they're about to get a promotion?"
Z01: "Why is promotion related to children?"
Jiang Yuanshi: "Because I have to take leave to have a baby, it will delay my promotion. After all, work is important and pregnancy is very hard. I can understand that."
"But that's not why you were given that name."
"It's okay, it was changed back in the end anyway."
"Because of grandma?"
"Well, my grandmother didn't agree, so she scolded my parents. They didn't agree at first, but they changed it eventually. Luckily, I didn't register my name directly with the household registration at the time. I changed it on the spot." Jiang Yuanshi said, "Otherwise, my parents would hate me even more. If my household registration had this former name on it, I would have been even more of a stain."
"I don't understand." Z01 sat up and looked at Jiang Yuanshi, who was lying on the bed looking at the ceiling. "Well, they're a model couple in everyone's eyes. They're good people, very kind. So they wouldn't, couldn't, give their child a name like that. A child's name, to some extent, represents the parents' expectations. If the name Jiang Yuanshi were exposed to the public, guess what people would think of them? They'd say they're bad parents, why would they give their child a name like that? They must not love him. Then they might even be called pretentious scumbags. How could they agree to that?"
Z01 frowned, a sinister thought brewing in his mind. "So it wasn't Grandma who awakened their consciences, but rather the influence of self-interest that caused them to change their minds, right?"
Maybe later on they would be glad that they didn't give the host this name, otherwise it would be so embarrassing. In the end, those two humans were just doing it to save face.
Jiang Yuanshi said a faint "hmm," showing no emotion. Instead, he looked at Z01's angry expression with a frown on his face and laughed, saying, "I'm fine. What are you doing? Even a human-machine can get angry."
Z01 looked at the host with a normal expression. Human reproduction is very hard. They gave Jiang Yuanshi life, but this does not mean that Jiang Yuanshi cannot blame his parents. But in the end, Jiang Yuanshi said nothing, but asked Z01 to wait for a while and start a new game after his hand is healed.
"No, maybe next time."
"Why, you're not going to start sympathizing with me because of something like that, are you?"
Z01 stood up and put Jiang Yuanshi against the wall, then climbed onto the bed, lying on his side, holding Jiang Yuanshi in his hands and said, "I'm just a little... sad?"
Does the system feel sad too? Jiang Yuanshi didn't know, and neither did Z01. He just felt that he should say so.
Jiang Yuanshi leaned over and poked the other person's face: "What are you sad about?"
Z01: "I'm sorry your hand isn't healed yet, so you can't play another round with me right away to make up for my loss."
Jiang Yuanshi pinched Z01's face hard, but Xiaolong's grip was just a massage at best. Jiang Yuanshi said angrily, "You guys are getting more and more aggressive with your words."
Z01 blinked and said, "Yuanyuan taught me well."
"Tsk." Xiaolong made a dissatisfied sound. "If you keep doing this, I won't let you call me Yuanyuan. Only my grandma can call me that anyway, and you're taking advantage of me."
No wonder Jiang Yuanshi was stunned when he heard this name. So that's how it is.
Z01 leaned closer to Jiang Yuanshi, his forehead very close to Jiang Yuanshi's head. He said, "It's my pleasure. Thank you for your generosity."
Jiang Yuanshi snorted, put his head against Z01's and said, "Go to sleep. We have to go to the store to put some things away tomorrow, and the warehouse is full."
"OK."
"Good night then, Z01."
"good evening……"
“…”
"Wait, what then?"
"Um, what?"
Jiang Yuanshi, who had just closed his eyes, opened them again. In the past, Z01 would always say good night with his name before going to bed. After getting used to it, Jiang Yuanshi still couldn't fall asleep without him. Z01 looked at him, and Jiang Yuanshi felt that the other party must have done it on purpose. What was he trying to do?
The two stared at each other in silence for a long time. When Jiang Yuanshi's patience was exhausted and small flames and bubbles appeared above his head, Z01 said, "Good night, Yuanyuan, I love you very much."
“…”
"Thank you for being here."
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