4

Looking at various scenery along the way, Zhong Li thought a lot, the scenery changed, and his thoughts also changed. Although these landscapes have been imprinted in his mind since he was a child, and they have hardly changed over the years, his knowledge, experience, and emotions are changing, so seeing the same scene every once in a while will also produce different thoughts, whether these thoughts come from the landscape itself, a textbook, or a sentence from someone.

The car is parked in a huge plaza under the station, with a huge transparent concrete ceiling that lets in orange-yellow sunlight and hangs high above the head at a height of ten meters. Originally, 300 taxis could be dropped off at the same time, but now only a few people come here. As a result, the huge building is like the empty belly of a giant beast, and even if a small shrimp like Zhong Li exists, it is insignificant.

The time is still six minutes before Yuan Xian arrives at the station, and it takes six minutes to follow the navigation from here to the exit of the train. One person stepped out of the platform, the other was ready to greet him, and everything was on time. It's not because Zhong Li calculates well, but when Zhong Li made the pick-up plan at the beginning, his wristband, which is his personal terminal, helped him arrange the itinerary. The unmanned taxi is booked in advance, what time does it arrive on time, the city road application is submitted in advance, when Zhong Li is ready to go out, how far he has to go, including the pace he is used to. As long as Zhong Li walks normally according to the navigation prompts, everything will be completed in the most punctual and efficient way.

Of course, in addition to travel, there are many things that can be arranged through assisted computing, and everything will be presented in the most time-saving and efficient way. Seventy years ago, this kind of secretary-like software appeared, figuring out how to use all the energy of those who were desperately trying to make money. Later, even if money is not so necessary, there are no longer many people who work hard for money, but efficiency has been emphasized by many people. This whole process of budgeting, booking, and booking has survived to this day, and its success lies in the fact that there are few surprises, but this is something that Zhong Li and his kind hate. Or rather, a little bit that they hate the real world of this era.

However, Zhong Li still planned according to the program, and it took six minutes, to be precise, five minutes and forty-nine seconds to walk from the underground square to the exit of the station, and there were a few old people who came to pick up the station. Maybe it's to pick up his wife and children home, or maybe it's to pick up friends who haven't seen him for many years, but these are just Zhong Li's guesses.

The first to come out of the opposite side of the translucent concrete curtain wall was a young man, and it seemed that Zhong Li had ignored the option of picking up the child. The tall and thin girl wearing a cherry-red three-quarter-sleeved trench coat with an ivory white silk dress and a ponytail followed behind Zhong Li recognized Yuan Xian at a glance. She always likes red clothes, and of course this has a lot to do with her white skin.

Zhong Li greeted him with a smile and took a black sports handbag in Yuan Xian's hand, which was her only luggage. "How many days will you stay with such a small thing?"

Yuan Xian looked a little jerky compared to that side. "Well, two sets of clothes, three or five days."

Zhong Li could see that Yuan Xian was not used to it, but in fact, he was not used to meeting in such a world with such a posture. In the past, two people and two horses could run on the pasture for half a day, and when they were tired, they would lie down on the spot, each person had a pot of wine, and they would be happy to dance with knives and guns or chant poems against each other, so unhappy. However, the regular clothes and the real body felt as if restricting the freedom of the two people, and everything seemed a little awkward, so he didn't take the lead in making any body movements, but just walked silently beside Yuan Xian.

Yuan Xian noticed the strangeness of the atmosphere, so he reached out and grabbed Zhong Li's sleeve, which was just the sleeve behind his big arm.

Zhong Li looked at the girl who was almost as tall as himself, and he was so careful to pull himself, so he smiled and said, "The little foal doesn't seem to be able to run away when he comes here?" ”

Yuan Xian couldn't say that she was displeased, "Don't call me that, here." Let's call it by name. ”

"Okay."

"Where are we going?"

"City B is so big, you can go wherever you want. Of course, if you can't think of it now, you can go home with me and put your luggage first. ”

Yuan Xian hesitated and nodded. Although she had been to Zhong Li's house before, she still had a lot of friends around her at that time.

5

It was almost noon when he got home, and Zhong Min still showed no signs of coming back. Since there was nothing at home, Zhong Li invited Yuan Xian to eat a little farther away, where there happened to be a large self-selected market where he could bring something back for dinner.

"Large self-selected markets? Is there such a retro thing here? "In the urban area where Yuan Xian lives, although there are still shops selling things, there is no place like the self-selected market where many goods need to be sold, after all, people in the city spend money rarely, let alone go out to shop.

"yes, there's always someone to pick and choose from in it for leisure."

"But isn't it more convenient to shop directly online, and the delivery fee is nothing for these people who have jobs, right?"

Zhong Li knows that it is difficult for a person who basically does not spend money to understand the fun of visiting the self-selected market based on explanations alone. "You'd better go shopping with me, it's hard to explain some things without experiencing them yourself."

After lunch, after confirming that Yuan Xian didn't have anything to play, Zhong Li led her into a large self-selected market.

At first, Yuan Xian was not attracted much by the strange fruits placed at the door, after all, most people knew that these strange fruits that were developed were really delicious. She just dragged Zhong Li through the fruit and vegetable sections, but when the green things disappeared and a row of drainage boxes appeared in front of her, she finally let go of her hand.

"Are these for sale?"

Zhong Li saw the child's bright eyes, so he took Yuan Xian to step forward. "Yes, if you like it, you can pick it, although I don't necessarily do it."

Hearing Zhong Li say this, Yuan Xian brought his face closer, and his tall body straightened up for a while and squatted down for a while. She saw Hawaiian shellfish from Japanese river eels and king crabs from Alaska from geoduck in Canada. Every time she looked at it, Zhong Li would tell her what she knew, but even if he had nothing to do with the recipes and had learned the craft from a professional chef, he couldn't say everything. As a result, Yuan Xian just listened to him back and forth, and didn't choose anything.

"I've never tasted a lot of these things." Yuan Xian looked back at this row of hundreds of aquatic products and said.

"Then choose either one, and I'll go back and try to do it."

Yuan Xian tapped her chin with a finger, pouting for a long time and couldn't think of it, "I don't know which one I like to eat, the most expensive one is not necessarily the most right, right?" ”

"You're greedy!" Zhong Li said and went to the bridge of Yuan Xian's nose, Yuan Xian subconsciously dodged, but he was still pulled to the tip of his nose. "If I say whatever I want, then you must have the same one."

"Don't make a fuss." But Yuan Xian still smiled mischievously.

"Why don't you just pick up two of these things and go back to drink." Zhong Li picked up the tied hairy crab from the side and weighed seven or eight taels. "This thing is fat right now."

Yuan Xian was about to nod, but when he saw that the price of this thing was 20 yuan, he thought about it again and said, "The day after tomorrow is the Mid-Autumn Festival, right?" ”

"Well, do you want to wait for the Mid-Autumn Festival to eat?" Seeing Yuan Xian nodding, he put back the male crab he had just picked out. "Then we've been around for a long time, what do you want to eat?"

"Be your master, I've only eaten it over there, and I don't know how it tastes different."

"But Wellington steak, I just made it for my sister yesterday."

"Isn't there Jajangmyeon?"

"You went all this way to eat jajanjan noodles?"

"No, see you." Yuan Xian said, her face flushed slightly, just like when the two had just met at the station before.

Zhong Li touched the bridge of Yuan Xian's nose again, and she gently blocked it with her hand, and then she didn't know whether it was natural or deliberate to hold her hand together with the fall. Zhong Li's hands were still as thick and strong as they were over there, while Yuan Xian's hands were more slender and soft than those over there.

Because it is made of jajangmyeon, the only ingredients that can be sold here are handmade noodles, selected pork belly and classic craft noodle sauce, and the remaining yellow sauce, green onions, garlic, cucumbers, green beans, celery, radish, cabbage and other items must be ordered online. However, even if there were only three things, it took a lot of time for the two of them, not because of how difficult it was to find them, but because Zhong Li had to explain from time to time why the price of the same sturgeon caviar could be dozens of times different, or why someone would buy a whole Blue Flag tuna just to eat the gills inside.

The selected goods will be manually sorted by the supermarket, which relies on the pupil recognition system and action recognition system in each area to complete, the customer only needs to specify the selected goods, the goods will be marked, even if they are not sorted at the moment, other guests can also know through the prompt that something has been picked up.

Zhong Li walked to the cashier area of the market, he walked to a tall and thin machine with a display screen, his pupils were scanned, and then he nodded to the order and completed the transaction, the goods will be transported directly from the underground pipeline to the sub-site, and the customer can choose whether to pick up or deliver, and the delivery amount in the large market is generally free.

The things you bought will be sent home, and Yuan Dun'er also has the authority to receive the goods for Zhong Li, so Zhong Li invited Yuan Xian to have afternoon tea. The café is on the edge of a semi-artificial lake not far away, although the café is small in size and the decoration is not too elaborate, but the lake has nearly ten hectares of land. Because the water is clear and there are a lot of greenery in the style of English natural gardens around, Zhong Li is willing to come here for a walk without drinking tea and good weather.

It rained about two days ago, and the lake blew a moist and cool wind from time to time, and the broken hair on Yuan Xian's ponytail would sweep in front of Zhong Li with the wind from time to time, and the reddish-brown hair revealed in the sun from time to time, and there was a faint smell of cosmos from time to time.

Because Yuan Xian wanted to help the cook like Zhong Min yesterday, Zhong Li told her about the cooking process of fried noodles on the way. Cut the pork belly into cubes perpendicular to the texture and feed it with the sauce to let it absorb the flavor and prevent the lean meat from being fried too dry. After that, from cutting off the fried scallion oil, the green onion should be more than the meat, and the green onion can be removed if you don't eat the green onion, but the oil is not sloppy. Then there is the low-heat frying of the meat, where the fatty part of the pork belly is fried until it is de-oiled. The noodle sauce should be boiled and hydrolyzed before, and it is best to steam it to remove the beany smell, and when the meat is almost fried, pour it into the pot, and fry it slowly over warm heat until the sauce is re-condensed and formed, and the oil and sauce can be completely separated before it can be out of the pot.

Although Yuan Xian didn't know much about cooking, and she barely knew how to cook, she still listened to it with relish, even if she couldn't fully understand the purpose of some of the operations. Zhong Li saw the change in her eyes and felt the more or less change in the strength of the hand she was holding, and he felt a sense of satisfaction and joy.

"Gu Yu, why have you seen it over there?" I don't know if I got carried away, after Zhong Li opened his mouth to say this, he realized that he seemed to have led the topic earlier.

Although Yuan Xian didn't react much, his tone became somewhat harder than just now when he heard Zhong Li lead the topic here. "See, she gave you a ride?"

"Yes, I was covered in arrows."

"I saw it, five or six arrows, it's not easy to save."

Zhong Li just wanted to present the scene at that time to Yuan Xian again in her own language, but she made a categorical conclusion, so she could only ask tentatively: "What else did she tell you?" ”

"Say let me come and see you."

"Hmm."

"I'm sure I'll come too."

"I know."

"Then what are you mentioning her for, are you going to recruit her?" Yuan Xian suddenly stared at Zhong Li's eyes and asked.

"No, it's something else, I'll sit down and talk to you later."