Under One Person: I, Jiaqian Jushi, work from nine to five

He originally intended to ask Chen Duo what she wanted to eat, but when he saw Chen Duo's blank expression, he gave up.

It would be pointless to ask anyway.

So he just randomly picked a hot pot restaurant.

Welcome!

Following the voice of the staff, the two arrived at a spot near the glass, where they could see other shops in the mall.

"this..."

"This, and this..."

Zhou Fengliu first picked up the menu and ordered some things he wanted to eat, then handed the menu to Chen Duo, who was still looking out at the mall through the glass.

"Look, what would you like to eat?"

Chen Duo took the menu and carefully looked at each picture on it, stroking her chin as if she was considering something.

The staff maintained a smile for three minutes.

For five minutes, the staff maintained a smile.

After ten minutes, the service staff's professional fake smile stopped.

"Sir... Shall I place your order first? Call me when this lady has finished selecting..."

“Okay,” Zhou Fengliu replied.

Although he didn't urge Chen Duo, it doesn't mean he wasn't hungry.

Fortunately, it was afternoon and there weren't many people eating, otherwise the staff really wouldn't have been able to wait for Chen Duo for ten minutes.

Soon, a hot pot with two separate broths was brought out, and Zhou Fengliu put various kinds of meat into the pot one after another.

Just after Zhou Feng finished eating the meat, Chen Duo finally chose something that looked delicious from among the many dishes.

"I want this..."

Hearing Chen Duo's commotion, Zhou Fengliu glanced over.

It looks like some kind of dessert...

He nodded and then called out to a waiter.

Soon, the waiter came over, and Chen Duo pointed to the dessert she had chosen on the menu and said, "I want this..."

"it is good..."

"Is there anything else?"

Upon hearing that she wanted more, Chen Duo was taken aback at first, then frowned slightly, and prepared to choose from the remaining dishes. Seeing this, Zhou Fengliu told the waiter to leave first.

"Stop looking at this, let's eat," Zhou Fengliu said.

"it is good."

Chen Duo nodded, then turned her attention to the hot pot in front of her.

She knew about hot pot; it had appeared in her cognitive learning at Dark Fortress before, but she had never eaten it.

After all, she was in a bunker at the time, and hot pot wouldn't be on the bunker's food list.

She started to imitate Zhou Fengliu's actions, rummaging through the pot and then putting the food in her mouth with her chopsticks.

Because Zhou Fengliu ordered the extra spicy broth, she was having a hard time resisting it, and the spiciness made her furrow her brow.

"If you can't eat spicy food, then eat the clear broth hot pot next to you. Don't force yourself... It's not good to have spicy food at both ends." Zhou Fengliu said when he saw Chen Duo's doubtful look.

"it is good..."

"You can dip it in some sauce, this is sesame paste, and this is an oil dipping sauce..."

"Oh..."

After this lunch, Chen Duo gained a new understanding of hot pot:

A round pot, food is cooked in it, and after eating it, it's fiery hot. After the top is spicy, the bottom is spicy too... How strange.

She didn't quite understand why Zhou Fengliu could enjoy the spicy hot pot so much.

Soon, the dessert that Chen Duo had just ordered arrived.

Chen Duo was a little confused when she saw the dessert in front of her, which was completely different from the picture.

"?"

Is this what I ordered?

Zhou Fengliu, sitting opposite her, seemed to notice the emotion on Chen Duo's face and understood that it was because Chen Duo was confused that the dessert in front of her did not match the picture on the menu.

He explained to Chen Duo, "The pictures are for reference only... the actual product shall prevail, understand?"

"..."

Listening to Zhou Fengliu's words, and looking at the pictures on the menu and comparing them with the items in front of her, Chen Duo gained a deep understanding of what Zhou Fengliu meant by "for reference only".

This is really just for reference.

On this day, young Chen Duo was taught a lesson by reality, which made her understand what it means that "society is simple, but people are complicated."

...

After a hot pot meal, Zhou Fengliu was about to head home and enjoy his vacation when he was about to speak to Chen Duo but did not hear a response from her.

Turning her head, she was surprised to find that Chen Duo had stopped in her tracks, captivated by a row of claw machines. She watched as people operated the machines to win prizes, and she was quite curious.

Seeing this, Zhou Fengliu walked over.

"Want to play?" he asked.

Upon hearing Zhou Fengliu's voice, Chen Duo turned her head to look, then nodded.

"think."

Do you have money?

"No..."

"What's the point of playing without you..."

...

P.S.: The first day of March also marks the 100th consecutive day of updating this book!

Though we are short, we last a long time!

Goodnight, godfathers, sweet dreams. May you have everything you need every day.

Chapter 200 Zhou Fengliu: I'm an old hand at this! (First Update)

The truth is always a ruthless knife; Zhou Fengliu said that without Yuanzi, he couldn't play the claw machine.

"Oh..."

Upon hearing Zhou Fengliu's reply, Chen Duo first said "Oh," and then continued to stand at a distance watching others play.

Although she had no money, that didn't stop her from watching others play...

It doesn't cost any money to look at it.

Chen Duo had been watching for a while.

When she saw the men and women trying to grab the dolls in the machine several times with the hooks, she touched her chin and wondered to herself, is this thing really that difficult?

Why can't we catch these people?

She was eager to try, but unfortunately she had no money in her pocket.

Zhou Fengliu understood the helplessness of being broke. Seeing Chen Duo's dazed look, he was prepared to exchange some currency to broaden Chen Duo's horizons.

Although there's a saying that just because you got caught in the rain you should tear up other people's umbrellas too, Zhou Fengliu wasn't that heartless. He wanted to show Chen Duo that there's genuine kindness in the world, and that it's not all just a bunch of tricks.

Just as Zhou Fengliu was thinking this, he heard Chen Duo speak to him:

"Could you lend me some money?"

"?"

Hearing this, Zhou Fengliu came to his senses and saw that Chen Duo was intermittently witty, as if she had been possessed by Feng Baobao, and actually asked him for money.

"Duozi, are you serious?"

"Okay, I'll pay you back." Chen Duo had just realized something: owing fifteen 998s is still owing, owing sixteen 998s is still owing, so why not owe just one more...

"Fine, you've got guts. How much will you lend me?"

"Hmm..." Upon hearing this, Chen Duo frowned slightly, pondered for two seconds, and then said, "Ninety-nine eight."

"..."

Nine hundred and ninety-eight?

These numbers look familiar; they even have whole numbers and zeros.

Zhou Fengliu raised an eyebrow and suddenly realized that this was the money Chen Duo had used to buy the secret manual from him.

The boomerang of memory spun around and came back, striking him.

"Okay, I'll lend you fifty first."

Zhou Fengliu wasn't stingy either; with a wave of his hand, he took out a fifty-yuan note for Chen Duo to squander.

It wasn't that he couldn't afford the 998 yuan, but he was worried that Chen Duo was too young and might be influenced by the bad trends of society too early, and that she might not be able to handle it. So he had to lend out the 998 yuan slowly and steadily.

Chen Duo: "..."

Chen Duo was the first person to borrow money from Zhou Fengliu, the "money-giving lay Buddhist," and she may very well be the last.

With the fifty yuan borrowed from Zhou Fengliu, Chen Duo exchanged it for ten claw machine game tokens as instructed by Zhou Fengliu, and then began her claw machine game.

She manipulated the joystick, and the claw above the claw machine moved accordingly. As she pressed the down button, the claw descended, but when it rose again, it failed to grab the doll.

"..." Chen Duo was stunned.

Ok.