“You… guys… hi…”
Xia Tian’s greeting trailed off, speechless.
At noon, a burst of white light emanated from the guest room, and two girls, seemingly quite unfriendly, emerged from the closet.
An old, seemingly outdated, bolt-action rifle was pointed hesitantly at Xia Tian’s head.
Following the rifle barrel, he saw two adorable girls, one blonde and one brunette, both wearing helmets and green coats.
The two girls looked like students participating in military training, but the metallic gleam of the rifle and the faint smell of gunpowder told Xia Tian this was definitely a real gun.
If a normal person saw this, they would have panicked, but Xia Tian remained calm, as still as water. He merely pulled Little Beichangtan a little behind him.
With his elementalized body, even an Armstrong Cyclone Jet Armstrong Cannon wouldn’t hurt him. A small rifle was nothing.
#@#
“Two friends, no need to be agitated. You both received the job application information, and I’m the employer.” Xia Tian asked again.
“You’re the boss?”
The blonde girl was bewildered, but her shooting posture still conveyed immense vigilance.
The brunette girl exchanged a glance with the blonde one and replied curiously: “Where are we? What is recruiting assistants?”
“This is my home. I’m a street vendor selling food, and I’m looking for two assistants.” Xia Tian said seriously. “Now can you put the gun down? This makes me feel… disrespected.”
“A street vendor selling food? How could someone be so foolish?” The blonde girl was stunned. Her eyes looked at her companion in confusion.
“You’re offering a job with three meals a day, with rice for every meal and enough to eat?”
The brunette girl, Xiao Qian, finished processing the information in her brain. She looked at Xia Tian with a mixture of confusion, joy, and hope. All these complex emotions combined created a blank, three-no-expression look.
“…” Xia Tian could only helplessly repeat, “Yes, my employees are provided with three meals a day.”
The two girls looked at each other in shock. At the brunette’s signal, the blonde girl lowered her gun.
Looking at Xia Tian with curiosity, the brunette girl greeted him, “Hello, my name is Qianhu. She’s my companion, Yuri.”
“Qianhu and Yuri, huh?” Xia Tian was stunned. No wonder this attire was so familiar. It turns out you guys were really called round-faced people!
These two must be the last two unfortunate souls left in the apocalyptic world of “Girls’ Last Tour”.
Two girls who make you feel a pang of heartache.
Knowing who they were, Xia Tian let go of the slight resentment he felt about being pointed at with a gun. Living in a world like theirs, anyone would be wary.
He smiled, “Don’t be nervous. It’s fate that we met. It’s lunchtime, how about we chat over a meal?”
“….Xiao Qian, he’s smiling so nicely.” Facing Xia Tian’s smile, Xiaoyu was stunned. It was a smile with warmth that she had never seen before.
Xiao Qian was also slightly dazed. After a moment of silence, her expression became awkward. “Boss, my learned knowledge tells me that food costs money. We don’t have any.”
“Yes, it costs money, this meal is on me. If you feel uncomfortable, you can trade your guns for it.” Xia Tian smiled and went over to the refrigerator and opened the freezer compartment. “What do you want to eat, choose whatever you like.”
“There’s really food, Xiao Qian, I saw there’s fish….” Xiaoyu was extremely shocked, then swallowed and her eyes lit up.
“And vegetables.” Usually calm, Xiao Qian was also excited now. She started to doubt if they had entered a paradise.
After all, in their city, plants had completely stopped growing. Forget vegetables, she hadn’t even seen a single blade of grass.
“Don’t be polite, take whatever you want. The kitchen’s stir-fry equipment is being used, let’s have a simple hotpot for lunch.”
A gun that could be easily found could actually be exchanged for food.
And there’s a lot of food, there’s fish, there’s vegetables, and there’s something called tofu!
Xiao Qian was shocked!
#@#
After staring blankly for a long time, facing two unfortunate children who didn’t even recognize the dishes, Xia Tian ended up choosing for them.
The tripe swirled in the Yin Yang pot.
The aroma! The visual appeal! The hot deliciousness, the numbing spiciness… the enticing fragrance wafted out.
“Is it done?”
Sensing that aroma that she had never smelled before, Xiaoyu instinctively swallowed her saliva, unable to contain her eagerness.
“Can we eat it?” Xiao Qian also looked longingly. On the surface, she appeared more reserved, but her body unconsciously leaned forward, and her little nose twitched slightly.
What is this fragrance, this is the aroma of food? It’s also heated on fire, but it’s countless times more fragrant than the dead fish we picked up last time.
If it smells this good, how delicious must it taste.
“Alright, but be careful, it’s very hot.”
With one final swish, Xia Tian picked up a piece of tripe.
“It’s okay, I’m not afraid of hot!” Xiaoyu swallowed her saliva with all her might, her chopsticks drew a beautiful arc in the air, quickly picked up a piece of scalded tripe, and without even blowing on it, she stuffed it into her mouth.
“Ugh… hot, hot, hot…”
“Gulp… gulp… gulp…”
Xia Tian found it amusing to watch the girl sitting across from him, her eyes red from the heat, but she stubbornly refused to spit out the food in her mouth. It was just like himself when he was a child, taking a big bite of an ice-cream bar, and his head ached from the cold but he was too reluctant to spit it out.
“Delicious!”
Finally, she could chew. In a few gulps, she swallowed it, and then she eagerly picked up more tripe, learning from Xia Tian’s movements, swirling it up and down.
Xiao Qian always called her a melon, but when it came to food, her learning ability was amazing.
“Hot, hot, hot…”
“…” Xia Tian could only shake his head and sigh. He felt inexplicably sorry for her. This was another pitiful child like Little Beichangtan.
“Brother, Sister Xiaoyu and Sister Jing are eating like they’re starving.” Little Beichangtan felt like she had seen another hungry ghost. They eat so fast, even faster than when I was starved for three days.
“Don’t mind them, Xiaotan, what do you want to eat? Brother will heat it for you, but you need to eat less of the spicy ones.”
“This is the first time I’ve tasted this flavor, it’s a strange flavor, but it’s delicious!” Xiao Qian also picked up a piece of tripe and kept inhaling, making a gulping sound.
Whether it was from the heat or the spiciness.
By the time Xia Tian had finished heating the vegetables for Little Beichangtan, the entire plate of tripe had disappeared into the bellies of the two girls.
Throwing the napa cabbage into the clear soup pot, Xia Tian smiled and shook his head, “Eat some vegetables, you haven’t eaten these kinds of heavy oil and salt foods for a long time, if you eat too much, you’ll probably get diarrhea.”
“…” Sensing the fragrance, Xiao Qian swallowed again. Her expression was strange, as if she had heard a very stupid statement. “We have to rack our brains to find food, if there’s food, we’ll eat anything. This thing called tripe is so delicious, you’re actually worried about a little thing like diarrhea….”
Heavy oil and salt, what does she know! Xiao Qian even scooped a spoonful of red oil soup and put it on her rice. She ate it with the rice, her mouth moving quickly, hardly chewing a mouthful of rice.
“Hopefully, you don’t blame me if you have to run to the bathroom at night.”
Shaking his head with a smile, Xia Tian didn’t say much. Anyway, Xiaotan had the remaining medicine, so he wasn’t afraid of anything happening.
“Boss, you’re the best, best person I’ve ever met, how could we blame you.” Xiaoyu’s mouth was also stuffed with food, and she mumbled a sentence of praise between bites.
At the moment, she was holding a piece of fish meat in her hand, fresh with blood dripping from the plate below!
She recalled months ago, she and Xiao Qian had eaten roasted fish once, just once, and it was a dead fish they found in the drainage ditch, soaked until it was white, almost decomposed and rotten.
Xiao Qian still roasted that dead fish and ate it. The taste of the roasted fish at the time was still fresh in Xiaoyu’s memory! And that was Xiaoyu’s only experience with any kind of food related to meat.
The taste of roasted dead fish naturally couldn’t compare to fresh fish. So, even though it was just a simple hotpot with fish slices, Xiaoyu felt that it was far superior to the one she had eaten before.
Moreover, last time they were worried about being poisoned, so they ate with trepidation, but this time, she felt that even if they were poisoned, it would be worth it.
She only felt one word, happiness!