What!
Food?
If Stanna’s feelings were complicated before, now she truly didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.
Only now did she notice that the man’s gaze wasn’t looking at her at all; he was clearly staring at the bread in her arms.
In an instant, an urge to laugh welled up in Stanna’s heart.
However, just as this urge ignited, it was suppressed by a sense of loss from the bottom of her heart.
Li Yi’an didn’t notice Stanna’s subtle emotional changes.
“Madam, is it possible?”
As his words fell, a “gurgle” sound came from his stomach.
“Of course.”
The sound coming from the man’s stomach made Stanna smile dumbly, saying:
“However, it’s obviously not appropriate to exchange just this piece of bread.
Well, I live in the building ahead.
If you don’t mind, you can go to my place.
Besides bread, I can also make you some soup.”
Mind?
How could he mind?
You should know that when you are hungry and thirsty, being able to drink a mouthful of hot soup is simply too wonderful.
What is wrong with me?
Ten minutes later, Stanna, cutting potatoes in the kitchen, was still full of doubts: What’s wrong with me today?
Why did I proactively invite a strange man to my home?
While cutting potatoes, she listened to the sounds in the living room; it seemed very quiet there.
She couldn’t help stopping what she was doing, her gaze involuntarily falling on the man in the living room.
The man sitting on the sofa, whom she had invited to her home, seemed to be examining her house.
Li Yi’an was indeed examining this house.
The decoration of the room was quite luxurious.
One could see that the woman’s family background was affluent, or at least it used to be.
On either side of the fireplace, there was a bookcase on one side, filled with books, and a piano on the other side.
The piano, which hadn’t been played in a long time, was covered in dust.
There were also a few photographs placed on the fireplace.
They were photos of a couple.
The woman in the photo was exactly the woman who invited him as a guest, and the man wearing a military uniform beside her should be her husband, right?
“Her husband is actually a military officer?”
Actually, this was quite normal.
It was World War II, basically any normal man was serving in the army.
After looking around, Li Yi’an’s curiosity vanished entirely due to his rumbling stomach, his mind completely filled with when dinner would be ready.
Although eating was the top priority, there was one matter that he absolutely could not be careless about.
That was the issue of identity.
Right now, he was in wartime London.
As a foreigner without an identity, he was very likely to be taken for a spy, arrested, and executed by firing squad.
When that time comes, he would be completely finished.
The time-travel journey would end right there.
So what should he do next?
How should he explain his origins?
Or rather, how could he get legal identification?
These were all imminent problems.
“Time-travel is time-travel, you should at least pick a good location and a good time…
If I’m not careful, I’ll really be done for.”
Li Yi’an complained in his heart, starting to carefully ponder the many problems he would face next.
Time passed quickly when thinking about things.
He didn’t know how long it had been.
By the time the sky had completely darkened, the woman brought out several plates and said:
“Sir, you can eat now.”
“Thank you, Madam.”
The joy written on the man’s face made Stanna smile, while at the same time, an inexplicable sense of loss rose in her heart again.
So what he really cared about was the food.
Picking up the bread, the faint wheat aroma hit him in the face.
It actually contained bacon, and the meat aroma was overflowing.
Taking a bite, Li Yi’an felt for the first time that bread could be so delicious.
Actually, as long as you starve for a few meals, anything you eat tastes good.
There was also mashed potatoes, and…
actually, this dinner wasn’t lavish, since ingredients were limited.
While the man was eating dinner, Stanna asked:
“Sir, you must be Chinese, right?”
“Yes, how did you know?”
“Before the war, I lived in Nanyang for two years—the Japanese are very short, and the people of Nanyang have very dark skin and look ugly.
So I guessed you should be Chinese,” Stanna explained.
“Madam, you are really extremely smart, guessing right on the first try.”
Li Yi’an complimented.
“But why would you be willing to exchange expensive perfume for just a meager dinner?”
Finally, she asked the main point.
Actually, Stanna still had some sort of expectation in her heart.
“Actually, I just arrived in Britain.”
Li Yi’an knew she would ask about this sooner or later.
“Just arrived in Britain?”
Stanna asked.
“From China?
At this time?”
“No, I escaped from France.”
Li Yi’an sighed helplessly.
Stanna was stunned after hearing this, and her eyes became somewhat strange.
“Escaped from France?
How is this possible?”
Stanna asked curiously.
“A few years ago, to avoid the war, I left China with my family and went to Saigon.
Before the war broke out, I took a boat to study in France.
But what I absolutely didn’t expect was that the war broke out right after I arrived in France.
France was defeated and surrendered.
As a foreigner, life in France was really hard to describe.
It wasn’t until a few months ago that I found an opportunity, escaped to Spain, and then came to Britain on a Spanish fishing boat…”
While Li Yi’an was fabricating his experiences, his mouth running like a train, he thought of the perfume in his pocket and smiled, changing the subject:
“God bless, I met a kind lady like you right after arriving in London, otherwise I’d probably still be starving.
This bottle of perfume was a gift from a friend in France.
Thank you very much for the dinner.”
As he spoke, he placed the perfume on the table.
“Now, it belongs to you.”
“Are you really willing to exchange it?”
Stanna said in pleasant surprise.
“Of course, thank you for your warm hospitality.”
Stanna picked up the perfume directly, and then hid it in her hand like a treasure.
“Thank you.”
At this time, the light screen emerged out of thin air again.
[Detected the completion of the second transaction.]
The system appeared again?
This counts as a transaction too?
Are experience points going to increase again?
While Li Yi’an, in a great mood, was full of anticipation, sure enough, the rewards for him flashed on the light screen.
[This transaction is a proactive strike to find suitable business opportunities.
Can learn the skill ‘Psychology’.
Do you wish to learn?]
“Learn, learn!”
It actually rewarded a new skill again, this system is really not bad!
Here, seeing the words “Psychology has been learned”, before Li Yi’an could feel joy.
He could actually learn new skills this way.
Although it’s psychology, having more skills doesn’t weigh you down.
What other skills could he learn in the future?
Although he had just time-traveled, Li Yi’an couldn’t help but be full of expectations for the future ahead!
(END CHAPTER)