In the end, Lu Fengmian went looking for a barbecue restaurant.
She wanted to eat something good, but she couldn’t quite afford a full restaurant meal.
So, in the end, she went to the barbecue restaurant together with Qing Shi.
As a foodie herself, Lu Fengmian had added the barbecue restaurant to the game.
It could be considered a part of the culture, after all.
After the two of them entered, the waiter enthusiastically greeted them and showed them to their seats.
Then he asked them what they wanted to eat.
“Esteemed guests, you can take a look at the menu. After ordering, you can choose to have us grill the food and bring it over, or we can provide a live grilling service on the spot. Of course, you are also welcome to grill it yourselves if you’d like,” the waiter said respectfully, standing to the side.
“Just grill it and bring it over to me,” Lu Fengmian said as she ordered the dishes.
Just looking at the menu made her mouth water. She really hadn’t tasted meat in so long!
Who could possibly understand what over three years felt like!
She ordered several small portions of grilled meat, calculating the money in her pouch.
“Mianmian doesn’t need to calculate, just order whatever you like,” Qing Shi said to her with a smile.
Lu Fengmian tilted her head slightly to look at her. “Don’t you have no money?”
“Mm, it’s not like I can’t even afford a single meal,” Qing Shi smiled at her.
“Are you serious?” Lu Fengmian looked earnest.
“I am serious, Mianmian just eat. You can eat whatever you want.”
Little Nine-Tails lay on Lu Fengmian, smelling the fragrant aroma of the barbecue restaurant, almost drooling.
Lu Fengmian smiled. “True, at worst we can just dine and dash, who are you afraid of, anyway?”
Qing Shi couldn’t help raising the corners of her mouth slightly. “I won’t let you dine and dash, don’t worry.”
Although Lu Fengmian said so with her mouth, her hands ordering dishes didn’t stop for a second.
After finishing her order, she handed the menu back to the waiter.
The waiter took it and hurriedly went to the back kitchen, but as soon as he left, Lu Fengmian clearly felt that the people in the shop were all staring at her and Qing Shi.
“I just casually mentioned dining and dashing, and they actually believed it,” Lu Fengmian burst out laughing.
[Hahaha, they’re afraid the streamer will run away, right?]
[Who wouldn’t be afraid of that?]
However, after a while, they could no longer laugh, because Lu Fengmian had ordered quite a lot of grilled meat, and this shop served the food very quickly.
Although it was grilled beforehand and brought over, there was still charcoal fire underneath to prevent it from getting cold all at once.
As the aroma of meat drifted out, Lu Fengmian couldn’t wait to pick up her chopsticks and start eating.
[Ahhh, I want to eat too!]
[It looks so delicious, damn it!]
After all, in their world, only people of the upper class were qualified to eat food that could be consumed directly like this.
Even after leaving the slums, Lu Fengmian was still not qualified to eat these things.
The vast majority of people in the stream belonged to the same class as Lu Fengmian, so wanting to eat such fragrant grilled meat was practically an impossible dream.
Food also existed in other games.
However, a game was a game after all. People who had never eaten real food found it very difficult to make food that possessed all the color, aroma, and taste.
To put it bluntly, Lu Fengmian had also watched mukbangs by some high-society figures.
She felt it didn’t taste good and didn’t look appetizing at all.
[Ahhh, who on earth is the development team!]
[The stuff they made, even if it’s just from a random street stall, I think it tastes super delicious.]
[A streamer next door went to eat a bowl of rice noodles earlier, and although she didn’t know what it was, after eating it she found it mind-blowing.]
[And there are some players on the island! They can eat seafood!]
[Holy crap, I went to watch, it really looks so fragrant, the kind where you unconsciously drool.]
“Is Mianmian living such a hard life over there? Not even having anything to eat?” After reading those bullet comments, Qing Shi looked at Lu Fengmian, who was currently eating heartily.
She really hadn’t eaten this kind of thing for too long.
“I’m still streaming!” Lu Fengmian answered her in her mind.
Qing Shi let out a laugh. “It doesn’t matter, they can’t hear.”
Lu Fengmian raised her head slightly and blinked at her. “What did you do?”
“It’s just a sound-isolating barrier, that’s all. Did Mianmian forget, I can barely be considered a ruler of this world too?” As Qing Shi spoke, she picked up another piece of meat for her.
“Eat slowly, no rush.”
Meeting her caring and distressed gaze, Lu Fengmian felt slightly uncomfortable.
“It’s not really like that, how should I put it, that world is more like everyone taking Inedia Pills, which ensures people have enough energy and nutrition, but it doesn’t taste very good, lacking the kind of feeling that brings pure joy once it enters your mouth.”
“Like this kind of grilled meat, if it’s grilled well, it makes people extraordinarily happy after eating it, and if it’s grilled poorly, it has a burnt taste, but over there, there is no good or bad, only nutrient fluid that you must take, which is quite boring.”
Qing Shi listened to Lu Fengmian tell her about matters in the other world.
Listening to her complaints, she felt it had a unique charm to it.
“Sounds like Mianmian doesn’t like it,” Qing Shi tilted her head, watching Lu Fengmian dip the grilled meat in chili powder and swallow it in one bite.
She didn’t like green vegetables, as Qing Shi remembered that Lu Fengmian was someone who couldn’t enjoy a meal without meat.
And such a person like her must have lacked a lot of happiness in that world.
“I don’t like it,” Lu Fengmian admitted honestly as well.
“Then why?” Qing Shi wanted to ask her why she was unwilling to enter this world, when clearly as long as she wanted to, Qing Shi would definitely figure out a way for her.
Lu Fengmian chuckled softly. “Why am I unwilling to come in?”
Even if she didn’t ask, Lu Fengmian knew very clearly what she wanted to ask.
Qing Shi nodded obediently.
Lu Fengmian fed some meat to the nine-tailed fox. “Here, Xiao Jiu.”
The name she gave the nine-tailed fox was quite casual: Bai Jiu.
Looking at the plate Lu Fengmian placed in front of it, Xiao Jiu immediately started devouring the food heartily.
“Just consider it as my hope that other people, like me, can eat this meat too? Not eating it in my game, but genuinely being able to eat it,” Lu Fengmian smiled.
Qing Shi met her smiling eyes, reached out again, and picked up another piece of meat for her. “Okay.”
“I thought you wouldn’t be able to understand,” Lu Fengmian said, feeling quite surprised by her calmness.
Qing Shi shook her head with a smile. “I won’t, as long as Mianmian herself is happy, I am happy.”
“You can do whatever you want to do,” Qing Shi looked at her earnestly, without the slightest trace of reluctance.
Lu Fengmian still didn’t understand, even if she had created her, it shouldn’t lead to Qing Shi loving her so deeply, right?
[What are you two saying? Can you at least let me listen?]
[I can even hear the noise of people drinking and arguing at the next table, yet I can’t hear what you two are saying.]
[Why be so distant?]
[Is the streamer really not part of the development team? How can I not believe it?]
[I’ve already defaulted to assuming she is, anyway.]
[But don’t you think, when the streamer interacts with the NPC, it doesn’t look like she already knew what the NPC would say or do?]
[What’s so strange about that, these NPCs are advanced AIs with their own set of algorithms, and they will react according to the player’s corresponding expressions.]
[Will the streamer really not be seduced away by the NPC?]
Lu Fengmian wanted to say that it was truly a good question, as she also felt she was about to be swept off her feet.
If she didn’t still possess that tiny bit of rationality, she would have already been captivated by Qing Shi’s beauty.
The waiter continued to bring out more grilled meat.
It just so happened that the previous batch was almost finished.
Lu Fengmian couldn’t eat too much herself, but with Xiao Jiu around, this fellow was quite capable of eating.
“Why aren’t you eating much either?” Lu Fengmian saw that Qing Shi didn’t seem to eat much at all.
“Watching you eat makes me happier than eating myself,” Qing Shi answered her in all seriousness.
Lu Fengmian: …
Who on earth taught her these cheesy yet flirty words!