Lu Yan held a thick stack of menus in her hands. Although they were nothing more than menus, since the computer system, Xiao You, had thoughtfully compiled them, they could still be useful. After all, she had no idea how to cook, so she could simply follow these menus when the time came.
However, just as they were about to leave, she suddenly remembered one more important matter and hurriedly said, “Oh right, there’s one more major thing I forgot to mention.”
Everyone thought it must really be something important and asked in unison, “What is it?”
Lu Yan: “Does Mom have any money? Should Dad give her some? After all, our food and drink expenses are going to be quite substantial.”
When Gu Tianqi heard this, he laughed so hard that he could barely close his mouth. “Hahaha… Why would Yan Bao need to worry about something like this? Don’t worry, Grandpa is on your side. Grandpa has money, so eat as much as you want.”
Lu Yan remembered that her grandfather was the second richest person in their family, so she nodded in satisfaction.
“Um, Grandpa, could you give me a little support too?” Lu Xiao asked timidly.
If Yan Bao hadn’t brought up the matter of having no money, he would have forgotten that he was actually the poorest person among all of them.
What could he possibly do with the pitiful few million he had? Even that amount included the money in his bank account as well as his stocks and funds. If he only reported the balance in his bank account, the little over one million would be enough to make everyone laugh at him.
If only he had known, he wouldn’t have spent all his money modifying his cars back then. If he had bought a few more properties, he could have sold them now and would at least not have ended up this pitifully poor.
Gu Jin Huai patted Lu Xiao on the shoulder. “Don’t worry. Once my funds are recovered over the next couple of days, I’ll transfer two hundred million to you first. Use it for now.”
Lu Xiao’s eyes immediately lit up. “That’s great!”
Now that he had money, he could purchase supplies without holding back, while ensuring both quality and quantity and, of course, keeping everything confidential.
Lu Zhengyang: “Stockpiling supplies is the most important matter for our family this time. If anyone needs additional financial support later, send a message in the family group as well. Your grandfather and I will make sure the supply of funds is maintained. It’ll take some time for the money to become available, so if anyone needs money in the meantime, help each other out and make do for now.”
“All right.”
Everyone agreed in unison. Once they confirmed that there were no other problems, they finally opened the door and left the audiovisual room.
After lunch, everyone began splitting up and getting to work.
That afternoon, Lu Yan decided that she still wanted to experience the feeling of buying things and spending money herself. Otherwise, once the Apocalypse arrived, she wouldn’t have another chance to experience the human pleasure of shopping to her heart’s content.
So, that afternoon, she dragged Lu Xiang along to buy a mobile phone. She then opened an account and registered her own WeChat account.
After that, she had Lu Xiang add her to the family group as well.
That way, she wouldn’t have to rely on Lu Xiang to pass along information whenever something happened or there was a message in the group.
Of course, after taking care of that, she also made sure to activate WeChat Pay and Alipay. Naturally, they were registered using Lu Xiang’s identity information.
There was no way a little child like her could register them herself.
In any case, one person could have multiple accounts, so this was convenient because she could also link them to Lu Xiang’s bank card.
From then on, Lu Yan only had to focus on spending money and buying, buying, buying.
After buying the phone, since they happened to be in the shopping mall anyway, they decided to start their shopping spree right there.
Their group was responsible for prepared food. Although Grandpa hadn’t come with them, he had already said that he would provide the funding while the shopping itself would be left to the mother and daughter.
That didn’t affect their work at all.
Lu Yan immediately took Lu Xiang by the hand and went to a milk tea shop. She ordered ten cups of every delicious flavor, then ordered six extra cups of her favorite mango pomelo sago, all in the largest size. In total, she ordered 526 cups.
Then she ordered eight kinds of snacks, 150 servings of each.
The employee serving her didn’t seem surprised at all by the enormous quantity she was ordering.
There were office buildings all around the shopping mall, and many companies often placed orders like this, although none of them usually ordered quite this much.
The little girl also had an adult accompanying her, and judging by the way they were dressed, neither of them looked ordinary. There was no doubt that a new company had just opened and the boss’s wife was treating her employees to drinks.
The quantities were so precise that it had to be exactly that. Judging by the order, it was probably a fairly large company. If they came back to place orders like this from time to time, her bonus would increase quite a bit.
The milk tea was still being prepared and would take some time, so Lu Yan simply took Lu Xiang to a nearby KFC.
Fried chicken wings, grilled chicken wings, hamburgers, French fries, roast chicken, fried chicken, and whatever else looked delicious, she simply ordered it all.
The employee seemed completely unfazed by a scene like this as well.
After taking the order, they simply sent it straight to the kitchen to be prepared.
Just after ordering all that food, Lu Yan caught the aroma coming from the hot pot restaurant upstairs.
Since the food they had ordered would take some time to prepare anyway, Lu Yan told the employee that she would come back to collect everything later, then pulled Lu Xiang toward the hot pot restaurant upstairs.
Although it was already afternoon, there were still quite a few customers eating hot pot inside.
Clearly, the food at this restaurant must be pretty good.
There were only two of them, and Lu Yan was still a child, so she didn’t dare order too much.
They ordered three portions of pork kidney slices, three portions of fatty beef rolls, three portions of fatty lamb rolls, two portions of duck intestines, one portion of duck blood, five portions of thick-cut beef tripe, two portions of shrimp paste, and two vegetable dishes.
For the hot pot bases, they ordered one mildly spicy broth, one tomato broth, one spicy broth, and one nourishing herbal broth.
There was no need to order a plain broth.
She mainly wanted to try the flavors first so that she would know what to order in larger quantities later.
Their food arrived very quickly.
The service was also excellent. The server helped prepare their dipping sauces, came over from time to time to help add ingredients to the pots, asked whether they needed anything else, and refilled their fruit juice when necessary.
Lu Yan and Lu Xiang only needed to focus on eating.
Once they had finished, Lu Yan signaled to Lu Xiang that it was time to begin.
“Hello, could you please call your manager over?”
The server thought they were dissatisfied with something and immediately asked nervously, “Did I do something wrong?”
Lu Xiang waved her hand. “No, no, not at all. It’s like this, we think your hot pot tastes quite good, so we were wondering if we could place a large takeaway order to bring back and treat the people at our company. They’re usually busy and don’t have time to come here themselves.”
The server finally relaxed after hearing this. “Oh, I see. That’s no problem. You can just tell me what you need, and I can place the order for you.”
Lu Yan put on her signature adorable smile. “Auntie, my mom’s studio is very large. There are more than five hundred people, so the takeaway order will definitely be quite big.”
As soon as Lu Yan said this, the server naturally understood.
She hurriedly smiled and said, “Oh, I see. In that case, please wait a moment. I’ll go get our manager.”
Before long, a tall and handsome young man walked toward them.
“Are you the one who needs to place a takeaway order?”
Lu Xiang nodded.
The manager had already heard what the employee told him, so he smiled and said, “Then please come with me to the office. It’ll be quieter there.”