A new vending machine stands at the door of Shangluo's alley. Compared to the original one, this vending machine is red. But there aren't any ads on it, it's just a square box all red.
"Has this vending machine broken before?" Wen Yuan asked him.
"No, it was fine when I came back last time. Ah, that's it."
"Which one?"
Shangluo told him about the spiritual liquid soda.
"It turns out this is it. I heard about the installation last month, and it turned out to be quite fast. Have you seen the real thing? I haven't seen it yet."
"The one in the gold jar is the health drink, and the one in the red jar is the spiritual fluid. This one is inside."
He looked at the vending machine. Looking closely, there is nothing special about it, its appearance is quite ordinary.
Yes, in addition to common drinks, there are indeed two more empty slots, but they haven't been filled with spiritual liquid yet.
"I'll have to take a look when I go back. It's really convenient to have this thing at my door. I just don't know if there is any map that can help me find the nearest one directly."
"Well don't worry, I will push one." He asked Apollonia by the way: "Is it troublesome to make a map software?"
[Can I mark the place where I can buy spiritual liquid? Something convenient. There can also be more complete functions, such as the location of public toilets, road names, etc. 】
"Can you still do this? Do you have that much free time?"
[Hey, you can just set up the map server and let them mark it themselves. 】
"It makes sense." Shangluo suddenly remembered that the Internet should have been like this from the beginning. Openness, cooperation, and sharing are what the Internet is like. Just like "human beings are inherently good", there is a kind of wild innocence. But later on, this spirit was gradually crushed by reality. To listen to a song, I had to go to several copyright platforms to find it.
When did it start? Shangluo doesn't know, because he has not actually experienced the "innocent" days of the Internet. But here, we can recreate it.
"Well, so when we are just starting out, we can use more of everyone's strength."
I plan to mark this point in Shangluo by myself and sign it by the way.
"By the way, do you want something to drink?" he asked Wen Yuan. He sent him all the way back, and Shangluo planned to treat him to a drink.
"Wait a minute, the vending machines on the street are quite expensive. Let's go to the store to buy them."
"In the store? What store?"
"It's a store that pays for you. Oh, you've never been there. It should be interesting to go there for the first time. When I was a kid, I especially liked to pay the fee myself, and then use the change to buy a lot of pine nuts to eat back. Well, go to you first Put the bill in the mailbox at your door."
Familiar streets, familiar doorways, a small red mailbox hanging outside the door, and a nameplate with the word "Shang" hanging on it. This is the doorway of his home.
I opened the mailbox with a key, and a large number of leaflets, water bills, and newspapers popped out with a bang, as if a treasure chest had been opened.
"Wow." Wen Yuan helped him catch half of it, "Have you never opened this mailbox?"
"Ah, I don't seem to have the habit of opening an email address."
If he has an email address, he will check it frequently. But he still wasn't used to checking his "physical mailbox" every day.
"Check it at least once a week. Maybe I will send you a letter to confirm if there is any notification or allowance. Let me take a look at the water bill. Before you come back, Jin Yiwei will help you take care of the water and electricity, so There are only bills for these two months. Let me take a look at the bills for water, electricity, sewerage, gas, and radio listening. It’s about 420 yuan.”
"Is it so expensive? I haven't been at home very long in the past two months."
"That's how it is in Beijing. Yujing earns a lot and spends a lot of money. But it's actually not too expensive, because after it's activated, there's a base fee even if you don't use it."
"How much does your family pay per month?"
"Just five taels."
“Is your home so expensive???”
"My house has twelve square meters of land, which is twelve times the area of your house. After all, it is also the home of the Minister of Rites."
"Isn't that bigger than the palace?"
"No, the Changchun Palace and the garden are about 30 square meters, but the Jiuhua Building is really only nine square meters. But if you want to calculate it this way, then any fourth-grade house or above is larger than the imperial palace - —And you can’t think of it as a palace, it’s just a garden. Zheng’erbajing’s palace is Qianqing Palace, he just didn’t go there.”
"By the way, why does the emperor want to live there?"
"Because no one can see it. When there is no one, you can spend money when you want to, and you won't be afraid of people telling you when you spend money. You can save money when you want to save money, and you won't be afraid of people telling you when you save money. As the emperor, he spends more money. There is a problem if there is any or less. Instead of being stared at all day long, it is better to move out. But now this person, he neither spends money nor saves money. Living there is probably because it is convenient for alchemy. Bar."
He sorted out Shangluo's water bills, electricity bills and the like.
"I remember that your state-owned store is in this direction." He led Shangluo towards the other end of the alley, which Shangluo himself had not walked much.
"State-owned store? Is there such a place?" It's not like Shangluo has never walked that road, but he didn't see any place with a state-owned store sign.
Turn left after exiting the alley, and Wen Yuan stopped at the first store facing the street.
"Here we go, this is it."
"So this store is a state-owned store?" Although Shangluo hadn't been there very often, he had passed by this store more than once, but he didn't even realize that it was a state-owned store. There are a lot of vending machines at the entrance of the store, including two or three drink machines, and one of them has been replaced with an eye-catching red color. There are also empty slots for selling spiritual liquid.
But beyond the drinks, there’s also a whole host of machines. There are those selling round bubble gum balls, as well as boxed puffed food, canned goods and toy capsules. Leaning against the corner, Shangluo even saw a familiar machine.
【oh! ! ! What it is! ] Apollonia was stunned.
Against the wall, a vending machine has snowflakes and crabs painted on it, with the words "Crab Vending Machine" written in cursive letters. A lot of crabs were packed neatly in a small box and refrigerated. Although it looked as if they were dead, if there really were so many dead crabs, the smell of this machine would have been overwhelming. This means that all these crabs are alive.
He seemed to have seen this thing before, but not in this Yingtian, but in another one.
【Come closer! Come closer and let me see! Wow! It’s really a crab! Still alive! How did you do it? Is refrigeration sufficient? 】
(End of chapter)
