Chapter 10
After sending that message, Jiang Qingyu excitedly performed a full set of military boxing moves on the bed.
So satisfying!!
His eldest uncle and the others also knew that Jiang Qingyu was not someone who liked to exaggerate. Since he had called it a “great fortune,” then the amount definitely could not be small.
Besides, most people would buy a house first after making money. The fact that he could spend so much money on a vehicle proved that the savings he had on hand had already reached an amount beyond their imagination.
Could it really be that he had won the lottery?
They were Jiang Qingyu’s relatives too. Could they not get a share?
But Jiang Qingyu’s reply clearly meant that he intended to shake them off. If he were still there, this sudden windfall would definitely have belonged to them. Now that things had turned out like this, how could they possibly be willing to accept it?
So, while Jiang Qingyu was in a very good mood as he got up, washed, and prepared breakfast, the atmosphere over his eldest uncle’s family could be described as dark clouds looming overhead.
His eldest uncle knew very well that if he had coaxed Jiang Qingyu properly back then, then no matter what kind of situation arose, they would have been able to get a portion of the fortune Jiang Qingyu had obtained today.
It might even have been a very large portion.
A duck that had already reached their mouths had flown away, and they had to watch someone they had always looked down on live a good life. How could their mood possibly be good?
After Jiang Qingyu finished washing up, he poured himself a cup of warm water and slowly drank it. Looking at Meimei circling around by his feet, he thought about what he should make for her breakfast. He did not care in the slightest how anxious those other people might become because of his words.
He could heat up a bowl of clear beef soup for Meimei, adding the beef short ribs that had been stewed earlier. The meat was rich with juices and extremely soft and tender, almost stewed to the point of melting. Strands of meat drifted in the soup, looking very beautiful.
Then another small bowl of scrambled egg with shrimp, plus a little chopped greens, and Meimei’s healthy and delicious breakfast was ready.
As long as Jiang Qingyu was not too hungry, Meimei usually ate first.
Over time, she also came to know that there would never be a time when she had no food to eat. When she was hungry, she only needed to meow at Jiang Qingyu a couple of times, and he would understand what she meant.
In the end, he had managed to correct the habit she had when she first came back, when she would wolf down her food. Otherwise, whenever she ate too quickly, she was prone to vomiting. Every time Jiang Qingyu heard the sound of her throwing up, his heart would ache.
Before, he had not had the means. Most of what Meimei ate was cat food and Jiang Qingyu’s homemade meals, things like chicken breast, carrots, and sweet potatoes. Now that her food had improved, she was being raised even glossier and smoother. The corners of her eyes were clean, and her four pink paw pads were plump and soft. She was unbelievably beautiful.
Jiang Qingyu accompanied his child as she finished breakfast and washed her face. Only then did he hold the plump little cat in his arms, kissing and sniffing her with a look of intoxication.
Meimei did not struggle very hard. She pressed her soft pink paw pads against his face, half-pushing and half-not, which only made Jiang Qingyu kiss her even louder.
After holding the cat and kissing her for quite a while, Jiang Qingyu finally let her go, satisfied, so she could tidy up her own fur. Then he went to the kitchen to find something to eat and settle his own breakfast.
He steamed a few beef and salted egg yolk shumai, paired them with a bowl of golden millet porridge of just the right thickness, and added a small dish of preserved olive vegetables. Jiang Qingyu ate very contentedly.
There was no way he could ever finish buying everything. As long as he wanted to, going out meant endless purchasing.
After all, there was enough space to store things, and points could be repeatedly exchanged. There was no issue of his balance running low, so naturally, he could buy whatever he wanted and as much as he wanted.
A few days ago, he had been stockpiling food and daily necessities. Now, no matter what, he ought to start buying some medicine and outdoor equipment.
Medicine was a little troublesome to buy. After all, Jiang Qingyu was unfamiliar with this place and its people, and he did not have any capable friends either. He could only rely on himself and buy things bit by bit.
However, in a city, there were plenty of pharmacies and drugstores. When it was exaggerated, there might be one shop at each end of a single street. He could wholesale a little from this place, then wholesale a little more from that street, keeping the quantities at a level that would not arouse suspicion. In that way, he could still happily stockpile.
One could not blame Jiang Qingyu. He had never been the kind of person who could throw caution to the wind and do big things. He personally felt that being a little cautious was not a bad thing.
It was true that he now had an RV that seemed very impressive. But putting aside the stockpiling matter, he had spent so much money in such a short time. What if he was not careful and got targeted?
No matter how powerful the RV was, there would still be times when he was not inside it. If he happened to be alone and someone blocked him, with his skinny arms and legs, he was not capable of fighting. Even if he ran, he might not necessarily outrun the other party.
What a pity. The system could only upgrade the RV, not him. Otherwise, if it gave him something like an indestructible body, or the speed of the Flash, then he would basically be invincible in the apocalypse.
But the RV’s current functions were already heaven-defying enough. Although he liked to let his imagination run wild, he was not an ungrateful person. Before the apocalypse began, he just had to be careful everywhere.
He went to major pharmacies to buy daily medicines. Things like band-aids, cotton balls, iodine, and disinfectant were basic necessities. Cold medicine, cough medicine, anti-inflammatory medicine, and painkillers—he bought as much as he could.
There were also some health supplements and various vitamins, all of which were on his list.
Jiang Qingyu was afraid he might miss something, so he made the excuse that he was going hiking with friends and asked the pharmacy staff what he should buy.
In recent years, pharmacies had already had plenty of absurd membership card promotions and sales pushes that made people laugh and cry. Seeing that Jiang Qingyu had already bought so many things, in a style that looked like someone foolish with too much money, they did not mind adding a bit more. So they enthusiastically recommended quite a lot of things to him all at once.
Jiang Qingyu remained very calm. In any case, everything would be placed into the static space. Whether he used them himself or gave them to others, there would always be a time when they could be used. He himself knew best whether they had expired or not.
After all, the system had never said how long the apocalypse would last. He had to take the long view!
Facts proved that this excuse was really useful.
During this period, he had been eating and drinking well. His complexion was rosy, and his clothes and accessories were refined. He looked like the kind of child who had never suffered much hardship since childhood. His seemingly innocent face was especially deceptive.
In addition, in recent years, there really had been many young people who liked camping and hiking. This reason sounded very believable. The introductions were enthusiastic, and the goods were taken out swiftly. They looked as though they wanted nothing more than to fill up the entire MPV that Jiang Qingyu had driven over.
Yes, he had changed the vehicle’s skin into that of an MPV before driving over, making him look even more like someone about to go on a trip.
Jiang Qingyu accepted everything according to the list. Not just one pharmacy—he made a full round of all the pharmacies nearby that he could visit, and he was even too lazy to come up with a different excuse.
He did not know whether these pharmacies also had sales targets, but after this one purchase, his relationship with the pharmacist improved quite a bit. He even added some prescription medicines that were a little troublesome to handle onto the list, which counted as an unexpected delight.
Once he started buying things, he tended to forget to eat and sleep. It was not until around three or four o’clock that he remembered he had not eaten lunch yet. Only then did he park and find a nearby restaurant to soothe his poor stomach.
Jiang Qingyu saw a chicken hotpot restaurant on a review app with very high ratings. After asking and learning that there were still seats, he chose that place to eat.
Unexpectedly, at this hour, there were still quite a few diners in the restaurant. Every table was steaming hot. He casually glanced around and saw that the dishes all looked very fresh. The tableware was also nice-looking. After sitting down and asking a few questions, he chose several of the signature items.
The broth of the chicken hotpot was clear, and the chicken looked very fresh and tender. Even after cooking for a long time, it did not become dry.
After the soup came to a boil, the originally clear broth began to shimmer with golden droplets of oil as the chicken was added. Just smelling it made it seem unbelievably fragrant.
The server suggested that he first ladle out a bowl of clear chicken soup to drink. Jiang Qingyu did as told, and it was indeed deliciously fresh. The chicken was tender and smooth. He also mixed a dipping sauce to eat it with, and the flavor was very good too.
After finishing the chicken hotpot, he could also order vegetables to blanch in the soup. It counted as a very light meal, but that was just right. Recently, Jiang Qingyu had eaten quite a few heavily flavored dishes, so balancing things out was not bad either.
Although Meimei had already eaten lunch, Jiang Qingyu still fished out a little chicken to bring back for her. It could also be counted as his “hunting” result.
On the way back, when he passed by a water station, Jiang Qingyu thought for a moment, then still parked and went in to buy several truckloads.
Yes. Several truckloads.
Although the RV’s water supply and heating were gifts from the system, no one could say for certain whether any special circumstances might arise later. Just in case, it was better to be prepared.
Since he had come to haul water, naturally he used a large truck. The people at the water station originally even enthusiastically suggested that they could deliver it for him, but Jiang Qingyu refused.
It was just that when the people at the water station praised his vehicle’s cargo box for being very deep and especially capable of holding goods, he inevitably felt a little guilty.
After all, he already had experience. On the surface, he did not reveal anything unusual. He paid readily and slipped away.
Calculating how long he had stayed here, he felt that by the day after tomorrow at the latest, it would almost be time to leave.
There was not much to pack. Once he made up his mind, he could leave immediately. The RV was his home. Perhaps from the moment he chose to buy this vehicle, he had already been destined to drift from place to place.
But now, looking at it, this kind of life seemed rather nice too.
Sure enough, on the morning of the third day, Jiang Qingyu set off once again. Although he had not yet obtained the automatic driving function, he drove very smoothly himself.
The farther north he went, the more the temperature gradually rose. He planned to travel through Ningxia first, then go to Inner Mongolia. That way, he could visit both places and also take Meimei to step on some sand, letting her dig around in a giant “cat litter box.”
After leaving the city behind, there was naturally more scenery. Jiang Qingyu was still shopping madly, sending all the items he bought to a certain delivery station at his next stop. When the time came, he would drive over and haul them away.
He had only suddenly thought of it.
Since he was going to the desert, how could he not apply sunscreen?
The climate was dry, so lip balm also had to be bought. Otherwise, if his lips cracked and bled, he would not even be able to eat.
It was not that he was that narcissistic, but he was still quite satisfied with this face of his now. Daily maintenance was still necessary, and skincare products were indispensable.
What else could he say? Keep buying!
However, this kind of thing required some care. Although Jiang Qingyu did not consider himself that delicate, he still bought things for daily facial moisturizing.
But now there were all kinds of skincare products on the market, too many to count, and their effects were described so extravagantly that they sounded miraculous. These days of stockpiling experience had already left Jiang Qingyu with no patience to do more research. In any case, he had the cost capacity for trial and error, so he picked some skincare products from various brands and bought some.
Naturally, the quantity of this “some” would certainly not be small. In any case, Jiang Qingyu’s balance was enough for him to sweep through a round of products, add them to the shopping cart, and clear it out. He was even too lazy to pay for them one by one.
Aside from daily skincare products, there was also sunscreen and lip balm, uh… body oils and things to rub and apply.
It was a little embarrassing to say, but Jiang Qingyu quite liked making himself clean and fragrant, then putting on comfortable pajamas and burrowing into soft, fluffy blankets. At that point, all he could do was close his eyes and sigh with happiness.
Besides, he did not need to reach out to others for money, and no one was controlling him. Naturally, he could buy whatever he wanted and apply whatever he liked however he wanted. In any case, there were only him and Meimei in the RV.
Jiang Qingyu once again bought things until he was thoroughly satisfied.
In the past, when he drove past certain shops and restaurants, he simply passed by. But now, as long as it was a place where he could spend money, he would look twice. He would not even let hardware stores go.
Not only that, he also went to auto repair shops to stock up. Accessories, parts, machines—whatever he could buy, he bought some of it.
At present, the RV had not yet reached the point where it could move without consuming fuel, so every time he passed a gas station, he would buy some.
Sometimes he drove a large truck, and sometimes he drove a large RV. He looked exactly like someone whose vehicle consumed a lot of fuel. Once the fuel nozzle was lifted, it would more or less cost several thousand yuan.
Sometimes, Jiang Qingyu even tentatively transferred the fuel in the tank secretly into large barrels in his space. The staff had once marveled at how ridiculously large his vehicle’s fuel tank was. Who would have thought that he could secretly “switch the dragon with the phoenix” behind the scenes?
Although the efficiency was not that high, there were gas stations everywhere here. He would stop at one and fill up at one. Accumulated over time, the amount was also quite staggering.
Jiang Qingyu calculated it. Forget traveling around the whole country—if order collapsed later, it might not be impossible for him to drive abroad.
He just did not know whether the RV could later be upgraded into an amphibious vehicle. On land, it would be an RV with excellent performance; in water, it would become a luxury yacht. Just thinking about it was beautiful beyond belief.
Just as he was happily indulging in this fantasy, a system voice suddenly sounded in his head: “The function you mentioned is equipped.”
Jiang Qingyu: Huh???
