Chapter 99: Adventures in the Fresh Food Supermarket (Part 2)
The packaging of the cabbage family is very strange.
After the salesperson finished slaughtering the cabbage family, he did not pack them in plastic bags, but took out a custom paper box to pack them. This custom paper box looked particularly strange, the square box was specially made to look like a mahogany coffin.
The salesman put the Yuanbai family, who could no longer speak, into the coffin with a solemn look on his face, as if he was really handling Yuanbai family's funeral affairs. He even shouted as if he was performing some kind of ritual when closing the paper box: "Close the coffin! Lift the coffin!"
His tone was sad and long, just like a professional funeral practitioner. Then, after howling, the salesman's expression changed quickly, and he handed the small red coffin to Junfang with both hands as if nothing had happened.
Lu Ren: “???” What kind of weird selling ritual is this?
Although Lu Ren was very nervous, Jun Fang seemed very calm. This was mainly because Jun Fang was a very calm person. He took the small coffin from the salesperson without any psychological pressure and threw it to the water monkey.
The water monkey has a pocket on its abdomen, just like a koala, with a mustard space inside, which is specially used for customers to store things.
The water monkey was scratching the lice on his body when he was hit on the head by the small coffin thrown by Junfang. He was very angry. But facing the powerful Junfang, the water monkey could only be angry but not say anything. He put the small coffin into his pocket sadly.
Lu Ren: “…” Every step is so weird that I really don’t know where to start complaining.
"Forget it, let's get down to business." Thinking this, Lu Ren stretched out his hand to the salesperson, "Where's the air fryer?"
The salesperson smiled and said, "Of course, of course. You won't be short of anything." As he spoke, he took out an alchemy furnace the size of a rice cooker from his back and handed it to Lu Ren.
Lu Ren asked uncertainly: "This is..."
The salesperson’s smile didn’t waver: “It’s an air fryer.”
Lu Renke was not so easily fooled: "But... this looks like an alchemy furnace, right?"
But the salesperson insisted: "This is an air fryer."
In fact, the supermarket did not have an activity of giving away air fryers, but the salesperson was really fed up with the noise of the cabbages.
In the days since the opening, no monsters were willing to stop in front of the cabbages he cultivated, as they all disliked cabbages as human food. Lu Ren and Jun Fang were the only customers who showed interest in cabbages in the past few months. When the two customers were about to be driven away by the cabbages' noise, the salesperson came up with the idea of giving away an air fryer with the purchase of cabbages, and he didn't expect that he would succeed in changing the customers' minds.
So, in order to successfully sell the cabbage, the salesperson paid for it himself and bought an "air fryer".
Of course Lu Ren would not buy it. He did not take the alchemy furnace from the salesperson. Instead, he looked at him seriously and said, "This is definitely not an air fryer."
After hearing what Lu Ren said, the salesperson was stunned for a moment. The hand that was originally holding the alchemy furnace fell down, and his eyes drooped silently, looking a little lost.
However, Lu Ren, who has been active in the farmers' market for many years, will never give in easily because of these tricks of the merchants. For the sake of the air fryer, he must persevere to the end today.
Protect consumer rights!
Jun Fang, who was standing aside, couldn't help but tremble when he saw the aggressive Lu Ren: Is this the demeanor of the king of the vegetable market?
The salesman saw that pretending to be pitiful was useless, so he gave up in disappointment. Then, he narrowed his slender eyebrows slightly, as if thinking about how to convince this difficult human.
Finally, he forced out a perfect smile and said to Lu Ren, "Actually, this is the latest air fryer on our market! The feature is that you don't need electricity to use this air fryer!"
"Huh?" Lu Ren, who originally had a tough attitude, pricked up his ears.
Wouldn't that save a lot of electricity?
Seeing that it was effective, the salesperson continued to strike while the iron was hot, "And this air fryer has a lifetime warranty. No matter how many years you have used it, as long as it breaks, we will immediately replace it with a new one for you."
In the end, the salesperson successfully convinced Lu Ren by offering free lifetime replacement of the air fryer.
Seeing that Lu Ren finally took over the alchemy furnace, the salesperson also breathed a sigh of relief: "My name is Li Boyang. If you need to replace the alchemy furnace... No, if you want to replace the air fryer, remember to come to the store and find me directly."
Lu Ren: "..." You definitely wanted to say alchemy furnace, right? You also know that this is not an air fryer, right?
In short, although it took some twists and turns, I finally got the cabbage and the air fryer.
There are some nice vegetables and matsutake mushrooms in the corner of the supermarket. There are few of them, but they are neatly arranged. They are displayed in the most remote position and no one cares about them. But these vegetables themselves look very fresh, and there are even dew on them, which shows that they have just been picked.
Lu Ren was tempted, but in order to prevent himself from mistaking the monster's food for human food, he carefully asked another salesperson who was standing by the shelf and playing with his phone: "Are these vegetables edible by humans?"
The salesman obviously did not have the same enthusiasm for work as Li Boyang. He only raised his head lazily after hearing Lu Ren's voice and explained, "Yes, these are mountain products that were just picked from the mountains today."
In order to support some weaker monsters, supermarkets will let them sell their harvests here. These monsters are small and weak in magic power, so they can only pick these human food with little spiritual power, and the quantity is not large, so generally no monsters will buy them , so the location where they are placed is relatively unpopular, and the price is not high.
But at this moment, these ingredients were exactly what Lu Ren needed most. So he said to the salesperson, "Then I'll take them all."
The salesperson seemed surprised by the sudden order. He confirmed again and again: "There is no spiritual power in these mountain products. They are just ordinary human food."
Lu Ren smiled and said it didn't matter: "This is exactly what I need. I want to cook hot pot today."
Although as a monster salesman he had no idea what was so delicious about food without spiritual power, he respected Lu Ren's decision, so he shrugged and motioned Lu Ren to inspect the mountain products he had selected.
Lu Ren saw a pumpkin with a perfect shape. Just as he was about to pick it up and put it into the water monkey's pocket, he saw a squirrel wearing a small red hat suddenly pop out from behind the pumpkin. Lu Ren was instantly startled.
Seeing this, the salesperson quickly comforted Lu Ren and said, "Ah, this is the supplier of this batch of mountain products. He is taking care of his vegetables to prevent them from wilting before they are sold."
Upon hearing this, Lu Ren continued to look at the little squirrel, only to see the little squirrel stand up like a human, then bow towards Lu Ren with a very standard posture, as if thanking Lu Ren for supporting his business.
Lu Ren also quickly returned the greeting to the squirrel and said, "You're welcome. Your food is very good. It's exactly what I need."
The squirrel squeaked twice at Lu Ren as a greeting, and then dove into the vegetable pile to help Lu Ren pack them. It even tied a delicate bow for Lu Ren when tying the vegetables.
While Lu Ren took the vegetables, he also expressed his gratitude to the squirrel: "Thank you."
The squirrel squeaked twice, then jumped off the counter and disappeared without a trace.
After bidding farewell to the squirrel, Lu Ren had already prepared enough vegetables for this trip, so he led Jun Xiang to the meat counter.
Behind the meat counter was a butcher holding a machete, with dark skin and a full beard. Seeing Lu Ren and Jun Fang approaching, the butcher smiled ingratiatingly, and his yellow teeth were clearly visible. Because he was cooking meat, there was still a lot of blood between his fingers, which looked very scary.
The butcher greeted the two men and said, "Two young men, would you like to buy some beef? Today, a Kui cattle went out on a rainy day without an umbrella and was electrocuted to death by itself. It has just been delivered to us and is still very fresh."
Lu Ren didn't understand the butcher's words for a moment, and asked in confusion: "Does it mean being struck by lightning?"
Although the butcher looked ferocious, he actually had a good temper. Seeing that Lu Ren didn't even understand this, he thought that he was a little monster who had just transformed, and looked at Lu Ren with a kind look: "No, it's Kui Niu, it has lightning. He went out on a rainy day without an umbrella, and got caught in the rain and short-circuited, so he accidentally electrocuted himself to death. In order not to waste it, I sent it here."
Lu Ren was stunned for a moment after hearing this: "Wouldn't it be a bad idea to just put him on the butcher's stall? Would his family agree?"
The butcher looked at Lu Ren with a puzzled look as if he had heard something strange: "Why don't you agree? The family members have signed the consent form for body donation."
In the world of monsters, cultivation is linked to spiritual energy. There is only so much spiritual energy between heaven and earth, so how to distribute and recycle it reasonably is extremely important.
For this reason, the monsters all agree that when a monster dies, other monsters will eat its remains to prevent the remaining spiritual energy in its body from being wasted. When these monsters die, their remains will also be dismembered. There is nothing right or wrong about it, it is just a cycle of spiritual energy.
Death and life are common things, but life will continue.
The butcher was talking about the tacit rules among monsters. Lu Ren was naturally in awe, but at the same time, he felt that what he said made a lot of sense. In addition, tonight's hot pot must be made without beef, so he decisively decided to buy some Kui beef.
The butcher was very good with the knife. He heard that Lu Ren was using it for hot pot, so he even cut the beef into thin slices for him. While cutting, he kindly reminded Lu Ren: "This Kui beef may have some tiny electric currents in it. Don't panic when you eat it. At most, it will make your tongue a little numb. Just think of it as adding too many peppercorns to the hot pot."
After that, he put the cut Kui beef into an ordinary plastic bag and handed it to them.
Junfang was closer to the butcher, so he took the meat and expressed his gratitude politely: "Okay, thank you." After that, he threw the Kui beef to the water monkey behind him.
But he didn’t know if it was Lu Ren’s illusion, but he seemed to see a flash of blue light in the plastic bag at the moment when Jun Fang and the water monkey touched each other.
The water monkey was even shocked by the sudden lightning and screamed.
“…”
There shouldn't be any problem.
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Kui Niu (kui)
