Why bother with dating when you already have a cat?

"Wow, that's dangerous?" Little Fish's eyes widened, surprised that such a thing existed. "I'll be careful then."

Ai Qing has two bank cards.

One of them was a bank card that Ai Zhongguo took him to open when he was in high school; it was his personal card.

The other one was given to me by the university when I was in college, and it was used to handle some school-related matters.

I'm graduating now, and there wasn't any money in this school card to begin with. I'll use it to link a bank card to Xiaoyu's account.

Since Xiaoyu doesn't have an ID card, basically all apps that require real-name authentication have to use Aiqing's identity for verification.

Of course, most apps are fine even without real-name authentication; at most, some functions will be restricted.

This is nothing serious.

……

The two subway stops take less than ten minutes.

It's a distance of several kilometers, but it only costs two yuan.

Two yuan might not buy much in real life, but it can transport such a huge object thousands of meters away.

Sometimes when you look back on your childhood and compare it to the present, you realize that technology has indeed changed so much.

Ai Qing turned her head and glanced at the little fish.

She was holding her phone, looking at WeChat and trying out its various functions.

As long as it doesn't involve paying money, she can do whatever she wants with it.

However, when I was her age and full of curiosity about mobile phones, I was holding a PHS phone or a flip phone with a slightly larger screen.

I vaguely remember that in the early 2000s, my mother went through several different flip phones with all sorts of flip designs, and the screens were much bigger than before.

Back then, Ai Qing loved playing games like Snake and Sokoban on it.

He probably never imagined back then that future mobile phones would be able to play games with graphics, gameplay, and content as rich as Honor of Kings and Yume.

I never imagined that a mobile phone could not only be used to make calls, but also to install so many different kinds of apps.

You can find apps with almost any function on it to meet your daily needs.

"We've arrived." Xiaoyu tugged at Ai Qing's sleeve, reminding him that they had reached their stop.

Still lost in reminiscing about the past, Ai Qing snapped out of her reverie and quickly got up to leave the station with Xiao Yu.

After successfully scanning the code and exiting the subway station, Ai Qing didn't rush to take Xiao Yu away. Instead, she pulled her to a vending machine.

Want a Coke?

"Uh-huh!"

“Then look at this.” Ai Qing pointed to it and said, “Press the button below the Coke.”

"Like this?" Little Fish pressed it.

Then a prompt appeared on the screen next to it.

"Click to confirm".

"Okay." Xiaoyu pressed the confirmation button on the screen, and the payment options appeared.

"Use WeChat."

At this point, Xiaoyu felt she understood and quickly took out her phone to open her WeChat payment code.

But she was quickly stunned.

"Why does it have a QR code too?" Little Fish asked, turning her head in surprise. "Shouldn't it be scanning me?"

“This is another payment method,” Ai Qing said with a smile. “Generally speaking, relatively reputable merchants have dedicated QR code scanning machines in their stores, and in this case, the merchant scans your code.”

"But sometimes, even if some merchants don't have the corresponding machines, they can still provide their payment QR codes to customers so that customers can scan them."

"Look at the plus sign in the upper right corner of WeChat. After you tap it, besides receiving and making payments, isn't there a scan function?"

"Oh, oh." Xiaoyu suddenly realized, and after clicking the scan function, she tried pointing it at the QR code on the vending machine, and sure enough, she was redirected to the payment interface.

As she completed the payment, a sound came from the vending machine.

The cola fell into the box below.

Ai Qing bent down and lifted the outer cover, gesturing for Xiao Yu to put her hand inside.

Sure enough, a can of cola was taken out of it, and Xiaoyu's face showed a surprised expression: "Wow! This thing can spit out cola by itself!"

“It can spit out anything that’s on the shelf, as long as you pay,” Ai Qing said.

"Doesn't it need to be operated by someone?" Xiaoyu asked curiously, then looked at the vending machine with a shocked expression, taking a half step back and suspecting, "Is there someone locked inside?!"

Ai Qing: "..."

"It's just a pre-written program and mechanism; there's no one inside," Ai Qing explained, exasperated. "You can see for yourself how it could possibly fit a person."

"Is Little Fish okay?" Little Fish stood next to the vending machine and compared her height to the machine.

Ai Qing rolled her eyes at her, then pulled her away from the subway station: "Let's go home."

Chapter 86 Can you make money by shooting videos?

In the evening, there was a knock on the door.

Xiaoyu, who had been waiting in the living room, immediately jumped up from the sofa as soon as she heard the noise, ran to the door, opened a crack in the door, and took the plastic bag from the delivery guy.

"Thank you!"

After politely thanking her, Xiaoyu, carrying a plastic bag and wearing white sneakers, ran all the way to the bedroom and showed the somewhat heavy plastic bag to Aiqing.

"Brother, look! It really arrived!"

"It's delivered, congratulations, you've learned how to order takeout." Ai Qing smiled and pointed to the plastic bag. "I bought slippers, open them and put them on. Don't wear those white sneakers at home anymore."

Previously, because Xiaoyu had only been human for a short time and was not very good at putting on and taking off shoes by herself, Aiqing had always let her wear shoes.

Anyway, when it turns back into a kitten, the little fish's clothes will become clean again, so there's not much need to change them often.

"Mmm." Little Fish nodded, opened the plastic bag, and took out a new pair of pink slippers.

When I bought it, the size was specifically marked, and it was only available in size 36. After removing the name tag, Xiaoyu threw it on the ground, skillfully took off her white shoes, and put her feet into the slippers.

Wearing white socks, her feet are small and cute. Even with size 36 shoes on, they still look a little smaller.

When Ai Qing put socks on her before, he had shown her that when his palm was fully extended, it was almost the same length as Xiao Yu's toes.

However, the size of these slippers doesn't significantly affect walking, so it's not a big problem.

Xiaoyu walked back and forth a couple of times in her slippers, and Ai Qing, who was sitting in a chair, said, "If you feel hot, you can take off your socks too."

"From now on, just leave your shoes by the door like I do, and change into them when you go out."

"As for the socks, you can wear them when you turn back into a cat. Just think of it as washing your socks."

Actually, if Xiaoyu didn't mind, Aiqing would really like her to take her dirty clothes with her.

But if we want Xiaoyu to take the clothes back, we have to get her to put them on first.

Although once the little fish turns back to normal, it will immediately become clean again.

But Ai Qing still felt a little embarrassed to wear her own dirty clothes.

After thinking about it, since the goal is to teach Xiaoyu how to live, I might as well let her learn how to use the washing machine and how to hang clothes to dry.

Both are about freeing up your own hands, so there's no difference, right?

"Then I'll go cook first." Xiaoyu put on her slippers, showed off her first takeout order, and after being praised by Ai Qing, she happily carried the ingredients for tonight and headed to the kitchen.

Now that she no longer had to cook for herself, Ai Qing sat at her desk in her bedroom, let out a contented sigh, and then continued to write diligently.

Is it really this wonderful to have someone to share life with?

……

It has to be said that if you study hard, even a kitten can cook a delicious meal.

Although it wasn't exactly a family dinner, and the three dishes were all simple versions that Ai Qing had taught them repeatedly, the two of them weren't picky about tastes, so they enjoyed their dinner very much.

Xiaoyu enjoys the happiness of being needed and affirmed, while Aiqing also enjoys the convenience of having someone prepare meals for her, freeing up her hands.

It's a win-win situation.

……

"Can this be used for chatting?"

After dinner, Ai Qing and Xiao Yu washed the dishes together and then went back to their bedroom to sit on the bed and look at their phones together.

First is QQ.

Registration for this is quite simple; the same mobile number can be bound repeatedly.

Soon, Xiaoyu registered her own QQ account "Ai Chiyu" and added Ai Qing's QQ account "Zhuanjiao Huakai" as a friend.

However, she soon discovered that this app called QQ was also used for chatting.

"WeChat and QQ are actually quite similar in function, with only some subtle differences," Ai Qing explained simply.

"For me personally, I mainly use WeChat to add people in real life and acquaintances, while on QQ, in addition to people I know, I also add many strangers I met online."

"If you meet someone in real life, you'll usually add them on WeChat; if you meet someone online, you'll add them on QQ."

In fact, Ai Qing herself didn't know why WeChat suddenly became popular.

He remembers that when he was a child, he only used QQ.

But after I got to college, I found that many people started using WeChat, even my parents.

So Ai Qing had no choice but to use WeChat.

WeChat expands upon the contact lists of real-life acquaintances, and naturally becomes a tool for information exchange within these social networks.

However, in reality, both WeChat and QQ allow users to add friends freely.

Little Fish nodded as if she understood, but she didn't really understand why they had to be split into two apps. Wouldn't it be better to just add them to the same app?

"But I only have my brother as a friend," Xiaoyu said. "How can I add other people?"