I will never give in to Miss Death

I actually made a thousand dollars today!

One thousand dollars!

It’s three, five, or even ten times higher than the daily wage of any previous job I’ve ever had!

Moreover, this money is like a timely help to me now. It directly solved my financial crisis in the past two months.

Novelists are very sensitive to "pressure".

An author who has trouble even eating and is anxious every day about what to do tomorrow and what to do if the book is not well written, or whether he should go to work in a factory, and an author who has a wealthy family, has various backup plans, and can calm down and create every day, the things they write are definitely very different.

With this thousand yuan, I won’t have to worry about food in May and June at least.

It would be great if there was a friend around to whom I could share my joy.

When I grabbed the cart and walked to the fresh food area of ​​the supermarket, I felt a little disappointed.

I can endure loneliness, and I can also silently digest all the negative energy in life - sadness, anger, depression and other emotions, but if possible, I actually hope to have a good friend who can share my joy.

Even if we don't share the joy, isn't it nice for the two of us to chat while pushing the cart and shopping?

For some reason, an image of a girl wearing black stockings, sitting on a computer chair and looking down at me, appeared in my mind.

Wait, why her?

The culprit who turned me into this lolita look... Why is she the first person I think of when I think of the word "friend"? I'm not a masochist.

Never mind, let’s go buy groceries.

After taking a quick look around the fresh produce section of the supermarket, I first came to the pork shop, looked around for a long time, and picked out a piece of pork shank.

"Cut it into pieces and use it for soup, thank you."

I handed the pork bones to the uncle in charge of processing them. With the sound of "dangdangdang", after a while, I got a box of pork bones marked with a price tag of "29.5 yuan".

And then there’s… winter melon.

I came to the vegetable section and picked up a piece of winter melon that had been cut into several pieces and put it in the shopping cart.

Normally, I wouldn't buy so many bones by myself, and when choosing side dishes like winter melon and radish, I would only go to the "special vegetable" area to buy those left over from yesterday. After all, I'm eating alone, and if I buy too much, I won't be able to finish it in the evening. But considering that some unscrupulous reaper might come over to eat for free tonight, I still bought two servings.

I don't know how much Death eats as a girl, and I don't know if she, who can use "magic", has a four-dimensional stomach similar to that of Gugu, the Elemental Devourer in the Marvel Universe. Anyway, it's always a good idea to buy more.

Even if I look like a loli because of that guy, everyone who comes is a guest. Since they have agreed to come in the evening, I should cook more dishes to entertain them.

Thinking of this, I came to the seafood area, took two saury from the uncle there, and asked him to kill and remove the internal organs and pack them.

Then there are the vegetables.

As for saury, I have a specialty dish, saury with saury sauce. However, this dish requires a lot of ingredients, such as shredded ginger, garlic, chili pepper, etc., and the procedure is very complicated. First, you have to process the saury, then make special seasonings, then process the sauerkraut, and finally put all the seasonings and ingredients together to season them. It takes nearly an hour to cook.

When I am alone, I will usually cook such a dish as a reward for myself when I have some free time on payday.

There are guests coming to my house now... Let's do it, hum.

After buying the ingredients for saury and pickled cabbage, and picking up a handful of fresh pumpkin seedlings, I walked to the fruit section of the supermarket with my great harvest. I hesitated for a long time between a box of strawberries at 40 yuan and a pound of apples at 5 yuan, and finally chose half a pound of strawberries.

It’s not that I want to entertain some unscrupulous god of death, it’s just that... after getting my salary, I want to eat strawberries which I haven’t eaten for more than a year!

I'll give her at most half... No, five, no, I'll give her at most three strawberries!

Fruits are getting more and more expensive nowadays. Last year I could still maintain the habit of eating some fruit after meals, but this year I can only afford to eat it once a week or two.

I don’t know if she likes Coke, so how about buying her a bottle of juice?

Even if she doesn't drink it, it's good to keep it for refreshment when she feels sleepy while writing.

I put two bottles of apple cider vinegar in the car in front of the supermarket freezer.

It is said that girls like to drink this sour and sweet thing.

Why should I care what that guy likes?

After wandering around the supermarket for most of the day, I suddenly came to my senses and patted my chubby little face.

Even if we knew each other in our previous life, I have no memory of that time now, so I am no different from ordinary people, right?

Moreover, judging by the way she treated herself, I guess our relationship back then wasn’t that good.

Finally, I came to the kitchenware section of the supermarket. I chose a pair of chopsticks, a bowl, and a container for soup from the shelf in front of me where pots, pans, and utensils were placed.

Thinking that I had bought most of the things I wanted, I pushed the cart to the checkout counter.

While waiting to check out, I saw discounted chrysanthemum tea on sale nearby. It was 8.8 yuan a bag, and it said it could be used to make at least 15 cups of water. After hesitating for a while, I just picked up a bag.

Okay, that’s all, two dishes and a soup, plus a fruit drink after the meal, and some tea, eat it if you like!

No. 061 Smiling faces and flashing lights, so noisy

This time shopping in the supermarket, all the miscellaneous items cost me 98.6 yuan.

"No need to buy bags, I can pack them myself."

After waiting in line for a few minutes at the supermarket checkout counter and paying the bill, I asked the cashier to put the items back into the shopping cart, and I pushed the cart outside, took the rabbit backpack behind me, and took out the shopping bags that I had prepared before going out.

If I remember correctly, I bought this shopping bag myself in this supermarket two years ago. It was not expensive, only 3 cents each, and could hold a lot of things. At that time, I was reluctant to use it as a garbage bag, so I kept it.

Since then, I bring this bag with me almost every time I go shopping at this supermarket and tell the cashier "no shopping bag".

A bag costs 1 cents. As I go to the supermarket about four times a month, I can save 12 yuan a month, which is 24 yuan a year and yuan in two years. This wrinkled bag has become something like a "family heirloom" for me.

"Little sister, look at the receipt!"

I put most of the things that are not pressure-resistant, have odors, and contain water into the bag, and put the drinks, bowls, chopsticks, chrysanthemum tea, etc. into the rabbit backpack behind me. When I was carrying the bag down the stairs, the girl selling accessories at the entrance stopped me as usual and said, "We are having an event. Any customer who buys something in the supermarket can enter the lucky draw for free once. If you spend more than 20 yuan, you can enter twice. Do you want to come and have a look?"

How many years have you been doing this activity?

Faced with the young lady's invitation, I just waved my hand and walked past her.

Jewelry and jade stores like this can be found at the entrances of most large supermarkets in Kamihama City.

These stores are built at the exits of supermarkets. Whenever a clerk sees someone coming out of the supermarket after buying something, he or she will approach them with a lottery box, let them draw a lottery, and then induce them to buy jewelry in the store.

This seems to be nothing wrong at first glance, but the jewelry and jade in their store are not very valuable, and many of them are fake.

Their routine is to get you to come for a lottery under the pretext of "supermarket shopping activities". Most of the lottery boxes are filled with "special prizes" and "first prizes". After you take out the lottery ticket and scratch it, they will pretend to be "surprised" and say, "Wow, it's the special prize! It's been a month, and someone finally won the special prize!" They will pull you into their store and say that the special prize is a jade article worth 8888 or 9999 yuan, and you will also get an extra bracelet that originally cost 5000 yuan, but now because you won the prize, you can buy it for only 300 yuan. As long as you pay 300 yuan, both pieces of jewelry are yours and you can give them to relatives, friends, and lovers.

At that time, I was pestered by these waiters for a long time, saying that you are the only special prize in the past few months, and you must not miss the opportunity to buy jewelry worth tens of thousands of yuan with 300 yuan. I said I didn’t like jewelry and they said I could give it to my parents. I said I had no relatives and they said I could give it to my elders and leaders. In short, they wouldn’t let you go.

I have experienced similar "scams" three times. One was at a train station when I was a child. Someone pretended to be deaf and dumb and held up a sign saying that he was disabled but hoped to make money. A jade item that cost 300 yuan could now be bought for only 10 yuan. He asked me to do a good deed and help them. Another time was at a department store in the city center. A salesman said he hoped to help them complete some project and provided free skin care. Whether it was helping you check your skin problems or doing skin care, it was free. I saw that they looked pitiful, so I went to the store. It turned out that the examination was free, and the application of skin care products was free, but they charged for helping you "remove makeup". They said that if you didn't use their special makeup remover, you would be disfigured in the future, and it would cost five hundred yuan each time.

Since then, I have no interest in such "sales", "organizing activities" or "helping us".

Society is a big dyeing vat. As time goes by, it is easy for the trust between people and their conscience to be lost.

"You can come here to draw a prize if you spend 58 yuan!"

Leaving the jewelry store at the entrance of the supermarket, at the exit on the first floor of the mall, I relied on my experience to find the familiar and real supermarket lottery area.

"98 dollars."

After handing the receipt to the staff here, I took the initiative to take out a lottery ticket from the box and scratched the lottery area with my very unfamiliar little hands.

Third Prize.

Wait, it’s the third prize?! Not a consolation prize?

“Third prize.”

I handed the ticket to the staff and glanced at the prize display area next to it.

The first prize is a refrigerator, the second prize is a small electric fan, the third prize is laundry detergent, and the consolation prize is cola or napkins.

"Here, third prize."

Maybe because they have been working here all day, the staff are filled with the smell of laziness. She took the box of laundry detergent and said, "Little sister, are you okay alone?"

"no problem!"

I picked up the laundry detergent and ran out of the mall happily.

Yay, no need to buy laundry detergent for the next two months!

Holding ingredients for tonight's cooking in my left hand, laundry detergent in my right hand, and a rabbit backpack on my back, I happily walked along the main road of the commercial street back toward my small apartment.

Although the laundry detergent is a bit heavy for my current loli body, when I think about it being free, I feel like my small body has endless energy. I carried it all the way from the supermarket on the commercial street to the tiny apartment across the street in the urban village in one breath, then I took a breath and climbed to the third floor.

came back.

"Whoosh..."

I entered the password to open the door, put the laundry detergent at the door temporarily, and looked around the quiet hall.

"..."

That’s strange, the Grim Reaper still hasn’t come?

Confused, I took out my cell phone and looked at the time.

It's already half past seven. If I remember correctly, this was the time she came to see me last night, right?

Or... that guy has to wait until I finish cooking before showing up?

I carried the ingredients to the refrigerator and tore off the letterhead that was stuck on it.

There were obviously no signs of being tampered with.

Never mind, let’s cook first.

After drinking some water, I went to the kitchen, put on my apron, washed the rice, cooked it, processed the pork bones, cut the winter melon, added seasonings and started to make soup.

While waiting for the winter melon and bone soup and rice in the rice cooker to cook, I simply removed the fishy smell from the fish, put it in the pan and fry it until golden brown. After removing it from the pan, I mixed the chili peppers, garlic, etc., added cold oil to the hot pan and stir-fried them until fragrant. I poured in the processed saury and lastly the fried saury. I covered the lid and began to simmer the flavor.

After finishing all this, I came to the dining table sweating profusely, looking at the small four-series table on the cushion and feeling worried.

Normally, such a small table is perfectly sufficient for me when I am alone. But now there is an additional girl of about sixteen or seventeen years old. The two of us sitting around such a small table seems... a bit crowded?

Never mind, when someone comes, just let her sit on the sofa.

I washed the strawberries and put them on the table, boiled water to make chrysanthemum tea, and the saury was almost cooked, so I went back to the kitchen, took a plate, poured the fish and sauerkraut out of the pot, arranged the fish into shapes, cut the sauerkraut into two flowers, and served them on the table.

Seeing that the winter melon and bone soup would be ready in about ten minutes, I crushed some garlic, fried some pumpkin seedlings, then washed two bowls, filled them with rice, and placed them on the dining table.

"Still not here?"

Seeing that I had prepared so much, but the girl of death still showed no sign of showing up, I was a little confused. I tried to open the door and look outside, then opened the window and looked at the sky outside.

It's completely dark.

"Are you hiding somewhere preparing a prank or is there something urgent?"

I tried to speak to the empty living room.

no respond.

Was this a stand-up?

Confused, I returned to the bedroom and checked the computer desk and the small bed.

No note or anything like that was found, and there were no signs that the house had been tampered with.

Then...wait a minute? The soup will take a while to be ready anyway.

With this mood, I came to the computer desk and jumped onto the chair.

I've been busy all day and haven't had time to update. This period of time is a good opportunity for me to write some drafts.

……

No. 062 What are you doing at dinner? Are you free? Can you come to the rescue?

"What is the city of Dicheng like in other people's words?"

"Come on, don't hesitate if you want to see, I can always see you wandering around alone."

"Come on, tell me quietly, the direction you want to go..."

My hands danced lightly on the keyboard as the melodious music came from next to the monitor.

In the kitchen not far away, the cooking of winter melon and bone soup has come to an end. A large amount of steam is sizzling out from the air vents on the top of the rice cooker, bringing a bit of homely air to the empty house.