Chapter One Hundred and Forty-Four: First Attempt at Drunk Play (1/2)
Indeed, he should not have put too much faith in Yan Jin.
He only looked high-class on the surface.
Xiao Yu let his thoughts wander as he sighed and played with his mobile in the passenger seat.
“Is there anything you want to buy?” Yan Jin asked while driving as he took out a stack of papers and passed it to Xiao Yu. “I made a list. Have a look and see if there’s anything else I missed and add on to it.”
Xiao Yu absent-mindedly took the papers and immediately realized that something was wrong with the thickness of the document.
“So thick?” Xiao Yu held the five-centimeters thick document in his hand with astonishment written on his face.
With such thickness, one might have thought it was a dictionary.
“Hm? Not really.” Yan Jin disagreed. “It’s better to buy more to be prepared just in case.”
Xiao Yu lowered his head to look at the “dictionary” in his hand.
Page 1 Shopping List
1 – Food Container
1.1 Food Container Frosted, Blue, Heart-shaped border Frosted, Blue, Flower petal border
Skipping to the third line…
Frosted, Red, Heart-shaped border
Onto the tenth line…
1.2 Food Container Enamel, Blue, Flower petal border
Xiao Yu narrowed his eyes.
Page 5 Shopping List
2.1 Small House Spring, Plastic (Model 01) Spring, Plastic (Model 02)
He flipped to the tenth page and it was only up till 2.5 which was still about Small House, just that the type of season had changed to Summer.
More interesting was how the list was repetitive. It may be because Chairman Yan felt that the first shopping list looked too complicated, so he used Excel to redo the information into a table form with the exact same content. He even beautified the table and put a watermark image of a hamster at the bottom.
Which was why the five-centimeter thickness was not too much, after all, there were two sets of shopping list…
As if.
“You must be mad.” Xiao Yu muttered softly.
“Hm? What’s wrong?” Yan Jin did not catch what Xiao Yu had said but it did not affect his pleasant mood, nonetheless.
“Nothing. I don’t think there’s anything else we need to add.”
Xiao Yu conveniently tossed the “dictionary” to the side that was originally used to dump nutshells and trash. He then asked with mixed emotions, “Could the car fit so many things?”
That priceless Rolls Royce Phantom that Yan Jin had drove had already been scrapped during the accident. However, Yan Jin still had two other vehicles and one of them was another Rolls Royce that they were in right now. It was quite spacious inside but not as big as the Rolls Royce Phantom. They probably could not fit everything that was on the shopping list.
“Oh, I’m aware of that.” Yan Jin heard Xiao Yu’s problem and answered unhurriedly, “We only need to choose the item and the employees will deliver it to our place.”
“…… Pet shops do deliveries nowadays?”
It had been quite some time ago and Xiao Yu could not remember too well. But, he could still vaguely remember that the size of the shop was not big at all. Also, there were not enough employees around that it seemed possible for them to do home deliveries.
“They had some renovation recently and expanded their business.” Yan Jin vaguely summarized the matter. “One would eventually need to catch up with the society’s pace.
Xiao Yu still felt that something was amiss and there was a indistinct guess he had in mind. However, that possibility seemed too illogical, and so he quickly tossed away the idea.
……
Xiao Yu looked at the shopping mall that rose steeply from level ground like a tall skyscraper. He questioned dumbfoundedly: “Did we come to the wrong place?”
“We’re at the right place. The pet shop expanded their business and moved to this area.”
Yan Jin closed the car door and calmly escorted Xiao Yu to that gigantic shopping mall with over a hundred stores that sold all kind of pet items from ground level to the top level.
It was supposedly a shopping mall but except for the sales person, there was not even a single person in sight.
When Xiao Yu entered the fifth store that sold hamster pet products, he finally could not hold it in any longer. Enduring the burning gaze of the sales personnel, he forcefully dragged Yan Jin to a small corner of the store.
“What’s wrong?” Yan Jin asked.
“You dare to ask me what’s wrong? Explain yourself, what is happening?” Xiao Yu pinched Yan Jin’s wrist as he interrogated fiercely.
“It’s just like what you see…”
“That store back then was only that big. How could they have moved here?”
“There’s a lot of stores here. That store a while ago was only one of them.” Yan Jin answered.
“B-But how could a shopping mall only sell hamster pet products?”
“There’s a row of spectacle stores opposite YL. There’s also a Japanese ramen center with the entire first level that only serves Ramen, just five-kilometer drive away from here. Oh right, there’s also a famous candy store near our place too. If all that was possible, why is it not possible to have a shopping mall that specializes in pet products?” Yan Jin explained in a clear and logical manner. “Plus, it’s not only hamster products, there’s other pet products meant for other rodent species. There’s not much difference, but this area sells rodent pet products. We will be heading to the store that sells cat food later.”
“B-But, there’s no one here…” Xiao Yu was already losing his confidence.
“Is there anything wrong with slack business on a business day? Even YL has sales peak and non-peak periods.”
Xiao Yu was rendered speechless.
With a feeling that something must be wrong somewhere but uncertain of what it was, he ended up spending his entire afternoon shopping with Yan Jin in the mall. When he got tired of walking, they chanced upon a home cooking restaurant that had all his favorite dishes on the menu. Thus, they ended up enjoying their meal at that place.
……
When they arrived home, it was already late at night. Xiao Yu who was not even the one driving, felt like he was going to fall apart. He could only imagine how exhausted Yan Jin must have felt.
“You can go ahead and take a shower first before you retire early.” Xiao Yu threw himself onto the couch, his eyes already closing.
“Not showering together? It would support a minimal carbon environment.”
“Get lost.”
By the time Yan Jin had his shower, Xiao Yu had already dozed off on the couch. If it were like any other time, Yan Jin would probably carry Xiao Yu off to the bed. But this time, he “cruelly” woke him up.
Xiao Yu opened his eyes confusedly and saw Yan Jin smiling beside him.
“You’re done with the shower. My turn then.”