Chapter 7 (2/2)

The sales assistant was a young woman, not very old, and she seemed to be here for a summer job. She got a little excited when she saw Lin ShuYi, and she didn’t bother to only introduce expensive ones anymore. She carefully introduced a few cell phones that weren’t expensive but still had pretty good quality, function, and reviews.

Lin ShuYi didn’t understand, but he compared a few cellphones as per the sales assistant’s recommendation before he picked one that was moderately priced but was still pretty good in all other aspects. It had a white case, and it felt like a thin remote control in his hand.

On their way back, they passed an ice cream shop. There was a long line outside, and at once, Lin ShuYi couldn’t walk anymore. He looked back again and again, causing Old Man Yang to also stop and look back.

When he saw that ice cream shop, he laughed.

Lin ShuYi, this child, didn’t seem to have any awareness about money or interest in material goods, like just then when they were buying a cell phone, he had an uninterested appearance the whole time. But he only had a hard-to-describe obsession towards food. As long as there was a line for some place selling food, no matter what it was, Lin ShuYi seemed to look like he was longing to try it.

Old Man Yang finally noticed. “Do you want to eat ice cream?”

Anyway, this ice cream was something that a child of his age should like to eat.

Lin ShuYi nodded.

“If you like it, then go buy some. Grandpa will wait for you here.”

When Lin ShuYi heard that, he walked over to the store. Old Man Yang thought a bit before he called out to him again.

“You can only buy one this time, okay?” If he bought one of each kind again like last time, that would be a disaster.

Lin ShuYi tilted his head, and he finally showed a little bit of the childishness that someone of his age should have. “Grandpa doesn’t want any?”

Everything Lin ShuYi did, he would think of him. Old Man Yang smiled so hard that his eyes curved. “It’s too cold, grandpa can’t eat it. You can just eat it yourself.”

There was a very long line in front of the ice cream shop. During this season, nothing was very popular except for ice cream, which was extremely well-received. Lin ShuYi had never eaten this before either. Even though he saw quite a few things on television, he had actually only ever eaten very few things.

There were quite a few signs hanging above the checkout counter, and all sorts of ice cream flavors were crammed onto the signs. Not only were the names written on them, there were also pictures. Every single one looked extremely delicious, and when Lin ShuYi remembered that Old Man Yang said he could only buy one, he felt troubled.

“Handsome fellow, which flavor do you want?” The young girl selling the ice cream beamed at him and didn’t pressure him. Whenever she saw handsome guys, she was always especially patient.

Lin ShuYi looked at the signs again, but he couldn’t make up his mind.

The young girl laughed and recommended the shop’s flagship ice cream. “Our shop’s chocolate ice-cream brick, strawberry parfait, and rose milk are all quite popular. Which one would you like?”

Lin ShuYi remembered what Old Man Yang had said, and he pressed his lips together. “Is there one that’s the most delicious?”

When the young girl was asked this, she was startled. The people in line behind him also laughed.

“It depends on what kind you like. If you like things with a heavier milk flavor, then rose milk is good. If you want another flavor, there’s strawberry, grape, matcha, chocolate, and blueberry.”

The most delicious? A hundred people all have a hundred different palates. For the young girl, any flavor of ice cream was the most delicious.

“Then I’ll take the rose milk.”

If it was delicious, he’ll buy it every day and eat it. Lin ShuYi smiled.

The ice cream here was all hand made, so even though the price was a little more expensive, the taste was extremely good. The young girl quickly handed over a container. There were beautiful flower patterns on the container, and it was filled with snow-white milk ice cream that was mixed with several tiny rosebuds. The top was coated with an entire scoop of translucent crimson strawberry jam. A plastic spoon was in the ice cream, and it all looked extremely tasty. Lin ShuYi swallowed expressionlessly.

Rose milk was one of the shop’s specialties. The rose jam was handmade as well, and it was lightly sweet and delicious. It also emitted a faint aroma. Lin ShuYi only knew that a rose was a kind of flower, but he never knew that you could also eat it, and that it could taste as good as this.

When Old Man Yang saw Lin ShuYi walk out with curved eyes, he just knew the food this time made Lin ShuYi very satisfied, because every time he ate something he liked, he always had this expression. “Buying a cellphone didn’t even make you this happy, but ice cream can make you so overjoyed.”

“It’s really yummy, does grandpa not want to try a little?”

Old Man Yang shook his head. “What are you holding?”

Lin ShuYi hadn’t noticed himself, but when Old Man Yang mentioned it, he lifted his hand. It turned out that he was still holding the pamphlet from the bank, and he handed it to Old Man Yang to see, but Old Man Yang tossed it in the trash.

“Those things are all made to trick people. It’s still better to store your money in a bank. All the rest of this nonsense is just to scam people.”

Old Man Yang was up in his years, and his views were conservative. Lin ShuYi glanced back and took another look at the pamphlet. He felt like what was written on it wasn’t necessarily unfeasible.