goodnovel Chapter 332 - 260: The Gap Between Two Worlds (2-in-1 - )
Chapter 332 - 260: The Gap Between Two Worlds (2-in-1 - )
"Miss, how many mantis shrimp would you like?"
"Let’s get three pounds."
"Three pounds? Miss, you’ve already bought so much seafood. If it’s just for the two of you, you should probably buy a little less! You don’t want it to go to waste." The fisherwoman in the straw hat was kindhearted and offered a reminder.
"It’s fine. If we can’t finish it for dinner, we’ll have it as a late-night snack. Besides, my friend here has a big appetite. We should be able to finish it," Su Yue said with a smile, glancing at Lin Li, who was staring intently at a strange fish beside her.
"Alright, then. Three pounds of mantis shrimp it is." As she spoke, the fisherwoman in the straw hat took out a plastic bag and filled it with three pounds of mantis shrimp for Su Yue.
"How much is that in total?" Lin Li, who was standing to the side, asked when he saw that the woman had finished bagging all the seafood they’d picked out.
"The total comes to two hundred and fifteen yuan, but I’ll knock off five. Just call it two hundred and ten!" the woman said cheerfully.
’That’s so cheap!’ Lin Li and Su Yue thought at the same time when they heard the price.
They knew that if they had bought these few bags of seafood at a regular market, it would have easily cost them six or seven hundred yuan.
Buying the seafood firsthand from the fishermen right here at the pier had saved them two-thirds of the cost. The discount was far greater than Lin Li and Su Yue had expected.
"If you two think it’s cheap, feel free to come back and buy from me again!" the woman said with a hearty laugh.
"We will," Su Yue said with a smile. "We’ll be staying here for a few more days. If we have time, we’ll definitely come back to buy more seafood from you..."
"Ma’am, I’ve sent the payment. Please check..." Lin Li scanned the woman’s payment QR code with his phone and transferred the two hundred and ten yuan.
"Got it," the woman said after checking her phone. Afterward, Lin Li and Su Yue picked up their bags of seafood and left the pier.
Since so many tourists came to the pier to buy cheap seafood, quite a few people had spotted a business opportunity.
And so, not far from the pier, a row of seafood restaurants had opened up along the street.
These restaurants generally didn’t stock their own ingredients. Their main business was processing the seafood for tourists who had just bought it at the pier, while also selling some drinks on the side.
Carrying their bags of seafood, Lin Li and Su Yue walked a short distance from the pier and immediately saw a neat row of seafood processing restaurants in the distance.
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The sun hadn’t completely set yet, and it was still a little while before dinnertime, but customers were already starting to fill the tables set up in the open area in front of the restaurants.
Lin Li and Su Yue randomly chose a restaurant. After asking about the processing fee and finding the price reasonable, they handed over their bags of seafood from the pier and then found an empty table to sit at.
"Sir, Miss, would you like anything to drink?" a middle-aged man, who was both the owner and the chef, asked. He was holding their bags of seafood and was about to head to the kitchen to prepare it when he turned back to ask Lin Li and Su Yue.
"I’ll have a case of beer," Su Yue said.
"I’ll have a bottle of happy water," Lin Li said.
"Uh..." The owner froze for a second, gave Lin Li a slightly odd look, and then said, "One moment. I’ll bring them right out," before turning and heading into the restaurant.
"Why are you drinking ’happy water’? Come on, have a beer with me!" Su Yue said to Lin Li after the owner left.
"Beer and seafood? That’s a recipe for gout!" said Lin Li, who didn’t like to drink.
Hearing this, Su Yue looked at Lin Li with a perplexed expression. "So what if you get gout?" she said, clearly confused. "It’s not like gout is a big deal."
"If you get a minor ailment like that, you just go to a pharmacy, buy some medicine, and take it, right? The whole course of treatment only takes two or three days."
"..." Hearing Su Yue’s words, Lin Li suddenly remembered. On Blue Star, a disease like gout had been completely figured out by researchers at the Spiritual Energy Research Institute decades ago.
Nowadays, getting gout was like catching a mild cold. You didn’t even need to go to a hospital. You could just find a pharmacy on the street, describe your symptoms to the clerk, buy a box of pills, and one course of treatment would take care of it in no time.
’Blue Star’s current medical technology is far more advanced than Earth’s. They have solutions for many complex and terminal illnesses.’
’Things like cancer, leukemia, and other rare diseases can no longer harm humans. How could I have forgotten about that...’ Lin Li lamented internally.
"Have a few drinks with me later," Su Yue said to Lin Li.
"No," Lin Li replied, shaking his head decisively.
"Look, everyone else is toasting and drinking together! If I’m the only one drinking by myself in a bit, I’ll feel really awkward if they see me..."
Su Yue motioned for Lin Li to look at the surrounding tables. Lin Li turned his head and saw that she was right.
The tables set up outside the restaurant were now all full. At the tables where food had already been served, everyone was raising their glasses, clinking them together, downing their drinks, and laughing heartily.
"Fine! I’ll have a few drinks with you. But you’d better pace yourself and not drink too much. If you get drunk again this time, I’m not taking care of you..." Lin Li, who had been through this before, warned Su Yue. She just smiled, nodded, and agreed.