WTYTIAAN Chapter 17

Chapter 17

“Is that so? Then, Yuli, would you like to come with us today?” Yan Yunqing asked, “It’s not safe for a little kid to be at home alone, right?”

Yuli was very puzzled, “Grandpa and I have been living like this for so many years. When Brother Yan hadn’t come, I was also home alone, and it wasn’t unsafe at all. Everyone in the village takes good care of us.”

Yan Yunqing slapped his forehead: He forgot, this family could be considered a martyr’s family. Yuli’s parents, the blacksmith’s son, had all sacrificed themselves to protect the village, so the villagers took great care of this grandfather and granddaughter. When Grandpa Blacksmith went out, the neighbors would often come to check if little Yuli needed any help.

Maybe in the eyes of the current villagers, he was the unsafe factor.

Speak of the devil, and the devil appears. Neighbor Uncle Black’s voice rang from the door, “Little Yuli—are you home?”

Yuli put the water ladle in her hand aside and answered towards the door, “Uncle Black, I’m here, coming right away!”

Turning back to Yan Yunqing and Lillian, she said, “Brother Yan, Lillian, I’ve prepared the food, it’s on the dining table outside. Go eat when you’re ready! If you’re hungry in the morning, you won’t have any energy all day.”

After speaking, Yuli hurried out.

Leaving Yan Yunqing and Lillian looking at each other.

Were they being taken care of by a child as if they were children?

Even someone as thick-skinned as Lillian couldn’t take it, “I’m clearly a little one too, but why do I suddenly feel like my image has become very bad.”

Yan Yunqing spread his hands.

There was no way around it, unreliable adults were meant to be taken care of by mature children.

After cleaning himself up, Yan Yunqing took out a tree branch and cast a newly learned cleansing spell on himself. He immediately felt lighter all over, and his whole person became refreshed again.

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Don’t ask him why he could use cleansing spells to clean himself but still wasted time brushing his teeth. He could only say that the habit of brushing his teeth and washing his face in the morning had been maintained for so many years, that if he didn’t do it one day, he would subconsciously feel unclean.

He came to the dining table and sat down.

Yuli had prepared a simple breakfast for them: a bowl of steamed egg custard made with gugu chicken eggs, with a little sauce poured on top. Yan Yunqing tasted it, and it was very similar to the soy sauce in his original world. Each of them had a cup of curly sheep milk, and a plate of sliced bread, smelling of fragrant wheat flour, piping hot, it looked like it had just been baked.

There was also a plate of wild berries specially prepared for Lillian.

Yan Yunqing didn’t have high hopes for the diet of commoners in another world. After all, the times were backward, and many seasonings were still being used as spices at this time, so he couldn’t taste anything delicious.

The only foods that could be considered good were those where the ingredients themselves were fresh enough that no matter how they were cooked, they wouldn’t go wrong.

Being able to eat egg custard was satisfying enough for Yan Yunqing.

He stuffed the choking bread into his mouth in a few bites and swallowed it with the slightly sweet sheep milk, only to have it get stuck in his chest halfway down, neither going up nor down.

Yan Yunqing vigorously pounded his chest, his face twisted with the expression, and it took several strokes before he could barely get it into his stomach. Lillian watched, stunned, and carefully ate her berries, afraid of ending up like Yan Yunqing, choking half to death with a distorted face.

“Can’t you eat more slowly?” Lillian thought Yan Yunqing was too rude, “You’re gobbling it down as if Yuli starved you for several meals.”

“You don’t understand,” Yan Yunqing sighed faintly.

This bread smelled fragrant, but it was really hard to eat. It was made purely with wheat flour that wasn’t ground evenly enough, without any additives or other messy things, so the texture was similar to the old-fashioned big lieba over in Russia.

It was hard and dry, not only choking but also tiring on the teeth, and it had no taste at all. The more he chewed, the more he felt like his life was bleak.

The longer he ate it, the more Yan Yunqing couldn’t help but think of the cola chicken wings, braised pork ribs, Kung Pao chicken, sweet and sour pork, lamb buns…

Saliva flowed from his eyes!

In order not to cry himself red-faced every time he ate, Yan Yunqing chose to finish eating as soon as possible to avoid dying… no, to end it early, so he wouldn’t miss home so much every time he ate this bread.

He drank the remaining sheep milk, finished off the egg custard, wiped his mouth, and went to wash the used dishes.

The meal was prepared by the child, so Yan Yunqing was really embarrassed to have the child be responsible for washing the dishes after eating.

That kind of adult was too scummy!

After washing the dishes, Yuli also returned to the house, busy doing something.

Yan Yunqing told Yuli, “I’m going out for a walk, I won’t be back for lunch today. You can prepare lunch for Lillian.”

“Got it,” Yuli said, holding a small notebook and writing and drawing on the dining table. Hearing this, she looked up, “Then when you come back, bring a gugu chicken back from Uncle Jim’s place. Tonight, I’ll make roasted gugu chicken for you to eat.”

As she spoke, she jumped off the stool, pattered into the house, and took out a silver coin, stuffing it into Yan Yunqing’s hand, “Here, the money to buy the gugu chicken.”

“What money is this for?” Yan Yunqing didn’t want it, “I have money, you keep this money to buy candy.”

Yuli looked up at him, her eyes bright.

Yan Yunqing couldn’t help but take a step back. This look was too sharp, sharp sister.

Seeing Yan Yunqing take a step back, Yuli sighed maturely like her grandpa, “Take it, you already gave our family three silver coins a day for accommodation, this includes the cost of food.”

“Besides, Brother Yan, if you don’t lack money, why do you still run out every day and ask people if they need help with work?”

Yuli looked at Yan Yunqing with eyes full of worry and disapproval, “Brother Yan, actually, our village’s accommodation fee really doesn’t need three silver coins, you can give less, so you don’t have to work so hard every day.”

Yuli’s face clearly said: Baby is very worried about you.

Yan Yunqing: …

Yan Yunqing was silent.

Yan Yunqing closed his eyes.

Yan Yunqing didn’t know how to tell Yuli that he actually had a lot of money, and that he went out everywhere to ask people if they needed help not for the reward of a few copper coins, but because he wanted to do more daily quests to level up faster.

As a result, Yuli saw Yan Yunqing leaving early and returning late every day, thinking that this big brother was actually short of money and had to go out to work every day to earn enough to pay their family’s accommodation fee.

Yuli, who was young but very kind, felt that this couldn’t go on. She felt like she was holding hot potatoes with the silver coins that Brother Yan had worked so hard to earn, and didn’t know how to tell Brother Yan that he really didn’t need to give so much money to stay at their house.

Lillian heard the entire conversation clearly and laughed so hard that she clutched her stomach, “Dying of laughter, hahahahaha—”

“Going out to find work every day hahahahahaha, working hard to earn accommodation fees hahahahahaha.”

Yan Yunqing almost thought he didn’t recognize the word “ha.”

Yan Yunqing glared fiercely at Lillian, squatted down in front of Yuli, and looked her in the eye, putting the silver coin back into Yuli’s hand, “Yuli, I really don’t lack money.”

“The reason why I go back to ask those villagers if they need help is because… uh…” Yan Yunqing racked his brains for a reason, “I just like doing it. You know? Adventurers will take on all sorts of quests to complete, I’m learning how to be a qualified adventurer.”

The game was like this, the planners only needed to bury themselves in writing random daily tasks, while the players had to consider a lot more.

Yuli couldn’t quite understand, she frowned and tried to understand, “Um… adventurer… is that a profession similar to a bounty hunter? Accepting tasks from the Bounty Hunter Association and receiving rewards after completing them?”

Yan Yunqing blinked, “Ah, yes, that’s right, it’s like that. I’m just trying to learn how to be a qualified bounty hunter.”

Bounty Hunter Association?

One second fine, the next second mine.

Good reason, bring it!

Yuli thought for a while and felt that Yan Yunqing’s statement seemed a bit strange, but she couldn’t figure out exactly what was wrong, so she could only nod.

“Okay, since Brother Yan said so.” Yuli showed a reliable little adult look and patted Yan Yunqing on the shoulder, “Then today, Brother Yan must also work hard to learn how to be a bounty hunter!”

Yan Yunqing was stunned, and the corners of his mouth turned up, revealing a bright smile: “Of course.”

Lillian sent a burst of laughter from afar: “Hahahahahaha, learning how to be a bounty hunter—”

The smile suddenly froze on the corner of his mouth, Yan Yunqing gritted his teeth, each word seeming to be squeezed out from between his teeth, “Li—Li—An—”

“You and I are going out today! Lying at home all day, you’re going to get moldy! Hurry up and come out and get some sun!”

“Hahahahaha—eh?”

Lillian, who was still laughing, was suddenly pinched up by Yan Yunqing, looking around blankly in Yan Yunqing’s hand, “Wait? What? Elves don’t get moldy, what are you talking about?”

“It’s so hot, I don’t want to go out! No way, no way, don’t let me go out—”

Ignoring Lillian’s refusal, Yan Yunqing waved to Yuli and forcibly took Lillian out the door.

After only walking a few steps and being exposed to the sun for a while, Lillian drooped, flying listlessly beside Yan Yunqing, looking resentful.

Yan Yunqing was speechless, “Is it necessary? It’s not that hot? You’ve really been staying at home for a long time, if you don’t get some sun, people… elves will also become useless.”

Lillian hung her head, hiding in Yan Yunqing’s shadow, “Although we all grow out of trees, elves aren’t real plants, we don’t need to get sun to grow up or anything.”

“I just don’t like the feeling of being sticky all over after being in the sun for a long time.”

Lillian was like a shut-in being forced out of the house by her parents, exuding a resentment that wanted to destroy the world.

Yan Yunqing rolled his eyes, “I said, since you want to follow me for the time being, be prepared to sleep in the wild at any time, this kind of thing will definitely happen in the future.”

Right now, his level was still that of a newbie in the novice village, so he was taking on tasks everywhere in this village to level up. When the daily tasks were no longer enough for him to level up, he would definitely have to leave this village to find a leveling area to fight monsters and level up.

Now that he had come to this world, Yan Yunqing couldn’t continue to naively believe that he could live in some village for the rest of his life, being a mediocre ordinary person until death.

Even if he was willing, the game system that came with him to this world would definitely not agree. Look at the [Explore ‘Blood Mist’] task, it was clear that this game system wanted him to explore more things related to this world.

As a player, he had to be aware that in the future he would participate in countless major events that determined the fate of the world, and shoulder the identity of a savior!

So,

Level up! Become stronger! It was imminent!

Yan Yunqing ignored Lillian’s increasingly resentful expression, his feet swift as the wind, and turned into a villager’s house, facing the old grandma NPC with the exclamation mark on top of her head that could be noticed from ten meters away, “Grandma Maria, is there anything I can help you with today?”

“Oh, it’s little Yan, you’ve come at just the right time. The water in the water tank at home is almost used up, can I trouble you to fetch a few buckets of water from the small river and fill this water tank?”

“Of course, I will pay you some reward to thank you for doing these things for me.”

“I understand, Grandma, I’ll go help you fetch water right away!”