Little Mu Lan’s eyes were sparkling. Hearing her mother say that, he became even more excited and nodded quickly, “Yes, yes, I want to eat!”
Mu Sijie looked at the two, one big and one small, with a hint of helplessness. More importantly, “There’s no ingredient market.”
“Ah?” Lu Wanqing was stunned, looking at Mu Sijie blankly.
Mu Sijie explained, “In the interstellar era, kitchens are managed by household robots, and basically, no one cooks personally anymore.” If no one cooks, then naturally no one buys groceries, hence no ingredient markets.
“Then where do the ingredients come from? Where did all the ingredients at home come from?” Lu Wanqing was shocked. The Mu family had ingredients, and they were the freshest every day.
Mu Sijie smiled and replied, “Those ingredients are specially supplied. If you want to buy ingredients, you can find Butler Mu, let him give you permissions, and you can directly place an order on the Supplier City. All sorts of ingredients inside are the freshest. After ordering, they will be delivered to your home quickly.”
Lu Wanqing: “…” She never imagined that ingredients in the interstellar era were all bought online?
Lu Wanqing suddenly felt that the interstellar era was good in every aspect, except perhaps for the ingredients, which might have some flaws?
Lu Wanqing’s thought lasted only a short while. Back home, after receiving the membership permissions for the Ingredient Supplier City from Butler Mu, they logged into the Star Network together and entered the Ingredient Supplier City. It was then that Lu Wanqing discovered just how amazing the interstellar era was!
Want to buy vegetables?
You can.
As long as you don’t mind the trouble, you can go directly to the vegetable garden to pick them!
To ensure the absolute freshness of the ingredients, these vegetables are not harvested in advance. Through high-tech interstellar means, the entire vegetable garden is projected in its true form onto the Star Network. If the buyer is willing, they can enter the vegetable garden and personally pick the vegetables.
Although the vegetables on the Star Network are virtual, as soon as a buyer picks a certain vegetable, the system records it. The vegetable supplier will then go to the real vegetable garden and pick the exact vegetables the buyer selected, and then, according to the buyer’s request, deliver them to the buyer’s home as quickly as possible, without any alteration.
Want to buy fish?
You can also.
Buyers can enter the fish pond on the Star Network through interstellar full-simulation. Buyers can use fishing rods to fish or nets to catch fish. Whichever one they catch, and whichever one they want, as long as they place an order and pay, the seller will catch the corresponding fish from the real world, package it, and deliver it to the buyer’s home within an hour!
Other ingredients are the same. As long as the buyer doesn’t mind the trouble, picking each ingredient one by one in the most original way is not a problem at all!
Of course, if the buyer finds it troublesome, they can also directly tell the seller their requirements. The seller will then reasonably allocate ingredients based on the buyer’s requirements, package them, and deliver them to the buyer’s hands.
This was Lu Wanqing’s first time. She couldn’t control her sense of novelty and, with Mu Sijie, took Little Mu Lan to browse the Ingredient Supplier City.
They went to the vegetable garden to see eggplants, string beans, chili peppers, and other familiar vegetables.
Then they went to the orchard to see various fruits.
It was just buying groceries, but Lu Wanqing felt the joy of taking her child to a parent-child picking garden!
Finally, it was meat. Lu Wanqing wanted to buy a chicken, so she took Little Mu Lan to the chicken farm.
There were quite a few chicken vendors. Some kept chickens in cages, which were broiler chickens for meat. Others let them roam freely in the mountains, which were free-range chickens with plenty of exercise. Lu Wanqing did not hesitate to choose the free-range chickens that roamed in the mountains.
To catch a chicken, Lu Wanqing and Mu Lan ran all over the mountains in the full-simulation environment on the Star Network. They were exhausted from running before they finally caught the chicken they had chosen. However, after catching it, she and Little Mu Lan both laughed. Mother and son were both super happy!
This was truly… a super different grocery shopping experience!
Lu Wanqing suddenly felt that buying groceries in the interstellar era might even be fun. In the future, when she had time, she would take her child to browse here from time to time. It would be a super happy thing, even more fun than going to an amusement park!
After all the fuss, it was getting late. But it didn’t matter. The important thing was that she and Mu Lan were happy. What was the unhappiness at kindergarten? It was all in the past now!
“Mommy, I want to help when we cook later too!” With the shopping done and ready to go offline, Little Mu Lan said excitedly, his eyes sparkling.
“Okay.” Lu Wanqing agreed without hesitation.
Mu Sijie also didn’t expect them to have so much fun just buying groceries. But reflecting on the experiences just now, he suddenly found it quite interesting? It was completely different from their past lives.
They quickly went offline from the Star Network and waited for the ingredients to arrive.
To be honest, after coming off the Star Network, Lu Wanqing felt a sense of unreality again. Was everything on the Star Network fake? Was the reality of the interstellar era really that amazing? Projecting things from the real world onto the Star Network, and when they chose something, the seller could truly deliver the exact chosen vegetable, fish, or chicken, without any alteration, exactly as they had picked or caught it?
And also, vegetables, fish, and chickens looked like they should be quite far away, not within the city, right? Could they really be delivered within an hour?
Lu Wanqing couldn’t help but doubt, but she also had an inexplicable sense of anticipation for the interstellar era. She and Little Mu Lan waited nervously together, and then they discovered that the vegetables, fish, and chicken did indeed arrive at their home one after another within an hour.
Lu Wanqing, still uneasy, picked up these items and observed them carefully. Finally, she was shocked to find that these items were indeed what they had chosen on the Star Network. The vegetables were the same vegetables, the fish was the same fish, and even the chicken was the one she and Little Mu Lan had painstakingly caught after running all over the mountain. This was because the markings on the chicken were exactly the same. Lu Wanqing remembered it clearly.
“Mommy, how should we cook it?” With all the items arrived, Little Mu Lan couldn’t contain his excitement and looked up at Lu Wanqing expectantly.
Lu Wanqing took a deep breath, then smiled and said, “Leave all this to Mommy. Mommy will handle everything!”
“Okay!” Little Mu Lan nodded heavily without hesitation.
Lu Wanqing also couldn’t suppress the surging power within her. She felt like she really… wanted to make a delicious dinner right away. She was so excited. These ingredients were all personally selected by her and Little Mu Lan, and even Mu Sijie had participated. It was exceptionally meaningful!
Lu Wanqing moved the ingredients to the kitchen and began to get busy. She was going to prepare dinner.
Mu Sijie also didn’t leave. He and Little Mu Lan stayed in the kitchen to help her. Anything they could help with, they would do with her.