Liu Chang'an took Shangguan Dandan and Zhou Dongdong out for a stroll. Since they had not ridden electric scooters, they did not plan to go too far for food.
There were countless affordable and upscale restaurants nearby, offering flavors from all over the country. The only difficult part was choosing what to eat.
Some people said indecisiveness came from poverty—that if you had money, you could have it all—but that was not quite right... Take a man seeking pleasure, for instance. No matter how many women he found, the actual experience he could take in was still quite limited.
Eating was the same. Delicious food was limitless, but the stomach was limited. You wanted this and that, yet there was only so much you could fit inside.
Even the Three Titans Beneath the Plane Tree, who looked as though they could eat every restaurant they passed while strolling down the street, could not truly eat everything.
Shangguan Dandan and Zhou Dongdong were not worried about what to eat. They were reporting what they had done today:
After getting up in the morning, the two of them went to the market together and looked at all the little animals there. They bought nothing and came back; chicken drumettes had gone up by one yuan fifty per jin.
They climbed a mulberry tree and found there were no mulberries left to eat, but after turning over some wall bricks, they found lots of little bugs.
After going home to play on the tablet for a while, they ate breakfast and went together to the corner store to play cards. Once Shangguan Dandan had won five yuan, the two of them bought sweet ginger to eat.
At noon, a tree branch as thick as a chopstick fell onto Zhou Dongdong's head.
Shangguan Dandan