Chapter 27: Giving a good man a nod

Shen Yu took Asaba Rika to a nearby lifestyle supermarket.

Don’t ask why we don’t take her to the market, because Shen Yu herself doesn’t know how to buy food at the market. For young people who don’t know how to bargain, it’s better to buy things at a price that is clearly marked, after all, if you don’t bargain at the market, you always feel like you are losing out.

There are also vegetable markets in Japan, but most housewives generally choose supermarkets such as fresh food halls to buy food, prices are much higher than in China, even a single cabbage is sold for 30 or 40 yuan, not to mention some fruits and other products.

The price of fish and other fish products is much lower, and in Japan this is not considered meat.

When I arrived at the supermarket, my eyes went straight to the shelves and the prices of the food.

” Shen Yu! What a bargain!”

She jogged over and picked up a box of strawberries, 20 of which would have cost over 300 yuan in Japan, but only 18 yuan here.

“Can I buy a box of strawberries? I like to eat them.”

“Just buy it, it’s not like it’s something golden.”

Shen Yu pushes a shopping cart behind her with a bored look on his face.

He is not as keen on food as Asaba Rika, and his food requirements are very low, just enough to fill his stomach.

The last time his dad brought over the iPhone, he left it in the fridge untouched, mainly because he was too lazy to peel it, but if he didn’t peel it, it would choke his throat, so when Asaba Rika arrived, he let her destroy it all, and kindly peeled and cut half of it for Shen Yu to eat.

“And this! Cantaloupes are twelve dollars a pound gosh darn it!”

Asaba Rika was stunned to learn that cantaloupe can be considered a luxury fruit in Japan, and a cantaloupe as big as this can cost at least a thousand yuan.

“Let’s get one to eat too, shall we?”

Asaba Rika held this cantaloupe and didn’t want to put it down, smelling the sweet aroma in the air, I wanted to take a big bite of it right now.

“Just buy it, it’s not like it’s something golden.”

Shen Yu said this the most during the whole trip.

Asaba Rika looks like he has just come out of the village and has never seen the world. He makes a fuss about buying vegetables and people around him look at him from time to time, making Shen Yu feel embarrassed.

” Shen Yu , you must be a rich man if you’re that posh at our place!”

“So how does that make you poor?”

“Eat fish every day.”

“”

When Shen Yu pushed the cart, Asaba Rika wanted to help push it with her, but Shen Yu stopped pushing with her and let her push it on her own.

Asaba Rika doesn’t mind either, it’s super satisfying to watch the shopping trolleys get more and more stuff.

“Everything in the supermarket is on the expensive side, and the market is cheaper, and my mum usually buys her food at the market.” Shen Yu said.

“There are cheaper ones?!”

Asaba Rika was stunned and asked, ” Shen Yu why don’t you take me to the market to buy it.”

For Rika, who aspires to be a good wife and mother, it would be a waste not to buy the good stuff that is available at bargain prices.

“In our place, the market is more expensive than the supermarket, especially meat, because the market ones are fresh and housewives go to the market to buy frozen meat, which is cheaper, and then vegetables, ah, fruit, it’s all very expensive.”

Asaba Rika is educating Shen Yu about life, but for him, grocery shopping and cooking is a blind spot.

When buying food, Rika is also very good at picking vegetables, because she wants to make curry rice and roast pork, she has to buy onions, potatoes, carrots, tomatoes and other ingredients, so she will tell Shen Yu how to see if the onions are good or if the tomatoes are fresh.

Shen Yu was flabbergasted.

I feel like my mother going to the market to buy groceries

Before going shopping, Asaba Rika had already checked what spices, ingredients and cooking utensils were available at home.

Shen Yu usually lives on his own and occasionally his mother will come over and cook for him and most things are together.

As a wise wife, Asaba Rika is a very planned shopper, she doesn’t just buy whatever she sees is cheap, she has already planned what the ingredients will make and how many meals she will eat when she buys them, so there is no waste.

Many of the girls around us, who were shopping for their own food after work, were envious when they saw Shen Yu accompanying Asaba Rika to the grocery store.

Look at her boyfriend, how thoughtful he is!

You deserve to have such a beautiful and lovely girlfriend!

It was also starting to get dark when we came out of the supermarket after the grocery shopping, as it had rained and the night had come earlier today.

Both of them are carrying a full load of stuff, and Asaba Rika is chattering away.

“After this one out, we won’t have to come out for groceries for three days, so if we have time for lunch too, why don’t we go home and cook for lunch too?”

“You can make your own food if you want, why do you always have to involve me.”

Shen Yu was a bit bemused, thinking that this was how time was wasted, an hour spent doing nothing but shopping.

“Because if Shen Yu doesn’t come with me, I’ll be bored eating by myself, so I don’t want to cook, but I really want to cook, so Shen Yu will eat with me, okay?”

“”

Unlike other girls, Asaba Rika is not asking for a bag or a necklace, she just wants Shen Yu to have dinner with her.

Shen Yu Even if you say yes to her, you will not have any disadvantages, but also benefits, at least you can rub a meal, this kind of pampering is a bit impossible to refuse.

Shen Yu was a little wary of always agreeing to her little requests, would it become a habit in the future?

This is not a good sign!

Next time, I’ll be sure to refuse, even if you look at me with big, pitiful eyes!

” Shen Yu , you are so kind!”

Asaba Rika knew Shen Yu better and better, and knew that when he was silent and did not respond, he was saying yes.

The light from the street lamp fell into her eyes and her whole being was tinted a warm colour, her hair fluttering up in the wind, seemingly with a golden halo in the side reflections of the light.

Shen Yu felt as if his heart had been hit by a bull.

Chop chop chop chop chop!

The knife is a little dull, but at least it cuts.

“I didn’t say I promised.”

“Ah, why do you look like that? It’s a waste if you don’t eat these dishes, just this once.”

“Just this once, don’t count me in for future grocery shopping and cooking, I’m not available.”

“Mmmmmm!”

Asaba Rika doesn’t mind at all.

Shen Yu came back to his senses and wanted to slap himself. He had just said he would do it next time, but he hadn’t even gotten home yet, and now he was doing it again.

“Eh? Rika! What are you doing here!”

While waiting for the traffic lights, there was an alarming sound from the crowd at the side, and when Asaba Rika and Shen Yu looked back, they saw a girl about Rika’s age carrying a lot of things, including a thick quilt.

Shen Yu was also curious to know if she bought such a thick quilt in the summer.

“Eh! Jiang Ningle! Why are you here too!”

Jiang Ningle was her first friend apart from Shen Yu, a fellow international student with a similar personality, and she got on well.

The two men whispered aside and Shen Yu had no interest in eavesdropping.

“I’m going to buy a quilt. Didn’t I tell you this morning that my flatmate’s air conditioner was on too cold for me to handle?”

Jiang Ningle took a peek at Shen Yu over there. Being Asian, his aesthetics are naturally the same, so it’s no wonder that such a beautiful Asaba Rika has found him as a boyfriend.

“We’re out shopping for groceries, so we’ll cook our own dinner at home tonight.”

“Your boyfriend’s nice enough to come out and do your grocery shopping with you.”

“Yeah, he’s extra nice, I’ll ask Shen Yu and invite you to dinner, I’ll make curry and rice and kebabs.”

“No, no, no.”

They were having a candlelit dinner together, but I, as a single dog, was only worthy of the dining hall, so I didn’t have to go there!

Jiang Ningle pulled Rika and pretended to be strong, “I still have to go back to the dormitory, I’ll try your cooking later, I’ll go first, bye!”

As he passed by Shen Yu, he gave a thumbs up and said, without thinking, “Kudos to the good man!”

Shen Yu : “?”

I don’t know what’s going on, but the friends of idiot girls are all idiots too!