Why it never ends

Yu Xuekun quickly felt the change in the person in front of him.In the silence, Hesta's expression gradually became euphoric, and the slightly unruly vigilance faded slightly. She relaxed and leaned on the back of the chair again, and her feet that were originally resting on the ground were returned to the ground.

"...Huh?" Yu Xuekun looked at her thoughtfully, "What's wrong?"

"You should... tell me earlier," Hesta looked up at the ceiling. "Tell me earlier, maybe this month won't be so difficult for me."

"I should have told you a long time ago," Yu Xuekun looked at her, "Before I came to Orange Town, I told you that all mercury needles who enter a livable place after retirement must go through this journey, right? I didn't ?"

"You didn't say Ava."

"If I remember correctly, she worked until she was in her 50s before retiring from the combat order—"

"Haha, it's okay." Hesta interrupted Yu Xuekun with a smile, "I didn't think of this level, I should have thought of it."

"Okay," Yu Xuekun smiled slightly, "it seems you need a role model."

Hesta didn't refute, she looked at the time, then stood up with her schoolbag, "That's it for today, we'll see you next week -"

"Wait!" Yu Xuekun also stood up, "Let me remind you again, our meeting next week will no longer be a private meeting. By then-"

"At that time, the entire process of our conversation will be recorded and become one of the materials for AHgAs' evaluation of me. I remember it," Hestad tapped his forehead lightly, "The chat at the end of every month cannot tell the truth. ."

"...You still have to tell the truth," Yu Xuekun said with a smile, "If you lie, it will be detrimental to you."

"Understood." Hesta opened the door of the consulting room with brisk steps, "See you next week."

……

That afternoon, Hesta picked out a receipt given to her by Yu Xuekun and went to a nearby supermarket.

She didn't know much about literacy, so she entrusted supermarket staff to help her purchase goods according to the receipts.There are a total of more than twenty items on the receipt. Except for two or three items that are out of stock, the rest are all products with the exact same brand and quantity.For the convenience of her return trip, Hesta bought an extra trolley to load these things. The supermarket salesperson enthusiastically left her station to help her load the trolley.

"Are you new to study here?"

"Hmm...ah." Hesta responded for a while, "I just arrived not long ago."

"You don't eat in the school cafeteria, why don't you go out and buy your own food?"

"……Um."

"Young people should eat more vegetables." The sales clerk neatly stacked several cans of fermented bean curd and olives into Hesta's cart. "It's okay to eat these pickled things occasionally, but eating them regularly can easily lead to cancer and is unhealthy! We are all now Don’t eat these anymore.”

Hesta nodded in agreement.

Except for a box of 2 fresh eggs, a small piece of cheese, a large piece of butter and a [-]L bottle of yogurt, there are no fresh products here.In addition to the many cans of hot sauce and bags of pickled mustard underneath, the most purchased items by Yugali were flour and oatmeal—these two items enjoyed food subsidies in Orange Town, and the price was one-third of the normal market value.

And the only thing that could be called a vegetable in all the food was probably two cans of pickles...no meat.

"These two bars of soap and washing powder can't be packed in." The sales clerk returned to his work station. "I'll get you a bag. You can grab it together with the bundle of toilet paper and put it on the trolley. It can also save money." A little harder." "Thank you." Hesta said softly.

Such a cart of things together is less than [-] rubles, and this is Yugali's expenses for more than a week. If she does not include the money she spent on clothes in the first month, her monthly expenses are only over [-]... ...Compared with the upper limit of reimbursement of two thousand robi, Eucalyptus cost a fraction.

Hesta even suspected that maybe the lunch of meat, vegetables and fruits she had on the weekend cost more than Yugali's meals in the past week.

After pulling the car back to her home, Hesta took Xu Ruyi and went through the things she bought in the afternoon - she lied that it was a homework assignment for this week's social practice: buying daily necessities for a week alone.

Xu Ruyi came over to look at Hesta's car with great interest, but the more she looked at it, the more she frowned.She first pointed out that the proportion of carbohydrates in the food was too high, then she took out one of the [-]-pack bags of plain noodles, turned out the ingredient list, pointed to the sodium content and told Hesta that such noodles contained too much salt. It is not advisable to eat too much.

Then, Xu Ruyi took out her own boxed yogurt and compared the differences between the two yogurts with Hesta: the yogurt she bought for the whole family had been defatted and had a higher protein content, while Hesta chose The one I bought can almost only be regarded as a flavored drink in comparison...

In this entire cart, except for the box of eggs, there was nothing that caught Xu Ruyi's eyes.

"How much does your family spend on groceries each week?" Hestad asked.

"Not counting daily necessities, but just for diet... it's probably more than 800, right?" Xu Ruyi said softly, "Rice and noodles are the small ones. For the big ones, seafood, fresh meat, and seasonal fruits... need to be nutritionally balanced. "

"That's more than 3000 robi a month, just food and drink."

"It's almost enough." Xu Ruyi said with a smile, "Now, including your family, there are eight people in the family - I should say nine. There is one more in Yangyang's belly. Pregnant women have very tricky tastes, so they should take more care of them."

"More than 3000... can you finish it?" Hesta thought for a while, "Like me, I usually don't come back to eat at noon. Yuqing should also-"

"You have to prepare it if you can't finish it." Xu Ruyi looked at her, "What if you suddenly go home for dinner one day and there is no food at home, you will not be happy."

Hesta did not ask any more questions.

Xu Ruyi reluctantly left a few of the food and daily necessities that Hesta bought back. Most of the rest, Hesta took to the community committee at Xu Ruyi's suggestion - except for the toilet paper and soap.Xu Ruyi didn't even want to comment on these things, but said that no one would want to use such things at home.

So Hesta kept them in her room.

……

At night, Hesta was lying alone on the bed. She still couldn't figure out what Yugali was saving, so she turned over, picked up her phone and sent a message to Yugali, asking if she could go to her again this weekend. A meal at home because she couldn't forget the pumpkin meal she had last week.

After the message was sent, Hesta put down her phone and prepared to squint in bed for a while before getting up to learn the language.

However, almost at the same time, the phone vibrated again, and she raised the screen with some confusion: a new message from Eucalyptus.

This speed of recovery made Hesta sit up from the bed.

Eucalyptus' reply was brief: "Okay, welcome."