Chapter Fourteen: Super Equipment

  Before that, Zhou Yi had eaten Cao Yidao's fragrant rice wine meat, which activated the secondary occupation 'cooking'. Today, at Jingying International Shopping Mall, he took out his bank card to pay, and accidentally activated the system store. However, what conditions need to be met to activate secondary occupation skills such as 'medicine' and 'martial arts', the system did not provide an explanation.

  So Zhou Yi could only daydream for a moment before shifting her attention to the cooking utensils that had been opened in the system store.

  Culinary equipment, of course, refers to various cooking utensils, which are divided into three levels. The lowest level is the "Chef's Set", which belongs to white equipment and includes items such as "Chef's High Hat", "Chef's Spatula", "Chef's Frying Pan" and "Chef's Apron".

  According to the description in the system store, equipping this set of Great Chef series equipment can get a +1 cooking skill effect. For example, if Zhou Yi himself has already reached the 9th level of culinary mastery, and then equips the Great Chef series, he can break through again at this level and surpass the culinary master!

  The second grade is the 'Kitchen God's Suit', which belongs to dark gold equipment, corresponding to the chef's suit, also divided into high hats, pot lids, aprons and other suits. Equipping a full set of kitchen skills +3! However, the price is also expensive, with an average of over 3000 system coins.

  Zhou Yi took a glance at the bottom right corner of the system store and found that he only had 100 system coins, not even enough to buy one piece of equipment from the Great Chef series. And with just this amount of system coins, it was probably the gift given by the system when activating the system store.

  "This is simply unaffordable, I don't know how to earn system currency?" Zhou Yi slightly furrowed his brow, this 'Omnipotent Leisure System' wasn't a complete game. If it were a complete game, he could still rely on killing monsters and leveling up to make money, but where was he supposed to go kill monsters and level up?

  Although he is already a 9th-level Great Chef, even without these equipment, Zhou Yi's culinary skills are probably hard to find opponents in the current food world; but as a seasoned foodie, knowing that there are props that can help improve cooking skills and make more delicious food, how could Zhou Yi not be tempted?

  The top-of-the-line ones are green equipment, some of which form a complete set or series, while others are just one or two pieces, all bearing the names of famous chefs in history.

  I took a rough look at the I Ching and saw that there were dozens of top-notch equipment, including "Pao Ding's kitchen knife", "Yi Yin's cooking pot", "Yi Ya's seasoning plate", "Taihe Gong's cookware set", "Taihe Gong's roasted fish board", "Dong Xiaowan's pickled vegetable jar" and so on. These top-notch equipment not only have the aura of famous people, but also excel in their respective fields. For example, Yi Yin's cooking pot is obviously best for cooking, while Dong Xiaowan's pickled vegetable jar is most suitable for making various small dishes...

  However, these green top-level equipment with celebrity halos are also staggering in price. The cheapest ones cost 500,000 to 600,000 system coins, and the most expensive ones, such as the Taihe Gong suit, cost a whopping 3 million system currency for a set.

  Although Zhou Yi still didn't know what the concept of thirty million system currency was, this number still made him feel a little shocked.

  "Ding, the real currency exchange system has been successfully established... The current environmental currency is RMB, and the exchange ratio with the system currency is 10:1... You can choose to recharge in two ways: 1. Cash, 2. Direct bank transfer, do you need to exchange?"

  "What? The system coin is actually this expensive! 10 RMB can only exchange for 1 system coin?"

  According to the calculation of Zhou Yi, if we follow this ratio, buying a set of Taihe Gong suite would cost at least 30 million RMB. Even if he only buys dark gold kitchen god-level equipment, it would still cost tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of yuan. With his current net worth, he might go bankrupt after buying just one or two pieces.

  "Exchange 1000 system coins."

  Although I'm not planning to buy anything for now, Zhou Yi was still quite curious and wanted to try out the system's recharge system to see if it was normal.

  "Ding, 10,000 real currency has been successfully transferred from the bank card, exchange completed. Congratulations on obtaining 1,000 system coins."

  "Is this successful?"

  I'm amazed by the I Ching in my heart, and I really can't understand how the system is connected to the bank's network, or under what name it transferred the money from his account. Perhaps it was an inexplicable miracle when the system first entered his body.

  "Sir, would you like to pay?"

  The sweet voice of the shopping mall's customer service beauty reminded Zhou Yi, who exited the system with a smile and handed over his bank card and payment slip: "Beauty, please open an invoice..."

  ***

  On the taxi ride home, Liu Xue could clearly see Xiao Yezi's happiness and couldn't help but feel a pang of sadness in her heart. These two years had indeed been tough on this child. During holidays, other children wore new clothes bought from high-end malls, while she could only wear street stall goods, sometimes not even that; and because of her kidney disease, her body was too weak, so she couldn't often go out to play with friends, stuck at home every day.

  Even so, the sensible Yezi never blamed himself once, although he would also call out to his father and mother in his dreams, but he would never mention it in front of himself.

  This small body has already borne a heavy burden that many adults have not experienced...

  Just thinking about it, Liu Xue felt even more grateful to Zhou Yi, who had finally allowed Ye Zi to be 'pampered' once and have a happy childhood.

  "I may not be worth your money yet, but I can return myself to you in the near future..."

  Biting her lip, Liu Xue secretly took a glance at Zhou Yi, her heart turning over with emotions.

  "Willow, after tonight, Yezi will be three years old. Have you chosen a kindergarten for her? Education at the preschool stage is also very important and cannot be neglected."

  Liu Xue didn't speak for half a day, and Zhou Yi couldn't find a better topic to talk about, so he brought up the issue of kindergarten.

  "I think I'll let Yehzi go to kindergarten in a few months."

  Willow gently stroked Yezi's little head: "For a while, I want to take Yezi to her grandparents' place to live for a few days. Otherwise, once Yezi starts school, there will be even less time. Nowadays, kindergartens don't even have winter or summer breaks."

  "Go to Grandpa and Grandma's place?"

  Zhou Yi took a glance at Xiao Yezi, actually wanting to ask where Yezi's father and mother were, but he also knew that some things weren't convenient to mention in front of the child, so he nodded and said: "Is it far?"

  "It's quite far away, in Yun Province...". Liu Xue raised her head and looked at Zhou Yi with a somewhat complicated expression: "I think I'll leave the day after tomorrow, Brother Zhou... can you teach me how to stir-fry liangfen when I get back?"

  Liu Xue told a lie, in fact she was going to Fen Nan City, the capital of Su Province, not Yun Province.

  A few months ago, she found a kidney disease hospital in Shunnan City online, which is said to be very famous and has effectively treated many early and middle-stage uremia patients, so she pinned all her hopes on this hospital.

  During this time, she economized and saved up enough money for the treatment. Before her daughter starts kindergarten, Liu Xue plans to cure her illness so that she can go to school happily and healthily like other children.

  She didn't want to tell Zhou Yi about Ye Zi's condition for now. Two years of life had taught her that pity was not love, and she did have a good impression of Zhou Yi; otherwise, she wouldn't have thrown herself into his arms so recklessly last night. But she didn't want Ye Zi to become the one who broke the last layer of window paper.

  She has always been a perfectionist, especially when it comes to emotions. She doesn't want Zhou Yi to pity her and fall in love with her, nor does she want herself to make a wrong judgment due to temporary feelings of loneliness and helplessness... These few months can allow both parties to calm down and also let time test whether this relationship is real or not...

  "Are you leaving the day after tomorrow?"

  Zhou Yi was originally a carefree and easy-going person, so he didn't feel much loss because of this. On the contrary, he suddenly smiled: "When the time comes, I'll send you and Yezi off... And today, let me cook for Yezi to make some delicious food, just to fulfill my promise to you both."

  "Of course, both I and Yezi want to try your cooking skills, Brother Zhou."

  "So today I'm troubling you, I won't be helping out, okay......"

  P.S. I once thought of letting Zhou Yi cure Yezi's illness quickly, but that would have raised suspicions of controlling the rhythm and been a bit clichéd.

  I feel like handling it this way will make things even more awesome in the future, so everyone doesn't need to rush, trust me, with Old Zhou here, everything is not a problem:)

  In addition, on that stormy night, Zhou Yi's mental activity of 'protecting Liu Xue for a lifetime' was somewhat hasty and should have had a process of development. The previous text has been revised to reflect this, and it is explained here.

  For now, I've ended the emotional description with Liu Xue. Next, I'll start a truly carefree and leisurely life. Everyone, please look forward to it, hehe.

  Finally, asking for collection and recommendation is very important for a newcomer, and I've heard that senior authors say that asking for collection and recommendation is the right attitude:)