A wealthy person with a reading panel

Chapter 30 Come to my place to drink water and quench your thirst

"Maybe strengthening the body consumes too much energy."

Zhou Qing thought so, and an idea suddenly struck him. He immediately called out the panel, turned the doubts in his heart into thoughts, and touched the panel.

Immediate feedback:
1. The substance that strengthens the body comes from snake gall, but the strengthening process and the exercise he does to vent his heat will consume a lot of energy. He has not cultivated internal strength like "Yang Guo", so he gets hungry so quickly.

Second, there is indeed still a lot of snake gallbladder "medicinal effect" remaining in the body, and the panel temporarily activates the "protection mechanism". After he eats more, his body will have enough nutrients and calories stored, and will naturally continue to absorb and strengthen.

3. His "vague" feeling is not rootless, but comes from the special connection between himself and the panel.

……

"I see."

No problem, go out and find food.

Zhou Qing thought about it, took back the panel, took his cell phone and room key, and went downstairs.

It is already past nine o'clock in the evening, and most of the restaurants open during the day are closed, but the late-night snack shops have taken over and opened their stalls.

Tanzhou is a foot capital, a city that never sleeps, and a city of gourmet food.

Zhou Qing came to the outside of the community, crossed the road, and came to the Xiangdong Pedestrian Street opposite.

It is next to the Civil Affairs College and very close to the University of Forestry and Technology. There are many students here, which makes this small pedestrian street very lively at night.

I first found a fruit store and bought a large box of cut fruits.

After paying, Zhou Qing took a small fork and started eating. He stuffed apples, pineapples, mangoes, kiwis, etc., all kinds of cut fruits into his mouth to supplement enough vitamins.

While eating, I walked into the pedestrian street and saw a stall selling grilled squid on the side of the road, so I went up and ordered ten skewers.

He had never eaten grilled squid before he went to college.

During my freshman year, I fell in love with the flavor of this snack after trying it at a snack bar near the school. But I used to think it was too expensive and couldn't afford to buy it. I would only buy one or two skewers as a reward after I earned some money from my part-time job.

Now that I have money, I can order as much as I want.

Although it was just a small grilled squid skewer, the contrasting life experiences before and after made him feel very emotional.

"Sure enough, having money is great!"

It not only satisfies your taste buds, but also gives you the pleasure of choosing whatever you want!
He was not eating as fast as he was buying, so he walked around the pedestrian street and came out with his hands full of various packaged delicacies.

In addition to the grilled squid skewers, there are also stinky tofu, sugar-coated rice cakes, charcoal-grilled oysters, grilled beef and mutton skewers, grilled leeks, grilled mushrooms, corn and meat dumplings, green pepper and boneless meat rice, etc.

When he buys, he tries to consider the combination of various nutrients such as carbohydrates, proteins, fats, etc.

Considering that many things are better eaten while hot, Zhou Qing hurried back to his residence.

Close the door, unpack, and enjoy each dish.

It looks like a lot of food, but if you eat it without restraint, it will be "eaten" faster than you think.

As Zhou Qing ate a lot of food, he felt warm in his stomach. After he finished eating everything, his stomach was full.

He called out the panel and "looked" at it, but felt vaguely that it was not enough.

After resting for a few minutes, he went out again. This time he went straight to a food stall and ordered three meat dishes and one vegetable dish: braised pork ribs with green peppers, braised oxtail with chestnuts, stewed beef brisket with taro, and stir-fried red cabbage.

I want two big boxes of rice.

The cooking was done slowly, and by the time I got back to the rental house, more than forty minutes had passed.

I felt quite full before, and although I didn’t feel hungry yet, it seemed like I had almost digested it.

"My stomach has been in a warm, cozy state tonight, and my digestion ability is much better than usual."

"This is the 'medicinal effect' brought by the snake gall."

"It's extremely rare in novels like The Return of the Condor Heroes, where martial arts and internal energy are concerned. It's a panacea that can directly increase a martial artist's internal energy, and strengthen their muscles and bones, increasing their strength."

"Furthermore, the novel describes how Yang Guo's body was immediately strengthened after consuming the snake gall. When I read the original text, I felt that the speed with which the snake gall worked was simply too exaggerated." "Now, judging from my own experience with the snake gall, its first effect is probably to strengthen the stomach's digestive and absorptive functions... Add in the fact that Yang Guo possessed internal energy to catalyze the snake gall's effects, and it makes sense that he could feel his body strengthened so quickly."

Zhou Qing understood in his heart.

The original novel has not changed. When Jin Yong wrote the part about Yang Guo eating snake gall, it is very likely that he did not consider the reaction time required for digestion and absorption.

No matter how good a writer is, he is still a mortal and cannot be good at everything.

What makes the logic of snake gall's medicinal effects more reasonable is the panel.

After another ten minutes or so, I started to feel hungry.

Zhou Qing continued eating.

Although there were only four dishes this time, the portion of each dish was very generous.

So, soon, he was full again.

This is the third time tonight and should be the last.

Not long after I put down my chopsticks, I had just cleaned up the takeaway boxes and other post-meal garbage and took them to the big trash can downstairs to throw them away, when the heat finally rose up in my lower abdomen again.

It was very mysterious. He vaguely realized through the panel: this time it would consume all the remaining snake gall medicinal properties in the body, and its strengthening effect would exceed any previous times!
Sure enough, the heat brewed for a full hour and a half before reaching a peak that was unbearable for him.

Zhou Qing started exercising immediately.

He first did 95 push-ups in one breath. When he was on the verge of collapse, he gritted his teeth and persevered, doing another 3, bringing the total to 98, before he lay down softly.

Then comes the bodyweight squat.

After reaching 366, I couldn’t get up anymore.

He was sweating profusely again, but unlike the previous four times, although he was exhausted this time, the heat in his body did not completely subside.

"It's subsided a lot, but the heat in my body is still there and hasn't completely disappeared. It seems I need to continue exercising!"

He sat on the ground for two minutes.

I stood up and felt that the room was very stuffy, so I simply opened the door to let the air circulate through the doors and windows.

Unexpectedly, after opening the door, I found a cool breeze in the stairwell outside, which was quite comfortable.

"Why not just climb the stairs instead? It's still exercise anyway, as long as it can dissipate the remaining heat in the body!"

Do whatever you want.

He went back to the house and drank a sip of salt water, then went out again and started running up the stairs.

When I went down to the second floor, I found that the landlord's door was open.

I glanced inside and saw no one.

Zhou Qing didn't care about it and continued running while exercising himself.

Got to the first floor, then turned around and climbed up.

The resettlement community has six floors. In the past, I would feel tired if I climbed up twice in a row.

But tonight is different.

One trip, two trips, three trips...

When he ran the 26th time, Zhou Qing felt that the heat in his body was getting less and less.

He figured running thirty times would be enough.

When he went down to the second floor again, he found that a beautiful woman with rosy cheeks, wearing lace pajamas, was leaning against the door frame of the landlord's house. When she saw Zhou Qing, she suddenly said:

"Handsome guy, you're still exercising late at night. Look at how sweaty you are. Come on, stop wasting your energy and come to me to drink some ice water to quench your thirst."

(End of this chapter)