Chapter 176 The Sky Falls (11) (1st + 2nd) [VIP]

Xu Zichen had no choice but to come out and make a summary: [Anyway, it’s not a big problem. Ye Dian is making plans.]

Song Jirou on the other side of the screen didn't reply for a long time, probably trying to digest this bizarre process. The last bell rang in the elementary school, and the vendors who were originally chatting or preparing food stopped what they were doing and looked towards the entrance of the elementary school seriously.

Many little kids with schoolbags on their backs walked out of the school one by one. In order to facilitate the pick-up and drop-off by parents, the school had students from each class line up in a line. They were led by their teachers from the school gate to the parent pick-up area at the school gate and then said goodbye to the teachers.

The chattering of children suddenly made the street lively. The old men and women who were sitting on stools and chatting under the trees also stood up from their seats one by one and walked towards the pick-up and drop-off areas for their grandchildren's corresponding classes.

When the exploration team members looked up, they saw that Ren Zhiling's shop was surrounded by elementary school students.

Just from the back, you can already tell she's in a rush. The table Ye Dian chose was at just the right height, allowing even the shortest first-grader to see the sausage grilling machine that's a little higher than the tabletop.

The starch sausages that had been heated to a slightly golden color and were beginning to curl up posed a culinary threat to all the students passing by the stall, while the grilled sausage on the far left that had been heated and repeatedly coated with ingredients was emitting a continuous aroma. The smell followed the wind all the way to the school gate, arousing the appetite of all the students.

On the first day Ren Zhiling set up her stall, she was attacked with unprecedented enthusiasm.

Ye Dian was helping her collect money, flipping the starch sausages that were about to burn, and brushing the ingredients. Compared to Ren Zhiling, who often took the wrong things when she was busy, and couldn't react to the next move, and didn't know what to do first and what to do next, his movements were quick and skillful, and he didn't seem to be at all uncomfortable with experiencing such a situation for the first time.

Before they knew it, their stall had become the most popular stall in front of the school.

The members of the exploration team put down their watches silently and looked at the two people, who fell into deep thought among a group of old men and women who came to pick up their children from school.

"I'm now suspicious..." Ning Xiao was silent for a moment, "No, I'm sure that Brother Ye must have set up a stall before."

Otherwise it would be impossible to achieve such proficiency.

The elementary school students who swarmed in surrounded the stall. After a while, a very clear voice came from the crowd: "Ren Zhiling?"

The sound immediately attracted the attention of the exploration team members who were still behind.

"What's wrong?" Fu Yandong turned around nervously, "Could it be that Ren Zhiling's father came to see me?"

The voice just now sounded like that of an elderly person.

There wasn't much emotion in his voice, I could only tell that he was probably quite shocked.

If it weren't for the dozen or so phone calls yesterday, they might not have thought so much about it. However, after being bombarded with dozens of missed calls from the number marked "Dad" on Ren Zhiling's phone yesterday, as well as the messages from the other party and Ren Zhiling's attitude, everyone suddenly became nervous.

"Let's go and take a look," Xu Zichen quickly stood up and walked towards the stall.

"Ren Zhiling! What's wrong?" Yin Liantao ran over a few steps and was the first to run to Ren Zhiling's side.

In front of her stall stood an old man who looked to be nearly seventy years old. Contrary to what everyone had imagined, the atmosphere between the two seemed quite harmonious.

"Zhi Ling, it's really you. I thought I was seeing things," the old man's eyes repeatedly switched between Ren Zhi Ling's face and the stall in front of her. "Are you... setting up a stall after get off work?"

"No, Uncle Liu," Ren Zhiling answered calmly, "This is my future job."

Liu?

The eyes of the exploration team members who hurried over to support Ren Zhiling suddenly changed.

Yin Liantao, who was running in the front, subconsciously looked towards Ye Dian.

Ye Dian stood next to Ren Zhiling, his slender fingers turning over the sausages on the sausage grill one by one. Noticing her gaze, he turned his head and raised his eyebrows: "Hmm?"

Yin Liantao winked wildly: [Liu! Liu! This old man's surname is Liu! Is he related to Liu Yi?]

Ye Dian: "If you have nothing to do, come and help collect the money."

Yin Liantao:?

Wait, you're not paying any attention to the conversation going on around you right now, are you?

The comments that I was originally planning to analyze also went off track for some unknown reason:

[As expected of you, the king of part-time jobs! 】

[Ye Dian: The only thing in my heart is the sausage business.jpg]

【Focus on setting up the stall, no interest in exploring. 】

[Is there anything more important than setting up a stall? No, help him collect the money! ]

[Yin Liantao, look at yourself, how can you be so tactless? Didn’t you see how busy the place became after Ren Zhiling started chatting? ]

[That’s right, can our brother Ye take care of grilling sausages, spreading ingredients, brushing sauce, collecting money and packing them by himself? Hurry up and help. ]

[Is there life in your eyes (pointing)]

[You are responsible for delaying the establishment of the sausage empire. ]

[Fuck, are you serious? ]

…

On the screen, Yin Liantao inexplicably began to help collect the money. The old man next to him who had handed over Ren Zhiling's name did not have time to pay attention to the little episode happening here. Instead, he widened his eyes as if he did not understand: "Huh?"

"I said, I resigned from the institute," Ren Zhiling's expression was very calm, "I plan to set up a stall in front of the elementary school after school to sell starch sausage. Today is the first day of trial operation."

"This is Liu Cong, Brother Liu's son," she looked at the child the old man was holding and handed him a sausage, "This one is for you."

Bai Jinshu, who was working hard to grill sausages, looked up and glanced at her silently.

Several comments immediately popped up on the barrage:

[What’s going on? Not only are they not selling it, they’re also taking it out! ]

[Don’t you see how busy our Brother Ye is? Pointing and making comments. ]

[On the first day of setting up a stall, I gave away one without paying. I don’t even dare to think about it anymore. People will point fingers at me! ]

[Xiao Ren, the organization is very disappointed in you. Is this your attitude towards starting a business? Pointing fingers! ]

[Fuck, what are you guys doing? When I came in, I thought I had entered the wrong live broadcast room. ]

[While learning about entrepreneurship, I also criticize the unprofessional students who have been personally guided by the lecturer. ]

【？ 】

[Why do some investors need to learn about entrepreneurship? I've been busy these few days. I just didn't come today and yesterday. What happened?]

A lot happened.

【Children should not ask about adult matters. 】

…

On the screen, Ren Zhiling handed the grilled sausage in her hand to Liu Cong.

"I...I don't need it, thank you, sister." The child was well-educated and kept waving his hands to refuse.

"Just call me auntie," Ren Zhiling couldn't help laughing, "If you call me sister, I will be one generation lower than your father."

"Take it, take it. This is a gift from me." She stuffed the sausage in her hand into Liu Cong's hand. "Your father and I grew up in the same compound. When I was a kid, he took care of me much more than this sausage."

Liu Cong looked up at his grandfather who was holding his hand.

"Take it, take it," Old Man Liu waved his hand, looked at the surrounding environment, and waved to Ren Zhiling, "Zhiling, come here. Uncle Liu has something to ask you."

Ren Zhiling seemed to want to go, but couldn't leave because of the situation here.

"Sister Ren, please go quickly," Yin Liantao said quickly, "Brother Ye and I will take care of this first, there aren't many sausages left."

This old man with the same surname Liu might have some relationship with Liu Yi. Even if they have no relationship, his attitude shows that he has a lot to do with Ren Zhiling. Maybe we can get some new information from him.

"Okay." Ren Zhiling hesitated for a moment, took off the gloves on his hands, and walked towards a more remote place in front of the school with the old man. Seeing this, the rest of the exploration team members hurriedly followed.

At the end of the live broadcast room, everyone turned around dutifully.

Mr. Liu had a complicated expression. He walked to a slightly remote place, stopped immediately, and said to Ren Zhiling: "Zhiling, are you really going to resign?"

"Really?" Ren Zhiling nodded. "I thought the news of my resignation had spread throughout the compound a long time ago. So you didn't know?"

"This..." A complicated expression appeared on Mr. Liu's face. "We all knew about it the afternoon you resigned."

"Grandpa Ren smashed the dishes at home that day..." Liu Cong whispered, "Everyone heard it."

"Oh, I knew it was impossible for my dad not to get angry," Ren Zhiling said. "He had an even worse temper in the early years. He would chase me and beat me in the yard. Ask your parents. They have seen it all their generation."

"Ah?" Liu Cong said in a baby voice, "My mother said hitting people is not good."

"So he is smashing the dishes now." Ren Zhiling didn't care.

"Your father is also..." Old Master Liu showed a trace of disapproval on his face, "Let's not talk about your father. Zhiling, why did you suddenly resign? Did someone in the institute make things difficult for you? I heard that when you and Enze went abroad a few days ago, you accidentally encountered the attack site of an extremist organization. Is this the reason?"

The concern on his face was real, and Ren Zhiling's expression softened a lot.

"I just don't want to do it anymore. It has nothing to do with those things," she said in a gentle voice. "I think this job is pretty good now. Selling sausages is also quite fun. Every day I see that the students have a younger mentality. I can give Liu Cong a few grilled sausages after school."

"You..." Old Master Liu frowned, "You can't keep doing this forever, right? If you sell starch sausage at the school gate, can you guarantee your future life? Can you get a stable job with a stable income?"

"I have savings..." Ren Zhiling said halfway, and seeing the disapproving look on Mr. Liu's face, she immediately changed her words and said, "Yes, I have plans. I have already thought about the future."

"When I... save up a certain amount of money from selling grilled sausages, I will open a store in front of the school!" She began to make promises, repeating everything Bai Jin said that night in a different way. "I've found out everything. You need three certificates to open a restaurant now, such as a food business license, a hygiene conditions review certificate, and a chef's health certificate... After I rent a store, I plan to open barbecue restaurants all over the country..."

Ren Zhiling spoke with great pride, using all his academic skills in planning his business empire. He even talked about a small business that currently only had a mobile stall and a sausage grill as if it would become the next big fast food brand alongside KFC and McDonald's.

Old Master Liu sighed helplessly: "You... I won't say much. After all, every family has its own problems. As long as you have a plan for the future and don't act on impulse, that's good."

Ren Zhiling, who set up a small stall on a whim, blinked guiltily.

"Sister Ren, Sister Ren," Ning Xiao, who had been looking at the watch, couldn't help but run over and whispered, "It's almost five o'clock."

At this point, Liu Yi is almost here.

They didn't choose any particularly representative location this time, and they didn't know whether Liu Yi would come over.

"Do you have any other plans? Zhi Ling, you just do your thing. I'll take Liu Cong with me and leave." Old Master Liu looked around at the members of the exploration team and waved his hand. "If you need any help in the future, just use my boy."

"Why would we need him?" Ren Zhiling laughed. "Brother Liu should just focus on his research."

"Sister Ren," Fu Yandong ran over, "It's already five o'clock, and Liu Yi doesn't seem to have arrived yet. I don't know if he will come. Should we find a more secluded place now?"

Liu Yi's outfit was really not suitable for appearing in crowded places.

Although most of the people here are primary school students and various elderly people, the possibility of being photographed and uploaded to the Internet is very low, but the time Liu Yi can stay is limited. If he is surrounded or something unexpected happens, it will shorten the time they have to get information from Liu Yi.

"What did Boss Ye say?" Ren Zhiling subconsciously looked in the direction of Ye Dian.

The others followed her gaze.

At first glance, everyone realized something was wrong.

There were originally a lot of people crowded around the stall, and you could see the queue of people from far away. Why can't I see it now?

"Let's go and take a look." Everyone hurried towards the stall.

After walking in, I found that the stall had not disappeared, but the people in the queue were gone. Ye Dian and Yin Liantao were cleaning up the seasonings on the table. There was also a strange man wearing a white sportswear and sunglasses standing next to them, holding a grilled sausage.

While cleaning up, Yin Liantao couldn't help but turn around to look at the man's face.

"Why don't you sell it anymore?" Ren Zhiling asked blankly.

Ye Dian replied without even looking up: "They are all sold out. I prepared 200 sticks today."

Unlike Ye Dian, when Yin Liantao heard her voice, he suddenly raised his head, his eyes paused on her face for a few seconds, and then he couldn't help but shift his gaze to the man in white sportswear next to him.

Ren Zhiling:?

"Is there...something on my face?" she couldn't help but ask.

"No..." Yin Liantao shook her head. She had a strange expression on her face and her eyes couldn't help but move back and forth between the two of them.

Ren Zhiling was even more confused, but fortunately she remembered the business, and walked over to help put away the small table while asking, "It's already past five o'clock, why hasn't Liu Yi arrived yet? Did our method work, or is the location not representative enough for him to find it?"

After all, they were on the TV tower last time, so it was easy to locate them. Unlike this time, which was at the entrance of the elementary school, Liu Yi from the future might not be able to find their location.

Yin Liantao: “Hmm…”

She looked like she wanted to say something, but didn't know how to start.

At this moment, the man in white sportswear who had been eating sausages next to him finally seemed to remember something, swallowed the food in his mouth, took a few steps forward and said, "Oh, I'm Liu Yi."

"You are...Liu Yi?" Ren Zhiling was really stunned.

"Just now, it was exactly five o'clock after we sold the last sausage," Yin Liantao said haltingly, "this person suddenly appeared beside us and asked if we didn't want to sell this sausage and if we could give it to him."

"And then you gave it to me?" Ren Zhiling was at a loss.

"What else?" Bai Jinshu added casually, "That sausage is covered with sauce and dry ingredients, and it's almost burnt. No one will buy it if I sell it, and it's too salty if I eat it. If he wants it, just give it to him."

Then you will let Liu Yi from 500 years later eat grilled sausages here???

"So there will be no grilled sausages five hundred years later?" Lu Changfeng touched his head, very confused.

Liu Yi said sincerely: "No."

"Hey, the world is about to end, who has time to care about sausages!" He said it in a cheerful tone, as if the world that was about to be destroyed was not his future.

It seems... this method has failed again.

The members of the exploration team looked at each other. There was not much surprise in their eyes, but rather full of expectations.

Since Ren Zhiling's self-media donation of cat hair caused the sky to fall, it is not surprising that her setting up a stall to sell grilled sausages would also cause the sky to fall.

It now seems that the key to the destruction of the world is not Ren Zhiling's career at all, but something that happened to her a long time ago, and something that all Liu Yi had concealed from her.

But since what determined the fall of the sky was something that happened to her a long time ago, why didn't Liu Yi travel back to the time when this happened, but instead traveled back to the present when Ren Zhiling was no longer able to change the past?

Do you want to...Xu Zichen glanced at Ye Dian vaguely.

Bai Jinshu shook his head slightly.

There are too many people here. If they kidnap Liu Yi here directly, even if Song Jirou can settle the matter afterwards, they may not be able to get anything out of him right away.

After all, they couldn't kidnap a customer in public and then ask in front of everyone: "Tell me, what will happen in the future? What is hidden from Ren Zhiling five hundred years later!"

Then they might all be regarded as mentally ill.

And today there seems to be a turn for the better.

Today's Liu Yi is very different from the Liu Yis who appeared in the past few days. Not only has he changed from wearing a silver-white tights to a white sportswear that is in line with the times, but the strange mask on his face is also gone, replaced by a pair of sunglasses that covers most of his face.

Apart from the fact that it is a bit strange to place it at the entrance of the elementary school, Liu Yi today can blend in perfectly if he appears on any street in this era, and people will not suspect that he is a visitor from five hundred years later.

It seems that compared with the last self-media or the death of Ren Zhiling, the changes they made seem to be bigger.

Maybe we can get more information from Liu Yi today that Liu Yi is unwilling to disclose.

"Sister Ren, Sister Ren!" Yin Liantao lowered her voice and whispered to Ren Zhiling's ear, "Do you think Liu Yi looks familiar today?"

"Look familiar?" After hearing this, Ren Zhiling looked at Liu Yi who was still eating sausage again.

She didn't feel anything at first, but after reading the two words "Liu Yi", she subconsciously remembered that Grandpa Liu and Liu Cong who had just left also had the surname Liu.

Liu Cong's parents were her childhood playmates. When they grew up, they both joined the research project teams of their respective disciplines. If Liu Yi from the future had any relationship with them...

Ren Zhiling's gaze suddenly became inquiring.

But no matter what, the lower half of Liu Yi's face that was revealed didn't look much like Liu Cong's parents.

Could it be passed down from generation to generation?

"I don't feel like it..." She murmured softly.

Liu Yi's appearance has nothing to do with the Liu family.

"So will the future also end up like the sky falling?" Ning Xiao at the side couldn't help but wonder, and looked in the direction of Liu Yi with burning eyes.

“Yes, yes!” This Liu Yi did not seem to have the anxious or serious temperament of the previous Liu Yis. Instead, he seemed very casual and looked like he could answer any question.

“You are Boss Ren, right?” He swallowed the last bite of sausage in his mouth and couldn’t help but sigh, “I didn’t expect to be able to eat this sausage after traveling back five hundred years.”

"What's wrong with this sausage?" Ren Zhiling was even more confused.

"Oh, this, according to historical records, Ren Zhiling gave up his postgraduate studies at the age of 29 to start his own business!" Liu Yi answered naturally, "He started from scratch by selling grilled sausages at the entrance of the No. 3 Primary School, and then rented all the stores around the school step by step. Then he walked out of the No. 3 Primary School, out of City A, and into the world!"

Ren Zhiling:?

"The most mysterious thing is the mysterious rules she followed when she started from scratch and sold sausages!" Liu raised the bamboo stick in his hand. "It is said that since she started selling sausages from scratch, there was always one sausage on the barbecue stall that would not be sold to the public."

"Countless people are curious about what this sausage is, and countless people want to get it, but no one has ever tasted it," Liu said solemnly, looking at Ren Zhiling, who has not yet become a business tycoon, "so much so that people in later generations speculate that this sausage does not actually exist, and it was just a gimmick that Boss Ren created at the beginning."

"However, quite a few people also think that the reason why she always leaves one sausage behind is because of some mysterious ritual, and it is because of this ritual that she can become a business tycoon," Liu Yi touched his chin. "It is precisely because of this speculation that some people who also set up stalls choose to learn Ren Zhiling's business methods, and gradually gathered together to establish a second food religion besides the Flying Pasta Cult: the Leftover Sausage Cult."

Bai Jinshu:?

"Oh, the world was destroyed because of this!" Liu Yi shared excitedly, "You may not know! Later, this [One Sausage Left Cult] grew bigger and bigger. By our time, it had become the fourth largest religion comparable to the world's three major religions. I am a member of the [One Sausage Left Cult]!"

"There are countless influential figures in our church. Some of them can influence the global economy, control the politics of various countries, and guide the development of science and technology..."

"As the sect grew stronger, it became uncontrollable one day. The unlimited expansion eventually led to the fall of the sky as divine punishment," Liu Yi looked at Ren Zhiling seriously. "As the disaster spread, the sect was divided into two factions. One faction believed that the [Saint Long Church] was the root cause of the disaster, so everyone decided to choose a saint to go back five hundred years to stop the establishment of our sect."

Barrage:

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【What is this? 】

[Do you really want me to not understand what you are doing? ]

【ah? ? ? 】

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Members of the exploration team: Liu Yi, do you want to listen to what you are saying?