As night falls, lanterns light up the streets, and the zoo has prepared ingredients for making glutinous rice balls in advance, setting up many large pots.
The cooked glutinous rice balls can be eaten by visitors or used to feed the animals. The ingredients are all provided by the zoo, which to some extent avoids the possibility of problems with the food brought by visitors.
There were quite a few tourists with great skills. They even used carrot juice, spinach juice, and purple cabbage to dye the glutinous rice balls, creating rainbow glutinous rice balls with various colors, almost like a rainbow.
Su Zhou, the zoo director who is deeply loved by both people and animals, also received a bowl of glutinous rice balls.
She held a bowl of glutinous rice balls and looked up at the sky in the quiet open space. The black sesame filling melted in her mouth, and with one sip, the sweet and glutinous taste spread on her tongue.
When I was a child, I never really liked the Lantern Festival. After the Lantern Festival, it meant saying goodbye to the holiday and having to work hard for a day of school again. I never thought that I would have a new understanding of this lively festival after growing up.
No matter where we are in the world, as long as we are still looking up at the same sky, we are not separated.
Cherish the people around you.
Su Zhou ate all the glutinous rice balls one by one, her cheeks bulging, a comforting warmth spreading through her body.
She muttered softly, "The sesame filling is really delicious."
The zoo has also prepared lantern shows and other activities, including guessing lantern riddles. Everyone can try to guess the riddles tonight, and those who guess correctly will receive a reward.
After eating her fill of glutinous rice balls, she still felt a bit bloated. She felt she had a large appetite and was definitely not a small eater, but when people are very busy, their appetite doesn't improve.
Ahei is drawing, and there are many sheets of drawing paper around it.
To give visitors at the zoo more opportunities to receive rewards, Su Zhou specifically instructed Ahei to keep his drawings simple, preferably simple line drawings with very basic patterns. People wouldn't really expect Ahei to be a genius artist; as long as it's Ahei, everyone will be forgiving.
The painting itself is intended to promote harmonious coexistence between humans and animals.
The easel was set up in a lively spot. Ahei naturally enjoys being in the spotlight and being the center of attention, which is quite different from the red-tailed boa. The red-tailed boa is so socially anxious that it will scream for ages if someone just glances at it, but Ahei seems rather melancholy when it's not surrounded by people.
Ahei's painting performance was part of the program, and Su Zhou didn't intend to use it as a gimmick to sell.
The painting itself was given away for free, and who Ahei wanted to give it to was entirely up to him.
Ahei sat down and drew some simple flowers and plants, as well as other animals he saw. The lines were simple, but it was clear at a glance that it was a painting.
Lu Zhao just broke up with her boyfriend last night.
After a three-year long-distance relationship, which actually started in high school, it should have ended right after the college entrance exam. Her boyfriend, at the prime of his life at eighteen, told her after the exam that he wanted her to apply to the same university as him, even though their scores differed by a hundred points. One of them could get into a top-tier university (985), while the other only got into an ordinary first-tier university.
After careful consideration, she chose to attend her dream school.
It was the list of universities she wrote on her desk during her three years of high school.
For four years of university, they were in a long-distance relationship. Lu Zhao would often buy train tickets to visit him, taking the train to save money until her bones ached. After graduation, she got a job at a large company through campus recruitment, earning tens of thousands of yuan a month. Her boyfriend also successfully landed a job as a civil servant in a small county. He asked her to give up her job and come work for him.
After careful consideration, Lu Zhao felt that she had always been the one making concessions in this relationship, and she was getting tired.
He wanted to end the relationship, but after buying a train ticket and going there, he found that the other person was accompanied by another girl.
It turns out that he was already living a life of luxury during his university years.
He got a girlfriend at his school and was single in his first year. Because of his good looks, he kept changing girlfriends, but he couldn't bear to give up his reputation as a top student at a 985 university. Even his college roommates knew about his two-timing relationship and claimed that he was a role model for everyone.
In that instant, Lu Zhao felt neither anger nor sadness, only calm.
Actually, the relationship shouldn't have continued when he asked her to go to his school after the college entrance exam. It was because she was nostalgic and indulged him that he was repeatedly spoiled.
Lu Zhao finally said the words "break up," feeling a great weight lifted from his shoulders.
I bought a plane ticket home.
Her boyfriend called dozens of times, but she didn't answer.
He begged her to get back together, but Lu Zhao knew very well that he was a selfish person at heart, and that she had been deceived because she liked him so much.
Her phone was off, so she went back to the zoo to relax.
It would be a lie to say I'm not sad.
It can be said that this relationship was sustained by her compromises for seven years.
Just then, a drawing appeared in front of her. It was a simple line drawing, neither particularly beautiful nor ugly, but the hand that was being handed over was covered in black hair. She looked up and slowly raised her gaze to see a chimpanzee.
Seeing that she didn't answer for a long time, Ahei urged her a few more times.
Lu Zhao realized that this was Ahei, the top internet celebrity, who could be said to be the smartest chimpanzee in the world.
She had never been to the Wanling Zoo before. She had shared it with her boyfriend the first time she saw it online, saying they would come together sometime, but they never did until they broke up. Lu Zhao came alone, and just as rumored, it was as beautiful as an amusement park designed for all ages; stepping into this place only made her feel relaxed.
Lu Zhao took the painting: "Is it...for me?"
Ahei nodded.
In the distance, someone suddenly said, "Damn, I'm not envious that my good brother is no longer single, but I am really envious that someone can get Ahei's painting."
"Ahei hasn't given away a single painting tonight, has he? He's incredibly lucky."
The boys were speaking loudly and didn't try to muffle their voices, so Lu Zhao heard them all. She gripped the drawing paper tightly, looked at Ah Hei, and said earnestly, "Thank you."
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