Xu Xiaoxiao took the flyer, glanced at it casually, and said in disbelief: "Xiao Ze actually believes in this kind of thing? Remedial childhood, too funny."
"Ha-ha-ha-" Er Xin suddenly looked at Xu Xiaoxiao with a fierce look on his face, and stretched out his fat "flower arms" to fight, but was stopped by the store owner in time.
Xu Xiaoxiao bent down and pinched the fat cat's furry head, "Why do you seem to understand human words?"
"Ha-ha-" Er Xin stuck his neck and wanted to hold Xu Xiaoxiao.
Lu Yao took a step back holding the fat cat and smiled apologetically: "Maybe he is hungry, he hasn't had dinner yet."
This is completely a lie.
Pigs are not tigers, and they don't want to bite people when they are hungry.
Xu Xiaoxiao was not angry, she waved her hands, turned around and prepared to leave.
Lu Yao stopped her and explained that the store currently provides free childhood test services and she could try it out.
Xu Xiaoxiao shook her head: "No, thank you. I have no regrets about my childhood and don't need any tutoring."
The system popped up: "This customer is obviously not our potential customer."
After being with the store owner for a long time, the system also learned some business terms and showed off from time to time.
Lu Yao put his second thoughts aside and turned to get cat food for it. "If she had no interest, she wouldn't come to the store so many times. Many times, it takes courage to recognize your inner heart, just wait a little longer."
The system felt that the owner's words were unreasonable, but many times, the subsequent events proved that she was right, and couldn't help but ask: "How do you know who needs tutoring? I always find it strange that you seem to know everything, especially guessing people's hearts."
The owner's past resume does not have any relevant experience.
And the system clearly feels that as more and more stores are opened in the alien world, the owner's mind becomes more and more difficult to guess, and his personality is different from the gentle and obedient when he opened the first store.
Maybe it has something to do with the missing memory?
When they tied it, the store owner was in a particularly bad condition, but her eyes were amazingly bright.
Just after completing the contract, she fell into a coma.
When she woke up again, the store owner became warm and soft. She forgot about tying it and also forgot her original intention of accepting it.
What kind of person was the store owner before she lost her memory?
For some reason, the system suddenly became interested.
Unfortunately, due to the constraints of the rules, even it could not detect the memory she had lost.
Lu Yao chuckled: "When you want to understand a person, you will naturally pay attention to everything related to him. This is not a very difficult skill. But I may have done relevant homework before I lost my memory, because I have a familiar feeling."
Maybe she studied psychology specifically for business.
Or maybe, she had someone she wanted to understand in the past.
Lu Yao continued, "Don't worry, I won't open a store that I'm not sure of. I want to know more than anyone what wishes I made in the past."
System: [...Hmm.]
Xiao Ze's second tutoring session was on the weekend, and he started looking forward to it as soon as he got off work on Friday. He
woke up before six o'clock on Saturday morning. He
got up, washed up, had breakfast, and cleaned the house, and finally made it until eight o'clock.
Xiao Ze took a quick shower, changed into casual clothes, and came to the Childhood Tutoring Center with great expectations.
There was a long line in front of the store, and Xiao Ze stood aside for a while.
Listening to the people in the line chatting, it turned out that they were all customers who had rushed over from other areas during the weekend.
The bubble water and good mood sticky rice cakes at the cram school were spread online as if they were magical. At first, many people did not believe them and thought they were advertisements.
But during this period, more and more people came to buy bubble water and sticky rice cakes, and then posted articles and videos online to share their experience of using and tasting them. There were almost no negative reviews.
As more and more tap water was available, this kind of prosperity also emerged.
Lu Yao saw Xiao Ze outside and asked him to wait in the cram school room first.
The customers in the queue thought Xiao Ze was going to cut in line and began to be dissatisfied.
Lu Yao explained, "He is a cram school student and he doesn't buy anything."
Someone asked, "Does your store have cram schools?"
Someone else looked at Xiao Ze and couldn't help asking, "Is this guy an adult? What are you doing here?"
Xiao Ze was embarrassed and quickly squeezed into the door and strode to the cram school.
Lu Yao took the opportunity to take out a flyer that was covered in dust from the back of the shelf and said, "Our cram school specializes in providing childhood cram schools for those in need. If you are interested, please learn more about it."
Cram schools for childhood?
I don't understand.
There is a faint smell of deception.
But many people find it fresh and will pick up a flyer when they leave after buying things.
When Lu Yao finished his work, it was almost nine o'clock.
She was worried that customers would come over when she was tutoring Xiao Ze, so she sent a message to the work group of the shopping street and asked someone who was free to come and watch the store.
Two minutes later, Ji Feiming came over.
He had just delivered the goods and came after seeing the message from the owner.
Lu Yao asked Erxin to accompany Ji Feiming and turned to walk into the tutoring room.
The time and space coordinates of Xiao Ze's second tutoring were the seventh day after his fifth birthday.
His mother suddenly appeared after disappearing for a long time.
As a child, he only remembered that the joy of seeing his mother had not yet fully come to his heart before he was crushed by the strange man who broke in.
The five-year-old Xiao Ze didn't know why he was so sad. He only remembered that he waited for a long time, sitting under the ivy fence every day, thinking about his mother.
Mom finally came back, but she was not what he expected.
On this day, Xiaoze was once again overwhelmed by a huge sense of powerlessness.
After living in the nursery for seven or eight days, Xiaoze should have felt happy to return to his familiar home, but he was depressed.
The low mood reaction was stronger than what Xiaoze felt in the real past, which was the projection of Xiaoze's consciousness as an adult.
He still cared a lot about what happened on this day.
After dinner, his mother washed Xiaoze early and coaxed him to sleep.
After his mother made sure he was asleep, she turned off the light and went out.
Alfred flew in through the window and heard suppressed sobbing from under the quilt.
He fell on the bed and patted the bulging hillock with his stubby forelimbs with difficulty, "Little bean, are you crying?"
Xiao Ze heard the familiar voice and immediately turned over the quilt, but the room was dark, so he tentatively asked, "Teacher Alfred?"
Before Alfred could speak, Xiao Ze stretched out his finger, and a faint light flashed at his fingertips, illuminating a small area in front of him.
When Xiao Ze saw the familiar short and thick claws, his face lit up with joy. He hugged Alfred tightly in his arms and said with full of grievance: "Little Fatty Dragon Teacher, I missed you so much."
Little Fatty Dragon...
Alfred was speechless, helpless as his claws and wings were tightly held by Xiao Ze, unable to protest.
Little Douding's chest was soft, hot, and a little wet. I don't know how long he had been crying.
Alfred waited for him to calm down, gently broke away, flew out and got a tissue and came back: "Look, your face is covered with snot and tears again. Did you wipe it on your pajamas just now?"
Xiao Ze was so sad that he didn't remember these things. He shook his head in confusion.
Alfred sighed, walked to the edge of the bed and sat down, "Why are you crying so hard? What happened?"
Xiao Ze also moved to the bedside, next to Alfred, and recounted the grievances of the day word by word.
"Mom doesn't like me anymore."
This was Xiao Ze's final conclusion.
These seven simple words revealed bone-chilling despair.
In the heart of the five-year-old Xiao Ze, his mother was his universe.
Adults think that children are ignorant, but in fact they are not completely unaware.
The infant stage is one of the most powerless periods for human beings. Young
children are much more sensitive to danger than adults.
It's just that they don't know how to express it.
Most children who are troubled by similar feelings of insecurity will most likely react by crying and making a fuss.
Xiaoze did not cry in front of adults, but hid under the quilt and sobbed secretly, suppressing his grievances.
Perhaps he had a bad experience of crying loudly before.
Adults think that children's world is carefree, but they don't know that they have been learning how to adapt to the world and constantly correcting their behavior.
Xiaoze learned patience and waiting in his experience of exploring the world again and again.
This is the way he chooses to get along with the world after he is powerless to resist.
Alfred spread his wings, patted Xiaoze's arm soothingly, and shook his two stubby claws up and down, saying slowly and leisurely: "Little bean, 'waiting' and 'patience' may be easier ways to survive. But if you just wait blindly, many things that could have been changed may not be changed in the end."
Five-year-old Xiaoze didn't understand, but there was still an adult consciousness sleeping in this young body.
Little Xiaoze was silent for a while, grabbed the small pillow and rolled out of bed, stood on tiptoe to open the bedroom door, ran to the door of his mother's bedroom, knocked on the door gently, and cried: "Mom, I'm scared."
After a long time, the door was opened from the inside, and warm light flowed out of the room, shining on Xiaoze with tears on his face.
The mother's expression froze, she squatted down and picked him up, "Why are you crying like this?"
Little Xiao Ze wrapped his arms around his mother's neck tightly, buried his face in her shoulder, and sobbed, "Mom, I'm scared." The
poor little boy cried sadly, his mother felt the wetness and warmth on her shoulder, and coaxed him gently with heartache.
The man on the bed had an ugly look on his face.
When Xiao Ze fell asleep, he was sent back to the children's room.
In the middle of the night, Xiao Ze woke up with a start and realized that he was in his room. There was a deep depression in the depths of his pupils, and he murmured, "Teacher Alfred, the world is still so disgusting after hard work. Tell me, what else can we do besides waiting and enduring?"
The adult Xiao Ze regained consciousness.
Alfred: "Little bean, where are your keys?"
Xiao Ze was startled. He thought Alfred had left. He turned around and saw the little fat dragon squatting beside the pillow. His dark blue eyes were as deep as the starry sky, staring at him quietly.
This was the first time that the adult Xiao Ze saw Alfred moving and talking consciously. He couldn't help but sit up, "You're still here?"
Alfred shrugged: "As your tutor, how could I leave early?"
Xiao Ze said "hmm", carefully stretched out his finger, and gently poked the bulging belly of the little fat dragon. It
was exactly the same as in his memory.
Soft and warm.
Alfred endured it for a moment. The guy kept poking him. He tried to keep a straight face and said seriously: "... Stop playing. Where is the key?"
Xiao Ze raised his right hand, revealing the key pendant hanging on the black bracelet.
Alfred stretched out his claws and tapped the key lightly.
The lines that were gathered into the shape of a key instantly spread out, extending in different directions one by one, glowing in the dark.
"Your mind key, starting from your birth, extends into countless lines. They extend infinitely in different directions. Do you know what this means?"
Xiao Ze saw the real appearance of the mind key for the first time. It turned out that those thread-like patterns were really threads, and the small beads on the threads were not ordinary beads, but... his life trajectory.
Xiao Ze's young face was suddenly enlightened.
Countless lines, countless possibilities, countless futures.
And for so many years, he has been stuck in the same predicament and has never walked out.
When he was young, he didn't know what to do.
When he grew up, he lost the courage to change.
After a long silence, Xiao Ze let out a long sigh, "I know, Teacher Alfred."
Alfred nodded with satisfaction, "The little kid is not stupid. It's late, it's time to go to bed."
Xiao Ze pulled up the quilt and lay down. After a while, he whispered to Alfred, "Can I sleep with you in my arms?"
Alfred hugged his short and thick forelimbs to his chest, pondered for a moment, and said reservedly, "At most I can lend you my tail to hold for a while."
Xiao Ze lay on his side, holding the tip of teacher Alfred's short, fat tail in his hand, and closed his eyes.
After a while, the quilt rose and fell gently.
The little kid fell asleep.
Alfred whispered, "Good night, student number one, Xiao Ze."
The second cram school was over.
After leaving the childhood cram school, Xiao Ze deliberately went to the supermarket to buy fresh meat and vegetables, planning to cook for himself.
When he got home, Xiao Ze changed into loose clothes, washed his hands, and began to prepare the ingredients.
The doorbell rang, and he went to the living room to open the door.
Xu Xiaoxiao stood outside the door, her nostrils flaring slightly, her eyes shining: "It smells good, are you cooking?"
Xiao Ze nodded as a response, and stepped aside to let her in.
Xu Xiaoxiao was also wearing home clothes. She walked straight to the kitchen after entering the door. She was a little surprised to see the chopped vegetables and steaks on the counter.
"It looks like a big dish. I'm lucky today."
Xiao Ze said nothing. He silently picked and washed the green onions, peeled the ginger and garlic, cut the small ingredients, and prepared to start cooking.
Xu Xiaoxiao was used to Xiao Ze's coldness and aloofness. She leaned against the door frame and watched him cook, but she didn't feel bored.
He was such a taciturn person, but he was a different person when he was sleeping.
This was the first time they had eaten together at home, and Xu Xiaoxiao seemed to get to know Xiao Ze all over again.
In the past, he almost always bought her food when they were outside.
It was rare for the two of them to sit face to face and eat together like this.
He ate in a very elegant manner, and the dishes he cooked were more delicious than expected.
After dinner, Xiao Ze washed the dishes.
Xu Xiaoxiao sat in the living room, browsing her phone. From time to time, she would look up at Xiao Ze's back, feeling inexplicably good.
After washing the dishes, Xiao Ze returned to the bedroom and changed into a new set of clean clothes.
The cooking fumes were too strong, and they stained his clothes and body.
He wanted to take a shower, but decided to wait until he finished his business before taking a shower.
Xu Xiaoxiao looked up and saw Xiao Ze standing at the bedroom door, feeling a little strange.
He seemed to be inexplicably emotional today.
She stood up and walked towards him.
Xiao Ze walked out first: "Xu Xiaoxiao, I have something to say."
Xu Xiaoxiao stopped and had a premonition in her heart.
The next second, Xiao Ze said, "I want to end it."
Xu Xiaoxiao lowered her head, feeling a little strange.
They had clearly agreed that when one party wanted to end it, they could bring it up.
She was just a playmate, why did she feel uncomfortable?
She had never felt this way before.
She adjusted her mood and said calmly: "Okay, I got it."
Xu Xiaoxiao turned around and walked to the entrance. When she was putting on her shoes, she suddenly looked up: "Did you meet someone you like?"
Xiao Ze smiled and shook his head: "I just met Teacher Alfred."
Xu Xiaoxiao couldn't help but said: "Who is he?"
Xiao Ze lowered his head and raised his hand to touch his ears lightly, "The teacher at the cram school. I'm sorry, I was confused before and thought that anything was fine. I was just waiting aimlessly, and then you came."
"... Sorry." Xiao Ze realized that he had said the wrong thing, but he didn't know how to save it.
The two people had the most intimate contact, but never tried to understand each other.
Maybe at the beginning, they did want to absorb each other's warmth, but soon discovered that each other's bodies were equally cold.
"No need to say anything." Xu Xiaoxiao turned around, opened the door, and ran out quickly.
Childhood cram school.
Lu Yao saw that there were no customers and was ready to close.
When Xu Xiaoxiao appeared, her cheeks were rosy, one hand was holding the glass door of the cram school, and the other hand was holding an empty wine bottle, and she shouted: "Owner, where is Alfred? Tell him to come out. Don't hide him."
Lu Yao: "..."
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