Since Bu Du came to the Yaguang City, the snow has never stopped falling in the city, and the snow near the shopping street is three times thicker than elsewhere.
Lu Yao dressed up tightly and stood on the roadside with Bu Du, observing the two empty shops between the snack bar and the nail salon.
At first, because the snack bar was too dangerous, she specially separated the two shops to open the nail salon.
If the snack bar opened a branch, it would be best to choose a shop that was close to it, so that there would be an empty shop between it and the nail salon.
The area of the shop next to the snack bar was not large, and from the perspective of economy and labor, Lu Yao did not want to open another large shop.
Once the decision to open a branch was made, it would be necessary to inform the amusement park.
Lu Yao shook his arm lightly, causing Bu Du to look up.
She said, "If we open a small shop here, do you have any ideas?"
Bu Du thought seriously for a few seconds, "Baked sweet potatoes."
Lu Yao was a little curious: "Why baked sweet potatoes?"
Bu Du: "Baked sweet potatoes are soft, sweet, and warm."
When eating baked sweet potatoes, there is a feeling of happiness.
Bu Du tilted his head slightly and blinked.
Maybe it is not the baked sweet potatoes that make him happy, but being with her.
Bu Du was surprised that his suggestion just now was not mature, and looked up at Lu Yao: "As long as it is a shop that my mother wants to open, anything is fine."
Lu Yao was still thinking about Bu Du's words "soft, sweet, and warm", and smiled slightly when he heard it: "Your suggestion is very good, it gives me some ideas."
The fourteen-day deadline has not yet expired, and there is still time to think about it carefully. Bu
Du pursed his lips and lowered his eyes, the tip of his ears slightly red.
Bai Yi walked out of the Childhood Tutoring Center, stood under the eaves and shouted: "Owner, there is a customer looking for you." Lu Yao
responded, turned around with Bu Du, and slowly walked towards the Childhood Tutoring Center.
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In the cram school, the aunt who had come once the day before and Zhou Yishan were waiting for Lu Yao.
Zhou Yishan held a teacup in her hand and looked across the table at the personal office opposite, her eyes swept over the small black dragon ornaments on each desk one by one.
That was the medium of the time machine. Lu Yao
didn't think it was strange to see the two of them, so he let go of Bu Du and let him play by himself for a while.
She turned and walked towards the office, inviting the mother and son to go in for a detailed discussion.
Zhou Yishan's mother's attitude was even more anxious than last time. She kept telling Lu Yao how troubled she was that her daughter didn't want to get married.
Most of the children in the neighbors' families have married and have children. During the holidays, the whole family comes and goes, not to mention how lively it is.
Only the daughter of their Zhou family, except for her weak ability, has good work ability, economic ability, and talent. But she is in her thirties and has not married, let alone a friend of the opposite sex.
Recently, some people began to say that Zhou Yishan is so old and has not married. There must be something wrong with her, either physical or mental.
Zhou Yishan's mother used to like dancing downstairs with acquaintances in the same community, but now she hasn't been there for a long time. Occasionally, when she meets acquaintances when buying vegetables, she tries to avoid them.
After the last visit to the Childhood Tutoring Center, the mother and son had another big fight.
Auntie couldn't sleep after thinking about it, and after being tangled up, she had no choice but to force Zhou Yishan to come over.
"Teacher Lu, I've read a lot on the Internet, and your evaluation is very good. You must help me educate Yishan. No matter how strong a woman's work ability is or how much money she can make, if she doesn't have a man to rely on, her life will be a joke. What's more, her superpower rating is still so low. In a few years, when she is older, it will be even harder to find a man." Zhou Yishan's mother spoke earnestly, with tears in her eyes.
Lu Yao raised his hand and gently rubbed his eyebrows: "Auntie, I have a question to ask you first."
"Go ahead."
"What's the most troubling aspect of Miss Zhou not getting married? Are you afraid that Miss Zhou will be alone for the rest of her life? Are you worried that she will be homeless when she's old? Or are you feeling pressured by the gossip from the outside world? Or are there other reasons?"
Auntie frowned, hesitated for a moment, and replied heavily: "All of the things you said. The most important thing is how can a woman not get married? What's the point of making money if she doesn't get married? When she's over 30, 40, or 50, she'll regret it. I'm her mother, how can I harm her? She just won't listen!" Lu Yao
listened quietly to Auntie telling him her good intentions over and over again, then looked up at Zhou Yishan: "Why don't you tell me what you think."
Zhou Yishan's face was numb, and she didn't react much to her mother's words. When she heard Lu Yao's question, she also reacted for a while before speaking.
"Teacher Lu, your superpower rating must be very high. An outstanding talent like you probably cannot understand the experience of someone like me with low ability values.
" "Superpowers are too important for our generation, and people with insufficient superpowers and low ability values in this world can be said to be the remnants of natural selection who have lost their 'reproduction rights'.
" "I didn't believe in fate before. Even if my ability values are low, so what? As long as I work hard enough, one day I will be able to live the life I want.
"But that's not the case. Even if I drag my tired body and barely keep up with my colleagues with excellent superpowers, it still can't change the fact that I am a person with low abilities.
"So I chose to give up. I don't want to get married, I don't want to force myself to find someone to be with, I don't want to have another ordinary child, and when he grows up, he will experience the same pain as me.
"But not getting married also has its own pain. Family, neighbors, colleagues, partners...where there are people, there will be comparisons, discussions, and evaluations. All those words turned into pressure, pressing down on people like a mountain.
"Now I don't know what I want."
Lu Yao unconsciously fiddled with the golden ribbon on her wrist. This was the token of acceptance of the commission given to her by Fulla last time.
She remembered that she put it in her pocket at the time, but when she woke up the next day, the golden ribbon was tied around her wrist and she couldn't take it off.
Unless she returns to the shopping street, this thing will be stored in her portable storage by itself.
Once she passed through the star gate, no matter which one, the golden ribbon would return to her wrist, as if it had its own consciousness.
Having experienced similar things several times, Lu Yao was not worried that there was anything wrong with this thing. He looked down and saw a dark light slowly flowing on the ribbon, and suddenly said, "Auntie, Miss Zhou, let's go to see the sea together."
Zhou Yishan's mother and Zhou Yishan were both surprised, unable to understand where this sudden idea came from.
Zhou Yishan asked hesitantly, "My tutoring..."
Lu Yao put away the notes he had taken down, stood up and opened the door, and called Budu to come over and go see the sea with her later.
Budu put down the half-built Lego robot in his hand, and ran over happily.
Lu Yao leaned against the door and explained to the two guests who didn't know the situation, "'Go see the sea together' means that after understanding Miss Zhou's situation, I think it's a tutoring plan that suits you two. If the tutoring effect is not good this time, we will discuss and adjust it later."
Auntie: "I want to go too?"
Zhou Yishan: "Do I need to take my finger bones?"
The mother and son asked at the same time.
Lu Yao nodded to the aunt, then shook his head to Zhou Yishan: "No need to extract the bones this time, I will adjust the coordinates immediately."
The data prepared last time for traveling to sixty years ago still has a lot of use. Lu Yao selected a suitable coordinate from the rich time and space information.
After preparation, Lu Yao used his key to start the time machine.
The silver light slowly enveloped the four people, three adults and one child. When they opened their eyes again, they stood in the wet river beach, their shoes and socks completely trapped in the mud, behind them was a lush forest, and in front of them was a turbid and turbulent river.
Without bothering to speak, Zhou Yishan's mother grabbed Zhou Yishan's legs and struggled to pull them out of the wet mud, step by step backwards, until she hugged a tree trunk and climbed up the gentle slope.
On the other side, Lu Yao and Bu Du used the flying props sold in the canteen to fly directly up and landed on a tall tree trunk.
Zhou Yishan and her mother sat under the tree, panting, her shoes full of mud, heavy and smelly.
She looked very ugly and complained with her head raised: "Didn't we say we were going to see the sea? Where is this place? Is the time machine broken?"
Lu Yao and Bu Du sat side by side on the thick tree trunk, their calves swaying gently in the wind.
She raised her hands across her forehead and looked into the distance: "The estuary is not far ahead."
Zhou Yishan's mother frowned: "My shoes are all wet, how can I walk? The forest is full of bumps and it's not easy to walk. We may encounter snakes and insects."
Zhou Yishan's face was pale, "I won't tutor anymore. The way is long, take us back."
Two transparent bubbles slowly floated down from above, with aircraft props wrapped in the bubbles, and fell accurately into the hands of Zhou Yishan and her mother.
Lu Yao's voice came from above: "This is the flying machine developed in our store. It is safe and convenient. I observed that it only takes about ten minutes to fly from here to the estuary."
The mother and son had no choice but to start the flying machine props and began to learn to fly with some hesitation.
Zhou Yishan was younger after all, so she learned it in twenty minutes.
It took Zhou Yishan's mother a little longer.
About half an hour later, she also learned it.
The four of them spread their wings and flew slowly over the silent forest, like a few migratory birds that had fallen behind.
In order to take care of the two guests who had just learned to use the flying props, Lu Yao and Budu deliberately slowed down, so they arrived at the estuary later than Lu Yao expected.
However, Zhou Yishan's mother and Zhou Yishan were immersed in the novelty of flying. They had long forgotten the unpleasantness at the beginning, and did not care whether it took ten minutes or half an hour to fly here.
Flying over the forest and hovering above the coastline, there was an endless blue deep sea in front of them.
The view from the air is wider than that from the ground. Not only can you see the sea, but you can also see the scenery around the coastline.
Zhou Yishan opened her eyes wide, spread her arms, and took a deep breath: "Lu Yao, I think I understand what you mean."
"Huh?" Lu Yao was a little absent-minded, remembering that he had ridden Harold across the Alexandria continent before. The view was indeed broad at high altitudes.
Zhou Yishan looked at the line where the sea and the sky meet, and said in a relaxed tone: "When I see the sea, I feel how insignificant my own troubles are, and my chest, which has been suffocating, is stretched out."
This was not Lu Yao's original intention, but the guest's emotional transformation to a positive level is also a positive feedback for her.
Lu Yao looked down at the place where the river flows into the sea. The yellow water rushed down from the mountain, crashing and turbulent all the way, rolling up mud and sand and rushing into the sea.
The sea surface at the estuary is the color of yellow soup, slowly spreading towards the distant sea, the color becomes lighter and lighter, and only a layer of pale gray is left at the edge. Going outward, the original color of the river water is lost, and it is completely wrapped in the dark blue of the sea.
Zhou Yishan had been paying attention to Lu Yao, waiting for her to say something, but she seemed to be so engrossed in looking at the sea that she didn't respond at all.
"What are you looking at? Is there something wrong with the estuary?" Zhou Yishan couldn't help asking. Lu Yao
shook his head: "The turbid river was completely swallowed by the sea."
Zhou Yishan didn't understand: "What?"
Lu Yao hesitated for a moment and explained: "I read a sentence in a book before - people are a dirty river. Therefore, we must become the sea, so that we can accommodate a dirty river without being polluted ourselves (1). I was just a little surprised just now, the book didn't lie."
Zhou Yishan also began to stare at the estuary below, thinking about Lu Yao's words.
They stayed at the estuary for a while, and then followed a group of seabirds to the distant sea, and ended up encountering a group of killer whales.
Black and white killer whales lined up in a straight line on the sea, showing their dorsal fins and swaggering.
Zhou Yishan couldn't help but lower the flight altitude and said happily: "Adult killer whales are so big, but so cute."
Zhou Yishan's mother also saw the killer whales for the first time. She was curious but didn't dare to get too close.
She said: "It looks like a XXXL dolphin."
The killer whale's pointed snout and streamlined smooth body are indeed like a dolphin, but its body is much larger than a dolphin, and its ferocity is also XXXL.
Zhou Yishan: "I think killer whales are cuter than dolphins."
The killer whales seemed to have discovered them. Some of them stopped, half floating on the sea, tilting their heads up, showing their mouths full of sharp teeth, and making "嘤嘤嘤" sounds.
Zhou Yishan was completely mesmerized by the killer whales' amazing intelligence and cuteness. Even Zhou Yishan's mother couldn't help laughing.
The killer whales stayed for a while, just like humans teasing stray cats they encountered by chance on the roadside. After teasing the two-legged creatures with wings for a while, they swam away again.
Zhou Yishan liked them so much that she couldn't help but follow them and asked her mother to go with her.
Not only had she seen various deep-sea creatures in the furry shop, but there were also more adorable blob seals in the shop. She was not very interested in the killer whales she encountered here by chance.
Lu Yao was the same.
The two slowed down and drifted in the sea breeze.
After a while, Zhou Yishan and her mother came back together, both of them looked a little bad.
Lu Yao asked: "What happened?"
Zhou Yishan shook her head and said nothing.
Zhou Yishan's mother: "A group of killer whales besieged a giant whale with its cubs. The adult giant whale is much larger than the killer whale, but there are too many killer whales. They took turns attacking, separating the mother and the cub, and then took the opportunity to drown the cub, dragged it aside, ate only the tongue and threw it away. The giant whale that lost its child wandered sadly nearby, screaming constantly."
It was probably the killer whales that preyed on the humpback whale cubs.
Zhou Yishan was in a low mood, and after a while she said, "I shouldn't have followed him."
Zhou Yishan's mother agreed, "Orcas are fierce and cunning."
Lu Yao said, "This is how orcas survive. They are very smart and highly social creatures. Different groups of orcas have their own unique hunting techniques, which are often passed down from generation to generation."
Zhou Yishan frowned and shook her head, "No matter how cute you say orcas are, I just can't like them when I think of them surrounding baby whales and eating only their tongues." Zhou
Yishan's mother nodded.
No matter how smart this animal is, it's not likable.
Lu Yao curled his lips helplessly, thinking that he had to be a nitpicker today.
It's not nice to hear, but I still have to say it.
"But whether humans like it or hate it, the killer whales will not change their way of survival. For them, survival and reproduction are the most important things. How old are humans? Who cares whether you like it or hate it? In this world, perhaps only humans always live in the evaluation of others, and I am afraid that only humans always care about how others see themselves."
On the way back, the atmosphere was unusually silent. Lu Yao
thought that this tutoring had failed.
Back in the tutoring room, Zhou Yishan's mother and Zhou Yishan had no intention of discussing it anymore, but Alfred's tutoring result evaluation was "qualified".
When Zhou Yishan left, her mood was indescribably complicated, as if she was both heavy and relieved.
She walked out of Lu Yao's office, took a few steps, turned back, stood at the door and asked: "Shopkeeper, has your river become the sea?"
Lu Yao felt that Zhou Yishan's eyes were particularly innocent at this moment, and raised his hand to make a small circle: "It's probably only as big as a small pond."
Zhou Yishan's eyes showed a trace of regret: "Shopkeeper, thank you. I am very satisfied with this tutoring."
Lu Yao did not understand Zhou Yishan's last expression, but felt that this girl was inexplicably familiar.
During the tutoring period, she thought about it many times in secret, but she couldn't remember where she had seen her.
At night, Lu Yao's mind flashed, and she sat up suddenly from the bed.
She remembered where she had seen Zhou Yishan before.
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