Mrs. Syd stood at the door of the nail salon and looked up at the sign - Luyao Nail Salon. It was indeed a strange name, but it was easy to understand.
Annie was still standing in the middle of the road. Mrs. Syd leaned over and called her: "Annie, we're here."
Annie came back to her senses, still thinking about the shining fingertips in her mind. She was no longer so angry about Mrs. Syd for forcing her to go out, and she dragged her feet to follow.
In the store, Mu Xin left, and Luyao thought that there would probably be no more customers, so he cleaned up the table and took out the materials he bought in the past two days. He took out the formula of Julong's special glue from the warehouse, measured the corresponding materials according to the formula, put them into a folded paper bag and marked them.
Once the other three materials were gathered, he could try to make it.
She wrote down the names of the materials that had not been collected yet on a piece of paper, and emphasized that the ten pairs of level 12 monster eyes should be bought at the West German Herbal Medicine Store.
According to the owner of the grocery store, the other two herbs might be found in the nearby mountains. The pharmacist Li Xiu might know. Lu Yao planned to ask later.
The door of the store was pushed open from the outside. Lu Yao looked up and saw a noble lady waving a feather fan walked in. She immediately pushed the materials on the table aside and stood up to greet him: "Hello, please sit here for a manicure."
This is a bit of a tricky rhetoric. Regardless of whether the customer comes for a manicure or not, Lu Yao will greet him with this premise.
Of course, if the customer really has no intention, she will not force him.
Mrs. Syd looked around the store. The decoration was simple, the windows were bright and clean, and the wooden cabinets on the wall were filled with many rare items she had never seen before. The two young men sitting on the sofa were not sure if they were customers or employees. This store was a little different from what she had imagined.
Anne walked in, looked around, and approached Mrs. Syd. "Is this the store you find interesting?"
It didn't look special, but the two men on the sofa looked quite handsome. She didn't know who they were.
Mrs. Syd nodded to Anne, then looked at Lu Yao. "Are you the owner?"
Lu Yao nodded slightly, guided the two to sit down, opened the tablet and handed it over, and taught Mrs. Syd how to use it. She couldn't rely on the two people, so she stood up and poured tea herself.
Anne's attention was drawn to Si Jin and Harold. Harold looked like a teenager, about the same age as her. What attracted her more was Si Jin, with his blond hair and golden eyes, and his noble dress and temperament, which could easily attract young girls.
Si Jin sensed the probing gaze and looked up. His face was cold, his dragon eyes were slightly glaring, and a little fierce dragon breath leaked out.
Anne felt a chill on her back and immediately retracted her gaze.
Who is he? His breath is so scary.
She didn't really have any thoughts, but she thought Si Jin was good-looking, and couldn't help but take a few more glances.
Anne didn't dare to pay attention to the sofa anymore, and turned to look at Lu Yao. The owner looked different from the people here, with black hair and black eyes, like a foreigner.
She was discussing the style with her mother.
When she lowered her eyes, Anne noticed the strange book in her mother's hand. When she lightly slid her fingertips across the surface of the book, a new picture appeared. The various styles of nails were dazzling.
The woman in the green dress she met at the door flashed before her eyes. Anne snatched the book from Mrs. Sid's hand and moved back quickly.
Mrs. Sid looked helpless, but there was a subtle sense of pride in her eyes. She knew it would be like this.
Annie flipped through the pages to the end and found a pair of green and white checkered nails, with two fingertips gleaming with an indescribable eye-catching brilliance. The scene that she had not seen clearly on the street just now slowly came to her mind. She looked up at Lu Yao, "Did you do this? Was there a lady in a green dress who dyed her nails like this?"
Lu Yao nodded and only answered the first question, "Yes, this is one of my works."
Annie felt that she was evasive and explained, "I just met a lady in a green dress at the door and was dazzled by her fingertips, but I couldn't see clearly. I was just curious, not intending to spy."
She spoke earnestly, and Lu Yao was relieved. He admitted that a customer had indeed done this pair of nails, but did not mention any other information about Mu Xin.
It turned out that the nails were really dyed. Annie breathed a sigh of relief. Her strong curiosity was unexpectedly satisfied, and she felt comfortable.
Lu Yao taught her to enlarge the picture so that she could see it more clearly.
Then Annie found that the glittering fragments on the nails seemed to be silver crystals and shining crystals, not ordinary gems as she thought.
Silver crystals and shining crystals are both very precious magic gems, and they are hard to come by.
After zooming in, you can see the shape and texture of the gems on the nail surface, as well as the traces of shrinking magic. A gem the size of a single fingertip can be exchanged for several cities.
How can someone be so rich?
Miss Annie, who was born into a noble family and lived a life of luxury, suddenly doubted her life because she wore dozens of cities on her nails at any time.
The tablet screen is very sensitive. When Annie was in a daze, the ruffles of her sleeves passed over the screen and the picture turned to the front page.
Anne's eyes widened, her heart stopped, she pointed at the glittering gems in the picture, and spoke with a stammer: "These, are they extreme crystals?" Lu Yao
nodded calmly.
Anne: "..."
What kind of big shots are served in this store?
Mrs. Sid didn't want to see her daughter's stupid look, so she took back the tablet and turned to the style she liked, "Owner, I like this style. But I don't like daisies, I hope to change it to roses?"
She was interested in the oil painting nails of Fraser, and Lu Yao said that there was no problem at all.
When the owner was painting her mother's nails, Anne was watching from the side, her eyes slightly widened.
The owner's hands were so steady, he used a fine soft pen tip to draw intricate and beautiful rose branches, and he could use an even finer soft pen to outline the golden edges outside the petals. His brushstrokes were more delicate than the teacher who taught the principles of magic circle construction at the Royal Academy of Magic.
Mrs. Syd was satisfied when the pattern on the first finger was done. The owner's aesthetics and skills far exceeded her expectations.
It was worth her coming all the way from Onorton just to get this set of nails.
She could already imagine the scene of making a big splash at the next banquet.
The store actually had a silicone plate with a rose pattern, which could be printed with a stamp and printed on the nails, and the finished product would also look good.
Because Mrs. Syd liked the texture of oil painting nails, Lu Yao did not mention it and chose hand painting.
In order to highlight the beauty and passion of the rose, she simply imagined Mrs. Syd's fingers as a rose garden.
Roses of all shapes and sizes are blooming in the garden, from the thumb to the pinky finger, the young buds about to bloom, the rose branches with thorns intertwined, the roses looming in the mist, the roses condensed with dew in the morning... all ten fingers are different.
Mrs. Sid stared at her fingertips with her eyes downcast, unable to conceal her joy, and said frankly: "I like this withering rose the most, it's very special. The owner is thoughtful."
The withered rose is painted on the ring finger, the only gray design in the whole set of manicure.
The base oil is light gray, and the withered and decaying rose branch is dark gray. The center of the flower branch with only three petals left is golden, as if suggesting that this rose bloomed passionately and then burned out.
Lu Yao smiled and shook his head, indicating that it was nothing. He raised his hand to draw a magic circle and prepared to seal it.
Annie was originally looking at her mother's fingers, which were really beautiful. Then she noticed Lu Yao's action and showed surprise in her eyes: "Are you a light magician?"
Lu Yao nodded: "Forget it."
Annie: "..."
Why didn't the light magician enter the Royal Academy, but opened a nail dyeing shop in such a remote town?
She even used light magic to strengthen her nails.
- This behavior was so outrageous that even if the owner was not a student of the academy, the dean of the academy would cover his heart and scold her for wasting her talent.
"What style do you like? We can start." Lu Yao asked Annie while cleaning the table.
Anne came back to her senses and said without thinking, "I want to have the same nails as my mother, but I don't like the withered rose. I hope the owner can design a new style for me to replace it."
Lu Yao nodded, "No problem."
Anne's nine fingers were all made with the same style as Mrs. Sid's, but the ring finger on her right hand was only painted with nail polish base, and it was still blank.
She waited patiently.
Finally, Lu Yao changed a pen, re-adjusted the color, and began to paint the ring finger.
At first, it was still a gray tone. Anne felt that the owner probably couldn't design a newer style.
When she saw the owner added some petals that fell to the ground and the leaves scattered, Anne's disappointment became even stronger.
After a while, Lu Yao changed to a clean brush and mixed a dark red that was two points darker than the bright red. He added petals to the bare stamens, and mixed a little misty blue to draw rain lines and deepen the background.
Anne was slightly stunned. It was different.
This was a rose that was beaten badly by the rain, but even though the branches and leaves were scattered and the petals were drooping, the rose still held its head high and did not bend.
The most wonderful thing was that the posture and color of this rose were almost the same as the withered rose on Mrs. Sid's finger.
Anne's rose endured the wind and rain without bowing its head. After Mrs. Sid's rose bloomed brilliantly, there was still some residual fire left.
For some reason, Anne's nose suddenly felt sore and her eyes were pale, but she held it back.
It would be ridiculous to cry over a manicure.
Mrs. Sid's eyes softened as she looked at Lu Yao, with a kind of restrained intimacy.
At her age, she already knew what she wanted and was not afraid of withering or fading.
But Anne was different. She was still young and needed courage.
Whether intentional or unintentional, the shop owner had a very keen insight.
Mrs. Sid turned her head and saw the materials piled together in a mess at the other end of the table. Her eyes fell on a piece of paper lying alone on the table. The corners of her lips curled up slightly, but she didn't say much.
They will have deeper interactions with this shop owner.
Mrs. Sid and Anne left the nail salon and found a hotel to rest. They decided to stay in Emerald Town for a while.
Lu Yao put the four gold coins into the drawer, and when there were no customers, he called Harold and Si Jin, saying seriously: "I think you two need employee training."
Harold looked uninterested, his eyes never left the comic book, and it was unknown whether he listened or not.
Si Jin also had a similar dead look, staring at his fingers with an infatuated look. Lu Yao
crossed his arms and said in a deep voice: "If you two don't change your current attitude, I will consider firing you. I don't need employees who don't greet customers during working hours, only read comics and are narcissistic."
The word "fire" was indeed a bit serious. Harold and Si Jin finally paid some attention to look at Lu Yao, with a puzzled look on their faces.
Lu Yao sighed. He had not expected them to receive customers like normal employees. But the two of them were more important than the customers when they stayed in the store. This needed to be corrected.
"You are employees. When customers come in, you should at least take the initiative to greet them and lead them in, instead of reading comics and playing with your nails." Lu Yao said seriously, "Harold, you can't just lie down and occupy the long sofa. If you want to sit, sit down." Harold
sat up with a dark face, and his eyebrows were squeezed into undulating mountains.
Si Jin was gloating on the side.
Lu Yao turned her head and looked over. "Si Jin has been playing with his nails and not greeting customers. You two are the same."
Harold and Si Jin: "..."
Although they did not refute, the two dragons had dark faces, looking very angry but holding back their grievance.
Lu Yao wondered if she had said too much. Long was used to being free, so it was normal that he couldn't adapt to the identity of a clerk for a while.
But she didn't ask them to be very capable. They just needed to stop lying on the sofa and ignoring customers when they came to the store.
After reflecting on it, Lu Yao calmed down and taught them little by little what a clerk should be like.
Harold and Si Jin nodded like crazy, which made people feel particularly uneasy. Lu Yao
was dry-mouthed when she spoke, and the two dragons looked at her innocently with their round eyes bulging.
"..." After playing the piano to the dragon for nearly an hour, Lu Yao completely gave up on training the dragon to become a qualified clerk and typed into the system, "Help me post a recruitment information for clerks."
System: [Deduct fifty popularity points, the nail salon adds 1 new employee position, and the recruitment advertisement has been sent out. ]
Lu Yao took a look at the progress of the task. The nail salon has good profits, but the number of customers received is much less than that of the snack bar. So far, there are not even twenty customers.
The second task is stalled. There
was no customer after waiting for a long time, so Lu Yao decided to ask about Lixiu's herbs first.
The pharmacy is just across the nail salon, and it is only a few steps away.
Lixiu was packing up her tools to go up the mountain to collect herbs, and Lu Yao immediately offered to go with her.
Hearing that Lu Yao wanted to find thorn star grass and black lotus, Lixiu was very enthusiastic and prepared to take her to collect these two herbs first. Lu Yao
returned to the nail salon and said that she was going up the mountain to collect herbs. She asked Harold and Si Jin to watch the shop and asked customers to make appointments first. She would be back in the evening.
Lixiu often went to the forest to collect herbs and was very familiar with the nearby terrain and distribution of herbs.
She told Lu Yao that thorn star grass and black lotus are plants that grow near swamps, and you have to be careful when picking them, otherwise you may fall into the swamp.
Lu Yao wrote down Lixiu's words and followed her closely.
Not long after entering the forest, Lixiu encountered a large area of magic grass that was growing pleasingly and had to stop to pick it.
The plant called phantom grass can escape. In the morning, it grows by the water, but in the afternoon, it may run to the shade of trees. It is dreamlike, just like its name.
If you encounter phantom grass, it is best to pick it immediately, otherwise it will escape.
Li Xiu said embarrassedly: "Phantom grass is a rare herb that improves the quality of sleeping pills. It is hard to find. I have to pick all of this. I can't take you to the swamp until later. I'm really sorry."
Lu Yao squatted down to help, "It's okay, don't mind. The two of you hurry up, I'll go this way and you go that way, and gather here after you finish picking."
Li Xiu looked at her gratefully, squatted down and began to mow the grass.
This patch of phantom grass almost covered half of the hillside. Lu Yao took a small sickle and buried her head in harvesting herbs. She gathered them into bundles and threw them into the warehouse. Unknowingly, she walked a long way.
When she stood up to take a rest, she looked up and saw a strange little thing hanging on a tree not far ahead.
Lu Yao rubbed her eyes and thought to herself, is that real?
The thing on the opposite side seemed to have discovered her as well. It struggled violently in the net and made a cute "chi chi" sound at her.
System: [...It should be asking for help. Lu
Yao supported his waist with both hands and panted slightly, "Its body should be fluid and can be deformed at will, how could it be trapped in that kind of net? Is it a trap?"
The system detected it and replied: [That is not a human trap, it is a hunting net woven by white spirit spiders, which is specially used to prey on monsters. Although it is a monster, it is too weak and not even worth being eaten. The white spirit spider may think that it is a waste of a net if it cannot be eaten, so it deliberately left it here.]
Lu Yao: "..."
System: [Will the owner save it?]
The little thing in the net seemed to understand, and looked at Lu Yao pitifully with a pair of watery eyes.
Lu Yao: "Will it be dangerous?"
System: [Slime is the weakest creature on this continent. There is no benefit in saving it, and there is no harm in not saving it.]
"...Then save it. It looks so cute." Lu Yao said as he stepped forward, holding the bottom of the white spider web with one hand, raised the small sickle and gently cut the spider web.
The body of the slime was soft, smooth and cool, just like jelly. Lu Yao couldn't help but pinch it before putting it down, "Be careful in the future, don't get caught again."
The blue transparent slime paralyzed on the ground, like a clear spring, making a "chi chi" sound in response.
Lu Yao heard Li Xiu calling her, and walked back with the sickle, not noticing that the blue water behind him quietly followed.
Lixiu picked a full basket of phantom grass, and the rest ran away.
The basket was full, and there was no way to collect other herbs. She planned to take Luyao to the swamp to pick some thorn star grass and ground black lotus, and then they could go back.
The two arrived at the edge of the swamp. Lixiu looked around the edge and only found a piece of thorn star grass, but no ground black lotus.
After Luyao picked a small piece of thorn star grass, he also began to look for ground black lotus around the swamp, but he never found any trace of it.
Lixiu: "The smell of ground black lotus is very fragrant, which easily attracts monsters. I guess all the ones in this piece have been eaten."
The sky gradually darkened, and it would be unsafe in the forest. Luyao was ready to give up.
Lixiu suddenly pointed in the direction of the center of the swamp, "Luyao, there are black lotuses swimming over here!"
Luyao turned around and saw a bunch of black lotuses floating on the swamp, moving towards them as if they had consciousness.
Lixiu grabbed Luyao's hand tightly, her voice trembling, "It might be a monster, what should we do?"
"..."
Of course we should run!!!
Luyao pulled Lixiu up and ran all the way down the mountain.
Deep in the jungle, the slime climbed out of the swamp with a bunch of black lotuses on its head, but found that the human was gone. It made two helpless "chi chi" sounds, and followed the remaining breath in the air, moving slowly down the mountain.
Lu Yao took Lixiu out of the forest, handed her the magic grass, and returned to the store, only to find that Harold and Sikin were not there.
"..." She was so tired from this trip that she didn't even have the energy to get angry. She drank two glasses of cold water and leaned on the sofa to rest.
After an unknown amount of time, a knock on the door woke Lu Yao up.
She opened her eyes, and it was already dark outside the window.
"What's wrong?" The voice was hoarse from just waking up.
System: [...The slime is outside the door.]
Lu Yao: "..."
System: [It brought a bunch of black lotus.]
The guy is pretty smart. Lu Yao
got up and opened the door. All the shops on the street were closed. It was pitch black outside, and light leaked out from the gap in the open door.
The black slime bulged its big watery eyes and made two "chi chi" sounds at Lu Yao, then touched the black lotus on its head.
Lu Yao took the black lotus away and made way for it, "Would you like to come in and have a drink of water?"
When she saw it in the afternoon, it was still a clear and beautiful slime. If it weren't for the system's prompt, she would have been completely unable to connect the black slime in front of her with the one in the afternoon.
In this way, she could also guess what was going on with the black lotus that could swim in the swamp.
The slime shook its body, and the dirt impurities that had penetrated into its body were filtered out, and it turned into a beautiful blue slime again.
A fleshy paw stretched out from its chubby body, pointing at the job posting on the door, and squeaked.
Lu Yao: “?”
System: [He should be applying for a clerk position.]
Lu Yao was silent for a while, and decided to give it a chance: "The probation period is seven days. I will keep you only if your performance satisfies me."
Having failed in recruiting two dragons before, Lu Yao decided to give Slime a good on-the-job training, and did not return to his residence that night.
Annie lay on the bed in the hotel, unable to fall asleep.
After the news that Zelan and Helena were going to get married spread in the magic academy, Annie knew that she was broken up.
She went to confront Zelan, but was stopped by Helena Kinclair's maid, who told her that if she dared to disturb Zelan Rui, the Kinclair family would make the name of Sidlevis disappear from the empire.
Annie was scared, but more of a powerless person.
So what if you rank first in the magic league? So what if you are the number one magician in the Capital Guild Adventure Team?
In front of absolute power, she is still insignificant and powerless.
The surname Kinkley represents the most glorious glory of the empire's noble families.
More than a hundred years ago, a dragon-slaying warrior appeared in the Kinkley family, a minor noble family. He drove a giant dragon to save the eldest prince on the battlefield and became the most sought-after noble family in the empire.
Now, the legendary dragon-slaying warrior has passed away for a long time, but the power and prestige of the Kinkley family has not faded.
Anne returned to her home in Onorton like a dead dog. In fact, she did not take the initiative to ask for leave, but Helena did not allow her to appear in the Royal Academy of Magic again, otherwise the entire Sidlevis family would suffer.
Anne had already accepted her fate. She absolutely could not lose her mother, even if it cost her her whole life.
Anne's eyes were fixed on the rose on her nails that was washed and battered by the rain. Could she really never go back?
When Lu Yao was not in the store, Harold and Si Jin felt extremely bored, so they sneaked out for a walk.
When they came back, the coordinates of the transmission scroll were wrong, and they were teleported to the central desert.
They remembered that Lu Yao was looking for the eyeballs of the twelfth-level red scorpion, so they got a bag full of them. It took them a day and a night to get back to Emerald Town.
Harold pushed open the door of the nail salon with a bag of fresh red scorpion eyeballs. There were customers in the store, and Lu Yao was busy. He looked up at them and continued to work.
A blue slime moved over carefully, and said in a soft and cute voice: "Hello, please sit here for your manicure."
Harold & Sikin: "..."
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