212 Lu Yao's long day
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The preparations for the joint event in the Land of the Dead◎ were too arduous. It was not until after 10 pm on August 14 that we were sure that all items were ready.
Among the eleven stores, only the fifth store's Super Time and Space Cinema will start the event tomorrow to warm up, because the Mid-Autumn Festival of the Great Wu Dynasty is one month later.
However, because the treasure map designed by Lu Yao requires the joint efforts of all stores, a mobile activity area is also set up in the fifth store to cooperate with the treasure map activity.
After the preparations for the activity were over, Lu Yao immediately hid in the mustard seed space to rest.
Even if we exclude the Super Time and Space Cinema, which will not start the official activity for the time being, the activity time between each store will overlap to a large extent.
The staff of each store hopes that the store owner can go to the store to take a look during the activity.
As the most ambitious and stable master of balancing, Lu Yao had no room to refuse.
The Mid-Autumn Festival joint activities in the shopping street were expected to last for at least three days. No matter what, Lu Yao had to show up in various stores on the first day of the activities.
For the store owners, August 15th would be a very busy day. They could only take time to rest in advance and recuperate.
At 11:40 in the evening, only 20 minutes before midnight, Lu Yao came out of the mustard seed space. In
the deep night of autumn, the warm yellow street lights were like small orange lights floating in the dark forest. Lu Yao walked along the empty and quiet deserted streets to the door of the first store at the end of the street.
At midnight, the snack bar and Qingshan Noodle House will be the first to open the Mid-Autumn Festival activities.
The snack bar is the first store opened by Lu Yao in the shopping street, and it is connected to the Land of the Dead, the Land of Dreams.
The residents living in the Land of Dreams are all dead souls who are obsessed with and unwilling to be reborn. The dead have a long life span that is almost immortal. They do not need to eat, work, or struggle for survival like the living, and suffer all the hardships of the world, but they are not happy either. They
cannot touch the reality of the world, cannot feel the change of seasons, and cannot taste the flavors of the world, which makes them feel extremely empty and powerless.
Until a snack bar selling human food appeared on the 99th floor of Area A of the Land of Dreams, this is the first store belonging to Lu Yao on the shopping street. Lu
Yao pushed open the door of the snack bar. The lobby was bright and the tables and chairs were neatly arranged. It was like two different shops from the cramped and simple snack bar.
Before midnight, there was already a long queue at the food collection counter and stamping window outside the door.
In order to cooperate with the Mid-Autumn Festival activities of the snack bar and Qingshan Noodle House, the park allocated half of its guards to assist and opened thirteen areas of the entire Dreamland at the same time. All the undead could go to the two shops to buy food and participate in the activities.
The clerks were busy in and out. When they saw Lu Yao hurriedly greeted, they had no time to chat.
Lu Yao stood in the hallway of the lobby on the first floor, touching the clean tables and chairs with his hands, and sighed: "The first journey started from here."
Dream Fulfillment System: "You were stupid at that time, and you seemed easy to talk to, but you didn't listen to my advice and insisted on selling the spicy chicken wings. I really didn't understand in my heart, how could you make money with this thing? I never thought it would become like this."
Lu Yao: "Facts have proved that you are really not cut out for business."
Dream Fulfillment System: "… …We were just chatting, why did you start attacking me?”
Lu Yao: “It seems like you’ve been surfing the Internet a lot recently. After going out to study, my brain has indeed become much sharper.”
Dream-fulfilling system: “…”
Qi Chen came down from the upstairs and saw Lu Yao standing alone in the empty hall. He called out, “Shopkeeper, everything is ready. Do you want to take the first order for the event?”
Lu Yao was a little surprised. It was just a store event, but it felt a bit like cutting a ribbon, full of ceremony.
Lu Yao looked up and met Qi Chen's expectant eyes. He swallowed the words "No thanks" and walked over slowly: "Okay, let's start from the second floor?"
Qi Chen raised his hand and pushed the glasses he had made with magic: "I'm afraid every window is waiting for you to go there in person."
Three days before the official start of the event, the snack bar and Qingshan Noodle House collected the most favorite food from customers in all thirteen districts.
After two days of fierce competition, four kinds of snacks, four kinds of desserts, and four kinds of noodles were obtained, totaling twelve menus.
During the event, the snack bar was responsible for supplying four kinds of snacks and four kinds of desserts, and Qingshan Noodle House was responsible for supplying four kinds of noodles.
Because the lunch boxes made with magic have the effect of keeping warm, cold and fresh, as soon as the twelve menus came out, the two stores opened the reserved windows for the entire district.
During the three-day event, the two stores will supply these twelve items for a limited time and open the corresponding receipt stamp windows.
Unlike the initial online meeting plan, Luyao later slightly modified the way to obtain gifts, and added a treasure map activity that was held simultaneously in eleven stores.
Guests can go to any theme park in the entire area with any stamped receipt to redeem a small gift.
The entire area is recorded online, and each person can only redeem one gift.
However, if guests collect three types of stamped receipts from the snack window, dessert window, and pasta window, they can go to the theme park with three receipts to redeem a treasure map designed by the owner of the snack shop.
The treasure map is related to the mooncake joint gift box activity in the shopping street. It is relatively difficult to obtain, but it is also very interesting.
At this time, waiting for Lu Yao to go there in person is the window for issuing reserved food boxes and the window for stamping.
The snack bar opens the first, second and third floors to customers. The first floor is responsible for snack menus, the second floor is responsible for desserts, and the window on the third floor is dedicated to stamping.
The window on the first floor is on the side of the main entrance, and the second and third floors can be reached from the side stairs. Lu
Yao is on the first floor at this time, and walks to the snack window. Xingzi and Bai Ming smiled and took two steps back and stood behind Lu Yao.
The first customer standing at the snack window No. 1 on the first floor is the guard of the amusement park next door, Chang Bai Jian.
Lu Yao laughed: "Why is the guard chief here too?"
As the earliest cooperative unit of the snack bar, the park has allocated half of its staff to help organize the event. Lu Yao has already promised to guarantee the Mid-Autumn Festival food boxes and moon cake gift boxes for all the park employees.
Bai Jian handed over a deposit voucher for pre-booking food boxes and nodded to Lu Yao lightly: "The event is so lively, I just happened to have some time, so I couldn't help but come and take a look."
This kind of celebration is not unfamiliar to the undead, but among all their festivals, only the activities of the snack bar can touch the reality.
Even the subordinates of the demon god find it difficult to resist this liveliness and reality.
The powerlessness and despair brought by the long time and the emptiness can only be resisted by this moment of reality.
Lu Yao took the deposit receipt, and Xingzi beside him quickly took out a basket that looked like bamboo strips, and picked up the lunch box tied with a moon-yellow lunch cloth from the basket.
The four menus voted out in the snack bar were more homely, and basically they were not some amazing dishes - braised pork with potatoes, steamed chicken with beer, tofu with chopped pepper sauce, and dumplings.
Lu Yao was very surprised when he saw the menu voted out a few days ago. The first three dishes were barely understandable, but he didn't expect there would be a dumpling at the end.
Is it appropriate to eat dumplings during the Mid-Autumn Festival?
I don't know, but the customers are happy anyway.
In order to meet the needs of customers to the greatest extent, the snack bar has divided braised pork into salty and sweet flavors, and beer steamed chicken into light and sweet flavors, and provides dipping sauce. There
are four kinds of dumplings: fresh meat and leek, beef and cabbage, vegetarian three fresh and pickled three fresh, and three ways to eat dumplings: boiled, steamed, and fried.
When customers make reservations in advance, they can get a deposit certificate by checking the menu according to their needs and paying half of the deposit.
Xingzi moved so quickly that the small bamboo basket could hardly hold it.
Lu Yao estimated that Bai Jian had ordered all the dishes on the menu, probably every flavor.
Bai Jian lowered his eyes, his nose twitched slightly, and said in a light voice: "Is this... the fragrance of osmanthus?"
The moon-yellow lunch box in the basket exuded the sweet fragrance of osmanthus.
On the streets of autumn, the sweet fragrance of osmanthus flowers is sometimes a bit cloying.
But for the guests of the Dreamland, this sweet fragrance is extremely refreshing and pleasant.
Lu Yao nodded: "I customized the lunch cloth from another place, and soaked it in osmanthus water to keep the fragrance lasting."
This is a little thought that Lu Yao designed for the snack bar activities.
The lunch cloth is hand-woven cloth that Lu Yao wholesaled from the cloth shop in Dawu Dynasty. It is cheap and woven very finely.
The weaver was also very considerate to help cut it into the right size, and asked the embroiderer to hand-lock the edges.
Seeing that the embroiderers were so busy that they were dizzy, Lu Yao couldn't help but give them a few sewing machines, which broke them.
The lunch box is a disposable item made by illusion, but it is very airtight and will not transfer the smell of food to the lunch cloth.
After the guests enjoy the delicious food, the lunch box will automatically "degrade", leaving behind a piece of lunch cloth with the scent of osmanthus.
As long as the guests smell the familiar floral scent, they will think of this event, the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the snack bar.
This is actually the first small gift prepared by the snack bar for the guests.
Bai Jian's eyes lit up slightly, and he came over. Under the surprised and inquiring eyes of the people behind him, he whispered in Lu Yao's ear: "If Lord Demon knew, I'm afraid he would be very angry." Lu
Yao said calmly: "The portion for Lord Demon has already been sent to your office by Chi."
Bai Jian stopped talking.
Lu Yao took the bamboo basket filled with food boxes from Xingzi, and took the receipt from Bai Ming, and handed them to Bai Jian together.
After the goods are picked up smoothly, the customer pays the remaining half of the time, and the deposit receipt will be completed by the clerk and turned into a receipt.
Afterwards, the customer goes upstairs with the receipt to get it stamped, and then goes to the random park to redeem a small gift from the world of the living.
After showing up at the snack window, Lu Yao hurried upstairs and came to the dessert window on the second floor.
Qi Chen has been in charge of the second floor, and Xiaoqie and Chi are also helping.
Xiaoqie looks the same as last year, with a head of purple hair. When he sees the owner, his eyes light up and he runs over to act coquettishly.
Qi Chen came over and handed Lu Yao a snack box: "Shopkeeper, please pack the snacks for the first customer."
Qi Chen insisted that the appearance of desserts was as important as their taste.
The snack box designed by Qi Chen himself has a material on the front that looks a bit like a transparent acrylic plate, which is much harder than acrylic. The biggest advantage is that you can directly see the appearance of the snacks in the box.
The four desserts selected for this event were also unexpected - paper cup cream cake, caramel egg pudding, fruit mille-feuille, and Black Forest.
Three of the four desserts are childhood memories of many people.
In fact, the Land of Dreams is a country with a long history. There are still ghosts from thousands of years ago here. Some people may never have known the existence of cakes and puddings before they died.
I don't know if it was for this reason, but the dessert box designed by Qi Chen has a small circular groove in the middle.
A piece of sweet-scented osmanthus cake wrapped in a transparent sugar paper has been placed in the groove in advance.
Perhaps noticing Lu Yao's lingering gaze, Qi Chen looked away a little unnaturally: "I set a rule privately that if customers buy four kinds of desserts at a time, they will get a piece of sweet-scented osmanthus cake for free."
Qi Chen lived with his grandparents for a period of time when he was young, and there happened to be two sweet-scented osmanthus trees in front of and behind the house.
Every August when the sweet-scented osmanthus was fragrant, grandma would always pick osmanthus flowers and make candied osmanthus and osmanthus cake.
Qi Chen liked to eat it when he was a child, but he didn't like sweet food when he grew up. When he recalled the candied osmanthus and osmanthus cake made by his grandma, he just felt sick.
Who would have thought that he would leave that world before his grandparents.
Perhaps influenced by the atmosphere of the activities in the store, he has been thinking about the osmanthus cake and candied osmanthus made by his grandmother recently.
The store happened to have the ingredients, so he couldn't help but make some.
Unfortunately, the osmanthus cake he nominated did not make the final menu and could only be given away as a gift.
Facing Lu Yao, Qi Chen still felt a little guilty.
After more than a year in the dreamland, Qi Chen has deeply understood how cruel the existence of this world is.
They are like grains of sand lying in the long river of time, not being noticed by any eyes, and no longer having any future.
If there is any place that can make them feel happy, it is probably only the two restaurants run by the only girl in the world who can cross the boundary between life and death.
All the materials used in the store were supported by her alone, and all they could give her was boring time.
He used the materials in the store to make boring gifts.
Lu Yao felt that Qi Chen's face was a little gloomy: "What's wrong? Are you worried?"
Qi Chen shook his head: "Sorry. I will compensate you for the cost of the gifts with my time."
Lu Yao picked up a piece of osmanthus cake and stuffed it into his mouth: "It's soft and sticky, and the sweetness is just right. I didn't expect that you can make this kind of traditional pastry so well."
Qi Chen: "I only know this kind. My grandma often made it for me when I was a child."
Lu Yao: "Why not promote it as a limited-time new product in the store? After the event is over, it will be officially launched online and sold for half a month. It is estimated that it will be very popular."
Qi Chen: "But the ingredients..."
Lu Yao: "Don't underestimate your store owner. Besides, it's just a normal expansion of the business. There is no need to panic. When you are bored, you should try more."
Qi Chen's face was slightly stunned.
She is still so sharp and calm.
In fact, various types of desserts have been packaged. The first dessert box that needs to be packed by the store owner himself is the same as just now.
Lu Yao took the deposit voucher, glanced at it, and handed it to Xiao Qie beside him. He quickly put snacks into the box, and finally tied a beautiful bow on the handle with a moon-yellow square handkerchief.
The moon-yellow handkerchief, like the lunch cloth, has a faint sweet-scented osmanthus scent.
When handing out the gift box, Lu Yao looked up at the guest, recognized him as an acquaintance, and smiled slightly: "Why are you here too? I just met the guard downstairs."
The young man was the first customer of the snack bar and the first customer of the shopping street.
His name is Qing, one of the guards of the park.
Qing was not originally employed in this area. After the snack bar appeared, Qing decided to re-participate in the guard selection and was successfully transferred to the park on the 99th floor.
This shows his obsession with food.
Qing was still the same as a year ago, with dark eyes, almost no whites, and sharp shark teeth. He nodded slightly to Lu Yao: "We want to get the treasure map as soon as possible, and we will act separately from the guard leader. Several guards have already gone to Qingshan Noodle House."
Lu Yao was a little surprised: "The park is not open today?"
Xiaoqie: "We have such a lively event, but it only lasts for three days, and the whole area is open. Who has the heart to play with the living?"
Qing: "The guard leader said that we have to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival, so let the players rest for two days." Lu
Yao didn't think much about it: "Is it so good?"
Chi coldly added: "It was not like this in previous years. If we can't celebrate the festival, the living can't think of having a good time."
Qi Chen couldn't help but shudder.
When he was still alive, he entered the park once during the Mid-Autumn Festival.
Because he suddenly received a piece of gossip - there is a reward for entering the park during the Mid-Autumn Festival, and your life span is doubled.
After leaving the park, his life span was indeed extended, but he was also chopped very badly, and he was deeply traumatized. He dared not enter the park for a long time afterwards.
No wonder he always felt that the monster that day was particularly fierce, the truth turned out to be like this. Qi Chen became more and more speechless as he thought about it
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