334 The 12th Store
◎ He who shines.◎
Zhong Cuizhu’s husband’s surname is Li, and they have a pair of children. The eldest son is Li Jinshu, and the younger daughter is Li Jingui.
The three middle-aged people who came from the main road and looked for Lu Yuan were Zhong Cuizhu’s children and son-in-law.
Zhong Cuizhu broke her leg while digging bamboo shoots, and her leg was put in a cast after she went to the city for medical treatment.
After staying in the hospital for a few days, she insisted on being discharged and stayed at her son’s house first. Within two days, she was clamoring to go back to the town again.
The son, daughter-in-law, and daughter-in-law tried to persuade her, but they could not persuade her, so they had to take leave to send her back.
On the way back to the city, several people were still discussing how to solve the problem of food for the old lady while she was recuperating.
The old father has been unable to move for many years, and the old lady has to take care of all the big and small things at home. The old lady now has a plaster cast on her leg and can't walk well, so she can't rely on the old man to take care of her.
Li Jinshu and Li Jingui originally discussed two plans. One is to take turns to take care of the two old people.
Zhong Cuizhu is not completely unable to move in the future. At most, she will be taken care of for two months, and the trouble will only be two months. Each family will take one month.
But there are children to take care of at home, and the work is not very busy and respectable. It is not easy to ask the leader for a month's leave.
After discussing it over and over, several people came up with a second plan - the two families will take some money to find a suitable person in the town to take care of the two old people for two months.
It is more expensive to hire a caregiver in the city, but it is at least half the price in the countryside. You can hire someone to cook and take care of two elderly people for four or five thousand yuan.
But leaving two elderly people who are unable to walk in their hometown and asking outsiders to take care of them is a bit worrying.
They originally planned to find someone to take care of them, and first look for someone they know, and then install surveillance at home.
After discussing it, the plan of hiring someone to take care of them was almost finalized.
Just now when I got home, a neighbor came over to chat. I heard that there was a family in the community who came back from the city. The house was full of working robots, and they also provided rental services.
Li Jinshu and Li Jingui were a little interested, so they came to take a look.
Lu Yao led the three of them directly to the waiting room, where nearly twenty robots were waiting quietly like soldiers.
Li Jinshu, Li Jingui and Li Jingui's husband, Lao Liu, who claimed to have seen the world, were also shocked by the scene.
The robots they knew about on the market were more traditional intelligent sweeping robots. Some large shopping malls have service robots in the dining areas, but they are quite bulky and mechanical, and cannot be compared with the robots Lu Yao showed.
Lu Yao used simple voice commands to wake up the No. 2 kitchen robot Baitanggao and the waiting cleaning robot Lemonade, and instructed them to show their skills to the guests.
Lemonade's program included a map of the rental shop. He quickly found the cleaning utensils at home and started sweeping the floor.
Baitanggao went into the kitchen and skillfully prepared three dishes and a soup.
All the ingredients were ready at home, one meat, one vegetable, one soup, and a pot of fragrant rice. The whole process took 40 minutes.
Li Jinshu and Li Jingui were stunned by the hospitality and sat down to taste Baitanggao's cooking skills.
Li Jinshu picked at the garlic sprouts and pork stir-fry in the bowl and nodded repeatedly: "This tastes as good as the restaurant."
Li Jingui ate a little slower, lowered her eyes slightly, and asked Lu Yao: "Does the store have other types of robots? The ones with more comprehensive functions?"
The kitchen robot and cleaning robot in the rental store showed a level of intelligence far beyond the cognition of the three people, but the robot is a machine after all, and its functions are relatively simple.
The kitchen robot can only cook, the cleaning robot can only clean, and the agricultural robot can only do farm work. Overall, it feels better to hire an aunt.
Li Jingui suddenly had an idea. She didn't know where it came from, maybe from a movie. She wondered if there was a robot that was specifically used to take care of patients. Lu Yao pondered
for a moment and nodded, "The store doesn't have a model specifically used for care at the moment, but we can transfer the goods."
Li Jinshu and Old Liu looked at each other. It was no wonder they were surprised. In such a closed environment in the countryside, it would be very time-consuming and laborious to transfer the goods.
Unexpectedly, the next second, the little old lady in front of her said, "There is no physical model in the store, but we have a holographic experience service. Do you want to try it? After trying it, if you are sure you need it, I will contact my colleagues to transfer the goods directly."
Mrs. Lu's face was old, but her business ability was still there. However,
several customers did not notice her wording, and their attention was completely attracted by the first half of the sentence.
What information?
What kind of experience service?
Li Jinshu and Lao Liu just thought it was a joke. Was this old lady lying without thinking, or did she mistake the online 3D display for a holographic experience?
Although they live in a small city, the Internet is so developed now that it is not difficult to understand the development of cutting-edge technology. Even if some fields begin to try to invest in holographic projection technology, it is not a cabbage on the street that can be seen in such a rural town.
Having opened so many stores and seen all kinds of gods, demons and monsters, Lu Yao is no longer the timid new shop owner. He is not afraid of showing his edge, nor is he worried about being targeted.
The restrictions on Lu Yao in the Godless Land are too strict. Technology is the sharpest knife in her hand. She is already at a disadvantage at the beginning. She does not intend to hide the sharpness of robot technology. Instead, she will do her best to highlight its advantages.
It is not just her who is restricted by the Godless Land. In such a world, the only thing that can punish her is the ever-evolving time, or perhaps the complex network of relationships built by the human world itself, secular public opinion or law.
And she runs a formal store with complete procedures.
Even if she has the world's most advanced robot technology, if someone wants to plot against her, they will not be able to do anything to her in the short term without solid evidence.
Lu Yao pretended not to notice the contempt and ridicule displayed by several people intentionally or unintentionally, and stood up amicably, leading the three people back to the waiting room.
The waiting room is the main hall of Lu Yao's house. It is the largest room among all the rooms. Brand new robots are neatly arranged. There is a small door on the left wall, which leads to a private room.
Half of the private room is set up as a mini holographic projection site.
Lu Yao pushed the door open, took out three pairs of glasses from the cabinet beside the door and handed them to Li Jinshu and the other two. He pressed the projection start button and debugged the nursing robot to provide experience.
Lu Yao asked Li Jinshu and Li Jingui to put on their glasses. Under the watchful eyes of the three, the empty room was built into a nursing home ward. At first, it was just walls, beds, simple storage cabinets, curtains, and accompanying chairs. At some point, I heard a groan of pain, and a strange smell filled my nose. On
the narrow bed lay the numb old man and the person who had lost his mobility. At this time, the nursing robot in uniform appeared.
The expressions of the three people changed from carelessness at the beginning to surprise and shock, and gradually became a state of loss of management.
The experience was not long, less than five minutes including the construction of the projection scene, and the cognition of Li Jinshu, Li Jingui and Lao Liu for decades was completely overturned.
Coming out of the holographic projection area, Li Jingui asked, "How long will it take to transfer the goods?" Lu
Yao: "Contact us immediately, it will arrive around 8pm."
Li Jingui was surprised: "So fast?"
Lu Yao said seriously: "Don't be so surprised, we have a special channel for transferring goods."
Li Jingui glanced at Li Jinshu beside him, then turned to look at Lu Yao: "If it's rented, how much is the fee?"
Lu Yao had learned about the market in Tonghua Town. If you hire a temporary worker, it costs 200 yuan a day for a man and 150 yuan a day for a woman.
There seemed to be a project in the community subsidized by Guo Jia, hiring villagers to do work, mostly planting and harvesting crops, usually 10 yuan an hour.
This kind of work is seasonal and not often available.
The robot in the rental shop has excellent performance, but unfortunately the shop is located in a rural town, and it is basically impossible to get normal working wages.
Not wanting to overly suppress the value of robot employees, and wanting to do his best to promote the first rental business, Lu Yao hesitated for a moment before answering: "The nursing robot is a high-end model in the store. The rental price is slightly higher than other models. The rental fee is fifty yuan per hour. However, the shop has just opened and is doing an event. The first rental is 50% off, limited to three days. If the rental time is long, I will give you a package price. After the first rental is over, it can be rented out at a price of three hundred yuan a day. The rental period is twenty days."
Li Jingui blinked and winked at the two men beside him.
It can't be said to be cheap, but based on their experience just now, it is actually not expensive.
But it turned out to be more expensive than hiring a human, and after careful consideration, I felt that it was not worth it.
Li Jinshu pondered for a moment, pointed to the white sugar cake and lemonade waiting next to him and asked, "How much do they cost to rent?"
Lu Yao said, "They are both 20 yuan per hour."
Lu Yao felt sad after saying this. Judging from the overall economic development of Tonghua Town, the rental price of the robot is not cost-effective.
But considering the performance of the robot Lu Yao has, this price is no different from giving it away for free.
Li Jingui and Li Jinshu went outside to discuss. Old Liu was still hanging around in the waiting room. He took the initiative to talk to them and said, "This kind of intelligent robot is not sold online. Why do you have so many here?"
Lu Yao: "It's not that it's not sold online. It's probably because you haven't found a channel. But even if you try your best to find a channel, there will definitely be no supplier like me who dares to rent it for free."
Old Liu felt that the old lady was talking too much, but there was nothing wrong with it after thinking about it.
Even if you don't understand it carefully, you have common sense that this kind of intelligent robot with high-tech technology can never be affordable.
Li Jinshu and his sister discussed for a few minutes, and Li Jingui came in again and called Old Liu out.
Lu Yao had never been so uncertain in his heart, thinking that this order might not be successful.
About ten minutes later, Li Jinshu waved to Lu Yao at the door.
When the old lady came closer with small steps, he smiled and said, "We have discussed it. Three hundred a day, rent a nursing robot in the store, first for three days, and then renew it if it suits. In addition, rent a kitchen robot, and cook at home every morning, noon and evening, for a total of four hours."
Lu Yao sighed silently. The cunning city people specially bullied the old lady.
Lu Yao insisted: "For the first three days of renting, the nursing robot will be rented out at 25 coins per hour, and the kitchen robot will be rented out at 10 coins per hour. After three days, the nursing robot will be rented out at 300 coins per day, and the rental period will be 30 days. The kitchen robot will be rented out at 20 coins per hour, and the rental period will be unlimited."
Even if this deal cannot be made, we cannot give in too much here, otherwise the neighbors will come to bargain in the future, and that will be annoying.
I don't know why, after a stalemate, Li Jinshu and his sister nodded and agreed to Lu Yao's plan, but insisted on renting it for three days first.
Lu Yao breathed a sigh of relief. Whether it was rented for three hours or three days, as long as someone was the first to eat crabs, it would be a good sign for the rental store.
To be frank, she doesn't expect this store to make much money now, but she needs to push forward the store's business progress to find clues to complete the task.
Generally speaking, a certain percentage of deposit is required for renting large equipment. However, based on the purchase price of the robot, even if it is only one-tenth, ordinary people don't have the courage to pay it, which will drive away customers.
Lu Yao had to borrow the light of the Demon God again, and used the pen made of His finger bones to draft several rental certificates with different conditions, and then implanted them into the operating program of the standby robot, so that it would be an invisible contract with strong constraints.
The rental procedure provides two methods: mobile phone scanning and fingerprint entry, and the rental contract requires daily settlement of fees.
Scanning the code can be paid directly online, and fingerprint entry requires advance deposit of fees.
Because the nursing robot needed to be restocked, Li Jinshu and his sister took the white sugar cake home first.
Li Jinshu and his sister rented the robot to take care of the elderly at home. In order to give instructions to the robot, they chose to let the two elderly people directly enter their fingerprints on the borrowed robot. Zhong
Cuizhu was sitting on a recliner. When she saw her children and son-in-law coming back, she immediately invited them to drink water. When she heard that renting two robots for a day would cost several hundred yuan, she was so surprised that she almost jumped up, and then immediately waved her hands: "Your father and I are at home, where do we need a robot to take care of us? Go and return it quickly and say we don't need it anymore."
Li Jinshu and Li Jingui spent half an hour persuading them, and in the end they almost held Mrs. Zhong's hand to press fingerprints on the identification area of the white sugar cake.
The old lady was angry and anxious, and almost cried.
Li Jingui sat by and hugged her old mother to comfort her.
The old lady was exhausted and pointed at Bai Tanggao angrily and instructed: "Make three dishes and a soup. If it doesn't taste good, I will send you back!!!"
Bai Tanggao had just scanned the map of the employer's house and turned to the kitchen after receiving the order.
Zhong Cuizhu asked her son and son-in-law to move her to the kitchen so that she could supervise the work.
Bai Tanggao, wearing a pink plaid apron from Luyao's shop, first stayed in the food area for a few minutes, then opened the refrigerator and looked at it for a few minutes, and drew up a specific menu of three dishes and one soup.
He did not rashly start using the kitchen, but moved to the old lady obediently and asked if the menu was suitable. Stir
-fried pork with green peppers, stir-fried bitter melon, steamed sausage, and a tomato and egg soup.
Zhong Cuizhu was very surprised. She did not expect the robot to be so sensible. The menu it gave was quite normal and homely, so she could not find any picky points.
About half an hour later, three dishes and one soup were served on the table, with steam rising and the fragrance filling the nose.
Zhong Cuizhu's husband had not eaten lunch yet. He sat at the table, wrinkled his nose and sniffed, then picked up the rice bowl and started eating.
The old man didn't say anything, nor did he comment, he just ate in silence.
Zhong Cuizhu, who was sitting opposite, curled her lips at the sight, and after a moment of silence, she said, "It looks like her skills are better than yours."
--As
soon as Baitanggao followed the customer out, Lu Yao contacted Yaluan - the rental shop needs to purchase five mid-range nursing robots, which need to arrive within four hours, please ask the Eighth District for assistance.
0815 Receive the news and report directly to Jilan.
Because there are now a small number of native human prisoners on Guandao Island, they are trying to restore their body functions and need daily care from nursing robots.
There is a batch of nursing robots that have just arrived on the island, Jilan applied for them, and directly distributed five new ones to Lu Yao.
Lu Yao contacted Ji Feiming to pick up the goods from the bookstore. In less than two hours, the new robot had arrived at the rental shop.
In the evening, Lu Yao personally led the debugged nursing robot No. 1 Bai Lan to Mrs. Zhong's house.
The Zhong family was having dinner, with two old people and three adults sitting at the same table.
There were rich dishes on the table. Bai Tanggao, wearing a pink apron, stood silently at the foot of the wall. After completing her mission, she had entered sleep mode.
Before Lu Yao appeared, the atmosphere at the table was very good.
Zhong Cuizhu was praising Bai Tanggao's good craftsmanship. When she looked up and saw Lu Yao and the nursing robot following her, her face turned bad.
After a whole afternoon of trial use, Zhong Cuizhu affirmed the working ability of the kitchen robot Bai Tanggao, and the labor fee of ten yuan per hour was very reasonable.
But for Bai Lan who was about to start work, Mrs. Zhong had no good face.
The rental fee of this steel shell was too expensive, and she was not working every minute and every second. Most of the time she was just standing guard, but it cost several hundred yuan a day. It was simply a waste of money.
Lu Yao saw that the old lady was in a good mood, so he sat down and chatted with her: "At this age, don't hold on to money so tightly. Health and comfort are more important than anything else."
The most intuitive feeling that aging brought to Lu Yao was that you must enjoy it as early as possible, which was superficial and real.
Her body now was like a machine that was about to end its life. There were problems everywhere, and she often had leg pain, back pain, and neck pain. She couldn't eat spicy, cold, hard, or oily food, and her life was tasteless. She also sleeps little and often feels that the days are long and the nights are long.
Her legs are inconvenient and she cannot walk up hills and hills. Even when she walks on a few steps, she has to carefully support her legs and move step by step.
Getting old is like a ripe fruit on a tree. If it does not fall to the ground, it will rot on the tree.
Lu Yao's comfort did not make the old lady feel better in the end, but Bai Lan still stayed in the Li family smoothly.
That night, Zhong Cuizhu's children and son-in-law drove away, saying that they would come back in three days, install surveillance at home, and decide whether to renew the lease of the robot.
The next day, the news that the Li family rented the robot from Lu Yao's store spread in the town.
In the morning and afternoon, many people came and went in the Li family's yard, all to watch the robot work.
After a night, Mrs. Zhong still felt uncomfortable, but her children were kind enough to rent a robot for them, and so many people came to watch the excitement, so she didn't say much.
Mrs. Zhong sat in the crowd with a frown on her face. Suddenly, she remembered that her children had left last night. She wanted to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night. The old man sleeping next to her was snoring loudly, and she couldn't wake him up no matter how she called. She had to instruct Bai Lan, who was standing at the wall, to help.
Bai Lan easily picked her up and put her in a wheelchair, pushed her out the door, and picked her up outside the bathroom and walked inside.
When the old lady lay back in bed, the old man next to her was sleeping soundly and didn't know she had stayed up all night.
Zhong Cuizhu sighed silently.
She had to admit that the robot was very convenient. It would be great if the rental fee was not so expensive.
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Three days passed quickly, and Li Jinshu and Li Jingui returned to their hometown again.
Li Jinshu installed surveillance at home, and Li Jingui came to Lu Yao to renew the lease.
After the three-day trial period ended, the reluctant old lady gave in and agreed to continue renting Bai Lan and Bai Tanggao for another month.
Just after arriving home, the long-ill father saw them and spoke well of Bai Lan.
Old man Li has been ill for many years, and actually doesn't quite understand what a robot is. He just thinks that with a robot at home, he and his wife are much more convenient.
Sometimes he has to go upstairs to find something, and just climbing those two steps is tiring enough.
One day he tried to ask Bai Lan to carry him up. The steel boy had strong arms, and he walked steadily and quickly with him in his arms, just like a young man.
Li Jingui used to call home every day to inquire about the situation. She had already decided that even if her parents were unwilling, she would at least renew the lease of the robot while her mother's foot injury was still healed.
After returning to the city, Li Jingui and Li Jinshu had two private discussions.
Compared with humans, robots also have advantages. They will only act according to the set instructions. They do not have human emotions and selfish desires, so there is no need to worry about parents being treated badly.
In fact, the robots in Lu Yao's store have their own self-service renewal program, so there is no need to come to see Lu Yao specifically.
Li Jingui specifically looked for Lu Yao, and in addition to completing the renewal procedures, she also took away a stack of business cards from the store.
After returning to the city that day, Li Jingui paid special attention to her surroundings. In the area where she lived, there was no robot rental store, let alone a physical store selling robots.
Li Jingui checked online again. Apart from common cleaning robots, the price of the lowest-end humanoid intelligent robots is more than seven figures.
So what is the family background of the old lady Lu in the town? And why did she open a store in such a remote town?
Such a fashionable store would have been popular in the city.
Li Jingui couldn't figure it out, but it didn't stop her from mentioning the strange rental store in her hometown on social media.
As of today, five friends have asked Li Jingui for the contact information of the robot rental shop. She also kept it in mind and came to Lu Yao to get business cards as soon as she got home.
Lu Yao naturally welcomed this "dandelion"-style promotion method. Not only did he give Li Jingui a stack of business cards, but he also gave her three boxes of snacks from the store.
As expected, the news that the Li family continued to rent robots soon spread throughout the town, and Lu Yao's store received some individual customers one after another.
The rental price of robots is high in the eyes of the villagers. Even if there is demand, there are still few customers as generous as the Li brothers and sisters.
Time passed slowly, and five days passed in the blink of an eye.
Lu Yao sat in the dam to bask in the sun, while Gu Le Rou sat on a low stool. In front of them was a large wooden basin filled with small round potatoes. They
were going to start planting potatoes soon. The potatoes harvested last year were sprouting. If they were not eaten, they would wilt and the taste would deteriorate.
Old Mrs. Su from next door gave Lu Yao a basket of old potatoes and asked her to cook them. If she couldn't finish them, she could dry them into potato chips. They were delicious when stewed in soup.
Old Mrs. Lu was in poor health and couldn't do any work. She could only sit aside and supervise the robot.
The chubby sparrows rested on the hibiscus tree at the door, chirping.
Lu Yao grabbed a handful of melon seeds from the fruit bowl on the stool and was bored.
A high-end black car passed by on the road near the gate, and her eyes flashed.
There seemed to be a young man with silver hair sitting in the passenger seat of the car just now.
The Dream-Fulfilling System popped up: "Do you think it was him?"
Lu Yao lay back in the chair, tilted his head slightly, and followed the car in the distance: "Is it him, you don't know?"
The Dream-Fulfilling System said teasingly: "I know. But you are like this now, would you be embarrassed to see him?"
Lu Yao raised his hand and touched his face, without saying a word.
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Tonghua Town, Qishe.
A black car stopped at the gate of a three-story villa with white tiles. The doors on both sides opened and three people got out.
The driver, the hostess, and the silver-haired boy who jumped out of the passenger seat.
The boy was wearing a loose dark grey sweater, with a grey-pink shirt collar pulled out from the round neck of the sweater, two buttons on his chest open, a black leather collar on his neck, and a strange earring on his right ear.
The lady in a professional suit frowned at the boy, turned around and walked quickly towards the villa: "Move your luggage home first, and then go to the rental shop. If the rumors are true, arrange for someone to take care of you, and you should reflect on yourself here and go back after you have thought it through."
Ten minutes later, at the door of Lu Yao's rental shop.
Lu Yao was a little embarrassed for a rare occasion, and chatted with the strong lady in front of him for a few words, and then glanced at the boy standing not far away.
Silver hair, a leather collar that looks like the Fu Shen Ling, a miniature version of the Ruler Earring, and a faint dark red haze around the light-colored iris. All the features match Lu Mingxiao.
At this moment, Lu Yao deeply felt the world's undisguised malice towards her.
Lu Mingxiao's name in this world is her real name.
She is 19 years old and is a shining male college student.
[Author's words]
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