337 The 12th Store
◎Aspirin.◎
There are households around the rented store. There is a family next to Mrs. Su. There were originally four people in the family, but recently an old lady joined.
The old lady is Yu Xiulan, over 80 years old, and originally lived alone.
About a week ago, Yu Xiulan was found fainted in the kitchen by a neighbor. After waking up, she could not walk normally, and her legs and feet had lost strength.
The elderly are most afraid of being bedridden and unable to take care of themselves.
Yu Xiulan has four sons and one daughter. Currently, two sons live in the town, one son and one daughter work outside, and another son died of illness in his early years, leaving before his mother.
After Yu Xiulan became semi-paralyzed, she hurriedly called her children back.
She couldn't stand and walk, so her children had to take care of her eating, dressing, going to the toilet, and bathing.
The children gathered together and discussed for a few days, and finally decided to take turns to look after the old lady.
The old lady stayed at each of her children's homes for a month, and it was over after more than two rotations a year. A few days
ago, Yu Xiulan moved next door to Lu Yao's house.
The daughter-in-law of the son who died of illness remarried and still lived in the town, which is the family where Yu Xiulan lives now.
Although the son died and the daughter-in-law remarried, there are still two grandchildren.
Lu Yao often saw the old man in a wheelchair sitting on the embankment alone, sitting for half a day.
At this time, a quarrel came from next door. Lu Yao listened for a while and felt powerless.
The weather was bad, the sun was blocked by thick clouds, and the wind was strong.
Old lady Yu thought that if she sat in the dam, she could see the pedestrians on the road and the fields outside, and her vision would be wider. Her daughter-in-law didn't allow her to do so, saying that she had sat outside for too long last night and caught a cold, and kept coughing in the middle of the night. The
old lady was bored and insisted on sitting in the dam.
But several people in the family didn't allow her to do so, and no one came to help her push the wheelchair.
Old lady Yu has a big frame, is tall, is over 80 years old, and weighs 120 kilograms.
Usually, when she sits in a wheelchair, it takes two people to push her up and down. A distance of less than two meters is like a cliff to her.
After a while, the old lady's grandson softened his heart and took some effort to push her into the dam.
...
In the evening, Lu Yao was strolling along the main road.
Yu Xiulan greeted her from above the road: "Old Lu, didn't you go to the senior activity area?"
Lu Yao shook her head: "The wind is strong over there, and I don't like dancing, so I'd rather walk on the road. Are you alone?"
Yu Xiulan is over 80 years old, but her face is not wrinkled like most elderly people. Instead, her skin is quite smooth, as if it has been stretched out.
Her voice was a little hoarse: "Everyone has gone out to play, but I can't go out." Lu Yao
: "If you want to go out, call your wife and grandson to push you."
Yu Xiulan shook her head: "One or two of them run away after dinner, how can they have time to push me? I sit for a while, get some fresh air, and wait for them to come back and take me into the house, and a day will be over." Lu
Yao stood on the side of the road for a while, and seeing that Yu Xiulan had no intention of continuing to talk, he hesitated and said: "If you want to walk on the road, I'll lend you a robot and push you around for free."
Yu Xiulan was a little surprised and shouldn't have agreed, but she really wanted to walk on the road, so she lowered her head, stammered, and agreed. Lu
Yao returned home and instructed the nursing robot Aspirin on standby to pick up Yu Xiulan next door and push her to the road for a walk.
Yu Xiulan was a little frightened when she saw Aspirin for the first time. He had a silver-white body, was thin and tall, and wore the same clothes as a human. His face was square and sharp as if it had been cut by a knife.
Aspirin and Bai Lan are the same model, a nursing robot with mature technology and procedures. Otherwise, it would not have been put into use in large numbers in the star field, and even Guandao would not have introduced
it in large quantities. Yu Xiulan was pushed out of the door by Aspirin half trembling and half expecting. She didn't want her family to know, so she instructed Aspirin to push her down the road, turn a corner, and walk in the direction of the meat rabbit farm. There were large rapeseed fields on the road.
The rape flowers that were golden a few days ago have turned green in the blink of an eye. It will be time to plant corn soon.
Yu Xiulan's sight swept across the green rape fields and looked towards the distant mountain peaks. She saw the gray-orange clouds in the sky, and a layer of warmth filled her eyes.
People cannot but accept aging.
When they are old, they are like weeds in the fields, useless but annoying.
As the dusk fell, Yu Xiulan asked Aspirin to send her back.
The robot was silent, but full of security.
He did not refute her or belittle her, and there was no impatient look on his hard metal face. Yu Xiulan's heart was calm for a long time.
Yu Xiulan did not tell her family what happened that evening, and neither did Lu Yao.
Three or four days later, one evening, Yu Xiulan shouted to Lu Yao's family from her own dam.
Lu Yao popped his head out of the second-floor window and asked, "What's the matter?"
Yu Xiulan said shyly and excitedly, "I want to rent aspirin and get some fresh air on the road." Lu Yao
had expected this to happen. She felt a little guilty about making money from an old man like her, but she would feel sorry if she didn't rent it. She hesitated for a moment and replied, "Come right over."
Yu Xiulan had an old-fashioned phone that couldn't scan the code, so she could only press fingerprints.
After completing the rental formalities, Yu Xiulan took out a red plastic bag from her clothes pocket, rolled it up layer by layer, took out the money hidden inside, and handed Lu Yao a fifty-dollar bill. It
was her first time renting, so she enjoyed a 50% discount, twenty-five yuan per hour.
Yu Xiulan felt a little sorry, because the first-time rental discount could only be enjoyed once, so she didn't dare to rent for too long, so she extended it to an hour.
...
Aspirin became a secret between Yu Xiulan and Lu Yao.
When Yu Xiulan lived next door to Lu Yao, she rented aspirin every five or six days.
Every time it was in the evening, when no one was at home, Yu Xiulan was like a fish floating on the water to breathe, and asked Aspirin to push her to the fields to get some fresh air.
But the matter was not kept secret for long. A month later, Yu Xiulan was going to live with another son.
On the day of the move, Mrs. Yu's second son came to Lu Yao's house and rented aspirin.
After a week, Yu Xiulan's son would come to rent Aspirin for two hours each time.
Soon after the rental, you could see old lady Yu being pushed by Aspirin for a walk on the road.
Aspirin is stronger than humans. Sometimes when the old lady wants to go to the fields and the wheelchair cannot be pushed down, Aspirin would carry the old lady and walk along the path.
Yu Xiulan holds a wooden bench in her hand and finds an open space to sit for a while in the fields. Sometimes she can even weed the vegetable fields.
After more than a month of operation, the residents of Tonghua Town gradually accepted the existence of rental robots. Sometimes when manpower is insufficient, they will also consider renting robots for short-term rental in the rental shop.
Time slips away silently, and the business of the rental shop is like the crops in the fields, growing slowly.
Lu Yao was sometimes anxious. The people in the town worked from sunrise to sunset, and their meals depended on the weather and the land. They didn't seem to have any faith at all, and they didn't care about faith.
One night, Lu Yao was awakened by a painful groan.
The sound seemed to be just outside the door, and the darker the night, the louder the sound.
Lu Yao sat up and prepared to turn on the light and go out to see.
Dream Fulfillment System: "Don't go out."
Lu Yao slowly put on his clothes: "What's wrong?"
Dream Fulfillment System: "It's scary, really."
Lu Yao: "Do you know who's outside?"
Dream Fulfillment System: "...Yeah."
Lu Yao got up after putting on her clothes, called Xing Tang, and woke up Yan Gui and Hua Wei. She wanted to see who was causing trouble in the middle of the night.
The door opened, and there was no one outside. Lu Yao
walked out and stood under the eaves.
The moonlight was very bright, and the countryside was like daytime.
Lu Yao stood on the edge of the dam, looking up at the moon. When he lowered his head, he saw a shadow, and a chill instantly burst up his back.
The shadow slowly squirmed, slowly outlining the outline of a human figure.
Lu Yao heard the familiar groan again.
The sound came from the shadow.
What is that thing?
Lu Yao almost held his breath and asked the dream-fulfilling system in his mind.
"You didn't recognize him? This is the one... the family you specially visited... the one with a tube in his neck..."
A wrinkled face emerged from the shadow, and was illuminated by the moonlight. It was the man who should have been unconscious.
He was very thin, and his limbs like chicken claws stretched out from the shadows. A thin layer of skin wrapped around his bones, sparse hair, sunken cheeks, dark eye sockets, and no eyeballs, but a strong gaze could be felt.
Lu Yao's scalp exploded: "...How...are you here?"
The man wrapped in the shadows moved towards Lu Yao crying, sobbing: "Please...let...me...untie...please...you..."
Lu Yao was not afraid of gods, demons, monsters, or ghosts, but he was frightened by the old man in front of him and broke into a cold sweat. He took several steps back, fearing that his trousers would be pulled.
Untie...
why did he ask her for such a thing?
Lu Yao didn't understand.
Lu Yao turned around and ran back home. She was so panicked that she almost fell. Fortunately, Xing Tang helped her up and then picked her up and ran back home.
Yan Gui and Hua Li followed closely.
The door was closed, but it couldn't block out the disturbing noise.
Lu Yao strode into the bedroom, locked the door, sat on the edge of the bed and panted: "What's going on?"
Dream Fulfillment System: "If nothing unexpected happens, this is the purpose of the mission."
Lu Yao: "..."
People can't escape birth, aging, sickness and death in their lives. Sometimes they watch, and sometimes they experience it themselves.
She is just a link in this reincarnation. Is there any way to help them get out?
Or maybe the old Lu Yao could still do something. Trapped in a godless land, she was no different from an ordinary old lady, and her health was not even as good as most of the old ladies in the town.
As her emotions gradually calmed down, Lu Yao put on noise-canceling headphones and forced herself to sleep.
The next day, the sky was bright.
Lu Yao suddenly opened her eyes, but without getting up, she asked in her mind: "Is he gone?"
The dream-fulfilling system: "He disappeared before dawn."
Lu Yao breathed a sigh of relief, and finally made it through.
After the scare last night, Lu Yao got up a little late.
There was a market in the town that day, and she had planned to go shopping.
The town holds a market on the fourth and ninth days of the month, and the market is busier than usual.
Lu Yao has the support of the shopping street, and does not rely on rushing to the market to replenish supplies.
It turned out that the mission had not made any progress, so she was planning to go to the market.
The market in the town opened very early. When Lu Yao got up, most of the people who went to the market had already returned, and the street stalls had almost been closed. It was better to go early than late, so Lu Yao stopped thinking about it.
After breakfast, Lu Yao pulled a recliner and sat in the dam to bask in the sun. She always felt that her back was still cold, and maybe sunbathing more could relieve it.
From time to time, a group of villagers walked by on the road in front of the door, carrying large and small bags in their hands, and some carried backpacks, eagerly chatting about the neighborhood gossip.
Lu Yao listened and his scalp tingled.
The villagers somehow started talking about the daughter-in-law who took care of the two vegetative patients. Less than a month after returning home, she lost a lot of weight and her face was pale and bloodless.
[Author's words]
The twelfth store will not be very long, and it will be finished within tens of thousands of words.
I'm posting a new idea for the pre-collection of "The Daily Reconstruction of the Strange Stories Shopping Street". Please collect it~
Copywriting: Thirty-year-old Meiyou joined an apartment. Her job content is the apartment manager and doorman, which saves her thirty years of detours.
Soon after joining the company, Mei You discovered that some of the residents in the apartment were a little abnormal... Resident 103 was always looking for trouble, Resident 250 hid under Mei You's bed and made curses every time he was broken up, Resident 444 was immersed in the regrets of his life and often stuffed excuses under Mei You's pillow... Mei You, who had been a
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[When did a bakery open in the gallery ghost story? I went in and bought a few out of curiosity, and was later chased by the ghost in the painting. It slowed down a little when I fed it one. What's the principle? 】
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【What administrator? There are administrators in ghost stories? 】
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