Chapter 38, Section 38: "Uncle, your hair is all washed clean, why aren't you..."
The midday sun was warm and gentle, and dappled sunlight filtered through the curtains, illuminating the floor and bed.
Yan Xingli was sleeping haphazardly on the king-size bed in the guest room, with a snoring chubby child on top of him. He pushed the child away several times, but the child would always come back and use him as a human cushion and pillow again.
After being woken up by the pressure for the third time, Yan Xingli sat up helplessly and picked up the strawberry bear-like child and moved him to the side.
He got up, put on his shoes, glanced at his hair, which looked like a bird's nest in the mirror, and hurriedly went to the bathroom sink to wash his hair.
Having lost her human-shaped fleshy cushion, Qi Youyu rubbed her eyes and sat up, then trotted into the bathroom like a tadpole looking for its mother.
A children's climbing ladder was installed in the bathroom to make it easier for her to wash up. Yu Yu grabbed the handrail, climbed up, and tilted her head to look at it for a while.
After rinsing off the foam, Yan Xingli bent over and wrapped his head in a towel, glancing at her sideways: "You're awake now."
"I've had enough sleep."
The child poked Yan Xingli's arm, holding a few strands of wet hair in his hand:
"Uncle, why don't you want your hair anymore since it's all washed?"
Yan Xingli: "..."
He said coldly with a sour face, "Is it possible that it's not that I don't want it, but that it chooses to leave me?"
Why did I leave you?
"Because it is naturally unrestrained and loves freedom." Not wanting the child to continue asking about this heartbreaking topic, Yan Xingli quickly changed the subject, "Go change your clothes, and we'll go out to get something to eat later."
Qi Youyu: "Okay!"
"Then I want to eat roasted eight dishes."
"ah?"
Yu Yu stared with her dark eyes: "Uncle, don't you know?"
"I have no idea."
Has he ever taken the kids out for a roasted eight-course meal? Yan Xingli was a little confused.
Yu Yu gestured with her little hands and said, "It's the green, thin, long eight-vegetable dish. Uncle likes to eat it too."
Yan Xingli frowned in confusion. He likes to eat eight dishes? What is that?
After thinking for a while, he suddenly looked up: "The eight dishes you mentioned, you don't mean chives, do you?"
Little Illiterate Scientist Fish: oo
[Hahaha, I'm laughing so hard I almost threw up! Leeks have a new name now.]
[So it turns out our Yuyu loves grilled chives! What a coincidence, her older sister likes them too!]
【Our Yuyu is only three and a half years old and already knows the number eight, that's amazing!!】
*
Professor Liang Yuan returned to the school wearing a puppy headband. He had classes in the afternoon and usually rested in the staff dormitory at noon.
C University is the best 211 university in the city, with a rigorous academic atmosphere, but it is exceptionally tolerant and friendly towards small animals. You can often see fat cats sunbathing on the grass on campus, and fat dogs following students around begging for sausages.
Every fat cat and fat dog is inseparable from the loving care of teachers and students. There are even some gluttonous senior students who go around tricking others to eat food, eating eight meals a day, and using all their cunning on eating.
Professor Liang Yuan was once tricked out of his heart and his food by a little yellow dog.
As soon as he reached the gate of the staff dormitory, he heard rustling sounds coming from the bushes nearby.
Then a familiar figure emerged: white gloves, pointed ears, and big, wet, watery eyes. The little yellow dog wagged its tail and excitedly rushed towards Professor Liang upon seeing its acquaintance.
Professor Liang squatted down to remove the leaf from Little Yellow's head and patted its head.
"Trying to freeload again, huh?" He chuckled, pulled out his phone, and opened a chat group.
[Get Rich Quick]: The gluttonous dog in the East District has been fed at 12:00. Fellow juniors, please remember not to feed it anymore. The doctor said it has fatty liver and needs to lose weight.
[I am Doraemon]: Ah, it was this big, gluttonous, yellowish-brown dog that stole my takeout yesterday. I'm so angry I could cry.
【VVVi】：……Senior sister, you posted it too late, waaaaa, I just got tricked out of a hot chicken leg by it.
Little Yellow can't read, but it recognizes the photo on the phone screen as itself.
It tilted its head, puzzled, but its tail still wagged happily.
Liang Yuan: "I won't be soft-hearted and feed you today."
He grabbed the dog's two front paws, his face stern, and said, "Stealing takeout and cheating out of food and drink, you've already violated the school rules. Now I'm going to punish you properly. Let's go."
The little yellow dog, who was trying to trick someone into giving it food: ?
"Killing dogs! Killing dogs!"
"Little Huang, I'm doomed."
Professor Liang Yuan's body trembled, his pupils dilated, and he stared at the dog that was screaming like a pig being slaughtered, asking, "You, Little Yellow, you've become a spirit! You can talk?!"
The dog, unable to understand human speech, looked up and howled, "Kill the dog! Kill the dog!"
Despite its fierce mouth, Little Yellow was actually just a timid piece of buttered bread, which Professor Liang picked up and examined from all sides.
Hey, this dog's become sentient.
Professor Liang is a native of Northeast China. He has heard many supernatural tales since childhood, so he is not surprised to encounter supernatural phenomena. It is just strange that he happened to see one.
"What's Lao Liang doing?" An old colleague came down from the staff dormitory building. Seeing him carrying the dog and grinning like a thief, the colleague curiously went up and patted him.
"Come here, Lao Wei, this little dog has become a spirit, come and take a look."
Old Wei frowned: "Old Liang, you're a Party member, what nonsense are you talking about?"
He glanced at the puppy headband on his head and said with amusement, "How old are you to still be acting young? Aren't you ashamed of yourself?"
"Really." Professor Liang shoved the innocent-looking little Huang into Old Wei's arms, then casually removed the headband. "Don't believe me? Listen—"
The dog-killing song that could linger for three days has returned to the familiar "woof woof woof."
Professor Liang was stunned. What was going on?
Old Wei: "Old Liang, what are you spacing out for? This dog is too noisy. If you're okay, I'll let it go."
"etc!"
Professor Liang quickly snapped out of his daze. After thinking for a moment, he hesitantly turned his gaze to the puppy headband in his hand.
What did the little fishy guy say again? "Teacher, there's a little surprise waiting for you to discover!"
Professor Liang was suspicious. Could this be the surprise the little guy had hidden? As he pondered this, he carefully put the headband back on.
"Ugh, how boring. What are these two humans going to do to the dog?"
"The dog wants to sing a dog song~"
Just as I thought!
Professor Liang was delighted and, without saying a word, put the headband on Old Wei's head: "Come on, listen to it too."
Old Wei turned his head away in disgust, but with the dog in his arms, he couldn't dodge. The fluffy gray headband ended up fitting perfectly on his head.
"The dog wants to sing a dog song, oh ho oh ho~"
"Chicken leg! Chicken leg! I want to eat a chicken leg!"
Old Wei was startled. That childish voice suddenly appeared in his head. He quickly looked around: "Who's talking? Whose child is talking?"
Professor Liang, with a mischievous smile on his face, pointed to the dog in his arms: "It's right here, even though it's far away. It's the one you're holding."
"it?"
Old Wei looked down at Xiao Huang, who had calmed down, and said, "This, isn't this a puppy?"
Professor Liang chuckled, offering no further explanation, and took the precious headband from his old friend's head, stuffing it into his pocket: "Alright, if there's nothing else, you can go now."
Old Wei was puzzled and was about to ask him what he was up to when a series of urgent cell phone rings interrupted their conversation.
Professor Liang answered the phone, and on the other end was Teacher Zhao's slightly tense voice.
"Professor Liang."
"Xiao Zhao, your call comes at the perfect time. Have you also discovered that you can understand dog language?"
So far, only the two of them have received small gifts from Yu Yu. Professor Liang thinks this little invention that can understand dog language is very childlike.
After a moment of silence, Teacher Zhao on the other end said, "...Professor Liang, I am different from you. I can only understand cat language."
Professor Liang was astonished. So they could understand the languages of two species?
"Professor Zhao, it seems we need to go to the research institute."
"Okay, see you in a bit, Professor Liang."
After hanging up the phone, both of them simultaneously dialed Director Zheng Shoucheng's number. After learning about the little surprise hidden in the headbands they were wearing, the researchers carefully disassembled the two adorable animal headbands and extracted a thin, soft chip.
The materials research lab was brightly lit, and Professor Liu Qiming personally led the analysis and testing, working until midnight.
"teacher."
“The chip material is the same as the protective shield we tested before, so we can’t analyze its specific composition,” researcher Xiaowen said, frowning. “Our equipment and instruments are the most advanced in the world, and it’s impossible for them to make a mistake. We’ve encountered this situation repeatedly. Could it be true, as rumored, that they are not products of Earth?”
Professor Liu Qiming is one of the world's most outstanding materials scientists.
If even he cannot analyze the source of these materials or what substances they are composed of, then things become serious.
"Don't overthink it," Professor Liu Qiming said solemnly. "The world is so vast, there are always things that we humans haven't yet explored. Researchers should avoid being distracted by rumors from the outside world. Focusing on our own work is the most correct thing to do."
No sooner had he calmed his students down than Professor Liu Qiming hurriedly approached Zheng Shoucheng with the analysis results.
After hearing Professor Liu's purpose, Director Zheng Shoucheng's hand holding the thermos trembled slightly, and he raised an incredulous face.
"You mean, Fishfish invented the protective shield?"
“That’s right,” Professor Liu Qiming said decisively. “Didn’t that little girl say that the one who gave her the bracelet was a little guy? Just let the girl see a picture of the fish and she’ll know.”
This type of protective shield, which can withstand high temperatures, impacts, and bullets, and is so well-sealed that it is not afraid of being submerged in water or exposed to toxic gases, should be applied to dangerous jobs as soon as possible, such as firefighters, workers at heights, narcotics officers, criminal police, traffic police, and so on.
In recent days, his research team has been working day and night to reduce casualties as quickly as possible.
Zheng Shoucheng pondered for a while, then nodded: "I will handle this matter and let you know when there are results."
*
At 8 p.m., just as the live stream ended, the doorbell of the Yan family rang suddenly.
Having received advance notice, Yan Yuanqing got up and opened the door, leading the visitors inside in a cheerful conversation. She called out towards the living room:
"Yuyu, Grandpa Zheng has come to see you."
In the living room, Little Fatty was hammering away at a metal toy car with a small hammer. The clanging sound made Zheng Shoucheng's eyebrows twitch.
"Yuanqing, what is Yuyu doing?"
Yan Yuanqing smiled and said, "We're building a small car."
Yan Xingli stood up sensibly: "Director Zheng."
Zheng Shoucheng responded kindly, then tiptoed to the child's side, "Yuyu, why are you making a toy car?"
The child was startled, and the small hammer in his hand clattered to the ground, almost hitting his toes.
"Grandpa Zheng, what are you doing here?" the child asked, bewildered.
"Ouch, watch out." Zheng Shoucheng caught the small hammer with a deft movement and laughed, "I just arrived. You were busy and didn't see me."
Yu Yu suddenly understood. "Oh, I see!" she exclaimed happily, pointing to her newly made toy car.
"Grandpa, tomorrow I'm going to go earn money with my uncle. The little car is our money-making partner!"
"搭子" should mean "partner" or "co-op".
Zheng Shoucheng: "Where do you go to make money?"
"downstairs."
Yu Yu doesn't have to go to work or school, and spends all day at home bored and picking her toes. Seeing so many food stalls downstairs in the community, she insists on joining in the fun.
"I sell delicious food."
"What delicious food is it?" Zheng Shoucheng asked, intrigued.
"Selling memory bread!" Fishy's mind was already on tomorrow. She counted on her fingers, "There are strawberry, orange, blueberry, and peach flavors~"
Zheng Shoucheng vaguely remembered that the program team had previously arranged for guests to earn points to redeem concert tickets, which was criticized by netizens as extremely unethical.
"YuYu is so capable, she prepared so many flavors. Grandpa will definitely make time to come and support her."
Zheng Shoucheng chatted with the child for a while, listening to the child talk about everything from making money at the stall to his uncle's hair and running away from home. He knew it was time to get down to business.
"Yuyu, Grandpa wants to ask you, did you put these two chips inside your hairband?"
"Yes," Yu Yu said shyly, clenching her little hands. "Because the grandpas and grandmas all taught my uncle for free, I made some small toys to give to them."
"Grandpa Zheng, do they like it?"
After obtaining the language chips for the cats and dogs, they sent someone to the police dog unit to conduct experiments. They discovered several police dogs that were concealing their illnesses and spent an afternoon listening to the gossip and love-hate relationships of these young soldiers.
Listening to police dogs' feelings can quickly help trainers build trust and affection with them, understand their preferences, and pay attention to their mental health and emotional state in a timely manner.
"They really liked it, and they asked me to convey their gratitude to them."
Qi Youyu waved her little hand: "Grandpa Zheng, tell them not to be polite."
The animal language scientists on the planet Cang'ai have a complete deciphering program. They have deciphered the languages of many animals, including those that fly, run, and swim.
Humans on the planet Cang'ai can interact with their pets such as ducklings, chicks, and piglets.
Even if you stay at home, you don't have to worry about getting depressed, because there are flocks of birds singing from morning till night outside the window, piglets and lambs chasing and playing downstairs, and you can hear the ducks next door practicing their singing from time to time.
There's always something interesting to hear every day. Whether it's three hundred years ago or three hundred years from now, gossip will always be the best form of entertainment for humankind.
A few days ago, Yu Yu had a sudden inspiration and successfully deciphered the language of cats and dogs using the methods of language scientists. She then gave the headbands with the cat's language chip installed as small gifts to her teachers.
After a brief introduction, Zheng Shoucheng asked gently, "Yuyu, do you recognize this bracelet?"
The security guard stepped forward, squatted down, opened the box containing the protective shield bracelet, and handed it to him.
Qi Youyu glanced at it and her eyes widened in surprise: "This is my bubble shield."
"Grandpa Zheng, how come you have my bubble shield?" the child asked in confusion. "I didn't give it to you."
Zheng Shoucheng felt a sense of relief, as if the dust had settled in his heart.
“Yuyu, your bubble shield protected an older sister, who donated it to the research institute,” Zheng Shoucheng said. “Yuyu, did you design and research this bracelet yourself?”
The child nodded emphatically: "It's my little invention."
"I gave it to my two older sisters because they helped me pick out pretty clothes." Qi Youyu was very confident in her little invention. She held up a chubby finger and said, "As long as the electric bubble shield isn't lost, it can protect my sisters forever."
Zheng Shoucheng sat up straight and, after careful consideration, solemnly said, "Yuyu, Grandpa wants to discuss something with you."
"Would you be willing to sell the patent for this technology to the country?"
"There are also language chips that can understand the language of cats and dogs."
Zheng Shoucheng said this not only to Yu Yu, but also to solicit the opinions of Yan Yuanqing and his wife: "Please trust that the country will give a fair and satisfactory price."
The country will not take advantage of children's hard work, especially when it comes to talented people; it will not skimp on what is due.
Even if Yu Yu is unwilling to sell the technology patent, they will not force them. However, before the technology is fully mastered in their own country, the export of related products to overseas will be restricted.
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