Luo Huanxiao hadn't been here for a month, and when he entered the store he found it was different from before.
Bai Jing mentioned several times in the group that the furry shop had "new products", but he was unable to explain specifically what the "new products" were.
Only after arriving did he realize how great the changes were. Without Lu Yao's guidance, Luo Huan excitedly began to explore.
Zhou Su fell last. He rubbed his eyes hard, but found it was of no use, so he quickly left.
The sun outside was scorching, the cicadas were chirping, and the hot wind was blowing on the skin, making people feel upset.
Zhou Su felt that she had heatstroke, and it was very serious.
Lu Yao found that the person was missing, and went to find him. He saw that Zhou Su looked bad, "It's too hot outside, go in and sit down, drink something and relax."
Zhou Su grabbed Lu Yao's hand, a little powerless: "I seem to be hallucinating. Just now in the store, it felt like I was at the bottom of the sea, there were fish swimming, but there were also cats and many people, and seals were riding the slide..."
It's too confusing.
Lu Yao nodded: "Don't panic, it may not be an illusion, come in and take a look again."
Zhou Su: “???”
Lu Yao dragged her back into the store, "It's on the bottom of the sea. We have some amusement facilities, some fat and furry creatures, and we also provide simple meals for guests."
Zhou Su's eyes were wide open, her brain stopped thinking, and she was being led by Lu Yao like a puppet.
Although she loves to read fantasy novels and watch TV dramas that are out of touch with reality, as a mature adult, Zhou Su believes that she can distinguish between dreams and reality.
At this moment she was suddenly not so sure.
This shop is so weird, and the owner is weird too.
Why can she say something so calmly that is completely incomprehensible
Zhou Su didn't want to hear anything anymore, nor did she want to confirm anything. She just felt scared.
Jiuhua came out of the kitchen, her hands and face covered in flour, looking very embarrassed. When she saw Lu Yao, she immediately pleaded for help pitifully: "Shopkeeper, help! I really can't fix that mooncake!"
Harold was borrowed from the nail salon, and Uncle Ming was actually from the blind box shop. The cooking skills of these two people, Long and himself, are only at kindergarten level, so Jiuhua has no hope.
The new operator looked decent, but was a kitchen assassin no less capable than her and was of no help.
Jiuhua did a lot of homework and had a very mature theory, but she just couldn’t make the mooncakes she had imagined.
Lu Yao pushed Zhou Su, who was in a daze, aside and said, "The dim sum chef who came here to apply for the job today is Zhou Su. The jujube paste roll that you like so much was made by her. How about asking her opinion?"
When Jiuhua heard this, she immediately pulled Zhou Su up and said, "Thank you for your help! Come on, you are the only one who can make the mooncakes in our store!"
Since he was the dim sum chef of the Furry Shop, Jiuhua had no burden in greeting him.
Zhou Su came back to her senses when she was pulled into the kitchen. The relatively familiar enclosed environment and kitchenware gave her a sense of security. "Where is this?"
Jiuhua blinked: "My name is Jiuhua, a clerk at the Furry Shop. I don't have time to explain. Can you help me take a look at this mooncake first?"
Talking about food immediately put Zhou Su in her comfort zone. She was eager to get rid of the panic that someone was chasing her, so she took the initiative to walk to the cooking table and asked, "What kind of mooncakes do you want to make?"
Jiuhua took out a small notebook with pictures and text on it.
Zhou Su could understand Jiuhua's language, but couldn't read the words, and the strange feeling came over her again.
Jiuhua saw that the cooking master wanted to run away, so she grabbed her wrist and said, "It's like this, the owner said that during the Mid-Autumn Festival, the four stores will sell mooncake gift boxes together..."
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Lu Yao stood at the door for a while. The Sheniu version of Jiuhua was simply invincible in the Sea of Eden.
Zhou Su was already confused, and began to think about mooncakes along Jiuhua's lines of thought.
Half of the old-fashioned pastries and small mooncakes that Lu Yao ordered were distributed to the snack bar, and the rest were added to the limited-time menu of the Maorongrong shop.
The customers here tried it once by chance and found it fresh and delicious. They spread the word by word of mouth and people come to ask about it from time to time.
Lu Yao invited the water drop seals to open for business, and the fat leopards went to the kitchen to get snacks, which scared Zhou Su.
Experience and experience are accumulated, and Zhou Su is no longer as surprised as when she first came in.
A well-trained Border Collie will help its owner to get things and can distinguish between items.
Just imagine, it is quite logical that there is a magical little shop opened in the deep sea and the waiters are chubby little seals.
Zhou Su tried hard to convince herself.
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Lu Yao looked around and found that all areas were normal. The kitchen didn't need her help, so she went upstairs to check the situation on the sea.
The reservation quota is full and the tickets have all been issued.
Ji Zhixin was walking on the wooden bridge outside the switchboard room, holding up his cell phone and taking pictures.
Lu Yao came up and saw this scene. He walked over slowly and asked, "What are you filming?"
Ji Zhi's heart trembled, and the phone almost fell into the water. He finally caught it and turned back awkwardly: "Sunset."
The clouds and sea in this world have an indescribable beauty. The water surface and time are so quiet and slow, as if they were frozen together.
Every time he stopped to gaze, Ji Zhixin couldn't help but take out his cell phone and take a few photos as a souvenir.
The mobile phone cannot receive signals outside the range of our store, but the camera function can be used normally.
Unfortunately, the photos I took cannot be published and I have to delete them when I leave work.
If you don't delete the video data and step out of the furry shop, your phone will explode.
Ji Zhixin bought two new mobile phones in two consecutive days, but when he saw such scenery again, he still couldn't help but want to take pictures. At worst, he could just delete them before getting off work.
Lu Yao overlapped his index finger and thumb to make a photo frame and pointed it at the distance. The salted egg yolk-like sunset and the water-colored thin clouds where the sea and the sky met were captured in the frame.
“It is indeed beautiful.”
She took out her cell phone and took a few photos, and also recorded a video of the sunset about to sink.
Ji Zhixin stood up and was much taller than Lu Yao. He accidentally noticed that her phone screen saver was a photo of a sleeping seal. He thought to himself, "Can the videos and photos taken by the store owner be saved forever?"
Lu Yao nodded.
Ji Zhixin's eyes were filled with envy: "So my phone keeps exploding, is it because of the confidentiality agreement?"
Lu Yao didn't understand at first, but after thinking for a while he understood what he meant, and shook his head and said, "Probably not. Due to some unknown rules, the other worlds cannot be directly observed by our world for the time being. They only exist behind the doors of every store on the shopping street."
The reason why pictures and videos cannot be published is that there is no star gate in this world, which is the same as the reason why items from other worlds cannot be brought into this world.
Unsure of the rules
It is a different world that cannot be observed by ordinary people. Only the owner can enter it at will without restrictions.
Ji Zhixin's eyes lit up. Sure enough, the shop owner was the one who held the key.
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As the sky gradually darkened, the guests of Eden Sea gradually left, and the furry shop became empty.
Lu Yao and Ji Feiming slid down the slide from the fishing house, while Jing Yuxi and Luo Huan sat on a low table by the window and talked.
Erxin and the other little pigs have been trained to have the conditioned reflex to go off work on time. At this time, they were lying on the floor with their arms and legs spread out, occupying the territory of the small restaurant.
Lu Yao picked up Er Xin, who looked like a fat sea cucumber, and walked closer to Jing Yuxi's table: "When did you come?"
Jing Yuxi had won a good place in the last international piano competition, and was in a very relaxed state of mind. When he saw Lu Yao, he smiled and said, "It's been a while. Where did you slide down from?"
They had already visited all the underwater areas and petted all the furry animals, but they didn't notice that there was a slide on the restaurant side.
Lu Yao: "On the sea, there is an expanded fishing house. It's too late today, you can come over and play tomorrow."
Jing Yuxi and Luo Huan were surprised one second and regretful the next.
Jing Yuxi ordered the dishes angrily: "Lu Yao, I want seafood, a large sashimi platter, sea urchin rice with sea urchin, and a fruit platter. Hey, when did the old-fashioned dim sum appear? I'll have one of those, too."
Luo Huan ordered tea, dim sum, and a sashimi platter, muttering quietly, "Doctor Bai hasn't come yet. Is he delayed by something?"
Ji Zhixin went to the kitchen to add the order. Lu Yao sat down and asked, "Bai Jing said he would come over?"
Jing Yuxi shook his head: "I don't know."
Luo Huan: "He said he was off duty in the afternoon, let's have dinner here together."
Lu Yao: "Maybe an emergency patient has been received."
Even until it was completely dark and the furry shop closed, Bai Jing still didn't come.
After Jing Yuxi and Luo Huan had their fill, they reluctantly left and said goodbye to Lu Yao.
Luo Huan was not yet an adult and did not have a driver's license. He did not dare to ask his family's driver to take him here, so he rode his bicycle here on his own.
Jing Yuxi asked him to put his bicycle at the back and give him some time.
Lu Yao watched the two people leave, then turned and walked towards the blind box shop.
It was still daytime in the impermanent world, and there were only two shop assistants outside looking after the customers.
Lu Yao said hello and entered the laboratory.
Zhong Ruying, Luo Hui'an, Xue Ge, Ling Lan and Tiger Cub were all inside.
"How are the mooncakes going?" Lu Yao pushed open the door of the laboratory.
Linglan immediately clung to her and said proudly, "It's done."
Luo Hui'an nodded at the side: "Just finished."
Lu Yao raised his eyebrows slightly, a little curious: "Let me see."
Everyone made way and a compass-shaped box was placed on the table.
The box surface is like a star disk, divided into black and white, and is clearly the pattern of a balanced compass.
"How did you come up with this pattern?" Lu Yao gently stroked the surface of the box. The uneven texture on it looked like both a balance compass and a map.
Linglan: "The compass in my sister's room is very special. I can't take my eyes off it every time I see it. Later, when I asked around, it turned out that it wasn't just me, but everyone else had that feeling. Once, Mr. Jiang saw it and said that the pattern on the compass looked like a world map from 20 years ago. When we were discussing mooncakes and gift boxes this time, we thought of using the compass mold."
The wooden gift box has clear texture and is painted with dark lacquer. A circle of gold line is drawn on the surface with crystal core liquid, giving it an exquisite and elegant style.
Lu Yao opened the mooncake box and was slightly startled, "What is this?"
There are nine square white mooncakes, which together form a balance compass, but the pattern on the compass is different from that on the box surface.
The mountains, rivers and lakes were replaced by wasteland ruins, with camp totems representing human tribes, mutated plants and animals, and the one in the middle was a blind box store.
Luo Hui'an: "The world of twenty years ago has collapsed in countless changes. This is the new world map."
The center of New World is a blind box store.
The neatly arranged mooncakes have white and glutinous crust, slightly transparent, and the color of the filling can be seen through.
Lu Yao picked up a piece, took a small bite, chewed it carefully, drank a sip of tea, and praised: "Delicious!"
The outer skin is soft, and the filling is crispy and not greasy. The taste is not amazing at first bite, but it becomes more delicious the more you eat it.
The fillings of each mooncake correspond to different colors, but they fit the map on the balance compass perfectly, with verdant mountains and forests, gray-black wastelands, silver-white snow peaks, lily of the valley totems with green in gold, and cat claws representing the territory of exotic beasts...
Lu Yao ate three pieces in a row. The fillings were different in color, ingredients, and taste. There were green tea jasmine, lard and black sesame, kidney bean and lotus paste, and salted egg yolk fried ham...
"You can taste the thought that went into the mooncakes. They're delicious and I like them! But it must be troublesome to make them in large quantities, right? Just making the box takes a lot of effort." Lu Yao touched the intricate patterns on the box with his fingers.
Lily of the Valley: "I made the box. The first problem is that it's easy to make once you have the mold."
Zhong Ruying: "The mooncake molds have been made, and the ratio of fillings to crusts has been adjusted to the best. The division of labor makes the production very fast. If you are really too busy, you can ask the elderly nearby for help."
Lu Yao nodded: "Okay, it's well arranged."
Lu Yao took a box of mooncakes and put them in the warehouse as samples. Then he left the blind box shop and turned to walk into the nail salon.
It was already late at night in Alexandria, but the nail salon was brightly lit, and the alien clerks were probably still making mooncakes all night long.
Lu Yao opened the door and said, "I'm back."
In the lobby leisure area, foreign shop assistants were sitting on sofas, drinking tea and reading books, creating a leisurely scene.
It was not quite the same as expected, and there was an unfamiliar face mixed in with the familiar ones, but Lu Yao also knew him, the mermaid fortune teller Du Manning.
Lu Yao walked in, greeted Du Manning first, then turned to look at the clerk: "Are the mooncakes ready?"
Mumu moved to Lu Yao's side, stretched out her little fleshy hand and grabbed her trouser leg, "Jiji!"
In the middle of the table stood a sparkling treasure chest. The material was a bit like jade, slightly translucent, and the edges were inlaid with tiny gems that sparkled brightly.
Lu Yao paused, "The mooncakes are in the treasure chest?"
Everyone had an unfathomable expression and said nothing.
This dead look was learned from comics, and Lu Yao regretted giving them too much material.
She leaned forward to open the treasure chest and blinked.
The box looks so intimidating, but the mooncakes inside are very cute.
The total amount is dozens of yuan, and the style is completely different from the blind box shop. The mooncakes made by the people in the nail salon are three-dimensional. No wonder they choose to pack them in a treasure box.
Lu Yao poked it with a small silver spoon. The bottom was soft, like a cake base, with fillings in it. In the middle was a layer of hard sugar. On top of the sugar were miniature versions of the ten major races living on the continent of Alexandria—dragons, goblins, demons, elves, undead, vampires, demons, mermaids, sub-humans, and humans.
Lu Yao poked it with a silver spoon and found that the little people standing on the base were soft and chewy, with a texture similar to jelly, but their images were exquisite and lifelike, with great details, and also revealed the selfishness of the maker.
The image of the Fairy Mooncake is a pair of cute twins. The Giant Dragon Mooncake has a three-headed jelly dragon made of gold, red, black and silver. To represent wealth, the base is also made with simulated gold, silver and jewelry scenes. The Blood Clan Mooncake has a small bat holding a soft slime. The Demon Clan Mooncake has a slime wearing a small bat headdress and holding a small human doll in its arms. The doll looks exactly like Lu Yao...
As she expected, none of the foreign shop assistants compromised, and in the end, each of them made the mooncakes they wanted most.
It was so delicious beyond imagination that Lu Yao couldn’t bear to eat it.
Harold was annoyed by her nagging and picked out the mooncake with three little dragons from the box. "Eat this. The black and silver little dragon is the best."
There are so many types of dragons that when making mooncakes, each of the three little dragons wanted to make an image of their own attributes, and they started fighting when they couldn't reach a consensus.
The sight of dragons fighting was particularly annoying, so finally, at the suggestion of Ambrose, this compromise was adopted.
Facing Harold's blatant criticism, Si Jin's face darkened. "The taste is different. After the owner has finished eating, please honestly select the best Xiaolong."
Tina also looked at Lu Yao with burning eyes.
Lu Yao: “…”
Mumu hurried over, took out the demon mooncake with her little claws, and pushed it in front of Lu Yao, looking at her with her big watery eyes: "Ji!"
The twin fairies also flew over and took out their fairy mooncakes: "Eat us!"
Lu Yao: “…”
I really don't want to eat children.
After coming out of the nail salon, Lu Yao was staggering when he walked.
She couldn't resist and took a bite of each mooncake.
Edward's vampire mooncake was filled with wine in the middle. Ambrose said it was the fine wine that the ancestor had hidden for a thousand years.
The last time he woke up, he was dug out of his own coffin.
Lu Yao then said: “…”
Standing at the door of the snack bar, Lu Yao took a deep breath and pushed the door open.
It was midnight and the snack bar had just closed.
Xiaoqie heard the sound at the door and guessed it was Lu Yao. She ran out to pick her up, "Owner, our mooncakes are ready. You'll be the first to taste them."
Lu Yao: “…”