Lu Yao stood by the roadside, watching Bai Jing and a tall, thin man with a decadent face approaching, and smiled faintly: "Why are you here so soon?"
Bai Jing just mentioned this last night. She thought the patient would not be brought here until at least after the Mid-Autumn Festival.
Bai Jing paused, "What's the matter with the owner today?"
Lu Yao has always known that Dr. Bai has a high emotional quotient and is sensitive to people's subtle emotions. He tilted his head to glance at the person next to him, waved his hand and turned around: "There is a dinner party tonight. It's still early, let's go to the store first."
Bai Jing had to spend a lot of time convincing Fu Chi to go out, and immediately pulled him to follow: "Excuse me, shop owner, this is my patient Fu Chi."
Fu Chi's gaze stayed on Lu Yao's back for a moment, then slowly moved away, with no intention of speaking.
Lu Yao didn't care. He threw a temporary worker badge over and said, "Put it on and go in."
Bai Jing reminded: "Confidentiality agreement."
Lu Yao had already entered the furry shop, and said without turning his head: “Mr. Fu, make sure you come here often and sign again.”
Bai Jing asked no more questions and entered the store one after another with Fu Chi. On the way there, Bai Jing was like a nagging parent, giving Fu Chi many hints and preparing him mentally in advance, while also observing his expression.
Fu Chi's eyelids trembled slightly and his pupils shrank. He noticed Bai Jing's gaze, but didn't react.
"It's a holiday today, so we're closed early. Not many people here, you guys can have fun as you please." Lu Yao walked straight to the stairs, ready to go to the fishing room, "Everyone is upstairs, you can come up and take a look after you're done."
The shop owner's willingness to do business today was very low, and he had an attitude of "just treat this place as my own home, I don't even treat you as my guests."
The main reason was that the festive atmosphere had already been created. Luo Huan and Jing Yuxi, who had originally said they would come today, went to celebrate the festival with their families and did not come. The clerk of the Furry Shop was also waiting for her in the fishing room.
Bai Jing felt that today was the perfect time to come, as Fu Chi's condition was suitable for a quiet walk.
The two people walked from the jellyfish room to the sea urchin room, and then walked along the long tunnel to the whale room.
There was a whale circling overhead, making empty calls from time to time. Fu Chi looked up for a while, then turned around and walked back.
Bai Jing followed immediately.
The two of them had little communication along the way, and he still couldn't figure out what this person was thinking.
They returned to the small restaurant where they entered. There were two more areas nearby. Fu Chi didn't seem to be in the mood to go shopping anymore, so he turned around and walked up the stairs.
The offshore fishing house was expanded not long ago, and Bai Jing has not been there yet.
Some time ago, Luo Huan said in the group that the new area was great.
As they walked up step by step from the bottom of the sea, the color of the sea water changed, and the sea breeze carrying water vapor suddenly brushed across their skin, and they reached the surface of the sea.
There were people at the end of the pier near the window, and the furry creature that was not seen on the seabed was also there.
A tall and thin figure walked over from the end of the pier. Bai Jing and Fu Chi narrowed their eyes. The blurry face gradually became clear, and their expressions changed almost at the same time.
Ji Zhixin went to the connection room to get a cup of water. He saw two people standing by the window from a distance. When he approached, the smile on his face faded a little, "Doctor Bai."
Bai Jing couldn't help but look down. His legs were no different from those of an ordinary person. "You're fine."
About four years ago, Bai Jing followed his elders to Tianji City to check Ji Zhixin's legs.
At that time, Ji Zhixin's condition was similar to Fu Chi's current condition. He was unwilling to go out and had a bad temper.
But the Ji family gave a lot, and with the relationship with Ji Feiming, the Bai family sent a special medical team to Tianji City. Unfortunately, the results were not satisfactory.
Ji Zhixin shook his head slightly without explaining. He glanced at Fu Chi and asked, "Are you here to see the owner?"
Fu Chi was more shaken than Bai Jing, "Why are you here?"
Bai Jing was stunned: "Know him?"
Fu Chi nodded slightly.
Before Ji Zhixin's leg was injured, he was often taken by the elders of the clan to various celebrity banquets.
Fu Chi met him at a banquet and they had a good relationship in the past.
But after Ji Zhixin was injured, we gradually lost contact.
At that time, Fu Chi only knew that Ji Zhixin's leg could not be cured and he had been abandoned by the Ji family.
Unexpectedly, after so many years, the two people were in such similar situations and met again.
Ji Zhixin went into the house and got a cup of water. His expression had returned to normal. "Let's go. The owner is over there."
Bai Jing reacted: "You work here?"
Ji Zhixin nodded: "The store is hiring, Uncle Ming told the clan, so I came."
Bai Jing: "So it was the owner who cured your leg?"
Ji Zhixin shook his head: "It looks better, but not completely. Now I can walk normally, thanks to the magic of the Fairy Godmother."
Bai Jing: “…Oh…Oh.”
Is this funny? How can I respond to this
Fu Chi: "What is a fairy godmother?"
Bai Jing: You can talk about this? It turns out you can talk about this kind of topic.
Ji Zhixin pointed to the end of the pier: "The Fairy Godmother is over there."
Fu Chi frowned slightly and looked at him with a look that looked like a "pervert". "I remember it's been almost twenty years since you graduated from elementary school."
Old men should stop pretending to be young, it's disgusting.
Ji Zhixin shrugged: "Nonsense, it's only been six years."
Cinderella is always eighteen.
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Lu Yao, Jiuhua and Zhou Su took off their shoes and sat on the edge of the pier, watching the sunset and eating snacks, their calves swaying in the sea breeze.
Zhou Su took out a mooncake from the compass gift box and took a bite. Her eyes lit up. "It's sweet but not greasy, light but not bland. This is delicious!"
Beside them was a golden, birdcage-shaped snack stand, on which were placed four boxes of snacks, a light pink shell-inlaid pearl gift box, an azurite-painted gold compass gift box, a gorgeous and exquisite treasure chest, and a low-key and steady black lacquered wooden hollow gift box.
The gift box is covered with tiny gems and pearls, and the hollow fence of the birdcage is decorated with large brightly colored flowers. It is gorgeous yet delicate, and delicate yet fresh.
—This is the original Mid-Autumn Festival mooncake gift box designed by Lu Yao.
After giving out the holiday gifts, there are still a few boxes left.
When Zhou Su and Jiuhua received it, they said it was too exquisite and they couldn’t bear to eat it.
Since she was sitting there doing nothing, she took out a box and shared it with everyone.
The birdcage gift box is made of a very hard mineral from the Alexandria continent, and the gemstones at the bottom come from the wealthy dragon clan.
When the three little dragons in the house heard that Lu Yao wanted to decorate the box with gems, they each cleared out a few boxes of gem scraps from their nests.
Harold also wanted to pick out rare gems for her that were both beautiful and contained great magical power, but Lu Yao politely declined.
If it is only used for decoration, ordinary gems are precious enough, and there is no need for them to contain magical powers.
If she didn't happen to have a dragon at home, she wouldn't be so extravagant.
The pearls on the bottom were also real. When Teardrop Seal heard that Lu Yao wanted materials to decorate the box, he gave her a few sacks of them.
They are just ordinary pearls, different from the goddess' tears.
Just like that, when the holiday gifts were distributed in the afternoon, the human clerks in the snack bar, blind box shop and furry shop were all shocked. Only the picky alien owner of the nail salon perfunctorily treated them with inferior gems, and even took out his collection of rare gems and started DIYing the gift boxes on the spot.
The flowers that decorate the birdcage gift box are picked from the world of Impermanence. When Linglan and Xuege heard that Lu Yao wanted to decorate the gift box, they used the special power of alien plants to create a batch of beautiful flowers that are unique to the Impermanence continent.
These flowers are cut after blooming and then soaked in crystal core liquid. They have strong vitality and are said to be able to continue blooming for several years.
Jiuhua raised her hand and took out a mermaid mooncake from the treasure chest gift box. She shook it gently, with stars in her eyes: "This mooncake looks like the mermaid version of Lord Cuihuangxing. It has a rich fruity flavor and is soft and elastic. Susu, try it, it's a new flavor!"
When making the mooncake gift boxes, the shop assistants were full of competitive spirit and competed secretly.
When tasting it, I forgot my previous thoughts. Every bite of the mooncakes from other shops was novel and delicious.
Bai Jing came over and couldn't take his eyes off the birdcage gift box. "What kind of good thing is this? I've never seen it before."
"It's Mid-Autumn Festival now, and the store is making mooncakes as holiday gifts, so we have a few extra boxes." Lu Yao said casually, leaning on the wooden board.
Bai Jing: "... Festival gift... This birdcage gift box covered with gems and pearls, one for each person?"
Are those small boxes filled with mooncakes
The Bai family has some assets in Yaoguang City, and Bai Jing has seen many big scenes since he was a child, but at this moment he still couldn't help but look like he had never seen the world.
Before Lu Yao could reply, Zhou Su turned around and said, "It's really exaggerated, isn't it? The gems and pearls in the cage are real, the gems on the treasure chest, the pearls on the shells are real, and I suspect the gold thread on the compass gift box is also real gold."
Bai Jing saw that the small box really contained mooncakes, and couldn't help but pick up a piece, "Is it delicious?"
The packaging is so gorgeous that it makes the mooncakes look childish.
Jiuhua nodded repeatedly: "Super delicious! Different flavors, but all delicious."
Bai Jing saw the black lacquered wooden gift box on the bottom layer of the birdcage, which had not been opened yet. "Is this box also mooncakes?"
Lu Yao slowly pulled out the mooncake gift box from the snack bar and opened the lid: "I haven't had time yet, this one is also amazing."
Fu Chi had no interest in mooncakes, but his eyes involuntarily followed the owner's movements.
There are wood carving-like patterns on the black lacquered imitation wood hollow lid. When you gently open it, a light fragrance mixed with the sea breeze blows across everyone's nose.
Zhou Su wrinkled her nose and leaned over to look: "What's that smell? It smells so good!"
Jiuhua said almost at the same time: "It's so beautiful!"
Fu Chi's eyes were also fixed on the box of mooncakes.
Twelve round white mooncakes lie in a black wooden box, with a fragile but well-preserved dried flower pressed on the surface of the mooncake. The faint fragrance spreads into the air with the wind.
It is obviously very faint, but it lingers at the tip of the nose, making people unable to help but smell it.
Fu Chi slowly approached, squatted down and picked up a white mooncake with a blue-purple flower pressed on it. He sniffed it and bit into it. "The taste of this mooncake is like a midsummer evening, when the sudden rain has just stopped. The endless summer rain in a corner of the yard is washed as new and swaying in the wind. The light fragrance spreads with the water droplets dripping from the leaves, bringing the freshness after the summer rain."
Bai Jing couldn't help but snort, "Is it that exaggerated?"
He reached out and took a rose mooncake. The rose was carved with dried rose petals, and the branches and leaves were carved with dried leaves. It was made very delicately.
Bai Jing took a bite, chewed it carefully, and suddenly leaned over and pounded the ground, "Damn it!"
After a moment, Bai Jing came back to his senses and looked at Lu Yao: "The taste of this mooncake... is hard to describe. Biting it is like chewing a memory."
When he ate the rose mooncake, he vaguely saw a distant town where a boy and a girl met, fell in love passionately, and then parted tragically.
After eating the mooncakes, a faint sense of emptiness still remains in my heart.
Memories have flavor, and even emotions can be affected.
Jiuhua, Zhou Su and Ji Zhixin thought that these two people were a little stupid, so they came over, picked a mooncake from the wooden box, and carefully bit it open.
After a while, copy and paste the essay "My Thoughts on Eating Mooncakes" and multiply it by three.
As Bai Jing said, biting into a mooncake is like tasting a memory.
What’s even more amazing is that different people will have different memories when eating the same flavor of mooncake.
The memory mooncakes from the snack bar have a strong aftertaste. Lu Yao was a little drunk when he ate them for the first time, so his memory is not very clear.
When I ate it again the next morning, I vaguely remembered the embarrassment of the previous night, and cried and laughed at the same time...
The staff at the snack bar said that there was only endless time and death in the Land of Dreams, and even the ingredients had to be purchased from other worlds.
They tried hard to put something belonging to the land of dreams in this box of mooncakes, so they used the fragrance of flowers as an introduction and put some "obsessions" into the mooncakes, some beautiful and some regrettable.
The beauty of flowers and trees on the mooncakes, the beauty or regrets of life, can only be felt by the living.
So, don't give up easily.
After eating the mooncakes and the sun was setting, Bai Jing and Fu Chi did not stay long.
Before leaving, Fu Chi signed a confidentiality agreement.
The clerk at the Furry Shop was so full of mooncakes that he had no room left for dinner, so Lu Yao escaped.
Zhou Su looked on enviously as Jiuhua left Eden Sea with the three-layer birdcage gift box, but she could not take her gift box home.
When distributing holiday gifts, the store owner said that this shopping street was special and the mooncake gift boxes could not be taken back, but could be converted into cash gifts.
Ji Feiming and Ji Zhixin were not short of money, and Zhou Su did not ask for cash.
Since she couldn’t take it home, she put it in the store. She felt happy just looking at it and touching it every day.
When leaving the furry shop, Lu Yao took out a box of mooncakes as a gift from his personal storage and gave it to Lei Lei, asking it to deliver it to the shrine deep in the trench.
Not only the Deep Sea Goddess, but also the Demon God, the Chief Guard, Qing, the Dragon Elder, the Teacher of Longgu, and the Balance Compass all received holiday gifts from the owner.
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Late at night, Lu Yao came out of the snack bar, put his hands behind his back and slowly walked to the furry shop... the bare new storefront next to it.
System: [The five stores have been merged. Has the store owner decided on the type of business to be operated? ]
Lu Yao looked up for a while, then nodded slowly, "Yes."
System: [Please confirm the type of business. ]
“Look far to know new things. How far is far enough?” Lu Yao muttered in a low voice, “I want to open a movie theater.”