On the way back to the cram school from the Super Energy Research Institute, Lu Yao asked, "What did you do at the institute?"
Pepper put his hands in his pockets, his expression calm: "Ability test, physical examination, and thought correction. I just got there not long ago, and the formal experiment hasn't started yet."
Lu Yao frowned: "Are you going to be a test subject in the future?"
Pepper scratched his hair: "I don't know. The consequences of the live broadcast that night were serious. I have to take responsibility for my actions."
Lu Yao felt something was wrong. Huo Jiao should be responsible for his actions, but it should not have a direct connection with being an experimental subject.
Lu Yao asked: "Besides being a test subject, is there no other solution?"
Pepper shrugged. "If my parents come to negotiate and I pay the corresponding compensation, I won't have to be a test subject. But you know, my parents can't come to negotiate, and I don't need them."
He would rather be a test subject than accept charity from those two people.
Huo Jiao saw the reluctance in Lu Yao's eyes and thought of the experimental subjects he had seen in the research institute, both teenagers and adults.
Some of them cannot control their own abilities, some cannot get along well with those around them, and some are orphans. They are almost all desperate and end up becoming experimental subjects.
When Hu Jiao first arrived at the research institute, he was actually quite uncomfortable.
Perhaps subconsciously, he felt that he had not yet reached the point of desperation.
But the fact is that he is no different from those experimental subjects.
Homeless, without anyone to rely on, without any ties.
Huo Jiao comforted Lu Yao in a relaxed tone: "The life of an experimental subject is actually not that terrible. It's pretty good in there. There's food and drink, entertainment venues, and I heard they even pay you."
Lu Yao lowered his head and responded.
Hu Jiao may not have realized that he didn't care about anything and had learned to comfort others without knowing when.
Back at the cram school, Xu Xiaoxiao saw Lu Yao and looked like she had seen a savior. She pointed at the cram school room and mouthed that there was a customer.
In the cram school room, Bai Yi was pouring tea for the guests.
The woman sitting at the table was elegantly dressed and radiant. She glanced at the teacup handed over by Bai Yi without touching it. She asked anxiously, "Where is the owner?"
Bai Yi sat down opposite him: "The owner has to go out this morning. I can make an appointment for you."
The woman raised her eyelids to look at Bai Yi, then lowered her head to look at the girl beside her, her brows slightly furrowed: "I'll wait for the owner to come back."
There was a sense of strength in the woman's eyes and eyebrows, and she spoke with her own opinions. It seemed that she was not likely to listen to advice.
On Bai Yi's first day at work, he didn't dare to act on his own.
Lu Yao came in and heard this, and walked over: "Who wants to make an appointment for childhood tutoring?"
The woman looked up at the voice and looked him up and down, "Are you the owner?"
Lu Yao nodded.
The woman stood up with a smile on her face: "Hello, my last name is Chen. I heard that this place can correct children's bad habits, so I brought my daughter here specially."
Ms. Chen pulled the girl next to her to stand up: "My daughter, Sang Li, just started college."
Sang Li almost had the word "rebellious" written all over her face - her long dark purple hair was loose, her makeup was so heavy that it blurred her age, a tangled black chain pattern was visible below her collarbone, she had more than a dozen colorful bracelets of different sizes on her wrists, and she was chewing bubble gum in her mouth.
Sang Li raised her eyelids to look at Lu Yao, then lowered her eyelashes without saying a word.
Lu Yao asked Jiao to wait for two minutes and sat down opposite Ms. Chen: "Is it Sang Li who wants to make an appointment for tutoring?"
Pepper glanced at Sangli, walked lazily to another round table, pulled out a chair and sat down, reaching out to touch Alfred who was sleeping on the table.
Ms. Chen sat down, her eyes still on Lu Yao, "Yes. She used to be very well behaved. She went to college far away from home, and I couldn't control her. I don't know when she picked up bad habits, messed up her hair and tattooed all kinds of things on her body. Now she is not obedient at all, and she even talks back when I say something to her. I saw your video online, and I think you said it very well, so I would like to ask you to persuade my stubborn girl."
Ever since Sang Li came back from vacation, Ms. Chen's brows have not relaxed when she saw her daughter, who was completely different from before.
They quarreled, scolded, and even got physically violent twice. They also asked others to persuade her. But the daughter, who used to be obedient and sensible, seemed to have changed into a different person, and refused to listen to anything they said.
Ms. Chen really had no other choice.
She happened to see a recording clip edited by others on the Internet, and saw Lu Yao persuading Huo Jiao. She was moved and found guidance in the comment section, so she took her daughter directly to the cram school.
Bai Yi sat beside Lu Yao, holding a notebook under his hand, recording the guest's situation.
Hearing Ms. Chen scolding Sang Li like this, her brows furrowed.
Lu Yao listened to Ms. Chen's complaints, took out a childhood test form from under the table, and pushed it in front of the silent woman next to her, "Sang Li, fill this out first."
Sang Li was indifferent to Ms. Chen's accusations. She glanced at Lu Yao, picked up the pen beside her, and looked down at the test form.
Lu Yao explained to Ms. Chen: "We need to understand Sang Li's situation first so that we can formulate a tutoring plan later."
Ms. Chen leaned over to see what Sang Li was writing.
Sang Li's shoulders stiffened and the tip of her pen stopped moving.
Lu Yao said, "Mother Sangli, there are some things to note about childhood tutoring. Let me tell you first."
Ms. Chen looked up. "Okay, go ahead."
Lu Yao explained that tutoring requires taking finger bones.
Ms. Chen was originally very interested, but her face changed when she heard this: "You want to take a piece of bone from my daughter's little finger? How can you do this?"
Lu Yao explained that this was a necessary step in childhood tutoring.
Ms. Chen's face was cold, no longer enthusiastic. "You want to travel through time? That's simply unbelievable. I heard that your superpowers are neither offensive nor rare. You can even make up a lie about going back to your childhood for tutoring. It seems that what the Internet said is right. It's all a scam. I'm afraid that live broadcast was also directed and performed by yourself."
Bai Yi's eyes widened and his gaze shifted to the shop owner.
The shop owner also has super powers? She didn't know that yet.
Bai Yi knew that Lu Yao was different from ordinary people. Even the Tianji Ji family was working for her. He also understood that she possessed special abilities, but he did not think of them as super powers.
Last night Lu Yao told Bai Yi that there are super powers in this world, but looking at Ms. Chen's reaction now, Bai Yi felt that it was different from what she imagined.
Come on, that's a superpower.
There are no super powers in their world, but everyone dares to dream of traveling through time and space, reincarnation, and rebirth.
Why do people here seem to have no fantasy nature at all
Pepper behind him snorted and laughed: "Believe it or not, if you don't believe it, just go away."
Ms. Chen raised her eyebrows and glanced at Jiao Hu with an unpleasant look on her face.
Sang Li, who was filling out a form, also looked up at Jiao Hua.
Lu Yao didn't explain too much, just briefly mentioned: "He is a tutor."
Ms. Chen's lips moved up and down, as if she was mumbling something, but no sound was heard.
She stood up, grabbed Sang Li who was still filling out the form, and strode out of the cram school with a sullen face.
Bai Yi stood up, not daring to make a sound.
Lu Yao tilted his head and looked at the mother and daughter pulling each other away, but he was not angry.
The more stores I opened, the more customers with different personalities I encountered.
A person's judgment of things often does not exceed his or her own understanding of the world, and prejudice and misunderstanding often arise from this.
Pepper was holding Alfred's figurine and couldn't wait any longer.
"Lu Yao, it's my turn for tutoring."
Lu Yao turned back and said, "Okay."
After that, she called Bai Yi: "You come with us too."
Bai Yi took a time-travel adaptability test last night.
She was confused at the time and had no sense of reality.
When I got back to my residence, I gradually came to my senses and couldn't sleep the whole night.
Arriving at the store early, Bai Yi was sure that last night's experience was not a dream, and he was still trying to adjust his mentality.
Suddenly being called, she was a little confused: "What should I do?"
Lu Yao: "Don't be nervous. You don't have to do anything for now. Just familiarize yourself with the work."
Jiao Huo is shy and doesn't want Bai Yi to participate in his tutoring.
Lu Yao did not disclose the content of Huo Jiao's tutoring.
Bai Yi simply transformed himself into a passerby, observing and experiencing the tutoring life.
Lu Yao and Jiao returned to their residence in Jinju Community. It was time to go to school again in the early morning.
Just as Pepper came to his senses, the doorbell rang.
Hu Qi's childish voice came from outside the door: "Brother Hu Jiao, it's time to go to school."
Huo Jiao ran to the room to get her schoolbag, and Lu Yao went to open the door.
Hu Qi was standing outside the door with his schoolbag on his back. When he saw Lu Yao, he greeted her politely, "Hello, Aunt Lu."
Lu Yao grabbed a handful of candy from the coffee table and stuffed it into his hand: "Pepper will be out soon, wait a moment."
A few minutes later, an adult and two children walked along the corridor to the elevator and prepared to go downstairs.
Lu Yao attended classes at Jinju Primary School and went in and out with Jiao Huo every day.
Jiao Jiao was always with Hu Qi, and Hu Qi would go out and go home with them in the morning and afternoon.
Less than a week into school, all three of them had gotten used to it.
Hu Qi's mother secretly observed Lu Yao for a few days and found that Lu Yao was gentle and easy to talk to. He was no longer as nervous as he was in the beginning. She felt at ease and let Lu Yao help her pick up and drop off the children every day.
Huo Jiao was annoyed with Hu Qi's parents, but every time he saw Hu Qi being ignorant and secretly getting close to him, he was speechless.
After taking the elevator downstairs, Lu Yao saw that it was still early, so he took his two children to a breakfast shop in the community to eat fresh meat buns.
Hu Qi was a little reserved, pursing his lips and secretly looking at Lu Yao's expression.
Lu Yao ordered three baskets of steaming buns and placed one basket in front of each person. "Little Hu Qi, do you like sweet or light soy milk?"
The buns have thin skin and large fillings, and they are steaming hot with a fragrant aroma that hits your nose directly.
Hu Qi swallowed uncontrollably and lowered his voice to a very low tone: "Sweet soy milk."
Hu Qi had almost no experience like this and his cheeks flushed slightly.
Lu Yao turned around and ordered three cups of soy milk, two with sugar and one without.
Hu Qi likes to drink sweet soy milk, so no need to ask, Hu Jiao must like sweet things too.
Lu Yao saw that Hu Qi was embarrassed, so he took a bun from the steamer and put it in the empty dipping saucer in front of him, "Eat it, and then we'll go to school."
After that, she picked up another one for Pepper.
Hu Jiao has no memory of having breakfast with his parents at the steamed bun shop downstairs.
Such a trivial matter made Jiaohu's nose sore and he kept his head down.
If... If Lu Yao was really his mother, how great it would be.
Pepper couldn't help but wonder.
After eating the buns, Lu Yao drove the two children to school.
Lu Yao is a physical education teacher and his office is right next to the playground.
She separated from the two children at the office door.
Hu Jiao pulled Hu Qi slowly up the stairs and into the teaching building.
In the crowd, a little girl with two pigtails was walking slowly on the playground with a pink schoolbag on her back.
She just saw from a distance a woman who looked like the store owner walking into the sports office. She hesitated for a few seconds, quickened her pace, and walked to the door of the sports office.
The little girl peeked inside, raised her hand and tapped on the open door, and asked tentatively: "Owner?"
There was only one female teacher in the office. She looked like Lu Yao, but was much more mature than the shop owner Bai Yi knew.
Lu Yao raised his eyes and smiled: "You are here."
After confirming that it was the owner, Bai Yi slowly exhaled.
Since even she becomes like a child, it is not surprising that the owner becomes more mature.
Lu Yao saw that she was a little nervous: "How do you feel?"
Bai Yi, who looked like a little girl, had a hint of excitement in her eyes, "It's very interesting."
Bai Yi woke up in this world, and while accepting his new identity, he also experienced the feeling of childhood almost again from a child's perspective.
This tutoring method was more interesting than she had originally understood.
Bai Yi even felt a little envious.
If this store opened in their world, it would surely be extremely popular.
Lu Yao nodded, "You will be in Huo Jiao's class, but you don't have to contact him. In the future, you will guide the tutors like me, but there is no rush for now. Just treat this as an experience teaching."
After Bai Yi and Lu Yao finished talking, they went to find the classroom with 100% curiosity.
Her identity was just a passerby, so no one would suspect her even if she suddenly joined the class.
Bai Yi recognized Hu Qi as soon as he walked into the classroom. His features and brows were quite similar to those of the grown-up Huo Jiao.
Her seat was behind the two of them, and once she sat down she couldn't help but observe the two little kids in the front row.
After listening for a while, Bai Yi noticed something unusual.
It seems that the boy next to him who looks a bit like Lu Yao is the tutor, and his name is also Huo Jiao.
Who is this guy next to him who looks like pepper
Bai Yi was confused.
The two people in the front row were completely unaware of this.
Hu Qi secretly brought Alfred to the classroom again, and was carefully opening his schoolbag, happily calling Pepper to look.
After Pepper finished his first tutoring session, he thought deeply for a long time.
What should he do to protect his silly childhood self
Pepper could sense that Hu Qi was very clingy.
Compared to himself, he may actually like Lu Yao more.
During the tutoring period, Lu Yao really acted like a gentle mother.
Not only Hu Qi, but even he would get confused sometimes if he wasn't paying attention.
When Lu Yao was not around, he became the one who was stuck by Hu Qi.
If it weren't for the tutoring class, Huo Jiao wouldn't have known that he was so naive and a little stupid when he was a child.
Bai Yi stared at the two furry backs of the heads in the front row, unable to guess what the two kids were looking at under the desks.
The time at school is relaxing and pleasant.
Before I knew it, it was already afternoon.
The stay time Lu Yao set for Bai Yi was shorter, only one and a half minutes.
After school, Bai Yi walked out of Jinju Primary School. A white light flashed before her eyes. When she opened her eyes again, she was already back at the cram school.
Bai Yi lowered his head to look at the timer on the table. It was one minute and thirty seconds, exactly.
It’s hard to imagine that out of the day she lived in that world, only one and a half minutes passed at the tutorial center.
Bai Yi leaned on the table and wanted to get up and take a look outside, but his feet suddenly went weak and fatigue surged over him like a tide.
Bai Yi supported his forehead with his hand and sat there to calm down.
After a while, Lu Yao and Jiao also came back.
Pepper looked completely different from the energetic look she had just a few minutes ago. Her eyes were gloomy and red.
Lu Yao sat beside him, put his hand on his shoulder, and spoke to him in a low voice.
During the last bit of tutoring, Lu Yao went out to buy groceries, leaving Pepper and Hu Qi to look after the house.
Not long after Lu Yao went out, Hu Qi was called back home by his mother.
After Hu Qi left, Jiao Huo felt something was wrong, so he ran to the next door and knocked on the door. He saw Hu Qi, whose face was bruised and swollen after being beaten by a drunk man.
The child who had cried so hard that he was out of breath saw him standing stupidly at the door and told him in a hoarse voice to go home quickly.
Pepper stood there, his hands and feet heavy, unable to move.
He suddenly realized a cruel fact: no matter in the past or now, he was cowardly and unable to save anyone.
Pepper shed tears, her heart ached so much that she felt like she was suffocating. She tightly grasped the hand on her shoulder and couldn't utter a word.
One of Lu Yao's hands was held by Hua Jiao, waiting for him to recover.
The tutoring environment had been carefully adjusted by her, so such mistakes should not have occurred.
The reason Lu Yao could think of was probably that Huo Jiao, who had been trapped in a violent environment since childhood, lacked a sense of security. During the short time when she was away, he relied on his own consciousness to recreate the scene of being treated violently as a child.
Pepper herself was unaware of this sense of contradiction.
Lu Yao was thinking about readjusting his tutoring plan and might have to go on another business trip.