Du Haoling's second tutoring session was still to find out the truth behind his uncle's death.
This time, Lu Yao not only brought Bai Yi, but also Xie Molin, and Du Haoling did not stop him.
This retrospective takes place three months before Du Mingyao's death, and the perspective is no longer limited to Du Haoling.
Du Mingyao had already started working at this time, and like Du Haoling, he was also a doctor.
After observing for a while, they found that Du Mingyao's life was simple and almost boring.
He usually only goes to three places - home, the hospital, and the small supermarket downstairs from his apartment.
Du Mingyao spends most of his time in the hospital. He stays at home on his days off and rarely goes downstairs. At most, he goes to the small supermarket downstairs to buy some daily necessities. He occasionally goes to the hospital on his days off, but he doesn't stay for long.
In the blink of an eye, half a month passed and they did not find any useful clues.
Xie Molin pinched his brows and said, "We won't waste three months like this, will we?"
Du Haoling's expression became slightly solemn.
After the first month, Du Mingyao's life remained unchanged.
At the beginning of the second month, Du Mingyao received a new patient.
The patient is a young woman who is hospitalized with acute appendicitis.
At first, several people did not pay attention to this patient. After all, Du Mingyao had to come into contact with many patients every day, both men and women, young and old.
It was already the third month when they felt something was wrong.
The female patient had an appendectomy and was discharged from the hospital after recovery.
There was nothing unusual at the time, until one day off, when they saw Du Mingyao going to the flower shop to pick up flowers, and it was obvious that he had a date.
Then they met Du Mingyao's date - the female patient who had undergone surgery by Du Mingyao last month.
The close relationship between the two did not last long. After about a week, they had no contact anymore.
From then on until the end of his life, Du Mingyao's life went on as usual.
He himself expressed no regret or remorse about the end of the relationship.
Xie Molin stroked his chin and looked at Du Haoling: "I didn't expect my uncle to be so open."
Du Haoling was also very surprised. He never knew that his uncle had such a side.
On the night when Du Mingyao had the accident, there was an operation that lasted for eight hours.
It was drizzling late at night. Du Mingyao left the hospital with a tired face and then disappeared.
He never returned to the apartment where he lived alone, nor did he return to the hospital.
The next news that came two months later was the news of his death.
Du Haoling chased Du Mingyao in the rain for several blocks, but lost him accidentally.
He turned around and looked at Lu Yao: "Where did he go?"
Lu Yao shook his head: "The information about the two months he disappeared is incomplete."
Du Haoling's face darkened.
Lu Yao continued: "We have found the last place he went before his death."
The time machine started again, and the four of them arrived two months later.
They were in the reeds by the Moyang River, and Du Haoling's face was pale.
Lu Yao explained: "That day, after leaving your house and your uncle's apartment, Xiao Xie took me for a walk along the Moyang River and took some samples back. When we returned to the laboratory, I found some strange records on one of the pieces of wood."
The Moyang River runs through the country, with water plants and trees growing along its banks. The river sections far from human settlements only catch insects, birds, aquatic life and boats.
If a large land creature like a cat or dog is recorded, the light spot on the key will be different.
If a larger human being is recorded, the light spot on the key must be very conspicuous.
Lu Yao made all the samples into keys, and then screened them from large to small. It took a lot of time, after all, it was an incident ten years ago, but he finally found it.
It was a gray sky, and raindrops fell on my face and hands, chilling me to the bone.
A rustling sound came from not far away, and a tall and thin figure appeared under the cover of grass leaves.
Du Mingyao had lost a lot of weight, with nothing underneath his clothes, as if he was just a skeleton. His hair looked as if he hadn't been taken care of for a long time, with his bangs covering his eyes. His beard was untidy, and he looked dispirited.
He staggered to the riverside, stood on the shore smoking, and stared blankly at the other side.
One, two, three...
Finally, Du Mingyao took out the cigarette box from his pocket, shook it and found that it was gone, so he crumpled it into a ball and threw it away.
The next second, there was a plop—
The man never got up again.
"Uncle!" Du Haoling ran out and jumped down to save him.
A few minutes later, Du Haoling was pulled up by Xie Molin and sat on the river bank with a dazed look on his face.
Lu Yao knew that this result was unsatisfactory, but it was indeed the truth.
However, she felt something was wrong, but she couldn't remember what it was.
When Du Haoling returned to the Childhood Tutorial Center, his clothes had already dried.
No one spoke.
After more than ten minutes, Du Haoling suddenly came back to his senses: "Shopkeeper, now that we have found the place and time when my uncle left, can we go back and stop him?"
Lu Yao has traveled back and forth three times today. He is physically and mentally exhausted and doesn't even want to talk much.
She waved her hand and stood up: "Sorry, I'm too tired today. I'll rest first."
Du Haoling was about to say something but was held down by Xie Molin.
Eventually, we encountered this situation where the customers were no longer satisfied with simple tutoring, but wanted to explore more, or even change the past directly.
Lu Yao squinted his eyes, pulled aside the soft blanket, fell on the sofa in the lounge, and fell asleep in a second.
Outside the door, Xie Molin and Bai Yi talked a lot with Du Haoling, but judging from his expression, he didn't listen at all.
Since the owner was resting, Du Haoling left with a lot on his mind.
When leaving, I did not forget to make an appointment for the next tutoring session.
His original intention was to find out the truth behind Du Mingyao's death.
This second tutoring session had achieved the goal, but he was not satisfied and wanted to talk to the owner.
Xie Molin and Bai Yi couldn't make a decision for Lu Yao, but since Lu Yao was an acquaintance of Xie Molin's, they arranged a time for him.
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Tianshu City.
Knowing that Zhizi was going down the mountain, Ji's people arranged five helicopters early on, planning to send Zhizi, Ji Feichen and a team of Ji's direct descendants to Yaoguang City first.
According to the plan, they would arrive in Yaoguang City by evening at the latest.
Not far from the foot of Qianmen Mountain, Zhizi and his group saw the helicopter prepared by the Ji clan.
Zhizi and Ji Feichen boarded one of the boats first, and it took only a few minutes from takeoff to landing.
Fortunately, there was a child on the plane, otherwise Ji Feichen and the pilot would have fallen into the deep mountain stream.
At this time, everyone had not realized the seriousness of the situation. They just thought that the plane that the child had taken earlier had a problem, so they asked the child to take the second plane, the third plane, the fourth plane...
After four helicopters malfunctioned in succession, the Ji clan members gradually came to their senses. However, they only dared to glance at the child secretly and did not dare to ask questions proactively.
Previously, the gods served by the Ji family rarely left the temple, and there were no relevant records in the Ji family's clan codes, so they did not know that the powers of some gods were incompatible with modern civilization.
This trait often appears when the god is still a child.
The snowy ground was cold, and the child stood there in silence for a while, then called Ji Feichen over: "It seems I was too impatient."
Ji Feichen immediately said, "My subordinates didn't make good arrangements, so you don't need to blame yourself. Since we can't take a plane, we can take the high-speed rail. What do you think?"
Worried that his son might be anxious, Ji Feichen continued, "Although Tianshu and Yaoguang are located at the two ends of the Pole Star and are very far apart, the high-speed trains are fast nowadays and we can reach Yaoguang by the early morning at the latest."
The child's thick silver eyelashes flickered up and down, looking a little aggrieved, and said in a cold voice: "Then I will follow the master's arrangements."
Ji Feichen immediately asked someone to book tickets, and the group took a car to the high-speed rail station.
Zhizi was still riding in the same car with Ji Feichen, but the car broke down less than ten minutes after they set off.
Ji Feichen and the driver looked at each other, the despair in their eyes was hard to conceal: "..."
Child... Don't tell me you're a traffic killer
Half an hour later, they were sure.
Children are traffic tools and killers!
Airplanes, cars, and even small electric vehicles were all turned into scrap metal by the children in less than ten minutes after they were started.
Based on this inference, high-speed rail will definitely not work either.
It was the coldest time of the year and the group was as anxious as ants on a hot pan, not knowing what to do.
Seeing their embarrassment, the child suggested, "Why don't you stop following me? I'll go find her myself. I'll be there before dark."
The Ji clan members had numb faces: "..."
Is this being disliked
They thought they were trying to solve the problem for the children, but in the eyes of the children, they were the problem.
Ji Feichen closed his eyes and lowered his voice, "Child, we are your servants. No matter what, we cannot leave your side."
Child: "... Then what should we do?"
Ji Feichen asked: "How do you plan to get to Yaoguang?"
The child lowered his head: "Eleventh Road."
Ji clan member: “…” Excuse me.
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Lu Yao slept until the golden crow fell to the west and woke up in a daze. Xu Xiaoxiao, Bai Yi and Xie Molin were just getting off work.
After the shop assistants left, Lu Yao went to the Maorongrong shop to get Erxin's dinner.
Zhou Su left a bowl of shrimp paste mixed with chicken breast for Zhu Mi. Fatty Sanhua squatted in front of the cat bowl and ate with gusto, even making a "smacking" sound. Lu Yao also sat at the round table nearby with seafood noodles in his hand, sweating profusely while eating.
After dinner, Lu Yao cleared the dishes and made a pot of digestive tea and placed it on the round table.
There was a notebook made in Sanhua City on the table. Lu Yao sat down and let Erxin lie on his legs and lick his paws while checking all the famous research institutes in the country.
As night falls, there are fewer people on the road.
It was at this moment that Chen Jing pushed the door open.
Lu Yao closed the search page, patted his head and let it go.
"Ms. Chen." Lu Yao said.
Chen Jing looked along the shelves lingeringly, then lowered her eyes and saw Lu Yao, nodding slightly: "Shopkeeper, I've been to check out the pepper."
Lu Yao stood up and closed the shop door, led Chen Jing to the cram school room, and made her some tea. "How is it?"
The last time Lu Yao went on a business trip to Orange City, he met Chen Jing and the two got in touch.
Compared with the mother in Huo Jiao's memory, Chen Jing's temperament and personality have changed a lot now.
But one thing remained unchanged—she still didn’t like pepper.
But compared to the hysteria when she was young, she no longer has the energy to be angry, and is left with only indifference.
She shook her head, her tone flat, "He has already signed the experimental subject consent form. It will cost a lot of money to take him out in this situation. We can't afford it."
Lu Yao held the teacup in both hands, "Well... as long as you are willing to pick him up, I will find a way to pay for it."
The last time Lu Yao heard Huo say that he would become an experimental subject, he asked Zheng Siyao that in order to take Huo out, a blood relative must go, so Lu Yao found Chen Jing.
Chen Jing looked at Lu Yao as if he was a fool. "It could cost hundreds of thousands or millions. There's no need to spend so much money on him. His father has someone else outside. We are planning to divorce and we will never look for him again."
That child is neither considerate nor obedient, he is an ungrateful child.
Lu Yao did not comment: "You don't have to worry about the money. The agreement will remain the same as before. I will fulfill my promise first. You will accompany me to the research institute tomorrow."
Chen Jing rarely gave kind advice, but the other party didn't appreciate it. She didn't say anything more and just nodded dryly.
Lu Yao pulled out a childhood test form from under the table and handed it to Chen Jing.
Chen Jing looked down for a while, then picked up the pen and filled it out slowly.
When Chen Jing first heard about childhood tutoring, she thought it was just some new scam. But the owner agreed to help her for free, on the condition that she would negotiate with the institute to get Pepper out after the tutoring.
In the morning, I met Huo Jiao at the research institute and mentioned the Childhood Tutorial Center. From Huo Jiao's attitude, Chen Jing realized that the tutorial center should not be a trap.
After leaving the institute, she searched online again and came to find Lu Yao in the evening.
But Chen Jing is not optimistic about this tutoring.
She was like a fish living in a smelly mudflat, her whole body covered with silt and filth, even her intestines and lungs were filled with silt, there was no possibility of turning over in her life.
Originally, she would not agree to Lu Yao's proposal, let alone travel all the way to Sanhua City to see Jiao Hu.
She still hasn't figured out why she came.
After the afternoon tutoring with No. 52 and listening to Xie Molin's work experience, Lu Yao wanted to pick up Huo as soon as possible and was unwilling to wait a moment.
She didn't want the person she had rescued with great difficulty to die in the research institute again.
Chen Jing pushed the completed test form to Lu Yao.
After Lu Yao finished reading Chen Jing's form, he was silent for a while, then took out the bone removal tools: "Ms. Chen, I'm going to start removing the bones."
Chen Jing was very calm. She stretched out her hand and let Lu Yao take the bone from the tip of her left little finger. She was a little surprised: "It really doesn't hurt at all."
Lu Yao made the key to his heart and gave it to Chen Jing: "We want to go back to your childhood."
A trace of fear flashed across Chen Jing's wooden face. She scratched her hair irritably and covered her face again: "Of all the past, the one I least want to recall is my childhood. Can we not go back?"
Lu Yao pulled her hand down, "Ms. Chen, don't be afraid."
The key was inserted into the small silver ball, and white light enveloped the two of them.
In the blink of an eye, Erxin was the only one left in the cram school room. He stared at the ornaments on the table with his round cat eyes, swung his tail, and lay back down.
In the damp courtyard, an old woman with her hair half tied up was sitting on a bench with a little girl of four or five years old on her lap.
The old woman slapped the child with her hands, making a loud sound, cursing: "You little bitch, you dare to steal eggs. They are for your younger brother, don't you know?"
The child was beaten and cried loudly.
The old woman stomped her feet and used more force on her hands, "You still have the nerve to cry? Stop crying!"
At this time, another crying sound came from the house. The old woman left the little girl, got up and walked quickly into the inner room. After a while, she brought out a white and chubby baby.
Chen Jing and Lu Yao put on transparent stickers and stood in the courtyard.
It had just rained, and the dirt dams in the countryside were wet and slippery.
The little girl cried alone for a long time, and was scolded loudly by the upset old woman. She squatted down leaning on the leg of a stool, but she lost her balance and her butt got wet. She covered her mouth tightly with her hands and dared not make a sound.
Chen Jing looked at the old woman coaxing the baby with hatred, and said through gritted teeth: "This old woman is my grandmother. She doesn't like me, she likes the one in her arms because it's a boy."
The little fat boy was at the stage of eating complementary food, and he would mix a cooked egg yolk into porridge every day, and the remaining egg whites would be eaten by the old woman and her husband.
When Chen Jing was a child, she was greedy and looked at the food eagerly, but the old woman never gave her any to eat.
She was not an obedient person. When the old man wasn't paying attention, she would sneak into the kitchen to rummage around. Nine times out of ten, she was caught red-handed.
If she was caught, she would be beaten and scolded. After a long time, she got used to it.
As long as she could have something to eat, she didn't care about the physical pain.
In the evening, Chen Jing's grandfather came back from the mine. He first went into the main room to play with his grandson, then called his wife to prepare dinner and asked Chen Jing to get his wine pot.
Every night, the old man would drink two cups of wine with half a plate of pickles.
But he has a bad drinking habit. Once he is drunk, he will go crazy, talk nonsense, and even do something violent.
Every time the old man started to beat someone, the old woman would hold her little grandson tightly in her arms, turn her back and let the old man beat her.
Chen Jing always hid under the table alone and dared not come out.
When the old woman couldn't bear it anymore, she would run over and strangle Chen Jing until she cried.
The old man was given a headache by the crying and started cursing and wanting to hit Chen Jing. The old woman took the opportunity to take her grandson to the side room and locked it up.
Chen Jing tried to call her parents who were working away from home to complain, but was scolded.
When I got back, the owner of the convenience store gossiped about me and told my grandmother, and then I was beaten again when I got home.
This was her childhood.
Two years later, it was time for Chen Jing to go to school.
However, her family had no intention of sending her to school. It was not until two years later that the villagers persuaded the old man and the old woman and even called the workplace of Chen Jing's parents. Finally, the family sent Chen Jing to school despite cursing at them.
At this time, Chen Jing was two years older than her classmates and became an outlier in school.
She couldn't make friends at school and was always laughed at.
Chen Jing struggled through elementary school and went to a school far away from home when she entered middle school.
When Chen Jing graduated from high school, she was fifteen years old, and her family said they didn't have the money to send her to college.
Chen Jing had no intention of continuing to go to school. She was eager to leave her cage-like home.
It was at this time that Chen Jing met Huo's father.
At that time, Huo Jiao's father was already working, rich and handsome.
In Chen Jing's eyes at that time, he was like a prince charming and was completely irresistible.
She followed Pepper's father without much hesitation.
In the third month of their marriage, Huo Jiao's father beat Chen Jing for the first time.
Once there is a chance of a second time, Chen Jing endured the beatings from her husband day and night, but she couldn't leave him.
At that time, she still liked Hu's father very much, and she probably didn't think about it carefully because it was also the reason why she couldn't live alone.
Two years later, Chen Jing became pregnant.
Father Hu treated her gently for a while.
But it was also at this time that Chen Jing discovered for the first time that there was someone outside Hu's father.
The other person was a young girl who had just graduated from college. She was younger and prettier than her.
She was panicked and scared.
Perhaps this is why Chen Jing doesn't like pepper.
If he hadn't had a child at that time, Mr. Hu wouldn't have messed around outside.
Lu Yao: “…”
After Huo was born, Chen Jing didn't care much about her and spent most of her time trying to win back her husband.
She studies her dressing style, diets to maintain her figure, and is vain and obsessed with beauty to an almost pathological degree.
It was not until recent years that she gradually came to her senses.
She couldn't keep that man.
Lu Yao took Chen Jing back and forth many times, from when she was a child to when she was in elementary school, middle school, married to Hu's father, suffered domestic violence, gave birth to Hu Jiao...
Back in the cram school, Chen Jing poured out her grievances over the years in an excited tone, completely unaware of the owner's indescribable expression.
This woman went awry in all the important decisions of her life.
When Chen Jing stopped to drink water, Lu Yao sighed, "You should have left Hu's father when he first hit you. Or, earlier, when you met him, you shouldn't have hoped to escape the miserable and secluded life through marriage."
Chen Jing was so emotional that she exploded: "You want to say that all this is my fault? What did I do wrong? Why blame me for everything?"
Lu Yao held her hand and soothed her, "That's not what I meant. Don't get excited."
Returning to her childhood, it was as if she was experiencing all the bad things in the past again, and Chen Jing's emotions could not calm down for a while.
She thought the shop owner would understand her, but the result was the same as before. Everyone thought that she was cowardly, vain, and shallow, which led to her ending up in this situation.
Lu Yao brought the candy box over and pushed it in front of Chen Jing: "Eat something first and relax."
There are candied fruits, cookies, nuts and some exquisite pastries on the nine-grid plate.
There are many varieties, and the sweet taste is rich and tempting.
Chen Jing couldn't help but eat a few pieces with hot tea, and her emotions gradually stabilized.
Chen Jing's tutoring goals were written in a very vague way, as if she herself didn't know what to do.
While she was eating, Lu Yao quickly listed several tutoring plans and showed them to Chen Jing: "You can choose one."
On the yellowed graph paper, several lines of words were written in sequence.
1 Make up for the regret of partial parents
2 Make up for the regret of wrong marriage
3. Acquire the ability to survive independently through tutoring
Chen Jing looked at several options, tapped her finger lightly on the second one, and looked up to see Lu Yao's expression.
Lu Yao said calmly: "Don't look at me, just choose according to your heart. No matter which one you choose, I will help you achieve your goal."
Chen Jing took a deep breath, moved her finger away from the second line, and touched the first line again.
Lu Yao's expression did not change.
Chen Jing lowered her eyes, pondered for a few minutes, and said with a condensed breath: "I choose the third option."
Lu Yao: “Are you sure?”
Chen Jing nodded.
Lu Yao let out a breath, took out his key, and started the formal tutoring.
In a small mountain village with drizzling rain, Chen Jing ran out of the main room while her grandmother was coaxing her younger brother to sleep in the side room, ran into the kitchen in the rain, and tiptoed to pick up the small bowl on the stove. In the bowl were two peeled egg whites.
The little girl had dry and yellow hair like straw, tied in two thin buns. She wore a gray overalls, and her face was like a tabby cat, with snot running across her nose.
She couldn't reach the bowl on the stove even when she stood on tiptoe, so she lowered her head to look for a small stool.
The little girl finally reached the bowl by leaning on a small stool. She reached out and grabbed the egg white, then ran out, hid behind the eaves, and ate it up voraciously.
She leaned against the wall, still chewing, and looked up to see someone looking at her with a smile.
The little girl was not embarrassed. She didn't know what self-respect was and no one had taught her that.
She only knew that she was not liked here. If she was obedient, she would be beaten. If she was disobedient, she would also be beaten. It was all the same anyway.
The woman was pulling a brand new suitcase and standing on the side of the road, waving at her: "Jingjing, why are you staying here alone? Come on, go home with your mother."
Chen Jing's expression changed, and her eyes were full of disbelief: "Mom?"
The little girl still didn't move.
Lu Yao let go of the suitcase, stepped into the mud, walked over, picked up Chen Jing, and walked back to the small courtyard along the path, asking, "What? Don't you recognize me?"
Chen Jing felt something was wrong, but that sense of disobedience gradually dissipated with the gentle smile of the woman in front of her. She was secretly excited and her dark little hands hugged Lu Yao's neck: "Mom, I miss you so much."
Lu Yao didn't despise her and carried her into the house before putting her down.
Grandma came out of the room holding her eldest grandson and was surprised to see Lu Yao: "Why are you back?"
For some reason, Chen Jing saw a familiar look of disgust on the old woman's face.
She looked up at her mother, only to find that she was still smiling.
Lu Yao glanced at the little son in his grandmother's arms, without any intention of reaching out to hold him. He just smiled and said, "It's too hard for you to take care of all the big and small ones. The village happened to be recruiting substitute teachers, so I called to ask, and I just met the requirements, so I decided to quit my job and come back."
Grandma Chen Jing's brows were knitted into a row of wrinkles, and her tone was very impatient: "Why did you come back? It's not like I can't take care of them. How can a substitute teacher in the village earn as much as working outside? Oh, I think you should go back to work."
Lu Yao said calmly, "Just now when I came back, I saw Jingjing picking up dirty things to eat on the roadside. It's too hard for you to take care of two children by yourself, so leave Jingjing to me from now on. The school has already agreed, so I have to go."
After saying this, ignoring his grandmother's angry stamping of feet, Lu Yao took Chen Jing straight out of the main room and turned to the locked side room on the other side.
She took out the key and opened the lock. The mattresses and furniture in the room were covered with a layer of tape, and there was a thick layer of dust on the paper.
Chen Jing's parents work away from home all year round. After the child was born, they sent him back to their hometown to be left by their parents. They only go home for a few days to rest during the Chinese New Year every year.
After spending several hours cleaning the room, tidying up the bed and clothes, Lu Yao filled a basin with hot water to wipe Chen Jing's face and hands, and changed her clothes.
Chen Jing was at a loss, but her eyes seemed to be filled with stars.
This is her mother, she likes her mother.
Lu Yao looked at the look in the eyes of the young child Chen Jing and couldn't help but sigh.
Chen Jing didn't know that in another tutoring session, Huo Jiao also called her mom.
It's really a mess.
Less than two days after Lu Yao returned, Chen Jing discovered that her mother was just as unpopular at home as she was.
Grandma likes to curse people and order my mother around.
But because my mother was extravagant in using oil and seasonings when cooking, my grandmother later stopped letting her cook.
Lu Yao came out of the kitchen with two fragrant tea eggs and a big bowl of noodles in her hands, and called Chen Jing to go back to the house with her.
An adult and a child sat at a low table, sharing a bowl of noodles and a tea egg each.
Tea eggs have a salty flavor and taste better than boiled eggs.
My mother bought the eggs, so my grandmother couldn't say anything.
It's only the beginning of August, and it's not time to go to school yet.
After breakfast, Lu Yao picked up a small backpack and a small hoe and took Chen Jing to the field to dig wild vegetables.
Lu Yao didn't know as many kinds of wild vegetables as Chen Jing, she only knew how to dig Houttuynia cordata.
Chen Jing was like a little lark standing by, asking her mother to dig wild onions, then asking her mother to dig wild shepherd's purse, and she also picked some wood ear mushrooms from an unknown tree on the side of the road.
After returning home, Lu Yao washed the Houttuynia cordata and made a cold dish. He also picked some wild vegetables, washed them, blanched them and made a cold dish.
To be honest, wild vegetables don’t taste good.
But the mother and daughter still ate most of it with rice.
When grandpa came back in the evening, he wanted to drink again and no one could persuade him to stop.
After three or five cups of wine, grandpa started to speak incoherently. He stood up and moved towards Chen Jing and Lu Yao, his steps unsteady.
Grandma hid in the side room holding the child.
Chen Jing held Lu Yao's calves tightly with both hands and was about to cry: "Grandpa likes to beat people, Mom, let's run."
Lu Yao sat still and lowered his head to ask her, "Does Jingjing know that she has superpowers?"
Chen Jing nodded ignorantly.
Lu Yao stroked her dry yellow hair and said softly: "You have the same ability as your mother, you can control other people's behavior through language."
The drunk old man raised his fist and hit hard.
Lu Yao did not move, and said coldly: "You are drunk and want to go back to the wing room to sleep."
The old man's cloudy eyes rolled around, and he turned slowly and walked towards the wing room.
Lu Yao continued, "The threshold of the wing room was too high. You didn't pay attention and couldn't step over it. You kicked the door panel and accidentally fell down and passed out."
The next second, the old man's foot didn't even step over the threshold of the wing room, which was less than ten centimeters high. He tripped over his front foot and fell at the door of the wing room with a thud, and fell into a deep sleep.
Grandma Chen Jing stood at the door holding her little grandson, looking at Lu Yao with horror.
Lu Yao lowered his head and asked Chen Jing: "Are you full?"
Chen Jing nodded.
Lu Yao carried her back to the room to wash up.
In the evening, the mother and daughter sat in **.
Chen Jing pursed her lips and secretly observed Lu Yao, whispering: "Mom, I also want to be as good as you."
Lu Yao held her in his arms and said, "Okay, Mom will teach you."
Since that night, grandpa and grandma didn’t dare to embarrass Lu Yao anymore.
In early September, Lu Yao started working.
While she was in class, she left Chen Jing in the care of her grandmother.
After about a month of training, Chen Jing has mastered the basic use of the Word Spirit Technique and has no problem staying alone at home.
With Lu Yao at home, grandpa didn't dare to drink every day, he got drunk less often, and the family gradually became harmonious.
Two years later, Chen Jing was old enough to go to school.
Lu Yao enrolled her in school.
This time, she did not enter school two years later, and her classmates were all her peers. Because of Lu Yao's teaching, Chen Jing's personality changed a lot, and because her mother was a teacher, Chen Jing got along well with her classmates.
When she was in the fourth grade of elementary school, Chen Jing's superpowers caught the attention of a teacher who came from the city to recruit students. The teacher discussed with Lu Yao and hoped that Chen Jing could go to a middle school in the city and all tuition and miscellaneous fees would be waived.
Lu Yao quit his job as a substitute teacher and accompanied Chen Jing to go to school in the city.
She rented a house near the school and found a job nearby, so that she could take care of Chen Jing while earning some money for the family.
Chen Jing lived a fulfilling and happy life during her four years in middle school.
I couldn’t imagine that she had walked out of that secluded rural village so quickly.
The year she graduated from high school, Chen Jing's superpower rating was A.
Although she did not achieve the best A+, several universities in the city called her.
After discussing with Lu Yao, Chen Jing chose the one she liked best.
Three years passed in a flash, and Chen Jing successfully completed her university studies and became a middle school teacher.
One day, Chen Jing was walking on the street with her mother when they met a few men in suits passing by. She vaguely heard them talking about investments and clients.
Chen Jing looked back.
Lu Yao asked her: "What's wrong?"
Chen Jing shook her head, "Nothing. Mom, let's eat out today. I'll take you to the hot pot restaurant I mentioned last time."
Traditional hot pot is not the kind of hot pot that directly scalds the food. In the small copper pot, you can add pork belly, pork intestines, beef, tendons, ribs... all kinds of cooked meat, and bean sprouts, radishes or winter melons are placed under the meat.
Generally, the store will also give away a few blanched dishes, mostly cabbage, vermicelli and tofu.
After you finish eating the meat in the pot, you can add the blanched vegetables.
This kind of small hot pot is generally cheaper, but it goes especially well with rice.
Lu Yao and Chen Jing ate three bowls of rice with pork intestines and ribs covered with red oil. When they came out, they supported each other and could not straighten their backs.
Chen Jing patted Lu Yao's back with a smug smile on her face: "Is it delicious? You must be full. I'll bring you here next time."
Chen Jing was seventeen years old that year, with bright eyes without a trace of gloom.
Her life has just begun.
This year, Lu Yao's hair began to turn white, and his face was full of traces of erosion by time.
She smiled, revealing her deep and shallow wrinkles: "Jingjing, Mommy has something to tell you."
It was early autumn weather. Chen Jing had just walked out of a warm hot pot restaurant. The cold wind blew on her face and she pulled at her silk scarf.
"What's up?"
"Tutor Chen Jing, the first tutorial is over."
The cold wind bit into her bones, and Chen Jing's calm expression shattered.
The next second, the two were wrapped in silver light and returned to the cram school.
Chen Jing took a deep breath and looked up at Lu Yao, "Mom..."
Countless memories and consciousness of living with Lu Yao merged together, and over the past decade, Chen Jing's life has completely taken another track.
Now that she has woken up from the dream and thought about the terrible reality, Chen Jing burst into tears and couldn't control herself.
If, if her life could really be repeated like the tutoring, how great it would be.
She would not drop out of school, would not meet Hu's father, and would not give birth to Hu Qi...
Thinking of this, Chen Jing suddenly paused and took a deep breath.
Hu Qi, her son.
Since giving birth to him, she has not fulfilled her motherly duties.
Thinking back on the more than ten years of tutoring, she thought of everything Lu Yao had done for her.
He had been accompanying her for more than ten years, treating her as the center of his life. Wherever she went to school, Lu Yao would rent a house and work there. By the time she graduated from college and settled down, Lu Yao's black hair had turned white, his skin had become loose, and wrinkles had appeared.
Chen Jing lay on the table and cried: "I don't know how to be a mother... because no one has ever taught me."
Chen Jing was in a mixed mood. Regret and guilt were like rooted vines, spreading from her chest to her limbs, making her feel weak all over.
The memory of tutoring was too good and she didn't want to wake up.
Repeatedly torn between the two emotions of sobriety and indulgence, Chen Jing's temples began to throb and she began to have a headache.
While Lu Yao was sorting out the information, he said, "Time flies and it's hard to take back what has been spilled. Ms. Chen, you don't have to worry about Huo Jiao now. He has grown up. You should learn to think for yourself."
Raising a child is not a matter of one day or one night.
All the regrets from the past were intertwined together. Chen Jing had been confused for more than 30 years. Now it was even more like a tangled mess that she couldn't sort out.
She held her head in pain: "My mind is so confused."
Lu Yao let go of her hand and stopped disturbing her.
After four time-travel missions in one day, Lu Yao's physical strength and energy were exhausted.
She wrapped herself in a blanket, leaned back in a chair and closed her eyes to rest.
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Super Energy Research Institute.
At dinner time, Pepper and his roommate came out of the dormitory.
There is a restaurant downstairs that is specially for experimental subjects to dine in. There are quite a few windows, and all kinds of dishes are available, including salty, spicy, sweet and fresh.
Hu Jiao remembered the seafood noodles she had at her childhood cram school, so she staggered to the noodle window and ordered a bowl of seafood noodles, adding three shrimps and a fried egg.
There were not many people at the noodle stall. Huojiao paid the bill, took the receipt and waited aside for the food to be served.
Suddenly, a person came over and Huo Jiao took two steps to the side.
The man refused to give in and came closer again.
"Pepper, I'm Subject No. 52, nice to meet you." No. 52 whispered.
Hu Jiao looked puzzled and didn't say anything.
His roommate told him not to talk to the numbered experimental subjects casually.
Those with numbers are test subjects who have participated in the experiments. Most of them were tortured in the experiments and their tempers became twisted and irritable.
The smaller the number of the experimental subject, the longer it stays in the laboratory.
This young experimental subject who called himself No. 52 looked about the same age as him, but his number was in the double digits.
Pepper couldn't help but move two steps to the side.
No. 52 was amused by Huojiao's cautious look. The auntie at the stall suddenly called for the braised beef noodles and seafood noodles to be served, and the two of them came one after the other to get their meals.
Pepper walked quickly towards her roommate with the food tray, but when she got closer she found that the seat she had just sat in was already occupied.
These guys are so disloyal!
Pepper turned around and found a seat in the corner. As soon as he sat down, No. 52 sat down opposite him.
Pepper looked unhappy, but No. 52 was not angry. He slurped his noodles and said, "I also went to the Childhood Tuition Center for tuition today."
No. 52 observed Pepper's expression and continued, "The owner is an interesting person, and her abilities are very interesting."
Pepper's already frowned brows became even tighter, "What do you mean?"
No. 52 leaned in and whispered, "Let me tell you some good news. Because of you, that live broadcast made that boss completely famous. Not only the Super Power Research Institute, but also some special organizations have set their sights on her. I heard that you have tutored her many times, so you should know better than me how attractive her abilities are."
Pepper's eyes were calm, and he didn't jump up and down as angrily as No. 52 had expected.
He was a little confused: "What's wrong?"
Pepper's eyes passed over No. 52's lips, his brows knitted slightly, and he spoke calmly: "Your mouth is full of oil."
No. 52: “…”
After coming out of the restaurant, Huo Jiao went straight back to the dormitory and lay on the bed, tossing and turning, unable to fall asleep.
Because of him, Lu Yao was targeted.
It's not impossible.
Anyone who has experienced childhood tutoring will know how incredible Lu Yao’s abilities are.
Huo Hua recalled the gossip she had heard from her roommates before, that there had been experimental subjects in the research institute who could steal other people's abilities.
And what was the subject's intention in telling him this information
Pepper couldn't help thinking.
The night passed and Pepper barely slept.
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When Lu Yao woke up in the morning, he was covered with three or four blankets.
She slept on the table in the cram school room all night, and Chen Jing opposite her was still asleep.
She was so tired last night that she forgot about the maintenance and upgrade arrangements. She and Chen Jing slept in the store, so they dared not touch the system, so they could only postpone it until tonight.
Erxin was a smart girl. When she heard the noise coming from the inner room, she walked in with a cat-like step and rubbed Lu Yao's trouser leg to act coquettishly.
This is begging for food.
When Lu Yao stood up, she still felt weak in her hands and feet. She leaned on the back of the chair to relax for a while, slipped on her slippers and scooped cat food for Erxin, added some water, and returned to the cram school. Chen Jing had already woken up.
I don't know how long she cried last night. Her eyes were swollen like open mouths, her upper and lower eyelids were bulging, and her eyes were narrowed with a slight gap. She looked so pitiful.
Lu Yao went to the lounge, got some ice cubes, wrapped them in a towel, and handed them to Chen Jing: "Apply it quickly, it looks so miserable."
Chen Jing was calm: "I just cried, it's nothing, it will be fine after the swelling goes down."
After so many years of violence from her family and husband, she has long been accustomed to all kinds of physical pain.
It was just that the aftereffects of last night's tutoring were too strong, and when Chen Jing saw Lu Yao, she subconsciously thought of her as her mother, and spoke in a coquettish tone unconsciously.
Chen Jing's biological mother was like other women in the village. After getting married and having children, she went out to work with her husband. Most of the money she earned was sent back home, but she had little say at home.
She is a quiet person and doesn't dare to speak loudly in front of her mother-in-law, which is completely different from Lu Yao.
After Chen Jing applied ice, Lu Yao took out the ointment from his portable storage and applied a thin layer on her eyelids.
The ointment with a herbal scent gave my eyes a cool but non-stirring sensation, and in less than fifteen minutes, the swelling subsided.
When Xu Xiaoxiao, Bai Yi and Xie Molin came to work, there was no sign of swelling in Chen Jing's eyes.
Chen Jing looked left and right in the mirror.
"mom… "
The three shop assistants who were eating noodles looked over.
Chen Jing struggled to change her words: "... Shopkeeper, what medicine did you apply to me? It's so effective."
Lu Yao took out a small tube and handed it to her: "I made this ointment to reduce swelling. This is for you. Don't look at it anymore. Eat your noodles quickly. We have to go to the research institute later."
Chen Jing readily agreed: "Okay, Mom... Shopkeeper."
Before going to the Super Power Research Institute, Lu Yao asked Xu Xiaoxiao and Xie Molin to cooperate with Chen Jing to do a simple super power test.
The tutorial center does not have any testing equipment, so the entire test is practical.
Chen Jing can easily control the behavior of Xie Molin and Xu Xiaoxiao through words, and the maximum control time is two minutes.
Chen Jing couldn't believe it: "Mom... Shopkeeper, my superpowers have suddenly become so powerful?"
Lu Yao: "Don't you remember your tutoring goal?"
Chen Jing was stunned.
I see.
That tutoring session wasn’t all just a dream.
She had developed her abilities during the tutoring period, and they did not disappear after the tutoring ended.
Does this mean that the more than ten years I lived with Lu Yao were not just a dream
The ability test was over and Chen Jing’s tutoring ended perfectly.
She received a completion badge from the Childhood Tuition Center.
On the way to the Super Energy Research Institute, Lu Yao mentioned Huo's tutoring: "I chatted with Huo when he was a child during tutoring and asked him if he was willing to go with me. Guess what he said?"
Chen Jing couldn't imagine it.
Lu Yao imitated the tone of little Hu Qi: "'I am worried about my mother being left alone after I leave.' He said so."
Chen Jing walked forward woodenly, her heart was not touched, but tears rolled down her face and dripped onto the back of her hand, burning her heart and making her feel uneasy.
She lowered her head, looking bewildered.
Lu Yao didn't say anything else, and the two walked in silence all the way to the Super Energy Research Institute.
When the front desk heard about the purpose of the two people's visit, they made a phone call.
After a while, someone came out of the elevator and led Lu Yao and Chen Jing upstairs.
The elevator stopped on the fourth floor, and Lu Yao and Chen Jing were led into an office.
The office staff checked the various documents related to Jiao in Chen Jing's hand, including birth certificate, mother and child handbook, citizen certificate...
"There is no problem with Hu Qi's procedures. It's just that he has already signed the consent form, and he was sent to the institute because of his bad behavior. It's not easy to take him back." The staff member's tone was very businesslike.
Lu Yao: "What are the conditions? Just tell me directly."
The staff member didn't beat around the bush: "Ten million."
Chen Jing took a deep breath and couldn't control her expression at all.
This was much higher than the amount she had known in advance.
Lu Yao's expression remained unchanged.
The staff member's eyes swept over Lu Yao and said, "... Or, you can receive a full body check-up at our institute."
This is a clear statement - they are not pretending anymore.
Chen Jing swallowed and couldn't help but look at Lu Yao.
You don't need to be a test subject, and you don't even need to undergo experiments. Just having a full body check-up can save you 10 million.
In Chen Jing's opinion, any hesitation for even a second would be disrespectful to "ten million".
The shop owner should think the same as her, right
Lu Yao smiled and said, "I choose 10 million."