Mrs. Sid stood at the door of the nail salon and looked up at the sign - Lu Yao Nail Salon. It was indeed a strange name, but also easy to understand.
Anne was still standing in the middle of the road, so Mrs. Sid called to her sideways: "Annie, we're here."
Anne came back to her senses, still thinking about the shining fingertips. She was no longer as resentful of Mrs. Sid for forcing her to go out, and she dragged her feet to follow.
In the store, Mu Xin left, and Lu Yao thought that there would probably be no more customers, so he cleaned up the table and took out the materials he had bought in the past two days. He took out the formula for Julong's special glue from the warehouse, weighed out the corresponding materials according to the formula, and put them into folded paper bags and marked them.
Once you have gathered the other three materials, you can try to make it.
She wrote down the names of the materials that had yet to be collected on a piece of paper, and highlighted the ten pairs of level twelve monster eyeballs that needed to be purchased from the West German herbal medicine shop.
According to the grocery store owner, the other two herbs might be found in the nearby mountains, and pharmacist Lixiu might know about them. Lu Yao plans to go and ask later.
The door of the shop was pushed open from the outside. Lu Yao looked up and saw a noble lady waving a feather fan walked in. She immediately pushed the materials on the table aside and stood up to greet him: "Hello, please sit here for your manicure."
This is a somewhat scheming line of speech. Lu Yao will always greet customers with this premise regardless of whether they come for a manicure or not.
Of course, if the customer really has no intention, she will not force him.
Mrs. Sid looked around the store. The decoration was simple, the windows were clean, and the wooden cabinets on the wall were filled with many rare items she had never seen before. The two young men sitting on the sofa were not sure if they were customers or employees. This store was a little different from what she had imagined.
Anne came in, looked around, and approached Mrs. Sid. "Is this the shop you find interesting?"
It doesn't look like anything special, but the two men on the sofa are quite handsome. I wonder who they are.
Mrs. Sid nodded to Annie, then looked at Lu Yao, "Are you the owner?"
Lu Yao nodded slightly, guided the two to sit down, opened the tablet and handed it to them, taught Mrs. Sid how to use it, and said that he could not rely on the two dragons, so he stood up and poured tea.
Anne's attention was attracted by Si Jin and Harold. Harold looked like a teenager, about the same age as her. What attracted her more was Si Jin, with his blonde hair and golden eyes, and his noble dress and temperament, which could easily attract young girls.
Si Jin felt the probing gaze and looked over, his face cold, his dragon eyes slightly widened, and a bit of fierce dragon breath leaked out.
Anne felt a chill down her spine and immediately looked away.
Who is he? His aura is so scary.
She actually didn't have any thoughts, she just thought Si Jin was good-looking and couldn't help but take a few more glances at him.
Annie didn't dare to pay attention to the sofa anymore and turned to look at Lu Yao. The owner looked different from the people here, with black hair and black eyes, like a foreigner.
She is discussing the style with her mother.
When Annie lowered her eyes, she noticed the strange notebook in her mother's hand. When her fingertips gently brushed across the surface of the notebook, a new picture would appear, with a dazzling array of nail styles.
The image of the woman in the green dress she met at the door flashed before her eyes. Anne snatched the notebook from Mrs. Sid and swiped through it quickly.
Mrs. Sid looked helpless, but there was a hint of imperceptible pride in the depths of her eyes. She knew this would happen.
Annie flipped through the pages and found a pair of green and white checkered nails. Two of the fingertips were shining with an indescribable dazzling brilliance. The scene that she hadn't seen clearly on the street just now slowly filled in her mind. She looked up at Lu Yao and said, "Did you do this? Was there a lady in a green dress who had her nails painted like this?"
Lu Yao nodded and only answered the first question: "Yes, this is one of my works."
Anne sensed that she was avoiding him, so she explained, "I just ran into a lady in a green dress at the door. I was dazzled by her fingertips, but I couldn't see clearly. I was just curious, not intending to spy."
Her words were so sincere that Lu Yao felt relieved and admitted that a customer had indeed done this manicure, but he did not mention any other information about Mu Xin.
It turned out that her nails were really painted. Annie breathed a sigh of relief. Her strong curiosity was unexpectedly satisfied and she felt comfortable all over.
Lu Yao taught her how to enlarge the picture so that she could see it more clearly.
Then Annie discovered that the glittering fragments on the nails seemed to be silver crystals and brilliant crystals, not ordinary gems as she thought.
Silver Crystal and Radiant Crystal are both very precious magic gems, and are worth a fortune.
After zooming in, you can clearly see the shape and texture of the gems on the nail, as well as traces of shrinking magic. A gem the size of a single fingertip can be exchanged for several cities.
How could someone be so generous
Wearing dozens of cities on her nails anytime and anywhere, Miss Anne, who was born into an aristocratic family and lived a life of luxury, suddenly began to doubt her life.
The tablet screen was very sensitive. When Anne was in a daze, the ruffles of her sleeves passed across the screen and the picture turned to the front page.
Annie's eyes widened, her heart stopped, and she pointed at the glittering gems in the picture, stuttering, "Are these the ultimate crystals?"
Lu Yao nodded calmly.
Anne: “…”
What kind of important people are served in this store
Mrs. Sid didn't want to see her daughter's silly look, so she took back the tablet and turned to the style she liked, "Shopkeeper, I like this style. But I don't like daisies, I want to change it to roses?"
She was attracted by the oil-painted nails by Fraser, and Lu Yao said there was no problem with that at all.
As the shop owner painted her mother's nails, Anne watched with her eyes slightly widened.
The shop owner has very steady hands. He uses a soft brush tip to draw intricate and beautiful rose branches. He can also use an even finer brush to outline the golden edges on the outside of the petals. His brushstrokes are even more delicate than those of the teachers who teach the principles of magic circle construction at the Royal Academy of Magic.
After the pattern on the first finger was completed, Mrs. Sid was satisfied. The owner's aesthetics and skills were far beyond her expectations.
It was worth it that she came all the way from Onoton City just to paint this set of nails.
She could already imagine herself making a splash at the next party.
The store actually has silicone plates with rose patterns, which you can print with a stamp and put on your nails, and the results look really nice.
Because Mrs. Sid liked the texture of oil-painted nails, Lu Yao did not mention it and still chose hand painting.
In order to highlight the beauty and passion of the rose, she simply imagined Mrs. Sid's fingers as a rose garden.
The garden is full of roses in various shapes and forms, from the thumb to the little finger, young buds about to bloom, rose branches with thorny stems intertwined, roses looming in the mist, roses condensed with dew in the early morning... all ten fingers are different.
Mrs. Sid stared at her fingertips with her eyes downcast. She couldn't hide her joy and said frankly, "I like this withering rose the most. It's very special. The owner is thoughtful."
The withered rose is painted on the ring finger, the only gray design in the entire manicure.
The base oil is light gray, the withered and decaying rose branch is dark gray, and the center of the rose petals on the branch with only three petals left is golden, as if suggesting that the rose bloomed passionately and then burned out.
Lu Yao smiled and shook his head, indicating that it was nothing. He raised his hand to draw a magic circle, preparing to seal it.
Annie was originally looking at her mother's fingers, which were really beautiful. Then she noticed Lu Yao's actions and was surprised: "Are you a magician of light?"
Lu Yao nodded: "Forget it."
Anne: “…”
Why didn't the Light Magician enter the Royal Academy, but instead opened a nail-dyeing shop in such a remote town
She even had the luxury of strengthening her nails with light magic.
—This behavior is so outrageous that even if the store owner is not a student of the college, the dean of the college would cover his heart and scold her for squandering her talent.
"What style do you like? Let's get started." Lu Yao asked Annie while cleaning the table.
Anne came back to her senses and said without thinking, "I want to have the same nails as my mother, but I don't like that withered rose. I hope the owner can design a new style for me to replace it."
Lu Yao nodded, "No problem."
All nine of Anne's fingers were styled the same way as Mrs. Sid's, except for the ring finger on her right hand, which was only coated with nail polish base coat and remained blank.
She waited patiently.
Finally, Lu Yao changed the pen, adjusted the colors, and began to paint the ring finger.
At first, the colors were still gray, and Annie thought that the owner probably couldn't design a more novel style.
When she saw the shop owner added some petals that had fallen to the ground and the leaves were scattered, Anne felt even more disappointed.
After a while, Lu Yao changed to a clean pen, mixed a dark red that was two points darker than the bright red, added petals for the bare stamens, and mixed a little misty blue to draw the rain lines and deepen the background.
Annie was slightly stunned. It was different.
This is a rose that has been beaten down by the rain. But even though its branches and leaves are scattered and its petals are drooping, the rose still holds its head high and does not bend.
The most amazing thing is that the posture and color of this rose are almost the same as the withered rose on Mrs. Sid's finger.
Anne's rose endures wind and rain without bowing its head, and Mrs. Sid's rose still has embers left after blooming brilliantly.
For some reason, Anne's nose suddenly felt sore and her eyes were dry, but she held it back.
It's ridiculous to cry while getting a manicure.
Mrs. Sid's eyes looked at Lu Yao with a much softer look, filled with a restrained intimacy.
At her age, she already knows what she wants and is not afraid of withering or declining.
But Anne is different. She is still young and needs courage.
Whether intentional or unintentional, the shop owner has a keen insight.
Mrs. Sid turned her head and saw the materials piled together messily at the other end of the table. Her eyes fell on a piece of paper lying alone on the table. The corners of her lips curled up slightly, but she didn't say much.
They will have deeper interactions with the shop owner.
Mrs. Sid and Anne left the nail salon and found a hotel to rest. They decided to stay in Emerald Town for a while.
Lu Yao put the four gold coins into the drawer, and when there were no customers, he called Harold and Si Jin, saying seriously, "I think you two need some staff training."
Harold looked uninterested, his eyes had not moved away from the comic book, and it was unclear whether he had listened or not.
Si Jin was in a similar state, staring at his fingers with an infatuated look.
Lu Yao crossed his arms and said in a deep voice: "If you two don't change your current attitude, I will consider firing you. I don't need employees who don't greet customers during working hours, only read comics and are narcissistic."
The word "dismissal" was indeed a bit serious. Harold and Si Jin finally paid some attention to look at Lu Yao with puzzled expressions.
Lu Yao sighed. He hadn't originally expected them to receive customers like normal employees, but these two guys acted more bossy than the customers in the store, so this needed to be corrected.
"You are shop assistants. When customers come in, you should at least greet them and lead them in, instead of just reading comics or playing with your nails." Lu Yao said seriously, "Harold, you can't just lie down and occupy the couch. If you want to sit, sit down."
Harold stood up with a dark face, his brows squeezed into the undulating shape of mountains.
Si Jin was gloating on the side.
Lu Yao turned his head and looked over. "Si Jin has been playing with his nails and not greeting the guests. You two are the same."
Harold & Sikin: "..."
Although they didn't refute, both dragons had dark faces, looking extremely angry but trying hard to hold back their grievance.
Lu Yao wondered if he had said too much. Long was used to being free, so it was normal that he couldn't adapt to the role of a shop assistant for a while.
But she didn't ask them to be very capable, just stop lying on the sofa and ignoring the customers when they came to the store.
After reflection, Lu Yao calmed down and taught them, little by little, what a shop assistant should be like.
Harold and Si Jin nodded rapidly, which made people feel particularly uneasy.
Lu Yao spoke until her mouth was dry, and the two dragons looked at her innocently with their round eyes bulging.
"…" After playing the piano for the dragon for nearly an hour, Lu Yao completely gave up on the idea of turning the dragon into a qualified clerk, and typed into the system, "Please post a recruitment information for me."
System: [Deduct 50 points of popularity points, add 1 new employee position in the nail salon, and the recruitment advertisement has been sent out.]
Lu Yao took a look at the progress of the task. The nail salon had good profits, but the number of customers it received was far less than that of the snack bar. So far, there were less than 20 customers.
The second mission stalled.
After waiting for a long time but no customers came, Lu Yao decided to ask Lixiu about the herbs first.
The pharmacy is just a few steps away from the nail salon.
Li Zheng was packing up her tools to go up the mountain to collect herbs, and Lu Yao immediately offered to go with her.
When Lixiu heard that Lu Yao wanted to find Thorny Star Grass and Black Lotus, she was very enthusiastic and prepared to take her to pick these two herbs first.
Lu Yao returned to the nail salon and said that she was going up the mountain to collect herbs. She asked Harold and Si Jin to look after the shop. If any customers came, they should make an appointment first. She would be back in the evening.
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Lixiu often went to the forest to collect herbs and was very familiar with the nearby terrain and the distribution of herbs.
She told Lu Yao that both the thorny star grass and the black lotus grew near swamps, and one had to be careful when picking them, as one might fall into the swamp if one was not careful.
Lu Yao took note of Li Xiu's words and followed her closely.
Soon after entering the forest, Lixiu came across a large patch of thriving magic grass and had to stop to pick some.
The plant called magic grass can run away. It may grow by the water in the morning, but may run under the shade of a tree in the afternoon. It is like a dream, just like its name.
If you encounter a magic grass, it is best to pick it immediately, otherwise it will run away.
Lixiu said embarrassedly, "Illusion grass is a rare herb that improves the quality of sleeping potions. It's hard to find it by chance. I have to pick all of this. I'm sorry that I can't take you to the swamp until later."
Lu Yao squatted down to help, "It's okay, don't mind it. The two of you should hurry up, I'll go this way, you go that way, and we'll meet here after we finish picking."
Lixiu looked at her gratefully, squatted down and started mowing the grass with a grunt.
This patch of magical grass almost covered half of the hillside. Lu Yao took a small sickle and buried his head in harvesting the herbs. He gathered them into bundles and threw them into the warehouse. He walked a long way without realizing it.
When she stood up and wanted to rest, she looked up and saw a strange little thing hanging on a tree not far ahead.
Lu Yao rubbed his eyes and wondered, is that true
The thing on the opposite side seemed to have discovered her as well. It struggled violently in the net and made cute "chirp" sounds at her.
System: […It should be asking for help.]
Lu Yao supported his waist with both hands and panted slightly. "Its body should be fluid and can be deformed at will. How could it be trapped by that kind of net? Is it a trap?"
The system checked it and replied: [That is not a human trap, it is a hunting net woven by a white spirit spider, which is specially used to hunt monsters. Although it is a monster, it is too weak and not even worth being eaten. The white spirit spider may think that it would be a waste of a net if it cannot be eaten, so it deliberately left it here. ]
Lu Yao: “…”
System: [Does the shop owner want to save it? ]
The little thing in the net seemed to understand what was said. It looked at Lu Yao pitifully with its watery eyes bulging.
Lu Yao: "Will it be dangerous?"
System: [Slime is the weakest creature on this continent. There is no benefit in saving it, but there is no harm in not saving it. ]
“… Then we should save it, it’s so cute.” Lu Yao said as he stepped forward, held the bottom of the white spider web with one hand, raised the small sickle and gently cut the spider web.
The slime's body was soft, smooth and cool, just like jelly. Lu Yao couldn't help but pinch it before putting it down. "Be careful next time and don't get caught again."
The blue transparent slime collapsed on the ground, like a pool of clear spring water, making a "chirp" sound in response.
When Lu Yao heard Lixiu calling her, she walked back swinging her sickle, not noticing that the pool of blue water was quietly following her.
Lixiu picked a full basket of magic grass, and the rest ran away.
The backpack was full and there was no way to collect other herbs, so she planned to take Lu Yao to the swamp to pick some prickly star grass and black lotus, and then they could go back.
The two arrived at the edge of the swamp. Lixiu looked around the edge and only found a patch of thorny star grass, but no black lotus.
After picking a small piece of prickly star grass, Lu Yao began to look for the black lotus around the swamp, but he never found any trace of it.
Lishu: "The smell of the black lotus is very fragrant, which easily attracts monsters. I guess all the ones in this area have been eaten."
The sky gradually darkened, and the forest became unsafe, so Lu Yao prepared to give up.
Li Xiu suddenly pointed in the direction of the center of the swamp, "Lu Yao, there is a black lotus swimming over here!"
Lu Yao turned her head and saw that there was indeed a bunch of black lotuses floating in the swamp, moving towards them as if it had consciousness.
Li Xiu tightly grasped Lu Yao's hand, her voice trembling: "It might be a monster, what should I do?"
"… "
Of course it’s running!!!
Lu Yao pulled Lixiu up and ran down the mountain.
Deep in the jungle, the slime climbed out of the swamp carrying a bunch of black lotuses, but found that the human was gone. It chirped helplessly twice and slowly moved down the mountain following the remaining breath in the air.
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Lu Yao escaped from the forest with Lixiu and gave her the magic grass. When they returned to the store, they found that Harold and Si Jin were not there.
“…” She was so tired from this trip that she didn’t even have the energy to be angry. She drank two glasses of cold water and leaned back on the sofa to rest.
I don’t know how long it was before a knock on the door woke Lu Yao up.
She opened her eyes and it was already dark outside the window.
"What's wrong?" The voice was hoarse from just waking up.
System: […The slime is outside the door.]
Lu Yao: “…”
System: [It brought a bunch of black lotus. ]
The little guy is quite smart.
Lu Yao got up and opened the door. All the shops on the street were closed. It was pitch dark outside, with light leaking in from the open doors.
The pitch-black slime bulged its big watery eyes and chirped at Lu Yao twice, then nudged the black lotus on its head.
Lu Yao took the Black Lotus and made way for him. "Would you like to come in and have a drink of water?"
When she saw it in the afternoon, it was still a clear and beautiful slime. If it weren't for the system prompt, she would not be able to connect the black slime in front of her with the one in the afternoon.
In this way, she could also guess what the black lotus that could swim in the swamp was about.
The slime shook its body, and the dirt and impurities that had seeped into its body were filtered out, and it turned into a beautiful blue slime again.
A fleshy paw stretched out from its round body, pointed at the recruitment information posted on the door, and squeaked.
Lu Yao: “?”
System: [He should be applying for a job as a shop assistant.]
Lu Yao was silent for a while, and decided to give it a chance: "The trial period is seven days. I will keep you only if your performance satisfies me."
Having failed in recruiting two dragons before, Lu Yao decided to give Slime proper on-the-job training and did not return home that night.
-
Anne lay on the bed in the hotel, unable to fall asleep.
Anne only found out that she had been dumped after the news that Zelan and Helena were going to get married spread in the magic academy.
She went to confront Zelan, but was stopped by Helena Kinklay's maid, who told her that if she dared to disturb Zelan Rui, the Kinklay family would make the name Sid Levis disappear from the empire.
Anne was scared, but more than that, she felt powerless.
So what if he was ranked first in magic scores for two consecutive years? So what if he was the top ranked magician in the Capital Guild Adventure Team
In the face of absolute power, she is still small and powerless.
The surname Jinkeli represents the most glorious glory of the empire's high nobility.
More than a hundred years ago, a dragon-riding warrior appeared in the small noble family of Kinclay. He drove a giant dragon to save the eldest prince on the battlefield and became the most sought-after high-ranking noble in the empire.
Today, the legendary dragon-riding warrior has passed away for a long time, but the power and authority of the Jinkley family has not diminished.
Anne returned to her home in Onoton like a stray dog. In fact, it was not that she took the initiative to ask for leave, but Helena did not allow her to appear in the Royal Academy of Magic again, otherwise the entire Sid Levis family would suffer.
Anne had already accepted her fate. She absolutely could not afford to lose her mother, even if it cost her her entire life.
Anne's eyes were fixed on the rose on her nails that was tattered by the rain. Could she really never go back
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When Lu Yao was not in the store, Harold and Si Jin felt extremely bored, so they sneaked out to play for a while.
When I came back, the coordinates of the teleportation scroll were written incorrectly, and I was teleported to the central desert.
They remembered that Lu Yao was looking for the eyeballs of a level 12 red scorpion, so they got a full bag of them. It took them a day and a night to get back to Emerald Town.
Harold pushed open the door of the nail salon carrying a bag of fresh red scorpion eyeballs. There were customers in the shop, and Lu Yao was busy. He looked up at them and continued to work.
A blue slime carefully moved over and said in a soft and cute voice: "Hello, please sit here for your manicure."
Harold & Sikin: "..."