It didn't take long for the sky to get brighter, and it was only September, and the daylight hours were still long.
Early-rising pedestrians and vehicles began to come and go on the street, and Binhai City was waking up from a dream like a sleeping monster.
Having not slept all night, Zhang Zian wanted to take a nap for a while, but considering that today is Mid-Autumn Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival means a holiday, and a holiday means business, he decided to try his best to resist it, at worst, go to bed early at night.
Yawning, he pulled up the shutter door, just in time for the shop assistants to come to work.
"Master, what's the matter with your two panda eyes? Did you suffer from insomnia last night?" Wang Gan said bluntly.
Li Kun poked him with his elbow, which means you are talking nonsense
"Master, the mooncakes we make at home have more fillings than those sold outside, and they are safe and hygienic. Let me bring you a taste." Li Kun changed the subject, and handed Zhang Zian the eight pieces of mooncakes wrapped in oil paper.
"Moon cakes, it's time for breakfast, let's eat together." Zhang Zian called Lu Yiyun and Jiang Feifei to come over and eat moon cakes.
However, the two girls don't like to eat this kind of too sweet and greasy food. They are afraid of gaining weight, so they share a piece and stop eating.
After tossing all night without eating, Zhang Zian ate three or four yuan by himself.
"Good morning, store manager brother! Wow! What is this?" Little Celery skipped into the store without a schoolbag today, and saw the mechanical rabbit with the clockwork on its back at a glance.
Yaoyao did not move at all, like a cold and lifeless object.
"Haha! Isn't this the Mid-Autumn Festival? I stole it from Chang'e." Zhang Zian said seriously, "Turn the spring on the back, and it will move."
Everyone laughed, of course no one would believe it, not even Little Celery.
Little Celery tried to twist the bow-shaped golden clockwork according to her words, and the clockwork made a crisp and clear winding sound, just like the pure sound of the most high-end Swiss mechanical watch winding.
"La la la~ hello! I'm Yaoyao~" Clockwork Rabbit moved, stood on its hind legs, raised one front foot, and waved its long ears back and forth to greet Little Celery.
Little Celery could not close her mouth from ear to ear in surprise, "Wow! That's amazing! It can talk!"
Yao Yao: "La la la~ If you want to talk to me, just call 'Yao Yao'~"
"Fuck? Awesome, Master, where did you buy this robotic rabbit? I also want to buy one for my little niece." Wang Gan said enviously.
Li Kun promptly poured cold water on him, "Come on, this rabbit is not cheap at first glance, you definitely can't afford it."
"Then you lend me your lucky money?"
"roll!"
Everyone thinks that Yaoyao is similar to the kind of smart speakers that are popular now. It is connected to the Internet in real time and will conduct simple conversations with people according to the built-in language logic.
Yaoyao also acted like this, only responding when someone started talking with "Yaoyao", and sometimes acted awkwardly on purpose to get the meaning of what others said wrong.
Not to mention Little Celery, even Lu Yiyun and Jiang Feifei squatted beside it, teasing it with great interest.
Bang!
There was a faint sound of something falling upstairs.
Wang Qian and Li Kun were taken aback, "Master, are there guests upstairs or are there thieves?"
"No, where did the thief come from in broad daylight? A cat ran up just now, I'll go and see."
Zhang Zian made a few perfunctory remarks, returned to the second floor, followed the sound into the kitchen, and saw the wine monkey coweringly hiding in the corner, and Richard standing on its head in a high-spirited manner.
Richard: "Quack! This guy is addicted to alcohol, and he even wanted to drink cooking wine secretly, but he was stopped in time by my uncle!"
Zhang Zian doesn't quite believe Richard's one-sided remarks. Maybe it deliberately lured the wine monkey to drink the cooking wine, and then stood up to stop it. Addiction is indeed a problem, so I can only let him quit drinking slowly.
There are not many opportunities for monkeys to appear as human pets in history. Zhang Zian can't think of any monkey that is famous for drinking. In addition, this wine monkey only drinks and does not need to eat. This proves that it is a fantasy spirit. Drinking Its attributes, not its survival needs.
Speaking of fantasy elves, Zhang Zian thought of an interesting theory called "Drunk Monkey Hypothesis".
Why do humans like to drink alcohol? And why is the human body able to withstand and break down alcohol
Most animals in nature will instinctively avoid eating ripe fruits, because they contain more alcohol, which will cause slow response and drowsiness after eating too much, and increase the chance of being predated by natural enemies, which is not conducive to survival. Then why do humans And the monkey is so fond of drinking
Scientists believe that this is caused by some kind of genetic mutation. Ancient humans with a mutant gene capable of decomposing alcohol can survive in cold winters and glacial periods by eating fermented wild fruits, while other ancient humans without this mutant gene can survive. It was eliminated in evolution, and the result is that modern humans generally have genes that can decompose alcohol, and they have a high tolerance to alcohol, so they won't get drunk and be eaten by wild beasts just because they take a sip of wine.
A theory is just a theory, how to verify it? Human beings have been highly evolved, and it is not feasible to verify from human beings, so scientists turned their attention to the close relatives of human beings and put forward the drunk monkey hypothesis.
Is there any connection between this wine monkey and the drunk monkey hypothesis? Only time will tell him the answer.
The busy day passed quickly, and several acquaintances also sent mooncakes, especially the mooncakes sent by Xiaoxue, which were so high-end that he was reluctant to eat them, and he was also reluctant to give them to others in return. He really wanted to take them out secretly sell...
He closed the business early to let the clerks go home for a reunion. Even if the clerks are not in the local area, they may want to call home to say hello.
"Master Zhang, happy Mid-Autumn Festival!" Uncle Li handed him the foam incubator, "Why do you eat so much barbecue without eating moon cakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival?"
"I can't help it, I just like to eat meat." Zhang Zian said with a smile, "Happy Mid-Autumn Festival, please also say hello to auntie for me."
After Uncle Li left, he pulled down the shutter door and locked it, then went up to the rooftop through the second floor with the foam incubator in his arms.
There are tables, chairs, moisture-proof mats and picnic cloths on the roof. There is a vase on the table with freshly picked sweet-scented osmanthus flowers inserted in it. The elves each choose their favorite places to sit.
On the dinner plate were melons and fruits and moon cakes brought by others, together with the barbecue brought by Zhang Zian, as well as tea, milk and drinks, it was enough for everyone to feast on.
As for the wine monkey, he bought it a can of beer. After all, it was a holiday, and it was impossible to quit drinking immediately.
After opening the tab, the wine monkey smelled very low. It looked disgusting at first, but after taking a sip, it was like discovering a new world.
A figure of a rabbit rising and falling fell on the roof, carrying a faint medicinal fragrance.
Old Tea is carrying a soft cloth bag, which is full of various herbs it has collected in the countryside.
"Master Cha, you don't need to be in a hurry even if you gather medicine, and now there is a headache, western medicine is more convenient." Zhang Zian persuaded tactfully.
Lao Cha took off the soft cloth bag, breathed evenly, and said with a smile: "It's okay, during the trip to the Wuyin Teahouse last month, the old man's complexion was not good. Western medicine is not as effective as traditional Chinese medicine in this respect.”
Unlike many old people who get older and more stubborn, Old Tea has a strong ability to accept new things. While sticking to Chinese medicine, it does not reject Western medicine.
It handed the soft cloth bag to Yaoyao, "Then I will trouble you little friend, and I will trouble you, Zi'an, to deliver the medicine after little friend is ready."
Zhang Zian didn't know much about it. His sister might not take the medicine sent by a man he didn't know very well. How did he say that? There is nothing to show courteousness to, if it is adultery, it is to lick the dog.
He had no choice but to bite the bullet and agree first.
Yaoyao picked up the soft cloth bag bouncingly, "La la la ~ leave it to me ~ but I need a bowl and a pounding mallet ~"
"Bowls are everywhere. What is a medicine pounding mallet? Can I buy it in a Chinese medicine store?" Zhang Zian asked.
Yao Yao shook her long ears, "La la la~ That's the medicine pounding mallet~"
What it looked at was the jade medicine bottle inlaid with gold threads.
The shape of the jade medicine bottle is somewhat like a gourd, with a wide bottom, a narrow middle, and a slightly wider top. If the medicine is held in the middle with two front feet, it really seems to be very suitable for pounding medicine.
Now that everyone is here, it's time to get down to business.
Zhang Zian picked up the jade medicine bottle, unscrewed the bottle cap, and poured several pills into his palm. A strange medicinal fragrance permeated the roof. Even if he just smelled it, he felt his body was light, and he was about to lift off the ground. If you eat it, you might fly to the moon palace like Chang'e.
He didn't want to be a cat-faced old man, walking threesome with Wu Gang and Chang'e in Guanghan ruins.
As for whether taking this medicine can really make elves immortal, we can only wait for time to verify it. In this regard, he believes that the game has the ability to do it.
He distributed the pills to Fina, Laocha, Feimas, Richard, Fala, Xiaobai, these real elves in history, one pill for each elf, and the navigation elf said that one pill is enough.
That's right, Xiaobai was also there, and it fought with Vladimir for another day, and was invited by Zhang Zian to spend the Mid-Autumn Festival with him in the evening.
He shook the medicine bottle, and there seemed to be some left in it.
The elves swallowed the pills with excitement and anxiety.
They don't fear death, but who wouldn't want to live longer? After all, a good life has just begun, and the future can be expected.
"Come on, cheers!"
Zhang Zian raised his cup and replaced wine with tea.
"cheers!"
"Meow~"
"quack!"
"Squeak!"
"Meow meow meow!"
"Hic!"
"La la la ~"
A white arm like a jade lotus root protruded from the bathroom window, and he tried his best to raise his wine glass upwards, "Wait a minute, don't forget me, a beautiful girl again!"
Zhang Zian walked to the rooftop and clinked wine glasses with her, then she retracted her arms and continued the live broadcast.
There is another one, who probably can only drink in tonight's dream.
The moon is in the middle of the sky.
Today's moon is really round.
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This is the end of the series of "Toad Palace Folding Laurels", I hope you will still like it.
As for the other episodes... To be honest, I only conceived this series, other episodes may have a single article, but a series of episodes needs inspiration, and I don't want to make up the number with a festival challenge.
In addition, at the same time as this chapter was released, [@风玄动画免费]has already posted this congratulatory picture on Weibo, and book lovers who want to draw prizes for physical books can repost it.
Thanks to the painters and editors for working overtime for several days, it was very hard work.
Finally, the starting point book review area also released a book donation event at the same time. It is also a gift of physical books. Book friends with disciples and above fan values can play. The specific rules have been written in "End Big Easter Eggs!" "In the post.
I wish everyone good luck, and by the way, I wish you a happy Mid-Autumn Festival in advance and a full moon.