Little shop of the people of the earth

Before going back to celebrate the New Year, Liu Ze and Li Zhicheng negotiated three investments. Not only did they get back the initial investment, but they also finally had a little hope that they would not need to go home to rescue soldiers.

Liu Ze packed his luggage, covered the furniture with a layer of dustproof cloth, and tried to reduce the workload of the butler robot who will come out to help take care of the house later.

The Chinese New Year is almost here. Recently, many people have come back from the village one after another, and the children are also on winter vacation.

It is a pity that there is no snow this year, and the cold wind is blowing. Although the village is more or less lively, there are still no people on the road.

Liu Ze went to the small trash and took out the New Year's goods he had prepared, and gave a copy from door to door.

He should have moved out after the next year. He has stayed here for so long and lived in a very comfortable place. Although he is not very familiar with the neighbors, the few contacts he has had are quite good.

As the Chinese New Year is approaching, everyone will be very happy to receive gifts. The festive season is approaching, so it would be nice to make everyone happy.

Anyway, these New Year's goods are all made of small waste, and there is no loss for him at all.

On the other hand, he has been too busy recently, and Liu Ze felt a little regretful that he couldn't hang the bacon here when the time came.

Small Waste pays more attention to environmental protection and cleanliness. It is a restaurant without firewood, and it can't smoke the kind of bacon that Liu Ze is familiar with.

Liu Ze finished delivering the New Year's goods, and he also got a bunch of small gifts such as sugar and nuts.

Originally, there were some old hens and a few who warmly invited him to stay for dinner, but they were all declined by Liu Ze.

After sending everything out before nine o'clock in the morning, Yanagisawa went home and put the luggage in the trunk of the car.

He left a few days ahead of the Spring Festival travel peak, and drove back quickly while the expressway was not blocked.

He didn't intend to grab the ticket. After all, there are cars that can leave early, so there is really no need to grab such a ticket from others.

Anyway, it only takes more than ten hours to drive back to my hometown. If I am tired, I can grab Liugui and come out to help me for a while.

Yanagisawa closed the trunk and started the car.

There is a great advantage of having an artificial intelligence butler robot added to the autonomous emotional module, that is, he will take care of you in every possible way.

For example, when he just drove out of the village, Liu Gui ran out of the trash and snatched Liu Ze's driving seat.

Liu Ze was sent to the co-pilot to stay there, holding a bucket of popcorn and a cup of happy water in his hand.

Liu Ze looked at Liu Gui, and just as he was about to say that he could come by himself, Liu Gui stretched out his hand and pressed the edge of his car window, and a small table board was exposed beside it.

Then the butler robot took out the computer and placed it on the small table.

Liu Ze glanced at the small table and said, "You don't comply with traffic safety regulations..."

He paused in the middle of his speech, thinking that the butler robot probably would not encounter any safety hazards when driving, so he asked instead: "When did you modify my car?"

"Liu Jia changed it before." Liu Gui betrayed Liu Jia without hesitation, "Sometimes he would write something while driving, just to make it easier to install, and he reported it to you."

Liu Ze paused, probably because he had automatically filtered it out when he was chanting the scriptures before Liu Jia.

He looked at the small table, then at the computer, put aside the Coke popcorn in his hand, closed the computer and put it on the back seat, and took out a few books from the back seat.

Liu Gui turned his head and glanced at the stack of books.

"Brokerage Construction and Business Management", "Building Materials and Structure", "Site Design Knowledge", "Analysis and Examination Guide for Architectural Scheme Design (Drawing) Test Sites for the First-Class Registered Architect Examination"...

Now Liu Ze is holding the opening in his hand, which is the test center analysis and test-taking guidance.

Liu Gui hissed softly: "Don't you want to watch some movies or something for entertainment? I loaded some alien scenery movies into the computer..."

Liu Ze let out a sigh, and looked up at him curiously: "Is there a lecture on architectural structure design? Alien."

"……Have."

"Then load it for me. I'll read it later when I have time. I still have to read these books first."

After all, he wants to try the textual research next year. Even if he can't pass it all at once next year, it's good to pass the part that he didn't pass the next year.

Thinking so, Yanagisawa took out a pen and notebook.

"You like your job very much?" Liu Gui asked.

"Huh? I still like it." Liu Ze replied, "To be precise, I like the feeling of slowly reaching the goal, that is, the sense of accomplishment that I can feel when I take every step."

Liu Gui nodded and said, "Boss, you are very suitable to live in the universe era."

Liu Ze looked at him puzzled.

"In the place where I really live, although there are many intelligent beings who have been abandoned by artificial intelligence, there are also many intelligent beings who are still relentlessly pursuing the progress of themselves and the universe. Like you, they are always thinking about how to grow. And how to improve, how to solve problems. They're all great."

Liu Ze thought for two seconds after listening, and realized that Liu Gui was praising him.

"No." Liu Ze touched his nose in embarrassment, "Actually, my ultimate goal is to return to my hometown to farm after being successful."

Hearing this, Liu Gui looked at his stack of books in surprise: "Is reading these good for farming?"

"Of course not. Going back to my hometown to farm was just my planned retirement life." Liu Ze replied, "Because I thought I could reach my goal when I was at least 50 or [-] years old, but recently I feel that the goal seems to be within reach. , I don’t know if it’s because I’m inflated.”

It is also mainly because the reason why he has been holding his breath and working hard to persist is the resort. When he thinks that if he can complete it at such a young age, then...

Liu Ze thought about it carefully, and found that he really didn't have any thoughts about the future.

He didn't expect that he would suddenly be airborne and a good friend who was awesome.

When he resigned, he still felt terrible, and his goal may have to be postponed until he is 60 years old.

Who would have known that the sudden turn of events would turn into a bright future.

"Thinking about it this way, it seems that we need to find a new target." Liu Ze muttered, flipping open the book in his hand.

Liu Gui didn't speak any more, and started the car intently.

Liu Ze put on the earphones and began to read the book and do the quizzes.

In recent years, the taste of the Spring Festival has gradually faded, especially in the cities, there are even fewer people posting Spring Festival couplets and blessings.

Liu Ze took advantage of the night to return to his hometown, and a few barks of dogs could be heard faintly in the distance.

He turned on the switch of his own house, and was not surprised to see that the house was still clean.

It was almost eleven o'clock, and the grandfather's house next door probably heard the movement outside, and the lights in the originally dark room were turned on.

Liu Ze paused, put the luggage in the room, and hurried to the next door.

The old man had just put on his padded jacket and got out of bed. The light in the house was not on, so he couldn’t see clearly at night, and he had to carry a high-wattage flashlight in his hand when the light was on.

"Grandpa, I'm back!" Liu Ze said, pushing the old man who was still a bit dazed on crutches into the room.

Although the old man's body is still healthy, and he doesn't feel tired after walking several miles of mountain roads, he is still old after all, and it's not good to stay outside for a long time in such a cold environment.

The old man called out, "Ze Yazi?"

"Hey." Liu Ze responded, helped the old man onto the bed, touched under the quilt, and found that the hot water bottle in the quilt was only warm.

Liu Ze took out the hot water bottle and found that it was still the rather primitive hot water bottle.

"Where's the electric cake I bought for you earlier?" Liu Ze asked.

"Don't do that." The old man shook his head in the quilt, "It will explode!"

Liu Ze: "...Ah."

Liu Ze didn't refute the old man's words: "Then I'll boil a pot of water."

The old man responded and watched Liu Ze stuff the hot water bottle back into the quilt, and then went to boil the water.

After boiling the water, the old man fell asleep again. Liu Ze filled the hot water bottle and stuffed it back into the bed for the old man. Then he tucked in the quilt, turned off the light, and quietly left grandpa's house.

There were mattresses and quilts that had been drying out all day in the small waste. Liu Ze moved out a set, made a bed, and fell asleep as soon as he fell down.

People in the countryside have always gone to bed early and woke up early.

When Liu Ze was awakened by the movement outside, he took out his phone and checked the time, only to find that it was only 05:30 in the morning.

Liu Ze shrank into the quilt.

He hasn't gotten up so early in 800 years.

Liu Ze turned over and tried to fall asleep again, the next second he heard the sound of his door being opened.

Grandpa has the key to his house.

Grandpa's angry voice came from outside the door: "Ze Yazi! Get up and clean!"

Knowing that he might not be able to sleep, Liu Ze yawned and slowly got up.

The Spring Festival is approaching, pay attention to a year to get rid of the old and welcome the new.

The most basic thing is... cleaning.

After finishing his breakfast, Liu Ze yawned and followed behind the enthusiastic grandpa, holding a broom and dustpan, as if thinking of something, he went to grandpa's house and looked into the kitchen.

Sure enough, the gas stove was still useless, and it was still burning firewood.

Six strips of bacon were hung on the beams of the kitchen, and their appearance had been smoked black.

"Why did you hang up so many this year?" Liu Ze asked.

Grandpa replied: "I'll take it for you when the new year begins. I heard from our team that Boss Ye invited them here. You can bring some things from home, which they usually can't eat... "

Liu Zeying nodded in agreement, followed his grandfather to the second floor and started cleaning.

When cleaning the second room, Liu Ze saw the wooden coffin placed in the room.

This coffin was prepared by my grandfather early in the morning. The coffin was usually covered with straw mats, and sundries were placed on the straw mats, but now the top was clean, and it was moved from the east wall to under the window of the south wall. Apparently it was cleaned up.

There is a saying in Liu Ze’s hometown that the soil does not move the wood. The soil refers to moving, and the wood refers to the coffin. It means that even if you move, the coffin must be put back to its original location after moving to the new house. Otherwise, bad things will happen when this coffin is buried.

Although grandpa is a teacher, he will inevitably be a little superstitious due to the influence of the general environment.

He is very particular about this. The coffin has been made for seven or eight years, and after a Feng Shui master was invited to see it, it was placed there and has never been moved.

Liu Ze frowned, poked his head out to look at his grandfather who was gesturing to put up Spring Festival couplets, and asked loudly, "Grandpa, why did you move this piece of wood?"

"Ah?" Grandpa responded, and turned to look at him, "Your Uncle Xiong came back and wanted to move out the things inside. My wooden pair was in the way, so I moved it."

Hearing this, Liu Ze looked into the room again, and after realizing that something was missing, he felt a rare burst of anger.

"They took grandma's dowry?"

The old man held the Spring Festival couplets and looked at Liu Ze, his face was full of years of wind and frost.

He whispered: "I won't be able to take half of it into the ground. I will give it to him anyway. It's the same sooner or later. It's better than him asking you to borrow money again."

"Did something happen?" Liu Ze asked bluntly.

"Hey?" Grandpa waved his hand, "What can I do, eat and drink well."

"..." Liu Ze pursed his lips tightly as he looked at the old man who turned his head to put on the Spring Festival couplets.

If others don't know, how can Liu Ze not know?

With his grandfather's violent temper, who dared to touch his coffin and the dowry of his grandmother who had already left, even his own son would have to use crutches to desperately.

Now that it's moving, something must have happened.

But Grandpa didn't want to say it.

Liu Ze finished cleaning the second floor in silence, and when the old man went to rest in the house, he found an excuse and ran to Aunt Ling's house by the river to ask if something happened.

When I went there, Aunt Ling was finishing sweeping the yard and preparing to go back to the house to cook. After hearing Liu Ze's question, she wiped her hands on the apron uncomfortably: "It's nothing serious, your grandpa... just getting old and suffering from geriatric diseases. Well, there are more, your Uncle Xiong has no money in his pocket..."

"It's Yazi Ze on the other side of the river!" A shrill female voice came from the other side, and the woman on the other side heard the voice from across the river, "Your grandpa is dying of lung cancer, don't you know?"