magic eye doctor

Chapter 3803 Sending an Umbrella
The rain pattered down, and the city was shrouded in mist, as dim as dusk.

Since there was no urgent work to be done, everyone in the police station took a break and crowded at the door and windows to watch the rain.

The rain is showing signs of getting heavier.

Seeing the increasingly dense raindrops, Liu Shao's face broke into a wide smile: "Oh my, I'm so impressed by this little beauty. She said this morning that she was hoping for a gust of wind and a shower of rain, and it really came as she wished. The rain came right away."

Judging by this rain, most of those old bastards from that old bastard's family will likely be reduced to dust, and even if a few manage to escape, they'll just be a pile of mud tomorrow.

Police Officer C: "..." You're absolutely right, but please stop talking. After all, this isn't a private place.

"If you don't speak, no one will think you're mute." Yan Shao gave his childhood friend a sharp look, signaling him to tone it down and not be so casual.

"I didn't say anything inappropriate." Liu Shaocai wasn't afraid of Yan's glare. Seeing that the rain showed no signs of letting up, he took out his phone and started looking for numbers.

He didn't look through the phone book, but instead searched directly in the call log, easily finding Lao Lan's number and dialing it.

This time, Lao Lan answered the phone even faster than in the morning.

As soon as the call connected, Liu Shao cheerfully called out, "Old Lan, it's raining in Shishi, is it raining in Jiudao? Have you guys gotten home yet?"

Inside the Le family's main room, Lan San answered the phone and said who was calling. Everyone else waited with great interest, and then they received the news they wanted.

"We just got back to the little beauty's house. The little girl is still drying her hair. It's raining in Jiudao too. We were just saying we'd ask you if it's raining in Shishi tonight."

Lan San's voice was also full of pleasure: "Have you finished your work? Have you found any clues about why the Huang family's cemetery turned to ash? Did only a few of the Huang family's ancestral graves turn to ash, or did all the graves on that mountain turn into a pile of ash?"

"It's good news. All the graves of the old bastard family on that mountain have turned into a pile of ashes. It's not clear whether the graves in other places have turned into ashes. We haven't received any news yet."

Don't ask if we found any clues; only heaven and earth know. We filmed the scene this morning and even did aerial photography. Wow, the footage was simply…”

Young Master Liu was in a great mood, describing with great enthusiasm how spectacular the scene they had witnessed was.

Lan San listened patiently, cleaning wild vegetables and bamboo shoots as he listened, occasionally asking a question or two.

Ren Shaowu, the handsome young man, and the little girl listened with great interest.

Old Yan also quietly watched the show.

Liu Shaotao talked on and on for more than twenty minutes before finally ending the call, satisfied.

After much hard work, Chao Shao and Ren Shao also dried the little girl's hair and then worked together to tie it up.

After finishing his work, Sanjun put the hair dryer and bamboo mat back in their places, washed his hands, and then sat down again to continue sorting bamboo shoots and wild vegetables.

The little girl tied up her hair, washed her face, put on a pair of wooden clogs, grabbed a few umbrellas, and went to Grandpa Man's house to deliver rain gear to everyone.

The big wolfhound wanted to go with them and clung to the young lady's leg, refusing to let go.

Black Dragon acted like a child, while the little girl stuffed the umbrella into a bag, holding it in one hand and hugging the dog in the other.

The handsome guys didn't follow along; they stayed home.

The entire Zhou family gathered for a meal at the village chief's house. Since the main room of the village chief's old house was not enough to accommodate everyone, the main rooms of his two sons' houses were also used for the feast.

The banquet wasn't over yet, but some people who didn't drink or only had a little wine finished their meal first, and then sat under the eaves or in the main room talking.

The elderly were sitting in the main room and kitchen of Village Chief Zhou's house. The women had mostly finished eating and were cleaning up the bamboo shoots and wild vegetables they had picked during the ancestral worship ceremony under the eaves.

When the Zhou family women saw the little boy from the Le family carrying a large wolfhound as they approached, they greeted her with smiles and joked that the wolfhound was so big and still needed to be carried.

The big wolfhound nestled on her sister's shoulder, obedient and docile.

Yueyun responded as she walked slowly.

The women of the Zhou family waited for the little girl to walk under the eaves, then took the umbrella from her, put it away, and asked her when she got home and whether she had eaten.

Someone helped take the umbrella away. Le Yun put down the big wolfhound, and while talking, she rolled up her sleeves and washed her hands in the rain.

As soon as the big wolfhound landed, it darted from under the eaves to the main room of Zhou Dahai's house and ran to the Le family's mistress, calling for help.

Zhou Qiufeng had finished eating and was chatting with the women at the table when she saw the big wolfhound arrive. She asked in surprise, "Black Dragon, what brings you here? Did Lele come to bring you an umbrella?"

"Woof—" Black Dragon nodded happily.

"Your fur isn't wet, did Lele bring you here?" Zhou Qiufeng didn't understand canine language, but she guessed correctly from the big wolfhound's reaction.

"Woof—" Black Dragon responded happily, proudly raising his head. If he walked by himself, his fur would definitely get wet.

"You two are very lucky."

"Lele is such a thoughtful child."

The middle-aged men and women sitting in the main room were filled with envy. When the eldest son of the Le family saw that it was raining, he quickly brought an umbrella. They would not mind having a dozen sons like him.

"Lele has always been kind to me, her dad, and her brother." Zhou Qiufeng said proudly, telling people that she was going home first, and then left with Heilong.

When Le's father saw the black dragon, he told the Zhou family that he was going home and walked out first.

Zhou Ge and Ms. Li also left with their sister and brother-in-law. When they got to the door, they called out to Zhou Tianming, who was in Zhou Xiaohai's main room.

If the Le family has many umbrellas, they will go back with them. If the Le family doesn't have enough umbrellas, Zhou Tianming and his uncle will go back first, and then the umbrellas will be brought over.

Zhou Tianming and his siblings had already finished eating and cleaned up the main room. They were sitting and chatting about everything under the sun when they heard their father call them. They ran out and followed their father and Aunt Li.

Black Dragon ran fast and ran out of the main room first, then ran back to the outside of the main room of Village Chief Zhou's old house, where he clung to the young lady again.

Le Yun didn't go into Grandpa Man's main room to sit. Instead, she talked to the Zhou family elders under the eaves. When she saw her father, Aunt Feng, and Uncle Zhou arrive, she greeted them with a smile and handed the bag to her patriarch.

Zhou Qiufeng took the bag and saw several umbrellas. She and her husband each took one, and the other three were left for her elderly mother, her brother and sister-in-law, and her nephew.

Brother Zhou and Ms. Li shared one umbrella, while Grandma Zhou and Zhou Tianming each held their own.

The four members of the Zhou family, spanning three generations, stepped into the rain first.

Le's father, Zhou Qiufeng, greeted the Zhou family members and was about to leave when he was stopped and each of them was forced to take a sack.

The sack was filled with bamboo shoots and wild vegetables.

Zhou Qiufeng, Le's father, carried a bag, opened an umbrella, and set off first.

Le Yun first picked up the big dog, then took the umbrella that the Zhou family elders had opened for her, and followed her father and Aunt Feng.

The Zhou family women watched the Le family of three and the Zhou family of four walk away, then continued peeling bamboo shoots or cleaning up the debris mixed in with the wild vegetables.

Lele's father, Zhou Qiufeng, and his brother walked to the village road first, waiting for Lele to arrive before walking together.

Mr. Zhou, Ms. Li, Grandma Zhou, and Zhou Tianming did not go to Le's house; they went back to their own home first.

The Le family of three returned to the eaves of the north building, folded up their umbrellas, and set them aside to let the water drain.

The big wolfhound was put down by the young lady, and then it ran back to the main room in a flash, where it lay down to rest under the altar.

Zhou Qiufeng and Le's father carried sacks into the main room, cheerfully handing them to the handsome men. They then moved a small stool and sat down to help tidy up. The little girl wandered into the main room, wanting to lend a hand, but was stopped, as everyone was afraid she would get her clothes dirty.

Lan San and Hei Jiu took the sacks that the Le family couple had carried back and emptied the contents out.

The Zhou family is very honest. The bamboo shoots they sent to the Le family were the best-tasting bamboo shoots in the area, along with wild vegetables such as prickly ash, dandelion, and malan.

Aralia elata, scientifically known as Aralia elata, is called "aralia elata" or "aralia elata" in many places. It is also a Chinese herbal medicine, and its tender shoots are a rare and delicious wild vegetable.

The wild vegetables, called "thorn shoots," are sparsely distributed in the mountains and are relatively difficult to find. The Zhou family gave us two small bundles of wild vegetables, weighing about three pounds.

Little Lolita was familiar with the mountains. While leading the handsome guys over the mountains to find bamboo shoots, she also looked for thorny buds and harvested half a basket of them.

The handsome men gained a lot, but what the Zhou family gave was kindness and goodwill.

The handsome young men happily took out the thorny shoots and put them together with the ones they had picked.

Aralia shoots are hard to find, so naturally people are reluctant to use them to make sauerkraut and prefer to eat them fresh.

The rain kept falling, showing no sign of stopping.

The Le family, Mr. Yan, and the handsome young men were unaffected; they selected the wild vegetables and then washed them.

The cleaned wild vegetables were placed in a bamboo sieve to drain the water before being sent to the roof of the South Building and left to dry in the leisure hut.

After all the wild vegetables were washed, the water in the large pot on the stove in the storage room finally boiled.

Lan San and Hei Jiu carried two baskets of peeled bamboo shoots to the backyard, rinsed them with water to wash away any dust they might have gotten on them, and then carried them into the storage room.

Ren Shaowu was an umbrella maker, and Zhou Qiufeng also went to the storeroom to help. They put the bamboo shoots into the boiling water in batches, only cooking them briefly, and took them out as soon as the tender bamboo shoots changed color.

This step is called "closing the shoot".

After blanching the tender bamboo shoots, let them air dry until the temperature drops before tearing them apart. Larger ones can be divided into three or four pieces, while smaller ones are usually cut in half.

Ren Shaowu carried the green bamboo shoots back to the main room and, together with Yan Lao and Le Fu, tore the bamboo shoots apart.

The handsome young man, Chao Shao, didn't help for the time being. He was on the second floor watching the videos posted on the official website of Shishi City by his colleagues who went to Chongqing and the reports from reporters, following up on the itinerary of the old hero Tang Xiaoshi returning to his hometown to pay respects to his ancestors.

Tang Xiaoshi's journey back to his hometown to pay respects to his ancestors went very smoothly. The officials of Chongqing City attached great importance to it and held a grand welcoming ceremony to welcome the hero back home.

The elderly and children in the main room on the first floor worked quickly and efficiently, tearing a batch of bamboo shoots into strips before moving on to fetch freshly cut bamboo shoots to continue tearing.

The bamboo shoots, torn into strips, are neatly arranged in rows. Once a certain quantity is collected, they are cut into sections.

The wrap-up process doesn't take much time and is completed quickly.

Lan Sanhei Jiu and Zhou Qiufeng finished preparing the last batch of bamboo shoots, turned off the stove, carried the bamboo shoots back to the main room, and then tore them into strips and cut them into sections.

The next step is handled by the little girl.

The little girl put on an apron, rolled up her sleeves and tied it up, washed her hands, and then took out the seasonings from the ingredient room and mixed them in proportion.

Add seasonings, mix well, and while the bamboo shoots are still slightly warm, pack them into a jar and seal it. Let it sit for ten to fifteen days until the flavors are fully absorbed before eating.

Pickled vegetables made in this way are sometimes called "pickled mustard greens" or "side dish with rice" in some places.

Lan Sanhei Jiu and Ren Shaowu helped pack the bamboo shoots into jars, which were all glass bottles with a capacity of 5 liters.

Two baskets of bamboo shoots, plus seasonings, barely made up four jars.

After sealing the last jar, Wu Shao reached out and hugged the bottle tightly, saying, "Ren Shao and I want this jar! You can take whatever you like."

Zhou Qiufeng almost burst out laughing. Wu Shaojian had never seen anyone so protective of their food. She immediately grabbed the last bottle, even if it was just a little bit too much. It was quite a feat for a foodie to be so possessive.

The handsome young man was extremely helpless: "Wu Shao, that bottle is only slightly more than the others, at most one or two ounces more."

"Most of the money is too much." Wu Shao hugged the last bottle, determined to protect his share.

"Nobody's going to take it from you." Lan San and Hei Jiu didn't pick and choose, and took the bottle closest to them.

The handsome young man took one bottle, and the remaining bottle was the host's share.

Each person manages their own share.

Dad moved a jar of pickled vegetables from home to the back room. The temperature in the food room was too low, so it was better to store ingredients that needed to be kept fresh. Freshly pickled vegetables need to be flavorful, so it was better to put them in a slightly warmer place.

Wu Shao carried the bottle back to her room, while the handsome young man and Lan San temporarily placed their share in the back hall of the Le family's house.

By the time the bamboo shoot pickled vegetables were finished, it was past five o'clock.

Le Ba Zhou Qiufeng washes rice, cooks it, and heats up pig feed to feed the pigs, chickens, and ducks.

Whether it was Elder Yan or the young people like Ren Shao, they all unanimously raised their hands to vote on having natural mountain delicacies for dinner.

For dinner, we had two dishes: stir-fried chicken breast with wild bamboo shoots and stir-fried pork belly with tender bamboo shoots.

The chef is Le Xiaotong.

Zhou Qiufeng and her father finished eating around 3 p.m. They originally thought they didn't need to eat dinner and could have a late-night snack around 8 or 9 p.m.

As it turned out, their daughter's cooking skills were so good that the aroma kept wafting into their noses, making them drool. Unable to resist the temptation of the delicious food, the couple also sat down at the table and each showed off three large bowls of rice.

I'm full and in a good mood.

After enjoying a delicious meal and cleaning up the kitchen, the guests and hosts sat in the main room, chatting happily with the sound of the pattering rain as background music.

Soon, the Zhou family, spanning three generations and consisting of four people, returned the umbrella.

When Grandma Zhou and her family visited the Le family, it was still raining heavily. They stayed at the Le family's house until after nine o'clock before going home. The rain hadn't stopped, but it had lessened a bit.

After seeing off the Zhou family grandfather and grandson, Old Man Yan, Handsome Lan, and the others went to rest.

Elder Ant is still in seclusion, and Elder Rock doesn't sleep at night either, only closing his eyes to rest.

At night, when people and livestock are asleep, the sound of rain becomes even clearer.

The rain continued until midnight, when it gradually turned into a light drizzle, and it was still drizzling at four in the morning.

At 4:50 a.m., Meizijing Village, shrouded in a light rain, was quiet and peaceful.

In the midst of this stillness, in the Zhiwei Bookstore on the second floor of the Le family's North Building, Le Yun, who had been sitting cross-legged on the bed in meditation, quietly got up and gracefully landed.

A few breaths later, another melody appeared out of nowhere in the study.

Two little girls who look exactly alike stand facing each other, the only difference being the color of their clothes and the hair ties they wear.

Le Yun, who remained behind, quickly took off her clothes, hairband, and magical artifacts, restoring her original divine form.

Upon returning from outside, Yueyun retrieved her primordial spirit body, changed into the same outfit it wore, and then sat down for her morning meditation.