Ye De slowly and preciously took a sip of the cold coffee.
He waited for the little bit of cold coffee to slide into the depths of his belly, and it took several seconds before the thin energy was released into his body. It was as light as a cloud, but it did make his mind clearer.
Ye De was completely relieved. His guess was right, there was nothing wrong with drinking coffee this way.
After Lin Sanjiu introduced [Energetic Bulletproof Coffee], he had an idea: If you can get as much energy from coffee as much as you drink, and if you get as much energy as you have to pay, then why would he take it all in one breath?
Finished drinking?
After drinking it in one breath, his energy level is greatly increased, but the duration is also limited. Once the effect wears off, he will pass out and become as useless as a dead person.
Don't drugs also have "sustained release" types? If he drinks it in small sips, he will only gain a little energy from the coffee each time, and at the same time digest a little of the sequelae; this cup of coffee can last him a long time, and he will
You can do a lot of things.
At first, Ye De didn't know how much to drink and how often. So after he lay down inside the aircraft, he spent a long time and failed to reactivate the spare head because his brain was heavy and unclear. It wasn't until Lin Sanjiu entered alone.
After arriving in Fanjia City, he finally mastered the information flow and contacted her; at that time, he also figured out when and how much coffee to drink.
Although the theory is fine, in practice, there are many minor inconveniences - if the interval between two sips of coffee is too long, Ye De will fall into a drowsy state thirty years ago and see the Ninety-seven Nursery School again.
and the warm sunshine that filled his entire childhood.
It's not that he doesn't welcome it.
"... Just call me Ye Jing," he heard Ye Jing tremble and say, "I'm almost thirty, and my eldest sister still seems a little numb."
She was always like this; her mind turned quickly and her ideas came up quickly. Once when it was clearly time for dinner, she took all eight children in the nursery for an outing.
The outing location is an open space, where evolved people often train their skills and abilities; usually if there were adults who dared to hang around there and watch them train, they would have been thrown down the mountain long ago - but if it were a lazy woman taking the lead
A group of ordinary children seemed not to be much of a threat even to the evolved ones, so no one came to drive them away throughout the evening.
The children were scared and curious at first, and they all suddenly had an extra neck, stretching their heads to look at it. Most of them saw such a fast, miraculous, and powerful evolver for the first time, and they laughed for a while.
She screamed for a while, and got scolded by Ye Jing because she was too noisy.
When they gradually became familiar with each other and were no longer afraid, they began to pretend that they were also good at fighting, imitating the appearance of evolvers. They went back and forth for a long time, and each imagined a complete set of evolutionary abilities for themselves, and for whom.
Who can overcome the quarrel for a long time? Although he was hungry, Ade had a lot of fun that evening.
Later he found out that the nursery had run out of food that day.
The nursery was a "charitable project" established by the management organization of Fanjia City at that time. If someone suddenly thinks about it, they can enjoy materials that are difficult for ordinary people to enjoy: milk, vegetables, flour and various
Books on various categories. If the people in charge of them forget about the nursery - and they often forget - then Yejing will have to rack her brains to feed eight mouths by herself. If she can't feed them, she will find a way to make them forget that she is still there.
Has a mouth.
Therefore, when the whole nursery went out for outings together, studied and attended classes together, and went to work and run errands together, it was always with a layer of half-hungry food; but when Ye De thought about it now, he could not remember that uncomfortable feeling at all.
Very hungry.
"I'm not going to lie to you, changing a child's diaper is one of the required tasks for an evolved person." On another occasion, Ye Jing handed him a crying baby with a serious face and said, "If you want to be a recipient,
Respectful adults, you must first learn how to change a child's diaper."
Even Ade, who was only six years old at the time, knew she was talking nonsense. If changing diapers was a standard of respect, Ye Jing would have been shouted at by everyone.
There are many things she is not good at: such as mending clothes, washing clothes, cooking, putting children to sleep... The older children in the nursery soon help her share part of the work, and Ade has to do a lot of work.
Diapering is really not a big deal.
No child in the nursery has ever complained about too much work - not because they have high consciousness, but because it is so fun to be with Ye Jing. Mixing with her, she can learn new knowledge and listen to stories, which is in her mind
He played a lot of games and even fought, and it was said that most men suffered. A De remembered that there was a girl named Lan Tian who was several years older than him and said, "Just think of us as taking care of Ye Jing."
As the diaper was changed, the child disappeared.
"I don't want to do it anymore,"
On the afternoon when the baby could not be found, Ade accidentally saw Ye Jing talking to another man on the 95th Avenue. She became angry and her whole body turned into a living fire, even if the person opposite was an evolver.
, she was not afraid at all. "You can find whoever you want to do this job. I'd rather pump water! Didn't we agree that it's just temporary? I didn't sign up to take care of children in the first place. I signed up to be a patrol team.
, I don’t know how to take care of a child. Besides, I don’t have anything, so what should I take with me?”
"Isn't it just that a baby died?" The evolutionist opposite didn't seem to take her anger seriously, "The baby was a little sick to begin with, and no one blames you. Okay, okay, next time
Wouldn’t it be enough to give you more things? You can do a good job. Look at the other children in the nursery, aren’t they all doing well?”
Ade later realized that Ye Jing might really not like the nursery.
When other adults talked about the patrol, how they shuttled back and forth to the human gathering area in the clouds, how they took risks with the evolvers, and how they worked, the look on Ye Jing's face was like a child in a nursery listening to her
The look on his face is the same when he tells a story.
Adults always think that children don’t understand anything, but they are actually searching, observing, and remembering every detail from every corner of their words, looks, and actions, always trying to decipher the big mystery of the “adult world.”
.
"If I am soaked in the haze, I will definitely evolve," Ye Jing once said when she was drinking with her neighbors. She probably thought that all the children in the nursery were sleeping in the house. "This is not me.
Bragging, I know I have potential."
"How did you know?" asked a neighbor.
"An evolver showed it to me," Ye Jing said. "I did her a favor, and she showed it to me. She also said that if I evolve, maybe I can also develop consciousness...
Not every evolver has it."
She suppressed her pride, but faced the neighbors' teasing and joking. "It's amazing, our Yejing! Then why don't you evolve? Just go down the mountain."
"If you evolve, why don't you be teleported away?" Ye Jing muttered. "Being displaced... is not good either."
If she became an evolved person, she would definitely be happier than she is now; but she never mentioned a word to the children in the nursery that she could become an evolved person.
Ade didn't know if Ye Jing tried to change jobs later, but when he left at the age of fourteen, the bed frames in the nursery were cracked, and the cabinet that once held milk at the door was gone. Even Fan Jia
The city's management organization has changed twice; Ye Jing still lives in the nursery, welcoming new crying brothers and sisters, and sending away the boys and girls who have grown up and can work on their own.
Thinking about it later, if she wanted to be transferred away in the first place, it couldn't have been easier: she just had to ignore the children in the nursery from the beginning.
No one would punish a young, strong and healthy female labor force unduly for the sake of a child who no one knows will grow up.
In the years after Ye De left the nursery, she never joined the patrol team, nor did she evolve. Her mouth was still as unpleasant as before. The amazing thing is that a woman who spoke so unpleasantly still persuaded the two subsequent ones.
The management organization continued to allocate supplies to the nursery - but, it was only two.
"You have to choose a name, it can't always be Adelaide," Ye Jing would say to him when he went back to see her. "When you hear it, you will think you came from a nursery, and people will look down on you.
"
Ye De was embarrassed to tell her that he always used the name "Ye De" outside.
"Why are you still running a nursery?" Ye De lectured her instead. "Didn't the new Guihe refuse to fund the nursery? No one is forcing you to continue taking care of children. You can just do what you want.
It’s done.”
Ye Jing seemed to be forty-seven years old that year. Generally speaking, evolvers born in the Twelve Worlds, because they evolved early, are still as smooth and plump as ordinary people in their twenties at this age; but she looked,
It has indeed been soaked by years, work and fatigue.
"With my current physical strength, there's nothing I can do," Ye Jing was confused for a moment and said with a smile, "I don't know how to do anything else except take care of children."
Ye De took a closer look at the current situation of the nursery.
Fortunately, the Ninety-seventh Road is not close to the edge of the mountain, otherwise a wind can blow it into dust and powder. There are no supplies distributed, and no one comes to check the situation. All food, clothing, housing, transportation and education have to be
It's up to Ye Jing to think of a solution alone; but there are more and more children in the nursery, because everyone in Fanjia City knows that there is a nursery here that can take care of those they don't want to raise or those who are crying and blocking the way.
, pestering the children begging for food, and raising them one by one.
When he was young, he didn't take it seriously. After he became an adult, he realized that raising a group of children was much more than mending clothes, cooking and washing.
When Ye De left, he had already made up his mind.
Later, for four or five months, he was busy trying to get a job, so he never went back to see her. After he got the job, he kept saving the necessary supplies, and he didn't go back to see her until he had enough.
she.
By the time he returned to the crumbling and dilapidated nursery on No. 97 Road, more than a year had passed.
Ye Jing sat quietly in a broken chair, her two long legs stretched out into the sunlight, and the shabby and dirty pants were illuminated to every detail. He knew that she was enjoying the sunshine back then, but now it was because of
If you don't get some sunshine, your joints will hurt all over your body at night. A group of children ran in and out screaming and fighting. The sound was so harsh that Ye De's head almost exploded. He didn't know how Ye Jing could not hear it.
Ye De squatted down next to her legs. Her eyes were still bright and powerful, but not so black and white; she was still lazy, because she gets tired easily now.
This is the closest person he has to his mother.
Although she was reluctantly thrust into this role, she stayed in it for twenty years.
"Yehui," he said softly, and quietly took out a bottle from his backpack. When he shook it, the liquid inside made a gurgling sound. "...Do you still want to evolve? I finally got enough haze water.
