Chapter 4: Rain Master's Daily Pet Raising
The logistics team of the Bureau of Foreign Population Investigation mainly includes security, canteen , landscaping and cleaning.
As a member of the logistics team, Lu Ren has a good relationship with his team members.
The leader of the logistics team, Yu Shi, has recently become addicted to the cute pet channel on the Internet and suddenly has the desire to raise a pet. He sighs all day in the office and asks everyone he meets: "What do you think I should raise?"
Teacher Yu has a face like Zhang Wenqing, with the corners of his eyes slightly drooping down to form a melancholy arc, which is the most popular drooping eyes. There is also a charming teardrop mole at the corner of his eyes. He has a neat medium-length hairstyle and likes to wear white shirts. He looks like a beautiful young man who walked out of a Japanese drama.
The sight of such a young man lying on the table and sighing was unexpectedly pleasing to the eye.
Lu Ren honestly suggested: "Why not get a dog? It's very cute."
Master Yu imagined what a dog would look like in his mind: "A dog? The kind with short legs would be so cute." Then he suddenly seemed to think of something and sighed, "It's a pity that I can't do it."
Lu Ren was stunned for a moment: "What's wrong?"
The Rain Master explained with a bitter face: "Because..."
The Fairy of Flowers, who had just placed a takeout order nearby, said first, "Because he is the Rain Master, hahahahahaha."
Fairy Baihua is in charge of the greening of the unit in the logistics team. She is a strange woman, as reflected in her low sense of humor. She has a beautiful face, but she laughs at trivial things every day. She laughs without any rules, and laughs back and forth.
"Whenever he goes out it starts to rain, so he can't even take a walk, hahahahahahaha."
After hearing this, Lu Ren silently glanced at the weather outside. It was sunny. He turned on the weather forecast on his phone, which showed that it would be sunny all week. Then he looked at the Rain Master thoughtfully, and heard the voice of the Fairy of Flowers: "Hahahahaha, hiccup... just wait until you get off work and see." The Fairy of Flowers laughed without any image and hiccuped.
Lu Ren actually never had any desire to explore non-human things. This may be related to his upbringing. For a long time, he has been busy surviving and making all kinds of efforts to survive alone. He has no extra time to develop so-called hobbies and interests, and even interpersonal communication is avoided as much as possible.
In a sense, I am already a very curious person.
But when it was time to get off work, he inevitably followed Master Yu silently.
The sunset was beautiful that day. The golden sun had already set in the west, leaving a golden outline on the distant mountaintops. Layers of clouds hovered in the western sky, with red, orange and gold mixed together, as beautiful as a medieval oil painting.
There was no sign of rain at all, but despite this, the Rain Master still opened his umbrella before going out.
Lu Ren watched as the Rain Master took the first step under the eaves, and then a small rain cloud suddenly floated in from somewhere in the sky and landed steadily on his head.
A downpour came suddenly.
Lu Ren: Σ(っ°Д °;)っ
At this time, Fairy Baihua, who had just finished work, happened to walk out of the building. She patted Lu Ren on the shoulder and said, "Hahahaha, why do you have such a funny expression? Stop being stunned and hurry up."
"But it was raining and I didn't have an umbrella."
The Fairy of Flowers glanced at the Rain Master and said, "No need to bring an umbrella! Hahahahaha, if you stay three meters away from him, you won't get rained on."
Lu Ren took a closer look and saw that it was indeed the rain circle, with the Rain Master as the center, and a radius of three meters. Three meters away, birds were singing, flowers were blooming, and the warm wind was blowing.
The Fairy of Flowers explained gloatingly, "He is the one who controls rain, so naturally he has an inexplicable attraction to rain. So it's quite troublesome every time he goes out, hahahahahaha."
It seems that being a god is not easy, Lu Ren sighed silently.
Of course, the plan to raise a dog was quietly scrapped, so Yu Shi continued to sigh every day. Lu Ren thought this was not a good idea, so he suggested that he raise a cat, which would be nice to keep at home without having to walk it.
This idea was also rejected by Master Yu: "What's the point of walking at night in brocade clothes if you can't take your pet out?"
But after a long time, the Rain Master did not mention this matter again. Just when Lu Ren thought he had given up, the Rain Master and his new pet made a brilliant appearance.
It was a cloudless day, the sky was clear and blue. Lu Ren was riding his electric bike on his way to work. It was early summer, and the wind was a little warm. Suddenly, he smelled the smell of rain, and then heard the voice of the Rain Master coming from behind: "Isn't this Xiao Lu?"
Lu Ren looked back and saw a huge crab running towards him with a heavy rain, with a huge parasol on its back. Under the parasol, the Rain Master was sitting cross-legged and drinking tea. He smiled at Lu Ren and said, "Good morning, I'll go first." The crab was so huge that it just took up the rain circle of the Rain Master, which was several square meters in size. Moreover, it walked sideways with eight legs, and it didn't slip at all in the rain. It flew away at an incredibly fast speed.
Lu Ren just watched helplessly as Master Yu rode a giant crab, overtook him sideways, and ran ahead of him, then gradually went farther and farther away.
Lu Ren watched the Rain Master riding a crab disappear in front of the road and thought calmly, "This crab looks pretty plump."
After work that day, Master Yu was criticized on the radio for racing crabs in a busy city. The organization said that although a sleight of hand was used, it still had a bad impact.
The Master of Rain was so angry that he cursed in the office, asking why it was said that Taishang Laojun rode a rhino, but it was said that it was not good for him to ride a crab. He was not convinced! He was very dissatisfied!
Feng Bo, the head of the IT team next door, happened to pass by. He glanced at Yu Shi calmly and said, "If you have any objections to the criticism, do you dare to raise them directly with the director?"
The Rain Master immediately accepted the order humbly like a quail, and promised to ride slower next time.
During lunch break, Junfang came to Lu Ren to eat in the cafeteria together, and Lu Ren nodded and agreed.
Junfang talked about Master Yu's new pet with his hands dancing and excitement: "I was strolling around the unit this morning, oh no, patrolling? Then I saw Master Yu riding a crab sideways into the unit gate. The crab was this big..." He also gestured the size of the crab with his hands, looking very excited.
Lu Ren was not very interested in Yu Shi's pet, but his attention was completely attracted by the yellow talisman on Jun Fang's head that was shaking with the amplitude of his movements.
Isn't it a bit dangerous?
Junfang took another bite of the incense stick in the food bowl: "...So you say, should I also have a pet?" Then he raised his head and looked at Lu Ren. With a "pa" sound, Lu Ren slapped Junfang on the forehead, just in time to stick the yellow talisman firmly.
Junfang touched his forehead, thanked him, and then asked, "Did you listen to what I just said?"
Lu Ren said honestly: "I was distracted for a while. Do you know how many years it takes for a crab to grow that big?"
Junfang immediately acted as a science popularizer: "It takes many years for it to grow that big. That's not a crab, it's a juvenile crab."
"Big crab?"
Junfang nodded: "Yes, it is a kind of monster. An adult crab can grow as big as an island. A long time ago, someone accidentally landed on it. This one is just a newborn baby, so it is so small."
Lu Ren silently took a bite of rice and said, "It turns out it's not a crab. No wonder it's so fat. Monsters are really incredible."
Jun Fang still sighed: "But it is incredible that Master Feng would allow Master Yu to raise crabs."
This touched upon Lu Ren's blind spot in knowledge: "Why does Master Rain need Master Wind's permission to keep a pet?"
Mr. Fengbo, the boss of the IT team, usually doesn't talk much and is aloof. Every time he sees Lu Ren, he nods to greet him, but they hardly talk. He has an ascetic face, wears a suit and tie all year round, and wears gold-rimmed glasses. He is a man who says "I'm not to be messed with" from head to toe.
"Don't you know? Lord Rain Master from the logistics team and Lord Wind Master from the IT team have been roommates for more than 2,000 years. Lord Wind Master is extremely afraid of trouble, and when Big Crab grows up, he will definitely be extremely troublesome."
Lu Ren thought: "Yes, it will become an island when it grows up."
I don’t know where to raise it then.
However, before Master Yu could experience the trouble of raising giant crabs, the crabs died prematurely.
After all, the weather gets hotter every day after early summer. When Master Yu was at work, he usually left the crab in the parking space, and it got heat stroke. When he found it, it was too late to save it.
When he was off work, Lu Ren saw the Rain Master lying on the dead crab and crying. He had the attribute of heavy rain, so he had no time to hold an umbrella. A pretty boy was crying in the heavy rain, asking loudly: "Why!!" For a moment, Lu Ren thought he had accidentally entered the set of an idol drama.
The Fairy of Flowers was laughing so hard next to Lu Ren that she held her stomach and couldn't straighten her back. She almost fell to the ground.
At this moment, Feng Bo came out with a laptop. He silently observed the scene for a while, raised his gold-rimmed glasses, raised the corners of his mouth, and whispered, "I knew it would be like this."
Lu Ren, who saw the whole scene, instantly came to a conclusion that he must never offend Lord Fengbo.
Master Fengbo reached out and offered a folding fan, which should be his magic weapon, and then waved it away to blow away the rain clouds above Master Yu's head. He skillfully grabbed Master Yu's collar and took him away: "Don't embarrass yourself." He walked around the crowd and said to the "people" who were watching the fun, "You guys deal with this crab."
The "people" who had been waiting for a long time rushed forward to share the crab. Even Lu Ren was given half a crab leg by the Fairy of Flowers. Although it was only the upper part of the crab leg, it was nearly one meter long, and Lu Ren still wanted to refuse.
The Fairy of Flowers didn't care: "Take it. It's good for the health of mortals."
Unable to refuse the kind offer, Lu Ren had no choice but to tie it to the back seat of the electric bike and take it back.
In the evening, Lu Ren made crab meatballs. He took the crab meat out of the crab legs, beat the egg whites and added a little starch, kneaded them into balls, and used them to make soup. The extra egg yolks and crab meat were fried together to make a big pot of XO sauce crab meat fried rice.
It happened that Si Yuan came to visit that evening to observe the growth of the sycamore tree, so Lu Ren took the opportunity to invite him in for dinner.
Si Yuan tasted the soup and immediately understood what the ingredients were. He looked up at Lu Ren and said, "Master Yu's?"
Lu Ren understood what he was asking and nodded: "Yes, he died of heat stroke, which is a good thing for us."
Si Yuan nodded and said nothing.
But since then, the company has opened a new policy to encourage employees to keep pets.
Lu Ren: “…”
It is worth mentioning that the next day when Lu Ren went to the company with a large bowl of crab meatballs and crab meat fried rice with the extra crab meat, he was greatly welcomed, especially by Yu Shi.
He cried and shouted, "My baby!" and burped from eating. Although he firmly argued that he was out of breath from crying, he still couldn't stop the fairy of flowers from laughing loudly.
