Chapter 469: Like a Person
This is a night worth celebrating.
Su Xia refined a fifth-level potion, and everything was moving in a good direction.
The happy atmosphere infected every witness present, even the woman Wu Hongyu had a faint smile on her face.
The two brothers Hong Bafu and Lan Bafu were the happiest. They had been smiling since Su Xia succeeded and were so happy that they couldn't stop grinning.
"No, we finally have so many friends here today, we can't just end it like this!" Hong Bafu suddenly suggested, "Let's have a meal together and celebrate!"
"Okay, okay! Let's have a meal! Let's eat together!" Lan Bafu touched his round belly, smiling, and was the first to speak in support.
"You just had dinner at six o'clock, and you're hungry now?" Su Xia pursed her lips and glanced at the two brothers.
"Happy!" Hong Bafu said with a smile.
"Yes, Brother Su, when people are happy, they will feel hungry, and when they are hungry, they must eat!" Lan Bafu nodded repeatedly.
"Being happy makes you hungry?"
Su Xia was speechless. This was not a normal human reaction.
To be fair, he prefers a quiet atmosphere.
But now everyone is very happy, the atmosphere is lively and harmonious, just like a family.
Su Xia didn't want to disturb them, so she turned around and asked Boss Zhao: "Boss Zhao, do you have any more food and drinks?"
"Yes! Of course!" Boss Zhao smiled. "Master Su, there is plenty of food and drink. Just say the word and I will go back and prepare it immediately!"
"Thank you very much. Please prepare a barbecue and bring some beer." Su Xia said.
"No problem, I'll go right away!"
Boss Zhao immediately turned around and walked out of the store, trotted to the restaurant across the street, and began preparing barbecue for everyone's midnight snack.
Su Xia did not give any additional instructions, so Boss Zhao understood that this meal must take into account the busy workers in the basement, and more must be prepared.
He slammed the stove hard, waking up several employees who were playing with their mobile phones in the corner of the restaurant.
"Stop playing and get busy!"
On the other side, in the pharmacy.
Su Jianshe was a smart man, so he naturally understood what Su Xia meant.
He was touched and immediately thanked Su Xia on behalf of the workers: "Master Su, thank you very much."
"You're welcome. It's my duty!" Su Xia responded with a smile. "Originally, I should have treated everyone to a meal when the shop reinforcement project was completed, but I encountered some difficulties in compiling teaching materials at that time, and I hit a dead end, so I didn't have time."
"Master Su is so polite." Su Jianshe said with emotion.
In this era, class divisions were clear, and the gap between the upper and lower classes was particularly obvious.
A pharmacist with a distinguished status like Su Xia is a true upper-class person. He is very popular even among upper-class groups and is honored wherever he goes.
Many of the workers under Su Jianshe are ordinary laborers at the bottom of society.
In the eyes of many wealthy and powerful people in the city, these workers are the representatives of poverty, dirtiness and low intelligence, and they simply disdain to associate with the workers.
This situation not only occurs in Coral City, but also in every city after the war.
Let’s not talk about anything else, just talk about the marriage of the two young people Chu Feng and Ding Xiaowen from Haima City. If it weren’t for the strong support of the city lord’s son Ding Can, given the gap in their status, they would never be able to be together in this life!
And now, a superior person like Su Xia is actually willing to treat so many workers to a meal, and has no intention of sharing the tables.
This is exactly why Su Jianshe was so emotional.
You know, the workers under him have always been regarded as "untouchables" by many powerful people in this city.
"Master Su is really dragged down by his reputation." Su Jianshe sighed and thought of a lot.
Su Xia's reputation is indeed not good now, and it is very difficult to whitewash the matter of selling out his teacher for fame and fortune.
It would have been fine if he betrayed someone else, but he chose to betray his father, a highly respected pharmacist.
"In life, one does not need to care too much. Fame is just an external thing." Su Xia said with a smile.
"Master Su is an open-minded person, which I will never be able to compare with." Su Jianshe expressed his admiration.
After a brief chat, Su Jianshe returned to the basement to supervise the progress of the project.
The two brothers Hong Bafu and Lan Bafu ran to the restaurant across the street.
Neither of them could sit still, so they worked as temporary helpers in the restaurant, handling various ingredients in an orderly manner.
More than a dozen children also followed to help. According to the usual rules, they should go to the second floor to sleep and rest, but everyone was happy today, so they made an exception.
Old aunt Wu Hongyu went to the second floor underground and stayed there alone, admiring her father's numerous collections under the dim light.
Su Xia was still in the shop, tidying up her workbench.
Shen Yu sat aside, supporting her chin with her fair little hands, and asked curiously with her eyes wide open: "Master Su, do you have any medicine that can make the skin tighter?"
"Miss Shen is naturally beautiful and has an outstanding temperament. She doesn't need any help from drugs." Su Xia said casually.
"Master Su is really good at talking." Shen Yu blushed.
"Just telling the truth." Su Xia said in a more serious tone.
"Oh, Sister Shen is blushing." Yi Mo teased. She sat on the counter, crossed her legs, and said with interest: "Sister Shen, you were so moved that you gave yourself to me before. How can you blush in front of outsiders?"
"Hmph, it was obviously you who lied to me, telling me that you had been taking care of me while I was in a coma!" Shen Yu suddenly became angry, and her pretty little face turned even redder.
Hearing this, Su Xia couldn't help but smile.
He turned his head to look at Yi Mo and asked, "Miss Yi, did you really say that?"
"Just kidding." Yi Mo blinked playfully, with a cunning light flashing in his big eyes.
"Are there any results about the subconscious world?" Su Xia suddenly remembered this and asked.
"No."
Yi Mo curled his lips, his mouth was rosy, and said: "Sister Shen thinks she is dreaming and has no idea what the subconscious world is."
Hearing this, Shen Yu immediately retorted: "Amo, of course I know about the subconscious world, but everyone's subconscious is independent. How can we enter someone else's subconscious?"
"Master Su, why don't you tell Sister Shen about the concept of the collective subconscious world?" Yi Mo looked at Su Xia.
Su Xia shook her head and said, "There's no need to argue. This kind of thing is purely idealistic and has no scientific basis. It makes no difference whether you believe it or not."
"Well, Master Su, your realm is a bit too high." Yi Mo curled his lips again.
Su Xia smiled, said nothing more, and continued to tidy up the workbench.
The faucet on the left side of the workbench was running clean water, flushing the remaining various pharmaceutical materials into the sewer.
He would alternately clean the workbench with a rag and rinse various glassware under the running water.
Refining medicine is just like cooking. The preparation work beforehand and the cleaning work are the most annoying, while the process in between is not a big deal.
In the shop, workers came and went, and began to move necessary furniture such as beds and wardrobes to the basement.
On the other side, Yi Mo and Shen Yu got together.
The two of them looked at each other for several times with expressive eyes, like thieves, carefully confirming something.
They all sat on the counter, with their four long, white, smooth legs swaying gently under the counter.
Shen Yu took out a small notebook from his pocket, took out a ballpoint pen, and cautiously glanced at Su Xia's back as she cleaned the workbench. Then he wrote on the notebook: "Amo, this Master Su feels very familiar to me. Do you feel the same way?"
"whee……"
Yi Mo gave her a bright smile with white teeth.
She took the ballpoint pen from Shen Yu and wrote on the notebook: "Yes, when I just woke up, I felt that this Master Su looked very familiar."
"Amo, could this Master Su have another identity?" Shen Yu's eyebrows moved slightly as she wrote these words.
"What do you guess?" Yi Mo smiled and did not answer directly, but threw the question back.
"I think... his back and the mask are similar." Shen Yu bit her red lips lightly and didn't beat around the bush. She directly wrote down her guess.
"Huh? Is Miss Shen familiar with the back of the mask?"
Yi Mo's pretty face was pale, with the corners of her mouth raised, revealing a meaningful smile.
She took a ballpoint pen and wrote on the notepad: "I forgot that when we rescued those people from the Old North Wind Organization last time, the president asked Sister Shen to take photos and record them. As a result... every photo Sister Shen took had a mask in it."
"No way!"
Hearing this, Shen Yu's pretty face suddenly turned red.
She seemed a little embarrassed and glared at Yi Mo, then wrote in her notebook: "It was just an accident. I didn't expect it to be such a coincidence."
"What a coincidence?"
Yi Mo smiled, her beautiful eyes sparkling, and looked at Shen Yu as she wrote, "More than 200 finished photos, each one has a mask, what a coincidence, how could there be such a coincidence in the world?"
Shen Yu's little face was like a red apple, and she felt a little nervous when she looked at her.
"Amo, let's talk business!" She hurriedly took the notebook and wrote down this sentence in panic.
"Okay, let's get down to business."
Yi Mo pinched Shen Yu's red little face and stopped teasing her.
Later, she wrote in her notebook: "I also think he is the mask. My sixth sense is very strong."
"Amo, do you also rely solely on your feelings?" Shen Yu asked hurriedly.
"Of course there is also analysis, Sister Shen, don't you know how to analyze?"
Yi Mo smiled gently, then reached out and rubbed Shen Yu's hair, making her hair messy.
Shen Yu glared at her angrily, then took out a small comb from his pocket and combed his hair.
"Amo, you are so bad!" she wrote.
"I'm only being mean to you." Yi Mo blinked gently, with a look on his face that said you know what I'm doing.
Shen Yu looked helpless, he really had no way to deal with Yi Mo.
Although they are about the same age, Yi Mo is smarter than her and seems to be able to see through everything she is thinking.
"Okay, don't be angry."
Next, Yi Mo wrote in his notebook: "The potion that wakes us up has an ingredient that needs to be extracted from fresh sea fish. Do you know this?"
"I know. I heard it from Brother Chang Yu and the others." Shen Yu nodded slightly.
"It was because the mask listened to Master Su that it went to the south to find that kind of material, which led to the recent series of events." Yi Mo wrote again.
"I know that too." Shen Yu secretly glanced at Su Xia's back again.
"But if it were you, would you listen to Master Su?" Yi Mo suddenly wrote a question.
"I?"
Shen Yu was stunned for a moment, and quickly understood what Yi Mo meant.
Yes, if it were her, would she listen to Master Su?
"Master Su doesn't have a very good reputation. The four words 'selling out his teacher for fame' are enough to nail him to the pillar of shame. If he can even sell out his own teacher, what else can't he sell out?" Yi Mo also glanced at Su Xia's back as he was tidying up the workbench.
Then, she slowly wrote on the paper: "If we only look at the rumors from the outside world, people like him would even sell out his biological parents if there is enough benefit!"
"Yes, with Mask's caution, how could he easily believe the words of such a person? Unless..."
The two looked at each other and understood each other tacitly.
Unless the relationship between the two of them is extremely good, so good that they can completely trust each other!
But both of them knew the masked man's temper. Given his character, how could he become friends with such a despicable person who sold his teacher for fame and fortune?
Or maybe, there is another hidden story behind Su Xia selling his master for fame and fortune, which is not what people imagine.
Just like this morning, after Yi Mo woke up, he quickly determined that Su Xia did not really betray his father.
But even so, he was not enough to gain the complete trust of the masked man.
Shen Yu put herself in his shoes and thought that if she were the mask, she would definitely be worried that the pharmacist would betray him.
"We all know how cautious Mask is." Yi Mo wrote on the paper, "In order to keep the previous rescue operation confidential, he didn't even tell us the details. He just asked us to wait for him at a fixed location."
"Yes, even we don't fully trust the mask." Shen Yu nodded repeatedly.
"So the identity of this Pharmacist Su could be..."
“But it still doesn’t make sense.”
Shen Yu suddenly wrote: "This Pharmacist Su is a member of the Undead Clan, and the mask is not from the Undead Clan. They should not be the same person, right?"
"Who told you that the mask didn't belong to the undead?"
Yi Mo looked at her with a smile on his face, and wrote: "The mask never revealed his true identity. He could be anyone."
"Yeah, the mask never revealed his true identity. He's really mysterious."
Looking at Su Xia's back, Shen Yu had a complicated expression.
"But...but if the masked person is an undead, then he is from another planet and is just a passer-by on our planet." Shen Yu's expression darkened and he lowered his head slightly, not knowing what he was thinking.
"Why think so much? Nothing is certain, everything is possible!"
Yi Mo touched Shen Yu's little head again, ruffled her hair, and wrote in the notebook with a smile: "Man can conquer nature. Don't say it's two planets, even if it's two universes, as long as you want it, you must fight for it!"
