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Chapter 3
Xi Xi, who had delivered the things, was very upset at home.
Obviously she can leave at the door. Why should she knock on the door so much? Now that it's alright, Li Shen will definitely think she is a weird person when she sees her strange appearance.
I finally met a nice neighbor, and now think will be hated again.
In fact, her interpersonal communication has always been such failures, and she is used to it, but she still can't help but feel a little lost.
Fortunately, Li Shen seemed to be very busy for a while, leaving early and returning late every day. Xi Xi basically never met him, avoiding embarrassing scenes.
In terms of work, Little White also sent her good news.
"Xi Xi, congratulations, the Crimson Entity Book Authorization has been negotiated with the publisher. I will send the document in a while, and you should be able to receive it in two or three days!"
Crimson is one of Xi Xi's completed novels, criminal detective supernatural novels, and is very popular online.
Before she came to Wanyang City, Crimson's physical copyright was being discussed, and now it is finally settled.
This is already the fourth novel published by Xi Xi, but she still can't help but be happy.
"Oh, that's great, Little White, thank you~"
"Thank you, I'm your editor. This was originally my job. Now you can write a handwritten note. You can give it to me within half a month."
When he saw the word "Fanwai", Xi Xi's smile quickly collapsed.
Compared with the online chapters, many physical book sales will add some unit stories or extras, and Crimson is also.
If it were before, with a small fan of 10,000 to 20,000, Xi Xi could finish it in a day or two.
But for her now, this is a big problem.
It happened that he had already talked to the publisher before, and Joey could only respond with a good voice, and then turned on the computer in pain.
She was not in a state of being, and she banged and coded for a few hours, and did not write 500 words until it was dark, and she was not satisfied with the 500 words at all.
"Hey yeah~" Outside the living room, a scream of aggrieved duck was heard.
Xi Xi looked at the time and found that it was already half past ten, and Banya would usually go to the bathroom at nine o'clock, and he was probably holding back.
She turned off the computer, hurriedly put a tow rope on the duck and went downstairs.
Wanyang City is said to be a city, but in fact it is more like a big town. There are not many people in the town and it is quieter at night.
Under the moonlight, the quiet streets made Xi Xi's brain chaotic due to code words awake a little bit. She shook her head and took the duck to the square where she usually walks the dog.
The square was empty. She tied the retractable traction rope to the chair and began to lower her head to think about what had happened to her.
Whatever you write again and again is not good.
Could it be that as the two said, she is a boring person and naturally can't write good things?
Her life is barren. On the one hand, writing novels is work, and on the other hand, she loves the world and stories she describes in words.
And now, even this little love is almost gone.
The expression on Xi Xi's face unconsciously became lost.
"Crack." The chair made a small protest, and Xi Xi felt the chair under her sink significantly.
Banya would occasionally jump on the stool and begging to touch her while playing. She didn't feel surprised, except that the chair was sinking badly today.
"Banya, you should lose weight." Xi Xi said, reaching out and touching it without raising his head.
It feels warm to the touch, the skin is firm and strong, and the skin is smooth.
This... Why doesn't it feel like a dog's touch?
Xi Xi looked up suspiciously, and saw Li Shen, who had not been seen for a long time, sitting next to her, and her hand was now resting on Li Shen's strong arm.
With a bang, Xi Xi's brain exploded.
She, she actually touched someone's arm!
Red clung to her cheeks at a surprisingly fast speed. She retracted her hand in a panic and stammered an apology: "I, I didn't mean to... Yes, I'm sorry!"
Li Shen looked at Xi Xi's bewildered appearance, raised his eyebrows, and asked, "Although I look black, I still don't look like a duck?"
Li Shen's tone was relaxed, a bit like joking, but his voice was already rude, with his neat flat head and fierce eyes, Xi Xi couldn't help but tremble.
She pointed to the Banya beside her with a bit of timidity, and explained in a small voice: "It's called Banya. I just lost my mind and didn't notice anyone. I thought it was coming up."
Hearing that he was called several times, Ban Ya jumped on the stool excitedly, and he squeezed between the two of them to sit down, arching his head on the other side.
Xi Xi quietly breathed a sigh of relief as the two people were separated by a duck.
Li Shen looked at the chubby stupid dog, raised his hand and touched it twice, and asked, "You raised this?"
Xi Xi nodded: "Yes."
"Why don't you hear its voice?"
"Banya doesn't like to bark very much, usually at home either playing with toys or sleeping."
"That's it."
The Banya lover had enough affection, jumped off the chair again, and went around playing, but Li Shen still sat in the chair and didn't move.
The two lost their isolation again, and they were only 20 centimeters apart, which was a very close distance. The smell of Li Shen's body was passed down.
That is the smell of shower gel or shampoo. It is refreshing and not unpleasant.
But Xi Xi couldn't help feeling nervous again. She lowered her head, wondering why he didn't leave.
They didn't seem to be too familiar, she was so strange before, why did he sit with him?
Does he want to sit here and rest? Obviously, 50 meters ahead is the community!
Xi Xi is really not used to sitting with strangers, always feeling like a thorny back, but she doesn't have the courage to ask him why he doesn't leave, besides, this is also a public place...
Xi Xi can only try to make himself calm.
Although Xi Xi had tried very hard to make herself calm, when Li Shen tilted her head, she could still see her auricles reddened from tension and her small hands tightly held.
It looked more like a frightened little white rabbit than before, and it was still the kind that didn't dare to escape.
The two of them sat in such a strange atmosphere for more than ten minutes.
In the end, Li Shen broke the silence.
He took out his mobile phone to check the time, opened his mouth and asked, "It's already eleven o'clock. Although there are few people in Wanyang City, the law and order is normal. Go back."
After speaking, he stood up first.
Xi Xi was taken aback and looked up. Li Shen stood still on the spot, seeming to be waiting for her.
Was he afraid that he would be in danger, so he waited for him to go back together?
When Xi Xi was in a daze, Li Shen urged again: "Let's go."
"Ah... OK." Xi Xi answered, put the tow rope away, and followed him.
Li Shen is tall and has big bones. From Xi Xi's perspective, his back is very broad.
Under the moonlight, the two figures overlapped, and Xi Xi felt a sense of peace of mind inexplicably.
The two of them walked silently all the way, and when they arrived downstairs in the community, Li Shen suddenly said: "Where did you buy so much crisp?"
"Huh?" Xi Xi didn't react to what he said for a while.
"You gave me two of them last time, small ones, and they taste good."
"Egg yolk pastry." Xi Xi said with a little regret: "It was bought in Sea City, not in Wanyang City."
"Oh, forget it." After Li Shen had eaten it last time, he felt good. He suddenly remembered seeing Xi Xi, but he didn't want to eat it. He just heard that he couldn't buy it.
But the speaker has no intention of the listener.
Last time Xi Xi only gave two of them because he was worried that boys would not eat desserts and wasted. Today heard that he liked them, so he took out the box of egg yolk crisps when he went home.
The big gift box that Little White gave her contains four small boxes, and one small box contains six.
She has eaten nearly half of it recently, and only two boxes are left unopened.
She took the two unopened boxes of egg yolk pastry and wanted to send them directly, but when she walked to the door, she remembered the predicament of the last time.
Sure enough... I'd better put it by the door and leave.
There are few residents in the community, and only two of them live on the fifth floor, and the top floor on the fifth floor is the top floor, usually few people will come up, and the probability of being taken at the door is not high.
Xi Xi made up her mind and felt a lot more relaxed, but she soon felt that it was not good to put two boxes of egg yolk pastry at the door.
So she pulled out another gift bag from the bottom of the suitcase.
This was a gift from someone else on her birthday. Although it was used once, it was not damaged and looked good.
She packed the egg yolk pastry, wrote a note and put it in, and then creptly placed it at the door of 502.
Early the next morning, Li Shen hurriedly washed and opened the door, almost seeing the gift bag at the door at first glance.
Blue-pink, small.
I picked it up and saw that there were two boxes of egg yolk pastry with a small note "Thank you for sending me home (*︶*)"
The fonts are graceful, lively and lovely.
Li Shen stared at the emoji at the end, smiled to himself, folded the small note and put it back in the gift bag, took down an egg yolk pastry and ate it as he went downstairs.
Three days passed quickly, the Crimson Extraordinary still had no progress, but the contract from Little White arrived first.
Xi Xi seldom goes downstairs during the day, but today she went downstairs to get the courier. She deliberately took the board duck together so that the board duck could bend around.
After getting the express delivery, she was going to take a board duck to walk around the community. Just two steps away, a middle-aged woman walked by with a seven or eight-year-old boy.
The little boy saw that Banya's eyes were bright, and he ran forward excitedly, making faces at the Banya, and yelled, "Wow, wow."
Banya was close to people, but was timid, was immediately taken aback by the sound, and immediately hid behind Xi Xi.
Xi Xi stood in front and stopped him in a low voice: "Children, you can't treat dogs like this."
Later, the middle-aged woman followed and said indifferently: "It's not just a dog, our Xiaojie just teased it, what's the matter?"
Hearing the words, the little boy roared louder, and even started to make various kicks in the direction of Banya.
None of these actions actually touched the Banya, but even so, they scared the Banya enough.
It began to try to escape from this place, pulling the leash to run away.
Xi Xi was taken aback and hurriedly pulled on the traction rope, but it was too late, and the duck was too scared, so he pulled the collar off his head and ran away.
"Ban Ya, come here!" Xi Xi chased him up immediately, but Ban Ya ran so fast that he disappeared after a while.