I will never give in to Miss Death

"It can be seen that you have a good relationship."

Lan Jiajia didn't mind my vague words: "Nuo'er, do you know? There were several times in the morning before that I could see Xia Mo staring at her phone in the living room, and it was full of your photos."

Ok?

Is...is this true?

"And Xia Mo's painting skills are really great. One time I saw her holding a notebook and copying your photo on her phone. She is truly the best painter I have ever seen."

Well... I know Xiaomo can draw.

She has lived for hundreds and thousands of years, so it is not surprising that she can paint.

Theoretically, the art of painting is borderless, just like music. I am a novelist. If I make a living mainly from this, let alone going to another world, even if I go to another country and change the language, I may not be able to make a living.

But painting is different. Painting does not require language. Pictures and music are common all over the world, including in other worlds.

"I suggest that Xia Mo can develop in this direction."

Lan Jiajia continued, "Her painting skills are really perfect, whether it's realistic style or two-dimensional, celluloid, thick painting and other styles, better than the painters in our company when I was an editor before."

This...if Xiaomo likes it, I fully support it.

But if you want to draw now, you first need a board. The inferior ones cost a few hundred yuan, the better ones cost several thousand yuan, and sometimes even tens of thousands of yuan.

As for Xiaomo, I definitely don’t want her to use that kind of poor tablet to draw from the beginning. If possible, I would like to buy her a better tablet after I get my salary next month...

"Don't talk about us..."

Hearing this, I deliberately changed the subject: "How did Sister Lan and Elodie meet back then?"

"Me and Xiao Ai?"

Lan Jiajia was stunned: "We... just met online, while playing games."

"Sword Net Love III?"

"Yes, that game has been around for a long time, and those who still play it are veteran players."

As if my words brought back some memories, Lan Jiajia was silent for a while: "At that time, my profession was Little Yellow Chicken...ah, to put it simply, it was Cangjian. This sect had a set of yellow school uniforms at that time, the same color as a newborn chick. This profession used swords, and when fighting, they jumped up and down like a chick. It was said that people who played this profession were the type who were silly and cute, so there was a nickname called Little Yellow Chicken."

"At that time, I had just entered college. I didn't chase stars or like shopping, so I had a little gap with the girls in the dormitory. Then I thought about learning to play online games like boys. I searched the Internet and found this online game. I was still a very normal girl at the time. Looking at the professional skills, I thought... wow, Cang Jian is so handsome, a handsome man with long flowing hair holding a sword, it has the flavor of 'Cang Jian Travels the World'. Although it is a male character, I thought that I came here to play games, not to fall in love, so I didn't care too much and chose that profession."

"The first year was pretty normal. I joined a not-so-famous guild. Because I chose a male character, the people in it always treated me as a man. I didn't have much time to play games. I just did a daily routine and bought some costumes I liked. I thought I wouldn't get too deep into this game. When I was a sophomore, I finished my daily routine and was standing on the side of the road looking at the scenery. Suddenly, a husky ran over and said, "Hey, brother, do you have any money? Give me some. I'll protect you from now on."

"The official name of the Husky in the game is Tiance, because this profession can't be stopped when it goes crazy, just like a Husky on the loose, so it got this nickname. At that time, the Husky approached me, and I was drinking soda in front of the screen, and I sprayed it directly..."

As she spoke, Lan Jiajia put the cleaned chicken aside and began to marinate it with seasonings: "That's how we got to know each other, because Husky is also a male profession, Tiance, an adult male, and we both have the body shape of an adult male. He called me brother at that time, and I jokingly called him big brother... I thought he was a man, and he also thought I was a man. We played together throughout college, and even after I graduated from college, I became an editor, and he didn't quit the game. In addition, my guild was disbanded at that time, so I joined his guild and announced to the public that it was a romantic relationship."

"Love is what couples in games mean."

"You know what? Elodie is really super domineering. She's very strong in the game. She gives me the feeling of a gangster. She's also very rich and bought me a lot of fashions."

"At that time, because we were both male characters, everyone in the guild thought we were... gay, ahem, and they kept making trouble. I didn't know at the time. I thought I was a woman and he was a man, and there was nothing wrong with that. I didn't expect Elodie to think so too."

"You all know what happened next. We've been playing games together for so many years, and we just had our first voice chat last month. As a result, both Elodie and I were girls in the microphone, and the whole guild was in an uproar."

Wow……

Lan Jiajia’s story made me feel like I was watching a “romantic comedy”.

It's really rare to have a good friend who can play games with you from college to graduation, and still play games after starting work.

At least when I was an uncle, I played games with my roommates and classmates during college. However, after graduation, everyone went their separate ways. Even though the dormitory group is still there, no one talks in it anymore. Two of my roommates even cleared their QQ accounts. I don’t know if they were recycled because they hadn’t logged in for too long or they took the initiative to log out.

It is really rare to see people like Lan Jiajia and Elodie, who played together in college, still hang out together after graduation, live in the same city in real life, and still have a good relationship after meeting each other.

"Xiao Ai has an irregular schedule and is picky about food. She has been like this since college."

Putting the marinated chicken into the steamer, Lan Jiajia said in a very gentle tone: "At that time, every time she played a dungeon with me, she would say, 'I'm going to buy a bag of spicy noodles, I'm going to buy a bottle of Coke, brother, wait for me, don't eat alone...' As a result, it is still like this now. I used to oppose her working the night shift, but now it seems that exercising more at night is still good for her. It's okay for her to get enough sleep during the day when she comes back here."

"That……"

I asked tentatively, "What are Sister Lan's feelings towards Sister Elodie?"

"What? Little girl, are you trying to get some information from your sister?"

Lan Jiajia turned around alertly and threw me a handful of vegetables: "You little brat, go cut some vegetables!"

I said aggrievedly: "I'm not a child anymore! I'm an adult!"

"In my eyes, you are just a child. Look at yourself. How can you be considered an adult? Hmm?"

Lan Jiajia stretched out her hand to measure the hair on my head, then pointed at my waist and chest: "Height? Appearance? Or this... You can't tell that these are adult breasts at all?"

"Woo..."

Lan Jiajia, you are so ruthless...

"Since you bought so much, you have to eat more later. Don't be as picky as Elodie. You can only grow if you are full."

As she was talking, Lan Jiajia pointed to Zhou Xiaofei in the living room outside and said, "I saw that she only ate half of the watermelon. Is the watermelon you gave her not sweet enough?"

"No way?"

Only then did I notice the little guy in the living room. Just as Lan Jiajia said, only half of the watermelon on the coffee table was eaten, and the remaining half was neatly laid out, not a single bit missing.

If I remember correctly, when I was cutting the watermelon just now, I specifically chose the smallest slice according to my own appetite. It was impossible for me to cut too much. Zhou Xiaofei and Li Denghua just came back from school, so they should not be "full".

Although Minaminagi District is a sparsely populated suburb, the quality of the fruits here is quite good. It is May now, and watermelons are ripe and on the market. Lan Jiajia and I usually buy watermelons at nearby fruit stalls. Most of these fruit stalls have been there for several years, so it is unlikely that we can buy unripe watermelons.

So Zhou Xiaofei doesn’t eat melons because the cartoon is too attractive?

"I'll go ask."

I put the steamed chicken marinated with Orleans roast chicken powder and some ingredients into the oven, set the timer, washed my hands briefly, and left the living room.

"what happened?"

Coming to Zhou Xiaofei who was watching TV, I asked curiously, "Isn't the watermelon sweet?"

At this time, the children's channel on TV was playing the classic cartoon "Legend of the Seven Heroes of Rainbow Cat and Blue Rabbit". The plot progressed to the dialogue between Niu Xuanfeng and Daben - "I'm just playing with you. We are friends. How could I steal your wife!"

“Sweet and delicious.”

After hearing my gaze, the little guy turned his eyes back from watching TV and said, "TV is also very interesting."

"Um……"

I was even more puzzled: "Then you'd better eat it quickly. If you don't eat the watermelon in time after cutting it, it will go bad in such hot weather."

"what……"

After hearing what I said, Zhou Xiaofei hesitated for a moment: "I...I want to take it back to grandma."

Eh?

At this moment, I suddenly understood what Li Denghua's look of "I'll leave Zhou Xiaofei to you" meant.

No wonder when she saw that I bought so many things, she tried every means to push Zhou Xiaofei to my side.

It turns out that what she said before about Zhou Xiaofei's family being poor... was actually this poor.

"It's okay, you can eat here first, we have a lot in the refrigerator."

I came to my senses and quickly said, "It's okay to give you another watermelon when we get home tonight. It's frozen in the refrigerator..."

"No, no, no, I can't take my sister's things for free. Grandma told me..."

Zhou Xiaofei avoided my gaze: "As human beings... we must be down-to-earth and... we must rely on our own efforts..."

"Did your grandmother tell you that it's impolite to refuse gifts from friends?"

I smiled and said, "It's really okay. Didn't I just say that you are too reserved? Just treat me as a friend."

Watermelon is really not expensive at all in this season.

The watermelons on the market... street vendors can probably buy a big one for two or three yuan, or three for three yuan or ten yuan. Even if you go to a fixed fruit stall to buy Qilin melons, large seedless watermelons, and carefully cultivated varieties of melons, they will cost less than a dollar per pound. A melon of ten or twenty pounds will cost at most twenty yuan.

"what……"

My words made Zhou Xiaofei even more embarrassed. She looked at the uneaten watermelon on the table, seemed to hold back for a while, but finally couldn't resist the temptation and took the plate over.

Just at this moment, there was a knock on the door in the entrance hall.

"coming!"

I ran over quickly and looked through the peephole. I saw a middle-aged woman outside the door and opened it. "Excuse me, who are you?"

"Oh, I'm Elodie's mother. I just happened to be passing by here. I heard that Elodie has been living a good life recently and has made a lot of friends, so I came to visit her."

The middle-aged woman waved at me and looked towards the living room and kitchen: "Wow, it's so lively?"

"Mother Elodie?"

I was stunned and quickly took off my slippers: "Welcome, welcome!"

"My daughter said that she has a boyfriend who she started dating in college and they are still together. They met in the game. She also said that the little yellow chicken that others played was living in this room..."

The middle-aged woman who calls herself Elodie's mother put on slippers and walked into the house.

"Is that boyfriend back today?"

"..."

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No. 209 Opening the dusty photos

"So you are my Xiao Luo's boyfriend, right?"

After walking around the room, looking at me, and then at Zhou Xiaofei who was looking at us with curious eyes in the living room, the middle-aged woman who came in from outside walked towards Lan Jiajia in the kitchen and said, "Are you the...little yellow chicken?"

"Eh?"

Lan Jiajia obviously didn't hear the conversation between me and the middle-aged woman at the entrance. She had just put the chicken into the steamer and looked confused: "Little yellow chicken?"

"It seems that it should be."

The middle-aged woman crossed her arms and stared at Lan Jiajia with interest: "She looks very gentle, has a good personality, and is good at both housework and housework. This is how I describe this girl."

Lan Jiajia asked awkwardly: "Excuse me, who are you?"

I sat on the armrest of the sofa in the living room, picked up a toothpick and poked a piece of watermelon to watch the show.

"I'm Xiao Luo's mother."

The middle-aged woman walked into the kitchen without any hesitation. "I was planning to arrange a blind date for Xiao Luo in the next few months. She said she already has a boyfriend and asked me not to bother her. I was wondering which young boy was so lucky to win the heart of our Xiao Luo..."

The middle-aged woman who came in from outside was similar to most women in their forties on the street. She was wearing very ordinary clothes, but she seemed to have some understanding of the pursuits of young people. The mobile phone in her hand was the latest model that had just been released in the past few months, and the lock screen wallpaper of the mobile phone was a two-dimensional anime character - wearing a youthful and beautiful campus uniform, with long black stockings on her feet, and behind her was a campus with cherry blossoms fluttering.

Apart from that, this aunt gave me a very friendly feeling. She was not like most parents who were a little "hypocritical" and "fake polite". She asked about my well-being as soon as she entered the door, "What's your name, child?" "Have you eaten today?" "Oh, I'm XX from XX, please come more often in the future..." She chatted with me casually for a few words like an old friend and went straight to the kitchen. When talking to Lan Jiajia, she didn't treat her as an outsider. Her tone was not polite at all, and she didn't feel like she was talking to a stranger.

I suspect that Elodie learned her sharp tongue from her mother when she was an editor.

"Yes, that's the temperament. Just like Xiao Luo said, you must be the boyfriend she was talking about."

After listening to the middle-aged woman's "self-introduction", Lan Jiajia was stunned for a while. Instead, Elodie's mother at the kitchen door spoke to herself: "If that's the case, I'm relieved. Xiao Luo is a child who doesn't rest on time or eat on time. He found a girlfriend who can cook. You have to help me take good care of her."

"Eh?"

Lan Jiajia was completely confused. She, who always had the attribute of a "wife", was at a loss for the first time: "Um... this... Aunt? The boyfriend and girlfriend you just mentioned..."

"My Xiao Luo said that she had a boyfriend online. It was in the game when she was in college. What profession did she choose? Little Yellow Chicken, or Hidden Sword? It was you, right?"

The middle-aged woman walked towards Lan Jiajia and said, "I bought her laptop for her back then. It cost her more than 10,000 yuan."

"what……"

Hearing this, Lan Jiajia seemed to react a little: "Do you also know about Jianwang Love?"

"Isn't it just an online game of the Xianxia type? You can play it for a long time for thirty yuan. Let me tell you, when I was young, I played it even crazier than Xiao Luo. Don't look at me like this. When I was in Shenbin City..."

As she spoke, the middle-aged woman turned her head and looked in my direction, as if she was worried that it would have a bad influence on the two "children" Zhou Xiaofei and me. She hesitated for a moment and coughed dryly: "Have you heard of "Meteor Butterfly Sword"? It was the beginning and peak of domestic games back then. At that time, Internet cafes... where didn't have Meteor Butterfly Sword? My nickname is Shenbin City Dagger God. Shenbin City held two Meteor Butterfly Sword competitions at that time, and I won the group stage championship twice!"

"There weren't so many fancy games back then. You just picked up the equipment as soon as it landed. As long as you got the dagger for me, I could go anywhere, and have a ghost follow me..."

As soon as she talked about the game, the middle-aged woman seemed to have activated some special switch, and even her voice became several decibels higher: "As long as you have enough energy, the dagger will kill you instantly no matter how much health you have!"

These words made me, who was sitting on the sofa and had just put a watermelon in my mouth, freeze.

You tell me this is a mother in her forties?

"Swordsman Online, I've played that crappy game before, I just complete daily tasks, save money, and then get equipment, and buy new costumes when they become available. Hi, I also have an account, but it's all played by Xiao Luo. When I have nothing to do, I go online to play PK, and there are really few people who can beat me."