I will never give in to Miss Death

"What did I tell you before? You are weak, so you should pay more attention to rest. You just stayed in the hospital for a few days, and your stomach hasn't recovered yet, but you still want to torture yourself. Have you forgotten the promise you made to everyone before?"

In the room, Li Chen's tone was like he was scolding an ignorant child: "Why are you meddling with those workers? They were sent by Tongmeng.com and were paid. I guess their hourly wage is higher than ours. You won't get any income by working for them!"

"Who said no!"

Ouyang Xue had an unconvinced expression: "I saw that they were working too slowly, and thought they might not be able to finish the work, so I helped to move some things. If they didn't do a good job last night, and there was a problem on the basement floor today, wouldn't our reputation be ruined if the customers were not satisfied?"

"So what if it's smashed? Even if you're the store manager, you're still working for the capitalists at Tongmeng.com!"

Li Chen frowned: "Even if you make this place bigger and more famous, what's the point? We don't have any shares! You are just the acting store manager!"

“Work requires a work attitude!”

Although Ouyang Xue said this, she still avoided Li Chen's gaze a little, as if she felt a little guilty: "I... I'm just used to it."

"..."

Li Chen was silent for a moment: "Can't you... stand cats?"

"what?"

Ouyang Xue was a little flustered: "What are you talking about? I...I can't stand cats at all. I like cats very much."

"I seem to understand Su Yunjin's approach."

Li Chen scooped up a spoonful of medicine with a spoon: "Stop talking, drink it."

Can't stand cats?

When I heard this at the door, I was stunned for several seconds before I reacted.

Yes, Ouyang Xue did have a cat during the time when she was an idol.

But later on, it seemed that I was not serious about my work and was unwilling to "adjust", so my bonus that month was a little less or something, and my cat happened to be sick, and I had no money to treat it, so I could only watch the kitten die...

Another thing is that during that period, Ouyang Xue's only relative became seriously ill, but Ouyang Xue did not have enough money to treat him, so she could only give him conservative treatment. In the end, that relative also passed away.

These incidents caused serious psychological trauma to Ouyang Xue. It is estimated that this is how she developed the habit of "being meticulous in her work".

Well...actually I can understand Ouyang Xue.

After all, I had similar experiences before.

Although it cannot be considered my fault, the dead cannot be brought back to life. If one day I don’t take my work seriously and end up having no money to treat my best friend, leading to her death, I will carry the psychological trauma for most of my life.

Work must be done to the best of one's ability, any project must be completed on the same day, and there must be enough money at home... If I don't do this, I will feel insecure and anxious, and in serious cases I will suffer from insomnia and neurasthenia... So I would rather deal with everything at work under pressure or physical fatigue, just to feel at ease.

The Cat Café, as the name suggests, is a cafe with many cats. As someone who watched her own pet cat pass away, Ouyang Xue finds it impossible to relax when she sees so many cute little creatures here every day.

Maybe... Every time Ouyang Xue sees these cats in the coffee shop, she will think of the past, of the kitten that had no money to see a doctor and could only be buried with her own hands...

Yeah, I should have thought of that earlier.

Standing at the door, I cast a sympathetic look at Ouyang Xue who was drinking medicine.

Most people will only keep one companion pet in their lifetime, such as a cat or a dog, especially those who have kept cats and dogs for more than seven or eight years. One day, they may send away the cat or dog that has been with them for more than ten years and never get a new one. In a sense, this situation is the "lifespan theory" that often appears in anime.

Watching your pet getting older and older, and slowly becoming unable to function after just a decade or so, while you still have decades to live, isn't this a kind of longevity theory?

If that’s the case…does Xiaomo also see the former “hero” in the same way?

I turned and glanced cautiously at someone outside.

Yin Xiamo, who was rubbing the screen of her mobile phone outside, just raised her head slightly to look at me, and then continued to play with her mobile phone.

"I'll go to the hospital with you later. Once your fever is gone, rest for a day and come back."

While feeding Ouyang Xue the medicine, Li Chen said in a very calm voice: "You are on your period today, don't get tired and catch a cold."

Ouyang Xue raised her head: "How do you know my menstrual period?"

"..."

Li Chen was silent for a moment: "Do you still remember the day we first met?"

Ouyang Xue glanced at me and said, "There are children here."

"Okay, okay, then I won't say anything. Anyway, I'm going to say this today. Take the medicine, go to the hospital, and then go back to rest. Nuoer and I will take care of this."

Li Chen continued to feed the medicine: "Su Yunjin is going to transfer you away anyway, and this place will have nothing to do with you by then."

"I believe Nuoer won't be so heartless."

Ouyang Xue looked at me at the door and said, "Right, Nuo'er? If we want to come over to play in the future, is that okay?"

"That's definitely fine."

I smiled and gave Li Chen a look: "Brother Li Chen, can I borrow Sister Ouyang for a while?"

"Ah."

Li Chen put down his bowl and chopsticks: "Make sure she finishes this."

"it is good."

After watching Li Chen leave the lounge and closing the door, I walked over to Ouyang Xue with the box of dragon milk in my hand: "Sister Ouyang, I just went home and brought something here. Can you guess what it is?"

The sun was shining brightly outside, and the originally frozen milk had almost warmed up during the walk. Just now, while Li Chen and Ouyang Xue were talking, I quietly warmed up the milk in my hand behind them, so this cup of "Philo Dragon King Milk" would definitely not be a problem for Ouyang Xue at this moment.

"Milk bar."

Ouyang Xue looked at me as if I were a stupid cat. "Locally produced? It should be fresh milk."

Fresh milk is different from pure milk. Fresh milk generally has a time limit on delivery and a short shelf life, but it can retain the nutrients in the milk very well. If you are not very busy at work and have requirements for the quality and nutrition of milk, many people now recommend that children drink fresh milk. You can install a milk box at the door and then order one from a famous local milk company. One bottle a day is good for health and longevity, which is much better than pure milk with a shelf life of five or six months.

"wrong answer!"

I took the remaining medicine from the table and said, "Sister Ouyang, drink this first and I'll tell you later."

"It's so mysterious."

As if dealing with a child, Ouyang Xue picked up the medicine on the table and drank it all: "Okay, tell me, if it's not milk, what is it?"

"It's dragon milk!"

I placed the milk box in front of Ouyang Xue: "The milk from the giant dragon from another world... oh no, the milk from the Dark Dragon King is the soft gold from another world. Drinking it can greatly improve the physical condition of ordinary people, especially for some minor diseases and disasters, it has a great effect on eliminating them."

"Puch..."

After hearing what I said, Ouyang Xue laughed out loud, took the milk box and looked at it: "It fits your temperament very well, Nuo'er, like a little kitten, occasionally a little immature."

"This isn't Chuuni!"

I propped my hands on the glass tabletop. "This is something Xiaomo and I begged for a long time to get. It really can prolong your life and improve your physical condition. Why don't you try drinking it?"

I know the effects of black dragon milk. Even with a "perfect body" like me, I can clearly feel that my energy seems to be replenished all of a sudden after drinking dragon milk every day. I feel energetic and full of vitality. I guess the effect would be even stronger if an ordinary person like Ouyang Xue drank it. Yin Xiamo also said that this thing has a very strong effect on ordinary people.

Ouyang Xue herself is a very capable and sensitive woman. She will definitely know the "authenticity" of this thing after drinking it. Under this premise, the efficacy of Black Dragon Milk cannot be concealed, so it is better to tell the whole story directly.

Ouyang Xue is very smart. After spending these days with us, I know that even if she knows the effect of this dragon milk, she will have doubts like "Are Nuoer and Xiaomo really from another world?" But she will definitely not talk about it everywhere, nor will she come to us directly to ask "Is Xiaomo really a demon from another world?"

Anyway, I know Ouyang Xue's character, whether it's from the little things she does with everyone in her daily life or the "negotiations with the capitalists in order to prevent them from controlling the coffee shop" mentioned just now, in my heart, Ouyang Xue can be classified as a close friend.

Although she is our boss on paper, this big sister...really treats everyone in the cafe and the cats in the store as her own family.

To put it in a more masculine way, treat us as brothers.

Even if we take a step back and say that Ouyang Xue has a low EQ, she suspected that this was really something from another world and came to ask me what was going on. I could still play dumb - eh? Did that really work? Actually, I was just being a middle school student that day. That box of milk was given to me by a friend, and I've been drinking it recently. If Sister Ouyang likes it, you can order it!

"You only refuted Chuunibyou and not Kitty?"

Ouyang Xue took the dragon milk box with a bit of amusement, took a look at the liquid inside, and drank it all in one gulp in front of me with great trust. Then she put the box on the table, with a puzzled look on her face: "Huh? What kind of milk is this? It's really delicious. This is the first time I've tasted something like this..."

"Not a kitten either!"

Seeing Ouyang Xue finish her milk, I took the box and said, "Then I won't disturb Sister Ouyang and Brother Li Chen from spending time together. Have a good rest!"

As I said that, I opened the door and said to Li Chen outside: "Okay."

Li Chen glanced inside the house: "She has finished all the medicine, right?"

"I'm sure I'll be fine after I finish drinking it."

I pulled Xiaomo, who was playing with her phone, over and said, "I'm going to take a rest first!"

"Oh, thank you Nuoer, I'll treat you guys to dinner some other day..."

"No need to eat..."

Walking out of the lounge, I saw Xiaomo still playing with her phone. I subconsciously leaned over and asked, "What are you looking at?"

"Look at the comments under our Tongmeng.com account."

"Did anyone praise me?"

I became even more curious: "Who praised me more or Xiaomo more?"

I don’t know when it started, but Xiaomo and I have always liked this weird kind of “comparison”.

For example, after we uploaded a group photo on the social media in the morning, we would lie on the bed together at night, turn off all the lights, and put our two little heads together to read the comments under the account.

If someone praises me, I will proudly show off to Xiaomo. If someone criticizes me, we will play around with each other for a while, then turn off the phone screens, hug each other and fall asleep peacefully.

Occasionally, when Tong Meng's account didn't have any updates and there weren't many comments, we would read everyone's comments under the yuri novel together, because that book was basically written by me based on my daily interactions with Xiao Mo. As the number of words in the book increased, more and more people read it, and the comments were often all kinds of strange. Almost every time I encountered a negative comment, Xiao Mo would gently tap my head -

[Look, readers have said that this chapter is too poorly written]

[This reader gave you a reward of 100 yuan, but you forgot to reply to him]

[Am I such a lack of dignity in Nuoer's eyes? Remember to make the heroine more queen-like in the next chapter]

Sometimes I would get really angry and pick up a pillow and throw it at Xiaomo: "Daily...daily novels, how can that be called water!"

"How dare you talk back."

Then Xiaomo also picked up a pillow and threw it at him: "Kitty, it looks like there's going to be a river of water today."

In the end, we were all sweaty and had no choice but to wash the sheets.

"Recently, Nuoer has more and more fans on the Internet."

At my signal, Yin Xiamo clicked on a video titled "The Real Elves at the Comic Exhibition Stun the Audience": "Many people left comments after watching those videos, and there were quite a few malicious comments. I was wondering if I should…"

"It's malicious, so be it! Just don't look at it!"

I quickly interrupted the girl in front of me and took out the flyer printed with [Kamihama Minami 96 Marathon] from the pocket of my maid skirt: "Look what I found?"

"marathon?"

Yin Xiamo was stunned: "What do you mean by long-distance running?"

"Xiaomo, don't you know?"

I asked curiously, "Hasn't Xiaomo lived here for several years?"

According to the introduction on the flyer, this marathon long-distance running event seems to be unique to "Minaminagi District" and is officially organized by the Minaminagi District Government. It has been held 42 times so far, and this is the rd one.

I have the impression that the Nannai District seemed not to have been established more than 40 years ago. If nothing unexpected happens... this should be one of the activities of the Nannai District, which was still a "township" at that time. It is not easy to hold it for so many consecutive sessions.

The prizes on the flyer seemed very generous to me: everyone received a participation prize, a large bag of four-packs of toilet paper, and they had to run at least half the distance of the race. If they finished the race, there would be additional rewards. The first place winner would receive a very large TV, the second to fifth place winners would receive electric cars, and the fifth to tenth place winners would receive small household appliances such as rice cookers.

According to the above markings, this marathon is 42 kilometers long and runs along the main road of Minami Nagi District, from 11 a.m. to around 6 p.m., which is when the sun sets at dusk, and you can give up at any time.

Speaking of half of 42 kilometers...20 kilometers, it seems I can still run?

I roughly estimated in my mind the approximate requirements of this marathon.

Even though I have become a girl, I have been exercising well in the past two months.

I tested it before when I was still living in a small apartment. I could jog three or four kilometers before dinner at night without feeling obviously tired. Based on the feeling at that time, I should have no problem running ten kilometers now. In Elf Mode, I will be lighter and have higher endurance, so I will have no problem running twenty kilometers without using any toilet paper.

But the problem is, I don’t have time tomorrow because I have to look after the store.

I feel that this activity in Minaminagi District is more of a reminder for people around to exercise, which is a good thing.

"Oh, that one."

After taking a quick look at the content on the flyer, Yin Xiamo showed an expression of sudden enlightenment: "I know, it's held once a year, but in the past few years, my mind was all on Nuo'er and I didn't pay much attention to it... Nuo'er wants to participate?"

"No, we all have to go to work tomorrow."

I shook my head. “I mean, maybe we can let Dolly try this…”

"If that happens, the runners will probably be in despair."

Yin Xiamo handed me the flyer and said, "It will probably cause a sensation."

"Dolly...soon?"