I will never give in to Miss Death

"Not even 1.4 meters tall?"

Hearing me report the data, Ouyang Xue was a little surprised: "Your parents also... ahem, did you not eat well when you were a child?"

“There’s something delicious.”

I didn’t know how to explain it, so I just said helplessly: “I just can’t grow up.”

"That's great too. When the shop opens, you'll probably be the mascot of the entire coffee shop."

What the hell is a mascot? Why is it another mascot!

I seem to have heard this word more than once!

When I was still an uncle, I was the "mascot" when playing games with Marisa and Pipi. When these people opened boxes and drew cards, they all shouted in the voice chat, "Sacrifice 20 years of my life for me!" or "Sacrifice my little hooks and dicks so I can get the money." As a result, at the author's rights protection conference, I was the mascot. At the comic convention, I was treated as a mascot to attract popularity. Now when I come to the coffee shop, I am still a mascot?

"Go ahead, or your friend will get anxious. I'll come get the chicken later."

After recording my data, Ouyang Xue pointed to the kitchen door and said, "Remember to report here at 8 o'clock tomorrow. I will bring your maid outfit over then."

"Ok."

When I thought about the fact that I would have to wear strange clothes to "work" here tomorrow, I felt a flutter in my heart for some reason and left the kitchen with mixed feelings.

"Ok?"

There were not many customers in the lobby on the first floor of the coffee shop. When she saw me coming out, Elodie, who was playing with her phone, showed a somewhat resentful expression: "I'm starving..."

"Didn't you eat all your snacks at noon?"

Lu Xinjian, the owner of Yaetang behind her, couldn't help but ask, "Are you still hungry?"

"Hungry……"

Elodie pressed her face against the marble table in front of her, looking listless: "The company's benefits are too bad... I want to change jobs..."

"Tsk..."

Lu Xinjian looked at me walking towards him and said, "Yin Nuoer, can you tell me what's going on? Wasn't there enough food at the comic convention?"

"Ah ha ha……"

I didn’t know who to help for a moment, so I could only smile.

"Hey customer, the super spicy chicken you ordered is here, along with the Coke."

Fortunately, a few minutes later, Ouyang Xue came over with a plate containing half a bottle of fragrant medicine and a large cup of Coke: "Please enjoy your meal."

"Do you two want to?"

After receiving the tray, Elodie tore open the aluminum foil like a wolf, exposing the steaming and fragrant half chicken inside to the air: "No, I'll eat it myself."

Lu Xinjian and I shook our heads almost at the same time.

"Then I'll eat it."

Elodie didn't hesitate to put on her gloves and tore open the tender spicy chicken, then started eating it without any ladylike manners.

"..."

……

Ten minutes later, a satisfied Elodie and I got into Lu Xinjian's car.

"My daughter's surgery went smoothly. Or rather... too smoothly."

While driving, Lu Xinjian, who was sitting in front of me, said in a seemingly casual tone, "The hospital director talked to me specifically and said that my daughter's postoperative recovery was so smooth that it almost violated medical standards even in the world. There was no infection and almost no rejection reaction. At noon, the child's mother called me and said that my daughter had been discharged from the intensive care unit and could speak."

I didn't say anything at the back.

Maybe Elodie was too sleepy because of the comic convention. She leaned against the car window next to her and closed her eyes. The silver necklace on her neck hit the car door, and as the car shook slightly, it made a ticking sound.

"Since you are busy with work here...when our daughter is fully recovered and discharged from the hospital, our family will come over again."

After a pause, Lu Xinjian said softly, "Thank you."

"nothing."

I turned my head away and looked out the window: "Marshmallows are not expensive. If you feel sorry for it, just return me a bottle of Coke."

It's best for me to play dumb at this time.

Because this kind of thing is really embarrassing.

Medically, patients are prohibited from investigating donors in order to prevent situations like this...where the families of rescued people and donors become entangled.

But there was no way. Lu Xinjian was one of those people who had certain connections. He might know some people in the hospital or the public security bureau and could find out the information of the people who donated to his daughter.

Although it is illegal, what can I do? Report it with my real name?

Then we can only laugh and pretend we don’t know each other…

"Okay, we'll give you a big bag of marshmallows in return!"

Lu Xinjian was obviously also an expert at playing dumb. He seemed very happy to hear me say this: "From now on, the highest reward on Yaetang Novel Network will be cotton candy!"

You guy...

In response, I could only smile helplessly, took out my cell phone to check the time, leaned against the window like Elodie, and closed my eyes.

In this swaying world, after a while, I felt the car under me stopped.

"arrive."

I opened my eyes and saw Lu Xinjian in front of me turned his head and seemed to press a switch. The window next to me lowered with a buzzing sound: "Do you need my help to get something?"

"No, there's an elevator."

Elodie yawned, stretched, opened the car door and jumped out: "Thank you, boss... oh no, the boss's boss!"

"You're just kidding. After the website merger, I won't be your boss anymore. The editor-in-chief of Honeydew Bag is not as easy to talk to as I am."

Lu Xinjian cursed with a smile and looked towards me: "Nuo'er, be careful of the steps."

"it is good."

Then I opened the car door and jumped out. I checked the things on my body and the rabbit backpack behind me, and closed the door.

What appeared before me at this moment was an old community with many flowers, plants and fruit trees. The gate was also dilapidated and rusted in many places. It seemed that no one had managed it for a long time.

"This is a residential complex that was built a long time ago. Because it's quite remote, not many people actually live there. Many people bought houses in anticipation of appreciation. There are only three property management staff and two security guards, and they only come out at night."

Elodie explained: "The Public Security Bureau is 300 meters away. There are also many cameras inside, so safety is not a problem."

It turned out to be the case.

I followed Elodie.

“You know the other tenant?”

As they walked, Elodie in front of them seemed to have remembered something. She asked curiously, "Why did she seem so happy when she heard your name when I told her at noon that someone was coming to share the apartment with her?"

Especially happy?

"So... friends."

At this point, I could only tell the truth: "It's just that I didn't know she lived here."

"That's good. The tenant has lived here for a long time. In the first few years, he was a little silly and didn't know a lot of common sense. He even had to pester my mother for a long time to ask how to download apps and scan codes to pay with his mobile phone. Now he is much better."

Elodi turned around and led me into this old neighborhood that was full of birdsong, flowers and green trees.

"You two will definitely get along very well."

【Thanks to Qiqi for making curry Yan Di!!! Thank you!! /w】

No. 082 Can you face your true inner self?

The name of the community where Elodie's family lives is very poetic, it is called "Xingxing Garden Community".

Correspondingly, the names of the intersections near this community are "Xingxing Road" and "Xingxing Garden Road".

The names of these roads did not come from the community where Elodie's family lived, but from a garden that went bankrupt eight years ago. The owner of the garden named it "Star Garden" at that time.

I still remember that the ticket price for the first few months after the garden opened was 15 yuan. I was still in college at that time and was a "good guy" in the boys' dormitory. One of my roommates was dumped by his girlfriend, and he had a ticket coupon for the Star Garden that he brought back but had no place to use, so we went together.

At that time, Minaminagi District was the most remote and empty place in Kamihama City. There was almost nothing there except Minaminagi Port and the wharf. There were no residential buildings, no commercial streets, no buses, and only some self-built houses built by ordinary citizens. People who didn't know would think they had come to a small county town.

Because the place is so remote, no one in the dormitory wants to go with that roommate. Many people look disgusted when they hear the name "Minami-nagi District" - "Why go to such a remote place? The coupon is only worth a few cents, just throw it away."

I was the only one who saw that my roommate was very sad, so I agreed to come over and play with him.

Then comes the tortuous process of exploration.

At that time, there were very few buses in Nannai District. To get to Xingxing Garden, you even had to find some local tricycle drivers. The ticket was 10 yuan, and my roommate and I spent more than yuan on the round trip.

Until now, I still remember the scene where that guy was in the garden, crying and telling the girl about every detail of his love affair, while looking at all kinds of flowers that had obviously been planted only a few months ago and were turned into Muggles by the sun.

According to the timeline, it should be... The terrain of Nannagi District is relatively complex, and there are some problems with the road planning. In some places, the terrain is very high, and standing on it you can see the endless vast stars. That place was named "Xingxing Road". After a period of development, a boss came to invest in the construction of "Xingxing Garden" and "Xingxing Garden Community", and then there was the "Xingxing Garden Intersection".

Now seven or eight years have passed and Xingxing Garden has closed down. According to Elodie, a lot of speculators bought properties in Xingxing Garden and they don't live there. There are few people living there and the property management and security guards are also idle.

However, there seem to be a lot more basic living facilities nearby, such as basic vegetable markets, breakfast shops, small supermarkets, etc., which can be reached within a ten-minute walk from the community.

"arrive."

Following Elodie, we first passed through the gate of the community that didn't even have a chain, and went up along a small slope with tall mango trees on both sides. We passed a parking lot, a small playground, and a place that seemed to be for children to play. A little forward in the middle of the community, Elodie turned to the left and said, "Enter the third house, the sixth floor of Building 3."

"oh oh……"

I was at the back, carefully memorizing the route: "The third house... is there only one exit here?"

“You can go there, too.”

Elodie pointed to the right at the end of the slope and said, "There's a vegetable garden at the back. If you're interested, you can go there to grow vegetables. There are many exits around the vegetable garden. There's an elementary school on the right, Kamijima Seikou Elementary School. It's usually very quiet, except on Mondays when it might be a bit noisy."

"Monday?"

"On Monday they have to raise the national flag, have assembly, and the principal will give a speech and so on."

Elodie took me to the iron gate at the bottom of the three buildings and opened it with the key: "Around eight o'clock on Monday morning. We are on the top floor. If we don't close the windows at this time, we might be woken up by the sound of them raising the flag."

After entering the door, Elodie went straight into the elevator that should have been temporarily installed in the past two years.

"The top floor. We are the only one on the top floor among the three buildings."

After I followed her into the elevator, Elodie pressed the button for the sixth floor and continued in her lazy tone, "Do you usually cook for yourself or order takeout?"

“I usually cook for myself.”

I felt a little embarrassed: "I can't afford takeout."

This place looks so remote, does they offer takeout?

"If you want to cook for yourself... from 6 to 9 in the morning, you can take the road to the vegetable garden at the back. There is a small temporary market on the left. In the morning, they sell rice noodles, handmade noodles, dumpling skins, corn, sweet potatoes, eggs, etc. At noon, they sell meat and fish, and the same is true in the evening."

Elodie introduced: "But it's best not to wait until dark. We close the stalls early here, and if you go late, there will be no food. If you really have something to do and forget to buy groceries, you can only go to a supermarket that is farther away. The supermarket closes at 11pm."

"As for takeout... there are quite a few takeout shops around here, you can ask me if you want to know."

At this point, Elodie burped, and immediately a faint smell of chili and kiln-fried chicken filled the elevator. "I've tried almost all the takeouts nearby. The ones with the highest sales are only for takeout. They all prepare food in advance or heat up cheap meal packages before selling. It's best not to order from them. It's also best not to order from those stores with weird names."

"What a weird name?"

"For example, there is a fried chicken shop here, a really delicious fried chicken shop, a really delicious dumpling shop, etc. Don't order the really delicious dumpling shop. I saw that it had more than 900 orders in the first month after opening, and then it was gone in the second month. I don't know if it was reported or failed to obtain a license. At the same time, another delicious dumpling shop appeared, and it didn't even change its cover advertisement."

Elodie explained: "If you are really worried, when the delivery guy delivers the food to you, you can directly ask him what the restaurant is like, or be more subtle and ask him if he recommends ordering from that restaurant next time. The delivery guys know all about it and they will tell you."

Looks like he has a lot of experience...

"We are near the sea, so we can eat seafood on weekdays. It is cheap and fresh."

Seeing that I listened carefully, Elodie also explained in great detail: "The fish sold in the vegetable garden at the back are all very common fish. For sea fish, you need to go a little further forward. There is a fresh food market. If you really want to save money, you can go directly to the sea. If you are lucky, you can pick up enough seafood for a week in one day."

"Catch the sea?"

As I said this, the elevator door in front of me opened with a "ding dong" sound.

"Well, it takes about half an hour to walk there. If you have a small electric car, it will take less than ten minutes to ride there. There is a beach-hunting spot nearby. Many people who live here like to go there. They usually go there at around four or five in the afternoon. At that time, the tide is the lowest and the beach is exposed. They can go there in an hour or two and come back."

Taking out the key and opening the only door in front of her with a click, Elodie yawned, "Like some common sea fish, squid, octopus, cat's eye snails, sandworms, etc., bring a small bucket and bring back a full bucket, plus the vegetables grown in the vegetable garden at the back. As long as there is rice at home, some people can spend less than 50 yuan on food a month."

ha?

Elodie's description made me feel like my worldview was wrong again.