Chapter 6 Why is the little girl with the burning fire ignoring me after adding me on WeChat?
On the first day of our visit to Wangshui Island, Grandma Chen was right.
She will be staying here for another year. Grandma Chen is getting old and many things are inconvenient for her. If she encounters anything she doesn't understand or know, asking Chi Yu is the best way.
Although the man was cold and aloof, and seemed difficult to get along with.
But considering the rent was far below market price, Xinmian felt it was barely negligible.
Upon hearing her words, Chi Yu subconsciously raised his eyebrows, glanced at her, and his eyes held a half-smile.
But he did not answer immediately.
The living room fell silent. After a while, Xinmian belatedly realized what was happening.
"...Don't misunderstand, I didn't mean anything by it."
She was already shy, and what's more, the handsome face staring at her caused her ears to blush visibly.
Did I say you meant something else?
Xinmian: ......
She silently held her phone and looked at him, thinking he was unwilling. She was about to apologize and go upstairs when, unexpectedly, the man had already reached out his hand.
"Give me your phone."
Xin Mian's eyes suddenly lit up, and she immediately handed him her phone.
The phone originally belonged to Chi Yu, so he found it very convenient to use. "The phone is charging. This is my number. I'll accept the call later."
The added page flashed by, and she smiled, revealing two dimples, looking at him sincerely, "Don't worry, I won't bother you normally."
After all, they don't seem very easy to get along with.
Chi Yu handed the phone back to her, glanced at Grandma Chen's tightly closed door on the first floor, and said casually, "Your phone..."
"The contents of the memory can be saved without any problem, but the screen is completely broken, and it's not certain whether it can be replaced."
"It's alright, it's alright."
Xin Mian, having already arrived, decided to make the best of it, waving her hand with a smile, "I'm not in a hurry."
She always seemed very easy to talk to, with a gentle personality, a soft voice, and a soft appearance.
Chi Yu's gaze swept over her, then looked away without saying anything more.
The two of them didn't have much to say to each other. Xin Mian thanked him, then happily went upstairs with her backpack.
Only the man's tall figure remained standing in the living room, his gaze inadvertently following her until she turned the corner of the stairs and could no longer be seen even from behind.
The living room fell silent once again.
After a while, Fat Orange woke up, stretched, scratched its little nest a few times, making a rustling sound, and then went back to sleep.
The commotion snapped Chi Yu back to his senses.
He realized he had been staring at the stairs for quite a while, and his face suddenly darkened.
He scooped up the chubby orange cat, which had fallen asleep again, and fiercely stroked its chubby face.
After saying "Get up and go back to sleep," he strode upstairs.
The fat orange cat was left bewildered and confused in the living room until the sound of the door closing upstairs snapped it out of its daze.
[Human!! Are you even polite?!]
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Xin Mian returned to her room, took a shower, and lay comfortably on the bed in her nightgown. Her gaze swept across the room and she saw her phone on the bedside table.
Chi Yu's phone is quite large. He doesn't notice it when he holds it, but when she holds it, she has some difficulty typing with one hand.
The phone case is pure black with no patterns, and the screen wallpaper is the default system wallpaper.
She went to the app store and found that he hadn't downloaded Little Green Book, so she downloaded it herself.
Xinmian has her own account on Xiaolüshu and occasionally takes orders on the platform, so she logs in to check it from time to time.
Perhaps because big data detected her location as being on Wangshui Island, the homepage immediately recommended guesthouses, restaurants, and other eateries on the island as soon as she logged in.
With nothing else to do, Xinmian clicked on each one to take a look.
Her visit to Wangshui Island was both planned and unplanned.
Since I plan to stay for a year, I'll think about what I want to eat and do, and I can find out more about the travel guides after I get there.
After watching several videos, she immediately took a liking to a cake shop located in a guesthouse area.
The store is decorated in rainbow colors, filled with fresh air and sunshine, and the cakes they sell look quite delicious.
To prevent a repeat of today's unpleasant experience, Xinmian downloaded several more apps from the app store.
I logged into each software account to search for reviews of this store, and eventually found it was worth a try.
So she put down her phone contentedly, turned off the light, and fell into a deep sleep.
......
On the other side, there's the second-floor balcony.
At 11 p.m., the man, having taken a shower, was wearing a white T-shirt and black shorts. He leaned lazily against the edge of the terrace, facing the third-floor balcony, with a cigarette in his mouth.
On the fence next to it was a cell phone, a cell phone that had just been fully charged.
The sea breeze was cool at night, causing the scarlet red glow to flicker.
Smoke rings swirled and rose, blurring his sharply defined face before dissipating into the night.
From this angle, you can vaguely see that the lights in the third-floor room are still on.
She probably hasn't gone to sleep yet.
After finishing his cigarette, Chi Yu stubbed it out and looked up at his phone.
It was very quiet; the screen never lit up.
Nearly an hour had passed since he accepted the friend request.
The chat window between the two was empty, with only that one cold sentence at the top.
I've accepted your friend request. We can start chatting now.
Below that, there was a large expanse of blank space.
Chi Yu stared at the sentence as if he wanted to punch a hole through the phone.
After watching for a while, I suddenly chuckled and wondered if I had some serious illness, so I raised my hand and turned off the phone screen.
The cigarette pack was right next to him, and he reached for another one before realizing he hadn't brought a lighter. He had to give up, leaving the cigarette loosely between his long fingers without touching it.
He inexplicably recalled the original contract that she had handed him.
Her identity information is on it.
At 21, she was still a young girl.
With thin arms and legs, and hands that looked like they'd never done any housework, I don't know how she managed to carry a backpack, drawing board, laptop, a slightly bulky digital monitor, and a 26-inch suitcase all the way from Yuncheng.
As evening fell in the alleyway paved with cobblestones, the girl's eyes, which had initially been filled with fear and trepidation but turned to surprise and relief upon seeing him, resurfaced in his mind.
The cigarette that was between my fingers fell onto the balcony when the sea breeze blew it away while I was lost in thought.
Chi Yu bent down, picked up the cigarette, and threw it directly into the trash can.
Out of the corner of my eye, I noticed the lights on the third floor had gone out.
He looked down at his phone, which had a black screen, and finally couldn't help but scoff.
What's wrong with young girls these days?
"They added people without even saying hello."
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A thin mist shrouded the sea in the early morning, gradually dissipating as the sunlight shone through.
The sunlight was half-slanted on the stone-paved road of Dongpu Lane.
The thriving osmanthus tree in courtyard No. 7 stretches its branches over the courtyard wall, and a few small yellow flowers fall on the stone path. When the wind blows, the fragrance of flowers fills the alley.
After washing up, Chi Yu went downstairs and first prepared all of Fat Orange's portion of yellow croaker for the day, then set it aside to cool.
When Chen Xiulian returned from the market, the first thing she did was steam vegetable buns, meat buns, and steamed buns. Then she put the soy milk and fried dough sticks she bought in, and then washed the millet and put it into the rice cooker to cook porridge.
"With your height, there's no room to stand in the kitchen when you come in."
She found Chi Yu in the way and shooed him to the kitchen doorway.
Chi Yu leaned lazily against the door frame, watching her bustling around, and reminded her in a drawn-out tone, "Grandma, she's too small to eat this much."
Chen Xiulian thought about it and felt that what he said made sense, but then she thought, "I just didn't know what Mianmian liked to eat for breakfast, so I prepared a little bit of everything."
“You never used to prepare breakfast for me this carefully.”
Chen Xiulian glared at him, "You're a man, how can you be the same as a girl?"
Young ladies, of course, need to be treated with care.
After saying this, she washed her hands and walked to Chi Yu's side, lowering her voice to say, "You brat, let me tell you, don't bully young girls."
She knew her grandson's temperament better than anyone; aside from his good looks, he could shut someone up with just three sentences.
"The rental deal is a done deal, the contract is in black and white, so don't try anything funny with me."
"How could I dare?"
He laughed, responding in a nonchalant tone, "You said it yourself, the contract has already been signed."
The year Chi Yu graduated from university, he returned to Wangshui Island and spent money to have the four-story old building renovated.
The grandmother and grandson each lived on different floors, one on the first floor and the other on the second.
At the time, Wangshui Island had just begun to develop its tourism industry, and Chen Xiulian was responding to the government's call for tourism. In addition, she was getting old and liked lively places, so she specially asked Chi Yu to renovate the third floor so that if she really planned to rent it out in the future, the tenants would be more comfortable.
But Chi Yu never intended to rent out the third floor.
The grandfather and grandson were not short of money, and the sudden addition of a stranger to their family was unpleasant for them.
So two or three years have passed, and the third floor has never been rented out.
A while ago, Chen Xiulian secretly asked her neighbor to help her register an online account to rent out without Chi Yu's knowledge. Within a few days, quite a few people came to inquire about it.
However, because Chen Xiulian is old, some renters do not have the patience to communicate with her and end the call after only a few words.
Until Xinmian called.
She was the first tenant on the third floor.
Chen Xiulian really liked this fair-skinned little girl; she looked so endearing.
Therefore, we must never let our grandson bully others.
"You'd better be."
Chen Xiulian recalled the day Xin Mian first arrived, "If it weren't for Mianmian, Fatty Orange would have been scared out of his wits by the time you came back."
"Right, Fatty Orange?"
The chubby orange cat, which had been lingering at the kitchen door with its crystal-clear eyes fixed on the plate of small yellow croakers, was suddenly called upon. Its ears perked up, and it raised its head warily.
[Grandma, I didn't hear you clearly, could you please say it again?]
Chen Xiulian automatically interpreted its gaze as agreement, using it to "reprimand" Chi Yu, "Look, even Fat Orange is more sensible than you."
Chi Yu looked at the fat orange cat with a half-smile and then hooked its belly with his foot.
Fat Orange was still holding a grudge against Chi Yu's "inhuman" methods last night. It raised its paw to slap his calf, but when it heard footsteps coming from the stairs, it quickly fled the "crime scene".
She jumped straight into Xinmian's arms.
A note from the author:
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Fat Orange Cat: I'm so happy for you! [crying emoji] [melted emoji]
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