Chapter 86: Going Crazy Day 86: Permanent Barbie Pink
Chapter 86
On the other side, Nangong Liena was passionately teaching Qin Xiao, from color classification, to the difference between lip gloss and lip glaze, as well as the degree of moisturizing, to the release date, whether it is sticky or not, her professionalism impressed the salesgirls of major brands.
They gathered around Nangong Lie and Qin Xiao, huddled together.
"I didn't expect that a man like you would know so much about lipstick. Would you consider becoming our sales assistant?"
"Yes, yes. With a handsome and high-quality image like yours, you will definitely be the top seller every month."
Because Qin Xiao was too serious in class, Lu Xingjian was squeezed out of the class: ...
Er Liuzi was picking and choosing nearby, saying with disdain, "There are so many colors for one lipstick, and some of them are almost identical."
Lu Xingjian was curious, "Can't you girls tell the difference?"
Anyway, when Nangong Lie tested the color on the back of his hand and explained it to him, he still felt that there was no difference.
"Not every girl likes this kind of thing," Erliuzi said. "This is just a trick the capitalists use to exploit people. It's just one color, and they're selling it for so much. Anyone who buys it is a fool."
"So what do you like?"
"Novels, anime, and games," Erliuzi said proudly, "I'm a veteran of the anime world."
Lu Xingjian was stunned. He had assumed that people like Erliuzi, who lived in gangs and licked blood, would enjoy nothing more than drinking, counting money, and bragging. These hobbies sounded quite healthy.
Lu Xingjian didn't know how to respond. After a pause, he said, "Then you are very good at cultivating your sentiments."
Erliuzi: ...Why does it sound weird?
Lu Xingjian turned his attention back to Nangong Lie and the others. Hearing Lu Xingjian's passionate recommendation, "You must buy this lipstick. Stock up on as many as you can."
Qin Xiao: "Why?"
"This lipstick is called 'Zhan Nan Color.'" Nangong Lie said, "Zhan Nan, Zhan Nan, means let Xiang Nuan kill you!"
"But I don't want to be beheaded yet. It sounds too bloody."
"You stupid straight man." Nangong Lie couldn't stand it anymore. It turned out that uneducated people were the most terrifying. "The 'cut' here refers to applying this color of lipstick to Nuan, making you unable to stop."
"But I can't stop wanting her."
Nangong Lie: ...
Qin Xiao didn't notice Nangong Lie's silence. Instead, he felt that Nangong Lie was much more approachable when he was teaching him. He was eager to try and was ready to discuss more love knowledge with Nangong Lie.
Lu Xingjian felt something was a little strange.
He rushed into the crowd and pulled Nangong Lie to a secluded corner.
"What are you doing? I'm in class. Let go, Lu Xingjian, don't ruin everyone's enthusiasm for learning." Nangong Lie was a little annoyed.
In his heart, he resented Lu Xingjian, a student who didn't strive for progress. Just now, he just turned his head and disappeared in a moment. So he could only teach Qin Xiao, a dull boy.
God knows how much he vomited blood.
Lu Xingjian frowned slightly and said, "Do you still remember our mission?"
"What mission?" Nangong Lie had just finished speaking when he immediately realized the problem and sighed, "I was so focused on the class that I forgot about it."
Lu Xingjian: "After all, you are Tan Mo's real employee. I am an outsider. You actually need an outsider like me to remind you, you..."
Nangong Lie interrupted him with a chuckle, "Why don't you just not tell Tan Mo? Actually, you don't know..."
Nangong Lie nodded his chin at Qin Xiao, who was not far away, and whispered, "This guy is so stupid. If I ever take him in as a disciple, I'll definitely look for someone who has at least finished high school. I can trick him a little bit and break up his relationship with Xiang Nuan. The mission will be completed. Wait for me."
Nangong Lie walked over confidently and said to Qin Xiao with a smile, "Sorry for the long wait. I'm going to introduce you to another lipstick. You must buy it!"
Qin Xiao wiped his hands and laughed, "Okay, okay, I'm not short of money. As long as the lipstick you say is good, I'll buy it all."
"This is it." Nangong Lie pulled out a brand new lipstick from a corner of some lipstick display stand. "Eternal Barbie Pink."
SA:……
Qin Xiao: "Eternal life? How? This lipstick can also prolong life."
"Of course it doesn't mean it literally," Nangong Lie explained. "The meaning of eternal Barbie pink should be that when a woman applies this color, she will always be as beautiful as 18 years old."
"Although Xiang Nuan has always been as beautiful as she was at 18 in my heart." Qin Xiao waved his hand and said happily, "Buy, buy a box. I want Xiang Nuan to be 18 every day."
While Nangong Lie continued to fool Qin Xiao, the SA who was packing up in the background was muttering softly.
"Do you know why this is the only brand new lipstick on the display?"
“Because no one wants to buy it.”
“…”
"Should we give you a reminder then?"
"Forget it. I finally met a big client who is stupid and rich."
"A box! I can finally sell the Barbie pink I've been holding back for three years."
“…”
Everyone was very happy during this shopping trip.
Nangong Lie was happy because he had fooled Qin Xiao; Qin Xiao felt that he had benefited a lot from today's class; SA not only made a lot of money, but also cleared out years of inventory.
Qin Xiao waved his hand again, "Alright, today's class ends here. Let's go back first."
The SAs stood in a row, smiled, bent down, said goodbye, and welcomed Qin Xiao to come again next time.
Only Erliuzi wasn't very happy. Why was she the one carrying all those lipsticks? Is anyone speaking up for me?
I'm a woman! Why should a woman carry so many things?
Erliuzi was bent over by the weight of three large boxes of lipsticks and stumbled to catch up with Qin Xiao in front of him.
"So what should we do now?" Lu Xingjian asked, "Should we follow them too?"
"You're so stupid!" Nangong Lie said fearfully, "I asked him to buy Barbie pink for Xiang Nuan. He might get beaten up."
"Are you scared now?"
Nangong Lie looked at Lu Xingjian carefully. "Why do I hear you say that you seem to know what medicine is sold in my wine pot? Don't you know anything about lipstick?"
Lu Xingjian: "Although I don't know much about lipstick, I'm not color blind. Anyone with a little bit of eyesight can tell that this color is not good at all."
"What a pity." Nangong Lie said with a smile, "Qin Xiao has no eyes."
Lu Xingjian: ...
Clang—the sound of heavy objects falling to the ground was heard not far away. Erliuzi really couldn't hold the three big boxes, and they all fell to the ground with a clatter.
Lu Xingjian trotted forward to help, and helped Erliuzi move it to the trunk of the car.
Looking inside the trunk, Qin Xiao was sitting upright in his seat.
Erliuzi slammed the trunk shut, said thank you to Lu Xingjian, and got into the car.
As she ran, a book fell out of her hip pocket.
Before Lu Xingjian could stop it, the car had already started and drove away.
"Forget it, I'll give it to her when I get back."
This book is the size of a palm and is usually called a pocket book. It has a colorful cover with the back of the book facing up.
Lu Xingjian walked over, picked it up, turned it over and saw the title: "One Birth of 99 Treasures: President's Wife, Run Fast"
Lu Xingjian: …..You have to run faster. There are 99 of them. Even if there is one child per year, you have to give birth to 99 children.
Suddenly, I remembered that when Tan Mo first met Bo Yanli, she also recommended various novels about running away with a baby.
Thinking of this, Lu Xingjian began to wonder: What would Tan Mo be doing now?
He took out his cell phone, hesitating whether to send a message to Tan Mo to ask.
But then he thought about how his husband and children had just been abandoned. According to Nangong Lie's theory, it had been less than a day and he had already sent a message to Tan Mo. Would he be looked down upon by Tan Mo?
Lu Xingjian stood in the sun, his heart rolling from one end of the scale to the other, and suddenly he felt enlightened.
Wouldn’t it be okay if he didn’t send a private message to Tan Mo?
Nearing noon, Tan Mo and the others were still sitting in the same coffee shop. She and Xu Xiaonian did various tasks for Xiang Nuan, but Xiang Nuan always felt that her relationship with Qin Xiao was her comfort zone, and she didn't want to break it.
The phone dinged.
Tan Mo thought it was her cell phone ringing, and Xu Xiaonian next to her also thought it was her cell phone ringing, so they both picked up their phones to check.
Both phones showed new messages.
Xu Xiaonian saw the message before Tan Mo.
Lu Xingjian: [Qin Xiao went home early, how are you guys doing? @Tan Zhong Moli]
It was a very businesslike matter, but Xu Xiaonian felt something was weird about it.
She frowned. "Assistant Lu posted this message in the group chat, but why did he tag you specifically? Is there any need for that?"
Tan Mo took a look and understood.
She looked up at Xiang Nuan opposite her, who had already started packing her bag.
Tan Mo asked, "Where are you going?"
Xiang Nuan's face was filled with a happy smile, "Brother Xiao said he bought me a gift and asked me to go back early."
"It's almost time." Xu Xiaonian stood up, "Let's go together."
We have to go back to the Qin family anyway.
Xiang Nuan said shyly, "I want to go alone first. Sorry."
Before Xu Xiaonian could even ask why, she had already turned and ran.
"That's strange, why can't we go back together?"
Tan Mo: "Didn't Lu Xingjian say that? Qin Xiao has already gone back from their side and asked about our situation. I guess it was Qin Xiao who sent the message for her to go back alone."
Tan Mo's thoughts were drawn back to the message Lu Xingjian had sent in the group chat. Xu Xiaonian couldn't understand why, "For such a simple message, did Assistant Lu need to tag you individually?"
"And I was obviously on the mission with you, so why didn't he tag me? Does he look down on me?"
When she asked Tan Mo, Tan Mo's attention was all on the phone.
She quickly figured out what was wrong with Lu Xingjian, then clicked on Lu Xingjian's profile picture in the group and sent a private message: Xiang Nuan has also left.
"Why aren't you talking?" Xu Xiaonian thought more and more, and something seemed to be wrong. "Could something have happened between you two that I'm not aware of?"
After typing the last word, Tan Mo pressed the enter key in one go.
She turned off her phone and stood up. "No. Nothing."
But when he lowered his head, there was a faint smile on his face, as if he was a winner.
*
The driver drove the car steadily in the lane.
Qin Xiao received a message from Xiang Nuan: I'm already in the car.
The corners of his mouth rose unconsciously. After putting down his phone, he deliberately looked back at the three big boxes.
Qin Xiao said, "That's great! Xiang Nuan would be very happy if she knew what I bought her."
Erliuzi flattered from time to time, "Of course. The gift is secondary. The most important thing is the thought behind buying a gift for someone you love."
This flattery really touched Qin Xiao's heart. "I'll give you a raise later, and everyone will be happy."
"Okay, thank you, Master Xiao." Erliuzi continued taking pictures. "Ms. Xiang Nuan once bought a gift for her childhood sweetheart, just like you did."
"Prepare in advance and choose carefully. This will give you experience in buying gifts for Mr. Xiao in the future."
"What did you say?" The smile on Qin Xiao's face disappeared and his voice suddenly rose.
*
Tan Mo felt that something was wrong with the system. She often shouted for a long time but got no response.
It was like going back from the 5G era to the 2G era. She asked why this world showed traces of the original world, with the same streets and villages just with different names. It took a long time for her to get a response.
"Here it comes," the system replied wearily. "This situation is happening because the novel world is about to merge with the original world."
"Fusion?" Tan Mo said subconsciously, "What a terrifying feeling."
If two worlds merge together for no reason, will it have any impact on the original world?
Moreover, there are so many crazy men and women in the novel who are willing to give up everything for love and do anything. If they come together, are you sure that they will not bring trouble to people in the real world?
The system heard Tan Mo's concern and said, "Only the intersection point where it merges with the original world will have any impact."
"Essentially, the people at these intersections belong to parallel universes. Only under extremely rare circumstances can people from two parallel universes see each other."
Tan Mo: "Hasn't this happened before?"
"No." The system shook its head. "I've heard from other experienced systems that it might be because more and more people have been transmigrating into books to carry out missions recently, causing the logic and behavioral norms in the books to align with the real world, which is why this happens."
Tan Mo was a little confused and asked the most crucial information, "Are those fusion points the places with the opposite names from those in the real world?"
The system yawned loudly. "Originally, they were the same, but the Director of the Book Transmigration Administration had us change the names overnight to distinguish them just in case."
"I've been busy all night for this very thing. I'm almost dead tired."
"But no one knows whether fusion is good or bad. I advise you to leave the world of the book as soon as possible."
The voice of the system became increasingly blurred in Tan Mo's ears. What she was most concerned about was: Do her parents still exist in this parallel time and space of Xijin Village?
She trembled all over at the thought of this possibility.
"Tan Mo! Tan Mo!"
Feeling her body being ignored and shaken, Tan Mo looked up blankly. After a while, her eyes focused on Xu Xiaonian's face, who was so close to her. "Hmm?"
"You're still humming? Shouldn't I be the one asking you this? You haven't said a word since we got in the car. We're already at the Qin family, haven't you noticed?" Xu Xiaonian opened the car door, "Get out."
Tan Mo made up her mind to go to Xijin Village as soon as possible after finding out about the Qin family's affairs.
Tan Mo also got off the car.
She was reluctant to talk about it, so she made an excuse and said, "Sorry, Xiaonian, I might be a little tired."
"Why don't you go back and rest now?"
Tan Mo took her hand and walked forward, "Okay, but let's finish lunch first."
It's lunch time now.
Just as he finished speaking, a voice sounded from the front: "You guys are back too?"
Upon hearing this, Tan Mo and Xu Xiaonian looked up and saw Nangong Lie leading the charge. Lu Xingjian behind him seemed to have seen them as well and suddenly strode towards them.
He was quickly grabbed tightly by Nangong Lie.
Nangong Lie tugged at Lu Xingjian's sleeve, turned his back to Tan Mo and the others, and whispered, "You're still in the cold war, understand? Be reserved, be reserved!"
Lu Xingjian said in embarrassment: "But Tan Mo sent it to me privately."
Even though it was just a private letter sent for official business and nothing else was said, Lu Xingjian was already very satisfied.
"Ugh!" Nangong Lie said angrily, "I just beckoned you to come running over. You're such a loser!"
"If I hadn't asked you to be reserved, would Tan Mo have sent you a private message?"
Eh?
Lu Xingjian slowly started to greet him. Wasn't it because Tan Mo had tagged him in the group chat first that Tan Mo sent him a private message? How did it become Nangong Lie who made him reserved?
Is this reserve still useful?
At this time, Nangong Lie had already turned and left.
Lu Xingjian thought, forget it, I'd better follow Nangong Lie.
He suddenly felt that love could indeed temporarily lower a person's IQ.
He could sense that Nangong Lie's method contained some correctness mixed with errors, and some correctness mixed with errors.
Some women might like this, but some might find it offensive.
But Lu Xingjian couldn't be firm in his thinking now, and followed subconsciously.
Xu Xiaonian whispered to Tan Mo, "What are these two men doing? Are they saying bad things about us behind our backs?"
Tan Mo shook her head. "Who understands these men's ways?"
Lu Xingjian walked closer and tried to look at Tan Mo as naturally as possible. "How's the situation over there?"
Tan Mo: "Xiang Nuan is completely devoted to Qin Xiao. We encouraged her to find a job, but she just won't go. What about you guys?"
Her vague gaze fell on his face, and Lu Xingjian's throat rolled nervously.
This had never happened before when he was secretly in love with Tan Mo, but once it was exposed, he began to pay attention to his words, actions, and appearance in front of Tan Mo.
Lu Xingjian straightened his back even more.
He was about to speak when Nangong Lie, who wanted to take credit, interrupted him. "Well, we have good news. I recommended Nangong Lie to buy Xiang Nuan the Death Barbie Powder, and he bought a whole case!"
"Xiang Nuan will definitely call him a fool then!"
"Ah, this..." Xu Xiaonian didn't know what to say, "Isn't this too insidious?"
Nangong Lie: "It's not so bad. As for their family's shady businesses, mine pales in comparison."
Nangong Lie looked at Tan Mo, his eyes gleaming with light, "This is all my plan."
She looked like she was asking for a reward, but Tan Mo was not stingy: "Then you are very good."
Tan Mo's praise was snatched away by someone else, and Lu Xingjian frowned.
They talked as they walked towards Qin's house.
Nangong Lie handed the bag he had been holding to Xu Xiaonian, "Here's this."
"What?"
"Why don't you just open it and take a look?"
Xu Xiaonian opened the bag and exclaimed, "You bought this brand of cupcakes!!!"
Tan Mo couldn't help but be curious, so she stretched her head and took a look. Isn't this the popular online cake shop that's been going viral recently?
Several times when I went on social software, the messages were pushed to Tan Mo’s mobile phone interface. Tan Mo clicked on it to read it once.
Judging from the appearance, the cakes do look a bit more upscale than those in other shops, but as for the taste...
Tan Mo scrolled all the way to the end, and the reviews all said it tasted good and not too sweet. But the queue was at least an hour long.
Tan Mo also wanted to try it because of how good it tasted, but when she saw the waiting time, she gave up.
Obviously, Xu Xiaonian also saw the marketing of this store.
She laughed happily, "How did you know I've been wanting to eat at this restaurant for a long time?"
Nangong Lie: "I saw you collected this shop once. This time when we went out, I happened to see it in the mall, so I bought it for you."
Tan Mo raised her eyebrows slightly. Not bad. I didn’t expect Nangong Lie to be so thoughtful.
Xu Xiaonian: "It must have taken a long time to wait."
Nangong Lie said a little arrogantly: "For you, everything is worth it."
"It's mainly because I'm broke now. If it were in the past, I would have bought it at a high price from scalpers and wouldn't have to queue up." Nangong Lie said apologetically, "It's hard for you, Xiao Nian, you'll have to live a hard life with me for a while, but don't worry, I will make the Nangong family strong again so that you can continue to buy, buy, buy."
"Wuwuwuwu..." Xu Xiaonian was almost moved to tears, "I believe you, Lie!"
Tan Mo: ...
She really couldn't stand this disgusting feeling, and made a finger pinching gesture, "Stop! If you keep doing this, I won't be able to eat."
Nangong Lie chuckled and immediately understood the hidden meaning of Tan Mo's words.
The two exchanged a meaningful look in tacit understanding, but soon, they realized something was wrong and looked away.
Only Xu Xiaonian asked, confused, "Why?"
Tan Mo had a blank expression on her face: "No reason, let's go eat. I drank coffee all morning and I'm hungry."
"Wait, don't be anxious." Xu Xiaonian said, then looked at Lu Xingjian and asked, "Where's yours? Assistant Lu, didn't you bring a small cake for Tan Mo?"
The originally harmonious atmosphere suddenly became strange.
Nangong Lie's heart skipped a beat. In fact, he was the one who didn't allow Lu Xingjian to buy it.
He didn't even allow Lu Xingjian to chat with Tan Mo privately, so how could he allow him to buy a small cake?
He bought a cake, but Lu Xingjian didn't, which just stimulated Tan Mo.
However, this kind of stimulation needs to be subtle and cannot be expressed openly.
Nangong Lie was obviously panicked. His eyes jumped back and forth between Tan Mo and Lu Xingjian, finally fixing on Tan Mo's face.
Tan Mo's face was calm, but she felt a strange feeling in her heart.
In fact, when she saw Xu Xiaonian's cake and Lu Xingjian didn't show any reaction, she did feel a subtle sense of loss.
Anyway, the loss was very slight and it passed without her having time to experience it.
But after Xu Xiaonian said this, Tan Mo seemed to feel weird no matter what she said.
Seeing that Tan Mo didn't say anything, Xu Xiaonian concluded that she was in a bad mood and scolded Lu Xingjian, "Assistant Lu, you like her and are pursuing her, so why don't you even give her a piece of cake?"
"Our Nangong Lie has set an example for you, and you still don't want to learn from him?"
"There's no way Tan Mo will agree to be with you if you're like this."
Lu Xingjian: ...But, your husband didn't let me buy it.
Nangong Lie: ...
Tan Mo: …She’s saying something like Lu Xingjian likes her and wants to pursue her, ahhhhh, let me jump into the river.
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