Chapter 84 [Dear Miss Designer, Hello...]
After seeing off Zhao Jinyin and her family, Qi Ying started to get busy.
The first thing was to find an agent to sign the contract and transfer the ownership, and then to go to the decoration company. Although there were not many customers due to the cold weather, Xia Ruoxin had been out for almost half a month, and a lot of work fell on Qi Ying's shoulders, making her want to learn the art of clones.
Before the new house was renovated and completed, the two of them still lived in their small nest in the attic.
Today, Qi Ying was circling around the mannequin. As soon as Xing Xiaochu entered the house, she stamped her feet in the cold. Her little face was red from the cold, but she still said to Qi Ying in a dignified manner: "Sister, it's snowing outside!"
When Qi Ying looked up, she saw that Xing Xiaochu's cheeks and nose were red from the cold, so she quickly asked her to come in.
"Is it very cold outside?" Qi Ying took the fast food from her hand and put it on the table beside her. He rubbed Xing Xiaochu's cold hands with both hands and blew a breath of hot air to warm her up: "I told you that you could order takeout, but you insisted on making a trip."
Xing Xiaochu said with a smile: "It's not far away. It only takes me about ten minutes to walk there."
Qi Ying rubbed Xing Xiaochu's hands, then rubbed her cool cheeks. When he felt the temperature was about right, he said, "Let's eat first."
Snow was falling outside the window. Xing Xiaochu was not eating properly. He kept looking outside with excitement in his eyes. Halfway through his meal, he squatted on the small table in front of the window with melon seeds in his arms and took several photos with his cell phone.
Qi Ying looked at her but didn't care. She just put the chicken leg from her fast food into Xing Xiaochu's half-eaten lunch box.
At this moment, Qi Ying's cell phone on the workbench suddenly rang.
She put down the lunch box in her hand, stood up and walked over, and saw that the person who called her was Xia Ruoxin.
"Hello?" Qi Ying picked up the phone and asked, "What's wrong?"
"Good news, good news!" Xia Ruoxin said excitedly on the other end of the phone: "Shi Yu was admitted to the provincial theater. The examiner was very satisfied with her and recommended her to try out for a national theater. We are packing up and heading over now!"
It turns out that his name was on the list of successful candidates.
"That's great." Qi Ying leaned against the workbench with her arms around her chest and said, "Shi Yu is so outstanding, there will definitely be no problem."
Xia Ruoxin was very proud on the other end of the phone: "I think so too." After that, she paused and said to Qi Ying, "Aying, I guess I won't be able to go back for a while."
Qi Ying didn't care: "I know. It won't be too late for Shi Yu to come back after he finishes the exam. I can handle the store by myself."
"No, Ah Ying." Xia Ruoxin whispered on the phone, "What I mean is, I may not go back."
"……What's the meaning?"
Xia Ruoxin explained: "If Shi Yu can enter a national-level theater, she will definitely travel around the world to perform. I am worried about her going out alone, so I plan to accompany her. As for the store, nine out of ten customers come to you to design. The most I can do there is to run errands and do the cashier work, which can be done by anyone."
Qi Ying frowned, walked aside with his phone and asked her, "Xia Ruoxin, do you want to quit? You were the one who asked me to join you, and now you're just leaving?"
Xia Ruoxin was also helpless: "Aying, you also know that my level is just like this. After so many years of designing, I found that I really don't have any talent. The reason why this store can continue to operate is entirely because of you, and it has nothing to do with me."
"Actually..." Xia Ruoxin continued, "Before the exam, Shiyu's parents met with my family. They are all quite accepting of us being together. I guess after Shiyu finishes the exam, we will go back and get engaged."
Qi Ying: “…”
Xia Ruoxin smiled bitterly: "Oh, don't be like this, I'm just not going back, I'm not breaking off relations with you, we will still meet often in the future."
Qi Ying closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and then asked her, "So, do you plan to follow Shi Yu forever? Have you ever considered your own career?"
Xia Ruoxin: "You know what, I'm working on my own media now, recording the happy life of my beautiful wife, eating, drinking, and studying for exams, and I'm the only one who shoots, edits, and does the dubbing. I already have 40,000 to 50,000 fans now."
Xia Ruoxin also said: "I found that the audience likes to watch my Shi Yu. Whenever she appears on screen, the comments are all calling her my wife. I also match her clothes. Every time we go to a place, we go to restaurants to eat and drink. The number of fans is increasing very fast! When we go abroad in the future, there will be more material. I will take pictures of Shi Yu wherever she goes. One day, she will become a millionaire blogger!"
As Qi Ying listened to Xia Ruoxin talking on the phone, his originally frowned brows relaxed slightly, and even a smile appeared on the corners of his mouth involuntarily.
Actually, this is quite good.
Even if Xia Ruoxin is no longer a designer, she and Shi Yu will have a good future.
Pingchang Xin accepted the fact that Xia Ruoxin was leaving. Qi Ying asked her to take some time to come back and handle the withdrawal of shares. Xia Ruoxin refused at first, but Qi Ying said to her seriously: "At the beginning, I provided the technology and you provided the funds, and the income was half and half. Now you are leaving, so naturally we have to settle it clearly."
Xia Ruoxin had no choice but to give up: "Okay, then when Shi Yu finishes the exam, I will come back to find you."
Qi Ying hummed and hung up the phone.
"Sister, come and see!"
Xing Xiaochu was still lying on the small table by the window, shouting to Qi Ying, who was standing in the corner and had just finished a phone call, "The snow is getting heavier!"
Qi Ying put his cell phone in his pocket, responded with a smile, and walked over to watch the snow with her.
More than half a month later, Xia Ruoxin came back on a sunny day.
Also brought back was Xing Xiaochu's ID and her and Qi Ying's marriage certificate.
"This certificate is not easy to get." Xia Ruoxin sat on the chair, exhausted, enjoying Qi Ying's tea and water, and said to Xing Xiaochu with a smile: "From now on, you will be a foreign resident in China, but it will take another five years to get a permanent residence permit. When the time comes, just remind me and I will get it done."
Qi Ying placed the hot tea in front of her: "Thank you then."
Xing Xiaochu held her temporary ID card and looked at it again and again, she was extremely happy. Now she was finally no longer an illegal resident, and she was in the same household registration book with Qi Ying. In addition to her and Qi Ying's names, the household registration book also included Zhao Jinyin and others.
This time, she really has a family.
It was a rare happy occasion, so Qi Ying asked Xia Ruoxin to call Shi Yu, and the four of them had a meal together.
Shi Yu's exam went very smoothly. She had good conditions in all aspects, and the examiners were very satisfied with her. She was admitted with a high score. After being admitted, she had to train in the theater for a period of time, and then she could participate in various performances when she was suitable.
"Look, this is my account."
At the dinner table, Xia Ruoxin pulled Qi Ying to let her look at her phone. Xia Ruoxin said to her proudly, "Last time I told you that you only had tens of thousands of fans, right? It's only been half a month, and you already have hundreds of thousands of fans. It's not long before our Shi Yu becomes famous!"
Qi Ying drank the oolong tea in her hand and nodded in agreement: "Okay, then you can teach me later."
Xia Ruoxin asked back: "What should I teach you to do?"
Qi Ying raised her chin slightly, looked at Xing Xiaochu who was sitting opposite and looking at photos with Shi Yu, and said: "My Xiaochu is so beautiful, doesn't she have to be a big star?"
Xia Ruoxin felt that what Qi Ying said made sense.
After eating hotpot, the four of them went to KTV to sing. It was almost 12 o'clock in the evening. Xing Xiaochu was so sleepy that she almost fainted. Xia Ruoxin and Shi Yu, two night owls, were still excited and wanted to go to the bar for a third drink, but were rejected by Qi Ying.
Didn’t you see that Xing Xiaochu was so sleepy that he could hardly open his eyes?
Also go to the bar.
Qi Ying rejected the two of them. Fortunately, the heartless wife didn't care and called a taxi and left. Qi Ying looked at Xing Xiaochu, who was yawning due to sleepiness, and carried her home on his back.
"elder sister……"
Xing Xiaochu lay on Qi Ying's shoulders, her thick down jacket covering her face. The child was so sleepy that she couldn't even open her eyes. She kept saying to Qi Ying, "I can walk down by myself..."
"It's not far, you don't have to get down and walk." Qi Ying held Xing Xiaochu's little butt, walked while feeling the cold night wind, and exhaled a breath of hot air.
After walking two blocks, Xing Xiaochu arrived home. He was so sleepy that he pulled on his clothes and got into bed. When Qi Ying came out of the bathroom, he was already snoring.
Qi Ying sat on the edge of the bed and shook her head helplessly. She bent down to pick up the clothes she had taken off and hung them in the closet.
'bite--'
Suddenly, Qi Ying heard a very familiar notification tone. She took out her cell phone and took a look at it, her pupils slightly dilated.
It was a text message, and the message started like this:
[Dear Miss Designer, Hello...]
It’s a text message sent by the in-game system.
Ever since she was forcefully logged out of the game, the system has not sent her any messages. It has been several months, and she and Xing Xiaochu are already in the same household registration book. Why is she still receiving text messages from the system?
In that second, Qi Ying thought of countless reasons, and her whole body was shaking when she thought of them.
Xing Xiaochu, who was sleeping soundly on the bed, turned over, put his arm on Qi Ying's pillow, mumbled something, and fell asleep quietly again.
Qi Ying glanced at her, and finally clicked on the message with trembling hands.
[Dear Miss Designer, Hello. Due to technical issues with the game system, we are unable to continue to maintain the original environment of the game. We have finally decided that "Xing Xiaochu's Good Morning Diary" will be permanently shut down from 0:00 today.
After the service is shut down, we will send out additional compensation and there will be no more system technical issues. Please rest assured, Miss Designer, everything currently will not change.
Thank you very much for your support during these days, and I wish you and your family happiness and peace forever. 】
Qi Ying read the message carefully word by word, and it took a long time for him to come back to his senses.
Does this mean that Xing Xiaochu will stay with me forever?
She couldn't believe it and immediately dialed the game's customer service number. While waiting, Qi Ying turned around and went downstairs.
"Hello, how can I help you?"
The customer service was connected, and a gentle female voice came from the phone. Qi Ying walked back and forth on the stairs, opened his mouth and hesitated, not knowing what to say.
"I just received a text message saying that the game is permanently shut down. What does that mean?"
“Permanent suspension means that the game will no longer be maintained or updated, and you will not be able to log in normally. We will mail you some things to compensate you for the loss. Thank you for playing our game.”
Qi Ying scratched his head and said impatiently: "Then Xing Xiaochu...will she still be here?"
The customer service said: "After the game is shut down, the material models will naturally be sealed and will not be used externally in the future, so please rest assured."
Qi Ying felt that she couldn't get through to the customer service, so she just gave up and said, "What I mean is, if she comes to my real world, will she disappear after the game is shut down?"
The customer service representative on the other end of the phone hesitated for several seconds before asking a soul-searching question: "What do you mean? I don't quite understand."
Qi Ying said: "That's right, she came out and is sleeping in my bed now. We have registered our marriage. If the service is stopped, will my wife disappear with her?"
customer service:"……"
Qi Ying: “…”
customer service:"…………"
Customer service: "Okay, I can also help you call for help if you need it."
Qi Ying: “…That’s not what I meant.”
Customer Service: "But please rest assured that even if the game is shut down, it will not change your current life. Do you have any other questions?"
Having said this, Qi Ying had no other questions.
Sitting on the steps, Qi Ying was still in a daze for a long time, until her cell phone dinged. It was a message from the exclusive customer service, asking her to give a mailing address and there would be a compensation gift.
Just as Qi Ying was sitting on the steps in a daze after sending his message, the attic door behind him opened.
Xing Xiaochu rubbed his eyes and gripped the door handle, yawning as he looked at Qi Ying, wondering, "Sister, it's so late, what are you doing sitting here?"
Qi Ying stared at Xing Xiaochu blankly. When she realized that all this was really over, she immediately sat up from the steps, ran to the door in three or two steps and hugged the person tightly in her arms.
Xing Xiaochu looked at her blankly and tilted his head: "What's wrong?"
"It's okay." Qi Ying smiled softly, "I just got some good news."
"What good news makes you so happy?" Xing Xiaochu also laughed softly along with her.
Qi Ying smiled without saying anything, but just hugged the person in his arms tighter.
***
Just after attending Xia Ruoxin and Shi Yu's engagement ceremony, Qi Ying received a call from Ms. Zhao Jinyin.
"Going home for the New Year?" Zhao Jinyin said on the phone, "Drive back and bring Xiaochu with you so that we can be together as a family. You can't spend the New Year just by yourselves, right?"
Qi Ying glanced at Xing Xiaochu who was standing next to him, and said to Zhao Jinyin, "I understand. I'll take her back for the New Year."
Xing Xiaochu looked up at her curiously: "Who's calling? Is it Auntie?"
Zhao Jinyin heard Xing Xiaochu's voice and quickly said to Qi Ying, "I heard Xiaochu calling me. Give her the phone quickly so I can talk to her."
Qi Ying handed the phone to Xing Xiaochu and watched her chatting enthusiastically with her mother. They talked for more than ten minutes before hanging up. Zhao Jinyin didn't even say goodbye to Qi Ying.
"Auntie said that she wanted me to go home with you during the Chinese New Year." Xing Xiaochu took Qi Ying's hand and reported to her: "Auntie also said that she would take me out to play, and let me play mahjong with her, and also take me to the beach."
Xing Xiaochu asked Qi Ying: "Have you ever seen the sea?"
Qi Ying smiled and said to her, "I haven't seen it yet. When the time comes, just wait for my mom to take you there and take me with her."
Xing Xiaochu smiled and said, "Auntie said the same thing."
"Did she say when we could go back?"
"It means you can go back tomorrow."
"Okay, then we'll go back tomorrow."
Qi Ying held Xing Xiaochu's hand and said to her as they walked home, "After the Spring Festival, shall I enroll you in a class?"
Xing Xiaochu looked at her and a question popped up in his head: "?"
Qi Ying said: "You can't study for three years in vain. You have to take the college entrance examination. I'll enroll you in a class for half a year. Then you can take the college entrance examination as a working person and go to university smoothly."
Xing Xiaochu jumped up with joy after hearing this, and grabbed Qi Ying's arm and laughed so hard that his eyes almost disappeared.
Along the way, Xing Xiaochu chatted with Qi Ying in a cheerful tone, and occasionally ran to the roadside to pick up a handful of snow. Qi Ying looked at her and smiled gently. The winter sun shone on the shoulders of the two people, making their shadows on the way home very long.
Winter is almost over.
——The end of the book——
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