Chapter 48: Seniors' Descendants
"Is there a doorbell?"
Lin Xiaolu, who had been resting her hands on her chin, raised her head and stood up: "At this time?"
Xia Liang stuck his head out from the side and asked, "Is it a courier?"
"I don't know, I didn't buy anything." Lin Xiaolu denied it directly.
"Did your father buy it?" Xia Liang suggested other possibilities.
"Him? I've never seen him buy anything online."
Still holding a negative attitude, Lin Xiaolu just said a word, then hesitated and said: "But this possibility cannot be ruled out..."
"So you want to open it?"
Looking at the door at the entrance, Xia Liang was eager to try: "It's daytime anyway, it should be okay, right?"
"Whether it's daytime or not, the security in our community should be fine." Lin Xiaolu seemed convinced.
Xia Liang stretched out her hand, and the purple magic power turned into a magic wand and condensed in her hand: "Then I will become a magical girl and stand aside, and if there are bad guys, I will attack them?"
Pulling down her eyelids and staring at her for a while, Lin Xiaolu wanted to ask "Why don't you go?", but then she thought that this was her home and she should take some responsibility. So she suppressed her thoughts and stood up from the sofa: "It seems possible."
Lin Xiaolu waved her hand to cancel her transformation into a magical girl, then walked towards the entrance in her slippers; Xia Liang knelt on the sofa with a magic wand in his hand, with only his head exposed, secretly watching the situation.
Lin Xiaolu walked to the door with a frown on her face. She paused on the door handle for a moment, pressed it down, and carefully opened the door.
——What she saw was a completely unfamiliar woman.
The woman looked to be in her twenties, relatively tall, with bright features and black hair cut into a simple C-curl. She wore a printed white T-shirt on the upper body, a high-waisted denim skirt on the lower body, and a small crossbody bag in her hand, giving people the feeling of a capable female office worker.
"Who are you?" Lin Xiaolu was a little dumbfounded.
"Ah, this is Senpai's...so cute!"
But the woman in front of her seemed familiar with her. Her eyes lit up when she saw Lin Xiaolu: "I've only seen her in photos before. She's even cuter in person!"
Her self-confession made Lin Xiaolu even more confused: "So who are you?"
"It doesn't matter who I am. What's important is that it's the first time I see you, Lin Xiaolu, right? Come and give your aunt a hug!" The woman opened her arms enthusiastically.
"Why? I don't want it!" Lin Xiaolu couldn't help but took two steps back.
She was so confused that she didn't know what to say for a moment. The hustle and bustle in the living room made Xia Liang and Mo Ke come over as well.
After seeing the two people in a stalemate, Xia Liang was stunned at first, then he quickly sorted out the context of the matter, turned to the woman at the door, and said with a smile:
"Ah, hello, sister? Who are you looking for?"
Her manners and etiquette were perfect and there was absolutely no fault to be found, as if she was the child of the family.
Her words also made the woman at the door suddenly happy: "Ah? You actually called me sister? Hahaha, you are too sweet."
Because she was wearing outdoor shoes, she couldn't walk into the room, so she could only stand in the corridor and wave, "Come over here too, and let your sister give you a kiss!"
"Well, that's..."
Shocked by the other party's excessive enthusiasm, even Xia Liang couldn't help showing an embarrassed look.
"So who are you?" Lin Xiaolu, who was pushed aside, asked again.
It was not until she asked the question for the third time that the woman at the door seemed to wake up from her over-enthusiasm. She looked carefully at the two girls in front of her, and when she saw that they both looked at a loss, she realized that she seemed to have not introduced herself yet.
And when a stranger comes up and acts so familiar, it really makes people feel at a loss as to what to do. So she coughed twice and slightly restrained her expression.
"Well, it seems that you all don't know who I am, so I'd better give a brief introduction first."
She raised her bag and took out a small black ID card, waving it in the air. "I am Hong Siyu, the contact person of the Strategy Bureau. I am responsible for connecting with your senior Cuique. Besides that, I was the resident magical girl of Fangting City ten years ago."
Her movements were quite capable and refreshing, and her smile was very friendly, but the simple words she said with such an expression contained a lot of information, which made the two girls behind the door a little stunned.
"Delphinium's...liaison?"
"Magical girl from ten years ago?"
Obviously, the girls each have different concerns.
Lin Xiaolu is of course more concerned about Delphinium's interpersonal relationships. It is impossible to say that she is not curious about what kind of person Delphinium's liaison is.
As for Xia Liang, she would naturally think of the same question as Lin Xiaolu, but the information in the second half of Hong Siyu's sentence was obviously more important.
Seeing that this self-introduction successfully attracted the interest of the two girls, Hong Siyu knocked on the door frame, no longer as overly enthusiastic as when they first met, and asked suggestively: "After saying so much, don't you plan to let me in and sit down?"
The two girls looked at each other, Xia Liang winked, and then Lin Xiaolu reluctantly took out a pair of shoe covers from the shoe cabinet in the entrance and handed them to Hong Siyu: "Here."
"Hehe, then I will respectfully obey your orders, sister."
Taking the pair of shoe covers from Lin Xiaolu, Hong Siyu put them lightly on the square-toed shoes on his feet, and walked into the door of the apartment in front of him with a kind of excitement that others could not understand.
Stepping into Lin Xiaolu's home, she subconsciously looked around, her eyes moving from the dining room to the living room, seeing the dining table, the clock, the cupboard... and then she saw the sofa placed neatly there, and a hint of nostalgia flashed across her face.
It's been a long time indeed.
She talked to herself.
This strange behavior caused Lin Xiaolu to stare at her strangely, and Xia Liang was also a little puzzled. However, out of courtesy, they quickly took Hong Siyu to the living room.
Xia Liang turned around and went to the kitchen to make tea, while Lin Xiaolu pointed casually at the sofa and said nervously, "This is it. Please sit down."
"Are you shy?" Hong Siyu turned around and asked her.
"Nothing."
Lin Xiaolu replied stiffly: "Please don't treat me like a child."
"Being shy isn't really a child's trait."
Hong Siyu found an empty spot on the sofa and sat down casually: "We adults are like this too, right? And we will give ourselves a more serious name, called social phobia."
"…No means no."
"Okay, okay, no."
Hong Siyu smiled rather teasingly, patting the empty seat next to her and saying, "Can you come sit next to me so I can take a good look at you?"
"Hmm..." Lin Xiaolu remained frozen in place, motionless in response to this request.
(End of this chapter)
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