After entering the door in the dark, Lin Xi shouted into the living room.

"Dad, I'm back."

There was no reaction, Lin Xi was thinking about whether there was no one at home, but as soon as he turned on the light, there was a person lying on the sofa, which startled him.

Father Lin Shu was drunk, under the light, you can see that he is almost half-white hair, due to frequent drinking, his facial lines have become thick and deep, there are a few green tendons on his forehead that are stimulated by the power of alcohol are bulging, his mouth is snoring, and he keeps blowing out of the wine.

I don't know if it was affected by the subconscious of this body, Lin Xi didn't have any disgust for the drunk man in front of him, but had a faint bitterness.

Lin Shu's age is about the same age as Ni Yu that Lin Xi met in the restaurant during the day, Ni Yu is a little fat when he is middle-aged, but his hair is still black, this comparison shows Lin Shu's downfall.

Lin Xi sighed softly, went back to the bedroom and brought a blanket to help Lin Shu cover it, put a glass of water on the coffee table next to him, and then walked into the study silently.

This night, the lights in Lin Xi's study were on until dawn.

Early the next morning, Lin Xi was woken up by a slight sound in the living room, and after waking up, he first moved his arm that was numb when he was sleeping on his stomach, and then looked at the wall clock on the wall, it was only 9 o'clock.

Could it be that my father had already woken up so early?

With such doubts, Lin Xi walked out of the study.

In the living room, Lin Shu was still lying on the sofa and falling asleep, and a woman with a mop was cleaning the room next to her, and she was surprised to see Lin Xi coming out of the study.

"Xi Zai, it turns out that you are at home, I thought you were ......" The other party glanced at the study behind Lin Xi, his expression was a little strange.

According to the memory in this body, Lin Xi quickly recognized that this was Chen's mother, the nanny she had hired at home before.

Lin Xi's mother went early, and Lin Shu was a big man who didn't know how to take care of children, so when Lin Xi was very young, he invited Chen's mother to be a nanny at home.

This mother is a strong single mother, her husband died of illness shortly after she became pregnant, she not only has to pull her daughter to grow up, but also has to take care of her elderly mother-in-law, so she often works several jobs by himself, working as a nanny during the day and a chef in a restaurant at night.

After Lin Shu learned about Chen's mother's experience, he raised her salary to twice the original, of course, this money was a small meaning for Lin Shu at that time, not so much kindness, but rich and capricious, but this really helped Chen's mother and her family a lot.

Chen's mother is very grateful to Lin Shu, more than a year ago, Lin Shu's economy had problems, and even supporting himself has become a problem, so naturally she can't continue to hire Chen's mother as a nanny, but Chen's mother still comes to the house regularly every week to help do some cleaning work, which can be regarded as a kind of reward for Lin Shu's help over the years.

"Last night I was writing something, I lost track of time, and I fell asleep on the table for some reason...... By the way, Mama Chen, are you resting today? ”

Mother Chen was even more surprised when she heard this, because in her impression, Lin Xi had never entered that room a few times since she was a child, let alone stayed in it for so long.

"Yesterday my Amin piano passed grade 10, I took a day off today to celebrate her, and then there was nothing to do in the morning, so I came over to see if there was anything I could do here." With that, Chen's mother bent down and began to continue mopping the floor.

"Mother Chen, let's do it with me."

Lin Xi stepped forward and wanted to take the mop from Chen's mother's hand, but was rejected by the other party.

"You grew up watching me, you haven't done any housework since you were a child, you can't do this kind of thing, just leave it to me."

Having said that, but Chen's mother was really surprised in her heart, not to mention that Lin Xi took the initiative to help herself do something, and it was difficult to hear even a word of thanks from his mouth.

I haven't seen him for a few days, and I always feel like this kid is a different person.

Noticing the strange expression in Chen's mother's eyes when she occasionally looked at her, Lin Xi suddenly realized that what she had just done was very different from the appearance of the previous owner of this body, no wonder it aroused suspicion.

In order to divert Chen's mother's curiosity, Lin Xi deliberately diverted the topic.

"Mother Chen, this point really makes you right, I really don't have the material to do these things...... Yesterday I got a job washing dishes in a restaurant, but after a night of washing, I couldn't straighten my waist, so I quit that job. ”

"You went out and got a job on your own?"

Chen's mother stopped what she was doing, stood up straight with the mop in her hand, and looked at Lin Xi with an expression of disbelief.

"Did you go out and look for a job on your own?"

"So what?" Lin Xi shrugged helplessly, "I can't read anymore, and then my dad is like this now, I can't sit back and eat, right?" ”

Mother Chen bit her lip excitedly and nodded, the corners of her eyes couldn't help but be a little moist, after taking care of Lin Xi for so many years, this child has finally grown up and is sensible.

"You haven't suffered much since you were a child, and it's really not easy to adapt to this kind of thing at once, but I think it's good that you can have this heart. I think the most important thing for you is to study hard, your dad has so many friends, you can go to them for help, this school can't go on, you can go to other schools, children like you, going to college in the future is the right thing. ”

Lin Xi smiled gratefully at Chen's mother, but as a person who had crossed over, it was a complete waste of time to go back to school to study.

Chen's mother continued to mop the floor, and Lin Xi didn't really hold her hands and watch, but helped carry water, twist the mop or something, and soon the messy house was cleaned up.

At the gate, Chen's mother stopped Lin Xi, "Okay, just send it here, I'll see when I have time to come over and wipe the glass next week." ”

Lin Xilian said no, but Chen's mother didn't care about this, waved her hand and left.

Closing the door and returning to the living room, Lin Shu continued to fall asleep, looking at it like this, he probably wouldn't wake up until the afternoon.

After staying up all night last night, my wrist was sore, and there were only more than 10,000 words on the final manuscript paper, which made Lin Xi begin to miss the era of computer typing in the future.

There is an old-fashioned Chinese typewriter in Lin Shu's study, but Lin Xi is not used to that thing at all, and it is better to write by hand.

Originally, it should be very fast to "silently write" the content in his memory, but Lin Xi was used to writing simplified characters, and it was a little uncomfortable to change it to traditional Chinese all of a sudden, so it was better after slowly writing smoothly.

It's just that when he thought that Ni Yu could write 4,500 words in an hour, Lin Xi felt that his speed was really as slow as a turtle crawling.

Putting aside these miscellaneous thoughts, Lin Xi yawned, turned around and prepared to go back to his room to catch up on sleep.

But at this moment, the doorbell suddenly rang.

Lin Xi thought that Chen's mother had something left here and came back to pick it up, but when the door opened, he was stunned.

Standing at the door was not Chen's mother, but a middle-aged man in a suit and black-rimmed glasses.

Seeing that it was Lin Xi who came to open the door, the middle-aged man's tense face barely had a smile.

"What's wrong, Xizai, don't know me anymore?"

After a brief moment of astonishment, Lin Xi finally found information about the person in front of him from the memory of this body.

"Uncle Ma, why are you here?"

The name of the person is Ma Fangji, Lin Shu's best friend, a Taiwanese book publisher, and Lin Shu's biggest creditor.

Ma Fang saw that Lin Xi's eyes were in focus, obviously distracted, and he was slightly unhappy in his heart.

"What, you're not welcome?"

Lin Xi always felt that the name Ma Fangqi was a little familiar in the memories of later generations, but he couldn't remember where he had heard it for a while, and when he heard this, he immediately realized that he was still blocking the door, and quickly got out of the way.

"Uncle Ma, what are you talking about? Come in! ”

"Yo, when did you become so polite?"

Ma Fangxian glanced at Lin Xi with some surprise and walked in.

As soon as he entered the living room and saw the forest trees lying on the sofa sleeping soundly, Ma Fangxian not only frowned, but also stopped.

He turned his head and asked Lin Xi, who came up after closing the door, and said, "Your dad drank too much last night?" ”

Lin Xi smiled bitterly and nodded.

Ma Fangji sighed, "It seems that my trip today is in vain." ”

Seeing Ma Fangxi's depressed appearance, Lin Xi suddenly thought of something in his heart.

"Uncle Ma, you won't come to my dad to collect debts, will you?"

Seeing Lin Xi's cautious questioning appearance, Ma Fangxian couldn't help laughing.

"Your dad is like this, I just want to find him to pay back, does he still have to pay? Originally, I told him that he had recently brought me a novel, and the money he owed me before was written off, but he is ...... like this now."

Ma Fangxian couldn't help but shake his head when he said this, and didn't continue to speak.

Lin Xi's heart moved, and a very bold idea came to him.

"It turns out that Uncle Ma, you are here to get the manuscript, you sit down first, and I will go and get it for you."