The Flame of All Things Chapter 61 - Xiao Zhi's Sweet Night (I)
In Comet City, on a nondescript street corner, in a restaurant decorated from the old era, a waitress girl in a tartan fir has just finished cleaning up the last remaining cutlery. In front of the washstand in the bathroom, she took off her gloves, looked up, and brushed the ends of her hair loose on her forehead in the mirror.
I tidied up my makeup a little, put on a burgundy plush coat, and tied a refreshing ponytail on my head.
"Hmm...... Seven points, that guy should have waited a long time, right?. She looked at the cartoon watch in her hand and muttered to herself.
The hands on the cartoon watch with Peppa Pig's stamp point to seven o'clock.
"Dressed up so well again, going to see your boyfriend?" the girl on the side neatly untied her hair.
"Hmm. Xiao Zhi nodded.
"That dumb young man with dyed hair?" Iya glanced at her. The direction of the gaze pointed to the door of the store.
"Ah, have you seen it?" Xiao Zhi was a little surprised.
"I've seen it a long time ago, such a big boy standing there, very handsome, just a little stupid, so cold outside, he won't die when he comes in and sits. ”
"I'll talk to him next time. ”
"Good eye, that boy looks cool, if I didn't know it was your boyfriend, I'd have gone out and accosted him. ”
"Sister Yi, you have won the prize. "The girl named Xiaozhi was a little embarrassed.
"Gone?" asked the girl, who was a few years older than her.
"Well, see you tomorrow. ”
"Good. Sister Yiya responded.
Xiao Zhi stepped on small steps and walked straight through the restaurant. Before she could step out of the glass door, she saw the boy standing in the cold wind constantly puffing into each other.
Stupid, did you forget to use the hand warmer you gave me last time?she thought.
The boy had indeed forgotten about the hand warmer, the temperature in Comet City had dropped so quickly that the pitch-black coat could not cover the palms of his hands. And he didn't have the habit of wearing gloves, I remember that the girl gave him some special hand warmers a few days ago, but he forgot to bring them.
Warm up with your hands, you can't keep kicking your hands in your pockets, otherwise she will say that she is pretending to be cold again.
The boy clumsily warmed his hand with a clay method, until his forehead was flicked and he realized that there was an extra one in front of him.
"Stupid, didn't you use the hand warmer I gave?" asked Xiaozhi.
"Ah...... I forgot to bring it. The boy was a little embarrassed and wanted to reach for the back of his head.
But his hand was grabbed by the girl, and feeling the temperature from the other party's little hand, he suddenly felt that the air was not so cold.
"How's it going?" the girl gripped his hand tightly.
"Well, it's much better. By the way, there's something," the boy smiled.
"What?"
"Did you clock out of work?"
"Oh, I almost forgot. The girl suddenly jumped to her feet, and hurriedly turned around and rushed into the store.
Yiya stood inside and looked at her with a smile, while Xiao Zhi was a little embarrassed at this time. It seems that he was bumped into by Yiya.
"What are you shy, slow down. Iya chuckled.
After hurriedly typing the card, the girl named Xiaozhi ran away with a red face. Only one sentence was left, and gone, Sister Yi.
The girl in the store shook her head with a smile, lamenting that the girl in love was really rough. I don't know if it's the first time she's forgotten to clock in.
"Let's go. The girl rushed out, took the boy's hand, and walked forward.
"Is it so urgent?" the boy wondered.
"Hmm...... Go to a fun place. The girl's face was slightly hot, and she couldn't think of any good reason, so she prevaricated. She can't say it's to avoid the sight of the girls she works with, right?
So the boy followed Xiao Zhi's hand and ran forward in a direction with no destination. The neon-decorated streets in winter are empty, young couples are running, and two scarves, one red and one blue, are mopped to the floor.
Finally, the girl stopped in front of a shopping mall. She gasped for air, and the white mist dispersed in the air.
"Haven't we been here before?" the boy asked.
"Silly, we've never been anywhere here. Xiao Zhi finally regained her breath, and she pulled the boy behind her and walked straight inside.
In fact, she didn't know where she was going, but she came here for some reason. I walked in, and the stupid guy couldn't see it anyway.
The first floor of the mall is full of all kinds of game consoles and crane machines, and all kinds of dolls are lined up and lying there neatly. There are various types of operations such as claw grasping, cutting wires, suction cups, ...... Wait a minute.
"Do you want to play with this?" the boy asked.
"Why, think it's too easy?" said the girl
"Not really, but if you want whichever you want, I can get it. ”
"Bragging. The girl stood on tiptoe and pressed her forehead against the boy's forehead.
"Nope. The boy felt a little innocent. He can really point and grab, he just needs to control the current to keep that mechanical claw from loosening. It's a bit excessive, but boys don't usually do it.
"Then I want that pig. Shiba pointed to Paige lying in the middle of the largest machine.
The doll was almost the size of a man, and the claws of the machine were huge, but it was obviously unrealistic to catch this one.
"The dolls in that machine are all deceitful, how can they be caught. The young mother with the girl on the side kindly reminded.
"Is that so, all right. Shiba smiled kindly at the young mother and teased the little girl.
"We often come here to play, and no one has ever caught that machine, it's all a gimmick put up by the merchants, and it's almost the same to catch these small ones. ”
Xiao Zhi nodded.
But the little boy who heard this stopped doing it, as if he was obsessed, and he pointed to the machine and cried at his parents.
The young mother winked at Xiao Zhi and hurriedly took her girl away. Xiao Zhixin said that this time he was in trouble and brought trouble to other people's parents.
She was about to leave with the big fool, but she couldn't see where the boy was.
Where did you go?, she asked.
There was loud applause from the crowd, and people let out sounds of surprise. Something seemed to be going on ahead, but she just wanted to find the big idiot. Where the hell did he go? It couldn't be that he was lost, right? She thought it wasn't impossible for that guy to get lost.
But she couldn't have imagined it.
The crowd in front of them suddenly gave way to a road.
A Peppa Pig doll about the size of a man slowly walked out of the crowd, and everyone was making way for it, and people's mouths were full of surprise and shouting awesome. Some people even took out their mobile phones to shoot short videos and upload them to the Internet.
Live...... Alive? or the staff of the puppet set.
Until she saw the stupid guy cautiously walking towards her with a doll.
"Hey...... Are you still trying to catch it?" Xiao Zhi was a little incredulous, her hand covering her mouth.
The boy walked towards her step by step, and everyone in the mall aisle couldn't help but look at this place.
Oh my God! What kind of romantic story drama is this, the girls among the couples on the side are tugging at their boyfriends, but those male compatriots are still immersed in admiration for this "great god".
"He's an internal worker, right? This must be a trust!" This is the collective complaint of the male compatriots.
But the girls don't care about this, they only express with their actions that they want such a big doll too. And it was grabbed from a crane machine, not bought from a doll store. It's better to be like this handsome guy, walk out of the crowd majestically and hand it to yourself.
It's so sweet...... Xiao Zhi felt that her face was about to burn.
That guy actually caught it, she thought he was joking, but she didn't expect this stupid guy to really have such a big ability.
"You bribed the mall staff?" Xiao Zhi took the huge Peppa doll in his hand. The soft touch made the girl bury her head in it and rub it violently.
"Nope...... I didn't even know we were here, and wasn't I always by your side?"
"How did you catch it?
“...... This, luck. The boy smiled awkwardly, and the people around him were looking at them, and it would be embarrassing if any of their classmates from the academy saw it.
"I don't believe it, but you're amazing. Xiao Zhi snorted and walked towards the mall with the Peppa doll in his arms.
The boy hurried to follow.
The crowd soon dispersed, but there was a long queue in front of the special crane machine, and the grieving male compatriots could only watch as the giant claw grabbed the doll and released it in the air.
The girls supervised the work on the side.
"Oh my God! That guy must be To."