Chapter 19: Strange Friendships

Twenty minutes later, Shen Yin cleaned up the room and set up the tools needed to draw comics. Zhou Fansheng really appeared here on time, he had two cups of coffee in his hand, and he put a cup of coffee on the table in Shen Yin's room, "Thank you, I'm going to start now, you can sit next to me." Shen Yin pointed to one of the two chairs beside her.

"Hmm." He sat down with his coffee.

Shen Yin started drawing in the painting class, and she still drew the novel he wrote. Shen Yin likes to be quiet when she paints, and once she is immersed in it, she will forget about the surroundings.

An hour and a half later, she began to adjust the colors, and when she caught a glimpse of the chair next to her, she saw that he was gone.

After another hour, Shen Yin finally finished the comics that were about to be updated, she stood up and stretched, it was already past ten o'clock in the evening. She walked out of the room and saw that it was dark in the living room, and thought to herself that he was already asleep, so she went to wash.

The next morning, she was woken up by a cell phone alarm, and it was already seven o'clock in the morning. She got up and walked out of the room to see Zhou Fansheng sitting on the sofa reading the newspaper, "Morning! Shen Yin greeted him.

"We'll go have breakfast in a minute." He said lightly, still looking at the newspaper in his hand.

After Shen Yin finished washing, she went back to her room to change into thicker clothes, because she had checked the weather forecast in the morning and there would be moderate snow today. She went out with Zhou Fansheng, and he went to the garage to drive first.

He appeared in front of her in a black Audi A8, and Shen Yin sat in the passenger seat. He drove the car into the underground garage of a café and led her into the café. The style in this café Shen Yin felt a little familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had seen it.

The waiter greeted him warmly, and it was obvious that he was a regular customer here. He chose a quiet corner, and he said to the waiter, "I'm still the same as before." He motioned for the waiter to hand the menu to Shen Yin, and she ordered a salad set.

After they had breakfast, Zhou Fansheng said to her, "I have a ticket for an art exhibition here, are you interested?" ”

"Okay!" Shen Yin readily agreed.

He drove to the city center and stopped at the bottom of a building. Shen Yin saw that there were many people around the door of the art exhibition, most of whom were art-loving literary and artistic youths. He parked his car in the underground parking lot, and at that moment, his cell phone rang. She stood three meters away from him and waited for him.

In less than a minute, he had hung up his phone and walked up to her, "Let's go!" He said with a blank face, and at some point he had already put on a black mask.

Shen Yin followed him and came to the entrance of the art exhibition, where three beautifully dressed girls stood at the door and enthusiastically checked tickets, and not far away, four men in security uniforms were wandering around.

They stood in the middle of the line, and a girl in front of them, about twenty years old, turned her head, stared at him for a few moments, and whispered to the girl next to her.

After ten seconds, the two girls turned their heads and said to him with surprised faces, "Are you Zhou Fansheng?" We liked him so much. ”

He stood awkwardly in place, and the people around him looked at him when they heard the movement.

Shen Yin obviously saw that he was at a loss, hurriedly blocked in front of him, and said with a smile: "You recognized the wrong person, he is not Zhou Fansheng." ”

The girl next to her looked surprised, "No, he obviously looks like Zhou Fansheng himself." ”

"You really recognize the wrong person, he just looks a little similar to Zhou Fansheng." She pulled him towards the ticket gate quickly.

The surrounding crowd began to talk, and one of them shouted at Shen Yin: "Can you let him take off his mask and let us see his true face?" ”

Shen Yin ignored them and continued to walk forward.

Seeing the chaotic scene, the staff at the ticket gate hurriedly made them want to enter, and the security guards next to them quickly came here to maintain order.

She took him to a corner where there were fewer people, and she breathed a sigh of relief, "I didn't expect you to be so popular, and there are your fans everywhere." ”

He stared at her, "Thank you just now!" ”

"It's okay, it's not the first time I've encountered that kind of scene." Shen Yin smiled.

"You?" He looked at her quizzically.

"At that time, I had just started drawing manga, and after I had some fans, I started attending book signing parties all over the world, and I thought that they would like my manga and would like to meet me. But after participating more times, I realized that most people just like to read my comics, and they don't care about me at all, they only care about the comic authors who are more beautiful than me. Since then, I have stopped attending those events and gradually faded out of their sight, but I am happiest that my comics can be loved by them. She leaned against the wall and looked at her shoes, and she saw a portrait of a cat hanging on the wall in front of her and said, "Of course, those are things in the past." She laughed.

Zhou Fansheng stood beside her, was silent for a while, and said: "I feel that I can't write now, I'm really sorry for their enthusiasm." ”

Shen Yin patted him on the shoulder and smiled at him, "Don't worry, someone as good as you will definitely get better soon." She grabbed him by the arm and said, "Let's go shopping, maybe you'll find some inspiration?" ”

They were looking around in this exhibition, and suddenly she saw a familiar figure, and she said to Zhou Fansheng: "I seem to have seen an acquaintance and want to go and say hello, can you wait for me here?" ”

He smiled at her, "I'll wait for you here." ”

Shen Yin patted the man's shoulder, she turned her head and saw Shen Yin smile, "Qinghe, long time no see!" ”

Qing He hugged Shen Yin, "How could I meet you here?" What a surprise. ”

Shen Yin's gaze swept over the man beside her and smiled at her.

Qing He introduced the man beside her, "This is my boyfriend, named Xue Lin." ”

Shen Yin stretched out his hand, greeted him, and introduced himself, "My name is Shen Yin, and we are friends." ”

Qinghe gestured to Xue Lin with his eyes, and Xue Lin immediately understood and left.

Although Qinghe is Shen Yin's editor, they met as early as four years ago, at that time they had just graduated from college, and Shen Yin also applied for the same position in the same company as her, but Shen Yin was unsuccessful, so Qinghe started from the bottom position of the editorial department and was promoted to the position of deputy editor in three years. Shen Yin likes to draw comics, and has been cooperating with this company since signing a contract with the editor-in-chief of this editorial department, and after Qinghe was promoted a year ago, he began to be in charge of Shen Yin's works.

Qing He smiled and said, "Shen Yin, how have you gotten along with that Zhou Fansheng recently?" ”

Shen Yin looked at Zhou Fansheng's location and motioned to her, "He's there, do you want to meet?" ”

"Well, I'm curious about him too, after all, he's so famous."

Shen Yin took her to Zhou Fansheng's side, and Qing He happily stretched out his hand to him, "Hello, I'm Qing He, we should know each other, but we haven't met." ”

He politely returned the salute and shook his hand.

Qinghe smiled and said, "Mr. Zhou, I'm looking forward to your next work." ”

"Well, I'll get it done as soon as I can." Zhou Fansheng replied politely, "Why don't I have a treat today, let's sit together?" ”

Qinghe looked at Shen Yin apologetically, and said with a smile: "I'm sorry, I just made an appointment with my boyfriend today, let's go another day." ”

"Okay, we'll see you another day." He still replied politely.

Qinghe took out his mobile phone, "Mr. Zhou, Shen Yin, let's take a group photo." ”

Zhou Fansheng was the tallest of the three, so he took a photo with Qinghe's mobile phone.

Qinghe said goodbye to them happily and left.

"You signed a contract with the 'Guangxue' company?" Shen Yin heard his conversation with Qinghe and thought that he was also a writer signed by the 'Guangxue' company. The company is the company where Qinghe works, and this company is involved in a wide range of fields, including not only the distribution of paper publications, but also e-reading and large-scale exchange forums in the Internet Literature Center.

"No, I'm just a contributing writer for the 'Guangxue' company, and I don't belong to any company." He whispered, "So far, I've worked with 10 publishing companies. ”

Shen Yin was shocked when she heard this, "How many novels have you published?" ”

"I don't quite remember please, I'll take you to visit my study when I get home." He said casually.

They walked around the exhibition for an hour, and Shen Yin saw that he had a soft spot for a painting and stared at it for a long time. It depicts a little black-haired girl in a red kimono walking on the snow with clogs at her feet, and two or three red flowers blooming on it.

She walked up to her gently, afraid of disturbing him, and just looked at his back. Suddenly, an idea flashed through her mind, and she filmed the scene with her phone.

"You like this painting?" She asked softly.

"Where do you think you've seen this painting?" He said, still staring at the painting.

Shen Yin saw that the signature on the painting was "Yaya", and she happened to see a staff member who was a young girl, so she called her here, pointed to the painting and asked her about the author of the painting.

The girl glanced at it and smiled apologetically, "I'm sorry, we collected this painting, and there is no information about the author, so I'm very sorry." ”

"It's okay, thank you!" Shen Yin said politely to the girl.

Zhou Fansheng pointed to the painting and said, "Hello, I want to buy this painting." ”

"Okay, please wait." The girl took the picture down, "Sir, please come with me over here." ”

They came to the counter with the girl, and after paying the money, they left the place directly.

When they came out of the exhibition, it was already snowing lightly.

Shen Yin sat in the car and saw a Ferris wheel from the window. This Ferris wheel is much bigger than the one in the county seat, and she wants to go there with Wang Mengliang in the future.

Zhou Fansheng drove straight home, and as soon as he entered the door, he took the painting into his room, as if he had forgotten that there was another person beside him.

Shen Yin just sat on the sofa and took a sip of hot water, he suddenly walked out, picked up his wallet from the sofa, took out a card from it and said to her: "There is money in this card, the password is my birthday, you can eat lunch by yourself, it's best not to disturb me." He went back to his room and locked the door.

Shen Yin put the card on the coffee table, rested for a while, and then packed up yesterday's garbage, prepared to go to the supermarket later, and threw the garbage downstairs by the way.

She came downstairs, the snow was already falling, she rubbed her hands together, and walked to the trash can with the garbage.

A 60-year-old man was picking up the garbage next to the garbage can with a scarf wrapped around her head, and a thin layer of snow had fallen on her body. Shen Yin put a plastic bag containing a take-out box next to the old man, and threw the other bag directly into the trash, "Auntie, I've already packed this bag, you can take it!" ”

The old man turned his head and smiled at her, "Thank you!" ”

Shen Yin put her hand in her pocket, and the figure of her grandmother came to her mind.

She went to the supermarket to buy some snacks and ingredients, and when she went out, she saw a bubble tea shop and went in to buy a cup of hot milk. At this time, the snow had begun to accumulate a thin layer on the ground, leaving a trail of footprints behind Shen Yin.

When she came back, she saw that the old man was still next to the trash can, Shen Yin handed the hot milk in her hand to the old man, and left.

The old man looked at her back and smiled.

Shen Yin returned home, took off the hat on her head, shook the snowflakes on her clothes, and hung her coat on the hanger. She sorted her purchases in the fridge, boiled a pot of hot water, and began to wash the ingredients she had bought, intending to make a hearty lunch.

In order to avoid disturbing him with the noise made during the stir-frying, she avoided stir-frying and bought some ingredients that were easy to make soup or steam.

After two and a half hours, she finally cooked her meal. She made a dumpling with pumpkin soup and mushroom greens

She walked lightly to the door of Zhou Fansheng's room, hesitated for a while, and still planned not to disturb him. She left a dumpling and put it in the fridge, and after eating it herself, she cleaned up the kitchen and got to work.

When she finished drawing a chapter, she stood up and moved her body to the bedroom window, where she found that she could clearly see the surroundings of the trash can downstairs. She saw that the road outside had turned white, and inadvertently took out her phone to look at the weather forecast, which showed that it would snow all the time today and would be sunny tomorrow.

She went out of the room and went to the bathroom, and saw that Zhou Fansheng had come out, and he was sitting on the sofa playing with his mobile phone.

"Zhou Fansheng, do you want to eat? I made dumplings. She asked, walking behind the couch where he was sitting.

"Hmm." He was still looking down at his phone.

Shen Yin took out the remaining dumplings from the refrigerator, and some of the pumpkin soup just now was still in the pot, and she went to the kitchen to heat these things.

After she cooked the dumplings, the pumpkin soup was also hot. She brought them to the table and called him over for dinner.

Zhou Fansheng sat at the dining table, looked at her and said, "Why don't you eat?" ”

Shen Yin waved his hand, "I've already eaten it just now, you can eat it slowly." ”

She walked past him, and Zhou Fansheng grabbed her arm and said, "Sit down and eat together." ”

She sat down next to him and filled herself half a bowl of pumpkin soup.

After they had eaten, Shen Yin stood up and was about to put away the dishes, and he said to her gently, "I'll come!" ”

She sat down on the couch and started watching TV. Shen Yin doesn't like to watch TV very much, as long as she stares at the TV for a long time, she will be sleepy, she lies on the sofa and pills her head on a cushion. After a while, she fell asleep with her eyes closed.

When she opened her eyes, she found that she had an extra blanket on her body, and Zhou Fansheng was sitting opposite her typing, with a notebook on his lap.

She watched his focused expression, her eyes always focused on the computer screen. She sat up gently, put the blanket aside, and went to the bathroom.

When she came out, she saw him put the notebook on the coffee table, "Shen Yin, are you going to the movies?" ”

"Oh, good!" She replied with a smile, glancing at the kitchen and seeing that the contents were neatly arranged.

She handed him the bank card on the coffee table, "You put this card away, I don't need it." ”

He sat on the couch with the card in his hand, with no expression on his face.

She entered the room, changed her clothes and saw him waiting for her in the living room, she smiled at him, "I'm fine!" ”

Zhou Fansheng stood up, wearing a black down jacket, a pair of dark blue pants and a pair of black and white sneakers. He walked at the end, and Shen Yin saw that three centimeters of snow had accumulated on the steps, and stepped on it gently, leaving one of her footprints. It's still snowing outside, and it's already heavier than it was in the afternoon.

Shen Yin looked at his phone, it was already five o'clock in the afternoon, because there was snow everywhere, and the light outside was very bright.

Shen Yin walked beside him, and they walked to the nearby studio. I didn't expect it to snow today, and there were a lot of people who came to watch the movie, Zhou Fansheng went to the self-service ticket machine to get tickets, and she went to line up to buy Coke and popcorn.

He took the snack in Shen Yin's hand and took her hand to line up to check the ticket. As soon as they sat down, a boy next to them accidentally poured Coke on Shen Yin's clothes, and the boy's mother hurriedly took out a tissue and apologized.

Shen Yin smiled: "It's okay, I'll just wipe it myself." "She wore a knee-length navy blue down jacket today, and the Coke poured on it was quickly diluted, and the color was not recognizable.

The boy next to him looked at Shen Yin with teary eyes, Shen Yin handed him the popcorn and comforted him: "It's okay, don't cry, come and eat some popcorn." ”

The boy took the popcorn and didn't cry.

The boy's mother was apologetic and insisted on compensating her for the dry cleaning of her clothes, but Shen Yin had no choice but to accept it.

After watching it for twenty minutes, Shen Yin kept yawning, but she saw Zhou Fansheng watching it with relish. Shen Yin gently lowered the chair and leaned back to doze.

In her sleepy eyes, she felt someone gently shake her arm, and she opened her eyes to meet his, "Is it over?" She asked, looking around at the people still seated.

"No, I want to go back." He said lightly.

Shen Yin turned on the phone and looked at the time, only forty minutes had passed. Zhou Fansheng had already stood up and walked towards the aisle.

His seat was just close to the aisle, and Shen Yin also stood up and followed him out of the theater, "Don't you like watching this movie?" She asked him.

"No, there are too many people." He whispered.

As they walked outside, the snow was still falling in the sky, and the fog had already begun to fall. Shen Yin wore a pair of mid-heel boots and stepped on the snow, making a 'creaking' sound. The park has been covered with a layer of snow, and several children are stepping on the open space and having snowball fights.

Shen Yin looked at them and suddenly smiled, she remembered that when she was young, she liked to leave her own small footprints on the blank snow, and her mother would often remind her to be safe and be careful of slipping.

Zhou Fansheng walked beside her, looked at her and asked, "What are you laughing at?" ”

"Have you ever built a snowman?" She asked him rhetorically, but did not answer his question.

"Nope."

Shen Yin grabbed a handful of snowflakes from a branch, pinched them into a small snowball, and smashed them on his clothes, "Do you want to play with the snow for a while?" She smiled at him.

Zhou Fansheng also pinched a handful of snow and held it in his hand, "Aren't you sleepy?" ”

"But I'm not sleepy now." Shen Yin laughed and ran to a clearing.

He watched as the snowball in his hand gradually turned into water, and finally threw it on the ground, and he walked in the direction of Shen Yin.

Shen Yin left many of her own footprints in the open space without any footprints. Zhou Fansheng had been standing there, looking at her.

When Shen Yin was tired, she walked to him, there were already a lot of snowflakes on her hair, Zhou Fansheng shook the snowflakes on the hat on her clothes, brushed off the snow from her hair, and put the hat on her head.

"Thank you!" She turned her head and smiled at him.

When he saw that her nose was red, he took her hand and said, "Let's go back quickly!" ”

"Well, it's too cold outside!" Shen Yin glanced at those footprints, "When I wake up tomorrow morning, the outside is really white." ”