Woodwood Apartments.

The sunset at dusk sprinkled the last touch of fish belly white into the sky, and the scenery in the distance was reflected red.

Lin Chen's fingers aimlessly tapped on the window on the balcony, his body couldn't help but shake rhythmically, the neighbor's rock music rushed into his ears from the open window, and it was still playing endlessly, the sound was turned to the maximum, covering up the noise of the construction site outside, and the shock hit his heart again and again.

Lin Chen was originally a relatively quiet person, and the drawers of his desk were all kept with melodious soft music plates. And today, he suddenly found that he was so obsessed with this crazy music, it seemed to have a healing power, this power could allow him to put away his embarrassed emotions, vent the sadness in his heart, he could be crazy, he could be crazy, there was no heart-rending pain, only hysterical voices and deep and full emotions.

The music finally stopped.

Lin Chen was so tired that he half-collapsed on the sofa by the window, and his legs were cocked.

Looking around, after Xu Aqi's things had been cleaned up by him, the room seemed to be a lot empty, only the picture frame on the desk was still shining with her smiling shadow as before.

His gaze shifted from the photo to the biscuit bucket to the side.

When he opened the lid of the biscuit bucket, Lin Chen found that there were only a few pitiful biscuits left inside.

After Xu Aqi left, Lin Chen's life was like this, and he didn't get along with it, and even eating became an annoyance.

Occasionally think about the past, the days at that time were really happy, eating was a kind of joy and enjoyment, he didn't need to do it, he could eat in the unit canteen, and when he returned home, Xu Aqi would also cook for him. Now, with a person and no job, buying vegetables and cooking day after day has become an extremely troublesome and cumbersome thing, so many times, Lin Chen relies on biscuits and instant noodles to deal with his stomach.

The money is saved, and the things are saved, but Lin Chen's stomach is very uncomfortable.

Months of unemployment made Lin Chen feel overstretched. Lin Chen looked at his watch and decided that he must go out for dinner, go to the restaurant, and taste the taste of gravy and vegetables.

He put the last cookie in his mouth, stood up and patted the crumbs off his clothes.

I was about to go out when I suddenly heard a "ding dong" sound and someone was ringing the doorbell.

"Who?"

"Express!"

Express delivery? I didn't order anything! These days, Lin Chen doesn't even have much access to the Internet, let alone shopping, where does the express delivery come from! Lin Chen hesitated, but still opened the door.

Outside the door, there stood a young man in a black shirt, with handsome features, sneakers, jeans, and a baseball cap that was also black, so low-key that it seemed that no one in the world could see him. But that's it, his height advantage and not tacky aura are still there.

"Did you go to the wrong door?"

It's always an unhappy thing to be innocently disturbed, Lin Chen said a little angrily.

"Are you Mr. Lin Chen?"

"Hmm!"

"This, you sign it!" The young man handed over the pen and the registration book, and pointed to a blank place, "Here, you sign!" ”

"What is this?"

"A gift!"

Lin Chen glanced at the white box that the young man was holding in his arms.

"Mine? Who will send me a gift? ”

"You are Mr. Lin Chen, you can't be wrong!"

Lin Chen gently fiddled with the pen in his hand, "It can't be that you won any prize, right?" Can I have this kind of good luck? However, I haven't bought anything recently, drawn lots, or bought any lottery, so it's unlikely! So, what else could it be? ”

Seeing that Lin Chen hadn't signed for a long time, the young man explained: "It won't be wrong, it's yours, it's a girl who sent it!" We are a company that specializes in providing special services, and don't get me wrong, our special services are not meant to be that way, but to meet the needs of our guests in some of the more special

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Yes, for example, this gift of yours was ordered by a girl, let us send this gift to you! ”

"A girl? How old do you look? ”

Lin Chen hesitated, signed, and took the white square box in the young man's hand. The small box was not large, it was square, and it was very strong with yellow rubber strips wrapped horizontally and vertically, and it was not too heavy on the hand.

Without waiting for the man to answer, Lin Chen continued to ask curiously, "What does she look like?" What is your name? ”

If it's a girl, there must be a reason! Lin Chen's heart suddenly felt a lot more relaxed, and there was a little bit of a feeling of beauty.

"I don't know about this, I'm just in charge of delivery!" The young man said lightly.

Closing the door, Lin Chen found scissors from the drawer, tore off the yellow rubber strip stuck to it, and he didn't open the box immediately.

Who could have sent this?

Why send it to me?

What will it be?

He looked at the box carefully, the box was blank, there was no list of receiving and shipping addresses, phone numbers, names glued to it by ordinary courier companies, and even the name of the intermediary company, service number, and barcode.

Lin Chen regretted that he had just forgotten to ask which special services company that young man belonged to.

He suddenly remembered a newspaper report about someone who received a poisonous substance, opened it, and died of poisoning.

He smiled and shook his head, blaming himself for being too cautious! No way! When pigs fly! So how could bad luck fall on your own head!

It must be

Lin Chen put down the scissors, stood in place for a while, and took the bottle of French brandy from the glass wine cabinet, this wine has been around for some years, or when he was running business, the customer gave it to him, he has not been willing to drink it, and kept it to prepare to taste it slowly with Xu Aqi, but Xu Aqi is not used to this taste, so he has been storing it until now.

Lin Chen uncorked the bottle and carefully poured the wine into the wine glass.

He coughed several times as the grape-red liquid passed through his throat and into his stomach.

His gaze couldn't help but linger on the white box again.

Self-confidence, Lin Chen still has it!

Xu Aqi once said that the corners of his eyes and eyebrows are full of charm, and his smile is unparalleled in his life.

He didn't know how to understand Xu Aqi's words, sometimes a woman's words have to be listened to, and sometimes, they need to be listened to in reverse! If you get it wrong, the consequences are not hard to imagine.

For this reason, he smiled alone in the mirror many times, and finally became convinced of this.

Yes, it must be a girl who is interested in herself!

Just like Xu Aqi at that time, when she prepared a belly, she saw that his tongue began to knot; It was at that time that he worked hard for a person, no matter how perfect he became in front of people, once he met her, everything was in vain.

They are clumsy and shy, because - love!

They studied together, played together, and watched dramas on the sofa together, and time passed shallowly, and no one said those three words.

Until one evening he received a small gift, a portrait of himself in profile.

There is also a line of small characters in the lower left corner: Are this guy and Miss Ben enemies?

Looking at his surprised expression, her eyes smiled into crescent moons, "How is it?" ”

He looked back and forth at the portrait and said, "Me? ”

"Hmmm! Like? ”

"Like! It's like! Did you draw it? When will you be able to draw? Am I that handsome? Paint me so handsome! However, it's really a bit like that! I didn't think you still had the ability to do this! ”

"How's the handwriting?" Xu Aqi tilted her head and blinked deliberately.

"Showy! No! It's Reiki! That's nice! I like it! ”

"To be honest, Bai Meimei helped me draw the painting, but I wrote that small line!"

"I said! I remember that you have always painted cats and tigers, and you know this painting if you draw anything like four things

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You won't be the one who drew it. ”

"What? Run on me? ”

"Nope! How dare you! Besides, your words are even more uplifting! ”

"Hey! Why don't you mention it, you haven't answered my question yet! ”

"Hmmm! That's right! The two of us are enemies, and we were in the last life! Still in this life! As he spoke, he held the painting and admired it, "This painting is really good!" ”

Somehow, a different feeling flashed in Lin Chen's heart, in fact, to be honest, from that moment on, he suddenly had a few curiosity about Xu Aqi's good friend Bai Meimei, and this curiosity only lasted for a few seconds, and was ignored by himself, but it still did not escape Xu Aqi's eyes.

"Hey! What happened to you? What are you thinking? You can't be thinking about that friend of mine, Bai Meimei, right? ”

"Huh? You got it right! ”

"Hehe, don't think about it, people have a master!"

"I just think that the portraits she painted are really level, and she can capture the characteristics of the characters, which is not simple!"

"Well, she can be regarded as a literary fan, according to the current fashion, she is a petty bourgeoisie! He can draw, he can play the piano, and he has thoughts. To be honest, she really shouldn't marry someone like Yang Yuanshan, it's a pity! It's not like me, it's a big grin! If you ask me about the fashionable things of these literary and artistic youths, I can't say it, if you ask me where there is anything delicious, you have found the right person! ”

"Hehe, I'm also interested in eating!"

"I pulled down my old face and asked someone to help draw it, and I also wrote on it with my own handwriting, such a heavy gift, you haven't thanked me yet!"

"Okay, okay! Thank you to my snail girl! ”

"Cut!" Xu Aqi raised her face, and the neon-colored light hit her face, constantly changing colors.

"Aki!" Lin Chen reached out, touched her aconitum soft hair, and asked seriously, "Why don't you be my girlfriend?" ”

Lin Chen clearly remembered that Xu Aqi at that time lowered his head embarrassedly and nodded heavily.

The dark red wine in the glass shook one by one.

Lin Chen spilled the glass of wine on the ground, put down the wine glass, wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes, and his gaze moved to the white box again.

Without Xu Aqi, which girl will give a gift to herself?

Lin Chen picked up the scissors, tore off the last seal in two clicks, opened it, and was startled, almost throwing the box on the ground in shock.

In the box, there is a-

White paper figures.

This kind of paper man, Lin Chen has seen it! It's the kind of paper that is made of white paper and burned to the dead! During the Qingming Festival, there were occasional people selling on the roadside, and Lin Chen hurriedly hid far away, for fear of sticking to bad luck.

Who did this to you!

What a lack of morality!

Lin Chen scolded hatefully in his heart, he calmed his flustered thoughts for a while, and took the paper figure out of the box.

The workmanship of the paper figure is very rough, the white rough paper is glued to the human shape, the nose, eyes, mouth, eyebrows are painted with watercolor dye, and the face is painted with two large red circles, under the background of the white background, like two red plasters, clothes and hair are also painted, especially noteworthy are the eyes, squinting with a smile, as if they have seen it somewhere, and it looks particularly strange at first glance.

Because he had too many similar experiences before, Lin Chen quickly calmed down.

Is this someone cursing themselves?

Or did he really answer the fortune teller's words and his death was approaching?

Since it has been delivered, how can I not accept the gift?

Lin Chen found a piece of red cloth and wrapped the box containing the paper man, which could be regarded as warding off evil spirits! Then it was carefully placed under the bed.

Anyway, it is a death, Lin Chen has long been numb, his stomach is already "growling", the top priority is to eat a beautiful meal, even if he dies tomorrow, he can't be a starving ghost! After changing his clothes, Lin Chen took his mobile phone, went downstairs, and ran to the familiar Xianghe meatloaf shop in three steps and two steps.

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