Banyan City in spring, flowers are blooming, catkins are fluttering. Even the big yellow dog on the street is immersed in the beauty of this spring day, with its eyes closed and its head tilted, as if feeling the soothing of the spring breeze, listening to the joy of the birds, and absorbing the fragrance of flowers and plants......

However, there is one person who is in a hurry and has no intention of falling in love with spring. She walked to the door of a dilapidated community, looked up at the house number, and then took out her mobile phone and dialed a call: "Hello, is it Lao Li?" Well, I'm Yun Xizi, I'm at the gate of your community, please take the doll out, thank you!"

After ten or so minutes, there was a sound of tapping and tapping from far and near, and the person who came was a sloppy old man of fifty or sixty years old, who slowly walked towards Yun Xizi with his steps. Yun Xizi looked at him, no, he should have looked at a doll he was holding in his hand, his eyes were bent.

It was a very old and dirty doll, covered in coarse red and black fuzz, only the fuzz on the chest and soles of the feet, as well as the brim and ball of the hat, were white, but they had turned gray and even black in some places. The face and hands are made of rubber, and except for the hands, the whole body and head are stuffed with cotton, which is no longer soft after too much time. There were some small scratches on the rubber, and the red oil paint on the mouth also fell off a little, as if the lipstick had been rubbed off. This is a standard post-80s rubber doll, which was the most popular doll of that era and the playmate of countless post-80s childhood. However, over time, this style of doll has been completely eliminated. This doll is very similar to the one Yun Heezi had when she was a child, the only difference is that this doll has two cute dimples, which makes its smile even more cute and realistic.

"Well, it's this doll, see if it's what you're looking for. Lao Li handed the doll to Yun Xizi, who took the doll, held the back of the doll's head with one hand like a baby, lifted its waist with the other, and looked at it carefully.

"Well, it looks pretty much the same as in the photos, but it's a little dirty. As he spoke, he wiped the doll's rubber face with his hand and patted the doll's fluffy head.

"Oh, how can the things picked up in the garbage heap be clean, you can just take it back and wash it!" Lao Li said speechlessly.

"Well, how much are you going to sell it to me?" Yun Xizi asked, holding the doll in her arms.

“2...... 280 Okay. Lao Li said humbly.

"280! A brand-new doll is not so expensive, Lao Li, you are not kind, I am a regular customer of Lao Zhang, how can you cooperate after you extort bamboo like this?" Yun Xizi pouted and said indignantly.

"Then, do you say a lot of money?" Lao Li scratched his head and said, after all, it was the first time he encountered such a deal, and Lao Li really had no bottom in his heart.

"200!" Yun Xizi said confidently, "You little girl is bargaining all the time, this doll is what I worked so hard to find." Lao Li was not satisfied with Yun Xizi's counteroffer, and frowned and said.

"I saw it by accident when I was picking up garbage, right? Who would want this kind of doll except for a nostalgic person like me, and she wouldn't want it for your own granddaughter. Yun Xizi pursed his lips.

"Oh, 200 is too low, 250. Lao Li wanted to raise the price a little, "Lao Li, don't scold people like this, the doll will be returned to you, I will find Lao Zhang and let others help me find it!" Yun Xizi finished speaking, stuffed the doll into Lao Li's hand, and made a gesture to turn around and leave.

"Oops, 210 alright. Lao Li was embarrassed, in order not to lose this business, Lao Li simply lowered it by another forty yuan.

“205。 Yun Xizi turned around as she spoke, "Okay, good, 205." After speaking, he handed the doll to Yun Xizi again, for fear that Yun Xizi would regret it.

"Hey, hey, good!" Yun Xizi took the doll and took out the money. "Lao Li, I really need this type of doll, if you find this kind of doll in the future, contact me directly. "Yun Xizi is quite satisfied with this price.

"This kind of doll is almost extinct, and I was lucky enough to come across it, so I sold you for 280, which is not expensive at all......" Lao Li took the money and was still muttering, regretting that the price was lower.

"Hehe, then I'm leaving, bye!" Yun Xizi hurriedly flashed while holding the doll, for fear that Lao Li would regret it.

Yun Xizi carried the doll through several streets and came to the University Town Commercial Street next to Rongcheng Normal University. This commercial street was built next to the Normal University, and it used to be just a country road with half fields and half low houses, but because of the emergence of the Normal University, this country road has become a large-scale commercial street. Although the sparrow is small, although the scale of the streets of the university town is not large, it has everything: food, clothing, hotels, cinemas, KTV...... At the end of the street, there is a shop that looks unique, different from the gray walls and green tiles of other shops, this shop is decorated in a European style, with delicate carved doors and windows that make people shine, gray-blue walls reveal a little nostalgic atmosphere, and the wrought iron wall lamps at the entrance tell ancient stories...... The windows are filled with all sorts of nostalgic antique dolls, and the signs read "Bustling". Walking to the door of the small shop, Yun Xizi took out the key and opened the door of the store.

"Wangwang!" a round Bichon ran out and pounced in front of Yun Xizi.

"Oh, wait a minute, I'll wait for Ma Ma to put things away and then I'll hug you. Yun Xizi bypassed the Bichon and put the backpack and doll on the counter.

"Ice cream, are you keeping a good store?" asked Yun Xizi as he took the Bichon into his arms and rubbed his round head.

"Wangwang!" The Bichon called Ice Cream screamed a few times as if in response to Yun Xizi, and then arched into Yun Xizi's arms, as if he was coquettish. After Yun Xizi raised the ice cream a few more times, he put it on the ground and let it play on its own.

Yun Xizi walked to the counter, took the newly purchased doll into the inner studio, and then brought the cleaning tools to the workbench. First wet the water with a cotton cloth, carefully wipe the doll's rubber face and rubber hand, and then use a cotton ball to wipe the small gaps such as the finger seams until the stains are not visible, and then wipe them again with alcohol. Then take out a big bag, sprinkle a few handfuls of salt in it, put the doll in it, pinch the mouth of the bag with your hand, and keep shaking. When I took the doll out again, the fluff was already a lot cleaner. Then put the doll on the workbench, sprinkle the edible baking soda on it, rub it constantly until the baking soda is no longer black, and then dip a cotton ball in alcohol and apply it to the doll's fluff little by little. After doing this, the doll is much cleaner, although it is not considered brand new. Yun Xizi was still satisfied with the cleaning work this time, and after holding the doll and examining it back and forth, he put the doll in the window and let it blow the wind.

Rubbing her sore neck, Yun Xizi walked to a cupboard full of many small clothes and wigs, picked out a few sets of clothes and wigs, and then took out a set of oil paint tools, and then hugged the doll over, changed her into a white lace princess dress, and put on a brown curly hair. The dressed doll seems to have come to life, exuding full vitality.

Yun Xizi stood in front of the dressing mirror with the doll in her arms, looking left and right, "Do you like this outfit?" she looked down at the doll.

"Wow!" Ice Cream suddenly cried, "What's wrong?" Yun Xizi looked back suspiciously, and the moment she turned around, the doll in the mirror suddenly blinked, and then grimaced at Ice Cream.

"Woo woo woo ......" Ice Cream was frightened by this sudden grimace, and ran away with her tail between her legs, leaving Yun Xizi to look at the running dog shadow with a confused expression.

"It seems that the wig is a little bigger, and you are a Chinese doll, this outfit is too Western-style, and it doesn't suit you very well. Yun Xizi, who came back to his senses, discovered the inadequacy of this outfit, changed the doll into a satin embroidered cheongsam, and put on a wig that was combed into two twisted braids.

"Do you like this now?" The doll instantly changed from a little European princess to a girl in the Republic of China. Yun Xizi playfully swayed the doll's braids up and down, looking at her masterpiece in the mirror rather proudly.

Suddenly, Yun Xizi pouted when she saw the doll in the mirror, "Huh", Yun Xizi rubbed her eyes, "I must have been overusing my eyes recently," she attributed the scene she had just seen to dazzle.

"Do you think this outfit is a bit outdated?" Yun Xizi seemed to feel that the doll didn't like this outfit, so she changed it into a pink jumpsuit with hello kitty, with a bob wig, and a pink hairband tied with two hairballs, and the national girl became a vitality little Lori again.

"You like it now, right? Yun Xizi seemed to see that the doll in the mirror smiled brighter and the dimples were deeper, so he decided that the doll liked this outfit.

Yun Xizi turned the doll to face herself, and then dipped her paintbrush in red oil paint and applied it to the doll's painted lips to repair its lipstick.

"OK, it's perfect now. Yun Xizi was very satisfied with his masterpiece, and poked his finger at the doll's dimples and said: "My name is Yun Xizi, and I will be your sister in the future, I will call you Xixi, I used to have a doll called Xixi, which is very similar to you." ”

After saying that, he put Hee Hee in a cabinet with a sign that read "Not for sale, just for viewing!" In addition to Xixi, there are several rubber plush dolls similar to Xixi in this cabinet, but the quality is not as good as Xixi. These dolls were all bought by Yun Xizi from various sources, some were bought from a certain treasure, and some were bought from old toys that others had not lost, but most of them were bought from the rags. These dolls have all been discontinued, and it may be that this one is the only one in the world, although tattered and tattered are not valuable, but for Yun Xizi and those antique doll collectors, they are treasures, childhood memories, so they will not be sold easily.

In addition to these rubber dolls, various other nostalgic dolls in antique doll stores, as well as toys, can be sold. Yun Xizi picked up these abandoned dolls through various channels, cleaned and disinfected them, sewed and renovated, and put them in his carefully renovated small shop, not so much to make money with them, but to give them a new place to live, otherwise they would be cleaned up as garbage.

This store has been open for two years, and business has been very quiet, after all, although there are many nostalgic people, but there are few people who pay for memories, plus the store decoration and the purchase of equipment for dolls have spent a lot, so the book is still in deficit. Fortunately, the location is good, next to the university, and the decoration style is unique, even if there are few people who buy, but there are many people who see it, which also makes "bustling" a little famous in this area, and occasionally there are tour groups that will lead a team to visit here.

As for why she opened such a store, for Yun Xizi, this is a dream she has had since she was a child. Because her parents have been doing business in other places all the year round, Yun Xizi has lived with her grandmother since she was a child, and she has no brothers and sisters, only a high-walled compound. Because Yun Xizi has a congenital heart disease, although it is not serious, it cannot be ignored, so her grandmother took very strict care of her, did not let her go out casually, and did not let her do strenuous exercise, except for a few friends in the neighborhood, she had almost no other friends. Most of the time, Yun Xizi plays with her dolls, and occasionally paints the scenery and things around her, so dolls can be regarded as the best companion of her childhood.

As she grew older, her grandmother put away many of her toys, because she was afraid that she would "lose her mind with playthings", Yun Xizi felt more lonely at this time, and with physical factors, the whole person was relatively quiet. She hopes that she can grow up quickly, and then build a doll house and buy a lot of dolls to accompany her.

And Yun Xizi, who is so lonely and quiet, is a well-behaved girl in the eyes of others, and has also become what everyone often calls "someone else's child". Although the grades are not top-notch, they are relatively good in all aspects, and they are quiet and obedient, so they are more pleasing to the elders, so after graduating from Rongcheng Normal University, they successfully became a counselor for freshmen. However, such an enviable job is indeed a trouble for Yun Xizi. She is quiet, likes to do things alone, and generally does not participate in group activities. And the job of a counselor is to deal with a group of people, and a group of adolescent boys and girls. Whenever she stood on the podium in the big classroom, the buzzing noise below made her feel a pain in her head.

In addition, it is a normal university, there are more girls and fewer boys, if there is a duck at the top of three women, then the girls of a department are equivalent to a duck farm, and she is a duck breeder.

"Teacher Yun, the toilet is blocked, what should I do?"

"You're throwing sanitary napkins in the toilet again, aren't you?"

"Eh, people are slippery......"

"Hey, I'll contact the workers to deal with it. ”

"Teacher Yun is the best, Mo Da!"

"Teacher Yun, the food in the cafeteria is so unpalatable, you can go and give advice to the school leaders. ”

"Heheda, do you know who the owner of the canteen is?"

"Who?"

"The principal's brother-in-law. ”

"Hehe!"

"Teacher Yun, I'm here for my aunt, can you help me ask for leave from the physical education teacher?"

“Why me？”

"I'm sorry!"

"Am I embarrassed?"

"You're a counselor, Moda!"

"Woooooooooo......oo Teacher Yun, I am out of love and I want to take a few days off. ”

"Hehe, I also want to take a leave of absence. ”

"What's wrong? You're out of love, too?"

"As a college counselor, my students have experienced the sweetness and sorrow of love, but I have not, which of us do you think is more miserable?

"Forehead ......"

"Teacher Xizi!" A tall thin boy in a men's jersey chased after him, looking at him sweating profusely and looking sunny, Yun Xizi couldn't remember who he was. But that's not the point, the point is that the title of "Teacher Xizi" makes her very uncomfortable, and she has goosebumps all over her body after someone else secretly touched her hair.

"This classmate, what's the matter with you? You don't seem to be from our department. Yun Xizi looked at the comer blankly.

"Teacher Xizi, I am Wen Zhe from the Department of Physical Education, last time our Teacher Zhong asked for leave, it was you who came to give us the name. The boy wiped the sweat from his forehead and said to Yun Xizi.

"And then?" Yun Xizi tilted his head and continued to look at him blankly.

"You don't seem to have a boyfriend yet, do you?" Wen Zhe smiled and showed a mouthful of healthy white teeth.

"Your insight is good, and then what?" In fact, Yun Xizi silently complained in her heart: Even students from other departments know that she is single, is the single dog mark on her body so obvious?

"I want to chase you!" Wen Zhe scratched his head, looked at Yun Xizi with a slight shyness and smiled.

"What?" Yun Xizi was taken aback, "Classmates, 80% of our school are girls, and the average age is about 18 years old...... If it is because of the heavy schoolwork that you have an aesthetic deviation, I will suggest to you Teacher Zhong to relieve your pressure on your schoolwork; if you are not yet used to the lifestyle of the university, you will be asked to find comfort in me, it doesn't matter, you will get used to it after a few months of adaptation to campus life. Yun Xizi thought that he had come up with a qualified counselor's way of responding.

However, things don't always go the way the script goes.

"Hahaha! Mr. Xizi, you are so funny, you really surprised me. After listening to Yun Xizi's "counselor-style enlightenment", Wen Zhe not only did not retreat from the difficulty, but smiled so much that he couldn't see his teeth.

Seeing that Wen Zhe's face was full of white teeth, Yun Xizi silently wiped his sweat in his heart: Will the male students of the Normal University become abnormal because they have been in a place where yin and yang are declining for a long time?

"I'm chasing you!" After speaking, Wen Zhe patted Yun Xizi's head, ran away, ran a few steps and turned around and threw a wink at Yun Xizi, which suddenly made Yun Xizi's goosebumps pop up again.

Since that day, the plot has developed towards the route of "the domineering president falls in love with me". A bouquet of flowers every day gives Yun Xizi, who is allergic to pollen, a headache. Then there was the waiting at the door of the classroom, which made the female students in the department release a unique dangerous aura among females to Yun Xizi, because it is said that this classmate Wenzhe is the new school grass and the object of most female business prostitution, so as Yun Xizi, who was pursued by Wen Zhe, became everyone's public enemy, not only was she talked about by other girls, but even the female students in her own department said to her in a weird way: "Teacher Yun, you can't see it, you are so charming, even the school grass has been captured by you." "The biggest headache is that this matter was widely disseminated, and it accidentally reached the principal, although the principal knew Yun Xizi's temperament, but still asked her to pay attention to a little influence.

"Xiaolongbao, I'm going to resign!" Yun Xizi spread out on the bed in the dormitory, turning his head to his colleague and best friend.

"The frequency of your resignation is close to the frequency of your aunt. Xiao Long Bao gnawed on the chicken leg and said without raising his head.

"I was annoyed to death by that Wen Zhe, not only was I regarded as a public enemy by the female students, but even the principal talked to me and asked me to pay attention to the impact, but I didn't do anything, I was innocent, okay, and I didn't let him chase me. Could it be that just because a lump of stool was pulled on the flowers, do you blame the flowers for seducing the stool first?" Yun Xizi rubbed his forehead helplessly.

"Hahahahahaha, what kind of theory do you have? I don't know if you are a flower, but how can someone Wenzhe be pooping! Xiao Long Bao laughed so hard that he almost squirted out the chicken legs.

"I've been given Ling Chi by countless pairs of eyes now, okay?Are you men seeing too little, Wen Zhe can only be regarded as relatively sunny, okay, it's far from the image of a handsome guy in my mind. And I've always felt that his name didn't suit him, I think when his parents named him, they wanted him to be a well-mannered and philosophical person, and he embarked on a path of living on his limbs, it's a pity, it's a pity. Yun Xizi shook his head and sighed.

"Poof!" Xiao Long Bao finally squirted out a mouthful of chicken legs......

Yun Xizi was still in a daze with the girl's eyes and Wen Zhe's stalking, until the news of her grandmother's death came. Grandma is the longest companion of Yun Xizi in her 24 years of life, although her grandmother is very strict, she takes care of Yun Xizi meticulously. Her relationship with her grandmother is even stronger than that with her parents, so for Yun Xizi, her grandmother's death is like a hole in her heart, and after bleeding, it becomes barren and empty.

After a month in her hometown, she resigned from her school and started an antique doll shop. At the beginning, her grandmother had high expectations for herself, so she chose to stay in school as a counselor, but now that her grandmother is gone, these are meaningless, and she decided to be willful for once. Yun Xizi sold several properties left to her by her grandmother in her hometown, and then bought a shop in the university town, which later became "bustling".

Although her parents couldn't understand what she was doing, out of guilt and pampering, they didn't object, and even invested in three shops in better locations around the "bustle" in her name, so that she could be a charter wife, in case the store was not well run and she could not support herself. The parents who have been in business all the year round are really more far-sighted, and in the case of a "bustling" deficit for two years, and may still be in deficit in the future, relying on the rent of those three shops, Yun Xizi's small life is still quite nourishing.

As night approaches, the university town is becoming more and more lively, and those hormones that have nowhere to be placed are scattered in all corners of the university town.

Yun Hee-ja locked the shop after dinner, and went back to the upstairs nest with ice cream and Hee-hee. Because she was lazy, after buying this shop, she changed the second floor into a one-bedroom apartment, so that she only had to go downstairs when she opened the store.

Looking at the flickering lights outside the window and the crowd of people, her heart was extremely peaceful, and she even felt that she was out of place with everything in the outside world, but she was at ease. She carried Hee Hee to the bed, prepared a small pillow and a small quilt for her, and then patted it like a child and slowly fell asleep...... In the dream, Yun Xizi dreamed of the doll Hee Hee from her childhood again, and the Hee Hee said to Yun Heezi: "I won't come again in the future, you want to be happy!"

Ever since she went to college and her grandmother threw away the old Hee-hee behind her back, Yun Hee-jae would dream of that Hee-hee every once in a while. It's like an obsession, so she has been looking for the doll that most resembles that Xixi, until she met the doll she brought home today, and she let go of this obsession.

The moon gradually shone out of the clouds, and grew brighter and brighter, giving a faint light to the night. In this sleeping room, Doll Xixi blinked slowly, and after a gentle glance at Yun Xizi, she quietly got up.

"Woo ......" ice cream found the bustling movement,

"Shhhhhhhhhh

"Good dog," Hee Hee touched the ice cream's head again, looked back in the direction of the bed, and then staggered to the window with his feet on his feet.

Pulling the curtain open a gap, Xixi leaned on the windowsill and stretched out his head to look downstairs. Even though it was the middle of the night, the streets were still full of people, and under the flickering street lamps, people's shadows overlapped and intertwined, sometimes stretched, sometimes shortened, like a group of twisted monsters of the night. On top of this group of night monsters, a slender shadow was overlapped, and the owner of the shadow stepped on these night monsters and slowly walked towards the "bustle".

Hee-hee doesn't seem to be a stranger to the owner of this shadow, and when he walked downstairs to the "bustling" building, Hee-hee was so frightened that he retracted his head. As if he could sense Hee-hee's existence, the owner of the shadow suddenly looked up at the window, his cold eyes were like sharp blades, penetrating all barriers, pointing directly at Hee-hee, and Hee-hee was so frightened that he quickly hid under the covers.