Chapter 18: An Afternoon at the Sakura Bookstore
This shop has a total of more than 200 square meters, and the owner is a middle-aged aunt with curly hair wearing a plaid apron, and the two clerks take care of the first floor. On each floor there are three square wooden tables, on which are placed several books tucked into wrought iron stands, and frosted glass lamps in the shape of lily of the valley. The checkout counter on the right hand side of the entrance on the first floor is also a place to order drinks and food.
Light music was playing on a loop in the store, and the atmosphere was very quiet, and no one was curious about the pigeon in Wei Xiaoyu's arms, or chasing her to buy a little white snake, although after covering the round cage with a cloth cover, everyone was no longer staring. There are no repairs here to disturb for the time being, and the monsters from the evil world that Mr. Xiao said have never been seen.
It's also quiet with a lot of people around, and it's perfect for reading a book and doing something alone. Wei Xiaoyu ordered a glass of ice pear juice and sat down at a square wooden table near the window on the north side of the second floor. Then she connected her mobile phone to the wireless network in the store, found a sci-fi movie series for Mr. Xiao, connected headphones, turned up the volume, and hung them on the lampshade of the desk lamp, so that Mr. Xiao could lean over and listen to it.
Then she turned on her computer and searched the web for job postings. When the clerk brought her a drink, she saw that she was carrying a pigeon, and after a while she brought a plastic basin with a few pieces of toilet paper in it, telling her that the floor was wooden and that there were books all around, and that if the little pigeon needed "convenience", she could put it in this basin.
Wei Xiaoyu took the pear juice and thanked him, saying, "I can't do it." ”
The clerk put the pot next to her, smiled and said, "It's okay, our boss here also has some birds!" and went to work on himself.
Wei Xiaoyu checked some of the company's background information, and after submitting a few emails, he took out a novel from the book and read it. This novel tells the life of ordinary people after the college entrance examination and college, describing the seemingly calm and boring in real life, as well as the true thinking in the ordinary. After reading more than ten pages of the book in her hand, she rubbed her eyes and stretched, and looked up to see a cute yellow and white little flower dog fluttering on the vermilion wooden beam.
This little flower dog is also a translucent cultivator, the color is very light, but the ruyi lines on the body are very deep. The moth was a living creature, so it couldn't see it, it didn't fly, it just lay down and waited. After observing for a while, Wei Xiaoyu felt very interesting, and a smile unconsciously appeared on his face. "I think it's right here for dinner, are you hungry? She saw that it was getting dark outside, and said to the little gentleman.
The little gentleman sat on the edge of the book, did not look at her, waved his wings and said, "Go, go, go, I'm not hungry!"
Wei Xiaoyu stood up, took the cup he had just drunk and went downstairs to order, the photo area on the wall of the bar was full of photos of small animals, there were three cats, a few dogs, and a few colorful parrots, and in the upper right corner there were a few photos of the little flower dog upstairs, taken at home, on the grass, in the woods, and with the boss lady.
Seeing her staring at the photo wall, the proprietress smiled and said, "These are all my treasures, Huanghuang, Huahua, Blue and ......"
Wei Xiaoyu asked, "Is that puppy called Huahua?"
The proprietress looked in the direction of her gaze and replied, "No, its name is Xiaodouding, and it died in a car accident three years ago." But...... We don't blame others, it's because we don't have a leash. ”
Wei Xiaoyu noticed the slight fluctuations in the proprietress's mood and comforted her: "This little dog is very cute. ”
The proprietress smiled and said, "It used to be a little star on our old street, and everyone liked it." I see you brought a pigeon, even if you don't run on the ground, you have to pay attention to safety!"
Wei Xiaoyu agreed, ordered dinner, and asked, "How long can I stay here?"
The proprietress said, "We don't close until eleven o'clock." ”
Wei Xiaoyu thanked him, returned to the second floor and sat down to watch a few short videos on the Internet, and then read the book just now after dinner. And the second part of the Little Mister series of movies has already seen half of it, except for occasionally jumping up and pacing a few steps, hitting a few empty punches with words in his mouth, and staring at the screen intently, Wei Xiaoyu sincerely admires its fascination with film and television works.
After returning from the bathroom, she had not yet turned a few pages of the book when she felt a faint movement outside the window, and when she looked back, she almost bounced off the wooden chair in fright.
At this time, it was already dark outside, and the old street was brightly lit, but out of nowhere came thirteen or fourteen monsters with hideous faces. They were of all shapes and sizes, some walking up and down the rooftops across the street, some flying in the air with wings, and a few lying on the glass of the bookstore, looking at her with their long fangs and bared tongues sticking their heads out.
I saw that a thick dark smoke and dust were emitted from their bodies, and with each movement, they continued to blur, forming a mysterious mist from deep to light. Wei Xiaoyu looked at Mr. Xiao, but he was still looking down at his phone, shaking his neck and suppressing laughter. She looked at the other people who were reading books nearby, all of them doing their own thing as if nothing was going on. And the clerk at the staircase in the distance is seriously counting the goods.
At this time, the little flower dog came out of nowhere, walked impatiently back and forth on the beam, and then "swished" past her eyes, leaned down in front of the window, lowered his front body, bared his teeth, and roared at the monsters outside the window. However, it was so small that it didn't even fit between the teeth of the big brown cat outside the window.
Wei Xiaoyu stretched out his trembling fingers and pushed Mr. Xiao, it looked up at her, looked out the window again, and reached into the bag with its beak into the pouch and took Lingpo into its mouth, and stood up from the side of the book. At this time, another group of "animals" of unknown origin appeared on the old street, led by a white-beaked bird with indigo blue with golden flame patterns and flying feathers with dark red round spots.
It is like a crane, but it is more than twice as large as a crane, its momentum is like a rainbow, its chirping sound is crackling, its body is surrounded by orange-red firelight, floating in the air three or four meters above the ground, and several smaller "animals" are followed by it and behind: a small black bear with a head and back covered with a blue pattern, a clouded leopard covered with silver cloud and thunder patterns, a golden leopard wrapped in black and gold auspicious cloud patterns, two rabbits with black eight treasure patterns on their hind legs, and two brown-haired and black-backed mice, also wearing a red pattern like a bear.
Unlike the cultivators that appeared yesterday afternoon, they were not transparent, and their whole bodies were glowing like Ah Qi, although the light was weaker than that, but they were also aura and extremely dazzling. The white-beaked bird flew out like lightning, and took the five black and red monsters hovering in the air, and before anyone could see clearly, it broke the wings of two of them. When they fell to the ground, the clouded leopard flew straight up and tore one of them apart, sending a puff of black smoke rising from the ground.
The money leopard followed closely and pounced on the other, but four huge needles flew in the direction of the road with a "bang", and the money leopard that was running at full speed quickly retracted its claws, but turned over on the ground due to inertia, and its tail swept over a needle, and it was shaken to the ground. It looked at the source of the needle, and saw a big brown cat lying on the glass of the bookstore, with a large purple mouth and bared its fangs to make a "whirring" sound, and the needle was spit out.