"Without light, Xiaozhao can't collect his favorite things. The mirror demon said with a snot blow.

"Shouldn't you explain what you just did at the convenience store?" Tsubaki said, "That's not why you made a mess of the convenience store. "I feel like Tsubaki is saying this to me...

The instantaneous power outage just now seemed to frighten Xiaozhao, and it fled back and forth in the convenience store to find a place with light, but it was all dark as far as the eye could see, and it was so scared that it knocked over a lot of things on the shelves in a panic, and now Gao Lang was cleaning up the inexplicable mess with the other clerks.

"A little photo... It wasn't meant to be..."

"Why did you go to the convenience store?" I asked, "and why did you choose Gao Lang to write your letters?"

Xiaozhao looked at me in surprise, "Was... Found out. ”

Tsubaki sighed and pointed at himself with his finger, "You don't think Ye Ke really doesn't need to find a capable assistant, do you?"

... I always feel that I was inexplicably ridiculed by Tsubaki again.

"I didn't expect you to be in the store. Xiaozhao said aggrievedly.

"So, why the hell did you go to the convenience store?" Tsubaki asked.

"Because... "Other places will be dark at night, and Xiaozhao is very scared, but convenience stores are not, they are bright at all times, and there are many things that Xiaozhao likes to collect." ”

"What are you collecting?" I said.

"Do you want to see it?" it suddenly became interested, "I want to show you the little picture too!" After saying that, it jumped on my arm, and the little shadow was even more lovely in the flickering candlelight.

I felt Tsubaki's disdainful snort.

"Look, these are the treasures that Xiaozhao has collected. The mirror demon held the mirror in his hand above his head, and I lowered my head to see myself in the mirror.

"Didn't see anything," I had just finished saying when the scene in the mirror began to play like a slideshow.

An office worker who buys the last bun in the morning.

An old man who drinks coffee at a convenience store in the morning.

Students who come to the store at noon to heat up food.

Couple passing by a convenience store in the afternoon.

Mom who comes with her kids to buy snacks at night.

A driver resting at a convenience store in the early hours of the morning playing with his mobile phone.

Countless faces photographed in convenience stores were displayed in front of me one by one, and these faces were old or beautiful, innocent or tired, and they all had a common characteristic.

They were all laughing, and they were laughing happily.

"Is that what you say you like?" I felt my tone begin to become gentle, "you like to collect people's smiles?"

"Mmmmmmmmmmmm

"That's pretty good," Tsubaki leaned over to me and looked in the mirror, "It's all smiling, and I'm happy to look at." ”

"Yes, yes!" said the Mirror Demon.

"However, there are so many convenience stores in City A, why does it have to be this one?" Tsubaki said half-squatting, "There are several convenience stores that are relatively close to Tianbei groceries, and this is not close to Lake M." ”

"Because..."Xiao Zhao's face was a little red, and he replied with great certainty, "Because there is a smile here!" After speaking, it seemed to realize that its voice was a little loud, and added in a low voice, "Only here is his smile..."

Tsubaki was still questioning, but I suddenly understood.

Yes, many people say that the convenience store is a place to welcome you at any time, no matter who your surname is, rich or poor, happy or depressed, the convenience store can provide you with the simplest but warmest care, if the convenience store is the most gentle corner of the night, then Gao Lang is undoubtedly the warmest light in this gentle corner.

"He must have laughed a lot. I said, "That guy is the most popular employee in the store." ”

"Right!" Xiao Zhao became excited when I said this, she looked back and forth in the mirror, "You see, this one is when he says 'Good morning!' in the morning, this one is when he says 'Good morning!', this one is when he says 'He looks good today!', in this one he is loading oden for guests, this one is helping others wipe the table, this one is a nice sticker he gave to a child, this one is when he says 'Happy Birthday!' to a customer, this one is..."

Xiaozhao kept explaining every photo, Gao Lang was smiling on each one, each one was sincere and warm, from morning to night, from cleaning to cashier, as if he was smiling all the time.

"Hey, he's really been smiling," Tsubaki listened to Xiao Zhao explain a lot of close-ups of Gao Lang's smiling face, as if they had always had a good relationship, "Don't talk about you, I feel very comfortable looking at it." ”

"That's why you're secretly helping him in your own way?" I asked the Mirror Demon.

"Mmmmmmmmmm ”

“... You, did you really do that?" Tsubaki looked at the photo and then at me, and she should have sensed that something was not quite right inside.

"What's... Questions?" Xiaozhao seemed to sense a subtle atmosphere.

"Your kindness seems to have troubled Gao Lang. I thought about it and said, "Whether it's controlling the store manager to help him raise his salary, or controlling other store staff to help him reduce his workload, or controlling him to write letters, it doesn't seem to help him, and when I went to the convenience store the day before yesterday, he didn't smile very happily." ”

"How... How..."Xiaozhao was stunned.

"Controlling others with your own ideas, even if it is out of good intentions, is easy to cause trouble to the other party," Tsubaki said softly, "What's more, a lot of your 'help' is to transfer other people's hard work directly to Gao Lang, and for a dedicated person like him, it is not something to be happy about not getting something for nothing." ”

Xiao Zhao was stunned for a while, walked from my arm to the candle lamp, sat down in a daze, and looked at the mirror for a long time.

"Did she do something wrong?" she asked.

"It's not wrong... It's not appropriate," Tsubaki also couldn't bear to say, "You can do it another way or something..."

Xiaozhao wanted to make him happy, but it made him unhappy. She seemed to be talking to herself, "Obviously he looks so good when he smiles, even the mirror is warm and bright, but..." she choked up a little and threw the mirror aside, "Xiao Zhao really can't do anything... If you can't help Lord Zhong Shanshen, forget it, and it will cause trouble to Gao Lang..."

Thrown by it, the face on the mirror began to change again, and finally froze on a laughing dragon, this dragon resembles a snake, but has facial features similar to human faces, and it doesn't know why it laughs so much in the mirror.

"This is the god of Zhongshan described in the letter you gave me?"

"Hmm... Yes, "Xiaozhao is still sullen," Lord Zhong Shan used to be very smiling, but it has become more and more difficult to see its smile in recent years, and now it is sleeping most of the time. ”

"You're coming to me in the hope that I can help that adult regain his smile?"

"Hmm... Xiaozhao likes the adult very much. ”

"Try it, maybe it will work. I picked up the mirror and put it back in her hand, "If you don't try it, how do you know? ”

Xiaozhao opened his mouth in surprise, his eyes wide open, as if he didn't know what to say.

At this time, the lights in the house suddenly turned on again.

(End of chapter)