Chapter 268: Gifts are exchanged
Shen Jianian slept all afternoon, and when he woke up, it was already dark, and it was more than seven o'clock in the evening.
She felt less uncomfortable, her stomach didn't hurt anymore, she went to the bathroom to wash her face, and prepared to warm up the leftover vegetable porridge and chicken soup from the morning for dinner.
As soon as the fire started, there was a knock on the door outside.
Shen Jianian was stunned for a moment, turned down the heat, and went out of the kitchen.
She opened the door, and there was a wooden tray on the ground, on top of which was a warm casserole.
No note was left this time.
Shen Jianian picked up the tray, put it on the cabinet in the entrance, and knocked on the door next door.
Since the food was just delivered, people must be at home, she has to say thank you to them, and then buy some gifts to send over, she can't eat and drink for nothing.
But she knocked on the door twice, but no one answered.
Shen Jianian felt strange, and waited patiently outside for a while, not knowing if she could hear it inside, she leaned against the door panel and said, "Hello, I live next door to you, thank you very much for the food you sent." ”
Still no one responded.
Shen Jianian hugged her arms and rubbed it, the cold wind in the corridor was gusting, and if she stayed for a few more minutes, her body would be out of heat, she turned around and entered the house step by step, and took one last look at the next door before closing the door, but there was no movement.
In the house next door, Fu Jichen was still standing in the entrance, only one door away from Shen Jiannian, and he could hear what she said clearly. She used the honorific title "you", who did she think her neighbor was?
A kind aunt?
Fu Jichen laughed silently.
After Shen Jianian entered the house, he brought the tray to the dining table, and in the casserole was a nutritious and nutritious noodle soup, steaming, with a round fried egg and a few small green vegetables lying on the surface, and shredded ham, corn kernels, carrots, shredded fungus, and braised beef that he made himself, cut into large slices, and put them neatly and neatly.
A bowl of noodles is a combination of meat and vegetables.
It is estimated that she is worried that she will be sick and there is no taste in her mouth, and she also served a plate of diced radish, which is refreshing and appetizing.
Shen Jianian smelled the aroma of the noodle soup, looked in the direction of the next door again, and couldn't help but think about what kind of aunt lived next door.
The words "beautiful and kind" are not enough to describe her beauty.
She secretly decided to buy more gifts to give back to her aunt!
Shen Jianian ate a few diced radish, his appetite was great, he held the spoon in one hand and the chopsticks in the other, and solved a whole portion of noodles, and his stomach was not strong.
She scrubbed the casserole, put it with the morning's others, then changed into the clothes she had gone out, this time with a long memory, put on a warm hat and scarf, and went downstairs to throw out the trash.
It was still the flower bed she had been to last night, and she hunched over her waist to look for it while calling "Mimi", but she didn't find the cat that looked like a cow.
I don't know if I ran away somewhere else.
Shen Jianian was about to go back, when she suddenly heard a rustling movement coming from the cardboard box, she squatted down and tilted her head to look in from the hole in the cardboard box, and then burst into a relaxed smile.
She searched for a long time, and the cat turned out to be hiding in the improvised cat nest she made last night.
"Came out to eat." Shen Jianian brought two plastic boxes down, one for cat food and one for water, and placed them next to the cat litter.
The cat had a short temper, and as soon as Shen Jianian approached, it bared its teeth, showed its sharp claws, and waved it twice in the cardboard box.
"Okay, you're the boss here, I'm not going to grab land with you." Shen Jiannian got up and walked away like last night, hiding from a distance to observe.
Sure enough, not long after she left, the cat probed out of the cardboard box and buried its head in food.
Shen Jianian was relieved and turned back.
When the elevator reached the twenty-sixth floor, Shen Jianian took out her mobile phone and looked at the time, it was eight forty-two, and she tried to knock on the door next door again.
Inside, Fu Jichen was working on a black rectangular table in the living room, the screen of his laptop shining on his face, and a cup of freshly brewed tea in his hand was steaming.
Hearing the knock on the door, he glanced at the entrance and twisted his eyebrows.
Knocking on the door so late?
Fu Jichen got up and pushed away the chair, walked to the entrance with very light steps, and looked out from the small door mirror, Shen Jianian was wearing a white woolen hat and a red scarf, and his small face was covered only by his eyes.
Is she going to go out, or has she just come back from outside?
When you're sick and don't know how to stay at home and rest, why is it so worry-free?
Fu Jichen thought so, and his tightened eyebrows never loosened.
Shen Jiannian suddenly approached the door, Fu Jichen thought that he had been discovered, and hurriedly took a step back, almost tripping over the mat next to the door, quite embarrassed.
However, Shen Jianian just turned his face sideways and put his ears close to the door panel, wanting to hear if there was any movement inside.
She heard nothing and went back to her home.
Shen Jianian thought while taking off her scarf, she didn't just stay here for a few days and leave, there would always be a chance to meet that kind neighbor in the future.
Neighbors may be too busy with work and don't have much free time to stay at home often.
The mobile phone rang, Shen Jianian hung up the scarf, and took out the mobile phone from the pocket of the down jacket, which was WeChat sent by Fu Jichen.
Fu Jichen: "At night, it is more than ten degrees below zero, you are weak and easily infected with wind and cold, don't run out if you have nothing to do, stay at home and rest honestly." ”
Shen Jianian frowned slightly, feeling inexplicable.
Although it was obvious that he cared about her, the tone was too strange.
Moreover, Is he a crow's mouth? She happened to have a cold......
Shen Jianian habitually ignored his messages, locked his phone and threw it aside.
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For several days, in the morning, noon and evening, all kinds of food appeared outside Shen Jianian's door, which was packed in a kept warm casserole, resulting in more than a dozen large and small casseroles in her house.
Whenever she tried to give it back, there was no answer to her knocks.
Shen Jianian had no choice but to learn from his neighbor, put the washed tableware outside the neighbor's house, and handwrote a thank you letter to express his gratitude.
At night, Shen Jianian went down to throw out the garbage and feed the cats as usual, and found that the tableware outside the door next door was missing, and it should have been taken back by the neighbor.
And there was an extra letter outside her door, and when she picked it up and opened it, it was still in block letters, which was a reply to the thank you letter.
The neighbor's aunt told her not to be polite, and said that she was usually very busy with work and was usually not at home, so she left after cooking and leaving at her door.
Shen Jianian folded the letter and put it in her pocket, the corners of her mouth were slightly hooked, she really guessed correctly, the neighbor was an aunt who was busy with work, and it was difficult to see people all day long.
She was relieved, carried the garbage and threw it away, and went to feed the fierce cat by the way.
Shen Jiannian's body completely recovered, bought a few boxes of fruits on the Internet, and some souvenirs, put them at the door of the neighbor's house, and wrote a note and put them on it.
It's always quiet next door, she didn't hear the sound of a child, there should be no child, so she didn't buy anything for the child to eat.
At half past ten in the evening, Fu Jichen came back from the company, leaned on the elevator and kneaded his eyebrows, his black coat lined his shoulders and back, and his temperament was calm.
As soon as the elevator doors closed and opened again.
The female occupant of the same building saw such a man at the moment when the elevator opened, and her eyes were straight.
The female resident thought to herself, after living for so long, why didn't she find such a high-quality male in the building before? Must have moved in recently.
The elevator door was about to close, and the female occupant finally came to her senses and squeezed in.
She hooked the hair around her ears, tucked her coat, looked down at the plush slippers on her feet, and secretly regretted that she didn't take care of herself when she went out.
There are only two people in the elevator that is not spacious, and the female resident secretly glances at the man next to him, he is so tall, he has to go up to one meter and eighty-five, and he can see the luxury from head to toe, the key is that face, it is really handsome without dead ends, and she can't see the price of the watch on her wrist, it should be quite expensive.
Fu Jichen noticed the gaze that fell on him, becoming more and more unscrupulous, full of scrutiny, and frowned imperceptibly.
When the elevator reached the twenty-sixth floor, Fu Jichen walked out, not glancing at the woman from beginning to end.
The female resident suddenly realized that she had forgotten to press the floor button, but she knew that the man lived on the twenty-sixth floor, and it was not all for nothing.
Fu Jichen walked to the door and stopped, looked down at the several large boxes blocking the door, and then looked next door, the corners of his mouth tugging.
He opened the door, moved the boxes in, and found the courier knife to open them one by one, a box of oranges, a box of strawberries, a box of cherries, and special products such as native eggs and morels.
Fu Jichen couldn't cry or laugh at a few boxes of things, was she staging a "courtesy exchange" and "reciprocation" with him?
He took out his mobile phone and prepared to send a WeChat message to Shen Jianian, but when he looked at the time, he was not sure if she had slept or not, so he dispelled the idea of sending a message.
There is Shen Jiannian's avatar in the column of the circle of friends, Fu Jichen is standing in the middle of the entrance and a bunch of open express boxes, clicking on the circle of friends, Shen Jianian posted a message an hour ago.
[I met a super kind neighbor aunt, happy for 10,000 years! ] 】
The picture is an ugly black and white cat, which has nothing to do with the text.
Fu Jichen gave a thumbs up to this circle of friends, and then clicked into Shen Jianian's circle of friends and flipped down.
Her circle of friends was set to be visible for only three days, and nothing could be refreshed, so she gave up.
Glancing at the only circle of friends again, Fu Jichen repeatedly silently recited the words "neighbor aunt", except for helplessness, there was no other emotion for the time being.