Chapter 41: Halloween Carnival

When I lowered my head to eat breakfast, Lin Lan stretched out her feet from under the dining table and rubbed my legs, I looked up and saw her using chopsticks to stick a roasted sausage and perform a deep swallowing action for me, which made my blood roll for a while. Xue Tingting came out of the bathroom after washing up and asked me what's wrong, my face was so red, I touched my face and said yes, she nodded and sat on the chair at the dining table, Lin Lan looked at me and laughed crazy. Xue Tingting picked up a piece of bread and asked Lin Lan suspiciously what she was laughing at, Lin Lan pulled her bangs with her hand, and said proudly that it was nothing.

After eating breakfast and packing up and going out, I didn't drive, Xue Tingting quit, and said that her legs weren't good yet, how could I do this to her, I let her watch it herself, anyway, if she was late, she had to deduct the money, Xue Tingting crossed her waist and said a series of you, you, you...... I laughed and grimaced at her as I ran, and Xue Tingting, who was angry, stomped her feet.

The entrances of stores and convenience stores on the road were advertised overnight with holiday advertisements such as "Halloween, pumpkin dinner is 10% off!", "There are ghosts tonight, throw them off in advance!", "Ghosts are coming, waiting for you to catch them!" and so on. Xue Tingting ran a few steps, happily said that it was going to be Halloween, I asked her when Halloween was, she said I didn't know when Halloween was, asked me if I was a young person, I gave her a blank look and asked her if she didn't know that Halloween was not a young person, she said well, I cut a sentence, looked at her legs, hey, asked her, why didn't this leg turn today, Xue Tingting found that it was exposed, scolded me for hating, and stomped my feet angrily, I laughed and continued to walk towards the company.

teased Xue Tingting all the way to run around, and soon arrived at the company. Walking into the company, I found that the smile of the personnel lady at the front desk was really getting sweeter and sweeter, I politely replied to her with a smile, she said Happy Halloween, I said happy to your mother and father, and then quickly ran into the elevator that was about to close, pressed the door closing keypad, and then smiled evilly and made a goodbye gesture with Xue Tingting who came behind her.

As soon as I walked into the office, I heard Xue Tingting's shouts outside, and kept saying that she was angry and angry, just a second, Jelly Bean asked her what was wrong, Xue Tingting said nothing, because of a certain villain, she just climbed the stairs once today, and screamed again after speaking, in order to vent the depression in her heart.

Through this period of observation, I found that after Xue Tingting came to my department, she never arrived late or left early, and in the company, she never mentioned her family background and living in my house。

After sorting out the various reports on the department's business, I wrote a few PPTs, and even if the morning passed, I stretched my body, and I saw that the mobile phone screen was lit up, and there were seven or eight WeChats.

Swiped on the phone, clicked on WeChat, the makeup girl, the design girl and Xu Qian sent Halloween holiday greetings, and I also replied to the corresponding content. Lin Lan sent a message saying that the shopping mall where her best friend works is going to hold a Halloween event today, and asked me to go with her after work to have a look, I said okay, let her drive to the company basement at six o'clock to wait for me, and she replied with a few Mo Mo Da expressions. There is also a message from the woman who added it at the bar last time, and I was also sent a message on the high-speed train. She asked me what I was doing at night, I said I was going to a mall with my girlfriend, she said it was such a coincidence, she was there too, I asked her if she was playing with her boyfriend, she said she didn't have a boyfriend yet, she was going there to participate in a masquerade event, I said oh, she said there was a chance to see you at night. In my heart, I said that another battle-torn position appeared, and the Italian artillery could be used to kill it.

Halloween, originally a traditional festival in the West, is a day for foreigners to praise autumn, sacrifice the souls of the dead, pray for peace and peace, equivalent to China's Zhongyuan Festival, the specific time is November 1 of the annual solar calendar, but I don't know why, China is now also very popular This festival, and most merchants and online shopping platforms choose to carry out various promotional activities on the eve of Halloween (that is, October 31), and the streets and alleys are more lively than the New Year. Judging from the frequency of marketing by merchants now, people will be able to celebrate festivals every day in a few years, and at that time, it is estimated that the worst thing is the men's wallets.

I looked at the calendar, today is the eve of Halloween, I have never paid attention to this festival before, when I used to study, I knew that there was such a holiday, but I never participated in activities about it, even when I fell in love in college, I only had Valentine's Day, Christmas, and my girlfriend's birthday. I didn't expect this Halloween to be so lively now, colleagues are talking about it, and the advertisements that pop up on various platforms on the computer are also it, and even when I go down to eat at noon, there is an extra pumpkin porridge in the canteen.

Wang Wenjie took a bite of the steamed bun in his hand and said TMD, now that the festival is still afraid of the ball, the two ends of the three days will not stop, let's go, the wallet can't stand it, but let's go, the old ladies at home let you sleep on the sofa. Wei Bin said that Wang Wenjie is content, at least he has a daughter-in-law, like him, people who have nothing, don't know the difference between sleeping in a bed and sleeping on a sofa. I said that Wei Bin's youth is not always there, so hurry up and fall in love. Qiao Feng took a sip of pumpkin porridge and said that tonight, the artillery fire on various positions will be continuous, what about your Italian artillery, the second battalion commander? Everyone gave Qiao Feng a thumbs up, saying that as soon as he heard this, he knew that he was a veteran of the battlefield for a long time. Fu Zhenjun, who was stunned, came over to hear our conversation with a dinner plate, and scolded a group of old hooligans and left.

In the afternoon, Cheng Xue organized the department manager of the technical department to check the details of the adjustment of the flow pool system with me, and after checking that there were no problems one by one, she asked the department managers to discuss a specific time point for online testing. I appreciate Cheng Xue's point, as long as there is her, everything will be carried out in an orderly manner.

After returning to the department, I saw that in addition to the anchors of financial management, the other anchors have changed into Halloween costumes, since the company has an online mall, all live broadcasts that do not involve financial management, the company does not require anchors to wear company uniforms, so anchors can usually wear some beautiful clothes to sit in front of the camera, and when there are festivals, you can wear some holiday-related clothes to create a live broadcast atmosphere.

I told Xue Tingting that I was going to go on a date with Lin Lan after work and let her go back by herself, Xue Tingting promised well, but as soon as I got out of the company after work, she followed me to the underground parking lot, and said with a dead face that she would take her to play and would definitely not disturb us. As soon as we saw that we couldn't leave without this guy, we agreed.

Halloween is the most indispensable thing is pumpkins, along the way, in addition to seeing some people wearing ghost clothes, I also saw a lot of pumpkin-shaped things, what jack-o'-lanterns, pumpkin hats, pumpkin clothes, pumpkin rice, pumpkin carts...... As long as you can think of the shape of the pumpkin, the merchant can give you the whole shape.

When we arrived at the shopping mall where Lin Lan's girlfriend worked, the lights inside were dazzling, and everything seemed to be filtered. There is a large pumpkin cart in the center of the mall, and many people are queuing up to take pictures there, and there are some adults and children wearing vampires, monsters, and death clothes in the middle of the period. The merchants inside are all engaged in activities, all kinds of Halloween promotional advertisements are plastered all over the walls of the store, and even the price tags of the goods are designed with small Halloween elements, such as small pumpkins, death sickles, princess avatars, etc.

Lin Lan and Xue Tingting were like two children, wowing while strolling, lying down, seeing something shiny, they said I like it, I want it, I won't buy it for you, I'll buy it myself, and so on, and after a while, I saw that Lin Lan and Xue Tingting were each wearing a kind of demon hairpin with a lamp on their heads, with injured tattoos on their faces, a red blood stain on the corner of their mouths, and a small pumpkin in their hands. I thought to myself that the merchants are still powerful, and they perfectly capture the psychology of female users, and if they use their marketing methods to chase girls, they will definitely chase one accurately.

"Husband, husband, come on!" Lin Lan pulled me to a giant castle to take pictures, I listened to her arrangement, and after completing a series of postures such as heart-to-heart comparison and pouting and kissing, she was pulled to a shop and bought a lot of tattoo stickers, Lin Lan tore off the tattoo stickers, pasted them on my face and arms, and then took out my lipstick and drew a blood stain on the corner of my mouth, I said I was a vampire, and then I was about to bite Lin Lan's neck, Lin Lan bent down to dodge and ran in the other direction. Xue Tingting shuttled back and forth between several large dolls placed in the mall, holding her mobile phone and taking selfies.

Every corridor of the mall is full of people like a few of us who are taking pictures with their mobile phones, a few girls walking by in witch clothes, Lin Lan pounced on me and said that she wanted it too, Xue Tingting saw it and ran over and said yes, I saw them so happy and didn't dampen their enthusiasm, I took them to see which store sold that kind of clothes, and then found that there were no sales, and after inquiring, I learned that they were all bought online in advance, or rented in a store that specializes in cosplay. When Lin Lan and Xue Tingting heard this, they sighed and said forget it, let's see something else.

There is a stage in the center of the first floor of the mall, and the background board on it says Halloween Masquerade, I think of the girl who said that she participated in the masquerade event, it should be this, right?

The two girls held their mobile phones and took photos for a while, Lin Lan's best friend came down the escalator, she was a long-haired beauty, quite tall, and looked quite temperamental, I saw her wearing a sexy backless lace dress, three-quarter sleeves, cinched waist, a pair of black high heels on her feet, her hair was on one side of her chest, she had a five-pointed star crushed diamond stud earring in her ear, a silver leaf bracelet on her left wrist, and a diamond ring on her ring finger.

After Lin Lan first praised her best friend, she turned around and briefly introduced us. Her best friend's name is Li Yu, and she is the marketing planner of this shopping mall. When she heard that my surname was also Li, she smiled and said that it was her own family, and then politely reached out and shook my hand. When Li Yu withdrew her hand, I noticed that she looked at me more, and surprise flashed in her eyes, but she was quickly drowned out by a smile. Later, Xue Tingting said that Li Yu was a master at a glance, I asked how to say it, she said that from that inadvertently can cover up the calm and calm of the real expression, I said that Xue Tingting observed carefully enough, Xue Tingting glanced at me and said that it was rare and strange.

Li Yu introduced us to the information of each floor, such as jewelry and cosmetics on the first floor, women's clothing on the second to fourth floors, men's clothing and children's clothing and toys on the fifth floor, and catering and entertainment on the sixth floor. It can be seen from Li Yu's introduction that women are the first consumer group in the current society, because no matter which shopping mall is almost like this, as the saying goes, women hold up half the sky, I think it is at least more than half.

After introducing the floor information, Li Yu introduced the activities of the mall tonight, the opening show of the masquerade, the dance show, the music show, and finally the lottery. She looked up and said yes, there were some prize tickets in the balloons on the roof, and when we looked up, we noticed that there were a lot of pink balloons hanging from a big net above the roof. When Lin Lan and Xue Tingting wow, I said in my heart that you two have never seen the world, and every time you see such a scene, you can be surprised wow, women, it's hard to understand. Li Yu smiled and continued, she said that there will be some discount coupons and some prize coupons in these balloons, Lin Lan asked Li Yu if it would fall down and let people grab it when the time comes, Li Yu said yes, Xue Tingting said happily when she heard it that she wanted to grab the balloon, I said be careful when people crowd people and squeeze you out, Xue Tingting snorted and ignored me.

Lin Lan and Li Yu chatted for a while, Lin Lan took her hand and said let's drink something together, Li Yu said that she still had to work, so she said goodbye to us and went up the escalator, I looked at her back slowly moving away, thinking about what was the situation in her eyes on me just now, just when I thought I might be thinking too much, I saw Li Yu look back at me, and she found that I was also looking at her, and naturally turned an extra arc, as if looking elsewhere.

Xue Tingting suggested eating first, otherwise she wouldn't have the strength to play, Lin Lan also said she was hungry, I said okay, and took them up to the sixth floor, thinking that after eating, she could play games and watch movies there. On the way, they somehow got two balloons, and the balloons had a terrifying expression on them.

Walking into a Hunan restaurant, there are small bridges and flowing water, there are mountains, trees, and ponds, which is quite meaningful. The waiter saw us come in, warmly greeted and asked a few, I said three, the waiter bent down, stretched out his hand and pointed inside, and said three inside, please, we walked in the direction of the waiter's finger, found a place to sit down, ordered a few special dishes, and asked for a bowl of rice per person.

Lin Lan looked around this Hunan restaurant, and said that the decoration is very good, antique, just walked in from the bustling shopping mall, and felt a little passing atmosphere, Xue Tingting echoed and said Sister Lin was right, Lin Lan and Xue Tingting blinked, looked at each other and smiled, I was confused, when did they become like this?

After the meal was served, Xue Tingting pointed to a spicy chicken and asked what it was, the waiter said spicy chicken, Xue Tingting pulled the chili pepper on the plate with chopsticks a few times, and continued to ask the waiter, where is the chicken? The waiter said several times in a row and may not have said the result, which made us laugh, Xue Tingting said that every time she ordered this dish, she would tease the waiter like this, because no matter where she went to eat the spicy chicken, it was all a bone in the egg, and it was very difficult to find, so she would order this dish to tease the waiter when she was bored. Lin Lan said that she would also use this method next time, I said Lin Lan don't learn bad with someone, Xue Tingting asked me with her teeth and claws, who is bad, and Lin Lan, who laughed, covered her stomach.

When he was about to finish eating, Li Yu suddenly called Lin Lan and asked her to do a favor, as if she was in a hurry, we hurriedly finished eating and paid the bill, and found Li Yu in the office area on the sixth floor and asked what was going on, Li Yu said that there were two girls who participated in the masquerade dance because of special reasons and couldn't come, and she wanted Lin Lan and Xue Tingting to fill the vacancy. When Lin Lan and Xue Tingting heard that they could finally wear those strange clothes, they could be regarded as seizing the opportunity, so they hurriedly said in unison that it was okay. Li Yu thanked them happily and took them to the place where they changed clothes.

I waited in the office area outside for about half an hour before Lin Lan and Xue Tingting changed their clothes and came out. If I hadn't known each other, I might have called the police. I saw that they were wearing a black dress that was exactly the same as Li Yu's body, wearing a red and purple death cloak respectively, and holding a retro and weird half-face mask in their hands. I smacked my lips and kept praising them for being beautiful, and Lin Lan and Xue Tingting smiled happily when they listened. Then Lin Lan explained to me that when they came on stage, they must take a few more good-looking photos for them, I patted my chest and said don't worry, leave it to me, no problem.

When we returned to the first floor stage, there were already quite a few people gathered there. A good-looking hostess introduced the sponsors of the event on stage. Behind the stage, Lin Lan and Xue Tingting followed behind a group of women wearing the same costumes as them, holding masks in their hands to cover half of their faces, waiting to appear.

After the host introduces the sponsors, the event opens and the masquerade begins. As soon as the host's voice fell, all the waiters in the mall were darkened, and by the time the waiters in the mall lit up again, there were already people performing masquerade dances on the stage. As the music started, the people on the stage danced, I kept holding my mobile phone to take pictures, while looking at the people dancing on the stage, thinking that Lin Lan and Xue Tingting are okay? But until the end of the performance, I didn't see anyone dancing unevenly or wrong, and then I thought that it might be because of the simple dance steps, and they changed their clothes for so long, someone must have trained them.

After the masquerade performance, I ran to the back of the stage, I didn't see Lin Lan and Xue Tingting, I asked the staff where the masquerade performers went, and the staff said that they had gone back to change their clothes, so I went to Li Yu's office area on the sixth floor.

When I came to Li Yu's office area on the sixth floor, the empty corridor was very long, and the lights inside were a little dim. When Li Yu brought us here before, I didn't pay attention to the chat, but now I came up by myself, and I felt a little crazy. When passing through a staircase, the voice-activated light turned on, the same dim after all, a light crossed, I saw a person who knew Lin Lan's body, I asked her if she was Lin Lan? I saw the girl raise her mask, holding a mobile phone in her hand, I thought the light I saw just now should be emitted when she used the mobile phone, the girl did not answer my question, first glanced at me, and then turned around and went down a step, I saw that the girl did not answer, thinking that Lin Lan and I were playing some tricks, so I followed.

When the girl went down to the corner of the stairwell, she stopped, I thought to myself, what the hell is this going on for Lin Lan? Could she want to take this opportunity to play with me a little exciting? Thinking of this, I hurriedly ran to the girl excitedly, the voice-activated light went out, and it was dark in front of me, I hugged the girl in front of me, and began to move her hands up and down, the girl was quite cooperative, I thought to myself that it was Lin Lan, but the faint perfume smell emanating from her was not Lin Lan's, it is estimated that this little villain did it on purpose, and it is still very creative!

As soon as the lights in the corridor dimmed and went out, I quickly succeeded in attacking, and the sound of artillery fire continued, and I don't know how long it took, after running out of ammunition, the girl took advantage of my pants to put on, picked up the mask that fell on the ground and ran. I couldn't stop shouting, I said what the hell is Lin Lan doing, is it shy? But I feel really good in that environment just now, and I will reward her when I go back.

After tidying up my clothes, I also went up the stairs, walked through the corridor, and entered Li Yu's office, and saw Lin Lan and Xue Tingting, who had already changed their clothes, they were sitting on the sofa in the rest area and waiting anxiously for something. I asked them to change their clothes, Xue Tingting said that they had already finished changing, Lin Lan said yes, I went down to look for me but didn't find it, and no one answered the phone, so I came back here and waited for me, thinking if I would not find them on the first floor, but I didn't see my shadow when I came here, so I was afraid that I would be separated again, so I simply waited for me here.

After listening to their words, I found out that the mobile phone was turned on silent today for quiet work, and I forgot to turn it off, and then I was confused, no, since they have been looking for me, if the girl just now was not Lin Lan, who is it? The stranger shouldn't be like me, right? Is it a female ghost? Thinking of this, my body couldn't help but tremble, TMD, it shouldn't be possible, I'm a person who has read books and studied science, how can I think there, so who was that girl just now?

Lin Lan came up and grabbed my arm and said husband, let's go, I came back to my senses, smiled, said go, and took Lin Lan and Xue Tingting out of Li Yu's office area. Lin Lan said that she smelled the smell of other women's perfume on me, and I said that it was probably to help them take pictures and squeeze around in the crowd, and it was normal to smell a certain woman's perfume, and she smiled and said yes.

In the game hall on the sixth floor, I stood in front of a dance machine, looking at Lin Lan and Xue Tingting happily bouncing on the dance machine, I fell into deep thought, is what happened in the corridor real, could it be my hallucination, will I encounter the ghost written in the novel hitting the wall? But many facts have proved that those are not hallucinations, nor are they ghosts hitting the wall.

When I was annoyed, Lin Lan ran over and dragged me to play a shooting game, I smiled and hugged her waist and kissed her and said Okay, no problem, the puppy barks if you lose. Xue Tingting scolded and sprinkled dog food on the dance machine, shameless.

After playing a few shooting games, Lin Lan lost a mess, she threw away the gun in her hand, and asked me coquettishly if I could not learn to bark at dogs, I said no, she said a word of annoyance, and she barked twice with a red face, looking at her shy and cute appearance, I laughed. Xue Tingting ran over and excitedly said that she was going to draw a lottery and grab the balloon, Lin Lan clapped her hands and said excitedly Great, I just wanted to say that it was too dangerous, so I was pulled downstairs by the two of them.

At the center stage on the first floor, there was a sea of people, and after all the performances were finished, as the host began to shout the countdown, the people waiting for the balloon lottery had already raised their heads and stared at the balloon above the stage. When the host shouted to the beginning, the balloons above the stage surged into the crowd on the ground like a big pink wave. Before the balloon landed, it was grabbed in people's arms, burst in various ways, and then took out the coupon inside the balloon. I opened my arms to protect Lin Lan and Xue Ting, for fear that they would be knocked down when they grabbed the balloon with others. Lin Lan and Xue Tingting grabbed a lot of balloons for a while, but they didn't dare to burst them, so they handed them over to me with a wicked smile and let me pop them one by one.

After grabbing the balloon, we found a café and ordered a few cups of coffee and sat down, Lin Lan and Xue Tingting lowered their heads to study which discount coupon in their hands was more useful, I was bored and looked around, and suddenly a figure came into my sight, purple cloak, holding a mask, and a black lace skirt, it was Li Yu. I saw her pick up her phone, as if she was going to call someone.

Just as I was looking at Li Yu, Lin Lan's mobile phone rang, it was Li Yu calling. After Lin Lan said a few words, she beckoned Li Yu into the café and asked her to have a drink and chat together. Li Yu walked in, sat down opposite me, a gust of fragrant wind wafted in, I smelled this smell, it was in the stairwell, could it be that the person who was in the stairwell and I was under fire?

Lin Lan ordered a cup of coffee for Li Yu and asked her why she was still wearing her performance clothes, Li Yu said that she had been busy and didn't have time to change, Lin Lan said a word, and chatted with Li Yu about their recent situation. I sat next to Lin Lan, pretending to drink coffee, swiping my phone, and glancing at Li Yu from time to time, looking at each other several times, and then quickly putting it away.

On the way back, Lin Lan and Xue Tingting fell asleep in the car tiredly, and I kept thinking about whether it was Li Yu who I met in the stairwell.