little cotton

The grilled chicken is delicious, with slightly sweet vegetarian cabbage, it will not feel greasy at all.

It's just that Zhong Chuyun didn't eat much, and most of the two plates of chicken skin and chicken went into Yu Ling's stomach.

Yu Ling ate so happily that she was still thinking about it after eating.

She remembered Zhong Chutian's kindness in her heart, and she still muttered a few times while watching TV-in the future, if she makes money, she must eat frequently.

On the fourth day after the new year, it was a weekend, and Yu Ling, who was unable to find a job despite the cold wind that blew through half the city, decided to take a break and did not go out alone.

While watching TV together, Zhong Chuyun received a call, got up, put on his coat and went downstairs.

When I came back, I had an extra gift in my hand.

It was a mobile phone, the one given to Yu Ling.

When Yu Ling asked how much it was, Zhong Chuyun only said that it was not expensive, and that she didn't have to return it as a gift.

He happily shook his head, saying that he would owe the money no matter what.

Zhong Chuyun insisted: "Gifts can only be given, not sold."

Yu Ling bit her lower lip: "Then I don't want it..."

After Zhong Chuyun was silent for a long time, he said lightly: "The money is spent, if you don't want it, then I will use it myself."

After all, under Yu Ling's bewildered gaze, he changed the SIM card of the old phone to the new one, and tossed about on the sofa holding the two phones for a long time.

Those clones and transfers, Yu Ling poked her head and looked at them for a long time but couldn’t understand them. She only knew that half an hour later, Zhong Chuyun threw the old mobile phone on the coffee table and said quietly: “The extra ones can only be thrown away. , Unfortunately, it can still be used.”

Yu Ling blinked and whispered, "Do you really want to throw it away?"

Zhong Chuyun said: "You can't use two mobile phones with one card."

Yu Ling thought for a while, and said: "Then, then give me this unwanted one..."

After hearing this, Zhong Chuyun couldn't help but smile.

Under Zhong Chuyun's urging, Yu Ling changed into the clothes she was going out with, carried her ID card, and drove for more than 40 minutes to the local business hall, where she got her mobile phone card.

Yu Ling didn't understand a word of those messy set meals, she just stood aside and watched Zhong Chuyun pay for herself.

She wanted to say that she could owe all of these, but she swallowed the words in the end.

After all, Zhong Chuyun tossed and tossed for a long time, just to give her a mobile phone, she was too embarrassed to ask for the new one, so Zhong Chuyun changed his way to let her accept the old one.

But how old can it be?Zhong Chuyun uses it every day, and it is clean, without any damage or lag.

Yu Ling suddenly thought of Sister Chen whom she hadn't seen for a while.

In fact, she had heard Sister Chen say during countless small chats that although there is a saying that brothers should settle accounts clearly, in many cases, people cannot be distinguished so clearly.

The more you care about each other, the more you can't settle accounts, because you can't hide your heart for wanting each other's good.

The same is probably true of demons and demons.

Those who want to invite her to eat roast chicken will use the excuse that her sister likes it, and those who want to give her a mobile phone will use the excuse of replacing the old one with a new one.

It has to be said that the foxes of the Zhong family are all proficient in beating around the bush.

So obvious, yet so righteous.

It's fine if you don't owe it, anyway, when she makes money, she can return the gift.

Thinking like this, Yu Ling happily accepted the gift that Zhong Chuyun stuffed into her hand around the bush.

After coming to the city for half a year, Yu Ling finally got the mobile phone she always wanted.

The first number saved in the address book belonged to Zhong Chuyun, the second number belonged to Zhong Chutian, and then it was Sister Chen who had left her cell phone number.

After saving the number that could be stored, Yu Ling, who didn't know pinyin, asked Zhong Chuyun to switch out the handwriting mode for herself, and sent Sister Chen her first text message in her fairy life.

[Sister Chen, I'm Yu Ling.The shift in the clothing store is gone, and I'm looking for a new job recently, but I haven't found one yet.How about you, Miss Chen, how are you doing recently? 】

After the text message was sent, there was no reply.

While researching other functions, Yu Ling waited patiently for a long time, until it was almost time for lunch, and then asked Zhong Chuyun in a low voice: "Will the text message fail to be sent?"

Zhong Chuyun took Yu Ling's cell phone and glanced at it. After a short silence, he replied lightly: "It's possible."

"Oh!" Yu Ling responded, bowed her head and glanced at the text message she sent. After a short hesitation, she put her phone in her pajamas pocket, got up and ran into the kitchen to wash the dishes.

Zhong Chuyun's answer was neither affirmative nor negative.

Yu Ling knew that every time that fox answered a question like this, it was in the kind of situation where he had the answer in his heart, but he was embarrassed to say it directly.

She thought that the SMS might fail to be sent, but it should be a rare case.

Judging from Zhong Chuyun's behavior just now, her text message was probably sent, but she never got a reply. Maybe the other party was busy, or maybe the other party was too lazy to reply.

After the meal, Yu Ling stared at the text message for a while, and finally understood why she didn't get a reply.

She really can't speak, she came up and said that she was out of work and couldn't find it, and asked how the other party was doing recently.This tone, no matter how you look at it, looks like an unlucky guy who has nowhere to go and asks for help.

After all, in Sister Chen's eyes, maybe everyone lost the same job, so who can help whom?

With the help of Zhong Chuyun, Yu Ling registered QQ and WeChat, and the only friend on both sides is Zhong Chuyun.

Zhong Chuyun said that text messages and phone calls are charged, QQ is different from WeChat, you can chat for free at any time, just talk about anything here.

Yu Ling nodded very seriously, and tried to send a few messages to Zhong Chuyun, and made a voice call.

"This is really convenient!" Yu Ling said, without watching the TV, she retreated into the bedroom, fumbled to change herself into a cotton avatar, and changed the note of "a good fox" for Zhong Chuyun.

After that, she sent one nonsense message after another to Zhong Chuyun in the living room, one after another of the yellow bean emoticons that came with the system.

Under the bombardment of a bunch of nonsense and emoticons, as long as Zhong Chuyun replies a few words from time to time, Yu Ling will be very happy.

She can finally tell Zhong Chuyun whatever she wants to say anytime and anywhere.

This feeling is very good.

***

On the sixth day after the year, Yu Ling finally found a new job as a waiter in a western restaurant.

There is a fixed day shift from [-] am to [-] pm. There is a staff meal at noon. After a month of work, you can earn [-] yuan. If you perform well, you can get a bonus. The internship period is still seven days.

Such a salary made Xiao Mian, who had never seen the world, very happy, and nodded without thinking about it.

She sent the good news to Zhong Chuyun immediately.

[Witty Cotton: I have found a job. I work as a waiter in a western restaurant. I have a regular day shift, but the off-duty time is a little later than yours. From now on, we will have to postpone dinner. 】

After Yu Ling sent the message, she checked it again, and felt that there was nothing wrong with it, so she changed into the restaurant's uniform work clothes, and learned everything she had to do.

The news from Zhong Chuyun came a bit slowly, Yu Ling took a break from her busy schedule to look at her phone every once in a while, and finally got a reply from Zhong Chuyun when she checked her phone for the fourth time.

[A good fox: post a location. 】

"Location, location... where is it?"

Yu Ling looked around in a daze, and finally asked a colleague for a favor, and then sent out the location.

A few minutes later, Zhong Chuyun sent another message.

[A good fox: drop by, I'll pick you up after get off work. 】

In just one sentence, a certain cotton flower becomes light and light in an instant, and it feels like the soles of the feet are blown by the wind when walking.

After six o'clock, when Yu Ling was clearing the dining table, she saw the familiar car outside the store.

She hurriedly packed up the work in hand, changed into her own clothes, ran out of the store, opened the car door and sat in the co-pilot.

The first time she got into the car, she raised her eyebrows and raised three fingers at Zhong Chuyun: "Now I can earn three thousand a month!"

"Not bad." Zhong Chuyun said, and drove towards home.

After six o'clock, the sky was somewhat dark and somewhat bright, and some shops on the street had already been lit.

On the way home, Yu Ling lay by the window, looking at the street scenes passing by outside the window, her joyful mood gradually calmed down.

Every day since then, she has been doing her new job seriously.

The atmosphere of this western restaurant is not bad. When there are many customers, even if you add the sisters from Xiaobaiban, it will be somewhat overwhelmed, but it is not a big deal if you are familiar with it.

Speaking of which, after working in this store for so long, someone drove over to pick her up from get off work every day, which undoubtedly attracted the attention of her colleagues.

So, during a relatively leisurely afternoon tea time, several colleagues gathered around and started a small gossip meeting with her.

"Yu Ling, who is that person who comes to pick you up every day? A family member?"

"My family picked me up and dropped me off by car, so what's the point of coming to work for three thousand a month?"

"No, it's not family!" Yu Ling waved her small hands and explained earnestly, "I came here by myself in the morning, and she got off work a little earlier than me in the afternoon, and just happened to go back and drop by, so she picked me up every day."

"It's not a family member, so... what does that person have to do with you?"

"Cohabitation relationship." Yu Ling said honestly.

As soon as she said this, for some reason, her colleagues were all surprised.

"This is cohabitation? Is it safe?"

"I don't think that car is a high-end product."

"I've searched. It's more than 20 yuan. It's not something we can afford. He has a car and can pick up Yu Ling every day. Isn't it better than yours?"

"I didn't want to compare these, am I afraid that Yu Ling will not know people clearly?"

Colleagues, you were talking one after another, when suddenly someone saw the blankness in Yu Ling's eyes, so he interrupted everyone's gossip and asked, "Are you a man or a woman?"

"Female." Yu Ling responded blankly.

The gossiping colleagues around obviously lost interest.

Now Yu Ling finally came to her senses. It turned out that they had misunderstood and thought that the person who came to pick her up every day was her boyfriend, so they came here to gossip.

It's a pity that they gossiped about the wrong person, she didn't have a complicated relationship with Zhong Chuyun, not only that, but she resolutely rejected the only way to establish a relationship with Zhong Chuyun.

For the rest of her life, she can only be Zhong Chuyun's cohabiting roommate, plus sweepers, laundry workers, vegetable cookers, and dishwashers...

In short, there is probably nothing to envy.

As the days went by, Zhong Chuyun was no longer mysterious in everyone's eyes, driven by the curiosity of his colleagues who were extinguished but still somewhat retained.

No matter the colleagues in the day shift, night shift or junior day shift, they all know this.

——Yu Ling has a female roommate who is very, very beautiful, tall and thin, with long silver-white hair dyed that ordinary people can't control. The stars are shining.

After that, Yu Ling obviously felt that there were a few male colleagues in the store who would come to curry favor with her from time to time, probably because she wanted to get Zhong Chuyun's contact information through her.

In this regard, Yu Ling, who is kind and never sells teammates, said: "It's useless, there's no way."

It is absolutely impossible for her to match Zhong Chuyun for these humans.

First, goblins cannot bond with humans.

Second, she doesn't like it.

She doesn't like anyone to have unreasonable thoughts about Zhong Chuyun under her nose.

After categorically rejecting her several times, such flattery was obviously less, and her work gradually got on the right track.

Yu Ling's greatest joy when she goes to work every day is to send Zhong Chuyun a few unnutritious messages in her free time.

For example, what is the staff meal for lunch today.

Another example, remind Zhong Chuyun to remember to eat at noon.

Other than that, there are some things that happened when I went to work.

Yu Ling likes to chant, she can't whisper in anyone's ear, she can just type and chant when she is free.

As long as the news is sent out and Zhong Chuyun sees it, she will be happy no matter whether she returns or not.

For example, one day, a little sister in the store quarreled with the store manager because of a complaint from a customer.

Yu Ling watched from the sidelines for a long time, went up to comfort her, but was smacked, and did not dare to speak for a while, and only told Zhong Chuyun all these things.

[Witty Cotton: A colleague was in a bad mood today, and brought his emotions into the store, and quarreled with a customer.The store manager got angry and said that she would deduct her bonus for this month. She kept crying during the afternoon meal, crying like the sky was falling. 】

[Witty Cotton: Xiao Zhang said that just by looking at it, he was broken in love. He used to giggle at his mobile phone every day when he was free, and shared dog food in Moments from time to time. Recently, the dog food was out of stock, and there was no smile on his face. Her face was gloomy, as if someone owed her 500 million. Isn't that just broken love? 】

[Witty Cotton: I don't quite understand why if you don't share dog food, you're broken in love. Did she and her partner raise a dog together?Who does the dog belong to after the breakup?Dog food is out of stock, does it mean that the dog was taken away by the object? 】

[Witty Cotton: Is it because of this that she is so sad? 】

After Yu Ling sent these, she couldn't help holding the phone and sighing softly.

After a while, Zhong Chuyun sent a reply.

[A good fox: The dog food here means to show affection. 】

[Witty Cotton: Huh? 】

[A good fox: Do you like dogs?A few days ago, a colleague gave birth to a litter at home. If you want to raise it, I can ask. 】

[Witty Cotton: No, I don't like [sweating]]

Yu Ling doesn't deny that dogs are beautiful and cute creatures, but she just doesn't like dogs very much.

And this dislike became even stronger after having a mobile phone.

She added some WeChat friends of her colleagues, and one of them likes to watch videos of cats and dogs, so she will share them with her if she has nothing to do.

Among the cats and dogs that my colleague often shared, there was one called what, and nine out of ten videos were dismantling pillows and quilts. In the small room, the white cotton was thrown everywhere. .

Although she is definitely not the kind of cotton that will be shredded by dogs, this visual impact is still very large for her.

This is like the fact that the rabbit spirits in the mountains cannot see who roasts rabbits and rabbits, most bird demons cannot see anyone eating chickens, ducks and geese with wings, and the carp spirits cannot see a kitchen full of salted fish.

Although Yu Ling knows that the ultimate destination of cotton is either to rot in the ground or become a core for people to keep warm, but seeing the same kind being bullied like that, it is more or less unbearable.

Because of this, she doesn't like dogs, and she boldly guesses that every cotton flower in the world should not like dogs.

But when Zhong Chuyun asked her this, she felt very happy.

Because she knew that Zhong Chuyun didn't like the feeling of being noisy, but if she said she liked it, Zhong Chuyun would definitely bring a little milk dog home in the near future and make it a little guy they raised together.

But she didn't like it, so she could only accept this kindness that was close to indulgence temporarily.

***

In late March, Yu Ling received her monthly salary for the first time after becoming a full-time employee.

This month's business was good, the store manager was happy, and gave everyone a bonus of two hundred.

In order to get salary, Yu Ling went to apply for a bank card in advance.

This is the first time she has received salary without cash, maybe she is not used to it, she always feels a little unreal when she looks at the string of numbers on the phone.

After get off work, Yu Ling got into Zhong Chuyun's car as usual.

On the way home, she suddenly asked softly, "Can I have roast chicken tonight? My treat."

After hearing this, Zhong Chuyun changed the navigation without saying a word, and drove towards the roast chicken restaurant that Yu Ling was thinking about.

The line outside the grilled chicken shop was even longer than when Yu Ling came last time.

Zhong Chuyun waited with Yu Ling for more than an hour without any temper. During the process, Yu Ling kept thinking beside her, mostly about trivial matters at work.

The little Cotton Essence seems to have endless things to say forever, and there are few complaints in his words. He just talks normally, talking about every little thing he sees, like a bystander who keeps calm all the time.

This girl, as if she doesn't know what is suffering, what is tired, what is sad, she always has a smile on her face.

Listening to her whispering in her ear like this, it seems that time has passed a little faster than usual.

On that day, Yu Ling bought more roast chicken than last time, and also divided them into two portions.

She said, the queue has been waiting for so long, it's too bad not to buy more, but if you buy too much, you can't finish it, so let's give Zhong Chutian a copy by the way.

After hearing this, Zhong Chuyun lowered his eyebrows and chuckled, and took Yu Ling to Zhong Chutian's house not far away.

Zhong Chutian obviously didn't expect that it was 07:30, and he could still receive a roast chicken from the little cotton of the Mu family. After exchanging a few words, he added a QQ friend with her in a good mood, On her way back, I shared a lot of weird emoticons with her

These are things that Zhong Chuyun would never send her on weekdays, but to Yu Ling, each of them is extremely fresh.

Zhong Chuyun was driving the car beside him, glanced at Yu Ling from time to time, and finally took out his mobile phone when he parked at home, and sent a voice message to Zhong Chutian.

"Zhong Chutian, don't spoil her."

A few seconds later, Zhong Chutian's voice chased back anxiously: "What do you mean being bad? They are all like you. It's good to be a boring gourd?"

Zhong Chuyun threatened flatly: "Say it again."

Now the other side was silent, and just returned a "society, I can't afford to mess with it" expression.

Yu Ling watched from the side, wanting to laugh but not daring to laugh, so she pursed her lips and walked all the way ahead, until she entered the house, then she changed into her shoes, ran into the kitchen and started cooking.

The days are plain, and every day is very simple.

After having an income, Yu Ling gradually stopped picking and searching like before.

She started to buy snacks online on the recommendation of her colleagues, and she unpacked a pack or two every night while watching TV, and took Zhong Chuyun to eat and play together.

She began to be willing to reward herself with a cup of pearl milk tea worth seven yuan occasionally, and every time she rewarded herself, she would never forget Zhong Chuyun.

But when it comes to milk tea, Yu Ling has to sigh with emotion that Zhong Chuyun doesn't like adding sugar to milk tea.

God knows this discovery shocked her for a long time.

This shock even made her reach an agreement with Zhong Chutian who couldn't get a reconciliation on the dumpling issue.

[Witty Cotton: How can I drink milk tea without sugar? 】

[What do you do every day: Isn't it?I have never understood, how can someone drink milk tea without sugar? 】

[Witty Cotton: Yes. 】

[What are you doing every day: heresy, I said earlier that she is a heretic, don't buy it for her next time! 】

[Witty Cotton: Hmm! 】

It is true to say so, but Yu Ling still buys Zhong Chuyun a cup every time.

Not for anything else, just a habit.

But whatever you have, you have to share it with that fox.

Just like when she was beside Lin Shuang, even though Zhong Chuyun was not Lin Shuang.

Apart from eating and drinking, she also bought some spring and summer clothes and other gadgets one after another.

For example, a small stool that is just right for breakfast on the coffee table, a small shelf that can hang toothpaste and toothbrush on the wall, and a small sun ornament that will shake your head when you put it in the car.

She also planted flowers on the balcony at home.

The Mu family likes the smell of plants, and she takes care of them every day when she goes home. The home that didn't have a single plant is gradually filled with green vitality.

On a night in late spring, Yu Ling and Zhong Chuyun were sitting in the kitchen eating a hot dinner as usual.

The TV that was turned on outside the house suddenly broadcast a piece of news.

It is said that not long ago, in a northern city, a tourist group of 17 people disappeared in a certain scenic spot. After several days of searching, the police found all the corpses under the soil of a forest area where tourists are prohibited from entering. After inspection, they were all buried alive. .At present, the scenic spot has been blocked. The case is very bad, and the police will definitely investigate it with all their strength.

"Seventeen lives were all buried alive in the soil, what kind of enmity is there?" Yu Ling couldn't help being surprised by this.

Zhong Chuyun took out his mobile phone and searched for related news, watching a coded live video released on the Internet, he couldn't help but look a little dignified.

"It's not artificial."

"A demon?" Yu Ling leaned forward in surprise, and after a moment of silence, she frowned in disbelief, "It's a demon from the Wood Clan."