It was already afternoon when Lin Si woke up again.
After opening and closing his eyelids several times, he slowly regained his sight, remembering everything that happened last night and this morning.
It seems to have had a very busy dream.
Originally, at this point, he was supposed to be on his way to a commercial event, but because of Bai Fan's business, he also temporarily canceled it.
Not only today, but even the activities for the next two days have been cancelled.
Lin Si suddenly felt a sense of desolation as an unemployed salted fish, he turned sideways and reached for his phone.
A bunch of information was pushed on the screen, and he swiped his fingertips to look down one by one.
Liao Ji: [I will rest for two hours, call me directly if there is something urgent]
Xu Xiangyang: [Fortunately, it’s resolved, I’ll come out for dinner when it’s convenient for you]
Lu Nan: [Tell you a shocking secret! You are invited to star in Director Ye's movie!]
Lu Nan: [Brother, hit the hahaha on the screen]
Lu Nan: [In the wind and rain, the studio is waiting for you]
Y: [Good afternoon.]
Lin Si recalled yesterday's hasty farewell, and replied to Y: [I received an urgent call yesterday]
Lin Si: [Then I was busy all night and only slept for two or three hours]
Lin Si: [Grievance Baba.jpg]
Y was probably busy and didn't reply immediately, so Lin Si rolled around and lay down on his face, asking him in advance: [Are you free tonight?]
Lin Si thought for a while, and stole a lesson from Lu Nan: [In the wind and rain, Queenstown is waiting for you], and then imitated an emoji he saw a few days ago and said: [I am my brother’s Erguotou, and the second Obedient and top-notch].
After posting, he laughed for a long time, tossed and turned, and finally looked up at the ceiling and thought, I don't know that Y heard the "I like you" he didn't finish saying last night.
If he didn't hear it, he said it again until Y heard it.
There were rustling footsteps in the living room, Lin Si got up and went out to take a look, it was Aunt Li whom he hadn't seen for a long time.
"Good afternoon, Mr. Lin." Aunt Li put down the food in her hand.
Lin Si said "Hello, Aunt Li", went back to the room, changed clothes and came out again.
"Mr. Lin, all the dishes you want are here." Aunt Li said, "Do you want me to help you cook dinner?"
Lin Si shook his head: "It's okay, I'll do it myself."
"Okay," Aunt Li asked again, "Is there anything Mr. Lin can do for me?"
Lin Si shook his head, sat back on the sofa, thought of something to chat about, turned around and was about to speak, and found that Aunt Li was also standing behind looking at him.
Aunt Li moved her eyes hastily, and Lin Si pursed her lips and smiled: "What's the matter, Auntie?"
"No," Aunt Li took a rag and said while wiping, "I just happened to see news about Mr. Lin on the Internet today."
Lin Si raised his hand to cover his eyes.
It's true that good things don't go out, and bad things spread thousands of miles...
"Mr. Lin doesn't need to accompany me outside. Mr. Lu said you didn't sleep yesterday, so he told me not to disturb you," Aunt Li said, "I will keep my voice low."
"Did Lu Yan say that?" Lin Si asked.
Aunt Li pushed the chair, picked up the basket beside the coffee table, and said, "Well, Mr. Lu called this morning."
Lin Si nodded slowly, and asked again: "By the way, Auntie, what does Lu Yan taste like?"
"Mr. Lu doesn't eat spicy food, and he doesn't eat too salty. It's better if it's light, and there are no other taboos."
"En." After Lin Si asked, he got up and walked to the room. Aunt Li, who was also at the coffee table, paused her hands and took a light breath.
When the door of Lin Si's room was closed, Aunt Li looked at their leftover breakfast, but found no milk in it.
But she did smell a pleasant smell of milk when Lin Si was approaching just now, which gave her the illusion that it was not a 20-year-old young man who passed by her, but a soft baby .
In the room, Lin Si was forced to lie on the bed, he thought about it, and inadvertently lamented that Lu Yan had been really kind to him recently, as if after making a new friend, he began to give small gifts frantically to express his joy.
The degree of favorability gradually increased like a straight line close to the ground. Although it was not as fast as the exponential growth, it also made Lin Si feel that there was a thoughtfulness and tenderness hidden under Lu Yan's indifferent appearance.
This feeling is like opening a small metal ball, and bursting out of it are rose petals that cannot be held with both hands.
Lin Si didn't think about Lu Yan for a long time. Although Lu Yan was a new friend, it didn't occupy a large part of his thoughts day and night.
Probably because he slept too long before, Lin Si was not sleepy, and he couldn't find the script of "Lying on the Car Window" to read. He lazily thought, if there is no such thing as Bai Fan, he should still be working today, so it means that in the past two days Time is free, you can take a break.
At worst, let Liao Ji send the script over tomorrow...
Freed from the shackles of his mind, he happily took out the virtual glasses and earphones on the bedside, put them on, and opened the bubble.
The virtual world is loaded, and the first screen is the ceiling of the bedroom of the rental house.
Lin Si tilted his head, saw Y lying beside him with closed eyes, and smiled with the corners of his mouth curled up.
Y is not online, but still maintains the posture when he was offline, holding his hand, and leaning close to him with his upper body, as if lending him a shoulder to lean on.
Lin Si thought, Y fell asleep, and someone at home still needs to go out to make money, so he went out, wanting to see what jobs could be done in the virtual world.
Unbelievable... There are too many ways to make money!
When you go to a restaurant, you can apply for a store manager, a waiter, or a chef. When you go to a school, you can apply for a teacher or even a principal. You can choose from all kinds of weird jobs in various industries.
Lin Si was very excited and applied for a job he was interested in - a stinky tofu chef.
According to the operating instructions, he pressed the button to control the oil temperature and frying time. According to the taste of the interviewer, he put onions, coriander, chili, soy sauce and vinegar, and served a stinky tofu with a complete color and fragrance.
"Unqualified, fried for too long, the tofu is old." The interviewer said so.
Lin Si failed X1.
He tried a second job - elementary school music teacher.
"Please sing the song as requested."
It was an old song, Lin Si had heard it before, he hummed it softly, and got a high score of 990.
"Sorry, the required score is not met." The interviewer said, "I forgot to mention, the full score is 1000."
"... Is this still a job that humans can do?!"
Lin Si failed X2.
He then applied for many high-paying jobs and failed.
Lin Si, who was severely beaten by the small society in the virtual world, left sadly and returned to a small restaurant downstairs, and applied for a job as a waiter with a broken heart.
Unexpectedly, the interview with the waiter only needs to press the button and keep the plate on the head and it will be completed.
He was hired like this, and the owner enthusiastically informed him that he would start working tomorrow.
"..."
Lin Si silently shed tears of sadness, as if haggling to get the lowest price in his heart, but the boss regretted it as if he readily agreed, feeling deeply that he was cheated.
The small microphone under Y's avatar in the upper right corner suddenly turned green, and then Y's voice appeared next to his ears.
"Wake up?"
Lin Si cried and complained to Y outside the small restaurant: "Why did you come here! I applied for a job!"
Y laughed lightly: "Why are you still crying after applying for a job?"
"I applied for a job as a waiter in a restaurant..." Lin Si whimpered and pretended to cry at him aggrievedly, "I applied for a lot of jobs, but they didn't want me..."
"Idiot." Y called him in a low voice.
Lin Si: "You scolded me..."
"Did you not read the system prompts before applying?" Y said, "The longer you enter the virtual world, the higher your living level will be, and the higher the success rate of applying for high-level jobs. You only live for one day, so the probability of passing the interview is very high." Low, in addition to the accumulation of labor value, when the work reaches the time, it will be automatically upgraded, and players will be assigned high-level jobs."
Lin Si pursed his lips: "Okay, but the salary of the waiter is too low. It only costs 5 gold coins a day. The two of us work together to earn back the daily rent..."
Y said: "There is another way to make money quickly."
Lin Si's eyes lit up: "What what?!"
Y: "I'll tell you tonight."
Lin Si: "... why are you doing this?"
Y grinned: "I just finished the work at hand, and I'm ready to go home. I'll play with you when I go home."
Lin Si pouted and said, "Wait a minute."
"What's wrong?"
"Did you hear what I said last night?" Lin Si asked him.
Y was silent for a few seconds, and said, "I didn't hear everything."
"Oh." Lin Si said.
"What did you say?" Y asked him.
Lin Si: "I'll tell you tonight!"
Y, who was suddenly retaliated, said helplessly: "Okay."
After Y went offline, Lin Si went back to the rental house by himself, sat on the edge of the bed, reached into the quilt to hold Y, and then took off his glasses and earphones.
There was a layer of night dust in the bedroom, Lin Si blinked his eyes, realizing that it was getting late, he jumped out of bed, and heard the patter of rain on the window.
It was past six o'clock.
Time passed so fast in the virtual world, he even forgot about cooking, but fortunately, Lu Yan hasn't returned home yet.
The rain on a spring night brought a chill, and Lin Si felt the cold on his arms when he left the room. He changed into a thicker sweater, rolled up the sleeves on his forearms, and went into the kitchen to start processing the ingredients neatly.
After cooking the meal for two, Lin Si made the pan-fried tofu that Lu Yan ordered at the end. He washed the pork ribs, put them into the pot with cold water, added sliced ginger and cooking wine to remove the fishy smell, boiled them to remove the floating powder, took them out and washed them. net.
When the stewpot was put away, the door opened. Lin Si ran out with a wooden spoon and took a look. Lu Yan was lowering his head to change his shoes, holding the long handle of a black umbrella in his hand. Hearing Lin Si's voice, he lifted his Eyes meet him.
His eyes were dark and bottomless, and mixed with the damp smell from the rain on his body, it made people feel like "It must have taken a lot of effort to get home in the rainy day".
Lin Si took a step closer and stretched out his hand: "Give me the umbrella?"
Lu Yan handed him the umbrella and asked again: "Is the fire off?"
"I'm making pork rib soup, it's fine." Lin Si took off the plastic umbrella cover on the outside of the umbrella, walked to the balcony, bent over to open the umbrella, and let it hang outside.
Lu Yan stood in the porch without moving for a long time, looking at the apron lanyard near Lin Si's neck glands, and the half bow tied loosely at the back of his waist.
Lin Si ran back after drying the umbrella, and said as he walked to the kitchen, "I forgot the time while playing with my phone, and I may have to wait half an hour before I can eat."
"It's okay." Lu Yan said.
Lin Si hooked his waist and used the blade to remove the shrimp thread. When the fifth shrimp arrived, Lu Yan changed into his home clothes and stood at the kitchen door.
"Do you want me to help?" Lu Yan asked.
Lin Si looked at him in embarrassment: "Otherwise, why don't I do it myself?"
Lu Yan stopped talking, took out the fruit from the refrigerator, washed it and put it in a bowl, Lin Si plated the crispy shrimp, Lu Yan handed him a piece of orange meat, Lin Si took it and put it in his mouth , Eat it whole.
Lin Si cut the cross on the mushroom, and Lu Yan felt that his hand was very skillful.
Lin Si diced the lotus root, and Lu Yan felt that each piece was cut very neatly.
Lin Si's pan-fried tofu came out of the pan, and Lu was hungry.
"Okay, how about some soup first?"
Lin Si hung his arms high, holding a wooden spoon, and just waiting for Lu Yan to say a word, he was about to put it into the stew pot, and a bowl of fragrant and delicious pork rib soup came out.
"Um."
Sure enough, the slender arm moved down, and the wrist turned the wooden spoon twice in a row, filling the porcelain bowl half full.
"Auntie said that you like something lighter, so I didn't cook anything big." Lin Si gave him the bowl.
Lu Yan put all the dishes on the table, and obsessively arranged them neatly, with the bottom of the dish strictly placed in the middle of the heat insulation mat.
Lin Si was already hungry, wiped his hands and prepared to sit down.
"Wait." Lu Yan called out to him.
"Um?"
Lin Si supported the solid wood dining table with his hands, stopped moving and looked at Lu Yan.
In the next second, he felt the single bow on the back of his waist being pulled away gently and forcefully.
The author has something to say: A small theater that has nothing to do with the main text—
One day, Lin Si asked Lu Nan: What's your brother's taste
Veteran driver Lu Nan: That’s too harsh. I like the ones with tails and school uniforms.
Novice driver Lin Si:? (A question mark chatting is confusing)