For Fanning, this winter is particularly cold.
He often thinks that he is not worthy of being the protagonist.
He sat on the steps and looked at the sky outside. The sky in the distance was gray.
The male protagonists in comics are always sunny and optimistic, or resilient. No matter which protagonist, there seems to be a glimmer of light in their humanity.
But now he feels that he can't seem to find his own shining point.
He walked along a long street, not knowing where he was going or where his destination was.
…
Yuan Yuanyuan sat in the room, calculating the little money she had left. Tang Shi came over and asked her what she was doing. She said, "I was thinking... why not find a little monster to help me look after the store? I always feel like no one dares to come when I'm here..."
"Isn't it enough for me? With someone like you, what kind of clerk do you want to hire?" Tang Shi said.
"I'm not so guilty as to let a high school student work for me. You should work on your English." Yuan Yuanyuan said. She really wanted to find a little monster.
Little monster?... A young monster like Tang Shi might not understand the situation here very well, but Yuan Yuanyuan felt that it was quite easy to find a little monster in this city who was willing to work for her and provide food and accommodation.
At least Yuan Yuanyuan was willing to do it a year ago.
Although this may sound like exploitation of the working people... but to be honest, Yuan Yuanyuan was just a poor peasant.
She really felt sad to see this house sitting empty. She had planned to make some money by making clothes at the beginning, but after two outbreaks of demonic energy, no monster on the whole street was willing to come to her place.
According to the reactions Tang Shi brought back, people outside said that there was a monster that ate children in the house... It was said that it was an old monster with a very evil appearance and temperament, and he liked to secretly capture little monsters to practice strange magic.
So now Yuan Yuanyuan is treated the same as General Zhang Liao was back then in this place, and it can stop children from crying at night.
However, Yuan Yuanyuan had to make clothes. Even if no one came to buy them, she would feel uncomfortable looking at the empty house. There was not a single piece of clothing in a clothing store. Yuan Yuanyuan's professional ethics did not allow her to do this, so she had to make clothes.
Once you make something, you need raw materials, and once you need raw materials, you need to spend money...
So far, Yuan Yuanyuan has made enough clothes to fill an entire room, so she recently stopped making clothes. What she needs to worry about now is not whether there are enough clothes, but whether these clothes can be sold before they are eaten by insects.
"When will this shabby blue cover outside be removed? It looks so ugly and annoying!" Yuan Yuanyuan lay on the table, rolling around like a salted fish.
"We'll be withdrawing in the next two days, why are you in such a hurry?" Tang Shi looked at Yuan Yuanyuan's dying struggle, walked over speechlessly to pull the curtains, then walked back to continue reading his book of magic.
Yuan Yuanyuan stopped rolling and started to sit on the table.
"You are the same. The clothes you make are all very nice, but you release evil spirits for no reason and refuse to tell others that you are the big monster protecting the nursery area. Now the monster classmates I know avoid you when they come here..." Tang Shi said, "Just put a sign on the door, next to your shop owner who is not there all year round, and say that you are the big monster. I guarantee that you will sell out all your clothes within a day."
"Ah... Sometimes, things are not that simple." Yuan Yuanyuan lay on the table like a salted fish.
"… What do you want to say? Are you saying that the adult world is complicated like my dad did? What's complicated about me being here? I'm just selling clothes. Even though I'm not very smart, you adults can't always treat me like this." Tang Shi complained.
Yuan Yuanyuan thought, you still know that we are always making fun of you...
"Please help me figure out how to do this, I don't quite understand..."
Yuan Yuanyuan turned her head away and continued to look at Tang Shi's notebook and write something down. After taking a look, she turned her head back and said, "This sentence..."
Yuan Yuanyuan today, having just finished reading the last issue, thinks this week is a temporary end for her. Although there is still a lot of discussion online, Yuan Yuanyuan feels that the last issue did not contain anything that bothered her too much.
Except for that style...
Yuan Yuanyuan's face turned black when she thought of that style of painting. In fact, this kind of comics where even every move was drawn was really too disgusting, which made her a little uncomfortable.
It's just like a reality show... exposing a person's privacy to others.
She did a lot of little moves when she was fighting that day. In fact, she fought on top because she didn't want the monsters below to see her face and movements. But now... the comics directly wasted all her efforts.
"Shopkeeper, what have you been doing all this time? Every time I see you, you look so depressed. I feel like you are exactly like the unemployed vagrant I imagined, who lives a life of eating, sleeping and waiting to die." Tang Shi said next to him.
Yuan Yuanyuan glanced at Tang Shi. Of course, she would not say that her usual schedule was to work as a wine maker and memorize lessons at night, and only have a little time to catch up on sleep during the day.
Therefore, in Tang Shi's eyes during the day, she, the shop owner, always looked like a weak and useless person... Tang Shi once said that Yuan Yuanyuan, who looked so decadent, could become a big monster. This world was really unfair. She also had to be decadent every day and wait to become a big monster.
Then she was beaten by Yuan Yuanyuan.
Yuan Yuanyuan lay on the table, looking at the tree outside the window at an upward angle.
Recently, she has consolidated the "One Leaf Blindness" that she learned some time ago. For her, the more she learns about this "One Leaf Blindness", the more profound it seems. There are many things in it that she only has a vague understanding of.
It was clearly just three sentences of magic formula, but her notebooks were already filled up with three full volumes.
Tang Shi looked at the shop owner who was lying on the table and sat up a little straighter, but not too straight, still half leaning against the wall behind him.
He gently picked up the teacup, looked at the half-cold cup and blew a breath. The tea leaves in the cup floated in the cup with his breath.
The cold wind outside the window suddenly stopped, as if it was suddenly covered by a barrier.
The sound outside the house, like the roar of a devil, suddenly stopped.
The world around me suddenly became quiet, as if I was watching something go from extremely moving to extremely quiet.
This change was so fast that it was impossible to ignore it. Tang Shi put down the cup in his hand and couldn't help but look back at the owner several times, wondering what he was going to do next.
However, the owner really didn't do anything weird this time. Three seconds later, a faint scent of tea suddenly began to float throughout the room.
The faint scent of tea slowly swirled up through the house, floating from the first floor to the second floor, and then from the second floor to the yard outside.
The yard began to smell the fragrance of tea.
Outside the gate, in front of the corridor, the dry tree suddenly showed a hint of green.
In the blink of an eye, countless young leaves suddenly sprouted from the tree, and those young leaves slowly extended from the top of the tree downwards, just like a flower slowly blooming.
Tang Shi stared at the tree outside the window in amazement. It was like a flower blooming in mid-season, blossoming in the cold winter.
Just like fireworks in the cold winter, it exploded with a bang and magnified itself into a brilliant and flamboyant shape against the dark background.
There was even a faint green light on the tree. In the dark night, a tree with lush branches and leaves could attract everyone's attention.
The snowflakes were still falling all around, but when they entered the courtyard, they no longer floated around recklessly, but fell slowly, like elves, landing on the tender green leaves.
There is a thin layer of green fallen leaves under the tree, scattered on the snow. It looks beautiful and unreal, like a scene from a fairy tale.
Tang Shi turned her head, her face flushed with excitement. She was about to ask the owner how he did it, but she found that the owner had completely slipped off the chair.
He tilted his head, leaned his back against the wall, and slumped in the chair. His breathing became long and deep, and he didn't know when he fell asleep.
…
Ever since the day the tree was "created", the illusion in the yard has never been removed.
Normally, when students or other monsters passing by here on their way to and from school see this tree, they turn their heads sharply, then look around, thinking that they may be hallucinating, and then pretend nothing has happened and continue walking forward...
Tang Shi was so excited when he saw the tree being built that he even wanted to take off his down jacket, change into spring clothes and climb up the tree to play, but was forcibly stopped by Yuan Yuanyuan.
Are you kidding? This thing is an illusion, it is completely used to confuse the enemy. Although the tree in Yuan Yuanyuan's yard does not have much effect in confusing the enemy, but Tang Shi wore spring clothes and climbed the tree. Yuan Yuanyuan guaranteed that she would die peacefully in warmth, just like the little match girl...
A leaf can block your vision, and the condition for it to happen is just a leaf.
Well... tea leaves can be considered as leaves, and different illusions can be created based on different leaves.
The temperature in the yard is definitely as warm as spring now, but this is not real, it is all illusion... If you really wear spring clothes and run outside, you will find that you are already freezing cold when you leave the illusion range of the yard... or you will just freeze to death there.
Yuan Yuanyuan inexplicably felt that this was a rather sinister move. If another monster came looking for trouble, she could just not open the door, let him sit in the yard, and then freeze him to death...
The eggshell in City C is finally going to be lifted. On the day of contact, Yuan Yuanyuan went crazy in the house for a long time, and even ate the osmanthus cake that she hadn't been able to eat for a long time... Ah, this was not bought by Yuan Yuanyuan herself, this was distributed by the tavern.
The blue spot on her head was finally removed. Yuan Yuanyuan wanted to tell everyone in the world about her inner joy. She felt like she was about to become color blind, always staying under this blue spot.
She decided to clean the yard thoroughly on this day to express her inner joy.
"No, shop owner, can't you just remove the temperature in the illusion? It's so hot and you still have to stand outside in a down jacket." Tang Shi leaned against the window, looking at Yuan Yuanyuan outside, speechless.
"I... I don't know how to do that!" Yuan Yuanyuan wiped the sweat off her head and continued to wipe it. She was afraid that she would catch a cold, and even pulled her hat tighter...
“… You are suffering too.” Tang Shi didn’t know how to comment on Yuan Yuanyuan’s behavior, and in the end he could only silently despise her.
When the two of them were rubbing enthusiastically, they suddenly saw a person trembling walking down the street.
Yuan Yuanyuan stopped wiping the glass and turned to look at that person. Tang Shi also looked at that person. The two of them moved in perfect harmony and were very consistent.
Why are they so in sync? Because they are both very interested in why someone is walking down the street in this weather wearing... a hospital gown.
The man walked onto the street, glanced at Yuan Yuanyuan's yard in a daze, muttered something, and then fell down.
Before he fell down, Yuan Yuanyuan and Tang Shi both heard what he muttered at the same time.
This sentence is quite essential and the criticism is quite accurate.
"What is this place? Why... is there a tree here?"
“Boom.”
Yuan Yuanyuan looked at the person who just fell in her yard and was silent for a while...
Boss, you seem... not qualified to criticize me.