After Xu Shuo opened the door, what came in was, as expected, Pei Sheng who came to find someone.
"You didn't answer the phone when I called you! It's half past ten and there's still no letter. We almost thought you were going to die suddenly at home!"
Pei Sheng started yelling as soon as he came in, then turned around and asked curiously: "Isn't sister Xiaoxi at home? She doesn't take her mobile phone with her when she goes out?"
It is foreseeable that Xu Xi's phone number should also be inundated with calls.
"over slept."
Xu Shuo said as he walked to the bathroom to clean himself up, he saw that Pei Sheng had sneaked to the door of Xu Xi's room and was trying to open the door with a mean smile on his face.
Xu Shuo did not stop him, because when Pei Sheng was about to open the door, the door was opened from the inside first.
Xu Xi stood at the door with a somewhat anxious and confused expression. When he saw Pei Sheng in front of him, the expression on his little face suddenly became more confused.
Pei Sheng, who was sneaky just now, turned serious for a second, straightened his tie and said, "Ahem, good morning, sister Xiaoxi." Sister Xiaoxi, who had just woken up and didn't comb her hair, was drowsy!
Xu Xi reacted suddenly, ignored him and rushed out of the room.
She first glanced at the room opposite with the open door in panic, then walked to the living room and relaxed when she saw the young man.
Xu Shuo was preparing to cook noodles in the kitchen when he heard the noise and looked back: "Are you getting up? Go wash up first and have some breakfast later."
"Give me some, too," Pei Sheng, who followed out, said smoothly.
Xu Shuo counted a few noodles for him and put them in.
It's already half past ten. I'm afraid that not long after breakfast, I'll have to have lunch soon.
Pei Sheng pulled up a small stool and sat at the dining table, facing the kitchen and said, "Why did you both oversleep today? And when I woke up and watched the news in the morning, I heard that there was an earthquake in Heiyu District last night. It's really strange.
, local earthquake??”
When Xu Shuo heard this, he asked without looking back: "When did the earthquake happen?"
"It seemed that it was almost 9:30 p.m., and many people said they felt a little shaking."
"I was still in Huangmu District at that time and didn't feel it."
"But I heard that the earthquake was felt not long ago. Many people thought it was an illusion, but they saw other people on the Internet saying they felt the earthquake."
"Oh, let's read the official report."
"So what were you doing in Yellowwood last night?"
“Just dig around and invest.”
Simple noodles in clear soup don't need to be cooked for a long time. Xu Shuo had already divided into three bowls and brought them out while talking.
Pei Sheng looked down at the bowl in front of him, and then looked at the other two bowls.
One bowl was full of noodles, and the other bowl didn't have many noodles but had a water-cooked egg lying on it. The only one was really a bowl of soup with a few noodles.
"Why the hell are you just giving me white soup?"
"Anyway, you have had breakfast, and you will have lunch later." Xu Shuo said casually.
"...I've never seen you so picky." Pei Sheng twitched the corner of his mouth.
Xu Xi came out after washing up, pulled out a chair and sat down, looking at the pitiful noodles in his bowl with a daze.
Pei Sheng picked up the bowl, took a swig and swallowed the soup and noodles without any pause in between.
When Xu Xi saw this, he picked up a lump of noodles with his chopsticks and looked at his empty bowl.
"Hiccup... No, hiccup!" Pei Sheng waved his hand. He drank water too quickly and hiccupped twice uncontrollably.
After he calmed down, he sat and watched the brother and sister eating noodles. He put on a show of questioning and said with a straight face: "So, did you two become thieves last night? You were both able to sleep."
It’s so late and the alarm clock can’t wake you up?!”
Xu Xi took a small bite of the shuipu egg and said nothing. She just glanced at Xu Shuo opposite.
Xu Shuo looked calm: "I came back too late yesterday and went to bed straight away. I forgot to charge my phone. I didn't see it until I got up."
Pei Sheng listened to this and then looked at Xu Xi.
Along with this, Xu Shuo also raised his head and looked at her.
Xu Xi, who was suddenly stared at by the two people, stopped eating noodles. She lowered her head slightly and whispered: "I was sleeping so deeply that I didn't hear the alarm."
She has an alarm clock for six o'clock in the morning, which rings every five minutes and turns off automatically after five times.
But she didn't remember how she fell asleep last night. She had the impression that she had been playing with her phone on the sofa, but when she woke up this morning, she was on the bed in her room.
There is an alarm record on the phone, but Xu Xi did not hear the alarm at all.
Did she really sleep so deeply?
Why is she sleeping so deeply?
Xu Xi stared at the water and eggs in the bowl with an expressionless expression. Although she didn't seem to have any particular emotions on the surface, anyone with a discerning eye seemed to feel the increasingly condensed atmosphere around her.
Pei Sheng suddenly coughed uncomfortably: "Hey, I just overslept, it's no big deal. I even tried to sleep until the next night when I was in high school!"
"Yeah, then wake up and go to the bar all night long."
Xu Shuo choked him coolly, and then looked at Xu Xi: "What happened to you last night? Was there an earthquake in Heiyu District?"
Pei Sheng suddenly remembered this: "Yes, if there is an earthquake here, sister Xiaoxi, you should also feel it, right?"
earthquake?
Hearing this, Xu Xi's eyes flashed slightly.
Because it was more of a strange explosion than an earthquake, but in fact, nothing happened in the direction from which the explosion sound came.
And the moment she heard the explosion, she always felt that her thinking seemed a little slow, and it took a long time to react.
It seemed that she fell asleep at this time as well.
All in all, it doesn't look like a normal incident.
So Xu Xi bit her noodles and said vaguely: "It seems like there was an earthquake, but I only felt it a little bit, and I'm not sure."
"Is that really a local earthquake?" Pei Sheng then leaned back on his chair and swayed, and took out his mobile phone to check the hot search with some confusion.
After finishing breakfast and clearing away the dishes, Xu Shuo went to the room, took out his laptop and handed it to Pei Sheng.
Pei Sheng looked confused.
Xu Shuo said matter-of-factly: "You're here just in time, so please help bring this information to the studio. Anyway, I've already overslept today, so I might as well give myself a holiday so I won't get over it."
Pei Sheng: "Ah??"
"Is there any problem? It seems that all the things I need to deal with recently have been dealt with overtime. The rest are your own projects." Xu Shuo said confidently.
"Have you worked overtime recently??" Pei Sheng suddenly had more questions.
"Anyway, I've finished my work for today."
"Don't you think it's too much? We are both at work and you are on vacation, and the Dragon Boat Festival hasn't even come yet!"
"Anyway, my work has been taken care of."
"Then I also..."
Pei Sheng suddenly remembered in the middle of the sentence that he was no longer the free and carefree little salesman. He was now still responsible for a big project that related to the life and death of the studio and himself!
He seems to have quite a lot of unfinished work...
After all, this is his first time as a project leader, and Pei Sheng is not that skilled or fast at work, so there is still a pile of documents on his desk.
Pei Sheng was speechless immediately.
Xu Shuo looked at him and raised his eyebrows: "What?"
"...Nothing, I have to go back to work."
There seemed to be a rainy dark cloud floating above his head. Pei Sheng hugged the laptop and left with some resentment and indignation.
Xu Xi, who always eats a little slowly, was still sitting at the dining table, looking at Pei Sheng's back, and then at the young man standing next to him.
Xu Shuo also looked at her: "Are you going too?"
Xu Xi quickly shook his head.
"So what happened here last night?" Xu Shuo looked at her seriously.
"I'm really not sure..." Xu Xi told the story truthfully in a low voice: "During the earthquake, I heard an explosion in the mall, and then I felt groggy. I didn't know when to sleep.
It’s on.”
"Is there anything uncomfortable?" Xu Shuo asked again.
Xu Xi shook his head.
Seeing this, Xu Shuo relaxed and touched her head: "As long as it's okay, I'll go see what's going on there later when I'm shopping for groceries. Remember to stay as far away as possible when you encounter this kind of thing.
"
Xu Xi nodded again.
Neither of them planned to go to the company to work today. By the time Xu Xi finished breakfast, Xu Shuo had already gone out to buy groceries. She went back to the room and picked up her mobile phone to look at it.
At 9:30 last night, she remembered that she had sent a text message to her brother.
Xu Xi stared at the reply text message on the other side for a long time, frowning slightly, but didn't find anything strange at the moment.
Yes, although she always felt something was inconsistent, there was really nothing unusual about it.
Was my brother really only in Yellowwood District last night?
Xu Xi subconsciously touched the pendant spirit bead on her chest. The original sea blue bead had become transparent and colorless after these changes over time.
According to my brother, this thing will disappear automatically after wearing it for about a month.
At first glance, it sounds like something unusual.
Sometimes, Xu Xi is really curious about what the other side of the world is like.
However, she couldn't cause trouble to her brother.
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I cried when I was chopping onions yesterday...
I bought a lot of green onions and planned to cut them all into sections for later use. I didn’t expect that chopping green onions would irritate my eyes. By the time I realized it, I was already irritated qaqqq