designer who lives in the next room

"If you are going to leave at the end of the month..." Sasaki Haruka thought about the time for salary payment, then wrote a piece of paper and handed it to Li Zixi, "Go and settle the salary in advance with the accountant in two days, go home You have to bring something with you when you go.”

Li Zixi left the office after thanking Sasaki Haruka. She is very happy now, she has obtained permission to go home, so it will be up to Nanako to do the rest.

Nanako in the newspaper office seemed to have forgotten about her request for leave, because she was overwhelmed by the manuscripts to be sorted out today. The field work only brought back some very scattered records, and it was difficult to sort out such things and write them into press releases.

So Nanako can only use her creative talents, constantly enrich the sentences, search for relevant information and materials on the Internet, and piece them together into an article bit by bit.

The tea in the thermos cup is still very hot. Nanako regrets buying a thermos cup in the summer. It is too hot to drink. If the senior next door gave her a plastic cup, the tea Nanako made in the morning might not last until evening. Can't drink a few sips.

If this tea has been steeped until night...then it's probably so bitter that I can't drink it...

Volume [-]#Long time no one

"When are you going to ask your boss for leave?" During dinner, Li Zixi asked Nanako who was sitting opposite her. The latter was enjoying the spaghetti bolognese in front of her. I completely forgot about it.

The hand holding the fork stopped in mid-air, Nanako thought that she must not let Li Zixi know that she had forgotten about this matter, so she tried to use a very calm tone and said, "I have already said that the boss has been here for the past two days. Considering it, I think the problem should not be too big."

Hearing what Nanako said, Li Zixi immediately became happy. In order to let Nanako know her joy, she put the meat in her bowl to Nanako, "Great, I thought you forgot about it , because you never mentioned it to me, nor did you ask me when I plan to book the plane ticket."

"I...how could I forget...haha..." Nanako smiled awkwardly, and hurriedly stuffed the noodles that had been rolled onto the fork into her mouth , and stuck the meat that Li Zixi gave her with a fork, "I've been waiting for you to talk to me about buying a plane ticket..."

"Ah... I'm sorry, I'm sorry, if I don't tell you, you can't tell the boss the specific time of leave." Li Zixi told Nanako while nodding, "It's my fault... .”

This sentence made Nanako feel ashamed, it was her own fault but Li Zixi apologized to herself, she was afraid to look Li Zixi directly in the eyes.In order to ease her embarrassment at this time, Nanako changed the subject, "Oh, by the way, how is your guitar practice, I see you have been studying it recently."

"Well, to be honest, it's clearly said to be an introductory instrument for beginners, but I still can't play it together..." Li Zixi said sadly, she stretched out her hand in front of Nanako, and let her see that she was red and swollen fingers, "The strings of the guitar are so hard, my fingers are all swollen, and now it hurts when I press hard on the strings."

Li Zixi's fingers were obviously red and swollen, no wonder she was holding a fork in a strange way today.Nanako took Li Zixi's hand distressedly, and blew it with her mouth. As soon as her fingers touched the cool breeze, she really felt better, but this was not the solution to the problem.

"Is your method of pressing the strings wrong?" Nanako doesn't know musical instruments, so she can only guess wildly. She also knows that guitars are called "beginner instruments" by many people, so she thinks this kind of thing is quite abnormal.

Li Zixi shook her head, she retracted her hands, and continued eating pasta.

"I don't know either. The tutorial says that you have to press hard when you press the strings, otherwise the tone will be unstable and inaccurate." Li Zixi told Nanako what she heard in the tutorial, "I heard someone say that just It's normal to have finger pain when you start playing guitar, but I don't know if they also have times when the finger passages don't hold the strings."

"...Well..." Nanako had no choice but to nod her head. She felt that since the teaching video could be posted, it means that the approach is probably correct. Besides, the tutorial Li Zixi found has a lot of views. Gao, if the method is wrong, the video cannot be so popular.

Nanako suddenly thought of someone, she remembered Kurokawa Kaede who used to live with them in the "Lily Apartment", the girl who was always with Feng, Hasegawa Nanae, isn't she a ready-made teacher, if Nanako didn't If I remember correctly, the child has been working hard as a guitarist in the band since he recovered from his illness, and now he is also a well-known guitarist in the live house.

"Do you still remember Hasegawa Nanae?" Nanako mentioned this name that has not been mentioned for a long time. Hasegawa Nanae did not show up when Ryoko celebrated her birthday that day. Although she was invited, she was in the live There is a concert in the house, if she, as the lead guitarist, does not participate, the whole band will be paralyzed.

"Hasegawa...Qihui..." Li Zixi repeated the name, but her memory was a little fuzzy.

"It's the girl who was sick, the one with Feng." Nanako gave Li Zixi some hints, and after hearing Nanako's description, Li Zixi remembered who Hasegawa Nanae was.

"Oh, I remembered, the girl who played in the band!" Li Zixi recalled the experience of those days. Hasegawa Qihui touched everyone's hearts at that time, and everyone went to the shrine to pray for her. with.

"I think you are learning guitar on the Internet, you might as well ask Hasegawa Nanae for advice." Nanako continued, although they haven't had any contact with Hasegawa Nanae for a long time, but that child is not a person who doesn't know how to repay her kindness , if Li Zixi wanted to learn guitar with her, Hasegawa Nanae would definitely not refuse, "I heard that child is very good now."

"That's right... But will she be very busy..." Li Zixi was a little nervous. After all, I haven't seen Hasegawa Qihui for a long time, and I don't usually contact her. Wait until I can hear her. It was a bit embarrassing to go to her only when I was there.

"The live house rehearsals are indeed very busy sometimes, especially their band is still famous now." Nanako nodded, and after eating the last bite of spaghetti, she drank half a cup of Pu'er tea, feeling satisfied Continued, "Just let her guide you, you don't want to perform on stage like her, I think Hasegawa Nanae still has some time for this."

"That's right, then I'll contact Feng first." Li Zixi felt that what Nanako said made sense, so she planned to follow suit, but neither she nor Nanako had Hasegawa Nanae's phone number, nor did she have other contacts method, and I don’t know which live house she is performing in, so if you want to find her, you have to contact Kurokawa Kaede who has the best relationship with Hasegawa Nanae.

The last time Li Zixi met Kurokawa Kaede was at Ryoko’s birthday party. Kurokawa Kaede, who has graduated from university, is no longer as shy as before and afraid to speak. She often goes in and out of the live house with Hasegawa Nanae, and she gradually relaxes. , The way he dresses and speaks is also too mature.

Li Zixi called Hei Chuanfeng and explained her request to her, because Hei Chuanfeng and Li Zixi had a good relationship, so she agreed to Li Zixi, saying that she would go to Hasegawa Nanae to ask, and wait After she finished asking, she replied to Li Zixi's message.

Li Zixi has always had Kurokawa Kaede's contact information, she would always say hello to Nanako through Li Zixi, and she always insisted on showing Li Zixi her cosplay costumes at the comic exhibition, even if the two of them rarely meet each other, but about Hei Li Zixi still knew about Chuan Feng's recent situation.

Now Kaede Kurokawa is not just a college student who likes animation and cosplay, but now she works in an animation production company. Although she is not the first original artist, her name has already started to appear on the ending songs of some animations.

When her name appeared on the ending song of the cartoon, she proudly sent a screenshot to Li Zixi, and agreed that if she could become the first original artist, she would invite Li Zixi to play in their company. You can meet many famous voice actors.

For example, a certain coriander who doesn't like to laugh and has become black-bellied, and a singer who is always 17 years old for the theme song of a certain electromagnetic gun......

Heichuan Feng quickly sent Li Zixi a message back, saying that he had already spoken to Hasegawa Nanae, and Kurokawa Feng actually helped Hasegawa Nanae convey her greetings to Li Zixi and Nanako, and then told Li Zixi that if If possible, she can meet Li Zixi tomorrow afternoon. Hasegawa Qihui's band will have a rehearsal at the live house tomorrow afternoon, and she can guide Li Zixi after the rehearsal.

It happened that tomorrow was Saturday, and Li Zixi only needed to work overtime for half a day, so she asked Hei Chuan Feng to convey her feelings for her, and she was going to go to the live house with Hei Chuan Feng tomorrow to find Hasegawa Nanae.

"Did Nanako go too?" After sending the text message, Li Zixi asked Nanako who ran to sit on the sofa, but Nanako shook her head hesitantly.

"Live house..." Nanako seemed to be worried about something, Li Zixi leaned over curiously, is there any story about Nanako and live house that she doesn't know?

"Tell me about what happened to you in the live house." Li Zixi was very curious. In her impression, Nanako had never been to a live house.

"Nothing." This time Nanako's tone was very sure, she sighed and then Li Zixi explained, "I don't have any stories with the live house, I just don't like the atmosphere inside, it's too rock and roll, you know me too I don't like that style of music very much, and I don't like places full of 'dongci daci' rhythms."

"It's really your prejudice." Li Zixi waggled her finger at Nanako and shook her head, "Not all live houses play heavy metal music, and many of them sing leisurely folk songs. Happy song."

"That's right..." After listening to Li Zixi's words, Nanako felt that what she said was indeed a bit too one-sided.

"Besides, I don't think Hasegawa Nanae is the kind of person who can play heavy metal rock." Li Zixi recalled the song that Hasegawa Qihui sang to everyone in "Lily Apartment", which was a very relaxing song. Pleasant folk songs, every note is beating, after listening to it, it feels like sleeping comfortably on the grass by the forest.

"That's right, that child also prefers songs with a slower rhythm." Nanako also recalled Hasegawa Nanae. She has a deep obsession with music and bands. The more she is like this, the more she will insist on her own. Creative style, "Okay then, I'll go with you tomorrow."

"Great!" Li Zixi shouted excitedly, she put the disposable lunch box left by the two of them after they ate up the pasta into a garbage bag and put it at the entrance, and then continued to send text messages to Hei Chuanfeng.

She and Hei Chuanfeng had a brief exchange about the current situation, and then confirmed the time to meet tomorrow. Li Zixi put down her phone and ran into the room to pack her guitar. Although it was second-hand and not a famous brand, she still cherished it very much.

Volume [-]#Give me back the money I got back

Before the overtime was over, Li Zixi couldn't bear to see Nanae Hasegawa.It's been a few days since she bought the guitar. Her excitement about practicing the guitar recently has completely exceeded Nanako and Yui's expectations. The two even made a bet. Nanako said it would be about three days and Yui said it should be a week.

Facts have proved that Yui's estimate is more accurate. Li Zixi has been practicing guitar for more than two days a week.Despite some reluctance, Nanako went to Yui's bar to spend as agreed on Friday night.

Of course, Yui only charged Nanako for a glass of wine, the two of them were old acquaintances, and the bet was just for entertainment, but Yui kept complaining about Nanako, saying that she hadn't been to her bar to see her since she married Li Zixi .

It's not that Nanako doesn't want to come, it's just that her life after marriage is a bit busy, and she only has time to do her own things on weekends, but these two days she and Li Zixi have to do laundry and buy daily necessities, so they have been here for a week. Ben was already very tired, plus these things made Nanako just want to stay on the bed or sofa when she was free.

What's more, they adopted a cat before, and it was rare to have time to play with it on weekdays, so Nana would pester them all the time on Nanako and Li Zixi's rest days, and they had to spare some time to spend with Nana.

Last night, Asuka Kimura didn't go to Yui's bar to help with work, so Nanako can go there without worrying about Li Zixi's jealousy. Not long after, Nanako left.

She had to go out with Li Zixi the next day, so she wanted to take a good rest tonight.

Li Zixi didn't wake Nanako up when she went to work overtime in the morning, so Nanako slept until 10:30 in the morning, drank a few glasses of wine at Yui's place last night, slept very comfortably, and woke up without a hangover Dizzy, only to open the window to breathe fresh air refreshed.

I simply tidied up the house, took half an hour to wash the clothes, and changed the cat litter and added cat food for Nana, because today I am going to meet someone I haven’t seen for a long time, so Nanako drew a picture for herself Very delicate and beautiful makeup.

Seeing that the time was almost up, Nanako picked up the key and planned to go out, but Nanako didn't seem to want to let Nanako go, because she hadn't played enough with Nanako yet.Nanako licked it a few times, and told it that she would play with it when she came back. Nanako seemed to understand her words, and ran back to the living room after rubbing Nanako a few times.

It was already noon, and it was the hottest time of the day in summer. The clouds in the sky were loose, and there was no way to stop the sun from pouring its scorching light onto the ground.As soon as she opened the door, there was a wave of heat rushing towards her face. It was only a short time since summer, Nanako felt the oncoming hot wind, and looked at the tall buildings that had become illusory in the distance.

"This year's climate is too hot..." just walked out of the apartment building, the sun was shining on her body, and Nanako had to quickly open the umbrella, even if she was not far from the parking place. 500 meters, she doesn't want to be lazy and be exposed as a purple potato monster.

The inside of the car was like a steamer, even though it was parked under the shade of a tree, the car was still full of heat.When the air conditioner was turned on, Nanako left the car and stood under the shade of a tree, planning to wait for the car to cool down before entering.

She looked at the cars parked in the sun and was exposed to the sun all the time, and she was wondering how to get in after their owners came out, especially those black cars, they couldn't even open the doors, right? The temperature must be able to fry eggs.

Fortunately, Nanako's parking space was under the shade of a tree, and the air-conditioning facility was maintained not long ago, so the temperature in the car dropped quickly.Nanako put on her seat belt, adjusted the position of the rearview mirror and rearview mirror, and drove to the design company to pick up Li Zixi.

There is not much work during overtime, but if you don't work overtime, you can't deliver the design plan to the client on time, so Li Zixi finished the work at hand after 10 o'clock.She packed her things early, and waited for Nanako to send her a message in the lobby with tea.

She also noticed the empty road outside baked by the sun, so she didn't even take a step out of the company.It wasn't until Nanako called her that Li Zixi braced herself and walked out facing the sun.

"My God, it's too hot today..." Li Zixi began to complain as soon as she got in the car, she couldn't wait to move the air outlet of the air conditioner to her direction, letting the cold wind blow on her face.

But before blowing for a few seconds, Nanako turned back the fan on the air outlet of the air conditioner, and said to Li Zixi, "If you blow the air conditioner like that, you will get air conditioner disease."

"You still have the nerve to talk about me." Li Zixi pouted and asked Nanako, Nanako was the one who got air-conditioning disease before Li Zixi, "I'm hungry, let's eat something first."

Although Li Zixi was a little hungry, she didn't know what to eat when she looked at the various small shops on the street.The weather is too hot, and she doesn't want to eat very hot or spicy food at all. Now she just wants to eat a bowl of shaved ice and a stick of ice cream.

But Nanako would never satisfy her with such a request. She told Li Zixi that at best, she could only have a bowl of shaved ice or an ice cream, it was impossible to buy both for her, and she had to eat it after the meal.

Nanako taught Li Zixi how fragile her intestines and stomach are. It's not okay to eat too much oil or too spicy food. If Li Zixi is allowed to eat so many cold things in one go, she will definitely have diarrhea all night tonight.

Then the rest day will be spent in the hospital hanging on the bottle.

"Then shaved ice." Li Zixi made her choice, then pointed to a taiyaki shop on the side of the road, "Let's buy some of that and eat, or does Nanako have any better plans?"

Nanako was not hungry at all, she ate something to fill her stomach after getting up in the morning, so she had no objection to Li Zixi's proposal.It's just that the taiyaki shop is facing the sun, and each piece is freshly grilled, so people who want to buy taiyaki have to stand in the sun for nearly 10 minutes.

"You go." Nanako threw the wallet to Li Zixi, meaning that she would pay Li Zixi to run errands, but how could Li Zixi be willing? When she went out this morning, there was no sun outside, so Li Zixi didn't wear sunscreen. Just don't run and stand under the sun.

"Aren't you going to my treat?" Nanako raised her eyebrows, looking at Li Zixi who was holding her wallet but was indifferent, this was the first time she saw Li Zixi taking money but not spending it.

"Nanako, have you put on sunscreen..." Li Zixi looked back at Nanako, then returned Nanako's wallet, took out a big bill from her pocket and put it on the dashboard in front of Nanako, "I'm treating you today, I'll buy you a cup of shaved ice too, so you go."

"Where did you get this money?" Nanako looked at the big bill, she didn't remember that she gave Li Zixi this money again.

"Damn... I usually keep all the change left over from shopping. If I have enough, I can go to the bank and change it into the whole bill." Li Zixi explained to Nanako how she got this banknote, and finished speaking I didn't forget to give Nanako a push, "Hurry up, today is a generous treat from me, Li Zixi, and I want to eat blueberry-flavored shaved ice with two spoonfuls of blueberry sauce!"

Nanako, who couldn't resist Li Zixi, took the money to go shopping. The temperature outside was indeed very hot, but the sun hadn't reached the point where it would burn her skin after only 10 minutes of exposure to the sun. Nanako first ordered a box of Taiyaki, half of bean paste Filled with half of the peanut stuffing, and then went to the shaved ice shop next door to buy two servings of shaved ice.

Strawberry and blueberry flavors, each with an extra spoonful of jam.

After getting all the things, Nanako walked back to the car sweating profusely. After turning on the air conditioner, she finally came back to life.She put the taiyaki stuffed with red bean paste on Li Zixi's side, Nanako, she prefers peanut flavor.

Eating freshly baked soft and sweet taiyaki, eating refreshing and cold shaved ice, summer seems not so difficult.

While Nanako was enjoying taiyaki and shaved ice, Li Zixi kept pulling Nanako's arm with her hands.

"What are you doing? Didn't you say you want the blueberry flavor..." Nanako protected the shaved ice in her hand, "I won't trade it with you."

"No, I'm not going to trade shaved ice with you, and I don't like strawberry flavored ones either." Li Zixi shook her head, and then made a "money" gesture with her hand, "Where is the money you got back, return it to me." me!"

"Ah?" Nanako raised her eyebrows, "Shouldn't the rest be my errand expenses?"

"What?!" If Li Zixi hadn't been wearing a seat belt, she would have jumped up, "Rerrand fees? How much money..."

"Isn't that what you keep telling me? Every time you take the money to buy something with me, when you come back, you say that the rest of the money is for running errands." Nanako said while digging a spoonful of shaved ice. into Li Zixi's mouth, "This mouthful will be regarded as compensation."

"But... but..." Li Zixi quickly swallowed the shaved ice, but it was too cold, and it made her head ache, and she finally said to Nanako after the pain passed. , "But all my money doesn't add up to that much. I usually save this money bit by bit. Give it back to me..."

Seeing Li Zixi's pitiful appearance, she must have regretted letting Nanako go shopping.Nanako swallowed the pocket money that she worked so hard to save, even though it was originally saved with Nanako's money.

"Forget it, forget it, it's just to tease you." Seeing that Li Zixi couldn't even eat shaved ice, Nanako could only pat Li Zixi's head, and returned the money she found in her pocket, "Look, I scared you Yep, what a cute guy."

Volume [-] #It's a pleasure to stay with these two people

Although Li Zixi often chatted with Hei Chuanfeng before, and occasionally shared her life and some photos she usually took, but when she really saw Hei Chuanfeng, Li Zixi felt that she was more mature than she looked in the photos few.

In recent years, Kurokawa Kaede has changed from a child who is not good at communicating with others to a mature woman who can talk freely and gracefully. It seems that the experience in the animation company in the past two years has helped her a lot.

Kurokawa Kaede hasn't seen Nanako for a long time. Ever since she and Hasegawa Nanae moved out of Ryoko's "Lily Apartment", she has hardly had any contact with Nanako, but she has no idea what happened to Nanako. It's quite clear, because when Li Zixi chats with her, she can't help but tell her about me about Nanako.

Feng, she even knew that Li Zixi and the others adopted a kitten and named it "Nai Nai". Of course, Li Zixi didn't mention a word about their privacy and things they didn't want others to know. All that I tell Kurokawa Kaede is a story that can be shared with others.

"Miss Nanako is much more beautiful." Feng looked at Nanako's face, full of envy. From the day she saw Nanako, she felt that this woman was really beautiful. After all these years, Nanako's face is a little bit Not even the slightest bit of bleakness because of the growth of age, "It seems that they are living a very happy life after marriage."

"It's true, it's hard not to be unhappy with Li Zixi." Nanako naturally felt a little proud when she heard Feng talking about it. In this day and age, there are very few people who can always feel happy like her after marriage. At least, "and you won't feel bored with her at all."

Feng nodded, based on her understanding of Li Zixi, Li Zixi is a pistachio that can make people happy at any time, and staying with such a person will definitely be full of fun, because Li Zixi will always make people happy from time to time. Something happened.

"I think so too. Sister Li Zixi is always very interested in something suddenly. This time, she seems to want to learn a musical instrument." Feng turned his head to Li Zixi's side. They are now staying in the animation company. There is still some time before the rehearsal of Tanigawa Nanae's band is over, so they can catch up on the past first, "Let me guess, how long has Miss Li Zixi insisted on the guitar this time? Three days..."

Hearing the figure estimated by Feng, Nanako covered her mouth and laughed. It seems that she and Feng knew about the same about Li Zixi, and they both felt that Li Zixi's interest in musical instruments could only last about three days.

But it turns out that both of them were wrong. Li Zixi shook her head at Heichuanfeng with some pride, and stretched out her hand to draw a "1", "It's a week and three days, but I really plan to do it this time." learning."

"But why did Miss Li Zixi want to learn guitar all of a sudden, don't you want to try other instruments?" Feng asked Li Zixi curiously, there are already so many guitar learners on the street, and there are many young people singing with guitars on the streets at night , so the guitar is no longer a rare thing now.

Feng knew Li Zixi's character, what Li Zixi loved most was to come up and directly challenge the difficult ones, so why didn't she do this when she was learning an instrument...

"Mainly, mainly..." Li Zixi was a little shy, "I originally wanted to learn piano or violin..."

Li Zixi stretched out her hands in front of Feng, and let her observe her hands, "But my fingers are too short, I can't press so many keys on the piano at the same time, and... .The piano and the violin are really too expensive. Those two instruments don’t seem like they can be learned through self-study. I haven’t paid enough to sign up for classes.”

"It is indeed..." Feng observed Li Zixi's fingers. These hands are indeed not very suitable for playing the piano, but she did not say such a thing, but affirmed the second half of Li Zixi's sentence, "The piano is indeed too expensive." Whether it’s buying a piano or learning to play the piano.”

The topic of not being able to learn what you like is somewhat heavy, but Li Zixi's expression doesn't care at all, she retracts her hand, picks up the drinks that Feng prepared for them, "Speaking of which, today is the weekend, why are you still here, Feng?" What about the company?"

Speaking of this, Feng showed some helpless expression on her face, she pointed to the digital board on her desk, and the line draft displayed on the screen, "Because there are still some things that are not finished, if I If it slows down here, the follow-up work will be delayed, so I have to take the initiative to come here to work overtime on weekends."

Like Li Zixi, she just finished the work that needs to be done this week this morning.

"It's so hard, I can't take a good rest on weekends." Nanako said, and glanced at Feng and Li Zixi respectively. She actually said these words to these two people at the same time. Regardless of the amount of work involved, it will be perceived as hard work by others.

However, Feng shook her head at Nanako. She picked up the drink bottle on the table and added some to the cup in front of her, and then said, "Although it takes up some of my rest time, I can't do it on weekends. What I want to do, but because I like this kind of work very much, I like to see the characters I draw move in the hands of the painter behind me. Every time I think of this, I don’t feel very hard, or on weekends I Maybe that’s what you want to do.”

What Feng said is correct, even on weekends when there is no overtime, Feng will only choose to read manga and animation, and then draw something in his heart with the digital board, so working overtime on weekends and continuing to draw, this In fact, it's what she always does.

It's normal not to feel hard.