Not a god

Chapter 20 Chen Yan
The temperature rose a little at noon, but dropped again when Chen Xi went out. The snow that fell in the morning melted a little and froze again. The road was a little slippery and foggy.

Chen Xi was pushing the baby in the stroller. The baby was sleeping soundly. He asked Chen Yan curiously, "Why are you following me?"

"Baby products, boss, do you know how to buy them?"

"You understand very well."

"You can trust me completely in this regard. After all, I have been a mother."

Chen Xi couldn't help but look at her. To be honest, this woman looked like she had only graduated from college a few years ago. How could she already be a mother?
"You don't go home to take care of the children, but come out to drink every day."

"I'm a single mother. My son died in a car accident three years ago, so there's no one at home."

She complained to herself: "I'm so stupid, really, I just know..."

"..." The topic suddenly became heavy.

She looked at him, smiling: "Are you going to comfort me? Can you buy me a drink..."

Chen Xi shook his head, without any guilt on his face for mentioning other people's sad things.

"Boss, your personality is really similar to my son."

"is it?"

"He is just like you, always cold and unkind."

“…I’m actually a very warm-hearted person.”

If someone tells you coldly that you are actually a warm-hearted person, how would you react? You would definitely laugh, so Chen Yan couldn't help but laugh.

"I really can't tell, boss!"

Chen Xi is indeed a kind-hearted person. He would not help an old lady cross the road, but if he saw an old man fall down and couldn't get up, he would choose to go up and help him.

The reason why Chen Yan felt that he was cold was simply because he felt that many things in human relationships were unnecessary.

If you feel comfortable, express your like; if you hate it, stay away from it; say thank you when others do you a favor; apologize if you cause trouble to others.

Dealing with people is such a simple thing, but everyone is trying to make simple things complicated.

Of course, he also knows that human beings are the sum of all social relations, and the relationships between people are inherently complex. You can't do whatever you want. You have to follow the rules agreed upon by everyone.

He was also familiar with the rules of interpersonal relationships, which made him always likable when interacting with classmates, friends, and relatives.

But he felt that if it was unnecessary, he would not use that set of rules again. For example, this woman who drank more than a dozen bottles of expensive wine in his warehouse and didn't pay, he just wanted her to pay back the money quickly.

"Is that why you drink all day long?"

"At first, yes, but later I simply felt comfortable when I was drunk."

Chen Xi was pushing the stroller and waiting at the zebra crossing. The fog was getting thicker and thicker, and he could only see the dark figures on the opposite side of the road and the hazy red lights.

He looked at Chen Yi, who was in the stroller and began to fall asleep after feeding, and took her finger out of her mouth.

"You said your child is the same as mine. Can children also be cold and icy?"

"child?"

Chen Yan suddenly laughed. The air was too dry and she coughed twice while laughing. "Actually, I'm already 53 this year. When my son passed away, he had already graduated from college."

Chen Xi turned his head to look at her unexpectedly. She was indeed a young and beautiful mature urban woman.

"Are you a monster?"

“It’s a deity.”

The green light came on and they followed the flow of people across the road.

"The mutton soup we had at noon was really heart-warming. It made me feel warm all over. Boss, what are we having for dinner tonight?"

Chen Xi glanced at her and said, "Come and work for me. I'm still short of a waiter."

Chen Yan opened her eyes wide: "Why?"

"Because you have lots of free time, and you drank a lot of my expensive wine, and you don't have the money to pay me back, and you act like you want to stay with me."

Chen Yan praised him and gave him a thumbs up: "Boss, you are really very rude!"

"Otherwise, I'll compile the statistics of your spending with me and ask Mr. Guan for it." "Why ask him?"

"I'm a small business here, and I can't afford your trouble. You and Mr. Guan are friends, right? I'm just transferring the debt."

"I am a deity. You are really bold, boss. You actually let a deity work for you."

Chen Xi also raised the doubts that had been in his mind for a long time:

"If you are a god, you can drink any kind of wine you want. As long as you use your mind a little more, you should be able to become rich and powerful easily, right?"

In that case, why would she come to rely on his wine? Isn't his wine better? Chen Xi wondered whether he should introduce his supplier to her and ask this god to go somewhere else to drink his wine.

"Yeah, it was like that before I was reborn, but it was pretty awful and boring."

It's just that he can't be driven away, otherwise Chen Xi would have driven this bad guy away long ago.

"Okay! I agree. I have nothing to do anyway!"

It sounds very unreliable. Chen Xi actually hopes that she chooses the second one. He might even get some kickbacks when he goes to Mr. Guan to collect the food expenses.

But at critical moments, she is quite reliable.

Chen Yan took Chen Xi to a maternal and child products store and knew exactly what they wanted to buy. In addition to diapers and milk powder, there were also many strange things that seemed to be necessary. Without her, Chen Xi really wouldn't have known.

Little Chen Yi woke up in the middle of the night. She was very excited looking at the dazzling array of goods in the shopping mall and kept babbling about wanting to run downstairs.

Chen Xi carried her down. A chubby little bee landed on the ground, unable to stand steadily, swaying from side to side with her butt twisting.

Because she was so cute, she was surrounded by a group of ladies who were overflowing with maternal love. These ladies had no common sense and didn't know that children under one year old cannot speak. They surrounded Chen Yi and asked her questions.

"What a cute little baby, how old are you?"

Chen Yi: ()
"Would you please go home with your aunt?"

Chen Yi: =()
"Come here, give auntie a kiss!"

Facing the approaching big face, Chen Yi clenched her fists and shook her head wildly.

The road was blocked on all sides. Xiao Chenyi looked around and found that she couldn't get out. She became a little anxious.

"Yiyi, let's go."

Chen Xi pushed through the crowd in time and cleared a bloody path for her.

She stared at Chen Xi, wondering who this person was. She stopped thinking about it, only knowing that if she followed this person, she would have milk to drink.

The little baby rolled and crawled, staggering after him.

She wasn't walking very steadily yesterday, but today she hardly fell. Chen Xi picked her up, put her back in the stroller, and gave her a pacifier.

The two of them carried two large bags and pushed the stroller out the door.

"Have you chosen a name?" Chen Yan asked.

"Chen Yi."

"What's the moral?"

Chen Xi named her based on the origin of his own name. Yi and Xi are pronounced very similarly. When he heard the other party asking this question, he thought of his mother again.

"My name... was given by my mother. Do you know why she named me Chen Xi?"

"let me see……"

Chen Yan thought about it seriously and asked, "Is it because when you pronounce the word 'Xi', it looks like you are smiling?"

Chen Xi was stunned, not understanding how the other party guessed it so quickly. The other party just smiled and reminded him, "The light is green, little friend Chen Xi."

Chen Xi had no choice but to follow with his things in his hand.

The fog on the road was so thick that visibility was no more than five meters. Halfway through the walk, Chen Yan, who was pushing the stroller, suddenly paused.

"What's wrong?" Chen Xi asked.

She turned her head and looked towards the river bank with an interested look: "It seems very lively over there, let's go back this way."

(End of this chapter)