The first person to notice that something was wrong with my state of mind was Xue Shisi, because I hadn't been to the shop for several days and was completely neglecting it.
Consequently, she began frequently finding all sorts of reasons to contact me, reporting on the progress of various tasks at the shop, and offering many reasonable, forward-looking suggestions for its future development, as if she wanted to tie me down with these matters.
Furthermore, every evening around eight o'clock, she would call me punctually to ask about my whereabouts.
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