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Chapter 6 Meeting an Acquaintance
When Sun Rui pushed three rounds and saw me appearing outside the weather bookstore around my waist, he showed a hell in the day.
I put a small blackboard with various discount information on the ground and asked her what she was doing here.
Sun Rui: "I should ask you this? What are you doing here?"
I put my hands in the two small pockets around my waist and said, "Working."
"Part-time job?" When Sun Rui heard this, he looked towards the shop on tiptoe, and walked inwardly, "You can work as a young master who doesn't work in all parts of the body? Does the boss still hire people? I think too. Work here."
Sun Rui always felt that all the people in the city were young masters, who lived in a towering building and had butler service every day.
I held her shoulders to block her way, and said, "Don't you want to help your dad see the orchard? What kind of work."
Sun Rui's family has several acres of fruit forest on the mountain, which grow apples and green plums. On holidays, Sun Rui will join the team guarding the orchard, and the picking season will even be arranged to patrol at night.
When I was a child, I went there once because of curiosity during the summer vacation. Everyone would send out a head-mounted bright light, and follow Dad Sun all the way to the top of the mountain, and shout slogans-don't ask for it, sit in prison.
Shouting while running, resounding through the mountains and forests, I remember all these years.
"I want to be colleagues with Wen Ying, too." Sun Rui pouted, very unwilling. "Then in the small warehouse, in the storage room full of debris, in the smelly toilet, enjoy this and that..."
I don't need to ask her, just by looking at the yellow on her head, I can guess what this is like.
"Don't be stupid, you should sell your fruits first and then consider other things." Seeing her three rounds of apples with plastic bags and electronic scales hanging on the front of the car, I knew she must have been driven out by her father again Fruit is sold.
Sun Rui's face was a bit hideous in an instant.
"This year's apple harvest, my fruit Xishi's name doesn't work anymore. I didn't sell a few kilograms of fruit for a whole morning." She bumped her elbow against me, "Yu Mian, it's a sister.
Who is your sister?
"No, my family doesn't raise pigs. If you can't eat it, it will be wasted." But for the sake of friends, you can always help, "Let me weigh six."
"Good!" Sun Rui happily picked six large apples for me, put them in a plastic bag and weighed them to me.
"Don't forget to say something nice to me in front of Wen Ying, especially to praise my kindness and simplicity."
"I know." I paid, waved goodbye to her, and turned back to the shop.
"I'm selling apples! Fresh, big and sweet apples!" Sun Rui pushed three rounds and gradually walked away, "The apples picked by this fruit Xishi personally are not sweet!"
The Weather Bookstore opened at nine in the morning and closed at five in the afternoon. The Yan Kongshan Buddhist department seemed to have won five million dollars and didn't care about the business at night.
After Grandfather knew that I had something to do during the day, he raised his hands and feet in favor, and asked me to give a bowl of tea eggs to the next door as a thank you. Thank you Yan Kongshan for freeing me from my fallen room, so I can go outside to bask in the sun.
"Why go out for a while and bring back a bag of apples?"
Since the store just opened, there are still no people in the store. After working in a bookstore for two days, although I can't say that He Wen Ying hits it off right away, I am gradually becoming familiar with it, and I will talk a little bit about homework when I rest.
"Would you like to eat? I'll go and wash it." I showed him the apples in the bag, "Sun Rui grows them at home, they are very sweet."
"Did she just come?" Wen Ying glanced outside, "I found the book she wanted. I still wonder when she will come again."
"I'm gone, I'm going to sell apples." I was a little curious, "What book did she ask you to find?"
Wen Ying opened the drawer and took out a simple and simple thread-bound copy. The blue cover was impressively written with the words "Gold X Plum".
I:"…"
Sun Rui, you were exposed from the beginning.
There is a large room at the back of the bookstore, where some messy things are usually piled up and used as a warehouse. There is also a special space for a lounge for employees to eat and store.
I washed the apples and put them in a bowl on the table. I wiped my hands on my waist and started searching for Yan Kongshan.
I scanned the shop and didn't find him. I guess he should be in the warehouse next door. I went over and found him there.
Yan Kongshan is checking the inventory in the warehouse. Although I don't know how to check these messy books, I have to go up and ask if I need help.
"Manager, do you want to help?"
Yan Kongshan was putting a cardboard box on the ground onto the shelf. He glanced at me and did not refuse. He raised his chin and asked me to order books on another row of shelves.
The books are all second-hand books, and they have been around for a certain period of time, and they will smell like a long time in the warehouse. took the books and records from the upper shelf one by one, sneezed several times, and suddenly the end of eyes seemed to catch a small, gray object slowly approaching on the ground.
I held the book and looked at it suspiciously, facing a slapped mouse.
A place like a warehouse is dark and airtight, and it is normal to have rats. But as an urbanite who grew up in a city and has never raised a hamster, and the only rodent he ever came into contact with was the amusement park Mickey Mouse, this is not a mouse, this is Godzilla with the face of Sadako. If the san value is displayed on the top of my head, it should have fallen through the center of the earth by now.
Reflexively, I threw the book, the only prop in my hand, at the mouse, trying to drive it away.
But didn't expect it to be thrown, only the pages of the book spread out from it, and when it fell, it formed a perfect triangle on the mouse, covering it, without causing any harm at all.
It shook its head, got out of the book, and looked up at me.
I:"…"
Although I couldn't see the mood value on the top of the animal's head, I felt its anger in its scarlet eyes.
Me: "...I'm sorry. Brother, I was wrong."
It didn't buy it, and began to lean down and make some dangerous poses.
"Manager?" I didn't dare to speak too loudly, I could only call Yan Kongshan with a volume that seemed to be insufficiently breathed.
Fortunately he heard it.
"Ok?"
"Here..." I was halfway through, and the mouse sprinted violently, making me pissed, turning around and fleeing to Yan Kongshan, "Help!!!"
At this time, people have no sense at all. I only remember Yan Kongshan's stunned gaze when he looked over. When he recovered, his whole person had already jumped on him.
Put your arms around his neck and your feet around his waist, like a koala... hanging on him.
Because of the momentum, he unconsciously stepped back a few steps. In order to stabilize his figure, he had to support my thigh with one hand.
"Yu Mian?"
This is the first time I have listened to his voice so closely. As soon as I heard it, every small hair seemed to sway happily, forming a pleasant A**R.
I hugged Yan Kongshan's neck tighter, and said in a faint voice: "There are mice."
The heart beats fiercely, but it is no longer because of fear.
"Mouse?" Yan Kongshan seemed to look around, "It should have escaped."
I sniffed and nodded: "Yeah."
After lying down for a while, Yan Kongshan probably kept waiting for me to get down on the ground. He waited and waited. He couldn't bear it. He had to remind me: "Yu Mian, can you go down?"
Hey, want to take advantage of it for a while.
"Oh." I loosened the legs that clamped his waist and fell to the ground, scratching my face shamelessly, "I'm sorry, I'm a little afraid of these things."
Yan Kongshan bent down to pick up the spine of the book that had just fallen on the ground, and said, "You can go outside. I'll be here."
Although a little lost, I went outside obediently.
As Sun Rui said, the proportion of female customers in the store is much higher than that of males. Many of them are tourists who come here especially. They are not older than most of me. They look around and whisper as soon as they come in.
"Little handsome guy, is your store manager here today?" A female customer grabbed me and asked in a low voice.
Because the owner is so handsome, it has become one of the attractions on the island, and this bookstore is also unique.
I held the book and told the truth: "It's in the warehouse."
The female guest seemed a little disappointed: "I finally came here..." She looked at me for a moment, as if she suddenly discovered the New World, "Little handsome guy, do you have a girlfriend? I have a younger sister, and you are right."
"I don't plan to have a girlfriend..."
"How old are you? My sister is a freshman this year, maybe a little bit older than you, but it doesn't matter, the third year of female college holds gold bricks..."
I:"…"
Madam, listen to me.
I sighed inwardly and had a killer trick: "I don't like girls."
The female guest's voice was stagnant, her mouth half-opened, and the numbers on her head quickly turned into an awkward green, with a short-circuited expression: "Oh...oh...that's it."
I saw that she should be fine and asked me, so she could find me again if needed, then turned around and went to the other bookshelf.
The books placed by the guests were placed back on the bookshelf. At this time, a group of people came in outside the door. There were a lot of people listening to the movement. They laughed and did not control the volume, which caused the readers in the store to frown and look there.
After placing the last book, I walked towards the sound source, intending to remind them to pay attention to the volume.
"Fu Wei, why are you coming here for nothing? What's the point of this island, it's broken and earthy..."
"Yes, there is not even a playground. Why not go back to the city? Let's go to the game city to play video games!"
"Second second!"
"You have to go back by yourself, I want to go shopping again."
Hearing the familiar voice, I stopped walking, unpleasant memories came to my mind, and my scalp was tingling.
It's Fu Wei and the group of people in the class. How come they come to Green Plum Island?
The sound was getting closer and closer, and I didn't want to confront them head-on, so I was a fugitive deserter, turned and walked quickly to the warehouse.
Before I opened the door, the door opened by itself, and Yan Kongshan appeared behind the door. The inventory should have been checked and was about to leave.
The voice behind me was still approaching, I had no time to explain, I pushed Yan Kongshan into the warehouse again, turned around and closed the door firmly.
Blocking the possibility of reunion with my old classmates, I exhaled a long breath against the closed warehouse door, and my tight nerves relaxed.
"Meet an acquaintance?"
Hearing Yan Kongshan's voice, I remembered his existence.
Turning around embarrassingly, I pressed against the warehouse door, and for a while I did not know how to explain the situation to him.
"It's my classmate from high school." I lowered my head and said.
Yan Kongshan didn't let me open the door, but stepped back a few steps and leaned against the shelf behind him.
"Don't like them?"
I pouted: "They don't like me. I didn't like me in high school..."
"Why is it not likable?"
This kind of thing, sooner or later, will be said, instead of being hated by him later, it is better to confess now. If he can't accept it, I can stop the loss in time and don't continue to sink.
Pursing my lips, I looked up at him, my hands tightly squeezed behind me.
"I... like men."