Engraved crush time

Chapter 3

I have to admit that Tang Qiming is very good at acting.

If he didn't wear a pair of black-rimmed glasses and mislead me with his gentle appearance, making me mistakenly think that he is a good student who is diligent, studious and polite, I think, I definitely wouldn't live with him under one roof.Especially on the afternoon when he moved into this house, when he was cleaning the room in a white T-shirt, and the little finger-length scar on his left arm was exposed in front of my eyes, I suddenly realized that I had made a fatal mistake. My mistake, that is, to lead the wolf into the house.

In an instant, I "evolved" into a female warrior who defended my family and the country, and I drew a clear line with Tang Qiming to avoid unnecessary troubles.Obviously, it is impossible to "deport" a tenant who has just moved in.

Also that afternoon, the mother of the child I was counseling sent me a message asking me to collect my salary for these two months, and I received the news that I was fired.I carefully folded the hundred-dollar bills together and stuffed them into the compartment of my wallet.All afternoon, I clutched that dilapidated wallet, even when I was filling out my personal information in the talent market, I never let go.

The customer service manager said the most to me: "Wait for the news, I will contact you immediately if there is a suitable job."

The use of "you" is really ridiculous.It is obviously fish on the chopping board, but when he moves the knife, he smiles and asks you: "Does it hurt?"

When I came out of the talent market, the warm yellow light had already replaced the daylight.The noise of loud cars fills the loneliness of the world.A wave of people disappeared from my sight, and another wave filled my sight.

This world is generally like this, there will always be something to fill some gap, whether it is time or space, it has always been like this.

I still hold that old wallet in my hand.This wallet contains the tools I need to survive in this world, and I naturally dare not neglect it. I just hold it in front of my eyes again and again, as if suffering from indirect obsessive-compulsive disorder, to make sure it is still in my hands. Hold it firmly in the palm of your hand, just like holding your own destiny.

Tang Qiming was not at home when I returned to the house.The room was dark, swallowing me like a monster in an instant.I didn't turn on the lights, and I didn't go to the kitchen to look for food. I wasn't hungry, I just felt tired, both physically and mentally.So, I groped my way to the room and slept next to the bed.The moment I closed my eyes, I suddenly remembered that there was still a wolf living in this house.So, I got up from the bed again, locked the door of the bedroom, and climbed into the bed with peace of mind.

I think I was so exhausted that I fell asleep before I hit the bed.It's just that this kind of sleep didn't last long, the knock on the door woke me up, and the moment I opened my eyes, I realized that I was still clutching the old wallet tightly in my hand.

I got up from the bed with extreme reluctance, and kept "greeting" Tang Qiming in my heart, even the eighteen generations of his ancestors "greeting" together.I opened the door and glanced at Tang Qiming in a daze, "Is there something wrong?" I asked.

"It's time to eat!"

His voice was extremely soft, with a certain tranquility about it.

I woke up instantly in this breath, and only then did I realize that Tang Qiming's red shirt was covered with a yellow apron.

This is the first time I saw a boy wearing an apron. It was very funny, but I didn't laugh. How can a boy cook for a girl who has nothing to do with nothing? Obviously, this is a scam .

I remember learning a text "Wu Song Fights the Tiger" when I was in elementary school. At that time, the teacher used "knowing that there are tigers in the mountains, but walking on the mountain with tigers" to describe Wu Song's courage and courage.My nose immediately transmitted and stimulated my central nervous system after smelling the aroma of the food, my stomach kept growling, I swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and swallowed the meal that I planned to decline. It seems that it is a scam, who has nothing to do, and has become a female Wu Song who "knows that there are tigers on the mountain and travels to the tiger mountain".

Tang Qiming's craftsmanship is really good.The heat of the stewed chicken drumsticks with potatoes is just right, so the pudding-sized potato cubes are yellow in color, fragrant in the mouth, spicy and spicy, but also have a light sweet taste, and the chicken drumsticks have no fishy smell at all, like It is as spicy and delicious as it has been boiled and washed in boiling water.However, I prefer the shredded cabbage dish. There is no sign of knife work left on the leaves. Obviously, in order to maintain the fiber of the cabbage itself, Tang Qiming replaced the operation of the knife work with the method of hand tearing, which preserved the cabbage. its own sweetness.

It's hard for me to imagine that a boy can cook such delicious dishes. This is an era of "little emperors and little princesses". There are many men and women who can't cook, let alone cook a delicious meal.Thinking of this, I suddenly stopped my chopsticks. I suddenly felt that I envied those children who were treated like ancestors by their parents, and envied the feeling of being pampered. It is because I have never felt it that I am more eager.

But what about me?Abandoned by his biological parents at birth, he had to struggle hard in order to survive.

And now, I don't even have to do tutoring.

Tang Qiming obviously didn't notice my sentimentality. He drank all the porridge in the bowl, put down the bowl and chopsticks, wiped his mouth and said, "I leave the washing to you!"

"No problem!" I responded to him and continued to drink porridge.When Tang Qiming turned and walked to the bedroom, I stopped him and said, "Tang Qiming, thank you for your dinner!"

"You're welcome. I cook and you wash the dishes. There is a clear division of labor, so there is no thank you or not."

After finishing speaking, he got into the bedroom, and soon, the piano music of "Like a Dream" came out of his bedroom.

Really is a boy who will enjoy.

Fortunately, Tang Qiming is not a big bad wolf, nor a big big wolf, he is just a lamb in wolf's clothing.

Yes, a lamb in wolf's clothing.In the days that followed, I was even more sure of this point of view, and I was even more sure that this is a boy who can act. Otherwise, how could he, a lamb in wolf's clothing, play the big bad wolf so close to the real thing?

However, I don't have that much time and energy to figure out why this lamb survived in wolf's clothing, and I don't have that interest either.Everyone has their own way of life, whether they are happy or sad, and have their own difficulties that cannot be explained.

Tang Qiming also had difficulties.I often saw him sitting in the living room staring at the scar on his arm in a daze. Occasionally, he would touch the bumpy scar with his fingers and stroke it over and over again, as if he could heal the scar land.His expression was complex and moody.So, my gut tells me that the scar is a product of his emotional trauma.

I really feel ashamed and sorry for the girl who left him. Where can I find such a good boy?You may not be able to find it with a lantern.

I still spend more time running around in the talent market.I have to survive, I have to support myself, but I have never had a stable part-time job.So, I had to be a promoter or hand out leaflets standing on the street with people coming and going.During this period, Jiang Caiwen called me once, nothing more than asking me if I was used to university life, and if I still had any money, if not, I could go home to pick it up at any time.I declined her kindness. I knew that as a foster mother, she was kind to me.Now that I've grown up, I naturally have no reason to bother her anymore.I didn't even think about looking for my biological parents in the past. Since they chose to abandon me at the beginning, then, from now on, whether I live or die has nothing to do with them.

It was a stretched time.I count every penny in my wallet all the time, and I don't spend any money that shouldn't be spent.I am like a penny-pinching woman, even when I go to the vegetable market to buy vegetables, I will haggle over the price for half a day.I dread such days as a fish dreads being out of water.So, I kept using my spare time to distribute leaflets on the street, go to shopping malls for sales promotion, and work as an hourly worker in a milk tea shop. For this reason, I often refused Yang Shanshan's request to let me go shopping with her.

I know the purpose of Yang Shanshan asking me to go shopping with her.In fact, she was just afraid that I would be too tired, and she just wanted to take me out to go shopping and relax. She is the kind of girl who knows and understands, and she knows how to respect her friends.

Even when I was at my worst, I never complained about life.I know very well that the meaning of suffering is not to crush a person, but to teach a person to learn to live more deeply.

When I was working as an hourly worker in a milk tea shop at night, Yang Shanshan would always come to see me.This elegantly decorated milk tea shop has a nice name - Seven Colors Flower.This name always reminds me of a text I read when I was a child. It is about the happiness that a little girl named Jenny obtained with "seven-color flowers". These happiness are not the satisfaction of desires, but the happiness that can bring others happiness. The sense of happiness, I think, is also the meaning of the owner of the milk tea shop.Strange to say, since I came to work in the milk tea shop, I have never met the owner of this shop, only a young manager named He Dawei takes care of the daily operation work.To be honest, I am a little curious about the owner of this store. I stubbornly think that she should be a woman full of charm, a woman who can see through life.

As it is adjacent to several universities, the store's business is extremely hot, especially at night, when more couples come to the milk tea shop for entertainment.It was a busy time, and my job was to make cup after cup of a milk tea called Seven Color Flower.Don't underestimate this milk tea, it's our store's signature, it's almost a must-order drink for couples, it tastes mellow and has an endless aftertaste.Yang Shanshan is used to waving at me when I am about to get off work. She took money out of her wallet and said to me: "Beauty, have two cups of colorful flowers!" Said: "It's my treat, as a reward for Jiang Hui's hard work!"

He Dawei has a baby face, and there is always a small dimple at the corner of his mouth when he smiles.When I saw him for the first time, I thought I saw Lin Zhiying, and I was so excited that I almost couldn't speak.So, on the morning of the interview, there was a long queue outside the store, and they were all women soldiers, which made me feel a lot of pressure.At that time, I was still thinking, is there so much employment pressure, so many gorgeous beauties are vying for a spot as a waiter?However, at the moment when I saw He Dawei, I realized that this group of female soldiers "didn't want to drink."

He Dawei is only in his 20s. Although he looks like a child on the outside, he is quite sophisticated in his work and is definitely not a "vase".While admiring him, I admire the boss behind the milk tea shop even more. It is not easy for a boss who knows how to make full use of the advantages of his employees.

Every time Yang Shanshan comes to the milk tea shop, she always sits near the cashier.It is a row of well-proportioned small compartments. The two tables will be separated by interlayers made of pagoda wood boards. There will always be cloth seven-color flowers on the tables. Therefore, this position is very popular among lovers. welcome.Because, sitting in such a position, the world becomes silent and narrow in an instant, and no one can fit it except the person in front of you.At first, I thought that Yang Shanshan was sitting in such a position just to chat with me in my spare time, but then I realized that this girl's eyes would always wander secretly on He Dawei's body, and she was another "drunkard" It's not about wine."

However, Yang Shanshan never asked me about He Dawei. I knew that it was a girl's innate reserve.I would rather secretly like it than to be peeped into my secret.I also had such a secret, and I also wove a colorful world in this secret, happy alone and sad alone, just like the big flushes in the sky after sunset, those flushes are the thoughts of girls exposed in the sky .

Yang Shanshan came to the Qisehua Milk Tea Shop more and more frequently. She even asked Manager He if the Milk Tea Shop needed waiters.I almost laughed when I said this, I want to see the handsome guy find such a grandiose excuse for himself to sell dog meat.

The result is conceivable, Yang Shanshan Ziren was hired, how could free labor be unpopular?
Therefore, every evening when I go to the milk tea shop, I can see Yang Shanshan busy in a brown uniform, with a radiant smile on her face, and she looks particularly blushing against the setting sun, like a budding flower. roses.

At that time, I suddenly realized that, in fact, every girl is a flower bud, only to meet another person during the long wait, only to bloom for this person.This is a romantic ceremony, romantic enough for us to forget in a lifetime.

It's just, Xiao Jiayi, when I was in full bloom for you, you were not by my side, but you didn't see it.

Tang Qiming was still awake when I went home every night.He would always sit in the living room and watch TV. Before I stepped into the room, he said lightly, "I'm back." TV channels, in exchange for news channels.

Tang Qiming is a good man who can manage the house.When I was not at home, he cleaned up almost all of the house, the floor was clean and bright, and the coffee table in the living room was covered with emerald green knotted bamboo, which was in good order.Therefore, many times I secretly rejoice that God has arranged such a loyal roommate for me.

Yes, roommates, and male roommates at that.

It's ridiculous to say that I don't know anything about this boy who has lived under the same roof with me for two months.I just know that his name is Tang Qiming, a sophomore majoring in journalism and media.And the only thing he told me the night he moved into the apartment was a simple and clear self-introduction.He never talked to me about his past. I think those pasts have already piled up in his heart and become a castle, living in a memory that can't go back.

The only small talk I had with Tang Qiming was about my work.It was the weekend and I was off work.At noon, when the two of us were cooking in the kitchen, Tang Qiming asked me if I was tired from work.Damn, isn't this nonsense? !Everyone is willing to have clothes and food to open their mouths, and everyone is willing to live without worries. However, this kind of life is fine if you think about it. Not everyone is born with a golden key in his mouth, and not everyone lives with a golden key. Will be happy to come.When God gives you life, he also gives you suffering. You have nowhere to escape, you have to go on.

However, at noon that day, I smiled bitterly and said while washing the cauliflower, "I'm not tired."

I know that this is life, and I have nothing to complain about.

Tang Qiming didn't look at me.He is carefully tormenting the crucian carp soup, every time he lifts the lid of the pot.The kitchen will be filled with the smell of fresh soup.Later, he adjusted the heat to a simmer, and said while cutting the ingredients: "Actually, life is like making soup. In order to make the soup taste delicious, we need to simmer slowly. After a long period of torment, we will have delicious food with good color and fragrance!"

What Tang Qiming said was right, after a long period of suffering, there is delicious food with good color and fragrance.

Three days later, I had my first "food" meal in my life.The person who invited me to eat this "delicacy" was none other than the owner behind the Qisehua Milk Tea Shop.

A woman, as I expected, and an elegant and intelligent one at that.She was wearing a canary yellow wool coat, which looked just right on this rainy autumn day.She brought the porcelain white coffee cup to her mouth, took a sip lightly, and then asked me: "Are you Jiang Hui?!" I nodded, "Yes, I am Jiang Hui." She smiled. Laughing, put the coffee cup on the dining table, "You can just call me Sister Liu. I heard Manager He said that you are very hardworking and smart. Are you unyielding when you are a waiter in our milk tea shop?" She looked at me with eyes A faint smile radiated from him.I suddenly had a premonition that I was about to be fired. In this cold season, my palms overflowed with sweat.I am not afraid of being fired, but I am afraid of how I will live after being fired. I still have to pay rent and eat. It is not easy to find a stable part-time job now. It is really difficult. Bosses abound.Although it is hard work in the milk tea shop, at least I can get a salary of 10 yuan per hour.In Zhengzhou, this salary is enough for me to support myself.

"What I mean is, if you want, I can let you take care of the milk tea shop." She emphasized her tone, "Yes, let you take care of it."

I wondered if I heard it wrong. After all, fate never favored me. I was just a child he had forgotten in a corner, never thought of by him.So, I looked at the elegant lady opposite with an almost suspicious look. It was a delicate face, and I couldn't read the age from this face.

"What? Don't you want to? This is a good thing for you, isn't it? At least, you don't have to work hard in the talent market, you don't have to stand in the noisy sales market, pretending that you are right for everyone Smile. The operation of the Qisehua milk tea shop has taken shape. You only need to spend more than two hours a day on the operation and management. Send me an email to report the operation status of the shop to me every month. Then you will have 2000 yuan every month. Income. Of course, this is still the basic salary. If the monthly sales volume reaches a certain level, then 5% of the income will belong to you. In this way, you no longer need to worry about your life, and you don’t need to hold back The wallet lives. Isn't that what you've always wanted to live?"

She really is not a simple woman.In front of her, I suddenly realized that I had become a transparent person without the slightest secret.

"So, what about Manager He? He is an excellent person!"

She picked up the coffee again, brought it to her mouth and took a sip, then looked at me with a smile and said, "I have my own arrangements. Starting tomorrow, you have to take over all the operations of the Qisehua Milk Tea Shop, I think, you I will not be disappointed. Happy cooperation!" She put down her coffee cup, picked up a goblet containing red wine, and held it up to me.

"Happy cooperation!" I said.

In this way, in a sense, I became the manager of the Qisehua Milk Tea Shop. As Sister Liu said, I don’t need to continue running to the talent market, and I don’t need to stand in the noisy sales market and pretend that I am interested in everyone. Everyone smiled, but I don't understand, there are so many hard-working people, why Sister Liu chose me, a student who is still studying.

Jiang Caiwen's news is really well-informed.On the second day after I was promoted to the manager of the milk tea shop, she kept calling me to complain about the sharp rise in prices.As expected of an adoptive mother, if she were her biological mother, she would never ask me for money.Later, I decisively interrupted her chatter, and I said: "From next month, I will give you 1000 yuan every month, which is your living expenses." After I finished speaking, I hung up the phone , I don't feel sorry for this little money, I just feel sorry for myself. In this crowded world, no one loves, no one cares.

(End of this chapter)