When Sun Rui pushed three rounds and saw me appearing outside the Weather Bookstore with a waistband, she had a hellish expression on her face.
I put the small blackboard with all kinds of discount information on the ground and asked her what she was doing here.
Sun Rui: "Should I ask you this? What are you doing here?"
I put my hands into the two small pockets around my waist, and said, "I'm working."
"Working?" Sun Rui looked into the store on tiptoe as soon as he heard it, and walked inside, "You can work part-time as a young master who doesn't work hard? Does the boss still recruit people? I want to too. work here."
Sun Rui always felt that the people in the city were young masters and young ladies. They lived in towering buildings and had butler service every day.
I held her shoulders, blocked her way, and said, "Don't you want to help your father see the orchard? What kind of work do you do?"
Sun Rui's family has several acres of fruit forests on the mountain, with apples and green plums. On holidays, Sun Rui will join the team to guard the orchard, and even be assigned to patrol at night during the picking season.
When I was a child, I went to the summer vacation one year out of curiosity. Everyone would send a head-mounted strong light, trot along with Dad Sun to the top of the mountain, and shout the slogan—don’t ask, pick up, sit in prison.
Running and shouting, resounding through the mountains and forests, I still remember it for so many years.
"People also want to be colleagues with Wen Ying." Sun Rui pouted, very unwilling, "Then in the small warehouse, in the storage room full of debris, in the smelly toilet, do whatever you want..."
I don't need to ask her, just look at the yellow patch on her head, and I can guess what it is like.
"Don't be silly, sell your fruit first and then think about other things." Seeing her three rounds of apples with plastic bags and electronic scales hanging from the front of the car, I knew she must be kicked out by her father again. Selling fruit.
Sun Rui's face was a little grim in an instant.
"This year's apple harvest is bumper, and my fruit Xi Shi name doesn't work anymore. I didn't sell a few kilograms all morning." She bumped me with her elbow, "Yu Mian, it's all sisters."
Who is your sister
"No, I don't raise pigs at home, so if you can't eat it, it will be a waste." But for the sake of friends, if you can help, you will always help. "Weigh me six."
"Okay!" Sun Rui happily picked six large apples for me, put them in plastic bags, weighed them and gave them to me.
"Don't forget to say good things to me in front of Wen Ying, especially praising my kind and simple qualities."
"Got it." I paid, waved goodbye to her, and turned back to the store.
"Selling apples! Fresh, big and sweet apples!" Sun Rui pushed the three wheels and gradually walked away, "The apples picked by this fruit Xi Shi himself will be refunded if they are not sweet!"
The Weather Bookstore opened at 9:00 in the morning and closed at 5:00 in the afternoon. It seemed that Yankong Mountain Buddhists had won 5 million, and they didn't care about the business at night.
When Grandpa knew that I had something to do during the day, he agreed with both hands and feet. He also asked me to give a bowl of tea eggs to the next door as a thank you gift, thanking Yankong Mountain for freeing me from my depraved room so that I could go outside to bask in the sun.
"Why did you go out for a while and bring back a bag of apples?"
The store has just opened, and there is no one in the store. I worked in the bookstore for two days, although I can't say that Wen Ying and I met at first sight, but I have gradually become familiar with each other, and I will chat a few things at home during breaks.
"Want to eat? I'll go wash it." I showed him the apples in the bag, "Sun Rui's own grown at home, very sweet."
"Did she come just now?" Wen Ying glanced outside, "I found the book she asked for, and I'm still wondering when she will come again."
"I've already left 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 thread-bound book with a simple outer cover. The three words "Jin X Mei" were written vigorously and powerfully on the blue cover.
I:"…"
Sun Rui, you exposed it from the beginning.
There is a large room at the back of the bookstore. Usually, some messy things are piled up, which is used as a warehouse. There is also a special space for the rest room for employees to eat and store.
After washing the apples, I put them in a bowl and put them on the table. I wiped my hands on my waist and began to search for Yankongshan.
I scanned the store and couldn't find him. I guess he was in the warehouse next door. I went over and saw that he was there.
Yankongshan is checking the inventory in the warehouse. Although I don't know how to count the books that are piled up in a mess, but it is reasonable, I have to go up and ask if I need help.
"Manager, do you want to help?"
Yankongshan was putting a cardboard box on the ground onto the shelf. Hearing this, he glanced at me, did not refuse, raised his chin, and asked me to order books in another row of shelves.
Books are all second-hand books, which are already a certain age, and have a smell after being stored in the warehouse for a long time. He took the books and records from the upper shelf one by one, sneezed several times, and suddenly saw a small, gray thing on the ground slowly approaching.
Holding the book, I looked over suspiciously, and met a rat the size of a slap.
A place like a warehouse is dark and airtight, and it is normal to have mice. But as an urbanite who grew up in a city and never raised a hamster, the only mouse he ever had contact with was Mickey Mouse in an amusement park, this is not a mouse, this is Godzilla with a Sadako face. If the san value is displayed on the top of my head, I should have fallen through the center of the earth by now.
Reflexively, I threw the book, the only tool in my hand, at the mouse, trying to drive it away.
But I didn't expect that it was thrown, but the page spread out from it, and when it fell, it formed a perfect triangle on the mouse, and it was covered in it without causing any damage 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 above the animal's head, I could feel its anger from its scarlet eyes.
Me: "...Sorry. Brother, I was wrong."
It didn't buy it, and began to lower its body and make some dangerous postures.
"Store manager?" I didn't dare to be too loud, so I could only call out to Yankong Mountain with a volume that seemed to be out of breath.
Fortunately he heard.
"Um?"
"Here..." I was only halfway through when the mouse sprinted over, scaring me to the ground, turning around and fleeing towards Yankong Mountain, "Help!!!"
At such times, people are irrational. I only remember Yan Kongshan's stunned look when he looked at him, and when he regained his senses, his whole body had already jumped on top of him.
Arms around his neck, feet around his waist, like a koala... hanging on him.
Because of the momentum, he unconsciously took a few steps back. In order to stabilize his body, he had to support my thigh with one hand.
"Yumian?"
This is the first time I've heard his voice so closely, as soon as I hear it, every tiny hair seems to be swaying happily, forming a pleasing ASMR.
I put my arms around Yankongshan's neck tighter, and said in a weak voice, "There are mice."
His heart was beating fiercely, but it was no longer because of fear.
"Rat?" Yankongshan seemed to look around, "It should have escaped."
I sniffed and nodded, "Yeah."
I lay down comfortably for a while, Yankong Mountain probably had been waiting for me to go down by myself. I waited left and right and didn't wait. I couldn't bear it anymore, so I had to remind me: "Yu Mian, can you go down?"
Hey, I want to take advantage of it for a while.
"Oh." I let go of the legs that clamped his waist and fell to the ground, scratching my face shyly, "I'm sorry, I'm a little afraid of these things."
Yankongshan bent down to pick up the spine of the book that had just fallen to the ground, and said, "Go outside, just have me here."
Although I was a little disappointed, I still went outside obediently.
As Sun Rui said, the proportion of female customers in the store is much higher than that of men, and many of them are tourists who come here because they are not older than most of me.
"Little handsome guy, is your store manager here today?" A female customer grabbed me and asked in a low voice.
Because the owner is too handsome, it has become one of the attractions on the island, and this bookstore is also unique.
Holding the book, I told the truth: "It's in the warehouse."
The female guest seemed a little disappointed: "It's hard to come here..." She looked at me for a moment, as if she had suddenly discovered a new world, "Little handsome guy, do you have a girlfriend? I have a younger sister, and you are very good friends."
"I'm not going to have a girlfriend..."
"How old are you? My sister is a freshman this year. She may be older than you, but it doesn't matter. The third female junior holds the golden brick..."
I:"…"
Lady, listen to me.
I sighed inwardly, and came out the killer: "I don't like girls."
The female guest's voice was stagnant, her mouth was half-open, and the number above her head quickly changed to an embarrassing green, with a short-circuited expression: "Oh... oh oh... That's it."
I saw that she should be fine to ask me, so that she can find me again if she needs, and then turned around and went to the other side of the bookshelf.
He put the books that the customers had placed on the bookshelf back on the shelf. At this time, a group of people came in outside the door. There were quite a few people listening to the movement. They laughed and did not control the volume, which caused the customers reading books in the store to frown and look there.
With the last book in place, I walked towards the source of the sound, intending to remind them a little about the volume.
"Fu Wei, why are you here when you have nothing to do? What's the point of this island, it's broken and soiled..."
"That's right, we don't even have an amusement park, why don't we go back to the city? Let's go to the game city to play video games!"
"Second! Second!"
"You have to go back and go back by yourself, I want to go shopping again."
When I heard the familiar voice, I stopped, the unpleasant memory came to my mind, and my scalp was numb.
It was Fu Wei and the group of people in the class. How could they come to Qingmeiyu
The sound was getting closer and closer, and I didn't want to confront them head-on, so I had no choice but to be a deserter, turned around and walked quickly towards the warehouse.
Before I even pushed the door, the door opened by itself. Yankong Mountain appeared behind the door, probably after checking the inventory and preparing to leave.
The voice from behind was still approaching, and before I could explain it, I pushed Yankongshan back into the warehouse, turned around and closed the door firmly.
Blocking the possibility of reuniting with my old classmates, I exhaled a long breath at the closed warehouse door, and my tense nerves relaxed.
"Meet an acquaintance?"
Hearing Yankongshan's voice, I remembered his existence.
Turning awkwardly, I leaned against the warehouse door, and for a moment I didn't know how to explain the situation to him.
"It's my high school classmate." I lowered my head and said.
Yankongshan didn't let me open the door, but stepped back a few steps and leaned on the shelf behind him.
"Don't like them?"
I pouted. "They didn't like me. I wasn't very likable in high school..."
"What's not to like?"
This kind of thing will have to be said sooner or later. Rather than being hated by him in the future, 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.
I pursed my lips and looked up at him, my hands clenched nervously behind me.
"I... like men."