Chapter 73: Hello(1/2)
Ten:28 p.m.
After the boy who looked a little embarrassed entered the store, it started to rain outside, and the sound of rain drizzled, beating the awning outside the store.
Qian Dou Lingyin looked at the clock next to the water cup, couldn't help but pursed her lips, twisted her hands together, and her face was tangled.
She stood up, leaned her head sideways, and looked out the store door.
But I never saw Mr. Kobayashi taking turns tonight.
His expression gradually became a bit anxious from entanglement.
She is nineteen years old and just got admitted to university this year. She is a freshman. Because her family’s financial situation is not very good, her father was fired this year. In addition, she adopted a child from a relative’s family last year. It was already very difficult to support the whole family by relying on her mother’s salary alone. She couldn’t afford to pay much money to support her in school, but she didn’t want to leave the university she had finally gotten into. Finally, she chose to work part-time and then use her time to work part-time. Because the boss is very good, she generously paid her salary for several months in advance, allowing her to make up for the tuition for this semester.
In the past two days, my parents returned to their hometown, and only she and Gui Zhijun were left at home.
Originally, ten:20 was the time for shift handover.
But Mr. Kobayashi didn't know what happened tonight, and he has not come to the store until now, and he has been shut down when calling him.
This made Lingyin a little troubled.
She also rushed home to check whether Gui Zhijun had eaten on time, whether he had completed school homework, and whether he was walking outside late again...
But Mr. Kobayashi never came, which forced her to continue to stick to the store.
The boss was really nice to her and paid her several months' salary in advance to pay the tuition. She couldn't leave directly without Mr. Kobayashi coming, and then he turned all the blame on Mr. Kobayashi.
If something happens because there is no one in the store during this period, Lingyin cannot forgive herself.
After waiting for several minutes.
Lingyin picked up her cell phone and called her home.
"Hey, is it Guizhijun?"
"Well... I might be back later tonight. You should have finished your homework and had supper, right?"
"...Okay, remember to go to bed early and rest, and remember to bathe the cat teacher..."
"Well, that's it. I'm dead. Gui Zhijun wants to be good at home alone!"
The phone hangs up, and a busy tone sound came from over there.
After chatting with Guizhijun, Qiandoulingyin breathed a sigh of relief.
What she feared most was that no one answered the phone after the call, which meant that Gui Zhijun was running outside alone.
Gui Zhijun is obviously very well-behaved, but he often runs outside alone at night, which makes his family go out looking for it with great concern. He told him several times, and he always looks like he admits his mistakes with his head down, but he still makes mistakes later, which makes people helpless.
However, this situation has improved a lot since Gui Zhijun adopted the little fat cat called "Teacher Cat".
This also made her guess that Guizhijun must have run outside often because she lacks a playmate.
Perhaps it was because it was raining outside, and since the young man from other places who seemed to be unable to speak Yingzhou language entered the store, no customer has come to the door.
The store looks a bit deserted.
Although he was very free at work and had nothing to be busy with, Qiandoulingyin still wanted to rush home to accompany Gui Zhijun as soon as possible.
She lay bored on the counter, staring at the door with a desperate look.
I hope to see Mr. Kobayashi in the next second.
The service bell at the counter suddenly rang.
Qiandoulingyin quickly got up and found that it was the last guest's compartment.
She cleaned up the counter, walked towards the cubicle of the young man from another place, and after knocking on the door a few times.
The sliding door opened in response to the sound.
The young man with headphones hanging around his neck looked at her embarrassedly and made a hungry gesture to her.
Qian Doulingyin was stunned for a moment, held back her laughter, nodded to indicate that she understood.
After taking the tray handed over by the other party, she briskly left the isolation door and rushed to the kitchen, instructing the chef to prepare another ramen and pork chops.
She thought about it again.
Turning back to the counter, I brewed a cup of hot tea.
After the chef puts steaming ramen with golden fried pork chops on a tray.
Qian Doulingyin returned to the guest's compartment with the tray, knocked on the door gently, then squatted down, and handed the tray into the compartment with a bright smile.
When he saw the guests showing satisfied and joyful smiles, Qiandoulingyin's originally depressed mood suddenly improved a lot.
She smiled and stood up, pulled the sliding door for the guest, and returned to the counter to continue in a daze.
During this period, she called Mr. Kobayashi several more times.
The result is still shut down.
This made Suini couldn't help but sigh, and was also worried that something had happened to Mr. Kobayashi.
Time passes quietly.
Qiandoulingyin yawned several times in succession.
She inadvertently glanced at the clock on the counter and found that it was already half past eleven.
Suddenly, the sound of lifting the curtains and uncovered footsteps came from the other side of the door.
Qian Dou Lingyin suddenly felt refreshed.
Could it be that Mr. Kobayashi is here?
But soon she knew that she had guessed wrongly.
Because the footsteps are obviously more than one person.
A total of three people walked into the store in a hurry, and as soon as they entered the store, they looked around, as if they were looking for someone.
Lingyin found that they were wearing uniform black clothing, obviously employees of the same company.
Who are they looking for?
Just when she was confused, the three uninvited guests who walked into the store came to the counter.
The leader was a middle-aged man with a stern face, wearing a black windbreaker, and every step seemed to be measured with a ruler.
"Hello, please take us to this gentleman's room."
He handed over a photo with a serious face, and his words seemed to have confirmed that the person in the photo was in the Internet cafe, and he must have seen the ringtone.
The photo was handed to the bell.
There are two people in the photo, one big and one small.
The young man held the hand of the blond little girl with a smile on the background of a passenger plane parked on the runway, looking like a distinguished guest who had just gotten off the special plane.
The pupils of the ringtone shrank.
She recognized the young man in the photo, the customer who had ordered the second ramen before and looked very embarrassed!
Lingyin subconsciously shook her head and regretfully said that she could not remember the appearance of each customer, and the store did not allow the customer's identity information to be exposed to outsiders privately.
She looked at the three people in front of her nervously, her body trembling, and her eyes looked at them with a faint look.
The more I look at it, the more I feel that these three men in black look like killers in the underworld!
That guest was so embarrassed that he got so embarrassed by being chased by the underworld, right?
A wake-up call suddenly sounded in Lingyin's heart.
She wanted to remind the guest and let him slip away from the back door quickly, but she was powerless.
The middle-aged man who took out the photo looked at each other with his companions around him.
He seemed to see Lingyin's thoughts, took back the photo, squeezed out a smile, and explained:
"I think you should have misunderstood. We are not bad guys. We only look for that gentleman... and we want to confirm some small things."
Lingyin nodded awkwardly and smiled, saying with embarrassment:
"I'm really sorry, I really can't remember the appearance of every guest. Otherwise... you go there for a while and wait a moment, I'll check the surveillance video?"
The middle-aged man in the lead frowned. He looked down at the main computer at the counter, as if he wanted to force himself to get started and check the surveillance video.
This action made Lingyin's heart suddenly tense, and she almost shouted for help.
"Okay, please move a little faster."
Unexpectedly, the middle-aged man instructed lightly, and then pulled two other companions with disgusted faces to sit on the stool beside him.
After carefully observing for a while, Lingyin quickly sat down and looked like she was checking the surveillance video.
In private, she opened the front desk software to contact guests in the room.
Just as I opened the software, the ringtone was stunned.
That guest seemed to be unable to speak Yingzhou dialect, so he would definitely not understand Yingzhou dialect even more!
After a while of entanglement.
To be continued...