"Senior, do you know a female classmate named Wang Li?"
"Uh, I don't know! I don't know!"
"Senior, do you know Wang Li?
"do not know!"
"Senior sister, do you know a female classmate named Wang Li?"
"Ah! It's so scary! I don't know you! I don't know you!"
"Senior sister, do you know classmate Wang Li?"
"I don't know you! I advise you not to cause trouble! You are very evil!"
...
On the bench on the playground, from a distance, I could see the ninth grade student sitting there boredly shaking his legs. There are not many graduates still in the school. The seniors I met in the library, basketball court, and badminton hall all asked about it.
Well, before the ninth day of the lunar month, we asked how we should distinguish those who are seniors. I casually said that you should look at those who have just woken up at two or three o'clock in the afternoon.
The two of them summarized the information they inquired about. Most of the seniors said they didn't know them. A small number of them said they didn't know them and looked a little flustered. A few individual seniors said they didn't want to inquire and were unwilling to say more. The only useful information was that they were from the ninth day of the ninth lunar month.
A senior student learned that Wang Li had also worked as a waiter at the noodle shop in the cafeteria.
"The female boss will be very busy at this time. We have to wait until the canteen gets off work in the evening before going. Guo Guo, remember to bring two packs of delicious melon seeds with you when you go. The female boss loves melon seeds the most!"
Chujiu pinned her hopes on the female boss of Xiaomian, and said that she was going to Xiaomian to work as a waiter today, and would tell the female boss in advance that Wang Li's cousin would come over later to consult on some matters.
Since I have a big class every Friday night to say goodbye to the ninth grade, I made an appointment to go directly to the cafeteria to meet the ninth grade student after the evening class.
I purposely left the school gate and bought two packs of Yingchun brand melon seeds in the largest shopping mall nearby, one with cream and one with caramel. As soon as I entered the cafeteria, I saw Chujiu standing at the door of Xiaomian in waiter clothes. It looked like
It looks like the kitchen has just been tidied up.
"Guo Guo, I asked the female boss about Wang Li. She hesitated for a long time and didn't say anything. She just said we would wait until the cafeteria closes to talk!"
"Where's your female boss?" I casually handed the bag of melon seeds to Chujiu.
"She said she would go out and come back after closing time. I've been packing for a long time and haven't come back yet. Let's sit over there and wait!"
The two sat in the cafeteria hall chatting for almost an hour, but the female boss still didn't come back. I realized something was not right.
After a while, Chujiu also said that the female boss would never come back so late because she still had to use the computer to make daily accounts.
"On the ninth day of the lunar month, you can write whatever you want on the table! Let's play a game to kill time."
When I heard that there was a game to be played, I stood up and rubbed my sore butt, dipped my fingers into the water glass, and wrote the word "sit" on the table.
"Your word is too ugly!"
"How could it be? I have the best handwriting in our village!"
It took me a long time to figure out that the word "si" was written on the ninth day of the lunar month. The two "persons" on the top were written too far apart, causing the bottom to look like the word "inch". Considering our current situation, I sighed:
"Your boss lady has been back a long time ago and is nearby!"
"How to say?"
"I asked you to write a random word. The word you wrote without thinking must be related to your luck. Look at the two people writing on the word "sitting" who are so separated. Doesn't it look like we are facing each other now?
Sitting? You didn't write clearly the word "tu" on the right side below, it's more like the word "inch", which means the person you're waiting for is within an inch of you."
After waiting for a while, the meeting still didn't come. It seemed that they didn't want to see us. Chujiu and I decided to go back to the dormitory first. When we walked out of the cafeteria door, Chujiu pointed to the steps next to us. A middle-aged woman was sitting there.
He was holding a cigarette between his fingers. The ash was so hot that he didn't even notice it. Judging from the many cigarette butts discarded in front of him, he must have been sitting here for a long time.
"Boss!" Chujiu shouted softly, walked over and sat next to her.
The female boss raised her head and saw us, wiped her tears with her sleeves, and handed me a cigarette: "Do you want to smoke? I smoke some when I'm in a bad mood, but I don't usually smoke."
I took one look at the face of the female boss and felt confident. She was an extremely kind-hearted woman. Unfortunately, her marriage was not very good. She would soon have a small fortune. I pointed at the melon seeds in Chujiu’s hand: "
I don’t smoke, I just eat melon seeds.”
The female boss threw away the cigarette butt in her hand, opened it and handed it over to Chujiu with a smile: "I heard from Chujiu that you are Wang Li's cousin, right? Chujiu will bring me a glass of water."
"Well, it's her cousin!" I nodded and answered.
"If you don't tell the truth, Wang Li doesn't have any cousins. I may be her best friend in this school, except for that person of course. You'd better tell the truth!"
After the female boss said this, she licked the melon seeds without looking back and continued: "You and Chujiu are not ordinary people, are you?"
Seeing that I didn't answer, the female boss continued: "Actually, I can tell that Chujiu is the only waiter in my store who has never broken a bowl or fallen on the oil-stained marble floor. I know that he
There is something special. He is full of pride when he talks about his brother, it must be you!"
People who have a good impression at first sight are generally kind-hearted and sentimental people. I didn’t hide it. I told Zhang Feng’s incident and Wang Li’s remnant soul in the lake and what I saw from her face just now.
something was said.
The female boss was not surprised and seemed to know what was going on in the lake. Everything was very calm, even though she had cried before. At this time, Chujiu came back with two glasses of water. The female boss drank two glasses of water and laughed and scolded Chujiu for pouring it.
The water is too hot. It will burn the students while working.
"Let me tell you about Wang Li!"
Three years ago, the female boss came to this city after getting divorced because of her husband's cheating. She used all her belongings to invest in this noodle shop in this school. Firstly, it was because the school environment was simple, and secondly, because apart from making good noodles, she didn't know much about it.
Know what else you are suitable for.
In the first few days after the noodle shop opened, it was very busy because it did not hire enough helpers. Wang Li appeared at this time. Wang Li ordered bowls of mixed noodles. When paying the bill, she found that her meal card and wallet were missing.
The already pretty girl was bewildered and her face turned red. The female boss told her to eat it and come over to pay the bill next time. Wang Li did not refuse and took the noodles and found a corner to finish them quietly.
Then Wang Li walked into the noodle shop's kitchen carrying an empty bowl and whispered to the female boss who was washing the dishes to come. That's how the female boss and Wang Li got to know each other.
The next day Wang Li insisted on paying the bill and strongly asked the female boss who was helping her with the dishes. The female boss happened to be short of people so she agreed. In this way, Wang Li became a staff member of the noodle shop in her spare time, but she refused to ask for a penny.