After cleaning up, the store manager made an excuse and ran away. He really couldn't stand the atmosphere in the store where there were only two people besides him, Natsuki and Tachibana Aya.
"I'll be back at five o'clock. I'm going to see if Miss Les Mills has a concert today."
He said this, then walked out of the store, closing the door at the same time.
Xia Zhi was seriously considering the necessity of telling Sister Sayuri about this matter. After thinking about it, he decided to forget it. If he wanted to take revenge and wait until he finished cleaning before coming over every day, it would be a bit of a loss.
Although he was used to cleaning, Xia Zhi wouldn't dislike it if he could have someone to help him share the burden.
While sorting out the coffee powder on the table, Natsuki slapped Tachibana Aya's hand away as she tried to take away the bottle containing the coffee powder.
"If you don't drink, what are you doing with my bottle?"
"I'm just curious." Tachibana Aya retracted her hand.
"What's so curious about the bottle?" Although the bottle itself was nothing, Tachibana Aya was so extravagant that Xia Zhi was afraid that she would break the bottle. Although the bottle was just a cheap thing, Xia Zhi only had this bottle, that's all
If it's gone, it would be too troublesome to find a new one.
"How stingy, does it matter that I don't have a bottle yet?"
"That's not true." Xia Zhi glanced at Tachibana Aya, not knowing why she looked quite happy: "Don't you think it's a good thing to compare yourself with the bottle?"
Tachibana Aya was stunned for a moment and started to think: "That seems to be the case? So shouldn't I be happy?"
Who knows? Natsuki shook his head and continued to do his own thing. Everything had been cleaned. Today, the store manager came to help, and the speed was much faster. Mayumi had already cleaned everything before she even arrived in the store.
It's over.
Talk about Cao Cao, Cao Cao is here.
Mayumi opened the store door and walked in: "Good afternoon."
"Good afternoon." Xia Zhi nodded to her as a greeting.
"My little Mayumi is too slow." Tachibana Aya winked at her.
"That's because Tachibana-senpai, you ran out of the school as soon as school was over!" Mayumi retorted: "I also want to know how you ran out of the school building within half a minute after the school bell rang.
Yes, I've seen you in the classroom many times!"
Xia Zhi had an inexplicable sense of imagery, but he didn't express anything. He just wanted to be a quiet, transparent man.
"Mayumi-chan, did you know?" Tachibana Aya raised her index finger at her: "As long as a person has a set goal, he can burst out with powerful power that is not intended."
Mayumi's face was full of disgust: "That's enough, I don't want to eat anymore."
She turned to look at Xia Zhi: "Since Xia Zhi, you are inside the counter, then I don't need to clean it?"
"Although that's true. Aren't you the Mayumi who loves cleaning and works hard like before?" Xia Zhi showed an obviously sad expression: "It's such a pity."
"I didn't!" Mayumi retorted loudly to Xia Zhi: "You have already finished cleaning, do you want me to clean it again!? It's almost time for the exam, I just want to squeeze in a little review. Just in case.
Because my studies have declined due to my part-time job, I will be scolded."
Xia Zhi tilted his head: "I've been curious before, but I never asked. Why do you keep hiding your parents' secrets about working part-time? Are the expenses of female high school students now so high?"
"That's right." Tachibana Aya hammered the palm of her hand: "I remember, isn't Mayumi-chan's family quite rich? Why do they come out to work?"
"There is a deep reason for this. And just because my family is rich doesn't mean I am rich." Mayumi frowned: "But it doesn't matter. When I first came here, I wanted to save money to buy birthday gifts for my parents.
The gifts came, but I didn’t have much pocket money every day, and occasionally my classmates would ask me to eat snacks together, so I couldn’t save any money at all. So I came to work part-time.”
"Isn't this good?" Xia Zhi scratched his hair: "I remember that all my first salary was used to buy daily necessities. The gifts for my parents and sister were all made up for later.
.But since you bought a gift, shouldn’t your part-time job have been exposed long ago?”
"Ah, before I even bought the gift, my dad discovered that I was working part-time."
Mayumi held her chin.
"My dad is a senior police officer, so it's normal for him to find out that I'm working part-time. I just didn't expect that he would find out before I sent out the gift. The police is indeed a very interesting profession."
"I think it's a little inappropriate to use the adjective 'interesting' to describe it..."
Who are all of these people?
"Well. My dad said, since I'm already working, I might as well stick with it, earn some pocket money or something, and train myself by the way. But it can't affect my studies, so I just stuck with it.
It's just such a simple thing." Mayumi spread her hands.
It seems that among the people present, except for Xia Zhi who did it as a last resort due to the pressure of life, the others started working out of interest or for exercise.
There are already many differences in terms of realm.
"Well. Mayumi-chan must persevere. After all, she will graduate from high school in a short time. Apart from here, there seems to be no place where she can see Mayumi-chan."
"I will."
Xia Zhi remembered something: "By the way, Mayumi, doesn't your family actually live near here? You told me when my sister and I went to the mall last time. If it's so close, you can actually visit.
Something like that.”
"Huh?" Tachibana Aya became alert: "I don't think I've heard of this?"
"Nonsense, you only arrived in the afternoon, but Mengmeng arrived in the morning. I have to buy her daily necessities." Xia Zhi rolled his eyes.
"When you go to the mall, you should wait for me. I'm familiar with this matter."
"No, you're not familiar with it." Xia Zhi shook his head and continued to look at Mayumi: "You should live near here, right?"
"It's not really close to here, it's relatively close to the shopping mall over there. The distance home from the shopping mall is about the same as from school to the store, right? I haven't calculated it carefully, but it shouldn't be too different."
"That's actually quite close." Xia Zhi shrugged: "If you want to meet, there are plenty of opportunities."
"It's true, that's why I have enough energy to go back and have dinner every day."
"Then there's no need to worry." Tachibana Aya smiled at Mayumi.