At about three o'clock in the afternoon, Mai Junyu, who helped clean the house inside and outside, washed his hands and face with the tap water outside the courtyard, wiped off the water stains on his face with a dry towel, and wiped the water stains on his hands, his eyes looked around this small courtyard with complicated eyes.

Perhaps this courtyard is nothing to outsiders, it is not big, it is still broken, and the ground paved with red bricks is not very smooth.

But in Mai Junyu's eyes, it is filled with most of his memories from childhood to adulthood.

He remembers that he once fell in a certain place when he was babbling and just learning to walk, he also remembered the sound and smile left to him by his parents in every corner, and he also remembered how he spent his time when he was locked up in this small courtyard when he was a child......

Looking around, he casually hung the towel on the bamboo pole next to the pool, and walked into the hall in silence.

His grandmother was still taking a damp rag and wiping the picture frames on the walls.

On the west wall of the hall, there are more than a dozen large and small photo frames.

There are old photos of his grandparents in the past, as well as family photos of his family, as well as some photos of him from childhood to adulthood, Mai Junyu stood at the door, with his back to the sunlight outside the door, and his face looked a little deep because of the backlight.

His gaze shifted from his grandmother's back to the photo of him and his parents on the wall.

In the group photo, his mother snuggled up to his father, and he was wearing a small belly pocket and was held in the crook of his arm, his fleshy little feet were bare, and his little face was grinning, smiling so happily and carefree.

Mai Junyu looked at it in a daze for a while.

He suddenly walked forward again, walked to his grandmother's side, took out a wad of banknotes in his arms, and in her surprised gaze, he stuffed them into her hands, squeezed out a smile, and whispered: "Grandma! ”

The old lady didn't refuse, she looked down at the pile of money in her hand, and then looked up at Mai Junyu, her expression was puzzled, and her tone was hesitant: "Xiao Junyu, where did you get so much money? You gave it to me, do you still have it on yourself?"

"Yes! Of course I still have it on me! Grandma, don't worry! You can collect this money, my work time is almost up, I should go!"

Mai Junyu said with a bright smile, turned around and walked towards the door.

The old lady hesitated, looked down at the money in her hand again, and staggered to the door a little reluctantly, and when she walked out of the hall gate, Mai Junyu had already left the courtyard gate.

Seeing that he was in a hurry, and was about to go farther and farther, the old lady suddenly shouted: "Junyu, will you still go home at night? Do you want grandma to leave the door for you?"

Mai Junyu, who was in a hurry, paused, and tears instantly welled up in his eyes, but he didn't look back, and replied loudly in an impatient tone: "Grandma! I get off work late at night, don't leave me the door, I have a place to live!

When the words fell, he walked away with faster steps, without looking back.

The old lady with her hand on the door frame craned her neck and nagged in disappointment: "This kid......! Is there a place to stay? It's cold at night, is the quilt thick enough? Don't freeze ......."

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At 4 o'clock, Mai Junyu rushed to Zhou An's store, changed into a chef's uniform, tied an apron cloth as usual, and then waited for the staff to eat.

At first, he seemed a little more silent than usual, his eyes sweeping over the bodies of the kitchen boys.

He seemed to be a little distracted, leaning on the edge of the water platform, his eyes rolling on the bodies of those who were beating lotus.

A side dish chef named Sun Quan hummed a little song into the kitchen from outside, this person is about twenty-five or sixteen years old, not tall, he was a new recruit before the opening of the new store, the knife work is okay, but he is a little lazy and a little cunning.

At this time, he wore a coat in the crook of his left arm and a black sweater on his upper body, and passed in front of Mai Junyu step by step.

This was nothing, but Mai Junyu had half a cigarette in his hand, and the smoke was curling.

It's nothing.

But unfortunately, when Sun Quan passed in front of him, the sleeve of his coat in the crook of his arm inadvertently touched the cigarette butt in Mai Junyu's hand.

At that time, he burned a small hole in the sleeve of Sun Quan's coat.

And this scene happened to be seen by Sun Quan, who glanced at Mai Junyu, and Sun Quan's face changed at that time, and he immediately stopped, picked up the sleeve and looked at it with an ugly face.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry! I didn't mean to......"

Mai Junyu hurriedly apologized.

"Excuse me?"

Sun Quan threw down his sleeves with an ugly face, took a step closer with an unkind look, raised his right hand, and tapped his index finger twice on Mai Junyu's chest, which was heavier than the other, poking Mai Junyu's brows and wanting to retreat, but there was a water platform behind him, and he couldn't retreat at all.

Sun Quan sneered, grabbed the coat in the crook of his arm and smashed it into Mai Junyu's arms, "What's the use of saying sorry? Don't talk nonsense! Lose it! Open your eyes and take a good look at what brand of my jacket is, I don't want you more, lest others say that I slandered you, 300! You immediately pay me 300, this matter is over, otherwise we will not be finished!"

If it was before today, Sun Quan asked Mai Junyu to pay 300 yuan, and Mai Junyu might really have lost it.

After all, it was his cigarette butt that burned other people's clothes, although it was Sun Quan himself who touched his cigarette butt just now, but it is clearly stipulated in this kitchen that you can't smoke, and you have to go outside to smoke.

So reasoning, the fault is still him.

In addition, Sun Quan is a cutting master, he Mai Junyu is just an apprentice who plays lotus, and his status in the kitchen is obviously lower than that of Sun Quan, unless he doesn't want to mix in this kitchen, otherwise, he must pay Sun Quan whether he is reluctant or not.

But at this time...... He had no money on him.

Before he came to work today, he had already stuffed all the money on his body to his grandmother, and he was penniless at this time.

Mai Junyu hugged the coat that Sun Quan smashed in his arms, and said with a smile: "Master Sun, I'm sorry! I'm really sorry, I'll definitely pay for it, but I really don't have any money on me now, you can't see!"

As he spoke, Mai Junyu took out both trouser pockets, and the two white trouser pockets were pulled up by him, exposed outside the pants, empty.

Sun Quan frowned and looked at the rest of the kitchen, and saw that everyone was curious to watch the show, but he didn't see the head chef and the boss, so he snorted coldly and forced to look at Mai Junyu, "You don't come! Don't come with me! I don't care if you have money now? If you don't have money, you won't borrow it? Or let your family send money over quickly! If you want to play tricks on me? There is no door! Hurry up, lose money!"

Mai Junyu frowned, and smiled helplessly, "Master Sun, why don't I compensate you tomorrow?"

He thought very well in his heart, he won't be working here tomorrow, and he will fool around today first, and he won't have to pay tomorrow.

"No! You're a lotus, or you're a newcomer, who knows if you won't come to work tomorrow? If you don't come tomorrow, who will I ask to compensate? I can't do it with you! You hurry up and find a way, you must compensate me today!!"

Sun Quan didn't give an inch, and his tone was very resolute.

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