Zhao Lei didn't finish speaking, but stood there looking at me. His eyes were full of surprise and panic, and his hand hanging in the air did not move, and the whole person froze.

It seems that this time I can't tell him, "Since you have seen it, then there is nothing to hide." I closed the app on my phone, thinking about what I wanted to say to him, "Wu Yao and I are actually gay, and we have known each other for a long time." ”

Hearing me say this, Zhao Lei's eyes widened, "Have you talked about it?" ”

"No, no, we're just friends." I replied.

"Whew!" Zhao Lei was stimulated by my news, he didn't say a word for a long time and just swallowed his saliva, and his eyes when he looked at me also changed a little. "If you're afraid of me, you won't have to work in a candy store in the future." As I spoke, I walked over to the counter and pulled out the agreement he had signed.

"Here you go." I handed him the agreement, but he didn't take it, just frowned and watched quietly, as if thinking about something, and his lower lip, which was bitten by his teeth, was a little red. "No, I'm not leaving." He pushed the agreement back, "I'm here to gain experience, and I'm not going to leave because of this." ”

With that, he took the agreement from my hand, walked to the counter, and put it back in the cabinet. "Don't worry, I won't tell anyone." Looking at his smiling face, I just felt extremely warm. You know, the men who usually live around me are so scared that they don't see my sexual orientation when they know my sexual orientation, and there are only a few people like him who are calm.

"Let's eat, I'll take out the candy I sent a few days ago." He walked straight to the back and didn't say anything more.

The food on the table was still steaming, but I had no appetite. Sitting at the table with my phone in a daze, looking at the jack'd icon, waiting for the arrival of the day's guests...

This day has been very long for me, no matter when I will pay attention to Zhao Lei's movements, pay attention to his expression when he looks at me, because I always feel that when he knows that I am gay, our relationship will change.

But Zhao Lei was as usual, he was busy when he should be, and he should take care of me, as if nothing happened in the morning. The shop was full of people, and when I was busy, I left it behind until the end of the day...

In the evening, fewer and fewer people come to the store, and the busy time has passed. It was getting late, and when I was dragging my tired body and sitting at the counter to rest, I accidentally caught a glimpse of my phone, which reminded me of the morning again.

"Brother Chen, how much money did you make today?" He walked over to the counter and eagerly looked at the ledger like a child craving candy.

"We'll figure it out later, let me rest first." When I get older, my physical strength is not as good as before, although I don't receive those customers and don't do so much work, but standing for a day and registering so many names and quantities of candy also dazzles me.

I don't know if the temperature of the air conditioner in the room is a little high, or the temperature on his body is too hot, so that when he came close to me and picked up the ledger from me, I also felt a warm current, "Then you can rest, I'll do it." With that, he picked up the calculator and ballpoint pen and scribbled on the paper.

"This plus this... It's equal to..."Zhao Lei muttered while poking the button on the computer with his finger, looking at the stiff appearance, he knew that he had rarely touched this kind of thing before.

"Whether you can use it or not, forget it, I'll do it." I retrieved the calculator from his hand, cleared it and recalculated the number of days.

He watched quietly, and although it was all simple addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, he was as attentive as if he were learning something new. "What's so good about all this, keep watching it all the time?" I asked.

"No... Nothing...", he replied. Not long after, he opened his mouth again, "You and Wu Yao... Does it have anything to do with it? The last time I went to the hospital, I saw him with a strange look in his eyes. ”

"Why are you gossiping like a woman, why are you asking this?" I turned to him.

He scratched his head and continued, "Just asking. ”

"We used to talk, but then we separated because of something, and now we're just friends." I said as I tapped on my computer.

Zhao Lei nodded thoughtfully, and then continued, "So you are single now?" ”

Looking at his inquisitive eyes, I was also surprised. "Why are you asking this?" I stared at him suspiciously, and his face turned red when he couldn't hide from me. "I... I just... It's just asking. ”

"It's best not to ask this kind of privacy question, our relationship is not good enough to communicate privacy." I said coldly.

He didn't say anything more, but turned and walked to the candy counter, wandering back and forth in front of the candy.

When settling accounts, Zhao Lei was also thinking about him. He's certainly different from a lot of people, but I don't feel comfortable with the difference.

"Today's profit is about the same as the previous day, it's more... 40 pieces. When I counted today's accounts clearly, I looked up and saw that it was really dark outside the door, and Zhao Lei was also squatting at the door, smoking a cigarette in the dark night.

I walked slowly to Zhao Lei's side, and only when I got closer did I smell the strong smell of tobacco. "I can't tell you that you still smoke."

When he saw me walk in, he quickly snuffed out the cigarette butt, and the orange spark lost its last light under his feet. "I'm sorry... I really can't quit. As he spoke, he spat out the last puff of his mouth.

"How old are you, if you smoke at such a young age, it won't be long before your body collapses." I also bent down and groped around him, "There are still cigarettes gone, take them out." ”

He didn't hide it deeply, it was just in his trouser pocket, and when I asked him, he took it out. When I smashed all these unsmoked cigarettes in front of him, he was even more embarrassed. "I know... But I quit many times and didn't quit. ”

Looking at the crushed cigarettes that I kneaded, I couldn't help but think of the time when Wu Yao was forced to quit smoking..."If you want to smoke in the future, you will eat a candy." I walked back to the store, took a packet of Skittles from the cabinet and handed it to him.

"Uh... Was this helpful? He asked, incredulously.

"How do you know if you don't try?" I continued, "We're friends, and I'll leave it to me to quit smoking!" ”

"But didn't you say we weren't that familiar?"

"It's not that cooked, but it's not raw either!"