Chapter 4: Curiosity
The fragrance of tea wafting around, the soft sofa, and the return to normal, I felt something hanging from the corner of my mouth, and subconsciously wiped it with my hand. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
Woo~~ It turned out to be saliva, and thirsty? Panicked? I didn't even know what words to use to describe myself at the moment, but when I looked around the bookstore, no one seemed to notice my embarrassment.
The warm morning light had already penetrated the store through the glass windows, perhaps because it was still early and there were no customers.
I picked up the black book that was covering my body, closed it carefully, and glanced at the vintage clock hanging between the second and first floors, seven twenty. It's okay, but if I sleep a little longer, I'll be late for work.
Maybe I really have a relationship with that Gu Liang, and I hope to meet him in my next dream.
Packing up everything and holding the books in my arms, I went to the counter and prepared to return the books, I will come back to see them when I have time, and my grandmother's tea also makes me nostalgic.
"How much, please?" I left the book on the counter and looked for money in my backpack with my head down.
"The first rental is free." A man's voice came from the other side.
I took a few steps backwards in amazement, and my feet stumbled together in a very uncoordinated way.
"Ahh ――――"The moment the world whirled, his whole body fell to the ground.
What about the grandmother with glasses? Isn't it an old grandmother?? When did you change people...
I want to cry! It hurt all over my body, but I was a strong girl, holding back the tears in my eyes, and slowly moved my body to stand up.
"Are you alright? This is the second time I've lifted you up. A strong palm lifted my arm and pulled me off the ground.
Meow a mia!! How is it still a trench coat man?? Wrong!! Wrong!! I named him, Gu Liang.
"You..." I was really a little scared, it was a fear from the bottom of my heart, since I saw him last night, whether in my dream or in reality, he seems to have been entangled in front of my eyes. Just now, we almost blushed just thinking about it.
"I'm the owner of this bookstore, I told me about you when Sister Yun left just now, I didn't wake you up when I saw you sleeping so soundly, I'm really sorry to scare you."
"It's fine." I picked up my things in a panic and turned around and walked quickly to the glass door, my mind was a little confused, many things were like paste, and I couldn't make a reasonable explanation and analysis of this matter.
Sitting on the bus in a daze, Gu Liang and Han Camellia kept appearing in front of them. I don't remember when I arrived at the company, what work I did in the company all day, and I don't even remember the content of the leader's speech at the meeting.
I was haunted by that dream, by the owner of that bookstore.
"Xiaowei, what's wrong with you?" My colleague Li Xiang sat in his office chair and slid to my desk, Li Xiang came to the company a year before me, and he helped me with many things when I first joined the company, so I like to call him senior.
"It's nothing, I went to a bookstore last night, so I slept a little late." I replied simply, avoiding his gaze.
There are really not many people in the company who can make me talk.
"Are you tired enough to work two jobs a day, and still have time to read? I have a mirror here, you look at your dark circles, you're about to become a panda. Li Xiang said and slid back to his desk in his office chair and took out a small mirror in the drawer. When I was about to move like us again, someone suddenly grabbed the back of the chair.
"I said Xiao Lizi~ This is the company's property, isn't it inappropriate for you to slide back and forth like this?" Manager Gao's stocky body was standing behind Li Xiang, looking at him with a serious face.
"Yes, yes, what Boss Gao said is, I'll walk over." Li Xiang hurriedly stood up and looked at the manager with a smile.
"Caring for female colleagues should be dropped, but don't destroy the company's property." Manager Gao walked out of the office while talking with his hands behind his back.
I want to laugh when I look at them, every day, everyone fights and gets along very harmoniously, or that's the fun of my life.
"Lao Gao, this person, everything is good, but he is too careful, he has to ask about everything, and he has to take care of everything." Li Xiang put the mirror in front of me and asked me to look at my face.
The dark circles are really heavy and it looks like I really need a good rest.
After work, I called the fast food restaurant and asked for leave to get home early.
Just after five o'clock, it was already dark in the north, and Li Xiang insisted on sending me, but I refused.
The things I was thinking about made me sit still, and I wanted to finish reading that book, or see the owner of the bookstore again.
When I got home, I cooked a bowl of instant noodles and changed into a freshly washed set of clothes, and I went out.
Although the cold condensed in the air, it still could not stop the people on the streets from hurrying home. Looking at those unfamiliar faces, I realized that I was really far away from them. The two people who pass by live in their own parallel lines, and occasionally intersect but return to their original position.
And I'm the farthest and farthest line from everybody.
With my memories I began to search for the book house, and between a small stack of walls I found some familiar scenes hidden in it.
It should be here, although the night is dark, but I still remember the walls on both sides. Walking all the way inside, at the end of the road, the lights of the study room were flickering and flickering.
Through the tall glass window I saw a few guests sitting inside who were reading books, I was thinking about whether to go in, there would be no more embarrassment, I just simply borrowed a book, and then hid in a quiet corner to enjoy it slowly, if it was very coincidental to meet the boss again, I thought I might simply say hello to him.
Slowly pushing open the door, the bell above me made the people in the book room look at me, which made me a little overwhelmed.
The bespectacled grandmother stood up behind the counter and smiled at me.
"Xiaowei is here, so soon to borrow books again?" Her smile warmed me, as if I was a child who had just come home.
I nodded and walked to the counter.
"Is it still "Cold Camellia"?" Grandma asked, searching in the cabinet next to her.
"Yes."
Grandma took the black book off the bookshelf and put it in front of me.
I don't spend money to read it for free, and I always feel bad after drinking the tea made by my grandmother, so I asked in a low voice: "Do I need a card to borrow books?" I heard from the owner here that it was free for the first time. ”
Maybe it was rare to hear me say so many words, but my grandmother looked at me in surprise and pushed the frame on her face with her hand: "Go, get a card..."
Is it hard to understand the word card? In today's world, I may be a person with no money, but I am definitely a person with a card, a haircut card, an Internet card, a dining card, a shopping card...
"There is a bookstore that is not popular, and as long as you sign it here, it will be settled at the beginning of next month." A young man with curly yellow hair came up to me. He's about the same height as me, and I don't know if it's because of his hair, which makes his complexion look extraordinarily fair.
"Oh, thank you." I thanked him briefly, took the book on the counter and turned around and walked towards the bookstore.