Chapter 224: Enlightenment is also a chore
Coriander spent the night in Luo Gongyuan, and when she came out of the gate of Luo's house, she saw a coriander who had changed into her usual costume squatting on the pedal of the rickshaw in the shade not far away, resting, and must be guarding her from Luo's house.
Her heart warmed, and she waved at the coriander from afar, eager to break her little arm.
"Brother, in fact, you don't use it, I'll just go back by myself!" Coriander complained so much on her lips, but she was still very happy in her heart. "You said that instead of waiting here for a long time, you might as well run some work and earn more money."
"I didn't have to wait long," Coriander lifted the handle of the car when Cilantro got into the car, "You can't walk back in shoes like that after such a long journey." Anyway, it costs you money to take the car back, and I don't have to do one less job to earn this money, which doesn't just offset the one you spend. β
Coriander was a little surprised, "Brother, I found that you are good at speaking, and you are becoming more and more eloquent!" β
Coriander smiled, and said while walking like flying: "It's not all learned from you."
Coriander sent the coriander home and went out of the car.
Coriander thought that she hadn't gone to the old canal of Xingrong Road for a long time, and she didn't know about the pandian, how did the old guy think about it. It's really not okay to probe his tone today, she should think about it slowly.
So Coriander went home and changed her clothes and went out again.
On the way to Xingrong Road, before meeting Lao Qu, Coriander first met his precious son Qu Cheng.
The two greeted each other, and the channel said, "My father has always been thinking about you." You were still talking to me about you, are you going to him? β
"It's not a matter of time for a while," Cilantro pointed to a teahouse behind her that was not doing well, "Let's go there and drink tea and talk about life and ideals." Seeing that the channel was hesitant, Coriander dragged him directly into the teahouse, "What's the point of hesitation, I was about to tell you something." β
"If you don't have anything serious, let's save it for another time, I'm going to school." Channel Cheng didn't have classes in the morning, but he was late for work. Among colleagues. After all, the impact is not good. In that big office, I don't know how many pairs of eyes are staring at him, just waiting for him to make the slightest mistake, and then deal with it seriously.
Coriander is not happy. Look at him with empty eyes. "What do you mean by 'nothing serious'. Didn't I pass through with you in the past? Seeing that Guan Cheng shook her head, she added, "That's it." Since you don't, don't say things that misunderstand. β
It made her seem like such a bad person.
Almost as soon as they were seated, the man brought a pot of warm tea to the table.
Coriander flipped over two of the four teacups that were upside down on the table, and only filled them up after shabu-shabu was clean.
Coriander took a sip of the sweet and bitter tea soup with hardship, raised his eyes to look at the gloomy face of the channel, and crossed his legs with a hanging appearance, "Before I tell you about serious things, let's listen to you spit out bitter water." As she spoke, she raised a finger and gestured around his gloomy face, "You're too obvious, there's a capital 'decay' on your whole face." β
Guan Cheng looked down at the reflection of the tea in the cup, and admitted that his face looked quite depressed.
So, in the face of coriander, the channel seems to have found an outlet, from public to private, everything that doesn't go well has complained to coriander. Miraculously, the more he spoke, the happier he felt.
Speaking of his stubborn father, the channel turned into a belly of evil fire, "...... I really don't know what my dad thinks, the cake shop's business is powerless, it has become a fact, I persuaded him several times to sell or rent out the store, he didn't know what kind of evil style he smoked these days, and actually told me what kind of transformation he was going to make. He couldn't even do needlework, but he suddenly told me that he wanted to start a cloth business. He just said, not noticing that Coriander's face was ugly at this time. He then complained, "They are all a lot of old people, and they don't enjoy the good fortune, but they want to learn from others to do business, and he doesn't know that he is not the material for business!" β
Channel Cheng is a literati and ink writer, with a strong bookish atmosphere. Since ancient times, agriculture and industry have been at the end of the business. He was somewhat influenced by the traditional thinking of the Chinese, and he looked down on copper-smelling businessmen in his bones. It seems that the traditional ideas left by the Chinese people from generation to generation have been deeply imprinted on the souls of each generation.
It was when Cilantro saw this that she laughed at him, "You can't say that, no matter whether your father is in business or not, before you have no ability to make money to support your family, didn't he rely on that cake shop to support your family, and also gave you and your sister out?" There are not many children who are lucky enough to enter the school like your brothers and sisters these years, and the children of other families can't ask for it, so it's not luck - even if the goddess of luck favors you, if you are lucky enough to have such a father. β
After saying a lot of things, she was always embarrassed to say that the opening of the cloth shop was actually an idea she proposed.
Channel Cheng sighed abruptly: "What you said, it's not that I don't know ......."
Even if he said the same thing to himself a million times, he couldn't convince himself.
"You want your father to enjoy Qingfu, know that you are filial, if you are really good for your father, he wants to toss, you go with him. That shop and you are the spiritual sustenance of his old man, once he lacks one of these pieces of his spirit, do you think he will still be as energetic as he is now? β
Channel Cheng didn't expect this layer, after the mention of coriander, he suddenly opened up, and there was a pimple in his heart, and he was a lot clearer for a while.
"You're right." The channel became a heart knot opened, the body was a little lighter, the gloom on his face was also a lot lighter, and even the posture of serving tea was also atmospheric, "Regarding the plan of international exchange students, I think...... Let's cancel it......"
Coriander was stunned for a moment, the teacup in her hand almost fell, and her eyes widened, "Don't, this plan is very good, why do you want to cancel it?" β
"There are a lot of old professors in our school who ......disagree," explained Channel Cheng further, "and they are all worried that the selected students will not think about their origins once they go abroad." I am reluctant to come back after staying with foreigners......"
"There are many people in this world who can't withstand the temptation, and you can't just kill the good seedlings in your school for the sake of one or two white-eyed wolves." Coriander slapped the table and made a final decision, "Don't care what those old guys in your school say, let them say whatever they like, the plan of international exchange students, I will support you with both hands and feet." And I'm the one who really invests it, so I've got the final say in this matter! Try to get the spot out at the end of the semester, oh. I appoint a man. Elect Mingxuan. β
Now that the boss has spoken, what else does Channel Cheng have to worry about. "Full of tricks and humble benefits, Mingxuan's temperament really needs to be tempered abroad." Having said all this, the topic seems to be going around in circles around him. A hint of shame flashed across Channel Cheng's face. Hide your embarrassment with a cough. Then he said, "By the way, what are you looking for me?" β
"Did a teacher die in your school recently?" Coriander is not a bend. Get straight to the point.
Channel Cheng was taken aback, "How do you know?" β
"How much do you know about this teacher?"
Channel Cheng's expression flickered, and he was speechless for a long time, not like he was at a loss and didn't know how to answer.
Cilantro had already seen some eyebrows from his expression, "It seems that you know enough about that teacher. I won't say much else, he gave Luo Youyou a painting before he died, and I won't tell you the secret of that painting. In the future, someone will come to you to testify, you are the one who gave Luo Youyou the painting you gave ......"
The channel was confused, "this...... How...... I ......"
"Eh, don't ask anything, just cooperate. You just said that the painting was given to you by the dead teacher, and then you transferred it to Luo Youyou, so that's it. β
"As long as I bite to death, the painting is what I gave to Luo Youyou? But I don't even know what that painting looks like......"
"It's a tree......"
Coriander depicts the painting in detail, cleverly avoiding the mystery in the painting.
After hearing this, he was a little embarrassed, "Will anyone believe such a clumsy lie......
"As long as the two of you play your roles well, there will be no problems. I've asked carefully, not many people have seen that painting, except for the dead art teacher and a few of Luo Youyou's classmates, and then Luo Youyou's family - Luo Youyou always tells her family what happened to her at school, but rarely mentions you, which doesn't mean that she doesn't respect you, and it is precisely because she loves you so much that she is ashamed to mention you to her family. β
Channel Cheng looked embarrassed for a moment, and pretended to be serious: "You yin and yang weird, what are you talking about!"
Coriander smiled evilly, "Don't tell me, you don't know what that girl thinks of you." Her heart for you must not be a secret among her classmates...... Therefore, even if a classmate knows about the painting, it is easy to hide it. β
Channel Cheng couldn't hide the embarrassment on his face, lowered his head as if looking for a crack in the ground that could accommodate him, in the end he couldn't help but be curious, but also to change the topic, he couldn't help asking: "What secret is hidden in that painting?"
"Now that you know it's a secret, don't ask any more."
Coriander said goodbye to the channel and went straight to the old canal.
Nowadays, Lao Qu's shop is no longer called Qu Commander Cake Shop.
The store is facing a transformation, and the sign of "Commander Qu Cake Shop" has long been removed, and the store is empty on all sides, and the strong smell of lacquer overshadows the original sweet smell of pastries.
As soon as the coriander appeared, Lao Qu raised his hand and pointed to her nose and scolded her, "Didn't you say that you had been here for two days that day, how many days have passed!" Will you count! β
Coriander had heard from Guancheng that Lao Qu was going to change his career to do cloth business, and he knew that Lao Qu already had a plan to give her the storefront, and couldn't help but be happy, "In the past few days, the store has been cleaned, thank you, thank you so much!" β
Lao Qu snorted heavily, "Don't be too happy, I'll tell you the truth, I didn't think about giving you the store!" β
The smile on Cilantro's face disappeared instantly, and was replaced by a blank look, "Haven't you already given up the cake business and switched to the cloth business?" β
"I changed my mind, yes, but I never thought of selling this store to anyone!" This shop is his life's work, how can he say let it go? If the cake shop business can't continue, he can switch to other businesses, but no matter what business he does, he can't leave this shop.
Coriander knew that he was reluctant, and Lao Qu obeyed her wishes and turned to the cloth business, in fact, it also had the meaning of partnership, she didn't necessarily have to get the store, she just hoped that it was enough for her to have a small world to show her skills.
"Okay, okay, then I'll invest, let's work together, you be the big boss, I'll be the small boss, this will always work."
Lao Qu's face softened slightly, "I'm going to buy goods in the next few days, since you want to partner with me, you have to take out the money for this purchaseββ"
As soon as she heard that she would take the money, Coriander was unhappy, and grinned: "Why are you so stingy, if I don't show up, you don't go to buy the goods, just wait for me to send the money to you, right?"
"That's not it," Lao Qu was confident, "I'm almost ready to take care of the cloth shop, you haven't appeared once before this, I seriously doubt your sincerity now, let me ask you again, are you sincere in doing the cloth shop business with me?" β
"The big boss is on top, please bow down to the small boss." Coriander pretended to give Lao Qu a salute, and her appearance was funny enough. "In order to show my sincerity, I will go with you this time to enter the cloth."
Lao Qu snorted lightly, his expression was no longer so stern, "At nine o'clock in the morning the day after tomorrow, come here and wait for me." In the end, he did not forget to emphasize, "Don't miss the appointment this time." β
Coriander smiled awkwardly, and said continuously: "Okay, good, you must abide by it, you must abide by it!"
Lao Qu's expression had completely relaxed, "The cloth shop is open, you have to choose a good day." β
"Don't be too fast, let me ...... first"
Before Coriander could finish her words, Lao Qu interrupted her in a hurry, "My shop has been renovated, and the shelves are also made by carpenters, so it's time to buy goods and hang up signboards......"
Coriander also treated him in the same way as a person, and interrupted him mercilessly, "The name of the store has already been decided?" Let's say it first, I don't want such an ugly name as 'Commander Qu Buxing'! If anyone knows that the cloth shop we are about to open has something to do with your original cake shop, who would dare to come to the cloth shop to buy something? β
"You stinky girl," Lao Qu really wanted to slap her stinky mouth, "the cloth shop hasn't opened yet, and your crow's mouth is saying such unlucky things!" β
"I'm telling the truth, even if no one says it, don't think that such a thing doesn't exist, I just want to remind you that the name of the sign is very heavy, and you have to-"
"You've noticed?" Lao Qu wanted to hear what kind of good name she could give to the cloth shop, and he had already set up a posture to laugh at her.
Coriander said four words in his ear word by word, and after Lao Qu heard it, he tasted it carefully, and gradually smiled at the corner of his lips. (To be continued.) )