At this time, the middle-aged lady from before spoke again: "Who is the boss of the two?" Let me tell you, we walked for half an hour in the rain with umbrellas, and we still haven't done business, if you do this, it will be too chilling! ”

Li Shi didn't care about the rivalry between me and her, and instead asked the guest, "If I'm not mistaken, I heard that your accent is Shanghainese?" ”

The middle-aged lady looked at the few people beside her, nodded and said, "Yes, girl, are you too?" ”

Li Shi shook her head, didn't answer again, and said: "I'm really sorry, because there may be some things that must be dealt with in the store in the past two days, so I can't check in for you, please bear with me, and say sorry again, thank you for your support to the shop......"

Before I could say anything, one of them complained: "I can't say it, you have to come, it's good, dinner is delayed, and we can't even confirm a stay, let's not rub it off, let's hurry to a nearby hotel to stay, and eat a full meal first." ”

I stood aside, some of the pain lurking all the time, but when I heard the guest leaving, it suddenly erupted, stimulating my fragile nerves......

I immediately adjusted my mood, and after holding back the kind words for a while, I poured hot water for the guest, and then walked to Li Shi's side, dragged her to the door, and said in a low voice: "You really shouldn't be so unprincipled sabotage, even if you want to make things difficult for me, you shouldn't let this door-to-door business go!" ”

"I never wanted to make things difficult for anyone!"

"You are so mean, and you are still preaching in this high-sounding manner, you are simply a goblin."

Li Shi looked at me, but she was speechless, and the disgust in her eyes for me reappeared, perhaps she only thought that this was my obsessive wild words, but she did not understand that this was my pleading with a little depression.

After a while, Li Shi went to her room with an umbrella, I followed her footsteps in the rain, and discussed with her again in a relaxed tone: "I beg you, let the uncles and aunts stay for one night first, and then talk about it tomorrow when the rain stops, okay?" ”

"Not good."

"It's funny that the road is slippery on this rainy day, and they toss it at night? Who parents don't go out, if they all encounter this thing, will the children be chilled? ”

Li Shi said with a displeased face: "I don't want you to use this way to achieve your goals. ”

"Don't look at me with this kind of vision, what I said is the truth, my mother took Mengmeng to Beijing for treatment the year before last, braved the torrential rain to find a cheap hostel, because she couldn't see the road clearly, and finally fell and bruised her legs, and injured her bones, and was sick in bed for more than two months......"

Li Shi looked at me with a complicated look, but her expression changed subtly.

I wiped the rain from my face with both hands, and I didn't know why I was talking about this heart-wrenching thing, and before my mind could relax, I couldn't stop coughing......

Li Shi put the umbrella on top of my head, and after a long time, it seemed that she had made a very difficult decision, and said to me in a very light tone: "It's not that you haven't heard, the guests still have to eat, we don't have dinner here, and they are starving when they stay, so it's better to take advantage of the darkness of the night to quickly change to a more secure place." ”

At this moment, I didn't know how to express myself, I just raised my head, didn't want the tears rolling in my eyes to fall, and said with a very sincere expression: "As long as you are willing to leave the guests, I will solve the guests' meals, okay?" ”

Li Shi looked at me hesitantly, but this hazy attitude made me fall into apprehension......

As if after making a decision, Li Shi finally nodded, the rain was still watering the earth, I didn't care about changing out of my wet clothes, turned around and walked out, and said as I walked: "You keep the guests, I'll go buy some ingredients nearby,"

Li Shi sighed heavily, caught up with me and stuffed the umbrella in his hand to me and said, "Wait for me, I'll get you the car keys and drive to buy it!" ”

I don't know why, Li Shi's words made the corners of my eyes hot, and at this moment I realized that no matter how fierce we were and how we didn't understand each other, in each other's hearts, we could still help each other.

I pulled her, shook my head and said, "Don't run back and forth in the rain, it's all alleys, and the car can't drive in, I'll just walk over." ”

"Then be careful on the road!"

"Yes."

After saying that, I was a little uneasy, and explained to the guests that they could rest assured that they would stay here tonight, and we would arrange the rest.

……

After I plunged into the rain, the neon sign at the entrance of the store lit up again, I knew that Li Shi had tacitly "business as usual" with his actions, and after walking a few steps, when I turned around and looked back at the hostel in the rain, my emotions were lost after mixed feelings, and after losing the right to manage, I was so wooden, aggrieved and unwilling.

It turned out that I didn't grasp everything as I imagined, and there were too many unpredictable things in life......

The nearest grocery store to the hostel is also a ten-minute walk, stepping on the light and shadow of the neon lights, I walked briskly in the alley, but what I was thinking about was the endless trivialities, I suddenly got a little tired of my current life, I wanted to do something for my life, but I didn't know where to start, but think about it carefully, as if this confusion did not come from life, I was trapped in the hostel......

The water under my feet filled my shoes, my body seemed to have been overdrawn to the limit, my hair was hot, but my body was cold, I insisted on walking quickly to an acquaintance's shop, and after saying hello, I began to choose ingredients.

Holding the dishes in both hands, my neck and shoulders closely cooperated, holding the umbrella and walking back quickly, the rain came in a hurry but went slowly, the mist formed after the water was rolled up by the wind, making the whole world look a little unreal, but the cold rain on the face was so real, just like this sudden arrival of guests.

……

After nearly a quarter of an hour in the rain, I finally returned to the hostel, and before I arrived at the hotel, I heard the hearty laughter of the guests a few meters away, and it was Li Shi chatting with the guests.

When I entered the store, she had a beautiful smile on her face, it turned out that when she faced strangers, she was such a free and easy posture, I couldn't help but laugh dumbly, I thought, maybe we knew each other by a mistake!

I stood in front of the store, put the ingredients on the ground, and then put away my umbrella, and the water dripping from me quickly formed a puddle of water on the floor.

After seeing me come back, the middle-aged lady came up as soon as possible, handed me a dry towel to wipe my face, and said distressedly: "Child, it's frozen!" I'm really sorry to let you go shopping, you see this mouth is white, you have to freeze and catch a cold, hurry up and change your clothes. ”

I took the towel in a series of thanks, wiped the water from my hair, and then said self-deprecatingly, "It's not bad to make soup chicken", but when I looked up, I saw Li Shi looking at me, she was touched by emotion somehow, gritted her teeth and swallowed tears into her stomach, and then choked and lifted the ingredients over.

I know that she has a delicate mind, and although she seems indifferent, her inner world is as rich as mine, but somehow, I would rather see her indifferent face than see her crying and emotional......

After returning to the room to change into a set of dry clothes, I took the induction cooker to the wooden table in the hall, at this time, several guests staying in the hostel took the initiative to join in and were already busy, three middle-aged men cleaned up the table and disposable cutlery, and three aunts plus Li Shi began to wash the ingredients.

I was hot, my limbs were weak, and life experience told me that I was going to have a bad cold, and I leaned back in my chair and tried to cheer up, but it didn't help.

After everyone was busy for about ten minutes, all the ingredients were served, and on a quadrangular wooden table, six guests occupied three sides, and naturally, Li Shiji and I sat together as if by default.

While waiting for the pot to boil, everyone sighed that on such a rainy night, it was exciting and wonderful to be able to find a hostel with such local characteristics in Xi'an in the scenic area, and sit around to eat a hot pot together.

I was smiling, but I was silent, but my heart was full of emotions that I couldn't figure out where they were coming from.

At this time, the middle-aged lady took out a wad of money from her purse and said, "Young man, this thousand yuan is the money for us to open three rooms and tonight's meal, this girl doesn't accept it, let us hand it over to you, you can collect it!" ”

I shook my head and refused, "I shouldn't have given this money, and I can't use it so much!" ”

Li Shi seemed to feel the emotion in my heart, she looked at me in silence, and didn't know how to respond for a while, I said again: "I am no longer the manager of the hostel, and besides, the housing income of the hostel has to be entered into the system, and I report to the headquarters on a monthly basis, so I can't take the money privately." ”

The middle-aged lady smiled and pushed the money to me and said, "It's your own business, we won't be involved, this pot is about to boil, let's touch one together, ready to eat!" ”

Everyone responded, the wine in my stomach was still churning, and my body was very uncomfortable, so I didn't drink it after clinking glasses, but looked out the window at the thick night, and the neon lights struggling in the rain, for a moment, I really wanted to leave this tired body and go with the wind!

After three rounds of wine and five flavors of food, everyone gradually ate the same, but the hot pot became more and more boiling, steaming, and the guests, who were more than half of our age, told their stories, some told their own stories, some told happiness, some recalled unhappiness, some sighed reunion, and some resented parting......

After laughing, we were silent again, because all the joy in the suffering is temporary, but the pain has been carved into the bone marrow, and after a long time I finally asked the crowd, "I want to sing a song for everyone, is that okay?" ”

Everyone was surprised, with a look of anticipation, and applauded to welcome, I stood up, about to go back to the room to get the guitar, my brain suddenly dizzy, adjusted for about ten seconds, only to go back to the house to get the guitar, smiled, plucked the guitar strings, and then pondered what song to sing to fit the situation......