"Sister, aren't you going to get more cold skins to sell?" Chen Yuanyuan chatted.

"Just prepare these, your brother-in-law and I are too busy, how can we get more." The woman skillfully set aside one cold skin and began to make a second one.

"Oh, you didn't think about hiring someone?" Chen Yuanyuan thought for a moment and asked.

"Hire?" The woman paused, "We're busy all day at noon and at night, and it's not cost-effective to hire too many people." ”

"......" Chen Yuanyuan opened his mouth, wanting to explain that the original meaning was to let her find someone to do it when preparing the raw materials, but was interrupted by a sudden female voice.

"Isn't there anyone else buying?!" A girl walked ahead, and another boy followed behind her shyly.

"Take it and come back next time." After the woman handed the chopsticks and Liangpi to Chen Yuanyuan, she put a sign at the window and began to pack her things and prepare to go home.

"I said no." The boy muttered quietly.

The girl ignored him, stood in front of Chen Yuanyuan, blocking the way, "You can't eat it after you buy two servings, sell me one, and I'll add five yuan to you." ”

"I'm here for someone else, I'm sorry." Chen Yuanyuan wanted to bypass her, but was blocked by this girl.

"I have to eat it today, and I can't give it if I don't give it." The girl said in a tough tone.

"She's your girlfriend?" Chen Yuanyuan looked at the boy on the side and asked.

“... Kindness. The boy was embarrassed and didn't want to admit it, but the girl who turned his head glared at him and nodded quickly.

“... This eldest lady has a big temper. Chen Yuanyuan didn't have time to talk to her, so he 'gently' pinched her shoulder with his hand, and ran out in the moment she was stunned in pain.

"Really, I'm almost running away." Chen Yuanyuan lowered his head and muttered.

......

"Why didn't you order?" Chen Yuanyuan put Julie's cool skin in front of her and asked.

"I'm waiting for you to come back." Julie took the cold skin and couldn't wait to use the chopsticks, picked one and put it in her mouth, "It tastes weird, but... Not bad. ”

“... You try to eat, I'll have it here. Chen Yuanyuan called the waiter and began to order.

......

Some time ago, Chen Yuanyuan borrowed the second year textbook used by Julie back to his home.

"I finally went through all these books," she said, sitting in her chair, her hands raised, stretching her waist, "I didn't expect it to take me days." ”

"School is coming up in two days, should I prepare something?" Chen Yuanyuan bit his pen and thought about it.

"Well... I can't think of it, but there are some things to be aware of. She flipped through a notebook, wrote a paragraph on a blank page, and then drew a big exclamation mark in front of it.

"The third year of junior high school is a turning point, and after this year, I guess we will have to implement our plan with Sun Guoliang."

“... Half of the SAT rolls are done, and the rest will be done in the next year. Chen Yuanyuan turned the pen with his left and right hands respectively, "The score has not improved much, and I have been dangling at the full score..."

"I'm also very helpless, although the question is very simple, but there will always be a little problem." Chen Yuanyuan wrote another paragraph on the notebook, "The next headache is the problem of money." ”

"Studying abroad is very expensive, like tuition, living expenses and so on...... Alas... By the time I really want to go abroad, those savings of mine... It's not that much. Chen Yuanyuan drew two exclamation marks before this paragraph, "Do you want to have a showdown with your parents?" ”

"Well... We'll talk about that then. She added a question mark to the end of the paragraph, "I can also borrow from others, it's not like the road is blocked." ”

"Then there's the cultural differences between the two countries... It's not like I've been able to cope with all these years of accumulation. Chen Yuanyuan wrote another paragraph on the other side of the note, "So I want to read more books like this?" ”

She thought about it for a while and felt that there was no rush in this matter, so she drew a question mark in front of this text.

"If I do get in, will I have to embark on a journey to a foreign land alone? Didn't even have someone to take care of each other during the period? Chen Yuanyuan frowned, "I think this matter must be discussed with Sun Guohao..."

She preceded the last sentence with three large exclamation marks.

"There must be a lot of things I didn't think of, anyway, there is still a lot of time to prepare, and I slowly accumulate it." Chen Yuanyuan carefully put this note into the gap between the bedside.

She has set up several layers of insurance for this notebook, one of which is that the content she writes is written down in her own habitual way of thinking, and ordinary people can't understand it at all.

"It's time to start a boring and fulfilling school life again... To be honest, I'm a little bored. Chen Yuanyuan cleaned up the table and went to the bathroom to take a bath.

......

"You say that if they do this blatantly, they are not afraid of retaliation?" A slightly chubby woman asked a friend in the crowd.

"How could they do this if they didn't have someone to back them up!" A tall, lanky woman replied.

"Do you know whose store this is being demolished?" A man in the back heard their conversation and asked subconsciously as he poked his neck to peek in.

"Hmph, who knows." The thin woman glanced at him and said impatiently.

"I have the impression that the store has been closed for several days." The fat woman recalled.

Chen Yuanyuan carried his schoolbag and listened silently to them, then looked at his own shop that had become a ruin, and thought in his heart, "It turns out... Mom noticed the clues from the landlord. ”

This is an old commercial street near the city center, with three shops rented by Chen Yuanyuan's parents and two clothing stores, all of which no longer exist.

"There are many shops that have been demolished, and they are all located relatively close to the middle of each street." Chen Yuanyuan shook his head as he looked at the large piece of rubble in front of him that deliberately blocked the passage of pedestrians, "They are doing this just to drive tourists who come here to buy things to the newly built commercial street in the old city, alas, helplessly alternate between the old and the new..."

"No one will clean up this rubble or something, and there will be idle people in society who will take care of it and not let anyone touch it." Chen Yuanyuan lost interest in this place after looking at it for a while, "This kind of influence is subtle, and when the passenger flow here is reduced to a certain extent, this place will also usher in its changes." ”

"Because of the change of the commercial street, coupled with the ensuing vigorous publicity, and some 'preferential treatment' given by the city, the city's economy has grown by leaps and bounds."

"The new shopping street will gradually develop into a shopping paradise. In another ten years, when it comes to Linchuan City, the first thing that comes to mind is shopping, and then tourism. ”