Chapter 13: Subtle embarrassment
Back in Tang Dong, the two of them still spoke very little, although the distance was quite close, and the two were constantly talking, but they could always feel a subtle embarrassment between the two.
"Double happiness, what's wrong with Miss and Shopkeeper Zou? Why is it that Miss today is a little unable to let go. ”
Li Tao appeared beside Double Happiness with a kitchen knife, and couldn't help but ask when he looked at the scene in the wing.
"Yo, who are you scaring with a knife?" As soon as Shuangxi turned around, he saw the bright kitchen knife, and he was so frightened that he covered his little heart, Li Tao smirked and hurriedly hid the knife behind.
"Didn't I just chop big bones to make soup, the kitchen was too busy, so I came out to sharpen the knife myself."
"You'd better hurry back to the kitchen, it's dangerous to hold a knife, don't ask about this." Double Happiness urged people to leave quickly, looking inside intently, for fear of repeating the previous situation.
Li Tao saw Shuangxi's serious appearance and showed two small dimples, and happily turned around and went back to the kitchen.
Tang Dong's back kitchen is a small courtyard, the back door is also the gate of the small courtyard, in addition to the kitchen, there is a two-story small building, the second floor is dedicated to Tang Chu to come to rest and work, the first floor is connected to the main building, is the shopkeeper for office.
A second-floor house is locked, and ordinary people can't enter, and it also exists as a warehouse, and there are several wings built for the guys.
Generally, these people come from the village, and there is no place to live in order to make a living, so Tang Dong vacated the backyard, and the guys who live here also keep vigil here by the way.
With this group of young and vigorous young men here, Tang Dong has never lost anything.
One afternoon, Tang Chu introduced Tang Dong's operation process to Zou Shiyan, and taught him how to fill in the account book, and even planned to take him to meet all the origins of the supply to Tang Dong tomorrow, and understand these, so that Zou Shiyan could cope with it in terms of purchase and bookkeeping in the future.
In the end, it was dark, the restaurant was closed for daily reservations today, and before Zou Shiyan left, Tang Chu also asked people to prepare dinner for Zou Shiyan and put it in a food box for him to bring back to eat.
When he returned to the house, he saw his father looking at him with a smile on his face, "I heard that you invited Zou Shiyan to be the shopkeeper?" Still ...... with him in the shop."
"Stop! I misunderstood, father, I didn't hug and hug, it was someone who helped me. Tang Chu guessed what his father wanted to say, and immediately stopped, knowing that he would not be making clothes in his tailor's shop.
"Hug hug? What's going on? I just want to say that you and him are in the shop so late, pay attention to your body, pay attention to your reputation. ”
"......" Tang Chu seemed to have suffered a critical blow, and immediately hid in the house with red ears.
At the same time, when Zou Shiyan returned home, because of his outfit, he attracted the attention of the second aunt, and pulled the second uncle Zou to secretly lie outside the house and eavesdrop.
Zou Shiyan already knew that this would happen, so he let the little brother hide the food box, and then opened the door, and the second uncle and second aunt almost fell.
"You unlucky thing, you want to fall to my death! You have no conscience. ”
Second Uncle Zou stabilized his body and scolded, but he knew that he couldn't win against his nephew, and he was a little deflated after scolding, but Second Aunt Zou saw him dressed up and immediately circled around.
"This dress is indispensable for a tael of silver, that's enough for us to eat for a month, where did you get this clothes, I see that you came back sneaky today, and you still have something in your arms, are you hiding what we are doing."
Zou Shiyan didn't intend to stop this matter, Zou Shiyan directly said that he was a shopkeeper in Tangdong, and the second aunt couldn't close her mouth after hearing this, and asked how much she was paid, and when she learned that there was no money, she immediately changed her face.
"Why don't you want money? Reading stupid? If you don't eat, I'll still eat, and I'll work hard to raise you so much, and I'm going to block it, are you going to be angry with me? Such a big restaurant, there are ten taels of silver in a month, you are good, you don't want anything! ”
The second aunt was angry and cried, the second uncle was not convinced, and clamored to go to the Tang family to ask for an explanation, Zou Shiyan was a headache from the quarrel and was a little impatient.
"Don't make trouble, I've already decided on this matter, as for the salary, I'll go to the construction site every day to give you money, if you go to Tang's house to make trouble and complicate things, don't blame me for having nothing at that time."
"You... Your wings are stiff, and you dare to threaten us, don't you eat tonight, isn't it three meals a day? You go to Tangdong to eat by yourself, you and your brother solve it by yourself, you live in my house, give me twenty wen a day, otherwise ......"
"Got it." Zou Shiyan was tired of hearing these words, and directly pushed the second uncle and second aunt out with a cold face, and the second uncle and aunt Zou touched their noses and turned cold, but they didn't continue to entangle.
After all, they know their nephew's temper, and if they really touch his bottom line, they will definitely rebound, and they won't get any benefit when the time comes.
After taking the second uncles away, Zou Shichu ran out with the food box and opened them one by one with a smile, braised pork, leek eggs, pork rib soup, celery fried meat, Zou Shichu's eyes were big.
"There is even white rice, so much, enough to eat."
Speaking of rice, the brothers have not eaten rice for almost a few years, until the famine, low-cost wheat is planted in the fields, and the flour is made into steamed buns, steamed buns, the kind of things that can resist satiety, and occasionally the rice is eaten by the second aunt at home.
Seeing the white rice today, Zou Shiyan thought of the woman who always greeted him with a smile, and his eyes were a little moist.
"Did the eldest brother really go to Tang Dong to be the shopkeeper?" Zou Shichu touched the material worn by the eldest brother, it was slippery, and sure enough, Sister Tang was still very generous.
It's really good to think that I gave up the opportunity to go to my sister every day to give my eldest brother a chance to get close to my sister, and I believe that it won't be long before my eldest brother can get my sister done.
"Hurry up and eat, my eldest brother will bring you food every day in the future." Zou Shiyan touched his brother's head, and only felt that it didn't seem to be a bad thing for him to be a shopkeeper in Tang Dong.
At least it has improved his brother's life, and at the same time, he can learn something for himself.
"Big brother, the wooden hairpin on your head is really good." Zou Shichu stared at the things on his eldest brother's head with his rice, and at first glance it was Sister Tang's handwriting.
“……”
Zou Shiyan touched the things on his head, and sure enough, there was a hairpin, with a sleek body, very simple, and no roughness on his hands, and suddenly remembered a scene in the tailor's shop, and the blush couldn't help but climb up his ears.
It turned out that she was actually wearing this for herself at the time.
"I'll go back tomorrow." Zou Shiyan held the hairpin and muttered to himself, and then affirmed his thoughts in his heart.