Tonight, just this one guest, all the income, is a hundred yuan, but the cost is only a glass of water.

Of course, you can also say that there are costs such as electricity and rent......

But things can't be counted like this, when Xu Le was there before, these were also costs, but his input was almost negligible, and people always had to find a suitable comparison object in order to give themselves some satisfaction and confidence in life.

In addition, it was because of the girl with the corgi that Zhou Ze knew that it was Valentine's Day.

flipped through WeChat, found Dr. Lin's WeChat account, clicked in, Zhou Ze wanted to send a red envelope, sent a 1314 and found that he didn't have enough money, 131.4 money was enough, but he felt a little childish like this.

She doesn't sleep with me anyway,

Never mind

No more.

Dropping the phone, Zhou Ze casually found a book and flipped through it, and kept this posture until the morning.

went to eat wontons next door, the skin was not thin, the filling was thick or not, Zhou Ze didn't know, or according to the previous way of eating, a big bowl of sour plum juice was swallowed immediately after the stomach, and then pinched his neck and kept taking deep breaths there, suppressing the urge to vomit.

Thinking that he would have to follow this process every time he ate in the future, Zhou Ze felt that his future days seemed to be overshadowed.

Zhou Ze thought of the man who drank porridge in the same pain in the video, thinking about it a little sad, eating was originally one of the greatest enjoyments of people living in the world, but now, it has been insulated from them.

I don't know if there is a "anorexic" club in the world, where everyone gathers around a table, who can eat a bite of food first, and then everyone gives a thumbs up:

"You're great!

My XXX is so powerful! ”

Taking a deep breath, this picture is a little chilling.

Anyway, yesterday's video, including Lao Dao in the video and the man who drank porridge, is a little too far away for Zhou Ze for the time being.

After Valentine's Day, it is Chinese New Year's Eve, that is, the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve, if it is changed to usual, this commercial center must be lit up, and the "taste of the year" is very full, but in fact, it is still the same as before, deserted.

It's like life,

Since there has been scenery, there will naturally be loneliness.

Zhou Ze remembers that when this commercial center first opened, it was also in the limelight for a while, and now, no one cares about it.

Xu Qinglang's business is good today, which should be the reason why many other stores are closed, and he, who still insists on doing takeaway in his Chinese New Year's Eve, can naturally gain more orders, after all, customers have fewer choices.

From time to time, there are takeaway boys in blue, yellow or red clothes coming in and out of his noodle restaurant, and Zhou Ze squatted at the door of his bookstore, smoking a cigarette and sighing.

Xu Le, who was 、、、 the day, opened a yellow stewed chicken at the beginning.

The immortals in myths and stories like to say one day in the sky, and one year on earth.

In fact, Zhou Ze felt that this should be right, and it was just as common as hell.

I remember dying in a car accident...... No, I remember that when I was sent to the incinerator for incineration, it should have been just Children's Day, and now, in the blink of an eye, it will be Chinese New Year's Eve.

For most of the year, it passed so quickly, and it was a dream, but it was just a half-muddy walk on Huangquan Road.

Smoked a lot of cigarettes and thought about it a lot, Zhou Ze felt a little tired, he took out his mobile phone, wanted to see what movies were there recently, and it happened that the movie theater was next to him, so he could go there to pass the time.

"Hey, do you have a newspaper there?" Xu Qinglang, who was busy with sending away the last batch of takeaway brothers, walked out.

"Do what?"

"Paste the wall." Xu Qinglang replied.

"So economical?"

"Newspapers paste on the wall, so you have a sense of atmosphere and age, you won't sell them all out yesterday, right?"

"And some more, wait, I'll find them for you."

Zhou Ze returned to the store, took out a half-person-high stack of newspapers from the box near his freezer on the second floor, and gave it to Xu Qinglang who was waiting there after going downstairs.

"You're not going home for the New Year?" Xu Qinglang asked.

"Accompany the book for the New Year."

It's a pity that Zhou Ze doesn't have a goat's whisker, and he doesn't have wine in his hands.

Otherwise, it should be a big white for this sentence full of B.

"Didn't you come home too?" Zhou Ze was self-absorbed for a while and then asked.

"More than 20 suites, which home should I go back to?" Xu Qinglang sighed.

"............" Zhou Ze.

The two were silent for a while, and Zhou Ze spoke: "I'll tell you a story." ”

"Okay." Xu Qinglang nodded, his expression was slightly reserved, his hair was a little long, a few strands of hair hung low, and they went into the corners of his mouth, he reached out and touched the hair, his posture was gentle, and he was really shy and lovely.

The style here is not enough for outsiders.

"Once, also on the day of the Chinese New Year, on the road late at night, a man met one of the richest people in the local area.

The rich man was drunk.

The man asked the rich man, why don't you go home?

The rich man replied: Home, where is my home? My family and relatives are not with me, is the home you are talking about the largest estate in the city? ”

Xu Qinglang listened to this story and nodded slightly, seeming to feel the same way.

Then the man pressed the rich man to the ground and slammed him wildly, shouting:

Let you come out for the New Year and pretend to be scared! ”

Zhou Ze continued to finish the story.

"............" Xu Qinglang.

The chat between the two ended,

Zhou Ze returned to his bookstore, the heating was on in the bookstore, it was warm, and he flipped his mobile phone in his hand, and no one could contact him.

I wanted to go to the orphanage to have a look, but after thinking about it, I still had no money left.

But at this time, a guest came to the door, it was a young man wearing blue overalls and a hard hat, he pushed open the door of the bookstore and walked in, and asked a little shyly:

"Can I read a book here? How much? The other person pursed his lips.

"Look, the money will be given." Zhou Ze waved his hand, signaling the other party to be casual.

"That's a good feeling, do you have a novel here?" The young man said with some restraint, "I like to read novels, the kind of online novels." ”

Zhou Ze pointed to a box behind the bookshelf, "It's all there." ”

The other party walked to the side of the box, flipped through it a few times, and looked very happy, but some of the book cover packaging was still there.

"Take it apart and look at it, don't charge money." Zhou Ze said very generously.

"Okay."

The young man opened a web novel, then sat down on a plastic stool and began to read it.

Zhou Ze, as the boss, sat behind the counter trimming his nails, and the young man was reading there, and after about half an hour, the young man stood up from the chair, took out his own cigarette, and handed Zhou Ze one:

"It's not a good cigarette, don't mind."

"Hey, cigarettes aren't a good thing, it's good or bad."

Zhou Ze took the cigarette, and the other party also took one, took the initiative to walk outside the store, and lit a cigarette while blowing the cold wind.

This made Zhou Ze, who was originally going to smoke in the house, stunned for a moment, thought about it, put the cigarette aside, and continued to trim his nails.

The young man came back after smoking outside, and this time he sat against the wall instead of continuing to sit on the plastic stool.

Although the air conditioner was turned on in the house, the tiles on the floor were still very cold, but the young people didn't care, thinking that they were used to it on weekdays.

After about a quarter of an hour, four more men in cleanly washed blue overalls walked outside the store, the oldest being under thirty years old, and the youngest probably only about seventeen years old.

The four men came in together, and the young man leaning against the wall waved at them, presumably he called them over.

The later people said hello to Zhou Ze, and Zhou Ze coped perfunctorily, but continued to trim his nails;

Zhou Ze decided to buy a set of professional nail repair appliances so that he could be worthy of his nails.

It's just that now the express delivery is suspended, and most of the physical stores outside are closed, so they can only do it temporarily.

Raising his head again, Zhou Ze found that the five workers were all sitting on the ground and reading a novel in their hands.

If you look at the cover, you can know that it's all online novels.,Mostly fantasy.,There's a horror book with a book.,I'm biting my nails while reading it.,It's obviously a relish to watch.。

It's just that the other party's behavior of biting his nails made Zhou Ze a little difficult to disagree,

Only by knowing how to cherish your nails can you know how to cherish life.

From time to time, someone laughs at the novel, which is a heartfelt smile when looking at the story.

In the bookstore, there are a lot of people, but it is very quiet, and there is a little noise from time to time, but it is not too disturbing.

In the evening, Xu Qinglang walked in with a bowl of dumplings, and after he came in, he said directly:

"Yo, it's very lively."

Zhou Ze smiled and nodded.

"Brothers, why don't you eat?" Xu Qinglang's co-workers sitting in the store asked.

Everyone looked at each other,

Some are overwhelmed.

"Forget it, I'll ask you." After all, Xu Qinglang is a man with more than 20 sets, "It's not easy for the brothers to go home for the New Year, they all come out to make hard money, and they are all brothers from all over the world." ”

"Then, thank you boss, the boss made a fortune." The oldest worker stood up and thanked Xu Qinglang.

"It should be, it should be."

Xu Qinglang put down Zhou Ze's dumplings and went back to his shop.

Zhou Ze drank a little soup, and then forcibly swallowed two dumplings, but the hateful Xu Qinglang forgot to bring himself sour plum juice and couldn't eat it himself.

Taking out the cigarette on the table, Zhou Ze walked out from behind the counter.

"After reading it, change it yourself, what I have here should be a full set, anyway, my store is a loss-making business here, don't be polite to me."

Zhou Ze handed over the cigarettes one by one,

One by one, the workers were flattered and took over.

Then everyone got up and walked together to the door of the store, squatting in a row and smoking.

They don't want to dirty the environment in the store.

Zhou Ze thought about it and walked out of the store, outside, the wind was a little cold, he also squatted down next to him and smoked together.

Workers chatting,

If you get married, talk about your aunt and your children;

If you are not married, talk about the good people you met in Tongcheng or your hometown,

Playing fun with each other,

teasing each other,

Although everyone knows the roots,

But there is still chat.

Listening to the accent, these workers knew that they were from Tiannan and Haibei, not from a village.

Tongcheng is close to Shanghai, belongs to the Yangtze River Delta region, although it can not be compared with the volume of Shanghai, but the annual amount of labor here is still very large, as long as you are willing to endure hardships, willing to endure hardships, do not worry about finding a job, and do not worry about not making money.

The smoke sent two more cycles to each other,

Zhou Ze opened his mouth and said, "Brothers, don't you really want to go home for the New Year?" ”

"If you don't go back, your family is fine."

"It's very troublesome to toss back and forth, there is still work to do in the New Year, and the boss will also send red envelopes, don't take it for nothing, and you can send more money back."

"Haha, it's a good day, I have novels to read, I smoke cigarettes, and this year, I have a good time."

"Boss, when are you closing?" A co-worker asked.

"The door is not closed." Zhou Ze replied.

"Boss not coming home?"

"If the girls at home are disobedient, they won't go back."

Zhou Ze suddenly felt arrogant!

All the workers gave Zhou Ze a thumbs up and cheered for him.

Of course, no one echoed it too much, you can feel it by listening to the accent, and Zhou Ze opened a bookstore that is not a fruit stand, and the workers can guess that Zhou Ze is a local.

There is also a reason why the locals don't go home for the New Year, so everyone doesn't continue to make fun of this.

Moreover, they are the pillars of the family, they come out to work to earn money, and the elderly and children in the family are all managed by their own mothers-in-law, they work hard, they are tired, but their mother-in-law is the same.

The days are hard to come out of generation after generation, and those who have survived have an easy life?

Zhou Ze was just about to continue smoking, when a shout came from afar:

"Xu Le!"

Zhou Ze raised his head and stood up, only to find that there was a Porsche Cayenne parked on the opposite road, a familiar car,

Well, my own mother-in-law's car.

It was the sister-in-law who shouted, she was indeed frightened by Zhou Ze in the toilet a while ago, but now that she has returned to normal, she can't think that her brother-in-law is a ghost, so she just blames herself for being dazzled by being scared at that time.

Of course, she can't have a good temper with Zhou Ze, after all, she actually scared Miss Ben to pee, what a shame!

"Xu Le, go home for dinner!"

The sister-in-law shouted.

"If you don't go back, the store is busy, and it's very lively." Zhou Ze waved his hand.

Joke

Will I go back to see the father-in-law and mother-in-law of the pit father and mother during the Chinese New Year?

Angry with this ignorant sister-in-law?

Most importantly,

Rushing home to sleep in separate beds for the New Year?

Looking for abuse?

"Sister, is this guy insane! Unreasonable, inexplicable, and a dead duck with a hard mouth! ”

The sister-in-law sat in the back seat and pouted.

Dr. Lin smiled, "Let's go home and have dinner with my parents first." ”

"Yo, listen to this, sister, are you going to come out at night?"

"I'm his, after all, the legal wife." Dr. Lin didn't say anything more, started the car and left.

Watching the car drive away,

Zhou Ze shouted to the workers around him: "Brothers, is my mother-in-law beautiful?" ”

"Beautiful!"

"Blessed!"

"It's so pretty!"

"Hahahaha."

Xu Qinglang walked out of the store with a large tray,

"Come, braised pork rice bowl, brothers, let's eat!"

The workers were a little restrained and embarrassed, and the oldest worker was a little embarrassed and said, "We didn't bring ...... when we went out."

"As I said before, I'll treat my brothers to a meal! If you mention money again, you will see me as not a brother, and in the future, I may meet it one day, and then there will be a time when I beg your brothers. ”

"Good!"

"In a word!"

"Wait for you to come to my hometown............"

"Come!"

The workers all entered the bookstore with a large bowl of rice, and everyone squatted on the ground, put the bowl on the plastic bench and ate happily.

A worker was reading a novel while eating, and was knocked on the head with chopsticks by a worker next to him.

"Guy who eats lard and is blinded by his heart, if you accidentally stain the book, how can the boss sell it for money?"

"That's right, eat first."

The atmosphere was very lively, Zhou Ze returned to his counter, the dumplings that were already a little cold, he ate three more, this time I don't know why, maybe because of the atmosphere, his nausea was much smaller than before.

After the meal,

The big guy continues to read.

In the house, there is heating, and there are novels to read, which is very harmonious.

Before you know it, it's ten o'clock in the evening.

The eldest worker stood up, stretched, and said, "Brothers, it's time, let's go back, let's help people clean up the house." ”

"Okay!"

Five workers helped Zhou Ze clean up and down the store.

"Boss, we're leaving, thank you for today."

"You're welcome." Zhou Ze waved his hand.

They're gone,

It's not like the girl with the corgi last night, who left a hundred dollars after reading the book for a while, they read it for a day and half a night, and they didn't leave a dollar.

But Zhou Ze didn't care at all, and he didn't have the slightest dissatisfaction.

Stretching, Zhou Ze planned to call Xu Qinglang to take back the dishes and chopsticks in the store, and when he walked to the noodle restaurant, Zhou Ze saw Xu Qinglang sitting behind the table and reading the newspaper.

Well, the newspaper was given to him by Zhou Ze during the day.

Xu Qinglang is wearing a pair of gold-rimmed glasses, and he does look a little bookish, worthy of a man with more than 20 suites.

No matter how you look at it, you have a temperament!

"The dishes and chopsticks over there, you clean them up." Zhou Ze said.

"Okay, let's go."

Xu Qinglang put down his glasses, rubbed his eyes, got up and went to clean up the dishes and chopsticks next door.

At the top of that large stack of newspapers was a Yangtze Evening News, and the date was seven days ago;

On the cover page of the first page of the newspaper was a large bold bold text of the news:

"Residential building fire, righteousness and courage touching the world"

Last week, a fire broke out in a densely populated residential area in Tongcheng, and the fire was serious.

There were five young construction workers on the nearby construction site who ran in to save people regardless of the danger, and rescued more than 20 elderly people, women and children in total, but after they rushed into the fire for the last time to save people,

I didn't get out again.

There is a big photo on the cover of the Yangtze Evening News,

Here's a photo of these five people.

They stood side by side, comparing their old-fashioned scissor hands, as if they were taking a photo after living in a shed when they first came to the construction site.

A face that is green but also has a little vicissitudes of wrinkles,

In the photo,

The smile is a little restrained, but it is also very bright.

Xu Qinglang walked into the bookstore,

Looking at the five bowls of rice bowls on the plastic bench in front of him,

I haven't touched a mouthful, and the food has long been out of heat.

On each bowl of rice, a pair of chopsticks are inserted straight upside down.

"Brothers,

Eat well,

Drink well. ”

Xu Qinglang muttered.

outside

The sound of firecrackers sounded,

There is no ban on fireworks in Tongcheng, and for a time, the sky is full of colors, and it is very lively and festive.

Zhou Ze raised his head and looked outside,

Whispered:

"It's the New Year."