Chu Huoyu and I glanced at each other.

Investing in the bookstore, Ding Ying didn't let Zhu Defa know at all, which we didn't expect.

"Look at you Zhu Defa, you're making old mistakes again. I've told you more than once that you're not my person, and I don't have to report everything to you. Ding Ying said coldly. She closed the ledger and handed it to Chu Huoyu.

"yes," Zhu Defa almost choked to death, "why do I want you to report to me?" Let's discuss. It's a big deal, after all. Besides, how could you be interested in such a thing? Haven't you always despised business? ”

"This kind of thing?" Zhu Defa's words really disgusted me, "Zhu Defa, listening to the meaning of your words, it seems that you are very contemptuous of our behavior. Your dignified student council president can't be so narrow-minded and can't accept new things, right? The right to operate our bookstore was granted by the dean. ”

Chu Huoyu walked to sort out the books that had been turned over.

"No, no, don't get me wrong, set sail. I think Ding Ying has changed too much. Originally, she was dismissive of many things. Zhu Defa was busy explaining.

"Miss Ding's style is not?" I say.

"It's not a style."

"It's style," I didn't want Ding Ying to take over the topic, "this is my style." Capricious, straightforward, changeable. ”

"Say no more. Anyway, the wood is already in the boat. Zhu Defa said stupidly.

"That's right, you will come to the bookstore more often in the future, and your student union will hold activities to help us sell books, so as to make up for your negligence this time." I say.

"What was oversight?" Ding Ying glared at me.

"It's negligence. Great negligence. Zhu Defa relaxed his facial expression, "In this way, I invite everyone to have supper, which can be regarded as making up for it, and celebrating the opening of your bookstore." ”

"It's a great idea." I say.

"I'm tired all day, what kind of supper are you eating? Rest early. Ding Ying looked at her watch, and her tone was still so light, "It's almost ten o'clock." ”

"That's fine. Just next time. Zhu Defa didn't insist, "I'll send you back, Ding Ying." ”

"Not necessarily." Ding Ying directly refused.

"How can you go back alone? Not a single companion. ”

"Isn't there Zheng Qihang? I'll go back with him. Ding Ying said.

"Zheng Qihang? You guys? Go back together? "Zhu Defa looked at me and then looked at Ding Ying.

"yes, we rent in a neighborhood."

"You just let Zhu De send it, I still have something to do with Chu Huoyu." I said to Ding Ying.

"What else is going on with you?" Ding Ying was puzzled.

"I'm going to find out what the business is doing, and I'm going to see what books to add. Also, a lot of books are misplaced and have to be reset. I said.

"We can't just do it together." Ding Ying was impatient. It can also be said to be a little irritable.

"You go first. I really have something to do with Chu Huoyu. ”

Ding Ying reluctantly walked out of the store. Zhu Defa gave me a grateful look.

The street lights are dim. Zhu Defa and Ding Ying walked side by side on the concrete road, and I saw their shadows getting longer and longer under the street lamp.

"So nostalgic, why do you want to pull her away from you?" Chu Huoyu walked up to me at some point.

"Ah, what did you say? What branches? "I came to my senses.

"Your eyes betrayed you." Chu Huoyu's voice was soft.

"Sell what? Hey, you're too good at speculating. I'm thinking about investing in such a big thing as a bookstore, why did Ding Ying keep hiding it from Zhu Defa. ”

"It's a very short answer, Ding Ying doesn't love this person at all."

"The relationship between them has always been like this, if it is like this." I say.

"But I've heard they weren't like that before."

"Where did you hear about it? I don't even know what they used to look like. ”

"Ding Ying told me herself."

"Ahh

Next, I worked with Chu Huoyu to put the misplaced books in place, and then wrote a list of books to be replenished at the book market the next day.

I looked at the ledger carefully when Chu Huoyu went to the public bathroom of the girls' apartment to take a bath. The accounts made by Chu Huoyu are clear at a glance, and the data in and out of the account are detailed and accurate.

The words of Chu Huoyu are still so delicate.

Putting the ledger back in place, I double-checked the wooden ladder up to the attic and the pull wire switch installed next to the attic. The bed for the fire jade is spread in the attic.

The thought of Chu Huoyu having to borrow this wooden ladder to go up and down every night made me feel uncomfortable, although Chu Huoyu had been living in the attic for several nights.

Ding Ying and I strongly suggested that Chu Huoyu rent a house outside, but Chu Huoyu didn't agree. In her opinion, living in an attic can kill two birds with one stone, one is to save the cost of renting a house, and the other is to keep the store.

"Although there are very few people who steal books, if someone does come in and destroy them, the damage is still very large. It's always nice to have someone to live here. Chu Huoyu said.

It's not that I didn't think of letting Chu Huoyu and Ding Ying live in a rented house together, and I would sleep in the attic, but in that case, the secret of me and Ding Ying living in a rented house together would be exposed. So far, Chu Huoyu only knows that Ding Ying and I live in the same community.

Besides, doing this, it is good to store fire jade, but it is too bad to treat Ding Ying. Originally, Ding Ying moved from the original rented house to my new rented house because she was used to living with me and renting a house.

So the thought flashed through my mind and died.

The row of shops where the Youth Book House is located was made separately after the completion of the student apartment, and the buildings are more than four meters empty, so it is perfect to put an attic more than one meter at the top of the building, and it is perfect to put some groceries.

That's why every shop has an attic.

It's late autumn now, the weather is cold, there won't be any discomfort in living in the attic, and when it comes to the hot summer, the attic naturally can't live in people, and the residence of the fire jade has to find another way.

In addition to the insecurity of Chu Huoyu's living in the attic, I also have another concern: will there be some college students who come to harass Chu Huoyu in the middle of the night? After all, when Chu Huoyu was sitting on the stage at Pegatron, some college students rushed to her.

Chu Huoyu herself is not worried at all, she feels that if the school is not safe, then there is no safe place in this world.

But I still said hello to the doorman at the student apartment — he was given a big front door cigarette that he liked to smoke, and I asked the owner of the stationery store next door to take care of it.

I also put an iron rod on the inside of the quilt in the attic to store the fire jade shop in case of accidents.

"You're not going to let me fight people with iron rods, are you?" Chu Huoyu asked me rhetorically when he learned about it.

"Something is better than nothing. Maybe it will come in handy. "That's how I responded to Chu Huoyu.

Chu Huoyu turned around from the electric door of the student apartment with the basin in his hand. There are toothbrushes, toothpaste, and towels in the basin, as well as girls' facial toiletries.

"I've been waiting." Chu Huoyu said apologetically.

"Say something. I'm gone, I have to worry about going up and down the stairs, and besides, the door has to be locked. "I walked out of the store.

"I will."

I walked forward. I hadn't walked a few steps before I heard Chu Huoyu's voice calling me.

"Anything else?" I saw Chu Huoyu standing at the door of the bookstore, and because she was in a hurry to go back to the bookstore when she was taking a bath, she didn't put down the trousers that she rolled up when she washed her feet.

"Thank you!" Chu Huoyu said very solemnly.

I waved my hand, "Silly girl, we are now an economic community, thank yourself." Let's go. ”

I walked in the direction of the school gate.

It was already past ten o'clock, and the campus was silent, but almost every tree-lined path in the school had lovers walking together. If you look closely, you might be able to see a pair of young people kissing passionately behind a bush of luxuriant wipevines.

I was at a glance. College is truly a lover's paradise.

Walking to the school gate, I was greeting the doorman when Zhu Defa, who walked in from outside, called my name. He took my hand and wouldn't let me out.

"You walk around the campus with me." Zhu Defa said.

"It's late." I politely refuse.

"Fifteen minutes. Twenty minutes maximum. I really have something to tell you. ”

Zhu Defa and I walked along the road due west. On the left side of the road is an artificial island with rockeries made of rocks, and on the right side there are two water cedars planted along the wall, and the metasequoia towers into the sky, and the needle-like leaves are fiery red, and a thick layer is laid under the trees.

"I think my relationship with Ding Ying is going to be yellow, do you know how to set sail? I don't think Ding Ying loves me at all now. Zhu Defa said bitterly.

"How do you feel this way? Didn't she ask you to send her back? ”

"She asked me to send it back, but she barely said a word along the way, I was trying to please her."

"It's not a good word to flatter." I say.

"It's really flattering. I've been pleasing her like this for so many years. ”

"Do lovers need to please each other? Look at the pair in front. I pointed to the road leading to the right of the main school building on the left.

"Lovers?" Zhu Defa smiled self-deprecatingly, "How can we talk about the relationship of lovers?" Now it's not as good as a classmate relationship. Just now, when I sent her upstairs, she didn't agree. When I arrived at the gate of the community, she asked me to go back, but I insisted that she promise me to send me to the bottom of the building where she lived. ”

"Maybe that's a kind of understanding." I say.

"No, no, don't talk to Ding Ying. I get it. ”

"But I still think it's not appropriate to always look at feelings from a flattering perspective." I say.

"Oh, Zheng Qihang, you don't understand Ding Ying. I remember once when I asked you for help, I mentioned to you that the identity difference between me and Ding Ying is too big. Zhu Defa was extremely annoyed.

"You told me."

"Ding Ying is really Miss Ding in my mind. I would like to be her servant. Actually, from a certain point of view, her eldest lady's temper is what I spoiled. Three years of high school, hey, don't talk about it," Zhu Defa kicked into the air, "I really did everything I could do for her." ”

"Including filling in this university, you also filled in because of her, right?"

"Yes, yes, I told you that, too. That's why I came to this school. You know, I could have gone to a better university with my grades. ”

"You really paid too much for Ding Ying. At that time, the reason why I took the initiative to move out was because I was moved by your true feelings. "If you say, there are very few people in this world who can treat feelings like Zhu Defa.

"But, you know what? A few months passed, and the relationship between us did not progress at all. No, no, no matter how much progress can be talked about, standing still has not been maintained. But I really cared about her, because I always felt inferior to her, and I was afraid that I wouldn't be worthy of her, so I tried my best. ”

"You became the president of the student union of the academy because of Ding Ying, right?" It is impossible for a person who can become the president of the student council of the college without a certain talent.

"That's nature. To say that my academic performance is a little inferior to your Zheng Qihang, but I am not an exaggeration to say that I am the best. For two semesters in a row, I won a first-class scholarship. ”

"You have a good foundation, and in order to make up for the lack of identity or family background, or in other words, in order to make yourself more confident in front of Ding Ying, you treat yourself hard and hard, which is naturally very good."

"By the way, Zheng Qihang, you are really right. I think you're really my confidant, so you see," Zhu Defa put his hand on my shoulder, "and I've come to you whenever I'm in trouble." ”

"You're exaggerating." I find it a little unnatural.

"No, not exaggerating at all. If you want to say that the two of us really don't know each other. You Zheng Qihang are brothers, and you are different from ordinary people. ”

"Let's talk about your relationship with Ding Ying, it's really late." I was subconsciously a little uneasy.

"That's what I asked you for. What do you say I should do? "Zhu Defa looked at me reverently.