Chapter 5: Distress
The "chat" bar opens at 9 p.m. every night and closes at 5 a.m. the next morning. Pen~Fun~Pavilion www.biquge.info After the bar closes at five o'clock, the owner and the clerk have a simple breakfast together, and then go to bed.
The time to go to bed is about 6 a.m. to 2 p.m., and of course, it's okay to wake up later, but you don't have lunch yet, so it's best to wake up at 2 o'clock on time. Then, it's time to prepare for the opening of the bar in the evening, and there isn't much to do, so there's still a lot of personal time.
In the bar, in addition to the boss Liqing, there are four old employees, all of whom are "young men", whose names are Lichun, Lixia, Liqiu, and Lidong. I didn't see it when I first woke up, but then I did, a chubby honest and honest young man, with great strength, and he did a lot of manual work that seemed incredible to me without much effort, and I was so shocked that I couldn't close my mouth.
However, all people are kind and good people.
I felt very lucky to be able to stay and be an employee at this bar, but when I settled down and started my job, I found a great deal of distress.
That is, the accounts of this bar are a mess, and when I took it, my eyes almost fell on the table.
Liqiu pushed his black-rimmed glasses and said solemnly, "Please!" ”
I looked at him in amazement. Liqiu is the most calm and reliable of the four people, how can I manage the accounts like this? And, judging from the income and expenditure of the accounts, the operation of this bar is also terrible. If this continues, sooner or later, the "chat" bar will have to close.
I love it here, this place gives me a warm feeling when I am most miserable, I will never allow this to happen!
So, I started working very, very hard, to count the various assets in the bar and make a clear account again.
It's a huge task, and it can't be done overnight, so I have to take my time.
During the day, I use what I've learned to sort out the bar's accounts, and in the evenings, I work with the rest of the staff to clean the store and prepare for the opening. When the bar opened at nine o'clock, I put on a black vest and worked as a waitress at the bar.
"Yo, there's a new guy in the store, and he's still handsome! Yo, blushing, the guy is still shy! ”
In the first few days, there were always all kinds of female guests who commented on me and made my face red and white for a while.
"What's your name, young man?"
"Oh, it's Shining! I thought it had to be called the Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and other strange names! ”
"Sister, is my name strange? Well? ”
Lichun appeared in time to relieve me.
"Where, of course, we are the best in Lichun!"
I was stunned and took the large amount of tip that had been stuffed in my hand, not knowing what to do.
Later, I found out that some of the customers in the store came for Lichun, and some came for Lixia, and each of them had their own fans. Of course, more male customers are here for the boss Hu Liqing.
Liqing always dresses charmingly. Sense, the eyes are like cats, sometimes lazy and sometimes innocent looking at others, which makes people can't help but feel their hearts ripple. Sometimes she carries a thin cigarette and spits out a faint sweetness, and sometimes she holds a thin goblet, and the liquor carefully prepared by Liqiu's hand shakes gently in the glass.
When I look at her casually, sometimes I am unconsciously captured by her appearance, and I can't come back to my senses. I've found that many men, like me, occasionally show that little gaffe. But Liqing's smile was so natural, and she never pleased anyone's pretentiousness.
I've found that she loves to hear people talk, in fact, she really loves to hear people tell stories.
The people she chatted with often talked about her own experiences, family matters, work matters, interesting experiences, all of which she listened to with relish. Her attentive look is very charming and makes the person who confides in her feel very fulfilled, which is why many people want to stop talking to her.
There are many people who like to talk to her, not only men, but also women.
I suddenly understood the meaning of the name of this bar, "chat".
Soon, I found a second big distress.
That is, the food in this bar is really terrible!
The three meals a day are all from the convenience store, sandwiches, instant rice, bread, potato chips, and snacks. When the meal was served, I put it in the microwave and "ding" it, and it was served, so that soon I heard the "ding" sound of the microwave oven, and my stomach would be filled with acid.
The bar has a fairly spacious and luxurious back kitchen with all kinds of kitchen utensils, even quite professional kitchen machines. But it was clear that the kitchen was not used at all, everything was brand new, and the only thing that was old was the microwave.
If my feelings are not wrong, Liqing and they are definitely not ordinary human beings. No, they're certainly not human at all. I trust my dreams and I trust my instincts. I just wonder why they eat human food when they're not human at all?
Moreover, they eat very seriously, three meals a day, and do not leave a single meal, although their amount of food is not large by the standards of normal people.
A week later, I finally couldn't stand the convenience store lunch box anymore, so I went to the nearby vegetable market, bought vegetables and meat, and spent half an afternoon making four dishes and one soup.
The freshly cooked rice has an enticing aroma, and I sprinkled a little fried black sesame seeds and shredded seaweed on top of it to enrich the flavor of the rice.
The four dishes are steamed sea bass, braised pork ribs, stir-fried lotus white and pot tofu, and a pot of soup is a simple seaweed egg drop soup. When I called them over for dinner, their eyes widened in surprise.
"Shining, it turns out that you can still do this, it's amazing!" Lichun said in surprise.
I'm ashamed to say that I was trained as a management talent since I was a child, but I reluctantly filled all that knowledge into my head, and I didn't like it or be good at it. On the contrary, I love these things like cooking and tidying things up.
I also like to take pictures, draw, and sometimes write down my feelings. I am an introvert with very different preferences from the boys in my family, and while they are all reading, learning foreign languages, and trying to discuss business principles with their elders, I often timidly bring out a basket of hand-baked scones for their afternoon tea. Because of this, I was ridiculed by boys my age.
But I don't think there's any shame in that. Time always passes slowly at an average rate, whether there are exciting things happening on this day, whether there are small highs in life. tide, time is also flowing away drop by drop, not much in the middle, not much in the middle.
I've often wondered if a day when nothing happened really didn't happen at all.
We still have to eat, we have to sleep, it is this simple thing that keeps us alive. Every day is a fraction of the composition of life, a small piece of the huge puzzle of life. I want to take every bit of it seriously, cherish the ordinary vegetables and meals, and make them more full, what's wrong with that?
Probably, I was expelled from that family, and it was a kind of inevitability. They all call this kind of thinking of mine "unproductive", and I really don't have the ability to gain a foothold in that family.