Lin Qi frowned.

He put down the phone in his hand and stood on tiptoe to look around.

It was a woman in her 30s who looked like a store manager and was reprimanding a young female clerk wearing a hat.

When the female clerk heard these scolding words, she buried her head even lower, and Lin Qi couldn't see her face from this angle.

But her slightly trembling shoulders betrayed her, and she was not in good shape at this time.

The person in front of the queue also raised their heads, but that's all, and continued to immerse themselves in the world of mobile phones after 1 second.

Just when Lin Qi thought that the store manager would stop after saying a few words, the young clerk may have been too nervous, and the cup of milk tea in his hand was mixed with the wrong ingredients.

"Do you have eyes?"

"You can still make a mistake in front of me, did you mean it?"

The young clerk's shoulders trembled even more.

At this time, it was Lin Qi's turn to start ordering, and another clerk asked with a smile:

"Hello sir, what do you want?"

I wasn't affected at all, as if I hadn't heard it at all.

Lin Qi hesitated slightly, and then said:

"Give me those two cups of matcha-flavored sundaes, and the one that the clerk is making."

Lin used to speak louder than usual to ensure that the store manager and female clerks on the side could hear it.

The store manager noticed Lin Qi, she looked at the two cups of matcha sundae in the corner of the table that had melted a lot, and looked at Lin Qi unexpectedly.

"Are you sure you want to?"

There was a hint of doubt in her eyes, as if to say, "Do you want to melt too?" ”

"Uh-huh." Lin Qi nodded seriously.

There was a gleam of joy in her eyes.

"You, pack this guest."

She instructed the clerk who had been trained.

The clerk wearing the hat raised his head at this time, and he could see that her eyes were slightly red, and there were one or two small freckles on her face, obviously much younger than Lin Qi.

She cast a grateful look at Lin Qi and began to clumsily pack three drinks.

"Don't be in a hurry, take your time, I'm not in a hurry."

Lin Qi said gently.

Lin Qi turned his gaze to the store manager and gave her a look of "something to say".

The store manager is an old man again, and he also understood Lin Qi's meaning at once.

"Be careful next time."

There was a little less acrimony in her tone, and she turned back to the ingredient room at the back.

Seeing that the store manager was gone, the little clerk's nervousness improved a lot.

handed the packaged drink to Lin Qi and whispered "thank you".

Lin Qi nodded and turned to leave.

Looks like I'm going to have to add dinner today.

Lin Qi walked to the supermarket and stored the sundae and milk tea in the storage cabinet.

Anyway, it's already melted a lot, and it's not bad for a while, just go back and freeze it in the refrigerator.

He then embarked on his own sourcing journey.

Perhaps with a lot of financial resources, Lin Qi bought a lot more things today, and took two boxes of curry cubes.

After buying all the ingredients in the kitchen, Lin Qi decided to go to the snack shelves to take a look.

Coming to the area where the biscuits were sold, Lin Qi noticed a mother and daughter, one big and one small.

Lin Qi is somewhat familiar with the mother and daughter, but he can't remember where he has seen them.

The little girl was a primary school student because Lin Qi recognized her as wearing the uniform of a nearby elementary school.

But the school uniform on her body obviously didn't fit, the sleeves of the dress were too long, completely wrapped the little girl's arms, and the extra part could even be used for water sleeve dancing.

The little girl was a little short, but her big black eyes looked very spiritual.

The little girl's mother was thin, wearing a white-washed blouse, and her face was morbidly pale.

The reason why I noticed them was because the conversation between them reminded Lin Qi of some past events.

"Mom's ......"

"What's wrong, Xiaoqian?"

"Can I buy a box of these cookies?"

The little girl squirmed and raised her arms high, and her sleeves fell back, revealing a small, not too delicate hand.

Xiaoqian refers to a chocolate chip cookie that has only recently hit the market, and the price is very expensive, about 19 yuan.

"Today, when I was making up my homework in the teacher's office, the teacher gave me a piece of ...... It's delicious. ”

Xiaoqian's mother frowned when she heard this:

"Why did you go to the teacher's office to make up your homework again, why didn't you tell your mother when you just got out of school?"

Xiao Qian realized that she had leaked her mouth, and covered her mouth with her other hand.

But my eyes were still filled with a desire for this cookie.

She cushioned her feet and reached for the biscuit.

But her height was obviously not enough, so she jumped with all her strength, ready to reach it.

"Xiaoqian!" Xiaoqian's mother hurriedly wanted to stop her.

But it's a little late.

The girl did reach the biscuit in this jump, but she didn't catch it, and the biscuit fell heavily to the ground with a "bang".

The biscuits inside were clearly broken.

"What are you doing!"

Xiaoqian's mother was obviously angry and pulled Xiaoqian's arm tightly.

I bent down to pick up the box of broken cookies.

"Mom, will you buy it this time...... Buy this time, I won't buy snacks again this month......"

Xiaoqian looked at the box of biscuits in her mother's hand, and then looked at her mother's eyes.

There was already a hint of pleading in the little girl's eyes.

The young mother wanted to reprimand her child, but seeing the pleading look in Xiaoqian's eyes, she also relented and didn't let her reprimand come out.

She looked at the biscuit in her hand, which had a high probability of breaking, her lips moved slightly, and then at the price on the shelf, her eyes froze, and she stopped talking.

Finally, as if she remembered something not very good, the grief in her eyes flashed, and she finally made her own decision.

She took another biscuit from the shelf with her hand and said:

"Xiaoqian is obedient, let's buy this, this is also delicious."

It was a very cheap biscuit, and it was even a fifth the price of the previous one.

"Mom...... I don't want this, this one is so unpalatable...... Xiaoqian has eaten it many times......"

"That box has been broken and can't be sold, so mom, you can buy it......"

Xiaoqian is still making her last effort.

"Xiaoqian will grow up quickly, and when she grows up, she can earn a lot of money and buy herself a lot of snacks."

For some reason, there was a hint of trembling in Xiaoqian's mother's words that was difficult to detect.

"I don't want ...... Mom, I still have a long, long time before I grow up...... I don't want to wait that long-"

"Enough!"

"You're in the second grade of elementary school, when will you be sensible!"

The mother's voice suddenly doubled, startling Xiao Qian, who was talking, and after a short period of sluggishness, tears began to accumulate in Xiao Qian's eyes.

The sorrow that can burst out of a young heart seems to squeeze all the air

The young mother endured the pain in her heart and struggled to look away from her daughter's face.

Stuff that box of broken cookies into the innermost part of the shelf.

She then looked around nervously, as if afraid that someone would see her movements.

Until she met Lin Qi's eyes.

What a pair of eyes they were!

Obviously, he looked less than ten years older than Lin Qi, but his eyes were already covered with scars.

Lin Qi didn't want to look at him, so he looked away, and the woman showed a trace of guilt at Lin Qi, and pulled her daughter away quickly.

Lin Qi walked over silently, and there were still tears left on the ground.

Lin Qi sighed, took out the biscuits hidden in the depths of the shelf, put them in his shopping basket, and left the shelf that made him feel a little heavy.