When Ai Weili walked into the store at 4:40 p.m. the next day, Ah Pan was sitting behind the cash register, eating fruit and talking on the phone.

"It seems to have gone too far in the last few months, and sometimes it's hard for me to fit on."

What kind of weird topic are you talking about?

Ai Weili only heard such a half-sentence, and Ah Pan happened to look up and saw her, and immediately said hello: "You're here!" ”

"What are you eating?" Ai Weili asked, staring at the pit in his hand.

"I don't know who brought the peaches," he hung up his phone and said, "This season, where did you buy peaches, they taste quite sweet... Is this yours? I'll eat one, you don't mind, right? ”

Ai Weili opened his mouth and saw that there were only two peaches left in the bag of peaches from yesterday, but he still didn't speak in the end.

She really didn't know how to report on the price of a non-existent product yesterday, and she ended up forgetting about Peaches behind the cash register because she was dealing with the unfamiliar job of a convenience store alone, and now it looks like it has been treated as an employee benefit.

If that customer had come to him yesterday, no, it wouldn't have been his own peach, and how could anyone in the world take his own things to the store and try to pay again? Or did he forget that the peaches were his own?

"Since you're here, then I'm leaving," Ah Pan wiped his hands on his pants twice and said, "I've written to you everything you need to pay attention to in the shift, I still have something to do, I'll see you tomorrow." ”

It was clear that there were still twenty minutes before she went to work, but Apan's speed was so fast that when he finished saying this, everyone else had already walked to the door; Ai Weili called "Hey", and Ah Pan hurriedly pushed the door and left as if he hadn't heard, and she was the only one left in the store in a blink of an eye.

No way, if there is any problem, I will have to talk about it later.

Anyway, she has nowhere to go and nothing to do, and it makes no difference to her that she goes to work early and goes to work late.

In fact, after going to work, he had nothing to do: Ai Weili sat behind the cash register, from the beginning of his body to the beginning of the upright, to gradually loose and soft, like an ice cream that was melting, and finally only the hand supporting his cheek became the only support.

There's nothing fun about mobile phones either; She swiped social media again and again like an obsessive-compulsive disorder, like a baby desperately sucking empty milk, but she didn't see much of interest. She was bored, and looked at the clock on the opposite wall several times, and found that only twenty minutes had passed.

Good and quiet work...... The original meager salary, now that she is asked to take it, she feels uneasy.

When the first guest pushed the door open in the "jingle bell" today, Ai Weili was excited, and then realized that he seemed to have fallen asleep in a daze just now; She quickly checked the corners of her mouth with the back of her hand and said, "Welcome!" ”

The person who came was a tall, fat, thirty-something-old man, more than 1.8 meters, covered in a faded T-shirt that seemed to be washed a long time ago, with a wooden look on his face; Several paces away, the short breaths in his mouth were audible and clear, each of which seemed to come out of the weight of his body.

He swept back and forth in the store a few times, his eyes fell on Ai Weili, paused slightly, then nodded, and said, "Now you are on duty." ”

Ai Weili was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously said, "...... Ah, right. ”

She hadn't seen this guest yesterday - was she? How did he seem to know himself?

Could it be that he is the owner of a convenience store in Huijia, or a nearby merchant, and heard Ah Pan talk about himself, so he met Ai Weili before she met each other?

Ai Weili has always been very good at finding explanations for various situations, but she looked at the man carefully, and felt that it didn't look like it. He always had a look on his face that was always floating in the air, not like a businessman; It's more like an otaku living in a computer, and it's not connected to real life.

He opened the door of the drink cabinet and stuffed a few bottles of Coke into his fat white arm in one go.

"We have shopping baskets...... Ai Weili said, quickly walking out of the cash register; But when she ran to the ice-cream cabinet to take a look, she found it empty—perhaps because Apan had changed the place of the shopping basket when he was sorting things out, but he forgot to tell her.

Before Ai Weili could find the shopping basket, the tall and fat man had already finished everything he wanted to buy.

A total of four bottles of Coke, two boxes of chocolate chip cookies, two buckets of instant noodles, and a few ham sausages all poured on the cash register like a mudslide.

"Checkout," the tall fat man called back, and Ai Weili hurriedly ran back and picked up a bottle of Coke.

The eyes of the tall and fat man behind the lenses pierced through the top of Ai Weili's head empty, as if the cigarette behind her showed the world's most profound philosophical thinking. Ai Weili thought of the greeting he made, and couldn't help asking, "How often do you come here?" ”

"Well, every day." The tall fat man said.

"So surely you know Apan? Did he introduce me to you? Ai Weili felt that he was not asking this question well, it was not smooth enough, and it was a bit weird; But she couldn't think of how to ask.

"Yes, no," the tall man lowered his head, examined things one by one, and lowered his head and said, "I also came here yesterday at this time." ”

Ai Weili paused in his movements and put down the last item.

"Forty-five seven," she said, remembering yesterday's class, she must not have seen him. This person is eighty percent wrong, after all, he doesn't look like he can live a regular life and go out every day...... "Do you want a bag?" ”

After the tall fat man nodded and before everything was bagged, Ai Weili didn't expect that the tall fat man, who had always seemed to be empty, suddenly stretched out his hand and grabbed her - Ai Weili was startled, and before he could react, he snatched away a bottle of Coke.

…… It turned out that the target was a Coke bottle, and she breathed a sigh of relief before she wondered.

"I don't want this," said the fat man, who stood it alone, "how much is it now?" ”

Ahem, it's too expensive.

When the tall and fat man settled the bill and left the store, Ai Weili softened again and fell back on the cash register. She looked at her phone, and the time showed that it was 6:07, and there were still six hours before the end of work.

Coke was still sitting at the cash register, and she could hear the bubbles in the bottle popping one by one.

The word CocaCola in white letters on a red background is like a head tilted to the left, looking at the human in front of it. Ai Weili was read by the line "CocaCola" for a while, sighed, picked up the bottle, and sent it back to the beverage cabinet.

Before she could close the door, she heard another "jingle" from the door behind her, and a guest came.

"Welcome," Ai Weili shouted, and when she turned to look, she saw that someone she knew—the tall fat man had returned.

He was still carrying the bag of things that Ai Weili had just packed for him in his hand, and stood in the open space at the entrance of the store, so tall and big that even the light of the fluorescent lamp on his head seemed to be darkened by him. He stood there motionless for a few seconds, shadows dark under his eyes and at the corners of his mouth.

It looks similar to just now, but it doesn't seem to be the same.

"Forgot something?" Ai Weili subconsciously tensed his back, faced him, and walked sideways towards the cash register step by step.

The tall fat man let out an "um" and walked to the drink cabinet she had just closed, opened the door, and took out the same bottle of Coke that Ai Weili had put in.

He rested the Coke on the countertop again, and stood face to face with Ai Weili, with a cash register in between.

"Drink, please," he said in a numb tone, but he didn't mean to take out his wallet.

Ai Weili looked up at the ceiling before answering. A fluorescent lamp was installed on the left side of the ceiling, and a fluorescent lamp was installed on the right near the entrance; And the cash register is exactly between the two fluorescent lamps.

Her gaze fell and stopped on the face of the tall fat man.

The top of his head was illuminated by the light, and under the flat brow bones were two round bulging eyeballs, and two curved lights shone on the eyelids. His eyes were immersed in dark shadows, making it impossible to see; The flesh of the cheeks cast a long, deep shadow on both sides of the mouth.

Ai Weili glanced at the ceiling again, retracted his gaze, and felt uncomfortable all over.

"Thank you, no need," she said, glancing at the bottle of Coke, feeling even more uncomfortable. Each white letter tilted its head to the left, as if waiting for her to change her mind. "You didn't pay for this bottle......"

As soon as the words came out, she secretly hated that she couldn't speak. What if the man thinks he's sarcastic and gets angry? She was also barricaded in the cash register......

"You drink," the fat man pushed the Coke bottle over again, and said, "You drink it, I'll pay for it again." ”

Ai Weili immediately thought of the news that he had been drugged in an unknown number of drinks. She glanced at the Coke bottle suspiciously and warily, and for a moment found no eyesight in the cap, or any sign of being unscrewed; It's just that even if it really didn't move its hands and feet, she would never drink it.

"Thanks, no need," she repeated.

There are some words that seem to be meaningless in a woman's mouth, such as "no"; She always felt that she needed to find another reason to explain the "no" and give it a little weight.

"I ...... I'm losing weight and can't drink Coke. ”

She didn't want to continue arguing about it, and besides, she wished she could get out of the back of the cash register, which was like being trapped in a corner. Ai Weili grabbed the Coke, pushed open the door of the cash register, tried to stick to the other wall, walked to the drink cabinet, and muttered, "I'll put it away......"

When she hurriedly approached the drink cabinet a few steps, and then turned around, Ai Weili couldn't help but be stunned.

The back is empty; The tall and fat man didn't know when, but he had already left, and he walked silently.

No matter how she remembered, she didn't think she heard the bell ringing when the door was pushed open. Ai Weili was afraid that he was still hiding somewhere in the store, so he looked around carefully, and saw that there was indeed no one hiding, so he breathed a sigh of relief and sat down behind the cash register again.

After looking at the ceiling above his head a few more times, Ai Weili ended the day's undisturbed duty in a vague and awesome sense of discomfort.

Throughout the process, she felt as if she had noticed something, but she hadn't paid enough attention to it.