Love is like the hole in a donut

In the staff locker room.

——Looks like I'm really annoying.

Cang Lin accepted this fact with a self-mockery, and leaned his body against the dusty outer wall of the building.

[Hey, Uehara-san, you should also be very upset with the store manager, right? ]

Cang Lin thought to himself: Are they changing clothes together?So he couldn't help looking nervously from the door to the passage inside, only to find that the boy was standing at the door of the storage room, as if waiting in line for the people inside to finish changing.

Canglin's complaints are most often concentrated on "Rinsheng" classmate, presumably Rinsheng will follow Tianmaru to speak viciously, right?But unexpectedly, Lin Sheng only replied with this sentence:

[I don't feel anything special. ]

This reply made Cang Lin feel a little overwhelmed.

It can even be said that Cang Lin felt a little flustered in his heart, "You bastard, let's see the situation anyway."As expected, Lin Sheng's quick response caused the two female working students to fall into silence, and an atmosphere of embarrassment wafted around them.

However, beauty can easily cover up various shortcomings.The two girls seemed to quickly regain their original good mood, and Canglin immediately heard the girls say in energetic voices: [Student Uehara, you can really bear it! ]

Cang Lin didn't enter the store until all three of them had left.

I didn't expect that I was already regarded as an uncle by girls before I was 30 years old.

[...Oh, forget it. ]

This disheartened sentence has gradually become Cang Lin's mantra.

Oh, forget it.I'm not interested in girls anyway, so it doesn't matter what they think.In fact, when he looked in the mirror recently, Cang Lin felt that his expression looked really lifeless.Anyway, he used to be a cheerful man who could match his suit, but now all he had was a tired face.

Cang Lin wanted to sigh, but finally held back.

"I don't feel anything special. 』

For a 17-year-old, the boy's voice really sounds quite restrained and composed.When Cang Lin thought that it was only a few words but did not deny his own words, he was inexplicably relieved.

Knowing that the boy just finds it troublesome, he dropped this sentence.

--I'm really tired.

Cang Lin shook his head lightly.

Lin Sheng still looked the same.It may have been a wrong decision to let him be responsible for receiving customers.

The work in the store can be roughly divided into three types: receiving customers at the counter, making donuts, and decorating donuts.In the past, work-study students of high school age never had the turn to take over the homework in the kitchen, so Cangbayashi always assigned work according to the same principle, but——

[The store manager! ]

Looking into the store, there was indeed a problem in the kitchen again.

[What! ?Someone actually ordered thirty "forest bears"? ]

[Yes.Customers seem to want it right away, but we can only make ten pieces in our store. ]

The full name of "Forest Bear" is "Minuet of Forest Bear and Rabbit". The name of this product does not sound like a donut, but as the name suggests, it is a cooperative product jointly developed by the store and the foreign fruit chain store.

The production cost of "Forest Bear" is high, and the production process is quite labor-intensive. From the standpoint of the store, there is no benefit at all. However, this product is quite popular with customers, and it can be said to be a very difficult item.

[Even if there are not enough in the store now... we can only do it quickly. ]

[But, it is simply impossible to prepare thirty immediately! ]

[While you're dawdling and complaining, you can do one or two without talking!I will be in charge of explaining to customers that it takes a little time to make. ]

The part-timers, who couldn't help at all and stood there blankly, looked at all this with a detached attitude.

[Hey, it looks like I should put up a notice saying: Each customer can only buy a maximum of three "Forest Bears"? ]

Cang Lin muttered unconsciously, only to hear a female student worker at the university make an angry response.

[Huh?Do you want to make an announcement note now?Or do it later? ]

[...Of course, let's do the "Forest Bear" first.Also, what I said was a joke, please don't take it seriously, okay? ]

Canglin first asked the customer to sit at the table and wait, then grabbed the back of the tall boy standing inside the counter.

[come here. ]

Kurabayashi tugged at the rope on the high school student's apron, but the naturally silent high school student didn't say "yes" or "I don't want it".

[You come to help make the donuts, it's not difficult to make some decorations on the donuts, you should be able to?Mr. Tanaka will demonstrate it to you. ]

The process of making "Forest Bear" is very complicated, and Cang Lin intends to ask Lin Sheng to assist at least some of the links.

No matter how unlucky your hands are, you should still learn how to sprinkle icing decorations, right?

Cang Lin just kept thinking like this, and asked Lin Sheng to help out in the kitchen, but——

After washing his hands and getting ready, Linsheng just kept looking down at the ready-made sample of "Forest Bear".

A round cake made in the shape of a donut, with fresh whipped cream inside and chocolate wrapped outside; a bear and a rabbit made of meringue dance on the circle-shaped cake, and the two little animals are jumping for joy ’s footprints turn into daisy-shaped icing and chocolate-squeezed notes—treble clefs, quarter notes, eighth notes.The joyful fairy tale seems to be singing... The following is omitted.

Even if you want to develop troublesome products, it depends on the situation.The maker of this self-proclaimed "donut" cake was not happy at all, but Linsheng just stared at it carefully, and after a while, he slowly started to move his hands.

Lin Sheng picked up the piping bag for fresh cream and held it up high.

--what.

It took Cang Lin a lot of effort to finally understand what happened afterwards.

[……is that a lie? ]

Tanaka, who was standing aside and responsible for the decoration work, couldn't help uttering these words.

In the blink of an eye, Linsheng made "Forest Bears" one after another.His movements are quick and quite correct.As if stamping a seal, more and more "forest bears" were placed on the workbench.

It's unbelievable.

To be honest, Cang Lin was overwhelmed by Lin Sheng's aura.

[The store manager, the cake body is gone. ]

[Ah... ok, I'll go over there and prepare... No, wait a minute, you don't have any scales, right?To make three, at least one should be weighed so that the weight of the whipped cream can be confirmed. ]

[All are the same. ]

[How do you know if you don't weigh it? ]

[Huh?But everything I do is the same thing? ]

It's because it's the same thing, so... Where does this guy get his confidence?Lin Sheng's answer seemed to say "Scaling is a waste of time", which made Cang Lin feel a little disgusted and ordered:

[Even if they are all the same, they still need to be measured!There are regulations in the SOP for making, you need to weigh the scale to check the weight to make sure that the things made are the same! ]

(Friendly Annotation: SOP=StandardOperationProcedure, Standard Operating Procedure)

Clouds are floating in the sky.

From left to right, from south to north.

The white clouds fluttering silently through the window seem to imply the passage of time.

The passage of time is not fixed.The length of time it takes to feel it varies from person to person and from situation to situation.

The Chinese teacher who loves chatting once said, "When I get older, I feel that a year passes in a flash; the time of a semester feels like it ends in an instant."For Linsheng, one semester is really long, so he really doesn't understand the teacher's feeling, but every summer vacation time always flies by, maybe this feeling is similar to the teacher's feeling.

Why does time always pass so fast for adults?Linsheng at this age still doesn't understand.

[Three minutes and 85 seconds.Uehara-san, you are really a genius!No, it should be said that you are a god!You are the reincarnation of a god! ! ]

In the kitchen of the donut dessert house, Lin Sheng stared blankly at the sky beyond the inlaid window, and the cheers coming from his ears startled him.

seven in the morning.This is really not a suitable moment for cheering and cheering, but around Lin Sheng gathered a group of part-time workers and employees from the early shift who came to join in the fun.

[You are a gifted child of the Donut God!You were born to make donuts! ]

Is this something to be happy about?

In front of the perplexed Rinsheng, dozens of decorated donuts were displayed.After that incident, Linsheng had many morning shifts during the summer vacation, and was responsible for making donut decorations.

Donut Dessert House has to enter the state of preparation early in the morning.Before opening the store, dozens of donuts must be made, and a total of hundreds of donuts need to be made. Linsheng's decoration ability is affirmed by the store.This job mainly requires memory and concentration, as well as a little design talent.

Linsheng noticed that the store manager, Kurahayashi, was looking here from the door, so he rarely took the initiative to say:

[I do measure every three I make. ]

[It’s okay, you don’t need to measure the weight when you do it. ]

Cang Lin's figure quickly disappeared into the office, at this moment Lin Sheng couldn't help smiling bitterly, knowing that he had been approved by Cang Lin.

Linsheng was not interested in this job at all, so he started working part-time, and he gradually felt that this job was actually quite interesting.