Zai Zai Grocery Store

"You are Lin Dong?"

A voice suddenly came from behind.

Lin Dong looked back and saw that it was Lin Lihua. He drooped his little head, picked at the hem of his clothes silently with his small hands, and silently took two small steps to the side, away from Lin Lihua.

Lin Lihua said: "Your second uncle is gone, let me take care of you."

Lin Dong didn't respond.

Lin Lihua added: "Your grandfather told me about you, and I was also brought up by your grandfather."

Hearing the word "Grandpa", Lin Dong finally raised his eyes to look at Lin Lihua.

Lin Lihua said, "Come home with me."

Lin Lihua turned around and left.

Lin Dong hesitated, followed Lin Lihua, before reaching the door of the grocery store, suddenly saw Lin Lihua running into the grocery store and chasing a dog out, and then came out again, picked up his bag that the second uncle threw on the ground, and said: " come in."

Lin Dong timidly stood at the door without moving.

Lin Lihua came over, and with strength in her hand stroking the back of Lin Dong's head, she took Lin Dong directly to the grocery store, and as soon as she arrived in the store, Lin Dong got scared and crawled behind the shelves.

"Why are you so timid?" Lin Lihua said, "With your kind, my son can hit three."

Lin Dong stared at Lin Lihua with dark eyes.

Lin Lihua took a sip of water and said, "Are you planning to keep silent?"

"..."

"I'm your aunt too."

"..."

Lin Lihua really didn't have much patience with children, so she pointed to Xiao Lindong lying beside the shelf and said, "Okay, just stay there."

Lin Dong was really just waiting on the shelf for the whole afternoon.

In the evening, Lin Lihua reheated the lunch in the store for dinner, put a small bowl on the small dining table, and said, "Come and eat."

Lin Dong's black eyes stared straight at Lin Lihua, but he still didn't move.

Lin Lihua found that this little cub was really good-looking, white and tender, his eyes seemed to be shining, clear and dazzling, but he was unwilling to say a word.

There were no customers in the store at the moment, Lin Lihua felt relieved and said, "Actually, I don't want to support you either."

"..."

Lin Lihua was silent for a while: "But, I have to be worthy of my father." So knowing that it was the second brother who dumped the burden on her, she was willing to continue for the sake of her father.

Lin Dong looked at Lin Lihua half understanding.

"My father is your grandfather. He is the only person in the world who cares about me. I have to make him feel at ease, so I am willing to accept you, because he is a good man, and I will try my best to be a good man."

Lin Dong's eyes flickered.

Lin Lihua softened her voice and said, "Come here, let's eat."

Lin Dong's tense little body relaxed a little, but he still didn't move.

Lin Lihua took a step forward, dragged him over, and pushed him onto the small stool. When the chopsticks slapped him in front of him, he was terrified all over.

"Let's eat!" Lin Lihua said.

Lin Dong held the chopsticks in his small hands, and timidly ate the rice. Before he finished eating, Lin Lihua handed over half a glass of water: "Drink some water, don't choke."

After speaking, Lin Lihua walked out of the grocery store and sat at the door of the store. However, until dark, no customer came. The business has not been very good for the past two days. She entered the store irritably, and the store was completely dark. She saw Lin Dong at a glance.

Lin Dong sat obediently in the darkness without saying a word.

If this was her cub, she would have slapped him with a single slap and let him play, don't be so quiet, but this cub is not. Seeing him, she thought of when she was a child, she reached out and pressed the light in the store, and asked: "Are you sleepy?"

Lin Dong shook his head.

Lin Lihua asked with a smile, "Are you paying attention to me?"

Lin Dong didn't respond again.

Lin Lihua smiled and said, "Anyway, no one is shopping today, so close the door and go home!"

Lin Lihua turned around and neatly packed the groceries outside the store into the store, called Lin Dong out, pulled the shutter, and the lock clicked, Lin Lihua said, "Let's go."

Lin Dong followed Lin Lihua.

It was already autumn, and although the day was hot, the night was cool, and the few street lights in the town illuminated Lin Lihua's way home.

She walked in front, followed by a thin figure, wobbly, silent, very obedient.

Lin Lihua deliberately slowed down, letting Lin Dong follow her.

Turning a corner to a small courtyard, Lin Lihua opened the door and went into the kitchen to boil water. When she came out, she saw Lin Dong's small figure still at the door, and said, "Come here, I won't hit you!"

Lin Dong walked in with small steps, his bright eyes were full of timidity.

"How old is it?" Lin Lihua asked.

Lin Dong didn't speak.

"Can't speak?"

Lin Dong lowered his head and remained silent.

This child is really... Lin Lihua completely lost patience, and stopped talking nonsense with Lin Dong. The water was boiled, poured into a big iron basin, mixed with cold water, peeled Lin Dong clean, and put Put it into the basin, and after washing, throw it on the bed in the west wing and say, "Go to sleep."

Lin Dong lay tense on the bed.

Lin Lihua turned off the light in the room with a "snap", and said, "Sleep well, your brother will come back in two days, let him play with you, it's all right, I'll stay with aunt from now on, aunt won't beat you .”

After speaking, Lin Lihua left.

Lin Dong got into the thin blanket, pulled the blanket to cover his head and body, huddled up, covered the strange breath in the blanket with his own heat, he missed Grandpa, missed Grandpa so much, wanted to cry , but didn’t dare to cry, would it sound like being beaten at my uncle’s house if I cried out?

It hurts to be beaten, and it's scary when adults get angry.

He tried his best to keep himself silent, thinking about grandpa silently, wanting to talk to grandpa, only talking to grandpa, not wanting to talk to others, he would be scolded and beaten if he said something wrong, he only wanted grandpa and his parents whom he had never met, and wanted to I fell asleep thinking about it.

When Lin Lihua turned on the light and came in, Lin Dong curled up in the blanket like a wounded bug and fell asleep peacefully.

Lin Lihua stepped forward and pulled the blanket away, laid him flat, covered him with the blanket, and returned to the east wing with a sigh.

The next morning, the weather was fine.

The sun had just risen from the horizon, and Lin Lihua got up. She was going to open a shop and sell things. When she walked to the west wing, Lin Dong was already sitting on the bed and getting dressed.

"Can you wear it?" Lin Lihua asked.

Lin Dong was startled when he heard the sound, sat on the bed, looked at Lin Lihua with dark eyes, and nodded.

"That's okay, my aunt is going to open a shop, so you can go with my aunt when you get up."

Lin Dong nodded.

Sitting on the bed with a small body, her little fleshy hands held the shorts and put them on her legs. The clumsy movements were a little cute. Lin Lihua's heart softened. Let him wear it himself, and she turned to her own business.

After everything was ready, Lin Lihua called Lin Dong to the grocery store, and bought soy milk and fried dough sticks on the way to the grocery store.

Lin Lihua ate at the counter and let Lin Dong sit on a small stool in the store to eat. After eating, Lin Dong sat on the stool honestly, watching Lin Lihua greet the customers without crying or making noise.

Lin Lihua's voice was high-pitched and full of confidence. When she opened her mouth, the shop was full of her voice, full of vitality:

"Want a cleaning ball? Yes!"

"I have toothpaste here too."

"Oh, I have regular purchases here, no one is fake."

"..."

She was the first to open a grocery store in the town, and her business was very good at first. Later, people in the town opened many grocery stores one after another to divert some customers, and her business declined a lot.

But today the town seems to have moved back a few old people, their sons and daughters are constantly helping to buy daily necessities, Lin Lihua is very busy, at noon, after cooking a bowl of noodles with Lin Dong and eating in a hurry, they continue to work He was selling things, and occasionally glanced at Lin Dong who was sitting in front of the shelf.

"Lin Dong."

Lin Dong turned his head and looked over.

Lin Lihua said: "Don't sit around all the time, go out and play for a while."

Lin Dong stood up obediently, walked to the grocery store and stood there for a while, then returned to the small stool, with his legs pressed together, his small body erect, and he was still sitting obediently.

Lin Lihua was too busy to care about Lin Dong. At this time, several people who had just bought daily necessities came back to continue shopping for groceries.

"Boss, do you sell mirrors here?"

"Yes." Lin Lihua said quickly.

"Is there any laundry?"

"There are some."

"Is there such a smaller washbasin?"

"Yes, yes, I will find it for you."

"..."

Several people gathered around Lin Lihua to inquire, Lin Lihua answered sharply, and kept running back and forth between the shelves, the front desk and the warehouse.

Lin Dong sat in front of Huo He, his eyes followed Lin Lihua closely.

At this moment, an old man appeared at the door, shouting: "Boss, boss, bring me a bag of salt."

Lin Lihua didn't hear the chatter in the grocery store.

The old man continued to shout: "Boss, bring me a bag of salt."

Lin Lihua hasn't heard it yet.

The old man shouted again.

Lin Dong, who was sitting in front of the shelf, turned his eyes back and forth between Lin Lihua and the old man, and then turned his head to look at the packaged salt on the shelf. He saw it when Lin Lihua was giving salt to someone just now.

He hesitated for a moment, stood up, lifted the stool with difficulty, put it next to the shelf, stood up with the shelf, stretched out his small hand, grabbed a bag of salt, and got off the stool.

Looking timidly at Lin Lihua, Lin Lihua was too busy to take care of him at all, so he trotted out of the grocery store and handed a bag of salt to the old man.

The old man smiled kindly, took out two yuan from his pocket and handed it to Lin Dong.

Seeing the old man's smile, Lin Dong remembered his grandpa, his tense face eased a little, and he stretched out his small hand to take it.

Suddenly, I heard Lin Lihua's voice from behind: "Lin Dong."

Lin Dong was terrified immediately.