Out of place

When Song Yi opened the door and entered the bathroom, Cheng Boyan stood in front of the sink and concentrated on rubbing his hands with hand sanitizer, without seeing Xiang Xi.

"Ask me to watch you wash your hands?" Song Yi looked around in the bathroom, and saw that the door of a cubicle was closed.

"Your supermarket," Cheng Boyan looked at him, "is there still a shortage of staff?"

"Quiet," Song Yi immediately said, "Quiet."

"What position? What are the requirements?" Cheng Boyan asked, and also glanced at the closed compartment.

"As long as it's not a cashier, you can talk." Song Yi said, understanding what Cheng Boyan meant.

"I can't receive the money." Xiang Xi's voice came from the cubicle.

"You pull it first," Song Yi said with a smile, "It's not difficult to register the cashier, just a few things, if you really need to learn, you will be able to do it in a few days."

"Not pulling." Xiang Xi said.

"Then besides the cash register, can you arrange a place for me?" Cheng Boyan discussed with him while rubbing his hands, "Just don't let him write."

"Okay," Song Yi said, and whispered in Cheng Boyan's ear, "Is this kid the one from Fengbozhuang?"

Cheng Boyan glanced at him, nodded without saying a word.

Song Yi leaned against the sink and laughed, Cheng Boyan looked at him: "Don't you think it's dirty?"

"I don't mind it," Song Yi said with a smile, then went to the door of the cubicle and knocked on the door, "Bo Yan has my phone number, just give me a call when you come over, let's talk about the specific things when you come .”

"Well," Xiang Xi replied inside, "thank you."

After Song Yi went out, Xiang Xi opened the door and walked out from the cubicle. His eyes were still a little red, and the tip of his nose was also red. He looked in the mirror: "What should I do?"

"Let's get some air in the corridor before going in." Cheng Boyan rushed forward.

"I'll wash my face." Xiang Xi turned on the water, took the water indiscriminately and splashed it on his face.

The splashing water splashed onto Cheng Boyan's pants, and he moved aside: "Washing your face is like fighting a war."

"I won't thank you any more," Xiang Xi turned off the water and shook his head vigorously, "I don't want to thank you for your kindness."

"Do you still know this sentence?" Cheng Boyan smiled.

"Well, a fake blind man taught me. Among those people I knew before, he is considered a cultural person." Xiang Xi wiped the water from his face, took a deep breath in front of the mirror, and let it out slowly, " Can I do it in the supermarket? I don’t know anything.”

"Boss Song, don't talk anymore, as long as you can talk." Cheng Boyan said.

"I'm not stupid," Xiang Xi smiled, "He said that to me."

"Yeah, you're not stupid, just learn what you don't understand, that's the benefit of acquaintances." Cheng Boyan patted him on the shoulder, "Go out and talk."

"It's hard for you," Xiang Xi walked towards the door of the bathroom, rubbing his nose, "I've been tossing around in the bathroom for so long."

"Just cry as soon as you feel the pain." Cheng Boyan said.

Cheng Boyan's birthday party moved to three places, eating, drinking tea and singing.

Xiang Xi originally wanted to leave after eating, but he didn't leave after thinking about it. He cried a lot on his birthday, and let Cheng Boyan, who is so hygienic, knock on the door and climb the toilet in the toilet. Disappointed.

Anyway, Cheng Boyan's friends can feel it after staying for a meal. They are all very easy to get along with. Although they can't talk about the topic, it is not uncomfortable to listen to it.

No one looked at him as a "migrant from Shaxian County" in any way.

Cheng Boyan's friends are all like him, they are all nice people.

Even singing is a bit scary.

It's really not easy to collect such a bunch of friends who are out of tune and have broken gong voices.

"Hey, my 15-year-old voice..." Song Yi took a microphone and yelled "Onion" in his voice, then sat on the sofa and coughed for a long time.

"It's the voice-changing period," Cheng Boyan said with a serious face, "pay attention to protection."

"Well, I won't sing anymore," Song Yi said with a smile, "What is Xiang Xi going to sing? I'll help you."

"I... don't sing," Xiang Xi shrinks back into the sofa. Although there are only these people in the room, being the focus still makes him uncomfortable, "I'll just listen."

"Sing it," Cheng Boyan said with a smile, "They all sang like that."

"Why don't you sing." Xiang Xi clicked his tongue.

"You sing one and I'll sing one." Cheng Boyan said.

Xiang Xi glanced at him, thought for a while, and asked Song Yi to find a song for him.

"I don't know how to listen to songs, but I can sing a few," Xiang Xi whispered, "If you can't sing well... just laugh, anyway, I see you all laugh when you sing."

"Yes," Cheng Boyan laughed, "We also said before that we should record an album for people who are in a bad mood."

After the first few songs were finished, it was Xiang Xi's turn. He took the microphone handed over by Cheng Boyan, stood up and cleared his throat lightly.

"Let's see if Xiang Xi belongs to our camp." Fatty Chen said while applauding.

Xiang Xi smiled, and when he heard the music, he suddenly became less nervous.

He and Mantou both like this song very much. When playing games in the Internet cafe, both of them like to play this song on earphones all night.

After the prelude played, Xiang Xi closed his eyes, and suddenly felt like returning to those days when he was hanging out with steamed buns.

"I thought I wouldn't get drunk and fall into this powerless defense..." Xiang Xi stood with his head down, and tapped his heels on the ground in rhythm, "Chew the self-righteous dream and swallow the city's blood Humble..."

The room fell silent.

Xiang Xi's voice was clear with a slight metallic tone, and when he sang these two lines, he suddenly felt empty.

desolate.

Cheng Boyan leaned on the back of the sofa, looked at the faint light spots on Xiang Xi's face from time to time, and didn't know why the word popped up suddenly.

"I thought I was flying upwards, but I forgot that I was falling. You want me to shut up my dangerous mouth and hold your safe legs tightly..." After a few words, Xiang Xi suddenly raised his head and snapped his fingers , the voice rose with the music, "Just let the heavy rain hit my face, the wind that is obedient and obedient is too insidious, never follow, I have the direction I want to go, how can I care about this little injury..."

I am never afraid of walking at night, loneliness allows me to hear what is in my heart, bury my youth on the bumpy road, I am willing to bear, all righteous sins...

Cheng Boyan felt that he hadn't listened to someone sing so seriously for a long time. Of course, this also had something to do with the fact that there were not many people around him who could sing enough to make people want to listen.

But Xiang Xi sang this song so that everyone in the room lost their voice and listened quietly.

He couldn't describe this feeling, desolation, loneliness, and the stubbornness that refused to bow his head.

After Xiang Xi sang, he seemed to fall into his own world. He didn't look at anyone or the screen. He just lowered his eyelids and looked at the light on the floor obliquely in front of him.

This empty wine bottle vented my bottom, the night, the stronger... I can do anything, lend me your courage, don't just talk, now I know that there are tigers in the mountains, but I prefer to walk in the mountains!

Xiang Xi read this rap very clearly. Cheng Boyan looked at his profile, and he didn't look away until the song was over.

"Okay!" After the music stopped, Fatty Chen was the first to applaud. After he yelled, everyone in the room yelled and applauded.

"I can't see it," Lin He slapped his hands, "Xiang Xi's singing is really surprising."

"Thank you." Xiang Xi rubbed his nose, put down the microphone, and sat back on the sofa.

"Xiang Xi," Song Yiyue and Cheng Boyan leaned closer to him, "With your voice, you can sing wherever you want..."

"A singer in a bar?" Cheng Boyan said.

"Well," Song nodded, thought for a while and said, "Forget it, it's too messy."

Xiang Xi smiled and said nothing.

Xiang Xi sang very well, but it didn't affect the broken gong voices to continue to entertain themselves, and everyone started to forcefully demolish the songs with broken gong voices.

"You sang really well." Cheng Boyan whispered to Xiang Xi.

"This is the only song I can sing right," Xiang Xi said with a smile, "It's your turn, I'll sing one and you sing the other."

"I won't sing anymore." Cheng Boyan said.

"Why, cheating?" Xiang Xi glared at him.

"Now I suddenly don't want to sing anymore." Cheng Boyan took a sip of mineral water from the bottle. He originally wanted to sing, but now his emotions seemed to be overwhelmed by Xiang Xi's singing, and he suddenly didn't want to speak anymore.

"Don't you dare to sing?" Xiang Xi suddenly laughed.

Cheng Boyan smiled and remained silent.

Xiang Xi clicked his tongue: "I really didn't expect my song to be so powerful. It hits you like this, and they still dare to sing it when they are so ugly. How scary you have to sing."

Xiang Xi really wanted to hear Cheng Boyan sing. He thought Cheng Boyan's voice was very nice, and his singing should be good, but Cheng Boyan didn't sing until everyone had finished singing.

"Let's sing again when we have a chance." Cheng Boyan said, walking towards the parking lot.

"Is it ugly?" Xiang Xi asked.

"...not too ugly," Cheng Boyan thought for a while, "it's generally ugly, compared with them."

Xiang Xi followed behind him and smiled for a long time.

Cheng Boyan drove him back and stopped the car at the intersection: "Which building?"

"Don't go in, the road is too narrow, I'm afraid you won't be able to get out if you go in," Xiang Xi loosened his seat belt, "I'll be there in 2 minutes after walking in."

"Call Song Yi tomorrow." Cheng Boyan took out his mobile phone and found Song Yi's phone number. "His supermarket is quite far from here. You can ask him if he can arrange a place to live."

"It's okay, I've got someone to arrange the work, and I've got someone to arrange for me to live before I finish it," Xiang Xi wrote down Song Yi's phone number, "It's not suitable, I can take the bus, and here are three As for the monthly rent, if I refund it early, I am afraid that the landlord will not refund the money."

"Is this area safe? I knew before that the rent here is cheap, but I haven't been here before." Cheng Boyan looked outside, "I just came here today and found out that it's such a virtue."

"Safety, if there is anything unsafe, they are all students," Xiang Xi smiled, and opened the car door, "In the eyes of others, I am the unsafe factor."

"You look quite safe now." Cheng Boyan said.

"Happy birthday," Xiang Xi got out of the car, closed the car door and said, "Good night."

"Good night." Cheng Boyan smiled.

Xiang Xi went back to the house, took a shower and lay on the bed without falling asleep for more than an hour.

It was quite late, he was actually quite sleepy, but he was inexplicably excited and couldn't fall asleep.

The exhaustion after crying and shouting to vent and the joy that he seemed to see hope again, coupled with the worry about what he could do in the supermarket, kept his mind a little confused.

Tossing and tossing until midnight before falling asleep in a daze.

Although he didn't sleep well all night, Xiang Xi woke up early in the morning, checked the time, and at eight o'clock he called Song Yi.

"Hello?" The person answering the phone did not sound like Song Yi's voice.

"Yes..." Xiang Xi didn't know whether it should be called Song Yi, Boss Song, Brother Song, or something else, so he hesitated and called by his name, "Song Yi?"

"He hasn't gotten up yet," the man over there said, "Who are you?"

"My name is Xiang Xi." Xiang Xi suddenly recognized Lin He's voice, and was a little surprised. These two really... still live together?

"Xiang Xi, I'm your Brother Lin," Lin He said, "I'll call him for you."

"No, no, I'll call later." Xiang Xi said quickly.

"It's okay, why don't you let him sleep for a day," Lin He said, and shouted again, "Song Yi! Xiang Xi called."

After contacting Song Yi, Song Yi gave him the address of the supermarket and asked him to go directly there.

Xiang Xi finished washing quickly, looked at the clothes she wore yesterday, picked them up and smelled them, there was still the smell of cigarettes and alcohol...

But he has nothing but this suit, which is a formal dress.

So he put on the suit anyway and went out.

According to the address given by Song Yi, he found the supermarket easily, but the moment he saw the supermarket, he suddenly dared not go in again.

No one told him before that this supermarket would look like a high-end supermarket. He always thought it was about the same level as the vegetable market downstairs.

Song Yi's supermarket is not too big, but the decoration is beautiful, and it doesn't sell vegetables inside. Looking in through the glass window, you can see the retail and beverages in beautiful packaging, as well as the supermarket staff in uniform.

Someone behind him honked the horn, Xiang Xi turned his head and saw Song Yi riding a battery parked behind him.

"Song... Boss, morning." Xiang Xi didn't expect Song to turn on the battery in a while, and almost didn't know how to say hello.

"Go," Song drove the battery to the sidewalk and parked it, "Go in."

The work Song Yi arranged for Xiang Xi was very simple, mainly tallying the goods and going around the store, helping customers when they couldn't find something.

"It's not difficult, but it's a bit tiring," Song Yi said, "I have to walk back and forth."

"It's much more relaxed than I was in Sha... Sha County," Xiang Xi said with a smile, "Thank you."

"It doesn't matter when you start working, but today you will familiarize yourself with the situation in the store?" Song Yi discussed with him.

"Okay, I can go to work right away." Xiang Xi nodded immediately.

"Zhang Xin!" Song Yi smiled, and called out to a girl in her 20s at the cash register. The girl ran over, and Song Yi introduced Xiang Xi, "Foreman, follow her and learn first."

"Okay," Xiang Xi nodded, Zhang Xin stretched out his hand, he was taken aback before reaching out to shake her hand, "My name is Xiang Xi."

"I'll get the job registration later," Song Yi touched a cigarette and lit it, "you can find him a uniform first, I..."

"Smoking is not allowed in the shop." Zhang Xin looked at him.

"Oh," Song Yi smoked, "Did I say that?"

"It's in the shop rules." Zhang Xin said.

"Okay, okay, if you don't understand anything about that, just ask Zhang Xin." Song Yi turned and went into the back office.

Zhang Xin was a very serious girl, she brought Xiang Xi a set of clothes, and after he changed, she led him around the store twice, and introduced to him where the different products were placed.

"If you have nothing to do, go around more often to see if the things are neatly placed and if they are damaged. When the delivery comes, you have to check and put it on the shelves. Pay attention to these. Our supermarket is not big, and there are only four or five people in one shift, so what's the matter?" Pay attention to everything."

"Yeah." Xiang Xi nodded seriously.

"I'll tell you about the schedule when I've finished it," Zhang Xin told him about the general situation of the schedule, "you will know the specifics by looking at the schedule in the office when the time comes."

Xiang Xi is glad that he is semi-literate, at least he can understand the schedule...

After Zhang Xin finished talking to him, he introduced a few other colleagues in this class to him, and then went to the cashier to work, while Xiang Xi walked around in the store by himself.

Every time he passed the glass, he would sneak a glance, and he could see his own shadow in uniform.

The uniform is a yellow short-sleeved T-shirt and blue sweatpants. It looks very energetic. Xiang Xi feels that he will never get tired of watching it, and he has an indescribable sense of satisfaction.

uniform!

He's a man in uniform now too!

When he thought of this, he couldn't help but want to laugh, and he always felt that it was unreal, and he needed to keep looking down, or looking for himself on the glass.

what!Hahaha!

Song Yi's supermarket is next to several new neighborhoods, and the business is quite good. The store has never lost customers. Xiang Xi has been paying attention to what other colleagues are doing, remembering what is on the shelves, and paying attention to others. How did I do it? I didn’t feel tired after standing all morning, and my mood was very clear.

In particular, a female customer was anxious to find a toothbrush, so she happened to ask Xiang Xi, and Xiang Xi took her to the daily necessities shelf. She said thank you, and Xiang Xi suddenly felt like jumping away.

It was almost noon when Zhang Xin came and asked him what he wanted to eat. He planned to order fast food and gave him a menu.

Xiang Xi was a little nervous holding the menu. He didn't know a few words at first, but when he got nervous again, he didn't understand a word except the number at a glance. Finally, he had to pick a 10-yuan item and point to it: "This one."

"Well," Zhang Xin nodded, "Let's add another fried egg, how much does the meal cost, or add sausage?"

"Then add sausage, thank you." Xiang Xi said.

At noon, several people ate in turn. When Xiang Xi entered the staff lounge and finished eating, he realized that he had ordered ribs. The ribs here are not very good, and he couldn’t eat a few bites of meat. Fortunately, he added sausage. .

After a few bites of food, he saw a few menus scattered on the table, so he took one and folded it up and put it in his pocket, planning to go back at night to study what dishes were on offer.

After packing her lunch box, Xiang Xi walked out of the lounge, just in time for Song Yi to come out of the office.

"Song..." Xiang Xi looked at him, but he didn't hear how other colleagues called Song Yi, so he hesitated.

"It's fine to call him Brother Song, that's how we all call him," Song Yi smiled, "How is it? Are you tired?"

"Not tired," Xiang Xi rubbed his nose, "not tired at all."

"When there is no one in the store, you can ask Zhang Xin to teach you how to use the cash register." Song Yi pointed to the cash register, "It's not difficult."

"Okay, thank you Brother Song." Xiang Xi said.

After Song Yi left, Xiang Xi continued to wander around the store. There were quite a lot of people in the afternoon, so he had no chance to learn how to use the machine with Zhang Xin, and the delivery man came over. He helped his colleagues move the goods into the small warehouse at the back .

A boy about his age took a notebook and wrote it down. This boy's name was Yu Baoquan. Xiang Xi thought his name was very interesting and easy to remember.

He leaned over and glanced at the notebook: "Do you want to write down what goods you bought?"

"Well," Yu Baoquan nodded, "I have to write it down, and I will also write it down when I put it out."

"... Oh." Xiang Xi looked at the words on it.

Suddenly panicked.

Someday let him remember, how will he remember?

The total number of words he wrote in his life is estimated to be less than 200...

When getting off work in the afternoon, Zhang Xin took advantage of the lack of people and called all the people in the class together to make a brief summary.

"Okay," Zhang Xin said with a smile, "It's hard work, get off work, let's go back to eat."

The colleagues from the evening shift have already arrived. Xiang Xi changed his clothes and hung the uniform on the rack in the locker room. If it wasn't for everyone doing this, he really wanted to take the clothes back and appreciate them.

"Write your name down here," Yu Baoquan handed him a pen, pointing to the collar of his clothes, "this way there will be no confusion."

"Oh, do you have to write your name?" Xiang Xi took the pen, he could write the name, but the words were really hard to read.

"Just make a mark, I just made a mark," Yu Baoquan laughed, "Is the handwriting ugly? Me too."

Xiang Xi chuckled twice, took a pen and drew two wavy lines on the collar.

He walked out of the supermarket with Yu Baoquan, Yu Baoquan came with the battery on, Xiang Xi just waved goodbye to him, turned his face and saw Cheng Boyan's car parked on the other side of the road.

His eyes widened, he ran over quickly, and opened the car door.

"Why are you here!" He yelled with a smile.

Cheng Boyan looked at the time with a smile: "I've been here for almost two hours."

"Ah?" Xiang Xi was taken aback.

"I'm off today. Song Yi didn't tell me that you came to work until noon. I came out after walking around and buying some food." Cheng Boyan started the car, "Get in the car, and treat you to dinner."

"Where to eat?" Xiang Xi jumped into the car.

"My house," Cheng Boyan glanced at him, "Where do you want to eat?"

"Yes, it's unhygienic, unhealthy, and unhealthy to eat outside..." Xiang Xi said with a smile, "Then go to your place and eat mixed bean porridge."