love of life

This is a small city. According to the encyclopedia, the population is only a million or so, and the diameter of the central city is only five or six kilometers.There is a lake, a park in the middle of the street and a temple, and it takes more than two hours to go shopping.He bought some water and snacks from a nearby supermarket and walked towards the hotel.It was already past seven o'clock at that time, and the sky was gradually getting dark.There were very few pedestrians on the street, and the Shunxin Hotel had also stopped from the busy day. Those young people were cleaning, and the man kept his head down to keep accounts.He couldn't help recalling the mapo tofu dish at noon, hesitated for a moment, and walked towards the restaurant.

"Hi, may I still eat?" Lin Zexi asked standing at the door.

A short young man wiped the stove and said, "It's closed, come early tomorrow."

He turned away sullenly.Suddenly a familiar voice came from behind and said: "Hey, I just haven't eaten yet. Since I'm here, let's go together. I also happen to have a companion."

Everyone in the store stared at him in unison. This vicious capitalist who usually only knows how to squeeze their labor force suddenly changed his temperament.He glanced at them and said, "Why haven't you cleaned up yet? Why don't you go to work an hour earlier tomorrow."

"It's over, it's over, I'm about to leave work." Everyone put down their work as quickly as possible, and scattered in all directions, leaving only the two of them in the shop.

"Come in and sit down. Wait for me for 2 minutes. I'll make you something to eat after finishing the bill." The man motioned him to sit down, lowered his head and continued to work.

"Well, can I do it myself? I will clean it up for you after I'm done."

The man looked up at him with distrust on his expression.But seeing his determined expression, he nodded and said, "Okay, there are ingredients in the freezer, you can figure it out yourself."

At night in spring, there is a little light from the glass door of Shunxin Restaurant, which is extraordinarily warm and dazzling in the darkness and tranquility of the surrounding market.The boss sorted out the bills and planned to take over the work from the customer. Unexpectedly, the customer was quite skillful in his movements, but in just 10 minutes, three dishes and one soup were prepared and served on the table.

"Are you done with your work? The time is just right, let's sit down and eat together. This meal is a little cold, I'll return it to the pot for a while, and it will be ready in 2 minutes." After speaking, he continued to get busy.

Looking at the busy back of this man, the boss felt a strange feeling in his heart.It was the first time that an outsider was treated as a matter of course in his own shop.He looked at the plate of mapo tofu on the table and frowned.He was not polite at all, picked up the spoon on the table and put a spoonful into his mouth. The taste was slightly bland, and it was good as a home-cooked dish, but it was not suitable for restaurants.

"Hey, do you often cook? I didn't expect the cooking skills to be pretty good." The boss tasted all the dishes on the table.

"It's not good, it's just interesting." He put the hot rice in two bowls and served it on the table.

"You specially made mapo tofu. What do you mean? Want to come to the restaurant?" The boss sat at the dining table with his right foot on his left knee, his elbows on the table, and pointed to the dish with chopsticks in his right hand.

Lin Zexi explained with some embarrassment: "I didn't mean that. I just ate the mapo tofu you made at noon and thought it was very good. My hands were a little itchy, so I made this too. I want to hear your evaluation."

"It's pretty good as a home-cooked dish, not too greasy, so there's nothing to comment on."

"I'm sorry that you haven't come home from get off work so late."

The man lowered his head and continued to eat, without raising his head, he said: "It's okay, I'll live upstairs, and you save me the trouble of making dinner, that's great."

"Live upstairs? Are you the employee who looks after the store at night? May I ask what you call it?" He ate the food he cooked contentedly.

The other party frowned and gave him a white look and asked back: "How do you know that I am an employee who looks after the store?"

"Because when you delivered the food at noon today, you said that the boss does not allow you to accept cash, so you must not be the boss, but an employee, and you live upstairs, so you are the employee in charge of looking after the store. Isn't that right?" He felt that the other party seemed a little unhappy .

The other party pouted, sighed lightly, and stopped dwelling on this topic. "My name is Jiang Yu, what about you?"

"My name is Lin Zexi."

"What are you doing here? Seeing that you stay in the hotel every day and don't go out, you don't look like a tourist. You are still looking at my store. If you don't see your whiteness, I think you are here to spy on me Yes." Jiang Yuyu said something that shocked him in a non-surprising manner, and he was choked immediately.

He quickly drank a large glass of water to suppress his cough, wiped the choked tears from his eyes, and quickly explained: "You know that I sit by the window and look out every day? I'm not looking at you, I'm just interested in this episode. I am only interested in the customs of the city.”

"The window of your room is facing my shop. At the beginning, you still looked around. In the past few days, you can't wait to see two holes in my shop. I'm not blind, so obviously I can't see it? "Jiang Yu's voice became louder unconsciously, and he was a little excited.

"I really didn't look at you." This explanation made him feel a little awkward, as if he was really a stalker.

"Forget it, it doesn't matter anyway, I open the door to do business, and I'm not a little wife, so are you afraid that others will look at you?" Jiang Yu said to himself.Lin Zexi couldn't help being a little annoyed why the other party was complaining about his actions, but why did he feel like he was being molested.

"By the way, you haven't answered me yet. What are you doing in this shitty place by yourself?" Jiang Yu continued to ask.

"I'm just going out for a walk."

"Turn around? I haven't seen you go out before. Did you come out to stay in the hotel? If I didn't know that you were alone every day, I would have thought you were here to meet your lover secretly."

He finally couldn't bear it anymore, put the bowl in his hand on the table, and said with a straight face, "Can you talk well?"

Jiang Yu looked at his sullen expression, raised his eyebrows and asked back: "Hey, why are you angry? I'm just talking about my true thoughts, nothing else. Hurry up and eat well, the food is almost cold."

He doesn't know how to describe his disrespectful behavior, language, tone, movement, demeanor?Each of them has its own point, and each of them is nothing in itself, but when combined together, it makes him a little overwhelmed.He decided not to talk any more, and hurriedly finished his meal and left.

"How long do you plan to stay here?" Jiang Yu continued to ask, this time he kept silent.But the other party continued: "If you have nothing to do, you can stay for a while. It's a good place, life is leisurely, and it doesn't have the complexity and impetuosity of big cities. I guess no one knows about this place after leaving this province. It’s the best way to forget the past. But life here is really boring, and there are not many people who can hold on. I have been here for five years, and I have seen many people who came here to escape reality, and almost all of them disappeared in the end. Talking about poems and distant places, ordinary happiness, I still can’t forget the prosperity of the floating world. It’s okay to post it on the circle of friends in a pretentious manner, but after a long time, I start to complain about the lack of bars, slow logistics, and stars don’t come to the concert , All the good things I thought about at the beginning suddenly turned into shortcomings. People, this kind of animal, always start from their own preferences, and don't have a clear understanding of themselves. "

These eloquent words made him feel a different kind of emotion.He couldn't help but start to think, is he the same as the ordinary people he said, and what is his purpose for coming here?He fell into deep thought, and his eating movements gradually slowed down.Jiang Yu threw the chopsticks on the table and said, "Go back after you finish eating, close the door for me, and I'll go up and rest for a while before I come down to clean up."

He came back to his senses, "I'll pack up before I go."

"You are a guest, there is no reason to ask guests to help clean up."

"The shop is closed and you made an exception to entertain me, I..." Before he could finish speaking, he disappeared around the corner of the back door.

After eating, he cleaned up the bowls and the stove, moved the tables and chairs back to their original places, and took a final look around to make sure that everything was in order before turning off the lights and locking the door.When I looked up, I saw the business license hanging above the cash register, and the legal person's name on it was Jiang Yu.He is the owner of this store?Then why did you refuse to accept cash when you delivered food at noon today?Thinking of this, he looked up at the menu hanging on the wall. Tonight's three dishes and one soup cost 78 yuan.He opened WeChat and sent the meal money in a red envelope, and then he closed the door and left in satisfaction.Unexpectedly, it was pouring rain outside, and the distance between the restaurant and the hotel was only 30 meters, which was blocked by the dark night and hazy rain curtain.He secretly estimated that he could run to the opposite side in ten seconds, but these ten seconds were enough to make him feel cold.Standing under the eaves, he reached out and scooped up a handful of rainwater, which wasn't too cold.In the night at the turn of summer and autumn, a little coolness is not enough to penetrate the bones.He took off his coat and put it on his head, and ran out in three steps at a time.The rain was fierce, and the water on the street almost flooded his ankles. He walked quickly with one deep foot and one shallow foot, when his right foot suddenly stepped on a raised ten and sprained in the rain.He reluctantly ran to the eaves of the hotel, and the boss asked: "It's raining so hard, why don't you hide and go back? Hurry up and change your clothes, don't catch a cold later." He promised perfunctorily, and went straight back to the room .

As soon as he entered the room, he quickly put on his slippers, lifted his trousers and glanced at his right ankle.Slightly sprained, a little red and swollen, he called the boss and asked the boss to bring up a bottle of frozen mineral water for simple ice pack treatment.Then I took a hot shower and finally lay down to rest.He felt a little cold, and unconsciously wrapped the quilt tightly.Lying on the bed, he felt that his body was about to fall apart. He dragged his tired body back and thought he could fall asleep when he fell down, but he was dizzy and his body was like a paste, but his consciousness was very clear, and he tossed until late Just fell asleep in a daze.