Confessions of a retired star

"Is such that……"

Meng Tang rubbed her hands hesitantly. Her arms were wearing white cotton sleeves, and almost every finger had frostbite. Because she was not tall, it was difficult to look up at Fang Shuyun.

"Auntie, let's sit over there and talk."

Fang Shuyun invited Meng Tang to the pond in the garden not far away, and the two sat down, Meng Tang no longer had to hold his head up.

"Shuyun, Auntie would like to ask you to persuade Zhu Shisi to stop working in the store."

"Help with the shop?" Fang Shuyun was puzzled, "I thought Auntie was still at the night market..."

Meng Tang shook his head: "The business of the supper stall is good. His aunt left half a year ago, and the family has more money, so I rented a shop to sell supper...Didn't Shisi tell you?"

Fang Shuyun smiled, neither said yes nor no, since the accident happened in his family, the two of them seldom talked about his family. Although Fang Shuyun was very concerned, he never asked.

"There are no small workers in the store, and one person can actually be busy." Meng Tang stroked the cuffs that lost their elasticity and fell down, "Shisi insisted on coming to help, I don't want him to come, so he made one himself. Key, get up at four o'clock in the morning to wash dishes and vegetables in the store, I can't stop him, sometimes he doesn't eat breakfast, and then goes to school after cleaning, he always says he is energetic, he doesn't listen to my advice, and I don't know what to say about him..."

Meng Tang rubbed her frostbite-covered hands again. She hung her head with a few strands of gray hair that were not noticeable on her temples. When the bell rang for the end of class, the students ran out of the building shouting happily. sorrow.

Fang Shuyun didn't know how to comfort him for a while. When he was silent, Meng Tang apologized: "Shuyun, go to class quickly, don't delay you."

"It's okay, Auntie, class is over, and it's lunch break now," Fang Shuyun's gaze returned to Meng Tang's face, "Don't worry, his...his grades are not affected, and his mid-term exam results ranked first in the market. He's in the top ten."

Meng Tang smiled wryly: "I care more about his health than his grades. This kid Shisi is very sensible, but he is also very stubborn. Shuyun, you are good friends, maybe he will listen to you."

Fang Shuyun nodded, he already knew what to do.

Then Meng Tang went to the infirmary to check on Zhu Shisi again. Zhu Shisi closed his eyes, his complexion improved, and he seemed to be in a deep sleep.Meng Tang wanted to invite Fang Shuyun to lunch, but Fang Shuyun declined on the grounds that he had something to do.

As soon as he returned to the infirmary, Fang Shuyun saw Zhu Shisi sleeping on the bed, with a fluffy head exposed under the cylindrical quilt, and his eyes were wide open, staring at him intently.

"What are you doing?" Fang Shuyun smiled, walked over and patted Zhu Shisi on the head.

"You want to be my mother's lobbyist?"

Zhu Shisi's eyeballs slid to the corners of his eyes following Fang Shuyun's movement trajectory, maintaining a state of alert.

"I won't," Fang Shuyun sat on the edge of the bed, "You have your reasons for whatever you do, and I will respect you."

"Oh……"

Zhu Shisi's eyes flickered, and his head retracted into the quilt. Before Fang Shuyun finished speaking, he grabbed the corner of the quilt to let him expose his face, and looked at him seriously: "It's only November, and Auntie's hand I've got chilblains, so let me help."

"Are you here to help?"

"Yeah, we go to the store for an hour after the evening self-study get out of class, and the two of you add up to two hours, so you don't have to get up at four in the morning, and the aunt should be more relaxed, isn't it the best of both worlds?"

Zhu Shisi's expression loosened a bit, but he saw Fang Shuyun's hands propped on the pillow, with evenly slender fingers, they were beautiful hands, asking them to touch oil stains and dirt made Zhu Shisi upset.

He refused, "I don't need your help."

"You can't help this matter," Fang Shuyun rarely became strong, although he was smiling, but his tone could not be refused, "The college entrance examination will be half a year later, maybe we will part ways in the future, so now we must cherish the relationship we get along with. time."

Zhu Shisi hasn't thought about what will happen after the college entrance examination. This date is very far away for him, as if the two people's time with each other will last forever.

When Fang Shuyun mentioned it, Zhu Shisi became nervous, realizing that the parting was about to happen in an instant, he felt melancholy, and stopped talking.

At 10:30 in the evening, Yanjiang Xiaolu, known as a night snack street, has just begun its nightlife.

Two boys in school uniforms rode their bicycles through the lively crowd, and stopped under the signboard named "Begonia Snacks" one after the other.

"Sister Meng, your two good sons are here again. With them here, those plague gods dare not come to the door."

The old customer sitting by the door shouted to Meng Tang who was busy coming and going, Meng Tang responded with a smile, Zhu Shisi and Fang Shuyun had already entered the store, one put on an apron, the other put on a sleeve, and they were familiar with the road get to work.

From the day when Zhu Shisi fainted in November last year, Fang Shuyun would come to Haitang Snacks to help whenever Mengtang opened.

Originally, he wanted Fang Shuyun to persuade Zhu Shisi, but he failed to persuade him, and even involved himself.Meng Tang was very sorry, and visited Fang's house several times. Not only did her grandparents not accept her apology, but they also supported Fang Shuyun in doing so.

Meng Tang couldn't help but accept good intentions, so from 10:30 to 11:30 every night, there will be two more young people in school uniforms in the store, which is also a major feature of our store.

After finishing a round of work, Meng Tang called Fang Shuyun, who was cleaning the table, to the back kitchen: "Shuyun, it's already the end of February, and the college entrance examination is about to come. Listen to Auntie, don't come, okay?"

"Don't worry, Auntie. Shisi and I are very efficient, and we don't delay our studies. Working in the store is actually a way to relax and combine work and rest."

Fang Shuyun picked up a potato and cut it while talking. The late spring in February had just left, and the cutting board and kitchen knife that had been washed with water were freezing to the bone. Fang Shuyun's hands were red from the cold. hot water bottle.

"Shuyun, you are a child of a scholar's family, and your parents love you so much."

"I don't know if they love you or not, but grandma and grandpa definitely agree with me." Fang Shuyun stuffed the hot water bottle into the wide pocket of school trousers and peeked out, "I'll go out for a while."

Outside, Zhu Shisi was holding the bill to a table of male guests. The leader was a man with a round face, who was slowly fumbling for money from his bag, and looked Zhu Shisi up and down with his drunken eyes.

"Meng Tang is so beautiful, but it's a pity that she gave birth to a son, hiccup, if she gave birth to a daughter, hehe..."

Several people at the same table laughed meaningfully, and Zhu Shisi looked at the round-faced man coldly: "It's 190 and five yuan in total."

"Got it, got it, long-winded, hiccup," the man hiccupped, and put the two notes into Zhu Shisi's hands. The moment he took the money, he grabbed the money with his fat fingers. Holding the back of Zhu Shisi's hand, "This one is thin and tender, why don't you recognize me as a godbrother..."

A table of people roared with laughter, the male chicken thief glanced at everyone, seeing that everyone was amused by him, he was very proud, grabbed Zhu Shisi's retracted hand, and smiled affectionately: "I only lack a girl like you!" You are as beautiful as a son, as long as you call him brother, you don’t need to look for the five dollars..."

Damn, Zhu Shisi cursed from the bottom of his heart, holding Meng Tang's hard-earned money in his hand, he couldn't get angry, he could only bite the bullet and shake off the man's fat hand, and took out five yuan from the apron with a blue face. zero.

The round-faced man laughed even harder, and his fat hand went straight into the apron pocket of Zhu Shisi's abdomen, scratched it indiscriminately, deliberately touched that place, and said with a sharp smile: "Let my brother see what you have. baby!"

With a slap, the round-faced man's hand was knocked out, Zhu Shisi stood firm and saw that Fang Shuyun was standing between him and the man, tightly twisting the other's mopey arm.

"This guest, I'm sorry, he doesn't lack a brother." Fang Shuyun smiled politely, but the strength of his hands was unambiguous, "If you lack a brother, how about I be your brother?"

Fang Shuyun's height has exceeded 1.8 meters [-], his tall and strong figure is full of oppression, and the smiling eyes under the glasses have a terrifying cold light.

None of the drinking buddies at the same table spoke, and the round-faced man was subdued by him with one hand, sober, cowardly, took the five yuan on the table, rubbed the arm that was pinched by Fang Shuyun, and walked away in despair.

By the time Meng Tang finished his work and came out to greet other customers, the store had returned to calm.

"I'm sorry." Fang Shuyun whispered to Zhu Shisi who was clearing the table.

"Why do you say I'm sorry..." Zhu Shisi was in a bad mood, and his tone was a bit dull.

"Because I didn't come out in time to stop him."

"If you want to apologize, he should apologize. You didn't do anything wrong."

"Then why don't you talk to me?"

Fang Shuyun looked at Zhu Shisi, Zhu Shisi turned his head away, wiped the table vigorously a few times, and said in a low voice, "What should I do if something happens when you clash with them..."

"No, I have my sense of proportion. This kind of people are paper tigers. Blindly forbearance will only make them more presumptuous." Fang Shuyun stuffed the hot water bottle in his trouser pocket into Zhu Shisi's arms, "Warm your hands, don't be afraid of them." I'm worried."

"I don't want it, I want to do something."

Zhu Shisi returned the hot water bottle to Fang Shuyun, and Fang Shuyun threw it to him again: "My dear brother, be obedient, take it."

"Don't take advantage of me, when are you my brother?"

"When I said just now that you don't lack a brother, why didn't you refute it? If you didn't refute, it was acquiescing."

"That's why I didn't react!"

The two threw the hot water bottle back and forth, and after arguing for a while, Zhu Shisi felt better.

The temperature is warming up quickly, and it is only at the end of March that some people are already wearing short sleeves, and more and more people come out for supper every day.

The business of Begonia Snacks has improved, but Zhu Shisi is depressed. He didn't say a few words all day, and he didn't review his homework after evening self-study, lying on the table in a daze.

"Aren't you happy that you got into the top five in the city?" Fang Shuyun asked.

"Of course, I'm only happy if I get the first place in the exam..."

Zhu Shisi twirled his pen in boredom, and answered lazily, and he answered quite carelessly at first glance.

"You're not telling the truth."

"..."

"If you are not happy, I will not be able to study hard."

"..."

"What's on your mind is what's on my mind."

Fang Shuyun stopped writing, and his tone was serious. Seeing that the method of silence didn't work, Zhu Shisi forced himself to sit upright and cast a gloomy look.