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On the second day after returning to Licheng, Chen Yan first looked for part-time jobs around the school.

The winter vacation of the [-]th middle school was late, and the nearby foreign fast food restaurants were full of holiday workers, so he went to a business district a little further away, and luckily came across a milk tea shop that was trial opening in front of the cinema.

The owner of the milk tea shop is surnamed Zheng, aged between thirty and four. Although he sells high-sugar drinks, his hobby is fitness. He opened the milk tea shop with the purpose of blind date.

Because he has a strong figure, well-defined blocks (this was not popular back then), and he is tall and fierce-looking, and his smile is scarier than not smiling. In addition, he likes poetry and distant places, and his job is unstable, so he is quite unsalable in the marriage and love market.

Boss Zheng didn't think much of Chen Yan when he saw Chen Yan at first sight. He thought that although he was handsome, he was not sunny enough to attract customers.

It was only later that he discovered that the other party was powerful. He had never seen a person who settled accounts so quickly. Compared with business ability, Sunshine had a bird!

At that time, fast payment had not yet been developed, and shops needed to accept cash for change. Chen Yan had already been trained by Mr. Guan to get the answer when he heard the numbers, especially the addition and subtraction of small amounts.

Boss Zheng himself is not good at arithmetic, so two-digit numbers need to be calculated in writing. Immediately, he admired Chen Yan and left him without further ado. One hundred, including two meals.

This salary is actually quite generous, Chen Yan thought to himself that it was thanks to this buddy's bad math, otherwise it would probably be reduced by half.

Relying on the flow of people in the cinema, the business was okay on the first day of opening.

Back then, there were few varieties of milk tea, and most of the small shops still sold pearl milk tea honestly. Boss Zheng’s shop was no exception. At most, they added some coconut fruit, and customers had no choice.

Because of a bad stomach, Chen Yan didn't like "pearls" very much, and felt that the stuff was greasy and difficult to digest, and it looked unhygienic.

So he suggested to Boss Zheng during the checkout interval that he could remove the pearls and exchange them for red bean and purple rice pudding Yueliyue or something.

Boss Zheng asked in surprise: "Can it still be like this?"

Chen Rin said: "Strawberry, kiwi, mango, dragon fruit, passion fruit, you can add whatever you want."

He didn't understand milk tea, he just drank it and mentioned it in passing.

Boss Zheng started experimenting the next day. The muscular man was very inquisitive and launched five or six new varieties within a day. When they were out of stock, he wanted to hug Chen Renqin and said, "Tell me quickly, what other good ideas do you have?" !"

Chen Ren said that not only black tea can be sold, but also green tea, green tea, and jasmine tea, with a layer of whipped cream on top of the tea.

Boss Zheng asked: "What is an internet celebrity?"

Chen Eun said: "It is very popular on the Internet, and young people like it."

Boss Zheng didn't sleep that night, and wanted to become an Internet celebrity, so he made a small invention in the store all night, and took Chen Yan to watch.

Chen Li doesn't feel sleepy after drinking too much milk tea. She sits on the stool and hugs her knees, trying to recall the milk tea she drank in her previous life, such as brown sugar fairy grass Ou Lei, and tells the boss everything she can think of.

It has been out of control since then.

During the Spring Festival, migrant workers return to their hometowns and college students go on vacation. It was originally the bleakest time of the year in central cities such as Licheng. Hot.

Anyway, Chen Li only took care of the cashier, and Boss Zheng called all his cousins ​​over, and the shop was so crowded that he couldn't move around, and there was still no time to do it.

From opening at nine o'clock in the morning to closing at nine o'clock in the evening, it can be said that I am so busy that I don't even have time to eat.

The cousins ​​get off work at [-] o'clock, and they can finally catch their breath after nine o'clock. Boss Zheng understands that Chen Yan has been standing all day, and always takes the initiative to clean up the store.

Chen Li couldn't come back early either, he had to sort out the accounts, sitting at the table counting the money and recording while chanting.

Boss Zheng asked while wiping the floor: "How much is the turnover today?"

Chen Yi reported a number, and Boss Zheng clicked his tongue: "Day! It's getting more and more every day!"

It wasn't until the movie theater closed on New Year's Eve that the upward trend in turnover was curbed a bit.

The milk tea shop also closes at noon, Boss Zheng is going home to make dumplings for the New Year, and at the same time accepting the urging of the seven aunts and eight aunts to marry.He also plans to make an Excel spreadsheet of the milk tea shop's turnover and profit growth and show it to his blind date to show that he is a man worthy of entrustment.

He half closed the shutter door, took out his own lunch box from the microwave oven, opened it and handed it to Chen Ren, and praised him sincerely: "You are such a treasure! Why don't you go on a blind date with me and check it out together, Brother Zheng find someone Good sister-in-law, in the future, you will also be honored!"

Knowing that he was looking for fun, Chen Yan bit the tip of his pen and smiled without saying a word. How can there be a blind date with a small wage earner in the shop, isn't it just looking for smoke?

Boss Zheng said again: "I can only give you half a day off. Tomorrow the movie theater will show New Year's films, and business will not be bad. You have to come early!"

Chen Yan nodded, suddenly thinking of Lin Yanxing.

These days Lin Yanxing texted him a lot, but he was busy during the day and couldn't reply; he wanted to reply two at night, but he fell asleep when he touched the bed, and fell asleep after typing a few words. Thinking about it, I feel sorry for him, I don't know that person Are you on vacation?

Lin Yanxing was released half an hour ago.

This time, the remedial team that Mr. Xu found was very responsible. It was almost sent by God to clean him up. Although he was not urged by the teacher, it was all hard work, and he would not let him go until he finished the questions.

The day before yesterday, he was angry and refused to do 11 English single-choice questions, but the teacher stayed with him until 30:[-] pm with the whole family.

By the way, the teacher's whole family is his make-up team this time. The father teaches physics and chemistry, the mother teaches Chinese, the son teaches mathematics, and the daughter-in-law teaches English. This kind of family is the nightmare of all high school students.

The first thing he did when he escaped from the prison was to find Chen Yan at the milk tea shop, and it turned out to be a good thing. The first thing he saw was an old butcher (Boss Zheng wore a hurdling vest in winter), and the one behind him counting money with Erlang's legs up was not His little friend!

What's worse is that Boss Zheng's words still fell into his ears intact!

...Maybe incomplete, but Lin Yanxing focused on the words "baby", "sister-in-law" and "you".

Mr. Lin suddenly got angry, and thought to himself, I shouldn't let the child go out to work, let him encounter a pervert!

It's just been a few days since we saw each other, and "baby sister-in-law" has been called, Lin Yanxing thought that I have been at the same table with this person for half a year, and I haven't heard him call me "baby"!

The more he thought about it, the darker his face became, and he intended to fight the old slut.

Boss Zheng saw him first with sharp eyes and asked, "Handsome guy, what do you want to drink?"

He said angrily: "Drink..."

Before saying the word "fart" in the back, Chen Yan smiled and said, "Give him a cup of coffee, this is my classmate."

"Your classmate?" Boss Zheng looked at Lin Yanxing, "You are so handsome, you could be a star."

Chen Rin said, "No, the flower of the Empire."

Lin Yanxing said viciously: "Black coffee, no sugar or milk!"

You will pay the price!

Boss Zheng then made him a cup of clear coffee. He grabbed a mouthful and put the quilt heavily on the counter.

Boss Zheng said: "This handsome guy has a lot of personality!"

Chen Yan asked Lin Yanxing with a smile, "What are you doing here?"

Lin Yanxing was still swallowing bitterly: "I...look at you."

"Then you are right," Chen Yi said, "Brother Zheng is planning to give me a commission, but I said no, but he insisted."

"You deserve it!" Boss Zheng said boldly, "If it weren't for you, where would I get this windfall? To be honest, I opened this store to test the waters, and I was ready to lose half of the house. Now look Come here, not only can I not lose money, but I can also buy a sailboat!"

"Why buy a sailboat?" Chen Yan asked.

"Travel around the world." Boss Zheng said, "There are so many ports in Southeast Asia, I want to stop at each of them."

Chen Yan reminded: "Don't say this to your blind date, or you will definitely fail. Uneasy in the room, taboo!"

Lin Yanxing's eyes froze, thinking that it's all right for this old slut to attack children, he was still eating what was in the bowl and thinking about what was in the pot, he kept calling people "Sister Zheng" on one side, while on the other side he wanted to take a girl Going to Southeast Asia, those old subordinates of the old man should be recruited!

Boss Zheng didn't know that he was so smart, and he didn't know that his head was in danger, so he asked him, "Handsome, can I get you a cup of sweets? I feel that your expression is very bitter."

Chen Yan also asked: "Lin Yanxing, what's wrong?"

Lin Yanxing was in a bad mood and wanted to hurt someone, but seeing Boss Zheng throwing a thick red envelope to Chen Yan, he couldn't hurt him, because the latter took the red envelope and counted it, and immediately smiled like a flower.

Lin Yanxing always thought he was good-looking, but now he realizes that there is no end to good-looking, just because of a little money, that face actually leaned on his beautiful face!

"One thousand eight eight eight?" Chen Yan asked with a smile, "Are you really willing to give so much?"

Boss Zheng said: "For the sake of auspiciousness during the Chinese New Year, the basic salary is [-] a day, and the rest is bonus, too little? Why don't you make up the whole [-]."

"It's a lot," Chen Yan said quickly, "I can save enough for a year if I live frugally, thank you Brother Zheng!"

Boss Zheng said sincerely: "I should thank you. Go home and see you tomorrow morning!"

"Yeah!" Chen Yan didn't hide her joy, and turned that glowing beauty face to Lin Yanxing, who was furious and squeezed the 2000 yuan in his pocket.

Chen Yan asked him, "Why don't you go home on New Year's Eve?"

Lin Yanxing asked back, "Where are you going?"

"I'm going to Guan teacher's house to celebrate the New Year." Chen Yan said.

The day before yesterday, the third year of senior high school was on holiday, and the school dormitory and cafeteria doors were closed. He had already taken some necessities to live in Teacher Guan’s rented house. Anyway, he was basically responsible for the hygiene of that house. He could find some things. Guan Tsinghua himself Instead, I couldn't find it.

Of course, Lin Yanxing would not ask such silly questions as "Why didn't you go back to your home?" There are some things that Chen Li doesn't like to talk about, but Lin Yanxing understands them.

Chen Yan smiled and said: "It's rare to make a fortune, but it's a pity that all the small shops and stalls are closed at the moment, otherwise I invite you to eat skewers."

"Why did the milk tea shop give you so much?" Lin Yanxing was troubled, always feeling that Boss Zheng had bad intentions.

Chen Yan happily replied: "Didn't you hear what he said? I'm about to earn him half a house and a sailboat. Whether the blind date is successful or not depends on me."

Lin Yanxing turned his head and whispered, "I hate it!"

He wanted to take off the little pride on Chen Yan's face, because it wasn't because of him.

However, he was really unwilling to part with it, he hoped that he would continue to be complacent like this forever, with his head slightly raised, a smile on the corner of his mouth, and light in his eyes.

...But the one who runs the milk tea shop still hates it, is it shameful to be bare-chested in winter?

Boss Zheng was particularly wronged about this point. He took it off like that because he sweated, and he sweated because he loved labor.

Besides, when Lin Yanxing got on the basketball court, he took off even more than him, and he only wore shorts on his lower body.

Seeing Lin Yanxing standing there with a straight face, Chen Ren stretched out his hand to pull him: "Let's go, accompany me to school."

The day before yesterday when he was packing, he forgot a set of underwear in the dormitory. He was short of clothes, and missing one would be a big deal, and he was reluctant to buy new ones, so he had to go back and get them.

"Okay!" Lin Yanxing said.

The two returned to school, and the vicinity of the school was extremely deserted. The road leading to the school gate was originally a narrow road, and there were no people around as the Spring Festival approached.

Taking a small path to the most secluded place in the green belt around the corner of the wall, Chen Yan suddenly stopped.

"??" Lin Yanxing followed his eyes and saw a woman walking on the path ahead. She was in her early thirties, she was pretty, but she looked haggard, and her dress was a bit outdated.

"Mom..." Chen Yan said.

"Mom?" Lin Yanxing asked in surprise.

The woman turned her head and said happily, "Erenian, I'm going to find you!"

Chen Yan walked towards her mother, restraining her facial expression: "Mom, why are you here?"

Mom smiled, still looking very soft: "Eren, it's Chinese New Year, I'll bring you some dumplings, you... Do you want to go home for the New Year?"

Chen Yan shook his head, he was very firm on this point and never looked back.

"Then...then you can eat dumplings." Mom handed him the plastic bag, which contained an old aluminum lunch box with dumplings stuffed with cabbage.

Chen Yan smiled slightly: "Thank you, Mom."

He smiled too distantly, which made mother feel empty. She always felt that the child would not really bear the grudge against the adults, even if he was not so kind to him, after all, he was still the elder of his parents.

She asked again: "Are you really not coming back?"

Chen Yan disappointed her again: "No."

"Eren, please forgive Uncle Sun." Mom said, "He didn't force you to work in a garment factory, so you should study hard in high school here."

Chen Yan looked at her, remained silent for a long time, and then said softly and firmly, "No."

He didn't want to forget it, and he didn't want to forget it, because that family hurt him, and he didn't dare to shout it out in the past. Now those people should know that forgiveness is a rare thing, and maybe they can't ask for it in a lifetime.

Mother sighed deeply: "Erenren, you are so stubborn, mother has always been very difficult..."

Chen Yan said: "Go back, Mom, I am happier outside. If the dumplings are delicious, make some for me next time."

Mom smiled wryly: "Then... when there is no one at home, if you come back to visit me, I can also secretly visit you."

"Ah."

Mom looked at Lin Yanxing: "Renren, is this your classmate?"

Chen Yan nodded, and Lin Yanxing said, "Hello, Auntie, I am Chen Yan at the same table."

"Hello." Mom smiled, "You are so tall and beautiful, please take care of Eren, he doesn't listen to me very much. By the way, do you eat dumplings?"

Lin Yan's Spring Festival dinner was full of guests, delicacies of mountains and seas, swallow's wings and abalone. How could they care about the most common meal of dumplings stuffed with cabbage, but that was Chen Ren's mother, so everything was different.

"Thank you auntie, I will eat."

So my mother said enthusiastically and naively: "Renren, you give half to your classmates!"

Chen Yan cooperated with her: "Okay."

The three of them were about to break up when they heard a rush of footsteps. Just as the mother was about to turn around, her hair was grabbed from behind, and she staggered and almost fell down.

"Wow you!" Chen Yan's stepfather surnamed Sun roared, "Did you do it on purpose for me to see? You don't cook at home and come to this kind of place. Fortunately, I followed far away, otherwise you would kill your family." It’s all given to this wild species, right?! You gave him something, show me!!”

Mom screamed in pain: "Ouch! Don't pull my hair!"

Chen Yan shouted: "Let go of her!!"

"She's my wife!" The stepfather's voice was higher than his, "I can beat and scold if I want! What are you, a bastard, a bastard, if I didn't have a good conscience to support you all these years, you You died on the street a long time ago, you still dare to call me?!"

Chen Yan asked angrily, "Will you let me go?!"

"I won't let it go!" the stepfather yelled, but he let go of his hand resentfully. Chen Yan's explosive momentum was too amazing, and he definitely didn't look like he was alive.

Mother cried and fell to the ground, Chen Ren and Lin Yanxing bent down to help her at the same time.

Perhaps in order to save face, the stepfather suddenly turned his fire on Lin Yanxing: "What are you? How dare you touch my wife?!"

The most stupid thing about this man is that he doesn't know people, and he scolded him as soon as he cursed, but he raised his hand and slapped Lin Yanxing, hitting his neck.

Lin Yanxing didn't expect the other party to hit him at all, and frowned in pain.

Chen Yan narrowed his eyes.

He vaguely remembered that he had made an oath that anyone who dared to touch Lin Yanxing would have his head slapped, so he pushed his stepfather's shoulders away with all his strength, and kicked him away!

After all, he was thin and weak, and this kick only left some dull pain on the stepfather's clumsy waist. The stepfather was furious, and slapped him with a backhand!

He wanted to hide, but his stepfather was holding a battery car key in his hand. The thing was as sharp as a knife, and it cut his forehead open, blood gushing down.

Mother was frightened, finally stood up and fell down, Lin Yanxing rushed over to hold his bloody face!

"It's all right," he said.

Lin Yanxing roared angrily, turned around and threw fists and kicks at his stepfather with the sound of wind!

The stepfather couldn't dodge, his thick and heavy body was powerless to parry, he was beaten back again and again, rolled to the ground, he just hugged his head and howled.

Chen Yan stood aside and wiped the blood with his sleeve, his snow-white and blood-red face was expressionless.

My mother was so weak that she couldn't stand up, and she cried, "Don't hit him! Eunian! Hold him! Eunian!"

Chen Rian didn't hold back, it was a pity that there was no outsider around him, so he couldn't share this beautiful scene with him.

The stepfather rolled on the ground, crying and begging for mercy, and told Lin Yanxing to stop.

Chen Rian had never seen a man in his 40s cry like this, with snot all over his face, and meaningless syllables in his mouth, like a pile of the most filthy sludge. He didn't have the prestige of beating himself at home at all.

"Don't fight! Let him stop!"

"Erenian, please!!"

Lin Yan stopped for a while, panted heavily and looked at Chen Ren, with fierce red eyes.

Chen Rian looked back with a smile in the blood mist in his left eye, and thought: Hit him, beat him hard for me, and I will repay you for the previous ten years.

Hit it, baby! !