Money life

Chapter 4 Hide and Seek

Zhang Yanjiang was distraught when the girl was crying, he really wished that the girl would disappear from his eyes as soon as possible.

In order to make the girl happy, he walked to the shelf where the dolls were placed, casually took a smaller doll to the girl, and said, "You can hold it, but can you stop crying?"

The girl took the doll, hugged it into her arms, and smiled happily.

Seeing the girl smile, Zhang Yanjiang smiled too.

He went back to sitting at the cash register, thinking about how to do something interesting.

After thinking about it for a while, he still has no clue. His life is looking for a job and staying in the store selling toys all day long, and there is nothing interesting about it.

"Dingling bell." The wind chime on the door rang again.

A woman came in from the outside. She looked like she was in her 30s, her hair was tied into a ponytail, and she looked a bit rusty.

"Hello." Zhang Yanjiang stood up and greeted him.

The woman looked at Zhang Yanjiang, smiled shyly at him, and then turned her eyes to the happy girl who was hugging the doll.

"What are you doing here?" The woman came to the girl and was about to snatch the doll from her hand.

"I want a doll." The girl hugged the doll tightly and never let go.

"How dirty is the doll? Mom will buy you delicious food another day, which is better than a doll?" As she spoke, the woman snatched the doll from the girl's hand and put it on the shelf.

"Wow..." The girl burst into tears immediately.

Zhang Yanjiang was a little speechless, he was a little confused, is it so difficult to buy a doll for his daughter?People have made a fuss here, and it doesn't cost much to buy a small one.

But after thinking about it carefully, he figured out why the girl's mother didn't buy the girl a doll.

Judging by the woman's dress, she doesn't look like a rich person. She probably wants to save some money and buy more practical things. After all, dolls are optional, but they still have to eat every day.

"Don't cry, come home with me." Saying that, the woman took the girl's hand and was about to leave.

The girl didn't want to, she grabbed the shelf next to her and refused to leave, she cried and asked for a doll, as if her mother would not leave unless she bought a doll.

"Oh." Zhang Yanjiang sighed heavily, and he was not in the mood to do something interesting anymore.

"Are you going? If you don't go, I will go." The woman pulled the girl, and she was a little angry when she saw that the girl didn't go.

The girl was crying, looking at her mother with pleading eyes.

Zhang Yanjiang couldn't stand it anymore. He came up to the woman, thought about it, and said, "Sister, this is a small shop, and the things we sell are not expensive. You see your daughter likes dolls so much, or you can give them to her." Buy one? It won't cost much."

The woman glanced at Zhang Yanjiang in embarrassment, then pulled her daughter's hand severely, and said angrily, "Come, come home with me."

The girl was hurt by being pulled by her mother, and she cried even harder, but she didn't let go of the shelf.

Zhang Yanjiang looked a little embarrassed. He wished his parents would come back quickly. Parents are more experienced in handling such things.

"Are you going? If you don't go, I don't want you." The woman became angry, and her voice was a little louder.

The girl was a little dumbfounded, she really thought that her mother would not want her if she didn't leave.

She glanced at her mother, held back her tears, and silently let go of her grip on the shelf.

Seeing this, the woman pulled the girl and was about to leave.

The girl glanced at the doll. There were tears in the corners of her eyes, and there was a... parting look in her eyes, as if she was very sad to leave her family.

Zhang Yanjiang saw it very clearly, he didn't know why a girl would be so reluctant to part with a rag doll.But at the moment when the girl was dragged by her mother to reluctantly leave the store, his body seemed to have been electrified, and immediately after, he yelled: "Wait a minute".

The woman frowned, stopped, and looked at him.The girl also looked at him with anticipation in her eyes.

He frowned slightly. He didn't know what the girl was expecting. Could it be that he wanted him to give him a doll?Or do you want to help her beg her mother to buy a rag doll?

"Ahem." He cleared his throat, looked at the doll that the girl was hugging just now, and asked, "Do you really want this doll?"

The girl nodded.

"She doesn't want it." The woman said indifferently.

"If you really want it, I can give it to you." Zhang Yanjiang ignored the girl and said seriously to the girl.

Just now the girl's reluctance towards the doll touched him, although he didn't know why the girl was reluctant to part with a doll.But at that moment, his heart was touched, and he wanted to give the girl a doll.

"Really?" The girl immediately became happy.

The woman looked at him suspiciously, with a hint of vigilance in her eyes.

Zhang Yanjiang nodded, then looked at the woman, as if he had read her mind, and said seriously: "Sister, I can give your daughter a doll. I have no other intentions, and you don't have to worry about anything." After finishing speaking, He smiled.

The woman did not speak.

"I can give you the doll, but you have to remember that you can't do this in the future. You have to understand your mother's difficulties. If she says you don't want to buy something, you can't buy it so crying, let alone hope that others will buy it." For you."

"No one will give you anything for free. If you want something, you have to work hard for it instead of crying. Do you understand?" Zhang Yanjiang wanted to take this opportunity to educate the girl. Hidden danger.

The girl nodded half understanding.

The woman understood the meaning of Zhang Yanjiang's words, and the indifference in her eyes was gone, replaced by gratitude and emotion.

"There is no free lunch in the world, and this rag doll is certainly not free." Zhang Yanjiang said.

"Do you still want money?" The gratitude in the woman's eyes disappeared, and a layer of disgust was added.

"I don't want money."

"Then what do you want?" The woman protected her daughter with a look of vigilance, obviously thinking too much.

"Hide and seek."

"what?"

"I just want your daughter to hide and seek once with me. As long as I lose, the doll will be hers." Zhang Yanjiang didn't want the girl to get the doll for free, mainly because she didn't want her to think that she could get her wish just by crying. want something.

He wants to use this to tell the girl that if you want to get what you want, you have to work hard.

In order to find a suitable point of effort, Zhang Yanjiang chose to hide and seek.He thinks playing hide and seek with girls is fairer to girls.

Of course, he didn't want the girl to lose.

The woman breathed a sigh of relief.

"Okay, okay, I like peek-a-boo the most. Uncle, shall we start peek-a-boo?" The girl came to Zhang Yanjiang and said happily.

"Okay." Zhang Yanjiang patted the girl's head and nodded with a smile.

"Uncle, hide, I'll come to you." The girl said happily.

"It's not fair. For the sake of fairness, let's make a rock-paper-scissors decision, who wins and who hides, how?"

The girl nodded.

"Rock, paper, scissors." Zhang Yanjiang and the girl shot at the same time.

In fact, Zhang Yanjiang was a little slower than the girl.

What the girl played was a fist, and what Zhang Yanjiang played was scissors.

"Uncle lost." He deliberately pretended to be very disappointed.

The girl smiled, very sweetly.

"Go hide later. If I want to find you, you will lose. If uncle can't find you, you will win. The doll you hugged just now is yours. How about it?"

"I won't lose." The girl nodded, glanced at the dolls on the shelf, and said confidently.

Zhang Yanjiang smiled, his goal was achieved.

(End of this chapter)