Rebirth, the childhood sweetheart turned out to be my sister

As soon as the two entered the store, before they spoke, a petite and beautiful figure flew over and hugged Xu Luo's thigh tightly.

"Brother Xiaoluo, you're here again!"

Zhou Ting is the daughter of the owner of this milk tea shop. She is 9 years old and is a very cute and adorable little girl.

After seeing the person clearly, Xu Luo smiled slightly, lowered his head and gently touched her head, with obvious doting and helplessness in his eyes.

"Girl, you are so clingy to me. Uncle Zhou will be here soon and you will be unhappy again."

Hearing this, Zhou Ting raised her head, curled her lips indifferently and said, "He dares?"

One sentence showed his old father's family status.

A bit low…

After threatening her father, the little girl smiled and leaned into the boy's arms. She closed her eyes and rubbed her cat-like face against him, as if she wanted to imbue him with her breath.

Seeing the two people's intimacy, Jiang Yao on the side was surprised at first, and then couldn't help but feel a little emotional.

"I didn't expect you to be quite popular with children,"

Xu Luo seems to be very attractive to children. Both the Zhao Xing brother and sister before and the little girl wearing a floral skirt in front of him are very close to him.

Jiang Yao is the complete opposite to the boy. Because she always looks cold in front of strangers, and the girl is not good at words, few children are willing to get close to her.

After all, children are different from adults. Many times, the first impression for them is a person's personality label. They can tell at a glance whether they are easy to get along with or not.

It was at this time that Jiang Yao realized something.

In school, Xu Luo may be a bad student or a gangster, but in the eyes of the town residents, he is a good neighbor, a good brother, and a good family member.

This feeling is very strange, just like the villain in the movie. Although he seems to be evil on the surface, he is also a hero to some people.

There are two sides...

She recalled the scene she had seen last time on the hotel balcony. At that time, the boy was bathing in the night breeze, and the inadvertent confusion in his eyes was like the vicissitudes of life that did not belong to his age, revealing a deep loneliness.

This guy...doesn't he have two souls in his body?

Just when Jiang Yao was thinking wildly, the voice of the little girl in front of her suddenly brought her back to reality.

"You are my brother Xiaoluo's new sister???"

There was obvious jealousy in his words.

Seeing Jiang Yao looking over, Zhou Ting hurriedly put her hands around Xu Luo's arms. Feeling the arms in her arms, the little girl felt a little relieved, but she still looked at her warily, as if the two of them had some deep hatred.

At the same time, Xu Luo was also staring at the girl with a smile on his face, as if he was saying: What's up, there are many people who want to be my sister, so just have fun.

Jiang Yao was speechless and walked directly inside without saying anything.

Seeing this, the little girl's eyes almost turned into crescent moons with laughter. In Zhou Ting's eyes, Jiang Yao's behavior was a sign of admitting defeat.

"Tingting, where is your father?"

"Hmm~ Dad is behind me.

"Can you please call Brother Xiaoluo?"

"Oh~"

The little girl nodded, then reluctantly let go of his arm, and trotted all the way into the backstage, a crisp voice sounded.

"Dad, Brother Xiaoluo is here to collect rent!"

Hearing the commotion, a middle-aged man in his late 30s slowly walked out from behind.

Unlike those people just now, Xu Luo said hello happily when he saw the visitor.

"Uncle Zhou,"

The owner of the milk tea shop is named Zhou Sheng. Like Xu’s father, Zhou Sheng’s wife died young and he raised the children alone. Perhaps because they share the same disease, the two middle-aged men who have experienced vicissitudes of life quickly became friends.

In addition, the two of them have roughly the same interests and hobbies, and they both like fishing. The boat of this friendship has only grown stronger with the tide.

Therefore, when facing his nominal landlord, Zhou Sheng did not deliberately try to please him like others.

"Hey, you guys can do it, and you even brought a beautiful girl with you."

Unlike many caterers, Zhou Sheng is not fat, but is tall, thin, and muscular. Fortunately, he has a good face and does not feel oppressive, even if he is holding a hatchet in his hand.

Xu Luo rolled her eyes at him and said, "Uncle Zhou, don't talk nonsense, this is my sister..."

Upon hearing this, the man was startled at first, then realized it, patted his forehead, and said: "Oh, this is what your father said a few days ago...that..."

Based on the relationship between these two senior fishing friends, Xu Bin must have told Zhou Sheng about their remarriage, but now that they met for the first time, he was still a little shocked.

After all, it is rare to see a girl as smart as Jiang Yao in a small town. After spending a long time with her, she has even raised Xu Luo's aesthetic standards. I don't know if this is a good thing.

"Sorry, I'm a rough person and my words are a bit rough..."

Xu Bin only mentioned it briefly at that time, so Zhou Sheng couldn't remember Jiang Yao's name clearly.

Jiang Yao shook her head and said, "It's okay, my name is Jiang Yao."

Maybe he felt that it was inappropriate to say such a thing, so he thought for a while and added: "Jiang from Jiangpian, Yao from Yaochi..."

"My name is Zhou Sheng. Just call me Uncle Zhou like Xiaoluo. This is my daughter, Zhou Ting."

Seeing Jiang Yao looking over, the girl immediately held her head high and looked over unwilling to be outdone.

"Although you are quite beautiful...but Brother Xiaoluo said that he likes a little lolita like me and will not like you!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Jiang Yao and Zhou Sheng looked at Xu Luo strangely.

The former was fine, just a little surprised by his hobbies, but the latter's eyes were a little cold.

After all, my little cotton-padded jacket was almost snatched away in front of me.

Seeing this, Xu Luo broke out in cold sweat, and directly pushed Zhou Ting to Jiang Yao's care, and pulled Zhou Sheng towards the back.

He was really afraid of this girl.

"Uncle Zhou, I see there aren't many customers in the store today."

As soon as he sat down, the boy immediately started to change the topic.

It was just a casual remark at first, but Zhou Sheng sighed quietly after hearing it.

Seeing this, Xu Luo immediately asked with some confusion: "Uncle Zhou, what happened?"

Maybe he had been holding it in for too long, and the Xu Luo in front of him was just a junior high school student, so he didn't mean to avoid it, and directly said with a bitter look on his face: "It's nothing, it's just that business hasn't been very good recently, and you can't You know, there aren’t many people buying milk tea in small towns, and there are fewer and fewer customers recently.”

Indeed, the [-]s was when the catering industry was booming, especially milk tea, which had almost no technical content, so the competition became more intense. If a store is not innovative, it will soon be eliminated, let alone in terms of customer flow. Small town.

After thinking for a while, Xu Luo suddenly had an idea in his heart, and he suddenly asked: "Uncle Zhou, if we can open a store in the city center, would you go?"

Zhou Sheng was stunned for a moment, but then he smiled bitterly and said: "It's not that simple. The rent alone is not what I can afford."

It is a consensus that the better the place, the more expensive the rent will be, not to mention the prosperous central area, where land is more expensive than gold!

"Then...this store...do you still want to open it?"

Xu Luo raised his head and asked tentatively.

"Of course it's going to open!"

Zhou Sheng is a stubborn person, but sometimes being too stubborn is not a good thing. If he gives up now, he can still make back his principal, but if he persists, he will lose money.

The milk tea shop in his previous life inevitably closed down due to huge losses, and the frustrated Zhou Sheng took Zhou Ting back to his hometown. In the future, he didn't know that Xu Luo was at that time. When I was in technical secondary school, I didn’t care too much about this matter.

But if he abandons the store, the only two options before him are to enter the store or go out to work. It's not that he is afraid of hardship, but no matter which path he takes, Zhou Sheng will not be able to take care of his daughter wholeheartedly.

Like Xu's father, he also puts his children first, so he has been resisting for so many years. It was still profitable before, but since the New Year, the business suddenly began to plummet.

That's why the man in front of me is so entangled.

Tangled...embarrassed...

Xu Luo understands these emotions very well, and can even say that he feels them the same way.

"call--"

The young man took a deep breath and looked at the little girl who was still arrogant with Jiang Yao. His eyes softened a lot.

"Trust me, it will get better~"

Hearing this, Zhou Sheng smiled, taking it as his comfort, and patted Xu Luo's forehead with his big hand, and said with a smile: "Uncle Zhou, you don't need your sympathy, but if you ask me, you'd better study hard and listen to your dad. This little girl’s academic performance is very good, you should study more.”

Xu Luo rolled his eyes, but a feeling of warmth emerged in his heart.

"Yes, yes, I understand~"

"You kid..." Zhou Sheng was a little confused about whether to laugh or cry, but then he seemed to remember something and took out a black bag from the drawer.

"This is this year's rent, you click."

Xu Luo didn't answer. He hesitated for a while and said, "Uncle Zhou, I won't collect this year's rent for now. Later you..."

"How can this be done?" He frowned, interrupted what Xu Luo was about to say, and pushed the money directly into the other person's arms, "The rent your dad asked me to pay was already cheaper than others, how can I default on it again? .”

"But…"

"You have nothing to complain about. I know what you mean. Don't worry, Uncle Zhou, I won't starve to death. Besides, I still have a daughter. If I really can't stand it anymore, I won't show off."

Hearing this, Xu Luo no longer pressed, but smiled and nodded.

"Then we agreed, if Uncle Zhou is in trouble, he must remember to go to my dad."

Zhou Sheng waved his hand and said impatiently: "I know, when did you become so verbose?"

In response to this, the young man laughed dumbly. You can't say that I was about the same age as you in my previous life, right?

……

After walking out of the milk tea shop, Xu Luo and Jiang Yao returned along the same road they came from.

However, the two of them didn't say a word on the road. Xu Luo looked at Jiang Yao and thought she was angry with Zhou Ting, so he asked cautiously: "Jiang Yao, are you not angry?"

Jiang Yao turned her face sideways and asked doubtfully, "Why am I angry?"

"Um... I saw that you haven't spoken a word. I thought you were angry because of what that girl said."

Hearing this, Jiang Yao suddenly smiled with her hands behind her back. Under the bright sunshine, the girl's fair face was dyed golden and sparkled.

"Do you think I'm the kind of person who would care about children?"

"Then why didn't you speak just now?"

Jiang Yao was speechless, pointing to the dark circles on her face and said, "Because I'm sleepy~tired~"

Xu Luo stopped talking about this topic and instead asked, "Are Dad and Aunt Song back?"

"No, they might not come back until the afternoon, so we'll have to take care of lunch ourselves."

"Can you cook?" Xu Luo really didn't know anything about the cooking skills of the top student in front of him.

Jiang Yao felt a little uncomfortable and pinched the corners of her clothes nervously, "Only a little bit..."

After the appraisal is over, a little bit, it should be no.

"I'll make lunch."

"Eh?? You can...also cook?"

Depend on…

Almost exposed...

Xu Luo blinked, as if he had already seen through Jiang Yao's thoughts, and smiled: "Of course, and it's absolutely delicious!"