To Oak

The next day was the weekend, Zhu Miao got up with dark circles under her eyes, and fed the cat and shoveled the excrement to clean up before opening the store.He threw away the withered vases of flowers in the store, and bought budding lilies from the flower shop next door, cut the branches and put them in vases, added water and arranged them.Everything was done, and just when the store opened, the doorbell rang, and Xiang Shu pushed the door open.

"Morning." Xiang Shu said.

Zhu Miao's eyes flickered, and she whispered, "Morning."

Yesterday's torrential rain stopped in a blink of an eye, and the dark clouds in the sky were still wet like a sponge that had not been squeezed dry, and it was uncertain when it would rain again.The weather is bad, even on weekends, there are not many people.Zhu Miao squatted beside the chair and teased the cat nonchalantly, while Xiang Shu sat on the high chair behind the bar and read a book.

The two of them didn't speak any more except for the phrase "morning".

Zhu Miao felt uncomfortable all over. Obviously Xiang Shu was not looking at him at all, but he was still uncomfortable, and he was cautious in every move, trying not to make a sound.Occasionally, he raised his eyes and scanned the bar in a hurry, seeing that Xiang Shu had been reading seriously by himself, and felt that he was too hypocritical.

He became more and more distracted, and when he was cleaning the table, he lost his mind, and the ceramic coaster on the table was touched by his elbow, and it fell in response, and the ceramic pieces were broken on the ground.

Zhu Miao was taken aback. This was the first time he broke something since he came here to work.

He squatted down hurriedly, picked it up in a panic, Xiang Shu came over, frowned and called him: "Don't use your hands..."

Before Xiang Shu could finish his sentence, Zhu Miao gasped in a "hissy" breath, the tip of his index finger was scratched, blood dripped out of it.

"I told you not to use your hands."

Xiang Shu seemed a little angry, he always smiled and didn't care, but this time his brows were tightly frowned, and his tone was a bit harsh.

Zhu Miao took the bloody fingertips into her mouth and sucked the smell of rust.He felt more and more sad, and felt that he couldn't do anything well.He stood aside and watched Xiang Shu pick up and throw away the tiles with his hands wrapped in a cloth, and there was a faint tingling pain in the scratched fingertips.

"I'm sorry..." Zhu Miao said in a low voice, "How much, please deduct it from my salary..."

"It's not much money, no need." Xiang Shu said.

The more he said that, the more uncomfortable Zhu Miao was.Zhu Miao still wanted to speak, but Xiang Shu interrupted him: "Why don't you take a break today? Go to the hospital to see your grandma?"

What Zhu Miao wanted to say was stuck in his throat. He stood still, and his good index finger was digging at the seam of his trousers on his thigh. After a long time, he said softly, "Mm, yes."

He took off his apron, hung it up, and went out in silence.Before he left, he glanced back, saw Xiang Shu through the glass, and sat back behind the bar to read a book quietly, blending in with this quiet and comfortable coffee shop.There were not many pedestrians on the road, and they came and went in a hurry. Zhu Miao felt that he had become one of these passers-by, passing by in a hurry, Xiang Shu just looked up at him, and they passed by again.

Really uncomfortable.

Before entering the hospital, Zhu Miao patted his face to cheer himself up, don't be depressed and let grandma worry.

Zhu Miao went in from the inpatient department with the fruit she bought, and when she got to the ward, she found that her grandma was not on the bed, but her things were still there, so she was not discharged from the hospital.The family members in the next bed had seen Zhu Miao many times and had known him for a long time. When they saw Zhu Miao coming, they hurriedly grabbed him.

"Oh, you are here, your grandma entered the intensive care unit this morning..."

Zhu Miao's heart was pounding. For a moment, his fingertips were numb with fear, and his tongue was not his own. He hurriedly turned around and went to the nurse's station. After asking, as expected, Grandma Zhu's condition worsened this morning. ICU.

"I, can I go and see..." Zhu Miao asked.

The nurse said: "You can only visit once a day, and you need to make an appointment in advance with the family members and the nurse's station. I have already visited today."

The name of the immediate family member left here in the hospital is Zhu Miao's uncle, which means that if Zhu Miao needs to visit, he needs his uncle's permission.Zhu Miao's heart sank all of a sudden, and he wanted to ask about his condition again.Since he was not an immediate family member, and the nurse couldn't talk to him, Zhu Miao had no choice but to turn around and leave.

Before leaving, he went to the previous ward to take another look. There was still a little woolen vest knitted by his grandma, which was placed on the bedside table, within reach.

Zhu Miao went home, but there was no one at home, and he called his uncle for a while, but no one answered, Zhu Miao had no choice but to squat downstairs for a while, with fruit in his hand, and went back to the store went.

Xiang Shu is no longer in the shop, replaced by Yi Ning.

Zhu Miao didn't care about this anymore.

Yiling is always expressionless, as if she doesn't care about anything, but she can always detect some very subtle emotions at the first time.For example, at this time, Zhu Miao came in with a bag of fruit, put it on the bar, and said, "Sister, do you want to eat fruit?" She immediately sensed that Zhu Miao was in a bad mood.

She said, "Let's eat together."

Zhu Miao bought new bayberries, each plump and purple in red.Yiling picked a large glass bowl from under the bar, filled it with salt water, and soaked the bayberry in it.The bayberries were round and round, floating and sinking in the water, Yi Ning stretched out his fingers, and pressed down the floating bayberries one by one.

Zhu Miao sat listlessly by the bar, and the cat who had always ignored him also jumped on his lap.

Yiling's hair was fluffy and long, and her glasses fell to the tip of her nose and she pushed them back to the bridge of her nose.She picked out the biggest and reddest red bayberry, put it in Zhu Miao's palm, and said succinctly, "Eat it."

"I broke a coaster today," Zhu Miao said.

Yiling: "Oh."

"I'm really useless..." Zhu Miao said again.

Yiling didn't speak, and she didn't know what to say, so she picked the second biggest and second most popular red bayberry to Zhu Miao.Zhu Miao stuffed both red bayberries into her mouth.Although Yangmei looked red, she didn't know why she was still sour. Zhu Miao couldn't eat sour, her nose was wrinkled, and she was so sour that she wanted to cry.

Yiling suddenly said: "Ah, that's right."

Zhu Miao was so sour that she couldn't speak, so she forced a single tone to show that she was listening.

"Xiang Shu," Yi Ning always called him by his first name, "I've always been single."

Zhu Miao was dumbfounded by what she said, and hurriedly spit out the core of the red bayberry, almost choking himself, and said, "Sister, why are you talking about this..."

Yiling was more confused than him, she tilted her head, looked at Zhu Miao, and said puzzledly: "Don't you want to know this?"

Zhu Miao: "Why do I want to know this!"

Yiling was speechless: "How do I know why you want to know this..."

Zhu Miao was about to be dizzy by her, so she couldn't say it.He jumped off the stool, and the cat sitting cross-legged on his lap hopped away with a meow.

"I, I'm going upstairs... to do my homework..."

Yi Ning watched him go upstairs, and started to eat the red bayberry expressionlessly, trembling from the sourness.

The author says:

This article shouldn't be cruel, right?