To Oak

Xiang Shu was in a bad mood. He saw a cute kid, but after chatting for a few words, he didn't do much. He was punched for no reason, and his cheekbones were burning hot all afternoon.He looked in the mirror again and again, his face was blue and purple, which damaged his image.He hurriedly called Yiling to come over to cover his shift, took out a mask to cover his face, and went home. It was only at night that he remembered that there were still coffee beans in the shop that had not been roasted, so he went out again in the dark.

From a distance, he saw a person sitting in front of the store, curled up pitifully on the wooden bench in front of the store, and when he took a closer look, he found that it was the idiot who beat someone in the afternoon.

Well, he was worried that he couldn't find anyone, so he brought it to the door himself.

Seeing that his face was as black as the bottom of a pot, Zhu Miao immediately stood up and bowed to him.Because of shame and embarrassment, his face flushed red, and he stammered: "Yes, I'm sorry, I didn't, I didn't mean it..."

Xiang Shu took a step back, looked him up and down, and said coldly, "Accidentally hit me?"

Zhu Miao is not short, but the man in front of him is a head taller than him. With his hands in the pockets of his jeans, his face was full of impatience when he looked down at him. In the darkness.Zhu Miao began to wonder why she had the guts to put a face on someone in the afternoon.He said: "I misunderstood what you meant...I don't know...I don't know that 'hand pour' means hand pour coffee, so..."

Xiang Shu raised his eyebrows and asked curiously, "What do you think it means?"

Zhu Miao's face turned even redder, so red that his face was burning hot, he was ashamed, and his voice was like a mosquito: "I thought... that's... the meaning of punching..."

His voice was too low, Xiang Shu couldn't hear clearly at all, and he still lowered his head, from Xiang Shu's perspective, he could only see his wet and messy hair, like a bird's nest.Xiang Shu asked impatiently, "What are you playing? Make it louder, you haven't eaten."

Zhu Miao smashed the jar and said loudly, "Handling!"

There was no sound from the opposite side for a long time, Zhu Miao looked up, and Xiang Shu came to his senses, and smiled "puchi", covering his stomach, laughing for a long time, making Zhu Miao more and more embarrassed.Xiang Shu supported the lamppost by the side of the road with one hand, and said with a smile: "Are you serious? I laughed so hard, beat me up..."

Zhu Miao said: "If you are still angry, you can call me back..."

Xiang Shu finished laughing. Seeing that Zhu Miao was serious, he closed his eyes, raised his head, and waited for him to beat him back with a heroic look.It was the first time Xiang Shu took a serious look at his face, he was not bad looking, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, the corners of his lips were slightly upturned when he was not smiling, the lip line was clear, and the peak of his lips was a clear letter M—lips suitable for kissing.It was just a flash of thought, Xiang Shu raised his hand high and gently lowered it, rubbing a feather on Zhu Miao's cheek, Zhu Miao opened his eyes blankly.

"Called back."

Xiang Shu took out the key to open the shop door, and then said: "Okay, let's go, be more careful next time."

Zhu Miao stared blankly at him as he opened the door and went in. The door swung open and closed, and he was left standing outside the door alone. The black and white kitten lying on the bench turned over, "purring purring" in its throat The ground rings.

Xiang Shu left the silly boy outside the door behind and went into the shop to go up to the second floor.There is a roaster for roasting green coffee beans on the second floor of the store, and he plans to roast the newly purchased batch of green beans tonight.When roasting coffee beans, he needs to pay attention to the heat and temperature at all times. He didn't realize that it was raining again until a batch of beans were roasted.

He looked at the mottled rain marks on the glass window, stared blankly for a while, bagged the roasted beans one by one, memorized the roasting parameters, wrote the label and date, and went downstairs to lock the door and go home, who knows Lou Ji met the silly boy who was still standing outside. He pushed the door and stuck his head out. The silly boy was very flustered and said guiltily, "It's raining. I'm hiding from the rain. I'll leave when the rain stops."

"Can I lend you an umbrella?"

"No, the rain has stopped... I'll go when the rain stops..."

Xiang Shu: "Zhu...what's your name, Zhu Xiaocao?"

Zhu Miao hurriedly said: "Zhu Miao, my name is Zhu Miao, the seedling of a sapling."

Xiang Shu asked bluntly, "Do you have nowhere to go?"

Zhu Miao stopped talking, he didn't know how to answer, he showed a little unconscious pity on his face, his hair was still messy, the kitten in his arms was also messy, and his watery eyes were dripping , called out at the right time, whimpering and miserable.

It was still raining outside, and the water dripping from the eaves fell onto Zhu Miao's shoes, Zhu Miao moved, Xiang Shu glanced at his half-wet shoes, and said, "Come in."

Zhu Miao was kind and good, just as he took a step, he looked at the kitten in his arms in embarrassment.

"Hold in."

One person and one cat went into the store. When Zhu Miao entered the door, he obediently rubbed the wet soles of his shoes on the door carpet again and again, for fear of stepping on shoe prints, he asked, "What do you call you?"

Xiang Shu took out his work card from under the bar, patted it on the bar, and motioned for him to read it for himself. Seeing that Zhu Miao had watched it for a long time, he was a little embarrassed, and reminded him: "Shu, the sound of tree is the same as tree."

Zhu Miao blushed and scratched her head.

Xiang Shu led him up to the second floor, picked up the kitten in his arms by pinching the back of his neck, the kitten struggled twice, raised its hind paw to scratch someone, and was slapped on the butt by Xiang Shu twice, Be honest.There are two big cages on the second floor, and several cats in the store are locked in them, pulling the iron bars of the cages, looking out curiously.

Xiang Shu took out a smaller cage from the corner, locked the kitten in, put cat food and water, and the kitten started to devour it.Zhu Miao looked at the rather cramped second floor. There was a machine next to the cat cage, and there was a table against the wall on the other side with bags of coffee beans on it. Next to the table was a spacious couch and a few small wooden chairs. .

"You can sleep here." Xiang Shu pointed to the couch.

Zhu Miao was stunned: "Can I sleep here?"

"Okay." Xiang Shu said, "Don't touch my machines and beans, and don't touch my cats either."

Zhu Miao couldn't believe what she heard: "Aren't you afraid that I will evacuate your store?"

Xiang Shu pointed to the camera installed in the corner, then pointed to the school uniform on his body, and said, "You are a student from the nearby high school, right? I still have a camera here. I will ask you to find one. If you lose it, you will lose ten." There is nothing valuable in the store. The coffee machine is the most expensive, and you probably won’t be able to move it.”

Zhu Miao was overjoyed and grateful, and said, "Thank you!"

"Okay," he said, "I'll lock the door later, the spare key is under the vase on the bar, you have to go to school tomorrow morning, and lock the door when you leave."

Before Xiang Shu left, he pointed to his hair and said with disgust: "There is a bathroom over there, and your hair will be fixed, like a bird's nest."

Zhu Miao sat on the soft old sofa and heard the sound of locking the door. After a while, the store was quiet, only the sound of the pendulum swinging back and forth, and the cat's "purring".With a long sigh, he collapsed on the sofa and looked at the white ceiling. There was a faint scent of sandalwood in the store, which was reassuring.

When Xiang Shu arrived at the store the next day, he almost forgot about the episode of the previous night.

He often picks up things in the store. The vases in the store are wine jugs he picked up, the cats are all stray cats he picked up, and the barista—Yi Ning, is also picked up by him. A kitten is nothing.When he opened the door and entered the store, there was no one in the store. He went up to the second floor to look, and Zhu Miao disappeared completely. Fiddled with it for fun, the big cats in the next cage looked at it like a fool.

Xiang Shu noticed that the floor of the store had been mopped and it was clean, and the bar counter seemed to have been wiped and was shiny.He smiled lightly, didn't pay much attention, released all the big cats from the cage, cleaned up the bar, and prepared to open the shop.

He didn't expect that when he was about to close the shop and leave in the evening, Zhu Miao pushed the door open again and came in. His hair was still messy, his face was bruised and purple, and he was more pitiful than a stray cat. He laughed when he saw him.

"Brother," Zhu Miao said flatteringly, "good afternoon."