food storage house

At five o'clock in the afternoon, the food and storage dinner scene officially started.He Yuqing, who came in before, went somewhere, but Mo Lin, who was on shift today, has appeared in the bar area, and all the waiters are also in place.The part-time waiter who came today is Sun Ying who I met at noon yesterday. There is also a new part-time waiter who is a tall and beautiful girl with long hair. Her name is Liang Wen. I heard that she is in the same class as Sun Ying. Classmates, the two are still roommates in the same dormitory.

As a result, there are a total of three part-time waiters, and Meng Yixuan has now recognized all of them.Two college students Sun Ying and Liang Wen from the Japanese Department of Shanghai Normal University, plus a hip-hop girl Jiang Yueming.The hip-hop girl said yesterday that she couldn't come because of something, and gave Liu Lu a birthday present in advance.

Meng Yixuan has already begun to familiarize herself with the menu of Shizang, and at the same time helps with some reception work.The number of customers in the store is the same as yesterday. After 05:30, the number of customers gradually increased, and everyone became more and more busy.

Today's birthday star Liu Lu didn't come back until nearly six o'clock. She also came with a young girl, dressed in a Japanese style, with a ponytail, handsome features, and a student-like appearance, dragging a big suitcase.Meng Yixuan thought, this girl is probably the friend Liu Lu picked up from the train station.They came in through the main gate. After entering, Liu Lu took the girl and talked with Huo foreman at the cashier counter for a while.Afterwards, the two chose a seat in the corner and sat down. The twin sister Dong Suizhi helped them order. It seemed that Liu Lu was going to be a guest tonight.

"It's been a long time since I came back, Shicang is still the same as before." Chen Lixue smiled.

Sitting opposite her, Liu Lu bent her lips and said:

"It's only been half a year since you left, how much can you change?"

"Half a year is a long time, no change is the biggest change." Chen Lixue said, "How is r recently?"

"Very good. You asked me what I was doing. She should be right behind now. Now that everyone is here, let's meet her later." Liu Lu winked at her.

Chen Lixue lowered her head, and said with a little embarrassment:

"To be honest, I always feel quite ashamed to meet R."

"What are you thinking? When you left, it wasn't because you didn't do a good job, it was because of your family." Liu Lu frowned.

"Yeah, that's why I feel sorry for R." Chen Lixue raised her hand and smoothed her hair by her ear.

Liu Lu was silent for a moment, then changed the subject and said:

"This time you come to Shanghai to participate in the comic exhibition, how many days will you stay?"

"Well, it's been about four or five days. It's considered a business trip. I didn't expect my previous interest to become my current job. It's incredible." Chen Lixue smiled again.

"Isn't that great? It used to be our... dream to be in an animation company." When she said "we", she paused, staring out the window with slightly turbulent eyes.

Seeing her like this, Chen Lixue couldn't help saying:

"Xiaolu, I know your temperament, and we don't mince words between us. Have you been in touch with her recently?"

Liu Lu lowered her eyes and said softly, "No, that is, I secretly checked her Weibo and WeChat, and didn't speak directly."

"You guys, is this really okay? Don't blame me for not opening which pot and which pot to carry. What happened on your birthday last year was simply a misunderstanding. Why did you not reconcile even now?"

"Lily, it's not because of a misunderstanding. In fact, she already has that kind of heart. It doesn't matter whether the misunderstanding is a long time ago. Even if we talk about it, we can't go back to the past. She walked her way of Yangguan, I crossed my single-plank bridge, and we are already two independent people." Liu Lu said lightly, holding the water glass on the table.

"But none of you deleted the other party's contact information, did you?" Chen Lixue said.

"After all, we are good friends for four years in college. Even if there are divergences in life, the friendship is still there. I don't want to go too far. She probably thinks the same way." Liu Lu smiled wryly.

"Time is such a killer, I really miss the former 307 dormitory." Chen Lixue propped her head and looked outside.

"Yeah, young and innocent, pure and flawless, who doesn't have youth. In a blink of an eye, I will be 24, and it has been two years since I graduated." Liu Lu said.

"Shou Xing, I'm sorry, but today is your birthday, but I said all the unhappy things." Chen Lixue said embarrassedly.

"What are you talking about? I'm already very happy that you came all the way from Hangzhou to celebrate my birthday with me. When you called me this morning, you gave me a big surprise." Liu Lu laughed.

***

"Eh? Is the girl who came in with Liu Lu a former employee of Shizang?" Meng Yixuan, who was called by Huo Yan to move the tatami in the back warehouse, said in surprise.

"Yes, her name is Chen Lixue. She and Liu Lu are classmates in the university and close friends in the same dormitory. They eat and work together in the kitchen. Chen Lixue was still working in the kitchen until half a year ago. Later, because her family was dissatisfied with her work as a waiter, she was arrested. Forcibly recalled her hometown Hangzhou, and I heard that she is now working in an animation company in Hangzhou. This time, she came to attend the Shanghai Comic Exhibition two days later, but she came early to celebrate Xiaolu’s birthday.”

"Hmm...so that's the case." Meng Yixuan nodded.

Huo Yan, who was looking at the tatami, hesitated for a moment, and said:

"Xiao Meng, I shouldn't talk too much about other people's private affairs. But this matter is more or less related to you, so I will tell you. After all, as the head waiter, I have the obligation to mediate between the employees. contradiction."

Meng Yixuan's heart sank, she stopped what she was doing, and waited for Huo Yan's next words.

"There is a reason why Xiaolu hates going through the back door so much. In addition to Xiaolu and Chen Lixue, there was another girl who entered the food store with them. The girl's name was Zhou Ke, and Xiaolu Lu and Chen Lixue are good friends in a dormitory. The three girls from the Japanese department eat and work together, just like Sun Ying and Liang Wen now.

At the beginning, none of them planned to be a waiter in the food store as a lifetime job. They were all college students who had just graduated. They rented a house together, looked for jobs together, and worked part-time in the food store in order to have some income to support themselves.Three penniless little girls who just graduated, have a lot of backbone, don't want to rely on their family members, and want to break out a world by themselves in Shanghai.They have a common ideal, and they all want to work in an animation company.So while working in Shicang, I was interviewing everywhere, bumping into walls everywhere.

Later, though, things didn't go so well.Zhou Ke, who couldn't find a job for a long time, finally caused her family to intervene in her affairs.Zhou Ke is a native of Shanghai, and her family has the best conditions among the three. Her father has a wide circle of contacts. Seeing that her daughter has been unable to find a job, she became anxious. She asked an acquaintance to find a local animation company in Shanghai, and the other party agreed to let her Zhou Ke went to the interview.Coincidentally, Zhou Ke himself and Liu Lu also invested in this company at the same time, and were recruited for an interview together. "

Speaking of this, Huo Yan sighed deeply, and Meng Yixuan had already guessed the next story.

"However, this company doesn't need many people after all. During the interview process, Liu Lu's performance was obviously much better than Zhou Ke's. Xiao Lu has a foundation in art. She has participated in various comic exhibitions many times during college. Clothes, peripherals, doujinshi, strong hands-on ability, these have aroused the animation company's strong interest in her. Compared with Liu Lu, Zhou Ke's ability is much weaker, and she has no other strengths except fluent Japanese. In contrast, it is obvious who will be admitted.

And the worst thing was that the day before Xiaolu's birthday last year, the animation company sent an acceptance notice to Xiaolu in the form of a text message, telling her that she was hired.Xiaolu is very happy, double happiness.Although Zhou Ke was not hired, she was not discouraged. Everyone even held a birthday party for Xiaolu to celebrate her being officially hired and graduating from Shizang.On the same day, Zhou Ke also cooked in person and made omelet rice. "

"Omelet rice..." Meng Yixuan murmured.

"Well, but that evening, when everyone was preparing to eat, Xiao Lu suddenly received a call. It was the boss of the animation company who called to apologize, saying that they had sent the wrong recruitment notice and that the one who hired was not Xiao Lu. But Zhou Ke..."

Huo Yan's words were a little difficult, obviously recalling the situation at that time still made her extremely worried.

"Xiao Lu didn't say anything yet, but Zhou Ke broke out first, and the quarrel was very tense. Zhou Ke said a lot of ugly things, very jealous, very sad, and I still remember her saying at that time: After all, this world depends on Power and wealth, without these are all empty talk. She admitted that she relied on her father's relationship to squeeze Xiaolu away. After that, Xiaolu... she unscrewed the bottle of ketchup in her hand, and all It fell on Zhou Ke."

Is this why she never eats ketchup when eating omelet rice?Meng Yixuan frowned tightly.

"But in fact, Zhou Ke didn't know that her father used her relationship to help her through the back door. Until the day of the birthday party, she answered a phone call quietly. Looking back afterwards, I realized that it should be that phone call that let Zhou Ke know what his father was doing behind the scenes. We were all hindsight, and everyone was very angry and hated Zhou Ke at the time."

Meng Yixuan didn't know what to say. In fact, she was not unfamiliar with such a story, but when it happened around her, she would deeply understand the heart-wrenching part.

"Don't blame Liu Lu, this girl...it's not easy. She has been straight since she was a child, so that she has become that kind of unpleasant child. She has no friends and is always scolded for her low EQ. Finally, she went to university. , and finally made two close friends, namely Zhou Ke and Chen Lixue. However, they experienced this kind of thing again, and since then lost one friend. Not long after that incident, Chen Lixue also had to leave Shanghai due to family reasons. The only two friends left." Huo Yan said so much that tears came out, he took out a handkerchief from his bosom, put it in the corner of his eyes to suck the tears, and then continued:

"Xiao Meng, do you know what omelet rice represents in the eyes of the Japanese?"

Meng Yixuan didn't answer, she knew that Huo Yan didn't intend to ask her to answer.

"Giving omelet rice to friends represents a deep friendship. I remember Xiaolu telling me that omelet rice used to be her favorite food, but now... it has become the food she fears the most..."

Meng Yixuan felt heavy in her heart, a little out of breath.

......

At 45:50 in the evening, Shizang ushered in a new guest. He Yuqing, who came here in the afternoon, took the lead. She was followed by a middle-aged man with a serious face and glasses, about [-] to [-] years old. man.Behind the two, there is a man and a woman. The man has a big SLR around his neck, and he looks like a photographer.The woman looked very young, with shoulder-length hair and black-rimmed glasses.Her face looked a bit gloomy, and although her facial features were correct, she gave off a gloomy and depressing feeling.

The reception twin sister, Dong Yousi, immediately led them to line up after seeing the group of people. She couldn't help but glance at the woman following behind, squeezed her fists, and suppressed the shock in her heart.The middle-aged man was obviously the person with the most distinguished status. When he heard that there was a queue, he didn't say anything, but the photographer babbled a few words, which was soothed by Dong Yousi with a smile and a kind tone.

When the group of four people lined up, Dong Yousi hurried towards the backcourt with messy footsteps, caught his sisters Dong Suizhi and Zhang Beibei on the way, and whispered something in their ears respectively, both of them showed surprise on their faces color.Immediately, the eyes of the two began to aim in the direction of the front line.

Dong Yousi continued to rush to the backcourt, almost tripping over the clogs under his feet in a hurry, and finally stumbled to find Huo Yan and Meng Yixuan who were in the warehouse.

"Sister Huo! Too bad! That Zhou Ke, she's here!"

"Ah?!" Huo Yan and Meng Yixuan said in unison.