Why are you willing to let me take the baby alone

"Is there any food in the store?" Li Yiyang held the glass door with his hands, his voice was very hoarse.

"Yes, sorry, sir, we are closed," Liu Dong said to the tall man as he bent down to pick up the garbage bag in shock.After speaking, he walked across the street and threw the garbage bag into the trash can.

When Liu Dong turned around and returned to the store, he found that the man was still standing there. The light at the door of the store illuminated his face pale and pale. From Liu Dong's perspective, the man's hair was disheveled and his eye sockets were sunken , his lips were purple from the cold, his coat was also crumpled, and his whole body was travel-laden as if he had traveled a long time.

"Sir? Our store is closed, why don't you go..." Liu Dong remembered that this "Xinxin Fast Food" was the last restaurant on the street to attract the night shift workers from nearby factories to have supper. up.

Li Yiyang didn't know what to do at this time. He felt that he had lived for more than 20 years, and it was the first time he felt such a mess.

Liu Dong looked at the man's expressionless face, and then at his arm "blocking" the doorknob, what should we do?Push the man out and lock the door and leave?It didn't seem well, the man looked tired and cold.

"Why don't you go into the shop and wait, I'll see if I can make you something to eat?" Liu Dong couldn't bear to see the man like this, he just heard a series of gurgling from the man's stomach.

Li Yiyang suddenly lowered his head and stared at Liu Dong when he heard the words, his eyes shot out.In the future, Liu Dong would often use this look to make fun of Li Yiyang, saying that he could see the most perfect definition of the word "hungry" from this look.

Li Yiyang followed Liu Dong into the store. Liu Dong turned on the lights in the lobby and moved a heater to Li Yiyang's feet, "The boss is not here, so it's not easy to turn on the air conditioner. You can just use this to make ends meet. I'll go to the kitchen right away." I'll make you something to eat."

Li Yiyang felt the warm air from the heater, and it took him a long time to warm up.I looked around this small, pitiful restaurant. The first floor was said to be a lobby, and there were only five tables, a wooden cashier counter, and a row of shelves behind the counter, where some low-end wine and drinks were placed.Li Yiyang felt that even when he was the poorest when he first pursued financial independence when he was in college, he had never been in such a low-end restaurant, but now he is a boss at least, but sitting in such a restaurant waiting for food, Li Yiyang thought Laughed self-deprecatingly here.

When Liu Dong entered the kitchen, he turned on the gas and set up a pot to boil water. When the water was boiling, he went to look in the vegetable basket, washed the spinach and put it on the chopping board.The water boiled, and he found the dried noodles and put them in.When the noodles were cooked, he went to the refrigerator to find two eggs, a handful of bean sprouts and a small dish of raw thousand sheets.Standing in front of the pot, Liu Dong thought for a while and cut a section of sausage, a few slices of luncheon meat and a pinch of chopped green onion.

Li Yiyang felt that he didn't wait for a long time. Just now, the boy brought out a large bowl of steaming noodles from the kitchen. The noodles were sprinkled with chopped green onion and a few drops of sesame oil. There were eggs and meat, and the sight whetted the appetite. .

"Here, let's eat." Liu Dong put the bowl in front of the man and turned to go to the counter. He will have a rest tomorrow and write a note to the boss to explain what happened tonight.

When writing the note, Liu Dong heard the sound of the man eating noodles, and Liu Dong felt that the man was probably really hungry.After placing the note in a conspicuous place on the counter, Liu Dong sat down behind the counter.

To be honest, Liu Dong was quite afraid of facing this strange man. First of all, the man was tall. Liu Dong's height was only enough to hit the man's shoulders. He would feel a kind of pressure when the man got close to him.And whether it's the voice of speaking or the expression on his face when he speaks, the man feels cold and without any emotion.At first, Liu Dong wondered if he had met a bad guy.

It wasn't until he drank the last sip of noodle soup in the bowl that Li Yiyang put down the bowl in satisfaction and raised his head. Only then did he realize that the boy had gone somewhere.Li Yiyang looked left and right for a long time before he found a head behind the counter.

All right, what are you doing hiding there motionless?Li Yiyang walked over curiously, only to find that the boy was leaning back against the cabinet, already asleep.

Originally, he wanted to knock on the counter to wake up the boy, but looking at his sleeping face, Li Yiyang realized that he hadn't looked at the boy who cooked for him since he entered the door.Thinking of this, Li Yiyang lowered his hand on the counter.

The boy has a fair complexion, light eyebrows, long eyelashes, black under the eyelids, a small round nose, red and chapped cheeks, and dry, cracked lips.The boy was wearing this old brown padded jacket. Although it was old, it was washed very clean.Li Yiyang reckoned that the child was only fifteen or sixteen years old at most, and he was supposed to be at school, but he was already working, so he presumably was a child from a poor family.

Liu Dong didn't expect that he could fall asleep after taking a nap. When he woke up, he saw the man looking down at him with his head propped up across the counter. He was so shocked that he almost fell off the stool and lost his balance. , Liu Dong stood up from the stool in time to avoid falling.

Seeing the boy waking up in shock, Li Yiyang wondered if he looked scary?For the second time this evening he had frightened the boy.

"You, have you finished eating?" Liu Dong asked while leaning on the wall with one hand to stabilize his body, lowering his head slightly.

"Well, finished eating, thank you, how much is this?" Li Yiyang wanted to find a mirror to see if he was really so messed up, otherwise the boy would not dare to look at his face no matter what he said.

"No, it's just a bowl of noodles. I don't cook well, so I don't need to pay for it." Liu Dong shook his head, and the boss would not ask him to pay for the ingredients in the kitchen.

"How can I do that? You can't eat such delicious noodles for nothing," Li Yiyang was not flattering, he really felt that it was not an exaggeration to say that the bowl of noodles was the best he had ever eaten.

"I really don't need to give you any money. If you finish eating, just leave. I'm going to close the shop," Liu Dong walked out of the counter, ready to wash the noodle bowls.

"By the way, do you know if there is a hotel nearby?" Li Yiyang heard the boy chasing him away, and then he remembered that he had another problem to worry about today.

"Hotel? There used to be a hotel right in front of you, but the building was demolished a few days ago, and the hotel is going to be rebuilt..." Liu Dong thought for a while and said.

"Uh, it's like this, my car broke down on the highway, I followed a logistics vehicle to here, and then, I want to find a place to stay for a night, and I have to go to City Y to take a plane tomorrow morning " Li Yiyang was a little bit broken when he heard the boy's words, and began to tell the boy what happened today.

Liu Dong stood at the door of the kitchen with a noodle bowl in his hand, and he listened quietly to the man explaining what had happened to him.

"So, can I stay in your shop for one night?" Before Li Yiyang could ask, the boy said, "Oh, then follow me to my place, it's not far from here, you Wait for me, I'll wash the dishes and we'll go."

Li Yiyang watched the boy lift the curtain and disappear into the kitchen door, he didn't know how to express his gratitude to him.