dedicated to memorial day

White Valentine's Day is still here, overwhelming and surging.

It rained the day before, and the smell of love was wrapped in water vapor and floated down from the top of the peach blossom tree. It was densely pressed over the city, and soon dried by the sun, floating in the air lightly, even the wind Become affectionate.

In such an atmosphere, Zhou Yu changed the playlist played in the store to a Valentine's Day special.

Xiaoxi didn't ask for leave, and even brought her younger brother to the store to help.

Xiaoxi's younger brother is naturally called Xiaodong.

The most common word in southeast and northwest.Whether it is Xiaonan, Xiaobei or Xiaoxi, they all sound like they can have an adventure, but Xiaodong sounds too mediocre.

"Brother Zhou." Xiaoxi patted the boy on the back and said.

The boy in front of him looked as ordinary as his name, but he was very tall. Even though he was only fifteen or sixteen years old, he was almost 1.8 meters tall.The back is thin, the shoulders are broad, the typical figure of a teenager.

For a tall boy, he can be more forgiving in appearance, so Zhou Yu thinks that Xiaodong can be regarded as Qingjun.

"Just call me Zhou Yu." Zhou Yu smiled.

Xiaodong opened his mouth, and finally called out: "Boss."

"Don't you want to open a shop? I'm here today to help the flower shop move flowers and collect money. I'll give you 80 yuan when it's over." Xiaoxi put on a rare elder attitude.

Xiaodong didn't seem very talkative, so he nodded coldly.Then he gestured to the tin bucket behind Zhou Yu with his eyes and said, "Are those roses going to be moved out?"

The kid is pretty smart.Zhou Yu hurriedly nodded and said: "Yes, this bucket of neon sweethearts and stunning romance will be moved out."

"?" Xiaodong showed a puzzled expression, with a hint of amusement in the confusion.

"Just the bucket of red and the bucket of pink." Xiaoxi explained.

"Oh."

Xiaodong rolled up the sleeves of his jacket and lifted a bucket of flowers from the shelf, looking effortless.When walking past Zhou Yu with flowers, Zhou Yu couldn't help but look at the other's arm, and then looked down at his own. There was a feeling of being crushed by a species?

"Boss, you don't have to worry, just order him around." Xiaoxi said beside him.

Zhou Yu said: "Your brother looks quite stable."

Xiao Xi said: "This is in exchange for allowing him to go out for free activities for two hours after six o'clock."

Zhou Yu smiled and said nothing.

When Xiaodong walked in, Xiaoxi lowered his voice and whispered in his ear: "Boss, remember what we said."

Zhou Yu glanced at her, and walked over to pick up another pot of flowers that was about to be moved out.

Although Xiaodong and Xiaoxi are siblings, their personalities are very different.Xiaoxi is enthusiastic and cheerful, but Xiaodong is always a little gloomy, speaks slowly, and looks at himself with empty eyes from time to time, hesitant to speak.Whenever he looked over, the boy would immediately look away again, busy with his work.

However, Xiaodong also has characteristics similar to Xiaoxi, smart and agile.In just a few hours, I have already figured out a set of procedures in the store.

After another failed eye contact, Zhou Yu finally spoke first: "Do you have something to ask me?"

Xiaodong hesitated for a moment, said "Yes", and then asked, "Boss, is it fun to open a shop?"

"I get up early and work late every day. I have to deal with the shortage of flowers in the flower market, all kinds of unconditional price increases, and logistics problems. The rent of the store is not cheap. Sometimes I cut flowers until my fingers bleed, but I still often make ends meet!"

"?"

Zhou Yu followed Xiaoxi's instructions and spoke his lines verbatim.But obviously an actor who can only memorize lines hard is not considered a good actor. Zhou Yu's stiff acting success made Xiaodong frown.

Zhou Yu himself couldn't help laughing at first, but luckily he stopped it immediately, so he maintained his adult dignity. He coughed lightly and asked, "Why don't you want to go to school?"

"I always feel that I have a hard time studying." Xiaodong said, "I really want to open a shop. I don't have to study, right?"

Zhou Yu nodded. There are such things. It is best to be able to read, but some people may not have the talent in this area.

Zhou Yu asked, "What kind of store do you want to open?"

Xiaodong pressed the ballpoint pen in his hand, making a clicking sound, and said, "Small restaurants or something."

Zhou Yu thought for a while and asked, "Then you have to wait until you become an adult?"

"Yeah." The clicking sound quickened.

Zhou Yu said with a little embarrassment: "It seems that there is no other way but to go to school now."

"En." The ballpoint pen was placed on the table, and the boy was already making gestures to stand up.

Zhou Yu glanced at the ballpoint pen and said: "The knowledge in high school is basically useless, and it will hardly be used in the future."

Xiaodong froze for a moment, but didn't stand up.Zhou Yu smiled and continued: "But don't think about just perfunctory the remaining two years. After you develop the habit of being casual, you won't succeed in anything."

Xiaodong looked at Zhou Yu half understanding.

Zhou Yu said, "Do you want to succeed in opening a store?"

Xiaodong understood this sentence, so he nodded.

"During the winter and summer vacations, I'll let you know if there are any restaurants accepting temporary workers." Zhou Yu blinked.

Xiaodong was silent for a few seconds and said "thank you".

At the end of the chat, Zhou Yu turned around and prepared to take the pink bellflower on the shelf outside. The roses were sold out, so he had to use counterfeit roses and bellflowers to replace them.But what he didn't expect was that the water in the leather bucket seemed to be filled too much, and Zhou Yu was not strong enough, so he almost swooped around and put the bucket of flowers on his head.

Fortunately, Xiaodong behind him had quick eyes and hands, and stretched out his hand to support the flower bucket, so Zhou Yu survived.

The wind chimes at the door rang at this moment, and the two subconsciously looked towards the door, just in time to face Cheng Jingshen who walked in.

In just a few seconds, the atmosphere became unnatural for some reason. It wasn't that there was anything wrong. Everyone was doing appropriate things, but there was always an indescribable sense of confrontation.

"I'll help you." Xiaodong withdrew his eyes lazily, and moved down the bucket of platycodon. 16 years old happens to be the age when you have nowhere to spend your energy.

A trace of indifference flashed in Cheng Jingshen's eyes, but he immediately smiled and said, "The store has hired new employees? Didn't I see it when I came yesterday?"

"Xiaoxi's younger brother, come to the shop to help out on Valentine's Day." Zhou Yu explained.

Cheng Jingshen said, "Is the store busy? Then I'll come and help."

As he said that, he was about to turn around the counter and walk inside. He rolled up his sleeves with a certain attitude, and pointed to another bucket of flowers on the shelf: "Do you want to move this flower out?"

Zhou Yu originally wanted to say no, because it was a pot of carnations.But seeing Cheng Jingshen's excited expression, the words turned into: "It's troublesome."

So the flower shop became Cheng Jingshen and Zhou Yu's main battlefield, Xiaodong could only be forced to stay with Xiaoxi in the tea room.

Twenty minutes before six o'clock, a girl appeared at the door, wearing a cotton and linen dress with a doll collar, a beige cardigan sweater over it, a small hairpin pinned to her black hair, and a paper bag in her hand son.He didn't come in, but just looked around at the door, met Zhou Yu's eyes through the glass door, and immediately turned his back shyly.

Fifteen or sixteen years old, looking forward to the brilliance of the girl, doing nothing is already beauty itself.

Zhou Yu smiled, lowered his head and cut off the stem of the white platycodon in his hand, and wrapped it in kraft paper again.Then Zhou Yu called Xiaodong over from the tea room and asked him to help tidy up the flower stalks on the ground.

Seeing the girl outside the door, Xiaodong's expressionless face finally showed some slight changes. The corners of his mouth and eyes could not be hidden, but he still obediently picked up the broom next to him.

Zhou Yu stuffed the bunch of white platycodons on the table together with a day's commission into Xiaodong's hand, and gestured out the window with his eyes.

"your get off work is done."

Xiaodong was stunned for a moment, and after he realized it, he finally showed his first smile today, said "thank you", then dropped the broom and ran out.

Sure enough, he was still a child.

As the spring sun sinks to the west, the streets are full of the scent of roses, and it is gentle towards the evening.

Zhou Yu looked out through the glass window, and the boy ran to the girl, handed her the flowers in his hand, and scratched his hair embarrassingly.The girl also lowered her head and stuffed the paper bag into her arms.Then, the two disappeared out of sight together.

The music in the playlist happened to be "wouldn'titbenice" by the Beach Boys. The lead singer's voice was sweet and sweet, with a youthful air.Such a scene inevitably reminds people of youth, the forever young boys and girls, and the forever bright sunny lawn.

Zhou Yu is somewhat envious of Xiaodong's age, not because of how beautiful his youth is, on the contrary, he has never been considered that kind of particularly happy child.Because of skipping grades, he is always younger than the people around him. Apart from his studies, he has nothing worth mentioning. Also, because of his introverted personality, he likes to be in a daze, and often likes to stay alone in a corner, so he is considered weird and difficult. near.

But at that time, I was not particularly lonely, maybe because I hadn't lost interest in beautiful things.There are always all kinds of rock music in the old-fashioned MP3, the hidden novels are not just to pass the time, and the summer nights seem to never end.

There is a teapot shop called "Taoliangge" on the street before the supplementary course institution. There is a small flower threshold at the door of the shop, and the word "cautious" in cursive writing is hung on the wall in the middle of the shop.He would always go there after making up lessons on Saturdays, and watch the people inside pinch the teapot through the glass door.The shop owner sits behind the glass door most of the time, pinching the pot, but occasionally stands up to instruct the apprentices behind him.Watching the teapots take shape one by one, sent to the kiln to be fired into containers, and then arranged neatly and put on shelves for sale, Zhou Yu always felt inexplicably comfortable.

He is not always alone. Sometimes there will be a boy about his age at the door holding a shower to water the small flower sill. The boy is always wearing a school uniform or a white T-shirt, and the flowers in the small flower sill are always blooming. well done.In fact, the boy should wear other clothes, and the flowers should wither sometimes, but he can't remember it.

When the teenager sees him, he always smiles and says "Hello" to him, revealing the silver braces when he smiles, and he will say "excuse me" in a hurry and then bow his head and leave.But the next time we meet, the teenager will still smile and show the silver braces, so that in the end he doesn't remember the other person's appearance but still remembers the other person's braces.

It's funny to say that the only thing that left traces of his boring youth days and nights were the braces.

"You seem to be envious?" Cheng Jingshen's voice sounded from behind, bringing Zhou Yu back to reality.

Zhou Yu turned around and said in a low voice, "Girls are beautiful."

Cheng Jingshen took another look outside the door. There had been no two people there for a long time. He said, "I don't feel anything."

"If I have feelings for minors, I will call the police immediately." Zhou Yu said.

The two looked at each other and both laughed.

"It's still very beautiful." Zhou Yu said.

"what?"

"Youth is still very beautiful."

Dreams can be expected to come true, and love should be fulfilled.

"It's because he's brave enough." Cheng Jingshen fiddled with the petals that fell on the table, and his tone was inexplicably self-deprecating, "If it were me, I probably wouldn't express this feeling."

Zhou Yu was puzzled: "What kind?"

"Everyone is against it. If you can't see the future, there will never be any results."

Zhou Yu said: "Isn't first love complete because it's unfinished, perfect because it's not perfect?"

"Most of the time, I don't believe in this idea." Cheng Jingshen smiled, looked into Zhou Yu's eyes and said, "I think regrets are regrets, and perfection should have no regrets."

Cheng Jingshen rarely had a pessimistic moment.During the half month since I met Cheng Jingshen, Mr. Zhou Yu vaguely felt that Cheng Jingshen was not as gentle as he appeared on the surface.This is not to say that there is anything wrong with Cheng Jingshen's behavior, on the contrary, he is even more inclined to the kind of good old man in the traditional sense, and he would smile and say it's okay to you if his own interests are compromised.But there is also a kind of natural melancholy and natural indifference in him.This natural viciousness, which he may not even notice, occasionally makes him say some rather sharp words, which are quickly overshadowed by the gentle and positive established impression.

Zhou Yu didn't have time to answer when he saw Xiaoxi come out from inside.

Xiaoxi asked, "Where's Xiaodong?"

"It's six o'clock. He's off work." Zhou Yu said.

"Stinky boy, I knew he was going to run away." Xiaoxi was anxious, and ran to the door to see where there were two figures.Originally, Xiaoxi was Xu's empty promise, and he planned to take Xiaodong to watch a movie with him after get off work, but he didn't expect to kill Zhou Yu halfway, and let Xiaodong run away.

There was a hint of slyness in Zhou Yu's eyes, that expression was very familiar, like a supporting character who helped the protagonist plan his elopement in a shoddy TV series, for fear that the audience would not know that he had done such a good deed, and would show such a clumsy expression to tell audience drama.

Therefore, art comes from life.

"Boss!" Xiaoxi called him through gritted teeth, Zhou Yu hurriedly turned his back, pretending to pick up the leaves of water bamboo.

Cheng Jingshen took a look at Zhou Yu, and probably guessed what was going on. The corner of his mouth curled up, and he said, "Shall we relax together after the end?"

Zhou Yu and Xiaoxi looked at him together, and he smiled and took out three tickets from his pocket, which were tickets for Moon, with the words "Autse Band Special Concert" written on them.

It was the performance that Xiaoxi said he wanted to see.

As we all know, the method of slapping a sweet date is shamefully old-fashioned but effective.