days of waiting

Under the bright white sky in the morning, Li Chen opened the door and entered the store.

Wiping every tabletop with her usual leisurely pace, she doesn't like to listen to classical music in the morning, so the song playing now is SoloMonk's jazz.

brisk morning.

When the hour hand slightly touched the tip of the nose of the number eight, Li Chen sighed softly, put down the rag, put on an apron, and walked into the kitchen.

The brownie should not be baked for half an hour, otherwise it will be too dry and not good.

The batter of chocolate bean biscuits should be deiced from the freezer first, otherwise it will not be easy to shape.

Everyone loves cookies, so even if you don't like them, you have to seriously make more.

If the puff batter is not raised well, it can only be regarded as a failed kitchen waste.The cooking process of custard sauce must be watched closely, otherwise the whole pot must be thrown away if there is a bit of burnt smell.

...

"Hey! Chen! I want to refresh my mind."

As soon as Cheng Youwei opened the door and entered the store, he let go of his voice and yelled.Only then did Li Chen realize that it was almost nine o'clock...or it was already past nine o'clock.She put the last batch of banana cakes in the oven, baked at 180°C for 10 minutes, and walked out of the kitchen to see the guy slumped in front of the bar, who made the shop like his own.

"You Wei, this is a coffee shop, not a bar."

Li Chen said softly, the voice was neither high nor low, like the muffled crashing sound of pebbles sinking at the bottom in the torrent.

"Hey! What a fool!" Cheng Youwei yelled impatiently as he tapped his knuckles on the wooden tabletop, "I know! That's why I said I want a drink to wake me up!"

Li Chen shrugged his shoulders, boiled hot water, found Colombian coffee beans, and adjusted the scale of the grinder to 5.5. After a burst of mechanical noise, the aroma of freshly ground coffee beans slowly wafted out.Picking up the container containing the brown powder, Li Chen put the coffee powder in front of his nose, closed his eyes and let the aroma rush into his nasal cavity.

…Coffee always has some aroma of cocoa powder, and sometimes some smoke of tobacco. The dried coffee powder is always a mysterious thing. Before brewing, there is actually a kind of smell similar to meat floss...

"Hey! Stop searching there! Bring me my coffee!"

Because that person was Cheng Youwei, an old friend whom he had known for almost ten years, so Li Chenyin resisted the urge to strangle her neck and feed the whole bag of coffee beans into her mouth, turned around and folded the filter paper.

"Would you like something to eat?" Li Chen asked, poured the coffee powder into the filter paper, put the filter cup on the coffee pot, and drew a circle on the brown powder plane with the water temperature of 88 degrees.

"What? I want cake."

"Banana. Brownie, wait another 20 minutes."

As Li Chen said, he sliced ​​the last batch of baked and cooled cakes into the tray.

"Only these two?" Cheng Youwei yelled in dissatisfaction, "There are super delicious cheesecakes out there, why are there only these two?"

Li Chen sighed, she had already told herself to understate it as much as possible.

"Xiaomi is late again, so there are only a few desserts that I can make."

While talking, he brought Cheng Youwei's coffee to the table.

Cheng Youwei squinted his eyes, unexpectedly said other things without impulsiveness, and looked at Li Chen.

The store door opened, Li Chen turned his head to look almost expectantly, and saw a slender and elegant figure sliding into the store.

"Li Chen." It was a soft and soft voice, and it felt numb from the back.

Cheng Youwei's jaw was about to drop to the table, and the coffee cup brought to his mouth clicked back into the tray, sat upright, and looked at Li Chen with questioning eyes.

"Good morning, Shujin." Li Chen greeted quietly, trying to hide the disappointment of broken expectations.

Zhang Shujin leaned lightly on the bar, and spoke slowly as if in thought, the faint fragrance wafting from her body.Cheng Youwei took a little effort to straighten his back, and restrained the urge, don't lean over to sniff.

"Anything new?"

"Drink and look at this." Li Chen poured a cup of coffee and handed it to Zhang Shujin. He saw that the other party was holding the coffee cup carefully, smelling the aroma, then parted his red lips slightly, and took a small sip.

Cheng Youwei watched fascinatedly, Li Chen frowned and gave her a look, knowing that she was probably shouting something in her heart, "beauties drink coffee differently!", or something like "I wish I was that coffee cup too".

"How about it?"

"Well, it's very deep." Zhang Shujin said, her throat trembling slightly, as if savoring the aftertaste of the coffee, "I also like this mellowness."

Seeing Cheng Youwei immediately picked up the coffee cup and drank it, Li Chen probably wanted to experience the taste that the beauty likes, and then the stupid guy immediately choked on the bitterness, and then coughed ugly.

"Isn't this Mandheling? It's a bit like it, but it doesn't feel quite the same."

"It's Bucaramanga." Li Chen asked, lowering his head and digging out a bag of beans, "It was just delivered yesterday, and they are very fresh."

Without thinking too much, Zhang Shujin took out a thousand yuan bill from the wallet, handed it to Li Chen, and took the beans.

Didn't even ask the price.Li Chen was always unable to adapt to Zhang Shujin's habits, and felt that the order of the quotations at this moment was a bit absurd. In fact, it was no big deal, but Li Chen could easily get entangled in such embarrassing details.That fellow Cheng Youwei was always talkative, but now he was shaking gently like a scarecrow, staring at Zhang Shujin without much enthusiasm, and had no intention of helping Li Chen out of his trap at all.

"Well... I don't have any money to look for now..." Li Chen finally said this.

"Then can you please remember it for me? Just deduct it when you buy beans next time." Zhang Shujin said, but her attitude didn't seem to be fussy, but it seemed that she didn't care about the hundreds of dollars in change. Money is an understatement.

Li Chen nodded, opened the account book and wrote it down carefully.

"Are you going to class later?" Li Chen raised his head and asked Zhang Shujin who was drinking coffee.

"No, the internship ended very early, and I have already obtained the teacher certificate." Zhang Shujin shook the coffee cup lightly, "...now I am preparing for the teacher examination."

"Oh." Li Chen responded lightly, and heard Cheng Youwei make a faint "cracking" sound like gears not oiled.

This guy Cheng Youwei is a beauty detector. The way to measure it depends on the quality of the person in front of him - appearance, figure, temperament, the trinity - how good it is.The better you meet, the more Cheng Youwei's IQ will drop.Li Chen sighed for this more than once, Cheng Youwei is a tragic character who loves beautiful women but at the same time can't touch beautiful women.

"Li Chen, thank you for your coffee." Zhang Shujin pushed the coffee cup onto the bar and smiled at Li Chen, "Then I'll go first."

"The exam went well." Li Chen said to Zhang Shujin's back.

Seeing the other party looking back and smiling, Cheng Youwei immediately only had the language ability of a three-year-old child.

"Ah Chen! Why do you keep such good things to yourself instead of sharing them with old friends?"

Cheng Youwei pointed at Li Chen and yelled in an accusatory tone.

"Shuyu is a regular customer, and often comes to buy beans."

Answer the question completely.

"Damn, such a temperamental iceberg beauty!" Cheng Youwei almost shouted while holding his head, "Why is it that you, a dull ghost like you, can meet casually? It's so unfair."

Li Chen was concentrating on arranging the biscuits neatly on the tray, without even looking at Cheng Youwei.

"...because she has good coffee taste."

Cheng Youwei was about to yell, when the sound of the store door opening grabbed Li Chen's attention.

Xiaomi, the girl always has a fresh atmosphere, always coming and going like the wind, as if she was going to catch a show.

"Hi, Awei." Xiaomi greeted Cheng Youwei at the bar first, then turned to Li Chen and said, "Hey, Chen, I'm sorry I'm late again."

Speaking with a mischievous smile, this sentence is not apologetic.

"Well, it's okay." Li Chen said, even though Xiaomi's absence made him feel very burdened and hard, and it was not an understatement like "it doesn't matter" literally, but when facing girls, Li Chen would always be tolerant, even if he knew his body As the store manager, she should scold others, but she never scolds Xiaomi.

Cheng Youwei never said a word until Xiaomi put on an apron and walked into the kitchen, then jumped up, half-body crossed the bar, grabbed Li Chen by the collar, and growled into her ear.

"I don't understand you idiot!" Cheng Youwei whispered, "The thing I don't understand the most is that there are so many beauties around, but you only see this woman."

Li Chen turned his head away to avoid Cheng Youwei's realistic words, but the other party grabbed his collar, getting tighter and tighter.

"Xiaomi doesn't care about you at all!"

Li Chen didn't want to hear it, so he picked up the hand pourer that he had just put down, and scalded Cheng Youwei's hand.

It has dropped to 45°C, and it should not be hot through the body of the pot, only hot.But during the process, Youwei was still taken aback, said "Damn", and bounced back to the seat at the bar.

"Achen, what's wrong with you?"

Cheng Youwei yelled.

"Well, I know what you said." Li Chen responded lightly.

She always knew that Xiaomi didn't take herself seriously at all, but she just couldn't help but be fascinated by her, Li Chen always knew it.

To be honest, this is the biggest problem.

Writer's words:

In terms of the time of the story, the short story "Life of Violence" is later than the current one

In fact, the article about committing crimes is a continuation of the days of waiting, so in fact, there are not many details explained in the short article

Although it may be that no one cares

But later I will slowly talk about some small things I set up earlier

About Cheng Youwei's love affair after that doesn't affect the reading of this article at all, so it's not really important

Although the post was sent

But it still feels very unsteady, woo woo

It feels like it’s so light that it’s like boiling water.

If you are interested in music, you can see the connection in the reception room