Show one's ugliness

It's early spring, and it's the season of dressing indiscriminately. Among the passers-by on the street, those who cut their clothes early have already changed into thin shirts, and those who are extremely afraid of the cold are still wrapped in down.

Ji Cen caught a cold right after the heating had just been turned off, and his nose was so stuffy that he doubted his life.

He nestled in the bedroom on the second floor of Yongli Graphics and typed on the keyboard. No matter how frequently the bell on the door downstairs rang, he didn't blow his nose as often.

The senior students at the Teachers College across the street started their dissertation defense, and Yongli Graphics had a lot of visitors these days.

A thin figure was busy among the various machines on the first floor, handling the paper skillfully. Seeing more and more people, some students began to operate on the idle computers by themselves.He had to raise his head and shout: "Brother Ji! Come down and help me! I'm too busy!"

Ji Cen threw the tissue in his hand into the trash can, tore off the blanket he was wearing, moved away from the computer, pushed the door and went downstairs while answering.The nose that has not been fully ventilated made his voice difficult: "Here we come."

The stairs are narrow and trembling. If you don't get used to walking too many times, it's hard to walk two steps at a time.Cui Xiaodong's voice was too hasty, as if urging his life, Ji Cen had to go downstairs quickly.

There are three part-time workers in Ji Cen's store, all of whom are students of the teacher's college, and they are not two years younger than Ji Cen.Regardless of whether the three of them have classes or have something to do, they must make sure that one person comes over every day.

The shop was busy these days, so Ji Cen asked them to come two times a day.When he went downstairs and saw that only Cui Xiaodong was busy, he asked, "Where's Lu Xia? Isn't she also here today?"

Cui Xiaodong quickly pressed the stapler in his hand, and handed the stapled stack of papers to the waiting classmates: "She has something to do at the moment, so she asked Qiu Ran to come over for her, and Qiu Ran should be here soon."

Ji Cen took two steps to the front of the small queue, and when he sat down, he took the USB flash drive of the student who was standing first.

The female classmate pointed at the computer screen to indicate the document to be printed, and she didn't dare to look directly at it, so she had to glance at Ji Cen from the corner of her eye.She seemed to have slipped away. Ji Cen asked twice, "How many copies?" before she said, "Five copies."

At the end, I added another sentence: "Can you help me arrange a layout?"

Ji Cen nodded and manipulated the mouse and keyboard skillfully. After adjusting, he signaled the female classmate to go to the side of the machine and wait for the paper to come out: "There is a stapler on the shelf, take it yourself if you need it."

There are at least five or six copy shops in front of the teacher's college, and Yongli's business is good.The location of Wynn is not the best, but there are many students who are willing to come here.

Especially girls.

The ratio of male to female in the teacher's college is seriously out of balance, and it is normal that there are more girls in the store.But Cui Xiaodong and the others said that it was their brother Ji who looked so pleasing to the eye.Ji Cen laughed and scolded him every time, he was so fucking flattering.

There are also copy shops in various supermarkets on campus, but the prices are high and the service attitude is not good.Many students don't like to go.

Ji Cen graduated from this teacher's college. During college, he often worked part-time at Wynn, and had a very good relationship with his former boss.Before he graduated, the boss took his family to the south and planned to sell the store, so he raised money to take over without changing his name.

Yongli Graphics and Texts involves a wide range of businesses. Although the main source of customers is teachers' college students, there are not many demands from nearby residents and orders from online stores.

After Qiu Ran entered the door in a hurry, he took over the work in Ji Cen's hands. Ji Cen went upstairs to the milk tea shop next door and ordered milk tea for Cui Xiaodong to remember to pick up.

Often when they are very busy, Ji Cen will reward them with some small favors. Cui Xiaodong quickly said, "Thank you, Brother Ji."

Yongli is a duplex building, with an upper and lower usable area of ​​more than 60 square meters.In addition to the toilet and the cash register downstairs, there are machines such as copiers, printers, and binding machines.Upstairs is a small kitchen of a few square meters and two bedrooms of more than ten square meters.One of the bedrooms has always been used as a storage room.

Ji Cen lives in the south bedroom. He likes the small balcony and installed a hammock on it. In his spare time, he likes to lie on it and close his eyes to rest his mind.

It took only a while to go down, and there were more than a dozen messages on the computer interface.

"Brother Ji, is the one welcoming guests at the opening in the city center full?"

"Is there still no shortage of flyers? Please leave me a spot, senior, thank you."

"Is the tutoring in the development zone the highest price?"

......

Ji Cen replied unhurriedly, and marked it on the memo.

The phone vibrated crazily, and Ji Cen frowned at the "accounter" on the screen.

After only half a sentence on the other side, he interrupted with a sigh: "I'll send it to you later, I'm busy, so hang up first."

There was a sudden commotion downstairs, he quickly got up and lay down at the door and asked loudly: "What's wrong?"

Cui Xiaodong took a few steps up the stairs, and said while climbing, "The old man asking for money is here again."

After hearing this, Ji Cen went downstairs before Cui Xiaodong, and Cui Xiaodong followed closely behind.

On the first floor stood an old man in ragged clothes, holding a metal jar.He shook the tea mug, and the sound of the coins hitting the bowl was disturbing.

A few female college students who were waiting to print out were scared to the side.Qiu Ran was trying to throw the old man out, but the old man knelt down, and it was obvious that he would not leave unless he was paid.

If the old man hadn't repeated his tricks after entering the store for a few days, Qiu Ran wouldn't have insisted on driving him out.He took the old man's arm, and because he disliked the old man's dirty body, his fingers turned into orchid fingers: "Hurry up and get out, do you hear me?"

The old man didn't say anything, but continued to kneel down and get up.Seeing Ji Cen go downstairs, Qiu Ran seemed to see a savior: "Brother Ji, he won't leave."

Ji Cen raised his hand to let Qiu Ran go to work.He squatted in front of the old man, and after adjusting his posture, he also knelt down.

Ji Cen's actions made the people in the room not expect, and everyone was watching in a daze.

This is a wonderful way of begging that can always be encountered when opening a shop.Most of them are elderly people, who enter as soon as they push the door, and refuse to leave without paying.

This old man appeared suddenly recently.What I do every day is to go into shops one by one and ask for money.If the store doesn't give it, then he will stay in the house and not leave to add some bad luck, which will affect the business of the store to some extent.

Those restaurants are most afraid of this, and they will send people away without hesitation.

There are also merchants who choose not to pay, and will violently push the old man out.During the period, it will inevitably increase the trouble of the old man touching porcelain.

There are also those who directly call the police, and the police station will ignore it when they come to preach.It's really a headache for nearby merchants.

Ji Cen was not cruel, he gave the old man money in the first two days.He also got a guarantee that the old man would not come to his shop again.

But that guarantee is the same as farting, and this is still here.

If he still indulged the old man to act wild today, then he really didn't have a long memory, so he went all out.

"Master, I'm free," Ji Cen said solemnly, "Today, if you don't leave, then we will just kneel face to face. Let's see who can survive the other."

Ji Cen's kneeling had already stunned the old man, and after hearing this, the old man was even more confused.The metal cylinder stopped shaking, and looked at Ji Cen quietly, narrowing his cloudy eyes slightly.

"Is it possible?" Ji Cen asked with a smile.

The uncle stood still for a few seconds, then got up neatly and left.

Cui Xiaodong heaved a sigh of relief. He looked at the back of the old man leaving outside the door and asked Ji Cen who stood up slowly: "Brother Ji, if he doesn't listen, will you really kneel with him?"

Ji Cen: "Why, I can't kneel down to his old bones."

"Tall, really tall." Qiu Ran smiled not far away.

Cui Xiaodong went to the door to check the old man's whereabouts and said, "The door next door is not open, the old man went directly to Zhenghao."

Zhenghao is an Internet cafe with a fruit shop across from Yongli Tuwen.The boss is about the same age as Ji Cen, and they often hang out together.

Ji Cen remembered that Zhong Zhenghao told him that the old man would beat him up if he dared to enter his shop.At this moment, he really wondered if that kid was bragging.

When he was about to go upstairs, he heard movement from Zhenghao's side, and the sound of glass breaking.He quickly turned around and walked out.

There was a lot of noise at Zhenghao's door.When Ji Cen passed by, he heard Zhong Zhenghao arguing with the old man.

"What do I do with this glass, sir, you have to tell me, otherwise I won't be able to let you go." Zhong Zhenghao said relentlessly while tugging at the old man.

The large piece of thick glass in the lower right corner of the front face of Zhenghao Internet Cafe was broken.Ji Cen stepped forward and asked, "Did you really beat someone?"

"I didn't want to, but before I did it, he hit the glass by himself first. He has to pay me for the glass before leaving." Zhong Zhenghao said firmly.

The old man was really scared this time, so he stuffed the metal cylinder in his hand to Zhong Zhenghao.Zhong Zhenghao pushed away without looking at it: "It's not enough."

"I don't have any money." The uncle said with a strong voice.

"Damn it," Zhong Zhenghao raised his hand angrily and said, "Believe it or not, I'll slap you."

Ji Cen stopped Zhong Zhenghao's hand and said to the old man: "Master, this glass is not on your head. But if you come again, you will have to pay for the glass. Do you hear me?"

The uncle nodded repeatedly, pulled out his arms and hurried away.

After watching the old man go across the street, Zhong Zhenghao turned around and said to Ji Cen, "I guess I can't come this time."

Ji Cen turned around and looked at the broken glass: "The size will be sent to me later, I just happen to be going to Yangnan, and I will order a piece for you by the way."

"Send money to your uncle?"

"Is there anything else he can do with me?"

"That's true."

"I should have sent him this month's living expenses the day before yesterday, but I didn't go on purpose," Ji Cen kicked away the shards of glass at his feet, "His good son has been released, and he has been calling me for the past two days Go in the past. I know that he is out of ideas, probably he wants to have a meal with him and formally talk about his marriage with that aunt. I don’t think I can hide, I still have to go over and scold him.”

Zhong Zhenghao smiled: "If you really can't do it, you can just let Uncle Xiao go."

"That won't work," Ji Cen said, shaking his head, "I have to get rid of his habit of helping others raise their sons."

Zhong Zhenghao asked: "By the way, Cen Zi, will you sign the consent form?"

A few days ago, the relevant responsible department of the district government issued a notice to these small shops, saying that to facilitate the planning and renovation of the street appearance, they said that they would change the shops on Xuefu Street to a unified facade.Ji Cen had no objection to this matter, he said: "Sign it, and it won't delay making money."

Zhong Zhenghao sighed: "Why don't you delay, the construction has to be done after the signing, and the scaffolding in front will affect the business."

Ji Cen squatted down and stared at the edge of the glass remaining on the frame for a while, and then said, "Tell me the truth, your glass will be broken if you don't f**king hit it."

"You have sharp eyes," Zhong Zhenghao said with a smile, "How can I keep that old bastard away if I don't bully him?"

"Okay," Ji Cen got up and patted Zhong Zhenghao, "I'll order this piece of glass for you."

"Thank you so much. If I hadn't been watched by anyone in the room, I would have gone with you."

"Where are your two little webmasters?"

"Collective strike."

"It's not because you're too picky."

"Give full play to your strengths and introduce two more for me. You must be able to endure hardships and stand hard work."

Ji Cen thought for a while and said, "Increase your basic salary by 30.00% five, and I'll find you two reliable ones."

When Ji Cen first came to the teacher's college, he always came to Zhenghao Internet Cafe, and soon became acquainted with Zhong Zhenghao.Zhong Zhenghao is an unpromising gangster.Zhenghao was opened by his brother who was in business with money.Usually people are very stingy, but when Ji Cen wanted to exchange Wynn to raise money, he took the big head, which can be said to be very loyal.

"Okay," Zhong Zhenghao nodded, "I see that there is a recruitment notice posted on your door, so you don't want to work as a part-timer?"

"It's not good to count on part-time jobs for college students. I'm thinking of recruiting someone who can do it." Ji Cen turned around while talking, "I'll get the glass first, and try to fix you up before dark."

Zhong Zhenghao clapped his hands: "Wait for me to send you a few nights!"

Ji Cen smiled without turning his head: "Forget you to be arrogant."

The author has something to say:

The time of the story is old and will not be specifically emphasized in the article. The purpose of reminding everyone is to facilitate you to identify the time period, so as not to confuse it with the present.It is a story full of Northeast flavor. If there is a Northeast dialect that you don't understand in the text, please ask, don't get it wrong.

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