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Chapter 12 Stars

Seeing Wu Changxu staring blankly at her, Zhao Shuchen thought she was frightened, so she raised her hand and shook it in front of him, saying, "Are you okay?"

Only then did Wu Changxu realize that he had been staring at a girl for so long, he lowered his head in embarrassment, and hurriedly shook his head.

Seeing that everyone was fine, Zhao Shuchen sighed, turned around and saw more than half of the salt sprinkled on the ground, frowned and said, "I'm really sorry, it's my problem, how much is this bag of salt? I'll pay you."

Wu Changxu looked at the salt on the ground. Although he felt very annoyed, he still felt that a girl should not be allowed to come. He was more or less responsible, so he shook his head and said, "It's okay, no need."

"Well.. so, where are you going to send this plate of salt? Let me help you. Anyway, I have to apologize to the person who bought the salt." Zhao Shuchen said.

Wu Changxu nodded and agreed, but he took out the note and said, "Miss, I'm not very familiar with that place. Do you know where No. 399, Beinan Street is?"

Zhao Shuchen took the note in Wu Changxu's hand, looked at it and said, "I know this place, come with me." After speaking, he rolled up his sleeves and prepared to carry the half bag of salt on the ground to the cart.

Seeing people like this, Wu Changxu hurriedly stopped him and said, "Miss, miss, no need, I'll be fine."

As soon as Wu Changxu finished speaking, Zhao Shuchen picked it up and put it away, "It's okay, I'm not that weak." After speaking, she looked at Wu Changxu with a smile and said, "Also, don't always call me Miss Miss , my name is Zhao Shuchen, how about you?"

"Wu Changxu."

Zhao Shuchen lowered her head shyly when she saw the person in front of her, laughed out loud, and said, "We just said hello, why are you like a big girl, shyer than me?"

"I..." Wu Changxu scratched his head, really didn't know how to respond, so he could only push the cart up and walk forward, but his ears were blushing.

Zhao Shuchen saw that Wu Changxu was really shy, so he didn't say anything, and changed the subject: "I think you should be about the same age as me, and it must be very hard to do this job."

Wu Changxu shook his head and said, "Fortunately, sometimes a little bit."

Zhao Shuchen knew it would not be so easy, so she walked ahead, helped the wild flowers on the roadside, and continued: "But I think you guys are great for doing this."

It was the first time Wu Changxu heard that his work was great, and asked in surprise, "Why?"

Zhao Shuchen paused, and said, "If it wasn't forced by life, how could you do this? People who climb up through hardships are inherently great."

Wu Changxu has met all kinds of people in his life. There are many people who look down on him, but there are very few people who look up to him. Zhao Shuchen's words really shocked Wu Changxu so much that he couldn't control himself for a long time.

"Here, it's here." Zhao Shuchen pointed to the front door and said.

"Is anyone home?" Zhao Shuchen knocked on the door and asked.

The person inside the door gasped and came out and said, "Here we come." An old woman came out and looked at Wu Changxu outside the door, "Oh~ it's the salt delivery man. Come in .”

Wu Changxu pushed the trolley in, put down the trolley, and said: "The old man is really sorry this time. He was going to send two bags of salt, but something happened on the way and he accidentally spilled half of the bag. I'm very sorry."

The old woman saw her calm face after she had sprinkled half a bag of salt, and she immediately became angry, and shouted: "How does your shop do things? Why don't you just give me one and a half bags of salt as agreed upon?" What’s the matter! If the neighbor said that your salt is good, I wouldn’t buy it, why are you doing this for me now?”

Wu Changxu hurriedly bent down and apologized: "The old man is really very sorry, may I bring you another bag early tomorrow morning?"

The old woman picked up the salt in the sack again, licked it slightly, and said, "What kind of salt are you doing? Why does it taste so strange? It's not fake salt."

Wu Changxu shook his head hastily and said: "No, old man, the salt in our house is freshly brought in by the boss. The batch for you was just delivered this morning, and it will definitely not be fake."

Zhao Shuchen saw the old woman being aggressive, but Wu Changxu could only bow down and apologize, thinking that it was obviously his own fault, how could he let others take the responsibility, so he stepped forward and said: "The old man is really sorry. It’s because of me that I bought half a bag, and I’m willing to pay as much silver taels as you want.”

The old woman's look of looking for a job just now changed immediately when she heard the word "yinliang". She sat at the table and said, "Actually, I'm not a person who likes to fuss too much. I'll do the math for you." Just give me three oceans and that's enough."

Wu Changxu was shocked when he heard the old woman's words. These two bags of salt don't even cost five yuan, not even one yuan, so he hurriedly tried to stop it.But Zhao Shuchen readily took out three oceans from the bag in his clothes and put them on the table, saying: "Here are three oceans. Mr. said that one person does the work and one person does the work, so I will pay you the money, but I hope you don't want to do it again." trouble him."

The old woman picked up the silver dollar on the table, flicked it with her fingers, and stuck it to her ear. The silver dollar was knocked and vibrated and made a long, soft and pleasant sound. When she heard it was true, she happily put it away, nodded, and said : "Don't worry, little girl."

After finally solving such a matter, the two came out from the old woman's house.Wu Changxu said guiltily: "You don't need to give her so much as three oceans, only one ocean is enough for these two bags of salt."

Zhao Shuchen smiled and said: "I know, but if I don't give it to you, she will definitely trouble you later, besides, it was because of me that you were told about this matter. You don't have to feel guilty about what should happen. .”

As the sky was getting darker and darker, Zhao Shuchen hurriedly bid farewell to Wu Changxu: "Then, can I call you Changxu? It's getting late, I should go back, and you should be careful on the way."

Wu Changxu nodded, but he didn't turn around immediately, looking at Zhao Shuchen who was gradually walking into the distance.

At night, Wu Changxu couldn't sleep for the first time, tossing and turning on the bed, thinking of Zhao Shuchen during the day, he felt that he might be in a daze, how could it be possible that the toad wanted to eat swan meat?

"Changxu, are you feeling unwell?" Wu Changxu's mother turned on the light, put on some clothes, walked to Wu Changxu's bed under the faint light and asked with concern.

"Mom, I'm fine, you can go to sleep."

Wu Changxu's mother was relieved when she saw that Wu Changxu's expression was normal, and went back to her couch.

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In the main hall of the front yard, Zhao Shuchen was kneeling in the middle, and Zhao Shuchen's father was sitting on both sides of the mahogany table in front.

"Do you know how angry Mr. Zhao is today?" Zhao's father slapped the table and shouted, "A girl like you is going out every family! Is this plausible?"

Zhao Shuchen knelt on the ground without saying a word.

"Do you know you are wrong?" Father Zhao asked again.

Zhao Shuchen nodded.

Father Zhao saw that Zhao Shuchen had the intention of repenting, so he sighed and said, "Since you know you are wrong, I won't say anything more." After speaking, he sighed, turned his head and was about to leave, as if he remembered something again, Said: "By the way, in a few days, you and your elder brother will take the accounts and go to each house to collect the rent for this month. It's almost the end of the month."

"Miss, are you okay?" The servant girl looked around Zhao Shuchen and asked eagerly, "Did the master beat you?"

Zhao Shuchen smiled at the maid and said, "No, don't worry. Then what did my father do to you?"

The servant girl shook her head and said, "No."

"That's good." Zhao Shuchen said, "It's getting late, you should go back and rest early."

Zhao's mother saw the master coming back from the front yard, and asked, "Shuchen, is she back? This child is really worrying."

Sitting on the bed, Zhao's father was about to take off his clothes and go to bed, and said, "Thinking about it, the eldest son of the Li family will return from overseas in a few days. You can make arrangements for them to meet."

Zhao's mother took off the shirt for Zhao's father, smiled and said: "Okay, I will find a day to let them get acquainted. I met him a few years ago. He is quite handsome and has a good personality. I haven't seen you for many years, I don't know how it is now."

Due to the rent collection today, Wu Changxu notified Boss Qian in advance and returned home early.Wu Changxu pushed the cart to the side of the haystack, walked into the backyard and shouted: "Mom, I'm back. There are rent collectors..."

Before Wu Changxu finished speaking, he saw a familiar person in his yard and a man standing beside him.

Zhao Shuchen was settling the land rent for this month with Wu Changxu's mother, when she heard the voice behind her, she turned her head, saw it was Wu Changxu, smiled and said, "I didn't expect this to be your home."

Seeing that Zhao Shuchen was a little surprised, Wu Changxu nodded after being stunned for a moment.

Zhao Shuchen's elder brother was a little surprised when he saw that the two knew each other, but he didn't ask any questions.

The two left after collecting the rent money.

"Changxu, come and sit here." Wu Changxu's mother waved to Wu Changxu and smiled, "How did you and that Miss Zhao know each other? Why don't I know?"

"Just a few days ago, we met by accident, and then we got to know each other." Wu Changxu was a little shy after he finished speaking.

When Mother Wu saw her son's shy face, she knew what was going on, and she lamented: "This Miss Zhao is really good-looking, she looks like a fairy, and her family is very rich. Hey, people like us can't climb high." After speaking, he patted Wu Changxu on the shoulder and left.

How could Wu Changxu not understand the gap between the two, so he didn't have any hope at all.

In the car, Zhao Shuchen's eldest brother glanced at Zhao Shuchen and asked, "When did you and Wu Changxu meet?"

Zhao Shuchen said: "A few days ago I ran out and accidentally fell on the salt cart he pushed."

Zhao Shuchen's elder brother nodded.

In the evening, Wu Changxu went to the wharf, because he lent most of the money to Cheng Yao last time, and today he paid for the rent of the land. There was a shortage of life, so Wu Changxu found a odd job to move boxes at the wharf two days ago.

"Excuse me, miss, can you please let me go?" Wu Changxu said.

Zhao Shuchen turned around and saw someone carrying boxes, she hurriedly gave way and said, "Sorry."

Seeing that it was Zhao Shuchen, Wu Changxu lamented the good luck God gave him, but he was still working, so he hurriedly speeded up, fearing that Zhao Shuchen would leave after a while, and even the people next to him would laugh at Wu Changxu as if he was in a hurry Go home to find a wife.

Although Wu Changxu quickened his pace, he moved for a while, and hurried to the original place to have a look, but he didn't see Zhao Shuchen's figure, he was a little disappointed, and said to himself: "It's so late, I should have returned earlier." let's go home."

"Wu Changxu?" Zhao Shuchen asked.

When Wu Changxu heard the expectant voice behind him, the disappointment just now was swept away, and there was a kind of joy in his tone: "Miss Zhao is such a coincidence."

Zhao Shuchen stepped forward, frowned and said, "Didn't you say don't call me Miss?"

Only then did Wu Changxu remember, patted his head, and said, "Oh, I'm sorry I forgot."

Seeing Wu Changxu's stupid look, Zhao Shuchen laughed with a "poof" and said, "Hahaha, you don't have to be so nervous, it's okay, just don't scream next time."

【next time?Means we can meet again?But people may just say it subconsciously, and they think it's too right. 】Wu Changxu pondered these two words over and over again in his heart.

Zhao Shuchen saw that Wu Changxu had lost his mind again, and said aloud: "I found that you are really easy to lose your mind."

"Ah, really? Haha" Wu Changxu smiled, "By the way, Miss Zhao...ah, no no, Shuchen, why are you here so late?"

Zhao Shuchen was stunned when Wu Changxu called her. This subconscious reaction fell into Wu Changxu's eyes, and then she realized what she called, her face turned red all of a sudden, and she hurriedly explained: "Ah, I'm sorry, I'm not I deliberately called you, you didn’t want me to call you Miss, and I thought calling you by your full name was a little bad, so I called you Shuchen, you, if you don’t like me..."

Seeing this, Zhao Shuchen hurriedly interrupted: "It's okay, I just didn't realize it, so let's call it that."

Wu Changxu scratched his ears, nodded, and said, "It's so late, are you going back now?"

Zhao Shuchen shook her head, said while sitting on the ground and said: "Let's go later."

Seeing Zhao Shuchen walking by the bridge and looking up at the sky, Wu Changxu sat down next to him.

Zhao Shuchen noticed that Wu Changxu hadn't left, and asked, "Aren't you going back, too?"

"No, it's too late. It's not safe for you to stay at the pier with a girl."

Zhao Shuchen smiled and said nothing.

Wu Changxu also looked up at the sky like Zhao Shuchen.The sky is dotted with stars, which makes the whole night a lot softer, and it is so beautiful.

"In fact, the stars on the sea are more beautiful, and the moon is also very big and bright." Wu Changxu said.

"Really? But I've never been at sea."

"Next time you are free, I can take you there."

Zhao Shuchen lowered his head, looked at Wu Changxu's face, and said excitedly: "Is it really possible?"

Wu Changxu also looked down at Zhao Shuchen and nodded.

The smile on Zhao Shuchen's face became more obvious.

Wu Changxu especially likes Zhao Shuchen's smile. Seeing it in the daytime can brighten people's hearts, but under the stars, that smile turns into a beacon in Wu Changxu's heart. For such a person, Wu Changxu thinks it's true that he should work hard and be greedy. can reach the stars in the sky.

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