To Oak

Chapter 32 The key is lost

Zhu Miao's head was filled with Xiang Shu's words, and he was dizzy. For a while, he forgot why they came here, and why he confessed his love like this.The waves wash over the beach repeatedly, one after another.Xiang Shu originally wanted to say something, but when he saw Zhu Miao staring blankly at him with round eyes, he couldn't bear it.His heart was soft and numb, he turned around and said, "Let's go."

He walked out for several steps, but he didn't hear any footsteps. Looking back, Zhu Miao was still standing there stupidly.He sighed in his heart, walked back, and said again: "Let's go."

Zhu Miao nodded mechanically, and followed behind Xiang Shu, the two of them left messy footprints on the beach.

On the way back, Zhu Miao was still sitting in the back seat, embracing Xiang Shu's waist vaguely. The speed, body temperature, and summer wind were all the same as when he came, but Zhu Miao didn't feel it anymore. In the state of coming, Xiang Shu's words were turned over and over in his mind word by word, and he couldn't digest them.

After the car stopped, Zhu Miao took off his helmet, and when he turned over and got out of the car, he was so clumsy that he almost tripped. Xiang Shu wanted to reach out his hand to help him, but when he stretched his hand halfway, he took it back when he saw that he was fine.

Zhu Miao took two steps forward, then turned around suddenly, and asked in a low voice, "Then... why have you been so nice to me during this time? I thought..."

Xiang Shu was a little afraid to look him in the eyes, and pretended to lower his head to straighten his helmet.

"The college entrance examination is a very important moment in your life, and I don't want you to regret it later."

Zhu Miao said dryly: "So you are being nice to me on purpose because I am about to take the college entrance examination, and you even helped me teach Lin Zhou a lesson. Now that the college entrance examination is over, you won't be nice to me, will you?"

Xiang Shu didn't speak, and the silence around him made Zhu Miao uncomfortable for a while.He went back upstairs in a daze, threw himself on the couch, stared at the ceiling in a daze.

He heard the sound of the motorcycle engine starting and leaving. He closed his eyes, feeling unable to sleep, and was very awake.He suddenly turned over and sat up, without putting on his shoes, went downstairs, turned on the light, and looked at the photo wall behind the bar, one by one.I saw Yiling and Xiang Shu in many different periods, and some photos have faded.

Zhu Miao found the photo of Xiang Shu and He Zheng, looked at it carefully, and tried to see his past story from his much younger face, but he never succeeded.

Xiang Shu didn't come to the store the next day, Zhu Miao had expected it a long time ago, just like some time ago, Xiang Shu deliberately avoided him and walked away, but then nothing happened, Zhu Miao had long forgotten about it, and now After thinking about it, I realized that Xiang Shu's avoidance had already been foreshadowed, and it was because he was too nervous.

He also didn't want to see Xiang Shu today. He didn't sleep much all night, his head was "buzzing", and he was in a daze for a while, and buried his face in the pillow with discomfort. When he got up in the morning, his face was ugly, and his eyes were blue now Yintang turned black, almost startling Yiling.

Fortunately, Yiling has never been very curious, and he didn't ask any questions. Everything is as usual.

Isn't it lovelorn?Zhu Miao thought to himself, it's not a big deal, after the college entrance examination, if there is no accident, he should get a passable score in the test, go to the school he expected to go to college, and then he will no longer be embarrassed to live in the store.The long sofas and bathrooms without hot water in the store may have foreshadowed that they only had one summer fate from the beginning.

Day after day, Zhu Miao was waiting for the results of the college entrance examination, and was in the store all day long, helping Yi Ning, but Xiang Shu never showed up.Zhu Miao felt that she was used to being sad and sad, and suddenly felt that everything was no big deal.Xiang Shu suddenly came one day, opened the door and walked in.

Zhu Miao was cleaning the table in the yard at that time, and Xiang Shu's voice was so familiar to him, even his footsteps.He squatted down and pretended to clean up the garbage in the corner of the yard, with his back to the glass window, pretending that he didn't see Xiang Shu coming.

He stared at the tortoise enjoying the shade in the corner pool.

After a long time, Zhu Miao mustered up the courage to turn around to take a look, and there was only one lemon left in the store, and it seemed that Xiang Shu had never appeared.

Zhu Miao squatted quietly for a while.

He already thought it was nothing, but Xiang Shu just showed up, and the two of them didn't even meet each other. Zhu Miao felt that his psychological defense line in the past few days had collapsed again.He squatted there until his legs were numb before standing up.

Yiling looked up at him from behind the bar.

Zhu Miao quickly said, "I didn't cry."

Yiling blinked.

Zhu Miao: "My eyes are just red, I'm not crying."

Yiling: "Oh. You've been in the store lately, haven't you?"

Zhu Miao nodded.

Yi Ning: "Then you have to work harder recently. Next month, we will basically guard the store."

Zhu Miao nodded again, and after a long while, she finally couldn't hold back, took a rag and wiped it on the bar counter, and finally asked lightly, "Why?"

Yiling was dumbfounded by his question: "What?"

Zhu Miao stared at her fingers and said, "Why are we the only two guarding the store?"

Yi Ning said, "Xiang Shu will go on a long trip to Aceh in a while."

"where?"

"In Indonesia, Mandheling's hometown." Yiling said again, "We will be closed from Monday to Thursday next week."

Zhu Miao: "And why?"

Yi Ning said: "I'm taking annual leave to play. You are alone in the store, you don't need to open, be careful of water and electricity."

Zhu Miao nodded obediently, a little happy to be left alone, but also a little sad, how come he is the only one left.

On the day when Zhu Miao was alone in the store, he nestled on the couch and slept until noon, always feeling too lazy to get up, bored, and didn't want to do anything.The sun shines in from the large floor-to-ceiling windows of the store as usual, and the cat "meow" urges him to get up and feed.

Zhu Miao shuffled up, fed the cat and shoveled the excrement, and then went back to the sofa and fell asleep dizzily, until a kitten jumped on him and woke him up. He actually slept until the sun went down, and when he woke up, he sneezed a lot, and his nose was blocked.

He was startled, hurried out to buy medicine, boiled hot water and took the medicine, dared not take a cold shower, curled up on the sofa and slept for a while.

He had to find an Internet cafe to check his score, and then volunteered.Zhu Miao looked at his haggard appearance and scratched his head irritably. Fortunately, he didn't have a fever. He locked the door of the store and went to the Internet cafe at the street corner, his hands shaking a little from nervousness.

During the input and waiting process, Zhu Miao's mind went blank. He looked around, everyone's face was illuminated by the light of the screen, everyone was concentrating on doing their own things, and no one had time to care about him.

Fortunately, the score was within Zhu Miao's expectation. He breathed a sigh of relief, and excitedly tapped the keyboard to stand up. The people playing games and watching videos were all watching him, so he sat down again in embarrassment.He wanted to find someone to share the joy of this moment, but found that he had no one to share with.

Moreover, his mobile phone was broken when his grandma passed away, and he never successfully turned it on again.

Thinking of this, Zhu Miao felt that all his happiness was washed away at once. He sat in the Internet cafe in a daze, and suddenly felt that the smell of cigarettes was choking, which made his blocked nose even more uncomfortable.

Zhu Miao walked back while thinking about volunteering.

After his grandma passed away, he once thought about enrolling in a school far away, far away from the city he didn't miss.But later, he thought again, he wanted to stay in this city, a small coffee shop, and tied his kite string firmly.But now he is confused again, whether he should stay, and whether anyone wants him to stay.

He walked all the way back, always feeling heavy in the head.

From a distance, he found that the lights in the coffee shop were not on, and the hazy yellow light came through the glass windows, hitting the square inch in front of the shop.Zhu Miao just wanted to go back quickly, lie down and sleep, even if it was the couch that wasn't very comfortable.

He touched his trouser pocket, it was empty, and the key was not there.

Zhu Miao was terrified, and she woke up instantly. She stood at the door of the store and took out her trouser pockets again and again, but it was empty.He clearly remembered that he locked the door with a key when he went out, and the key must have been lost on the way.Zhu Miao hurriedly walked back and forth several times along the road from the coffee shop to the Internet cafe, and even searched in the Internet cafe, but couldn't find it.

Through the locked glass door, Zhu Miao wanted to cry, but the cats in the door hadn't been fed that night, and they all squatted behind the glass door and stared at him, condemning him with their eyes, and even stood up to pick at him. On the door, try to put the feeder in.

Zhu Miao was stunned for a while, not knowing what to do.

Hey cats are the second thing, what if someone finds the key and comes to open the door? He doesn't have enough money to hire a locksmith. At this point, the locksmith probably won't come to the door anymore. He doesn't have a mobile phone, so he can't make calls.

Zhu Miao turned around in a hurry and scratched her head in frustration.