A very beautiful clerk came to the convenience store opposite the side door of the school.

When Xie Jiashu came back from the bathroom, he heard several boys in the class gathered together and discussed loudly: "She is really super beautiful, with skin as smooth as a baby's, eyes as soft as water, and eyelashes fluttering. She is simply my dream girl!"

The girl next to him couldn't help but laugh, "Zhou Kaile, if you were as good at narrating as you are now when writing essays, Teacher Liu wouldn't have to post your model essay next to the blackboard."

Zhou Kaile said shyly, "Thank you for the inspiration, goddess. If I can see you every day from now on, I guarantee that my creative ideas will flow like a flood!"

He saw Xie Jiashu coming in and quickly called out, "Jiashu, Jiashu!"

"Isn't that convenience store owned by your uncle? Who is that girl? Is she your relative?"

Xie Jiashu sat down in his seat, handed the physics workbook to the physics class representative in front of him, and took out the English book for the next class.

"It should be someone they recruited. My uncle is busy and has no time to take care of this."

Zhou Kaile sat down next to him, and several other boys gathered around him. "What's her name? Do you know? How old is she?"

Xie Jiashu: "I don't know."

He had no interest in the topic: "Don't hang around me. If you want to know something, ask yourself."

"I asked," Zhou Kaile said worriedly, "but she didn't say anything. Her face was cold and she seemed a little angry."

The boy next to her also said: "She really doesn't like to smile. Every time I pass by there, she seems unhappy."

……

Xie Jiashu was used to running a few laps around the playground after evening self-study. Most of the school had left, so he took his bicycle and was about to ride it when he got a call from his uncle: "Jiashu, my business in Haicheng won't be available for a while. I just hired a clerk for the night shift. Can you stop by after evening self-study to see how her work attitude is and whether she's been slacking off or anything like that?"

Xie Jiashu: "You are such a jerk! You made people work the night shift."

The last time they had dinner together, Xie Jiashu heard from his uncle that an employee of the convenience store chose to resign because he had to work the night shift. The remaining two children were still young and didn't want to work the night shift. They both vaguely expressed their desire to leave. He increased their night shift wages to allow them to stay.

Who knows now he can find a job to study night class.

"Hey, I'm not working all night. She only works seven hours a day." Uncle Xie was unhappy. "How can I be considered as peeling?"

"She's a student at University A and has to attend classes during the day, but she volunteered to work the night shift. I'm doing her a huge favor."

"Alright, alright," Xie Jiashu said as he pushed his bicycle towards the school gate. "I'll go check it out for you."

He didn't plan to go and see anything, he just went to the store to buy something and leave, completing his mission.

Most of the students had left, and he pushed his cart to the door of the convenience store. He saw a person wearing the store's apron, carrying a shopping basket, and clearing out expired food.

She had her back to him and was wearing a white dress underneath her apron. The dress reached below her knees, revealing slender, straight calves that shone brightly in the light.

Her hair was very long, tied into a low ponytail with an ordinary black rubber band. The ends of her hair were a little yellow, and combined with her slender limbs, Xie Jiashu felt that she must be malnourished.

She cleared the items around and finally put the basket on the checkout counter. She took a picture of the items inside, then picked up the scanner and scanned them one by one, deleting them from the computer inventory.

After doing all this, she sat behind the cashier, took out a loaf of bread from the pile of expiring food, tore open the package and started eating.

She ate very slowly and even started to frown after taking two bites. The bread didn't seem to taste very good, but she still slowly finished it.

She began to sit there in a daze, staring at the cash register with her eyes downcast.

His classmates were right, she did seem very unhappy.

It was not until a gust of wind blew, bringing a slight coolness, that Xie Jiashu realized that he had been standing outside watching her for a long time.

He put down the pedals of his bicycle on the side of the road, walked into the store, picked up a bottle of water and put it on the cashier.

Without even looking up, she picked up the scanner and said, "Four dollars and fifty cents."

From that day on, she would say this to him every day.

Same time, same soda, same "four dollars and a half."

Until one day, he saw a small wound on her forehead.

He left the box of disinfectant cotton swabs and when he walked out of the store, he was so anxious that he almost tripped over the stairs.

As he rode home, he couldn't help but wonder: Would she use it? Would she find him baffling? Did she know who he was? Did she remember him?

The next night, he walked into the convenience store with a feeling of trepidation and inexplicable anticipation. He took another bottle of the same water and placed it on the cashier. She was still the same, like a robot that could only scan. "Four dollars and fifty cents."

The words he had been thinking about all day were stuck in his throat.

He turned back around and looked in the bread section, picking out the one she had that day, "Add this."

He opened the package and started eating as soon as he got out. After two bites, he was shocked. It tasted really bad.

So he called his uncle in the middle of the night and said, "Don't stock that kind of bread anymore. It tastes terrible. No wonder it never sells!"

He still visited the convenience store every night, but he no longer just bought water. Sometimes he would buy a piece of bread, sometimes a piece of chocolate. After paying, he would point at the things and say, "Here you are." Then he would leave quickly.

Bai Yanning seemed to have never looked up at him, and she didn't even say anything to him except the price.

But she didn't refuse his feeding, so it should be considered... not refusing, right?

Xie Jiashu's lips curled up slightly, and he pedaled the bicycle hard, almost shouting with joy.

He likes her.

he knows.

The college entrance examination was getting closer. He had good grades and was sure to get into University A, but he still didn't dare to relax for fear of accidents.

Even his mother was surprised: "He has really grown up. He has always learned by playing, but now he is suddenly very serious."

On the day the college entrance examination ended, his mother was waiting for him outside the examination room in a cheongsam. He took the flowers from his father's hand, and the family walked out together.

Mr. and Mrs. Xie were just wondering whether to ask him how he did on the exam when they heard him say, "No problem with A."

Xie's mother beamed with joy and waved her hand: "Where do you want to go on your graduation trip? Tell me!"

Xie Jiashu shook his head. "No need to travel, but I have a request that you must agree to."

"any request?"

"When I get to college, I want to have a relationship with the intention of getting married," Xie Jiashu said seriously. "I like that girl very much. Her family may not be well off, but you can't object."

There was silence for two seconds. Mother Xie turned to look at Father Xie in shock: "...Did you hear what he said, husband?"

Mr. Xie nodded dully, "...I heard it, with both ears."

They all still thought of him as a child, but who knew he would grow up.

Thank you, Dad and Mom, and they looked at each other.

You're thinking about getting married, and you're thinking so far ahead.

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