cool autumn

After the high school entrance examination, there was a long blank period.According to the past practice, the high school entrance examination transcripts and admission notices are usually delivered to students in mid-July, so many students plan to do something meaningful during this time, or take summer vacation work.

No, two days after the high school entrance examination, Li Mingliang dragged his family and led Chen Haiqing to Zhou Ran's house for a stay.

Compared with the weather in the south, the weather in Xunyang City in mid-May is still a bit cold and desolate. The sun is light, and it doesn't look very hot on people's skin, but it is warm and comfortable.Such a mild weather is suitable for sleeping peacefully while basking in the sun on the balcony with a pillow in your arms.

When Li Mingliang came, Zhou Huaning was holding two sets of quilts and wanted to go to the roof to dry them. He was going to put them in the cabinet when the temperature rose after a while. Seeing this, Chen Haiqing also went to the roof to help Zhou Huaning find a bamboo pole to dry the quilts. went.

"Hey, let me tell you, why are you still sleeping? What time is this? It's noon." Li Mingliang stepped forward and slapped the rocking chair hard, which woke Zhou Ran up for a moment. Dream.

Zhou Ran glanced at him expressionlessly, raised his hands and rubbed his eyes, and asked slowly, "Why are you here?" It was rare that Lu Qingtao's assistant called this morning, saying that Mr. Lu would be on a business trip recently One month, saying that those documents will not be sent here for the time being, it should be regarded as a one-month leave for him.In fact, Zhou Ran doesn’t have any objections even if he doesn’t give him a holiday. Hey, he’s happy to see someone unlucky. You say Xu Cheng, a poor kid, knows that his benefactor is a very possessive man, and he dares to do it in private. So 'intimate' relative to other men.Thinking of how miserable he will be cleaned up, alas, just thinking about it makes me feel better physically and mentally.

Li Mingliang came up with a bag of eggs as if offering a treasure, and proudly said: "This is my achievement today, marinated eggs."

Zhou Ran glanced at the bag, and frowned. Zhou Ran felt that he was completely speechless. This Li Mingliang deliberately got into trouble with this egg, didn't he? Is it interesting to study these broken eggs? What a mess.

Li Mingliang didn't care about the black line on Zhou Ran's end, he was excited on his own, with a smile on his face and his eyes narrowed, he got up and hugged a small stool to sit next to Zhou Ran, and began to talk about his plans. For a long time, there are plans for this period of time.

Zhou Ran looked at the man in front of him with his mouth open and closed without stopping, touched the corner of his mouth and felt a little drowsy again, this stupid bastard has been in his house for a long time, and he just stood still in front of him, jerking off Tell me things that he doesn't want to listen to. To be honest, he really doesn't like working as a summer job. It can't compare to him, a free speculator, who can make a lot of money, and he can control his time, which is the most comfortable thing. Well, it's not that he has nothing to do, why should he torture himself like this, can't he.

"I said, you've been talking about it for a long time, so why not take your little Qingmei to apply for the job together? I'm not interested in serving other people's dishes." Zhou Ran covered his mouth and yawned again, narrowing his eyes lazily. Lying on the armchair with eyes focused, he replied without saying a word.

Li Mingliang rubbed his head in embarrassment. Just as he was about to explain, Chen Haiqing who came down from the rooftop said, "I still have to learn Taekwondo, so I don't have time to work."

Zhou Ran turned sideways, then narrowed her eyes, shrugged and waved to her, saying, "I'm not free either." With this time, it's better to catch up on a good night's sleep.

Since Li Mingliang has been able to grind for such a long time, he is not short of such a little cold water, so he directly explained the reason, "The tuition fee for the goddess to learn Taekwondo has to be paid by me. In order to earn enough tuition fees, I specially It took me a few days to find such a dessert shop." Seeing Zhou Ran squinting at him again, he couldn't help but rubbed the corners of his brows and muttered guiltyly: "This is not going alone, I have no idea, I want to drag you to apply for a strong job. Be brave."

Zhou Ran rolled her eyes speechlessly, and asked a little puzzled, "Why do you always call Chen Haiqing a goddess?"

Li Mingliang hesitated and was a little ashamed to speak out, this, this reason is really hard to say, if he said this, then he would have no face outside.

Speaking of Li Mingliang and Chen Haiqing, the parents of these two people knew each other well in the early years. Later, due to work reasons, the two houses they bought by coincidence lived next to each other. The two families were naturally happy. She was pregnant with a child, while Chen Haiqing was born in more than 20 days from Xiao Limingliang, and the two played together since they were young.

The title of the goddess is funny to say the least.When Li Mingliang and Chen Haiqing were four or five years old.One day, a big boy in the community robbed Chen Haiqing's lollipop, and Li Mingliang was naturally upset. He was not good at arguing with others, and he was inferior in terms of force value. Of course, Li Mingliang was beaten to the brim. His face was black and blue, and he was crying.

What did Chen Haiqing do at that time?Oh, yes, the next day, the little girl led Li Mingliang to the big boy's house in the dark to block people, took a brick and slapped him with bloody wounds, and found the place in front of people When he came back, the child was so frightened that he burst into tears. He didn't know whether he was frightened by Chen Haiqing's sternness at that time, or because of the big wound on his head. Anyway, since then, when the poor child saw Chen Haiqing and the others, he turned around and ran away. Go, dare not even say hello.

At that time, Li Mingliang was shocked by Chen Haiqing as a heavenly man, so he had the title of "goddess".

Zhou Ran glanced at that bastard Li Mingliang with a half-smile, and that's how he was made.

Li Mingliang was looked at a little bit, and his ears were red. Although he was despised by Zhou Ran several times with his eyes, Zhou Ran agreed to go to the dessert shop to apply for a job together tomorrow. Generally speaking, today is not bad. Harvest it.

After dinner, watching the two people leave together, Zhou Ran nestled on the sofa with a pillow in his arms, glanced thoughtfully at Zhou Huaning who was washing dishes and cleaning the counter in the kitchen, subconsciously tapped the index finger of his right hand Hitting the sofa face, looking at the glass in front of him with firm eyes, suddenly chuckled out of nowhere, immersed in his own world, peacefully.

After tidying up the kitchen counter, Zhou Huaning took a clean rag and wiped his *hands, walked to the other side of the sofa and sat down. When he looked up, he saw his son looking at him fixedly. , could not help but ask a little puzzled: "What's the matter? Is there something dirty on my face?"

Zhou Ran pursed her lips, looked at her intently, and suggested, "Mom, let's open a pastry shop."

Zhou Huaning paused the action of wiping his fingers, opened his eyes slightly in disbelief, and rolled up the strands of hair on his forehead that were scattered at the temples. After careful consideration, he still said with some uncertainty: "Why do you suddenly think Are you going to open a shop?" She was a little worried, whether her father and brother from her mother's family shamelessly ran in front of Zhou Ran to hear the wind.

Zhou Ran took out a bank card from his pocket, put it on the tea table in front of Zhou Huaning, stroked his index finger, and then looked at her with a smile and said, "Your design class won't be finished in a while, And I will be in high school next semester, so I won’t be as easy as being my own boss if I go to find another job.”

Zhou Huaning lowered her head slightly, seriously thinking about how practical Zhou Ran's words were. If she could really own a store by herself, it would really tempt her mind, but, "Is the money enough?" Seeing Zhou Ran's puzzled eyes, he hurriedly explained: "To open a shop, you need a good location. If it is in the Mong Kok market, then its rent will definitely not be cheap, and you have to spend a lot of things to go to high school. After all the calculations, I'm afraid it's too difficult for you to hold on, otherwise, we'd better..."

Zhou Ran sat upright, shook her head, rejected Zhou Huaning's remarks, and said bluntly: "I have enough money for these expenses, mom, you don't have to worry about these. You just need to say whether you want to open a store, and I will do the rest." Let's take care of it," said but tilted his head, blinked at her jokingly, and smiled playfully.

Zhou Huaning was amused in his heart, and knew that his son was far more capable than he imagined. After hesitating a few times, he sighed softly, nodded and said, "Mom knows you have ideas in mind, but you always have a good time with Mom." Tell me about your plan, but you can't just keep me in the dark, so that I don't know anything about it."

Seeing her smiling face, Zhou Ran knew that she agreed, so he was naturally relieved, and rarely raised his hand childishly to ask her to promise, "Then you are not allowed to tell others."

Zhou Huaning nodded with a smile, and the two mother and son gathered together to discuss something in a low voice. In short, after talking for a long time, it was considered a deal.

When she woke up the next morning, Zhou Huaning had already packed her luggage and was about to return to Chunlin Town. She had a long discussion with Zhou Ran last night. The types of pastries, on the other hand, she was also a little uncertain about what she told Zhou Ran. After all, she still wanted some advice from this wise old man.

Because he and Li Mingliang made an appointment to accompany him to the dessert shop to apply for a job, Zhou Ran also got up with the time.I just woke up early in the morning, and I was a little unconscious at first. When Li Mingliang called, he was still wearing clothes. He vaguely found his mobile phone and connected the call. Put the mobile phone on the small grid where the tissues were originally placed, poured water, squinted his eyes and brushed his teeth, Erbao appeared on the mirror at some point, he was too lazy recently, and always liked to lie down in Zhou Huaning's arms to sleep. I don't like to go out with Zhou Ran, probably feel that the warm, fragrant and soft jade is very comfortable.

It's just that today, Zhou Huaning packed his luggage and was about to go back, there was no other way, he could only turn his head back with a sullen face.Oops, I haven't noticed these few days, why did our master look better again?Er Bao licked his paws, wagged his tail and rubbed against Zhou Ran's arm flatteringly, and meowed a few times coquettishly.

Zhou Ran spat out the water in his mouth, touched Erbao's nape a few times, and saw the phone flickering, and a familiar music bell sounded immediately, and as soon as he leaned over to pick it up, Erbao let out a sharp meow , directly threw it on his hand, and snapped a beautiful semi-circular arc. After being frightened, he hurriedly picked up the phone, but somehow his hand slipped and fell into the water again. Zhou Ran Staring at the phone screen on his face flickering a few times, the screen went black in an instant, and at the end he could still see the particularly nice photo of the cat.

Erbao looked at Zhou Ran innocently, looking innocent, but in fact he was ready to retreat at any time, Zhou Ran sighed helplessly, and could only resign himself to his fate, picked up his phone, and looked at that *thing* Feeling a headache, he had a premonition that the phone might be reimbursed.

When Li Mingliang came, Zhou Ran was carrying the second treasure with a serious face, and locked it in the room. This broken cat is too filthy. You said he worked so hard to get the phone back, Who would have thought that the second treasure was thrown into the water by one of its paws, cough, to be precise, it went into the bedpan, this, this smells like mobile phone shit, how dare he use it even after repairing it?

"What's the matter?" Li Mingliang asked in bewilderment.

Zhou Ran locked the door with a slap, and kept silent with a sullen face. Li Mingliang was so frightened that he dared not speak. After a while, he gave him a serious look and said, "I'm not leading the way yet."

The dessert shop that Li Mingliang was looking for was not actually a dessert shop in the true sense. It sold a lot of things, including desserts, pastries, and ice creams of different flavors and shapes. The colors give the store a nice sweet smell and a relaxed atmosphere.

The boss is a young woman in her thirties, wearing beige casual clothes, with a pretty girlish smile, just one glance is enough to make her feel like a spring breeze.This is a newly opened branch store, and there are several employees who help pack in the store, all of them are good-looking and tall, Zhou Ran raised his eyebrows, for some reason, he suddenly felt that this store was different from the one who saw Xu Cheng yesterday. That store feels very similar.

The employees here are paid very well, but the requirements for employees are also extremely high.When she heard Li Mingliang said that he was here to do a summer job, her eyes wandered around Zhou Ran a few times. In her opinion, Li Mingliang's appearance was also good, and the bright and bright sunshine could easily attract the favor of others. It's just interesting to say that her purpose of opening this store was because of her collection addiction. She loves beauties and appreciates all beautiful things.

Compared with Li Mingliang's bright and handsome, in fact, Zhou Ran is more pleasing to the boss's heart. Here, the absent-minded chattered without saying a word, but his eyes glanced at Zhou Ran from time to time. After talking with Li Mingliang, Her eyes were almost glued to him, she was very irresistible to this kind of noble, elegant and fairy-like young man, and she was fascinated by him in just a few glances, looking directly at the original staff behind him Shaking their heads, they have long been accustomed to such nympho behavior by their old boss, and they don't care about it.

"Are you here to apply too?" The boss asked excitedly with his eyes shining.

Zhou Ran took a step back without any trace, and shook his head, "I'm here with a friend," looking at the nympho expression of the young woman in front of him with some amusement, her eyes were full of peachy light waves, but there was nothing inside. There are no other colors that are too complicated, and it is rare to have clean eyes.

The boss smacked his lips in pity, and stared at Zhou Ran unwillingly. He casually recruited the staff next to him and asked him to show Li Mingliang around to help him familiarize himself with the environment in advance.On the other hand, he smiled enthusiastically and said that he wanted to have a good talk with Zhou Ran.

When Li Mingliang finished his visit and left, the boss was standing at the door with a smile and waving to Zhou Ran, "Oh, Aran, you must come tomorrow."

Hearing that, Li Mingliang looked puzzled, "Are you coming to work too?" Didn't you say you didn't want to come out to work before?

Zhou Ran curled his lips, remembering the terms that the boss had negotiated with him just now, and nodded with rare joy, "This job is good."

So, what happened during the ten minutes of his absence that he didn't know about?Li Mingliang glanced at Zhou Ran who was leisurely beside him, puzzled.