The modern fortune-telling history of a small shopkeeper

It took a week or so for their third new store to be fully furnished, and it's almost ready to open once everything is laid out inside.

This time, Qiao Mingshan did not pretend to be someone else's hands in the renovation of the new store, everything was done by himself.However, after the opening of the new store, some staff will be transferred from the previous two stores to work in the new store. The original two old stores may not have enough manpower, so they need to hire two more people to work.

After the electricity was connected to my hometown, it didn't take long for the telephone line to be pulled to the village. The family was the first batch to apply for the installation of a fixed line.

Now that there is a telephone at home, it is much more convenient for both parties to communicate on the phone.

Qiao Mingshan called back to tell his family about this matter, but he was actually thinking about it, and wanted to ask if there was any suitable person in his hometown.After all, spending money to invite outsiders is also inviting, and it is best to find two suitable people from my hometown.

It happened that the two cousins ​​in my hometown, that is, the two sons of his aunt's family, didn't have much work at home. After the family went to ask what it meant, they said that the two cousins ​​agreed to come.

"Xiaoyong, you drive to the station to pick up someone. Ah Guang and Ah Liang are here." After receiving a call from home, I knew that my cousins ​​had already left in the morning, so they should be arriving soon.

It happened that Qiao Mingshan still had something to do, so he asked his younger brother Qiao Mingyong to drive the car in the shop to pick up people at the station.

"Oh, I see, I'll go right away." Qiao Mingyong put down what he was doing, and drove out to pick up someone.

"Drive slowly." Qiao Mingshan reminded him worriedly.

"Got it." Qiao Mingyong had already run outside, driving their tricycle to pick up someone.

Seeing his younger brother driving to pick up someone, Qiao Mingshan turned his head and said to his little cousin: "They will arrive in a while, Xiao Lang, you can arrange them. The dormitory has already been packed, and you can let them go directly to the other side with their things." Just stay."

For a while now he has been busy with the new store, which has to be opened quickly, so he doesn't have much time for other things. Even the store here is handed over to a few cousins ​​and brothers-in-law. read.

"Okay, I know how to do it. Big cousin, you want to go to the store over there, right?" Qiao Minglang had seen those cousins ​​before, but he didn't have a deep impression of them.But because he had a good impression of his aunt, he had a good impression of those cousins.

This time, they decided to invite someone from their hometown to come over after discussion, so Qiao Minglang also knew about the visit of his cousins.

"Well, I'm going over there." Qiao Mingshan explained a few words to his cousin, and hurried out.

It was almost noon when Qiao Mingyong picked up a few cousins, and the store was busy, so Qiao Minglang asked the younger cousin to send a few cousins ​​to the dormitory to put them in a salute before coming to the store for a bite to eat.

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After nearly half a month of friendly matches, the basketball team of one of them reached the quarterfinals and all the way to the finals of the semifinals.

In the past, their school's team never made it to the semi-finals, let alone the semi-finals. They didn't even reach the quarter-finals in the past two years. So this time they reached the finals of the semi-finals. Coach Gao was very happy and encouraged the team members They said: "This time, let's work harder and see if we can win the championship. I have great confidence in you. You definitely have the strength to win this basketball championship..."

However, it is not easy to win the championship. The basketball teams of the schools that can reach the finals are not bad, so if they want to win the championship, they have to put a little effort into it.

Coach Gao put a lot of thought into the daily basketball training of these students, pouring his love for basketball and pursuit of career into these students.He hoped to see his unfulfilled dreams in these students.

Although the daily training is very tiring and they have tried their best in every basketball game, the members of the entire team have greatly increased their confidence in their team's ability to reach the semi-finals.

After this period of training and competition, everyone was not very proficient and cooperative at the beginning, and now the overall level of the entire team has improved.

"That's all for today's training. You go back tonight and have a good rest, and come back later tomorrow. You will come back to practice at ten o'clock tomorrow morning, and you will officially participate in the competition in the afternoon." After finishing the day's training, Coach Gao announced The task of training tomorrow.

However, I know that these students have come to train so early during this period of time. In the past half a month, they have played consecutive games every day. Not to mention that these students are tired, even he, the coach who follows every day, will feel tired.

Therefore, on the last day of the finals, Coach Gao left a little more time for the students to rest.

"Thank you coach."

After hearing the coach calling for dismissal, everyone packed up their things and prepared to go back.

During the period when they represented the school to participate in the competition, the coach helped them apply to the school for dormitory living.However, there are also some people who don't live in the dormitory of the school, go back after training every day, and come here the next day.

"Let's go, see you tomorrow." Both Zhou Xing and Wang Jian didn't live in the school, but they went through different doors. Wang Jian went out through the front door, and he went out through the back door.

After saying hello to the members of the team, Zhou Xing turned around and left with his things, went to the store to pick up his boy, and drove him home with him.

"We have two games tomorrow afternoon, do you want to come and watch?"

On the way back, Zhou Xing thought about it, but couldn't help but ask the boy if he wanted to watch the game.He has never invited the boy to watch the training and competition during this period. He knows that the boy is also very busy during this period.

But this time the final is different, he wants the teenager to watch them win the final and become the champion on the field.

"Huh?" The wind was a bit strong, Qiao Minglang took a moment to hear what Zhou Xing was saying, and asked, "Is it the final?"

"Yes, are you coming?" Zhou Xing slowed down a bit, looked sideways at the young man behind him, and asked.

"Okay, what time does it start?" Calculating the time, it should be almost the final.

Even though he hadn't been to the weekly games during this period, Qiao Minglang still had some idea of ​​the approximate time.

"Starting at 02:30 in the afternoon, you can come over after the store is done. We will play on the school basketball court, so you can come to me directly." Zhou Xing thought that he might not be free to pick up the boy at that time, so he asked He came here by himself, anyway, it was in their own school, and the boy knew how to get there.

"Well, good." Qiao Minglang nodded and agreed to go.

At dusk and sunset, there was still a faint afterglow in the west. A motorcycle was running on the road with two teenagers sitting on it.

The wind blows head-on, and the corners of the boy's clothes are flying...

***

It happened that their new store officially opened the next day. Qiao Minglang and his lobby brother went to the new store in the morning, and returned to the old store in the afternoon.Still thinking about Zhou Xing's game, Qiao Minglang told his cousins ​​and planned to go to school a little earlier.

"Are you leaving so early? Don't you leave after dinner?" Qiao Mingliang asked when he saw that his little cousin was leaving.

"Don't eat, I'll see and eat outside with Ah Xing later." Qiao Minglang calculated the time in his mind, it might be very late after the game over there, by then all the cousins ​​will close the shop and go back .

After the game, I don't know if Zhou Xing will make an appointment with his teammates to go out for dinner, so he feels that there is no need to come back here, "Cousin, you don't have to wait for me to come back, we may come back later, After a while, you can close the shop and go back."

"Oh, that's good." Qiao Mingliang knew that his little cousin was going back to school to find his classmates, and that he was with his classmates, so he might eat out, so he asked, "Do you have any money? Do you want to bring some?" money?"

"There are more." Qiao Minglang told his cousins, then left the shop and went to the school.

"Are you waiting for someone?" Wang Jian noticed that Zhou Xing looked out frequently, so he knew that he might be waiting for someone.

"Come here, Minglang, let me see if he's here." Seeing that the game was about to start, Zhou Xing looked outside for a while, but he didn't see the boy coming.

"Oh, since he promised to come, he should come." The relationship between Wang Jian and Qiao Minglang is not very good, but they have been in the same class for so long, and the relationship between them is pretty good.

As early as the last spring outing, he had seen that the relationship between Zhou Xing and Qiao Minglang was very good, so it was not surprising that Zhou Xing invited Qiao Minglang to watch the football.

"After playing the ball game, do you have any plans for the summer vacation?" Wang Jian asked Zhou Xing.

"I'm not sure yet. Let's see when the time comes." According to the past, he would go to the capital every winter and summer vacation, but this year because of the game, he has no time to go there yet.

The capital city had called him a few times earlier, and Zhou Xing had explained to his aunt that he might have to arrange a time to go there, but he hoped that the young man would go there with him.

He didn't like to mention family matters to outsiders, so he didn't go into too much detail with Wang Jian.

This day is the final day, because it is a friendship game of various schools, many teachers and students from other schools will come to watch, so there are many people watching the game, and there are several circles around the entire basketball court.

Qiao Minglang stood outside the crowd, looking at the wall of people in front of him several times, and really didn't know how to get past it.

"I seem to see Minglang outside. I'll go out and have a look." Zhou Xing has been watching the outside, saw a flashing figure, told Wang Jian, and went outside.

When he walked outside, he really saw the young man standing outside the circle with a dazed expression on his face.

"Why are you standing outside? Follow me." Zhou Xing directly took the boy's hand, walked through several human walls and entered inside.

Before Qiao Minglang could react, he was dragged by Zhou Xing to squeeze through the human wall and went inside.