Think childish

half year later.

"Come on, everyone, raise your cups." Qiu Kai held the cup with one hand and put his other hand on his waist like an adult, looking around at everyone on the table. "The mountains are high and the waters are long, see you in the rivers and lakes later!"

No one cares about him.

Qiu Kai: "..."

Qiu Kai: "Hey, I said you guys are too disrespectful, right?"

Qiao Zhi smiled, and tapped the mouth of the cup with chopsticks: "Come on, everyone, please give Young Master Qiu some face, and raise the cup."

The rest raised their glasses.

Qiu Kai was depressed.

Xia Huanhuan looked funny and laughed at him: "It's just a graduation, what are you excited about?"

"There is still a sense of ceremony!" Qiu Kai gulped it down, sat down again and patted Xie Xiaoqing's shoulder beside him, "Brother Xiaoqing, we won't see each other in the future, don't worry, I will take good care of you Huanhuan girls."

He laughed out loud.

Xie Xiaoqing rolled his eyes at him indifferently, and snorted coldly: "Boring!"

This summer, everyone officially graduated from Chengbei Middle School. Xia Huanhuan and Qiu Kai were admitted to No. [-] Middle School together and became reserve students in key high schools.And Xie Xiaoqing entered the mechanical and electrical technical secondary school, and planned to study for two years before going out to work to earn money and support his family.

Qiao Zhi touched Qiushui's head beside her, raised her cup and touched her soda bottle lightly, and said in a low voice, "Congratulations to us, Qiushui, who successfully passed the grade-jumping exam. After the summer vacation, we are now an official Junior high school student."

Qiu Shui smiled and took a sip of the juice, but he wasn't particularly happy.

Of course, among the people present, Guo Qingshan was the most unhappy.He sat there sullenly with his mouth pouted, worrying that no one would copy his homework for him in the future.

Qiao Zhi asked Xie Xiaoqing again: "Where is your school? Is it far from home?"

Xie Xiaoqing replied: "It's okay, at the Deyue Building, I heard that the person teaching us is an old man."

Technical secondary school is different from high school. In half a month, Xie Xiaoqing will report.

Xia Huanhuan was a little melancholy: "Actually, with your score, you can enter the No. [-] Middle School with us. Ah Zhi is gone, and you are gone. I will be left alone in the future."

Qiu Kai immediately said "Ai Ai" twice: "Didn't I see such a big living person sitting in front of you! I will accompany you in the future!"

Xia Huanhuan poohed him: "Who wants you to accompany me! Don't be ashamed!"

Qiu Kai scratched his hair innocently and aggrieved.

Xie Xiaoqing was the first to laugh out loud.

At this point, life seems to have finally settled down again.Half a month later, Xie Xiaoqing wrapped up his bedroll and went to the electromechanical team to report, and then Xia Huanhuan, Qiu Kai, Zhuang Qiushui, Guo Qingshan... who should go, they all left.

Two bookstores were opened one after another near the East Street, one of which was particularly large and had a wide variety of books. Xuehai's business started up and down. Qiao Zhi wanted to manage it well, but he didn't know how to solve the current situation.

When the business in the store was not good, she would go to the next door to chat and play chess with Li Sanshu, who sells stewed vegetables, but the business of the hot stewed shop was very good, and often a game of chess would be interrupted by customers who came to the door after only a few minutes. There were too many times, and Qiao Zhi felt bored, so she didn't like to go there.

Her life seems to have entered a new predicament - boredom.

Only on weekends will it be a little more lively, because Qiushui and Guo Qingshan will come to the store to look for her on weekends, chat with her, cook and so on.

However, weekends have become boring in recent times. One of the reasons is that Guo Qingshan's half-term exam has hit a new high - he took the second-to-last exam in the class, only [-] points away from the bottom-to-last.The Guo family couldn't bear it anymore, and Mao Zhijuan even threatened that her son was spoiled by her, and that Guo Qingshan would not be allowed to go out on weekends, and even had to stay at home to guard him when he was transferred.

The second reason made Qiao Zhi a little depressed.

In terms of study, Qiu Shui was already diligent and hardworking, but she didn't relax after skipping a grade to junior high school, but even worked harder, and she was always first in the exams.Just like that, she didn't think it was enough. She was always reading books and calculating problems from morning to night. Once, Qiao Zhi couldn't read it, and advised her to take it easy and stop imitating her brain, but Qiu Shui's words made her automatically shut up. Never want to talk to her about studying again.

Qiushui said that she stipulated that she should be admitted to university when she was 16 years old.

Listen up, regulations!

Qiao Zhi didn't dare to bother her anymore. On weekends, when Qiushui was studying hard with a book, she cooked delicious food for her in various ways, among which "pig brain" was served the most often——Joe I was really afraid that she would ruin her brain.

As the saying goes, if the mountain does not come, it will be me, and I will go to the mountain.

If you have nothing to do, then find something to do for yourself.

Qiao Zhi sorted out the details of the bookstore's revenue for more than a year. After a week, he decisively sold all the books in the store at a discount. Then he went to the building materials store to buy wood and came back. Under the guidance of Uncle Li, he worked hard for several times. Day, made two food racks out.

She removed the original shop signboard again, and planned to change the name again.

After Qiu Kai heard about this, he volunteered to take it over. After returning home, he berated his father. Finally, he asked a calligrapher friend of his father’s acquaintance to help him write a new plaque. Xuehai Bookstore has changed since then. It is called "Xuehai Supermarket".

Not to mention, after the new plaque was hung, the signboards of their supermarket looked the most expensive and high-end on the entire East Street.

Qiao Zhi simply asked the teapot for help, expressing his intention to redecorate the store.

The teapot immediately responded, and asked Bai Jiao to draw a design for himself—it was only at this time that Qiao Zhi realized that the handsome and gentle young man next to the teapot was actually an art student!This is even more strange, the teapot and him...how did these two people get together?

Qiao Zhi tried everything, but she couldn't pry a little gossip from the two of them, so she was quite disappointed for several hours.

On the day when the supermarket officially opened, the people who brought the teapots alone filled the store, making those customers who really wanted to enter the store look at the group of vicious muscular men, and wanted to enter for a while. dare not enter.

Qiao Zhi had no choice but to coax everyone away.

On the first day of opening, the supermarket made a lot of money.

After closing the store at night, Qiao Zhi sat at the counter and counted the money, his eyes were smiling, which made him more determined to do business.

The torrent of the times is fierce and ruthless. Batch after batch of people jump down from the shore, and if they can swim and are lucky, they will gradually rush to the top of the wave; Folded halfway.As for those who still stay on the shore to watch the water, although they are safe, they are destined to be abandoned by the times.

The girl who was dreaming sweetly while holding the money box didn't know that this time, she was already in the vortex of the torrent. From now on, if she didn't enter, she would be smashed into the sand, and she would never have to retreat.

***

On this day, Qiao Zhi was drying salted fish in the backyard, Guo Qingshan ran to her door and started yelling all the way.

Qiu Shui said that she wanted to eat dried fish, so she got up early this morning and went to the morning market, fighting to the death with all the elders and aunts to get back these big fish.

I don’t even know if I don’t dry the fish, but it turns out that salted fish is so popular among the cured meat!

"You have something to say, why don't you yell?" Qiao Zhi picked out her ears, feeling the roar of the aunts still echoing in her ears.

"Sister, I'm hungry, do you have anything to eat?" Guo Qingshan wailed while clutching his stomach.

Qiao Zhi gave him a white look: "You are not at home early in the morning and eat your meatloaf, why come here to howl?"

Guo Qingshan lamented: "My dad went to work today, and my grandma went to the countryside for the funeral two days ago and hasn't come back yet. My mother went to the furniture factory to line up before dawn. There is no one at home to cook. I am starving to death."

Qiao Zhi knew about grandma's going back to the countryside for the funeral. She said that a distant relative passed away, and since the relationship was not very close, they didn't have to follow her.

Qiao Zhi asked strangely: "Furniture factory? What is your mother doing there?"

"Buy furniture!" Guo Qingshan said with a frown, "I have been waiting in line for half a month and still haven't bought it. More than half of the people in the yard have replaced it with new furniture, and our family has not changed it."

Qiao Zhi nodded and went into the kitchen, looked at the cupboard - yes, there is only half a shallot seedling left.

"Shall I serve you a bowl of noodles?"

"Okay, okay!" Guo Qingshan nodded hurriedly, "Give me another egg, good sister."

"I'm not your sister!" Qiao Zhi choked on him angrily, "The bottom one doesn't deserve to eat eggs!"

"Tch!" Guo Qingshan kicked the ground sullenly, feeling aggrieved after thinking about it, and shouted again, "I will definitely not be the last one in the exam next time!"

Qiao Zhi glanced at him unhappily: "What? You plan to return to the penultimate peak?"

Guo Qingshan: "..."

Qiao Zhi was bored waiting for the water to boil, and after thinking about it, he asked again: "Have more than half of the people in the courtyard replaced their furniture?"

Guo Qingshan nodded and said: "Yes! My dad also said that the forest farm will make a lot of money!"

The water boiled, Qiao Zhi put the noodles down, took out another egg, just knocked on it, suddenly his hand stopped, and his heart beat suddenly accelerated.

She subconsciously bit her lower lip, as if she had been struck by lightning.

"Sister?" Guo Qingshan looked at her strangely, "Why are you in a daze? The eggshells are about to fall in!"