small town story

Chapter 13

The biggest difference between men and women is that men are good at calculating.

Su Youqin's friend once told her one thing, saying that when every man chooses to get married, he will calculate whether it is worthwhile for him to be with this woman (marry).If the calculated income and expenditure are within his controllable range, he will choose to get married. Once the calculated income and expenditure exceed his expectations, they will resolutely choose to break up, no matter how many feelings they had before.

Su Youqin didn't know a few men who knew deeply, so she had little understanding of this theory. In her opinion, whether it was dating or getting married, calculating this matter seemed too utilitarian.

But when Mi Hao explained it to Shen Qianyao, she vaguely understood the theory.

The reason why Mi Hao approached Shen Qianyao was that he didn't contact Shi Mi today.Today is Saturday, according to past habits, Shi Mi will go to the milk tea shop to help.

Because of Shi Mi's help, Mi Hao fired the part-time job at the milk tea shop on weekends.However, she didn't go today, and she didn't tell Mi Hao where she went.

There was one person missing in the store, and Mi Hao and another employee had been working around the clock for a whole day, and it was only now that they were free.The first thing Mi Hao did when he was free was to look for Shi Mi and ask her why she didn't go to the store today.

Shen Qianyao hit the nail on the head and asked, "If Shi Mi hadn't helped in the store before, would you come to her today?"

Mi Hao obviously hesitated for a moment: "If she rests, I will definitely not look for her and disturb her rest."

What he said seemed to make sense, but the moment of hesitation made the sentence look less convincing.

Shen Qianyao sneered: "She said she had something urgent to go home in the morning. She might be very busy and didn't see the news." She thought that Shi Mi's matter should be resolved by Shi Mi. As a friend, she shouldn't do it for her when the other party is away. Say something else.

Mi Hao was obviously dissatisfied with this statement, but he had nothing to say.After saying hello and preparing to leave, Shen Qianyao thought about it and asked one more question: "Mi Hao, Shi Mi said that she is considering getting married, do you know?"

Mi Hao had already retreated outside the door, paused for a while, nodded, left a sentence of "I think we are still young" and left.

The two have been standing by the door talking.

Mi Hao, a boy with a handsome appearance, double eyelids and thin lips, sharp facial features, handsome and handsome, is the type that little girls like.No wonder Shi Mi likes him.

Perhaps, Shi Mi's act of helping in the milk tea shop was also counted by Mi Hao as the benefit of his love affair.Otherwise, why didn't he contact Shi Mi last night, didn't contact Shi Mi in the morning, and only contacted Shi Mi as soon as the milk tea shop was busy?Contacting the other party was not to worry about what happened to the other party, but to ask her why she didn't go to the milk tea shop.

Seeing Mi Hao leave, Shen Qianyao closed the door and walked over, Su Youqin picked up her mobile phone and typed to her: "He doesn't look the same."

Shen Qianyao laughed and joked, "I don't look like you either."

The three words "I and you" reminded Su Youqin of the kiss before dinner, the heat rose from her neck, jumped to her ears, and spread to her forehead.She had nothing to say, picked up the bowl and ate seriously.

Shen Qianyao glanced at her blushing face, and picked up a piece of chicken with a smile.

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The breakfast shop is finally open again.

Due to the market day, the breakfast in the store sold out quickly.It was not yet nine o'clock, and there were only a few brown sugar steamed buns left.

An old man in his 80s and [-]s walked through the door with a cane. Behind her was a young man who was carrying a small backpack and was also holding a cane in one hand. The other hand was holding the corner of the old man's clothes. The person's eyes are half-opened and half-closed, and the exposed pupils are gray.

The two were wearing well-washed clothes and their faces were clean.

The old man stopped in front of the steamer cart, and asked in a low voice, clearly audible: "Is there any more steamed buns?"

Sister Cui was packing things in the kitchen.Su Youqin nodded while wearing a mask.

The old man grabbed the young man's hand with his backhand and asked cautiously, "Can we sit here and eat?"

Su Youqin's heart softened, and she walked out from behind the steamer cart with her mask pulled up to her chin. She smiled and moved the bench next to the steamer cart, letting the old man lead the young man into the house.

The old man said thank you again and again.

Sister Cui saw it in the kitchen and came out.

Su Youqin put three steamed buns on a bamboo tray and sent them over. Sister Cui leaned over to her and whispered, "The porridge is sold out."

The porridge in the store is free, and soy milk and milk are charged.Su Youqin pointed to the soy milk, and Sister Cui hurriedly filled two bowls, put them on the tables of the old and the young, and asked loudly, "Old mother, do you eat pickled radishes?"

The old man picked up the steamed bun and stuffed it into the young man's hand, waved his hand, and said loudly: "I can hear, and my ears are not bad, but I can't bite the pickled radish. That's it, thank you, young man, you guys Don’t dislike us sitting in the shop.”

Sister Cui coughed: "Old mother, open a shop and start a business. Visitors are a blessing, and you don't dislike anything."

The old man shook his head and tore up the steamed buns to eat: "I'm old, I brought a blind man to the market, and many people dislike us. Even my son and daughter-in-law won't let us go to their house."

Her tone was emotional, and she said it sadly, but she was not very sad, as if she had accepted these things.

Su Youqin felt uncomfortable hearing this, she thought of her grandma, if grandma was still around, she should be about the same age as this old man.

Sister Cui chatted with the old man one sentence after another.

The blind young man has no blood relationship with the old man, but lives in the same village.Both parents are dead, only sister and brother.

Young people in the village are all working outside, or bought houses to live in towns or cities, leaving only the elderly, children or disabled people.

The blind young man and the old man live in the same yard, and there are several other old men in the yard, and they often eat and do things together.On the market day, the old people will take turns to bring the blind young people to the market.

"Come out for a walk. He's only in his thirties, so he can't stay in the ditch all the time." Seeing the blind young man just eating steamed buns, the old man picked up the soy milk bowl and handed it to him: "Drink some soup, don't choke."

Fortunately, several elderly people are relatively healthy, and their children will give some money to the family, and the sisters, brothers, husbands and brothers of the blind young people will also give him money. The "old" and "disabled" who live close to each other help each other. With support, I can live my life.

"Let's say we're not doing well. We can still eat enough and wear warm clothes, and we're not sick. There are people in our village who suffer from cancer and cannot be cured. They roll around in pain at home every day. That's miserable." After eating a steamed bun, the old man, Talking to Sister Cui, waiting for young people to eat: "It's better for you, living in the street, every day is lively..."

Su Youqin felt very uncomfortable hearing that, they were already satisfied with food and clothing, no wonder they were so calm when they mentioned being rejected, son and daughter-in-law, etc.

The old man and the blind young man ate three brown sugar steamed buns, and there were three left in the steamer. Su Youqin packed them in food bags and secretly put them in the young man's back basket. Carton of milk goes in.Sister Cui saw it, but didn't make a sound.

In the eyes of others, Su Youqin's move was tinged with pity.But only she knows that these three steamed buns and a few bottles of milk contain admiration. She admires the mutual help of the elderly and blind young people in the village, and admires their peace of being indifferent to everything.

Thinking of the car accident that made her depressed for so long, and yesterday because of some trivial things, she felt extremely wronged. Compared with the old people, these are nothing, and she looked down on herself.

She watched the old man lead the blind young man down the street.The two figures, one in front and one in the back, are very conspicuous among the pedestrians coming and going. Passers-by saw the two quickly turn sideways, fearing that they would run into them accidentally.

It wasn't until the two figures disappeared around the corner that Su Youqin looked away.

There was no more breakfast in the store, so Sister Cui took the money and went across to buy breakfast.As soon as she walked to the side of the road, she turned around and saw Shen Qianyao coming down the stairs with a yawn. She greeted with a smile, "Mr. Shen, have you eaten yet?"

Shen Qianyao had already walked down the stairs, half of her body was exposed at the door of the breakfast shop, she shook her head: "The breakfast in the shop is sold out?"

Sister Cui nodded and was very generous: "I'm going to buy beef noodles. The little boss wants noodles with mixed sauce. Would Teacher Shen eat it? I'll buy it for you."

Shen Qianyao turned around and met Su Youqin's helpless eyes, laughed, and asked Sister Cui to help bring some noodles with mixed sauce.Turning around and walking to the side of the steamer cart, he smiled and teased Su Youqin: "Boss Su's employees are really generous."

Su Youqin wanted to say, isn't she generous?Before saying anything, Shen Qianyao continued: "Of course, our boss Su is more generous."

She seemed to be in a good mood, and she didn't know what happened to her.

Sister Cui quickly returned with a tray of noodles.

The three of them sat at a table, burying their heads in eating noodles.Su Youqin watched Shen Qianyao push the coriander to the side of the bowl, the latter noticed her gaze, and explained to himself: "I can eat a little coriander, too much of it is very strong, I don't like it."

Su Youqin nodded.She likes to eat coriander very much, and blanching coriander when cooking hot pot is her favorite hot pot vegetarian dish.

"Hey, the little boss likes to eat coriander." Sister Cui continued, "I like to eat it too. The small coriander salad is delicious."

Shen Qianyao probably thought of the taste of coriander and houttuynia mixed together in cold salad, and frowned slightly: "No, no, the smell is too strong."

It's impossible to say that you can't eat in daily life.What's more, when Shen Qianyao and Sister Cui got together, an extroverted and lively teacher, and a clerk who could chat with diners of all ages, both men and women, with her, Su Youqin didn't even need to shake his head—anyway. Regardless of nodding or shaking their heads, the two can continue talking independently.

Su Youqin didn't speak, and ate the noodles faster.She had just picked up the last vegetable leaf in the bowl when she saw a small white car parked on the side of the road. She glanced around and saw the BMW on the front of the car.

There are quite a few families with cars in the town, but most of them are like Zhu Cheng, and they can just buy a transportation service worth tens of thousands of 10,000+. It is rare to see familiar car logos, let alone cars like BMW and Mercedes-Benz.

Su Youqin doesn't know much about cars. She knows that BMW also has 30 million yuan, but this car doesn't look like that, and the price will definitely be higher.

She guessed randomly in her mind, Shen Qianyao found her gaze, looked over, saw the car, Shen Qianyao pulled a piece of paper and stood up, wiped her mouth and walked to the side of the car, speaking in a moderate voice, Su Youqin listened Clearly: "Little Mom? Why is she here?"

Probably saw Shen Qianyao.The rear window of the car was rolled down, and a young girl poked her head out, smiled and waved: "Yaoyao." The driver's door was also opened, and the woman in a thin windbreaker stood up from the driver's seat and asked, "Stop the car?" where?"

Shen Qianyao glanced at Su Youqin, saw her nodding, took two steps back, and pointed at her feet: "Come in, this dam can park."

The woman looked up at the signboard of the breakfast shop: "This is their store."

"It's okay, the business is closed." Hearing what Shen Qianyao said, the woman returned to the driver's seat and started the car.

Sister Cui finished the noodles in two or three bites, and asked Shen Qianyao if she still wanted to eat?Shen Qianyao shook her head, she immediately put away the table and wiped it clean with a rag.It seems that the woman in the car will come to check, so be prepared in advance.

Su Youqin looked amused, picked up the phone and typed to Shen Qianyao: "You guys go upstairs and talk." Shen Qianyao didn't move, she got up and stood beside the other party, shaking the phone.

Shen Qianyao touched her pocket and found that she didn't bring her mobile phone.She grabbed Su Youqin's hand and leaned over to read the message that had been sent.Nod after seeing clearly.

Just when the car stopped in front of them, the girl in the back seat got out of the car and smiled happily: "Hi, we meet again."

Su Youqin found that the girl looked familiar, and she remembered that when she met Shen Qianyao in the pedestrian street, she was waiting for Shen Qianyao downstairs, and the girl waved at her on the second floor.

Seeing that she seems to remember, the girl is even happier: "I am Shen Xiaoyu, the smile of the joke, the language of the language, and I am Yaoyao's sister."

elder sister?Su Youqin glanced across the faces of the two people around him, they didn't look like one.

"Xiaoxiaoxiao, you can lie to people regardless of who they are. Do you think Boss Su believes you?" Shen Qianyao said with disgust, and then explained to Su Youqin: "She is my cousin, and I am a day older than her, but I am A premature baby, or a caesarean section, she has never been convinced since she was a child, always saying that she should be the older sister."

"That's what it is..." Before Shen Xiaoyu finished speaking, a figure approached, and she immediately fell silent.

Su Youqin looked at the woman who was approaching.The makeup on the woman's face is exquisite, and her whole body has been carefully taken care of. Her face is soft, and her gaze is full of inquiry.

I don't know if it was this person who was with Shen Xiaoyu in the pedestrian street that time.Su Youqin didn't confirm, just smiled at her, with the restraint of meeting for the first time.

"Little Mom, why are you here today? Let's go upstairs and talk about it." Shen Qianyao spoke at the right time and led the two of them upstairs.

Shen Xiaoyu looked at Su Youqin, and Shen Qianyao pulled her: "Boss Su still needs to clean up the store, don't disturb her downstairs."

The three of them walked upstairs.Sister Cui came out of the house, looked at the car in front of her, and sighed: "What does that man belong to Teacher Shen? This car is so beautiful, isn't it worth a lot of money?"

Su Youqin nodded.Go back to the house and continue to tidy up the storefront.

It has been an hour since the store was cleaned up.Chen Jianhua came to pick up Sister Cui again on a motorcycle. He looked at the car in front of the door several times, and asked if this car belonged to Boss Su?

Miss Cui shook her head.The two talked and left.

The people upstairs did not come down.Su Youqin didn't know Shen Qianyao's relatives well, and she couldn't speak well, so she couldn't communicate well. She felt that it would be a little awkward for her to go up now.She plans to go shopping in the street, buy some food and so on.

She had just walked to the farmer's market, and there was a lot of noise at the entrance of the hospital opposite. Two male doctors in white coats stood there, followed by four or five people. The four or five people seemed to be a family. Holding the doctor's arm, as if crying about something.

Someone came from the opposite hospital, passing by Su Youqin, saying how pitiful he was, children or something.

The phone vibrated, and Su Youqin picked it up to look. It was a message from Shen Qianyao, asking where she was.

Su Youqin glanced at the hospital opposite, walked to the corner and replied: "On the street."

"Buy something. Is your little mother having lunch at home?"

The sound of an ambulance came from not far away.The male doctor blocked the people around him, and Liu Ancan walked out of the hospital with a child in his arms. Behind her was a nurse, and a middle-aged woman was supported by another woman.Liu Ancan was wearing a mask and couldn't see his expression, but the middle-aged woman was pale and very sad.

The ambulance stopped in front of the hospital.Liu Ancan and the nurse hurried forward and got into the car.After a while, the two got out of the car, and the middle-aged woman was helped into the ambulance, followed by a group of middle-aged men standing near the male doctor.

The ambulance drove away.

The few people blocked by the male doctor walked to the side of the road and stopped the car, as if they wanted to follow the ambulance.

In less than 3 minutes, the entrance of the hospital fell silent.

Liu Ancan stood there, looking at the direction of the ambulance leaving. There were obvious puddles of blood on her white coat, which was very dazzling. A male doctor pushed her, and she turned and walked into the hospital.

Shen Qianyao's message has been sent for several minutes: "Do you want them to have lunch at home?"

Su Youqin stared at the news for a while, then raised her hand and replied, "It doesn't matter. I'll buy some food and go home."

Shen Qianyao didn't reply to the message again.

When Su Youqin returned home, the car at the door had disappeared.Go upstairs and open the door, there is no one in the room, there are several boxes of exquisitely packaged pastries on the coffee table, which are Aishang's pastries.She went to put vegetables in the refrigerator. There were many boxes of stewed vegetables in the fresh-keeping room, and a chicken was stuffed in the cold room.

When Shen Qianyao took her relatives upstairs, she didn't take these things.

Su Youqin knew that these things were bought for Shen Qianyao, but after all, the two lived together these days, and these things were kept in the refrigerator, Shen Qianyao definitely couldn't eat them alone.Looking at the serving size, it is not something that one person can eat in a few days.

She went back to the living room and sent Shen Qianyao a message: "Where did you go?" She thought for a while, and then sent another message: "Aren't you eating at home? I've bought all the food."

It took Shen Qianyao a while to reply: "Take them for a stroll."

"Did you buy a lot of vegetables?"

Didn't buy a lot, but I have a lot of stock in the fridge.

"Ah."

"I'll cook the meal, and you'll come back for lunch after shopping."

Shen Qianyao sat on the co-pilot, looked at the messages on the phone, and asked, "What should I do? Do you want to go back to have lunch? Boss Su said to cook the meal."

Shen Xiaoyu in the back seat laughed at her: "That's enough. I just said that we were disturbing others there and told us to go back to the city for dinner, and now we want us to go back."

"Oh, I'm not afraid of her embarrassment. You are here, and she doesn't even go home. But I want you to get to know each other, so that you don't always think that I am messing around outside." Shen Qianyao also felt awkward, she looked at the side Wang He, who was driving, had a coquettish tone in his tone: "Mom, are you coming back?"

Seeing her like this, Shen Xiaoyu bent over with a smile: "Hey, Mom, go back, if you don't, Yaoyao will jump off the car."

"What did the kid say?" Wang He had no choice but to step on the brakes, check the situation before and after, and start to back up.She said helplessly, "Fortunately, I am here today. If your aunt comes over..."

"Stop, stop." Thinking of her aunt's serious look, Shen Qianyao acted like a baby: "Mom, you are the best."

The car quickly turned around and drove back along the way it had come.Shen Qianyao was visibly happy, and Wang He saw the change in her face and smiled.But I quickly remembered what my family told me before I came here: "Yaoyao, I see that girl has scars on her forehead as well as her face. Does she also have a throat problem?"

"What? Is there a problem with your throat?" Shen Xiaoyu raised his head from behind: "I didn't find it."

"What can you find?" Wang He was a little disgusted with his daughter: "When we met in the morning, she hadn't spoken, and there was still concern in her eyes. Under normal circumstances, most people would say hello."

I have to admire the eyesight of the elders.Shen Qianyao was quiet for a while, and said in a low voice, "She had an accident outside and her voice became hoarse."

Hearing that it was an accident, Shen Xiaoyu felt sympathetic: "Can it still recover? How pitiful."

Shen Qianyao shook her head: "I don't know. I didn't ask, but she still often goes to the city hospital, so she should be receiving treatment." When she said this, she remembered that Su Youqin hadn't been to the city this week.

"Ah, it's good if it can be cured." Shen Xiaoyu breathed a sigh of relief: "The scars on the face can be used for medical beauty, but if the throat is bad, it won't work. But, Yaoyao, why don't you ask?"

Wang He glanced at Shen Qianyao, she was also curious why her niece didn't ask.

"Oh." Shen Qianyao sighed, she just felt that it was not good for her to ask these questions suddenly.

Although the two are living together now and seem to have a good relationship, if Su Youqin doesn't mention these things, what if she is hurt?

Her sigh caused the two people in the car to exchange glances and shut their mouths.The car was quiet for a while, until the car drove to the breakfast shop again, Shen Qianyao unbuckled his seat belt, and told: "Little mother, smile, don't ask me any questions later, I will know later, after she agrees." , I will tell you again."

The other two exchanged glances again.Shen Xiaoyu teased a few more words, and they parked their cars and went upstairs.

Shen Qianyao opened the door with a key, and the range hood in the kitchen was roaring. She deliberately exaggerated her movements and shouted "We're back".

Su Youqin came out of the kitchen with two plates of fruit.

The Aishang cakes on the coffee table were neatly piled up next to the TV cabinet, and now there are several plates of stewed vegetables from Lugong.

Su Youqin put the fruit on the side of the coffee table, and motioned to Shen Qianyao.Shen Qianyao explained: "The table in the dining room is used for stacking things. There are few of us, so we usually eat on the coffee table. This coffee table is not short, and it is suitable for sitting on."

Wang He put his eyes on Su Youqin, Su Youqin pointed to his throat with a smile, picked up the tablet from the sofa, and handed it to her, she looked at the text: "Sorry, auntie, my throat is sick and I can't speak , and I can’t greet you, you can do whatever you want.”

In the one or two minutes since entering the room, Su Youqin didn't type on the tablet, she picked it up from the sofa, indicating that the other party had already typed this line and was ready to explain.

It can be seen that Su Youqin is a girl who knows how to deal with people and has strong self-esteem.

She knew that others would definitely explore and be curious, so she simply took the initiative to inform the other party first.In this case, it is unreasonable for the person being informed to complain.

Shen Xiaoyu moved closer to Wang He, saw the words on the tablet clearly, and was surprised in his heart. Like Wang He, he developed a good impression of Su Youqin.She took the initiative to smile and said, "It's okay, what's the matter. Everyone will get sick, and their throats will be tired too. Boss Su, do you need my help in the kitchen?"

Su Youqin waved his hand, pointed to the fruit on the table, turned and went back to the kitchen.

The range hood separated the sound from inside and outside, Wang He handed the tablet to Shen Qianyao, and praised with a smile: "This girl is nice."

Shen Qianyao smiled happily, and said proudly: "That's right. I can see from the first sight that Boss Su is a nice person."

Shen Xiaoyu walked to the side of the TV cabinet, she saw something faintly exposed in the corner, so she stretched out her hand and pulled it out, it was a photo.In the photo, Su Youqin is wearing the school uniform in the city, with the oblique bangs that were popular ten years ago, and her hair is half tied, smiling happily at the camera.

A face without scars looks more complete.

Shen Xiaoyu looked at it for a few seconds, then handed the photo to Shen Qianyao: "Are you sure you can see that Boss Su is a nice person at first glance? I think you have bad intentions. Her appearance when she was young is exactly the dish you liked to eat when you were young."

Shen Qianyao met the person in the photo. The girl in the photo had a clean smile, clear and open eyes, her school uniform was half open, and her cuffs were rolled up to the elbows.

The range hood in the kitchen stopped, and Shen Qianyao heard the sound of her own heartbeat.She looked up, just in time to see Su Youqin coming out with two plates of dishes.

Su Youqin was facing her sideways, unable to see the scar on her right cheek, her bangs were turned to one side because of walking, and because her cooking sleeves were rolled up to her elbows, she was smiling and overlapped with the person in the photo.

"Hey, Boss Su, I'll help you."

Shen Qianyao woke up from her daze, and met Su Youqin's gaze, and she moved the hand holding the photo back slightly, and hid it behind her.

When Su Youqin returned to the kitchen again, she put the photo into the textbook preparation book in the corner of the sofa, looked teasingly at Wang He and Shen Xiaoyu, made a silent gesture, and went to help in the kitchen.

Behind her, Shen Xiaoyu whispered to Wang He: "Mom, do you think Yaoyao is really like what she said, is she just friends with Boss Su?"

Wang He glanced at her: "You don't know how to read?"

"Hey, is it really okay for them to live together?"

Wang He pushed her daughter away in disgust: "It's such a strange smile." She looked at the rich dishes on the table and whispered: "As long as the voice recovers, there will be no problem with people."

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The author has something to say:

The younger mother is the aunt, and the younger father is the uncle.This title was mentioned in the previous chapter.

Wang He: This girl is good, you can consider taking her home.

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Mou Wu: It can be regarded as meeting the parents (one of them).