Wild Deer Convenience Store

What is Chapter 4?

When Ai Weili walked into the store at [-]:[-] p.m. the next day, Ah Pan was sitting behind the cash register, eating fruit and talking on the phone.

"In recent months, it seems to be getting more and more excessive. Sometimes, even I find it difficult to pretend."

What weird topic are you talking about?
Ai Weili only heard half of these words, when A Pan happened to look up and saw her, and immediately greeted her: "You are here!"

"Which one did you eat?" Ai Weili asked, staring at the fruit core in his hand.

"I don't know who brought the peaches." He hung up the phone with his hands dripping from eating, and said, "Where did you buy the peaches this season? They taste quite sweet. Why do you look at me like that? Is this yours? You don't mind if I eat one?"

Ai Weili opened his mouth, seeing that there were only two peaches left in yesterday's bag, he still didn't speak in the end.

She really didn't know how to give feedback on the price of a product that didn't exist yesterday, and she was dealing with the unfamiliar work of the convenience store alone, and finally forgot the peach behind the cashier. Now it seems that it has been regarded as employee benefits .

If the customer found it yesterday, no, it wouldn't be his own peaches. How could there be anyone in the world who would take his own things to the store and try to pay again?Or did he forget that the peaches are his own?

"Since you're here, I'm leaving." Apan wiped his hands on his trousers twice, and said, "I've written you all the things you need to pay attention to during the shift. I still have something to do. I'll see you tomorrow."

It was 10 minutes before she went to work, but Apan's speed was extremely fast. By the time he finished speaking, others had already walked to the door; Ai Weili just called out "Hello", but Apan didn't seem to hear She hurriedly opened the door and left, and she was the only one left in the store in a blink of an eye.

No way, if there is any problem, I have to talk about it later.

Anyway, she has no place to go, and she has nothing to do, so it doesn't make any difference to her if she goes to work early or goes to work late.

In fact, after going to work, he has nothing to do: Sitting behind the cash register, Ai Weili's body is upright at the beginning, and then gradually sags and collapses, like an ice cream that is melting. One hand became the only support.

The phone is no fun either; she compulsively scrolls through social media again and again, like a baby sucking on an empty tit, but doesn't see much interesting content.She was bored, and looked at the clock on the opposite wall several times, only to find that twenty or ten minutes had passed.

It's such a leisurely job... She felt uneasy if she had to take the thin salary at first.

When today's first guest pushed open the door with a "ding bell", Ai Weili was shocked and realized that she seemed to have fallen asleep just now; she quickly checked the corners of her mouth with the back of her hand and said Voice: "Welcome!"

The person who came was a tall and fat man in his thirties, about 1.8 meters tall, covered in a faded T-shirt that seemed to be washed long ago, with a dull expression on his face; several steps away , the short breath in his mouth was clearly audible, every breath seemed to be a struggle coming from the heavy body.

He scanned the store back and forth a few times, his eyes fell on Ai Weili, he paused for a moment, then nodded, and said, "You are on duty now."

Ai Weili was taken aback for a moment, then subconsciously said: "...ah, yes."

She hadn't seen this guest yesterday—was it a guest?How does he seem to know himself?

Could it be that he is the owner of Huijia Convenience Store, or a nearby merchant, and he heard Apan talk about him, so he met Ai Weili before she met him?

Ai Weili has always been very good at finding explanations for various situations, but after observing the man carefully, she felt that he was not quite like him.His face always looks like he is floating in mid-air, not like a businessman; rather, he looks more like an otaku living in a computer, not yet connected to real life.

He opened the door of the drink cabinet, and stuffed a few bottles of Coke into his fat white arm.

"We have a shopping basket..." Ai Weili said, and hurried out of the checkout counter; but when she ran to the ice cream cabinet to look, she found it was empty—maybe Apan changed the shopping basket when he was tidying up. , but forgot to tell her.

Before Ai Weili found the shopping basket, the tall and fat man had already finished all the things he wanted to buy with ease.

A total of four bottles of Coke, two boxes of chocolate chip cookies, two barrels of instant noodles, and some ham sausages all poured down on the cashier counter like a mudslide.

"Check out," the tall fat man called back, Ai Weili hurried back and picked up a bottle of Coke.

The eyes of the tall and fat man behind the lens pierced through the top of Ai Weili's head emptyly, as if the cigarette behind her showed the most profound philosophical thinking in the world.Thinking of the greeting he said, Ai Weili couldn't help asking: "Do you come here often?"

"Well, come every day." The tall fat man said.

"Then you must know A Pan? Did he introduce me to you?" Ai Weili felt that this question was not good, not smooth enough, and a bit weird; but she couldn't think of how to ask it. .

"I know, no," the tall fat man lowered his head, inspecting things one by one, and said with his head down, "I came here at this time yesterday too."

Ai Weili paused and put down the last item.

"Forty-five seven," she said, remembering yesterday's shift, she must have never seen him.This person probably remembers the wrong date, after all, he doesn't look like he will live a regular life and go out every day... "Do you want a bag?"

After the tall and fat man nodded and before everything was bagged, Ai Weili did not expect that the tall and fat man, who seemed to be in a vacant state, suddenly stretched out his hand and grabbed her - Ai Weili was surprised , Before he could react, he snatched a bottle of Coke away.

...It turned out that the target was a Coke bottle. Before she became suspicious, she breathed a sigh of relief.

"I don't want this anymore," the tall fat man put it aside alone and said, "How much is it now?"

Cough, it's too expensive.

When the tall and fat man paid the bill and left the store, Ai Weili softened again and lay down on the cash register.She looked at her phone, and the time display was only 6:07, six hours before get off work.

Coke was still sitting on the cash register, and she could hear the bubbles in the bottle bursting one by one.

The word CocaCola in white on a red background is like a head tilted to the left, looking at the human beings in front of it.Ai Weili looked at the words "CocaCola" for a while, sighed, picked up the bottle, and sent it back to the drink cabinet.

Before she could close the door, she heard another "jingle" from the door behind her, indicating that a guest had arrived.

"Welcome," Ai Weili yelled, and turned around to see the person she knew—the tall fat man was back again.

He was still holding a bag of things that Ai Weili had packed for him just now, and stood in the open space in front of the store. He was tall and big, and even the light of the fluorescent lamp on his head seemed to be somewhat dimmed by him. .He stood there motionless for a few seconds, under the top light, dark shadows fell under his eyes and around the corners of his mouth.

It looks similar to just now, but it seems to be different.

"Forgot something?" Ai Weili tensed his back subconsciously, facing him, and walked sideways towards the cashier step by step.

The tall fat man let out an "um", walked towards the drink cabinet she had just closed, opened the door, and took out the same bottle of Coke that Ai Weili had just put in.

He put the Coke on the counter again, and stood face to face with Ai Weili, with a cash register in the middle.

"Please drink," he said numbly, but he didn't mean to take out his wallet.

Before answering, Ai Weili looked up at the ceiling.A fluorescent lamp is installed on the left side of the ceiling, and a fluorescent lamp is installed on the right side near the gate; the cash register is exactly spaced between the two fluorescent lamps.

Her gaze dropped and landed on the tall and fat man's face.

The top of his head was illuminated by the light, under the flat browbones, there were two round and bulging eyeballs, and there were two curved lights on the eyelids.His eyes were immersed in black shadows, making it difficult to see clearly; the cheekbones cast long and deep shadows on either side of the corners of his mouth.

Ai Weili glanced at the ceiling again, and looked away, feeling uncomfortable all over.

"Thank you, no need," she glanced at the bottle of Coke, feeling even more uncomfortable.Each white letter tilted its head to the left, as if waiting for her to change her mind. "You didn't pay for this bottle..."

As soon as the words came out, she secretly hated herself for not being able to speak.What if the man thought he was mocking him and became angry?She was also stuck at the cash register...

"You drink," the tall fat man pushed the Coke bottle over again, and said, "You drink it, and I'll pay for it."

Ai Weili immediately thought of the news about how many drinks were drugged.She glanced at the Coke bottle suspiciously and vigilantly, and found no holes or traces of being unscrewed on the bottle cap for a moment; but even if it hadn't been tampered with, she would never drink it.

"Thanks, no," she repeated.

Some words seem meaningless in a woman's mouth, such as "no"; she always feels that she needs to find another reason to explain this "no" and give it a little more weight.

"I...I'm on a diet and can't drink Coke."

She didn't want to continue to drag on this issue, and besides, she also hoped that she could turn out from behind the cash register - standing behind the cash register was equivalent to being trapped in a corner.Ai Weili grabbed the Coke, pushed open the door of the cashier counter, and walked to the drink cabinet as close as possible to the other wall, muttering, "I'll put it away..."

When she hurriedly approached the drink cabinet and turned her head, Ai Weili couldn't help being stunned.

The back was empty; at some point, the tall and fat man had already left, silently.

No matter how she recalled, she also felt that she didn't hear the bell ring when the door was pushed open.Ai Weili was afraid that he was still hiding somewhere in the store, so he looked around carefully, and found that no one was hiding, so he was relieved and sat down behind the cashier again.

After looking at the ceiling above his head a few more times, Ai Weili ended his day's trouble-free shift in a vague and painful sense of discomfort.

Throughout the process, she felt as if she had noticed something and wasn't paying enough attention to it.

(End of this chapter)