Wild Deer Convenience Store

Chapter 7 Old-fashioned Telephones

When the young woman approached the cash register, not only Ai Weili, but also the gray and white naked man with a stick sticking out of his face turned towards her flickeringly.

"Are you OK?"

The young woman has short, neat hair and bright brown eyes like a fawn. She looks healthy and normal—if he meets her in another situation, Ai Weili will probably think she looks good-looking.

She looked at the gray and white naked man beside her, then turned to look at Ai Weili, and said, "Miss, there are a lot of products dropped on the floor over there."

what?
She is the one behind the harassing phone calls asking herself "Is there anyone in the shop?"Why can she turn a blind eye to that?

"Anyway, please get me a pack of cigarettes."

I don’t know if her composure is too contagious, Ai Weili was stunned, and subconsciously went to help her get a cigarette; then she suddenly reacted and turned her eyes quickly—only to find that the gray and white naked man was gone up.

"I'm not..." she was dumbfounded, pointing in the direction of the gray-and-white naked man, stammering, "No, there was me, me just now"

The short-haired woman raised an index finger to signal her not to speak.

After Ai Weili managed to close her mouth, she took out her mobile phone from her sportswear pocket, glanced at the time, and asked, "Are you the new clerk?"

Ai Weili nodded.

"Not local?"

Ai Weili shook his head.

"Wow, what a crime." She tilted her head and thought for a while, then stretched out a hand to Ai Weili. "Hi, my name is Wei Luo. You look like you have a lot to ask, what, do you want to buy me something to eat? We can chat while eating."

Ai Weili lowered his head and stared at that hand for a second or two.

When she raised her eyes, she was even mentally prepared to see a completely different face from before; however, Vero's face and facial features did not change at all, but there was a little more on the face waiting for someone to shake hands but waiting for a handshake. The embarrassment of not coming - she was withdrawing her hand embarrassingly at this moment, and touched her nose.

This woman seems normal for now
Ai Weili now only hopes to have one more person by her side, even if the other party is someone who makes harassing phone calls - treating the other party to something to eat is a price she is very willing to pay.

"You, you are the one who made harassing calls before," she said in a low voice, afraid that the other party would misunderstand that she rejected her proposal, so she hurriedly said, "I mean, yes, what do you want to eat?"

"Harassing phone calls?" Wei Luo opened his eyes and said, "What harassment—oh! You mean the phone calls I made to ask if you could deliver the goods? Where did I harass you?"

"Delivery?" Ai Weili walked out of the cash register, ready to pick up the things on the floor and put them away again, and said, "But you—"

"Hey, I almost forgot the most important thing." Wei Luo didn't let her finish speaking, rushed into the shelf room like a gust of wind, searched for it, raised his hand and grabbed something, and then shouted: "Where are your staff bathrooms?"

Ai Weili stared blankly at her holding up the pack of sanitary napkins, as if it had just been caught by Wei Luo, and pointed to the store: "Over there"

Wei Luo swept through the store again like a gust of wind, and rushed into the staff bathroom, leaving Ai Weili standing there, wiping the corners of his eyes vigorously.

After what seemed like a blink of an eye, Willow was standing in front of the cashier again, and he let out a long breath.

"It's okay, it's not in vain that I rolled up such a big pile of toilet paper. When I came here, I felt like a hen walking while hatching eggs. Finally, there was no disaster."

Ai Weili couldn't think of an appropriate answer in this situation—is there really one in the world?

Willow put the opened package of tampons on the checkout counter and patted it as if it had done a great job.She wasn't in a hurry to pay the bill, and changed the subject: "I don't know about East cooking, no. The hot dog is also fine, I haven't had dinner yet."

"Okay, you can wait for me at the table over there," Ai Weili said, "I'll prepare it for you."

Next to the floor-to-ceiling windows of the convenience store, there was a long and narrow dining table and several chairs, which were just right for Ai Weili, whose legs were weakening at the moment, to sit in.She handed the hot dog, potato chips, and a can of Coke to Willow, who was unceremonious, rolled his eyes, and tore open the bag immediately, as if she had a pact with God, so she knew exactly what was hers.

Ai Weili watched her stuff a handful of potato chips into her mouth, feeling faint envy.

Even when being watched by a stranger, Wei Luo is so relaxed and natural, without any hesitation and restraint, let alone the sense of inability that she often has - she must be a very popular person who has been loved since she was a child.

"Didn't you just see—"

Ai Weili didn't finish his sentence, but was interrupted by Wero's "hush" sound as he sprayed out a little bit of potato chip residue.

"Let's talk after eating," she took a bite of the hot dog. From the look on her face, she obviously didn't agree with the taste of the hot dog in "Huijia Convenience Store". "Let me see, it's less than 10 minutes away."

It's 52:[-] and she's waiting for [-]:[-]?

"Are you waiting for six o'clock?" Ai Weili asked.

Willow nodded.

"why?"

She heard the answer to this question at [-]:[-].

"Although it may not make any difference to you whether you wait until six o'clock, it's different for me." Although Wei Luo didn't seem to like the hot dog, he still ate it up and asked for a second. One - also ate up.Of all the things that Ai Weili gave her, there was only one package left.

Seeing people eating big mouthfuls and eating so deliciously, it has an effect that can pull people's mind back to the earth, making Ai Weili suspect that his experience just now is an illusion.

Wei Luo wiped his mouth and said, "We'll talk about it after six o'clock, I feel more comfortable. If it's really safe, it's better to talk about it after seven o'clock, but I don't think you can wait for an hour."

"What do you mean?" Ai Weili was full of questions in his blood at the moment, leaned over the table, and asked, "Why did you wait until six o'clock?"

"Well, how should I put it?" Wei Luo turned his head, looked at the still empty road outside the window, and asked, "Why did you come to Wild Deer Town?"

"I like this name, but I have no place to go." Ai Weili thought for a while, and said, "I poured black tea on the head of the department manager. I also wrote all kinds of despicable things about him in the email, cc To everyone in the company."

Wei Luo suddenly laughed, as if he felt very happy, and asked, "Why?"

Ai Weili couldn't laugh.

She seems to have been on the blacklist, and it is difficult to find another job in the same industry; her hard work in the past few years after graduating from university can be washed away meaningless with only a bottle of black tea.

"You're digressing, you haven't told me what's going on here?"

Vero adjusted his sitting posture and looked serious. "I can't tell you directly what you want to know, so it's best if you can figure it out yourself. If you can't figure it out, I can't say more."

Ai Weili was startled, before he could ask "why", the other party continued, "I work in Yelu Middle School, and I'm the physical education teacher there."

"Isn't that school abandoned? When I passed by yesterday, there was no one there."

"Abandoned? Of course not. You didn't see anyone because we finished school at three o'clock every day, much earlier than schools in other places."

Ai Weili thought of the boy who hurried into the house in his junior high school uniform.In such a small town, it seems that there are not two middle schools.

"Not only schools, but other places that can get off work early will also get off work before 04:30." Wei Luo leaned on the table and said, "Our town has a special custom, except for a few places that have to stay open , For example, hospitals, supermarkets or convenience stores, everyone will rush home before five o'clock, and then stay behind closed doors for the next two hours."

Ai Weili sat in a daze, trying to ask a question, but couldn't.

She remembered that her shift was fixed, starting at five o'clock, which seemed to be different from the supermarket work she had heard before; these days, customers gradually came to the door until after seven o'clock

"It's not just staying behind closed doors." Wei Luo looked at her expression and said, "Actually, the fewer activities the better. Didn't I call you just now? That's because I'm in an emergency and I have to No fight."

"You didn't ask me about the delivery," Ai Weili said in a low voice.

"I asked," Willow said seriously, "I said, 'Excuse me, is there anyone in your store who delivers?' As soon as I finished speaking, you hung up the phone with a snap."

But what she heard was obviously not this sentence.

Ai Weili was about to open her mouth, but Wei Luo shrugged her shoulders and stopped her from speaking.

"No matter what you think happened, anyway, that's what I've been through. If I can't go out, I don't want to go out," she said meaningfully, as if hoping to make Ai Weili guess her unspoken hint . "But since I have to go out, I'll just do what the rest of the town do as wisely as I can."

"What do you mean?"

"People in our town don't like meddling in their own business." Wei Luo said with a mocking smile, "The principle we believe in is to keep our heads down, do our own thing, and walk our own way. Don't say a word that shouldn't be said, don't look at anything that shouldn't be seen."

Ai Weili looked at the wood grain on the table, and there was a curved line that vaguely looked like a woman's side face.

She fully understands now.

No matter how absurd things sound, when it is the only explanation, Ai Weili cannot help but not believe it.

"You just said that it might be too late for me"

Wei Luo bit his lip and didn't answer, his eyes still stayed on the road outside the window.

"When you see something strange, you can only keep yourself safe by pretending not to see it." Ai Weili said in a low voice, "Is this what you want to tell me?"

Willow was noncommittal and said nothing.

When the junior high school student and his mother saw her, they turned their heads as if they were electrocuted, not because of her, but because they saw the old lady, so they turned their heads quickly and pretended not to see them.

As for what to do with Ai Weili who faced the old lady alone at that time, it seemed that it was not in the consideration of others.

But because of a coincidence, she just didn't say anything to the old lady, and let the other person stand in front of her without any response, as if the other person was just a normal person... So she "protected herself wisely" in disguise.

Ah... If you think about it this way, it seems that she escaped by chance several times.But her luck seems to have finally come to an end today.

"No wonder that female customer just now, even though she was stuck behind such a disgusting thing, still pretended to be shopping. I don't know why she went out at this time." Ai Weili smiled bitterly and said, "But I... I am Really not. You thought I was just reacting to the man's presence because I was intimidated by the man, right? But in fact, I dropped the phone on the man's head, twice .”

Willow's eyes widened.

"I use this phone," Ai Weili said, pointing to the off-white old telephone sitting on the dining table. "Last time I saw it, it was on the floor."

(End of this chapter)