dedicated to memorial day

Chapter 8

So, the whole day turned into a countdown.

When I woke up, it was 8 hours before Cheng Jingshen came to the tea room.

At lunch time, it was 5 hours before Cheng Jingshen came to the tea room.

It is now an hour before Cheng Jingshen comes to the tea room.

Zhou Yu was absent-mindedly pruning the flowers in his hand, but his eyes looked at the table next to the wall from time to time, which was the place he was going to leave for Cheng Jingshen.

Finally, the guest at that position stood up.After Xiaoxi cleaned up, Zhou Yu asked her to bring out a new pot. It was he who had bought the pot with bamboo handles that he had never been willing to put out.

Xiaoxi asked in surprise, "Boss, is your girlfriend coming?"

Zhou Yu blushed slightly: "Where can I have a girlfriend."

Xiaoxi thought for a while and said, "Yes."

The boss doesn't like to talk, doesn't like to go out and doesn't like to deal with people.Except for the flower shop or going home, the probability of such a person getting a girlfriend is basically zero.

The new purple clay pot needs to be opened. Zhou Yu taught Xiaoxi several times about these steps, and she is already familiar with them.Xiaoxi first washed the pot twice with warm water to remove dust, and then scalded it with boiling water to remove bacteria.This pot can be regarded as Zhou Yu's treasure. The grain of the purple sand is very good, and the water hangs even after being scalded with boiling water.Finally, Xiaoxi boiled the pot in cold water sprinkled with tea leaves for 20 minutes to completely remove the earthy, miscellaneous and waxy smell on the pot.

Just as Xiaoxi opened the pot, the wind chimes rang, and someone walked in: "Boss, is there any room?"

"Sorry, it's full." Zhou Yu replied, fiddling with the flowers and plants in the store.

The guest looked at the room and asked with some doubts: "Isn't there still a place?"

Zhou Yu said, "Someone has made a reservation."

"You can still make reservations here?" The guest looked around, "Didn't you see the reservation method?"

Zhou Yu raised his head and smiled and said, "It's a friend."

"Oh okay."

The customer left the shop disappointed, Xiaoxi leaned over: "Boss, when is your friend coming?"

"Five o'clock."

Xiaoxi glanced at the clock on the wall: "It's not yet four o'clock."

Zhou Yu walked away without answering.

Xiaoxi resentfully put the opened pot on the tea table, and paired it with a new set of teacups.Zhou Yu glanced at it, didn't say anything, walked over and rearranged the pot twice, and finally confirmed that the middle line of the tea tray had been marked very accurately before stopping, and then straightened the cups on the tea tray.

Xiaoxi scratched her head in confusion, sneaked up to Zhou Yu and said in Zhou Yu's ear, "Boss, so it's actually people from the quality inspection department who are coming?"

"..."

Zhou Yu propped his chin up and looked at the clock on the wall, the second and minute hands ticked together.

five o'clock.Cheng Jingshen did not arrive.

Zhou Yu looked away from the clock, then stood up, picked out a light blue hydrangea, a blue tulip and a light green lisianthus in his hand, and was going to pick a few more with low color saturation Flowers, practicing flower art.Designing such a bouquet can always take several hours.

"Sorry I'm late."

The force to open the door was a little heavier, and the vibration of the wind chime became stronger.He must have rushed here in a hurry, and his breathing was a little short when he spoke.

Cheng Jingshen was wearing a hemp sweater with a sense of design, with a few peach blossoms stained on his body, his hair was a bit messy, and his glasses were not taken off.

Zhou Yu turned around and looked at him blankly, with some surprise in his eyes, he even forgot to ask what happened.

Cheng Jingshen breathed a sigh of relief and walked in, with a non-obtrusive complaining tone: "The parking spaces on this road are all full, so I have to drive to the front. I'm really sorry for the long wait."

Where did you wait so long?Who is waiting?How do you say it looks like a date?

It's obvious that the customer reserved a seat, so what if he's late, even if he doesn't come, he has no reason to be angry.

Zhou Yu stretched out a finger to point Cheng Jingshen's hair and said, "Your hair."

Cheng Jingshen touched his hair subconsciously and asked, "What's wrong with my hair?"

"It touched the petals." Zhou Yu said.

Cheng Jingshen touched it again, and the pink peach blossom fell down his hair to his shoulders and stuck to the sweater.

"Are you ready?" Cheng Jingshen asked.

Zhou Yu stared at the flower in silence for a while, then stretched out his hand to help him remove it.After taking it down, I realized that my behavior was a little rude, so I raised the petal to Cheng Jingshen's eyes, and said quite redundantly: "It fell to the shoulder."

Cheng Jingshen was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "Thank you."

Cheng Jingshen invited Zhou Yu to drink tea together, and the flower shop was not busy, so Zhou Yu agreed.

The two sat facing each other. Zhou Yu was brewing tea and pouring it into a container, and then pouring tea into the body of the pot, so that the whole pot was full of tea fragrance.

Cheng Jingshen stared at the movements of Zhou Yu's hands seriously, sitting upright with a solemn expression.It's quite an elegant taste of sitting and talking about tea.

Of course, if there is no chattering Xiaoxi next to her.

"Handsome guy, what's your name?" Xiao Xi asked while impatiently unwrapping an exquisitely packaged gift, which was brought by Cheng Jingshen, "Is this gift really for me?"

"Cheng Jingshen." Cheng Jingshen always had a smile on his face, "Little gift, I hope you don't dislike him."

After unpacking, it was a box of scented candles. The beige candles were made in the shape of a few roses with dead leaves, and they were sealed in transparent glass jars.It is indeed not an expensive gift, but its exquisite appearance can definitely please girls.The expression on Xiaoxi's face just confirmed this point, she said happily: "It's so delicate. Thank you, Mr. Cheng."

Cheng Jingshen nodded slightly to express that you are welcome.

Zhou Yu looked at the white scented candle, but felt a strange feeling in his heart. Wherever there are customers coming, he would bring gifts to the waiter. This kind of overly thoughtful behavior made Zhou Yu feel a physical chill.But this strange feeling was quickly interrupted by the chat between the two.

After putting away the gift, Xiaoxi held her chin with a curious expression, and asked again, "Then what do you do for work?"

"I work in the dental office."

Xiaoxi had an expression of admiration in his eyes: "It's a dentist. It's amazing."

"It's still in the assessment period, and I haven't officially entered the job yet."

Xiao Xi waved his hand: "Sooner or later~ Then how did you meet our boss?"

Cheng Jingshen said: "I just moved next door to him."

Xiaoxi wowed in a low voice and asked, "Then you are not from our place?"

Cheng Jingshen nodded and said, "I'm from City A."

Zhou Yu paused while pouring tea in his hand, looked at Cheng Jingshen and asked, "Are you from City A too?"

Before Cheng Jingshen could answer, Xiao Xi rubbed his chin first, and asked with puzzled eyes: "Do you people from City A have any strange feelings for us? Are you all running here?"

Zhou Yu glanced at Xiaoxi, filled the teacups in front of Cheng Jingshen and Xiaoxi and said, "I'm also from City A."

Cheng Jingshen's expression was calm, and he didn't look like the kind of person who was keen to recognize fellow villagers. He raised his teacup, and said, "What a coincidence."

After drinking, Zhou Yu poured another glass for the three of them, and the water was very beautiful.

Seeing this, Cheng Jingshen asked, "Is this purple sand?"

"Yes, this is a pot with bamboo handles."

Compared with the beam-lifting pot, the bamboo-joint beam-lifting pot uses bamboo as the main element.The bamboo spout and handle are made of bamboo joints, the body of the pot is pasted with plastic and decorated with bamboo leaves, and the button is a bridge-shaped button bent from bamboo branches, just like a cluster of bamboo leaves extending from the button to the pot lid, with a novel and unique shape.

Zhou Yu gently stroked the body of the pot with his fingers, and the love in his eyes was beyond words.

Cheng Jingshen lifted the pot and looked at it carefully. A good purple sand pot should not be bright in color or greasy in quality. The mud is made of purple sandstone weathered and crushed.

After a while, Cheng Jingshen put down the pot and said, "It's a good pot, why are you willing to take it out and use it in the store?"

Zhou Yu smiled: "The purple clay teapot is something that becomes more beautiful the more you use it."

Cheng Jingshen nodded: "Speaking of which, I also have a pot at home. It was brought back from City Y by my father a few years ago. It is said that it was written by Master Gu Jingzhou. It is a stone ladle."

"Jingzhou Shilao?" Zhou Yu opened his eyes wide suddenly, and even raised his voice two points, "Is there any calligraphy and painting on the pot?"

"The inscription is also bamboo. If I remember correctly, the inscription should be: Bamboo Shadow and Poetry Thin, Plum Blossom Dreaming Fragrance."

Zhou Yu frowned: "I've never heard of that."

Cheng Jingshen said: "It is said that it is one of the six stone ladles that Mr. Dai Xiangming transported back from S City."

Zhou Yu snorted, nodded and said, "There is a saying that there were six stone ladle pot blanks at that time, but one of them had bubbles after it was fired in the kiln, so it was given to others."

Xiaoxi looked left and right, and said in a daze, "Boss, what are you talking about?"

Cheng Jingshen looked at her and smiled, and explained: "It is said that Mr. Gu Jingzhou, a master of purple sand art, made a total of six purple sand stone pots. He asked someone to paint bamboo and gave them to several friends, but now a total of five have been exposed. There is another one that is missing, whether it is true or not."

Zhou Yu filled the teacups in the hands of the three of them, and said: "It was the time of war, and City S was very turbulent. It was Mr. Dai Xiangming who transported the teapot out regardless of safety. It was also this story that Mr. Gu Jingzhou specially invited Wu Hufan Mr. painted bamboo on the pot that was given to Mr. Dai, and personally inscribed the words 'drinking a cup for you, singing wildly with bamboo branches'."

Cheng Jingshen praised: "Boss Zhou has a really good memory. I can't remember any of these names or poems."

With starry eyes, Xiaoxi said adoringly, "Boss, you are so amazing."

Like to show off is one of the bad roots of human beings, and the shame brought about by showing off will come late after the process is over, which is the same as thinking about losing weight after overeating.The nerves of the parties are often in a paralyzed state.

Zhou Yu shook his head in embarrassment.

Xiaoxi said again: "Boss, you usually look absent-minded, but today you realize that you really understand."

The shame was even worse, almost to the point of being ashamed, Xiaoxi's words were not malicious, but seemed to remind himself that he was different in front of Cheng Jingshen.

Fortunately, Cheng Jingshen changed the topic in time, and joked to Zhou Yu: "Is there a chance that I can show it to Master Zhou?"

Zhou Yu blushed, and said in a low voice: "I'm not a master, I can't see it."

Cheng Jingshen stopped teasing him, and became serious: "This stone scoop is not here, it's in my hometown. When my mother comes next time, let her bring it to me."

Zhou Yu shook his head anxiously: "No, no, it's too expensive. I'll visit you later when I have a chance."

As if waiting for him to say such a thing, Cheng Jingshen's mouth curled into a faint smile: "Then, it's done?"

Zhou Yu was stunned, and after a long time, he nodded his head slightly.

He silently chewed the word "later" in his heart.

It seems that I found that connection port.

In the evening, a few drops of rain fell, which is always the case in spring.Zhou Yu glanced at the raindrops hitting the glass, and sighed slightly.

Xiaoxi got off work, and most of the people in the tea room had left.

Except for the table of guests against the wall.

Cheng Jingshen was looking down at the book in his hand, it was obviously a random book on the shelf, but he read it very seriously.The teacup at hand was no longer hot, and it was like drinking a pot of tea from strong to light, from warm to cold.

Zhou Yu was making his unfinished bouquet, experimenting again and again on the length of the rhizome and the number of branches and leaves, and he could not be sloppy at all.

The only sounds in the quiet room are the clicking of scissors and the slight flipping of books.

The kettle made a "ding" sound, and then white steam came out, isolating the flower shop and the tea room.Zhou Yu glanced inside, put down the scissors, picked up the hot water and walked towards Cheng Jingshen.

"I'll add some hot water for you." Zhou Yu said and opened the lid of the pot.

Cheng Jingshen raised his head from the book: "Thank you."

Zhou Yu asked tentatively, "Aren't you going back?"

"Are you finished?" Cheng Jingshen asked.

"Ah?" The heat blocked his sight, and Zhou Yu couldn't see Cheng Jingshen's expression clearly.

Cheng Jingshen said, "I'll take you back together."

Zhou Yu shook his head: "It's okay, I can go back by bus, don't waste your time."

Cheng Jingshen smiled: "There is nothing to delay."

Having said this, it would be pretentious to refuse, but the bouquet has not been finished yet, and the closing time has not yet come.

Then the sound of scissors and the flipping of books sounded again in the shop.

As a result, the flower arrangement was completed beyond expectations. In addition to hydrangeas, tulips and eustoma, Zhou Yu added iris and emerald green.Under the support of the light, the whole bouquet of flowers has a sparkling feeling.Zhou Yu held the flower in front of his eyes, eyes full of love.

I'm even a little bit reluctant to sell it, Zhou Yu thought.

"It's so beautiful." Cheng Jingshen walked to Zhou Yu's side at some point.

Zhou Yu put down the flowers and smiled shyly at him.

"Is this for sale?" Cheng Jingshen asked.

After Zhou Yu hesitated for a few seconds, he still nodded.

"Then I'll buy it." Cheng Jingshen had already taken out his wallet, "How much?"

The last bouquet of flowers was sold to Cheng Jingshen and stuffed into the car together with the florist.

The black SUV was driving slowly on the road. Cheng Jingshen asked Zhou Yu why "Whale Star" was called "Whale Star".

Zhou Yu said, "Because the whales are at the bottom of the sea, and the stars are in the sky."

They are not on the ground, and they are not in the human world.

Cheng Jingshen didn't speak any more, and walked to the door of the house in silence.

When Zhou Yu was about to open the door, Cheng Jingshen called him, and handed the flowers in Zhou Yu's arms, the white light above his head cast a hazy halo on his smile, and he said: "My mother must let I'll send you a gift back, but I really don't know what to like. I've thought about it for a long time, and I think flowers should be the florist's favorite."

Holding the bouquet of flowers, Zhou Yu recalled the embarrassment when they met for the first time, and the seemingly invisible toothache at that time.

The owner of the flower shop will not receive flowers. To put it mildly, this is indeed the first time he has received flowers in his life.

"Isn't it a bit too perfunctory?" Cheng Jingshen's expression rarely looked a little worried.

"No." Zhou Yu said holding the bouquet of flowers.

On the contrary, it was a little too solemn.