Wild Deer Convenience Store

Chapter 2 The First Afternoon as a New Clerk

that's it?
Didn't even know her name, and decided to hire her?
At that moment, all the social news headlines about single women that she had seen in her life flashed through Ai Weili's mind-she suddenly realized that it had been almost 10 minutes since she entered this store, and there was always only herself and her eyes in the store. It's just a male shop assistant.

In such a remote location, she might not even be on the news if something happened.

"Sorry, sorry, I got a little too excited."

When Ai Weili couldn't help taking half a step back, the man probably sensed her expression, quickly raised his hand, and said with a smile: "I posted the advertisement for a long time, but I couldn't find anyone. Suddenly someone came to apply for the job. It really helped me a lot, and I am so grateful to you that it is too late."

Even so... Isn't the decision a little too fast?
Or is it that her face looks reassuring?
Without giving Ai Weili a chance to think about it, the man had already squatted down and disappeared behind the cash register.

She was stunned for a moment, and heard his voice still echoing: "My name is Pan De, you can call me A Pan. Because I have been unable to recruit anyone, Xiao T and I—oh, it's another clerk here. , I’m on shift with you—you have to go to work for ten hours a day, and the store can’t be open all day, it’s strange, where did you go? Anyway, thank God for being able to recruit the third shift, ah, I found it!”

what?
Ai Weili didn't have time to ask, but suddenly a hand came up from behind the counter, and with a "slap", he slapped a bunch of keys on the counter.

She looked at the key, then at the man standing up behind the counter, not knowing why.

"We provide board and lodging, and the conditions are very good." Apan pushed the key to Ai Weili, pointed to the ceiling of the store, and said with a smile: "Little T and I live in the town, and the owner of the convenience store There are still a few real estates, so I don’t usually use the room above the convenience store. Since you have no place to live, let me use it for you. Anyway, many people move out every year in the town, and it’s impossible to rent it out. .Do you want to go up and take a look now? After reading it, we can start training today."

It was just a casual question of my own interest, and Ai Weili did not expect that the next development would be like a storm, neither giving her a chance to respond, nor giving her a chance to repent— —A few minutes later, she found that she had become the newest employee of "Huijia Convenience Store", responsible for the shift from [-] pm to midnight every day.

However, anyway, she has nowhere to go to the apartment she used to live in. Ai Weili has lived for more than [-] years, and all her life and belongings are now concentrated in the trunk of her car.

And from the perspective of work content, she only needs to be on the second shift alone every day. Except for dealing with Apan when shifts are handed over, she doesn't need to get along much at other times.Looking at it this way, A Pan agreed to hire her without any other intentions... This is much more reassuring.

Besides, although the upstairs room has not been used for a long time, it is small and well-equipped. It only needs to be cleaned, and Ai Weili is not dissatisfied.

Working in a convenience store in such a small town must be very leisurely; although the salary is low, she can continue to pay the monthly payment and keep the car if she barely squeezes in - after all, she doesn't have to worry about where she lives, and she can also get the convenience store express Make dinner with expired meals.

In other words, she doesn't seem to have much choice except to stay and work as a shop assistant for a few months and think about what to do with her next life.

For an ordinary office worker like her, it was really easier than she thought to suddenly become poor overnight.

"Ai Weili? Your name is really strange." Sure enough, Apan also had the same reaction as most people after asking her name. "Have you ever worked in a supermarket before?"

"No."

"Then what did you do before?"

"In the office," Ai Weili replied, remembering his mother's evaluation not long ago.She put on the thin, plastic-like blue salesman's vest; it was scuffed stiff and furry, it was not so much a piece of clothing, it was more like a cover, covering the faces of countless people A short life—now, she is the one who got into the vest.

"Why didn't you do it?" When A Pan asked, his eyes liked to stare straight at people.He always had a smile on his face, and his mouth always showed a row of teeth, each of which was very large. "Does anyone in your family know you're here?"

Ai Weili straightened his back reflexively, and said "Of course, I know".

"Does your boyfriend dislike you coming out to work alone? Your home is not here, so if you don't go back, will there be no problem?"

Ai Weili suppressed the sudden discomfort that she didn't quite understand - she didn't know how many times she was told "too sensitive" and "overthinking", so she just forced a smile and said : "I don't have a boyfriend."

After she finished speaking, she regretted it.It should be said that she has such a fault of accidentally telling the truth, it is really easy to suffer.

"Oh," Pan nodded, not knowing what he was thinking. "The job is not complicated. You look like you read well, so you should be fine."

As if he was afraid that she would retreat in spite of the difficulties, he hurriedly said: "The most important thing is to count money and deposit money when the shift is over. I will teach you how to use the cash register first. Come here, and I will show you. The machine we use in the store is quite old..."

Ai Weili was one or two steps away from him, craned his neck, watched him demonstrate how to operate the old cash register, and tried a few times by himself.When she was about to get started, A Pan took out another shift book from under the counter, and opened it to show her the items to be recorded—"When I hand in your shift, I will write the amount here"

The door bell jingled and was knocked.

She is now a shop clerk—even though she had a sense of novelty, Ai Weili felt that it was his responsibility, so he immediately raised his head and said, "Welcome!"

The setting sun outside the door smeared a piece of warm red gold, which was so rich that it was almost heavy, as if the slight alcohol smell from the fruit that was about to rot, making people feel that if they touched it, they would be soaked by it.

The customer who walked in from the thick golden twilight was just a silhouette at first, until she walked into the store and gradually became clear about her figure, and Ai Weili realized that it was a pregnant woman with a big belly.

"When you handed over to Xiao T, you only put one or two hundred change in the cash register, and now there are not many people using cash. The rest must be accounted for and put in the safe." Apan probably trained Very serious, did not raise his head to say hello, still pointing to the book and continued.

The pregnant woman didn't even look at the two shop assistants, and walked between the shelves expressionlessly.

Her limbs were dry and thin, her complexion was yellow and ugly, but her stomach was swollen and tall. It looked like she was at least eight months old, and there were dense blue blood vessels climbing up her belly.

The reason why Ai Weili could see the blood vessels clearly was because the pregnant woman was wearing a tight purple short-sleeved shirt, which couldn't fit her stomach, and was rolled up, revealing a small half of her gray and swollen skin.

Would it be uncomfortable to wear such clothes while pregnant?

Her thoughts were quickly dispelled by A Pan's voice, and Ai Weili's attention was drawn back to the training: "Then, you have to record these calculation results."

Ai Weili felt a little embarrassed for his brief distraction. After listening for a while, he couldn't help but said: "It's quite complicated, I'll use my mobile phone to write it down—"

With a "jingle", the bell at the door rang again.

She subconsciously raised her eyes to look.This time there was no customer coming in; probably the pregnant woman didn't see what she wanted to buy just now, so she quickly left empty-handed—no, wait a minute.

Ai Weili suddenly raised her head again, the movement was so fast that she even heard a "knock" on her neck bone.

It was no longer appropriate to call that skinny woman pregnant; for not only was she empty-handed, she was empty now.

Her lower abdomen is flat and flat, and the purple short-sleeved shirt is tightly wrapped around her body like a sausage casing, and there is no ups and downs in the abdomen; it seems that she is just a thin and thin ordinary woman, not to mention she is pregnant, she seems to be even pregnant. I haven't eaten for a long time.

Could it be that there was another woman in the store who happened to be very thin and dressed in purple, causing her to misunderstand?Ai Weili looked around hastily, but the convenience store is only so big, except for the pregnant woman who has already walked to the door—or should she be called "ex-pregnant woman"? ——There is not a single human head floating next to any shelf in the store.

"Hey, are you listening?" Apan finally raised his head and called Ai Weili. "What are you looking at?"

Ai Weili was startled, and when he turned to look at the pregnant woman with a flat stomach, the latter had already gone out of the door and disappeared.

What happened to what she saw just now?

How should I tell A Pan that no matter who hears it, they will think that he has a mental problem?
"My eyes seem to be dazzled," Ai Weili still wanted to give it a try, "Did you see that guest just now? Pregnant, the one who was pregnant when she entered the door?"

"What does it mean to be pregnant when you enter the door?" Apan laughed again, the muscles on his face were crowded, and two eyes like small black holes stared at Ai Weili from the depth of his cheeks. "Isn't it right to go out? I don't know, I didn't look up just now, and I didn't see the guest you mentioned."

If the lower abdomen is flat when you enter the door, and the clothes are bulging when you go out, you can also suspect whether you have met a customer who is stealing the sheep; but what is the reverse?

Could it be that the woman went to the back to give birth to the baby within a few minutes of entering the store?
Ai Weili was skeptical—mainly because it was hard for her to believe that she would mistake such an obvious thing—and made an excuse to go to the store and take a look around; the place she just passed by as a customer is now The place where the clerk walked was empty everywhere, as a matter of course, there was not a single baby that was born and thrown away.

Of course, she didn't think she'd really find a bloodstained, quiet baby.

After turning around, Ai Weili's self-confidence was also shaken.It is estimated that she was wrong at the beginning, and it was impossible; after all, the backlight was quite strong at that time, and it would not be a strange thing if the light made people deformed... Besides, if it was lost in the air Fetus, pregnant women themselves should be more anxious than anyone else.

Apan didn't blame Ai Weili for being absent-minded, and ran around the store halfway through hearing it.

In the next half hour, he led Ai Weili to walk around the store again, demonstrating how to arrange goods on the shelves, how to replenish goods in the freezer, and explained some cleaning requirements and precautions, and finally said: "Almost That's it. If you have a more urgent situation, just call me, or you can ask Little T when the shift is over. Do you have any questions?"

After Ai Weili shook his head, Apan glanced outside the store, exhaled, and relaxed his shoulders.

"It turns out that it's getting dark," he said lightly, "you should rest tonight and get up at five o'clock tomorrow afternoon. Be sure, be sure to come on time."

(End of this chapter)