Chapter 343 Love at First Sight (2)
Yonghe lives a long way from Jin Carpenter's home. Zhang Chu carries a large bag of tools and follows Jin Carpenter through the streets. The sun is scorching outside, but there is no shade along the way. By the time the master and apprentice arrived at Yonghe Residence, they were all covered in sweat and looked like they were fished out of the water.
Manager Zhang had been waiting at the door for a long time. When he saw Carpenter Jin coming, he greeted him with a smile: "Carpenter Jin, you have worked hard all the way here. The weather must be too hot. Come on, here is the herbal tea that was brewed yesterday." , come and have a drink first.”
After a cup of herbal tea each, Jin Carpenter and Zhang Chu felt alive.
"Is the cabinet still in its old location on the second floor?" Carpenter Jin asked.
"Yes, we haven't dared to move from where we are, for fear of breaking something again." Manager Zhang said, "It happens that this window frame is also on the second floor. It's strange to say that this window frame was fine yesterday. This morning As soon as I arrived, Xiao Cao found that the window frame was broken and told me. It didn’t rain last night. Why did it break for no reason? It’s really hard to figure out whether something hit it.”
"It's just a broken window frame. It won't be troublesome to repair." After drinking the herbal tea, Jin Carpenter poured himself a glass of cold water and drank it down. "Manager Zhang, please find someone to lead my apprentice." Go upstairs and look at the window frame, and I'll fix the cabinet."
"Okay, please excuse me." Manager Zhang turned around to catch a young man, and happened to see Cao Guixiang sneaking around at the door of the kitchen, trying to peek at Zhang Chu. He waved to her: "Guixiang, come here and take this young man with you." Master Zhang went upstairs to repair the window frame.”
Cao Guixiang originally just wanted to find a hidden place to peek at Zhang Chu, but she was unexpectedly caught by Manager Zhang. He touched his face randomly a few times and grabbed two handfuls of hair as if to mess up his hairstyle. After looking better, he lowered his head and walked out slowly.
"Well, Master Xiao Zhang, I'll take you upstairs." Cao Guixiang whispered, her voice a little weird because she was suppressing her throat.
"Girl, weren't you fine this morning? Why has your voice changed like this now?" Manager Zhang asked.
"Second senior brother was frying fish in the kitchen just now, and I got choked." Cao Guixiang chose to throw the pot to Qin Guisheng.
This was the first time Zhang Chu went out to repair something for someone. He was also very nervous. He had been rummaging through the tools in the big bag he had dragged, without looking up at all and not seeing Cao Guixiang's face clearly.
Cao Guixiang led the way, and Zhang Chu followed him. The two of them walked to the window frame that was probably broken by Cao Guixiang himself last night without saying a word.
"That's it. When I came here this morning, I found that it suddenly broke." Cao Guixiang opened her eyes and told lies.
Zhang Chu stepped forward to check. The break was very clean. Even Jiang Feng could tell that it was not broken naturally. It was most likely broken or broken by someone else.
"This fracture doesn't look like it was broken due to moisture. It looks like it was broken by something hitting it." Zhang Chu murmured. He was just an inexperienced newcomer. He had never repaired a window frame and could only say this to himself. Talking to myself, I dare not make any final judgment.
However, Cao Guixiang heard Zhang Chu's soliloquy clearly and thought that her little trick was exposed by others at a glance. She immediately panicked and said indiscriminately: "Didn't it rain heavily last month? Maybe it was that time It must have been damp, and maybe it was broken by a bird or something last night. I don’t know, it was already broken when I saw it this morning.”
What Cao Guiqiang just said was very fast and low. Jiang Feng only heard a rough idea. Zhang Chu was looking at the cross section of the window frame and probably thinking about how to connect it. Jiang Feng felt that he most likely didn't hear clearly what he just said. What did Cao Guixiang say?
In other words, he didn't even notice that Cao Guixiang had spoken.
After Cao Guixiang finished speaking, she looked at Zhang Chu nervously and expectantly, hoping that he would reply to her, but Zhang Chu kept staring at the window frame and ignored her at all. Cao Guixiang thought that Zhang Chu disliked her for being too long-winded to even reply politely, so she left with a look of loss and sadness.
Jiang Feng wanted to see how Zhang Chu would react when he found out that Cao Guixiang was missing, so he did not follow Cao Guixiang downstairs but stood next to Zhang Chu.
Zhang Chu stared at the break in the window frame and pondered for a few minutes, then turned around and asked: "Comrade, your store..."
"Hey, where was that comrade just now?" Zhang Chu looked confused.
Unable to find Cao Guixiang, Zhang Chu relied on his own efforts, walked towards Jin Carpenter, and asked loudly: "Master, where do you have..."
Jiang Feng didn't hear what was said later because he had already rushed downstairs to see what Cao Guixiang was doing.
Jiang Feng noticed when he arrived that there were very few guests in Yonghe Residence today. There was not a single table of guests on the second floor, and there was only one table of guests eating on the first floor. Theoretically, Mr. Che was not seen on the other side during storytelling time. It must have been because the weather was too hot, and the guests were reluctant to go out to eat. , it was so hot that Mr. Che missed work and stayed at home to enjoy the cool air.
The lack of guests meant that the kitchen must be very busy. As soon as Jiang Feng walked into the kitchen with ease, he saw Cao Guixiang and Qin Guisheng carrying two small stools and sitting in a row drinking herbal tea.
"What should I do? He must think I'm nagging. Doesn't he want to see or talk to me in the future? Then if the window frame is broken in our store in the future, will he be willing to repair it?" Cao Guixiang held it with both hands. Teacup looked sad.
When Qin Guisheng heard her last sentence, he almost spit out the herbal tea in his mouth and stuttered.
"Master...Sister...Junior sister, do we still have to break the window frame of our store?" Qin Guisheng thought about it in his mind. If the master discovered what the two of them did secretly last night, the master's love for the little junior sister might be a knife. He wanted to keep someone alive, but he was probably killed and his family was killed out of justice.
He was only in his 20s, and he only held hands with Amin. The two of them were not engaged yet, so they couldn't die miserably like this.
"Of course it has to be stopped!" Cao Guixiang said, "I asked Manager Yin yesterday. After Jin Carpenter took over the job of her custom-made Qiangong bed, he would not take any other jobs. The Qiangong bed went to Manager Yin. It was built in another courtyard of our house, which is not on the same road as ours. He will never pass our street again on his way back, nor will he stay there to listen to Mr. Che’s commentary.”
"Little junior sister, don't be impulsive. Let the second senior brother come and do the calculation for you. When you just led him up, did he say anything to you?" Qin Guisheng asked.
"He told me 28 words: 'This fracture does not look like it was broken due to moisture, but it looked like it was broken by something hitting it.' Those were the 28 words." Cao Guixiang looked sad.
Qin Guisheng:? ? ?
Are you sure this was said to you and not to yourself?
"Emmm, this is..." Qin Guisheng didn't know what to say for a moment, "But no matter what, we can't break the window frames anymore. If the window frames are broken every now and then in our store, everyone will feel weird. Besides, you smashed the window frames. The way the window frame is made is too dangerous, and I even climbed up to the outer wall to smash it. If one day it falls, I will be dead, and Master will not peel off my skin.”
"What did you do again? My father wants to skin you?" Peng Changping appeared behind them at some point, "What are you talking about? I was so focused that I didn't even hear you eat."
"It's nothing. Oh, dinner is ready. Let's go, let's go, junior sister, let's eat quickly." Qin Guisheng jumped up after a moment.
Perhaps because of the hot weather, the meal was very simple, including stir-fried watermelon rind, cucumbers, cold tomatoes and scrambled eggs with chili peppers. The staple food was white flour steamed buns. There was no soup but enough herbal tea.
Cao Guixiang absentmindedly gnawed on the steamed buns, picking up the watermelon rind with chopsticks from time to time, and her whole body was in a trance.
"Guixiang, what are you thinking about? The rice doesn't taste good." Master Peng tapped the back of her hand with the end of his chopsticks.
"Ah, oh, Master, I'm wondering if it's not good for us to eat like this. Should we call Master Jin and Master Xiao Zhang down to eat together? They are still working up there." Cao Guixiang said.
"There used to be such a rule. When the master came to the door, he not only had to give money but also take care of the food. But now the rules have changed. If you give money, you don't have to take care of the food, otherwise it will break the rules. There is a fixed amount of money and food in our store. If you mess around like this, it won’t be easy to report it at the end of the month,” Manager Zhang said.
"But I remember that Master Zhang doesn't charge for repairing the window frames. Since he doesn't charge for it, we have to take care of the food. Otherwise, it wouldn't be too unkind." Cao Guixiang said.
"That's the reason. Otherwise, the money will be deducted from my salary this month. Guixiang, you can go make a bowl of fried noodles for Master Zhang and send it to him later." Master Peng nodded.
Cao Guixiang suddenly became excited. After finishing the buns in her hands, she slipped into the kitchen.
"Master, I'm going to make fried noodles for Master Xiao Zhang!"
"Don't want to eat?"
"I'm full!"
Master Peng shook his head helplessly and said with a smile: "This child, the older he gets, the less formal he becomes."
Master Wang saw some clues, and smiled mysteriously: "I think Guixiang must have grown up, and he has taken a fancy to Master Zhang upstairs, right?"
Qin Guisheng almost choked to death on a mouthful of steamed buns.
"Hey, judging from Xiao Qin's reaction, it seems that Guixiang is really interested in her." Master Wang said.
"Master Wang, don't talk nonsense. I didn't say this, you said it." Qin Guisheng said repeatedly.
"But it would be really troublesome if Guixiang really falls in love with Master Zhang upstairs. That Master Zhang is a well-known handsome young man in his alley, and there are many little girls who like him." Master Wang said .
Hearing what Master Wang said, Qin Guisheng immediately became unhappy: "Master Wang, look at what you said, my junior sister looks the same... We in Yonghe are famous for being beautiful. Besides, my junior sister is so young that she may be able to change her career in two years." Cheng Zheng He is a junior apprentice, and Zhang Chu is just an apprentice of Jin Carpenter, and he has no serious income. In terms of work and appearance, my junior sister is not worthy of Zhang Chu, but Zhang Chu is not worthy of her. "
There is only one female employee in Yongheju, Cao Guixiang.
Everyone laughed. (End of chapter)