Chapter 652: The Girl in Black Shoes

Chapter 652: The Girl in Black Shoes

It was a gloomy morning, thick clouds obscured the sun and the air was heavy.

The store manager asked Asakura Riku and Toba to visit the store, and he went out to have dinner with his school friends.

Compared with the store manager who has "bold" written all over his body, this friend of his wears glasses, has a high-minded appearance, and has a very calm temperament.

The two met for dinner in a large restaurant, sipping drinks and talking to each other about interesting things from their student days.

As we talked, we talked from the past to the present.

"You must be having a hard time now, right?" asked the store manager's glasses friend.

He heard that the store manager's shop and home were destroyed in a monster attack, and thought he would help him if he was in trouble.

The store manager nodded heavily:

"Yes, my favorite writer, Mr. K. Fushii, is still alive and dead."

"When I think about this kind of thing, I feel so anxious that I don't even feel like eating anymore."

Glasses friend: "?"

What the hell, why do you care about others? Shouldn't you sympathize with yourself first?

The glasses friend asked tentatively: "What about you, how have your life been lately?"

Store manager: "It's good. Let's open the store somewhere else and sleep somewhere else."

My glasses friend didn’t know what to say, so I thought the store manager was as optimistic as ever.

At this time, a sharp female voice broke the conversation between the two.

"You're so stupid, I might as well raise a dog!"

"I feed you and clothe you. Do you want to make a fool of yourself like this?"

The manager and his bespectacled friend both turned around and discovered that the sound was coming from the main table in the middle of the first floor of the restaurant.

There seemed to be a big family gathering there, including men, women and children. There were two children, one boy and one girl, who were obviously underage.

I saw a middle-aged woman slap a girl in the face, knocking the latter's face away.

The girl around sixteen years old made no movement after being beaten, did not resist, did not scream, and her eyes were numb.

This made the middle-aged woman seem even more angry and dragged her out by her hair.

Those relatives quickly came up to stop them:

"Stop, stop, stop, don't hit the child like this, the child will be damaged."

"Isn't Qianzi in a bad mood today? She must have stayed up late to do her homework. It's understandable that her hands are shaking a bit."

"Hey, brother, don't worry about it, your daughter is going to be beaten to death."

His daughter's father had just watched all this with cold eyes, and then slowly said after being mentioned:

"If you don't polish it, you can't make it into something useful. Her mother just wants her to have a long memory."

Store manager: "What are you doing!"

At the table next to them, a bald old man who had obviously been watching the show for a long time explained:

"Parents on both sides are showing off their children and letting them show off their talents."

"The girl's hands shook when she was demonstrating the tea ceremony, and the tea cup overturned, so she was scolded."

When the store manager heard this, he immediately became angry: "At this time, shouldn't we first care about whether the child has been burned? What kind of parent are we being?"

After saying that, he stood up and wanted to argue with the family.

My friend with glasses quickly stopped him: "Hey, hey, hey, that's someone else's housework, and we have no position to interfere."

The bald old man also had the same view:

"If you go to help, the most they can do is apologize and say, 'I disturbed you and caused trouble for you.'"

"After you leave, the girl will suffer even more. Her parents will take out their temper on her."

The store manager then sat down again and muttered: "How could there be such parents?"

His glasses friend quickly changed the topic:

"These days, monsters are out. It's not normal for parents to be overly strict."

"Don't talk about others, let's talk about you. You are so old, why don't you think about getting married and having children?"

The store manager shook his head: "I don't have this idea at the moment, but I have many outstanding juniors, such as Ellie, Xiao Lu and others..."

The two chatted again on the topic of "training" their younger generations.

The bald old man next to him was also very interested, so the store manager simply asked him to come over and sit with him.

The bespectacled friend whispered: "Anyway, I won't lose my temper with my child in public. It would have such a bad influence."

The bald old man also said: "It is true that children from such a family will not be able to hold their heads high in society in the future."

As we talked, time passed like this.

The store manager looked at the time and said that he had to go back to look after the store. Xiao Lu would have friends come over to see him, so he would have to go back and take over the job.

Glasses friend: "Okay, let's meet again next time."

When the two left, the main table had dispersed, leaving only the little girl and her parents.

The sixteen-year-old girl was wearing black leather shoes and looked at her parents blankly.

The mother still had a gloomy face and shouted:

"What are you looking at? I hit you for your own good. I don't care about other people's children."

"In order to raise you to be an excellent adult, your father and I are reluctant to eat or clothe you. Do you know how difficult it is for us?"

"Neither your father nor I have been admitted to a good university, so now our hopes are pinned on you. If you don't live up to expectations, who will save face for our family in the future?"

The store manager couldn't help but look back, and his friend quickly grabbed him: "Okay, okay, don't cause trouble, go back to the store quickly."

The store manager looked at the little girl and felt an inexplicable chill in his heart: "Tell me, what will it be like for such a child to grow up?"

The friend with glasses said: "There are quite a few children like this. Many parents are parents for the first time. It is normal for their education methods to have some problems."

The store manager touched his chest: "I always feel very depressed..."

But as he left the restaurant, the depressing feeling instantly diminished a lot.

When he returned to the store, he saw Asakura Riku and Toba Kuruha still busy.

Just when he was about to go up and ask Xiao Lu why your friend hasn't come yet, he saw a man in white standing in the woods nearby.

He looked at Asakura Riku from a distance, with inexplicable melancholy in his eyes.

An idea flashed in the store manager's mind, and he stepped forward and asked, "You are Xiao Lu's friend, your name is Kefu, right?"

The man in white nodded: "It's me, you must be Xiao Lu's store manager. Thank you for taking care of him over the years."

The store manager scratched his head: "It's okay. Everyone else likes Xiao Lu too. You're here to see him, right? I'm going to take over his shift now. You go and have a good time around the area. I remember it's in the video game city. there."

Kefu shook his head: "No, I can just take a look at Xiao Lu from a distance."

The store manager was surprised at that time: "Take a look? You can't, aren't you a good friend of Xiao Lu? Xiao Lu, your friend is here, here!"

The store manager's voice attracted Xiao Lu's attention.

He immediately looked over, his face full of surprise.

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Sorry for the late update, mainly because my cat gave birth today, and I have two kittens, so busy and dizzy.

Next, there will be a very tight continuous plot, so stay tuned.