The twelfth lunar month passes quickly, and the Spring Festival is here in the blink of an eye.
On the twenty-ninth day of the lunar year, at seven in the morning, Lin Tian went out after washing up.
At 7:25, Lin Tian arrived near his workplace. At this time, there were crowds of people outside the grocery store.
At 7:30, Lin Tian finally squeezed through the crowd. His colleagues inside helped open the door a little, and then Lin Tian entered the store.
As soon as Lin Tian came in, he saw his colleagues busy inside.
Colleagues at the candy counter are stacking boxes of candy under the counter to prevent a shortage at the back.
Master Li Ning and his butcher boy were sharpening their knives.
The busiest people are the colleagues at the vegetable counter, who have piled up the vegetables in the store like small mountains.
There were also comrades from the police station who came to help. A leader was arranging personnel to be on duty. Four people were standing at the door. Special people were arranged to guard important counters such as the pork stall and the vegetable stall. The rest of the people wearing wide-brimmed hats were also scattered around the store.
This was their first time to participate in the Spring Festival duty at the grocery store, so the store prepared gifts for them in advance, including a piece of pork with fat three fingers thick, and a package filled with peanuts, melon seeds, and various candies and snacks, so everyone was extra attentive and serious on duty.
At this time, the logistics department was also busy inside and outside. Li Wenhua arrived a little earlier than Lin Tian and was being ordered by the salesperson at the counter to help carry two large barrels of soy sauce and vinegar from the warehouse to the front. When he saw Lin Tian coming in, Li Wenhua hurriedly shouted.
"Xiao Lin, Xiao Lin, come and give me a hand."
Lin Tian quickly ran over and helped carry a large bucket full of soy sauce to the side of the counter.
After putting down the bucket, Li Wenhua wiped the sweat off his face and said with a gasp, "This thing is really heavy."
"Anything else?" Lin Tian asked.
"Gone, gone. They've all been brought here from the warehouse." The busy salesperson at the counter next to him was also dressed in a festive manner, with a badge on his chest.
"Let's go back to the office." Li Wenhua quickly pulled Lin Tian back to the office in the back.
Sitting down and drinking a sip of water, Li Wenhua said, "I should have known I shouldn't have worked the night shift yesterday. I haven't rested since this morning. I even helped unload the goods in the middle of the night last night."
Lin Tian put down his bag and said, "Then you should go back and rest for a while. Don't stay here. I'll just keep an eye on anything."
"No, Xie Shushu said it at the meeting yesterday. Except for the accounting department, all other logistics departments will go to the counter to help out today and tomorrow." Li Wenhua waved his hand and said.
Then he asked Lin Tian, "Which counter do you want to go to? I'll go find Director Xin to arrange it for you. It will be too late in a while."
"Me? The candy counter. It's cleaner there. If I work at the butcher stall for a day, I won't have to keep my clothes." Lin Tian thought for a while and said to Li Wenhua.
"Okay, I'll go talk to Director Xin. But you're exactly wrong. You can't even go to the meat stall even if you want to. There are plenty of people making money there." Li Wenhua stood up and was about to go out. Lin Tian really didn't expect this. It must be the difference in thinking. Lin Tian wanted to be cleaner, but people at this time wanted to be more practical.
It was 8:20. Normally, the doors would have been opened at 8:00. Today, Xie Shushu brought Director Xin and Deputy Director Wang to check all the counters before ordering the doors to open.
"Open the door!" Someone outside shouted after seeing the salesperson inside opening the doors on both sides.
"No pushing, line up and go inside," the colleague in charge of maintaining order, wearing a wide-brimmed hat, shouted. Hearing that someone was maintaining order, the restless crowd quieted down.
"Hey, Brother Li, why are you here?" Lin Tian, who was assigned to the candy counter, just stood behind the counter.
At a glance, I saw Li Wenhua sitting on a small stool next to him. There were two large buckets in front of Li Wenhua and a large spoon in his hand.
"Hehe," Li Wenhua chuckled, then lowered his voice and said to Lin Tian, "Brother, this is a good spot, you can sit and beat people. It's right next to you, so we can chat."
Lin Tian was also amused when he saw this, "Brother Li, quickly move the stool to me. Don't you see there are so many people queuing outside? Do you still want to sit?"
Li Wenhua suddenly realized that he had miscalculated. There was no chance for him to sit down at all.
Seeing that Li Wenhua had stood up, Lin Tian pulled Li Wenhua's stool behind his butt.
Then he chuckled and said, "It's just right for me to sit here and weigh the candy for people."
The people who were watching Lin Tian and Li Wenhua chatting nearby burst into laughter.
Lin Tian’s task in the morning was to sit there and weigh things, then do the math with an abacus.
At 12:35 noon, people were still queuing outside, but the shift change had already begun inside.
Lin Tian and Li Wenhua came back from lunch. The two guys who had been fishing all morning began to take over the shifts of the salesmen at the two counters so that they could have lunch and take a nap.
Lin Tian was better off. He had memorized the prices of the candies by heart in just the morning.
Li Wenhua next to him was not so good. He was busy doing soy sauce the whole morning, asking about the price of this and looking for the price of that. Many times, Lin Tian had to remind him that he had made mistakes in the calculation, which made him busy and exhausted.
At 1:30, the salesperson finished his meal, took a brief rest in the back, and then returned to the counter.
At this time, Li Wenhua finally breathed a sigh of relief. In less than an hour, he was already sweating profusely.
At 8:30 in the evening, the grocery store, which had extended its business hours, finally ended its busy day, and many people collapsed on the ground.
Lin Tian and Li Wenhua also breathed a sigh of relief. Tomorrow is New Year's Eve. Although the morning will be as busy as usual, they can basically close for business at two in the afternoon.
At 8:45, Lin Tian rode his bicycle back to the courtyard. Perhaps because it was New Year's Day, he could hear the chirping laughter of children in some of the courtyards he passed by.
Pushing open the gate of the courtyard, Lin Tian found that the courtyard was quite lively. There were people gathered in the yard eating melon seeds and chatting, and there were also a few children setting off firecrackers there.
"Xiao Lin is back!" "Xiao Lin just got off work!" "Xiao Lin works so hard."
Seeing Lin Tian pushing his bicycle into the compound, people in the compound began to welcome him with a variety of words. This year, Lin Tian was much more popular than in previous years.
After all, there was finally a neighbor in the yard who worked in a grocery store, and he helped every household buy the big fat meat that was out of reach in previous years, so the neighbors were particularly enthusiastic this year.
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