What is the earliest time in the morning to buy groceries?

Ordinary people may not know the answer to this question, but Xu Tongdao knows.

Because in his previous life, the rent near the vegetable market was cheap, and he rented next to the vegetable market for more than a year.

After living there for more than a year, he developed the habit of stuffing two balls of cotton into his ears every night before going to bed.

Otherwise, you won't be able to sleep at all, and it's useless to close the windows.

Because the greengrocers get up too early every morning, no! A lot of greengrocers don't get up in the morning at all!

Especially in the summer, some diligent vegetable vendors go to the vegetable market at 12 o'clock in the middle of the night to grab a seat, and the stalls in the vegetable market of course ask for money, but there are always some vacant spaces for itinerant vendors to set up stalls.

And in such an open space, every morning whoever goes early can grab the best position, and some diligent vegetable sellers, just to grab a better position, go early at 12 o'clock in the middle of the night!

Going so early is naturally boring.

So, these vegetable sellers were there chatting with each other and talking nonsense to each other, and the sound was not small, plus at midnight, it was already very quiet, and the chatting and nonsense of these people was very loud.

And it's going to get bigger and bigger, because over time, one o'clock in the morning, two o'clock in the morning...... At four or five o'clock in the morning, there will be more and more vegetable vendors coming to the vegetable market, and naturally, there will be more and more people chatting and talking nonsense.

In the first few days of renting there, Xu Tongdao regretted it very much.

The bowels are all repentant.

Countless times I have asked myself: why do you want to rent a house here, and why?

You shouldn't save so much rent!

Every night after 12 o'clock, the sound of the vegetable market outside the window drilled into his ears like a magic sound, and at three or four o'clock in the morning, when he was sleepy, the chatting outside the window was like five hundred ducks quacking.

It's a feeling that is absolutely sour.

If he hadn't learned to stuff cotton balls in his ears, he would never have been able to live there for more than a year.

Of course, the past is like smoke, and it is all in the past.

However, since then, Xu Tongdao has known that he will go to buy vegetables a little earlier in the morning, and it will be fine, nothing at all! The vegetable seller will definitely go earlier than you.

No, at 5 o'clock in the morning the next day, when he, Xu Tonglin and Ge Lianghua came to the vegetable market, although it was not yet dawn, the stalls in the vegetable market had already been set up early.

Some stall owners are smoking, some are wrapped in quilts and lying on recliners to catch up on sleep, and some stall owners are chatting and talking nonsense......

The three of them successfully bought all the ingredients they were going to buy today, because it was early enough, not only were the dishes fresh, but they were also cheaper than usual.

When he came out of the vegetable market, Xu Tonglin also proposed: "Xiaodao, since you came to buy vegetables early, it is fresh and cheap, so why don't we come early every day in the future?"

Ge Lianghua yawned, "Can you get up so early every day?"

Xu Tonglin blurted out: "As long as I can save money, I will definitely be able to get up!"

Ge Lianghua sneered, "Lao Tzu almost forgot that you also have shares in this store, you kid really got into the eyes of money." ”

Xu Tonglin was not ashamed, but quite proud, "When you do business, don't you have to be careful with your calculations!"

Ge Lianghua gave him a thumbs up, too lazy to argue with him.

Xu Tongdao said: "Forget about winter, anyway, business is not very good now, and I can't use many vegetables every day, so let's talk about it when the weather gets warmer next year!"

If it weren't for the fact that the store uses as many fresh ingredients as possible every day to ensure the quality of the dishes, in fact, with the recent business situation in their store, it is perfectly fine to come to the vegetable market once every two or three days to buy vegetables.

......

When he came to the store, Xu Tongdao grabbed half a piece of mutton in both hands, walked into the kitchen quickly, and began to prepare for the mutton steamed dumplings.

As for the ingredients that I just bought, I handed them over to Xu Tonglin and Ge Lianghua to move into the store.

When they finished moving the ingredients, Xu Tongdao's mutton stuffing here had not yet been chopped.

"You can go back and catch up on sleep! ”

"Okay, so let's go?"

"Let's go, let's go!"

Xu Tongdao sent Xu Tonglin and Ge Lianghua away, and he was busy in the kitchen by himself.

Alone in the kitchen, there is silence all around.

It's easy to get distracted.

He remembered when he was a child, his mother made dumplings every Chinese New Year.

In fact, when he was a child, the conditions at home were not good, but every year during the Chinese New Year, his mother Ge Xiaozhu would still make a little dumplings, and later he grew up to know that it was a habit that his mother had developed with his grandmother since he was a child, and his grandmother had the habit of making dumplings every year before the New Year.

Xu Tongdao remembers that when he was a child, his mother made dumplings every year...... Sometimes it is stuffed with pork and leeks, sometimes it is stuffed with pork and cabbage, but more often, it is stuffed with eggs and leeks, or stuffed with egg and cabbage.

I can't afford to eat meat, so I use home-grown eggs to make do.

But it's delicious!

At least in his childhood memory, every year before the Chinese New Year, he likes to eat the dumplings made by his mother.

It was also later, when he grew up, that he slowly realized that it was not the dumplings made by his mother that were delicious, but that he had not eaten anything delicious when he was a child, so it was easy to be satisfied.

Because when he grew up, when his family could afford to eat meat, he always felt that the taste of dumplings made by his mother was average.

Thinking about it, Xu Tongdao smiled alone.

In fact, he still misses it.

I miss the carefree days of my childhood, the joy of seeing meat in the dish every time I was a child, and the happiness when there was fish on the table.

It's a pity that he can't go back to the years that are so easily satisfying.

He thought...... The reason why Mr. Zhang and his old mother have always missed the whole sheep banquet back then...... It should also be nostalgic for the years and the person who made the whole sheep feast, right?

......

In the early morning, before the mist outside the store had dissipated, Mr. Zhang's black Mercedes-Benz came and stopped on the side of the road.

Xu Tongdao, who had been sitting at the bar for a long time, heard the voice, looked up, and saw Mr. Zhang getting off the car in a hurry.

Xu Tongdao subconsciously raised his wrist and glanced at the time on his watch - 6:44.

Thinking that Mr. Zhang's old mother was going to have surgery this morning, but now it was 6:44, Rao is Xu Tongdao never believed in fate, and his face changed slightly at this moment.

Reason told him it was a coincidence!

But he still felt in his heart that this was not a good sign.

Mr. Zhang trotted into the store, and when he saw Xu Tongdao, he asked from afar: "Little master, are the mutton steamed dumplings I want ready?"

"It's done! Wait a minute, I'll pack it for you!"

Xu Tongdao is not a mallet, so he didn't say anything "omen" to Mr. Zhang.

Today, if he dares to say unlucky things, no matter how good his temper is, Mr. Zhang will probably beat him.

Xu Tongdao said, and hurriedly got up and went to the kitchen to pack steamed dumplings.

When the packaged mutton steamed dumplings were handed over to Mr. Zhang, Mr. Zhang dropped a hundred yuan and left, leaving a sentence as he walked: "Thank you, little master! I will thank you again when I turn around! I will leave first! Goodbye!"