Chapter 17: Grocery shopping
Wang Jinshan moved away, and after the new home was cleaned up, Wang Jinshan returned to the old house where he had lived for more than 30 years, and finally took a turn in the room.
For more than 30 years, this old house has left too many memories, from the initial ecstasy to the birth of the first child, this is the most important moment in Wang Jinshan's life, after a few years, the son was also born, since then a family of four in this house, laughter with tears, happiness hand in hand disputes, the years are like a sometimes turbulent and sometimes calm river, slowly flowing forward.
When he finally left, the moment he closed the door, Wang Jinshan felt stunned.
"The old ones don't go, the new ones won't come!" Wang Jinshan comforted himself in his heart, closed the door heavily, and went downstairs without looking back.
There is a small street market opposite the newly rented community, which is much more convenient than when I lived in Lingyun before, when I wanted to buy vegetables, I didn't have to take the bus to Dafuyuan Supermarket to buy, but I had to pull a small cart and walk up to the vegetable market in front of the station.
It's just that this market is only open in the morning, in order not to affect the traffic, it is only open until 7 o'clock in the morning to close the stalls, the advantage is that the vegetables sold in this street market are all fresh vegetables that the vegetable farmers in the nearby farms have just harvested from the fields early in the morning, which is essentially like a market.
In this way, when Li Hui went to buy vegetables in the morning, the chance of meeting Chen Yuhui was greatly increased.
When I was a colleague before, Li Hui and Chen Yuhui didn't have much intersection, Li Hui is a native of Jiangsu, she has both the straightforward character of the north and the gentleness of a southern woman, but Chen Yuhui is a typical northern woman, everything is straightforward, there is no ordinary woman's delicate artificiality, and naturally there is not much interest in life.
Li Huike is a very petty bourgeois person, usually at home either drink an English black tea, or make a hand-ground coffee, and recently became obsessed with baking, which can make his grandson Gu Yiming very happy!
Li Hui actually doesn't like the vegetable market, in her eyes the vegetable market is noisy, the taste is not so fresh, compared to the street market, Li Hui prefers to take the bus to the farther Dafuyuan supermarket, at least the environment there is very clean and tidy, the vegetables are neatly bundled, and the classification is detailed, which makes people feel happy.
But the family has a large population, especially a grandson, who needs a lot of vegetables and fruits every day, and her daughter Wang Zhenhua told her, don't look at the vegetables in the supermarket are well packaged and look good, but in terms of freshness, it is not as good as the road market, which is picked from the ground by the vegetable farmers with flashlights before dawn, and they come to the road market early in the morning to sell, which is by no means comparable to the vegetables in the supermarket.
There was no way, Li Hui had to pull the car every day, cross the road in a few steps, and come to the road market, so that she could basically meet Chen Yuhui at the opposite door every time.
Chen Yuhui's family except Wang Chunshan, there is no one else, the mother died two years ago, the eldest daughter flew back and forth from Beijing and Shanghai, and could not return home once a year, the youngest daughter Zhang Xiangxiang just got married last year, and the younger couple are like glue, and they rarely come back.
The reason why Chen Yuhui likes to go to the street market to buy vegetables is purely because the vegetables there are cheaper than the supermarket, and she buys and eats them every day, only across the road, and moves by the way, otherwise she will always sit in front of the desk and have cervical spondylosis.
"Teacher Chen came out to buy vegetables again!" Li Hui met Chen Yuhui as soon as she went out, and the two old ladies pulled a small cart and walked into the elevator at the same time.
"Teacher Li, you also buy vegetables every day!" Chen Yuhui said with a smile.
"Oh, there's no way! My grandson is growing up, and fresh fruits have to keep up! My daughter and son-in-law are busy, and I have to come to eat ready-made ones after work, but fortunately, I just buy them, no matter what I do, stir-frying is Wang Jinshan's job!" Li Hui knew that Chen Yuhui basically didn't do anything at home, and she couldn't fall behind.
"Teacher Li is really a blessing, Mr. Wang's stir-fry skills are really not to say, my Lao Zhang went to your house to eat, and he was full of praise when he came back!"
"My Wang stubborn has no other advantages, that is, the stir-fry is delicious, and I will make a pasta, which I have learned in the north! Recently, I am learning to bake, and the cakes I make are always delicious, and my family Yiming shows off to his classmates in school every day!" Li Hui mentioned her baking skills, not without self-satisfaction.
"Then your hands are really skillful! Don't look at me as a native of the north, my mother used to cook, and then I found Zhang Chunshan, and found that his cooking skills are also okay, I can't get involved, just end up idle!" Chen Yuhui is a real person, and she never hides her words.
"Oh, Mr. Chen, I heard your old Zhang say that you are writing a memoir now? It's amazing, since I retired, I've been busy all day long, either planting flowers, baking, sometimes drinking coffee, I don't know how to take this pen!" Li Hui still admires Chen Yuhui's writing of memoirs.
"Actually, I didn't write anything extraordinary, I just wanted to write about my mother's life and the history of the rise and fall of their family, just as a recorder, and leave it to future generations to see!"
"That's good! I heard your old Zhang say that your mother's family is a big local family, there must be a lot of stories, right? When you finish writing, I'm going to be the first to read it!"
"Okay, don't look at me as a Chinese teacher, it's the first time I've written such a long thing, and I don't have any experience, so please correct me when the time comes!"
The two old ladies walked all the way and talked all the way, and before they knew it, they came to the vegetable market.
At this time, it was just six o'clock in the morning, and the vegetable market was already full of people, and the vegetable farmers who came from the neighborhood were shouting and tidying up the fresh vegetables they had just picked, some of which were still covered with mud, and some of which were carrying long seedlings, all hinting at their freshness.
"How is this eggplant sold?" Gu Yiming likes to eat Wang Jinshan's fried eggplant box the most, and the eggplant braised with tomatoes is also his favorite, so every time he goes to buy vegetables, Li Hui has to buy eggplant.
"Eldest sister, look at my eggplant is very fresh, it only sells for a pound!"
"Okay, then I'll weigh a little and get me a bag!"
"One dollar and one catty? It's so expensive! Teacher Li, it's only 8 cents here, why don't we buy it together, this person said that if you buy 1 yuan and 5 taels more!" Chen Yuhui pulled Li Hui excitedly next to her.
"Okay, then let's buy it together!" Li Hui turned around and went to the stall next door with Chen Yuhui to buy eggplant, and rolled his eyes angrily at the stall owner just now, but he was helpless.
"Oh, Mr. Chen, although the eggplants in this house are cheap, they are a bit old!" Li Hui quickly regretted it, but it was not easy to refuse Chen Yuhui.
"We can pick the tender ones!" Chen Yuhui enthusiastically helped Li Hui pick them up!