drove to Nancheng District, it was still early, Liu Yu did not go home directly, but went to the direction of the vegetable market in his memory.

When he was a child, the happiest thing he did was when his mother picked him up from school and brought him to the vegetable market.

Because every time I came here, my mother would buy herself a string of sugar gourds.

"Uncle Hao, come to a string of sugar gourds!"

Ten years have passed, the old man who sells sugar gourds has not changed, the taste of sugar gourds seems to have changed, it has become less delicious than his impression, and there seems to be one less taste, which should be the taste of home, it should be the taste of warmth.

Liu Yuqiang suppressed the sourness in his heart, and walked towards the vegetable market while biting the sugar gourd.

The market is still noisy, but there are many familiar faces missing, some stalls have left, and some stalls are inherited from their fathers.

Liu Yu greeted the people he knew familiarly, and picked some fresh vegetables at the same time.

"Are you Xiao Yu, I haven't seen you for a few years, and you're so big in a blink of an eye!"

"Yes, when she came to buy groceries with her mother, she was still a half-sized boy. ”

"Xiao Yu, where have you been all these years?"

A group of uncles and aunts surrounded Liu Yu and pulled Liu Yu and asked questions.

Liu Yu didn't feel annoyed, but greeted them very politely.

"Brother Yu, are you back?"

At this time, a young man wearing a leather apron, with a big shoulders and a round waist, but a very gentle face, pushed away the crowd and surrounded him, and when he saw Liu Yu, his expression was full of excitement.

"You're... Little stones?"

Liu Yu looked at the young man for a long time before he remembered a childish face.

Xiao Shi's full name is Shi Tairan, and he is one of Liu Yu's few friends.

When he was young, Shi Tairan was very thin, and he was not tall, and his skin was a little dark, so Liu Yu would call him Little Stone.

Ten years have passed, and the former small stone has become a large stone, and the bare arms in the sun, full of muscular silhouettes, look beautiful.

"It's me, Brother Yu!"

Shi Tairan laughed, stepped forward, and wanted to give Liu Yu a bear hug, but when he saw the greasy leather apron on his body, he smiled awkwardly and retreated, "It's too dirty!"

"You stinky boy, when did you become so sophisticated!"

Liu Yu hammered Shi Tairan in the chest and held him in his arms, patted him on the back, and said, "Good brother, long time no see!"

"Brother Yu, where have you been all these years? Why don't you say a word when you come back, brother, I'm going to catch the wind for you!"

Shi Tairan said as he pulled Liu Yu and walked towards his butcher's shop.

"I only came back two days ago, and I've been busy since I came back, and I don't have time!" Liu Yu responded with a smile, then took out a cigarette from his pocket, handed it to Shi Tairan, and lit it himself and smoked it.

"It's you kid, didn't you swear that you were going to go to university before, how can you inherit your father's business now?"

Liu Yu glanced at Shi Tairan's meat stall and couldn't help asking.

I remember when he was a child, Xiao Shi's father wanted him to drop out of school to learn a trade, but Xiao Shi didn't want to say anything.

Always muttering a sentence in his mouth, how can the bird know the ambition of the bird?

In his words, his father is a common man who lives with his hands all his life, and what he wants to do is to be a human being.

The lower people work hard, the middle people work wisely, and the upper people work hard.

And what he Shi Tairan wants to do is to work hard and create a business empire of his own.

"Hey, it's hard to put into words!"

Shi Tairan seemed to remember something, and shook his head with a wry smile.

Liu Yu let out a long sigh, and didn't say anything, burying some dull things in his heart is a sign of a man's maturity, and his little brother has grown up.

"Brother Yu, you won't leave when you come back this time, right?"

"Hmm!"

"You wait, I'll cut some meat for you and bring it back!"

Shi Tairan took two puffs of cigarette, threw the cigarette butt on the ground and stepped on it, returned to the stall, picked up the knife, cut a large piece of beef very skillfully, packed the bag, and handed it to Liu Yu.

Liu Yu was not polite, "Okay, then I'll take two side dishes in the evening, and let's have a good drink at that time!"

"It's about having a good drink!"

Shi Tairan grinned and nodded.

"That's okay, I'll go back first, you can close the stall early in a while and go to my house for a drink!"

After saying this, Liu Yu turned around and left.

At this time, three or five people walked to the meat stall, Liu Yu felt that something was wrong, so he stopped and stood in the crowd, wanting to see what these three people were going to do.

The leader is a middle-aged man with a big bald head and a scar on his face, as if a black centipede is crawling on his face, looking a little hideous.

"Little stone, shouldn't our account be settled!"

The man with the scar walked up to the meat stall and kicked it on the stall.

"Brother Scar, can you give a few more days, I've really been a little tight on money these days, and the butcher shop doesn't have much business!"

Shi Tairan said with an embarrassed face, "That's it, I'll cut a piece of meat for my brother and take it back to eat!"

Saying that, Shi Tairan cut a large piece of meat, put it in a bag, and handed it over with a smile on his face.

"Stinky boy, whoever wants your broken meat, I advise you to be honest, otherwise don't blame our brother for being polite!"

At this time, a thug with nails on his nose and earrings on his ears knocked off the meat in Shi Tairan's hand, pointed to his nose, and said very arrogantly.

"Big brother, don't worry, I will definitely pay it back as soon as possible!"

In the past, no one dared to point to the stone and speak calmly, although this kid looks like a gentleman, but he is a violent temper, as long as someone dares to point to his nose to speak, he will definitely go up and him without saying a word, but now he actually nodded and gave the little gangster compensation.

Liu Yu didn't expect that in the blink of an eye, his brother was a lot deeper.

Maybe in the past, he was just good at talking, but now Liu Yu can feel that this kid will definitely be able to achieve great things in the future.

Too rigid and easy to break.

Now the small stone has been erased from the edges and corners of the body by the wind and frost of life, and has become a piece of jade.

"I don't embarrass you, I'll give you another week, if you don't see the money again, don't blame the brothers for being rude!"

The scar man threw down such a sentence and walked away with his brothers.

Liu Yu left quietly, there were some things he definitely wanted to ask, but it wasn't now.

After returning home, Liu Yu began to wash vegetables and cut meat very skillfully, there was no way, the children of poor families were already in charge.

In the past, I was in the mountains with the old immortal, and the old thing always ran to Widow Zhang's house, and sometimes stayed for a day or two and didn't come back.

Liu Yu on the mountain was so hungry that his chest was pressed against his back, and he could only learn to cook by himself.

Skillfully cut the fresh beef into small pieces, and ginger together with boiling water to remove the fishy foam, and wait for the oil temperature to reach seventy, put in the green onion and ginger, and then add the beef that has been in the water to stir-fry, and suddenly a fragrance wafted all over the courtyard.

"It's so fragrant, I didn't expect you to cook, landlord!"

Li Yueran, who had just finished school, ran to the kitchen along the scent and stood at the door with a shocked expression.

"That's, uh, I know a little bit about everything, and life is a little more flavorful!"

Liu Yu originally wanted to say that in addition to giving birth to a child, he would not have anything to do, but because of the majesty of the landlord, he still took the words back.

"Do you want me to help?"

"No need, you're tired after a day of class, take a break, I'll take care of it here, and I'll call you for dinner in a while!"

Liu Yu took the shovel and turned to Li Yueran and smiled.

Except for the slightly more troublesome beef stew with radish and roasted eggplant, the other dishes are very simple.

After a while, the sound of knocking on the door sounded, and Liu Yu wanted to open the door, but was preempted by Li Yueran.

Shi Tairan stood outside the door with two bottles of liquor and some cooked food, and when he saw Li Yueran, he was so shocked that he couldn't speak, how could there be a beautiful woman in Brother Yu's house.

For a moment, he didn't know what to say.

"Hello, who are you looking for?"

Li Yueran asked with wide eyes.

"Eh, you're a sister-in-law, I'm Brother Yu's little brother, just call me Stone!"

After a long time, Shi Tairan held back a sentence.

"Sister-in-law?"

Li Yueran was a little stunned when she was called, and hurriedly waved her hand to explain: "No, no, I'm the landlord's tenant, you are here to find the landlord, come in!"

Saying that, Li Yueran staggered and invited Shi Tairan in.

"The stone is coming, come and eat!"

At this time, Liu Yu had already made four dishes and brought them to the table.

Shi Tairan was not polite, and sat down directly, sometimes there is no need to talk so much between brothers.

"Brother Yu, I haven't seen you in the past few years, I didn't expect you to learn to cook, and the dishes you cook are so delicious!"

Shi Tairan gave Liu Yu a thumbs up while eating heavily.

"Yes, landlord, did you work as a chef before?"

Li Yueran couldn't help but praise.

Liu Yu shook his head, took a sip of wine, and then said with a smile: "I didn't know how to do anything before, but people were forced out!"

The words are rough, but the truth is not rough.

Li Yueran nodded as if she didn't understand, ate a few more bites, and then put down her chopsticks and went back to the house for live broadcast.

"Brother Yu, I respect you!"

After Li Yueran left, Shi Tairan let go a lot, glass after glass of wine with Liu Yu, and after a while, he was a little unfavorable to speak.

"Yu, Brother Yu, I'm so happy you're back, I haven't drunk like this for a long time!"

Shi Tairan held the wine bottle in one hand, and asked again with a confused look: "By the way, Brother Yu, where have you been all these years? Why haven't you even heard from you?"

Liu Yu lit a cigarette, squinted his eyes and took a deep puff of the cigarette, shook his head and said, "It doesn't matter where I've been in the past few years, what I've experienced is what's important, what matters is what's wrong with you, are Uncle Shi and Aunt Shi okay?"

When he said this, Liu Yu's mind involuntarily appeared the tall figure of Shi's father, when he used to go to the vegetable market, as long as he saw it, Uncle Shi would secretly stuff a small piece of meat to himself.

Shi Tairan was stunned for a moment, his lips moved, but he never said a word.

"You don't want to say it, and I won't force you! But we are brothers, if you say something, at least you will feel more relaxed!"

Liu Yu let out a long sigh.

After being silent for a long time, Shi Tairan moved, he suddenly became very excited, and cried loudly: "It's all my fault, I'm just a beast, I'm not a human!"