327.New Year's Eve (2)
Ao Muyang has a lot of things to buy, vegetables and meat he has prepared in advance, and he has to buy some side dishes, such as vermicelli.
There is a local custom to make "Japanese dishes" during the New Year, which is to mix spinach, white radish or cabbage, meat slices and vermicelli together, similar to stew, and eat this meal on the morning of the 30th day of the lunar month, hoping that the upcoming new year will be harmonious and beautiful.
There are too many people at the New Year's fair, bustling and rubbing shoulders, and the wide road is crowded with legs, and there are various stalls on both sides of the road.
Ao Muyang bought a pack of fried ham, which was his favorite food when he was a teenager, that is, he put the lean meat ham in the oil pan and fried it, the price is not expensive, and now it is fifteen yuan a catty.
The reason why it is so cheap is because these lean meat hams are expired and spoiled, and they can't be sold through normal sales channels, so the profiteers came up with an idea and fried them in boiling oil before selling them.
They claim that the ham spoils because there are many bacteria, and the high temperature of boiling oil kills the bacteria, and after frying, the rancid taste of the ham is lighter, and the meat flavor is stronger.
All in all, it's junk food.
But this thing tastes really good, children like it, the elderly like it, and people who don't have much money like it.
As for its hygiene, who cares if you choose to buy it?
Ao Muyang bought one, a piece of ham in his mouth, and he clearly felt the rancid taste.
But then the meaty and oily aromas mask the rancidness, creating a somewhat unique and charming flavour.
That's what he eats, it's the taste of childhood and youth.
There are too many vendors, there are not enough places, and some people set up stalls in the middle of the road.
There were some red, purple or pink hanging coins fluttering in the wind on a small cart, and when Ao Muyang saw it, he said, "Buy me two sets." ”
Hanging money, like Spring Festival couplets, is an ornament during the New Year.
The materials of the two are similar, and the hanging money was originally cut out of some patterns with red paper, and now the materials have been developed, and they have begun to be cut with colored paper, and then pasted on the glass and horizontal edges of doors and windows for decoration.
Because the shape is a long one, when it is blown by the north wind, the hanging money will flutter in the wind like a flag, which can better decorate the festive atmosphere of the Spring Festival.
But now people's homes are luxuriously decorated, and they don't need this to decorate, so they are afraid to stick the hanging money in the window, and there is no wind and rain, and the hanging money can be kept until the end of the New Year.
Another advantage of visiting the New Year's fair is that you can meet some old classmates and acquaintances.
Usually young people are working in the city, and when they reach the end of the year, they go home one after another, except for a few units, most of them go home on the twenty-eighth day of the lunar month, and everyone comes to catch up with the New Year's fair, which is easy to encounter.
Ao Muyang squeezed in the crowd and kept hearing greetings:
"Yo, Brother Chao, when did you come back? This is your daughter-in-law? Hey, a flower is fresh on the cow dung......
"Old Song, old Song, haha, I thought I had recognized the wrong person just now, why are you fat like this? I heard that you work in a feed factory and eat feed every day?"
"Old classmate, I haven't seen you for a long time, how are you doing? What, you're not married yet? Oh, you'll get married after the New Year, so I'm embarrassed to say something, I wanted to borrow money from you......"
Listening to these chats, Ao Muyang was secretly happy in his heart.
As a result, he was very happy and sad, and then he saw the little nurse Hu Xiuxiu.
Hu Xiuxiu and her best friend Xiaoyu, who works in a Western-style fast food restaurant in Kende, are together, and where the two young and beautiful girls are are also a landscape, there are many young people who peek at the two.
Ao Muyang didn't look at them, but the two of them found her first.
Hu Xiuxiu patted him on the shoulder from behind, and said with a smile: "Senior brother, what are you here to buy?"
Ao Muyang smiled awkwardly after seeing Hu Xiuxiu: "Hehe, just go shopping, buy some fried ham, can you eat it?"
Xiaoyu obviously knew what was going on between the two, and she said angrily: "Don't eat it, you can eat it yourself, buy more and take it home to eat, it's not easy to eat these fried goods in the village." ”
Hu Xiuxiu kicked her shoes with her toes, and said angrily: "Hey, Xiaoyu, why is your tone so sour?"
Xiaoyu glared at Ao Muyang.
Ao Muyang is very aggrieved, buying and selling is not benevolent, no, blind date is not friendship, you can be a friend.
The other party didn't give him this opportunity, Hu Xiuxiu said hello to him and left, the girl had a bold personality and walked very freely.
Xiaoyu's personality is also good, and when he left, he seriously advised: "You eat less of this kind of fried ham, it is not junk food, it is just a pile of garbage, and it will definitely hurt your stomach." ”
Ao Muyang smiled: "Thank you." ”
Xiaoyu glared at him again before leaving.
This is an episode, Ao Muyang bought a bunch of things later, and it didn't take long to fill the backpack and handbag, all kinds of things add up to thirty or forty catties.
A group of people came by boat together, and he was the first to come back, sitting on the bow of the boat and playing with his mobile phone, chatting with his high school classmates.
Someone on the dock walked over, and when they saw him, they waved with a smile: "Ao Muyang! Haha, Yangzi, long time no see!"
Ao Muyang looked up and saw a junior high school classmate.
This classmate's surname is Mao, because he will grow thin and small in junior high school, and he will be called a kitten when he yells.
The kitten is much taller now, and his appearance has changed greatly, and Ao Muyang didn't recognize him.
The two shook hands, and the kitten gave him a business card very formally, he now works for a real estate sales manager, and he mixes very well, and speaks in a tone.
Ao Muyang doesn't like such people, but after all, he is an old classmate and hasn't seen him for many years, so he is still very happy after meeting at this time.
He doesn't have much contact with his junior high school classmates, and Kitten keeps in touch with his old classmates.
From his mouth, Ao Muyang knew the recent situation of some classmates, the squad leader is now selling pork in Hongyang, the sports committee relies on the sponsorship of his father, and he bought a doorman house in Hongyang, who is married, who is divorced, who is an official, and so on.
Finally, he said, "Do you remember Yao Hongyan? ”
Ao Muyang nodded and said, "Some impressions." ”
The kitten sighed: "Yao Hongyan is one of the four beauties of our junior high school, and she has been a junior in the first two years, what a pity, alas, ......"
Ao Muyang also nodded and sighed, but the kitten continued: "You said that I am not bad, why doesn't she give me a junior?"
What are you asking me to say?Ao Muyang was silent.
made a few jokes, the two shook hands and said goodbye, and the kitten joked with him before leaving: "Go to Hongyang to buy a villa and find me in the future, I have connections in this circle." ”
Ao Muyang thought for a while and said, "I may not buy it in the near future, but I will find you when I buy it." ”
The kitten laughed: "No problem. ”
Later, Ao Fugui pushed the cart back, and there were a lot of miscellaneous things on the car, not only bags of flour, but also a lot of vegetables, wine and meat, Ao Fugui bought a lot of things.