Night 72: Sautéed lettuce

At eight o'clock in the morning, the weather was clear, and the sun hung in the sky without a single cloud.

It's like a light gray-blue frosted glass with a strong flashlight behind it.

Huo Bai stood at the door of his front room and squinted at the sky.

The screen of his mobile phone in his hand shows that there is a heavy rain today.

Very good, but the weather forecast is not accurate.

Huo Bai, who had stood for a while, touched his hair, which was a little hot from the sun, and pulled a stool from behind him with his backhand to sit down.

Normally, at this point in time, he had gone back to wash and sleep, but today he was not sleepy at all.

Huo Bai, who was sitting, leaned his back against the cement wall behind him, quietly staring at the advertising sign not far away, in a daze.

His eyes are blank, his face is dull, and he is stupid when he looks at it.

The aunt who was passing by with an eco-friendly bag to buy groceries shouted at him and didn't see any reaction, and I don't know what he was thinking.

The advertising signs have been placed for some years, and they are often placed outside in the wind and rain, so that the bottom iron frame is covered with red rust.

In the early years, he still had the leisure to do a rust removal for the lamp, but now...... He just doesn't bother to do it when he has time.

Like a salted fish, he remained motionless after basking in the sun for a while.

Suddenly, there was a gust of wind, and the ashes of the thatched paper flew in circles on the ground, and swooped straight at his feet.

Huo Bai stretched out his hand to block the light, looked at the mass of ash at his feet, and glanced down at the time again.

At 8:47, it was displayed on the screen of the mobile phone.

Pressing the screen, Huo Bai stood up, stretched and yawned, put away the stool, turned around and pulled down the roller shutter door and locked it.

"Whoa!" There was a sound, and after locking the door, Huo Bai took his mobile phone to the fruit stall at the intersection to buy some apples and pears, and walked to the bus stop.

Halloween is going out to the grave.

At noon, Huo Bai came back from outside, returned to the façade room and squinted for less than two hours, when he was woken up by the ringtone of his mobile phone.

Huo Bai, who had not woken up at all, with a dazzled face, got up with his hair that had blown up from sleep, dressed and washed, and made preparations for the start of business in the afternoon.

During this time, he made a bowl of egg noodles for himself to fill his stomach.

At about three o'clock in the afternoon, "Brother Huo!" Ake, who drove over to deliver food, poked his head out of the car window and said hello to Huo Bai.

Huo Bai took out his mobile phone and glanced at the time, "I came early today." ”

"I finished delivering the goods early, and I have to take my dad and them back to their hometown. Ako opened the door, got out of the car, opened the trunk, and moved things outside.

"Everything is in it, Brother Huo, I'll go first. After hurriedly unloading the car, Arco kicked the accelerator and drove away.

Huo Bai sat on the stool and turned around to look at the somewhat messy boxes and bags in the front room.

With a sigh, he reluctantly wiped his hands and went in to rearrange them all.

He suddenly had some hope that Duan Ping didn't ask for leave today.

But fortunately, in a hurry, he finally made everything before five o'clock.

Huo Bai, who was standing in front of the grill, was flipping the rice cake skewers with one hand, and put a large handful of lamb skewers sprinkled with cumin on the grill with the other.

The temperature in front of the grill was not low, and Huo Baihot rubbed his head against the towel hanging around his neck.

When I turned my head, I saw Duan Ping coming from the mouth of the alley, "Brother Huo, I'll come down when I go up and take a shower." Duan Ping, who had finished sacrificing his ancestors with a body of fireworks, said and ran home.

Duan Ping had already told Huo Bai that he had asked for leave this day, and when he came back in the afternoon, it was still early, so he thought about it and decided to come back and continue to work.

Anyway, he is idle when he is idle, and if he is idle at home, he will be greeted by his grandmother with a feather duster.

Duan Ping, who took a combat bath and took a steamy body, returned to the grill and took over the work in Huo Bai's hands.

After Huo Bai handed over the barbecue to Duan Ping, he wiped his face with a towel, took a water scoop and went to the stove to pick up a kitchen knife to chop the ribs.

Duan Ping turned his head to look at the tricycle he saw when he came back while sprinkling seasoning, and he asked Huo Bai with some curiosity, "Brother Huo, what about the new tricycle you bought?"

On one side of the food stall was a brand-new blue electric tricycle parked with a translucent glass cabinet covered with white gauze and I don't know what was inside.

"That's someone's stall, and the boss went to the toilet in the square opposite. Huo Bai chopped the ribs and didn't lift them.

"Oh. Duan Ping heard Huo Bai say this, and turned his head back again, "Brother Huo, should this skewer be spicy?"

"Don't be spicy rice cakes, mutton skewers are particularly spicy, don't taste them. Chop the ribs, Huo Bai turned around and turned on the hot pot.

"Hmm!" Duan Ping responded, reaching out and picking up the jar of chili noodles and sprinkling it on the lamb skewers.

I don't know if it's because today is Halloween, but there are fewer people going out at night.

After eight o'clock, the business of the food stalls was a little deserted.

Duan Ping, who had nothing to do, sat next to the tricycle with a stool, holding a bowl of wolf tooth potatoes that had just come out of the pot, chatting with the owner of the tricycle while eating.

The owner of the tricycle is a middle-aged woman in her 40s, who sells cold skin and noodles and potatoes with wolf teeth.

"Eldest sister, your skills are good. Duan Ping inserted a potato with a bamboo skewer and stuffed it into his mouth.

The eldest sister standing in front of her stall smiled and squinted, "My little girl also said that my cooking is delicious." ”

"Eldest sister, there aren't many of us, why did you open a stall here?" Duan Ping was most curious about this, it stands to reason that there is not much traffic in this place, except for his Brother Huo's food stall, no one is really happy to come here to support the stall.

The eldest sister pinched the apron around her body, wiped her hands, and sat down on the side of the tricycle, "The city management outside is strict, and no one here cares about me." ”

"Sister, bring me another one and add more spicy. Duan Ping felt that the wolf tooth potatoes in his hand were not enjoyable after eating, so he smacked his lips and asked for another one.

At nine o'clock, Ah Zhai, who came back from work, yawned and walked into the food stall, "Chicken soup Huo...... Just stir-fry, faster. ”

Huo Bai was standing by the briquette stove with a coal tong to change the coal for the briquette stove, "Then will you eat the lettuce on a stir-fried plate?"

Ah Zhai didn't hear what Huo Bai said, she leaned on the table and closed her eyes and agreed indiscriminately.

After changing the coal, Huo Bai, who didn't hear Ah Zhai's refusal, reached out and grabbed a handful of cleaned lettuce leaves very simply and walked back to the stove.

There's nothing faster than stir-frying a plate of lettuce, after all, lettuce is delicious without stir-frying.

Heat a pan over high heat to a little oil.

With a bang, the lettuce leaves were thrown into the pot, and the water on the leaves fried with the hot oil in the pot.

Stir-fry a few times with a spoon, add a little salt, and you're ready to go.

What Ah Zhai hated most in her life was vegetables, but when she was called up by Huo Bai to eat and saw the crisp and tender green lettuce leaves.

She silently put her brother Huo Bai in the first place she hated the most, but it was the kind that could become her favorite as long as she made a small wonton for her again.

Ah Zhai reached out and rubbed her face, she felt that she was frightened by this plate of lettuce in front of her.

She reluctantly pinched her chopsticks, and in disgust, she took a small lettuce leaf and stuffed it into her mouth along with rice.

"It's that unpalatable? It's not medicine. Huo Bai looked at her expression and didn't know what to say about her.

Ah Zhai swallowed the food in his mouth and snorted twice, "Hmph, it's just medicine if it's medicine, I'll admit it if it's unpalatable." But this is not medicine, why is it still so unpalatable?!"

"Isn't it delicious? It's crisp and refreshing, isn't it good? ”

"What a ghost, a smell of grass, and I'm not a rabbit. Ah Zhai looked at the lettuce and muttered quietly.

"I'm not happy during the day, and I'm even more unhappy when I come back, huh. ”

Huo Bai saw that she was eating with an uncomfortable face, so he cut another plate of lo-mei and sent it to her.

"Don't waste all the food. Putting down the plate, he reached out and flicked the little tugs that were half-stuck in the back of his head.

Ah Zhai pursed her lips, and without saying a word, she didn't say a word and put the rice in her mouth with her favorite vegetable leaves.

She also knows that eating meat without vegetables is not good for her health.

Ah Zhai puffed out his cheeks, swallowed the vegetable leaves in his mouth with tears in his eyes, and stuffed himself with two mouthfuls of lo-mei.

Vegetables are indeed good for physical and mental health, but the leaves are really the most unpalatable, and the meat is still delicious.

After eating, Ah Zhai settled the account and entered the door of the opposite unit, planning to go home quickly to wash and sleep.

The place where she works is nearly an hour's drive from where she now lives.

She clocked in at half past seven and had to get in the car at six o'clock, and it took about an hour for her to wash up, put on makeup and eat breakfast, so she had to get up at about five o'clock, and she could only go left and not right.

It's really tiring to think about it, it's the same as when she went to school, except for one less evening self-study.

When she got home, Ah Zhai stood at the door and threw off the pair of block-heeled high heels on her feet, and the bag she was carrying on her shoulder after she took out her mobile phone was also thrown aside by her.

She took off her coat as she walked into the room.

As soon as he entered the room, he threw himself on her soft bed, reached for the down pillow and hugged it in his arms and sighed comfortably.

Ah Zhai, who was stuck in the mattress, suddenly felt that his eyelids were very heavy.

She was shouting in her head to go wash up and sleep for a while.

It didn't take long for her brain to become a mess, and she fell asleep with a pillow in her arms.

Her last thought before going to bed was that she would just sleep for a while, and then get up and wash up after a while.

However, by the time she woke up, it was already the next day.

Outside the window, it was raining heavily, and the sound of "crackling!" was endless.

Ah Zhai stared at the ceiling with a pair of dead fish eyes, and stared at her for a while before she rolled over and got out of bed, and floated into the bathroom to take a shower and put on makeup.

She had just glanced at the time, it was already four o'clock in the morning, and by the time she had packed everything and was just in time to go to work.

The ashes that had been stuck on the ground during the day were also washed away by the rain and flowed into the sewers.

Huo Bai and Duan Ping in the food stall stood under the canopy that was hurriedly erected in a hurry, looking at the dense rain curtain and drinking porridge, and the other squatting next to the briquette stove to dry his mobile phone.

The rain fell suddenly, and it rained without saying hello, and Huo Bai and Duan Ping were both drenched in a little rain.

Luckily, the ingredients were all in the freezer and didn't get dirty at all.

Today's breakfast sells vegetable porridge and rice cakes.