Chapter 32: Chinese New Year's Eve (Part I)
"Bang!", "Smack!"
On the last day of the Year of the Goat, not long after dawn in the morning, firecrackers rang out in the community. Qin Feng got up from the warm quilt, yawned, and stretched a long lazy waist. In the past half a month, he slept soundly for the first time. I turned my head to look at the alarm clock on the bedside table, it was just after 7 o'clock.
Qin Feng walked out of the room, only to find that Qin Jianguo was not in the house, but immediately, Qin Feng figured it out.
Today is not a weekend, Qin Jianguo will only start his holiday tomorrow.
Walking to the refrigerator, Qin Feng habitually opened the refrigerator first and looked at it, it was full of various vegetables, and in the upper freezer, there were still 2 packets of unopened chicken hearts and chicken fungi.
Qin Feng didn't plan to rest all day today, and in the afternoon, he still had to go out of the stall.
After washing, Qin Feng went downstairs to have breakfast and immediately went to the vegetable market.
On the last day before the Chinese New Year, it was like a war in the vegetable market, especially the point picked by Qin Feng, which was the peak of the peak period. More different from the past, Qin Feng only carried a basket in his hand today.
Coming to Lao Liu's stall, Qin Feng bought 2 catties of beef more than usual, one catty was used to make beef dumplings, and the other catty he planned to use to cook at night to treat himself and his father.
After a quick round in the vegetable market, Qin Feng quickly made up the ingredients to be used in today's stall, as well as the materials for the Chinese New Year's Eve meal, and finally came to the front of the tofu Shih Tzu store, but there was only Su Sugar in the store.
Su Tang finally didn't wear a school uniform today, on a cold day, she was so busy that she was sweating profusely, so she put on a fleece sweater on the outside, and wore the apron that Tofu Shih Tzu wore on weekdays around her chest. Qin Feng glanced at it and saw the thick red down jacket that Su Tang placed casually on the side of the stall, and asked casually, "Where's Auntie?"
"I'm sick, so I'm resting at home. Su Tang replied, took out a big bag from the tofu pile, and handed it to Qin Fengdao, "Your 2 catties of dried tofu." ”
"I'm just going to buy a pound today. Qin Feng didn't stretch out his hand.
"I don't have the time to weigh you now, you see so many people. Su Tang complained.
As soon as Su Tang spoke, a group of middle-aged and elderly men who were anxious to buy and eat tofu on the side echoed one after another.
Qin Feng raised his hand and looked at his watch, seeing that it was still early, he actually stepped in front of Su Tang, put the basket down, and said, "I see that you can't get it alone, I'll help you." ”
Before Su Tang could react, Qin Feng had already grabbed his gloves and put them on, and greeted the guests.
"Why are you so familiar?" Su Tang said with a frown, but he didn't mean to drive Qin Feng away. Today's business is indeed too hot, and somehow, the old men who came to buy tofu, the lust gall is also a lot bigger than usual, half an hour ago there was a not long eye, actually took her hand and touched it for a full 5 seconds, if it weren't for her tough personality, the old pervert scolded away, it is estimated that the old thing can touch her hand off a layer of skin.
It is not easy for women to do business, especially mother-daughter flowers like Su Tang and her mother, which are easy to provoke.
With Qin Feng standing on the side, Su Tang couldn't help but feel a little more secure, but she still reminded her very directly: "Don't do anything crooked under the banner of helping, I owe you a favor today." ”
Qin Feng smiled, this little girl, her vigilance is really heavy.
In the face of the weaving guests, the two of them did not have time to talk nonsense, although they usually did not cooperate at all, but Qin Feng, who had been doing business for many days, was still very comfortable in how to load goods.
In the silent tacit understanding, Qin Feng and Su Tang quickly completed the division of labor, Qin Feng weighed and loaded, Su Tang collected money to find money, and the two young people ran the business smoothly, just like a young couple.
The rush hour lasted for a full hour and a half, and after 9 o'clock, the flow of people in the vegetable market finally returned to its usual schedule.
Qin Feng exhaled, took off his gloves, wiped his hands on his clothes, and wiped the beads of sweat on his hands.
"Almost, I'll go first. Qin Feng lifted the basket and said to Su Tang.
Su Tang hummed and whispered, "Thank you." ”
Qin Feng smiled and said, "No thanks, just come back for the New Year to buy tofu and give me some discounts." ”
Su Tang replied very dryly: "Dreaming." ”
Qin Feng hehe.
Su Tang said to him again: "We usually have a 5-day rest for the New Year, if you can't buy all the things, wait for the eighth day of the new year to come out of the stalls, and almost all the stalls in the eighth vegetable market are open." ”
Qin Feng nodded and turned to leave.
Although Dongou City is in the south, the temperature in winter is also very low, and the chicken, duck and fish bought from the vegetable market still maintain their due freshness after being left for a full hour and a half.
Qin Feng went home and stuffed the dishes for dinner into the refrigerator, and then processed the ingredients to be used in the stall in the afternoon.
It only took less than 2 hours, and at 11 o'clock, Qin Feng finished the work.
Today he only made 300 skewers, and there are no small chops that cannot be sold, and there are no bananas that are no longer available. The most made are beef dumplings and taro cakes, which are 50 skewers, and other vegetarian dishes and meat dishes, all of which are only prepared with only 15 skewers, and only 5 skewers for large rows, only dried tofu, which is twice as much as usual.
After the old godmother had lunch indiscriminately, Qin Feng went out early.
The sun on the winter afternoon shone warmly on his body, Qin Feng slowly recalled this day in his previous life along the way, what he was doing, but unfortunately too much time had passed, and in the first year of high school, Qin Feng had nothing to do with him to commemorate for a lifetime, so except for the meanness and ridicule of those relatives towards him and Qin Jianguo during the New Year, Qin Feng couldn't think of anything.
Outside the doors of the few households in the back alleys of the eighteenth middle school, the Spring Festival couplets have been hung today.
Qin Feng specially walked from the alley to the end of the alley, and for the first time counted how many people still lived here.
There are a total of 7 households, presumably until April and May, when the news of the demolition of the back alley of the 18th Middle School comes, and the number of people living here will decrease.
However, only Qin Feng knows that because of the dispute between the developer and the government, the actual demolition time here has been delayed again and again, until 06 years, when the resettlement houses of the residents here have been built for half a year, and the houses here are finally demolished.
First issue the demolition money, then build a resettlement house, and finally demolish the house, such a magical step to do things, Qin Feng has only seen such a thing once in his two lives.
Before Chinese New Year's Eve, the chengguan had stopped working.
Qin Feng put the stall at the mouth of the alley in a dignified manner, where the night stall usually appears.
The shops around the 18th Middle School are finally closed today, and there are only a few small shops that are estimated to have no money and no face to go home for the New Year, and they are still working hard to open their doors.
Qin Feng basked in the sun, read the heavy taste of the chicken soup for the soul magazine, and did business sporadically, waiting from 1 pm to 3 pm, and finally waited for the guests.
Both at home and abroad, many people have the habit of eating small snacks in the afternoon.
The British call this meal afternoon tea, and Dongou City calls it "relay".
More than ten years later, due to the unfavorable dialect education in Dongou City, the vast majority of post-00s have completely confused what this word means, Qin Feng University majored in Chinese, and has also studied the dialect of his hometown, so he knows the word "relay", out of the daily work of agricultural society. Farmers work hard in the afternoon, often at this time of 3 o'clock, the meal at noon will be digested clean, and there is no strength to work, and if you can eat something at this time, then you can connect the strength, which is called "relay".
There are actually a lot of people who order dim sum at this time, and on this street, there is only Qin Feng's stall, so it is not surprising that the beef dumplings and taro cakes that are already well-known in Qin Feng's stall are sold out after a while.
People who come from afar to eat skewers have already gotten rid of the bad habit of not eating non-signature dishes, so they have taken other things with them, and other things have begun to enter the rhythm of selling out.
Qin Feng saw that the aluminum plates were empty one after another, and he couldn't help but regret a little that he had brought too few things today, this was the first time he had made such a strategic mistake in half a month, but then again, who would have thought that he would encounter such a situation similar to monopoly management today?