"Frostfall, have you ever been to the China store?" Chen Chi first mentioned an opening sentence.

"Yes."

Of course, Xu Shuangchuan has been there, and she can't bear the bread macaroni all year round, so every once in a while she will go to the Chinese store to buy something to regulate her tortured stomach. This kind of shop is generally opened by immigrants, and many things are imported from China, and the variety is also rich, from all kinds of spices to fresh vegetables, most of which are original Chinese products, but also include some local products from Southeast Asia. Anyway, it looks very kind, but there is only one bad one, death is expensive. The price of a mushroom vegetable package can be taken down in two drawers in China, and green vegetables and sweet potatoes are sold by one.

Xu Shuangchuan and Xian go together from time to time, Xian also likes to visit Chinese stores, she goes to buy fish sauce, and Xu Shuangchuan buys tender tofu. Shallot mixed with tofu, this is the only hometown dish that Xu Shuangchuan found that does not test his cooking skills too much. She also made appropriate improvements according to local conditions, replacing the sesame oil that she would use in it with olive oil, which tasted the same as the fragrance.

"I'll go to a Chinese store and buy spices." Chen Chi said, "At first, I asked my family to send it, or classmates helped each other to bring it, but then I was troublesome, and I went to a Chinese store a few times, and I met an aunt who boiled hot sauce in it." ”

"Hot sauce?" Xu Shuangchuan said in surprise.

Chen Chi nodded: "That shop sells homemade hot sauce, and one of the most important steps is to boil a pot of chili oil from dried red peppers. My aunt is an employee of that store, and she usually organizes the shelves and cleans them, and helps the owner boil chili oil once a week. Her craft is very good, and the hot sauce she makes is very popular. ”

"Once, I went there to buy something, and my aunt was frying bananas."

"Fried bananas?" Xu Shuangchuan was stunned again.

"It's delicious, the banana is wrapped in a layer of fried powder on the outside, put it in the oil pan and fried, the outside is crispy, and the inside is sweet and soft."

Xu Shuangchuan and Chen Chi chatted for half an afternoon, the most depressed and distressed moment of losing the wallet had passed, and at this time the mood was much more comfortable, and blurted out at the moment: "Can you stop talking?" ”

Chen Chizhi laughed: "Next time I go to the Chinese store here to look for it, if you buy it, notify you to eat, or take you directly over, fried bananas are the most fragrant when they are hot." ”

"The aunt you know isn't from the store here?"

"I moved once." Chen Chi explained.

"Oh." Xu Shuang nodded suddenly, seeing that Chen Chi took a sip of apple juice, he didn't immediately go on, and couldn't help reminding, "You said that Auntie was frying bananas." ”

Chen Chi's apple juice had fortunately swallowed down his throat, otherwise he would really have choked on himself. He wasn't that forgetful, he just paused slightly. Now he thinks that sometimes looking at Xu Shuang is still a little clumsy, which is particularly interesting.

He breathed a sigh of relief with a smile before continuing: "That day, the police came to check it, and my aunt was pushed to a hut where the chili oil was fried by the shopkeeper, because customers generally can't stand the pungent smell of fried chili oil, and the shopkeeper is also afraid that the fumes will come out, causing people around to complain, and the hut is almost closed. ”

Xu Shuangchuan couldn't help but widen her eyes and exclaimed: "That aunt is an illegal employee?" ”

Chen Chi nodded.

"Isn't the shopkeeper afraid of being fined?"

"There are needs on both sides, the aunt needs a job, and the shopkeeper needs a helper who doesn't pay well. My aunt has always been grateful to the shopkeeper because they took the risk to hire her. ”

Xu Shuang's heart was panicked: "What happened later? Is there anything wrong with Auntie? ”

"No, the police didn't find out."

"It's not a long-term solution." Xu Shuang sighed, she glanced at Chen Chi and asked, "Chen Chi, what are you going to sue me?" ”

Chen Chi smiled: "The brain is so fast? How do you know what I'm going to sue you? Can't you just tell a story? ”

Xu Shuangchuan pursed her lips and smiled: "In the last story, you told me to go out and have a long heart, don't stop at the train station at night, the bad guys are beyond imagination, will you simply tell this story?" You're running out of apple juice. ”

Chen Chi laughed, tilted his neck, and simply drank the remaining apple juice in the cup. He looked at Xu Frost's cup and asked clearly, "Frostfall, you don't like apple juice?" I'll change the yogurt for you. ”

"No, not really." Xu Shuangchuan shook her head with a smile, "Tell your story." ”

"This story is not about the aunt, but about a person the aunt knows. My aunt once asked me about schooling, and she wanted her children to come and study. We chatted once, and she told me that one of her fellow villagers, like her, did not have a legal residence status, and usually worked in the dark, and after three years of hardship, she had a small amount of savings, because she was too homesick and missed her children, this fellow villager decided to go back, but at the airport, the entire suitcase was stolen. ”

Xu Shuangchuan was stunned when she heard this, and a look of compassion appeared on her face.

"If you don't have a residence permit, you can't go to the bank to open an account, and all the money that my aunt's fellow villager has saved for three years is cash, which is all in the stolen suitcase."

"And then?" Xu Shuangchuan asked softly.

"My aunt said that my fellow villagers didn't dare to call the police, because she still had to stay and continue to work to earn another amount of money before she could go home."

Xu Shuang lowered her eyes and stared at the glass, not speaking for a long time.

"Frost falls."

She raised her eyes and sighed: "Chen Chi, do you want to sue me for a lot of thieves, and my experience is not the worst?" ”

Chen Chi scratched his hair and said distressedly: "You're done, what do I say?" ”

Xu Shuangchuan was amused by him, and Chen Chi took the opportunity to say: "Shuangshui, although it is a bad thing to be stolen, don't keep it in your heart and be unhappy, if the loss is great, you must remember to tell me." ”

Xu Shuangchuan looked at Chen Chi for a long time, and nodded lightly.

If you have never been to a foreign land, you will never know what it is like. Strangers are always busy, trying to get familiar with the environment, actively managing life, and rarely deliberately idle to taste loneliness. However, occasionally a street lamp, a bright moon, or a window with a bright light evoke a trance, a hazy and distant memory, and then you will find that loneliness has always been loyal to you.

This feeling stubbornly exists, humbly hidden, always appearing in the most helpless moments.

Even if the environment is getting acquainted, the life is stable, and the street in a foreign land knows the opposite direction well, so that you don't panic when you take the wrong road, the stranger will still know that he is a person. This clear and clear fact will not change in the slightest because of the kind smiles of passers-by who greet them warmly, or because of the lively complaints about news events among the locals.

Because, if there is a car unfortunately scratching yourself, then you must cheer yourself up, try not to fall into a coma, be sure to ensure that you get the most suitable medical treatment, the fastest recovery, and learn to deal with all kinds of follow-up cumbersome insurance matters.

The difference between a foreign land and a hometown is that at this time, there will not be family members who will be anxious to surround them every other time, not caring about asking right or wrong, first shouting at themselves and asking for warmth, and glaring at others.

In the life of a stranger, there is never such a consideration in doing things, all that is needed is the ability to do what must be done, because no one is obliged to help him slow down. So, sometimes the heart gets tired, but it's hard to say it.

Chen Chi told him that the frost had fallen, and he had to talk to him if the loss was great.

He didn't know that this sentence almost made Xu Shuangchuan burst into tears. She left home, away from her parents' sight, except for not being able to treat herself well in terms of food, and arranging herself as steadily as possible in other places. She gets along well with her classmates and neighbors, and when she encounters practical difficulties in study or life, she also has friends to comfort her, but in the final analysis, she has to face it and solve it by herself.

Chen Chi's words were very natural and plain, just an ordinary tone of advice in small talk, but Xu Shuangchuan was touched to the bottom of his heart.

She didn't even say thank you.

But later, Chen Chi said so many sweet love words in her ear, but she didn't necessarily catch up with this sentence, she buried it in the softest corner of her heart.