116. Fireworks life

"It's here!" Hearing Gu Haiping's words, the car had already stopped in front of a magnificent gate.

The two took their luggage and passed through the gate post and came to the dormitory area, the courtyard door was locked, and the security guard who guarded the door had gone home to sleep and did not open the door until morning.

Gu Haiping said: "There is a guest house in front, let's go there to rest for a while, and then we can go to the dormitory when it is dawn." ”

The two came to the guest house and asked the waiter on duty and said that there was no standard room, only a triple room, 140 yuan a night. Gu Haiping asked Shandan to take the money and hand it over first, and he picked up his luggage and went to the room.

"You wait." Shandan called out to Gu Haiping.

"What's wrong? Isn't the money with you? Gu Haiping stopped and asked suspiciously.

"Come here." Shandan nodded to the waiter, and then beckoned Gu Haiping to come over.

"Look at it's a little bit past now, and we only need 140 yuan for five or six hours! Do you think about it thanks to panic? It's so hot, we don't have to spend that money if we wait a few more hours where we go. Shandan said.

"This? You're not tired, are you? I'm afraid you won't be able to bear it! You haven't had a good rest for three days, how can you stand it while you're still pregnant? 140 is 140, ah! You can get some rest first, and I'll pick you up tomorrow when I get the dorm room ready, okay? Gu Haiping reported.

"No, no, no! You take your luggage, and we'll go out and find a place to rest before dawn. As he spoke, Shandan had already walked out of the door of the guest house.

Gu Haiping had no choice but to pick up his luggage and rush out: "Are you okay?" Look at how swollen your feet are? To save 140 dollars, don't break your body. ”

"No! I'll just lie down and rest for a while, don't worry, I'm very strong! Shandan looked at Gu Haiping's eyes full of pity and complaint.

"Alas! You! Gu Haiping had no choice but to lead Shandan from the back door of the college to the school's playground under a rostrum, with a roof to shelter from the rain, the platform was flat and spacious, Shandan opened the package, took out the small quilt sewn by Gu's mother for her unborn grandson, and put the newspaper bought on the train underneath, and laid a floor bunk. But in Yongcheng, a subtropical rainforest climate, mosquitoes are one of the specialties, and the black pressure mosquitoes are lined up and singing songs one after another, and they want to feast on it.

Shandan couldn't hold it anymore, so she fell asleep, regardless of whether it was infested with mosquitoes or not.

Gu Haiping put a mosquito net on Shandan's body with a branch, and he fell asleep while lying next to him, he was too tired.

The two of them were so tired after a few days of hard work that they didn't wake up until a student was running in the playground.

Hurriedly packed up his things and came to Gu Haiping's dormitory.

The dormitory is a single dormitory that Gu Haiping asked for before he went home with his tutor, who was the dean of academic affairs, with a bunk bed, a desk and a chair.

Shandan went to the public toilet to take a brief shower, the two began to pack their luggage, and for breakfast, Gu Haiping went to the canteen to buy a few buns and two cups of soy milk. After tidying up for a while, Shandan felt hungry again, so he went to the store downstairs to buy some snacks to make up for it, and after reading all the snacks, he didn't find a cheaper, the least few peanuts cost more than 3 yuan, Shandan was not willing to buy, and climbed upstairs.

Gu Haiping asked, "Didn't you go to buy food?" How did you come back empty-handed? ”

"It's too expensive! I don't have anything I like to eat, so let's wait for lunch. Shandan avoided Gu Haiping's inquiring gaze.

"There's still two hours until lunch, I'll buy it for you." As he spoke, Gu Haiping had already gone downstairs to buy it, and he knew that it must be Shandan who was reluctant to spend money to buy it, so he didn't buy it.

Shandan sat down and looked at the small dormitory, thinking about the hardships along the way, she was a little skeptical that she might not have left this child. This made Gu Haiping very difficult; It also caused their father and son to lose harmony and increase estrangement.

Gu Haiping walked in with a bag of peanuts and a bag of bread in his hand, saw that Shandan seemed to have a sad look on his face, and said, "Oh, isn't it just a few yuan?" Why not? You can eat and drink at ease, I will find a way, but I can't treat my son badly. ”

"What a waste of money! A little bit of stuff is a few dollars, why is it so expensive here? Shandan said angrily.

"It doesn't matter! How much can you eat? If you think that if you are hungry, our son is hungry, and we can't let him starve before he is born, right? Gu Haiping scratched Shandan's delicate little nose.

Shandan wrinkled his nose and wiped his stomach and said: "Then let's eat it well, this little guy is so well-behaved, he is good at tossing and turning along the way, obedient, and he doesn't move much." ”

"That's it! Don't you see whose son he is? How can you be our son without excellent genes? Gu Haiping's face was proud.

"Hehe, you! I haven't said you're fat, you're gasping? Shandan patted Gu Haiping and said.

After a day of rest, Shandan's physical condition improved a lot, and the two of them bought a stove to cook, the food in the canteen was too expensive, and the food cost of a meal for two people was more than a dozen yuan, and they were reluctant to buy big meat and vegetables, but the price of ordinary dishes and a few steamed buns was terrible.

The two went to a stall selling liquefied petroleum gas, bought a tank of liquefied gas, a single-head gas stove, and pots and pans, and began to survive in a foreign land.

The wage level of Yongcheng is low in the provinces and cities of the country, but the price level is among the top few, a pound of vegetables will cost a few dollars, Shandan is dumbfounded, although the hometown is not rich enough fruits and vegetables, but a pound of vegetables is only a few cents, and the vegetables in Hohwa are only a few cents and a dollar. The lettuce in Yongcheng was sold for 3 yuan a catty.

However, the way Southerners and Northerners do things is truly worlds apart.

When Shandan walked to the nearby vegetable market, he found that the vegetable market was not large, but it had a complete variety of varieties. Oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, all kinds of grains, vegetables, fruits, meat, daily groceries, etc., most of the people who buy vegetables are uncles and aunts, and the vegetable sellers shout loudly in the local dialect to solicit business, and Shandan does not understand at all.

Entering the vegetable market, she was shocked by the scene in front of her: every vendor who bought pork cut the pork into small pieces of meat, different parts at different prices, and even two taels were sold. Ducks and chickens are all cut open and sold, and all kinds of vegetables have been picked and cleaned.

It's not at all like the way of selling vegetables and meat in my hometown, the vegetables sold in my hometown will never be picked clean, and everyone will never buy vegetables for a pound and a half, most of them buy a few catties at a time. Pork and beef and mutton are all placed in a large piece, where to cut and where to come down, three catties, five catties, ten catties and eight catties to buy, where to buy half a catty and six taels? If you buy something like this in your hometown, the seller will already be anxious, and they will look down on the buyers who are calculating, and the people who pick and search. To be a man is to be bold and informal, and often over-weigh the money to give up the small, and never care about a few cents.

When Shandan walked to a vegetable stall, she saw things that looked like cucumbers and didn't look like cucumbers neatly stacked together, so she asked the stall owner, "What kind of melon is this?" ”

The stall owner, a middle-aged woman, struggled to answer in Mandarin: "Wang melon." ”

"King melon? Isn't this a cucumber? Shandan asked suspiciously.

"Four (is) king melons, two pieces and five pounds. Good seven (eat). The woman emphasized.

"Then I want a pound, how can I eat it? Can you stir-fry meat? Shandan asked.

"Gotcha! Get! The women quickly handed over the food to find money, and the movements were very skillful.

Then, Shandan came to the meat stall, and the stall owner asked, "Auntie, how much?" Where do you want it? ”

Shandan was a little surprised and thought: Where am I so old? To be an aunt to a man in his forties and fifties? She ignored him and walked briskly.

Coming to a stall of a seemingly capable but middle-aged woman, Shandan heard the same words before he could speak: "Auntie, what do you want, how much?" ”

"Hey, you people here are called aunties regardless of age? Or am I old enough to be your aunt? Puzzled, Shandan asked the real aunt who sold meat.

"Oh! Guliang (mother), you misunderstood, we call the young female silver (people) aunt, and the older ones grandma. You must not be the silver (person) here of us! It's okay, if you don't want the silver (people) family to call you. After the aunt who sold meat explained, Shandan thought it was very funny. It seems that the cultural level of the people here needs to be improved, what is the name of the aunt? How can it be used to address young women?

"Oh? So? I want half a pound of lean meat. Shandan couldn't help but laugh.

"Where's the lean meat? Tenderloin or plum head or tendon? The aunt who sold meat asked.

"Huh?" Shandan was stunned! I have eaten meat in my hometown for so many years, but I have never heard that meat can be divided into so many different types, where is the big pot stew in my hometown so carefully divided?

"I'm going to stir-fry, which one is better?" Shandan asked rhetorically.

"That's plum head meat, moderately fat and thin, tender, and delicious." The aunt who sold meat looked at the stunned Shandan and said.

Here, Shandan feels a sharp contrast between the roughness, atmosphere, and boldness of the northerners and the fineness, thoughtfulness, and intimacy of the southerners.