18. Upper county seat

As soon as the winter vacation is over, the Spring Festival is approaching, Lin Xiujuan and Li Tianxue finally arranged their own things, and prepared to go to the county seat before the New Year. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info This time, Li Manman was going to follow, so the night before, Li Manman waited for everyone to fall asleep and went to the space again.

The light in the space is much brighter than it seems, Li Manman counted the number of watermelons, she was going to the county to find an opportunity to sell the watermelons, as for tomatoes, cucumbers, eggplants, if they can be sold, they can be sold, and if they can't be sold, they will be mixed in the dishes at home and eaten. As for flowers, Li Manman wants to see if there is a flower market in the county, and it will be better to sell them there, if they are sold on the street, it is too conspicuous and easy to provoke!

After calculating it, he picked a handful of sweet eggplants, ate them, took a hot spring bath, and Li Manman slept contentedly.

The next day, Li Tianxue and his wife got up early in the morning, got Li Manman's sister and brother up, and then entrusted Taotao to Grandma Li, Taotao was unwilling to live or die, and pulled Lin Xiujuan to cry, crying and muttering with a small mouth: "I'm going too, you don't take me there, you are bad people, Taotao is so pitiful, no one hurts!" ”

Li Manman combed his hair, listening to his brother's crying without tears, he felt funny, but Lin Xiujuan was very distressed, and coaxed Taotao in a good voice: "Taotao is good!" It's a good son for mom! Mom loves my good baby! But Mom is going to buy things for the New Year today, so that Taotao can have delicious food during the New Year! Taotao is still young, the county is far away, Taotao can't go, wait for your parents to come back and bring you delicious food, okay? ”

"Then why is my sister going? My sister is also a child! Taotao protested dissatisfied.

"Your sister is older than you, she can help her mother carry things, and her mother took her to work!" Lin Xiujuan said like a landlord's wife, and Li Manman made her face bitter at the right time.

"She's disobedient, Mom, don't give her something delicious!" Taotao is worried that her sister can go to the county seat with her parents, and she is upset and complains to Li Manman.

"Okay, my sister is disobedient, so I won't buy her delicious food, and I'll give it to Taotao to eat!" Lin Xiujuan hurriedly followed her son's words and said, "Then, Taotao is an obedient child, following her grandmother at home and obediently waiting for her parents to come back, okay?" ”

Taotao's eyes were red and she nodded: "Okay, mom came back to buy delicious food for Taotao!" ”

"Go ahead! It's late, it's crowded! Grandma Li said impatiently to her daughter-in-law, and took Taotao's hand into her house, "Taotao, come in, grandma has delicious food here, last time your sister-in-law came to bring chicken cakes to grandma, do you want to eat it?" ”

"Eat!" Taotao, a snack item, was quickly attracted by grandma's chicken cake.

Li Tianxue was riding a bicycle, Li Manman was sitting on the big bar in front, and Lin Xiujuan was on the seat in the back. When he was a child, whenever Li Manman rode a bicycle, he sat in front of him, leaning on his father's arms.

Up nearly two hours, only to the county seat, Taihuang County is very small, leaning on the Huai River, another north and south street, the most prosperous, the north of the county is the school, Taihuang No. 1 Middle School, Taihuang No. 2 Middle School, of which Taihuang No. 1 Middle School is Li Manman's alma mater, is the key middle school of Huaidong City, the annual promotion rate is very high, but later because of the education policy of Huaidong City, went downhill, at that time the entire Huaidong City college entrance examination results in the province are firmly ranked first, until Li Manman retires, there is no improvement.

Every time I think of the full and energetic three years spent in No. 1 Middle School, Li Manman feels happy in his heart. So starting over, she still plans to go to No. 1 Middle School to spend her middle school career.

The middle section of the county seat is the seat of the county party committee and the county government, where there are guest houses, large theaters, Xinhua bookstores, relatively high-end restaurants, the southern end of the county, is the location of the department store, close to the department store is a big vegetable market, there are more handicraftsmen living here, the century-old shop that made kitchen knives in later generations is here, but Li Manman is familiar with the big market that was built later in the northern section, when he went to school, he would go to the big market with his good friends to buy something missing, it was simply a treasure trove.

Li Tianxue parked his bicycle at the door of a breakfast shop, took his wife and daughter to occupy a seat, and asked for three bowls of soup, which is a special breakfast in Taihuang, with boiled chicken soup, eggs, wheat kernels, seaweed, black fungus, fragrant and fragrant, and another basket of steamed buns, three bowls of soup were quickly served, Li Manman hurriedly took a sip, the cold wind along the way almost blew her through, and she felt that her face was frozen, but the soup was too hot, and Li Manman was scalded straight up.

"Open your mouth and take a few breaths of cold air!" Lin Xiujuan saw her daughter being burned, and she was distressed, "The soup is boiled soup, and it needs to cool for a while before you can drink it!" ”

Li Tianxue poured a glass of cold water and handed it to Li Manman: "Rinse your mouth!" Pop in your mouth for a while! ”

Li Manman's face was red, he took the cold water, and scolded himself in his heart for being half dead, a person who has lived two lifetimes, since he was scalded by the soup, he really lived to the stomach of a dog.

After the three of them finished eating, they walked along the north and south streets to the big vegetable market, Li Manman did not speak, observing Taihuang County in the past eight years, there are several shops selling clothes on both sides of the street, there are jeans, it should be imported from the south, the color is still not bright enough, many big girls and little daughters-in-law on the street are tied with a scarf, mostly red. There is an image store with Teresa Teng's sweet honey and soft voice, which permeates the crowd.

"Dad, I want to go to Xinhua Bookstore!" Li Manman said to Li Tian.

"You open a bookstore, it's best to use used books, close to the dam and the flower and bird market, there are a lot of used book stalls, why don't I take you to see it?" Li Tianxue suggested.

Li Manman was overjoyed, his father simply sent a pillow to the sleepy person, and nodded immediately.

Li Tianxue said to his wife: "Let's go to the flower and bird market first!" I'll go to the market later! Lin Xiujuan glared impatiently at her troubled daughter and nodded.

The flower and bird market is located in front of the Huai River Dam to the east of the county government, where there are two rows of simple sheds, and there are not many people, most of them are elderly people strolling around one stall after another to kill time.

Li Manman looked at it, but felt very good, what she was most afraid of was the kind of crowded liveliness, Li Tianxue took her daughter to visit two bookstalls and picked out two sets of books, Lin Xiujuan was very anxious next to her, seeing that the time was almost noon, she said to Li Tianxue: "Hurry up, otherwise you won't be able to buy good things!" ”

Li Manman's heart moved, and he said to Li Tianxue: "Dad, you go to the vegetable market with your mother first!" I'll be waiting for you here, and you'll never run around! Li Tianxue looked at his watch, then at his anxious wife, and said to his daughter uneasily: "You just pick up books here, don't run around, and come to you when we buy good things!" ”

"No, Da Hong must be with us, let her be here alone, what if she loses it?" Lin Xiujuan objected, thinking that it was whimsical for her husband to allow her daughter to stay alone in the flower and bird market.

"Mom, I must not run around, you go to buy New Year's goods, I pick books, don't delay, you see how good! I'm eight years old! Li Manman tried to convince Lin Xiujuan.

"But you've never been out alone, what if something goes wrong?" Lin Xiujuan was really not at ease.

"Everything has a first time, Mom, don't worry, I don't talk to others, I don't go with people I don't know, okay!" Li Manman fought for his rights.

"Okay, just let him be here, why don't we come over quickly!" Li Tianxue is a man, his heart is relatively big, and he has an inexplicable confidence in his daughter.

"Alright! Dahong, you must be well-behaved, don't talk to people casually, and don't eat what others give! Lin Xiujuan instructed uneasily.

"Got it, don't worry!" Li Manman can't wait for her parents to leave, she can do her own thing.

Watching his parents leave step by step, Li Man quickly ran to a hidden place, picked ten watermelons and put them in the basket that was smuggled in, dragged them to the gate of the flower market, and picked a basket of tomatoes, cucumbers and eggplants.

Standing in a sheltered place, Li Manman looked at the people coming and going, he couldn't open his mouth, and went to sell, so he had to wait for the first person to find out.