The summer in Sijiu City lasts from the end of May to the beginning of September, and as the weather gets hotter, there are fewer customers who perm their hair.

The morning was spent lazy and lazy. At lunchtime, Master Li took Tian Guo and his sister to a Sichuan restaurant in the alley on the street.

"Master, what's going on in your family, why do you invite us to dinner if you don't celebrate the New Year?" Tian Guo asked with a smile.

The senior sister also smiled: "The master won't be a salary increase, right?" ”

Master Li shook up the wet towel and dusted off the broken hair on his body, and said with a smile: "There is really a good thing at home, yesterday the head teacher of Mingyan called me and your teacher and wife to the school, explaining that the matter of sending Yan to the English Department of Peking University has been decided!" ”

Ming Yan is the second son of Master Li, who is eighteen years old this year and is in his third year of high school in the city.

"Really!" Tian Guo and Senior Sister hurriedly thanked the master.

It's not a weekend, there are few customers in the Xiaochuan restaurant, Xiao Er, who speaks Sichuan Mandarin, is sitting on the Mazha at the door and watching the customers coming from the north and south, seeing Tian Guo and them coming towards their own store, he quickly stood up and pushed the door open for them, "Hello, how many people?" ”

Tian Guo teased him: "You count, if the count is right, we will eat here." ”

The shopkeeper was stunned and asked with a smile: "Then what if the number is wrong?" ”

"Oh, don't be poor, you're starving!" The senior sister pushed Tian Guo into the store, turned her head and said to the shopkeeper familiarly: "Master, the three of us, first serve a pot of tea, and we brought our own chopsticks." ”

The price list of the restaurant is attached to the glass of the outlet.

Kung Pao chicken diced two pieces of five

1 piece of fish-flavored eggplant 2

2 pieces of shredded fish-flavored pork 1

A piece of diced spicy chicken for 8 ......

"Old Master Li, do you three eat rice stir-fry or rice noodles with soup?" The shopkeeper asked with a smile.

"We eat rice." Master Li said, and then urged Tian Guo and Senior Sister to hurry up and order. The senior sister glanced at the price list and asked, "This is all meat, why is Kung Pao Chicken so expensive?" ”

The shopkeeper said with a smile: "The green onions have risen, last year it cost eight cents a catty, and this year it has risen to one dime, or the wholesale price." ”

"Master, where do you go to wholesale vegetables?" Tian Guo asked casually.

The shopkeeper said: "Go anywhere, vegetable market, supply station, sometimes go to the farmer's house to buy directly, there are few places to wholesale vegetables in Sijiu City, there is only one in the west, close to Daxing, little master, if you go, if you go, I will tell you the address in a while." ”

"Okay, thank you."

The three of them ordered a plate of kung pao chicken, a plate of fish-flavored eggplant and a plate of mapo tofu, and three bowls of rice. During the meal, the senior sister asked curiously: "Xiaoguo'er, why do you want the address of wholesale vegetables?" ”

"Don't do anything, just ask." Tian Guo lowered his head and ate his meal, thinking in his heart how long it would take to ride a tricycle from home to Daxing. The salary in the barber shop is too small, and she plans to try a side hustle, thinking that as long as it is not windy and rainy, it is a good job to sell vegetables and fruits in the streets.

Summer is coming, vegetables are cheap and easy to sell, the only drawback is that they are easy to rot.

Rice has to use food stamps, and if you don't have food stamps, you have to add money, and the three of them spent a total of 6.8 plus half a catty of food stamps for a meal. Master Li is old, after eating, the habit is to pick his teeth, the three of them bask in the bright sun and go back, the senior sister eats quickly, walks two steps and burps, Tian Guo also eats a little panic, stays in the countryside for half a month and eats Wowotou every day, suddenly eats more meat, and the stomach begins to reflux.

When he was about to walk to the door of the store, Tian Guo saw a familiar figure.

"Tadpoles?"

The tadpole came by bicycle, and when I saw her, she waved her hand violently, as if she was in a hurry, "Tian Guo, come here!" ”

"What are you doing?"

The tadpole grabbed her arm, "Hurry up and follow me home, something happened to your family!" ”

His expression was terrifying, which scared Tian Guo to the core, and "something happened at home" was like a basin of cold water that instantly extinguished the lazy feeling born after the meal. Tian Guo instinctively wondered if his grandmother had been sent to the hospital for a sudden emergency, held the handlebar with one hand to stabilize his body, and asked the tadpole in a trembling voice: "Is it my grandma?" ”

The tadpole waved his hand, "Oh, no, no, your grandmother's body is stronger than mine, and she can live to see the demise of the United States/Emperor/Lord/Righteousness!" It's "The tadpole looked around with his small eyes, and when he saw that no one was paying attention here, he pulled Tian Guo's sleeve and walked to a hidden shady place, and said with a stern expression: "Let me ask you, did you give Ya Dan a few oil tickets this morning?" ”

"That's her family, I'll put it here first." Tian Guo told Tadpole all the causes and consequences, "What's the matter, there is a problem with the oil ticket?" As soon as he heard this, Tian Guo felt at ease, thinking to himself what could be the problem with the fuel ticket? Even if there is a problem, it has nothing to do with me. Whoever prints it will go to whom, if it really doesn't work, go to Aunt Wang of the neighborhood committee.

"The oil ticket is fine, but there is a problem with the quantity, and the sesame oil ticket is gone!"

Tian Guo finally understood why the tadpole came to her in a hurry, and the bill only passed through the hands of her, Aunt Wang, and Yadan. When Aunt Wang gave it to her yesterday, she counted it, and the votes were right. Ay! Tian Guo scratched her head, knowing that the problem must be her and Yadan, either the bill was already wrong when it was given, or Yadan lied. Tian Guo breathed quickly and understood the weight of a sesame oil ticket in the eighties!

MD！ I was in a hurry to go out this morning, mainly because I didn't think about it, and I should let the girl count the right thing before leaving.

The tadpole said: "Tian Guo, let me ask you, did you take the sesame oil ticket?" ”

Tian Guoqi thought to himself that his aunt and grandmother were like people who had never eaten sesame oil? A palm flashed over, but it fell halfway through. Since the tadpole came to her, it means that the tadpole is facing her from the heart. "Tadpole, believe me or not, but I swear to God, I didn't take this sesame oil ticket."

The tadpole pulled down Tian Guo's raised hand in the sky, and said anxiously: "I believe it or not, you have to make the Yadan family believe that you didn't take it, and you don't know the mouth of the Yadan mother, one mouth tops our hundred mouths, the black can be said to be white, and now she is standing at the door of your house and scolding, I came here to take you home quickly, if you don't take it, just sue her directly!" Don't let her swear all over the yard like a shrew! ”

In fact, tadpoles knew early on that the sesame oil ticket was not taken by Tian Guo, although she was a little confused, in fact, her heart was not bad, if she said that she was stealing, she was also taking her own things, and other people's things would not be able to enter her high eyes at all. He once experimented with Xu Qiang, the Yangtze River, and a few other half-sized children in the alley, and threw a dollar at the mouth of the alley thinking that Tian Guo would take it, but Tian Guo only looked down, smiled coldly, stepped on the soles of his shoes and rubbed them, and then strode away.

The coin belonged to Xu Qiang, and when he picked it up, he found that there were a few dull yellow traces on the money that looked like "". It was in the mid-seventies, and a dollar belonged to the "big ticket", which Xu Qiang secretly took out from the drawer of the big wardrobe while his mother was out. Rubbing the dirty dollar against the wall, Xu Qiang said angrily: "Yami Tianguo is fighting with someone again and letting the other party push into the pit, MD!" Where did you step on this! ”

Tian Guo didn't take the sesame oil ticket, so she was naturally frank and open-minded, and she was not afraid of making trouble at the police station. I didn't want to go back, I felt that I would give my maid's mother a long face when I went back, but when I thought about it, I always had to make things clear, and the key was that I was afraid that my grandmother would be wronged, so I hurriedly asked the store for half a day off.

Tian Guo didn't say the reason for the leave, and Dong Guihua didn't ask, took a sip of dried jujube sweet water, took out the leader's posture and cared: "Oh, something happened at home, it's not strict, then go back quickly." I won't deduct this half-day's salary first, just make up for the overtime work on the next day. ”

When he walked out of the store, Tian Guo felt that he was really unlucky, he had just appeased one here, and another one over there, could it be that the purpose of my rebirth was to fight wits and courage with all kinds of menopausal women?

-- That's a lofty purpose!

"Tian Guo!"

As soon as he got on the back seat of the tadpole bicycle, Zhang Yang ran out of the barber shop, and near noon, a female customer with perm hair came to the store, who was received by Master Zhang Yang.

Zhang Yang had just finished eating and was brushing the lunch box, when he heard Tian Guo and Dong Guihua asking for leave, he hurriedly ran out to ask what happened to Tian Guo's family.

"Leave it alone!" Tian Guo didn't have time to explain to him, patted the tadpole on the back, and motioned for him to ride away quickly.

When her figure disappeared at the end of the street, Zhang Yang stomped his feet and turned around and ran back to the store, Malier took off his work clothes, the master was still eating, and saw that he was in a hurry, and hurriedly asked: "Xiao Zhang, what are you doing?" ”

Zhang Yang only then remembered to ask the master for leave, "Master Wang, I'm sorry, something happened at my house temporarily, I have to go back quickly, and I'll be back in a while, you eat slowly." With that, he ran out of the changing room. Master Wang thought to himself, what will I eat when you leave, when I finish eating this box of dishes, the customer's head should be baked. Ay! The children who have someone behind them just don't work hard.

The tadpole took Tian Guo all the way, and when he stopped at the gate of the courtyard, he heard the girl shouting at the door of the closed courtyard: "A capitalist is a capitalist, and he knows that he exploits us people all day long, and he doesn't admit it even if he steals the oil ticket, you think I'm afraid of you when you're old, sue you, hurry up and let your three-handed granddaughter go home, I want to confront her face to face!" ”

She was very loud, and there were already a bunch of people at the gate of the courtyard, some of whom lived in this alley, and some who came from other alleys.

Seeing Tian Guo, Yang Xiaohong leaned on an old locust tree with lush branches and leaves, and hummed like a drama while snorting melon seeds: "Oops, oops, the stealer is back, everyone has a good show to watch."

Tian Guo's face was awe-inspiring, and he pushed open the courtyard door with one hand. The sesame oil ticket is lost, someone has to come out to apologize, Tian Guo knows that the maid's mother will never let herself go lightly, and crying loudly to attract the attention of the neighbors is the first step, and the second step is to fire at her with all her might.

In fact, Tian Guo was not completely guilty in her heart, after all, there was a problem with the sesame oil ticket in her hand. Yadan is not like a person who can lie, so it must be that when he sent it out this morning, the sesame oil ticket was gone. But why not? Yesterday it was just her and her grandmother at home