CHAPTER XVI
Back at the stall, Grandpa Yu didn't let Yu Xiling stay to help, urging her to hurry up to buy New Year's goods, the family was busy making tofu and writing Spring Festival couplets, and there was no time to buy New Year's goods.
"I'll go with you." Wei Dare was idle and volunteered to help. "You little girl will definitely not be able to lift it, I am very strong."
Qiao Zhiliang has to stay at home in the afternoon to entertain guests, and his aunt has to go to work in the afternoon, even if he doesn't go to work, he is not happy to follow her, it's too boring, it's either shopping or rubbing mahjong, it's better to follow Yu Xiling.
Although this girl hates him very much.
But Wei Dang didn't know what was wrong with him, so he wanted to follow her, and he was in a very good mood to see her holding her breath.
Grandpa Yu watched from the side, Yu Xiling was really unable to say a word, so he had to acquiesce with a dry smile and silently lead the way.
New Year's goods, mainly melon seeds, peanuts and candies, persimmons, as well as the necessary firecrackers and incense candles, these things can be bought directly in the vegetable market, cheap and sufficient, but the packaging is not as good as a department store.
The market is almost crowded, every stall is crowded with people, everywhere is full of holiday greetings, and the sound of bargaining, and the smell of New Year's is almost in the air.
Yu Xiling's mood was a little depressed because of Wei Kang, and it became clear in an instant, she hadn't felt such a strong New Year's flavor for many years, and it was good to be able to relive her childhood memories.
It's just that it's a little difficult to buy things, so Yu Xiling saved up her strength and went to the fried food stall first. This fried food stall has been in the county market for many years, and until Yu Xiling passed away, he still sticks to the small county, from the stall to the store, although the store is getting bigger and bigger, but the taste is always the most positive and the most sufficient.
The fried food stall is full of people who call the New Year's goods, a thick layer of melon seed shells under the stall, the boss wears a single coat and guards the big iron pot to fry melon seeds and peanuts, the proprietress also vigorously let the onlookers twist a handful to try the taste, Yu Xiling stepped forward to take a few and tasted it, the melon seeds are just right, hot with a firewood fragrance, and the flesh is full and the particles are large.
"Boss, ten catties of raw melon seeds and peanuts." Although fried melon seeds are delicious, but expensive, cooked melon seeds are seven or eight cents a catty, raw melon seeds are only four cents and six, buy ten catties and fry them at home, the same delicious and cheap.
Wei Dang also followed alongside, watching Yu Xiling bargain with the proprietress, and when she saw her carefully eating the proprietress with her right ear on the side, the action of knocking melon seeds paused.
"Help me mention it." brought him to buy New Year's goods, and Yu Xiling, a ready-made laborer, naturally wouldn't let it go, her small body really couldn't lift such a heavy thing.
The thing was handed over, Yu Xiling glanced at the melon seed shell under his feet, the corners of his mouth twitched, turned his head and weighed two catties of fried melon seeds in pain, this guy ate so much quietly, she was embarrassed not to buy some.
After thinking about it, he stuffed the peanuts he was going to carry and stuffed them to Wei Kang.
Wei Kang, who was full of hands, "......"
There are also fresh water chestnuts sold in the market, all of which are planted by the old farmers at home, with mud for one cent and eighty-one pounds, and two hairs for washing, no need to think about the nature of picking with mud, cheap and can be put for a long time.
Wei Dang also likes to eat water chestnuts, he watched Yu Xiling eat a lot of tender and crispy water, looked at his hands full of things, and hurriedly squeezed Yu Xiling, "Xiling'er, pick a big one for Brother Dare to try." ”
Yu Xiling looked at the way he looked at his eyes, picked a big one, scraped off the brown skin and top bud on it, and rubbed it clean, and didn't want to stuff it directly into his mouth.
Wei Kang, "......"
So why did he volunteer to be a coolie, can't he do the New Year's goods himself!
About fifty meters behind the two, through the surging flow of people, Ye Nuannuan's hands were clenched together, his nails digging deep into the flesh, and his eyes instantly turned red.
Wei Dang went back to Qingyuan, why didn't he go to his grandfather's house to play with her? Why did he know Yu Xiling, a stinky girl? Why did he smile so sweetly at her?
"Xi Ling'er, you're the best, give Brother Dare one, just one." Looking at the fresh water chestnuts with thin eyelids and crispy meat, Wei dared to coquettish Yu Xiling, he was the only child in the family, but he was the youngest among the cousins.
Although it was a little embarrassing to be coquettish at a little girl, Yu Xiling paid the money to get the goods, and she had to leave if she didn't open her mouth.
Yu Xiling rubbed his arms, only to feel a chill, as soon as he saw Wei Kang, he grinned at her with big white teeth, looking like a child who had not grown up, and a child was calculating, was his stomach too small?
"Call your name well." Wei Dare speaks in a Beijing accent, and it is okay to speak normally, but she always feels weird when she calls her name.
"Xi Ling, Yu Xi Ling." Wei Dang laughed twice, and immediately changed his words obediently, "Can you trouble me with one?" ”
Yu Xiling lifted the bamboo basket she brought and asked Wei Dare to take it herself, and Wei Dang showed the fried goods he was holding in both hands, indicating that he was powerless, and this was all stuffed to him by her.
"......" Yu Xiling.
Directly took half of the things from Wei Dang's hand and put them on the ground, Yu Xiling nodded his chin at the basket in his hand, Wei Dang pouted, it was really not cute at all.
Yu Xiling was about to accept it, Wei dared not dare to slander again, so he quickly picked two of them, cleaned them up and stuffed his mouth, and took the things in Yu Xiling's hand.
Why is such a big little girl so hard-tempered?
The crispy and sweet juice burst in his mouth, and Wei Dang followed Yu Xiling with satisfaction, squeezing around the crowd, and resigned himself to carrying something for her.
Yu Xiling didn't buy many things, they were all needed at home, and she bought a little more melon seeds and peanuts for the New Year, which was for entertaining guests in the New Year.
"Why do you buy so few cookies for other things?" Whether Wei Dang is at home or at his grandfather's house, when there is never a shortage of New Year's goods, he feels that Yu Xiling does not buy things regularly, and the amount is still very small.
There are citrus and apples sold in the market, but Yu Xiling didn't buy them, the only thing that can be regarded as a fruit is water chestnuts, the cheapest fruit candy bought by candy, and only weighed two catties, and then bought eight catties of biscuits in the candy shop, a whole big bag.
It's understandable to buy more melon seeds and peanuts, but how many cookies are bought for rice?
"We have a custom here that on the evening of the Chinese New Year's Eve and the morning of the first day of the new year, many children will come to the house to send congratulations, and cookies are prepared for them." Yu Xiling squeezed in front of her, explaining to him, not noticing that Wei Dare was speaking to her right.
Wei Dang's eyes lit up, he had heard his father talk about this custom in the countryside, and he heard that his father went cheekily with the children when he went to the countryside to cut the queue, which was very interesting to listen to.
I was a little nervous in my heart, but I also knew that Yu Xiling would definitely not be able to take him, she was talking about children, he was so old, if he really followed, he would be quite ashamed.
Suppressing the thoughts in his heart and not mentioning them, Wei Dang followed Yu Xiling to buy all the things with great difficulty, and then squeezed out of the crowded market.
"It's finally out." Wei Dare sighed, this time squeezed down, he choked hot enough, and sweated all over.
Yu Xiling was not easy, her hair was messed up, this was the result of Wei Dang protecting her openly and secretly.
There are really too many people crowded on the meat stall, Yu Xiling rushed in, and only cut two catties of meat and one catty of ribs, but fortunately, the bacon at home was prepared early this year, and these were enough.
"Let's go, let's go and put things away." Yu Xiling also had a lot of things in his hands, but the heavy ones were all in Wei Kang's place, and seeing that he was not struggling at all, Yu Xiling did not grab it with him.
As soon as he walked for a while, Ye Nuannuan rushed out of the roadside with tears on his face, and looked at Wei Kang with an accusatory face, his eyes full of grievances.
Wei Dang's scalp was numb, and he subconsciously stood behind Yu Xiling.
"......" Yu Xiling.
Ye Nuannuan wanted to rush forward to question when she saw these two people, but in a blink of an eye, these two people disappeared, she turned around the market twice and couldn't find anyone, she was afraid that she would leave if she looked for someone again, and she didn't buy New Year's goods and hurried out of the market to wait.
I'm not going to catch them.
"Ye Nuannuan!" Qiao Zhiliang's face was dark, and the anxiety in his eyes had not completely faded.
He and Ye Nuannuan took the task to buy some fresh vegetables and meat in the market, but when he picked apples, Ye Nuannuan disappeared in a blink of an eye, and there was no incident in the county where half of the girl was abducted, Qiao Zhiliang instantly broke out in a cold sweat.
When Ye Nuannuan was looking for someone around the market, Qiao Zhiliang was also looking for her, and he was anxious and blamed himself for not mentioning it, this would see that Ye Nuannuan was blocking Wei Dare and didn't understand anything, and he was even more angry and wanted to pump her.
"Brother Wei~" Ye Nuannuan was wearing a brand-new navy blue overalls cotton clothes and cotton pants, with a red scarf tied around her neck, her facial features looked like Ye Tingfang, a little bland, but she was very delicate, especially now that she was wronged, I felt pity.
Yu Xiling felt that the goosebumps on her body no longer needed to be rubbed, and she had already trembled.
"Wei Kang, I'll leave you with my things for a while, and I'll come and get them later." Yu Xiling really didn't want to see their brothers and sisters complaining, for fear of nausea, so she hurriedly slipped away and left.
Eh, this little girl actually called his name directly, didn't she let her call her brother!
Wei Dang stared at Yu Xiling and ran away, his throat was panicked, he had no conscience, he worked hard to be a coolie for her, how could he run faster than a rabbit when he touched something.
"Brother Wei!" Ye Nuannuan secretly hated in her heart, what was so good about Yu Xiling's stinky girl, Wei Dare didn't look at her! Ye Nuannuan was extremely aggrieved in her heart, and stepped forward to pull Wei Kang's sleeve, "Brother Wei, when are you going back to Qingyuan, why don't you go to see me, I thought you really wouldn't come this year." ”
Even Yu Xiling has a little eyesight, and she knows to leave quickly, otherwise it will be up to her to sue Yu's father!
Wei Dang's scalp was numb, he couldn't stand Ye Nuannuan's pestering last year, and lied to her that he wouldn't return to Qingyuan for the New Year, and he deliberately hid it from her when he came back this time, thinking that at most he would meet him when he went to Qiao's house for New Year's greetings in the third year of junior high school, anyway, he had to go back to Beijing in the sixth year of junior high school, but he didn't expect to be caught by her.
"Ah Liang." Wei Dare squeezed Qiao Zhiliang and asked him for help.
Qiao Zhiliang will have nowhere to get angry, where will he pay attention to him, he took Yu Xiling's New Year's goods from him in the past, "If you cause trouble, solve it yourself!" ”
Seeing his friends leave without looking back like Yu Xiling, Wei Dang was in unprecedented despair, one by one, without conscience!
After Yu Xiling put things down, he turned around and wanted to pick up Wei Dang's hand, and met Qiao Zhiliang coming over with a big bag.
Qiao Zhiliang is not like Wei Kang, he struggled to lift too many things, a layer of sweat broke out on his forehead, and his arms were already trembling slightly, Yu Xiling hurriedly stepped forward to pick it up, but he avoided it, "It's not heavy, you lead the way." ”
Fortunately, it was not far from the stall, and Yu Xiling couldn't resist him, so he could only follow worriedly beside him.
Second Uncle Yu just finished looking for a guest's money, seeing this, he hurriedly stepped forward, and handed over the things to Second Uncle Yu, Qiao Zhiliang breathed a sigh of relief, he saw that Wei Dare was very relaxed, but he didn't expect it to be so heavy.