Chapter Twenty-Three: Something Happened to the Couplet
Pu Jia helped Dong Zhanyang put things away, it was already past lunch, and they hadn't eaten yet, they hadn't felt hungry when they had been busy before, but now they felt very hungry after they were busy.
"Pu Jia, are you hungry?" Dong Zhanyang asked.
"It's a little, it's past dinner now."
"So what are we going to eat? Is there still a way to get to the New Year's Festival Square? If you don't eat, you don't have the strength to walk. Dong Zhanyang doesn't usually like to eat snacks, so there are no snacks at home.
"Why don't you go to the square first, and we'll talk about it there." Pu Jia thought: I don't know if my mother has eaten there alone.
"Let's eat some before we go!" Dong Zhanyang knew that Pu Jia was actually very hungry, but he was embarrassed to say. "By the way, don't you know how to cook? I have ingredients at home, you can make some and we'll eat some first. Dong Zhanyang remembered that Pu Jia said that she could cook.
"Ah, what I made is not as delicious as what my aunt made." Pu Jia was a little embarrassed, Aunt Huang's cooking was so delicious, how dare she do it in front of Dong Zhanyang? What if he doesn't like it? And it's still in someone else's house.
"It's okay, I'm sure your cooking must be delicious. I'm not a picky eater. Dong Zhanyang knew that Pu Jia was embarrassed, such a shy girl.
"Alright then!" Pu Jia can only bite the bullet now, and it's not that he can't do it.
Pu Jia found a handful of noodles in the kitchen, took out two eggs and two tomatoes from the refrigerator, turned on the fire, and first scrambled the tomatoes and eggs and put them on a plate. Add water to the pot again, boil the water and lower the noodles, as well as the scrambled tomatoes and eggs, and season them. Take out two bowls and serve separately. Pu Jia used a big bowl for Dong Zhanyang and a small bowl for himself.
While Pu Jia was cooking, Dong Zhanyang kept standing at the kitchen door watching. He had only seen his mother cook, and he had never seen any other girl cook. Now watching Pu Jia cooking, Dong Zhanyang thinks that this girl is surprising herself all the time, and she has never thought that she can be so attractive when she cooks alone.
"Zhan Yang, it's done!" Pu Jia turned around and saw Dong Zhanyang standing at the door, so he said.
As soon as Pu Jia spoke, Dong Zhanyang came back to his senses, how could he be in a daze at any time: "Oh, you sit, I'll just bring it over." Dong Zhanyang hurriedly went over to bring the tomato and egg noodles made by Pujia. Pu Jia also came out with a small bowl.
"Why is your bowl so small? Eat this bowl! Dong Zhanyang saw that Pu Jia's bowl was so small, but his own was so big, and he was afraid that Pu Jia would not have enough to eat.
"I eat less, you boys should eat more!" Pu Jia said.
"I can't finish eating so much, I haven't eaten yet." Saying that, Dong Zhanyang stood up and prepared to distribute the noodles to Pu Jia.
"I really don't need to, I have enough to eat." Pu Jia saw that Dong Zhanyang was going to give him his noodles, so he hurriedly protected the bowl with his hand, like a child who protects food.
Dong Zhanyang looked at Pu Jia like this and laughed: "Okay, I don't have to divide it, you don't have to hold the bowl so tightly, don't stick the soup to your clothes." β
Hearing Dong Zhanyang say this, Pu Jia realized that his movements were very naΓ―ve, his face flushed, and he quickly withdrew the arm holding the bowl, lowered his head and ate noodles.
Dong Zhanyang is no longer giving noodles to Pujia, and sits down to eat noodles.
"The noodles you made are delicious." Dong Zhanyang took a bite, the noodles were very strong, with the sour taste of tomatoes was very appetizing, and the current weather was a bowl of hot noodle soup, warm from the inside out. Dong Zhanyang's mother's cooking is delicious, and he himself is not a picky eater, but after eating a simple bowl of tomato and egg noodles made by Pu Jia, Dong Zhanyang actually felt that there was nothing more delicious than this, and this bowl of tomato and egg noodles made Dong Zhanyang never forget it for the rest of his life. Even if the two are separated in the future, Dong Zhanyang can always think of today's bowl of noodles when he thinks of Pu Jia, and the first time he ate tomato and egg noodles made for himself by a girl.
"Just make fun of me, Aunt Huang's cooking is so delicious, I'm far worse than Aunt Huang." Pu Jia only thought that Dong Zhanyang would compliment himself again.
"Seriously, my mom's cooking is delicious, but your cooking is also delicious." Dong Zhanyang said while eating, and soon a large bowl of noodles was finished.
The first time Pu Jia cooked for others, she heard Dong Zhanyang praise her like this, and Pu Jia was also very happy that Dong Zhanyang liked to make it herself.
After the two of them ate, Pu Jia was about to wash the bowl, Dong Zhanyang hurriedly took it from Pu Jia's hand: "You just sit down, how can I let you wash the dishes." My mom often asks me to wash the dishes. β
Soon Dong Zhanyang washed the two bowls and pots, and the two of them went directly to the stall of last year's festival.
When it came to the New Year's Festival, Pu Jia and Dong Zhanyang separated and went to their own stalls.
"Yang Yang is here, the things are bought? Have you eaten? Huang Wen saw Pu Jia also return to her house for couplets
Spread out.
"Eaten, eaten at home. I took everything home," Dong Zhanyang said, and sat down casually.
"Eat at home?
There are no snacks at home, what do you eat? Huang Wen knew that her son couldn't cook.
"Noodles made by Pu Jia." Dong Zhanyang replied simply.
"Pujia did it for you? In our house? Huang Wen said in surprise when she heard this.
"Hmm."
"Okay, you stinky boy can't go hungry." Huang Wen said with a smile.
"You admit to your daughter's business, I told Pu Jia, Pu Jia said that she wanted to ask her mother, you can ask her mother yourself when you have time, I think Pu Jia may be scolded if he asks." Dong Zhanyang changed the subject.
"Well, I should ask her mother about this first, I didn't think about it." Huang Wen wanted to have time to talk to Sister Hua herself.
Pu Jia walked to the couplet stall, and Jiang Yuehua asked, "Have you bought the things?" β
"I've bought it, I've sent it home!"
Jiang Yuehua didn't ask how to send it back, and Pu Jia naturally didn't say anything.
"Have you eaten?"
"I ate before I came, did you eat it?" Pu Jia thinks that her mother will not be busy here alone, and she has not eaten any meals.
"I ate it too, and your Aunt Huang sent it just now." At noon, Huang Wen saw that Sister Hua was here, so she sent it to Jiang Yuehua.
"I'll take out a few couplets, you go and send them to your Aunt Huang, you can't always eat other people's for nothing." Jiang Yuehua gave a few couplets to Pu Jia.
"Okay." Pu Jia took it and went to the food stall opposite.
"Jiajia is here." Before Pu Jia arrived, Huang Wen saw it.
"Aunt Huang, my mother asked me to send you a few couplets!"
"Look at what your mother is doing so politely, Yangyang, hurry up." Huang Wen knew that Sister Hua was embarrassed to eat her own food for nothing.
Dong Zhanyang took the couplet in Pu Jia's hand and smiled at Pu Jia, as if he had seen an old friend for many years. If Pu Junli saw Dong Zhanyang's smile at this time, it was estimated that she would be addicted, but it was a pity that Dong Zhanyang's attitude towards Pu Junli had always been cold. After getting along in the morning, the friendship between Dong Zhanyang and Pu Jia went further.
"Aunt Huang, I'll go back first, my mother can't be busy alone." Pu Jia sent the couplet, and it was not good to stay here for long.
"Hey, okay, tell Aunt Huang what you want to eat in the future, and Aunt Huang will make it for you." Huang Wen looked at Pu Jia and became more and more satisfied.
"Well, I know, Aunt Huang!" Pu Jia turned around and went back.
In the evening, a difficult person came to the couplet stall.
"What do you see here? As soon as I got home, I took out one of the piggy's ears. A middle-aged man said angrily. He bought a golden pig at Jiang Yuehua's couplet stall in the morning, and when he got home, he found that the golden pig had lost one of his ears, and now he came to Jiang Yuehua and wanted to change it.
"Sir, it was still good when you bought it this morning, you watched it when I installed it for you, and now you came over and said that the golden pig lost one of its ears, so you can't blame us!" Jiang Yuehua said as loudly as she could, after all, she was in business, and it was normal to encounter this kind of thing, and it was best to calm things down.
"What do you mean by that, you mean I got rid of the pig's ears and came to slander you?" The man shouted directly, and his shouting attracted a lot of people.
"Sir, don't be angry, I didn't mean that, I mean if you fell on the road, you don't know." Jiang Yuehua looked at the people around him, afraid that he would make such a fuss and affect his business.
The middle-aged man looked at the people around him, and then looked at Jiang Yuehua, who was obviously afraid that he would make a big deal out of it, and became even more proud, and deliberately said loudly: "How can I not be angry, the quality of your things is too poor, you have to compensate me." β
With such a big movement here, the food stall opposite naturally heard it, "Yangyang, what do you see over there?" β
Dong Zhanyang was also paying attention to the couplet stall, "It should be that person who bought the aunt's things when he came home and found that they were broken, and he came over to compensate for them." β
"Xu Xu, you look here, Yang Yang, let's go over and have a look!" Huang Wen already treats Pu's mother as a good sister, how can she watch her sisters being bullied?
Even if Huang Wen didn't say it, Dong Zhanyang planned to go over, and as soon as he heard his mother, they went to the couplet stall together.
"This gentleman, you are deliberately looking for trouble, you picked it yourself when you bought it, and you also looked at it when you installed it, and when you came home, it was broken, and you came over to ask me for compensation, who knows if you broke it yourself and wanted to slander people." Jiang Yuehua saw that this man was deliberately looking for trouble, and she couldn't bear it anymore.
"Look at this stall, how does this boss speak?" The man said loudly to the onlookers.
"I said why are you like this, a woman and a little girl are doing business here, and you are a big man who deliberately came to find trouble, how embarrassed are you!" When Huang Wen came here, she heard what the man said, and couldn't help but say.
Dong Zhanyang walked up to Pu Jia and asked with concern, "Are you okay?" β
"It's okay, it's just that this person is deliberately looking for trouble." Pu Jia said gratefully.
"Uncle, if you want to say that it is a problem with the quality of the things they sell, why don't you see others saying that the quality is not good, just see yourself." Dong Zhanyang also said.
"That's right, all the ornaments in my house are made of resin, which is not easy to break!" Pu Jia said.
"What do you two have to do with her family, why do you all talk to her, are you all in the same group?" The man saw that Huang Wen and Dong Zhanyang had come to help, and his momentum was not as big as just now.
Huang Wen smelled the smell of alcohol on the man's body and knew that he was drinking: "I think you broke yourself after drinking, and you deliberately came to play drunk, right?" β
"Who drank, I didn't drink, what are you talking nonsense this woman?" I don't know if Huang Wen said it, the middle-aged man said angrily.
"Am I right, everyone is commenting, this person drank alcohol and came to find someone else's woman, it's not a shame." Huang Wen saw that the middle-aged man was angry, and knew that she was right, so she told the onlookers.
I have to say that Huang Wen's eloquence is still very powerful, and when she said this, the people around her probably understood what was going on, and they all started talking about it
"Yes, look at how this big man is like this!"
"Not really, and there's no shame in it."
"When you drink, you come out and play like no one else has ever drunk."
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The middle-aged man listened to the discussions around him, and became even more angry, and raised his hand to hit Huang Wen.