Chapter 474: Ancient Street Tourists
In early summer, the weather gets hotter.
In the Binhai District of Lianhai City, the Binhai Road Commercial Street, which is close to the first beach, is crowded.
This is a scenic area, there are many tourists, there are many residents around, and on holidays, the commercial street is even more overcrowded.
Binhai Road Commercial Street is part of the entire Binhai Scenic Area, and there were some ancient buildings before it was developed into a commercial street.
These ancient buildings are built on the mountain, and some of the buildings date back to the Ming Dynasty.
Later, the ancient buildings were renovated and maintained, several antique buildings were built near the sea, the houses facing the street were turned into shops, and the original ancient buildings on the hillside were divided into historical famous figures by the Cultural Relics Bureau.
There are all kinds of shops in the commercial street, catering, clothing, entertainment, and various local product specialty stores in Lianhai City, and there are tourists everywhere.
In the middle of the street there is a small garden with a lot of flowers and trees.
In the center of the garden is a long corridor covered with wisteria branches, and the spikes of wisteria flowers are blooming, attracting many bees and butterflies.
There are several wooden benches under the wisteria promenade, on which tourists sit in twos and threes resting.
Mr. Zhou's family of three was sitting on one of the benches.
Zhou Lao is not old, only in his 40s, and his only son, Zhou Le, is in junior high school.
It was the weekend, and Zhou Lao brought his whole family to the beach.
In the morning, I played at the beach for a while, climbed the mountain along the stone road, and visited several historical halls of fame halfway up the mountain, and it was already noon after going down the mountain.
The family was about to find a restaurant in the shopping street for lunch, but they didn't expect all the restaurants to be full, so they had to buy a few snacks and pack them on the benches in the small garden to eat.
Son Zhou Le complained while nibbling on chicken legs, "If you say that you will take me to Sanya to travel if you enter the top ten in the final exam, your words don't count!" β
Zhou's mother hurriedly explained, "Of course I talk to your father, Sanya will definitely go, but not now, when you have summer vacation, I will ask your father for another public vacation, and we will go as a family of three." Coming to the beach this weekend is just a warm-up before the trip. β
Zhou Lao also chimed in, "When did your father break his promise to me?" In the final exam a year ago, you took the fifth place in your grade and got a good grade, so you should be rewarded. Dad was planning to take you to Sanya in winter, but at that time, there was an outbreak of plague, and many places implemented first-level control, and you couldn't get out. After the plague epidemic, we had a number of other kinds of epidemics in Lianhai City, and the time dragged down. If you don't want to go to the summer vacation, you can also delay it until this year's winter vacation. β
"I don't want to delay it until the winter vacation, there are other places to go during the winter vacation."
"Okay! Son, what else do you want to eat at noon? β
There are a lot of take-out foods I bought just now, chicken thighs, roast pig's trotters, xiaolongbao, cold skin, and a few skewers.
Zhou Le nibbled on the chicken leg and thought for a while, "The food at noon is too oily, and I want to drink some juice." β
"Okay, dad go buy it."
Zhou Lao found a juice shop closest to the central garden.
The juice shop has a small faΓ§ade with colorful fruits in the windows, a variety of juices on the cabinets, and billboards with prices for various juices.
Fresh fruit can be cut into boxes and taken away, processed into a variety of juices on site, and chilled in the refrigerated cupboard.
There were a lot of people buying juice, and there were already seven or eight people in front of Zhou Lao.
Zhou Lao observed the surroundings and found that there were more people in front of the other fruit shops, so he quietly lined up at the door of this house.
Most of the people in line were young people, and the one in front of Zhou Lao was a young boy of eight or nine years old, who was not as tall as the cupboard of a fruit store.
Soon, it was the little boy's turn, and he held a 10 yuan card in his hand to the boss and said loudly: "A glass of juice!" β
The boss glanced at the money in the little boy's hand, "Today, only the special juice is 10 yuan a cup, sugarcane juice, do you want it?" β
The little boy pondered carefully, looked his eyes around the glass cabinet, and after a few seconds, asked, "Where is the sugar cane?" β
The boss patiently explained, "The special juices are all squeezed in advance and chilled in the refrigerator, and there is no fresh sugar cane to sell." β
"Oh, that glass of chilled cane juice."
The boss took out a sealed glass of sugarcane juice from the freezer and handed it to the little boy, took the money, and gave the little boy a straw, after which the little boy left in a hurry.
When it was Zhou Lao's turn, the boss asked enthusiastically, "What do you want to do?" The fruits in our store are all fresh today, especially this mango, which was shipped by air. β
"Okay, a big glass of mango juice and a medium glass of watermelon juice."
"Okay, I'll make it for you right away, 28 large glasses of mango juice, 20 medium glasses of watermelon juice."
While using two juice machines to squeeze juice at the same time, the boss recommended to Zhou Lao, "Today our store launched a special juice - sugarcane juice, 10 yuan a cup, do you want to bring a cup?" β
"Okay, bring another glass of sugar cane juice."
Three glasses of juice were brought back to the central garden, and Mr. Zhou gave mango juice to his son, watermelon juice to his wife, and kept sugarcane juice for himself.
I plugged in the straw and took a sip, and the chilled sugarcane juice smelled like wine in my mouth.
"Phew......"
Zhou Lao hurriedly spit out the sugarcane juice in his mouth, and found mineral water to rinse his mouth three times.
His wife and son Zhou Le looked at Zhou Lao's series of actions in surprise.
"Dad, what's wrong? Fruit juice doesn't taste good? β
"It's not a question of whether it's good or not, this cup of sugarcane juice smells of sake lees, obviously the sugarcane used to squeeze the juice has deteriorated, how can this sugarcane juice be drunk? I'm going to find that black-hearted boss. β
Zhou Lao took the sugarcane juice back to the juice shop.
"Boss, there's a problem with the chilled sugar cane juice you gave me."
The owner of the juice shop has a weak heart, but there are still many customers at the door, and the owner will naturally not admit that there is a problem with his juice.
"This gentleman, you can't talk nonsense, the juices in my store are all freshly squeezed and sold, even if it is a special sugarcane juice, it was just squeezed out this morning."
"Does freshly squeezed sugar cane juice smell like sake lees?"
"Isn't it normal for fruit to smell like alcohol? It's summer, and fruits like apples, after a winter of storage, are sure to have a bit of a winey taste. β
Zhou Lao was very sure that the cup of sugarcane juice he drank was not fresh, and argued, "If it is freshly squeezed in the morning, then show me the remaining bagasse." β
The juice shop owner was impatient and shouted in a threatening tone, "Are you trying to find fault?" Who keeps the rest of the dregs? I must have lost it early, I will refund you 10 yuan, hurry up, don't stand in my way. β
Zhou Lao still wanted to speak, but he was pulled behind him, and when he looked back, he saw that it was his son Zhou Le.
"Dad, forget it, isn't it just a glass of juice, and everyone will refund you."
"It's not a question of whether the money will be refunded or not, this sugarcane juice will get sick if you drink it, and if you don't get it right, you will die."
When the juice shop owner heard this, he was even more angry, put down the things in his hand, and prepared to rush out of the store to fight with Zhou Lao.