At this time, the tables and chairs were all full, most of them were burying their heads in eating noodles, and only a few people were sitting there waiting for the meal to come up.

"Huang Cui, Huang Cui." An old lady came from outside, looked around the room, and opened her mouth to shout.

"It's coming, it's coming." There was a sound from the small door behind the counter, and then Huang Cui walked in with two bowls of noodles and put them in front of the people who were waiting, then she raised her head and said with a smile: "Aunt Liu, buy pickles or eat?" ”

"Buy pickles, you pick some pickles for me for a dime and a half, and make up enough for a catty." Aunt Liu glanced at the mushroom sauce, her lips moved, but when she thought of asking for three cents a catty, she finally couldn't help but be reluctant to buy it.

Huang Cui saw Aunt Liu's hesitation, she took Aunt Liu's bowl, poured the beaten pickles into it, and gently dug a little from the mushroom sauce, but it was just a mouthful of it, and put it in.

"Aunt Liu, you are an old customer, this is for you, no money." Huang Cui enthusiastically handed the bowl full of pickles to Aunt Liu.

"You girl, you're so polite." Aunt Liu's eyes suddenly narrowed into a line with a smile, she put down the money, and left happily with a bowl.

"What do you want to buy?" Huang Cui saw Lu Yuan standing silently at the door of the store at this time, and was stunned at first, which child is this, he looks so handsome, and he knows that it is a high-end product at a glance, she looked at it twice, and asked Lu Yuan with a smile.

"I want a noodle first." Lu Yuan saw that someone had left after eating, and there was an empty seat vacated by the table in the room, so he walked towards the empty seat and sat down.

"Okay." Huang Cui heard that Lu Yuan was not speaking a local dialect, but a Mandarin that was the same as in the radio, she was even more curious, except for the educated youth, she had never heard others speak Mandarin, in this small county, those Mandarin-speaking intellectuals had already left, and looking at Lu Yuan's age, he didn't look like a well-known youth, this should be a relative from a big city nearby......

Huang Cui picked up the tray while guessing and went to the backyard.

Lu Yuan was indeed hungry, when the chili noodles were placed in front of him, the red and bright chili oil and the emerald green vegetable leaves instantly made Lu Yuan's index finger move, he picked up the chopsticks, clamped the chopsticks, and "sucked" a mouthful, only to feel a spicy smell into the throat, Lu Yuan thought that the bowl full of red noodles would be very spicy, but he didn't expect the entrance to be a rich fragrance.

Lu Yuan's appetite suddenly opened, a bowl of noodles quickly went down, in the cold winter, a dense layer of fine sweat appeared on his forehead, and after eating, Lu Yuan put down his chopsticks, only to feel comfortable.

No wonder Grandpa will never forget it, just because this bowl of noodles is so delicious, the taste of the pickles must not be wrong.

Lu Yuan took out a handkerchief and wiped his mouth, stood up, walked to the counter, and said to Huang Cui, who was collecting money: "Boss, give me three catties of every pickle in your house." ”

Huang Cui raised her head in surprise, looked at Lu Yuan, and said hesitantly: "Young man, each of these dozen kinds of pickles is three catties, which is almost more than fifty catties, are you sure you want so much?" Can you finish it? ”

Lu Yuan didn't expect that there were so many varieties of pickles, so he couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, more than fifty catties...... He couldn't take it well, and he seemed to have forgotten to ask his grandfather what kind of pickles he wanted.

"Boss, which pickle tastes best?"

"Our pickles, everything tastes very good, it depends on whether you want spicy, salty or sour." Huang Cui saw that Lu Yuan was still at a loss, and continued to say patiently: "The price of mushroom sauce and sour bamboo shoots here is the highest, three cents a catty, and the people who bought it said that it tasted good, and there were spicy dices and spicy cabbage left, all of which were a dime and a half a catty, and there were many people who bought them." ”

According to Lu Yuan's style of buying things on weekdays, he naturally picks expensive ones to buy, so he thought for a moment and said, "The mushroom sauce and sour bamboo shoots cost five catties each, and the rest should cost one catty each." ”

"Okay, I'll put it on for you." Huang Cui saw that Lu Yuan was empty-handed, and didn't even ask him what to use, he took out a small jar directly from the store, packed it for him, and then took out a cloth bag, put these jars away, crackled at the abacus, raised his head and said: "A bowl of noodles is five cents, pickles are four yuan and five cents in total, and the jar is a total of seven yuan, together you will receive six yuan and two cents and five cents, and if you erase the change, it will be six yuan and two." ”

Lu Yuan counted the money and handed it to Huang Cui, seeing that it was getting late, so he asked Huang Cui how to get to the Xia County Guest House.

Huang Cui was even more strange, she asked with some confusion: "Young man, I heard that your accent is a foreigner, aren't you here to visit relatives?" ”

"No, auntie." Lu Yuan didn't want to say much, he replied simply.

Huang Cui has been with Sun Xingfu for so many years, and she has learned a lot from observing words and feelings, she looked at Lu Yuan and didn't want to say more, so she didn't inquire further, she enthusiastically told Lu Yuan how to get to the county guest house, and after Lu Yuan thanked him, he left with pickles.

Lu Yuan checked in at the guest house, washed up, lay down and soon fell asleep.

The next morning, after Lu Yuan got up, he wanted to go back, but remembering the noodles he ate last night, he couldn't help but go to Sun's pickle shop, the shop in the early morning was still overcrowded, Lu Yuan saw that in addition to some people eating chili noodles, there was also Hu spicy soup, which made him very surprised.

After all, this is a kind of food in the north, and Zhenping County belongs to the south, so it is really strange to see it here.

Lu Yuan recognized Hu spicy soup, and his father took him on a business trip a few years ago, and he tasted it in the north, and that taste made him unforgettable, but he didn't expect that what he didn't eat in the capital province could be encountered in this small county.

Lu Yuan drank two bowls in a row, and he was still a little unsatisfied, if he really couldn't drink it anymore, he still wanted to drink another bowl, the taste of this spicy soup was even better than the taste in his memory.

Huang Cui saw Lu Yuan in the morning, Lu Yuan bought so many pickles yesterday, so when she served Hu spicy soup to Lu Yuan, it was specially filled, so Lu Yuan ate extra support......

After breakfast, Lu Yuan walked out of the store amid Huang Cui's enthusiastic shouting about coming back next time, but he walked a short distance and suddenly stopped.

"Would you like to see her?" Lu Yuan's hand clenched and loosened, his heart was very conflicted, that address kept coming to his mind last night, he wanted to see Mu Xiu, but he didn't know what to do when he saw her.

Just when Lu Yuan was struggling in his heart, he suddenly saw a figure flash in front of him.

"Huh?" Lu Yuan only felt that the figure was inexplicably familiar, and he couldn't help but chase after him quickly.