On the day we went to report to the Civil Affairs Bureau, we returned to the "Educated Youth Hostel" instead of taking a rickshaw, but walked all the way.

In late August, the weather was still relatively hot, but fortunately it was cloudy, and there was no scorching sun.

We walked along the street. The streets are narrow and the pavement is not smooth enough. In this regard alone, Yangjiang County is even more backward than Qijiatun County.

However, the greening of Yangjiang County is not comparable to that of Qijiatun County. Qijiatun County often walks dozens of meters without seeing a tree or grass.

Trees are planted on both sides of the streets in Yangjiang County, and almost all of them are camphor trees with bowl thickness.

We focused on snack bars all the way. After a long walk, we came across a small restaurant. Unlike Qijiatun County, snack bars are everywhere.

On the entire back road of Yangjiang, we didn't see a steamed bun shop that specialized in selling steamed buns.

"Let's rent a shop in this area, it will definitely be easy to open a bun shop." I say.

"Do you think that no one sells steamed buns here, so you think business is easy?"

"Isn't it?"

"No matter what business you do, you need consumers. There are no restaurants or bun shops for such a long time, which shows that the people in this area are accustomed to eating at home, even if they come to entertain guests. ”

"How so?" I'm a little unconvinced.

"There will be people who will provide services when there is a need, even if there is an occasional family who comes to the guest, and the host wants to go to the hotel to entertain, but there is no hotel in this area, who will bring the guest out?"

"Wouldn't it be better to open a restaurant here?"

"Habit is everything. When everyone is used to eating at home, the restaurant becomes a decoration. ”

Qi Zhengzhe explained so much, but I still couldn't accept his point of view at the time, and it was only later, when several small restaurants and breakfast restaurants in this area closed one after another, that Qi Zhengzhe's analysis was proved to be correct.

Qi Zhengzhe has such a strong insight.

After walking nearly 500 meters on the back road, we turned right onto another street. The corners of the streets are much wider than the rest, and a few large camphor trees hold the sky tight.

There were a few people setting up stalls under the trees. It's all about selling small items at a low cost.

I stopped in front of a jewelry stall.

"Do you fancy something? Earrings or bracelets? The landlady smiled.

"Take a look." I say.

Qi Zhengzhe accompanied me to squat down in front of the jewelry stall to choose.

"The chengguan dog is here!" I don't know who shouted.

There was a commotion around the corner. The stall owner quickly packed up his belongings.

Straight ahead, three uniformed men were running towards us. I could hear them shouting.

I dropped what I was holding and quickly got up. Qi Zhengzhe helped the female boss pack up her belongings. The ones who packed up quickly had already evacuated with their packages.

However, there are still two that have not had time to evacuate, and one of them is the female boss who sells jewelry.

The three chengguan officers were extremely fierce, and they kicked away the things that the two bosses had not yet packed into the package without saying a word.

"Tell you to mess around, damn it, tell you to mess around!" These people kicked and cursed.

The lady who sold the ornaments sat on the ground, holding the bag of ornaments in her arms, crying: "Please, please!" ”

Another boss said, "We're begging for a living, too!" ”

However, the chengguan did not stop his steps until he kicked all the small objects on the ground away, and then walked away.

Before leaving, one of the chengguan kicked the bag in the arms of the jewelry seller, "This is the end of the stall." Watch out for us kicking everything in your bag away! ”

For some reason, the voice of the chengguan sounded a little familiar. I took a closer look, these concave eyeballs, this pointed jaw, who is not a thin man?

If you want to talk about others, I may not be able to recognize it after eleven years, and I will not admit it when the thin man turns to ashes.

In eleven years, the thin man has grown into a young man. I didn't expect him to be so horizontal.

My heart was beating fast. As they looked at us, I hurriedly turned a corner, "Let's go, Brother Zhengzhe." ”

"Look at what you see. It is precisely because of you who are greedy for small and cheap that there will be these people who set up stalls! ”

Feelings, this is a thin man talking to us? I looked around. There was no one else around.

"You," Qi Zhengzhe said.

"What are you!" Another chengguan said.

"Let's go, we still have something to do." I'm going to pull the sleeve of Zhengzhe.

Qi Zhengzhe turned around and left.

There was a "hahaha" laugh behind us.

"It's so lawless." Qi Zhengzhe was very angry.

"Forget it, that's their job too." I say.

"How can there be such a law enforcement?"

"It's important that we go about our business." I quickened my pace. I don't want those people to hear Qi Zhengzhe's words. It's not a good thing to have these people on the stall when you're a newcomer.

It took a long time for me to express the doubts in my heart: "You know what? One of them is my childhood enemies with Brother Qihang. Just the guy with deep eye sockets. His nickname is Skinny. ”

"Of the three, he is the most arrogant."

"That's a very scheming man. I was so scared he would recognize me. ”

"What's there to be afraid of, he is a small city manager, and he can still cover the sky with one hand?" Qi Zhengzhe disagreed.

I think, brother, if Qi Zhengzhe knew how the thin man dealt with us when he was a child, maybe he wouldn't be so dismissive.

He was a very resilient man.

Hey, God is really good at playing tricks on people, the people I want to see don't show up for a long time, and the people I don't want to see will jump in front of you.

……

Luckily, we found a small shop that afternoon, and the rent was not high (according to Qi Zhengzhe), and the proprietress of the shop recommended that we rent a house, which was only a few minutes away from the small shop.

The small shop is diagonally opposite the Chinese medicine hospital, only a few square meters, and it is a single room, I don't know how the plot was divided at the beginning, and how the landlord came up with the idea of building such a small shop.

The small shop was built on the main street, right at the exit of a small alleyway. This is its greatest advantage.

At the exit of the alleyway, someone has built a shed with a few wooden sticks - it is not actually a shed, but it is covered with plastic sheets to keep out the rain and dew.

Under the shed were two high stools, on which rested an old-fashioned cedar door, which had been washed white but still stained with oil.

Qi Zhengzhe decided that it was used to sell breakfast. When asked, it really is.

"You're too godly, Brother Zhengzhe." I couldn't help but praise Qi Zhengzhe.

"There are several of these simple stalls selling breakfast in Qijiatun. Look at the stove again, it's used to cook porridge. ”

It was a coal stove that burned briquettes. There were several burnt briquettes piled up near the coal stove.

"In this way, my bun shop complements it perfectly." Qi Zhengzhe continued. He was very happy with the small shop.

"Hey, I said you can now, the word complement will be used." I say.

"Isn't that what you taught me last time? How? Did I use it wrong? ”

"That's right. It's very apt. ”

Ideally, this small shop, which is only a few square meters, has an attic where Qi Zhengzhe can sleep at night.

"It's a really multi-purpose shop." I say.

"Yes. It's also our kitchenette. We do all three meals a day here. ”

"Let's buy a small square table that can be folded, and it will be very much like a home."

"Our family?"

"Don't overthink it."

We cleaned up the small shop together, then went to the "Educated Youth Hostel" to check out and move our luggage to the small shop. I moved my things to my rented room.

We also went to the wet market for a while, mainly to buy equipment for the steamed bun shop. You know, all we brought from Qijiatun were steamers, briquettes, coal stoves, steel pots, iron pots and other series of supplies that needed to be purchased separately. And some of the shops in the wet market have these things. Qi Zhengzhe's experience is that things in the vegetable market are always cheaper.

Of course, we also added some kitchen utensils.

Because we are here to live in Qijiatun, not to travel.

This is how life in Yangjiang began.

Every morning, I woke up early, washed and dried Qi Zhengzhe and my change of clothes, and then walked to the small shop.

At this time, the buns have already been steamed. In the first few days, business was not very good. Just like the rickshaw master said, people in Yangjiang County don't have the habit of eating steamed buns for breakfast.

But fortunately, this is a hospital, and the floating population is relatively large, and there is another point, the sick and hospitalized patients and their families always have breakfast at the stall, which is also the main reason why Qi Zhengzhe chose to open a steamed bun shop here, so gradually, the business of the steamed bun shop improved.

As Qi Zhengzhe expected, the porridge shop and the bun shop complement each other perfectly. At first, I was worried that the proprietress of the porridge shop would crowd out the bun shop, but after a few days, I let go of this heart. Qi Zhengzhe seems to be a popular person everywhere.

And Qi Zhengzhe doesn't need me to do anything at all, at most I will help him collect money or change when he can't be busy.

On the contrary, he took good care of my daily life. I got up early at the bun shop, and he had already packed me a bowl of porridge from the porridge shop at the mouth of the alleyway, and put it on the small square table that I was talking about, which could be folded, and a plate of side dishes.

When I came back from work in the morning, three or four cooked dishes had been placed on the small square table, waiting for me to eat together. Or, before the last dish was cooked, Qi Zhengzhe deliberately asked me to taste the saltiness.

When I came back in the evening, I saw Qi Zhengzhe standing at the door of the small shop waving to me before I reached the door of the Chinese medicine hospital, and at this time, there must have been a bowl of mung bean porridge or pork rib soup already on the small table.

At this time, I really understood that Qi Zhengzhe was so adamantly opposed to me living in the Civil Affairs Bureau, and asked me to rent a house near his steamed bun shop, not really asking me to help take care of his steamed bun shop, but because he wanted to take care of me.