Chapter 7: Familiar and Unfamiliar Figures
On the first night of returning to his hometown after more than ten years, Zuo Xiaoyou slept very peacefully, lying on his parents' bed, with an indescribable feeling.
Even though he has experienced countless hours in the film world, and even time has become meaningless, he still has a feeling of yesterday when he returns to reality and his hometown.
Compared with the stability of Zuo Xiaoyou, Bai Coral and the Zhang sisters were a little excited.
This is Zuo Xiaoyou's hometown, and it is the place where Zuo Xiaoyou has lived since childhood, and they want to know what is so special about it? It can cultivate people like Zuo Xiaoright.
I seemed to see some clues from the piles of awards on Zuo Xiaoyou before, and I also saw some clues from the large box of textbooks, and I also saw some clues from the large number of thick books in the bookcase in Zuo Xiaoyou's parents' room.
This is really a family that pays attention to knowledge, and Zuo Xiaoyou likes to read, which should be a good habit developed from childhood. But they also found some favorite 'little imperial uncles' from some hidden places, which can also prove that Zuo Xiaoyou was also young and had a strong interest in getting along between the sexes.
This made Zuo Xiaoyou a little more grounded, and made them feel that Zuo Xiaoyou was not very different from them. They are all the same, they are all living people.
The night of peace and security and the peace of mind passed. At dawn the next day, Zuo Xiaoyou took the three girls to the stall outside for breakfast.
Chinese pay attention to food as the sky, even in this small county town, on any street, you can always see a few selling breakfast snacks. Zuo Xiaoyou has not been back for more than ten years, and many stalls selling breakfast in my memory are gone, but there is a new breakfast that replaces the original breakfast.
For example, the fritters here used to be very small, with a little arc in the shape of light yellow fritters, which tasted very soft, but now the fritters are long and square, slightly darker in color, and crispy in taste.
Can't talk about which one is good and which one is bad? It's nothing more than turnips and greens, each with its own love.
In addition to the fritters, the taste of the pancakes has also changed, and there are many kinds of choices. There are also finger cakes, strange meat cakes, new pancakes and so on, which have been newly added by Zuo Xiaoyou since he left his hometown.
I didn't buy these things, but took the three girls to eat the old-fashioned breakfast that I had eaten since I was a child. The most classic is pot cake with old tofu.
Old tofu is passed down from Jinmen, similar to tofu brain, but tofu has less soup and more soup, and soybean milk, millet porridge, and wheat porridge, which belongs to the porridge in the morning. By the way, it's salty. Don't come to the sweet and salty party, it's salty here.
The pot cake is a local specialty pot cake, which is not available anywhere else. Tear it open and soak it in old tofu to eat, although it is not very delicious, but it has a unique flavor.
The three girls were accustomed to eating the food made by the maid, and after tasting the breakfast here, they only felt that eating nothing was right. In fact, Zuo Xiaoyou didn't eat the right taste, but after all, this was the taste in his memory, so he ate it very 'religious'.
Seeing that the three girls didn't eat much, Zuo Xiaoyou could probably guess what was going on, so he took the three girls to other breakfast stalls, bought a little bit of everything, and the four of them ate it separately. After eating for a long time, there are not many things that can make the four girls feel delicious, but there is a time-honored pancake that makes them feel good.
It's really good, this tricycle seller is really a master, and he has been setting up a stall here for more than 30 years. Although he is a itinerant vendor, this chef has been setting up a stall on the side of the street at an intersection, and from Zuo Xiaoyou's memory, this pancake chef must have been busy from beginning to end as soon as he came out of the stall.
He remembers that when he was in junior high school, he took advantage of the summer vacation to observe the day when the pancake master went from the stall to the stall. The pancake master pedaled the tricycle to the side of the road at dawn at five o'clock, moved the fire on the tricycle a little, and began to busily spread the pancakes, and the pancake stall was always full of people, less than a minute a set, and it was so busy from five o'clock to more than nine o'clock.
For four hours without rest, all the pancakes were sold, and in the entire county, this pancake master sold the first place in speed and total volume, and no one shook it.
Because the pancake master's pancakes are so delicious, even the chengguan often comes over to eat the pancakes, and if they don't encounter inspections, they don't check them, and if they encounter inspections, they will tell the pancake master one day in advance, so that he doesn't set up a stall the next day, so as not to suffer losses.
To put it mildly, the urban management of the county grew up eating the pancake master's pancakes, and there are not many people in the entire county who have never eaten this pancake, and the pancake master's face is big!
I haven't seen him for more than ten years, and when I saw this pancake master in his fifties, he was really much older than in the past. To Zuo Xiaoyou's surprise, this pancake master actually recognized him: "Are you Xiaozuo?" I haven't been eating pancakes in years. ”
When Zuo Xiaoyou heard this, he had the urge to cry: "It's been more than ten years, but I didn't expect you to remember me." ”
"You've been selling pancakes with me since you were a child, how could you forget." The pancake master smiled happily: "You are much more handsome than before, where have you made a fortune all these years?" ”
"I've been to the south for more than ten years." Zuo Xiaoyou said: "I just came back yesterday, I didn't miss your pancakes, so I came over to spread pancakes, and by the way, let my daughter-in-law and sister taste them too." ”
"Ouch! I've got a big face. The pancake master has a special sense of accomplishment: "How many sets?" ”
"Four sets, two eggs and two steamed buns, how much?" Zuo Xiaoyou asked.
"Twenty."
In the end, the pancake master spread out five sets of pancakes: "I'll give you one, and you can come often in the future." ”
"Don't worry, you won't come in the future."
"Hahaha...... Boy is bad. ”
I started eating breakfast at six o'clock and ate until eight o'clock, and I found some old memories and some new ones. White Coral and the two sisters also know a little more about Zuo Xiaoyou's past life.
The county has certain urban characteristics, but the atmosphere of the market is very strong, a bit of the taste of the old capital, but the people here are not as stinky and poor as the people of the capital, and they love to brag. But these oils are only smooth on the surface, and the internal values are still relatively traditional.
In a land like Beihe, where there have been many generous and tragic people since ancient times, it is difficult to appear bad people who are treacherous from the inside out, even if they have done a lot of bad things on the surface, they can always show their love and righteousness when facing their family and friends.
Of course, the people of Zuo Xiaoyou in this county are not without shortcomings, the shortcomings are that they are upright, stubborn, and impulsive, if they disagree, they are very likely to fight, and they are quite ruthless, and they don't end up in the hospital without blood.
Thanks to the blessing of the local people's customs, it is rare to see the Northeast people who dominate the country in the local area, even if they really see it, they are also Northeasterners with a relatively mild temperament, anyway, Zuo Xiaoyou has never seen the locals and the Northeasterners fighting, on the contrary, they get along quite well, which also makes Zuo Xiaoyou suspect for a while, is there really a lot of black ~ society in the Northeast? Why hasn't he seen it?
It should be a good relationship between the people of the two provinces!
Speaking of which, whether it is the folk or the regional blacks on the Internet, it seems that they rarely hear about Heibeihe, on the contrary, the people of the whole country are full of sympathy for Beihe, and they are full of blood transfusions for Beijing and Tianjin with the strength of a province, and they are really willing to be a son of a cow.
But it's okay in the past few years, maybe I really feel sorry for Beihe, in recent years, the national policy has taken a lot of care of Beihe, and the development space is much more than in the past.
This small county is also a small county, more than ten years ago, there were very few private cars here, but now the road is full of private cars. Although most of them are tens of thousands of yuan and hundreds of thousands of economic models, the progress of this small county can also be seen.
Zuo Xiaoyou's family lives in the southern part of the county, and further south are some villages, these villages still have a business model of 'bazaar' that cannot be seen in the city, but even in the villages, there are not many people rushing to the market, and most of the local residents are wandering around the bazaar, buying something they need and can see.
The biggest advantage of the bazaar is that it is cheap, and the price of the same thing is much different from that of the mall. Zuo Xiaoyou and the three girls finished breakfast and took the three girls around, when they met a market in a place called Yu Zhuang.
This market just appeared a few years ago, because there is a piece of land in Yuzhuang to build an affordable housing and low-rent housing community, as people have moved into the community one after another, resulting in a lot of shops around the community, and it has naturally become a good place for a market.
However, the road surface of the market was a bit congested, and the RV could not drive into it at all, so the four of them had to park the RV in the open space outside the market and walk on the market.
The three girls have never been in the market since they were children, and the first time they caught the market was particularly fresh. There are many things sold in the bazaar, and there is a wide range of varieties. Food, drink, clothing, use, almost everything in life can be seen.
There are also selling orders......
With the popularization of computers, the optical disc industry is now in a worse condition, because the content on the disc can basically be downloaded from the Internet.
Of course, discs also have benefits – they are clean.
It's not like something downloaded from the Internet, which will always carry 'private goods'. Especially games, now download games on the Internet, even if it is a stand-alone machine, it is very likely to be mixed with advertising Trojans, but the disc will not, which is still worthy of praise.
There are a lot of game discs that sell CDs here. Well, it's still pirated......
But pirated copies are also clean, and sometimes pirated ones are better than genuine copies. Some genuine games require you to insert a disc when playing, and you have to get a virtual disc to play the game. But piracy doesn't have this problem, you can play it after you install it, which is quite convenient (I'll tell you, is this a rule of thumb?). ┑( ̄Д ̄)┍)。
To Zuo's surprise, there are also old-fashioned game consoles sold here.
Old-fashioned game consoles are the kind of game consoles that insert cartridges and connect to the TV to play. Contra, Double Dragon, Super Mario, these are all games in the cartridge of old-fashioned game consoles, and that is one of Zuo Xiaoyou's childhood memories.
Zuo Xiaoyou couldn't help but buy a small game console, and by the way, he bought a few game cartridges, intending to find the feeling of childhood.
There are marshmallows sold in the bazaar, two dollars each, a big lump...... The third girl couldn't help but buy one, and it tasted soft. This is the real marshmallow, not the packaged gummies.
"Two pounds of chestnuts." Sugar-fried chestnuts are a delicacy, Zuo Xiaoyou haven't eaten it for a long time, and I can't help but buy two catties.
"How much does it cost to cut a cake?"
The cut cake here is not marline, and of course it is not the cut cake of Jiangmi jujube, but the multigrain cut cake. It contains whole grains, rich in nutrition, unique taste, and is a more common local specialty sweet, which Zuo Xiaoyou has not eaten for many years.
"Ten dollars a pound." And the price is cheap, you deserve it.
The bazaar is not big, and the four of them bought it while watching, and it was done in more than an hour, which can be regarded as a fruitful harvest. Put your stuff in the car, turn the front of the car, and take a detour.
After a half-circle in the morning, the four of them ate hot pot at a fat cattle restaurant at noon. The taste is actually not bad, but for four people it is average, after all, it is not a high-end hotel, it is impossible to treat guests with the best beef, two hundred yuan for four people, what more bicycle?
In the afternoon, I continued to turn around, ate barbecue outside in the evening, and visited the night market by the way. There is still a difference between the night market and the bazaar, you can buy pots and pans and other kitchen utensils in the bazaar, but you can't buy it in the night market, and the night market is more about snacks, clothes and young girls.
Yes, young, single men and women can't bear the loneliness, and come to the night market in groups of three or five. In fact, when Zuo Xiaoyou was in high school, he took advantage of the summer vacation to go to the night market to find love. But at that time, he was thin-skinned and couldn't let go, and he was generally long, so he finally returned home.
Coming to the night market again, Zuo Xiaoyou is completely different, he is no longer the single dog he was back then, but a successful man with three sisters. Feeling the envious, jealous and hateful eyes of those sao years, Zuo Xiaoyou smiled faintly.
Sao Nian, work hard! As long as your dad is Li Gang, you will be as successful as me.
It doesn't matter if your father is not Li Gang, you can also succeed if you work hard to become Li Gang, as long as you don't give birth to a cheating son.
"Brother, let's go around the mall!" Zhang Acai took Zuo Xiaoright's hand and said.
The night market is on a commercial street, there are many shopping malls on the roadside, most of them are private, and a small number of them are chain stores of the group, there is a Tianlun Group in the hometown of Zuo Xiaoright, Tianlun Supermarket has opened all over the county, every block can see the billboard of Tianlun Supermarket, and the shopping mall that Zhang Acai wants to enter is Tianlun Supermarket.
"Okay." Zuo Xiaoyou nodded, although the night market is lively, but the weather in August is too hot, it is good to go to the mall to blow the air conditioner.
It's eight o'clock in the evening, and the mall's business hours end at nine, so four people can walk around the mall for an hour. In fact, the things in the shopping mall are not very rich, with an area of more than 500 square meters, although there are many goods that can be sold, they are relatively limited, and the quality is medium, which can not satisfy the shopping desire of the three girls at all.
Even so, the three daughters are also very energetic, so it's better not to buy and take a look, isn't it!
"Can you order a bra here? My left breast is a little smaller than my right breast, and the normal one doesn't fit. ”
When passing by the underwear exhibition area, Zuo Xiaoyou heard a somewhat familiar voice, and couldn't help but turn his head to look and see a figure that was both familiar and unfamiliar. (To be continued.) )