Chapter 1 Fruit Steve Owners
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Fan Lie sat in a corner of the street, remembered what had happened in the past, and shook his head gently. In front of him, the pen & fun & pavilion www.biquge.info are the things he sells, including apples, bananas, oranges, dragon fruit, duck pears, red dates, peanuts, chestnuts, etc.
Over the years, he has supported himself by selling these things, and the old dog at his feet has lived with him for so many years.
Fan Lie has always wondered why he lives in this world, why is he so lonely?
The place where Fan Lie is located is a small city in the south of the Yangtze River, which is adjacent to Taihu Lake and is known as the land of fish and rice. Over the years, the policy of the state has been good, and a lazy person like him can support himself by selling fruits.
It was a late winter afternoon, and the sun was about to go up, and the people of the town hurried past him, some stopped, bought some fruit from his stall, and then carried the fruit they bought and continued to follow the flow of people.
"Ah Huang, go, get me an evening newspaper back. ”
Fan Lie put a one-yuan bill in a plastic bag and let Ah Huang chatter. He patted Ah Huang's head, and Ah Huang wagked his tail and went.
Ah Huang has been with him for nine years, and he is an eliminated German pastor, who is gradually getting old. Ah Huang's left front leg is slightly lame, but if you don't look carefully, you can't see it.
Fan Lie has the habit of reading newspapers, he is somewhat interested in national affairs, and the other is those lace news, which he developed when he was young.
His stall is on the corner of a vegetable market in a small town, facing the street, the geographical location is good, if the business is good, there are five or six hundred a day, this money, if not lavish, is enough for him to spend.
His residence was left by his parents, and it was a dilapidated courtyard, and the name of the community was Mingyue Community. This kind of community is different from those high-rise communities that have been newly built in recent years, in the Mingyue community, the tallest building is only three floors, and there are more than 20 yards like his house.
Every morning, Fan Lie goes to a park three kilometers away from his residence, and he rides his electric motorcycle.
This park is a place he comes to every day. Put the electric motorcycle and walk into the park, he will walk around the park three times, the distance is about seven or eight kilometers.
A year ago, he felt very dizzy, and he didn't drink alcohol, but it was as if he had drunk four or five taels. After the examination, the doctor at the hospital told him that at his age, he should pay attention, drink less wine, eat less meat, and eat eggs instead of egg yolks.
He was prescribed a few medicines for him to take on time, and finally the doctor told him: It is best to walk seven or eight kilometers a day, this is the best medicine, if you don't care, you have to be careful of your own life.
Fan Lie listened to the doctor's words, nodded and said, "Oh, I know." ”
Coming out of the hospital with the medicine, he looked at the glass in the window of a shop, and then he felt that he was no longer young, forty-four years old, his hair was already pale, and his face showed an abnormal color because of frequent drinking.
From that day on, Fan Lie often sat in his stall and thought about the past - plus the thunderous detour of the park every morning.
There are a lot of people exercising in the early morning in the park, running, doing gymnastics, and hanging their throats. Fan Lie walked briskly, some people ran behind him, and some people were caught up by him.
Three laps a day, three laps down, seven or eight kilometers, sweat out, you will feel a lot more relaxed.
In the early morning exercise, in the corner of the park, I often meet a cleaner sweeping the garden.
The cleaner spoke while sweeping the floor: "I told you earlier, but you didn't listen, now it's okay." ”
"Got it, got it. You say it every day, you talk it every day, it's always like this, how can I tell people. ”
"Yesterday I asked you to cut bamboo, you don't come, you don't come, forget it, but I told others, it's good, the bamboo is gone, you didn't catch it at all. ”
"Okay, okay, don't say it, don't say it, do it well, do it well. Life will be better. ”
The cleaner said something different every day, and kept saying that the number of people in his mouth was at least two, and at most four or five. These words came out of his mouth alone, and they did not seem abrupt.
Many people walked by the cleaner every day, but few expressed surprise, as if his words were no different from those of normal people.
When Fan Lie met him, he always slowed down his pace and walked over slowly, listening to the cleaner's words every morning, which seemed to have become one of his great pleasures.
"If you don't come, I'll tell you a long time ago, if you don't come, now that you're here, what's the use. Let's talk about it later, only later. ”
"This is not a trivial matter, and then consider it. By the way, did you dial the bamboo, go early, don't blame me for not reminding you if you're late. ”
"Alas, this tree too, if it blooms, it will not be defeated, but it will grow leaves, and it will have to fall when it is time to fall, so it is better to keep blooming, how good. ”
The cleaner talks to himself, as if no one is around.
Fan Lie envied him very much, living in his own world, and still having a job to do, which was very good.
After the morning exercise, Fan Lie would ride his bicycle home, and there was a breakfast stall not far from home, with soy milk, fried dough sticks, pancakes, fruits, buns, etc. Usually, his breakfast is eaten here.
Fan Lie mostly asks for two fritters and a bowl of soy milk, and when he eats fritters, he will take out a small plastic bottle from his arms, which is a dish he makes himself - whitebait sauce. He sandwiched the whitebait sauce in the fritters, and the taste was really beautiful.
The whitebait he uses is the largest of the four types of whitebait in Taihu Lake, which is the most abundant and tasteful fish in Taihu Lake.
After breakfast, he asked for two more meat buns and rode home. Ah Huang came up with his tail wagging, he gave Ah Huang two buns, and then put down the electric motorcycle, and then packed up the fruit to be sold and loaded it on another three-wheeled electric motorcycle.
At the beginning, Ah Huang accompanied him a few times in his morning exercises, but Ah Huang's physical strength was not as good as his. Obviously can't catch up with his appearance. After a few times, Fan Lie asked Ah Huang to stay at home, and when he set up a stall, he wanted to bring it.
Fan Lie was born here, he has lived here for more than 40 years, and he also gets along well with other neighbors, no matter how big or small, they all call him Alie Alie, and the neighbors call him like this, Fan Lie is very happy, so he greets him with a smile.
Some of the older neighbors have met. Like any aunt and aunt, it is inevitable to complain that he is not looking for a wife, this age, how to continue the offspring no matter how late.
When he met them, Fan Lie could only run away with a smile, if he talked to them, his fruit stall would not be able to be set up.
When Ah Huang met them, he always grabbed his tail and barked a few times, and then jumped into Fan Lie's car. For them, Ah Huang is also afraid.
From home to the place where he set up his stall, it takes about ten minutes to ride, and when he arrives at the place, Ah Huang has to jump down first and circle around him a few times, his eyes full of flattery. Fan Lie wrapped ten yuan in a plastic bag, handed it to Ah Huang, and he ran to the vegetable market, where ten yuan was enough to buy a bone at the meat stall. This bone is Ah Huang's dinner at night.
The time to get here, Fan Lie calculated very accurately, it was seven o'clock. It took more than ten minutes to set up a stall, and at this time, the flow of people came up, and people began to buy fruits.
When Fan Lie is free, he will ask Ah Huang to buy him a newspaper, which is an evening newspaper in the city, which contains domestic and foreign news events, and gossip news of some celebrities, which Fan Lie loves to read.
Fan Lie and Ah Huang's lunch is two identical box lunches, except for rice, there are several dishes, nothing more than braised pork, beans, cabbage, tomatoes and eggs.
This kind of boxed lunch costs fifteen yuan each, which is very affordable, Fan Lie just tastes a piece of red meat, and the rest will be given to Ah Huang, and Ah Huang will arch Fan Lie's hand with his head every time he arrives at this time to express his gratitude.
Every day, Fan Lie cleans up the stall earlier than the other stall owners, and other stall owners would rather set up for a while. Fan Lie closed the stall more than an hour before them, which was also his habit.
You can't make enough money, just enough to eat and drink.
When he got home, he would bring down the unsold fruit from the car, park the tricycle, and stew the bones for Ah Huang, which would be stewed for an hour, and then he would add some noodles to it. When it cools, it will be served to Ah Huang.
For dinner, Fan Lie would make a glass of oatmeal or a glass of milk, and he would usually bring out some whitebait sauce to eat.
Whitebait sauce is his favorite dish since he was a child, it is his mother's favorite dish, and it is his favorite food.
These days, Fan Lie always thinks of the past, and thinks of the time when their family of three was together, what a beautiful time it was.
It's a pity that he is left alone now.
Maybe he is really old, Fan Lie sometimes sighs at his age. I am like the old people who squatted under the wall and basked in the sun when I was a child, and those old people squinted their eyes while basking in the sun, thinking about the past, the things of the past.
I'm gradually becoming like them.
Mom took Dad to the mountains to look for the gods. Dad got seriously ill seventeen years ago, and all the hospitals said they couldn't cure it, so just wait at home.
But her mother didn't give up, she told Fan Lie, who was twenty-eight years old at the time: "Lie'er, mom will take your dad to the mountains to find those immortal immortals, and I will cure your dad and wait for us to come back." ”
His mother's words overwhelmed Fan Lie, he knew that his father was very ill, but he never imagined that his mother would take his father to find a god to cure his illness in a hopeless situation.
For three years after his parents left, Fan Lie had been living as if in a dream, and he didn't know whether he wanted to laugh or cry - his mother, who had lost his son for his father, was gone.
Fan Lie, who was not in good spirits, lost his decent job. Another year passed, when he was about to run out of food, he came to his senses, thought about it, and started a fruit selling business.
After selling fruit for four years, he got Ah Huang, and until now, he has been setting up a fruit stall for thirteen years