Chapter 100: The Silk Doll with a Bitter Fate
After Chen Yuanyuan and the three of them finished eating a rich meal of Guicheng home-cooked food at Zhang Linlin's house, they chatted at Zhang's house for a while, and then the three of them got up to say goodbye to Zhang's father and mother.
After Zhang's mother reluctantly said goodbye to the three of them, Zhang's father drove the three of them to the largest snack street in your city.
There are a lot of snacks on the streets of the snack street, such as pot glutinous rice dumplings, rice tofu, roasted tofu fruit, artichoke baba, etc., and the three people who were already full ate ate their stomachs more supportively.
Zhang Linlin took Chen Yuanyuan to a nearby vegetable stall to buy a lot of folded ear roots, saying that she would get her cold salad folded ear roots in the future, which frightened Chen Yuanyuan and shook his head.
"I really don't know why you two can't eat folded ear roots, isn't the bamboo grass root herbal tea in Guangdong made of folded ear roots!" Zhang Linlin said with a smile.
"Then you are not used to eating the stinky tofu in Xiangcheng, isn't it also made of tofu!" He Yuehua said with a smile.
"OKOK, I surrender! Let's go, I'll take you to a good meal, a shop owned by my junior high school classmates. After leaving the food stall, Zhang Linlin saw that it was getting late, so she took Chen Yuanyuan and He Yuehua to take a taxi.
About ten minutes later, the three of them came to the door of a small shop, and a girl wearing an apron with a thin yellow face walked out of the store.
"Linlin! It's been a long time, so come in, everything is ready. Yu Xia stepped forward and pulled Zhang Linlin into the store.
"My junior high school classmate Yu Xia, let me introduce you, they are round and flowery." Zhang Linlin introduced.
"Ah, hello, Zhang Linlin mentions the two of you every time she goes back to her hometown." Yu Xia pulled the mask on her face to block the wound on the bridge of her nose and said with a smile.
"Hello, do you make silk dolls in this shop? I remember once Linlin went back to Xiangcheng and brought it to us to eat. He Yuehua noticed Yu Xia's discomfort, so she changed the topic and said.
"Yes, yes, yes, you remember, I bought it at her house at that time." Zhang Linlin said happily.
"The freshly made silk doll is even more delicious, you can sit down, and I will bring it out now." Yu Xia went to the kitchen to take out a large tray, and Zhang Linlin noticed several bruises on Yu Xia's arms.
"Yu Xia, you..." Zhang Linlin was about to ask.
"Hurry up and eat, I'll add more to you if it's not enough!" Yu Xia hurriedly interrupted Zhang Linlin's words and pulled down her sleeves.
More than 20 small dishes are neatly placed on the tray, shredded radish, folded ear root, shredded kelp, shredded cucumber, pickled radish, fried soybeans, paste chili, lard residue, fried peanuts, celery, crispy whistle, etc., colorful side dishes make people salivate.
Chen Yuanyuan picked up a piece of pie crust, a palm-sized paper-thin pancake, sandwiched with his favorite side dishes and secret sauce, and the sour, spicy and refreshing taste made people can't stop biting.
"Your silk doll is so delicious, Zhang Linlin, why don't you learn this craft, every time I ask you what specialty dishes are cold salad folded ear root and fried watermelon rind!" Chen Yuanyuan said with a smile.
"The watermelon rind is delicious, you won't let me cook it!" Zhang Linlin pretended to be angry.
After eating the silk dolls, the four of them chatted in the store, and Yu Xia listened to the plan of the three of them to travel, with a look of envy on her face.
Chen Yuanyuan saw that it was getting late, so he contacted Xiao Li and asked him to come to the store to pick them up.
After Xiao Li arrived, Yu Xia took out two large incubators and asked them to take them to the car.
"One box here is a crispy whistle, which can be eaten with porridge and noodles or as a snack, and the other box is a silk doll, you can eat it when you are hungry on the road!" Yu Xia said.
"You must tell me if you have anything, don't hold it in your heart." After Zhang Linlin took the incubator, she said to Yu Xia seriously.
"Well, I will, you guys will sit next time, have fun, have a good trip!" Yu Xia said with a smile.
"Take care of yourself." Zhang Linlin stepped forward and hugged Yu Xia tightly, quietly put a stack of cash in the pocket of his apron and got into the car and left.
In the car, Zhang Linlin couldn't help but talk to Chen Yuanyuan and He Yuehua about Yu Xia.
After graduating from high school, Yu Xia could have gone to a good university and had a bright future.
But Yu Xia's brother has also entered the marriageable age, in order to raise money to marry him, the Yu family forced her to marry a street slicker in the same village for a bride price of 180,000 yuan.
Yu Xia's husband usually doesn't know how to learn, and he will do something to Yu Xia if he loses the gambling money, but for the sake of her three-year-old daughter, Yu Xia can only endure it again and again, and she is not willing to divorce.
After a long time, she can only bow her head in the face of life, and her long-term patience has made her lose the brilliance that a girl in her twenties should have.
So just now, Zhang Linlin felt sorry for what happened to Yu Xia, and she could only give her some cash, and if she transferred money, her husband would find out and take it to gamble, and she might have to take a beating.
Chen Yuanyuan couldn't sigh after hearing this, the saddest thing about people is not that there is no way to escape, but that they can clearly walk on the broad road, but they are cut off by their loved ones.