Erhu raised his face and said with great disdain,
"You're lucky this time, let's see if I don't beat him to pieces next time until he spirals into the sky!"
Uncle Tiger slapped the child's face and turned the "disdain" on the child's face into a humiliation and a roar of curses.
"Damn you, you little bastard, you haven't learned much about swearing, but you know how to do it. I think you've got a tight temper. Come on, come on, stick your head over here and let me give you a good break!"
Erhu dropped the food in his hands and ran for his life.
Uncle Tiger scolded angrily,
"You brat, come back here, do you still dare to run?"
Erhu smiled and took bigger steps.
"Only fools squat there and get beaten. Only incompetent people do that. A hero would rather die standing, but a bear would live on his knees!"
Uncle Tiger scolded,
"What a bastard! I just said that your mother forgot to read the almanac the day she was pregnant with you..."
Everyone: "..."
It has to be said that the ferocious-looking Uncle Tiger is still very humane - the rhetoric of scolding his son is enough to prove that Uncle Tiger is still deeply attached to the deceased Aunt Tiger.
What a strong, irresolvable emotion~
Sister-in-law Hu gave Uncle Hu angrily and rolled her eyes at him.
"That's cool, the kids are all here!"
Uncle Tiger sat down angrily.
Sister-in-law Hu: "What are you doing sitting there? Ma Liu'er is cooking!"
Uncle Tiger stood up angrily.
After walking around in a circle, he started busy beside the stove without saying a word.
Mrs. Hu looked at it with a smile and said to several people,
"It's so embarrassing to ask who taught it. If the son doesn't teach, it's the father's fault."
It's just Mrs. Hu's demeanor and eyes, emmmmmmm...
Bu Nanzhi's eyes were strange, looking back and forth between Sister-in-law Hu and Uncle Hu.
Lin Chou suddenly felt that if he continued like this, he might not even be able to eat dinner - what happened to this world? In the shadows that we can't see, how many production lines are still hiding in the wild to output hot and fragrant dog food?
However, Uncle Tiger and Sister Hu should have gotten together ten years ago.
The broken wall that was in the way seemed like it could collapse at any time even though neither of them were tall enough. It was like there was no movement between the two of them for ten years.
Lin Chou glanced at the broken wall. Beyond the wall was Mrs. Hu's yard filled with soy sauce vats.
Human intuition is a very scary thing. There is indeed a reason why he found this wall displeasing to him when he was a child.
Lin Chou said to Leng Han,
"It's still early, how about taking a walk around the area?"
Bu Nanzhi said enthusiastically,
"Okay, okay, I haven't played in the alley yet!"
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Dasha scratched his head,
"I'm not going, I'm helping Uncle Tiger."
He said this in a very worried tone,
"Come back before dinner, I won't wait for you."
"I know, I know."
The three of them went out. Opposite was the "ancestral property" of Lin Chou's family. The plaque was still crooked. When they opened the door and entered, they could see several tables in the small space. The dark wood was polished and shiny. The edges and corners have long since turned into smooth arcs.
"This is my home - actually I don't like this place very much. The delicious food my father cooks is always for others. He opens the door every morning and closes in the afternoon. He goes out to do other work and doesn't come back until late at night. Well, the small shop at the door of the kitchen You see, I’ll sleep here.”
The furnishings in the shop are still the same as when they were last opened. There is no dust. Uncle Hu and Mrs. Hu must come here often to clean.
Leng Han looked around curiously, then sat down on a long bench.
"Is it open in the morning?"
Lin Chou nodded,
"Yes, there are very few strangers who come to the door. They are mainly children in the alley. After all, the subsidies from the Child Development Committee are quite generous. Speaking of which, the old lady in Majiao Alley has been thinking about the children in my shop for many years. I was holding her in so hard that no matter how much trouble she made, I just wouldn’t let go!”
"Let me tell you, this aunt is very powerful. She has been in charge of the three lanes for decades and has no opponent. How can anyone be able to explode in front of her? Oh my, how many people are shrouded in the thorns In the shadow of Aunt Zi, although Aunt Zizi is retired now, her power is still there... Tsk, I don’t know what she does for a living now that she doesn’t receive a salary. Hehehe, I suggest she actually raise a dog - —”
As he said this, Lin Chou's mouth watered.
"The dog raised by the auntie, the dog meat tastes amazing!"
Our boss Lin is still obsessed with Wu Xiaohei’s earth-shattering and wonderful taste.
"It's a pity... I probably won't be able to eat it in this life..."
Bu Nanzhi walked around in the kitchen while listening to Lin Chou nian talking about the glorious history of chasing Wu Xiaohei N streets and Wu Xiaohei's detailed explanation of cooking.
"Strange, what kind of wood is this? Why does it smell like meat?"
She walked out with a thick, black stick in her hand and asked excitedly.
Lin Chou blinked,
"Oh, where did you find it? Isn't this the 'Fifth Doctor'? Hey, it's used for stewed mutton passed down from our ancestors. I haven't seen this thing for seven or eight years..."
Bu Nanzhi was confused.
"What fifth doctor? Stew...mutton?"
Lin Chou took over an arm-thick black shiny pine stick. It was bent like a chicken wing. The surface had become stubbled due to not being used for many years. Seven or eight years ago, when Lin Chou saw his father stewing meat with this stick, it was still very smooth. Yes, the hardest layer of bark is tightly attached to the trunk, and the patterns are very beautiful.
"Well, my dad believes in this. It has a delicate fragrance and can remove fishy and tender meat."
"This wooden stick is many years old. It is said that it is the ancestor of our old Lin family for unknown generations... I picked up the remaining branches of the two washed-out Wudafu pine trees in Taishan during the Wanli period of Ming Dynasty before the catastrophe - who knows? Well, you’re bragging, my dad even said he wanted to pass it on to me as a family heirloom, but I refused, and then I didn’t know where to throw it.”
Leng Han looked very interested, while Bu Nanzhi said in surprise,
"Wow, that's amazing. Before the catastrophe? Ming Dynasty? So many years..."
Lin Chou tossed the poor "Five Doctors" around in his hands.
"My dad likes to make these weird things. He blows water every day. Only if you believe him can you believe that he is a ghost... But the ancestors of this thing have indeed been using it for many years. You can smell the smell of sheep when you put it in your hand. The smell of bone sticks and centuries-old bacon shells.”
Leng Han's eyes seemed to suddenly light up. When Lin Chou tossed the fifth doctor, he immediately caught it, put it in front of him and sniffed it gently.
Lin Chou: "..."
After checking his eyes, his pupils dilated and his eyes flickered.
Leng Han said with a little excitement,
“It does smell like bacon!!”
Lin Chou: "..."
"Well, if you like, just keep it. Let's go and go out for a walk. I haven't been back for a long time."
The three of them walked along the narrow alley to the other end, and Lin Chou babbled,
"The house at the end of the alley used to raise a lot of big geese. As the class enemies know, they gathered a group of friends and treated them as bosses. Alas, even though the height increased from 1.3 meters to 1.5 meters, they were still being chased. Running for my life all the way through the alley, I can’t bear to look back on the past—I remember that the little girl from that family was pretty good-looking.”
"Here, right here, there used to be a weasel hole. You know that stuff, it's fishy and nasty. My friends and I took turns blocking the entrance of the hole for six days and almost demolished the wall. But we finally caught it. I soaked it in cold water for a day and stewed it, and it became fragrant~"
"Here, here, here, damn, think about it, I was still in the second grade at that time. My friends and I stepped on a paving stone here one day, and found that there was a layer of culvert made of bluestone under the back, which was more than a dozen Centimeter wide and more than ten centimeters high, long and square, we firmly believed that this place might be an ancient tomb or a treasure or something. After digging, hey, we dug two or three meters long, and we really found something. There was a square pit full of water, just like a square well. After struggling for a long time, no one dared to go down, so they had to go home. Later I found out that the culvert was dug by a family in the alley. The sewer is connected to the toilet, and the square well at the back is a cesspool, which has not been used for many years."
"My friends and I were shocked! We almost washed off a layer of skin on our hands afterwards!"
Bu Nanzhi laughed so hard that even Leng Han couldn't help laughing.
Lin Chou turned around and pointed again,
"Now, and over there, just out of the alley, there is a big tree. I forgot what it is. There are a few big bluestones underneath. I used to sit there when I had nothing to do, waiting for my dad to come back. Today I'm going to eat some meat buns and some cakes and pancakes tomorrow. I feel like eating there is so delicious and I feel like I'm showing off - when I was still 1.345 meters tall, a super nice eldest sister moved here to live with me. I’ve been there for a while, and I’m very impressed~”
Leng Han paid attention, and Bu Nanzhi paid attention.
Lin Chou continued,
"At that time, no one in the alley had ever seen such a beautiful big sister. The little girls were also very envious. That big sister always had new clothes of various styles that they had never seen before - I guess I’m not the only one who thinks that after Big Sister came, all the scenery and people in this alley were painted in black and white, and only Big Sister herself was in color, at the level of a goddess!”
Bu Nanzhi snorted,
"How old were you then when you knew how to look at beautiful big sisters? Hey, eight years old? Nine years old? Ten years old?"
Lin Chou scratched his head,
"Hey, it doesn't matter. The pursuit of beauty has no age limit or race, hey!"
"That's when Aunt Zizi started to attract hatred. A whole generation of people in the alley hated her. She always brought some inexplicable people to the eldest sister. Now think about it, it was actually a blind date. Then not long after, eldest sister He was taken away wearing red and green."
"Now that I think about it, it doesn't seem right. My eldest sister has so many new clothes to wear. Her family must be very rich, so she won't be able to... forget it..."
Of course, Lin Chou was smart enough to omit a certain part of the conversation with her eldest sister, even if she didn't even mention it!
Leng Han frowned.
Somehow, what Lin Chou said always felt very familiar to her, as if she had heard it somewhere.
When Lin Chou saw Leng Han's subtle expression, his strong desire to survive told him that he could not continue this topic, and he would be wrong if he spoke too much.
Well, I talked too much today.
then:
"Ha, we're at the market. Market No. 11 is busy, right?"
Not far from the alley is the No. 11 Market where Lin Chou used to go.
Bu Nanzhi and Leng Han were both stunned.
"So many people..."
The crowds were bustling, everything was black as far as the eye could see, and the sounds of hawkers and hawkers came and went, turning into a "buzzing" sound in the ears of the three of them.
Lin Chou said,
"It's so cheap here. It supplies a quarter of the downtown area. The number of merchants alone is probably in the tens of thousands."
The three people were obviously out of tune with the crowd around them, and everyone subconsciously avoided these "well-dressed" people.
In their view, this was obviously an evolved person who had nothing to do and came to join in the fun. No one would be stupid enough to get into trouble.
The surrounding vendors became energized when they saw it.
"Hey, some evolved masters, here we have a pure hare brought back from the Zushan Mountain. It is very fat. It only costs nine points per pound. This is the only one!"
"The best green rice only weighs one pound and two taels. It is a rare thing in the high-end market. Sir, would you like to see it?"
"The Teppanyaki Teppanyaki has exploded the giant squid, order a bunch of them from Juliu."
"Medicine, medicine, Cheke Nao, a set of pancakes and fruits~"
Bu Nanzhi touched her belly.
This atmosphere, this bustling atmosphere and the smell of giant squid made her stomach rebel.
"Huh?" Bu Nanzhi walked to the corner next to a stall, "Mother-in-law, did you fall? Is the thing too heavy?"
An old woman with gray hair sat in the corner, with a half-opened coarse cloth package in front of her.
The old woman looked up,
"Old lady, I'm fine. The girl is so kind..."
Bu Nanzhi said oh,
"Mother-in-law, what are you doing here?"
The old woman showed her few remaining teeth and smiled and said,
"Selling fish. My son fishes in the river outside the city every day. It's so dangerous outside the city. I can't help the old lady. I come here every day to sell. The old lady can't afford to rent a stall, so she just makes a living here. When the management comes, I will cover it up and hide, but I don’t dare to touch the old woman. What can I do~ Hehe, if you don’t let me sell it, I will just lie down, old woman!”
As he spoke, he opened the dirty cloth bag, and sure enough, most of the fish was exposed inside, with only the fish head attached to a length of the fish body.
Bu Nanzhi said strangely,
"This fish head is so big! Why is it only half a fish?"
The old lady smiled kindly,
"You must be an evolution master. We live in the lower city. No one is willing to buy a whole fish. They are cut into pieces and sold in half a catty. When we go home, they are also cooked for the children. There is not much on the head of the fish. Of course there is leftover meat, old woman, after I sell out the fish head, I should go back with the meat behind it."
In fact, meat has not been easy to sell recently, and it is extremely cheap. It is all because of the animal trend.
Bu Nanzhi said oh again and turned around.
"Lin Chou, what kind of fish is this?"
Lin Chou said,
"Silver carp."
In fact, before Lin Chou could answer, Bu Nanzhi said to the old woman,
"I want this fish, how much does it cost?"
The old woman was very happy,
"How can this be so embarrassing? How can the evolution master like this kind of ordinary fish..."
Bu Nanzhi directly picked up the cloth bag, dropped a Yuan Jing note with a face value of 100, and ran away.
"I'll take the package with me too~"
Lin Chou Lenghan laughed and ran after her.
The old woman shouted anxiously from behind,
"Too many, too many, this fish can only be worth twenty points at most... Hey... little girl... why are you running away..."
