After Li Zhengyi's parents got up, he had already sneaked out for a run and came back.
Although he was a little surprised as to why his son got up so early, he didn't say much.
After breakfast, Li Jianjun took him out again. The New Year is coming, and there are a lot of things that need to be bought.
Even though it was only after nine o'clock in the morning, the streets and alleys of Xichuan County became lively, with firecrackers sounding one after another and red confetti flying.
The crowds on the street were bustling with people, the laughter of adults and children, and the noise of various hawkers intertwined together, like breaking into a bee nest.
But everyone I saw was wearing new clothes and had a happy smile on their face.
When we arrived at the market, there were also a dazzling array of New Year's goods. Almost every stall was crowded with people, making it difficult to walk.
Maybe it was because people in previous lives had gradually lost their incomparable enthusiasm for the New Year. Entering such a lively scene, Li Zhengyi felt a little embarrassed for a while.
Fortunately, there are adults around so the child can't be lost.
"What are you looking at? Go shopping first."
Father Li gave him a hand, and then squeezed towards the stall inside.
After arriving at the place, seeing all kinds of fresh vegetables, meat, seafood, candies and various New Year's goods filling the shelves, Li Zhengyi actually thought of using the word spectacular to describe the scene in front of him.
Since he didn't know how to choose, Li's father didn't let him interfere with vegetables and meat. He only had to follow behind to carry things, and Li Zhengyi was happy to do so.
When he turned around and looked around, he saw the squad leader. Li Zhengyi saw that her usually quiet face was as excited as a little rabbit at this moment.
Holding a red plastic bag in his hand, he followed a middle-aged couple. After taking two steps, he felt as if someone was watching him.
Turning around, she saw Li Zhengyi in the class grinning at her with bared teeth. She didn't know what she thought of, but her face turned a little blushing.
There was no extended story about this chance encounter between classmates. The two just smiled and waved, and continued to do hard work behind various parents.
"What are you looking at? Come on, pick up this piece of meat."
No, Li Zhengyi is the only one working as a coolie.
I thought it would always be like this, but when I arrived at the candy stall, Father Li took the bag in his hand and let him pick.
"You know these things, it's up to you to choose."
I know? I know how to eat...
But as a pure man, how can he back down?
Li Zhengyi doesn't care about anything else, he just grabs a handful of candies he likes when he sees the packaging. The boss's front teeth were sticking out from his smile. Li Qin was twitching at the corner of his eyes beside him, thinking that he must not let this kid have spare money in the future.
After squeezing out of the market, I found that more than an hour had passed.
They picked out their favorite couplets from a stall next to the market, and then the two of them walked back carrying large and small bags.
Don't even think about taking a car. At this time, no one can walk fast on the streets.
Instead of sitting in the car and honking the horn and feeling miserable, it would be better to walk back and have fun. It’s not that far anyway, and you can still exercise on the way.
Father Li couldn't resist, and Li Zhengyi grabbed all the big and small bags in his hands.
Although he didn't say it, he was very happy in his heart, feeling that his son had finally grown up.
Looking at Li Zhengyi, he became more and more satisfied. Although his son's academic performance was average, there was nothing else to say.
Apart from anything else, compared with the children of Lao Wang's family in my own unit, they are simply better.
I thought that the boy from Lao Wang's family could do such a thing at such a young age. While Li Jianjun was disdainful, he instantly felt a little complacent about the education of his children.
But suddenly I thought about what I just heard yesterday about my son's puppy love.
I was wondering if I should prepare a house and money for this kid to get married, and suddenly I felt a little worried again.
"Why did you two come back? We are almost done."
"Hey, it's good to be back at this time. You really don't know how congested the streets are. I'm really tired. Let me rest for a while."
Although he said this, Father Li still took the broom from his daughter's hand and said, "There is candy at your brother's place, go and eat it."
Li Xiaoli's big round eyes immediately lit up, and she rushed to the bag Li Zhengyi had put down to rummage around.
Now that his father had set an example, Li Zhengyi was not idle and started helping his mother clean the house.
The family worked together and it didn't take long to clean the house inside and out.
After posting the couplets, I took a break.
"I'm going to buy something more and I'll be back in a while."
Li Zhengyi took the initiative to take on the task of throwing away the garbage. At the same time, Li Zhengyi took this opportunity to sneak out again.
I originally thought of buying some scorpions, centipedes and other insects from a reptile shop, but after walking around, I didn't see any reptile shop anywhere.
It makes sense when you think about it. After all, people today have not become what they were later, and they are not so idle as to keep a bug as a pet.
Li Zhengyi then thought of going to a traditional Chinese medicine store to have a look, thinking that he might be able to get some dried insects or something like that.
In his impression, a large pharmacy on the central street of the county town should sell Chinese medicine, but when he arrived, he found that it was still open.
There were two young ladies who were a little older than him. When they saw such a handsome young man coming in, they didn't even get up to say hello. They just asked what they wanted without any thought.
Li Zhengyi couldn't help but give them a bad review in his heart, but he didn't want to run away too much, so he decided to buy it here instead of worrying about young people like them who had never seen a handsome guy before.
"Bring me a pound of centipedes."
"What!?"
"Uh, do you have half a pound?"
When they heard that Li Zhengyi wanted to buy a pound of centipedes, the two young ladies immediately stood up.
But in the end, he still didn't buy a pound, or even half a pound. It wasn't that the store didn't have it, but that he couldn't afford it.
He only bought 20 dried centipedes as long as one finger, which cost him 20 yuan.
I originally thought that if I had ten thousand yuan to follow me, I would be blessed, but I didn't expect that I couldn't even eat bugs.
He thought that the 400 yuan he got before would last for a while, but now he saw that the little thing would be enough for him in just a few meals.
So Li Zhengyi thought of finding an opportunity to take out the silver ingots and sell one first to relieve the financial pressure.
But I’m not busy right now, I’ll wait until school starts.
I took a path and found a remote corner. I let the little guy's head stick out from his sleeves and prepared to treat it to a big meal.
"cocoa…"
Unexpectedly, when it saw the dried centipede handed over by Li Zhengyi, it actually avoided it in disgust.
what happened? Didn’t you say you like to eat poisonous insects?
"Coco~"
After making gestures and exchanges, Li Zhengyi realized that the centipede given to him by Ten Thousand Dislikes was actually dead.
Fortunately, as a good boy, Ten Wan is extremely obedient.
Li Zhengyi coaxed it, but it still reluctantly ate the centipedes.
But what should we do after this meal?
Do you really want to catch it alive, but in this winter, you can't find a place to catch it.
