Xu Wantang first went to the supply and marketing cooperative and bought a few plates, a basin, and two pairs of bowls and chopsticks.
In addition, Xu Wantang also bought a few bottles of soda. As soon as she left the supply and marketing cooperative, she drank one bottle heroically and controlled the water vigorously to ensure that there was almost no water in it. Cap the bottle and put it together with the dishes and chopsticks to avoid breaking the useful empty soda bottle.
But Xu Wantang couldn't finish the two bottles of soda. She only drank one bottle, and her stomach felt so bloated that she hiccupped from time to time. Not to mention how uncomfortable the taste was.
Sure enough, drinking so much soda when you don't want to drink soda is torture.
Xu Wantang didn't want to torture herself like this anymore, so she simply stopped a group of children on the street, asked them who wanted to drink soda, and asked them to leave the bottle to her after they finished drinking.
Several children were a little wary at first, but after seeing Xu Wantang's appearance, some children immediately relaxed their vigilance.
Especially one of them, a chubby girl, took the soda from Xu Wantang's hand very boldly, unscrewed it and started to drink it.
Another little boy saw her and stopped her quickly, saying righteously, "Fat Ya, have you forgotten what the teacher told us? Don't drink things given by strangers!"
The little fat girl glanced at him and easily broke away from the little boy's shackles. "What are you afraid of? Human traffickers are all bad people. How can a bad person be so beautiful?"
After saying that, he started drinking.
Xu Wantang: "..."
Seeing Fatty drink, the other children couldn't help but swallow their saliva, and they all looked at Xu Wantang with pitiful eyes.
But Xu Wantang didn't hand over the soda as readily as before.
After hearing what the little boy said just now, she realized that what she was doing was inappropriate.
There are many human traffickers who abduct and traffic children these days. Her behavior not only easily causes misunderstandings among others, but also makes these children relax their vigilance.
She is not a human trafficker, so she will not harm these children, but what about next time?
If someone with evil intentions used the same method to deliberately get close to these children, these children would most likely relax their vigilance because she was safe this time, leading to tragedy.
Xu Wantang, who has been reborn, is not a bad person, but she doesn't want such a young child to indirectly end up in a dead end because of her unintentional actions.
So, Xu Wantang first praised the little boy and said that he was right, and then gave them a few simple lessons, such as: whether a person is bad or not has nothing to do with appearance, you cannot eat food given by strangers, you cannot just go with strangers, etc. wait.
Several children looked at her blankly, apparently listening.
She then felt relieved and planned to continue doing her own thing.
But when she turned around, she almost ran into a man's arms.
Xu Wantang didn't expect that someone would be standing behind her, so she quickly stepped back, trying to distance herself from that person.
She retreated in such a hurry that she didn't notice the pebbles under her feet. She couldn't stop for a moment and stumbled.
The next second, her arm was firmly held by someone.
The other party was very strong, and Xu Wantang stood up straight almost immediately. She was not used to having such close contact with others, especially the opposite sex, so she retracted her hand without leaving a trace and took another step back.
Xu Wantang raised his head and was about to politely say thank you when he saw a familiar face, it was Lu Yunzheng.
Xu Wantang's face stiffened almost instantly, and returned to the frosty look he had when getting along with Lu Yunzheng yesterday, "Thank you."
After saying that, Xu Wantang left without looking back.
Lu Yunzheng came out to buy noodles today. Last night he took Zhao Youyou out to eat. Zhao Youyou was so angry that she didn't even eat a bite. No matter how hard he tried to persuade her, it was of no use.
The result of not eating was that I cried for noodles early this morning, and they had to be tomato and egg noodles.
Lu Yunzheng had no choice but to go out to buy noodles in a hurry, and while waiting for the boss to cook noodles, he wanted to smoke a cigarette, and happened to see Xu Wantang, who was carrying something in one hand and holding his waist with the other to teach his child.
The scene in front of him was so fresh that when he came to his senses, he had already put away his cigarette and quietly walked behind Xu Wantang to watch the fun...
He didn't expect Xu Wantang to turn around suddenly. It was almost a subconscious reaction. Lu Yunzheng quickly grabbed her arm to prevent her from falling.
But the next second, Lu Yunzheng saw Xu Wantang's cold expression avoiding him, his eyes darkened, and the irritable feeling in his heart surged up again.
Is he a monster? Or is there some virus on him? For her to avoid him like this? !
"I feel so energetic when educating other people's children." Lu Yunzheng said in a strange tone, thinking about Xu Wantang's cold expression just now.
The moment the words came out of his mouth, even Lu Yunzheng himself was stunned for a moment.
Did these angry words like those of a primary school student come out of his mouth?
When had he ever said such a thing in his life?
It seemed that he was so angry that Xu Wantang became dizzy.
At this time, he had regained his senses and naturally realized the inappropriateness of his words. Just as he was about to explain and apologize, he was suddenly interrupted by Xu Wantang not far away.
I just heard her chuckle, as if she was mocking herself, and said, "Yes, I love educating other people's children. Otherwise, how could I rush to be a stepmother for others?"
Her gentle tone fell lightly on Lu Yunzheng's heart, but for some reason, it caused quite a stir, leaving him inexplicably at a loss.
Xu Wantang ignored Lu Yunzheng, who was standing like a pillar in the middle of the road, and left quickly, planning to go to the grocery store to buy some ingredients.
On the way, Xu Wantang couldn't help but think of Lu Yunzheng, who seemed to have his head lowered.
She frowned, was Lu Yunzheng in the previous life so annoying?
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The non-staple food store is located in the alley not far away. The non-staple food store occupies a small area and only has a small plaque.
But although the sparrow is small, it has all five internal organs.
There is a low chopping board in the open space in front of the grocery store, with various vegetables on it: green onions, tomatoes, potatoes, green peppers...
Xu Wantang packed onions, ginger, garlic, some green peppers, tomatoes and potatoes.
When you enter the door of the grocery store, you will see several large vats containing various liquid condiments, such as soy sauce, vinegar, cooking oil, sesame paste, etc.
Spices in grocery stores: soy sauce and vinegar are available in bulk in jars or in bottles. Bulk seasonings in jars are much cheaper than bottled ones. Xu Wantang originally planned to use soda bottles to store bulk liquid seasonings, which can save money. , not to waste, but now she only had one empty bottle, so she asked the salesperson to get more expensive bottles of soy sauce and vinegar, and bought some bags of seasonings: salt, sugar, star anise, cinnamon and other spices.
Oil is necessary for cooking. The oil sold in grocery stores is either in large barrels or bulk oil in large tanks.
Xu Wantang only cooked one meal, and it was too wasteful to buy a large barrel of oil. At this time, the soda bottle came in handy. She asked the salesperson to fill a glass bottle of oil for her.
After finishing the purchase, Xu Wantang walked to the right, which was the meat selling area. After Xu Wantang selected a large piece of good-quality pork belly, he took out the non-staple food book from his pocket and handed it to the salesperson along with the money.
Today is the early 1980s, an era of planned economy. When buying meat and vegetables, you don’t buy on demand as you did later, but you buy in limited quantities.
In the early 1980s, every household had a non-staple food book. The number of non-staple food that could be purchased in a month was fixed, and you could not buy more. You had to show the non-staple food book every time you purchased it, and record what you had purchased in the non-staple food book. If the quantity exceeds, you can no longer buy it.
Because Xu Wantang was responsible for the family's food, clothing, housing and transportation in the Lu family, this food book had always been kept at her place, and it came in handy at this time.
