The heroine's brother is salted fish online

Lu Xiaolei carried big bags and small bags and walked slowly up one step after another. There is no elevator in this old-fashioned tube building, so he climbed all by his legs. Fortunately, he was on the second floor where Old Man He lived. Otherwise, he might be holding such a pile of things. Climbed enough.

It can be seen that the ghost's old-fashioned anti-theft door can hardly even find the doorbell.

It was hard to find the doorbell behind a pair of Spring Festival couplets, and after pressing it twice, someone replied, "Hello, who is it?"

It was the voice of a young man.

Lu Xiaolei was taken aback when he heard the voice: young man?Didn't it mean that old man He doesn't live with his grandson on weekdays?

What if it's a neighbor?

For some reason, Lu Xiaolei always felt that the voice was familiar, and couldn't remember where he heard it.

But now, he can't back down anymore, so Lu Xiaolei could only bite the bullet and say: "Uncle He, I'm He Xiang's friend, I'm here to see you!"

The person inside replied after a while: "Come right away."

The commercial smirk that Lu Xiaolei had prepared collapsed instantly when he saw the person coming:

"why you?"

Chu Xiao, who was dressed in a suit and leather shoes, obviously did not expect Lu Xiaolei's appearance, but he was very self-cultivated, so he just raised his eyebrows slightly to express his surprise and smiled at him: "We are really destined."

"Xiao Chu, who's here? Could it be those brats from the construction team again? It's been going on every day, can't people stop?"

Following Chu Xiao, an old man with a cane came out from the room. His snow-white hair was somewhat fairy-like, but his complexion was reddish, and he seemed to be angry at first glance. He was probably the legendary Tieguai Master Hey old man.

The old man walked quickly on crutches, and soon came to the entrance, looked Lu Xiaolei up and down, with suspicion on his face: "Are you He Xiang's friend?"

He was full of energy, and he didn't seem to be seriously injured.

Lu Xiaolei's business model was fully activated, with a very bright smile on his small face: "Yes, Grandpa He, I'm on good terms with He Xiang, if you don't believe me, you can ask Chu Xiao."

The old man turned his head: "Xiao Chu, do you know this young man?"

With a smile on Chu Xiao's face, a trace of narrowness flashed in his eyes, and he said to old man He: "I know, he is indeed He Xiang's friend."

The old man was overjoyed: "Oh, what are you still doing outside? Come in, kid."

This appellation changed from a young man to a child in an instant, and Mr. Chu's words really worked.

The old man turned sideways to get out of the way, and when he lowered his head, he happened to see the big and small bags in Lu Xiaolei's hands, and the old man was even more delighted: "Oh, come as you please, it's too polite to bring so many things gone."

Lu Xiaolei hurriedly borrowed the slope to get off the donkey: "I heard He Xiang talk about his grandfather a long time ago, but I never found a chance to see you. I passed by today, so I will stop by to have a look."

The old man probably hadn't been in the house for a long time, so Lu Xiaolei praised him so much that he couldn't find his way in a few words, and his address changed from "children" to "Xiaolu".

During the conversation, Lu Xiaolei found out that He Xiang was Chu Xiao's classmate when he was abroad, but he studied journalism alone, and he studied law with a minor in business administration.

The three of them chatted in the living room for a while, and the old man He said that he wanted to stay for dinner: "You see, you are all here, you can't waste the two bottles of good wine brought by Xiaolu, can you? If no one comes, everything will be lively today.”

Lu Xiaolei waved his hands again and again: "No, no, well, I'd better go back to eat, and besides, you are injured, so don't go to the kitchen."

The old man He said ghostly: "Xiao Lu, you see that my old man is injured. Are you young people not even willing to eat with me?"

Injured by a ghost, I just saw you running faster than a rabbit, ten young people can't catch up with you!

Lu Xiaolei looked at Chu Xiao, who was drinking tea quietly, in embarrassment, and thought of a plan: "This... I don't care, I'm afraid it will delay Mr. Chu's time..."

A good young man who is understanding and considerate.

Unexpectedly, Chu Xiao gently put the teacup back on the coffee table, with a smile of spring breeze on his lips: "I'm not busy."

"..."

Lu Xiaolei was smiling on the surface, but in his heart you were paralyzed.

Lao Tzu said that if you are busy, you must be busy. I don't want you to think, I want me to think!

But when it came to this point, Lu Xiaolei had no choice but to compromise: "That's all right, old man, what do you want to eat, I'll go shopping."

"Braised elbows! Sixi meatballs!" Old man He ordered unceremoniously.

——Aren’t you afraid of brain congestion after eating so greasy?

Lu Xiaolei glanced at Chu Xiao weakly, and before he could speak, he saw Chu Xiao smiling: "Can you cook fish?"

Well, another uncle who pretends to go to a restaurant by himself.

Lu Xiaolei couldn't figure out why things turned out like this.

Not only did he fail to make it, but he was dragged out by Chu Xiao to buy vegetables for no reason.

And it's still in this noisy, dirty, old vegetable market with people coming and going.

"The eastern district is an old town, and the nearest supermarket is at least half an hour's walk away. The old man may have fainted from hunger after buying the vegetables." Chu Xiao said as he dragged people to the vegetable market.

Lu Xiaolei didn't mind, on the contrary, he actually liked going to the vegetable market.

"Master Lu, do you eat spicy food?" With a clear voice, it was Chu Xiao standing in front of the vegetable stand in a suit and leather shoes picking peppers. He seemed not very clear about the various varieties of peppers.

Lu Xiaolei had no choice but to step forward: "Eat, hey, don't want this big one, it looks red and not spicy at all, yes, it's this small one, one by one, that can make you so spicy."

Chu had no choice but to step back and watch this man perform with a smile on his face.

After picking out half a pocket of chili peppers and weighing them, the vendor glanced at them and said:

"Two yuan and three, please go ahead."

Lu Xiaolei stared at the scale, and picked up the pepper: "Five yuan a catty, such a bag is half a catty? Is your scale accurate?"

The peddler didn't even raise his eyelids: "You are innocent, you can go to the fair scale in front and weigh it again."

Lu Xiaolei took the chili pepper and began to act coquettishly at the vendor: "Two yuan is enough, and you have the nerve to ask me for three cents?"

"Small business, don't embarrass me." The peddler looked impartial and refused to take this trick at all.

Lu Xiaolei made another plan after failing to make a plan: "Then you get San Mao's peppers, and I only need two dollars for peppers."

"Come on, can I give you two shallots?"

"Then you pick two stronger ones for me."

"All right, all right, I'm afraid of you." The vendor shook his head and admitted defeat, while filling Lu Xiaolei with vegetables in his pocket, he said, "Hey, you young man, you look so delicate, how can you be so smart?"

Lu Xiaolei immediately put on a melancholy face: "It's hard to earn money to support the family. It's not easy to be an older brother. It's hard for the next three younger siblings to rely on me to support them."

In order to visit Old Man Lu today, he purposely only wore a shirt, a T-shirt and jeans, and he looked like a college student who just graduated from outside.

The peddler nodded sympathetically: "Is it so hard?"

"No, look at my yellow and thin face." Lu Xiaolei said, showing off his two slender arms that had only grown two taels of muscle.

"It's not easy to see, so I'll give you two more heads of garlic." Seeing Lu Xiaolei's bony hands, the peddler burst into sympathy, and generously stuffed two more heads of garlic to Lu Xiaolei.

Chu Xiao on the side stared dumbfounded at Lu Xiaolei supporting this big show by himself, and didn't know what to say for a moment.

When it was time to pay, Lu Xiaolei's face suddenly changed, and he waved vigorously at Chu Xiao.

Fortunately, Chu Xiao has a very good self-cultivation, and he is not afraid of getting dirty in an expensive suit. He is as calm as he is in his own garden when stepping on the rotten leaf stalks everywhere in the vegetable market: "Is there anything wrong with Lu?"

Lu Xiaolei hurriedly said: "Jianghu emergency, all the money on my body was given to the engineering team to drink, and half a dime is gone."

So I watched Chu Xiao take out a wallet from his body, and took out from it——

A black card?

Lu Xiaolei wanted to cry but had no tears: "Brother, do you think small vendors will have POS machines for you?"

Chu Xiao calmly took the card back, smiled slowly at the expectant Lu Xiaolei, turned to the vendor who was waiting for the cash and goods to be settled, and said, "Excuse me, where is the nearest ATM?"

Lu Xiaolei's smiling face instantly collapsed.

As expected of a merchant who has seen the world, he lightly took out a card from the pile of vegetables and threw it in front of the two of them.

The two stepped forward to see a square QR code.

"Support mobile payment." The vendor's eyes seemed to be looking at two mentally retarded people.

After some twists and turns, the two finally bought all the ingredients at the vegetable market.

"I'm sorry, I've been abroad for a long time, and I'm used to swiping cards and cash." Chu Xiao explained, carrying two big pockets, "But you don't know, Mr. Lu, so I'm a little surprised."

Lu Xiaolei also had a pocket of vegetables in one hand, looked at a woman holding a child in front of him, and said slowly: "It's been a long time since I went to the vegetable market, and I forgot that now is the era when you can pay with mobile phones."

The last time he went to such a place was before he was ten years old.

At that time, the family was not so rich, and his mother Chen Tingyue still had to go to work to support the family. After he was picked up at the school gate, he was often taken hand in hand to go to the vegetable market near his home to buy vegetables and go home.

At that time, Lu Xiaomiao was just over one year old, and the meat dumpling only wanted milk. Chen Tingyue would often buy some thin fish meat and cook it with rice porridge to make a paste for Lu Xiaomiao to add supplementary food, so that the whole family had to wait. She can only serve the table after the young lady has eaten.

It was also a very sweet day.

Lu Xiaolei actually likes the scene in the vegetable market where people are quarreling for a piece of [-] cents. It is the most realistic and humane fireworks.

It's a pity that his father's business grew bigger and bigger, and his money increased, but his family returned less and less.

Until the two divorced later, the family never had a meal at home again.

The two walked for a while on the small road covered with afterglow, and when they turned a corner, they could see an intersection of Tongzilou, Lu Xiaolei stopped suddenly.

Chu Xiao also stopped, quietly waiting for Lu Xiaolei to speak.

"Tell me, why did you appear here today? It must not be as simple as visiting your classmate's grandfather, right?"

Lu Xiaolei's beautiful face, when he became serious, was like a statue of a god, carrying an unapproachable power.

The author has something to say: The business line of the brother-in-law is opened, and the task [-] is unlocked: grocery shopping.Obtained props: one of Mr. Chu.