Ginger's grocery store

"Jiang Cheng, you slow procrastinator, you've finished everything, and you're still in the toilet." Jiang's mother, Gao Xiuli, stood at the toilet door, frowned and looked at her husband inside with dissatisfaction, and agreed to leave for Yuanyuan at nine o'clock. over there. "

Jiang Cheng: "..." Forget it, men can't reason with their wives, "I'll be right away, just wait for me."

"Okay, Xiaoxiao and I will go downstairs first, and we will wait for you downstairs."

Jiang Cheng could say nothing, but he agreed.

It was agreed to start at nine o'clock, get up at six o'clock to make breakfast, wake up my daughter at one o'clock, and pack everything up at eight o'clock.When she was about to leave, the princess opened the closet and said that this dress was not good-looking and that one was not good. The closet was full of clothes from last year, and she had nothing to wear. She asked her wife to study for a long time what to wear.

Jiang Cheng, who was waiting on the sidelines, had no turmoil in his heart, and even wanted to smoke a cigarette easily. As a father, he was so calm, and he didn't even need to say to his daughter: Did you run naked last year?

After the daughter chooses the clothes, it is the wife's turn.

Jiang Cheng couldn't go left and right, so he watched half the game and went to the bathroom. After 5 minutes of going to the bathroom, his wife and daughter came out. In the end, he became a time waster.

"Oh." It's not easy being a husband/father.

Coming out of the toilet, Jiang Cheng finally checked whether the natural gas, switch, and router in the house were turned off, and then went out and took the elevator downstairs.

Today is a special day—New Year’s Eve, the company is on holiday today, my wife’s unit is also off today, and my daughter just came home yesterday as a senior high school student. They will drive to Nanzhou City to Kunwuju with Jiang Yuan, grandma, and Everyone in Kunwuju celebrates the New Year together.

In Nanzhou City, the school is on winter vacation, and the old street has lost many young faces and is a bit deserted.The winter vacation is not the peak tourist season in Lao Cai, especially as the Chinese New Year is approaching, there is no reason for the family reunion to go around everywhere.

This year's [-]th, the old street is full of festive atmosphere. The street office has placed a bunch of flowers every ten meters on both sides of the road. Anthurium, cockscomb, Phalaenopsis, etc. have bright red colors.Red lanterns were hung on the street lamps on both sides, and the yellow tassels under the lanterns dragged for a long time, swaying in a leisurely arc with the wind.

The cold air seems to be full of the smell of food, every household is preparing for the New Year's Eve dinner, this one is good at braised pork, that one has stewed chicken soup for a long time, the smell of croquettes is comparable to the taste of fried chicken legs, who The homemade steamed vegetables are fragrant and attract people to stop.

Aunt Li was walking quickly on the fragrant street with a basket and a pair of fish. She almost bumped into a person on the road. It was the neighbor Lao Pan.

Lao Pan clutched his bumped shoulder, "Why did Pearl walk so fast, she was almost knocked down by you, her bones are brittle when she is old, a fall is a big deal, what should I do if I go to the hospital."

"Bah bah, what are you talking about during Chinese New Year? You have to say auspicious words." Aunt Li Zhuzhu, who finally had a name, said auspicious words a few times.

Lao Pan, who opened the chess and card room, followed up with a few poohs. After poohing, he looked at the ones on Li Zhenzhu's arms and hands, and asked curiously: "Visiting relatives on New Year's Eve?" Pass the red string through the fish's lips, and the basket in your hand is covered with red cloth and pasted with red paper, so eating at home will not be such a trouble.

Li Zhenzhu said: "Send it to Kunwuju." The ghost marriage on the Ghost Festival, if it wasn't for Jiang Yuan's help, their family would not know what to do. Don't worry about your children.The ancestors lived comfortably, and they can also bless future generations. Her husband was promoted a few years ago, her daughter passed the exam, and even the small supermarket business with her is getting better day by day.

Li Zhenzhu is a person who knows how to repay her kindness, and she has always wanted to repay Jiang Yuan in her heart, but Jiang Yuan never accepted it. It was only half a year later that she chose today to give gifts.There are not many things, two pure wild black fish fished out of the reservoir, a basket of eggs from domestic chickens, a side of high-quality ham, and seven or eight plump persimmons. All the best.

"I won't talk to you anymore, I'll go first." Li Zhenzhu waved her hand, walked around Lao Pan and continued on.From a distance, I saw the big locust tree at the entrance of Kunwuju. The crown of the tree has not withered, and the thick leaves are whirling and whispering in the cold wind, which has become a scene of the old street.

"Excuse me, Kunwuju is the one, right?"

Aunt Li looked over, and the person who asked her question was a seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl, with a very good appearance, wearing a white down jacket with a festive red lining, the collar was slightly turned up, showing a delicate little face cuter.The girl's bangs are clipped with a hairpin, and the naive little piggy on the hairpin is very happy.

The pretty little girl asked the way, and it made people feel a little good for no reason. Aunt Li said, "Yes, the Kunwu residence is ahead. Did the girl go shopping?"

The girl nodded, but did not answer why she was looking for Kun Wuju.After thanking Aunt Li, she stepped forward. She was carrying a large plastic bag in her hand, which was full of seafood. The dried shrimp that was as long as a palm weighed three to four catties.The plastic bag weighed heavily on the girl's hand, and she walked much slower while carrying it.

Also came to give gifts?

Aunt Li judged others by herself, so she subconsciously thought so.

Almost step by step, Aunt Li and the girl stepped into Kunwuju, Jiang Yuan was not in the shop, and only Zhuzhu was in the shop where the clattering keyboard kept going.

Aunt Li leaned over and asked, "Zhuzhu, where's your boss?"

Zhuzhu pushed the thick black-rimmed glasses on the bridge of her nose, and said flatly, "I'm cooking in it."

"Oh." Aunt Li knew that the kitchen of Kunwuju was just across the door from the store, so she raised her voice and shouted, "Xiao Jiang, Xiao Jiang, Aunt Li has something to ask you."

After shouting a few times, the blue calico door curtain was lifted, and a handsome young man with thick eyebrows, deep eyes and high nose came out from inside.After Jiang Yuan came out, he saw his slim younger sister standing in Kunwu Residence, looking at the furnishings in the store curiously, and hurried over, "Xiaoxiao."

Walking over and pulling my sister's hair, maybe all the brothers in the world would treat their younger sisters so naively before the younger sister got married, watching her screaming as if they could get the strange satisfaction of being an older brother?Anyway, as a younger sister, Jiang Xiao couldn't understand her brother's bad taste.

She covered her head and kept avoiding her brother's harassment, "Don't mess with my hair, ah, if you do it again, I'll tell grandma and let grandma take care of you."

Jiang Yuan laughed "haha", "My Xiaoxiao is like a chicken coop."

Jiang Xiao's resistance was futile, and he simply stopped moving. With his disheveled hair, he looked sadly at his brother who was in his 20s and still looked like a child, and muttered, "It's so annoying." However, who made him It's my brother, who is mentally retarded and can only tolerate it tolerantly.

"Where are mom and dad?" Jiang Yuan looked at the door, but there were no parents inside or outside the store.

"Parking." General Shi guarded the gates at both ends of the old street, and the car could not drive in, so they could only park in the nearby free parking lot. Jiang Xiao and others

It was terrible, so I got out of the car and looked for it first. "There are a lot of things in the car, and it will probably take a while to get back."

"I'm going to pick up my parents..."

Jiang Yuan was stopped by Jiang Xiao, Jiang Xiao said: "Parents said no, let you wait at home. I brought a small cart from home, so I don't need to carry it with my hands."

After talking with his sister, let her play alone for a while, Jiang Yuan looked at Li Zhenzhu, "Is Aunt Li here to buy something?"

"No, no." Aunt Li had prepared a whole load of words, and persuaded Jiang Yuan to keep the things she brought.Now I suddenly didn’t want to talk anymore, so I hurriedly said, “I’ll bring you something to taste. There’s still meat stewed in my pot, I want to go back and have a look, I’m leaving first.”

Involuntarily stuffing the two fish into Jiang Yuan's hands, Aunt Li ran away, showing the speed of running at school when she was young, and she ran more than ten meters in the blink of an eye. I have to sigh that everyone has potential Can be stimulated ah.

Jiang Yuan held the two fish and shouted behind Aunt Li, "Thank you, Aunt Li." After the Chinese New Year, just send some things to Aunt Li's house.There is a custom in Nanzhou City that you can't refuse a gift on New Year's Eve. This is a blessing from others. If you refuse it, you will be slapped in the face, which is not good-looking.

Holding two fish in his hands, he also carried the seafood brought by his sister. The weight was very heavy, "It's so heavy, why did you bring it here in advance? Is it pressed in your hand, I will rub it for you."

"It's okay, just carry a little something, what's the weight?" Jiang Xiao waved her hand nonchalantly. The temperature inside the Kunwu Residence is comfortable. She has already taken off her coat, revealing a light yellow turtleneck sweater. The short pleated skirt exposed a pair of slender legs wearing wool bottoming socks.The slightly high-heeled high boots wrapped the calves snugly, and the beautiful shape of the slender legs was clearly visible.

"The skirt is too short." Jiang Yuan complained.

Jiang Xiao acted as if he hadn’t heard, “I can’t stack that much on the trolley, this bag needs to be carried by my parents.” In case they carried it, Jiang Xiao rushed to carry it away by herself, but it only weighed about ten catties. It's a bit heavy, but it's not too heavy.

Seeing that his sister didn't take his complaints seriously, Jiang Yuan greeted helplessly, "Come on, follow brother to the kitchen. Grandma is making croquettes. You came just in time, and you can eat them right out of the pan."

The basket that Aunt Li brought, Jiang Xiao, was in his hand, but his brother couldn't help but take it.I followed my brother through the door hung with blue calico, and walked a few steps to the kitchen. The smell of food in the kitchen was even stronger, and the small pot on the long table was piled with golden fried meatballs.Grandma prepared two kinds of meatballs and vegetarian meatballs. The meatballs were filled with yam paste. The vegetarian meatballs were mainly composed of white radish, carrot and sweet potato strips.

The salt and pepper twist made by grandma is the best snack in the memory of all grandchildren. No matter how many twists are eaten in the market, they are all inferior to grandma's.

Jiang Xiao put the basket in his hand on the table, trotted to grandma's side, hugged grandma's waist coquettishly, "Grandma~" His chin rested on grandma's shoulder, he was already taller than grandma, but in grandma's place Still a little girl.

Grandma is guarding the big pot and the big stove to make croquettes. The oil in the pot is steaming, and two-thirds of the meat paste in the small pot on the stove has been consumed.Grandma skillfully grabbed a ball of meat paste, and when the meat paste was squeezed nimbly with her fingers, a round meat ball emerged from the tiger's mouth.Grandma took a ceramic spoon dipped in water and scraped it, put it in the oil, and a ball was shaped.

Her hands were full of flesh and oil, and she couldn't touch her lovely granddaughter, so grandma rubbed her face against her own, "Grandma's sweetheart, she lost weight in school."

Jiang Xiao nodded after listening, "No, the double chin is gone."

"That's not okay. During the rest period, grandma will make delicious food for you every day."

"Grandma is the best."

Grandma and younger sister are obsessed with soft chins. Now that they are pursuing a sharper face, their aesthetics are a bit unique, but in Jiang Yuan's view, they are healthier.

Looking at the younger sister and grandma hugging each other, Jiang Yuan... Jiang Yuan is no longer close. With the coquettish little sister around, grandma no longer sees him. He wants to be a weirdo.