Chapter 3 Lu's Grocery Store

Three bowls of plain noodles cost nine coins. After paying, Su Qingying asked the old man selling noodles: "Uncle, how do I get to Lu's Grocery Store?"

The old man selling noodles took the copper coins and pointed the way with a smile: "Go to the end of this road. Do you see the cloth shop? Turn right and you will arrive in a few steps. If you can't read, just look for the basket on the door. There is a big basket nailed on his door.

"Okay, thank you, uncle. "

Su Qingying put the purse back into her arms and wanted to hold the twins' hands. She found that Xiao Qingyang looked at the copper coins in the noodle seller's hand with a painful look on his face, and couldn't help laughing.

Thinking about the few copper coins in the purse, she felt a little uncomfortable. She didn't know how the two honest parents hid these copper coins under the eyes of the step-grandmother.

The three of them left the snack stand, and Su Qingying took the twins straight to the destination "Lu Ji Grocery Store".

It was the first time for the twins to come to the town. Although the morning market had passed, there were still some people in the town, and the shops were not closed, and it didn't seem cold. It is not like the town next door, where the morning market is busy every day. After the morning market, there is almost no one in the town, just like a big market of several villages.

Their Fengting Town is a big town with hundreds of households, while a county has only one or two thousand households. Therefore, the liveliness of Fengting Town is not inferior to Pingchuan County, which is dozens of kilometers away.

When the twins first entered the town, their eyes were wide open. Their hands were held tightly by their sister, but their eyes were glued to the shops next to them. When the children passing by jumped and skipped past them, the two siblings chased after them with envy.

Su Qingying felt distressed.

So she let go She slowed down her pace and followed them, explaining a few things to them from time to time. Su Qingying remembered that she had been to the town several times, but she had never looked closely. She just went to the embroidery shop to hand in the embroidery and that was it.

So at this time, she also watched with relish.

The streets of the town were relatively clean, with shops lined up on both sides, and the shop flags fluttering in the breeze. The buildings on both sides were ancient and quaint.

Approaching the cloth shop on the corner, I saw all kinds of cloth stacked on the shelves, including plain cloth, flowered cloth, silk and satin, and so on. The store also displayed all kinds of ready-made clothes, including men's and women's clothing, and even children's ready-made clothes. The two siblings couldn't help but stare, Pinching the corner of her patched clothes, her eyes were filled with desire.

She lowered her head after a few glances, but couldn't help looking up. Su Qingying felt distressed.

Their eldest wife couldn't even get enough to eat now, so there was no way they could buy new clothes. Even if they did, they wouldn't get them. Su Qingying took them and walked two steps quickly, and soon turned into another street.

The two siblings looked up at Su Qingying as if they had done something wrong, and Su Qingying smiled at them and comforted them: "When I earn money in the future, I will buy you cloth, clothes, shoes and socks, buy a lot, so that you can change clothes every day."

"Yeah. "The two siblings grinned and nodded vigorously at Su Qingying.

They never questioned Su Qingying's words.

The three of them walked a few steps and soon arrived at the door of "Lu Ji Grocery Store" with a large basket nailed to the door.

This street is called South Street, which is not the main street. It was past the morning market and only a few pedestrians hurriedly walked on the road.

There were not many customers in Lu Ji Grocery Store. Su Qingying stood for a while and only saw two or three customers go in. After the customers left, she saw that there was only one clerk in front of the shelves in the crowded store. Shuttle back and forth, moving in and out. Looking inside again, there was no one else to see.

Su Qingying took the twins around the grocery store and saw that the floor and the shelves were full of goods, including oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, rice, flour, cereals, bowls, chopsticks and winnowing baskets.

The young man greeted her warmly. Su Qingying walked around twice, but didn't buy anything. She also chattered to him for a few questions. The young man didn't get impatient at all. In the end, he sent her to the door of the store with a smile on his face, and then turned back to sort out the things.

Su Qingying was at the door of the store. She stood at the entrance for a while, thought about it, and then pulled the twins into the pastry shop diagonally opposite the grocery store.

The pastry shop was filled with the sweet aroma of pastries. Not only did the twins swallow their saliva, Su Qingying also looked at it with interest.

Each basket had a flag inserted, recording the name and price of the pastry. Cloud cake, Poria cake, plum cake, pea yellow, mung bean cake, red bean cake, sesame pancake, peach cake, cold cake, grass cake, walnut cake, almond cake...

The three siblings stared at it.

There was nothing in the store at this time. The fat female shopkeeper liked the twins who looked alike very much. She teased them for a few words and enthusiastically took the sample cakes and pastries on the plate for the twins to eat.

The two children entered the town for the first time. There was curiosity and timidity in their eyes. They didn't dare to reach out to the enthusiastic shopkeeper even if the other party had no ill intentions. When they saw the plate handed to them, they took two steps back, grabbed the corner of Su Qingying's clothes, looked up at the fat shopkeeper timidly, and then looked up at Su Qingying.

"Take it and eat it. They are all for people to taste." The fat aunt looked enthusiastic.

Su Qingying saw that she really didn't care about the two or three cakes, so she gently pushed the two siblings: "Eat it, try which one is delicious, and buy some for parents later."

When the two siblings heard that they had to taste the food and choose the delicious ones for their parents to take back, their eyes were bright and they reached out to take it.

"Thank you, aunt."

"Thank you, aunt."

"Hey, you are so good. How old are you?"

"Six years old."

"Six years old? I thought you were only four or five years old. You look so alike, are you twins?"

Su Qingying smiled as she watched the two little ones eating in small bites while talking to the fat aunt.

Suddenly a piece of cake was handed to her mouth: "Sister, you eat."

Another piece of cake was also handed over: "Sister, eat it."

"Sister, if you don't want to eat, you can eat." Su Qingying pushed away the cake that the twins handed to her mouth.

"These two children are really sensible." The fat aunt said to Su Qingying.

Su Qingying nodded in agreement and looked at them with a smile.

Seeing them chatting happily with the fat aunt, they no longer felt timid at the beginning, which comforted me. Su Qingying saw that the fat aunt was shrewd and yet enthusiastic, and she had some thoughts in her mind.

Seeing her turn around and pour tea for the three of them, he took it and took a sip, then asked her about Lu Ji.

It was a rare occasion for the fat aunt to have someone chat with her, so she started talking non-stop.

"Lu Ji has everything you want to buy. No, it's the shop opposite. It's been open for more than ten years. The beer in this town is pretty good and the price is fair. You're here at the right time. His wife is the boss. No, you can be less talkative. Her boss's wife is a shrewd person. When an old farmer from the country delivers something, she would like to make it worthless. A penny is as big as a basket. Just like the basket hanging at his door."

The fat aunt curled her lips and sneered, her words filled with disdain for Lu Ji's wife.

I don’t know if I had some disagreements with the host’s wife, and I said some unpleasant things about her.

Su Qingying listened for a long time, and after synthesizing the information she had learned before, she finally understood something about the Lu family.

The three siblings sat in the cake shop for a while, selected two or three kinds of cakes, weighed a few taels each, collected enough to pack a pound, and were ready to leave.

Su Qingying was cash-strapped, so after sitting for a while, she bought a pound of cakes. The two little ones ate some of the cakes, and the three of them drank a pot of tea.

Su Qingying was quite embarrassed.

The fat aunt was quite generous and didn't care at all. The weigher still held his head high and gave two or three taels more. Before leaving, he rubbed the twins several times and warmly greeted them to come back next time.

Xiao Qingxing hugged the cakes in her arms tightly, and turned around to wave goodbye to the fat aunt as she walked out. The fat aunt pulled her, touched and kneaded her, and wished she could just leave her in the store.

After leaving the pastry shop, Su Qingying took the twins and stood in the shadows, looking at Lu Ji opposite. After such a long meeting, except for a few guests coming in and out sporadically, there was still only the little guy.

Su Qingying felt that she couldn't wait for that person today.

I felt a little regretful.

I took the two little brothers and sister for a few steps, thinking that it was a rare trip to the town, so I took the twins and walked around some main streets.

I was walking to a wine shop on North Street when I saw a table of young men having a drink and joking.

Su Qingying was about to pull the twins away quickly when she heard a man shout loudly: "Lu Bocheng, you drink so little, are you planning to save the wine for the wedding day?"

Su Qingying stopped and looked up.