Chapter 47 47. Aunt Song Hongmei
“Hardware store, disgusting!”
Qiaoqiao got into the car angrily.
Song Tan smiled and rubbed his head: "Be good, my sister also thinks they are not good. Let's try to come as little as possible in the future."
Qiao Qiao touched the QR code on her chest in grievance and complained: "He won't give me the money."
“It’s okay, look at how delicious our food is. After eating it once, she must still think that next time Qiaoqiao works harder and speeds up selling food, we won’t sell it to her!”
This is not to coax a child, it is purely because Song Tan feels that for someone like the lobby sister-in-law, even if she specially leaves food for her, I am afraid she will still publicize it to the whole world -
“Twenty yuan a pound! If it weren’t for taking care of my relatives, I wouldn’t be willing to spend this money!”
What's more, looking at how the uncle and the others looked today, they didn't believe that this dish was twenty-one pounds. If I come back to buy groceries, I will be embarrassed in front of everyone...
Hey, why do you feel a little refreshed when you think about it?
Song Tan internally blamed himself for being unstable, but Qiao Qiao was already smiling: "Yes! I won't sell it! I won't feed it to her!"
Then he looked at her with bright black eyes: "Go home?"
Song Tan came back to his senses: "When we go to deliver food to the uncle, we have to deliver food to the aunt, right? We have to be even."
Qiaoqiao frowned even more: "Uncle, it's not good at all."
He turned around and looked at the small basket of vegetables on the back seat, and then hesitated: "I want to give it to my aunt. My aunt is better than the hardware store."
…
Song Tan’s aunt married a city worker as a village girl in the 1980s. In addition to her beauty, the other party also liked her virtuous housekeeping.
virtue is true virtuousness, and housekeeping is also true housekeeping.
Just because one of her husband and wife sells breakfast and the other goes to work, and they can provide their only son with a large flat in the center of the city, you can see how capable they are!
However, despite this, the old couple still live in the old work unit family home.
The pickup truck was precisely stuck in a small space in the family’s courtyard, avoiding the possibility of being slapped with traffic police stickers. As soon as Song Tan got out of the car with Qiao Qiao, she heard someone beside her ask hesitantly: "You...are Hongmei's relatives, right?"
Song Tan was stunned for a moment, and then he saw the aunts who were asking questions - they were probably coming back from shopping for groceries, and they were also carrying plastic bags, and the onions, garlic, green vegetables, etc. inside were vaguely visible.
She nodded: "Yes, my aunt's name is Song Hongmei. She grows some vegetables in her hometown. I will take my brother to give some to my aunt for fresh food."
After saying this, the aunts across from me burst out laughing: "I remembered it when you came over during the Chinese New Year - I was thinking about which family's children, why are the siblings so good-looking? After asking later, I found out that they are Hongmei's relatives. !”
The main reason is that there are no secrets in the family home. Hongmei has a beautiful and silly nephew, and everyone knows it.
Although Jojo looks like an adult, his eyes are different—most importantly, he has a pink Peppa Pig sticker on his face!
He looked at the vegetables in the basket again: "Oh, what kind of food is this? It's so fresh... Hongmei is such a blessing to have such beautiful nieces and nephews. Girl, do you have anyone to talk to?"
Song Tan:…
After two or three rounds of polite words, I finally got rid of this group of overly enthusiastic aunts. When Song Tan walked to the unit door, she could still hear the aunts muttering:
“Hongmei, my nephew and niece, is really good-looking.”
“She is probably someone who can make a living. You see, she brought a basket of vegetables when she came to see her aunt..."
“Look at what you are saying? We have enough food and clothing, but we don’t expect to be poor forever. We just picked a few red plums, but we are still good people. We are worthy of being a couple..."
Song Tan couldn't help but laugh as he walked in the corridor. It seems that everyone knows her aunt’s stingy reputation!
…
She has a small cart selling pancakes near her family's courtyard. She has been selling pancakes for twenty years. It cannot be said that it is famous far and wide, but it can only be said that everyone is used to eating it.
Every time the cart closes the stall at ten o'clock, tidies up, and goes to the vegetable market to buy vegetables at eleven o'clock. The time management is so precise!
The most important thing is that the vegetable market stalls are basically closed at 11 o'clock, and the remaining vegetables are either cheap or not very fresh. Auntie can sweep through thousands of troops during this time period, killing them all in and out, trying to get the lowest price!
If it can’t be cut down, then she won’t buy it.
It is my aunt's last luxury and dignity that she does not come to pick up rotten vegetable leaves every day.
It’s half past eleven now. Some people may have already cooked, but my aunt’s family definitely won’t.
Song Tan knocked on the door.
My eldest uncle was still two years away from retiring, and his son was also working. When my eldest aunt opened the door, she was really surprised:
“Tan Tan? Why are you here? Aren’t you at work? Oh, don’t ask for leave, it will be a big loss if you deduct your salary!”
He turned around and called Qiaoqiao again: "My eldest nephew is getting more handsome. Come, come into the house, and my aunt will get you biscuits."
As expected, the aunt took biscuits - two packs of Wangwang Snow Crackers, one pack for each of the siblings.
Song Tan couldn’t laugh or cry. This was really the greatest sincerity from my aunt!
Qiaoqiao has already started to open the bag skillfully, and said at the same time: "Auntie, I will give you some food."
When the aunt took a look, she found that there were actually five handfuls of milkvetch in the small basket. She did not dislike it at all, but was very happy:
"Ouch! This dish is so fresh. We have it at noon, so let's not fry it yet! One meal for dinner, two for lunch and dinner tomorrow, and two more for the day after tomorrow. I have saved money on vegetables for three days, and I will make extra meat. That’s it!”
Auntie was overjoyed and made arrangements quickly.
After finishing the arrangement, I remembered: "Tantan, would you like to stay home for lunch? If so, I will fry this green vegetable."
Song Tan quickly reassured her aunt: "No, aunt, my mother is still waiting at home. I just want to ask you if you know where to sell ducklings? I plan to raise some ducks in my hometown."
Song Hongmei thought for a while: "It really is. Just wait, it's not far away, I'll take you there!"
“But Gu, don’t you still cook...”
“It’s okay, it’s really not far, I’ll take you there! You young people don’t even bother to bargain when you buy something, so I’ll negotiate the price for you!”
As he said that, he changed his shoes, Feng Feng Huohuo took the keys and prepared to go out.
Song Tan:…
It was a stroke of lightning, Qiao Qiao hadn't finished even one piece of snow cake.
But my aunt didn’t lie, she really wasn’t far away.
Left out of the family courtyard and turned into the alley inside, then passed through an iron gate that seemed to be locked but was actually unlocked, then went down the alley, and finally came to a dilapidated and low old courtyard.
Auntie knocked on the door of one of the rooms:
“Lao Zhang, do you still have any ducklings at home?”
"I won't sell wholesale at the school gate! I'm not a pet duck!" the man inside shouted.
The aunt was already getting impatient: "When did I buy a pet duck? Hurry up. I'll bring my relatives to buy it. You confirm the price for me. Don't waste my time by making blind bids. I'll buy it later." I have to go home and cook..."
The man inside opened the door, his face full of grievance: "Sister, sometimes I would rather you not buy it."
There are still today. Updated on the 11th.
Monthly ticket, please!
(End of this chapter)