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"Two!"

"it is good!"

The boss put the fried sausage back into the oil pan to heat it up again, took it out and skewered it with a bamboo stick, and wrapped a small piece of napkin around the pinch very thoughtfully.

"Would you like to spread the seasoning for you?"

"More cumin and black pepper."

"Where's the chili?"

"A little bit."

"I don't want spicy—" Ye Chen shook his head vigorously, "Give me that sweet noodle sauce."

"it is good!"

Soon, two fried starch sausages arrived in their hands.

Take a bite, it's crispy, crispy and tender, because it's freshly fried, it's still a little hot, Wan Qing couldn't help but open her mouth wide, and sucked in two mouthfuls of cold air.

"It would be nice if it was fried more thoroughly."

"Isn't that old?"

"But it will also be crispy on the inside, crispy on the outside, and taste good."

"I think this is just right." Ye Chen took a small bite, raised his head and looked around: "Is Dad still okay?"

"It seems that there is less traffic ahead." Wan Qing handed Ye Chen the half-bitten ham sausage, "Help me hold it, and push the car forward so as not to block other people's way."

"oh oh……"

After just a few steps, I saw my father come back empty-handed.

"Father, what did you see just now?"

"Look at how the vegetables are sold. They are too expensive. When you go out, you can buy them on the roadside outside."

"Okay, let's buy some meat and other things."

"Well, I need to buy more meat, I have to buy some fish, and I also need to buy a chicken."

Going forward, the tricycle finally couldn't squeeze in. Fortunately, there was a parking shed next to it, and the three of them parked the car here.

Xiaobai was left to look at the car—it was tied to the car with a ribbon rope in a pretentious manner.

In fact, if it wants to come down, it can break free with just a little effort.

"Xiaobai, just stay here and watch the car stop running around." Ye Chen stretched out a finger from his sleeve, and tapped its head lightly, "We'll be back right after we bought something."

"If someone steals a car, bite him to death." Wan Qing said slightly jokingly.

"Just drive away..." Ye Chen coughed forcefully, "Then let's go in."

Xiaobai sat on the ground very upright, like a sphinx guarding a pyramid.

Its tail is wagging up and down, as if a person is nodding.

Getting into the crowd, the three of them looked for the new year's goods they wanted to buy today.

"If you come tomorrow, there probably won't be so many people." Wan Qing felt that her face was about to be squeezed, "Uh...there are enough people..."

"A lot of stalls will be closed tomorrow." The father who walked in front smiled, "Follow me well, don't get lost."

"What does Dad want to buy?"

"New Year's goods, I must buy some bacon sausages, and then I will see—" Just as he was talking, his father found his goal, "Buy two chickens first!"

The two of them followed their father and watched him choose two live chickens beside the stall, and then sent them to the chicken killing house not far away, saying that they would pick them up after they were finished.

The chicken-killing house and the chicken-selling stall are not the same. You have to pay an extra five yuan to kill a chicken. If you want to save some money, you can do it yourself.

But this kind of trouble... If you have money, let others do it for you, they make it nice and clean.

Otherwise, it will take a long time just to remove the hair.

The person who killed the chicken house responded, took out two small plates with numbers engraved on them, clamped them on the chickens, and threw them into the backyard where chicken feathers and blood were everywhere.

Someone was bleeding the chicken, someone was throwing the dead chicken into the boiling water stove for scalding, and someone was in charge of the follow-up treatment.

"Do you want internal organs?"

"Keep your sweetheart, don't want anything else." Father replied quickly.

"okay!"

"Come and get it later."

"Okay, you are 69 and NO.70."

"Yes." Father nodded, and led Wan Qing and Ye Chen inside again.

In addition to the prepared sausages, there are also canned sausages here, which sell meat on the spot and make it on the spot. If you are rich enough, you can buy expensive good meat and fill it in. The biggest advantage of this thing is that it looks Rest assured, after all, the meat is chosen by oneself.

Today, my father didn't seem to care about spending the money in his pocket. When he came to the sausage filling place, he bought [-] catties in one go, and ordered [-] catties of bacon.

Ye Chen and Wan Qing each carried a big bag in their hands, and followed behind staggeringly.

The surrounding area became damp visible to the naked eye. It turned out that it was in the aquatic area. Fresh fish and shrimps were bouncing around in large red or black plastic basins. Inside the bag, there was a 'bang bang' sound of live shrimp struggling.

Father chose two sea bass and asked the boss to kill them now and pack them up.

The boss in charge of killing the fish threw the fish to the ground forcefully, the scales splashed out mixed with blood, and the fishy smell in the air became more and more intense.

"Do you want offal?"

"No."

"Father, wait a minute, save the fish bubbles, and feed Xiaobai sometime." Wan Qing hurriedly shouted.

She hadn't thought of this when she killed the chicken before.

"Do you want fish bubbles? There are still a few here, and I will put them in for you later."

"Okay, thank you."

"Hey, it's nothing. No one wants to eat anyway. Do you have a cat at home? It's good to feed the cat."

Standing aside, Ye Chen cleared his throat in embarrassment, hesitated for a long time, and finally did not tell the boss that 'Xiao Bai' was a dog.

Although dogs can eat anything, when it comes to eating fish, it seems that cats are exclusive.

At least in this day and age, people's stereotypes are like this.

……

94. Fireworks

The tricycle was fully loaded with the new year's goods bought today, and Xiao Bai sniffed around, so greedy that he started to drool.

Wan Qing pressed its head with her thighs to keep it from moving around: "You can't eat it. If you dare to move your mouth, your other leg will be broken as well."

"In the first few days when I first came here, I often rummaged through the trash can..." Ye Chen grabbed its tail and rubbed it vigorously, "Fortunately, it didn't damage other things in the house."

"Maybe if it takes longer, it will become indulgent."

"...You have a thick skin, don't you?"

"Yeah, like you."

"I'll pay you back what I said..."

Father's tricycle drove away from the bustling agricultural market, and the streets on both sides gradually became deserted.

On the contrary, the more the city center is, the more deserted it is.

Because there are not many people whose home is in the city center, most of them rent a house here. Even if their home is here, most of them have another house in the countryside.

The bustling city has become like a ghost town.

There are more and more closed shops on the street, some of them are still open in the morning, and the shutters have been closed in the afternoon.

A temporarily rented storefront was used as a warehouse, which was full of boxes, and a long table was placed at the door, with various fireworks on it.

Father's stepping on the pedal gradually slowed down: "Do you want to buy some fireworks and go back?"

"Of course, if there are no fireworks during the Chinese New Year, what kind of Chinese New Year is it?" Wan Qing replied as a matter of course.

"...I think the smell of fireworks is a bit unpleasant."

"Tsk, in the future, even if you want to set off fireworks, you don't have to. Fireworks are banned in cities, and the celebration of the Spring Festival has become a distant history."

"It's good. In fact, it doesn't matter if you don't let it go. It will pollute the environment if you let it go."

"But festivals and people need emotional sustenance. Fireworks are things that carry emotions. Without them, the taste of the year will become weaker and weaker, and the Spring Festival will become a dispensable thing. gone."

"Well……"

"You know what the best way to make something die?"

"what?"

"Put it on the shelf, let it stand high, away from ordinary people."

"……why?"

"Because the world seems to be controlled by elites, but after all, it is created by the majority of ordinary people." Wan Qing squinted at her, "Don't worry about things that are divorced from the foundation of the masses. Be eliminated."

"You have to celebrate the New Year." Ye Chen was very optimistic.

"Yes, at that time, I would have been to foreign festivals where I could celebrate casually." Wan Qing tilted her head, "If the same dish is stipulated that you must follow this step every time, if there is a slight difference, you will be criticized by others. If you grow food that you can cook whatever you want, which dish would you choose to cook frequently?"

"...the second type?"

"That's it." Wan Qing spread her hands, "Oh, it seems that we didn't talk about this at the beginning? Hmm... we got off track."

Father had already parked the tricycle: "Come on, let's see what kind of fireworks you like, buy a few and let them go home. There must be some atmosphere in the Chinese New Year!"

As soon as the three approached, someone in the shop bent over and came out from the half-opened shutter door: "Buying fireworks?"

"Yes, let's see."

"There are small ones and big ones, and there are fun ones too. This one can spin around, this one is a firework stick that you hold in your hand, and this one is a sky-ridden monkey..."

The boss introduced enthusiastically, but only Ye Chen listened carefully.

Wan Qing's eyes fell on the dozen big black eagles, which were the most firecrackers she played with when she was a child.

The way to light it is the same as lighting a match, lightly stroke on the paper towel next to it, and it will burst into flames.

During the Chinese New Year, I often use this thing to make pranks.

Some skinny guys even threw them at the feet of adults—of course, adults are not used to children at this time, and if they are caught, they will be beaten severely.

She remembered going back one year, a guy threw firecrackers into the stove, which blew up the stove, but was whipped by his father, and his ass was rotten, and he couldn't sit and talk to him for the whole winter vacation. Lying down—I can only sleep on my stomach.

She didn't even know the name of the village kid who was so skinny. She didn't know what happened to him after so many years. Is he still so skinny?

"Dad, I want to buy this!" Ye Chen shouted excitedly, pointing at the spinning top fireworks. She likes this kind of novelty, and it is best to have different functions from ordinary fireworks.

"Bring a few boxes of these firecrackers."

"Oh—it's this one. Sometimes it's put in an iron bucket to blow it up."

"Yeah, do you still remember the guy who blew up the stove and his ass was smashed when he was a child?"

"Remember, remember!" Ye Chen nodded vigorously, and suddenly laughed, "He was whipped by hanging on a tree, right? Hey, his father is really ruthless."

"Who made him so stupid... Throwing the firecrackers into the stove, thanks to him thinking about it." Wan Qing spread her hands.

"Haha, he's the son of the Xinyang family, right?" Father also remembered this, "His family couldn't cook New Year's Eve dinner at home during the Chinese New Year, so he went to eat at other people's house. That kid is too naughty."

In addition to the powerful firecrackers, there is also a kind of falling cannon that sounds loud but hardly causes any harm to people.

Wan Qing also took some.

My father bought all the serious fireworks, square ones, big and small ones, and some tube-shaped fireworks. The thin and long fireworks tubes were wrapped in beautiful Colorful wrapping paper with fireworks patterns in different colors and shapes.

The price of fireworks is not cheap, but 100 yuan can buy a lot. They were also put into the tricycle, filling up the last gap. Wan Qing and Ye Chen could only walk back.

——Fortunately, it is not far from the apartment, and through the traffic lights, you can already see the huge signboard of Yinkong Apartment that has not been lit up.

There were almost no cars on the road, and some bold children even played in the middle of the road.