Chapter 91 Eating Noodles
Huang Xinran also found it funny. The two kids were really working so hard just to move to the city!
"Okay, go ahead if you want to follow me. But you have to follow me closely. Otherwise, if you get lost, you won't see your parents again. Do you understand?"
“Okay, Mom, we will be good and won’t cause any trouble for you.” Yaya said hurriedly.
Maomao said nothing, but just stared at her with hope.
"Okay, let's go!"
Huang Xinran brought her two children to the city, so the previous method of taking a ride with Wang Hongjun and his wife was not applicable. After all, she was dragging her two children with her. She took her children to the roadside to wait for the early bus to the county town, and then transferred to the city from the county town.
After all this trouble, by the time we got off the bus, it was already past nine o'clock.
"Are you hungry? Let's go to the bathroom first, and then have dinner."
Huang Xinran had never noticed before that Maomao, who was usually well-behaved, could actually get carsick.
She didn't realize before that her child had a bad problem with motion sickness!
During the bumpy ride to the city, the child vomited twice. When he got off the car, his face was pale and he looked extremely lethargic, without any energy at all.
She took her two children to the public toilet.
In these days, public toilets not only charge fees, but also require queuing. Huang Xinran saw that the child was young, and originally wanted Maomao to go to the women's toilet with them. Unexpectedly, Maomao blushed and broke away from her hand, and ran straight into the men's toilet.
It made her laugh for a while.
After going to the toilet and coming out, Maomao's motion sickness had almost recovered.
"Let's go and have dinner."
She randomly found a roadside stall selling noodles and sat down, "Boss, give me two bowls of pea noodles with fried sauce."
Fried pea noodles with soybean sauce is still a classic dish in small noodle shops on the street, not to mention now. Even if we push it back to the past thirty or forty years, it is still a classic combination in small noodle shops on the street.
"Okay, you guys just sit for a while and we'll be right there."
This restaurant's business is very good. Perhaps because it is next to a long-distance bus station, several tables are still filled with diners at around nine o'clock.
Huang Xinran found a relatively ventilated position and settled the two children before finding the boss again. "Okay. Boss, can you give me a bowl of noodle soup first? The child is thirsty."
"No problem!~"
The boss was very welcoming, with a smile that you would never see in the old state-owned restaurants: "There's soy milk in the wooden barrel over there, it's free. Do you want soy milk for the kids or noodle soup? You can serve the soy milk yourself."
"That's fine. I can just serve the soy milk myself."
Huang Xinran chatted casually for a while and found out that their noodle shop was also a husband-and-wife shop. The child who helped to wipe the table and clean the dishes was his son. The store provides soy milk in the morning. Every day, a full bucket is boiled. Once it is finished, it is gone. It quenches the thirst of diners who come to eat noodles.
Huang Xinran didn't hesitate and served a bowl for himself and his child.
After taking a sip, it tastes like pure soy milk, although the soy milk is a little bland and not sweet enough because of the water added. But it’s free soy milk, and white sugar is expensive these days, and there is no sweetener like “saccharin” on the market yet, so the sweetness is still the original sweetness. I don’t know how much better it is than the soy milk made from soy milk powder a few decades later.
After sitting down and resting for a while, Maomao's pale face looked much better.
He drank the soy milk in small sips, with joy visible in his eyes.
“Is it delicious?”
Huang Xinran took out a handkerchief and wiped the sweat off the two children.
Yaya and Maomao nodded in unison, "It tastes good."
"Don't eat too much, the noodles will be here soon."
As he was speaking, the noodles really arrived.
The noodles were served in a large bowl, which was quite filling. A thick layer of sauce and peas was spread on top, which was very fragrant and appetizing.
Huang Xinran didn't eat it right away. He used a small bowl to take out half of the sauce and peas, and then picked up some noodles. Then he pushed it to the two children, "Eat slowly, it's very hot right out of the pot. If it's not enough, there's another bowl here."
A bowl of 3 taels of noodles is more than enough for two four-year-old children.
However, she still took the opportunity to share half of the fried sauce in her bowl with the two children while the children started eating.
"Mom, I've had enough!"
Yaya quickly covered her bowl with her hands, her big eyes twinkling with joy: "Mom, you eat too! This noodle is delicious, you try it too!"
"Okay, let's eat together."
It was just a bowl of noodles, but the two kids tasted like delicacies from land and sea.
Huang Xinran ate slowly, feeling amused and emotional. She waited until the two children were full before she ate the remaining noodles.
"Let's go! Mommy will take you shopping!~"
She happily paid the money and walked down the street with her child, but she didn't notice that she had a small tail behind her.
This little tail had also been sitting in a noodle shop eating noodles before. He didn't expect that such a country woman with two children had so much money in her hands. He couldn't help but feel happy.
Those who are "pickpockets" have trained their eyes to be sharp. They can tell whether a person has money in his pocket by scanning his body. And the woman in front of him is obviously a fat sheep.
He pretended to be strolling around and turned to the other side, then walked towards the mother and daughter. When he and Huang Xinran passed by each other, they bumped into each other's shoulders.
Just when he was secretly happy, he suddenly felt a pain in his hand, and he couldn't help but scream in pain.
"Ah!~" What happened?
Before he could finish screaming, Huang Xinran slapped him on the arm.
"What are you doing? You rascal, where did you come from? Do you want to take advantage of me? I can't kill you! I'll beat you up..." Huang Xinran had no intention of letting the other party off. She beat him up and cursed at him at the same time.
The little tail was stunned.
How could he be so unlucky to meet such a shrew?
Not quickly enough, he reacted and immediately pushed Huang Xinran away: "Hey! Are you done yet? Who touched you? Explain yourself clearly to me!"
"Hey, I think you are the one who should make things clear! What did you want to do just now? Do you want us to make things clear?"
She is not an easy person to deal with!
When the opponent set his eyes on her, her strong premonition allowed her to lock onto the opponent long ago.
The moment the other person attacked her, she grabbed his hand and said, "Come on, come on, everyone, come and have a look. What is he holding in his hand? Take a look!"
Between the other person's index and middle fingers, there is a small blade. It is this blade that can cut the fabric of passers-by's clothes in an instant and quickly take away the money.
But he never expected that he would be pecked in the eye by a wild goose while hunting wild geese. Not only was he caught in the act, but even his attempt to pull his hand back failed. He tried to push the goose away, but was still defeated.
He didn't check the almanac before going out today. What bad luck did he have?