"Brother Huai, your cart is so cool! Did you draw it yourself?"
"Did I ask you guys to ask nonsense? Buy five copies each and you can borrow my summer homework for one day."
Because he was half a head taller than the others, Xie Jinghuai kept his eyelids slightly drooped when he spoke. Coupled with his delicate and cold face, he inexplicably exuded a sense of sophistication, laziness and boredom.
Xie Jinghuai was so dazzling that he fascinated several young girls 50 meters away across the street and made them unable to move their legs.
"Look, isn't that Xie Jinghuai!?"
"It seems so. Ah, what is he wearing? Ah, so handsome!"
"There are so many of them. Are they going to have fun? Let's go over and take a look. It would be great if we could play with them!"
"Okay, okay!"
Under the camphor tree, several young men were all excited when they heard the conditions put forward by Xie Jinghuai.
There is no policy to reduce burden and pressure in this era. Primary school students have so much summer homework that they doubt their lives. Copying summer homework is like a timely help for these poor students.
"Brother Huai, what delicious food are there? Please introduce them to me."
"You are blind, can't you see for yourself?"
Maybe he was used to Xie Jinghuai's temper as a young master, so the man was not angry at all. Instead, he went to see the words written on the cart with great interest.
Seeing that there were business coming, Ling Chunhua no longer cared about being angry with Xie Jinghuai, and happily introduced them to the young men.
"There are handmade ice jelly and pearl milk tea. The handmade ice jelly has two flavors: brown sugar and honey. There are also taro balls, red beans, watermelon, winter melon candy, crushed peanuts, white sesame seeds..."
As she spoke, Ling Chunhua took out samples in crystal bowls from the storage cabinet on the cart and showed them to everyone.
"Look, this is what handmade ice jelly looks like. There's also pearl milk tea, which is made with pure milk and black tea. The black stuff inside is called pearls, which are made with tapioca flour and brown sugar. Everyone who's tried it says it's delicious."
After listening to Ling Chunhua's introduction and seeing the samples she brought out, all the young men present could not help but be tempted.
Everyone came here just for Xie Jinghuai, so not only were they served delicious ice jelly and milk tea, they would have even accepted plain water.
"Okay, give me five!"
Ling Chunhua did not rush to agree, but advised earnestly: "Big brother, you can't eat so much, just buy one portion."
I don't want to buy so much, but there's nothing I can do about it.
The man looked at Xie Jinghuai, "Brother Huai..."
Xie Jinghuai looked at the man lazily, "What do you want me to do? I'm your father?"
The man was startled and immediately said to Ling Chunhua: "It's okay, just take five servings. I have many brothers and sisters at home, I will take them back for them to eat!"
Ling Chunhua hesitated for a moment, then said, "Handmade ice jelly and pearl milk tea are both 30 cents each. Do you want to buy ice jelly or milk tea?"
The man hesitated and pointed at the handmade ice jelly in Ling Chunhua's hand, "Ice jelly, it looks pretty with all the colorful colors. My sister will definitely like it."
"Then I'll put more ice in it so it's still cold when you take it home."
"OK."
Watching Ling Chunhua skillfully making ice jelly on a small wooden stool, the boys boldly teased Xie Jinghuai.
"Brother Huai, where did you find such a capable little follower?"
Xie Jinghuai rolled his eyes at the man without hesitation, "Be more polite, she is my niece."
When the boys heard this, they all felt something was wrong.
"Hey, Brother Huai, that's not right. Xiao Chunhua is your niece, but she calls us brothers. Doesn't that mean we are a generation younger than you?"
Xie Jinghuai laughed and scolded, "With just the few of you, you can almost treat me as your grandsons."
"Brother Huai, you can't bully me like this. We were all planning to go ice skating, and we rushed here as soon as you called us."
Xie Jinghuai rolled his eyes at them and said, "I'll treat you after work."
While the boys were laughing and playing, Ling Chunhua had already prepared a bowl of ice jelly.
Although it was not as hot as at noon, the teenagers were already sweating profusely after running all the way. When they saw the cool and tempting ice jelly, one of them quickly grabbed it.
"Give me this bowl first. I'm dying of heat."
“Liang Hailong, CNM, that’s mine!”
The teenagers were used to fighting and playing around, but Ling Chunhua didn't understand and thought they were really fighting over a bowl of ice jelly. She looked at them anxiously for a moment.
Seeing Ling Chunhua's reaction, Xie Jinghuai frowned immediately.
"Shut up, everyone!"
"Brother Huai, he stole my ice jelly!"
"You haven't seen it or haven't eaten it?"
The man felt very aggrieved. "I have never seen this kind of handmade old ice jelly, nor have I eaten it. Damn, my mouth is watering."
Xie Jinghuai: “…”
Well, he ate it for the first time today too.
Xie Jinghuai turned his head and nodded Ling Chunhua's little head, "Hurry up, these pigs are so greedy."
"Oh, I see. I'll be quick."
Although Ling Chunhua has a gentle personality, she is rarely so well-behaved and obedient in front of him. Xie Jinghuai was a little uncomfortable with it for a while.
After a moment of silence, Xie Jinghuai bent down and took out a few foam bowls from the storage box. He placed them one by one on the table of the cart and put the shaved smoothies and ice jelly in them one by one.
With Xie Jinghuai's help, Ling Chunhua's speed in making a bowl of ice jelly increased by twice.
After a while, every boy had a taste of the cool and sweet handmade ice jelly.
"Brother Huai, this ice jelly is absolutely amazing. What are these round things in it? Why haven't I eaten it before?"
"This is called taro balls, silly..."
After taking a look at Ling Chunhua, who was carefully making a bowl of ice jelly with her head down, Xie Jinghuai changed the word "逼" to "鸟".
"Taro balls? So they're made of taro?"
Xie Jinghuai was stumped by the question.
When he arrived at the courtyard in the morning, Yun Mo had already prepared the taro balls and pearls. How would he know what the taro balls were made of?
"It's not taro, it's made of tapioca flour and glutinous rice flour, plus fruit juice and rock sugar water. The purple taro balls are grape flavored, the red ones are rose strawberry, the green ones are matcha flavored, and the yellow ones are lemon flavored."
Ling Chunhua explained to everyone with a smile, which also alleviated Xie Jinghuai's embarrassment in a timely manner.
"These taro balls are delicious, can you give me more?"
"Sure, one scoop is one serving, and an extra serving is ten cents."
All the young men who could play with Xie Jinghuai were rich, and a dime was not money to them.
"Give me another spoonful."
"I'll add two spoonfuls."
The young men put their bowls in front of Ling Chunhua one after another, talking to each other, making Ling Chunhua very flustered.
"Everyone line up in the back, one by one!"
After Xie Jinghuai gave the order, the teenagers lined up obediently like little chicks.
(End of this chapter)