088, takeaway midnight snack
088, takeaway midnight snack
When you come out of Chunxi Road and arrive at South Street, there are suddenly more people on the street.
There were too many people on the street and the carriage couldn't pass, so Lu Mingfei suggested that everyone get off and walk. He had just met his family on this street, and maybe they could find his family if they walked forward.
"Okay, let's go down and take a walk." Ye Zhuoran asked the driver to pull over and let them get off.
Three people got off the carriage, followed by servants brought by Ye Zhuoran and Zhang Lingxuan.
After getting off the carriage, Ye Zhuoran saw someone selling candied haws on the roadside. He ran over and bought five large bunches, gave one to each person, and chewed a candied haws himself. While eating, he talked to Lu Mingfei: "When I was a child, I would go shopping with my mother and I would not go home without eating a candied haws."
Lu Mingfei smiled and nodded. He could almost imagine Ye Zhuoran as a child, who was greedy and would roll on the ground if the adults at home didn't buy him snacks.
"Are you two eating? What are you holding them for?" Ye Zhuoran asked Lu Mingfei and Zhang Lingxuan when he noticed that they were just holding the candied haws but not eating them.
"I just came out after dinner, so I'm not too hungry." Lu Mingfei said.
Seeing Ye Zhuoran staring at the candied haws in his hand, Zhang Lingxuan took the candied haws and ate a piece of it in front of Ye Zhuoran, and told Ye Zhuoran: "I won't give it to you!"
"...Tsk! It's not like I don't have one myself." Ye Zhuoran turned his head away with a look of disdain, and only the upward curve of his lips revealed his current mood.
After taking two steps forward, he turned around and looked at Zhang Lingxuan, asking him, "Are you still holding a grudge against me for stealing your candied haws when we were kids?"
"Hmph!" Zhang Lingxuan snorted coldly, with an expression that said, "It's good that you know."
"Haha..." Ye Zhuoran couldn't help laughing, and pulled Lu Mingfei to talk about the time when he and Zhang Lingxuan had a fight over a candied haws when they were children.
Lu Mingfei had Ye Zhuoran clinging to his arm and he couldn't get rid of this clingy friend. He was forced to listen to Ye Zhuoran talk about the "love and hatred" between him and Zhang Lingxuan in the past.
However, from what Ye Zhuoran said about the past, he also heard that the Ye family and the Zhang family had a very good relationship. Ye Zhuoran and Zhang Lingxuan should have known each other since childhood, and the relationship between the two should have always been very good, otherwise it would be impossible for them to have such a good relationship after growing up.
It was just getting dark when they came out, and all the lanterns on the street were lit up.
The last time Lu Mingfei went out to see the lanterns was when he and his family first came to Kyoto Prefecture. But that time, he was abducted by human traffickers. Although he was later rescued, the incident frightened his father and mother, and they never dared to let him out to play at night again.
Since that time, his family has never gone out to see lanterns during the Mid-Autumn Festival or Lantern Festival. This is the second time he has gone out to see lanterns in all the years his family has lived in Kyoto.
The same street, different lanterns, different people, and his mood when looking at the lanterns is also different.
Time passed by unnoticed. This was his fourteenth year in this world, and he would continue to live here for many more years. Although Lu Mingfei had initially thought about returning to his original world, after so many years, he knew that it was impossible for him to do so.
Now he is in this world, where he has his parents and younger brother, as well as his adoptive parents and their younger brother, as well as the teachers and classmates he met in the private school... and Zhao Lang.
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The three teenagers were walking on the street. If they saw anything interesting or delicious, Ye Zhuoran would definitely pull his two friends over to take a look.
Before long, the three of them had a lot of food in their hands, and each of them was holding a lantern.
There are three lantern exhibitions in Kyoto Prefecture every year: one on the Lantern Festival, one on the Tanabata Festival, and another on the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15th.
During these three festivals, folk craftsmen would bring out their best lantern-making skills to create a variety of beautiful lanterns. Some of these lanterns were donated free to the government and hung on the streets for everyone to admire, while others were displayed on small stalls and could only be won by guessing lantern riddles.
During these three festivals, people from all over Kyoto Prefecture like to go to the streets to see the lanterns. Ordinary people also take advantage of these festivals to set up stalls selling snacks or small items on the streets to earn a little money to supplement their family income.
However, Lu Mingfei's family only set up shop in the morning and never went out to do business in the evening. This was mainly because his father and mother had to get up very early in the morning to make braised food, and they were already busy for nearly twelve hours during the day. If they continued to do business in the evening, their bodies would not be able to cope, and it would also affect their mental state for business the next day.
It would be better to just do business during the day and keep your energy up for the next day's business.
So even on days like this, no matter how crowded the streets are at night, their family never set up a stall outside. Although setting up a stall at night can make money, the money earned must be worth spending.
"Mingfei, let's go to the teahouse and sit for a while." When they arrived at the door of his own teahouse, Ye Zhuoran pulled Lu Mingfei and called Zhang Lingxuan to go into the teahouse to drink tea together.
After entering the teahouse and hearing the owner calling Ye Zhuoran "Young Master", Lu Mingfei realized that this teahouse was opened by Ye Zhuoran's family.
Ye Zhuoran did not let the shopkeeper take them upstairs personally, but took his two classmates to the private room on the second floor. He ordered a pot of tea and some snacks, and the three of them sat upstairs drinking tea and chatting.
Lu Mingfei sat for a while and then stood up, walked to the window and looked at the street.
He stood by the window and looked down. To his surprise, he actually saw his father, mother, adoptive father and mother walking on the street with several children.
"Zhuoran, Lingxuan, you guys sit here for a while. I've seen my mother and the others. I'll go down and say hello to them." After turning around and giving instructions to Ye Zhuoran and Zhang Lingxuan, Lu Mingfei hurried out.
"Hey, I'll go with you!" Ye Zhuoran wanted to go with him.
But before he could follow Lu Mingfei, he was grabbed by Zhang Lingxuan's long hand.
"You don't have to go!" Zhang Lingxuan looked at the people who wanted to join in every excitement and really didn't know what to say.
Lu Mingfei came out of the teahouse and ran to the street. He found his family shopping there and pointed to the teahouse he had just left. He told them, "I was just having tea there with Zhuoran, Lingxuan and the others. Do you want to go over there and sit for a while?"
"I just told Yue Niang that I'm going to their house for a cup of tea. You and your classmates play outside for a while, and then come to the pancake shop to find us later." Liu Sanniang knew that it was rare for her eldest son to go out with his classmates, so she didn't want to bring the whole family with her and disturb his conversation with his classmates.
Lu Mingfei thought about Ye Zhuoran and the others and wondered when they would return. After a moment's thought, he said to his family, "Then you can go sit at my adoptive parents' house for a while. I'll take Mingrui and the others back first. I just came here in Zhuoran's carriage. I'll take their carriage back later."
"Oh, that's fine. You should go back early and don't play too late." Liu Sanniang reminded.
"Okay." Lu Mingfei nodded.
There happened to be a snack stall on the street, so he bought some food for his two younger brothers and Zhang Qi. Then he said goodbye to his family and went back to the teahouse to find Ye Zhuoran and Zhang Lingxuan.
That evening, the three of them sat in the teahouse for nearly an hour and watched a dragon and lion dance.
This time they stood on a high place and could clearly see the hustle and bustle on the street.
When he saw the lionfish and dragonfish dancing on the street, Lu Mingfei remembered the year when he found Zhao Lang in the crowd, and how both of them were later covered with their mouths and carried away by human traffickers.
However, he didn't see the young master on this street again today. He thought that the young master must have gone to the palace to attend the palace banquet. Thinking of the last time someone went to the palace, he came to his house hungry for a midnight snack. He felt sad and funny at the same time.
Afraid that Zhao Lang would come to see him again in the evening, he packed up some dim sum at the teahouse before going back this time. He also packed up the snacks they had bought on the street but had not finished eating tonight.
"Let's go back too. We have to go to the teacher's place to study tomorrow morning." The waiter in the store brought the snacks he ordered, and Lu Mingfei said to Zhang Lingxuan and Ye Zhuoran.
"Okay, let's go." Zhang Lingxuan called Ye Zhuoran, who still wanted to stay here and not go back, to go with him.
Although somewhat reluctant, Ye Zhuoran still followed his two friends downstairs and went up to the bottom of the stairs to pick up their carriage.
On the way, they saw a stall selling wontons. Lu Mingfei asked the driver to stop the carriage, got off, bought three portions of raw wontons and brought them back to the carriage. He gave two portions of wontons to Ye Zhuoran and Zhang Lingxuan, and said, "If you get hungry when you go back, ask your family to cook them for you as a midnight snack."
"Mingfei, you're so kind! I'll actually be hungry when I get home at night." Ye Zhuoran gave Lu Mingfei a bear hug and turned back to imply to someone: "It's not like someone who never cares whether I'm hungry or not."
“…”Zhang Lingxuan.
Lu Mingfei quickly pushed the hugging guy away and subconsciously glanced back at Zhang Lingxuan. The light inside the carriage was dim, so he couldn't see Zhang Lingxuan's face clearly, but he knew that Young Master Zhang must have a gloomy face at the moment.
The carriage took him back to his home, and Ye Zhuoran and Zhang Lingxuan left.
“Squeak—”
The people in the yard heard the noise outside and came over to open the door.
As soon as he opened the door, Lu Youtian saw his eldest son outside. He smiled and let his eldest son in, saying, "I just heard the sound of the carriage and guessed that you were back."
"Why are you still holding a food box? What's in it?"
"Here are some snacks. Do you want some, Dad?" Lu Mingfei asked.
"Father won't eat it, so you can keep it for yourself." Lu Youtian closed the courtyard door and bolted it. He turned around and said to his eldest son, "Your mother and I just got back. Your mother took Mingrui back to the house to sleep. Zhang Qi and Xiaobao also went back to their rooms to sleep."
"There's still hot water in the pot in the kitchen. If you need to wash up later, go to the kitchen and pour it out. I just went to light the wood in the fireplace in your room. Go back inside and warm up. Wash your face and go to bed. You have to go to private school tomorrow, so don't read too late."
The weather in the first month of the lunar year is still very cold, especially after the sun sets, it becomes even colder at night.
"Okay, Dad, you should go and have a rest too." Lu Mingfei nodded and responded.
Lu Youtian went to take a look at the donkey in the donkey shed, and only after making sure that the donkey was fine in the shed did he go back to the main house.
Lu Mingfei stood at the door of the room and watched his father go into the main room. Then he went into his own bedroom, put the food box in his hand on the desk, and took a wooden bucket to the kitchen to get hot water.
It was not until late that night that he heard a slight knock on the door.
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