The market was set up along the railings on both sides of a river. The market was bustling with people and very lively. Lin Zhizhi and Lu Yi followed the crowd into the noisy market and were instantly surrounded by all kinds of hawking sounds.
The smell of fireworks is the most soothing to ordinary people's hearts. The various aspects of life are fully reflected in the market. Sometimes people go to the market not just to buy things, but sometimes they just like its atmosphere, the hustle and bustle, the vendors' different and continuous shouting, the sounds of bargaining, and the aroma of various foods that make people linger.
The long alleys of the city are fireworks when gathered together and the world when spread out. The lights of thousands of homes are not as bright as the fireworks of a small family. Two people in one room, three meals a day, four seasons. It seems ordinary, but it is also happy.
Nowadays, convenient online shopping has gradually entered thousands of households and has become a popular shopping method, especially for young people. In addition, many young people and young and middle-aged people with working capacity in rural areas go out to work, which results in the market being less lively on ordinary market days than it is now.
Although online shopping is convenient and fast, it cannot provide a lively experience. Going to the market is more down-to-earth. Sometimes you will meet a stall owner who is willing to chat with you and even talk about family matters with you. It is like you are old friends, which makes you feel cordial.
Because there were so many people, Lu Yi was afraid that the crowd would accidentally bump into Lin Zhizhi, so he held Lin Zhizhi's hand tighter and kept paying attention to the people around him.
Lin Zhizhi's clear purpose was to find someone selling candied haws. The two of them walked almost half the street but still didn't see anyone selling them.
Just when Lin Zhizhi was feeling a little lost, Lu Yi saw a child being led by an adult passing by them. The child was licking a string of marshmallows in his hand, and the corners of his mouth were covered with sugar juice. The child was sticking out his tongue and sweeping it along his lips.
Lin Zhizhi also noticed the child, and the next second Lu Yi took Lin Zhizhi towards the child.
If you don’t have candied haws, use marshmallows instead.
Facing the child's mother's puzzled expression, Lu Yi calmly and politely said, "Hello, I would like to ask where did you buy this marshmallow?"
"Oh, marshmallows? It's right there on the bridge. You can see it if you walk forward. There are a lot of children gathered there." The child's mother came to her senses, leaned back, and pointed Lu Yi in the approximate direction.
"Okay, thank you." Lu Yi took a look and thanked him politely.
When Lin Zhizhi was asking Lu Yi for directions, she noticed that the child took another bite of the marshmallow, and took a big bite, which directly covered most of the child's face. When the marshmallow was taken away, not only the corners of the mouth were covered with sugar threads, but also his cheeks and nose.
The child was confused for a moment, but immediately continued licking happily. When he was licking his upper lip, which was just below his nose, he raised his eyes and met Lin Zhizhi's smiling gaze.
Lin Zhizhi was holding a small pack of tissues in her hand. She had originally wanted to give them to the child at the beginning, but seeing how happily he was licking the nipples, it seemed unnecessary to give him the tissues.
Lin Zhizhi saw the child looking at her, and was smiling gently, thinking she was very friendly. Unexpectedly, by coincidence, the next second the child's snot suddenly flowed down without warning, hanging there straight like a rice noodle, and the child's tongue just licked it.
Lin Zhizhi was stunned, and just watched the child lick off most of it. The child was also stunned, and put his hand under his nose, wiped it, and put it in front of his eyes to look.
Lin Zhizhi saw that the child's eyes seemed to be moistening, and hurriedly reached out to hand him the tissue, but the child looked away and no longer looked at Lin Zhizhi. Instead, he tugged at his mother's hand, stepped forward with his little legs, and pulled his mother hard to move forward.
"Hey, kid, are you in a hurry to go home now? Just now, no matter how I pulled you home, you refused to go home..."
The child's mother said this, but she still followed the child's lead and moved forward, only teasing the child.
Lin Zhizhi put away the tissue and saw the strange expression on Lu Yi's face. She asked in confusion, "What's wrong?"
Lu Yi just looked at Lin Zhizhi dimly and asked without any context, "Every child is different, right?"
"ah?"
Lu Yi didn't say much, just pulled Lin Zhizhi forward and said, "Let's go to the bridge and take a look."
Lu Yi had just seen the kid's rice noodles, and the moment he licked them caused him a lot of visual conflicts. He would not tell Lin Zhizhi that he had just uncontrollably imagined what it would be like if their daughter did this action.
Lu Yi blinked hard to dispel the images that kept replaying in his mind.
No, absolutely not. How could this happen to my little cotton-padded jacket? It's all an illusion!
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