It rained heavily the day Xia Yaozu and Chu Yuzhu met for the first time.
The salt at home had long been used up, and the father and son had to eat pickles for several days. Only then did Old Man Xia take out four five-cent dollar bills from the bottom of the box and hand them to Xia Yaozu, asking him to go to the canteen to buy a pack of salt and bring it back to stir-fry vegetables.
At that time, salt only cost two cents a pack, but for the extremely poor Xia family, it was a good thing that they had to save on.
Xia Yaozu rushed to the canteen with two cents in his pocket and a broken bamboo hat. After searching for a long time, he took out the two cents from the slit of his trousers and handed them over.
It happened that Chu Yuzhu was sitting in the store that day. Due to the heavy rain, the usually bustling canteen was deserted. She was the only one sitting behind the counter, chewing melon seeds boredly. The black melon seed shells on the ground were full of cow lice.
Lying on the ground in the same mess.
When Chu Yuzhu brought salt to Xia Yaozu, she spread out the melon seeds in her hand and handed them to him, and asked with a smile: "Do you want to eat melon seeds?"
There was a small pile of black melon seeds spread out on the jade-white palm, which made the fingers as tender and beautiful as green onions.
Most girls from the Northeast are tall and thick-skinned, and there are few girls as good-looking as Chu Yuzhu. In addition, Xia Yaozu has been shy since he was a child and rarely talks to the girl's family. His face immediately turned red as if it were cooked.
He was like a shrimp, and he stuttered when he spoke.
"No, I won't eat it. Thanks, thank you, I won't eat it." Xia Yaozu said.
Chu Yuzhu became playful when she saw Xia Yaozu's shy look. She blinked her big black eyes, raised her hand forward and asked him: "You really don't want to eat?"
"I really don't want to eat, I, I don't have money." Xia Yaozu stuttered in reply. He was so embarrassed that he didn't dare to look at Chu Yuzhu. He took the salt and turned around to run away.
"Hey -" Chu Yuzhu shouted behind him, "It's raining so hard outside. Are you afraid that the salt will melt in the rain?"
Xia Yaozu stopped suddenly, looked down at the salt bag in his hand, then turned to look at Chu Yuzhu, thought for a while and stuttered: "I, I wear a bucket, a hat, I can't get wet, this, this is a plastic bag
."
"Look at how tattered your bamboo hat is, and you still think it can keep out the rain? Also, although this salt is a plastic bag, it still has gaps. It will melt in such a heavy rain!
"Chu Yuzhu looked at Xia Yaozu seriously and said.#@$&
"Yes, there is a gap? Where is it?" Xia Yaozu turned over the salt bag in his hand and looked at Chu Yuzhu.
"You stay here with me for a while to eat melon seeds and chat, and I'll tell you!" Chu Yuzhu said with a wink.
Xia Yaozu thought Chu Yuzhu wanted him to buy melon seeds, so he turned pale with fright. He waved his hands and said, "I, I don't have money to buy melon seeds."
Although he had never been to the canteen, he had heard people say that young men and women in the village came to the canteen to give away money. He secretly thought that this was Chu Yuzhu's way of promoting sales.
Not to mention that he didn’t have a penny after buying the salt. Even if he had money, he wouldn’t dare to use it to buy melon seeds.%&(&
Unexpectedly, Chu Yuzhu smiled, stretched out her palms in front of him again and said, "I don't want your money, I'll treat you to food!"
Xia Yaozu was stunned, and looked at the smiling Chu Yuzhu suspiciously, then at the few melon seeds that were clenched wet in her palm, and asked with some suspicion: "You, you treat me to some melon seeds? Why, why?"
In fact, Xia Yaozu is neither stupid nor stupid, but he looks a little dazed at the moment.
Chu Yuzhu suddenly felt that she had lost interest. She rolled her eyes and retracted her hand, saying, "I'm just bored if I don't want to eat."
"I eat! I eat!" Xia Yaozu said quickly: "You tell me if you eat, right?"
Chu Yuzhu rolled his eyes again and said nothing. He just spread his palm again and handed the melon seeds in his hand to Xia Yaozu.
Xia Yaozu picked up a melon seed from Chu Yuzhu's hand, chewed it and swallowed it without spitting out the shell.
The aroma spread in his mouth, but Xia Yaozu couldn't taste it at all.
Chu Yuzhu raised his eyebrows.
He looked down at the salt bag in his hand nervously, then looked up at Chu Yuzhu eagerly and asked, "Where is the gap?"
Seeing Xia Yaozu's silly look, Chu Yuzhu couldn't help but smile, and then passed her white hand to him and said: "Eat some more."
Xia Yaozu swallowed and had no choice but to pick up another one and stuff it into his mouth.
Maybe it was because it was the first time for Xia Yaozu to talk so much to a girl, or maybe it was because he was too nervous. When he chewed up the shell again and swallowed it, he choked violently.
After a violent cough, when Xia Yaozu raised his head with a flushed face, Chu Yuzhu was already laughing so hard that he was leaning forward and backward.
Chu Yuzhu stretched out a slender white finger and pointed at Xia Yaozu, laughing so hard that he couldn't even speak smoothly, "You, are you stupid? I, I lied to you -"
Xia Yaozu was a young man after all. No matter how good-tempered he was, he couldn't stand being teased by a girl about his stupidity to his face. He was immediately filled with shame and anger, his face turned red, he glared at Chu Yuzhu, turned around and ran out of the store.
The small shop was an old-fashioned house with a threshold that was neither high nor low. Xia Yaozu was filled with shame and anger. He ran too fast and tripped over the threshold. He stumbled into the rain, which had already washed the muddy ground into mud.
His foot slipped and he fell down.
The salt bag in his hand couldn't withstand such a fall, and it fell apart instantly. The white salt was scattered all over the floor, and when it was washed away by the rain, it melted into the muddy water before Xia Yaozu could react.
Xia Yaozu was completely dumbfounded. He didn't know how to get up from lying on the ground, and reached out to hold the bag of salt that had nothing left.
I only took back a handful of mud.
Chu Yuzhu was laughing so hard that she couldn't stand up straight. When she saw Xia Yaozu fell to the ground, she couldn't help but feel even more joyful.
But seeing Xia Yaozu just lying there in the rain with no movement for a long time, Chu Yuzhu panicked a little.
Chu Yuzhu didn't have any bad intentions at first, but seeing that Xia Yaozu was fairer than ordinary people and a little shy, and it was raining and no one was shopping and it was too boring, she thought of playing tricks on this shy young man.
There must be something wrong with the fall.
Chu Yuzhu thought, took an umbrella, opened it and rushed into the rain.
"Hey, are you okay?" Chu Yuzhu ran to Xia Yaozu's side in a few steps. Seeing his eyes wide open, she immediately felt relieved. She squatted down and reached out to pull Xia Yaozu up.
"Go away!" Xia Yaozu roared with some anger and moved his arm, still holding the handful of mud in his hand.
Only then did Chu Yuzhu's eyes fall on the salt bag that had already fallen into pieces.
Chu Yuzhu, whose family conditions were not poor, did not understand what a bag of salt worth only 50 cents meant to Xia Yaozu, and she was a little annoyed.
This man seemed so polite, but his temper was a bit too much. She didn't push him to fall. She kindly went out into the rain to pull him up, but he still yelled at her despite being ungrateful.
Chu Yuzhu retracted her hand in embarrassment, stood up and was about to return to the store when she saw the young man lying on the ground doing something she couldn't understand. This chapter has been completed!