Tongdao Xu smiled and said nothing. He just cut open three large eggplants and placed them on the grilling net as soon as the fire was lit in the oven.
Then, that night, Xu Tonglin finally had the roasted eggplant he had been looking forward to for a long time. When he took the first bite, Xu Tongdao saw his eyes narrowing in happiness.
It was both funny and a bit unpleasant in my heart.
He reviewed himself in his mind. He had brought Xu Tonglin to this county for so many days and sold so many portions of roasted eggplant, but Xu Tonglin never tasted it.
In fact, he himself has never tasted his own roasted eggplant. Every time he tastes it, he just inserts a bamboo skewer into the roasted eggplant and then tastes the juice on the bamboo skewer.
He is not a greedy person himself.
He is also happy when he eats delicious food, but if he cannot eat it, he doesn't think much about it.
Being such a person, he inadvertently ignored Xu Tonglin's feelings. Xu Tonglin's fat body had actually revealed the secret of his greedy mouth.
"Hey! Xiaodao, look at Bald Zhang! What do you think he is doing? Hey, he also bought a display cabinet today?"
Xu Tonglin, who had just eaten two bites of roasted eggplant, suddenly pointed to Bald Zhang and called Xu Tongdao.
Comrade Xu turned his head and looked around, and sure enough he saw a display cabinet not far from Bald Zhang's oven tonight. It looked like it was a new display cabinet.
What made Comrade Xu look at him was that Bald Zhang was climbing a tree at this time. Inexplicably, Comrade Xu remembered the scene of Bald Zhang climbing a tree in the original time and space cartoon "Bear Infested".
"Xiaodao, what do you think he is doing? There won't be a bird's nest in that tree, right?"
Xu Tonglin muttered next to Xu Tongdao.
Xu Tongdao squinted at the sycamore tree that the bald head was climbing up. After several glances, he didn't see a bird's nest in the tree, but he noticed that there seemed to be a wire tied around the bald head's waist.
At this time, Xi Xiaoqian, who was wearing a red apron around her waist, also came over and said hesitantly: "She must be pulling wires for his display cabinet!"
When she said this, both Xu Tongdao and Xu Tonglin felt that it was very possible.
After all, there is plenty of room for a display cabinet at Bald Zhang's stall, but it's not easy to pull a wire.
There wasn't another newsstand there, or any other small shop with electricity.
"By the way, where did that fat man's display cabinet get electricity from?" Xu Tonglin suddenly thought of this question.
The answer is not hard to find.
Tongdao Xu and Xi Xiaoqian both subconsciously looked for the direction of the wires on Fatty Lu's display cabinet, and soon noticed that Fatty Lu's wires were also pulled from a sycamore tree.
There is no electricity on the sycamore tree itself, but the red wire is several meters high in the air across the tree, across the road, and then tied to another sycamore tree across the road. There are many stores with electricity across the road. It seems that Fatty Lu’s
The display cabinet is wired from the store across the street.
"Hey, Sister Xiaoqian! Let me ask you a question!"
Xu Tonglin suddenly turned to talk to Xi Xiaoqian.
Xi Xiaoqian and Comrade Xu both looked at him curiously. Xi Xiaoqian smiled softly, "You ask!"
Xu Tonglin turned around and looked at Bald Zhang who was climbing the tree, "Xiaoqian, we have been here for some time. Why has Bald Zhang been doing business alone? Where is his wife? Why doesn't he sell with his wife like Fatty Lu?
ah!"
Not to mention, Comrade Xu was also a little curious about this question.
After hearing the question, Xi Xiaoqian smiled again, "I heard that his wife has been dead for several years, and he is reluctant to spend money to hire someone, so naturally he can only do it by himself!"
"Dead? He's not very old, right? Is his wife dead now?"
Xu Tonglin was surprised.
Tongdao Xu frowned slightly and turned to look at Bald Zhang who had climbed up the tree.
He didn't sympathize with Bald Zhang because of this incident, he just felt a little emotional - as expected, people always have stories as they get older.
When he squinted at the bald man, he heard Xi Xiaoqian say: "Yes! He must be forty or fifty years old at most! But I heard that his wife has been dead for several years, and I heard that his relationship with his son is not that good.
It’s not very good. His son usually works outside and hasn’t been back during the Chinese New Year in the past two years..."
Does this mean that Bald Zhang’s current life is almost the same as that of an old bachelor?
This thought flashed through Xu Tongdao's mind. Suddenly, his half-closed eyes widened slightly, and his expression became surprised.
A red bicycle rode up to Bald Zhang's stall. A young woman about 1.6 meters tall, with fair complexion and wearing a white dress got off the car. She looked around and saw Bald Zhang climbing up the tree.
, she immediately parked her bicycle, then walked quickly to the tree, raised her face and said something to the bald man on the tree.
Because they were dozens of meters away, Tongdao Xu couldn't hear what she was saying to Bald Zhang.
But it was not dark yet, and the afterglow of the setting sun reflected on her fair oval face, allowing Comrade Xu to see her face clearly.
she……
Why is she here? Cousin? Isn't this Feng Qinghua?
At that moment, Comrade Xu was really confused.
This woman, Feng Qinghua, was the wife of his cousin Ge Liangcai in the original time and space. She was cold-tempered but well-managed and was his cousin-in-law, Tongdao Xu.
If he saw her anywhere else in this county, Comrade Xu would not be as surprised as he is now.
Where is this?
A happy street with endless romance, and what can she say to that bald Zhang?
Did she come to Bald Zhang’s stall specifically to buy barbecue?
No way!
Xu Tongdao felt that the possibility of her coming to Bald Zhang to buy barbecue was very low, because the food Bald Zhang grilled was the worst tasting among all the barbecue stalls on this street.
Therefore, if Feng Qinghua comes to buy barbecue and there is no one in front of Bald Zhang's grill, she can just walk a few steps forward and see Fatty Lu's barbecue stall and Bald Zhang's stall right next to each other!
Or come to his Tongdao Xu’s place to buy. Anyway, she came here on a bicycle and just pedaled. His Tongdao Xu’s barbecue stall looked more than twice as big as Bald Zhang’s stall.
"No! No! How can it be done? An increase of fifty in one month! Not even one point less will do! Stop trying to talk to me here! I just want to ask you, is it okay to get an increase of fifty in one month?"
The bald man on the tree opened his mouth, and his voice was loud enough that Comrade Xu could hear it even when he was sitting dozens of meters away.
But Feng Qinghua said something under the tree, and Comrade Xu couldn't hear it at all.
Fifty rises in one month?
What the hell is going up by fifty?
Is there any deal Feng Qinghua can't make with this bald Zhang?
Tongdao Xu had a question on his head, frowned and thought for a while, then subconsciously stood up and walked over there. After all, Feng Qinghua was his original cousin-in-law, and if nothing else happened, she would also be his cousin-in-law in this life.
And his cousin Ge Liangcai was very kind to him.
Therefore, seeing that Feng Qinghua and Bald Zhang seemed to have something difficult to solve, Comrade Xu couldn't sit still and wanted to listen to see if he could be of any help.
Just think of it as leaving a good impression on your future cousin-in-law.