On a sunny afternoon, Su Ruizhe stood outside the door of a barbecue restaurant in a school uniform that looked a bit old, closed his eyes and took a deep breath.
He misses the scent so much...
"Uncle Wu! Give me ten skewers of chicken, ten skewers of mutton, and ten skewers of beef!" Su Ruizhe swallowed hard, and took out a few crumpled change notes from the pocket of his worn school uniform and handed them over.
The owner of the barbecue shop is named Wu Qi, a middle-aged man in his forties, with a medium build and a height of 175. He wears a pair of glasses and looks gentle.
"It's Xiao Zhe? Why did you eat so much today?" Wu Qi's barbecue restaurant is right in front of the city's No. 1 Middle School. Su Ruizhe often does part-time jobs here during the summer vacation, so Wu Qi is very familiar with Su Ruizhe and knows that he likes it. food. But Su Ruizhe has always been in a tight financial situation. After saving for seven or eight days, he would buy a skewer or two of meat and share it with his grandfather.
Su Ruizhe rubbed his hands, took out a few crumpled banknotes and put them in Wu Qi's money basket, a slightly immature and delicate face showed a light smile, "Uncle Wu, I'm going to earn money today Now, I want to reward myself."
"Have you made money?" Wu Qi paused slightly with his hand on the kebab, looked up at Su Ruizhe, and asked pretending not to care, "How did you make money?"
Wu Qi knew about Su Ruizhe's family situation. His father passed away unexpectedly, and his mother ran away with others because she couldn't bear the hardship. The older children were brought up by his elderly grandfather. No. 1 middle school, but the tuition fee has become a big problem. The grandfather who lives on the subsistence allowance can only go out to pick up garbage to make money.
Not long ago, Su Ruizhe's grandfather died of a cerebral hemorrhage when he was picking up trash outside. Su Ruizhe lost his only relative and became an orphan completely. Even if a seventeen-year-old child is sent to an orphanage, he is already too old. Living on the 400 yuan subsistence allowance given out every month in the street. Wu Qi also felt sorry for the child, so he let him work in his shop during the holidays. An income of more than ten yuan a day is nothing but a drop in the bucket for Su Ruizhe, who can only barely eat and wear. Now that school is about to start, the tuition and living expenses have become a big problem.
Now Su Ruizhe said that he made money? Where can a child who is underage earn money? It's really no wonder Wu Qi didn't care.
Su Ruizhe smiled shyly, and took out a small plastic bag from behind, "This is a vegetable I grew myself, and I sold it for money."
"Yo? I grew it myself? Show me it." Hearing that the money was earned from selling vegetables, Wu Qi's hanging heart suddenly let go, and he quickly reached out to take the bag from Su Ruizhe's hand.
"Heh, there are quite a lot of kinds?" There were seven or eight kinds of vegetables in the bag. Although the quantity was not many, it was good in appearance.
Wu Qi took out a piece of corn from the bag, sniffed it, and put one into his mouth. His eyes widened, "It tastes very good, and you can tell it's the freshest when you taste it! This bag is for you, Uncle Wu and me." If you want it, you can take the money, and you will have to sell it to me when you plant it in the future.”
Wu Qi's barbecue restaurant not only sells barbecued meat, but also grilled vegetables. Su Ruizhe's dishes are of much better quality than the wholesale ones he buys from the market, so he immediately took a red hundred-dollar bill from the cash box and stuffed it into it. Su Ruizhe's hand.
Su Ruizhe pursed his lips, put away the money, two pretty dimples appeared on some baby's plump cheeks, and thanked with a smile, "Thank you Uncle Wu, I will definitely sell new vegetables to you in a few days you."
"Here, your thirty skewers of barbecue." Wu Qi took a plastic box and packed the barbecue he ordered for Su Ruizhe.
"Thank you Uncle Wu, goodbye Uncle Wu." Su Ruizhe bid farewell to Wu Qi obediently, turned and left the barbecue shop.
With the smell of barbecue lingering on the tip of his nose, Su Ruizhe couldn't wait to take out a skewer and bite down.
Ow! So happy!
Su Ruizhe was about to cry, he didn't know how many years he had tasted this delicious taste...
As Su Ruizhe walked, he wolfed down a dozen skewers of barbecued meat, then looked around carefully, and turned into a small alley.
When he came out of the alley again, the small box containing the barbecue was gone, replaced by a big bag of fresh cherries.
"Sweet and big cherries, ten yuan a catty, no money if not sweet." Su Ruizhe found a curb near the vegetable market and squatted down, opened the bag of cherries in front of him, and the fresh and bright cherries suddenly appeared It attracted the attention of many aunts and aunts.
"Young man, can you try it?" an aunt asked aloud.
"Of course." Su Ruizhe held a cherry stem and handed it over, with two small dimples on his cheeks looming, looking cute and cute, "Auntie, I planted this at home, it's absolutely fresh."
The aunt nodded, she could also tell that the cherry was very fresh, there was still some water on it, obviously it had been washed, so she directly stuffed the cherry into her mouth.
"Wow! It's so sweet!" The sweetness and rich juice in the mouth fully released the taste of the cherry in the mouth, and the aunt's eyes lit up immediately, "Young man, weigh three catties for auntie!"
"Okay!" Su Ruizhe took out a plastic bag and a small electronic scale from his schoolbag with a smile, and filled the bag with half a bag of cherries, "Auntie, I'll give you a potato for three catties of cherries."
Then the aunt saw that there was a bag by Su Ruizhe's feet, which contained a few round potatoes, and looked very good, so she was very happy at the moment, paid the money readily, and left with the things.
Suddenly, a group of gangsters came along the street, all of them were dressed in a casual manner, but a man walking at the end was very conspicuous.
The man was 1.9 meters tall with long legs. He was wearing a pair of black sunglasses and couldn't see his face clearly. However, his nose was straight and his face was very rigid. A circle of cyan stubble made him look very difficult to mess with.
He was wearing a tight-fitting black vest on his upper body, outlining his muscular lines. With his wheat-colored skin, he looked like he was full of male hormones and handsome.
It's a pity that he's just a bastard...
Su Ruizhe raised his head and looked at the familiar gangsters, his eye circles turned red unconsciously.
"Oh, Boss, you are too fierce. Look, you haven't done anything. The kid is almost crying because of you." A yellow-haired gangster saw Su Ruizhe at a glance. She looks so good, her big black eyes seem to be able to talk, but now her eye circles are red, she shrank her shoulders as if frightened, just like a little quail, on the contrary, she looks even more cute.
"Oh?" Zhan Yun turned down his sunglasses, revealing a pair of narrow and deep eyes, looking in Su Ruizhe's direction.
Su Ruizhe only felt that his little heart was about to jump out of his chest, he grabbed his palm tightly, so he didn't open his mouth to call out Brother Yun.
As a result, the eye circles became more red...
"Hey, what's the matter with you kid...? We didn't collect protection money from you, we just passed here! Why are you afraid of this?" The yellow-haired man walked up to Su Ruizhe and squatted down. I just don't understand, how can you be so afraid of being so good
Su Ruizhe also felt that he was too ugly, he quickly suppressed his tears, wiped the corners of his eyes vigorously with his sleeves, opened his big wet eyes, tried his best to force a smile, and his cheeks were bulging with baby fat Yes, it's like pinching, and two small dimples appeared on his cheeks, making him even more cute and cute.
"Tsk." Zhan Yun kicked Huang Mao's ass unhappily, kicking him away from Su Ruizhe, and squatting down in front of Su Ruizhe instead, "What are you selling?"
"Cherries! Big and sweet cherries..." Su Ruizhe rubbed his palms, and asked timidly, "You, do you want to taste it?"
Zhan Yun took a deep look at him, reached out to pick up a cherry and put it in his mouth, the sweet taste immediately filled his mouth, this was really the first time he had tasted such a delicious cherry.
"How many cherries did you bring?"
"Also, there are more than ten catties left..."
"Bring me ten catties." After finishing speaking, he stood up and said to the yellow hair that he kicked away just now, "Awang, pay the bill!"
"Oh!" Huang Mao quickly took out a hundred-yuan bill from his pocket and threw it to him, and said domineeringly, "Don't look for it!"
Su Ruizhe quickly bagged the cherries, and when he handed the bag to Huang Mao, he replied in a low voice, "Exactly, exactly... No change..."
The yellow-haired man who was listening was almost tripped by himself, his brothers all came up to run on him, and the group left in a fight.
Watching Zhan Yun's back disappear into the corner of the street, the look in Su Ruizhe's eyes gradually dimmed...
He... still doesn't know himself...
On the contrary, the few aunts and aunts who had been watching around saw that the gangsters had finally left and rushed up, and quickly snapped up Su Ruizhe's remaining cherries. Do the bosses who didn't look at the East Street think it was delicious? I bought ten catties in one go! If you move slowly, it will be gone!
After sending out the last few potatoes, Su Ruizhe patted the ashes on his buttocks, and happily called it a day and went home.
Passing through several narrow alleys, Su Ruizhe returned to the small bungalow where he and his grandfather lived, opened the old wooden door with peeling paint, and looked at the familiar small house, Su Ruizhe's eyes couldn't help but flushed.
"Grandpa..." Su Ruizhe whimpered, tears slowly dripping down his cheeks, "If I could come back sooner... earlier..."
However, thinking that in a month's time this world will become a Shura field full of corpses, he feels that maybe there is nothing wrong with Grandpa leaving now...