Meng Xiaoni can see ghosts.
This is the reason why she was abandoned, and it is also the reason why she deliberately avoided many people and unconsciously refused to get close to them.
Just like people who do white things, they seldom have much social interaction with others. Everyone seems to subtly avoid this kind of thing, always feeling unlucky.
Meng Xiaoni could see ghosts when she was a child. When she was in the orphanage, she still thought that when she grew up, she might as well go to work in a funeral parlor. The salary is quite high.
Then she gave up.
Because she likes people, and likes the fresh air in people.
Unlike humans, ghosts are used to shady places. The sky is big and the earth is big, they can walk and float, and they can't make up that kind of "lively" feeling at all.
Even when the ghost gate is open, a group of ghosts gather together, which can only bring Meng Xiaoni a sense of "coolness" instead of "lively".
She left the train station and got on a bus.
Half an hour later, Meng Xiaoni finally arrived at her destination, her small restaurant.
Meng Xiaoni suspects that all the small restaurants in the world are restaurants downstairs with people living upstairs.
She pulled her luggage to the door of the store, poked her head inside: "Mom, Dad."
At this point in time, most of the hot pot eaters had left, and there was only one old customer in the shop drinking hot pot and turning his head to look at the door: "Isn't this Xiao Meng! You went home so early?"
Meng Xiaoni smiled at the person: "Hello, Uncle. I graduated, so I'm back now."
"Have you graduated from college? The last time I saw you was when you were in high school?" the old customer sighed.
Meng Xiaoni moved the box into the store, looked up at her storefront which had not changed, and nodded: "Yes. I came back after Chinese New Year after four years of university. A high-speed rail ticket is too expensive."
The cheapest second-class seat costs five or six hundred, and one round trip costs one thousand.
The old customer was speechless: "The days go by too quickly."
Meng Xiaoni looked up the stairs: "Where's my mom and dad?"
The old guest nodded upstairs: "Your mother is upstairs. Your father has gone out."
Meng Xiaoni was self-reliant, and carried her suitcase and schoolbag upstairs to the store: "Uncle, you continue to eat, I will go up and put the things away."
The old guest nodded.
Meng Xiaoni carried the box upstairs, and met Meng's mother head-on.
Meng Xiaoni, who was adopted by Meng's mother in her thirties, is not young now, and she doesn't pay much attention to maintenance on weekdays. As soon as she saw Meng Xiaoni, a wrinkled smile appeared on her face: "Why did you come back so early, little girl?"
Meng Xiaoni smiled shyly at Mother Meng: "You've graduated. Didn't I call and say I'll be back today?"
Mother Meng slapped her head: "Oh, I was too busy to forget. Eating small restaurants has become popular this year. Outsiders come here to try the food, and there are quite a few people here. Didn't they just graduate from high school a few days ago? Those high school students All run here."
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Tourism has indeed been developing everywhere in recent years.
Meng Xiaoni nodded: "This is not very good, we don't need to advertise in the future."
Mother Meng simply rubbed her hands, and smiled innocently: "You have a lot of tricks. You are the smartest in our family, and this store will rely on you in the future."
At the beginning, many people rented the shops. Mother Meng and Father Meng didn't know what to think at the time, so they bought the two shops because they saved money and spent money. Later, we encountered demolition and the opening of the Fengdu high-speed railway.
The Meng's shop looks inconspicuous, but in fact, it is expensive in terms of its location.
Meng Xiaoni relied on these two talents in her life to grow up safely.
She definitely nodded: "Yeah."
Mother Meng was very relieved, and stepped forward to pull Meng Xiaoni's luggage: "Come on, can you see what you don't need in your room? Clean it up. You won't be staying for a year, and the house has changed a lot."
After not seeing her daughter for a year, Mother Meng talked about many trivial things.
For example, she specially asked a carpenter to build a bookcase for Meng Xiaoni.
For example, I tried a new kind of hot pot dipping sauce at home downstairs. I heard that the kind that is popular in the market adds a lot of beef scraps.
Each piece is full of the fireworks of life.
Meng Xiaoni listened to them one by one, her eyes became crescent moons.
That's why she likes people.
After Meng's mother finished speaking, she transferred the conversation from the room to the store, and then she said: "We and your father thought that you would come back to open the store after graduation. I was afraid that it would be difficult for you to find a partner. So I took some money and bought a new set. The house. It is Bailaiping, and it will be delivered next year. If you get married in the future, you will have confidence."
Meng Xiaoni was stunned.
Mother Meng's words sound like buying a house is like buying vegetables, if you say you buy it, you buy it.
But Meng Xiaoni knew that the house purchase money might be all the savings of the family.
She didn't ask her family for money again in college, so she hoped that the two elders could save money for retirement. Sexual intercourse is only allowed at the age of 30. When the two elders adopted her, they were both over 30 years old.
Twenty years passed in a snap of the fingers, and now they are all in their fifties, reaching the age of retirement.
Meng Xiaoni sniffed and replied in a low voice: "Mom, I'm still too early to get married."
She didn't want to leave Erlao at all.
People can become ghosts after death. Even after she died, she wanted to be a family with the second elder.
The older generation is so traditional, so they straightened their faces immediately: "Why is it so early? This house will be delivered next year, and it needs to be renovated. After the decoration is completed, it will take a year to live in. What if you have a boyfriend and want to get married? Well, this house might be too late."
Meng Xiaoni: "... Mom, what if I can't find it?"
When Mother Meng heard this, she immediately softened her temper: "It's not urgent, I didn't rush you."
Meng Xiaoni nodded heavily.
She said to Meng's mother very seriously: "The decoration of the house will be done slowly. Let's finish the hot pot restaurant first. There will always be money to decorate the house in the future. I will make a lot of money for you two."
Mother Meng giggled and said, "Okay, make a lot of money."
Mother Meng knew that Meng Xiaoni was serious, but she didn't know how serious Meng Xiaoni was.
When Meng Xiaoni was writing her thesis, she set up a reasonable store opening plan by referring to popular online stores and brand stores. She also found alumni to design the store and collected a variety of recipes.
It's all about recipes for hot pot restaurants.
Now that the store is still small, the recipes are destined to be carefully selected, which not only reflects the local characteristics, but also tastes delicious.
She didn't take it out to show Meng Mu right away.
Mother Meng's eyes are presbyopic, and she has never seen such a thing as a project proposal, so she will not be able to understand her at all for a while.
Meng Xiaoni put the things away in the room, and Mother Meng began to care about her: "Do you want to eat hot pot? You didn't eat it on the high-speed train, okay? You can talk about the taste of the food outside, and I heard that it tastes bad after one bite."
"I ate noodles, fresh shrimp and fish board, and we also put chili powder ground by our family." Meng Xiaoni was quite proud.
As soon as Mother Meng heard the fresh shrimp and fish plate, she immediately knew that Meng Xiaoni was eating instant noodles.
She hurriedly walked to the door: "You little girl, you really don't know how to take care of yourself when you are alone outside. I'll make you a hot pot, and you hurry down to eat. You don't even look at these points. Me and your dad We're going to sleep."
It was completely dark outside.
Meng Xiaoni nodded hurriedly: "I want slightly spicy! If you eat too spicy at night, you won't be able to sleep."
When Mother Meng heard this, she felt sorry for Meng Xiaoni again: "He is always outside, and he can't even eat spicy food."
Meng Xiaoni didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
Fengdu's slightly spicy is considered extra spicy in other places, and the pepper and chili are put as if you don't need money. She really felt that she just came back, and she was afraid that she would eat too much at night.
Meng's mother went downstairs, Meng Xiaoni hurriedly opened her suitcase and packed her things.
Her room was small, and everything was taken out, and the cupboards and desks were quickly filled.
Seeing that her room was ready for occupants, she hurried out of the room again, and ran downstairs to eat supper.
The old customer downstairs is no longer there.
Father Meng just entered the door with a pack of cigarettes in his hand.
When he saw Meng Xiaoni, he hurriedly hid the cigarette in his hand behind his back, his face became serious: "Little girl is back."
Meng Xiaoni's sharp eyes saw the cigarette Father Meng was holding just now, and her face became serious: "Dad, why are you buying cigarettes again! Didn't you say you quit?"
Meng's father frantically winked at his daughter.
However, it is too late.
Mother Meng came out with a hot pot, and she had already heard the words from the outside: "I knew you were uneasy and kind! Give me the cigarettes! Where did you get the private money from, and hand it over to me!"
Meng Xiaoni stuck her tongue out at Father Meng, and ran to fetch vegetables to eat hot pot.
She can't stop the husband and wife's private money war.
"This, this, this..." Meng Xiaoni took a small portion of each dish, wanting to taste it.
Just choosing the dishes here, her saliva is about to flow out.
The hot pot in the small restaurant actually tastes very good. The bottom ingredients are all researched by myself, and the dipping sauce next to it is the same. If there are one hundred or eighty hot pot restaurants on this street, each hot pot restaurant has different base ingredients, and the dipping sauce is all "secret dipping sauce".
Meng Xiaoni put the selected dishes away, went to simply pick up a dipping sauce plate, returned to her seat, rubbed her hands and started eating.
She stretched out her chopsticks, put a piece of hairy belly into the pot, and rinsed it up and down.
Hairy belly, ups and downs, as long as it is scalded eight times in a hot hot pot, it can be eaten. At this moment, the hairy belly is the most tender, it will not be overcooked, it will not be too raw, with a little elasticity and chewiness, it absorbs the sauce in the hot pot, and then dips it into the dipping sauce dish.
Into the mouth, slightly hot, slightly spicy, slightly numb.
After chewing twice, the whole piece of hairy belly is extremely strong, which can be called the absolute taste.
That bit of red sesame oil stained her mouth, staining Meng Xiaoni's lips red.
She couldn't help squinting her eyes: Sure enough, only when I go home can I eat the most authentic hot pot, which is delicious and delicious.
Meng Xiaoni's parents were arguing for a while over a pack of cigarettes, and when they turned around and saw their daughter's eyes were bright, eating there full of enthusiasm, their hearts softened.
Her fair face didn't look like theirs at all, and she had the happiness they had been looking forward to and striving for.
Mother Meng finally turned her head around, snorted, and said fiercely: "It's okay to smoke, but when I find you whipping in front of Xiao Nizi later, I will cut off your leg!"
Father Meng nodded hurriedly, and responded with a hey smile.