Chapter 161 Shopping
A supermarket near their home. Because they were going to treat guests today, the two got up early and went to the morning market near their home to buy vegetables.
There is a very traditional market here that sells everything from live rabbits to fresh seafood, and there is even an area dedicated to selling breakfast.
After walking for fifteen minutes, the two finally arrived here, but there were almost no young people in the morning market. Most of them were middle-aged women and old men and women, picking and choosing on the stalls or tricycles.
Because they had just gone for a morning run, both of them were wearing sportswear, Linzhou's was black and Jiang Xiyue's was white.
I bought it a while ago specifically for my morning run.
Looking at the ponytail tied with a ribbon swaying with her steps, Linzhou felt in a good mood.
It was as if the ponytail was not sweeping across his collar, but across his heart...
This was also the first time that Linzhou had visited the market here in three years. He soon saw a target and walked over with Jiang Xiyue.
Standing in front of the stall, Linzhou pointed at the fresh fish in the basin and asked, "Boss, I want a carp and a pound of prawns."
"Okay, how do you plan to eat the fish? Do you want it sliced?" This was the boss's first order of the day, so he grabbed a super-large fish from the basin, skillfully gutted it, and scraped off the scales and gills.
"No need to cut it, I can do it myself when I get back." Linzhou quickly stopped the boss from taking the next step.
After putting the killed fish into the bag, the boss continued to ask, "Do you want me to help you devein the shrimp?"
Hearing this, Linzhou shook his head wildly.
Is this the Southern Vegetable Market? What a high-end experience...
Soon, Lin Zhou brought two plastic bags and took Jiang Xiyue to the next location...
This was an old lady selling vegetables. There were cucumbers and tomatoes on the ground. After taking a quick look, Linzhou spoke up, "Grandma, we want all of these."
"Ah, how many of you are there?" The old lady looked at Linzhou in surprise. Although she didn't have many vegetables, they still weighed more than ten kilograms in total.
After hearing the question, Lin Zhou thought for a moment and gave the answer, "Four people, three girls and one boy."
"Then we can't eat it, and the rest won't be fresh anymore." While she was talking, grandma had already picked out a meal's worth from her stall, weighed it and handed it over, "Just give me twenty yuan for these."
The old lady didn’t have the QR code, but fortunately Linzhou had the habit of carrying cash with him, so he took out twenty yuan and handed it over.
Although his idea of including everything is that if you can't finish it, you can store it in the refrigerator.
But when I thought about having to walk for fifteen minutes and carry more than ten kilograms of things back, I gave up.
The last thing is to buy meat. The staple food for lunch is sauerkraut meat buns... otherwise the sauerkraut brought from home will be wasted.
Walking to the meat stall, Linzhou looked at the pork carefully.
"Boss, I want two pounds of tenderloin, two pounds of pork belly made into minced meat, and four pig's trotters..."
"I only have four pig's trotters, you want them all?" The butcher's stall owner looked shocked, but he still took the trotters, carefully removed the hair, and sliced each one into two halves.
Seeing his boss's shock, Linzhou gestured and answered casually.
"You sold a pig this morning..."
"Yes, do you want to slice the tenderloin or shred it?" The boss picked up the kitchen knife next to him while speaking.
Still refusing the boss's high-end service, Linzhou took Jiang Xiyue and continued to go deeper into the market. The two had not had breakfast yet, so they had to find a place to eat.
For four people, Linzhou planned to prepare six dishes, and now it seemed that it was almost ready, so he put his arm around Jiang Xiyue, with a smile on his face.
"As your girlfriend, I allow you to order a dish. What do you want to eat for lunch?"
"I like to eat anything Zhou Zhou cooks. I'm not picky about food." Jiang Xiyue answered softly, and the two sat down at a tofu pudding stall.
The breakfast area is located behind each stall, with five or six tables where everyone can sit and eat.
"Auntie, I want two bowls of tofu pudding and some sugar biscuits! Add more raisins to the tofu pudding!"
When Linzhou heard that he wanted to add more raisins to the tofu pudding, his expression twisted. It was like adding salted egg yolk and meat to a rice dumpling. "Sweet, then the lunch dish will be fried potato shreds with shredded ginger."
The girl pouted, looked at Linzhou, and replied coquettishly, "Zhou Zhou, I ate all the salty tofu pudding you bought. Of course you have to try the sweet one, it's delicious..."
"Okay, I'll listen to you. Everything is edible." Linzhou also replied with a smile.
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If you like someone, you naturally want to know everything about him/her. Although some things are indeed hard to swallow, sweet tofu pudding does not seem unacceptable.
Although he had heard a lot about the service in vegetable markets in the south, Linzhou never expected that Jiancheng, a southern city where it snows, would be so up-to-date.
In the Northeast, let’s not talk about other issues, just the issue of removing the shrimp thread. It would be great if the boss didn’t remove the shrimp thread from the customers.
The tofu pudding was served. Because the two of them arrived very late, there were not many customers at the stall, so the proprietress came up to talk to them.
"You two just got married? You look so happy. I remember when I got married, I was so happy. I also went to the market with my husband to buy vegetables and wore matching outfits."
Lin Zhou wanted to explain, but Jiang Xiyue kicked him from under the table...
"Well, Auntie, how did you know that?" Jiang Xiyue picked up the raisins with a small spoon, put them into her mouth and bit them open. The sweet and sour taste made her feel very comfortable.
Hearing Jiang Xiyue's question, the proprietress smiled and said, "Of course, only newly married young people would be so hardworking and intimate."
"Hehe, you figured it out." The girl chuckled a few times and buried her head in eating the tofu pudding in small bites.
Lin Zhou, who was sitting next to Jiang Xiyue, also took a sip and found it not as bad as he had imagined. Instead, the taste was surprisingly suitable.
The sugar cakes are made with white sugar and are also delicious.
When the proprietress saw that the two people started to eat, she went to do her own thing.
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After happily finishing breakfast, Jiang Xiyue took out a tissue from her pocket, wiped her mouth, stood up, and ran to pay the bill.
After the two left, Linzhou looked at the little girl's eyes that were narrowed with joy, and he also laughed. He was indeed very happy.
"Yueyue, why did you settle the bill? We agreed that I would pay for it today."
"Well... because~~~ I am your wife, husband~~~" The girl deliberately lengthened her tone and spoke with a wicked smile.
This call of husband made Linzhou's legs go weak. The little girl really...
She was so shy half a year ago, but now she is so proactive that he is caught off guard... How should he answer? Should he call her wife and go back?
Jiang Xiyue was particularly happy about Linzhou's defeat, and then put forward some conditions.
"Zhou Zhou, we still need to make stir-fried potatoes with shredded ginger. Let's trick Xiao Hui and Bai Muling into eating it..."
