My Side Job is a Trader

The next day, Zhang Xin drove his family of four out of the mountain road in a leisurely manner.

Glancing at the map, Zhang Xin suddenly found that this place is very close to Lincheng, the place where he grew up when he was a child, so he turned around and drove towards Lin'an.

"Baby, today dad will take you to the place where dad grew up when he was young, okay?"

The two little guys opened their eyes wide. This sentence obviously exceeded their comprehension range, but they understood the last few words, so they babbled: "Okay."

"Let's go!"

After the car got on the main road, Zhang Xin finally relaxed a lot.

When driving on mountain roads, you need to be very careful, because many mountain roads are one-way lanes, and the roads are very narrow, which is prone to traffic accidents.

Zhang Xin stretched out his right hand and took the initiative to hold Li Xueer's left hand. The two occasionally looked at each other, and the atmosphere began to become sweet, but it was a pity that they were interrupted by two little guys.

Zhang Xin looked viciously at the baby in the rearview mirror, causing Li Xueer to giggle.

"Husband, you are really interesting. You are angry with your baby."

Zhang Xin sighed. Ever since he had a child, he really couldn't get too close to Li Xue'er. After all, there were two small light bulbs present, so Zhang Xin couldn't do too much.

After driving for more than two hours, Zhang Xin finally got off the highway. Zhang Xin pointed to the road sign and said, "Look, the Great Wall is here."

"Hey, it's really called the Great Wall. You told me before that you grew up on the Great Wall. I thought it was the Great Wall in the capital."

Zhang Xin said: "There is no way. There are still many coincidences in the world. The reason why this place is called the Great Wall is because the city here was very narrow and long in ancient times, so it was called the Great Wall."

Not long after, the car drove into the city.

As a county-level city, the Great Wall is naturally incomparable with an international metropolis like Shanghai. It only takes more than half an hour to drive from the east district to the west district.

"Hey, the society is really developing too fast. In my impression of the road just now, there should be rows of parasols growing along the roadside, and there are various small shops on both sides. I remember that when I was young, my father sometimes needed to come to the city to do business. , I would pray to follow, and every time I came, it was on this road, which was the most bustling street I had ever seen, and my father would always buy me an ice cream."

Indeed, as Zhang Xin said with emotion, at least in Li Xueer's view, the appearance of the Great Wall is similar to a corner of the Shanghai Stock Exchange, with tall buildings everywhere and wide roads.

Zhang Xin tried hard to find some traces of his impressions, but unfortunately, he drove through the whole city without finding any familiar scenes.

It wasn't until we drove to the suburbs that we found a few old buildings, which looked very old on the outside. The windows were still the old-fashioned windows with wooden frames that were common twenty years ago, and they were pushed out.

Continue to drive to Lincheng along the navigation. After driving for about half an hour, there are several continuous ups and downs.

Zhang Xin said with a smile: "Finally, I found this familiar feeling. Although the road has widened a lot, the roadbed is still the same as before. I remember taking the bus when I was young. My dad and I liked to sit at the back of the bus, and then we were very happy. Enjoy the ups and downs."

Li Xueer snorted and said, "You father and son are really special. Most people don't want to sit in the back, because they are prone to motion sickness."

"Haha, our father and son enjoy it more and more. Unfortunately, after I returned to my hometown in Suzhou for a while, when I came back here during the summer vacation, I suddenly found that I would get motion sickness and seasickness."

"You must be used to being on land, and then you can't adapt to this wobbly environment."

Zhang Xin said: "It's strange to say that I don't get motion sickness at all when I drive by myself, but when I ride someone else's car, sometimes I feel dizzy after a long time, and sometimes I really feel very unreal."

The car was traveling at a speed of sixty yards, and soon a town was in sight.

Although there are not so many high-rise buildings, but looking at the shops on both sides of the road, I know that this small town has a large population.

Zhang Xin found a parking space, and then hugged a baby with Li Xueer.

Zhang Xin looked at the much wider streets and wanted to find familiar places. Unfortunately, the development of the past twenty years has also brought earth-shaking changes to this small town.

When he came to a three-way intersection, Zhang Xin overlaid the scene in front of him with the scene in his memory.

Zhang Xin said: "Go along this road, and then there will be a vegetable market. When I was a child, every time before the ship sailed, my mother would take me to the vegetable market to prepare vegetables. I have walked here countless times."

As they spoke, the four of them walked towards Zhang Xin's pointing direction. Although it was almost noon, the road was still very busy, and electric cars were parked on the side of the road.

"Uncle, you don't know that there is a vegetable market here because you saw these vegetable buyers going back and forth?"

Zhang Xin said: "It's okay for me to lie to you to do something, and it's no good. Let's go. If you're lucky, you can also eat authentic Xiaolongjianbao. This is the delicacy of my childhood."

Zhang Xin vaguely remembers that there will be a steamed stuffed bun shop right at the entrance of the vegetable market, which also sells Xiaolongjianbao, the kind of small steamed buns one bite at a time, fried until golden on one side, crunchy with a bite, accompanied by soup , especially fragrant.

After so many years, the chaotic and noisy shed in my impression has been replaced by a spacious and tidy hall. Fortunately, there is still a steamed stuffed bun shop open at the entrance of the vegetable market.

The boss has gray hair, but his appearance is still a bit similar to when he was a child.

Zhang Xin took Li Xueer into the store, and first took a look around. Although the store is not big, with only seven or eight tables, it still looks clean.

"Boss, do you still sell Xiaolong fried buns now? If you have them, bring me two."

Zhang Xin didn't look at the menu on the wall, and ordered directly.

The boss asked, "What kind of stuffing do you want?"

Zhang Xin just glanced at the menu and found that there are various fillings, and of course the corresponding prices are also different.

"It's pork."

"Okay, just wait a moment."

After a while, the boss directly brought a plate of fried buns.

Zhang Xin couldn't wait to pick up a fried bun and blew it, then stuffed it into his mouth, closed his eyes and chewed for a while, then exhaled deeply, and sighed: "Boss, after so many years, your little cage The taste of fried buns hasn’t changed much, it’s still delicious.”

When the boss heard this, he was also very curious. It happened that the business was not too busy, so he sat down at the next table and said, "I heard you say that, you used to come to my place to eat Xiaolongjianbao?"

Zhang Xin took another bite, then put down his chopsticks, and said, "It's been more than twenty years, right? At that time, I was only about five or six years old. Every time I got up early to go shopping with my mother, I would buy a small cage worth three yuan." Fried buns for breakfast."

Suddenly, Zhang Xin seemed to think of something, and asked, "Boss, I remember that this store didn't have these dining tables before. At that time, you seemed to only pack and take away."

The boss looked at Zhang Xin in amazement and said, "Oh, is it true that when you were young, you really bought Xiaolongjianbao from my place? Twenty years ago, it was indeed not what it is now. This room is where I sleep and rest, and only near the door, I will place two large stoves, one for steaming buns and the other for making steamed buns."