Three minutes past dawning.
Around five thirty or less, Zhu Pingan got up and washed up, pushed open the door, and another fresh morning descended on earth.
At dawn, the sky was slightly dark, a bit of fish-belly white in the east, and the sun was still gestating below the horizon.
The entire capital was still immersed in sleep.
Hearing the sound of the door opening, the little girl in the ear room only rubbed her eyes, draped her clothes and went out the door, seeing Zhu Pingan who had already freshened up and was ready to go out, the two little girls stared in astonishment, subconsciously raising their heads to look at the sky, it was still not yet dawn, how come auntie got up so early.
“Good morning ……There’s no need to prepare my breakfast, I’m going out.”Zhu Pingan nodded, then slung his cloth bag out the door.
“Isn’t Auntie going to sleep?”
It was not until Zhu Pingan walked out of the Listening Rain Xuan that the two girls came back to their senses, looking at their auntie’s departing back, they looked at each other with their little mouths open, unable to understand why Zhu Pingan slept so late and got up so early.
The night ban had only ended a short while ago, and there were still very few people outside.
Zhu Pingan went out of the Linhuai Marquis Mansion and walked along Gonghou Street, turned left at the second intersection, walked along the willow-lined alleyway to another street, and after turning right, he saw a gurgling internal canal.
Like always, Zhu Pingan found a good place by the river and sat on a rock with his back against the weeping willows.
By the time he sat down, the sun had already risen from below the horizon.
Zhu Pingan leaned against the tree trunk, took out the book borrowed from the Hanlin Academy from the slung cloth bag, and read it with great interest against the floating light of the river.
A year’s plan lies in spring, a day’s plan lies in the morning.
A person’s memory is like the liver, there are a few periods of time when it is the most efficient, of which the morning is the time of the day when it is the best to remember. Zhu Pingan has always had the habit of reading in the morning, get up early to read a book to read a text, every time there is a gain, morning reading after eating a breakfast, not at all delayed.
The sound of birds in spring, the sound of cicadas in summer, the sound of insects in autumn, the sound of snow in winter, the sound of the willow wind in the forest, the sound of the gurgling water in the streams ……In the morning, no matter how early you get up, you will never be alone.
When the day dawned, Zhu Pingan put the book into a cloth bag, patted the dust on his clothes, and got up to walk towards the streets that had awakened and become lively.
The streets were already crowded with people, and the shops along the streets were all open or preparing for business.
The aroma of the breakfast shop spread far and wide, there is always a flavour that can tickle the taste buds of the pedestrians.
“Baozi le, skin thin meat filling big buns le, a mouthful of first-class oil le …….”Baozi shop little boy guarded the door of the stove on the bun furnace, lifted a drawer of steaming meat buns, towards the passing pedestrians yelled up.
“Master Liu you are here, freshly baked mutton croquettes, you buy a few to take home to your children’s mothers-in-law to taste, lotus leaf wrapped on, fragrance on fragrance ……”The little chap of the pot sticker croquettes shop, standing on the roadside cordially pulling familiar customers.
Other streets of the breakfast shop, selling wonton, selling biscuits, fried hinoki, hot and sour noodles, fried liver, tripe soup, miscellaneous soup, etc., are lively this busy, smelled from afar spraying incense.
Zhu Pingan crossbody cloth bag, standing in front of a baklava grocery shop, watching with interest the shop teacher playing baklava.
Teacher work is very clever, waist with a rough cloth apron, one hand dough, one hand rolling pin, play out the flowers, wrestling dough, rolling agent, rolling pin rhythmic “playing staff”.
The smell of fragrant biscuits emanated from the clay oven.
“Sir~~Sit inside~~” The shopkeeper saw Zhu Pingan standing in front of the clay oven and came over to greet him.
“What do we have in the shop?”Zhu Pingan asked.
Although the baklava was very fragrant, if there were only baklava in the shop, then breakfast would lack the taste of mix and match.
“Fine flour biscuits are sold at a low price of two pennies a piece, the size of the biscuits you come to see ……In addition to baklava, our shop also has handmade noodles, chaos, miscellaneous soup, bean curd brain, soybean flower, brine, everything, if you want to eat something else, the small wink of an eye, I will run errands for you to buy it …….”The shop mate hit a thousand, warmly greeted.
Hehe
All said to this point, how can I not enter it.
“Good, come with two burritos, a bowl of halibut, drizzle more sesame sauce, sprinkle more chopped coriander, chopped chives.”Zhu Pingan smiled and nodded, walked into the shop and sat down at an empty table against the door.
“Ok le, two baklava, a bowl of marinade, drizzle more sesame sauce, sprinkle more parsley end, leek end le ……”The shop boy bowed and greeted Zhu Pingan into the shop, then looked up and reported to the back kitchen.
The back kitchen answered with a bang.
Soon, there will be a bowl of steaming hot brine on the table, two fragrant baklava also sent up, in addition to the shop also sent a free stack of refreshing small pickles.
The hot boiled food with the freshly baked biscuits had a beautiful flavour, making Zhu Pingan’s fingers tingle, but the downside was that the small dishes from the shop were not as tasty as the ones made by his mother, Chen.
Halfway through the meal, Zhu Pingan heard a commotion at the entrance of the shop, and many diners turned their heads to look at the door.
Putting down his chopsticks, Zhu Pingan turned his head to look towards the doorway, only to see a scruffily dressed middle-aged man come in at the doorway, with a dark face, beard, hair that looked like it had not been washed for more than half a month, and carrying a bamboo basket.
“Shopkeeper, can you give a bowl of noodles to eat, yesterday into the city to sell mountain goods, money bag lost, a day without food, hungry.”
The scruffy middle-aged man stood at the doorway, rubbed his hands together and asked the shopkeeper.
The shopkeeper at the door was struggling to pull him out, pulling the man’s clothes even more ragged.
It was also the man’s appearance that caused the commotion.
“Liar ……”
“Fake beggar, don’t even believe it.”
“The shopkeeper, don’t believe him, this kind of person has seen a lot.”
“Don’t be fooled, this kind of deception is too common, before in Dongzhimen have seen a few, met people on the roadside to borrow money, said a few days without food, this kind of people earn a lot of money a day.”
The guests inside the shop, pointing to the man at the door talking about it, the tone of voice to remind the shopkeeper and the surrounding people don’t fall for it.
“Go out go out ……”The shopkeeper’s slightly looked twice, then impatiently waved his hand towards the door.
The shopkeeper got the order and drove the people out even harder.
“Wait.”
Seeing that the person was about to be driven out, he suddenly heard a teenager’s voice coming from within the shop.
Who?
How can you be so stupid?
How can you still fall for it after all the reminders?
The crowd turned their heads and saw Zhu Pingan beckoning to the shop boy, the crowd couldn’t help but sigh at the sight.
“Finish making the noodles and come, put it on my account, in addition ……”
Zhu Pingan stopped the shopkeeper’s eviction and called the shopkeeper to his side, commanding a few words in the shopkeeper’s ear.
Since someone was paying, the shopkeeper naturally stopped evicting people.
Soon, a bowl of noodles was served, and after the middle-aged man thanked Zhu Pingan, he sat down on the table and wolfed it down.
In less than a minute, he finished the bowl of noodles, and even drank the soup.
After the middle-aged man finished eating, Zhu Pingan felt out a dime of silver from his pocket, worth about a hundred or so, and stuffed it into the man’s hand, telling him to go home quickly and not to let his family worry.
The hanyou thanked him with a thousand thanks.
“You’ve been fooled.”
“Hey, you’ve been cheated.”
“That’s a cheat, young man.”
After the hanyou left, the crowd said that Zhu Pingan had been fooled and were anxious for him.
“That bowl of noodles just now, didn’t let the shopkeeper put salt in it ……”Zhu Pingan looked at the departing figure of the middle-aged man and spoke softly.
