half thorns, half joy

Xiao Zihan arrived at the supermarket in a small county town with a high-spirited determination, and his "arrogant" arrogance was extinguished a lot.

The style of supermarkets in small counties is closely related to the backwardness and outdatedness of small counties. Not to mention there is no delivery service, and the quality of the products is not high, which is very affordable and practical.

"Let's just buy some daily necessities, that's enough." After entering the supermarket, Tang Xuan took out a small shopping cart from a long row at the door, and pushed it forward.

Xiao Zihan hummed expressionlessly, lowered his head and pondered secretly.

Before coming here, Tang Xuan had already written a shopping list. She took it out of her pocket and looked at the arrangement of the supermarket shelves while writing it down.

"Is there an imported supermarket here?" Xiao Zihan asked suddenly after following Tang Xuan all the way silently.

"Huh?" Tang Xuan took toilet paper from the shelf and threw it into the shopping cart, "Imported supermarket? I don't remember it. This is the biggest supermarket."

Biggest supermarket...

Xiao Zihan sighed in his heart, forget it...

After a while, the shopping cart that Tang Xuan pushed was almost full. Looking at the full shopping cart, Tang Xuan said helplessly, "Let's go out and take a taxi later. There are a few items on the list, how can we buy them?" It becomes more."

"Well, yes." Of course Xiao Zihan had no objection.

He was still thinking about helping Tang Xuan save face.

The two turned a corner, Xiao Zihan glanced casually, and saw all kinds of health care products on the top shelf, and suddenly came to inspiration.

"Wait." He called Tang Xuan to stop.

Tang Xuan didn't understand why, so she stopped and turned to look at Xiao Zihan suspiciously.

Xiao Zihan raised his chin towards the health products on the shelf, and said to Tang Xuan, "Why don't we buy some of those things."

Tang Xuan became more and more confused, "Health care products? Why buy those?"

"Give it away." Xiao Zihan was serious, "Those uncles and aunts of yours greeted you so warmly, why don't you give them something?"

"...It seems that I should give something away." Tang Xuan nodded, thought for a while, and then said seriously, "Although they didn't take care of me, they did help me to some extent. I come back every few years , it would be appropriate to give something."

Xiao Zihan immediately put his right arm around the baby, stretched out his left hand to get the health care products on the shelf, and the shopping cart was piled high with a few crackles.

Tang Xuan carefully supported the crumbling car, smiled and said to Xiao Zihan, "I didn't expect that you are more thoughtful than I thought, I have forgotten the etiquette."

Xiao Zihan: "..."

His starting point at the beginning was not in etiquette.

But since Tang Xuan misunderstood so nicely, there's no need to explain it clearly.

Xiao Zihan hid his not-so-native little thoughts, and encouraged Tang Xuan to buy a small shopping cart before going to the front desk to check out.

The woman next door who was buying goods saw Tang Xuan and Xiao Zihan's two small cars, and looked at them several times in envy and surprise.

After all, in this small place, everyone buys things according to their needs. Who would buy health care products and buy a small shopping cart? It’s not yet the Chinese New Year.

Xiao Zihan's card was swiped at the checkout, and it cost a total of 450 yuan. Xiao Zihan sighed and shook his head, and said with emotion, "The things here are too cheap."

When the cashier who was waiting to print the ticket heard this sentence, he couldn't help but secretly looked Xiao Zihan up and down.

Those eyes were probing, curious.

After paying the bill, Xiao Zihan and Tang Xuan walked out with a small cart, and two cashiers were talking behind them.

"Could it be some little star?"

"I don't know, it looks a bit like a star."

"Oh, I knew I just took a photo secretly. I took it back and showed it to my daughter. I couldn't tell if it was a celebrity."

"That's enough for you, it doesn't matter if you are a star."

……

Xiao Zihan, who has already been regarded as a star, has no self-consciousness as a handsome guy. He holds the baby in one hand, raises the other high, and beckons for a taxi very down-to-earth.

A small county has the advantages of a small county. Xiao Zihan got a taxi within 2 minutes.

And the taxi driver was not in a hurry, seeing that the two shopping carts were full of plastic bags, he even enthusiastically helped Xiao Zihan and Tang Xuan pack them in the trunk after getting off the car.

"Uncle, thank you." Xiao Zihan thanked politely.

The taxi driver heard that Xiao Zihan spoke Mandarin, so he also changed his local dialect to Mandarin, and greeted Xiao Zihan lamely.

"You just came back from other places, right? You bought so many things at once. It's July [-]th soon. You came back to visit the grave?"

Tang Xuan smiled and replied, "Yes, that's right."

"Then you guys are still good. Now when young people go out, they don't want to come back. There are not many people in our place. Now that young people are going out, this place is getting more and more empty. Now this street is not as good as It was fun when I was young."

Speaking of this, Tang Xuan also felt the same way.

It's just that she thought it was because she had stayed in the big city for a long time, and she suddenly changed her perspective. Compared with the two, it seemed that this side was depressed.

It turned out that it was not just because of the comparison, but it really became depressed.

The taxi driver didn't need Tang Xuan to reply, he could continue the chat by himself, he continued, "Let me tell you, people, no matter how well you do outside, how much money you make, the business is doing well." No matter how old you are, you can’t forget your roots. Hometown must be kept in your heart, it’s the spirit of our Chinese nation, our soul.”

Tang Xuan and Xiao Zihan looked at each other and smiled, Xiao Zihan nodded and replied, "Uncle, what you said makes sense."

"Right, although I didn't study much and didn't make much money, I've lived for 50 years and I still understand the truth. This person, you can't just look at the money. If you only look at the money, This life is over."

"Well, yes." Xiao Zihan nodded heavily, as if he was listening very seriously.

Originally, the road wasn't long, and the driver hadn't finished his long speech before the car arrived at the gate of Tang Xuan's house.

"It's here, I'll help you get your things." The driver turned off the engine, but was able to stop the nagging car in time, opened the door quickly and got out of the car.

Xiao Zihan thanked him, and took things out of the trunk with the driver.

The middle-aged and elderly men and women who were chatting at the gate of the yard did not leave. Hearing the noise, a few came out curiously and looked around.

Seeing more than a dozen supermarket-sized plastic bags on the ground, one of them yelled in surprise, "Xuanxuan, why did you buy so many things?"

With this sound, everyone was called out at once.

The one rushing to the front was Aunt Liu who served Tang Xuan a plate of dumplings.

Xiao Zihan held the baby and stood behind Tang Xuan, with a smile on his lips, observing everyone calmly.

Compared to that, Tang Xuan smiled more innocently.

Tang Xuan lowered her head and divided the plastic bags. She picked up a bag containing middle-aged bone powder and vitamin calcium tablets and stuffed it into the hands of Aunt Liu who had already walked in front of her.

"Aunt Liu, Zihan and I bought this for you just now, with a little thought."

Although Aunt Liu had already guessed it after seeing the bags and familiar boxes all over the place, she still couldn't stop being pleasantly surprised. She let out an ah and repeatedly refused, "How embarrassing this is, how embarrassing this is."

Tang Xuan smiled and pinched Aunt Liu's hand, "There's nothing to be embarrassed about. After all, you have taken care of me. I haven't been back for a few years. It's only a matter of time before I come back."

"Oh, you kid, you're too polite." Aunt Liu smiled from ear to ear, and looked straight at the other neighbors beside her proudly.

Tang Xuan saw a few familiar faces, and they all picked up the plastic bags and handed out the health care products one by one.

It had been six years since Tang Xuan left the county to go to university, and there were not many acquaintances in the yard, so after giving them around, there were still two bags of health products left.

Tang Xuan didn't want to take the two bags home, so she stuffed them into Aunt Liu's hands.

"Aunt Liu, I came here in a hurry, and I bought things in a hurry. Please see if anyone has not delivered it, please help me deliver it. If there is no one, you can stay. The child is sleepy, I have to Take the baby up and put the baby to sleep."

Aunt Liu was stunned for two seconds, then nodded again and again, "Okay, don't worry, wrap it on me, you hurry up and pick up the baby, I'm tired after a day of coming and going today, go to rest early."

"Well, Aunt Liu, then thank you." Tang Xuan bent down and picked up the plastic bags that belonged to her daily necessities, then turned to Xiao Zihan and said, "Let's go back."

Xiao Zihan smiled lightly, nodded lightly, walked past the happy uncles and aunts, and went upstairs with Tang Xuan.

As he walked, he looked at the expression on Tang Xuan's face by the dim light. After seeing the corners of Tang Xuan's raised lips and the unstoppable smile on her lips, he felt inexplicably better.

No matter what the method is, as long as Tang Xuan can be happy, he will be happy.

It's comfortable.