"It's yours, eat it quickly."

She was stunned when Zhuang's greeting brought her back to her senses. A bowl of steaming wonton noodles was put down on the table in front of her. Zhuang then pressed a pair of chopsticks into her hand. Jing Chunxi quickly took them and turned around to say, "Thank you, aunt!"

Zhuang had already turned around after putting down the bowl of noodles. She swiftly took out the small stool she had originally occupied from the gap between two customers who were also sitting on small stools waiting for wontons, and rushed towards where Dalang was standing. Dalang also swiftly placed the bowl of cooked noodles on the stool that Zhuang had raised.

Finally, Dalang picked up the remaining bowl himself and followed his mother to find an open space where they squatted down to eat. The way the mother and mother looked, no one would believe that they were not local residents.

Jing Chunxi burst out laughing! She felt that she might remember this scene for the rest of her life and use it to tease her aunt in the future.

My aunt-in-law is really working hard for a bowl of food! She doesn't look like a lady from a wealthy family at all. But unless you don't want to eat, you really can't get it.

There were oil droplets floating on the broth, but the soup was very clear. In addition to the distinct white and green chopped green onions floating on it, there were also a few tiny shrimps. When I lowered my head and smelled it, the smell of seafood mixed with pepper hit my nose.

It smells so good!

The noodles underneath were still rolled into a round shape after being cooked. The noodles were very thin and each strand was clearly visible in the soup. There were only five or six wontons floating on the noodles.

The wonton skin becomes almost transparent after being cooked, fluttering like butterfly wings, and through the thin skin you can see the light pink meat inside.

Jing Chunxi followed the example of the customer next to him and picked up a soup spoon from the large ceramic bowl in front of him. He scooped up a wonton with the spoon and immediately put it into his mouth.

The soup was a bit hot, but bearable. The wontons were incredibly delicious. The wrapper was so tender and thin it melted in your mouth, and the meat inside, barely bigger than the tip of a chopstick, was tender and slightly bouncy. It was a texture Jing Chunxi had never tasted before, but they were so small that she thought she could eat five or six in one sitting.

"good to eat."

Even though the person sitting next to him was a stranger, Jing Chunxi couldn't help but sigh.

After eating three wontons in a row, Jing Chunxi was reluctant to finish them all in one breath, so he picked up the chopsticks and took a bite of noodles. The noodles were very soft and smooth. The handmade noodles were similar to the noodles in the north, but they looked thinner and more delicate. They still had the toughness of the big noodles in the north, and they were not easy to break even though they were so thin. Jing Chunxi liked it.

After finishing all the wontons and noodles, Jing Chunxi didn't look up and drank most of the soup in the bowl. When she noticed that someone else had changed next to her, she looked up.

Sitting next to him was a girl, about thirteen or fourteen years old. She was eating a bowl of wontons, but it looked more appetizing than the one Jing Chunxi had just eaten. The soup was the same, but the wontons were different.

The wonton skin that floated like a small carp was even smaller, but its belly was bulging, and the pink meat ball inside was at least two or three times larger than what she had just eaten.

There were a few meatballs floating in the gaps between the small carps, and the meatballs were different from the ones Jing Chunxi had eaten before.

The surface of the meatballs was very smooth, with a few small pores on it, but the color after cooking was not the meat pink that Jing Chunxi had seen before, but a grayish-white color. Jing Chunxi couldn't help but feel greedy, and found that he didn't feel full at all after eating the bowl of noodles.

"Why is what you eat different from what I eat?" Jing Chunxi swallowed and couldn't help asking.

The girl looked at the few short pieces of noodles left in Jing Chunxi's bowl and said without hesitation, "You ordered wonton noodles! Wonton noodles usually cost ten cents, but now the price has increased, it should be twelve cents.

If you want to eat the big meat wonton, you have to order it separately. It's usually 15 cents, but today it's 17 cents. Adding six pieces of meat and eggs will cost another 5 cents."

"Oh!"

Jing Chunxi understood that there were such rules for eating wonton noodles. The stalls with wonton noodle flags not only sold wonton noodles, but also wontons, meat and eggs.

Looking at the aunt who was squatting over there eating noodles, she was already taking the last few mouthfuls of soup; and Dalang, who was originally squatting opposite Zhuang, had already picked up the noodles and the soup and drank them in one gulp, then stood up.

“I’ll try it next time.”

Jing Chunxi wanted to stand up after he finished speaking. If he ordered wontons at this time, he would have to wait for a long time. It seemed that he would not be able to eat today.

"Try it." Who knew that the thin shoulders would be pressed down by the young lady.

"You haven't eaten it, so I'll give you two."

The young lady smiled sweetly, with a dimple on one corner of her mouth. She used the spoon that she hadn't started eating to scoop two wontons into Jing Chunxi's bowl, and then scooped two meat eggs.

"It looks like you're from out of town. If you like it, order it next time you come. Grandma Yang's wontons are the best. They're open every day except New Year's Eve, and they're open from morning until 3 p.m. You can come anytime to eat."

The little girl who was setting up a stall opposite saw her speaking well of her family and laughed, "Miss, you are the most generous!" Then she lowered her head and counted her copper coins.

The young lady next to him smiled. Seeing that Jing Chunxi didn't move, she scooped a wonton with her spoon and stuffed it into her mouth. Then she moved her mouth and hands, signaling Jing Chunxi to eat quickly.

If she refused again, it would be considered as disgust. Jing Chunxi liked this young lady and picked up his spoon and scooped up the two meat eggs with broth and stuffed them into his mouth.

It was so bouncy that I could feel the meatballs gently bouncing in my mouth. I didn't expect meatballs to be like this. The texture was a bit similar to those crispy meatballs just now, but it was more tender, bouncy and chewy. Jing Chunxi couldn't help but chew it a few more times before swallowing it. The feeling was indescribable, it could be described in two words.

"good to eat!"

Jing Chunxi looked at the eldest lady and said sincerely, "Thank you, eldest lady!" Others called her the eldest lady, and Jing Chunxi followed suit.

Afraid that her aunt and eldest brother would have to wait too long, Jing Chunxi and her husband ate the two wontons in one bite. As expected, the wontons with more meat were more delicious. She would tell her four cousins ​​later.

Jing Chunxi remembered it, and at the same time silently remembered the appearance of this young lady who showed kindness to her.

The eldest lady just said "No thanks" and buried her head in the food in her bowl. They had been chatting for so long, and if she didn't eat it now, it would not taste as good.

Even when Jing Chunxi said that he was going to buy New Year's goods, the eldest lady just raised her head slightly and nodded, and Jing Chunxi followed his eldest cousin and aunt.

The streets near the market are very lively and bustling. The shops sell groceries and New Year's goods. Some of the shops are surrounded by people as if they have no money.

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