Chapter 32
“Erwa, Erwa Yan Shao! Come back for dinner!” Lin Minjun thought Erwa had gone to play in the alley, so she ran to the alley and shouted twice, but no one came out
This is strange, this child today at noon to the fishy grass did not eat much, it is reasonable to say that has long been hungry, this moment to run where to play
Lin Minjun did not feel wrong at this time, went home to look at the stewed meat, and when the stewed meat stewed, and ran to the gatehouse to look
Originally, she wanted to see if Erwa was back, but when she got close to the window, she realized something was wrong
It was as if the house had been ransacked, the food was gone, the bedding had been rolled away, and even the dishes had been taken away
“Erwa!” Lin Minjun raised her voice, shouted, and pushed the door hard, did not push open, picked up the lock to see, actually locked
There is not much privacy in the compound, when people go out, they will hang a lock on the door, not locked, to prevent the gentleman not to prevent the small man
Of course, not locked means that he did not go out, will be able to come back, but if it is locked, it means that the owner of the house went out, three or two days can not come back
The house looked like it had been robbed, especially by thieves or bandits, but would a bandit lock the door for someone? It could only be that Erwa locked it herself
But Erwa was an orphan, with only one brother left in the army, where could he go?
Lin Minjun out of this yard, ran to the hutong to look for people, saw the grandmother in the next big house out, quickly stopped, “Grandma, do you know where Erwa went?”
“Saw, in the afternoon that moment came a group of people, said to be Erwa’s relatives, his eldest uncle’s family, took the baby back for the New Year” Grandma said with a smile
Lin Minjun’s brain buzzed
She talked to Erwa, according to what Erwa said, his family’s relatives only met a few times when he was a child, and they were not close, and then his mother was given a black five, and then they completely stopped communicating with each other, or else if he had relatives to help him out, it would be impossible for him to live like this for all these years
Take a step back, even if it is really a relative of the family to take away, Erwa can’t possibly not say hello to himself, he usually out of the hutong have to say a word to himself
“Grandma, do you look like a relative? Does Erwa really know them? It’s not a human abductor, is it?” Lin Minjun realized that her hands were shaking and her voice was particularly apprehensive
Grandma knew that she was close to Erwa and smiled as she patted Lin Minjun’s hand, “Don’t be afraid ah child, that’s really a relative, when they came Erwa recognized them and took the initiative to go with them”
Lin Minjun was instantly relieved, and added, “Then why didn’t you say hello to me, I also brought him dinner here, do you know which way he went?”
She wanted to go after him to see if that relative was a good person or not, did good relatives really not come to the door for so many years? The other thing was to see when Erwa would be back
“I don’t really know the exact direction, I just took a look and went home” This grandmother said, a hand pointed, “Is that not old Xia, you go and ask her, at that time she was talking to that group of relatives, it is estimated that she knows, also just left not much time, you go now can still catch up”
Old Xia is Auntie Xia, Lin Minjun walked to the front of Auntie Xia who was walking in from the entrance of the alley, because she was not familiar with her, she was very polite, “Auntie Xia, do you know when Erwa left with his relatives? In which direction did they go?”
“Probably out of the hutong mouth to the south, you see go, should not go far” Auntie Xia pointed in a direction
Lin Minjun went home, locked the door and extinguished the stove, mounted the tricycle and followed
Picked up Erwa is a group of people, a large number of people can not go fast, she guessed that it is pulling a cart, or riding an oxcart, if Auntie Xia pointed in the right direction, she is sure to catch up
But along the road to find a long time, even alleys have looked for, froze, did not see the shadow of the people, Lin Minjun also stopped and asked the passers-by, there is not a person saw the group of people
Has been to find the dark, really can not find, and according to the group of people’s footsteps is estimated to have gone to the train station, Lin Minjun only to give up, turn the car back to the hutong
Arrived in the hutong, did not even have time to drink, first to go to Auntie Xia’s house
“Auntie Xia, are you looking at it wrong, I’ve searched at least five miles to the south, and I haven’t seen anyone” Lin Minjun was anxious and worried
Auntie Xia was flabbergasted for a moment, and suddenly said in a particularly apologetic manner, “Xiao Lin ah, I’m sorry, I might have been mistaken, they were probably heading east at that time”
At the end of the day, Auntie Xia comforted Lin Minjun with a sincere face, “It’s okay Xiao Lin, listen to Auntie, those people are really Erwa’s relatives, I talked to them, they are relatives of Erwa’s father’s side, and when they came, they said that they hadn’t been to the door for so many years, and that this time they were coming to bring Erwa back to meet the relatives of the family, the uncles, aunts, uncles and aunts, and that they could also take care of Erwa later on, and that they were buying Erwa a new dress I also said that I would buy new clothes for Erwa Erwa also said at that time to go to say hello to you, but his hometown in Langfang, afraid of not catching the train, in a hurry to go”
Yes, this group of relatives could sound really nice
But to say that some years ago they were afraid to come to the door to get involved because of Erwa’s mother’s composition, that hat removal has been several years, and reform and opening up has also been several years, could it be that they didn’t think of Erwa in those years? They just thought of Erwa at this time?
Lin Minjun left and right think that is not right, and because the second child did not even say hello and left, the heart is more bottomless
She didn’t know who to get mad at for this, and Auntie Xia said that she had misread the situation
“Okay, thank you then” Lin Minjun said hello to Auntie Xia and went back to her own home, crossing the hanging flower gate, she saw the gatehouse under the moonlight, it was so lonely and depressed
After returning home, she ate the braised pork, but it didn’t smell as good as when she ate it with Erwa
Lin Minjun then comforted herself in her heart, anyway, in the New Year will come back, Erwa to the time of the school year, always have to come back to school
If he doesn’t come back, she’ll go look for him
The most important task now is to finish the New Year, make good money, have money on the body in order to go to find Erwa, and bring him back
In the blink of an eye, the first Spring Festival after the rebirth of the past, eat New Year’s Eve dinner day Zhao Ning also came to the house called, let Lin Minjun together to eat New Year’s Eve dinner at home, was Lin Minjun politely refused, Lu Deping also found here, in front of the door to look for a long time
Lin Minjun also only now realized that Lu Deping this person top uninteresting, they were husband and wife in their last life, but in their last life, the relationship has been broken, she filed for divorce
She also said that she is not willing to get married and not willing to have a child, Lu Deping still want to come over to find uncomfortable
So, Lin Minjun pretended not to be at home, did not squeak, waiting for Lu Deping left before going out
She was at home alone on New Year’s Eve dinner, playing a hot pot, but also felt very comfortable
After the New Year’s Eve dinner, while the streets are full of people on vacation, Lin Minjun put up the stall again, the Spring Festival, more people, more can make a fortune
The fifteenth day of the first month, from the second child left has been almost a month, has not returned
Street traffic is obviously a lot less, students started school, workers also go back to work, Lin Minjun is more and more worried about this little guy, how come it is not back
She especially wanted to go and look for it, to see if she could bring Erwa back, but this period of time their own business is not peaceful
That said, Lin Minjun before the New Year’s Eve on the new folded ear root, but at that time a day down, can only be sold out a child
After the New Year, everyone’s mouth is even more difficult, the original flavor of the fried potatoes sold the same as before, with the addition of folded earrings of a child can not be sold
Lin Minjun even used on the trial, but the effect is not, because many people are willing to try, eat after all skimmed away, or is to be the original flavor
When you think about it, it’s just because people haven’t heard of this kind of thing, and it smells bad, so they don’t want to try it, and Lin Minjun is anxious because of this
While thinking about Erwa, while thinking about the poor sales of the new product, Lin Minjun was out of her mind
“Hello comrade, what is this one by one, like a whisker that you have in front of you?” Business came back to the front of the stall, instantly pulling Lin Minjun back
She skillfully began to introduce, “This is called Folding Ear Root, it’s a kind of seasoning from Yunnan, it can be used as an ingredient, there are still ready-made ones here, why don’t I make some for you to try?”
“Okay, I’ll taste it, if it’s good, bring me a serving” This guest then said
Lin Minjun acted quickly and fried a few yams, mixing them with folded earrings and seasonings and handing them over
The guest tasted it and instantly became bitter, “Forget it, or give me one of the previous kind, just cilantro and green onions”
Once again, the sales pitch for the earwigs failed
Lin Minjun was a little self doubtful, is this thing really not suited in the capital? Why don’t we sell out the ones we have and take them off the shelves?
Just thinking, there are two people, the left this wearing bell-bottom pants, hands in pants pockets, expressionless, as if someone upset him, the right one looks a little naive, with a sunglasses, especially not measured, stretched out his head enough to look at Lin Minjun’s seasoning are what, a glance, is the kind of mixing in the streets do not learn to do well in the punks, the flow of the air
Lin Minjun thought, these two people have never sold their own fried potatoes, but they opened their mouths and said, “Give me two fried potatoes, on that, smells stinky that”
Have not eaten fried potatoes, come up to the challenge of folded earrings?
Selling two portions of the folded ear root flavor, Lin Minjun is still quite happy, but looking at these two punks, one is clueless and one is unhappy, both have a look of unintentional eyes, how does she feel, it seems like these two are coming from a bad place?