On the first day of college, Jiaojiao noticed the young man selling tea eggs outside the school gate.
The young man can see him standing on the side of the road every day without any storm. He had a worn-out bike with a large beam, locked by a tree. There was a square foam box on the back seat of the car, with bright yellow tape wrapped around the outside, inside of which was what he wanted to sell every day.
Boiled corn, tea eggs.
Jiaojiao doesn’t eat boiled corn, but my younger brother likes it. So her parents gave Jiaojiao one dollar every day, asking her to buy a corn for her brother after class and send it home.
Jiaojiao is willing to do this kind of thing.
Every time she buys corn, she will secretly look at the young man's face. He has a round face, long eyelashes, and his lips are dry and skinny, and he is often pursed tightly. He always wore a white shirt and wore a cotton jacket outside in winter, just like Jiaojiao's unchanging conversation with him every day, never changed.
"One piece of corn."
"One piece."
After half a semester like this, Jiaojiao felt that she and the young people should have become familiar with each other.
So, when I went to buy boiled corn again, Jiaojiao mustered up the courage to ask him:
"How to sell tea eggs?"
"80 cents per, one block and five two."
"Is it delicious?"
"Taste." The young man said, "Come one?"
Jiaojiao touched it from her pocket for a long time, took out a coin and handed it to him: "You need a boiled corn."
The young man took the money, opened the foam box and started to load the corn. Jiaojiao stood beside her, looking down at the tip of her shoes, her hands were inserted into the pockets of her cotton jacket, making her cold and ready to move.
She always wanted a pair of gloves, but her parents always forgot to buy it for her. After buying boiled corn every day, you can use it to cover your hands to warm it up.
The young man handed over the plastic bag containing corn, and Jiaojiao quickly took it and held it in both hands.
This feels wrong.
Jiaojiao was stunned for a moment, lowered her head and opened the bag, and saw a round tea egg hidden beside the steaming corn.
again looked up, and two more students came to the young man's bicycle, and he was filling them with corn.
Jiaojiao waited for the two students to walk away before rubbing in front of the young man, took out the tea egg and handed it over: "I didn't want this."
"I know." The young man sorted out the cotton mat for insulation, "I'll put it for you, try it."
Jiaojiao didn't know how to answer for a while.
She was a little embarrassed and wanted to put the tea eggs back into the foam box, but she saw the young man covering the lid.
"That... I have no money."
She said in a low voice.
The young man looked at her: "Try it and don't spend money."
"My parents will scold me when they know."
"Then you find a place to be leeward, eat it before going home."
...
Jiaojiao finally put the tea eggs into the interlayer of the schoolbag and went home with the boiled corn.
To be continued
