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A lonely goodbye

Last night, it rained all night. Now, the rain has stopped, the streets are clean, and there are many out-of-town tourists on the streets. They have Weinan, Xianyang, Yangling and Xi'an, Baoji, as well as foreign tourists from Sichuan, Gansu and Hanzhong.

Today is the first day of the Qingming Festival, lead gray lead black clouds lump by lump, rain and fog containing dark clouds of spring rain, on the roof of the Fengyi World, in the east of the Fenghe Mountain, a green strand of "galloping, peaks like gathering" in a piece of Cang Berlin, low hanging low... "Goodbye, Little Zhao Xinyu", a noisy goodbye and farewell sound. I was selling peppercorns and fungus on the opposite side, and I looked at the sound, the mother and daughter of Jiangxi, the young mother, looked very young, not very tall, probably had a twenty-two or three-year-old look, with a simple hair, short hair, and a light yellow fleece jacket and the like. I didn't care too much about what I wore, and there was usually no trade or intersection; in the first half of last year, I opened a shop on Xinmin Street. The name of the shop is "Four Seas Excellent Products". At first, I didn't know where people were? After meeting her several times, I saw that her face was very beautiful, her appearance was also very shy and gentle, full of "Jiangsu and Zhejiang accents", and sometimes if you did not listen carefully, you did not know what she was talking about. Occasionally, she sat in her shop and did not go out, and sometimes occasionally helped the "Bormei Home Textile" landlady next door to unload the goods or something. In her shop, she sells some small trinkets for women and children, such as head flowers, dark green glasses worn by children, small brown glasses, towels, hairpins, bubble glue, brooch brooches and other small jewelry, all related to women and children, children and young children's small toy trinkets, related gadgets, her storefront can be said, basically all have. However, since she opened the store, she has only seen her husband a few times, and she has never talked because she is not very familiar. Her shop is diagonally opposite the street, and she has a cute little daughter of three or four years old named Zhao Xinyu. The eyes are big, and like her mother, she also has a soft and moist yellow short hair, and most of the time she loves to play with Hu Jiahao, the little grandson of Hu Mou, the owner of Chongqing Dazu, next to my right hand. Two small friends of similar age, like a pair of little brothers and sisters, usually do not distinguish between each other. I have seen it many times, and I quipped: "Old Hu, give your grandson Hu Jiahao the little Zhao Xinyu of the Four Seas Excellent Products, and say a daughter-in-law." After listening to The Old Hu, he was also very happy. "Hu Jiahao, you come here, and you tell your grandfather, 'Say it's the New Year!' I want my daughter-in-law. Let your grandfather speak Zhao Xinyu for you." Old Hu and his grandson Hu Jiahao, with yellow hair, are more than three years old. Listen to Lao Hu say, "His grandson asked him for something." All day long pestering me, sticks and candy to ask for two at a time. Once, in front of their iron hardware store, he pulled him to buy him a small trumpet blown by a child, saying that there was a sale on the street in front of him. This was not just yesterday, forcing his grandfather to buy him a green dinosaur balloon. He happily played with Zhao Xinyu and a few other friends on the street. After a while, in less than five or six minutes, he dragged the broken balloon with a crying voice, told him that his balloon was rotten, and asked his grandfather to buy him another one. There was really no way, Lao Hu had to yell at his daughter-in-law and give him his little grandson, Hu Jiahao spent more than ten yuan to buy a dinosaur balloon. Seeing this, I quipped, "Little Hu Jiahao, you met Zhao Xinyu's mother-in-law." Who said that, she asked? You said it was your grandfather who taught you to call it that." Old Hu and his daughter-in-law heard me teaching her son Hu Jiahao bad words, and shouted loudly: "You bad grandfather, you are teaching my son what bad words!" ”。 Since Zhao Xinyu and her mother and daughter opened this shop, because she and her husband were too young to inquire about what could be sold and what could not be sold. Just by doing things based on their own perceptions and feelings, they have not seriously examined the market at all. In the end, her business failed miserably, and she ended up cruelly in a lonely grass.

The storefront opened by her mother and daughter is diagonally opposite the street where I do business, and there is only a pedestrian street less than twenty meters in the middle. Usually there is nothing to go to the opposite line of the store, the storefront will look at so many eyes, when there is nothing to do, and Lao Hu, A Niu, a few bosses who sell clothing, the old love is talking about who, who is with whom the business is good, who is the business of the family is not good; in short, their family's business is really since it opened last year, so far there are no customers to buy, to patronize. Such bleak days have continued until this year. Since the end of last year, when I saw the door of the "Four Seas Excellent Products" storefront, I typed the words "half-price sale at a loss, and changed to a big deal", which was very worrying about the business of their mother-in-law's family and has been depressed. Liu Mou, who is a few years younger than me, said to me: "A few days ago, she couldn't help her and her man with her men, and gave away the small trinkets and small commodities worth tens of thousands of dollars in the store." Let the others, more than a dozen people, snatch up all at once." Hearing this, my nose was sour, it was not a taste...

This morning, I overheard "Little Neoflora, Goodbye." You and your mother walk slowly,......, slow walk well" words. I immediately looked for a voice, only to see her mother, carrying a large bag and a small bag all over her body, carrying a delicate, large travel bag on her back, with her head bowed and her right hand dragging them well-behaved, a little girl less than four years old, Zhao Xinyu, did not say anything. Only the two keys to her rented house were given to Xiao Liu and asked her to hand them over to the landlord. Even in the mobile phone store, when she got up in the morning to take out the garbage, the young female clerk aunt was also very lonely for their mother and daughter, waving and feeling very unwilling, and regretting it. "Goodbye little neologism!" , go back to school, listen to your mother's words and other regrets, and regret other words. Only to see their mother and daughter, just look down, do not say anything, quickly walk in the direction of the long-distance bus station, red face, bow their heads and walk quickly.... I turned my head and looked at the Guangming Hardware Store for a while, meaning that I wanted to see Old Hu - Hu Jiahao, the grandson of Boss Hu, who was not in the store, and the two little playmates said goodbye to "farewell, and cherish, take care" and the like, but how much will they know about the friendship and friendship of the two children? Once again, I looked at the distant back of her mother and daughter, and silently blessed them in my heart: "Mother and daughter are safe all the way, all the way well!" ”。

L: April 4, 2021, Qingming Festival.