When Ye Ya and Ji Huaiyuan first met.

Ye Ya was only 11 years old that year, in the fourth grade of elementary school, and lived with his grandfather.

Ye Ya has never met his parents. Seeing that other children in the class have parents, he would ask his grandpa strangely. Grandpa always uses a candy or a dime to divert the topic.

He didn't cry and clamor to find his parents. Since he could remember, he didn't know what it was like to have parents, so he didn't feel reliant on them. He just felt strange, where did those two people go? .

Wait until you are more sensible and stop talking about it, just pretend that they don't exist.

However, it does not exist.

Ye Ya has been precocious since she was a child, which has something to do with her living environment.

Life forces people to grow, whether they like it or not.

He and his grandfather lived in a poor alley in the city. The alley was long and dark, and the crowded and dilapidated houses blocked the light from the sky. I don’t know how long the floor tiles had gone through, and they even appeared broken, potholed, and easy to accumulate water in rainy days. I stepped into a muddy puddle without seeing clearly, and my shoes got wet.

Most of the residents living in the alley are old people. Their children have bought a house in the urban area. However, these old people are reluctant to part with the old house they have lived in for decades and the old neighbors who have been with them for decades. move away.

But Ye Ya and Grandpa wanted to move. Grandpa made a living by setting up a stall selling eggs, and this place was far away from the vegetable market in the downtown area. Every time he carried the eggs there, he was very worried, for fear that the eggs would be broken if he was not careful.

They want to move, but no one picks them up.

Ye Ya spent his childhood in the alleys. He has two good friends, one named Da Mao and the other Peng Peng. Both are left-behind children. Their parents work in other places and they only come back for a few days during the New Year.

Ye Ya often rolls in the mud with them, and after playing wildly all afternoon, he hooks his shoulders to his back and throws a series of childish laughter back home.

Ye Ya won't go out to play with Da Mao Pengpeng in the morning, he will set up a stall with his grandfather, and he will go home to cook and deliver meals to his grandfather during the period.

He can cook at the age of seven or eight.

Ye Ya had heard the grandparents in the alley moaning about him, saying that children from poor families should start their own families early, but Ye Ya didn't think so.

Grandpa smiled and patted his head, laughing at him as an iron cock and a little money fan.

Ye Ya is really stingy.

Strolling around with Da Mao Pengpeng, they would go to the small shop at the entrance of the alley to buy food, ten-dollar crispy rice and cat ears. Ye Ya didn't buy snacks, but just watched them eat, afraid that they would see them and wanted to eat, silently Swallowing again carefully.

Damao and Pengpeng would ask him if he wanted something to eat, and Ye Ya would occasionally be tempted to take a piece or two, but most of the time he still refused, because after eating, he would be invited back.

Pengpeng looked at Ye Ya with admiration, and said enviously, "Yaya, you don't eat cat's ears, that's amazing."

Ye Ya raised her face and snorted, "My grandpa said this is unhealthy and cannot be eaten."

"My grandma also said not to eat it." Da Mao stuffed the rice pot into his mouth as he talked, and some froth spewed out, "But it's delicious, it's so delicious."

Ye Ya quietly swallowed her saliva, then snorted again, like a little adult, with her hands behind her back, imitating the tone of an adult's reprimand, "You two are just greedy, my grandpa said that these snacks are produced in garbage dumps Yes, it’s dirty, you still eat it, it’s not good for your body, like me, I don’t eat it, I want to grow and become stronger.”

Ye Ya is not only stingy but also very pretentious.

I have loved to pretend since I was a child.

But ever since she met Ji Huaiyuan, she always showed her true colors in front of him.

This is something for later, let's not mention it for now.

Ye Ya saw Ji Huaiyuan at the vegetable market.

The weather was bad that day, the sky was overcast, and there was a strong wind blowing near the peak period of grocery shopping. Everyone who came to buy vegetables had messy hair and a dusty face. They hurried home after buying vegetables in a hurry .

Because of the weather, business was not good, and no one came to buy eggs for a long time.Ye Ya squatted aside and thought silently, probably because of the strong wind, the eggs are too fragile to handle.

Grandpa sighed when he saw that it was not open today.

Ye Ya opened his voice and yelled, and Xiaomeng's voice was drawn high-pitched and long: "Selling eggs——"

Ye Ya yelled and rolled her black eyes to look around at the customers, especially at the entrance of the vegetable market, hoping that someone would come to buy eggs.

"Yaya, stop shouting, I can't take it anymore." Grandpa held Ye Ya, put his hands on his cheeks, and turned his gaze back with a smile.

Ye Ya's chubby little face was pinched and squeezed into a ball, and his small mouth was forced to pout. He just wanted to protest that he couldn't pinch his face, but he caught sight of a person out of the corner of his eye.

Immediately, Ye Ya reflexively pulled away his grandfather's weak hand, stood up abruptly, and towards that direction, shouted desperately, "Sell eggs!"

Grandpa's ears were suddenly shocked: "..."

Ji Huaiyuan walked into this vegetable market that he had never been to with a calm face.

He turned a blind eye to the mess in the vegetable market, and even observed the expressions, actions and behaviors of the people here with great interest.

It was a whim to come to the vegetable market to buy vegetables. The reason was that I passed by here.

Come in and have a look.

Although his style of painting was completely different from here and attracted the attention of many people, Ji Huaiyuan acted as if he hadn't noticed, he went to the fish stall and looked seriously at how the fish seller cut up the fish swiftly and quickly.

After marveling at the stall owner's hand speed, Ji Huaiyuan chose a white crucian carp, and said to the stall owner who was holding a knife and starting to kill the fish, "Please leave a whole body for it."

The stall owner was stunned, and looked at this handsome and talented young man, "What?"

Ji Huaiyuan explained, "Don't slice it."

"... Don't worry, the white crucian carp is so small, I won't agree to slice it if you ask me to."

Ji Huaiyuan suddenly became curious again, and asked, "Then what kind of fish can be sliced?"

Seeing Ji Huaiyuan's interested look, the stall owner thought it would be great if he changed to a big fish!So he quickly introduced: "Like this kind of grass carp, big head fish..."

Ji Huaiyuan looked over and shook his head, "It's too heavy, I don't want to carry it."

The stall owner: "..."

Ji Huaiyuan continued to buy vegetables slowly with the fish in his hand.

Suddenly, a voice so sharp that it could cut through the air came, it was the voice of a little boy, and it broke.

Ji Huaiyuan looked over there, his dark eyes met a boy who opened his mouth and screamed hoarsely, his face was flushed red, but his bright eyes were staring at him.

The two looked at each other, and Ye Ya grinned at him.

Ji Huaiyuan: "?"

Ye Ya shouted: "Brother, buy eggs!"

Although Ye Ya is young, he has been in the vegetable market for a long time, and he has some ability to know people. Although the person in front of him is just a simple T-shirt and trousers, he is not dirty, and he is also handsome. He is not poor at first glance.

Ji Huaiyuan walked towards Ye Ya.

Grandpa asked with a smile: "Do you want to buy eggs? My eggs are all native eggs—"

Ye Ya interrupted his grandfather, and added in a voice: "It's very nutritious, eating it is good for your health!"

Ji Huaiyuan squatted down, picked up an egg and looked at it carefully in front of his eyes. The egg was quite large, oval in shape, and the shell was spotted. It seemed to be...chicken droppings?

Ji Huaiyuan put the egg back, looked up at Ye Ya, "How much?"

Ye Ya was not surprised why he didn't ask grandpa, he didn't realize this at all, he smiled obediently and said, "Six yuan a catty, brother."

Ji Huaiyuan thought for a while and said, "I want six."

Ye Ya was stunned for a moment, and then hummed a little aggrieved and dissatisfied: "Brother, you don't look like someone who only buys six eggs..."

Grandpa pulled La Yeya and reprimanded softly: "Yaya, don't talk nonsense." After speaking, he smiled and said to Ji Huaiyuan, "Do you want to pick it yourself? Or should I pick it for you?"

Ji Huaiyuan: "You help me choose."

"Okay." Grandpa asked Ye Ya to bring a plastic bag. He picked out big and good eggs from the basket and carefully put them into the bag.

Ji Huaiyuan looked at it, and finally said softly: "Give me another two catties."

Ye Ya, who was about to weigh the scale, paused, his eyes lit up instantly, he turned to look at Ji Huaiyuan, the corners of his mouth almost grinning, "Okay!"

Grandpa hesitated, not knowing why the customer changed his mind, "This..."

Ji Huaiyuan smiled, and it wasn't a smile, just a twitch of the corner of his mouth, which was fleeting.He explained, "Don't let children doubt their vision."

Ye Ya, who couldn't understand, just happily put eggs on the scale, "It's 15 yuan in total! Brother!"

Ji Huaiyuan took the wallet and looked at it, "I don't have four cents."

"It's okay, brother!" Ye Ya said with a smile, "Do you have one yuan or fifty cents? I can give you some change!"

Seeing that Ye Ya is as proficient as a young adult, Grandpa is quite emotional, but he is a bit fussy about his business. Originally, this customer only came to buy a little, but it was changed to two catties because of Yaya's words, which is not kind.

"Just wipe off the change, just give me 15 yuan." Grandpa said quickly.

But it was too late.

Ji Huaiyuan took out another one-yuan note and handed it to Ye Ya.

Ye Ya accepted it, lowered her head and put the money in the small box.

Ji Huaiyuan looked at Ye Ya's dark head, and said flatly, "You don't need to look for it, can you wash the eggs for me?"

Ye Ya immediately raised her head, smiling all over her face, "Okay, no problem!"

Ji Huaiyuan came home with eggs, fish and some vegetables, and it was really heavy.

The sky was so gloomy that it almost fell to the ground, and the wind on the road rustled the trees on the road, and the leaves were blown down on the ground.

In such bad weather, I really shouldn't go out.

Ji Huaiyuan coughed lightly, he was used to jumping thinking while walking, and suddenly thought of that child.

It can be summed up in one word:

marketplace.

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