When Gu Qingming returned to gather with her grandmothers, Grandma Shi smiled and said, “Darling, if you hadn’t come back, I would have asked Xiaoyu to look for you.”
Grandma Gu asked with concern, “Mingming, why were you gone for so long?”
Gu Qingming said without changing her expression, “Grandma, I’m a little constipated!”
Shi Yaoqing, who was drinking from the mineral spring, spat out all the water in his mouth.
Shi Yaoqing thought to himself, “Sister is too bold with her words.” But he remembered that his sister was very reserved.
Grandma Shi said, “Since we’re going shopping, let’s go now. Xiaoyu, call home and tell them that we won’t be going home for lunch.”
“Okay, Grandma!” Zhou Xiaoyu replied.
With that, she took out her phone and called home.
Grandma Shi said to Grandma Gu and Gu Qingming, “Although I don’t come to the county city often, I’m still familiar with it. Xiaoyu and Yaoqing are even more familiar with the county city. Yaoqing, drive us to the busiest place in the county city first.”
“Okay!” Shi Yaoqing replied readily.
After driving for about ten minutes, they reached a river. There was a road near the river, and there were parking spaces on both sides of the road.
Shi Yaoqing said, “Sister-in-law, take Grandma and the others to the National League Mall first. I’ll find a parking space.”
Zhou Xiaoyu replied, “Okay!”
Zhou Xiaoyu brought them to the entrance of the National League Mall.
Although it was not Saturday, the entrance of the National League Mall was bustling with people.
Zhou Xiaoyu introduced, “The entrance of the National League Mall is the busiest and most prosperous street in our entire Pingyang County. There are all kinds of things sold here, especially the snacks and specialties sold in Pingyang County. However, the snacks on the streets are not as hygienic as the food at home. Grandma, should we go to the mall to take a look or stay near the entrance first?”
Gu Qingming looked up. Although it was lively here, it was messy and disorderly. The stalls were casually set up.
Some sold local specialties, some sold children’s toys, some sold fruits, and some sold clothes and jewelry.
People came and went in crowds. When the electric scooters honked loudly as they maneuvered through the bustling place, it made one feel very irritated.
It was indeed a lively place.
Zhou Xiaoyu asked, “Sister, do you want to take a look? Our local specialties are quite good. If we buy them outside, I’m afraid it won’t be very hygienic. When we get home, we’ll get Second Aunt to make them.”
Gu Qingming nodded and said, “Okay!”
The group began to shop.
Grandma Gu had lived for decades. Before she got married, her family was a scholarly family. She was the only daughter and her family doted on her very much. They would get her whatever she wanted to eat and play. However, they never let her eat street food for fear that she would get a stomachache.
When she was young, she was really hungry once. Hence, she ate fried rice cakes from a roadside stall. She did not know if it was unclean or if her stomach was not used to the things outside. Not long after, she had diarrhea.
When her family found out that she had eaten something unsanitary from a roadside stall, they were angry but their hearts ached for her, so they could not bear to blame her.
But from then on, her parents and three brothers began to learn all kinds of culinary skills, turning an entire family of scholars into chefs just so that she could eat a mouthful of delicious food.
Later on, after she married Grandpa Gu, she never suffered any grievances.
After learning from her parents that she could not eat outside, he tried to learn how to cook.
However, talent was just that strange. Grandpa Gu was a shrewd person, but he had failed in his culinary skills.
