mtl008 Chapter 123 An Accident at the Market
Chapter 123 An Accident at the Market
Ning Yuan was thinking about how to make a fortune in the future, while Zhong Yuemin on the other side had already rushed into the market around the corner from the Air Force compound.
Zhong Yuemin wandered around inside for a while, then came out and waited for Ning Yuan, and quickly turned around to greet him.
"Ningyuan, let's go and take a walk around the market?" Zhong Yuemin saw Ningyuan earn 1,500 yuan.
It just so happens that there is a big market coming up. How can it be called the New Year without buying some food and drinks?
After Zhong Yuemin urged Ning Yuan to park his bicycle on the side of the road, he grabbed Ning Yuan and rushed into the market again.
Ning Yuan looked around, but there was nothing new.
It’s still the same things, sugar figurines, candied haws, fried tofu, and the fruit sellers only sell apples, oranges, pears and other easy-to-preserve ones.
Zhong Yuemin still had a lot of money in his hands, so he could walk with Ning Yuan when he first entered the market.
But with his lively personality, how could he walk leisurely with Ning Yuan? After a while, Zhong Yuemin threw a sentence to Ning Yuan.
"I'll go check out the front first. You can walk around here by yourself. We'll meet at the exit later!"
Then he ran to the front alone.
Before Ning Yuan could say anything, Zhong Yuemin had already walked away. Well, that was perfect for him. He decided to take a walk here by himself and collect some more supplies into the space.
So, after temporarily saying goodbye to Zhong Yuemin, Ning Yuan started to go on a shopping spree.
There are several meat stalls at the entrance, mainly selling pork and mutton. There is also beef, but very little.
Ning Yuan walked around the stalls one by one, buying a piece of meat weighing about ten pounds each time and putting it in a woven bag.
This woven bag is not transparent. After putting the meat in, Ning Yuan just touched it with his right hand, and the freshly bought meat was directly sent into the space for storage.
Fortunately, there were huge crowds of people coming to the market with red flags waving.
Ning Yuan walked around these stalls and stuffed sixty or seventy kilograms of meat into the space, but no one noticed that there was anything wrong with Ning Yuan.
Yes, it’s a great time of year, and everyone is out having fun with their families, so who has time to look after each other?
In this way, Ningyuan bought things as he walked.
I would buy a bunch of fruits like apples, oranges and pears from a stall I passed by, and then slowly put them into the space as I walked forward.
When he reached the corner, Ning Yuan's space already had more than twenty kilograms of apples, more than twenty kilograms of pears, and thirty or forty kilograms of oranges.
Turning the corner, there is a stall selling all kinds of snacks, fried tofu mixed with sesame paste, braised shrimp oil, chopped green onions, coriander and chili sauce, it all smells delicious.
Ning Yuan couldn't help it, so he went straight to the stall and bought a bowl for five cents.
The tofu is cut into small oblique triangles, and after frying, it becomes fragrant and crispy. Put a dozen pieces in a small black bowl and mix with various condiments, especially braised shrimp oil. Pour a little bit of it in, and the taste of the whole bowl of fried tofu will be sublimated.
Fresh, crispy and tastes especially good!
It was just a small bowl, and Ning Yuan finished it all in just a few bites.
After paying, I didn’t walk far before I saw another place selling fried tripe.
Wow, this is authentic Lao Beijing fried tripe. I have to try it.
Ning Yuan walked in and kept telling himself that he must try it.
When he got to the stall, there were so many people that he had to queue. Ning Yuan was not in a hurry anyway, and there was no point in cutting in line with a knife in front of so many old people and children, so he just waited in line for a while.
Finally it was Ning Yuan's turn. They were a middle-aged couple. One of them was skillfully adding the base ingredients from various seasoning bowls, while the other male host was slicing the lamb tripe into small strips.
Then take more than two taels of it and put it into the boiling pot and cook it. It doesn’t take much, just twenty seconds to serve.
Put it into the base bowl and mix with sesame paste, sesame oil, soy sauce, chopped green onion, coriander and chili sauce.
Hey, guess what? That's authentic!
Ning Yuan directly asked the stall owner for two plates of lamb tripe, which weighed only about five taels.
Just stand in front of the stall and it will be clean in a short while.
Before the 1980s, most of the tripe used in Lao Beijing’s fried tripe was sheep tripe, as they were reluctant to kill big animals like cows.
It was not until the late 1980s and early 1990s that the street food "炸渡" (stir-fried tripe) was gradually replaced by "牛客" (beef tripe).
However, although Ning Yuan was eating sheep tripe, it did not have any sheep smell.
It doesn’t take long to cook, so it’s not overcooked. When you put a piece of it in your mouth with sesame sauce, it’s crispy, salty and fragrant!
After Ning Yuan finished eating, he paid and prepared to move on.
It was quite lively in the front. Ning Yuan could see a skinny monkey running back and forth on a tall wooden pole even from where he was standing.
There was a large crowd gathered around, and from time to time there were bursts of cheers.
When Ning Yuan saw the monkey show, he guessed that Zhong Yuemin, who loved to join in the fun, should also be there.
So he also began to follow the crowd and slowly move towards the monkey trainer.
When they were only a few dozen meters away, an accident suddenly happened.
A woman in the crowd burst into a deafening scream, "Ah!!!"
Then the crowd looked over and became even more chaotic.
The crowd fled in all directions, howling, "Murder!"
"Killing! Killing!"
"Get the hell out of my way!" Some men began to push away the women and children blocking their way, just to get away from here faster.
Such an explosion and the crowd were so crowded that a stampede was the direct result.
Ning Yuan could hear the cries of many children coming one after another from the front while standing here.
"Mom! I'm scared!"
"Ah, brother, where are you?" The childish voices with crying tones made Ning Yuan even more anxious and irritated.
Ning Yuan tried desperately to get closer to see what was going on.
He knew in his heart that his buddy Zhong Yuemin was very likely there.
But he was pushed back by the crowd coming towards him.
It was not until Ning Yuan threw down the woven vegetable basket in his hand and took out a triangular scraper from his military bag that his expression became ferocious and bloodthirsty.
This made the crowd retreating in front begin to consciously avoid this vicious young man wearing a military officer's coat and holding a triangular scraper in his hand!
It took Ning Yuan several minutes to get to the scene of the incident because there were too many people!
However, when Ning Yuan saw the two people lying on the ground, he was stunned.
He ran over in a hurry to find Zhong Yuemin. He found him, but his life or death is unknown now.
There were two young men lying on the ground, both of them were the trouble makers in the compound, wearing officers' woolen coats.
One was Zhong Yuemin, and Ning Yuan also knew the other one, who was Zhong Yuemin’s buddy, Zhang Xiaojing, who lived in the Air Force compound in front!
There was a pool of blood under both of them.
Ning Yuan didn't dare to hesitate any longer. He pushed away the people blocking his way and trotted to Zhong Yuemin!
"Yuemin, Yuemin, damn it, who did it?"
Ning Yuan squatted down and picked up Zhong Yuemin, who was holding his stomach and gasping for breath.
"Hey buddy, hold on, I'll take you to the hospital. Don't worry, you'll be fine, damn it!"
Ning Yuan was a little panicked for the first time.