Childhood Favorite: Favorite Reunion at the Vegetable Market

Name: Childhood Favorite: Favorite Reunion at the Vegetable Market
Author: I Heard You Are Cool

by I Heard You Are Cool

ongoing Modern Romance Urban Life Female Lead

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Ch. 2 — 社区医院的偶遇

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About This Novel

Wang Xueming, who was picking potatoes at the vegetable market, bumped into Zhang Bingli, who was wearing a suit and leather shoes but squatting in front of a vegetable stall doing abacus - the childhood sweetheart who always put meatballs into her lunch box in junior high school. We haven't seen each other for ten years. His briefcase contains a notebook full of her eating habits, and there is a butterfly hairpin pinned to his sleeve that her mother did not give out back then. During the demolition of the old alley, the abacus bracelet in the hole of the sycamore tree, the half-knitted boy's sweater by his mother, and Zhang's father's hesitant apology gradually revealed the misunderstanding about the loan in 1998: it turned out that his mother's surgery fee was collected by her father from door to door in the rain; on the day he transferred to school, he carried in his pocket the butterfly hairpin that she had dropped into the river. The spicy soup at the steamed bun shop, the chance encounter at the community hospital, and the confused words of his grandmother concealed his unspoken preference for ten years: she loved to bite straws, so he changed all the cups in the office to lidded ones; she was afraid of thunder, so he would stand by her downstairs on rainy nights and pretend to pass by; even the butterfly birthmark on the back of her neck was secretly drawn by him into the design of the new house. When the fireworks of the vegetable market meet the promise between the bead and the butterfly, this belated reunion will eventually untie the knot of hearts between the two generations - the original deepest preference took root in the alley twenty years ago, and grew into a sycamore tree that can protect against wind and rain in every silently guarded daily life.