It was just after seven in the morning, the sun was shining, the street was clean and crisp, as if with the tranquility of the tail end of yesterday's night, pleasing to the eye. The sun is bright with the street on both sides of the neat building, building some years, green and gray mottled. Early morning stores are different and open, white smoke rolled and ran into the blue sky, in front of the store is full of people, grandpa with grandchildren, mom with children, nourishing and nourishing to eat the bowl of soup noodles. Yells of check-outs rose and fell, and people's figures bobbed - starting a busy day.
People are actually still asleep when there is already a large group of people busy in the street, they open the morning market, pulling high voice, loud voice across the quiet street, from the street to the end of the street, rippling, and does not wake up anyone. Gradually the food market noisy, many old women rushed up early to find the freshest first batch of goods in the morning market. With all the noise, the day dawned.
Three or two middle-aged and elderly people gathered in front of a large pharmaceutical chain, rolled up their sleeves, exposed their arms to the young girl in a nurse's uniform to measure the blood pressure, eyes slanting, a look of old age, said leisurely, how is it today?
Lots of young moms with their tiny children in kindergarten, in a hurry.
The middle-aged owner of a drugstore downstairs leads a group of women in uniform loose-fitting white-and-pink dresses every morning, holding folding fans and wearing light makeup, in a serious manner, by a large pavilion on the riverside, following the beat of the music and dancing in the square, which, according to those watching, you have to pay to learn.
Of course there are many who can learn without paying.
At about 8 o'clock, there was a girl waiting for a bus in front of a housewares store in the center of the old street. When people in town are not going to the city, they prefer to travel by minivan, which has a sign on the front with the destination written on it, and once it stops in front of the store, it doesn't take five minutes for it to fill up with customers, making it easy to come and go. The girl waiting for the car's face, thin, carrying a shoulder bag, from time to time to the end of the road to look. The store's little sister with a cup of water out of the pour, just pouring in the waiting girl's side, the girl flashed in a few steps, used to it.
Next to the store is a rice noodle store, the store girl has been buying rice noodle from them for more than a year, and the boss's wife smiles like a flower when she sees her from afar.
The boss's wife has three girls, I guess there is no boy, three girls are taller than to be taller than her, usually the children go to school, holidays are in the store to help. Every noon, the boss's wife removed the apron sitting on the sofa small sound, seven feet boss squatting in front of the door, wash those piled up into a few small mountains like bowls and dishes, never an exception.
After the death of someone, a team of people beating gongs and drums and blowing from the street, the street on both sides of the crowd watching the people, no matter adults, children and young people, encountered will stop and watch for a while, will look at the people to see how many sons and daughters of the person who passed away, will not look at the people on the speculation. After a while, the crowd dispersed, each busy.
This small street is the main street of the whole town, and it is crowded with pedestrians from morning to night, even in the middle of the day when the sun is at its peak. Every day at noon a beautiful woman in a dress, stomping high heels, holding a small umbrella of European-style flowers from this street, attracting countless eyes focus. Beautiful woman's home in the street, the center of the street opened their family's small bakery, opened more than ten years, the glory of the time to support a family of several, for the study of two college students, bought a house, bought a car. This is the advantage of the old town, the pace of life does not have to be too tight, as long as there is a legitimate and timely work, the family can live a modest life.
At 2 p.m., when the geography teacher said the surface temperature was at its highest point in the day, the sanitation worker pushed his green cart all the way across the street to clean up the area, and sweat flowed densely down from his starkly black forehead and face into his eyes as he turned up the belly of his shirt and wiped his eyes for a few seconds, then continued on his way.
From the side of the green car drove past many luxury cars, Honda, Nissan, Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Rolls-Royce ...... busy with each other, each in a hurry.
In the afternoon, the network circle of friends is active a lot of young boys and girls in the circle of friends to brush the screen to sell all kinds of things, food and make-up. Sometimes people take the card rock street from store to store to send, publicize their circle of friends ......
Street in recent years the new milk tea store, hamburger store, steak, pizza, and specialty stores, and studios, spaced in a lot of years in disrepair of the old traditional store, paper money store, tailor store, mahogany furniture store ...... very distinctive, or comical. This may be a symbol of the active economic development it.
In the evening, the ancient street relative out, is another ancient street near the river, the red sun hangs on the other side of the river, fluffy like a furry ball. River side moored a lot to be out of the sea or has been out of the sea to return to the boat, big, small, the boat will occasionally have people, walking around in pants, more often than not is empty, silent.
Husband said that when they were small, they took big rafts to put together, and sometimes put them on the motor, let them drift on the river. Nowadays, more often than not, children are locked up in a commercial house to watch TV and play games, or caught by their parents to go to the damn cram school. When they hear the stories of their father's childhood, they are so envious that their eyes can fall out of their heads.
As the story was told, it got dark. In early fall, the night street is still lively, busy day of people, groups of three to five, changed into new clothes, with a fresh stroll in this long old street, the soft evening breeze to meet the face, cozy and comfortable.
After 12 o'clock at night, there will also be a young boy driving a very powerful motorcycle in the empty road Biao over Piao past, thought it was very windy, the tail end of the long drag, from the street to the end of the alley ......
This is the hometown of my husband, a faraway place I did not know at all, and now I'm in the gradual establishment of these roots, and the newest and most important of all, the newest and most important of all, is the newest and most important of all. Gradually familiar, gradually accustomed to ......
Here in the summer there are vendors hawking grass kuey teow, tofu flower, stone flower, watermelon, grapes, and in the winter there are people hawking triangular kuey teow, barbecue pancakes, and wild boar steak.
Winter is warm and summer is cool, the air is fresh, there are mountains, water and the sea, there is a national five-A tourist area, there is an ancient city, there is a statue of A-Ma, and there is the ordinary and beautiful that my brush strokes can never finish writing ...... ?