Every city will have a few busy snack streets, and each food will have a group of exclusive diners. Those small food stalls are full of my memories.
When I was in high school, there were many snacks near the school. Most of them were cheap and good. I couldn't put them down! At the gate of our school, there is a shop that buys powder. The name is another bowl. The business is very good and it is very affordable. We often go to his house to eat. Just three yuan, a box of powder, and his homemade bean paste, which is the perfect match of powder, students are three yuan, and many teachers will eat the other five yuan. It was a middle-aged and elderly couple who opened the shop. According to the former school sisters, the uncle who sold powder used to be a teacher in our school, and later retired. He also set up a storefront at the school gate with his wife and started selling powder. There is often a long queue in front of their shop and they don't go to work on weekends. They will close when we have a holiday, and they will open when we start school, so many people want to eat his powder and count on us to start school.
People who often go to Bobo know us, saying that Orr should eat something else and have a balanced diet. Sometimes we go in the morning and then go the next day. He is very knowledgeable and often talks with those boys. When he meets naughty boys, he will also give him a good lesson. But surprisingly, he is very popular, and many people teach him to listen carefully. Uncle often stands at the school gate and looks at our school like that, sometimes rubbing his eyes. It seems particularly sad.
I haven't been back since I graduated. Once I went back to work and passed by the school gate, I went to eat a bowl of his family's powder, but my uncle wasn't there. It was his son and daughter-in-law. I asked them where their uncle had gone. He said that he was old and his legs and feet were not flexible, and he was at home! Later, I heard from some graduates that there is an old man in a wheelchair at the school gate every day, so I just come to see the school gate and go back.
Later, when I accidentally talked about it, I realized that the grandfather was not only a teacher in our school, but also a former principal.
Much needed.