Chapter 475: Queuing up for stargazing
When anything is just emerging, it is always the most popular.
Lin Fan still remembers that there was a small vegetable market near the house she rented in Gaohe, and a steamed bun shop opened diagonally opposite across a small road.
There is only a small storefront, with a width of 1.5 meters. The stainless steel steaming table can only be placed outside the store door, and 3 large steamers can be placed side by side.
Inside is the operating table, where a group of aunts are kneading and slicing dough, rolling them into round buns, and placing them one by one in the steamer next to them.
You can see the end at a glance. Such a small steamed bun shop with no technical content actually attracted a lot of people when it opened.
Maybe it has something to do with the food program that was being broadcast on TV at that time, which introduced a yellow steamed bun.
This store sells two types of steamed buns, yellow corn buns and light brown coarse grain steamed buns.
In fact, it is not the same as the pointed and small wotou with a hole in the bottom like those on TV. Instead, it is big and fat Xuanruan.
But the steamed buns here in Gaohe are usually thin and small. When this fat steamed bun that can’t be wrapped in one hand comes out, it is indeed a rare thing that has never been seen before.
In addition, when you open the steamer, the steam comes out with a faint sweet fragrance, which is hard not to notice.
Lin Fan took advantage of the convenience of living nearby and queued up to buy a few on the second day after the store opened when there were not many people.
The big steamed buns cost 5 cents each, which is bigger than the steamed buns costing 1.5 yuan, and they are easy to get.
Smelling the aroma coming out of the bag, Lin Fan couldn't help but took out one before he got home, stood on the roadside and took a bite.
This was the first time she had tasted that soft and chewy compound texture.
The faint sweetness of corn and the fragrance of wheat flour made her couldn't help but take another bite. The firm and slightly elastic texture was even more strange...
Just like that, Lin Fan was chewing on the roadside. After finishing a steamed bun that was bigger than her fist, she was still unsatisfied.
It’s so delicious!
She felt like she had discovered a treasure shop, and decided to use this as her staple food in the future, even skipping the rice.
I bought it several times one after another, and the queue got longer every time.
When she wanted to buy again a week later, there was a long queue in front of the store.
Lin Fan had just gotten addicted and was so greedy that he had to wait in line for more than half an hour. Seeing the people in front of her buying basket after basket, she followed suit.
Finally I understand why everyone has been waiting for so long...
Later, maybe everyone in this area knows that this steamed bun restaurant is delicious, and the queue is getting longer and longer, with three people in total. Four hundred meters, it was thrown onto the road, and even the traffic police came to maintain order.
Lin Fan considers himself not that much of a foodie. He was frightened by such a team and didn’t buy anything for a long time.
"What happened next?" Wang Fengfeng had no time to relax while eating ice cream.
"Later..." Lin Fan thought for a while, "About a month or two later, the queues disappeared, and you could basically buy it if you went there. But I don't know why, it felt like that The steamed buns are not as delicious as before.”
Lin Fan looked at the long queue in front of him, and then looked at the endless crowd behind him, and inevitably thought of the long queue to buy steamed buns.
It's a pity that she could have chosen not to buy it and smiled at the people lining up.
But now, he is in the team, waiting stupidly with Wang Fengfeng.
"Are you saying that after the steamed bun shop made enough money, the quality deteriorated?" Wang Fengfeng consciously grasped the key point.
"She said we can wait two months before coming again. There will definitely not be so many people queuing by then." John Woo understood Lin Fan's point.
With such a long queue, wouldn’t he be able to queue up normally?
What a waste of life.
“So your life is not interesting?” Wang Fengfeng waved an ice cream scoop and looked down upon the man and woman in front of him, “What are we here to see?”
"...Isn't it a planet?" Lin Fan felt that Wang Fengfeng and he were no longer on the same channel.
Aren’t you just going out with him at night to look at the famous telescope? What else to watch?
"Wrong! What you are looking at is the human world..." Wang Fengfeng spread his hands and made a gesture of embracing the world. The expression on his face was so psychedelic that Lin Fan couldn't help but take a step back.
"Others won't think he is crazy, right?" She leaned back and asked John Woo quietly.
Wu Yusen chuckled, "No, we are surrounded by young people and are more tolerant. Besides, there are many people who are more out-thinking than him."
Lin Fan glanced around, it was true. Most of the people in line were younger.
Speaking of which, older people can’t come either because they are working overtime to support their families or they can’t stay up late to rest at home.
Every young person has a mobile phone in his hand. Most of them hold it and look at it without making a sound.
The light from the mobile phone screen shines on their faces, making them a bright light. In the dim outdoor light, it is somewhat weird.
There are a few live broadcasters in the team, and their equipment is very good. There is also a ring-shaped light above the mobile phone holder, which illuminates them clearly.
The beautifully dressed anchors hold the stands and talk to their mobile phones, and their voices are not too loud.
On the other hand, there are not many people like them who don’t play with mobile phones and just chat in low voices.
Wang Fengfeng deals with these electronic devices every day. He rarely goes out with friends, so of course he will not touch these things again.
Lin Fan didn't like playing with mobile phones in the first place. Rather than looking at such a small screen, she would rather gossip with Wang Fengfeng.
John Woo can actually play mobile games for a while, but if his friends are present, what’s going on with him holding his phone alone?
So for various reasons, the three of them became anomalies among the crowd.
Fortunately, at night, the light is not good, everyone is just a hazy black silhouette, and their faces cannot be seen clearly. Otherwise, someone with bad intentions will capture them in the video.
Although Wang Fengfeng is tall and thin, he has a delicate appearance. Although he is not very manly, he is still good-looking.
The kind who can't speak and will ruin his image whenever he speaks.
When they arrived in line, Lin Fan was moved to the front and was the first to take a look.
After half a minute of watching, Lin Fan came down with his lips curled up.
My heart said, that’s it? How many hours have you been waiting in line? Is this an inappropriate waste of life?
But when I saw Wang Fengfeng beaming and jumping down, and John Woo coming down with his face happier than usual, I felt it was worth it.
She felt that the small patch of sky in the lens was not interesting until she went up to see the real thing, but for most people, it is really rare to be able to observe it at such a close distance...
After finally waiting for all the guests to leave, the observatory staff began finishing work.
The person in charge of the observation yawned and looked into the camera, adjusted the angle a few times, glanced at it casually and then turned off the phone.
“Hey~ why don’t you look at it for a while?” Another staff member asked as he picked up the garbage that was obviously left on the ground.
“Don’t watch it, don’t watch it anymore. Even the donkeys in the production team can’t stand it if it’s on for so long every day.” The observer wiped the area near the eyepiece with a soft cloth. “Anyway, there haven’t been many meteor groups recently. "It doesn't matter."
"Yes." Another staff member nodded and activated the button to close the roof. “There are so many people every day, I’m exhausted.”
"Who says it's not the case? I have to go to work again at 9 o'clock. I can still go home, take a shower and squint, but this big thing can't do it." The observer patted the telescope, "Such a precious instrument cannot run for so long every day. Is it easy to break? Let it rest for a while."
"You're right. We only have one machine. Hotness is always a good thing. If there are more people who like it, we can be regarded as successors."
"Stop it, how long will it last? It won't be deserted after a month or two..."
The two of them were chatting and tidying up. After checking that all the equipment was turned off, they turned off the lights and left.
In the distant night sky, the stars are still shining.
A vague shadow gradually appeared in the darkness at the edge of the solar system...
Coming, coming, they are coming!
This steamed bun is a real thing that I have experienced.
That store closed down within two years of opening.
What went wrong with such a hot scene back then? It was obviously really delicious at first.
Later, I never had such delicious and cheap steamed buns again.
(End of this chapter)