I will never give in to Miss Death

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"..."

Let's walk to the market...

After confirming that there was an insurmountable wall between my height and the car, I sighed silently in my heart, turned around and left the apartment.

Then, standing on the path outside, I felt as if I had entered a whole new world.

Even though I was surrounded by extremely familiar alleys and street scenes, the sky in May was cloudless, and everything was so ordinary, I still had a "so fresh" feeling.

My vision was extremely clear, just like a person with hundreds of degrees of myopia suddenly wearing glasses one day. The huge world suddenly became clear, and I could see clearly the birds flying in the sky, the advertisements on the telephone poles, the vehicles on the road in the distance, and even the billboards on the shops hundreds of meters away.

Take a deep breath and let the fresh air flow into your lungs, making you feel relaxed and happy.

Ah…so this is what a girl’s body feels like?

The nearest wet market is less than 500 meters away from the apartment. It's not very big, but has all the necessary stalls, including fish, shrimp, clams, chicken, pork, beef, dumpling skins and wonton skins, cooked food, roast chicken, duck and goose, as well as various vegetables and fruits. If there are no special needs, it is completely enough for most working people living alone.

Well, today...buy a fish?

Steam a smaller sea bass, and as a vegetable, stir-fry some chayote seedlings or sweet potato leaves with minced garlic. The combination of meat and vegetable is just right with the leftovers from lunch in the refrigerator, and can be used as a midnight snack when you are hungry at night.

While thinking about today's dinner in my mind, I walked towards the vegetable market.

Maybe it’s because the little girl’s legs are short and each step is not big. It usually takes me only five or six minutes to walk to the vegetable market, but today it took me nearly ten minutes to get there.

Unlike the somewhat deserted entrance of the vegetable market at this time of year in the past, today for some reason there was a mobile vendor making cotton candy.

Marshmallows!

I was instantly attracted by the sweet smell of candy and looked at the small cart at the entrance of the vegetable market curiously.

The cart has the price of each type of marshmallow marked on it - 3 yuan for regular marshmallows, 4 yuan for colored ones, and 5 yuan for colorful marshmallows. Alipay and WeChat are supported.

"Little sister, do you want to buy it?"

After noticing me, the uncle selling cotton candy gave me a friendly smile and said, "You are so cute, are your parents not here?"

Uh……

I didn't know how to answer for a while.

Not to mention that I am now a little girl created out of thin air by the god of death, even my previous self... was an orphan.

Those don’t matter. The main thing now is… do you want to buy this marshmallow?

Do you want to buy it? Do you want to buy it? It looks delicious!

In the past, I had no interest in mobile vendors selling candied haws, sesame candy, peanut candy, and marshmallows, especially marshmallows. I felt that people who bought these were fools.

Such a small spoonful of sugar can make a large ball of marshmallows, and it costs three or five dollars, so why don’t I just buy a big bag of white sugar?

However, I don’t know if it’s because my mind has changed after I became a little girl, or if this little girl’s body is naturally unable to resist sweets, but now I can’t move forward.

Do you want to buy it?

But... even the lowest-grade marshmallows seem so expensive.

For three dollars, you can buy six to ten eggs, or two handfuls of vegetables enough to last for two days, or several corns and potatoes, or a large bag of rice.

Besides, even if I really want to eat something sweet, I already have sugar at home, so there is no need to buy this...

I hesitated in front of the stall for a full minute, but finally reason overcame my desire.

Forget it.

Now is a critical period, so save money wherever you can.

No, 010 Today is also a day full of hope

"No, thank you uncle, I just... came to take a look."

After saying goodbye briefly to the uncle selling marshmallows, I turned around and ran into the vegetable market.

At 4:30 in the afternoon, the market was not crowded, and I went to the seafood section based on my memory and found a stall selling sea bass. In the curious eyes of the stall owner, I pointed to the smallest fish and said, "Here, please help me kill it."

"Little sister, are you coming out to help your mother with shopping?"

Seeing that I really came to buy fish, the stall owner looked happy. He took the fish out with a net and said in the local dialect, "You are so handsome and sensible?"

"Yes."

I was too lazy to argue with the stall owner, so I took out my phone and scanned the QR code next to it.

"12 yuan, how many people are there in your family? Is this small enough?"

"Enough is enough."

"Would you like to buy anything else? Would you like some clams? They're very delicious in soup. Have you bought any shrimp?"

"No, no, I can't finish it."

I paid the bill in a flash, and after the stall owner killed the fish, removed the internal organs, packed them in bags and placed them on the small platform in front, I picked up the bag and ran towards the vegetable area.

"Little sister, are you out to help mom buy groceries?"

"What would you like? Spinach or water spinach?"

"Tomatoes? Winter melon? Eggplant?"

Compared to the aquatic area, the uncles and aunts selling vegetables were much more enthusiastic. They shouted wherever I went and almost jumped out to catch me.

It’s strange. When I was an uncle, I came here to buy vegetables almost every day, but I never saw you guys being so enthusiastic.

“How many melon seedlings are there?”

I found my target after walking around the vegetable stalls for less than half a minute. I stopped at a stall displaying fresh chayote seedlings and asked in the clear voice of a little girl.

"Three dollars and ten cents, little sister, just take three dollars. You are so pretty, you will be very beautiful in the future."

The woman selling melon seedlings was a woman in her 40s or 50s. She smiled so hard that I couldn't stop when she saw that I liked her vegetables: "How old are you, little girl? Your hair is so pretty. Have you been growing it for a long time?"

"Mmmmmmm..."

I was picking melon seedlings while answering my aunt's questions absentmindedly.

With the experience at noon, this time I deliberately only bought about 50% of the amount I usually eat. I took a very small handful, shook off the dew on it, and handed it to the aunt in front of me.

"Girls nowadays are very sensible. My boy is in sixth grade and he doesn't even dare to go to the store to buy a bottle of water."

After taking the vegetables I picked and weighing them, the aunt in front of me took out a bag and started to help pack them: "One dollar and eight cents."

Holding up my phone, I tapped the QR code next to it again.

"Look, look at this girl, she is so sensible, she helps her mother buy groceries at such a young age, and she can even use WeChat."

Oh no, dear auntie, I don’t have a mother, I bought these for myself.

Also, don't the kids in your area know how to use WeChat? I remember that many kids aged seven or eight know how to use WeChat to top up games. They top up thousands or even tens of thousands of yuan at a time, and it's been on the news for several times.

Even though I was complaining about these people in my heart, in line with the principle of keeping a low profile, I didn't say a word, took the melon seedlings and left the stall.

Next, all I have to do is buy some corn, sweet potatoes, etc. and have them together with the eggs at home for tomorrow’s breakfast.

Corn can be used as both a fruit and a vegetable. It is very high in dietary fiber and is the perfect breakfast ingredient in my eyes. It can be fried with minced meat to make minced meat and corn at noon, or cut into pieces and made into soup with pork ribs at night. The only drawback is that this kind of fruit and vegetable is not suitable for storage at room temperature. Even if it is placed in the refrigerator, it will go bad in three or four days at most. If you want a good taste, it is best to eat it within 24 hours after purchase.

In comparison, sweet potatoes are better. The biggest advantage of this thing is that it has a long storage time and can increase satiety after eating. If you plan to change your taste and don’t want to eat rice one day, you can use this instead of rice. It is very friendly to the stomach.

My usual breakfast is basically corn, sweet potato and eggs. If I’m too lazy to cook, I’ll go to a nearby breakfast shop to buy some meat buns, vegetable buns and steamed buns, and then start a day full of hope.

"Five dollars and thirty cents together."

"Give me some chopped green onions."

"Ginger, and this."

"Did you scan the code?"

"Okay, walk slowly, and be careful on the road, little sister!"

Ten minutes later, I walked out of the vegetable market carrying big and small bags.

The uncle selling cotton candy outside did not leave, and compared to the slightly deserted entrance of the vegetable market just now, many workers were now preparing to finish work. There were more pedestrians around, and two customers gathered around the cotton candy machine. The cotton candy machine kept making "bang bang" sounds.

For a moment, the sweet aroma of cotton candy enveloped the entire street.

Woohoo...I really want to eat that...

When I walked out of the vegetable market, I felt helpless.

It's ok to suddenly become a little loli, but I'm also poor, how am I going to live like this...

If I were richer, I wouldn't have to think for so long whether to buy a three-dollar marshmallow...

By the way, why is there someone sitting here?

At this moment, I noticed a middle-aged man in a suit and leather shoes sitting under the wall opposite the cotton candy cart.

The man was about 40 years old and had a high hairline, but his suit was neatly groomed and there was not much dust on his leather shoes. It was obvious that he was a senior official or a small leader of a nearby company.

However, at this moment, he lowered his head and sat directly on the dirty ground, holding his wallet in one hand and swiping his mobile phone with the other hand. His eyes were red with tears in the corners of his eyes, and his expression was very painful, as if he had just experienced some ups and downs in his life.

"..."

I stopped on my way home because of the middle-aged man sitting on the ground.

This street is near the vegetable market. Cleaners only clean it once a day between five and six in the morning. The road surface is very dirty in the evening, especially in the corners. From time to time, small vendors push carts and pass by, throwing the leftover food scraps of their customers everywhere.

My new body's excellent eyesight allowed me to see the tears in the middle-aged man's eyes.

How should I put it? It's probably that kind of resonance between uncles.

Usually in this situation...either something happened to a family member, or the company went bankrupt, or the business failed, or the girlfriend broke up with him, etc.

Just like what the Grim Reaper girl said, in the past few years, in addition to working overtime, in order to save more money, I would also write to earn extra money after returning from the company. I was very hardworking.

Excessive fatigue made me go to the hospital frequently, and sometimes I was so sick that I had to have an IV drip.

I go to the hospital alone, register alone, see the doctor alone, fall asleep on the cold chair in the infusion room alone, and then I come back from the hospital alone and continue to work hard to live.

I have seen many similar situations in the hospital, a wife crying at the door of the emergency room, or a mother coming out of the operating room collapsing in the corner sobbing because of her son or daughter's treatment problems.

The reason why the man in front of me sat down on the ground without caring about his image was probably because he received news like "The operation failed", "Let's break up", "Come to the finance department to settle the bill tomorrow" when he passed by here.

Normally, one or two similar incidents might not be enough to defeat an adult male, but avalanches... are often caused by too much snow piling up and then a leaf gently falling on it one day.

I hope you can cheer up.

I stood there for a few seconds, secretly sending my blessings to this strange man in my heart. I smiled helplessly and prepared to go back to the rental house with the vegetables I had just bought.

The man in the suit just calmed down a little at this moment, stood up again, and walked towards the vegetable market behind me.

At this moment, a motorcycle came out from nowhere with a "buzz" sound and brushed past the uncle. The uncle was so scared that his whole body trembled, and the wallet in his hand flew out, and several coins fell out of it.

"Excuse me!"

The man on the motorbike didn't even bother to slow down. After turning around and shouting this, he quickly disappeared into the distance.

"..."

"Ding-dong, ding-dong."

After a while, the coins scattered all over the sky fell to the ground, and several of them rolled to my feet.

"Woo..."

I heard the man in the suit seemed to choke up, and then he fell to the ground with a plop.

Then, he threw the empty wallet in his hand aside and shouted "Ah--" in a self-deprecating manner.

And...crying loudly.

No. 011 I saw the unusualness here at a glance

"what happened to him?"

"I don't know, maybe he's crazy, let's stay away from him."