🥭 蔬果市場街，水果攤的秋菊嬸

蔬果市場街的早晨永遠是最熱鬧的。 陽光才剛剛照到攤棚邊緣，秋菊嬸的水果攤就已經香氣四溢。 秋菊嬸，人如其名，帶著一種秋天才有的穩定與菊花般的溫柔。 她的雙手切水果的速度快得像風，卻始終保持漂亮的刀口。 水果攤前，常常排著三種人： 1. 真的要買水果的人 2. 只是經過但聞到香味的人 3. 其實只是想聽秋菊嬸講八卦的人 Koala 每次經過，秋菊嬸總會塞她一顆去皮的柚子瓣，像給小孩的糖果一樣。 「吃啦，這個甜，今天早上才剛到。」 秋菊嬸的語氣總帶著一種「我知道你最近很累，但不用說」的溫柔。 而 Boss 醫生常常在下班後也會繞來水果攤。 當他一邊啃蘋果、一邊聽秋菊嬸說市場消息的模樣，Koala 每次看到都會想笑。 誰能想到芭樂醫學中心那個在手術房裡指揮若定的「Boss」， 在秋菊嬸面前會變成乖乖站著聽講的晚輩？ 秋菊嬸也對他特別好。 每次都塞兩顆超甜的芒果給 Boss，還會說： 「你們醫生吼，太操了。這個回去吃，補身體。」 Boss 只能無奈笑笑，像被媽媽叮嚀的小孩。 就這樣，蔬果市場街因為秋菊嬸的存在，多了某種家的味道。 Koala 覺得，只要秋菊嬸在，這條街就永遠會香甜又溫暖。 --- English Mornings on Produce Market Street were always the liveliest. The sun had barely reached the edge of the stall roofs, yet Aunt Qiujü’s fruit stand was already filled with fragrance. Aunt Qiujü lived up to her name—steady like autumn, gentle like chrysanthemum petals. Her knife moved through fruit faster than the wind, yet every slice was perfectly neat. In front of her stand, three kinds of customers always lined up: 1. People who truly wanted to buy fruit 2. People who were just passing by but got caught by the smell 3. People who only wanted to listen to Aunt Qiujü’s gossip Every time Koala passed by, Aunt Qiujü would sneak her a peeled pomelo wedge, like giving candy to a child. “Eat this. Very sweet. Just arrived this morning.” Her tone always carried a silent understanding— as if saying “I know you’re tired lately, you don’t need to explain.” Boss, surprisingly, often swung by after his shifts too. Seeing him munch on an apple while listening to market updates from Aunt Qiujü always made Koala want to laugh. Who would have guessed that the famous “Boss,” the surgeon commanding an entire OR at Guava Medical Center, would stand obediently like a junior in front of Aunt Qiujü? Aunt Qiujü doted on him as well. Every time she’d tuck two super-sweet mangoes into his bag and say: “You doctors work too hard. Take these. Nourish yourself.” Boss could only smile helplessly, like a child being fussed over. Because of Aunt Qiujü, Produce Market Street always felt like home. Koala believed that as long as Aunt Qiujü was there, the whole street would smell warm and sweet.