Moving on

"Pua chu?" (moving house in Hokkien dialect) Uncle said softly tapping my shoulders after my wife told him that the family will be moving out of Kajang to Puncak Jalil, Seri Kembangan next year. 

Did I detect a tinge of melancholy in his wizened face? 

After more than 20 years of patronising his family business almost weekly in the wet market my wife and I had become more than just a regular customer to this vegetable vendor who in his 70s is still hale and healthy though a bit hunched back.