Li Zhongxin and Wang Bo visited Xinglin Village when they were young. They happily played in Xinglin Village for two days. It happened to be the 26th of the twelfth lunar month. This day was also the last big fair in Toulin Town before the year. If you want to have a big show again,

If you want to gather, you will have to wait at least until after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

Before Li Zhongxin was reborn, he often went to the market in Zhubantun. When he heard that there was a large market in Toulin Town, he immediately made plans to go there and have a look. He also wanted to see the rural market in the early 1980s.

What exactly does a collection look like.

As soon as it dawned, uncle Wang Zhi and his aunt called Li Zhongxin and Wang Bo to get up and prepared to take their nephew and son to Toulin Daji to go to the market.

Xinglin Village is located in the north of Fujin, northeast of Jiangcheng. It is twelve miles away from Toulin Town, and there is only one dirt road.

In winter, this road is snowy and sparsely populated, and it is also quite difficult to walk. Passenger cars are no longer open at this time. When you get to Toulin Town, if you don't take a horse-drawn carriage, you will have to use a sledge.

This morning, people in Xinglin Village who had some money were preparing to go to the market in Toulin Town to buy things and exchange items.

After meeting up with the third uncle and the old aunt, they started waiting for a long time at the entrance of the village. After more than ten minutes, the people going to the market in Toulin Town finally gathered at the entrance of the village.

There were more than thirty people riding in four carriages and two horse-drawn snow sledges, and it seemed that the place was full at once.

In later generations, Li Zhongxin rode a carriage, but never a sledge. Seeing this way of traveling, he immediately chose to ride a sledge.

The snow sledge is very big. In the front are goods that are to be sold in the town. The back part is where people sit. There are two layers of thick cotton mats on it. After people sit on it, they have to cover their legs with cotton.

Cover yourself to prevent frostbite on your legs.

After a person sits on the snow sledge, his hands wearing thick cotton gloves should hold onto the wooden railings on the snow sledge. Otherwise, if he encounters a pothole, he will easily be thrown out by the sledge.

Compared with the horse-drawn sledge, the speed of the carriage is much slower than that of the horse-drawn sledge. However, the carriage is much more stable than the horse-drawn sledge. Ever since Li Zhongxin got on the horse-drawn sledge, his uncle Wang Zhi has been following Li Zhongxin for fear of

What happened to Li Zhongxin?

Li Zhongxin saw depressingly that this horse-drawn sledge was completely different from what he had imagined. This horse-drawn sledge was almost the same as riding a horse-drawn carriage. It did not have the lightning speed or the kind of riding in the snow.

With the feeling of wind and snow blowing, he felt that his choice this time was a bit of a loss.

In just over twenty minutes, Li Zhongxin, his uncle Wang Zhi and a group of others arrived in Toulin Town.

After arriving in Toulin Town, his uncle Wang Zhi did not go to the market with the people in the village. Instead, he led Li Zhongxin to the home of his second aunt Wang Yaqin.

After putting away the good wine and cigarettes brought to Wang Yaqin's house, as well as some New Year's goods, and having a warm breakfast at Wang Yaqin's house, Wang Zhicai led Li Zhongxin and others to the market.

The location of the store is about 300 meters away from Wang Yaqin's house. It is a main road in Toulin Town. There are low bungalows on both sides, and there is an occasional larger and taller house. They are the highest quality in the town.

There are buildings like post offices or banks. At both ends of the road, there are stalls selling food and drink, and all kinds of New Year's goods.

Although people are coming and going, and the sounds of hawking are coming and going, there is no sound of cars and machines at this time, so it does not make people feel noisy, but it makes people feel extremely lively.

The streets are full of bustling people, all wearing cotton-padded clothes in three colors: black, gray, and green. Not to mention the colors are very monotonous. Most of them are covered with mottled cloth patches. In addition, they all wear cotton hats and neckbands. It looks like

They all seemed to be about the same, and were all messy, which gave Li Zhongxin an indescribable sense of dissonance.

He knew in his heart that it was like this in the 1980s, and if he wanted to see the kind of clothing in later generations, he would have to wait at least a few years before he could achieve it.

When Li Zhongxin came back with his third uncle Wang Bo, he brought a lot of money with him. He led his younger brother in his uncle's family, and whenever he saw something delicious in the market, he would buy it for his younger brother with money.

Candied haws on a straw-tied stick, persimmon cakes made from dried fresh persimmons with hoarfrost on both ends, and pure white chunks as long as pencils. In short, there is something that my younger brother Wang Changming wants to eat at the market.

, Li Zhongxin would buy them directly with his money. When buying, he would buy a lot of them, even the adult ones.

Li Zhongxin's lavish way of spending money shocked his uncle Wang Zhi and his second aunt Wang Yaqin. They couldn't believe that a child could have so much money and dare to spend it randomly. They just arrived.

In just a short time at the market, Li Zhongxin seemed to have spent ten yuan.

If Wang Bo hadn't said before going to the market that Li Zhongxin had some money in his hands, and his family was not short of money and could spend it as he pleased, they would have snatched the money from Li Zhongxin at this time and saved it for him.

The market in the town years ago was very lively, but it was not comparable to the large markets of later generations. However, in such an era of poor supplies, it was quite good to be able to have some scale.

Toulin Town is different from the city. There is no shortage of pork here, because many families in rural areas kill New Year pigs and cannot eat them at home. After relatives and others have divided them, there will be a lot of meat left. Compared with the usual queues to sell meat.

The situation is already much better at this time.

At this time, chickens, ducks, cattle, sheep, common and unusual things gathered together as if they were having a meeting.

Li Zhongxin saw that most mountain products were sold at this time. After drying the various mushrooms collected in autumn, they were strung on strings and plated in white flour bags. They were better than the top-grade hazel mushrooms that Li Zhongxin bought when he was doing catering in later generations.

Oily pine nuts, hazelnuts, and walnuts are also placed in a row in flour bags, waiting for inquiries.

The most lively place at this time is the place where melon seeds and peanuts are fried on site. Steam is rising from the top of two large eight-yin iron pots. You can smell the aroma of fried melon seeds and peanuts from a long distance away.

In the early 1980s, melon seeds and peanuts were basically cheap goods. Rural people would greet each other during the Chinese New Year. If there were no melon seeds and peanuts at home, and some fruit candies that children like to eat, they would be looked down upon by others. Therefore,

It is for this reason that the stalls that fry melon seeds and peanuts and sell bulk fruit candies are the most crowded.

Li Zhongxin was not interested in melon seeds, peanuts and bulk fruit candies. He was interested in sugar-fried chestnuts next to fried melon seeds and peanuts.

Compared with the place where melon seeds and peanuts are fried, the place where sugar and chestnuts are fried seems deserted. There are only some children watching the frying eagerly, but no one comes forward to buy.

At the beginning of 1983, sugar-roasted chestnuts could be said to be a good thing, or a symbol of luxury.

Chestnuts from the south are not expensive when they come from the south, which is about a dime per pound. However, after they are transported to the northeast, the price will rise a lot. In addition, the price of sugar in this era is extremely high.

You can buy it for seventy or eighty cents a pound.

Sugar-fried chestnuts are fried at this time, usually with white sugar and coarse sand. The price of a pound of sugar-fried chestnuts has reached one yuan per pound.

In the eyes of many farmers, few people can afford this kind of thing even during the Chinese New Year. The guy who does this must have lost his mind. Otherwise, how can he do such a money-losing business!

Li Zhongxin saw that his uncle and his second aunt were lining up to buy melon seeds, peanuts and couplets with the word "Fu" at the place where melon seeds were fried. He gestured with his hand to signal Wang Bo to go to the stall where sugar-roasted chestnuts were sold.

"Bring me five kilograms of roasted chestnuts with sugar." Li Zhongxin took out a small scalper and put the money directly in front of the table like a grown-up.

"Whose child is this? I bought five kilograms of sugar-roasted chestnuts. Isn't it hard to survive?"

"Is this child stupid? How can he spend money like this? Or he stole money from the adults in the family."

"That's a small scalper! One small scalper can buy two chickens. It's a waste of money to buy such a useless thing."

Li Zhongxin was speechless. He did not expect that just buying five kilograms of sugar-roasted chestnuts would cause such a big reaction from the people around him.

But when I think about it, I can let my grandma and grandpa have a taste of it, and I can let the children of my relatives here have a taste of this good stuff. It really doesn’t matter if I am criticized by others.

At this time, when children go out to the market, the adults in the family just give them ten cents and two cents to buy a few pieces of candy. Li Zhongxin, for example, can also give five dollars to buy candies and roasted chestnuts.

Said to be a rare giant panda.

Li Zhongxin was secretly glad. If he hadn't felt that there was no way to get ten or twenty kilograms at a time, he would have just bought ten or twenty kilograms. If that were the case, wouldn't all the people next to him have to buy it?

Crazy!

After packing the candied roasted chestnuts, Li Zhongxin and Wang Bo saw that Wang Changming walked to the place where firecrackers were sold nearby and couldn't walk.

If eight or nine-year-old children want to say what they like most during the Chinese New Year, they like to set off firecrackers.

There were not many fancy firecrackers at this time, they were nothing more than magic bombs, sky-piercing monkeys and some small wooden sticks wrapped with a layer of gunpowder.

Li Zhongxin saw Wang Changming's eyes almost falling into the firecrackers, so he poked him with his finger and said, "Hey, little Changming, do you want to buy firecrackers?"

When Wang Zhi came back from shopping, he saw Li Zhongxin and Wang Changming standing in front of the local grocery store selling firecrackers, pointing and talking. He thought about it for a moment. It was the first time for his nephew to come to his grandma's house.

When I came here, I brought so many good things. It was okay to buy some firecrackers for the two little brothers to have a good time.

Wang Zhi struggled in his heart for a long time. Gritting his teeth, he waved to the firecracker seller over there and said: "Bring me six small whips with one hundred rings, four earth red whips with two hundred rings, three magic bullets, and ten

Sky-piercing monkey."

During the Chinese New Year, firecrackers are set off four times in total, on the night of the 30th, on the first day of the lunar month, on the fifth day of the lunar month, and even more on the 15th day of the lunar month.

The four 200-ring earth red ones must be played at home during the Chinese New Year. Wang Zhi gritted his teeth and bought the others for his two children to play with.

If Li Zhongxin doesn't come here, Wang Zhineng can buy a pack of 100-ring whips for his son, which is the maximum amount.

After Wang Changming heard his father's words, he jumped three feet high with joy. He never thought that his father would buy him so many firecrackers when he came to town to buy new year's goods.

Just as the firecracker seller was settling accounts with firecrackers, two children who were about the same age as Wang Changming and well-dressed came over. Each of them took out one dollar and bought ten small flowers and then left happily.

Li Zhongxin saw Wang Changming's eyes almost falling into the flowers. He smiled and said to the middle-aged man selling firecrackers over there: "Count how many of these little flowers are left. Give them all."

I installed it, and I also installed all those tricks over there."

Seeing the stiffness of his uncle Wang Zhi, Li Zhongxin stretched out his hand and poked Wang Bo on the waist, and said with a smile: "Third uncle, what are you doing there? Why don't you give me the money quickly? I'll give you a lot of money."
Chapter completed!