Speaking of exchange meetings, for "city people" who have never lived in the countryside, it is inevitable that there will be some ambiguity in their understanding. We are familiar with "a certain academic exchange meeting", "a certain regional economic and financial exchange meeting", "a certain industry cooperation negotiation exchange meeting" and so on, but the exchange meeting in the village and the above exchange meeting have a world of difference.

If you associate the exchange meeting with the market, I believe that some people must have some feelings that the second monk is confused. In fact, it is easy to find out on "Du Niang", and the exchange meeting and the rush are linked together, collectively known as "rush exchange", which is the well-known rush market.

Of course, the exchange meeting mentioned here is a gathering of material, economic and cultural exchanges organized by the local government on a regular basis for certain counties, villages and other economically underdeveloped areas.

As one of the effective means to stimulate the local economy, the essence of the exchange meeting is that the relevant departments of the local government as the organizers, charge a certain venue fee, and provide a large area of open-air gathering venues for small traders, catering, entertainment, and literary and artistic industries in neighboring villages and towns.

Networking sessions typically last between 7 and 15 days. On the one hand, the local government through this means, in the short term to meet the growing needs of the local residents' material and cultural life, to promote the improvement of the region's economic level, enhance economic activity; on the other hand, to enhance the local social visibility and reputation, to attract the surrounding villages and towns of merchants and traders to come to trade exchanges, residents to come to consume, hidden increase in taxes, so in remote and backward areas, such exchanges are held regularly throughout the year.

Of course, you can't see exchanges in the city.

I remember when my sister married far away in the city, I once happened to say: "Our hometown is "rushing to exchange" these days, it is very prosperous, when will there be an exchange meeting in the city?"

My sister joked while laughing, "There are exchange meetings every day in the city. ”

This shows the backwardness of the rural economic level at the county level.

No further ado.

"How can I walk by the river without getting my shoes wet?" Although my sister tried her best to "help me" explore the road and find a way to survive in the dark, I was already very careful and careful to be on guard, and tried my best to protect myself.

But as the saying goes, there are unforeseen circumstances in the sky, and people have good and bad luck, and no one will inevitably miss the time when the horse stumbles.

This is an event that took place at an exchange meeting.

At that time, I was very young, I can't remember the number of years, but I vaguely remember that my sister was in elementary school, and my parents took me to "catch up with the exchange" and participate in this annual "grand event" together.

For children, everything unknown is new and novel. As long as you go out, no matter where you are, don't mention the excitement, curiosity, and happiness, especially when you see a lot of people, you want to take a look here, and you also want to go there for a walk, and fully experience this crowded and lively market.

Naturally, the bazaar sells everything.

The most common thing on both sides of the dirt road is to sell all kinds of fruits, snacks, toys, daily necessities, clothes, shoes and socks...... The whole nine yards.

There are crowds of people everywhere, crowds of people, so lively!

See, all those who bring children out have a common characteristic: adults are always stopped in front of children and cannot walk or are pulled by children to move towards their interests, and the main destination is toys and snacks.

Whenever you meet a child who doesn't cry or make trouble, you must have one of the two in your hand, without exception.

Older children are a lot of "thieves", they will not be sent away by the adults with a simple few words of "coaxing", and parents rack their brains to fight wits and courage, when they come out, they are very "self-aware", toys will definitely not be fully satisfied, so the strategy of older children is generally to eat all kinds of snacks first, must eat one and then another, taste this and taste that, always have to taste eighty or ninety percent of the snacks they see before they are willing. When you're ready to go home, you can choose a favorite toy or two, so you don't have to buy a toy first and leave the adults with words like "just buy a toy, you won't spend extra money on food" and so on. Because of this, children who are "empty-handed" are basically invisible.

Do you think this is the end of it? It's a huge exchange venue, and of course it's more than that.

Standing on tiptoe, you can see tents of all sizes made of plastic sheeting or rainproof cloth. There are all kinds of colors, color strips, camouflage, steel structure shelves propped up...... The largest is more than 50 square meters, the smallest is more than 10 square meters, some are similar to small theaters, performing literary and acrobatic programs; some are small restaurants, simply put 2 tables, people can sit down to eat something when they are tired of shopping, drink some beer or something. Of course, there are also various games, such as balloons, darts, and rings to win prizes......

Walking into the infield, you can hear all kinds of dialects, all kinds of tones, all kinds of accents, all kinds of content selling one after another, endlessly.

"Don't miss it when you pass by—"

"Fresh and delicious, delicious and inexpensive—"

"Take a look, take a look, it's cheap and affordable—"

"Hurry up, buy it quickly, miss it once and wait another year-"

......

Walking in the bustling crowd of people coming and going, the dazzling array of goods and stalls is dizzying, constantly stimulating people's eyes.

It is inevitable to meet acquaintances.

"Out for a walk?"

"Well, bring your wife and children to have a good time!"

"See you later!"

......

The stall owners and vendors took the trouble to introduce their products to passing customers, and they felt that one mouth was a little insufficient.

Before this was introduced, another person's consultation came from his ears, and occasionally he yelled in a hoarse voice: "30 yuan for sale, all for 30 yuan!"

The elderly go out mainly to watch a play.

Prepare a small stool or a small horse in advance, and go out at five or six o'clock in the morning, why? Of course, grab a good position!

Under normal circumstances, the government pays for the theater troupe, and the theater is free, which is greatly in line with the psychology of the elderly "open source and reduce expenditure", so if you don't see the sunset, you will never go back after the exchange meeting is cleared.

What's the hardest temptation for a boy to resist? Toy guns, robots, and toy cars, of course.

I'm certainly no exception.

I saw all kinds of toy guns, cars and other toys on the stall that I had never seen before, and I couldn't wait to squat down, pick this up, put down that, not to mention playing, how energetic.

Due to the economic constraints of the family, I have never seen so many toys every day, except for "chasing chickens and rabbits" and "playing with mud with urine".

I was even more selfless and immersed in my own world for a long time, as if there were only me and toys in the world, and I never realized the urging next to my mother and the accumulation and explosion of my father's anger value.

At some point, I suddenly felt a sharp pain in my body, and an unbearable "huge force" shattered my connection with the bland, quiet, and comfortable "world" unique to toys, and threw me to the ground.

Tears poured out of the eyes, and the brain "buzzed" was instantly "restarted", refreshed into a blank, I didn't know what was going on, and the emotions of shock and horror filled the young and immature heart.

I just knew that it hurt, it hurt all over my body, and then I cried, and I kept crying.

It wasn't until the familiar insults and rants came from my ears that I gradually understood what was going on. Normally, the targets of such voices have always been my mother and sister!

Here I have to sigh once again at the breadth and profundity of the Chinese Chinese language, and the curse words are all strange, varied, and endless. After associating the abbreviation of the sun with the name of the elders, as well as the names of some cute little animals to form a new phrase, the final meaning expressed is actually very different from the original meaning of the word, and in the end it has nothing to do with the original words "sun, elders, and small animals".

You know.

At this point, I suddenly remembered a joke from my own experience and share it with you.

When I was in college, I had a classmate who had a very high level of English and was almost obsessed. He likes to study local dialects, American slang, and the like. Moreover, his usual mantra is the word F-U-C-K.

Once walking on the street with him, a foreigner accidentally bumped into him. He was playing with his phone with his head down, probably hurting him, and he didn't raise his head, and casually said a mantra: "F-U-C-K!".

The quality of Chinese people is very high, generally in this case, few are particularly sensitive to this word, even if they hear it, understand it, look back and look back at a young man will not care, let alone a big conflict, and foreigners are different.

The end of this mantra has not yet fallen, and I saw that the foreigner responded quickly with a foreign accent in a not very fluent Chinese sentence: grass-ni-ma. As he spoke, he clenched his fists and turned around, stretching out his middle finger with the back of his hands to face us.

The people around didn't know what was going on, only heard the foreigner loudly burst a dialect in Chinese in public, and we were amused to lean back and attract many eyeballs.

Later, it once became our talking point and joke and was "told" for several years. Now when we are together occasionally, we talk about it to amuse everyone.

Straight to the point.

With tears in my eyes, I looked up at my mother struggling to stop the "culprit" who was "fierce and vicious", and finally experienced the mood and taste of my mother and sister being beaten.

Since that day, this incident has also been deeply engraved in my mind, becoming one of the memories that can never be erased in my brain, and it is also from that moment on, I have never taken the initiative to ask my father for anything, until now, never.

There are two sides to everything.

Such a family environment not only created my hard-working character and perseverance, but also gave me the courage and confidence to dare to face difficulties and setbacks at some point in the future. When I signed up for university, I only took 2,000 yuan from my family as living expenses and tuition fees for four years, and after that, I didn't ask my family to get a penny, and I relied on my own part-time work to earn tuition fees and pay student loans; after graduation, I worked hard from scratch, married a wife and had children, had a house and a car, and lived a petty bourgeois life of "less than the above, more than the bottom", although not rich, not nervous.

Taoism has clouds: one life is two, two is three, and three is everything. The pole of yin is born of yang, and the pole of yang is born of yin. Presumably this is the truth. But only if you work hard enough in the right direction.