Chapter 9: The Bazaar
I got up in the morning, Canghai ate some breakfast and went out for a stroll, asked my aunt about the location of the motorcycle shop in the town, and went there one by one.
After walking for a while, I found that today's town is much more lively than yesterday, and the roadside stalls that were not there last night have emerged this morning like small seedlings in early spring.
After asking, Canghai knew that it was the turn of the town to meet the big gathering.
Every big market may not be understood by the children in the city, in fact, it is the countryside every other period of time, everyone takes the things produced at home to the town to exchange, and on this day, the surrounding towns set up stalls, and those who do a little business will be concentrated in one town to trade, so it is particularly lively.
Not to mention that the Chinese New Year is coming up in two months, so this episode is getting more and more lively.
Canghai, who had not been in the big set for nearly ten years, suddenly became interested, forgot about buying a motorcycle, and began to visit the big set, and after a while, Canghai had an extra string of sugar gourds in his hand, five or six skewers of roast mutton, and stretched out his head while looking around.
Turning around, Canghai came and inadvertently turned to Luoma City.
The so-called mule and horse market is not only for selling mules and horses, but also for any such thing as a shed, it is completely a large open space, and a bunch of people in the east and west start to bargain around their favorite mules and horses, if you are not familiar with it, you can also hire some mules and horses to make money, twenty or thirty yuan or a pack of good cigarettes or something, you can let these people help you pick a good mule and horse.
In addition to the place where mules and horses are sold, there are also chickens, sheep and geese, as well as dogs, so as long as it is a live animal, poultry and livestock, there are almost no people who do not sell here.
Canghai is not in a hurry anyway, since it is transferred here, it will stop by to take a look, so he hurriedly finished the meat skewers in his hand, and then stepped into the mule and horse market with the smell of livestock urine.
After walking a few steps, I saw a group of dog sellers gathered together, in the past, they were all local dogs and vegetable dogs sold here, but when Canghai saw each other again ten years later, there were already a lot of foreign dogs here, such as golden retrievers, huskies, etc., which accounted for almost half of the dog market, which shows that the trend of raising foreign dogs has blown from coastal cities into small villages.
Just as Canghai was about to turn around, he suddenly heard a voice next to him.
"You old man, don't you succeed in cheating, other people's local dogs are only thirty or fifty yuan a piece, and your one actually costs two hundred ......."
Canghai inadvertently turned his head, and found that there was an old man in his sixties squatting opposite the person who spoke, the old man was wearing an old Mao suit, and the washing was a little white, and there was a sheepskin shoulder on the outside of the Mao suit, and the old cotton pants and old cotton shoes on the lower body, holding a dry tobacco pouch in his mouth, with an expression that he didn't want to take care of the middle-aged man opposite, and he was taking care of himself and inhaling his dry tobacco.
In front of the old man there is a rattan dung basket, this thing may not have been seen by many people, there are sirs on three sides and an open mouth, a bit like a dustpan but there is a T-shaped handle tens of centimeters high, the things used to pick up livestock dung in the countryside are generally made of rattan.
Now there are two puppies in the dung basket in front of the old man, it looks like they have just been full moon, and the plush black and yellow look very cute.
Seeing these two puppies, Canghai couldn't help but walk over, stretching out his head and looking at these two puppies carefully. The black dog looked very lively, and was now nibbling on the rattan of the dung basket with his small mouth open, looking full of energy, and the yellow dog was lying in the dung basket and looked like he was napping.
The two little earth dogs and the general earth dog look a little different, the general earth dog tail is curly, these two tails hang, thin and straight, and the snout is not as sharp and long as the average small earth dog, the snout of these two little earth dogs is short and wide The mouth is not usually black, but a water with the hair on the body, the two ears are also wide, and the division is slightly open.
After taking a look at Canghai, you know that these two puppies are not ordinary earth dogs, but unique housekeeping hounds in their hometown: Tiger Head Yellow!
Squatting down, Canghai grabbed the yellow puppy in the dung basket, turned over and saw that it was a small male dog, and then took a closer look, and then put the puppy back into the dung basket.
The man is still chattering here: "I said old man, why are you doing business like this, you don't say a word for a long time, I really want to buy your dog, so let's do it, other little earth dogs are thirty, I'll give you eighty lines, right?"
"Not for sale!"
The old man raised his head and glanced at the half-grown man who was squatting opposite.
"Hey, you old man, this is a plan to sell it and take it home, right?" said the middle-aged man.
The old man ignored him and continued to smoke his cigarette.
Listening to the accent, Canghai knew that the man who was squatting down was not a local.
"Old man, how can this dog be sold?" Canghai stretched out his hand and pointed at the yellow-haired puppy lying motionless in the dung basket.
I don't know the scientific names of the two puppies, but Canghai knows that the people in my hometown call them Tiger Head Yellow, which is a particularly rare local big hunting dog.
Although the name is tiger head yellow, but in fact, the dog has two colors, either pure yellow or impure black, there can be no other color, there can be no variegation, and there can be no four-eyed and curly tail.
Of course, it is impossible for ordinary people who raise tiger head yellow to string this dog.
Raising a tiger head yellow was a dream of Canghai when he was a child, but it is a pity that he used to live a difficult life by himself, where is there extra food to feed a dog, but now that he has money, he saw the tiger head yellow who was serious, and suddenly gave birth to the idea of buying a dog.
Then again, they are all ready to go back to their hometown, how can they lack a dog at home.
"Two hundred!"
When the old man saw Canghai asking for the price, he threw down a sentence, and then smoked his cigarette without saying a word. After taking two puffs and finding that the cigarette had been smoked, the old man took care of himself and knocked the cigarette ash to fill the tobacco.
The middle-aged man saw that someone was ready to buy a dog, and the black dog he wanted was not the one he wanted, so he said to Canghai: "Little brother, you said that this old man is not strong, and a small earth dog is only thirty or fifty, and he sells it for two hundred here, isn't this a good intention to take us as the big boss!"
Canghai smiled when he heard it, stretched out his hand and carefully grabbed the little yellow dog to his hand and looked at it, this time mainly to look at the dog's mouth and dog anus, and at the same time to see if there was any problem on the body, after a careful look, Canghai felt that the little yellow dog was strong and there was no big problem, so he reached out and took out his wallet from his pocket.
took out two hundred yuan and handed it to the old man, Canghai picked up the dog and prepared to leave.
"I said big brother, you ......"
The middle-aged man saw that this young offspring was not stupid, and he bought a soil dog for two hundred and actually took a few glances and was ready to leave!
Canghai knew what he wanted to say, anyway, it was fine, so Canghai smiled and said: "This is a soil dog, but this soil dog is also divided, this dog is not an ordinary earth dog, if you know how to raise it, this dog is much better than those foreign dogs."
The middle-aged man looked at Canghai, was stunned for a moment, and suddenly asked, "What's good?"
The middle-aged man is ready to buy a native dog to raise back, but he raises a native dog not because he likes it, but to show that he is different, when others raise foreign dogs, he raises native dogs, appears to be maverick, and from time to time is ready to blow two sentences that we Chinese should raise Chinese dogs or something.
Canghai said: "This is a serious hound, and it is also a big hound, when it is an adult, it can grow the same size as a golden retriever, and you can fight wild boars when you release three, even if you don't feed, the half-sized dog cubs will go out to forage for food by themselves, as for the housekeeper, it is even more first-class, other dogs will hurt people when they meet strangers, this kind of dog can read people's hearts, only hurt the wicked and not hurt strangers......."
When the old man heard Canghai say this, he couldn't help but raise his head, took out the cigarette pouch in his mouth, and said angrily: "You still have a little eyesight in your later life!"
I don't know if the old man is praising Canghai or damaging Canghai, anyway, after such a sentence, the old man began to smoke his cigarette without saying a word.
The middle-aged man looked at the silly little yellow dog in Canghai's hand, and then at the little black dog that was still sprinkled in the dung basket, and asked puzzledly: "Why did you choose this wilted yellow dog instead of this black dog?"
Canghai smiled and said, "Yellow dog is better!"
The hound is in a stable temperament, too cheerful is actually not good, such as hunting, this too cheerful black dog will definitely not become the leader of the dog group, because dogs are also like people, too cheerful generally can only be a little brother, become the boss.
And the little yellow dog is obviously different, it doesn't bark or bite not because it's stupid, but because the dog is born calm.
"Is there such a suspense as you said?" the middle-aged man looked suspicious.
"The most important thing is that this dog rarely gets sick, it is easy to feed whether it is leftovers, and when it is older, the body looks strong, and it looks like a little calf, which is good-looking. Even if you enter the old forest, as long as you take it with you, it can take you out completely! The most important thing is that this dog is fierce enough, the former landlord Lao Cai, take it on the street, as long as you put the money on the chain and hang it on its neck, even if it is next to someone, no thief dares to put his hand on the dog's neck to steal the money in the chain!"
After talking a lot, Canghai did not gain the trust of the middle-aged man, but made the middle-aged man more vigilant, in the eyes of the middle-aged man, how to look at it and feel that Canghai is like a dog.
Seeing that this person didn't believe it, Canghai didn't say anything more, and left with joy while holding the tiger head yellow he had just bought.