"Hey, look at that~" Fangfang seemed to have found some treasure, let go of Ma Xiaofu's hand and ran forward along the gap in the crowd.

At this time, Fangfang had long forgotten about the unhappy things during the day.

"You wait..."

Ma Xiaofu followed closely with a little helplessness.

Fang Fang ran to a stall not far away and stopped, half-squatting and watching with interest.

It's a candy blower's stall, and the stall owner is an old man. The corners of the old man's eyes and face were already wrinkled, and his hair was gray, but his whole body was full of energy, and he didn't feel like twilight at all.

On the old man's right-hand side was a stove for heating sugar, and on the stove was a pot of somewhat chaotic syrup, which was usually made from sucrose and maltose.

On the wooden shelf in front of the stall are several completed candy man works. The vivid appearance can easily be seen as the ox, dragon, tiger, and rabbit in the 12 zodiac signs.

Of course, there was not only Fangfang who was watching, but also a few young people who were also curious to stop and stand aside. For this traditional craft, there are many people who have seen it for the first time.

When Chu Sheng was still young, he was fortunate enough to meet him a few times, and it was an old man in the village. But then one winter, when the old man pushed the cart out to set up a stall, he accidentally tripped over a stone and no one saw it, so he froze to death outside. Since then, Chu Sheng has never seen a candy blower. After a long time, Chu Sheng couldn't even remember the old man's appearance clearly. Speaking of which, it should have been more than ten years since the death of the old man. Unexpectedly, I saw this familiar scene again in this night market today.

The crowd's conformity is a very interesting phenomenon, when a person stops to watch, it is easy to arouse the interest of passers-by, and then everyone stops one after another.

In this way, at first, it was just a small stall surrounded by a few people, and it didn't take long for it to be crowded with people.

There are people passing by in the outer circle who are too curious and waiting to take a look, and there are also people who are itchy with doubts but still leave directly.

The old man who blows the candy man does not show any superfluous expressions because of the large number of people, he is always looking at the sugar man in his hand, and after blowing one, he will continue to blow and shape the next sugar man.

The old man first used a wooden stick to rotate and wrap in the sugar to make a sugar ball of moderate size, and then removed the sugar from the wooden stick, and began to pull and knead it continuously. This step is mainly because the sugar is hot, which is not necessarily suitable for immediate blowing, and requires the individual's hand to control the temperature for many years.

When the temperature of the sugar was moderate, the old man kept rotating on the sugar ball with his fingers, pinching out a hollow, and then slowly pinching the unclosed end together, and finally pulling a slender sugar tube with a slight pull of two fingers.

After biting off the excess tail with his mouth, the old man took the sugar tube in his mouth and blew slowly. When the gas entered the sugar ball through the sugar tube, the old man pinched the edge of the sugar ball with his right hand, and with a little traction, he pulled the sugar out of two shapes like animal legs.

Changing the position slightly, the old man pinched out two ears with his hands, and then pinched them slightly with his hands, and an irregular conical horse's head appeared, and there were two protruding places on the horse's head, which were the horse's eyes.

Then, the old man pinched about half of the candy ball and pulled it, and the horse's neck and body appeared in front of everyone's eyes. The process of blowing is almost here, after pulling out the two front horse legs, carefully inserting it from the horse's abdomen with a wooden stick that possesses the sugar, and the general zodiac sugar horse is completed here.

However, the old man did not stop, but took out some more sugar, kneaded and stretched it again, pinched out the appearance of a horse's hair, and fixed the horse's hair on the neck of the sugar horse with syrup, so that the image of the horse was more vivid.

"Wow, that's amazing!"

"What kind of candy is this, this is simply a work of art......"

The onlookers suddenly exploded.

"It should be okay this time, right? There can't be anything else, right?"

Chu Sheng couldn't help but be a little stunned, it was the first time he had seen such a meticulous candy blower, compared to this old man, the old man he used to be when he was a child could only be regarded as an apprentice.

The old man was not distracted by the noise of the people around him, but he picked up an iron milk powder spoon from the side, took a part of the syrup and boiled it over the fire, and then opened a small box, which was full of various colors.

The old man pinched out a little and sprinkled it into the syrup, the red one dyed on the horse's mane, and the black one on the horse's eyes.

Chu Sheng also saw this kind of operation for the first time, and couldn't help but sniff it with his nose. Under this sniff, Chu Sheng found that this red thing wafted out a faint strawberry smell, as for the black Chu Sheng, he didn't know what it was, because it didn't have any special smell. However, Chu Sheng guessed that it should also be edible like strawberries.

"Old man, how much does your sugar horse cost?" The onlookers came back to their senses, and finally someone began to ask for the price.

"One hundred, no two prices. The old man calmly said the price.

Chu Sheng was a little surprised when he heard this price, a hundred? When I was a child, one was only a few cents, even if the economy is developing now, this is too expensive, what is the difference between this and grabbing money?

This price naturally caused a commotion among the people around him, and the people who were interested in buying one as a souvenir just now also laughed in a low voice: "This old man is really crazy about money." ”

"It's too expensive, forget it, uncle, I'm bothering, I can't afford your sugar horse. The person who asked the price was immediately frightened by this price, smiled helplessly and planned to leave.

"The sugar horse you asked about was blown by me, and this is the price, not only this sugar horse, but all the ones I blow myself are at this price. However, if you want to buy it, you can blow it, I will pinch it, the price is up to you, and you can just put it in that donation box, there are no hard and fast rules. ”

As soon as the old man's words came out, the people who were going to leave immediately stopped.

"Old man, you're panting too much for this talk. In that case, then old man, you can pinch me a dragon, I belong to the dragon. ”

"Wait a minute, if I ask you to blow it, you can blow it gently, and stop if you want to stop, or you will buy it back if it is not like it. ”

The old man explained very calmly, and began to wrap around the syrup. The specific steps are similar to the previous sugar horse, but because it is not the old man who blows it himself, the obvious effect is not so good. When it was finished, the dragon's shape was a little less than perfect.

However, even so, after the old man used special pigments to slightly dye it, the general momentum and charm of this dragon still showed a lot, especially the few cloud-shaped sugar tablets under the dragon's claws, which were simply too eye-catching.

The man took the sugar dragon and happily and simply threw a 10-denomination RMB into the donation box. The old man didn't even look at the process of giving money, and he really didn't say anything.

Someone took the lead, and there were many people who wanted to brag about their own sugar people. And the huge contrast from 100 to 10 always gives people the illusion that if you blow it, you will make it.

Most people are very cooperative to give 10 yuan after getting their sugar man, of course, there are 5 yuan and 20 yuan, and the old man doesn't care.

Some people are conscious, and some people are unconscious, and even Chu Sheng found out that after someone took his own candy man, he actually took out a 5 cent coin!

"Meow!" Chu Sheng suddenly shouted, but the exit was a cat meow.

The old man who heard the cat's meow raised his head and glanced at Chu Sheng, and Yu Guang naturally noticed a brass-colored coin in the person's hand, but the old man didn't say anything, but pretended not to see it, and lowered his head again and began to refine his work.

"Isn't this old man angry when he sees people giving 5 cents? Now 5 cents is not enough to buy candy, right?" Chu Sheng felt extremely puzzled by the old man's actions.

Anyway, from Chu Sheng's point of view, this sugar man doesn't say 10 yuan, 5 yuan is always reasonable. What's more, the work completed under the meticulous craftsmanship of the old man can be regarded as a small work of art.

Fang Fang watched attentively, completely immersed in it, until Ma Xiaofu shook her arm, and then came back to her senses.

It turned out that there was no one around, and everyone left with their sugar man satisfied.