This kind of bamboo stroller may not be seen in later generations, this car has three baffles, which can be mixed and combined at will, so that the car can be changed into several forms. When all three boards are laid out in the middle level, the car becomes a crib with small doors at both ends of the car that can be opened to increase the length of the bed. When the middle board is placed on the upper level, the stroller becomes a cart that allows two children to sit opposite each other, and there is a small table in the middle, which can push a pair of children on the street, and the children sit facing each other, whether they should play or write, it does not matter.

If you put away the three boards, the bamboo car will become a small truck, pushing 2oo catties of cabbage back is no longer a problem, and it is also loaded with hundreds of honeycomb coals in a hurry. Hong Tao doesn't know who designed this car, it's just amazing, it's very in line with the living conditions at the time, it's cheap and multi-functional, and the children don't waste it when they run out, and the adults at home can still use it.

Now Hong Tao is acting as the adult of the family, pushing Jin Yue and Zhang Dajiang to walk on Dongsi North Street, he plans to go to the entrusted store again to take a look, there are still any good goods. Coming to the door of the store again, Hong Tao bought a big ice cream for Jin Yue and Zhang Dajiang, and asked the two of them to sit in the bamboo cart and continue to do their homework, and then walked into the store by themselves.

"Hey, kid, come on, come on, don't you want cricket jars, it's in stock again, come and see." As soon as Hong Tao entered the store, the male salesman behind the counter greeted him warmly as if he saw the God of Wealth.

"This is the same set as the cricket jar I bought last time, right? Is it still sold by that person?" Hong Tao looked at the 4 cricket jars on the counter, how familiar they looked, the money under the lid was the same, if it wasn't for the fact that the inside had not been smashed at the bottom, Hong Tao even thought that the cricket jar at home had been stolen and sold here.

"I can't sue you, it's not the first time you've come, you don't understand this rule?" The salesman didn't tell sù who the seller was, this is the rule in the entrusted store, if the seller sues the buyer, then how can the store eat the middle handling fee.

"Yes, you can find me something to put it on, don't break it. Of course, Hong Tao understands this rule, so he doesn't ask anymore.

"By the way, there are also these things, the seller said it is a set. The salesperson reached out and picked up something from the back shelf and threw it on the counter.

"What is this?...... He didn't say what it was?" Hong Tao reached out and picked one up and looked at it, the material seemed to be made of bone, one inch wide, three inches long, a few millimeters thick, and there was nothing on it.

"Where do I know, he said that it is matched with these cricket jars, one jar, this is 4, and 4 more are given, I don't know what it means, you can figure it out yourself. "The salesman found a wooden box with straw for sale, I don't know what it was used for, but it was quite suitable for these four jars.

"Thank you, I'll go out for a while...... Hong Tao didn't take the box, but said hello, turned around and ran out.

"Uncle...... This is a little bit of my heart, next time there will be this kind of thing, you are tired, help me stay, I will definitely come every three or five times, 100% buy, you don't have to worry about smashing your hands, how about it?" After a few minutes, Hong Tao came back at a trot, came to the edge of the counter, looked left and right to see that no one was paying attention, and reached out to hand the salesman a box of peony cigarettes.

"Hey, you're much more sensible than those skewers, those grandsons ignore me every day, there's nothing serious, don't worry, I'll keep it for you if you have the goods, and you can't sell them!" The salesman's back molars were immediately exposed, and a box of peony cigarettes cost 8 cents and 5 cents, which was already considered a good cigarette.

"Well, then I'm sorry for you!" Hong Tao originally wanted to buy a box of 1 piece of 3 cents and 1 Chinese cigarettes, but it turned out that there were no ones sold in the commissary on the side, but now it seems that the peony cigarettes are enough, and he also helped himself save several big ice cream money.

"Oh, by the way, have you seen that second master?" Hong Tao suddenly remembered the old man again, he hadn't seen him since the last time he saw him, and he still had a lot of things to ask.

“…… Not...... Why do you ask him?" the expression on the salesperson's face was a little strange.

"Hey, there's no hurry, I just want him to tell me about these jars, Cheng, you're busy, I'm leaving." Hong Tao didn't have the expression of a salesman, and he didn't look back at all.

"Let's go, go home! Be careful, don't step on me!" Hong Tao returned to the bamboo cart with the small box, put the box under the baffle where Jin Yue was sitting, and specially told the two of them, and then pushed the cart to continue on the road, walking in the direction of Dongdan, where there was also a commission store.

June 29 of the lunar calendar, August 5th of the Gregorian calendar, Wednesday, this night Hong Tao's grandmother sat at a large table of people, today grandpa specially went to the cow street to buy back 8 catties of mutton slices and a bunch of tripe, beef shutters, light the copper pot, to shabu mutton at home. If you want to say what is an important day today? In fact, it is nothing, today is the beginning of autumn, according to the customs and habits of the capital, this day should be pasted with autumn fat.

The meaning of sticking autumn fat is to eat something big with oil and water, make up for the nutrients lost in the whole bitter summer, and then prepare to survive the cold winter. In previous years, sticking autumn fat was a full meal of leek dumplings, but this year, the staple and sideline foods sold in the market have increased significantly, not only the quota of pork, eggs, sesame sauce, and sesame oil has been increased a little, but even the beef and mutton, which is rarely seen in ordinary times, have also appeared. There are also frozen dumplings filled with pork and cabbage to sell in the Dongdan vegetable market, and you can buy them without food stamps, the queue is lined up from the mall to the outside of the mall, Hong Tao is late, and he looks at the long queue and doesn't even row up.

Compared with this stuttering, Hong Tao prefers the solar term of Liqiu, because he can catch crickets, as for how many layers of shells those crickets have taken off, he has no time to ponder, those knowledge is still too deep, let's ponder while playing.

After eating the mutton shabu, Hong Tao took out the 4 No. 1 batteries he bought during the day, replaced them with a flashlight, then put on an old clothes, picked up a cricket cover and a small iron rod modified with a whole strip, greeted the reluctant little uncle, and walked to the depths of the alley by moonlight. The reason why he wants to be accompanied by his uncle is mainly for his own safety, his reputation in this area is too stinky, and his classmates in the school also live in this area, in case he is left alone, the possibility of being beaten cannot be said to be very large, but it is not nothing, it is more appropriate to add a bodyguard.

It is much easier to catch crickets in the alley than in the wild, there are no weeds in the alley, as long as you hear the crickets, you follow the sound to find it, and generally you will touch a large yard, those crickets are either hidden in the brick cracks in the corners, or hidden in the crevices of debris such as flower pots and water tanks. As long as the location of the cricket is determined, the cricket will have nowhere to escape, if it is the easiest in the crack of the wall, you only need to use the cricket spy to reach in, drive the cricket out, and use the cricket cover to buckle it to live. If it is hidden in the pile of debris, then the little uncle will be unlucky, he has to be responsible for moving the debris away, and he has to move it lightly, so as not to alarm the crickets.

The biggest problem in catching crickets is not crickets, but people. Two strange children suddenly came to the courtyard, scurrying around in the yard with a flashlight in the dark, and whoever saw it had to blast out, so when catching crickets, it was necessary to avoid adults, preferably after 9 o'clock, when people went to bed early.

Another thing to pay attention to is the various insects hidden in the cracks of the walls and under the piles of debris. For example, scorpions, worms (money strings), centipedes and other insects, some of these things are scary, some bite, some bite, the old people at that time in order not to let their children run around, they often scare children and say: Don't drill around, catch up with the money strings to drill your P eyes, you will not be saved!

Just because of this sentence to scare children's nonsense, I don't know how many skewers have been trampled to death by children, and they have died unjustly! They died unjustly with a bad reputation, and no one has ever stood up to rehabilitate them, because they don't have any children's eyes at all.

As for mosquitoes and other small insects, children at that time didn't seem to have any memory at all, and they sting, and who could take care of that when they played, they went home and rubbed some cool oil when they were itchy. However, Hong Tao is more afraid of mosquitoes, so he covers himself tightly, and would rather sweat his head from the heat than be bitten by mosquitoes.

"It's a waste! Don't!" The first cricket was quickly caught, and Hong Tao took out the cricket and weighed it, not even 4 percent, there was no value in raising, it was too small.

The centimeter here is not a centimeter, nor a unit of length, but a unit of weight, 1o centi is 1 cent, 1o cent is 1 cent, 1o cent is one tael, that is, 5o grams, then one centi is o.o5 grams. Generally speaking, the average weight of crickets is about 5 centimeters, and more than 5 centimeters is considered a big cricket, and the body of less than 5 centimeters is too small, and it can be used as a songworm, but not a fighting insect.

The centimeter is only the weighing unit in the northern Beijing, Tianjin, hB, and sd areas, which is called Xiaoli. When you go to the south, you don't count it like this, the south is called the sum point, the weight unit is the SH side of the weight unit, and the point is the weight unit in Suzhou and Hangzhou. How to convert between these three units of measurement The second master didn't say, Hong Tao didn't think to ask, anyway, he didn't plan to go to the south to collect crickets now, and it was useless to ask that.

"Oh, Xiaotao, let's go home, uncle, I'm sleepy, it has to be 12 o'clock!" Hong Tao and his uncle walked along the alley of the artillery bureau until they reached Beixiao Street, and they caught a lot of crickets, but there were not many that met Hong Tao's requirements, only 4.

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