The vendors who are sugar people usually do candy paintings at the same time. Compared with the three-dimensional sugar man, the sugar painting is flat. Of course, sugar painting also has a bit of three-dimensionality, but it is insignificant.

It is a very old craft that is almost extinct in modern cities. As far as Zhang Ye knows, this skill seems to have been inscribed on the list of intangible cultural heritage, and can only be seen in a very small number of parks. But in this world set in the Song Dynasty, the art of being a sugar man is a kind of breadwinner.

Although the stall is not large, there are three stacks made of straw, and two straw stacks are filled with sugar paintings and various small animal shapes, which look very beautiful.

And on the other haystack there are a few vivid sugar men. There are beautiful dolls, cute ponies, and fat piglets.

The children gathered around the stalls, pointing at the things, and every now and then let out an exclamation.

Although they have seen this kind of sugar man many times. But every time I see it, I can't help but marvel.

The stall owner was an old man with a gray beard. His wrist didn't shake at all, he looked at these children and didn't speak but smiled, and even Feng'er secretly took a piece of his lollipop to eat, and he didn't get angry.

Just wrinkled the folds of his face and laughed.

Then he didn't speak, scooped a little sugar water from the nearby stove, and drew it on the white slate.

The old man's technique was very good, but he felt that his hand seemed to be just fiddling in mid-air, and the sugar water that flowed out quickly condensed into a beautiful cock on the stone slab.

"Wow...... It's amazing! ”

"Chicks, alas!"

"I want it! I'm going to! ”

The children looked at the old man's newly made chicks and chattered. One by one, the old ones were excited.

The dazzling carriage had already let Zhang San and Zhang Si drive away. Only Zhang Yi and Zhang Er were around. Zhang Ye and Hu Xinrui came to the outside of the booth and looked at the children. While watching the old man's movements.

Zhang Ye couldn't help but smile!

Because he found that this era on such stalls. There are always only a few back and forth, and there are not many patterns.

If it is in modern society, there will be dragons and phoenixes on this kind of stall, and dragons and phoenixes are often the most expensive ones. Zhang Ye had eaten it when he was a child, and other kinds of sugar figures or sugar paintings, if they only cost one dollar, then dragons and phoenixes would cost at least two or three yuan to buy, if they were big enough. Even five dollars doesn't have to be.

Of course, there is also a way to turn the compass. Although most of the animals on the compass are small toys, there will be big ones to attract customers. For example, dragons and phoenixes.

Although there is a certain gambling nature, it greatly enhances the entertainment, and often this kind of booth will attract many students to watch as soon as it appears. Even if you are shy, you will stand next to the stall and watch for a long time. Every time I saw someone spin out a dragon, I would exclaim loudly, and then look at that person with envy on my face.

But in this day and age, neither of these things can be found. For one, people's vision and thoughts have not yet been able to think of such a very entertaining way; Secondly. If anyone dares to make a dragon or phoenix when making a candy painting candy man, then wait to lose their heads!

Although the system of the Song Dynasty wanted to be lenient, it was also limited. There are some fundamental things that simply cannot be relaxed.

Make dragon and phoenix with sugar? What do you want?

Sell to someone else? Do you sell it to someone else to eat? Eat dragons and phoenixes? Look for death!

It is impossible for all dynasties and dynasties to deregulate such a matter of principle. Whoever touches it dies!

"Grandpa, do you know how to be a caterpillar?" Xiao Linglong pinched the handed by the old man. Stretched out her pink and tender tongue and licked it on it.

It's so sweet!

The old man was also a good man, and he could clearly see that the children were getting off the carriage. Zhang Ye and the two adults also got off the carriage, and they also brought escorts.

So he knew it very well. It's a big bunch of patrons, so he doesn't care about a rooster and a lollipop at all. There was no question of price negotiation from the beginning to the end.

Instead, he opened a pair of slightly cloudy eyes and asked, "What kind of caterpillar do you want?" Grandpa will do it for you! ”

"This is it!"

Xiao Linglong happily caught out the caterpillar hidden in the small pocket and handed it to the old man.

The caterpillar has been raised for so long, and it still doesn't grow long, it is still as long as a perennial finger. It's green, it's fat, it's like a lump of meat.

"This ......" It seems that the old man didn't expect that this little person would take out a real caterpillar from his pocket, and he couldn't help but be stunned.

It took a long time before he nodded and said, "Grandpa can do it!" ”

"Is it okay for the old man to make caterpillars for the baby?" Hearing the old man say that he could be a caterpillar, Xiao Linglong also seemed very happy.

"Okay!"

The old man nodded, picked up the small pot on the stove, placed it on the table, and stirred it for a while, when the sugar water began to show signs of condensation. The old man began to pinch the caterpillar for Xiao Linglong.

This isn't a sugar painting this time! It's a real candy man, in the shape of a caterpillar.

Although his palms were already folded and his skin was much looser, his fingers were very dexterous.

The sugar water that has not yet curdled is very viscous and malleable, which makes it easy to make. The old man used a bamboo pipe to blow air, and turned the caterpillar into a hollow one. Then, through the way of bonding, the caterpillar's eyes and dense feet are made.

Soon a brown-yellow caterpillar appeared in the old man's hand, and then a bamboo stick was glued, and a caterpillar was done.

"Wow!" Xiao Linglong exclaimed, excitedly took over her caterpillar, and looked left and right happily.

As an older sister, Xiao Linglong undoubtedly set a precedent for younger brothers and sisters. After that, Feng'er and the others scrambled to let the old man make caterpillars for them.

What a strange bunch of kids.

The other children wanted chickens and pigs and stuff like that, but they asked for caterpillars, which made the old man smile slightly.

I have to say that the old man is very good at business. Because until now. He didn't say anything about the price. Because he believes. The boy and the woman behind these children will give him a satisfactory price.

From this point of view. People in ancient times were much simpler than modern people. It's like modern people, all of them are as good as ghosts, and they are tickets when they open and close.

Sure enough, after each of the children had a caterpillar and a candy painting, Zhang Ye began to settle the bill for them.

He didn't ask much, but directly gave the old man two hundred copper coins.

Don't think it's very little, it's actually quite a lot!

The Song Dynasty had a developed economy, but gold and silver currency had not yet really been put into circulation. Mainly copper coins. The purchasing power of a penny is not small, almost equivalent to about five to six cents. In other words, Zhang Ye gave nearly one hundred and twenty yuan or so.

That's more than enough money to pay for the sugar money for these little guys.

After all, Zhang Ye also knows the market price, he knows very well that under normal circumstances, the price of the sugar man is seven or eight wen, while the price of the sugar painting is about five wen, even if the special requirements of the children are added and the private order, the price of the sugar man will never exceed ten wen.

And then there's the money for sugar paintings. It doesn't add up to more than 160 Wen. As for why he gave so much, it was completely Zhang Ye's pleasing to the eyes of this old man.

Besides! He doesn't care about the world's coins at all.

With his almost equivalent GM is identity, how much does it cost? Why bother!

But what Zhang Ye didn't expect was that the old man actually returned another fifty wen. No matter how Zhang Ye persuaded him, the old man just refused to accept it.

Don't give fifty wen for nothing!

This kind of person is probably dead in modern times. Of course. This also does not preclude Confucianism's ability to brainwash people.

If it weren't for this social environment and atmosphere, how could people be so simple and simple? I'm afraid it's already turned upside down, and it's strange if the emperor of the Zhao family can sit in that position.

As a last resort. Zhang Ye had no choice but to take care of the old man's business again, and let him make a sugar painting for the children casually.

"Gone! Don't you want to leave? "The group has been in this booth for a long time. If they don't leave, God knows how long these kids will stay here.

At that time, I am afraid that I will not be able to reach the restaurant until it gets dark.

Because Wuxi City is very prosperous. There are too many stalls here. Even people with boulders on their chests have them.

However, the children were not at all interested in breaking the boulder on their chest, but were curious about an entertainer who was playing monkey not far away.

They didn't seem to understand why the red-butted monkeys were sitting in various motions in response to the gestures of the middle-aged man with a straw hat.

"Those monkeys are so smart!"

Feng'er stood beside Hu Xinrui, looking at the red-butted monkeys who were upside down for a while, tumbling for a while, and spitting for a while.

He really couldn't imagine that these monkeys would be able to make all kinds of movements with the gestures of the entertainers and the sound of the bamboo whistle.

At this time, seven or eight monkeys suddenly stood in a row with the cleaning up of the entertainers. Then the entertainer took out a couple of small wooden spears from the package beside him and handed them to them.

Suddenly these monkeys became a small army.

"Are these monkeys still going to fight?" When Xiao Jiu saw this, he couldn't help but feel a little surprised.

"These monkeys are so good!"

Xin'er obediently held her father's hand, eating candy while blinking at the monkeys in the field doing various performances. Then Xin'er took her father's big hand and asked, "Dad, can we make the caterpillar like this?" ”

"This ...... I'm afraid not! ”

"Why?"

"Because caterpillars don't have brains!"

"Can the monkey fly a plane?" Xin'er also seems to have countless questions in her head.

It's just that this question is too deep.

Zhang Ye couldn't help but be happy, and pinched Xin'er's little hand, "Monkeys can't fly planes." Because monkeys are stupid! Moreover, monkeys can fly planes, so what do you need people for? ”

"Monkeys are so stupid!" Xiao Linglong, who was standing on the other side of Zhang Ye, spoke at this time.

"Then why are these monkeys like this?"

Xin'er used the candy painting in her hand to point to the monkey in the field that was catching the right fight.

"Because they've been trained! So that's going to be it. ”

"Can Dad train caterpillars like this?" Xiao Linglong reached out and touched the caterpillar in her pocket, as if she hadn't given up. (To be continued......)

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