The 4th, 14th, and 24th of each month are the days of the town's market. On October 4th, the day before the Mid-Autumn Festival, the market was particularly lively, and early in the morning, villagers from the surrounding villages flocked to the town from all directions.

Among them, there are many relatives of the Ye family, Ye's mother is the youngest in the family, Ye Liangchen has an uncle who is five and five aunts; Ye's father is also the youngest in the family, and Ye Liangchen has three uncles and an aunt. Except for the second aunt in Harbin and the eldest uncle who used to work in Frost City and later returned to the town, all the other relatives were not in the town. So on this day, the people in the town rushed to the big set, and the Ye family rushed to the small set, Ye's father and Ye mother were at home when they were not less loved by their brothers and sisters, and they had a good relationship with each other.

Generally, the first to arrive are uncles and aunts, and the relationship between uncles and Ye's mother is also the best. Xu is a continuation of the tradition of the previous generation, and the relationship between Ye Liangchen's brothers and sisters and uncle's family is also the best, followed by the cousins and cousins of the sixth aunt's family. On the day of the market, the adults were busy buying daily necessities, and Ye Liangchen and the others went to the market together to join in the fun, buying some gadgets, snacks and the like.

Ye Liangchen didn't come back during the summer vacation, and a large number of relatives were even more cordial when they saw him, asking long and short questions, asking endless questions, and this situation seems to have no end.

Ye Liangchen learned smartly, and he didn't wait for people to come in the narrow sense, he had already taken Ye Meijing and his uncle's second cousin Li Zhiming, the sixth aunt's eldest cousin Wu Juan, and the second cousin Wu Li to the set on their own. Several cousins in the past holidays, often follow the adults to visit the door, by the way to stay and play together for a few days, the second cousin got married last year, and will be a father in two months, but it is still as if he has not grown up, leading these younger brothers and sisters crazy. Wu Juan is the most popular among these people, 19 years old this year, handsome, sweet mouth, junior high school is in Ye Liangchen's town middle school, and also spent a period of time at Ye's house, the two have the best personal relationship, in Ye Liangchen just entered adolescence for a period of time, Wu Juan is undoubtedly the most beautiful girl he has ever seen, he even hopes that Wu Juan is not his cousin, so that he can like her.

Wu Juan has never lacked suitors, several young men in this town have launched a passionate pursuit of her, but she has not accepted, because she does not like to study, junior high school barely finished running to Frost City to learn musical instruments, and met the current object there, now the two of them are running odd jobs with the band, and they should be about to get married in the next two years.

Maybe most teenagers will have a beautiful cousin or cousin behind their growth, Ye Liangchen in his previous life didn't have it, but now he has it. Looking at the cousin in front of him, Ye Liangchen, who has seen countless beauties, also has to admit that his cousin is beautiful. Out of the yearning for beautiful things, Ye Liangchen unconsciously got closer and closer to her, perhaps because she was used to being intimate in the past, Wu Juan didn't care, and even when she walked into the market, due to the large number of pedestrians, Wu Juan also took the initiative to take Ye Liangchen's hand and followed behind her cousin Li Zhiming.

It is very common to hold a hand, but at this moment, Ye Liangchen's thoughts are not pure, and under other motives, his hand rubs the back of Wu Juan's hand from time to time, afraid of the kind of anxiety that she will reprimand after finding out, there is a faint sense of guilt in his heart, but he is reluctant to let go.

The market occupies the main road of two crosses in the center of the town, and the stalls along the way are winding and long, starting from the primary school in the center of the town in the south to the soybean factory in the north, about three or four miles long (one mile = 500 meters), and the east-west direction is slightly shorter, and there are more than two miles. There are all kinds of groceries, from small needles and threads to refrigerators, TVs, VCDs and other household appliances, as the saying goes, people take food as the sky, and the food sold should be the most, accounting for more than half of the entire market. Tomorrow is the Mid-Autumn Festival, and naturally there are the most moon cakes, but Ye Liangchen followed a few people through more than a dozen houses, and found that the types of moon cakes are pitiful, Wuren is the absolute main force, and the others are bean paste and pineapple. And they are all sold by the catty, two yuan a catty, there are 5 moon cakes.

I have to say that the mooncake crust baked in this oven is very crispy and has a unique fragrance, but the filling is general, with large grains of granulated sugar and green and red silk in it.

The second cousin bought a pound for everyone, and each person took a piece in his hand while walking and eating, but the moon cakes in his hand were not finished yet, and the previous one that sold fried cakes made everyone greedy and couldn't move, and the fried cakes with yellow noodles and small red bean paste wrapped in the skin were tossed up and down in the pot, and after a while, they became golden and oily, exuding an attractive fragrance, and the eldest cousin came out again to donate generously, a piece of five pounds, and also came to a pound, which was enough to weigh 8. Ye Liangchen's brother and sister and cousin Wu Li each have two, although they are not a few years older, but they are good brothers and sisters, and they always spoil their younger brothers and sisters in their own way.

Their purpose for the market is simple and clear, buy, buy, buy, eat, eat, eat!

I ate a few small snacks one after another, and then drank a bowl of sour tea (selected from fine millet and soybeans, soaked and ground into juice with water, and then boiled and fermented to drink, the taste is sweet and sour. It can be stored at room temperature for about a week. Sour tea is made of ordinary and cheap materials, hot drinks to relieve hunger, cold drinks to relieve heat, and can also strengthen the spleen, which is a drink suitable for all ages. The sour tea made is slightly yellow in color, like milk, thin but not light, sticky but not thick, sweet and sour, and has a long aftertaste. ）。 The small belly is basically full. There is no need to buy fruits or anything, as soon as they return to the Ye family, their relatives will naturally let them eat the fruits they bought, which is a rhythm that cannot be eaten at all. Chewing a big bubble hall in his mouth, he carried a little naughty (fruit candy) and a white rabbit (milk candy) in his pocket, and went home satisfied.

The Ye family, as usual, was full of bought things in the house, in the courtyard, in the carriages and agricultural carts driven by relatives, a pile in the east and a pile in the west, like a small market. But as long as you don't stay and live in the Ye family, you won't eat at the Ye family, this is also a helpless thing, if the Ye family has to eat at the market every time, the picture is really unimaginable, three times a month, it is really not something that ordinary people can afford, not to mention that even if the economic conditions allow, even if the Ye mother's small physique can't withstand such an intense toss.

Looking at the figure of her cousin Wu Juan gradually moving away, it seems that after a short period of tenderness, what is left is that feeling of loss.

After a day of hustle and bustle, after dinner, and looking at the time, Ye Liangchen began to make phone calls. I successively called Teacher Meng and other four subject teachers, Teacher Chen An, and Mr. Feng to greet him.

Here, Ye's mother put a table in the courtyard, washed the fruits, put on the moon cakes, and when Ye Liangchen came out after the call, the family looked at the moon, and the Mid-Autumn Festival was over.