At the door of the brick-walled house, although his mother pulled Ming Cheng to explain to the left and right, Ming Cheng was still very angry, and took a few clan brothers to ride on horses and galloped towards the exit of the basin with more than ten miles of land.

The sound of horses' hooves is far away, and the smell of smoke is strong.

The three dog fathers sat in the thick fog of dry smoke and bowed their heads silently, but his face was alternating with bursts of anger and bursts of guilt. Mingcheng's father also sat next to him and kept smoking dry cigarettes, and his mind was far away......

Sixteen years ago, in the winter of 16 years ago, Sangou Dad and Mingcheng's father, two young fathers (Sangou and Mingcheng were just one year old) were going to the market together to buy New Year's goods and other items.

At the end of the year, no matter whether you have money or not, you have to go home for the New Year, and no matter whether you have money or not, you have to buy some New Year's goods.

This year is more special, Mingcheng's mother's second child is about to be born, and the full moon of the child may be in the first month, so in addition to purchasing New Year's goods, you have to prepare some materials for the full moon.

The market at the end of the year is crowded with people, the county seat is the end of each lunar calendar number one, four, seven open market (open market) (such as the first day, fourth day, seventh day of each month), the city to the middle of Luocheng that big town is two, five, eight open market (such as the second day, fifteenth, twenty-eighth of each month).

Luocheng Mountain is three, six, nine (such as the third day, sixteenth, twenty-ninth of the first month of the month), the market location is in a place in the center of Luocheng Basin, it is regarded as three or four days to open the market, the villagers go to the market to call it "rushing to the market".

Today happens to be the sixteenth day of the lunar month, and the streets on both sides of the bazaar are full of all kinds of New Year's goods, dizzying, and people who buy things and play are rubbing shoulders one after another; Those who do business rush to the last few trips of business at the end of the year, and after doing it, they have to close down quickly, and they have been busy for a whole year, so they have to take a good rest.

At the end of the year, these bazaars may be the best time of the year for business, no matter how tired the businessman is, he must persevere, his throat has been shouting from morning to afternoon, he will be dumb, and his hands and feet have to move goods and take goods to calculate money and find money, and they will be sore; But I am tired and happy in my heart, this business is good, and this year is comfortable and steady.

Many villagers gather in the bazaar from all over the country today, while rushing to the bazaar to buy things, while also letting the children play and see, generally take the children to the small restaurant on the edge of the bazaar in the morning, and make an exception to let the children eat a bowl of fried noodles.

This fried noodles are said to be very common local food, but they are also very particular, first put oil and salt in a hot pot, then put chili flakes, ginger and garlic, minced meat and stir-fry, and then enlarge the fresh fine round rice noodles just squeezed out in the early morning, stir-fry quickly on high heat, put a little soy sauce rice wine, and finally add some big bone broth to collect the juice, sprinkle some green onions out of the pot.

The color is attractive, the aroma is overflowing, and the taste makes the mouth water; This is no longer a simple porridge noodles breakfast, but a real stir-fry, rice noodles because they are cooked and squeezed out with fresh rice milk, delicate and tender, but also can absorb the soup, a bowl of excellent fried noodles, each rice noodles have a taste.

Of course, each chef has different ingredients, the heat he masters, and the stir-frying skills, resulting in a slight difference in taste, but the overall taste is not bad. Everyone collectively calls this fried noodles Guangfeng fried noodles to distinguish the surrounding Shangrao noodles, Yushan noodles and so on.

Although a bowl of fried noodles is not expensive, only a few copper plates, at most a silver quill ocean (one-tenth of an ocean), but for the villagers who have almost no financial resources in the township, it is also an expense.

But at the end of the year, you can collect something from the field, pick it up and sell it at the market for a few dollars, and it is also worth it to treat the children's families.

In this case, the owner of the fried noodle shop will generally add more rice noodles to stir-fry, although there are more rice noodles, the effect of stir-frying is not as delicious as the standard portion, but for children, it is the greatest happiness to be able to eat a bite.

You know, in order to wait for this mouthful of noodles, many children have been looking forward to it from the beginning of the year to the end of the year, looking forward to a whole year, and many children have gobbled it up before they suddenly remembered that they haven't tasted it carefully, how did they eat it all, and they couldn't help but be annoyed for a while.

After eating fried noodles, you should buy something, and those who should sell things have to hurry up to occupy a good position, basically at the end of the day, most people have to go home.

Hurry back to have lunch in the near area, and go early in the distance, the mountain road for more than ten miles has to go for an hour, and when it is late, you have to rush in the dark, the winter night is long and the days are short, the hot head (sun) goes down the mountain, and there are few mouthfuls of dry smoke, and the sky is dark.

In addition to New Year's goods (meat, fish, dry goods, etc.), you also have to buy some firecrackers (firecrackers), incense, red paper, rice cakes, shortbread and other materials prepared for the full moon, as well as baby hats, socks and other small items mentioned by Mingcheng's mother.

Seeing that the sun was about to hang on the west mountain in the afternoon, Ming Cheng's father had bought all the things, and the three dog fathers picked up the basket and hurried home, even if they were close, they had to travel seven or eight miles, and it was estimated that when they got home, it would be dark.

Fortunately, they have been walking these roads since they were children, they are very familiar, and they can touch them home blindfolded, but they are afraid that their families will worry, so they still rush back with the back feet and the front feet.

On this road, the flat shoulder changed several shoulders, and I didn't stop to smoke a cigarette or something, and it was also a breath to pick up the water mouth at the head of the village (generally there is a small river and stream in the village, and most of the people on the road at the head of the village are called water mouths), in the evening, suddenly a few people rushed over, and after recognizing Ming Cheng's father, he hurriedly shouted: "Hurry up Lao Tai, something happened at home"

"What's the matter?" Mingcheng's father saw that the people who came were his brothers, and his heart moved, and he hurriedly asked;

"The house was robbed by bandits, and the sister-in-law was robbed"

Hearing that his wife, who was ten months pregnant, was snatched away by bandits, Mingcheng's father threw away the flat shoulder and basket on his shoulders with a "clang", and ran to the house. also ran behind Mingcheng's father.

"Coming, coming", the neighbors who were surrounding the gate of the brick-walled house saw Mingcheng's father and the three dogs running over, and hurriedly retreated to both sides to make a road, so that the two of them could go in.

Fortunately, the injury was not very serious, it was a blunt wound and no bleeding or anything, Lai Fu's father instructed others to move the brothers into the bed in the side room, and began to write prescriptions, and asked people to grab the medicine and boil the medicine, mainly some internal and external wound medicine.

Sangou Mom and Sangou Grandma each hugged the one-year-old Sangou and Mingcheng, and in the hall there was Mingcheng Grandpa sitting on the Taishi chair, with a pale face, Sangou Grandpa stood next to him, and Mingcheng Grandma sat on the wooden threshold between the hall and the patio crying, and there were several old neighbor women of the same age next to him who kept persuading.