Chapter Eighty-Eight: The Temple Fair

The temple fair is a tradition in Sujia Village.

Originally, the temple fair was not called the temple fair, only called the "meeting", and later there was a person who went out from Sujia Village to make a lot of money in business, and returned to the village to build the dilapidated "Yunhan Temple", and then people gradually called the annual "meeting", called the "temple fair".

The already lively meeting has become more lively because of the newly renovated temple, which has attracted many pilgrims who worship the Buddha.

The temple fair is held on September 15 during the autumn harvest every year. It is said that it is September 15, but the temple fair often starts on September 12 and does not end until September 16.

Sujia Village always invites two opera troupes, a circus, and a "song and dance troupe" that I thought was particularly mysterious when I was a child.

Opera troupes, circuses, and song and dance troupes are stationed in the open spaces of the village in different directions. The opera troupe is generally stationed in the west and south of the village, while the circus and song and dance troupes are always stationed in the north of the village.

Because of the lack of vacant land in the east of the village, the villagers who live in the east of the village have drawn the boundary in advance, as a parking point for the villagers who come to the meeting from ten miles and eight towns, commonly known as "watching the car". Of course, there is a charge for looking at the car.

This has to talk about the source of funds for the annual temple fair.

When Xiao Mo was a child, the village did not have special cultural and entertainment funds allocated by the government. When the autumn harvest is basically over and the villagers have income, the village chief will call on all the men, women and children of the village to invite opera troupes, circuses, and song and dance troupes for money and food. In short, there is money to contribute, and there is a strong contribution.

Of course, the villagers are not full of money, the temple fair will attract villagers from ten miles and eight towns to catch the meeting, and the meeting will naturally be accompanied by consumption, which means that the merchants in the villages are attractive, and there will naturally be taxes. There is no tax for people from their villages to set up stalls.

The final tax collected will be refunded to each household after deducting the cost of the temple fair. Therefore, this fund-raising did not cause dissatisfaction among the people of Sujia Village.

"Looking at the car" is a kind of commercial behavior.

Because the temple fair in Sujia Village is huge, in addition to some villagers in this village, more visitors are the villagers of Wangjia Village, Songjia Village, Yangjia Village and other villages around them, they are five kilometers away from Sujia Village, at that time cars were rare, and most of the villagers took bicycles, electric vehicles, motorcycles, tricycles, etc. as a means of transportation.

There are many people and vehicles, and at this time, it is necessary for the "vehicle custodian" to exist.

The "look at the car" business also came into being.

Because it is located in the east of the village and has geographical advantages, Xiao Mo always watched the car with Su's mother when he was a child.

Bicycles, electric vehicles, etc. do not have license plate numbers, and the identification of vehicle information depends on playing cards.

This is not a tarot calculation, but a playing card is torn in half, half of which is kept for the owner of the car and half is placed on the vehicle.

At the end of the day, the owner will take the number plate to collect, and the two playing cards can be perfectly checked and the car can be paid to take the car away.

The fare is usually five corners, one piece. Xiao Mo likes to help Su Ma collect money in the evening, because then Su Ma will give Xiao Mo one or two yuan of the money she receives. Xiao Mo can buy the snacks that he likes when he visits the temple fair with his friends during the day.

The sun was not so scorching, and Xiao Mo's family locked the door and prepared to go to the temple fair.

"Mom, are we still going to see the car at this year's temple fair?" Xiao Mo remembered the good old days when he was a child watching cars and collecting money to buy snacks, and couldn't help asking.

"Don't look at it, we don't occupy a place this year, let's also catch a clean temple fair. Are you still thinking about using the money from the car to buy snacks? Su Ma teased Xiao Mo.

"Mom, you're making fun of me again, what you like today, what you want to eat, I'll pay. Of course, not too expensive. Xiao Mo was full of arrogance at the beginning, but his momentum was reduced by the last sentence.

"Okay, this is what you said, sister, you're welcome!" Su Xiaohan took Wang Wei's hand and teased Xiao Mo.

"Don't be poor, you two. Xiao Mo, Xiaohan, do you remember when you were a child, you two still set up stalls at the temple fair, but I didn't expect Xiaohan to really start doing business now. The eldest sister Su Xiaoye seemed to be reminded of this prosperous temple fair and sighed.

"yes, that's amazing! But I remember that most of the things that my father wholesaled were eaten by Xiao Mo, a little gluttonous cat, and I didn't sell much. Su Xiaohan said.

"Second sister, if you just talk about me, don't you eat a lot, and you eat faster than me. I just ate one, and you've eaten both! ”

Xiao Mo remembered that he didn't have many snacks when he was a child, and every time his second sister Su Xiaohan came to distribute them, his own snacks were slow, and three-quarters of a pack of snacks were eaten by Su Xiaohan.

After the eldest sister and the second sister said this, Xiao Mo remembered that he had indeed set up a stall at the temple fair with his second sister Su Xiaohan, and he also met the uncle to collect taxes!

Su Dad wholesaled some snacks that children like, such as lollipopsicles, jellies, spicy slices, spicy strips, popsicles, immortal powder (hawthorn powder), Tang monk meat (a kind of nucleic acid-free plum meat), sticky tooth candy and so on.

Xiao Mo and Su Xiaohan found a vacant seat at the meeting and laid out a cushion cloth, put the snacks up, and started their first stall career, for foodies, Xiao Mo doesn't remember how much they sold, but only remembers that they have eaten the snacks they want to eat.

"Hehe, that's not because you're slow at eating." Su Xiaohan smiled embarrassedly.

"Third sister, what do you still say, when I was a child, didn't you eat more than me like the second sister? Today we're going to see the circus. Su Yu ruthlessly exposed Xiao Mo.

"Okay, well, go to the circus, I'm in for a treat today!" Xiao Mo changed the subject.

"The village chief gave me ten tickets, just so we could go and see them. Xiao Mo, keep your money for a while and buy something else. Dad Su smiled and looked at Xiao Mo's sisters and brothers laughing, and didn't speak until this time.

"Great, I don't know if there is a tiger drill fire ring." Xiao Mo's curiosity rose.

"Third sister, you can be steady, it's very dangerous. Do you remember a news story that said that the zoo got out of the car and was bitten by a tiger, which made people scared after watching it! Su Yu said worriedly.

"yes, you guys can't do anything so risky, it's no joke." Su's mother told her children.

"Got it, Mom, we're not reckless, and we don't joke with our lives." The eldest brother-in-law Li Wenbin took the lead in expressing his position.

"Got it, Mom!"

"Mom, we know!"

"Yes, Mother-in-law!"

"Okay, wife!"

As soon as Su Ma spoke, there were still those who dared not to obey, and Xiao Mo also expressed his position one after another.

Curiosity is valuable, and freedom is even more expensive. If it is for the sake of life, everything can be thrown away.

Cherishing life and keeping yourself away from danger is responsible for yourself, and even more so for those who love you.

The land outside the square, Hengyuan Valley.

"Little Fairy Xiangling meets Yuan Xi!"

The female fairy kneeling on the ground bowed her head deeply, constantly recalling in her mind the conversation with Fang Tong, a colleague who had seen Yuan Xi's gods.

"Envoy Fang, I heard that Emperor Xuan asked you to send imperial food to the gods of Yuanxi, and the power of the gods should not be offended, so please consult me."

"Yuan Xi Shangshen is the goddess in charge of hundreds of thousands of worlds in charge of the wheel of life this time, born in the sea of law origin, not only is the mana deep and boundless, but also ......" Fang Tong paused.

"And what, after finishing the words......" Baizhen Fairy Xiangling was in a hurry.

"Her beauty is as impressive as her strength......" Fang Tong finished speaking, as if admiring, as if admiring, he took a deep look at the place of Hengyuan Valley.

"What?"

Yuan Xi asked casually, looking at the wheel of life intently, as if he was watching something interesting.

Baizhen Fairy Xiangling raised her head boldly, and was momentarily confused by the back of the random standing wheel of life.

This is an indescribable feeling, Xiang Ling feels that she has never seen such a wonderful back in her hundreds of years of immortal life, her back seems to contain the most profound and original and simplest laws of this world, which transcends all worldly beauty.

"What?"

Xiang Ling heard the crisp and cold voice and said it again, and couldn't help but restrain her mind and say the purpose of this trip.

"Yuan Xi is a god, this Biluo fruit is the latest rare fruit cultivated this year, and Emperor Xuan specially ordered the little immortal to offer it."

"Emperor Xuan has a heart, let it go."

"Yes."

"Interesting and interesting, I didn't expect that the Sea of Law would give birth to a robbery star, this robbery star is the opposite, very interesting." After Fairy Baizhen stepped back, an ethereal and cold voice said.