When the vegetables were on the market, Sun Guodong was even busier, and every day before dawn, he drove the carriage and Xiaohong's mother to the morning market in the city to sell vegetables. When they came back at noon, they ate a few bites of food indiscriminately, and they had to go to the fields to pick vegetables without taking a break. After picking the vegetables, you have to irrigate the vegetable field, apply fertilizer, spray medicine, and then pinch the tip and break it, and you are very busy. At night, he would also live in a shack in the middle of the vegetable patch, guarding this cornucopia of gold all night to prevent thieves.

This season is very busy, it is the time for the big white horse to be tired, during the day it has to walk the streets and alleys with a heavy load, and at night after it eats enough forage, it lies down next to the shack to rest, and in recent times, it is rare to see the shadow of Sun Guodong in the home during the day. Although he was exhausted every day, he seemed to be confident even walking when he touched his bulging waist bag with his hand. Seeing that after a truckload of fresh vegetables were sold, it would take less than half a day to exchange for those dazzling tickets, Xiaohong's mother would be excited for a long time.

In this long and narrow alley, there are two or three thousand yuan of residents who receive money every day, and apart from them, there is really no second home.

Every time Sun Guodong comes back from selling vegetables, he will bring back some leftover vegetables, and there are so many leftovers at home that he can't eat them. Xiaohong's mother will pick out some good dishes from them and give them away from door to door. The rest of the bad dishes were thrown directly into the fence and fed to chickens, ducks, geese and dogs.

Midnight in the countryside was quiet, and the moonlight sprinkled in the courtyard like cold flowing water. The campfire in the courtyard was still emitting gray smoke and a pungent smell of firewood and grass, and swarms of mosquitoes followed this smell and buzzed around the yard without a moment's pause. They may not care much about the length of life, and as long as there is light, they are willing to flap their wings and die.

The courtyard door was not locked, and in the hidden door, grandma had not yet fallen asleep, she sat in the dark, constantly looking out of the window, and she had been waiting for Sun Guodong to come back with the carriage. In her cigarette pouch pot, sparks were flashing and sparkling, like a burning mood.

A crisp bell sounded, and the gentle hoofs of the big white horse soon came from the alley into the courtyard. When the lights in the house came on, the grandmother immediately knocked off the ashes in the cigarette pouch and pan, and walked out of the house. After the gate was closed, my grandmother locked the door and went back to sleep.

After the carriage entered the courtyard, Sun Guodong unloaded the well-fed and well-fed white horse from the cart, quickly bolted it to the wooden stake in the courtyard, mixed some grass and put it in the trough, and placed it next to the wooden stake. He went back to the house and took off his dew-stained coat, sat silently on the edge of the kang, lit a dry tobacco, lowered his head, and smoked it with a click.

When Xiaohong's mother saw him enter the house, she quickly laid out a futon for him. In order not to affect the early morning to sell vegetables, after Sun Guodong finished smoking, he looked up at the wall clock, the pendulum on it kept shaking, and it was almost half past eleven, thinking that he could still sleep for two or three hours, in order not to lose time, he had to rest quickly, so he casually pulled a quilt, covered his legs, and lay on the kang head in his clothes.

He lay there with his eyes closed, probably because he had been sleepy for days, and he was so tired, and as soon as his head was on the pillow, the whole person fell asleep, and he slept so deeply that there was a series of snoring sounds in his throat, and it was loud.

As the night settled, the dew shrouded the silent village in dampness. A spirit on the big white horse stood up from the ground, and its mouth kept making a "bang" sound. After Sun Guodong heard the sound, he hurriedly opened his eyes. He reached out and turned on the light to look at the wall, where the hour hand on the wall clock was already pointing to three o'clock. He hurriedly lifted the quilt and got up from the kang.

When he came to the courtyard, the bonfire in the courtyard had long since been extinguished, and the black and white soot was wrapped in the corpses of flying insects, scattered all over the ground. After Sun Guodong cleaned up the broken grass foam next to the wooden stake, he quickly put on the carriage, and gathered the vegetable bags on the cart, and after Xiaohong's mother and five sons walked out of the house, they quietly left the alley to sell vegetables in the morning market in the city under the dew in the sky.

By the time Sun Xiaohong opened her eyes, the sun had already risen high, and the fog in the courtyard had already dispersed. During this time, everyone in the family was busy picking vegetables in the vegetable field, and she followed suit. She slept very hard at night, and after some tossing and turning during the day, she was also tired. The sound of her slight breathing in the darkness hovered around every corner of the room. She slept so soundly that she didn't even hear the sound of her father driving the carriage into the door in the middle of the night.

Sun Guodong and Xiaohong's mother have to get up early tomorrow to go into the city to sell vegetables, they say they are going to sell vegetables, but in fact, they use horse-drawn carts to pull vegetables to the vegetable market and wholesale them to those vendors to sell. Because there are too many vegetables in the vegetable field, I can't sell them at all by going to the village to sell them, so I have to go to the city to wholesale. In order to grab the first price, they get up early and rush there, if they go late, delay the time to open the food, then it will be troublesome, not only the whole car of vegetables can not be sold, but also to go to the village and the alleys to toss, and miss the time and work, not to mention how much money can be sold, but also to toss people to scatter the shelves.

Selling vegetables in the city is to roll into packages to those street vendors, although the wholesale income of the package is a little less, but the small profits are quick to sell, go in time, and sell very happily, basically do not delay the farm work in the field. Therefore, they got up very early, and by the time Sun Xiaohong opened her eyes and woke up, they had been to the vegetable market for a long time.

Going to the city to buy vegetables is no better than going to the countryside, and there are many troubles along the way when a horse-drawn carriage goes into the city to sell vegetables. What kind of environmental protection, what road regulations, some entangled things, can't be explained and can't be explained, it's really painful. In order to avoid these entanglements of tongue, Sun Guodong had to get up early to drive into the city under the dew, he was afraid that he and Xiaohong's mother would not be able to take care of them in the vegetable market, so he asked his younger brother and five sons to follow.

When the day first dawned, the market was already noisy. In the morning mist, the freshly marketed radish, cabbage, eggplant and green onions are stacked in piles in the mixed market, like a tortuous labyrinth, enclosing the entire vegetable market into a huge phalanx. Crowds of people came from all over the world and kept pouring here. For a time, in this small but not small place, people who bought vegetables, sold vegetables, watched the excitement, and all kinds of people were noisy in the noise of bargaining.

When Sun Guodong drove the carriage to the gate of the vegetable market, the vendors in tightly wrapped cotton coats were already standing unkempt on their stalls, staring at each other with bloodshot eyes and hoarse cigarette voices, and staring at everyone who passed by to buy and sell. For a while, the horns of the cars, the sounds of greeting each other, and the shouts of bargaining were mixed together and noisy.

After the carriage came to the door of the vegetable market, Dad handed over the venue fee to the staff, and the big white horse kept shaking the crisp bell under his neck, pulling a cart of sacks as high as a hill, and turned in from the two iron gates next to the vegetable market. The fifth son sat on the wheel, constantly flicking the long whip to drive the car, don't look at him is only in his twenties this year, but he is very old-fashioned to catch the carriage and walk at night. His untamed eyes looked sharply around the market, looking for familiar vendors in the crowd.

Sun Guodong and Xiaohong's mother sat in the car, their faces sleepy. Because they had walked a long night journey, their heads and faces were covered with dew, and even the clothes on their bodies were wet, as if they had been drenched in heavy rain, and their bodies were covered with the bright light of dew.

They set off from home at about three o'clock in the middle of the night. This tall white horse was really powerful, and it took almost an hour to reach a distance of forty or fifty miles. Amid one shout after another, the carriage came to a steady stop in an open field in the northwest corner of the market. This place, compared to the whole vegetable market, is relatively quiet, easy to sell vegetables, and the carriage is easy to turn.

When the carriage stopped, the big white horse shook vigorously and gasped for breath, and stood there, shaking its head and snorting. After the bumps along the way, it was exhausted, don't look at it as an animal, it has been earning money with Sun Guodong for ten years, it has worked hard, sweated less, and it is really hard enough.

There were more than 100 sacks in the car, which were filled with eggplants. The eggplants were freshly picked the previous afternoon. All of them were purple and shiny, and the eyes of the vendors were burning and shining. There is no need to ask the price, they all know that this is the most sought-after fresh product in the vegetable market.

After the carriage stopped, before the five sons could jump out of the carriage, the vendors had already swarmed in, arguing with each other, and immediately surrounded the carriage inside and out.

"Morning, brother, what's the price of today's eggplant? Really, unload a few packs for our buddies! Someone came up and asked for the price. Mom looked back, they were all acquaintances, hurriedly got out of the car, and greeted her with a smile.

"Go with the market, we will sell at whatever price others sell, so fair, no one can suffer a loss, and we can't take advantage!" Wuzi jumped out of the car, and before he could speak, his mother next to him answered on his behalf. He had no choice but to unload the big white horse from the wheel, tie the reins of the horse to a stake, turn around, stand in front of the peddler, wipe the dew from his forehead with his hand, and then smile on his face.

The vendors began to bargain. Wuzi lowered his head, stood aside and listened quietly, he tilted his head, looked at these mercenary merchants and vendors uninhibitedly, turned around with a smile, took out a box of cigarettes from his coat pocket, put it in the palm of his hand, knocked one out upside down, put it in his mouth, and took out another lighter from his pocket.