Chapter 303: Rush to the temple fair
On the first day of the new year, the sky was just dawning, and the bugle sounded when I got up. Zhang Guoqing and the two of them hugged the child and fell asleep on the bed. I hadn't slept for two hours before I was awakened by the deafening sound of firecrackers.
Zhang Guoqing saw that there were constant shouts outside the door, and he didn't care about washing, so he opened the door first to let them in, only to see that the guys were ready to leave last night.
On the first day of the new year, the biggest fun is to visit the temple fair. Last night, they had applied for a military truck from the car team, and made an appointment to drive their younger brothers and sisters to the temple fair at 1 p.m.
Fang Fei saw Zhang Guoqing looking at his watch, smiled bitterly and pointed to a few small radish heads outside. He didn't even get a chance to lie down, and the little guy was always shouting in his ears. These children even inquired about what snacks they had, and went to the temple fair to fill their stomachs.
Zhang Guoqing asked a few little radish heads to go to the living room to find something to eat. After washing up in a hurry, I invited Mrs. Cheng to take care of the children, and waited for Lin Liying to bring her two little ancestors over. This will have Lin Liying and the old lady taking care of the children, and they can finally start their journey with confidence.
Before leaving, children ran out of the compound one after another, and a truck was crowded with people. Zhang Guoqing looked at the back worriedly, and discussed with a few people around him how to bring people back safely. With so many children visiting the temple fair, he has a headache when he thinks about it. He hadn't forgotten that the children in the compound were wild and used to making their own decisions.
Fang Fei and a few people pointed at him, and there were several chiefs and guards standing not far behind, and Zhang Guoqing suddenly felt relieved.
After getting into the car, four or five people sat on top of each other and huddled together in the cab. There were girls in the back, and everyone could only force Fang Fei to increase the number of yards in order to avoid suspicion and step on the accelerator hard.
A truck in front and a small car behind it drove in a majestic northward direction.
"How much do you know about the temple in Kyoto, the first scene of lively spring." It's about the temple fair in the north. According to legend, it was opened from Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty and was the largest temple fair in the capital, and it has always occupied the first place in the major temple fairs. Old Beijingers who don't visit the temple fair during the New Year are equivalent to not having a New Year. From the first day of the first month to the fifteenth day of the first month of each year, the temple fair is crowded with people.
The car went out of the Peace Gate and came to the vicinity of the High School Attached to the Normal University, and stopped far away from the front of the study sheds and painting studios. Fang Fei and the others began to let the children line up to report the number, and gave them a major task, responsible for staring at the little warriors in front of and behind them. If anyone loses it and disappears, he is not a good comrade. Not good soldiers, I won't take them with me at the next compound event.
A stick and a candy make the children consciously line up and follow orders.
Zhang Guoqing's buddies walked in front, and the middle child followed the guard. The girls crowded inside one step earlier. They passed in a row, and many people subconsciously gave way, which made Zhang Guoqing feel extremely embarrassed to think of a famous saying from ancient times, he didn't expect that one day he would be included in it.
In front of it is the study shed, and I walk through the painting studios. The first thing you see is the big kite stall, the tall wall on the side of the road is full of colorful kites, and the kite stalls are selling food stalls such as Aiwowo and donkey rolling.
Aiwowo, donkey rolling, pea yellow, and bean juice are all famous snacks in the northern temple fair. The food stalls are also surrounded by old and young diners on the inside and outside three floors.
As soon as the children came here, they began to be in disorder, and their eyes lit up when they smelled the fragrance in the air. Zhang Guoqing asked them to line up and start ordering, he took the lead in paying, and when he looked back, he vaguely saw Zhou Jiao's figure appear in front of the studio. He planned to continue to come over for the next two days, and he had seen a lot of ancient paintings just now, but he couldn't take a good look at them because there were too many children.
After eating snacks, I followed the crowd all the way south, and on the side of the road there were a series of children's gadgets for sale. This is the most crowded place in the entire temple fair.
A spacious empty field in front of Neptune Village and the Fire Temple. Selling windmills, playing with monkeys, playing with monkeys, stepping on stilts, and singing Peking Opera are always crowded with people, crowds surging, and the sound of empty bamboos, windmills, stilt gongs and drums and people's laughter and laughter are all together.
In addition to improvisational performances, there are also clay figures, small paper rats, plucked drums, small gongs, small cymbals, flower cannons, puff puffs, noodle figures, face masks, bamboo and wood knives and guns, small wooden horses, silk flower paper flowers, and Chinese knots.
The most eye-catching thing is that people are crowded, and people hold a string of big sugar gourds more than three feet long in their hands, and a small colored flag is glued to the top of the sugar gourd, and the atmosphere of the New Year is full.
The children were dazzled, and they didn't know which one was good, and they couldn't wait to hug them all home. The children took out the New Year's money in their pockets and clamored for a ring to buy toys.
Zhang Guoqing and the orderly soldiers have already surrounded these children. This will know that the whole temple fair except for snacks is the most attractive to children, and according to the children's wishes, several people lead the children separately and buy their favorite toys.
Big sugar gourds, big windmills, empty bamboos, not to mention that children like them, even if Zhang Guoqing himself also buys them, he doesn't feel like he went to the temple fair without a big sugar gourd in his hand.
He pulled the two little cousins of Lin Liying's family, who he was in charge of, to buy them all the way, as the name suggests, to buy them for his son, which made the two little clevers happy, and they knew that his cousin-in-law had always been generous.
Zhou Jiao saw Zhang Guoqing from a distance holding a large sugar gourd more than three feet long, with a bamboo basket hanging on his chest, which was full of handicrafts. Seeing that she has ancient books in her hands, if it weren't for the girls around her who were clamoring to leave, she would really be reluctant to leave the used book stall. Taking advantage of the relaxation of the situation now, she must come back a few more times. Seeing his posture of having to wrap up, and seeing a child's things that he couldn't walk, she secretly laughed.
The group joined together again. They didn't leave, and then there were antique stalls and used book stalls that were nothing to visit for them.
More than two hours have passed since the children have seen enough excitement and bought a good time, and the stomach has been consumed after eating some snacks in the morning. Everyone took a detour back to the food stall.
To say that the most attractive thing about the temple fair is the snacks. A large gathering of various flavors and snacks, informal and elegant people, ordinary people can meet various preferences.
The color, fragrance and shape of Aiwowo, donkey rolling, pea yellow, rice cakes, enema, everywhere is steaming, fragrant, colorful and full of New Year's joy. I'm tired and a little hungry and panicked, smell the fragrance, eat and drink. In the middle of winter, you can feel the joy of the New Year in the downtown area.
Each caravatar has a long gourd, a large windmill, and various gadgets in their hands. The people who drove over were crowded, and they couldn't sit down when they drove back.
Zhou Jiao and a group of female comrades asked for another carriage, and when they saw them leave, they immediately shouted loudly. The gay men and the children were there, and they were embarrassed to offer to go on to the fair, so that they could finally return empty-handed to find their favorite items.
Zhou Jiao followed them into the study shed, and made an appointment with them to wait here for the meeting.
This time there was no one around, she didn't need to hide and let go a lot. She found a place to squeeze in and began to rummage carefully. This time back in Beijing, Zhou Xiaozheng and her repeatedly studied the university majors that they might apply for in the future. From her own strengths, the Department of Foreign Languages and the Military Medical School are the ultimate goals. In the long run, it is most ideal to follow a career after learning a foreign language, and it is most prudent to choose a military doctor from a family background. He gave Zhou Jiao advice and asked her to consider choosing one of them in the past two years.
Out of many concerns, Zhou Jiao has not yet determined her goal. In order to learn more and refine more, she plans to collect as much information as possible on foreign literature, foreign magazines and pictorials, and Chinese and Western medicine as soon as possible.
Walking around the study shed and painting studio, Zhou Jiao "pulled" herself out of the pile of books, and knocked on her waist twice to find that more than an hour had passed. When she didn't see them returning, she had to ask the shopkeeper to help her get the word out, and if the girls came to her, she would let them go home on their own. Based on the fact that Zhou Jiao bought a lot of books, the other party agreed happily.
Walking out of the store, Zhou Jiao carried a pile of books and thought for a while, but decided to walk slowly along the street, maybe it happened to save a lot of effort. If she really can't meet it, she can go to the other end of the used book stall and go back directly.
As the crowd walked forward, she looked around for a bamboo basket containing books. With the help of the bamboo basket she had just bought, she walked around, bought some handicrafts and put them on it, and secretly collected some books.
Without a sense of weight, Zhou Jiao was in a good mood and walked all the way. After the last terminus, she walked towards the beaded jewelry store. I didn't go far before I saw a group of them gathered in front of them.
She was feeling strange that she had been delayed for more than an hour? What do you buy these eye-catching pearl earrings for? If you buy it, you don't necessarily have the opportunity to wear it. It was rare to not stop her curiosity, Zhou Jiao stepped forward to pat Lin Xuezhen, leaned behind her and asked in a low voice.
Don't look at the pedestrians who visit the temple fair, the clothes are not patched, in fact, only those with good living conditions will have spare money to go shopping. Her aunt told her that in addition to the families in the compound and the shops after the public-private partnership, the people in Sijiu City are well fed, and their clothes are still mended again and again, and ordinary people can only use rags as flowers for decoration no matter how much they covet jewelry and jewelry.
Lin Xuezhen silently vomited beautifully, which made Zhou Jiao even more speechless. Take a closer look, it is not an antique bead hairpin at all, and there is an obvious splicing process on it. Seeing that Lin Xuelin bought it, she didn't step forward to break it. This eldest cousin is not very good, she can't forget her godfather's misidentification, and she hasn't seen the other party spit out the slightest apology until now. She deliberately talked about her godfather Zhao Chuanguang, but she didn't change her face, and she didn't get angry.
Zhou Jiao inadvertently glanced at a place out of the corner of her eye. After a pause, he walked to the wooden tray covered with a layer of dust in the corner, and there was a pile of old wooden hairpins on the plate. The store is not maintained, and the surface is dull. She dialed the wooden hairpin, which is indeed a craft of the Ming and Qing dynasties. She looked up and pretended not to ask the store, why are there still broken wood hairpins for sale?
The other party also casually said that she had received the goods, and she was overjoyed. She has no shortage of jade, but there is really no precious wood hairpin. She pointed to her long hair and smiled and asked the store to sell her the box of scrap, which she just used to coil her hair.
Seeing that the other party's box of more than 20 wooden hairpins only cost two yuan, she pretended to hesitate, and immediately put the plate in the bamboo basket after paying, for fear of falling out, she deliberately wrapped a hairpin around the hairpin with a cowhide rope.
The little sisters were not interested in seeing that it was a wooden hairpin. Only the old Lin Xuezhen was clever and cleverly compared with her, and she nodded happily. Her fun lies in Taobao, and it doesn't matter if there is more or less.
Lin Xuelin spent 20 yuan to buy her favorite earrings, and her interest soared, and she kept squeezing into the store. The little sisters in the courtyard at the back got nothing except Zhou Jiao and Lin Xuezhen, and bought more or less necklaces and earrings. Zhou Jiao is considering buying waste, and Lin Xuezhen is a suitor of beautiful clothes.
They went back to the compound and went home. Lin Xuezhen, a fart insect, said that she was going to the Zhou family to find her aunt, and parted ways with the two sisters of the Lin family.