As soon as the morning dawned, Zhou's father and Zhou's mother got up. Zhou's father put a big bag of wheat that had just been harvested this year and tied it to the back seat of his bicycle, and Zhao Yuzhen used a basket to put in it more than 30 eggs and a dozen duck eggs that had been gathered for three or four days, straddled them in the crook of his arm, and prepared to go to the market early to sell them.

instructed Dabao to take Xiaobao to play outside, and Zhao Yuzhen decided to take the obedient eldest girl and the younger second girl with her.

Zhou Xiaoyun obediently followed behind his parents and walked to the bazaar where farmers bought and sold things at that time.

When passing by the grain station, Zhou's father went to sell wheat first. Leaving his wife and children waiting outside, he pushed his bicycle into the food station.

At this time, the price of grain is not high, and it will be more expensive if it is left for winter. Grain is the most precious thing for rural people, and no one will easily sell grain unless it is absolutely necessary. Each family has a large grain hoard dedicated to storing grain. Zhou Xiaoyun's family's grain was hoarded in the kitchen, and it was big and round with a lot of grain.

Zhou Xiaoyun thought that his parents had bothered so much about his tuition, and he was very upset and unspeakably sad. The family has always been relatively poor, and the children spend a lot of money. All year round, he relied on the more than ten acres of land at home to grow food and raise some chickens, ducks and pigs, and his father couldn't make much money by killing pigs.

Remembering that when he was in junior high school, he still slept in the same bed with his sister and didn't even have his own room, Zhou Xiaoyun secretly decided to help his parents make money to make the family's life better. She hasn't figured out how to do it for a while, but she has more than 20 years of life experience, and she is no longer the child who doesn't know anything. Beneath this immature exterior lies a mature soul.

Father Zhou came out happily after a while, holding a few thin one-yuan tickets in his hand: "Damn, our wheat is clean and full, it is a first-class product, and the price is not bad." Don't worry about the tuition fees. ”

Zhao Yuzhen took the money with a happy face and counted it, a total of seven yuan and eight corners. After counting it three times, he folded it and wrapped it in a handkerchief and put it in his trouser pocket.

Zhou Xiaoyun was infected by Zhou's father's joyful mood, and the family of four began to go to the market.

When I arrived at the market, I saw that many people had already come.

There are a lot of stalls on both sides of the road, including cabbage, cucumbers, jelly, tofu, bean sprouts, meat, etc., forming a small vegetable market. A few steps away is a small shopping mall that sells flower cloth, dishes, daily necessities, and clothes.

Of course, they are all in the open air, and there is no need to pay any taxes, and anyone who has fresh vegetables can sell them. Zhao Yuzhen sells her eggs and duck eggs at the market, and when she sells them out, she buys some vegetables and goes home.

Zhao Yuzhen walked to an open space, put the basket on the ground, and waited for the buyer to come. Father Zhou hugged Erya next to him and said hello and talked to familiar people.

Zhou Xiaoyun was in the market after a long absence, familiar and unfamiliar, excited and excited. quietly told Zhao Yuzhen that he was going to go to the stall selling groceries to take a turn.

Zhao Yuzhen thought that Zhou Xiaoyun was a quiet and obedient person who would not cause any trouble, so she said to her: "You go for a while and come back, your father and I are waiting for you here." ”

Zhou Xiaoyun happily squeezed into the crowd, as if he had regained the mood of visiting the market back then.

Every month on the third, sixth, and ninth days of the lunar calendar is the customary market, and some villages are smaller and cannot form a scale, so several villages unite together to meet the market.

The bazaar was only half in the morning, and it was all dispersed at noon.

Rural people have to go around the market every time, and they can't eat all the vegetables they grow and sell them, and they bring eggs from chickens and ducks to sell, and some people kill pigs to sell pork. This small market is very lively, and when there is no farmers' market, farmers can only buy some fish and meat at the market.

However, Zhou Xiaoyun wants to visit the market on the other side.

The stalls a few steps away sell daily necessities and the like, and most of them are people who have spare money at home to wholesale in the county wholesale market in the far away county to sell them to their neighbors with some profits. At this time, people were very simple, and profiteers basically did not have them. And most of the people who come and go in the market are familiar faces from their own village or neighboring villages. This one saw and shouted "Second Uncle", and the other saw "Auntie", and he didn't care about meeting relatives. So Zhao Yuzhen was also very relieved to let Zhou Xiaoyun come out for a while.

At this time, there are many people in the market, so you can only walk slowly along the crowd. Zhou Xiaoyun walked with the crowd and watched, she didn't buy anything, even if she was optimistic about something, she didn't have the money to buy it, but she was quite satisfied when she looked at it like this. Thinking that in a few years, the bazaar will be replaced by a shopping mall, a store, a supermarket, a farmer's market and disappear, how can a child who has not experienced this era understand her feelings?

Zhou Xiaoyun walked to a small stall selling head ropes and rubber bands and stopped.

The stalls are not big enough to sell small bits and pieces for girls, there are colorful small bags of colorful leather bands, there are long colorful head ropes, there are pictures printed with beautiful princess patterns, there are all kinds of hairpins, and there are always many types.

Zhou Xiaoyun has been a short boy since he was a child, and he has never used these, and he likes it very much when he sees it.

Zhou Xiaoyun made up his mind to keep his hair long from now on, and in the future, he would tie a ponytail and comb the two horns, how could it look good, right? How can a girl not love beauty!