Li Zhongxin and Wang Bo went to Xinglin Village when they were young, and played happily for two days in Xinglin Village, which happened to be the twenty-sixth day of the lunar month, and this day was also the last big set in Toulin Town, if you want to have a big set again, at least after the fifteenth day of the first month.

Before Li Zhongxin was reborn, he often visited the market in Zhubantun, and as soon as he heard that there was a big market in Toulin Town, he immediately asked to go over and take a look, and he also wanted to see what the rural market was like in the early 80s.

As soon as the morning dawned, the eldest uncle Wang Zhi and his aunt beckoned Li Zhongxin and Wang Bo to get up, ready to lead the eldest nephew and son to Toulin Daji to catch the market.

Xinglin Village is in the north of Fujin in the northeast of Jiangcheng, and there are twelve miles of land to the town of Toulin, and there is only one dirt road.

In winter, the snow on this road is sparsely populated, the road is also quite difficult to walk, the passenger cars are no longer open to traffic at this time, to Toulin Town, if you don't take a carriage, then you have to do a plow.

In the morning of this day, the people in Xinglin Village who had some money in their hands were ready to go to the market in Toulin Town to buy things and exchange goods.

After meeting with the third uncle and aunt, they began a long wait at the entrance of the village. After more than ten minutes, the people who arrived at Toulin Town to catch the market were counted as gathering at the entrance of the village.

More than thirty people sat in four carriages, and two horse-drawn heavy snow climbing plows, as if they were full at once.

Li Zhongxin had taken a carriage in his later life, but he had never sat on a climbing plow, and when he saw this way of traveling, he immediately chose to take a climbing plow.

The snow plough is very large, and the goods to be sold in the town are placed in the front, and the back part is where people sit, and two thick cotton mats are laid on it.

After sitting on the snow plow, the hands wearing thick cotton gloves must also hold the wooden railing on the snow plow, otherwise, the person will be easily thrown out by the plow when he encounters a pit.

Compared with the horse-drawn plow, the speed of the carriage is much worse, but the carriage is much more stable than the horse-drawn plow, since Li Zhongxin sat on the horse-drawn plow, his uncle Wang Zhi has been following Li Zhongxin's side, for fear that something will happen to Li Zhongxin.

Li Zhongxin was depressed to see that this horse-drawn plow was fundamentally two concepts from what he imagined, this kind of horse-drawn plow was almost the same as riding a carriage, there was neither that kind of galloping speed, nor the feeling of blowing wind and snow in the snow, he felt that this choice was a bit of a loss.

That is, in more than 20 minutes, Li Zhongxin and his uncle Wang Zhi and a group of them arrived in Toulin Town.

After arriving in Toulin Town, the eldest uncle Wang Zhi did not go to the market with the people in the village, but led Li Zhongxin to his second aunt Wang Yaqin's house first.

After putting away the good wine and cigarettes brought to Wang Yaqin's house, as well as some New Year's goods, and having a warm breakfast at Wang Yaqin's house, Wang Zhicai led Li Zhongxin and several of them to the market to catch up with the market.

The location of Daji is about 300 meters away from Wang Yaqin's house, which is a main road in Toulin Town, with low bungalows on both sides, and occasionally a larger and taller house, which is the most advanced building in the town, such as a post office or a bank. At both ends of the road, there are stalls selling things, eating and drinking, and all kinds of New Year's goods.

Although people come and go, and the sound of selling comes and goes, at this time, there is no sound of cars and machines, so it does not make people feel noisy, but has an extremely lively feeling.

The bustling people on the street are all black, gray, and green cotton clothes, the colors are very monotonous, not to mention, most of them are mottled cloth patches, and they are all wearing cotton hats and cotton neck covers, which look like they are all about the same, they are all gray and dirty, so that Li Zhongxin has an indescribable sense of disobedience.

He knew in his heart that the eighties were like this, and if he wanted to see the kind of clothing in later generations, it would take at least a few years to reach it.

When Li Zhongxin and his third uncle Wang Bo came back this time, they brought a lot of money, and led the younger brother in the uncle's house, as long as they saw something delicious in the market, they would take the money to buy it for the younger brother to eat.

The rock sugar gourd on the wooden stick tied with straw, the persimmon cake with white frost at both ends made of fresh persimmons, the pure white one as long as a pencil, in short, there is something that his younger brother Wang Changming wants to eat in the market, Li Zhongxin will directly pay for it, and when he buys it, he buys a lot of it, and even buys the adult portion.

Li Zhongxin's lavish way of spending money made his uncle Wang Zhi and second aunt Wang Yaqin feel smacked, they couldn't believe that a child could have so much money, and dare to spend money casually, this just arrived at the market for a while, Li Zhongxin seemed to have spent ten yuan.

If Wang Bo hadn't said before the market that Li Zhongxin had some money in his hands, and there was no shortage of money in the family now that he could spend it casually, they would have snatched the money in Li Zhongxin's hands at this time and saved it for him.

The market in the town was very lively a few years ago, but there was no comparison with the big market in later generations, but in such an era of poor materials, it was already very good to be able to have some scale.

Toulin Town is different from the city, there is no shortage of pork here, because many families in the countryside will kill New Year's pigs, and they can't eat it at home.

At this time, chickens, ducks, cows, sheep, and things that are common and uncommon on weekdays gather together as if they were in a meeting.

Li Zhongxin saw that at this time, the most mountain goods were sold, and after the various mushrooms collected in autumn were dried, they were skewered online and coiled in white flour bags, which were better than the top hazelnut mushrooms that Li Zhongxin bought when he was doing catering in later generations.

The oily pine nuts, hazelnuts, and walnuts are also noodle bags, and the noodle bags are arranged in a row, waiting to be asked.

At this time, the most lively place is the place where melon seeds and peanuts are fried on the spot, and the top of the two large iron pots of Bayin is steaming, and you can smell the fragrance of fried melon seeds and peanuts from a long distance.

In the early eighties, melon seeds and peanuts were basically bargains, and rural people greeted each other during the New Year, if there were no melon seeds and peanuts at home, and they were not accompanied by some fruit candy that children liked to eat, they would be looked down upon by others, so it was precisely because of such a reason that there were the most people in the stalls where fried melon seeds and peanuts and sold bulk fruit candy.

Li Zhongxin is not interested in melon seeds and peanuts and bulk fruit candy, he is interested in stir-frying melon seeds and peanuts next to the sugar fried chestnuts.

Compared with the place where melon seeds and peanuts are fried, the fried sugar and fried chestnuts are deserted, only some children are watching the fried grapes, but no one comes forward to buy them.

At the beginning of '83, sugar-fried chestnuts could be said to be a good thing, and it could also be said to be a symbol of luxury.

The chestnuts in the south are not expensive when they come down, that is, about a dime a catty, but after they are transported to the northeast, the price will rise a lot, and the price of sugar in this era is very high, and it takes seven or eight dimes a pound to be able to buy.

Sugar-fried chestnuts are fried at this time, generally fried with white sugar and coarse sand, and the price of a pound of sugar-fried chestnuts seems to have reached the price of one yuan and a pound.

In the eyes of many farmers, even if this kind of thing is in the Chinese New Year, few people can afford it, and the guy who does this should have a bad brain, otherwise, how can he do such a money-losing business!

Li Zhongxin saw that the eldest uncle and the second aunt went to the place where the melon seeds were fried to line up to buy melon seeds, peanuts and couplet blessings, and he gestured with his hand and motioned for Wang Bo to go to the stall of fried chestnuts with sugar.

"Bring me five catties of sugar and fried chestnuts." Li Zhongxin took out a small scalper with the wealth of a little adult, and put the money directly in front of the table.

"Whose child is this Nima? I actually bought five catties of fried chestnuts with sugar, is it just a day? ”

"Isn't this kid stupid? How can you spend money like that? Or it was stolen from the adults in the family. ”

"That's a little scalper! A small scalper can buy two chickens, and if you buy such a useless thing, you will be blind for that money. ”

Li Zhongxin was very speechless, he didn't expect that he would just buy five catties of sugar and fried chestnuts, which would cause such a big reaction from the people around him.

But when I think of being able to let my grandma and grandpa taste it, and to let the children of my relatives here, it really doesn't matter if I am pointed at by others.

At this time, when the children go out to the market, the adults in the family will give a dime or two to buy a few pieces of candy for the children to eat, like Li Zhongxin, who also took out five yuan to buy sugar and fried chestnuts, which can be said to be a rare giant panda.

Li Zhong secretly rejoiced in his confidence, if he didn't think that there was no way to buy ten catties or twenty catties at one time, he would have bought ten catties or twenty catties directly, if that was the case, wouldn't these people next to him be crazy!

After loading the sugar and fried chestnuts, Li Zhongxin and Wang Bo saw that Wang Changming walked to the place next to him that sold firecrackers, and he couldn't walk.

Eight or nine-year-old children want to say what they like most when they are in the New Year, that is, they like to set off firecrackers.

At this time, there were not many firecrackers, they were nothing more than magic bullets, monkeys and some small wooden sticks wrapped in a layer of gunpowder.

Li Zhongxin saw that Wang Changming's eyes were about to fall into the firecrackers, so he stabbed him with his fingers and said, "What, Xiao Changming, do you want to buy firecrackers?" ”

Wang Zhi came back from shopping, and saw Li Zhongxin and Wang Changming standing in front of the local grocery store that sold firecrackers, pointing and talking about something, he pondered slightly, the eldest nephew came to his grandmother's house for the first time, and brought so many good things, it is okay to buy some firecrackers for the little brothers.

Wang Zhi struggled for a long time in his heart, gritted his teeth and waved his hand to the boss who sold firecrackers over there and said: "Get me six small whips with one hundred rings, four earth red with two hundred rings, three magic bullets, and ten monkeys piercing the sky." ”

During the Chinese New Year, firecrackers should be set off four times, on the evening of the 30th, on the first day of the new year, on the day of the fifth day, and even more on the 15th.

The four two-hundred-ringing earth red is a must-have for the New Year at home, and the others are bought by Wang Zhi for the two children to play with through gritted teeth.

If Li Zhongxin didn't come here, Wang Zhi's ability to buy a pack of 100-ring whips for his son would already be the maximum amount.

After Wang Changming heard his father's words, he was immediately so happy that he jumped three feet high, he really didn't expect that his father would buy so many firecrackers for him when he came to the town to buy New Year's goods this time.

Just when the firecracker seller was settling accounts with firecrackers, two children who were about the same age as Wang Changming and dressed very well came over, and one of them took out a dollar to buy ten small flowers and left happily.

Li Zhongxin saw that Wang Changming's eyes were about to fall into the flowers, he smiled, and said to the middle-aged man selling firecrackers over there: "You count and see, how many of these small flowers are left, they are all installed for me, and those tricks over there are also installed." ”

Seeing that Uncle Wang Zhi's body was stiff, Li Zhongxin reached out and poked Wang Bo's waist, and said with a smile: "Third uncle, what are you doing there?" Why don't you hurry up and give money, why is it so hard to buy some firecrackers for your eldest nephew and eldest nephew? ”