At this time, the gods of Dong Linggong's father and son respecting their father and son's birthday stood in Huaxu Wonderland, accepted the edict of the Emperor Zetian Great Sage, and carefully collected the book of dealers.

The two gods of father and son are in charge of the emperor Longen, the great sage emperor of the heavens, and divides the god book of the peddler into two, the god son of Laba is in charge of the upper book, and the son of the god of Dong Ling is in charge of the second book.

In order to select outstanding people and soar to become the gods of later generations, the father and son and the two gods set up the important rules that can be enlightened according to the holy will of the emperor of the great sage, called "Five Forgets, Nine Slightly Fourteen Cowardly Selling Gods", and the province is called "Forgetting the Sutra".

After that, the father and son and the two gods traveled to 64 directions all over the world, with the essence of the "Book of Forgetting Cowardice", according to the map, to find and point the gods.

However, it is said that the son of Laba sells his father and the son of Dongling sells his birthday, and the father and son are a hundred years after receiving the edict, they reach the eighth day of the first month of the seventh year of the Tang Dynasty.

They roam the heavenly realm, hoping to find seedlings in them.

At this time, the Chaoge City Laba will become more and more prosperous, and it will be noisy everywhere.

The bamboo pole is long, and Yu Shun marries Emperor E.

The spotted bamboo pole is hard, and the female Ying marries Yu Shun.

The bamboo poles are thick, and the bamboo rafts float all over the world.

The bamboo pole is thin, and the pen is the most pleasing.

Spot bamboo poles and waves, erect a brocade tent.

The spotted bamboo pole is strange, and it is used to make a flute.

Huaxu Mountain, spotted bamboo poles, the buyer looked for me to look at the clouds.

Lao Wang stood in the bamboo array, speaking with the accent of Longxi County, Xiangzhou, and sang endlessly at the Laba meeting in this Wei County.

Wangyun has not been in the Laba meeting for three years, and this year, where does this start?

At this time, it was the twelfth emperor of the Tang Dynasty, Xianzong, the Holy Spirit Zhang Wuxiao Emperor, who lived long live in the world.

In the seventh year of Yuanhe, according to the A.D. era, this year is 812.

Today's Laba meeting is already the third day of Laba.

Since the edict of the Emperor of the Great Sage, the Chaoge City Laba Society has attracted people from more than 20 prefectures and counties in Weizhou and Xiangzhou to come to purchase New Year's goods. Naturally, it attracted vendors from all over the world.

Wangyun is accustomed to selling spotted bamboo poles, so he must not occupy a stall.

Look at the situation of this Laba meeting, it is bustling and spectacular.

From the old church outside the north gate to the Nanguan Jizi Temple, from the East Gate Caishen Temple to the West Gate Star Picking Platform, the whole Chaoge City is crowded with people, and the crowds are crowded.

At this time, Wangyun was in his early fifties and had been selling spotted bamboo poles for more than 30 years. But see him:

Jujube red face, five locks of long hair. The facial muscles are well developed, and there is very little smooth fresh meat, which looks old. Lan jacket and blue pants, gray hair is pulled up by a blue cloth scarf, and it is raised high. A huge black mole on the tip of the right eyebrow, with three white eyebrows hanging down, is like an ordinary fairy.

From his eyes and pride, it can be seen that he is not only a bamboo dealer, but also a martial artist. It's not martial arts, and his skills are extraordinary. For more than 30 years, he has never missed a move in dozens of states and counties, even in the face of military disasters.

As the saying goes, ten traders learn boxing nine times, and one will not lose everything. Therefore, his hometown in Longxi County gave him the nickname "Banzhu God".

The spotted bamboo poles he sells are of good quality. Each bamboo has been identified by Jia Shi, and the bamboo poles are well-proportioned and have the same color. Carrying the signature of the city and stamping it with a big seal. Sishi, Jia Shi, and Dianren have all been sealed.

Why do you make a seal?

According to the old tax exemption practice of the Laba Association of Wei County, although there is no tax on the transaction, you still have to pay tax to occupy the stall. This burden is much lighter, with only fifty taxes to one.

When he deposited the spotted bamboo in the city warehouse in Xitan before Laba, Jia Shi inspected it and immediately paid the land tax. The people collected our taxes, of course, they will be sealed.

In this way, it will save trouble, and the land will come to collect taxes again, and you can sign it as soon as you show it. Pay taxes in advance, generally old dealers, and the goods are sold safely.

Lao Wang is very confident in his eyesight, and he must have sold out of today's spotted bamboo poles as early as possible. Thinking of this, he subconsciously put his hand into the right side of his padded jacket.

Touch the pocket of the underwear to see if the Sishi voucher is still there.

The spotted bamboo he collected, from the foot of Huaxu Mountain, belongs to the top grade bamboo in the sea of bamboo in Qiyuan.

The bamboo of Qi Garden, planted from Yin Wang Xin, is very good for propagation, up to a hundred miles wide. It has not been cut for 2,000 years. The famous generals of the past dynasties made arrows, and they all came to cut down the good bamboo. The arrows made of old spotted bamboo are especially tough and easy to use.

Of course, spotted bamboo can not only be used to make arrows, but also has great uses. Through the hands of the craftsmen, the items made are innumerable.

Bamboo chairs, bamboo stools, baskets, sieves, dustpans, fishing rods, chopsticks, fences, firecrackers, grain rings, livestock pens, chicken cages, chopstick cages, bird cages, steamers, baking cages, dog kennels, brooms, bamboo charcoal, weapon rods, ladders, water wheels, rafters, grate rakes, bamboo rafts, braces, carriage blocks, fences, baskets, back baskets, flails, bamboo rakes, whip rods, fans, umbrellas, paper, vegetable racks, tent racks, women's jewelry boxes, fat powder boxes, brush boxes, paper tubes, pen holders, pen holders, lanterns, kites, vermicelli, vermicelli poles, melon vine poles.

Don't underestimate this bamboo pole, it is an important material for every family.

As early as the first day of the first month of the Zhou calendar, that is, the first day of October of the summer calendar, the slightly more particular households, began to ask craftsmen to compile and replace the old things at home.

The craftsman invited late, and it is very likely that he will not be able to bear it. Then you can only rely on yourself to make it up, and no one else has made it up exquisitely.

At the annual Laba Festival in Chaoge City, vendors and farmers do not need to enter a fixed city to sell their goods. And taxation is minimal. As a result, from Hengyang in the south, to Youzhou in the north, to the sea in the east, and to Chang'an in the west, dealers and merchants have come to sell their goods.

Merchants come to sing songs, not only to sell goods to make money, but also to worship their merchant ancestors while they are doing business.

Since the goods are duty-free, the natural quality is high and the price is low. People from twenty or thirty nearby states and counties flocked here to buy New Year's goods.

At present, the area around the Fire God Temple is crowded with stalls, crowded with people, and the water is impassable.

The Chaoge City Fire Temple is located near the Xitan Street Shed, and is dedicated to the Red Emperor Zhurong. Opposite is the large stage specially designed for the Fire Temple.

Every Laba Festival, the temple owner will invite the disciples of Liyuan to perform all kinds of dances, poems, lyrics, lion dances, dragon lanterns and other unique skills on stage.

On the street under the stage, I saw all kinds of people waiting for an endless stream, and the streets and alleys were full of people, men, women and children.

The vendors and stalls in Tiannan and Haibei are dense, and there are shouts of selling in the south and north tones everywhere.

Wangyun's shouting, after more than 30 years of experience, is even more high-pitched and melodious than the vocal cords of the disciples of Liyuan. If it's in the middle of the night, it's enough to spread ten miles away.

The spotted bamboo poles he sells are heavy weapons. Based on the experience of previous years, people who rush to the annual meeting generally do not buy in the morning, and when they return in the middle of the afternoon, they have bought all the small objects, and then they come to pick up one or two and leave.

The selling price of spotted bamboo poles is not only according to the caliber, but also according to the catty. The caliber is large, and the bamboo is old, so it is naturally more expensive.

The diameter of more than 3 inches is large bamboo, the diameter of 2 inches is medium bamboo, the diameter of less than 2 inches is small bamboo, and the diameter of less than 1 inch is other foreign products.

The big bamboo is three pounds long, about thirty pounds, and one sells for 90 pounds.

Zhongzhu is two wen five per catty, two zhang long, twenty catties, and one sells for fifty wen.

Xiaozhu is two wen per catty, one zhang five, ten catties or so, and one is twenty wen.

Regardless of the catty, the middle finger is thick and below the three texts, the thumb is thick five texts, and the one inch is ten cents each, and there are many children.

The fine spotted bamboo with the thickness below the middle finger is generally used as a pen barrel, pen holder, and sheng tube, and the exquisite spotted bamboo with the thickness of the thumb is generally used as a bucket pen rod and flute pipe, which should be picked out and sold separately. According to its degree of exquisiteness, each stick is 15 to 50 wen.

Some people bring the craftsman to buy, generally according to the weaving of the goods, the cutting of the material is correct, and the root purchase is up. Two moments of dealing, quite refreshing.

According to the market of Laba in previous years, large bamboo poles were sold less at the meeting, and small and medium-sized bamboos, other foreign bamboos, and exquisite bamboo poles were sold very well.

Lao Wang stopped shouting for a while, mainly to make a name. Actually, you can sell it without shouting. How high the bamboo poles are supported, they are divided into equal sections on the side of the street to form a bamboo array. In the past, buyers could see it from afar.

Today, on the tenth day of the lunar month, according to the momentum of yesterday and the afternoon before yesterday, these 20 bundles of bamboo poles will not be sold this afternoon. He put the bamboo reclining chair between the bamboo arrays, and the old sun was neither hot nor cold.

Lao Li, who sells spices nearby, is particularly choking when he comes to the small mill to push pepper noodles. Let Lao Wang sneeze from time to time.

No one will blame the buyers and sellers at the meeting, after all, popularity can take advantage of each other.

I lay on the recliner for a while, and I didn't even ask for home.

Lao Wang stood up again and shouted the shouting words his son had made up for him.