Bazaar emoticons
Ruohe
It was overcast, as if snow were about to fall soon. However, in winter weather, as long as a snowflake is missing, there is an indescribable restlessness, and you can't get rid of the loneliness in your heart. Living in the city for a long time, it really needs a kind of spirit to fill in the blanks, involving not only rivers and mountains, but also rural nostalgia, which is increasing with age. Therefore, meeting with friends to catch up with the market, not the kind of trade market in the city, but a pure country market, to experience the simple and lively atmosphere, perhaps the best way to arrange. After the winter leisure, the most lively place is the farmers market.
In the countryside, trade is regular, buyers and sellers come from all directions, gathered in a certain place to buy and sell. The market is open-air, afraid of rain but not afraid of snow, as long as it is not snowy, there are always market catchers in the market, the beginning is very small, when the variety of goods in turn in a fixed area, soon more people will join in, until the end of the fun. Rushing to the market during the agricultural leisure season is a great pleasure for the people in the township and a great pleasure for the people in the city. Come to the market to catch the market, do not deliberately look for the favorite items, rich materials, vegetables, cooked food, grain and oil, daily necessities, agricultural tools constitute the prosperity of the market. At the market, the sound replaced the shouting sound, and the song in the loudspeaker attracted the attention of the market collectors.
Unlike the mentality of a few decades ago, today's market catchers are leisurely, people are not eager to buy anything, but intend to walk around the market, and pay for the goods in the pocket. Reminiscent of Taobao on the Internet, turn over the product page to see, like to go to the order. There are also people who just browse, but browse and browse, and they feel that they have filled the shopping cart. Catching up with the market also needs coincidence, a beautiful dress, a pair of thick cotton nests, in other places have no intention of buying, but in this market to see the eyes, do not hesitate to buy it, money to buy a rare and pleasant.
Maybe it's because of the hunger, walking through a few stalls, the first thing to care about is the cooked food stalls. The village market in the winter of 2020 is still the same as it was in the 1990s, with pasta stalls in the most prominent places in the market. There are fried fritters, there are flapjacks. A set of iron stoves, rectangular oil pots, firmly tied to the ground, a table, a scale and a sieve for fritters, can be opened. If you rush to the morning market, sell fritters with selling bean juice, and go late to the bean juice will be gone. I didn't see the machine for squeezing soy milk, but there were two insulated buckets containing soy milk, which may have been brought from home after grinding and boiling. People who drink soy milk are generally traders who rush to the market early in the morning, have no time to eat at home, and then fill their stomachs after the market is out of the stall.
The pancake stall opens the small electric tricycle body, and while placing a board to roll out the noodles, while using the electric cake bell to bake the oil cake, one south and one north, the two have a distance to turn. I like to eat the woman's pancakes, cooked and then out of the pot, thrown on a small square table covered with white iron, smeared with a layer of seasoning spicy sauce, the knife flew over and cut into small cubes of four or five centimeters in size, put into a special fast food box, with two slender bamboo skewers to eat, the taste is soft and moderate, and the green onions are just right.
The stall that makes oil cakes takes care of popcorn, adds an appropriate amount of corn to a special gas conjoined stove pot, uses cream and white sand sugar as accessories, slowly heats up by the fire, and after a while there is a sound of corn particles cracking in the pot, the corn flowers are fluffy and sweet, and every time a pot is exploded, it is poured into a sieve to dry, and it is packed in a kraft paper bag, which is very popular among young people and children. It's just that there are too few young people in the market, most of the children are carried by grandparents, it is cold, reluctant to let them go out, are the elderly come to the market to visit, buy a few packs of popcorn for the children to bring back, but also in short supply. I waited in front of the popcorn for half a day, and finally waited for a pot, distributed to my friends who went with me, and ate it until dusk after returning home.
Wang Zengqi wrote in his essay "Hometown and Food" that eating food is either scattered or processed into squares and cut to eat. In some places, they are rounded into balls, square circles, or birds, and painted with paint to paint colorful feathers, which become flowers, flowers, grasses, and auspicious birds. Groups of three or five wear it on the rope and tie it to a small bamboo pole to carry it, which is really beautiful. Mr. Wang called it "fried rice candy", and we called it "Huaxi Tuan". We used to have it here, but then it's gone. Its processing method is basically the same as that of popcorn, the rice is puffed and fried, glued to the sugar, cooled and edible, but this is a small profit, and few people have inherited this craft.
I like the bean paste made in winter. The sauce was new, with a faint smell of sauce, and these peculiar tastes came from the hands of the skillful peasant women. There is a stall selling tempeh that I visit every winter. Tempeh is a semi-finished product, bought can be further processed, the raw material is to wash and dry the radish cut into small pieces, fresh ginger shredded, put in the pickle jar, the tempeh spread evenly on top, sprinkled with appropriate salt for four or five hours and then stirred, a day or two can eat. Processed tempeh, which we call tempeh pickles, is the flavor of these that have or have not been on the city table, which supports the fireworks of the village market.
I like the fireworks under this kind of age, and it is precisely with this kind of atmosphere that I have attracted more urban people to the countryside to catch up with the market. Women come here to buy native eggs, live at home to buy daily necessities, durable kitchen knives, garlic mortar, small hoes to fertilize flowers, chopper knives, and there are all kinds of food in the market. There is not much nostalgia left in the eyes of the people who rushed to the market, and the look of people is more spirited than that of thirty years ago. Mu Ne's brand is the expression of a certain era that has passed away, and now that the economic conditions are better, the calm face reveals an indifferent state of mind and a calm and unhurried life.
The clothes in the market are all good and cheap, suitable for people who are crawling in the field, the iron net-like hangers are erected, hanging with all kinds of cotton clothes and cotton pants, and the shoes and socks are placed on a long counter, stacked up, but not like the past, each counter is crowded with selected people. In each stall, there are people talking, and someone is looking through it carefully, secretly comparing it with other similar goods in their minds. In the 1980s and 1990s, the clothing in the market was still a sought-after commodity for the market, it came from the south of the world, fashionable and cheap, and now this industry, if it is not the New Year's Festival, has rarely been asked.
Just like the city people like to go to the countryside to catch the market, the country people also go to the city clothing market to choose clothes, I met a middle-aged couple who made a fortune by planting fruit trees, the two of them bought sportswear in a clothing supermarket, picked and chose to hesitate, the waiter changed the wife's clothes one after another, try on it tiringly. The countryside is rich, and there are many people who buy houses and shop in the city, and any corner of the boutique store has left their footprints. Life holds an important place for them. Although some of the goods in the market are no longer the protagonists in the minds of buyers, traditional crafts and special snack exhibitions have attracted many local tourists and citizens.
About the Author:
Ruohe, real name Song Shangming, member of the Chinese Writers Association, member of the Chinese Prose Literature Society, published in "Prose Hundred Schools", "Prose Anthology", "Prose Overseas Edition", "Manchu Literature", "Northern Literature", "Appreciation of Masterpieces", "Qingdao Literature", "Young Writers", "Shanxi Literature", "Readers", "Mangzhong", "Years", "Xuelian" and other domestic and foreign newspapers and periodicals more than 4 million words, the works were compiled into primary and secondary school language textbooks and examination papers, and were selected into the "Selected Chinese Short American Literature", "Chinese Prose Annual Selection", "Chinese Essayist Works Collection", "Chinese Essayist Works Collection", "Chinese Essayist Works Collection", "Chinese Essayist Works", "Chinese Prose Writers" China Good Prose" and "Chinese Prose Ranking" have won the first "Yimeng Literature and Art Award", the first "Qilu Prose Award", "Qilu Literary Works Annual Exhibition Excellent Award", "China Financial Literature Award", "Bingxin Prose Award" and other awards. He is the author of many prose collections such as "Growing Like a Leaf", "Kindness Like Jiamu", "Lamp like a Flower", and "Above the Autumn Field".
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