Original title: "At that time, the goods who walked through the village and alleys were responsible | Wang Guitian"
The cargo lang is the tool that the cargo men pick up to store the goods and sell the goods.
Around the sixties and seventies of the last century, at that time, modern means of transportation did not appear, when the merchants walked the streets to sell goods, they had to pick a cargo lang burden, that cargo lang burden, with the different times, the stored goods are not the same, but no matter what is stored, it is all to see what people like to buy, what is stored in the cargo lang burden. At that time, the goods people wanted to make some "small profits" to maintain their own livelihood.
The goods lang bearer, it should have been a long, long time ago, the former cargo lang burden, the cargo lang just picked two bamboo baskets, the goods were stored in the basket or hung on the basket, the cargo lang people picked this basket, walking the streets.
As early as in the previous dynasties, feudal thinking is still more ingrained in people's thinking, due to the constraints of feudal consciousness, at that time, the ladies of large families, it is easy not to take half a step in their embroidery building, in this way, the needlework required to do "embroidery work" These are basically "delivered to the door" by the merchants, even if they buy these needles and threads they need, the "ladies of gold" are also unwilling to go out of the embroidery building to carry out the ground, so often these things are still done by the low-status maids, It was this maid, but because she had to accompany the young lady, she did not often walk out of the embroidery building, so in order to let these young ladies and maids know that they had arrived, they invented a tool for transmitting news called "rattle" in business.
If it is in the countryside, once the "rattle" is shaken, almost the whole village can hear the sound, so that from generation to generation, the "rattle" has become a necessary tool for the goods.
Generation after generation of local goods people rocked it through the villages and alleys, and over time, practice made perfect, and the rhythm of "rattle" was shaken out of the language by them, and the voice sounded like saying "don't come, wait", so that the "rattle" drum beat of "don't come, wait", at that time, it became a skilled merchant must "housekeeper skills".
The reason why they use short flat burdens is because the flat burdens are short, and when they walk, the two hands can grasp the rope tied to the basket, so that the beloved goods in the basket will not be too bumpy.
Cargo Lang Dan, from a long time ago, all the way, to the sixties and seventies of the last century, at that time, although the "rattle" of the cargo lang people is still the "rattle", but the cargo lang burden is very different from the previous cargo lang burden. The merchant picked up the basket, and added a wooden flat wooden box, the wooden box is the place to store the goods, the wooden box, but also with a large piece of glass inlay, you from the glass to see what items, after telling the merchant, he will lift the inlaid glass floor cover, for you to take out the items you need.
At that time, people who walked through the streets and alleys were very popular with people, because at that time the circulation channels of goods were still relatively narrow, supermarket commissaries had not yet appeared, people bought daily goods, but also had to go to the supply and marketing cooperatives or sales points to buy, that supply and marketing cooperative's sales points, but far away will there be one, and in addition, the means of transportation at that time were not as developed as they are now, and even bicycles were still relatively rare, so when people went to the sales point to buy items, they still had to walk on two legs, this back and forth, it was also quite tiring, so at that time, It's not very necessary, I don't want to run that consignment point.
"For your convenience", now, the cargo man, picked the goods to you, so, at that time, the cargo man "don't come, wait" "rattle" sounded, people will flock around, this circle, often three layers inside and three layers outside. Of course, the front of the crowd was naturally still us in our teens, and at that time, even if we were cutting cow grass in the field, as long as we heard the "rattle" drum sounding, we would run back, centered on the cargo man, watching there, even if we were shy for a while and had no money to buy things, but it did not affect our enthusiasm to "watch the excitement" at all.
At that time, the people in the village also bought goods, but also had different preferences, mothers liked to buy "needles, threads, brains, buttons, wooden tops", these needlework, the fathers bought on the side of the smoking pot, cigarette holders and drinking jugs and wine cups, the girls would be "full of spring breeze, heartbroken" around where, choose their own colorful head rope tied on the braid, and for us in our teens, we have the most love for glass marbles, candies, jelly beans, rice flower balls.
At that time, such goods and people "business behavior", Anhui people are also called "change panic", the reason why it is called "change panic", because when you have no money in your hand for a while, when you have a shy "panic" in your pocket, you can also "barter", that is, use your home "broken copper pot" and "hemp rope head waste plastic" These to exchange for the items you need, so at that time, we who were in our teens usually liked to collect these tattered and waste items, collect and store, and wait for the goods to come, Take it out so that you can exchange it for candy jelly beans to eat.
After the end of "Change of Worry", the merchant will put the waste items that we exchanged with him into the basket, and carry the cargo lang home without being tired.
At that time, the people of "Change of Fear" would sing "smooth mouth" with experience, especially when they saw that we teenage children were surrounded a lot, their voice singing "smooth mouth" would suddenly increase, and it was even more depressed: "You don't come, don't go, you have everything you like, you don't have money to find rags at home, find rags for jelly beans, the jelly beans are sweet and sweet, and you are sweet in your heart."
When this merchant sings "smooth mouth", he still looks straight at you and sings, as if he is "tempting you", and we who can't resist the temptation, at this time, will really run home, "rummage through the cabinets" to find the rags, if we can't find the rags for a while, sometimes they will rub the yellowed "bullwhip" that their father ropes, and also steal them in exchange for the "rice blossom balls and jelly beans" of the merchant to eat, and as a result, they will often provoke their father to "get angry" and beat us all over the village.
In this way, "change" the land goods, sometimes they will also have "panic", that is, when it is almost dark, there will be heavy rain, because the rural roads are still dirt roads at that time, once they encounter heavy rain, the dirt road will be muddy and difficult, for the "burden" of the land goods, this is the biggest problem, at this time, the "change" of the land goods, will also in the cow house piled with cow grass "will be overnight", the word "hard" to the fullest.
Later, with the vigorous development of reform and opening up, small shops and supermarkets everywhere sprang up, and people could shop and buy things without leaving the village, and the items were still dazzling. Since then, such a "changer" man disappeared together with his "don't come, wait" drumbeat, disappeared so cleanly and without a trace.
No matter how this cargo man disappeared, as the post-60s who lived in that era, we have tasted the sweetness of the jelly beans in the cargo lang dan, and we know that the "rattle" shakes out the rhythm of the drum of "don't come, wait".
About the author
Wang Guitian, pen name: Wenhai Angler. He works in Suzhou No. 9 Middle School, is a certified writer of China Rural Magazine and China Rural Talent Bank. Member of Anhui Province Poetry Society. Member of Suzhou Writers Association. Winner of the 2019 Suzhou Literature Award. Winner of the 2020 Holy Grail of Poetry National Poetry Competition Excellence Award. Winner of the 2021 Anhui Postal Savings Cup Prose Award. A retired soldier, who served as a soldier, fought in wars, participated in the self-defense and counterattack operations against Vietnam in the Yin Mountain area of Laoshan Mountain, and is a poet and writer who came out of the smoke of war.