To be precise, we came to the township where Gawazi Village belongs. I thought that this place is remote and few people come here. But what I didn’t expect was that although the market here is not big, there are people coming and going on the streets. The flow never stops.
I also saw a lot of cars on the side of the road, including many expensive luxury cars, parked neatly on both sides of the road. From the license plates, I can see that most of them are from this province, and some are from this province. They are from other provinces.
I even saw a Macau license plate.
This scene was something none of us had expected, and we couldn't help but be a little curious. We stared at the entrance and were stunned for a while. The car couldn't drive in and had to park beside the road.
As soon as I got off the car, bursts of noisy sounds came from the market. Looking up, I could see the street not far away. There were many people setting up stalls to sell things on both sides. Pedestrians were passing by here. Stop in front of the stall and choose what you want to buy.
This scene is very familiar to me. After all, I am also a rural person, and today should be the market day.
As we walked, we paid attention to the vehicles on both sides of the street, and soon saw the Zhou family's car parked at the entrance of the Electric Power Bureau. However, the car was empty, so everyone must have got out.
After walking a little further, I saw the Chen family's car in front of a small factory selling wood. There were only three cars left in the huge convoy before, and the cars were also empty. I felt a little. The old lady is not in Binster either.
Could it be that they all went to the market? It seemed that the old lady was fine, which reassured me a lot.
We had no choice but to continue walking forward, but the flow of people in the market was a bit unimaginable, and there was almost no place to stay.
"There are too many people. Are the economies of northern cities so developed? Even the countryside has so many people." The fat man admired.
"What's so strange about this? Now all the people have been lifted out of poverty! Now that people have money, their lives will naturally be better, and their spending power will naturally increase." Wang Shengli took over the conversation.
"Hey, you big bosses are really good at talking. The boss will be very happy if he hears this." The fat man laughed teasingly.
"What are you talking about, you little fat guy? I'm telling the truth. You have never seen the society a few decades ago. Life at that time was far worse than it is now. Everyone was very poor. You are still of your generation. It’s so comfortable.” Wang Shengli sighed.
"Well, don't dwell on the past. How can I put it? One generation brings another life. Although the people of your era suffered a little physically, they were very healthy mentally. They were not as tired as we are. Look at the pressure on young people today. But the pressure is much greater than that of you at that time, and your life is not much better than that of a dog." Fatty retorted.
The two of them exchanged words with each other, and began to talk about the same old things. The topic of conversation was naturally about which generation of people had a harder life?
This seems to be a topic that men with age differences like to argue about. Fatty and Wang Shengli are naturally not immune to this. The debates became heated. I rolled my eyes and thought to myself, what's the point of arguing about this?
But men often like to be more truthful about these things, so for a while neither of them could convince the other, and then they forced me to comment and asked me to give an objective and fair evaluation. It made my head hurt. stand up.
At this time, Hu Qiu walked up.
"Okay, stop fighting. Is this interesting? The reason why this market is lively has nothing to do with what you two said."
The two of them immediately looked at Hu Qiu curiously, wanting to hear what Hu Qiu had to say.
Hu Qiu looked at the crowded crowd in front of him and said while drifting with the crowd: "This place is geographically remote. There must not be so many people on weekdays. Today is definitely not the norm. I just looked at the date and it should be the annual mountain product festival."
, that’s why there are so many cars outside, they must be people from out of town coming to collect mountain goods, that’s why there are so many people, I didn’t expect that we would bump into them.”
"Farm Goods Festival?"
Several of us immediately became interested.
When we were in school, we had learned about the three treasures in the Northeast: mink, ginseng, and urala grass, but we had never been to the Northeast to see them. We didn’t expect to encounter such a good day today, where mountain products only come once a year.
Festival, the desire to buy suddenly arose in my heart.
Just at this time, I heard a loud voice shouting.
"Everyone, come here and look here and there. Wild products from the mountains that have just been unearthed, including ten-year-old ginseng, can invigorate and replenish blood and prolong life. The old man can live a long life after eating it, the little daughter-in-law can use it to beautify her face, and the old man can eat it to strengthen his body."
It nourishes the waist and kidneys. After eating it, you can say goodbye to backache and leg pain. After eating it, your husband and wife will be harmonious. Each plant only costs 2,000 yuan. It’s really free!”
As soon as the shouting here finished, the shouting from the other side started again.
“I came to check out the newly tanned mink skins. The price of wild sables is reasonable. This is the only one with no other products...,”
“Let’s learn about raw cut deer antler, it’s a must-have for men, it’s a good kidney-tonifying medicine, you can’t be a coward as a man…”
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The hawking sounds were up and down one after another, which sounded very emotional, and then I saw stalls appearing on both sides of the road one after another.
These street stalls are very meticulous. They lay a snakeskin bag on the ground and place the items for sale on it. Some more sophisticated ones will use a black cloth as the bottom, and even more bold ones will use animal skins directly on the ground.
I saw a complete bear skin with two bear paws, several pairs of antlers, and even a tiger's paw on it. I was stunned.
Isn’t this thing about protecting animals? How dare you sell it?
It wasn't just me, Fatty and the others were also curious. Wang Shengli took two steps forward and stopped in front of the stall selling ginseng and deer antlers.
"Boss, do you want to buy deer antler? If the effect is not good, you will get a full refund?"
The owner selling deer antler immediately winked at Wang Shengli and gave him a knowing look.
Wang Shengli's face turned slightly red, and he looked hard at the antlers, and then at the ginseng next to him. His eyes were fiery, but he coughed dryly, "I just took a look, take a look, hehe...
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It's funny to me. I guess Wang Shengli is embarrassed because there are so many of us. If he really buys it, wouldn't it mean that he admits that he is not good at that aspect?
Especially in front of his son, he couldn't help but look like this.
Hu Qiu said with a smile: "Let's go shopping inside. It's more important to laugh at the old lady."
I nodded, thinking it was better to get down to business. After all, there might really be a traitor in the Chen family.
Unexpectedly, just after walking a few dozen meters, a loud shout suddenly came from the front.
"Good news, someone has found a century-old ginseng king. Come and see!"
Hearing this shout, I didn't think anything of it, but Hu Qiu next to me was suddenly startled, and without saying a word, he squeezed forward.