slack farmer in the wasteland

Chapter 338 Big Collection ([-])

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Cang Hai yawned, bent down and hugged Mengmeng onto the sledge.

I drank a little too much last night, which caused Cang Hai to get up late today. Not only did she get up late, even breakfast was made by Shi Wei with Ping An. For the rice porridge, there are a few egg pancakes spread out, and the side dishes are ready-made potherb mustard and a little shredded pork.

Perhaps it was because everyone had such a good breakfast on weekdays, this porridge and side dishes were so popular that even Cang Hai ate three bowls of porridge.

Today is the day to go to the market. Although it is said that the yearly market must last at least three or four days, it is better to go to the market sooner or later. Maybe some good things will be sold out in a few days, so the Canghai side is If he wants to fall asleep under the warm blanket, Meng Mengqiyue and the two will drag him out of the blanket.

"Shi Wei, are you alright, are you alone?" Cang Hai yelled into the room.

When a woman goes out, she has to take this and that with her. She was about to leave half an hour ago, but she was dragged on by Shi Wei until now. Li Licheng's family, who were tidying up the sledge behind Cang Hai, had already set off. The Hai family's sledge is still parked at the door.

Shi Wei's voice came from the room: "Okay, okay!"

After another 3 minutes, Shi Wei went out fully dressed.

Originally Cang Hai thought that Shi Wei was dressed up, but who knows what she will look like when she goes in and what she will look like when she comes out.

"What have you been doing for half an hour?" Cang Hai asked, leaning his butt on the sledge.

"Don't bring anything to drink on the road, what if you get thirsty on the Mengmeng road?" Shi Wei said, sitting on the sledge like Cang Hai, her feet stepped on the skateboard under the sledge.

Cang Hai curled his lips when he heard this, and picked up the rein without saying a word, and shook it lightly. The ugly donkey got the owner's reminder, and immediately neighed twice as if in joy, opened its four hooves and exerted a little force, and the sledge moved. stand up.

"Go back, go back!" Mengmeng yelled at the back of the car.

Cang Hai turned his head and saw that Tie Tou, Hua Tou and Sha Er were following up, and immediately shouted: "You all stay at home honestly, what are you doing here, stay at home and look after the house!"

Iron head and slippery head stopped immediately when they heard this, only silly two continued to follow the sledge with a big tongue out and a dog face.

But when he saw Cang Hai waving his whip, the silly face immediately sank from excitement. He stood still and kept looking at the tiger head trotting along with the sledge. He didn't understand why Cang Hai wore the tiger head but not the tiger head. Own.

Canghai took the tiger head to look at the sledge, what can he do with these guys?
Take Iron Head to the town fair?People must have thought that Cang Hai was playing monkeys.Bring slippery head and silly two?That's even worse, maybe they'll have someone to take care of these two idiots at that time, or else I don't know if I can bring them back, and they might be lured away with food as soon as they turn their faces.

After driving the sledge out of the village, Cang Hai wrapped his army cotton coat tightly, closed his eyes and sat on the sledge and began to squint for a while.

Ugly donkeys belong to the little donkeys who know the way. If they have walked this road countless times, they still need to be driven by people, and they can just drag the sledge and run all the way.

Shi Wei sat on the sledge and began to flip through the list in her hand. There were some things that the third uncle and three aunts asked to bring, and of course there were some things for the New Year that the family wanted to buy, such as lanterns, firecrackers, etc. Yes, in addition to this, there are things to worship ancestors.

Although Cang Hai doesn't care too much about these things, this is the first New Year since Shi Wei and Cang Hai got married. Both Cang Shida and Hu Shijie have specially reminded Cang Hai that today's Spring Festival will give his fathers and grandparents a good grave. , Let them take a look at the new daughter-in-law in the spirit of heaven.

Shi Wei was very active. This was her first New Year as the daughter-in-law of the Cang family. She didn't want the folks to feel that she was ignorant of etiquette and respected her ancestors, so she asked many old people and listed all the things that should be bought. Out of the list, ready to buy in the town.

At this time, Pingan was holding Mengmeng in his arms, sitting on the sledge and didn't know what to talk about with Mengmeng, anyway, the intelligence of the big and small was similar, and the chat was very lively.

Qi Yue wrapped herself up like a rubber ball, and sat cross-legged behind Cang Hai and Shi Wei, looking at the list in Shi Wei's hands with her head stretched out.

The ugly donkey has good foot strength, and after 10 minutes, he caught up with Li Licheng's family who set out first. Li Licheng's family is also a big sledge, and the sledge is pulled by a mare. After selling it, the idea of ​​changing the mare is to wait for the beginning of spring to mate with the ugly donkey, to reveal the next big mule that can inherit the strength of the ugly donkey's feet. Not one or two of his family have such an idea. In short, in the spring of next year, The 'sex' blessing of the ugly donkey is quite worth looking forward to.

As soon as the two sledges crossed, the two families greeted each other on the sledge, and the ugly donkey pulled the sledge and passed Li Licheng's sledge like the autumn wind sweeping away fallen leaves, leaving Li Licheng staring eagerly at the galloping ugly donkey. The donkey is envious.

"Cang Hai, Cang Hai!"

"Huh?" Cang Hai opened his eyes, looked at Shi Wei and asked, "What's the matter?"

"Pause!"

"You want to go to the bathroom?"

Shi Wei said: "Which toilet do I go to, the tiger head has been running with the sledge for so long, let it get on the sledge."

Speaking of which, Shi Wei yelled at the ugly donkey: "Woo!"

The ugly donkey stopped quickly obediently.

"Tiger head, come up!"

Pingan yelled at Hutou, but Hutou, who was panting heavily with his tongue out, didn't get in the car, but looked at Canghai with his eyes.

Shi Wei patted the sledge: "Tiger head, get in the car!"

Hearing Shi Wei's voice, Hutou leaped, easily jumped onto the car, found a space between Shi Wei and Qi Yue, and lay down on his stomach.

Shi Wei let the ugly donkey continue to run, and at the same time stretched out her hand to touch the body of the tiger's head, and found some beads of sweat in the dog's fur, so she pulled the corner of her coat and wrapped the tiger's head inside.

Cang Hai continued to doze off, there was no way he really drank a lot last night, he was a little bit out of shape after he got home, and he was still sleepy now.

By the time Cang Hai opened his eyes again, he had already arrived at the entrance of the town.

At the entrance of the town, Cang Hai found that many carts had parked in the open space beside the road, and animals such as mules and horses were still tied to the small trees next to them.In addition to livestock, there are also some cars with foreign license plates, the most common one is the magic car Wuling Bread, other than Baojun, Volkswagen and other cars, there is no such thing as BBA.

"Boy!"

As soon as the sledge stopped, Cang Hai heard someone talking, and when he looked up, he saw an old man in his seventies wearing a dog fur hat and a thick sheepskin jacket, waving at him.

"What's up?"

"Do you want to stop the car? I'll show you that there will be a lot of things when you come back. You can add some hay to the animals."

The old man said to Cang Hai with a smile, his wrinkled face was full of anticipation.

But when the old man saw the tiger's head, his eyes suddenly darkened, and he muttered, "So you brought a dog."

If it's an ordinary dog, it's fine. If there are dogs like Hutouhuang looking at the sledge, thieves with bright tricks will not get the idea of ​​​​taking things on the sledge. s things.

Cang Hai smiled and said: "You old man knows how to do business. Let you see how much it costs at a time. It won't be based on the hour, right?"

As soon as the old man heard that there was a door, the smile on his face immediately appeared again: "How can it be, five yuan at a time, five yuan from morning to night, ten yuan if the animal feeds!"

"That's ok, let's see it! Five yuan." Cang Hai didn't care about the five yuan and ten yuan ones, but because the sledge had already prepared dry materials when it came, he let the old man look at the five yuan one.

Hearing that Cang Hai let him watch the sledge, the old man immediately took out a small book from his pocket, flipped through two pages, and handed a piece of paper with a number printed on it to Cang Hai: "Follow me, with the number plate Get the car!"

"Is the business good?" Cang Hai asked as he followed the old man.

"It's okay, it's only once a year. I'm also a free man and I can't be idle when I'm old!" The old man led Cang Hai to the side of the small sparse forest, and motioned Cang Hai to tie the animal to a small tree.

Cang Hai waved his hand: "No, my animals won't run away!"

The old man seemed a bit embarrassed: "If you run away, don't rely on me!"

After thinking about it for a while, the old man handed the book over to Cang Hai: "How about you write something on it, saying that you will not find me if you lose your animal!"

Cang Hai laughed and said, "You old man is interesting!"

After speaking, he took off his gloves, picked up a pen and wrote on the paper that he would be at his own risk for losing the animal, and finally signed his name in a fluttering manner.

"Be careful sailing for thousands of years, I'm afraid of trouble." The old man looked at it and put away his notebook with a smile.

When Cang Hai signed the contract, Ping An had already removed the hay bales from the sledge, opened his mouth and placed them on the ground. After finishing this, he began to put the bridle on the ugly donkey.

When Mengmeng and Qiyue got out of the car, they first took off their military overcoats, rolled them up and threw them back on the sledge.

Everyone took off their coats on the sledge, Cang Hai let Hutou look at the sledge, and a group of people walked towards the town.

Before reaching the main road of the town, I heard noisy voices and small vendors shouting at the top of their throats.

"Chop suey noodles, chop suey noodles, ten yuan a bowl!"

"Candied haws, candied haws!"

"The noodle fruit I just made this morning, it's fifteen pounds!"

……

Before entering the town, there was a feeling of festive season immediately.

Many people who have been to the Northwest will have a special feeling, especially those from the South. They always feel that the hawkers in the Northwest are not enthusiastic about doing business. Generally, the hawkers in the South will yell to attract customers, but the hawkers in the Northwest usually just sell their stalls. Open it, then squatted on the ground with both hands together, silently watching the flow of people coming and going on the road.

It’s fine if you don’t yell, even if you stand next to the stall to ask the price, the peddler is often not as enthusiastic as the peddler in the south. You will only answer a question if you ask a question. It is estimated that you will starve to death, but it is the norm here.

The only difference is that during the Spring Festival, the big merchants and hawkers sell with all their strength, and it seems that they have been waiting for these days to make money for a year.

When we got to the main road in the east and west of the town, at a glance, it was crowded with people, rubbing shoulders, it was a lively scene.

"Where do these people usually hide!" Qi Yue looked at the crowd and said with a sigh: "This is like the attractions in the magic city during holidays, except for people, there are still people!"

"Most of them went out to work, and they came back during the Chinese New Year. You didn't realize when you came, that the town is full of old men and kids?" Shi Wei said with a smile.

"I'll go!" Qi Yue sighed again.

"Little girl, do you want to string candied haws?"

At this time, a 40-year-old middle-aged woman asked Mengmeng.

He glanced at the candied haws in the hands of the middle-aged woman, and then replied something that made the woman roll her eyes angrily.

"I want to eat it, but your hawthorn is too small, has it not grown?"

The hawthorns that Mengmeng ate were all big ones. Canghai’s family planted two hawthorn trees, and the fruits they bore were almost half the size of the hawthorns that the middle-aged woman put on her grass sticks, so Mengmeng felt that the hawthorns had to be as big as his own. The hawthorn in front of him must have not grown well.

"..."

After hearing this, the mother-in-law gave Mengmeng a supercilious look, then turned around and left with the straw stick on her shoulders, and she didn't even bother to answer Mengmeng.

"How does this man do business!" Qi Yue was a little dissatisfied.

Cang Hai jokingly said: "Did you see, our women here have such personalities!"

(End of this chapter)