slack farmer in the wasteland

Chapter 9 Market
Waking up in the morning, Cang Hai ate some breakfast and then went out for a stroll, asked his aunt where the motorcycle shop in the town was, and wandered there one by one.

After walking for a while, I found that the town today is much more lively than yesterday. The roadside stalls that hadn’t existed last night appeared like young seedlings in early spring this morning. The stall owners stood beside the stalls holding hands , against the small cold wind in winter, from time to time, I stomped my feet and warmed my body.

After asking, Cang Hai knew that it was the town's big fair today.

Maybe the children in the city don’t understand the festival, but it’s actually just a period of time in the countryside. Everyone brings the things produced at home to the town for exchange. On this day, the surrounding towns set up stalls and do some small business. All of them will be traded in one town, so it is very lively.

Not to mention that the Chinese New Year will be two months away, so this episode will become more and more lively.

Cang Hai, who hadn't been to Daji in nearly ten years, suddenly became interested, forgot about buying motorcycles, and started to visit Daji. After a while, a bunch of candied haws appeared in Cang Hai's hands. Six skewers of roast mutton, stretched out his head and looked around while rolling.

Turning and turning, Cang Hai turned to Luoma City unintentionally.

The so-called mules and horses market is not only for mules and horses, there is no such thing as a shed, it is just a big open space, and a bunch of people gather around their favorite mules and horses to start bargaining, if you If you are not familiar with it, you can also hire some mules and horses to make money. For 30 yuan or a pack of good cigarettes, these people can help you choose a good mule and horse.

In addition to mules and horses, there are chickens, sheep, geese, and dogs sold here. Let's put it this way, as long as it is a live animal, poultry and livestock, there is almost nothing that is not sold here.

Canghai is not in a hurry anyway, since I came here, I will take a look at it, so I hurriedly finished the meat skewers in my hand, and then stepped into the mules and horses that smelled like livestock urine city.

After walking a few steps, I saw a group of dog sellers gathered together. In the past, all the dogs sold here were native dogs and vegetable dogs, but when Cang Hai met again ten years later, there were already many foreign dogs here. , such as golden retrievers, huskies and the like, almost accounted for more than half of the dog market. It can be seen that the trend of raising foreign dogs has blown from coastal cities to small villages.

Just when Cang Hai was about to turn around, he suddenly heard someone's voice next to him.

"You old man, could it be that you can't cheat people? Their local dogs only cost 50 yuan a piece, but yours costs [-] yuan...".

Cang Hai turned his head inadvertently, and found an old man in his sixties squatting opposite the speaker. The old man was wearing an old Chinese tunic suit, which was a little pale from washing. Old cotton trousers and old cotton shoes, with a pipe dangling from his mouth, with a face of not wanting to respond to the expression of the middle-aged man opposite him, he puffed on his own pipe.

In front of the old man was a rattan excrement pan. Many people may have never seen this thing. It was surrounded on three sides and the mouth was open. It looked a bit like a dustpan but with a T-shaped handle tens of centimeters high. It is used in the countryside. The things used to pick up manure are usually made of rattan.

Now there are two puppies in the dung bin in front of the old man. It seems that they have just been full moon, and the fluffy one is black and the other is yellow. They look very cute.

Seeing these two puppies, Cang Hai walked over involuntarily, stretched his head to look at the two puppies carefully.The black dog looks very lively, and is now gnawing on the vines of the dung dustpan with its small mouth open, looking full of energy, while the yellow puppy is lying in the dung dustpan and seems to be dozing off.

The appearance of the two little dogs is a bit different from that of ordinary dogs. The tails of ordinary dogs are curly. These two tails hang down, thin and straight, and their snouts are not as pointed and long as ordinary dogs. The snouts of the two little dogs are short and wide, and the mouths are not black as usual, but follow the fur on their bodies. The ears are also wide, and they are slightly opened.

After taking a look at Cang Hai, he knew that these two puppies were not ordinary dogs, but a special guard dog in his hometown: tiger head yellow!
Squatting down, Cang Hai grabbed the yellow puppy in the dung bin, turned over and saw that it was a male dog, then observed carefully, and then put the puppy back into the dung bin.

The man is still chattering: "I said, old man, why are you doing business like this? You haven't said a word for a long time. I really want to buy your dog. Let's do it. Another little dog thirty, Shall I give you eighty lines?"

"Do not sell!"

The old man raised his head and glanced at the half-grown man squatting opposite.

"Hey, you old man! Is this a deliberate plan not to sell it and take it home?" The middle-aged man opened his mouth and said.

The old man ignored him and continued smoking his cigarette.

Hearing the accent, Cang Hai knew that the man squatting down was not a local.

"Old man, how do you sell this dog?" Cang Hai pointed at the yellow-haired puppy lying motionless in the dung bin.

I don't know the scientific names of the two puppies, but Cang Hai knows that people in his hometown call them Hutouhuang, and they are a particularly rare local big hunting dog.

Although the name is tiger head yellow, dogs actually have two colors, either pure yellow or pure black, it is impossible to have other colors, and it is impossible to have variegated colors, and it is impossible to have four eyes and curly tails. All variegated dogs are skewers, and this dog will not do well if it is a skewer. It is extremely difficult to have the inspiration and courage of a purebred.

Of course, it is impossible for ordinary people who raise tiger-headed yellow to string this dog.

It was a dream of Cang Hai when he was a child to raise a tiger head yellow, but it is a pity that he used to live in a difficult life and there was no extra food to feed a dog, but now that he has money, he saw the seriousness again With a tiger head and yellow head, he immediately thought of buying a dog.

Then again, I'm ready to go back to my hometown, how can I lack a dog at home.

"two hundred!"

Seeing Cang Hai asking for the price, the old man dropped a sentence, and then smoked his cigarette without saying a word.After taking two puffs, he found that the cigarette had been exhausted, and the old man knocked out the ashes to put the shredded tobacco on his own.

The middle-aged man saw that someone was going to buy a dog again, and the black dog he wanted was not the one he wanted, so he said to Cang Hai: "Little brother, you said that this old man is not stubborn, and he is just a little dirt dog." Thirty to fifty, he sells it for two hundred, isn't he deliberately taking us for a ride!"

Cang Hai smiled after hearing this, stretched out his hand and carefully grabbed the little yellow dog and looked at it. This time, he mainly looked at the dog's mouth and anus. At the same time, he looked at his body for any problems. Cang Hai felt that the little yellow dog was healthy and there was nothing wrong with it, so he reached out his hand and took out the wallet from his pocket.

After taking out 200 yuan and handing it over to the old man, Cang Hai picked up the dog and prepared to leave.

"I said big brother, you..."

The middle-aged man saw that this young man was not stupid. He bought a dog for [-] yuan, and after a few glances, he sent the money and was about to leave!
Cang Hai knew what he wanted to say, and it happened to be fine anyway, so Cang Hai smiled and said: "This is a native dog, but there are also different types of native dogs. This dog is not an ordinary native dog. If you know how to raise it , this dog is much better than those foreign dogs."

The middle-aged man stared at Cang Hai, stunned for a while, and suddenly asked: "What's so good about it?"

The middle-aged man is going to buy a native dog to raise, but he does not raise a native dog because he likes it, but to show that he is different. When everyone else raises a foreign dog, he raises a native dog, which makes him stand out Walking alone, from time to time, I am ready to blow a few words that we Chinese should raise Chinese dogs or something.

Cang Hai said: "This is a serious hunting dog, and it is also a big hunting dog. When it grows up, it can grow to the size of a golden retriever. If you release three of them, you can fight wild boars. Even if you don't feed them, half-grown puppies will be too big." They will go out to look for food by themselves, and as for guarding the house, they are even more classy. Other dogs are more aggressive and will hurt people when they meet strangers.

Hearing what Cang Hai said, the old man raised his head involuntarily, and took out the cigarette pouch from his mouth, and Weng Sheng said angrily: "You young man still has a bit of eyesight!"

I don't know whether the old man praised Cang Hai or hurt Cang Hai, anyway, after just such a sentence, the old man started to smoke his own cigarette again without saying a word.

The middle-aged man glanced at the silly little yellow dog in Cang Hai's hands, then at the little black dog still swaying in the dung pan, and asked in puzzlement, "Why did you choose this wimpy yellow dog? Instead of this black dog?"

Cang Hai smiled and said, "The yellow dog is better!"

The hunting dog has a stable temperament, and it is not good to be too cheerful. For example, if you are hunting, this black dog who is too cheerful will definitely not become the leader of the dog group, because dogs are also like people, and they are too cheerful. Generally speaking, they can only be younger brothers, not bosses.

The little yellow dog is obviously different. It doesn't bark or bite not because it is stupid, but because the dog is born with a calm temper.

"Did you say it was so precarious?" The middle-aged man looked suspicious.

"The most important thing is that this dog seldom gets sick, so it is easy to feed, no matter it is leftovers, it can be fed, and when it grows up, its body looks strong, just like a calf, good-looking. Even if you enter Once in the old forest, as long as you take it with you, it can bring you out completely if you get lost! The most important thing is that this dog is fierce enough. The former landlord Lao Cai took it on the street, as long as you put the money on it. Once hung around the dog's neck, no thief would dare to put his hands around the dog's neck to steal the money in the chain, even if people are next to each other!" Cang Hai said again.

After talking a lot, Cang Hai did not gain the trust of the middle-aged man, but instead made the middle-aged man heighten his vigilance. In the eyes of the middle-aged man, no matter how you look at it, Cang Hai looks like a dog caretaker.

Seeing that this person didn't believe him, Cang Hai didn't say any more, and left happily holding the tiger head yellow he just bought.

(End of this chapter)