Fengcheng old events

Chapter 216
"Xiaojun, go buy some goods with mom, shall we?"

"Yu~~, I'm sleepy."

Early in the morning, one past four o'clock, Liu Guixin came over lightly and called Zhang Xingjun, asking him to follow him to the city to buy goods.But I can't move, I keep shouting.

"Er Min, why don't you go with Mom?" There was no other way, so Liu Guixin stabbed the second child.

"What are you doing?" Zhang Xinglong woke up in a daze.

"Follow mom to buy goods, and help mom look at things."

"Ah."

Zhang Xinglong got up, put on his clothes and went to the kitchen to wash his face: "Go now? How?"

"Wait for the bus by the side of the road. The bus will come soon." Liu Guixin put on his coat, checked his clothes, and said to Qian, "Let's go."

The two girls left the house.

It was already dawning outside, and the early morning breeze blew along the building, causing Zhang Xinglong to shrink his neck and lose any sleepiness.

Following behind Liu Guixin with one deep foot and one shallow foot, the couple turned from the building to the side of the road.

The street lamp was still on alone, and it was quiet all around.There are no cars these days.

The searchlights on the opposite construction site were also on, and the windows in the buildings on this side were all dark, and people hadn't gotten up yet.

"Mom, is there really an eight-story building here?"

"That's right, it should be right to say that. Oh, the eighth floor, I'm tired just thinking about it. Are you willing to let you climb?"

"I don't like it, it's better to live on the first floor, and I can jump out of the window."

"Just follow your brother's example. If you don't go through the door and jump through the window, you say you have caught up with the monkey." The couple laughed.

"Is it cold?" Liu Guixin stretched out his hand to straighten his son's collar, and pinched his body to feel the thickness of the clothes.

"It's not cold. I feel like I'm wearing too much."

"Not much, it will be windy in a while, don't feel like unbuttoning, just dress like this."

After talking for a while, the car arrived. The driver stopped the car on the side of the road and shouted. Liu Guixin agreed and pulled Zhang Xinglong over.

"Why do you still have a child?" the driver asked.

"Let him look at things for me, even though we are small, we are quite strong, and he can help me carry them." Liu Guixin helped Zhang Xinglong climb up the car.

When the two of them got into the car, the driver yelled, "Hold them up, let's go." The truck started, its headlights illuminated the front, and it started rumbling.

There were a lot of people in the car, there were about a dozen of them, men and women were all covered tightly, leaning against the front of the car and sitting on the carriage board one by one, there was an acquaintance of Liu Guixin who beckoned the two of them to squeeze in and sit down.

No one spoke, they all lowered their heads and closed their eyes to rest their minds, their bodies shaking with the shaking of the car.

The carriage board has been heightened, and there is no wind behind it, only the wind from the front rolls down the cab and blows on the face, but it is not very strong.

"Put your head down, and you'll be there after a nap." Liu Guixin took off the thin scarf and put it around Zhang Xinglong's neck.

"Mom, I'm not cold, no need."

Still put it on, Liu Guixin turned up the collar of the half-coat by himself, hunched his neck and lowered his head.

The sky was getting brighter and brighter, but the headlights were still on. Sitting in the carriage, I couldn't see anything except my head. The big trees on both sides of the road looked a little bit gnawing in the morning light.

The only thing in my ears is the sound of the car engine.

The car was not driving fast. Although there were no other vehicles on the road, there were too many turns and all of them were sharp turns. The driver was relatively calm and did not rush for time.

The road from Nanfen to the city is all in the mountains, climbing up and downhill, full of curves, and there are a few areas inhabited by people, but they are all small villages, passing by in a blink of an eye.

At a little after 05:30, the car drove to Yidongqiao Market and parked on the side of the alley outside the market.

Everyone stood up, and together with the driver, they opened all the three sides of the car, supported each other to get off the car, stood under the car to move their stiff bodies, and talked to each other about the goods to be loaded. past.

"Eight o'clock, eight o'clock. I will leave on time at eight o'clock. Don't be too late and you can't find me. Then you can carry the train by yourself. Don't rely on me then." The driver adjusted the safety net and rope, and said loudly. Everyone shouted.

Liu Guixin led Zhang Xinglong to the gate of the market: "Are you hungry, son?"

"A little bit, can I eat?"

Liu Guixin was happy: "Why can't I eat anymore? Is there someone else in charge?" He took off the scarf around Zhang Xinglong's neck and stuffed it into the cloth pocket on his back.

There are many breakfast stalls around the market, wonton shortbread, steamed stuffed buns, and lunch boxes.

The couple went to drink a bowl of wontons, ate two shortbread, and then went to the market to find goods.

Yidongqiao Market is divided into two parts, one part is indoors, a huge arc-roofed hall, and the other part is a large courtyard with several rows of warehouses.

The large trucks pulling all kinds of goods are parked in the yard, and many things are sold directly on the trucks.The goods from the railway are all in the warehouse.

The market staff wore red armbands and walked back and forth with a notebook. Those who shipped were busy weighing and collecting money, and those who loaded goods were checking and asking prices.The entire market was noisy and busy, and all kinds of goods were carried in baskets and bags in all directions.

Zhang Xinglong followed closely behind his mother, he didn't understand anything, he just listened to his mother talking with others, asked about the price and looked at the goods.

"Come on, Ermin, help me get this, hold this tight, don't let go." Liu Guixin was a little inconvenient, and handed the cloth pocket to Zhang Xinglong, and whispered: "There are a lot of thieves here, don't let go, listen to me?" ?”

Zhang Xinglong nodded, holding the bag tightly in his arms.

After looking at the goods and paying the bills, Liu Guixin struggled to drag the bamboo basket out from the crowd: "Come on, Er Er, just hold your things and watch here, and Mom will go to other things, you just stay here. Did you hear that?"

Zhang Xinglong nodded in agreement.

"You can't sit on it, don't sit on it." Liu Guixin gave a few instructions and hurriedly looked for other goods. Zhang Xinglong squatted next to the bamboo basket with his bag in his arms, watching people passing by in a hurry.

There is no one here to help transport the goods, and even if there are, few people are willing to pay the money, and they all carry it out by themselves.

There are no men or women at the moment, and a large basket weighs dozens or hundreds of catties, so I ask someone to carry it on my shoulders and walk away. Some of the smaller ones are particularly uncomfortable to watch.

It's all for living.

Tired of squatting, Zhang Xinglong stood up and stretched his legs, looked at the bamboo basket, stretched out his hand and tried to lift it, but he didn't move.

He looked in through the eye of the basket, and saw that it was an apple, and he didn't know what kind it was.Put the bag in your hand on the basket, grab the handle of the bamboo basket with both hands and lift it up, feel it, it weighs sixty to seventy catties.

As time passed, the sun slowly rose, and the number of people in the market not only did not decrease, but increased. Hawkers from the city came to pick up goods, and some from far away.

(End of this chapter)