Return To 1977 Chapter 592: Farmers Market

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There is a saying called "No matter how good the situation is," this is an objective law and it is impossible for people to follow it to the end.

His life experience convinced Hong Yanwu of this. So at this time, what he is looking forward to most is that this word will start to take effect, so that the Hong family will change from now on, so that everyone in the family can live a happy life, but no more bad things will happen.

Fortunately, with the blessing of God (the God of Harmony), nothing happened to Hong Yanru again.

On the contrary, as the "Mid-Autumn Festival" and "National Day" approaches day by day, Hong Yanwu's business is getting more and more popular. The "little daughter-in-law" couple also survived the limelight and quietly returned to their old careers. Even Hong Yanwen called home several times and said that work was going smoothly and that colleagues were happy with each other.

This seems to be a bit "as you wish".

In order to let the whole family get together and be happy, Hong Yanwu and Chen Liquan specially adjusted their rest to the Mid-Autumn Festival on September 23, preparing to spend the festival with their parents.

In the end, I didn’t expect that God would really come to join in the fun. Early in the morning that day, news came through the chatter box that the state was going to form a special prosecutor's office to try the main culprits of the "movement". This caused the four households in the east courtyard of Guanyin Yuan to explode immediately.

Take the Bian family as an example. Uncle Bian, who was watering the flowers, said, "Why are we interrogating? If these dogs want me, I will shoot them all."

Aunt Bian, who was carrying a porridge pot from the kitchen to the house, answered. "It's too cheap to shoot them once. They should die once, revive them, die again, revive them again, die again..."

I just got up from the back room and put on my pants while doing my work and came to take the next step.

"Mom, you are still the same old trick. I have to help you appeal. Do you know what you were called in ancient times? Cut to pieces with a thousand cuts..."

In short, there was a heated discussion in every household, calling some people hateful and others saying they deserved it. There is no doubt that this is the simplest voice of the people.

Not to mention other things, what a coincidence this day is. I caught up with this incident just when I was eating crabs. Isn’t it the same as in 1976? Everyone is celebrating. Today, any family with a little more money has to buy crabs.

In fact, it was true. Hong Yanwu and Chen Liquan went out at ten o'clock and rushed to the "Cai Shi Kou Vegetable Market" and found that all the river crabs had been sold out. The Fisheries Department was actually half empty, with no living creatures left.

Hong Yanwu went to find the familiar elder sister again. The eldest sister didn't know what to do, and she kept saying, "Hey! The 'Shengfang Crabs' sold during the Mid-Autumn Festival at the 'Chongwenmen Vegetable Market' last year were sold for two yuan and a pound. Everyone thought it was expensive, and less than half of them were sold, leaving all the rest. Dead. But this year is also weird. We learned our lesson and bought 200 kilograms of ordinary river crabs. We sold them for two yuan and thirty-five cents a kilogram, but they were all gone before nine o'clock. It's really strange. What if the price goes up and the price gets higher? It’s completely reversed from before..."

Is it weird? Not surprising at all. This can only show that the people's ideology is different. People are obviously becoming more and more accepting of bargaining for goods.

That’s right, things that are in short supply will of course command a high price, otherwise who’s money would Hong Yanwu earn?

Complementing this, in fact, since August, when individual industrial and commercial households have legal status recognized by the state, more and more people are doing business on the streets.

There are people who sharpen scissors and kitchen knives, mend iron kettles, repair shoes, repair cars, and sew and mend.

So now it doesn’t matter even if the state-owned wet markets are sold out. At least there's one place to try your luck, and that's the farmer's market.

Following Guang'anmen, Xiannongtan, and Caiyuan Street, in 1980, the Xuanwu District Government also built a relatively large farmers' market in "Cherry Orchard Santiao". This was the closest to Hong Yanwu and the others, so they quickly turned around and rushed here.

Because farmers attach great importance to the lunar calendar, this is a deep-rooted ideology. So the market here is particularly exciting today, with twice as many vendors from the suburbs of Beijing. Going from east to west, as soon as you enter the market area, you can smell the fishy smell of fresh river food.

All kinds of grass carp with golden scales and silver wings, lively river shrimps and green shell crabs with tied hands and feet are all available, giving people a feeling of being alive and fresh just by looking at them.

The sellers all put on a big-waisted attitude. They no longer poked their heads and heads like thieves in the past, they all had their hands on their waists openly, and everyone shouted at the top of their lungs.

"Fat, tender, fragrant and fresh!"

Well, even if I shout out the taste, I can make you lick your lips two miles away.

Today, the shouts from the crab sellers must be the most melodious. "The crabs from the ground are so good!", "A plate of crabs is the top dish on the table! Crabs are the most delicious when paired with wine!", "The crabs are full!" You’re fat! If you miss it, you won’t—”

Children from Beijing born after 1957, such as Hong Yanwu and Chen Liquan, have never experienced this authentic Beijing-style hawking sound. It sounds fun and lively, but none of them understand why crabs come from the ground. Shouldn't they come from the water?

Actually, this is what this allusion is about. In the old days, water conservancy projects were backward, and the fields at the foot of the river in the Beijing-Tianjin area often suffered from waterlogging and flooding, submerging the farmland. In autumn, the sorghum turns red, and swarms of crabs come ashore from the river and go into the fields to eat the sorghum.

At night, people hold lanterns and place them alternately on the ground. Crabs swarm in search of lanterns. They can reach over with a sack, but they are too busy to pick it up.

That’s why there is such a saying, and it also corresponds to the ancient saying that “river crabs and rice grains are both fat”.

For example, in the thirty-seventh chapter of "A Dream of Red Mansions", "The Inscription on Chrysanthemums in the Qiu Shuang Zhai Occasionally Begonia Society Hengwu Garden at Night", Shi Xiangyun was the host, and Baochai said, "There is a clerk in our **** shop, and there are flowers in his fields. "I sent a few kilograms of very good fat crabs to me." This is also the origin.

Of course, the process of selling crabs and buying crabs is also very particular. As the saying goes, "Qijianbatuan" and "Qi Shang Ba Xia" mean that the male is eaten in July and the female is eaten in August.

In addition, it must be fresh. The most common method is to watch how quickly the crab turns over and gets up again. The faster the crab, the more vigorous it is.

As for whether the crab is fat or thin, it depends on the size of the crack at the seam between the hind leg shell and the hind leg breast cover. If the seam is large, it will be fat, and if the seam is small, it will be thin.

Young people who don’t know anything are obviously the most unsuitable people to buy crabs. Because it’s one thing whether you know how to pick crabs, but there are also taboos in answering questions. If you are ignorant, you may get into trouble if you are not careful.

For example, Hong Yanwu and Chen Liquan saw an unpleasant example with their own eyes. It's like a live cross talk.

"Brother, how much do you have?"

"Whose money do you want?"

"Don't worry, brother, I'm talking about crabs."

"Just crabs, why are you calling me brother?"

"Yes, brother, it's a crab."

"You mean it, right? You're a **** crab."

Out of anger, the seller simply threw the crab away. This is not a question of money at all. If you add money, they will ignore you. I'll tell you, "Go and listen somewhere else."

No way, the capital is just such a place of folk customs, passed down from generation to generation. People attach great importance to etiquette and usually put their self-esteem before profit.

Hong Yanwu and Chen Liquan also took this as a warning. No one said any nonsense, they just picked the crab without talking, did not bargain, and went straight to the topic.

In the end, I spent ten yuan and bought 16 big, leaping female crabs. The task was successfully completed. Although the price is a bit expensive, the stuff is really good. The portion is enough for two to two. When you open the belly button, it is all full of yellow. It is completely foreseeable that the family will be satisfied.

But just as the two of them continued shopping and planned to buy some more fresh goods, they were suddenly dumbfounded. They all stopped in shock, because they unexpectedly discovered that the girl in front of them, guarding a tricycle to attract customers and shouting to sell vegetables, was actually their neighbor in the west courtyard - Shui Qing.