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Chapter 172 Changdian Temple Fair, Little Black Fatty! !

When Zhao Guihua saw so many boys, she immediately smiled from ear to ear.

While saying that Tang Da Niu was really a great contributor to the old Zhang family, she took out the red envelopes from her pocket and handed them out one by one.

quickly,

Several young men surrounded Lao Qian's family and entered the front yard.

Zhao Laosen entered the door of Zhang Chenfei's new home and first looked around, even opening the rice vat in the kitchen and taking a look.

"Dad, don't look around. I visited Dafei when he moved to the greenhouse. He is doing well." Qian Tiezhu followed him and said.

"You know nothing!!" Qian Laosen scolded him. He personally visited the house and made sure that his nephew was living a good life after they separated and lived separately, so he felt relieved.

"Uncle Dafei, hurry up and get on the kang. It's warm on the kang." Grandma Zhang remained silent as he looked around. After seeing that he had finished reading, he greeted him.

Qian Laosen walked over and did not get on the kang first. Instead, he took his wife and children to salute Grandma Zhang first.

"Good luck to the old lady!!! I wish you better and better health. Tiezhu Xiaoqian, kowtow to the old lady."

"Hey, why are my family so polite? Get on the kang quickly." Grandma Zhang said, moving her body and motioning for them to come over quickly.

When Lao Qian's family got on the kang, he invited them to drink water and eat snacks.

Zhao Guihua took a quick look and saw that in addition to the sour three-color melon seeds and peanuts necessary for the New Year, there were also snacks and toffee from Daoxiang Village on the table.

The water is not ordinary water. It is not tea leaves, but a clear yellow liquid. Take a sip and it will be sweet to your heart.

Zhao Guihua and Qian Laosen looked at each other and nodded with satisfaction.

Since the death of their sister, although the old Zhang family used to live in the city, their life was worse than that of their villagers. The couple saw this and were anxious in their hearts.

Although he wanted to help, his family could barely make ends meet. Now that life is better for the two nephews of the old Zhang family, they feel relieved.

The family gathered together to eat snacks, melon seeds, and chat. For a while, the joy and laughter in Zhang Chenfei's cabin spread throughout the courtyard.

When Yi Zhonghai from the Intermediate Court heard this, he felt chest tightness again. The old Yi family was already small, and now he and his wife had no children.

From now on, I am afraid that my home will become more and more deserted during the holidays. The more I think about it, the sadder Yi Zhonghai becomes.

The deaf old lady on the side also looked sad after hearing this.

She is a few years younger than Grandma Zhang. Grandma Zhang is a prosperous person. What about her? ? ? Sad, sad! !

Looking at the life of the old Zhang family and those children every day, Grandma Zhang's face was glowing, and she really felt that life was meaningless.

If it weren't for the fact that there were Yi Zhonghai, his wife, and Silly Zhu in this courtyard, she would have really wanted to move out.

Because they had to go to the market, and Lao Qian’s family had to get up at five o’clock to have breakfast in order to rush.

So at Grandma Zhang’s request, lunch starts at half past ten.

I stewed a pheasant brought by Lao Qian’s family, cooked the bacon they brought, cooked the bowl made by Tang Danniu and Grandma Zhang, and also made braised pork and fish stew.

In short, although this meal did not contain dragon liver and phoenix marrow, it was still a luxurious feast in the eyes of ordinary people.

After eating and drinking, the family drove the carriage to Changdian.

There were too many people, and even though the carriage was crowded and crowded, only a dozen people were pulled in, and the rest came to Zhang Chenfei's side.

Zhang Chenfei was riding a bicycle, with Zhang Zhaomei sitting on the horizontal bar in front, and Zhang Fendou and Zhang Fenjin sitting astride Zhang Xiangmei on the seat behind Zhang Xiangmei. One bicycle pulled five people in total.

Zhang Chenfei rode a bicycle and followed the carriage driven by his uncle, wandering all the way to Changdian.

The Changdian Temple Fair takes Liulichang as the center line, starting from Hepingmen in the north and ending at Hufang Bridge in the south, with a total length of about two kilometers.

Right now,

People came and went at the temple fair, and the bustling roads were crowded with various stalls.

Before the planned economy, the street stall economy was very prosperous.

Those who sell goods at street stalls include businessmen who specialize in running street stalls all over Sijiu City, and there are also farmers who do farm work during busy farming periods and do some handicrafts for household income during slack farming periods.

As Zhang Chenfei walked along, he just felt like he was just watching things, dazzled and overwhelmed.

There are fruits, vegetables, fabrics, handmade bamboo baskets, baskets, rat medicine, starlings, vermicelli, shoe repairmen, candied haws sellers with straw-tied tools, and even jugglers and drummers, you name it.

In the middle of the avenue, there are people running land boats, carrying sedan chairs, playing with flags, and walking on stilts.

Old ladies such as the old lady and Zhao Guihua are interested in this, and they can't move when they see this.

There is a temporary stage set up at the southernmost end of the temple fair, and the storytelling master is saying, "Zhao Huayang beat Zhang Heqiao with his "wine rain arrows" and he was able to "give up on prostitutes".

There was a roar of applause from the audience, and Zhang Chenfei and Zhao Tiezhu also followed suit and threw a few cents on top.

Tang Danniu and Qian Xiaoqian walked to the stall selling powder and cotton thread, and selected the items they liked.

Compared with the different hobbies of adults, children's hobbies are more single.

After they got off the carriage and bicycles, led by their eldest brother Zhang Pingan and second brother Zhang Shunsui, they went straight to the snack stall.

I want to ask where in Sijiucheng has the most snacks? Of course it was a temple fair.

What about fried belly, stir-fried liver, pea yellow, ai wowo, candied haws, stewed, candied people, and vegetarian cakes fried in mutton fat?

The children of the Zhang family, ranging from Zhang Xiangmei to Zhang Pingan, have never been to a temple fair.

Today I got a red envelope from my aunt and grandma, which contained seven cents.

The second uncle, who was wealthy, gave each of them 20 cents to fund the temple fair. In other words, each of the gourd boys had a huge sum of 27 cents.

So the six of them held hands and rushed into the crowd of people with steps that they didn't recognize, and rushed towards the food stalls.

When he came back again, Zhang Pingan was holding a dried lotus leaf, which contained several snow-white aiwowo with red dots in the center.

Zhang Shunsui rolled around while carrying a donkey wrapped in oil paper, which was covered with cooked bean flour.

Zhang Fenjin had pea yellow in his hand, but Zhang Fenjin did not buy food, but diabolo.

The five and six children, two children less than three years old, followed their brothers hummingly, carrying a very large sugar-coated haws of about one meter long.

Zhang Chenfei saw several nephews coming over, picking a few candied haws from the oversized candied haws, stuffing them into their mouths, and chewing them.

Well, the candied haws that costs nothing is sweet! ! He smiled with squinted eyes and touched the heads of his two nephews.

The other boys' eyes turned red with jealousy when they saw their second uncle eating Lao Wu Lao Liu's food.

They all handed the snacks they bought to their second uncle: "Second uncle, eat mine." "Eat mine!! Mine is delicious."

"Eat me!!!"

Hey, I didn’t buy meat for them in vain, they all know how to be filial! ! Zhang Chenfei tried them one by one.

What Zhang Fendou bought was not food, so he could only pass the diabolo to his second uncle to play with.

Seeing his second uncle shaking his head, he added: "Second uncle, I saw Grandpa Tian and Sister Xiaozao selling their stuff together over there!!"

Hey? Tian Xiaozao? ? After not seeing each other for a few days, Zhang Chenfei greeted Zhao Tiezhu and prepared to leave.

After taking two steps, he thought of something and turned to look at the third child again: "What is Sister Xiaozao?? You are not allowed to call me that in the future, you have to call me sister-in-law!!!"

Labor and management call me sister, so do you call me sister? ? What grade is it? It’s the same as mine? ?

Zhang Fendou muttered in his heart that it was not me who wanted to call him that, it was Tian Xiaozao who forced me. But he didn't dare to show his teeth to his second uncle, he just said obediently, "I understand."

Zhang Chenfei searched all the way and finally found Tian's Paduer stall next to a stall selling braised pork belly.

Seeing the coffins and wreaths placed three or five stalls in front of them, Zhang Chenfei couldn't help but be speechless:

"Tsk, tsk, tsk, this business is getting more and more difficult now. Even coffin shops have to go to the market to sell their goods."

It's not easy to set up a street stall for this thing. You have to meet someone who happens to be dead before you can sell it.

Otherwise, others can't kill someone just to buy this, right? ?

After Tian Xiaozao heard this, his hand shook and he almost dropped the bowl: "Zhang Chenfei, did you get wet when you washed your head yesterday? He is dead and buried today!!"

What coffin shop has a big sale? ? ? How dare you think! !

Zhang Chenfei was not annoyed by Tian Xiaozao's rebuke. He came to her side and talked to her with a playful smile.

Tian Xiaozao became annoyed after talking too much, so he waved his hands like he was shooing flies away and said, "Zhang Chenfei, why are you here? Aren't you here to help?"

"What help? I came here just to play with you." Zhang Chenfei said matter-of-factly.

help? What help? He didn't want to be a free waiter during the Chinese New Year.

"If you don't want to help, you can leave. Don't be an eyesore here." Tian Xiaozao chased people away with a slumped face.

She was busy here with her feet on the ground, but this guy was buzzing behind her and talking, which was annoying.

Zhang Chenfei didn't listen. He just said that I would leave if you chase me away. How shameless would I be? If someone sees it, will my reputation as the God of War in Dongcheng District be lost? ?

When Tian Xiaozao saw his sour face, he was so angry that he wanted to hit him. The two of them immediately started going back and forth with each other, and started to argue with each other.

Tian Xiaozao and her father, Uncle Tian, ​​heard this and waved the big fence to let them both go.

Tian Xiaozao disagreed and said, who will help you if I leave? ? ?

"Isn't this a trivial matter? Xiaozao, you go with me for a walk to the temple fair. I'll find help for my Uncle Tian." Zhang Chenfei said, stretching out his arm to grab Zhang Pingan and Zhang Fenjin who were passing by, "Boss, Fourth , you help your Grandpa Tian here, your sister-in-law and I have something to do."

After saying that, before the two brothers could react, they took Tian Xiaozao and ran away.

There were many people at the temple fair, and it didn't take long for the two of them to lose sight of the belly-exploding stall.

"Huhu, why are you running so fast?" Tian Xiaozao asked, breathing heavily.

"It won't work if we don't hurry up. The fourth child is smart. He will definitely not run away if he finds out that I lied to others." Zhang Chenfei explained.

"Huhu, it's not embarrassing for such a grown man to lie to a child." Tian Xiaozao pouted.

"Hey, it's different when Comrade Tian Xiaozao becomes the deputy director of the neighborhood committee. Such principles???" Zhang Chenfei looked at her slyly, "Okay, then you can go back and help. I want to watch wrestling and cross talk anyway. Let’s eat delicious food.”

After that, he pretended to leave.

Tian Xiaozao caught up immediately: "It's good for children to work more. I also want to watch them wrestle. Da Fei, I was wrong. You can take me to play with you."

"Then call me brother!!" Zhang Chenfei snorted.

"Zhang Chenfei, don't push yourself too hard. You are two months younger than me. What kind of brother?"

The two of them were noisy, passing by stalls selling fortune-telling, fortune-telling, and selling wild medicine, and then came to the area where the street stalls were performing arts.

There are many more performers at the temple fair than Tianqiao and Shichahai, Beixinqiao has many more performers.

There are traditional activities in those places, such as playing with a machete, smashing rocks on the chest, and talking about cross talk.

There are also things that are not found in those places, and they are all rare things.

The routine of street stall busking is similar to that of foreign movies. They first attract people by beating gongs and drums, and then start performing.

Halfway through the performance, he stopped and started to turn the gong to collect money. After the performance was over, he performed again.

When collecting money, some songs will be accompanied by lyrics, such as "I first arrived in a precious land".

For these craftsmen who live on the street, the biggest fear is that there are so many people who are prostitutes for free, and they all run away when they collect money.

Zhang Chenfei and Tian Xiaozao were standing in front of a cross talk stall.

I saw that the fat little black man was holding a gong to collect money after he finished announcing the names of the dishes, while shouting in his mouth, "Fathers of Jiangshan can tolerate me and don't eat the money from sins in the world. Thank you everyone!!"

After all the prostitutes dispersed, there were only a few people left. The fat little black man pulled a few shells out of the gong, with a flash of sadness in his eyes.

Zhang Chenfei couldn't bear it, so he took out a dollar from his pocket and put it in.

hiss! ! The fat little black man had been performing arts for so many years. This was the first time he saw such a generous person. He immediately grabbed Zhang Chenfei's hand with excitement.

He even said that if he hadn't gone out without his knees today, he would have given Zhang Chenfei a kowtow to express his gratitude.

"Sure, I know your usual place for performing arts. If I go back to you every day, I won't believe that I won't see you with your knees up!!" Zhang Chenfei patted the fat little black man on the shoulder, smiled, and left.

The fat little black man looked at his back with confusion on his face.

"No, that's what I said, and that's what you heard, why do you still take it seriously??

No, it’s so chilling to kneel down for one dollar, why don’t you add more? ? ? "

He shouted heartbreakingly from behind, but Zhang Chenfei never looked back.

Zhang Chenfei and Tian Xiaozao walked around the Changdian Temple Fair from south to north. When they were looking for a place to have a warm bowl, Tian Xiaozao suddenly stopped: "Da Fei, look, what is that person in front doing??"

(End of this chapter)