Far away from home, I remembered that the continent at this time should have held an exchange meeting on September 18, which was the busiest time in this town except for the Spring Festival. The streets are bustling these days, with all kinds of novelty occupying children's eyes and hands. Even Crispy Sugar-Coated Fruit, who is rarely seen at other times, has appeared in the past few days. Children can't help but buy a few more strings to satisfy their cravings.
At the exchange, there are circuses, playgrounds, book stalls, electric appliances, and clothing farms, which seems to have taken apart a rich mall building and spread it on the streets of the continent. These days, the people of the small town can take the banknotes and add a few affordable things. At night, people carry snacks between the stalls, in the crowd occasionally meet friends, we laugh at each other, and then scattered into the crowd.
Also in the past few days, Dongyue Mountain is at a temple fair, with incense and incense haunting, many tourists and bustling. There will also be many stalls on the walking path, with little girls' favorite pendants and gadgets hanging on them. When I was a child, my parents and I always pestered them to buy me one. A few years ago, there was a string of beads with an elephant at home. In
In the countryside where toys are scarce, these gadgets are the treasures of childhood.
Wearing a red strap skirt in childhood, there is another thing you can't ask for. Liutou is homonym with mung bean in the dialect. When I was a child, I always thought that an old man was hawking mung bean cake with mung bean cake. When talking about Liutou Dan, I would think of mung bean cake with a hint of mint flavor, and then silently swallow. However, the real six-head load is the pick of the little girl's tie rope, small hairpin and all kinds of new things in the city. The old man rumbled with the rattle drum in his hand and shouted that the six heads came out to have a look. I would like to imagine again and again that on a sunny afternoon, I was sitting on the stone threshold of the gate in a red dress, waiting for my mother to take the change and take me to pick up a gadget. My face must have been covered with smiles.
In the past, there were no supermarkets in the town, and convenience stores and supermarkets landed in the town only eight or nine years ago, so the most complete daily department store in childhood was the wholesale department. People on the continent are called Shunkou Yang Xiaoping Wholesale Department and Station Wholesale Department. Lively children will not miss every opportunity to go to town with adults, because the snacks in the wholesale department are really popular. Deep-fried cakes wrapped in transparent paper are crispy and sweet, and there are ten cubes in less than five yuan; rectangular sesame crisp candy must be the sweetest delicacy in the memory of people on many continents. In the package, there is also a layer of white paper slightly transparent soaked in sugar oil. the circle of light gray and deep gray is ground sesame powder, which takes a long bite, the mouth will be stained with ash, and the child eating sesame candy is like a kitten under the stove.
Speaking of eating, the left hand of the station goes to a street where there are all kinds of fruit stalls, rice oil flour shops and snack bars. This is the established food street. No one defines the function of this street, but I have the impression that there are enthusiastic stall owners and fresh fruit here every day. There is a snack bar on the right hand side, where the breakfast, lunch and dinner of Tang Fan Gan, Stir-Fried Rice Cake, dumplings, wonton, steamed buns and twistbread can all be solved. When guests from the mountains get off the bus, they will come to the store to put down their luggage and eat a bowl of salted bean flowers, sprinkle with diced mustard and chopped onions, pour in a little soy sauce and vinegar, and order a plate of fried dumplings. There are no expensive and humble daily snacks, signalling the beginning of the journey of the mountain people in town. The fat landlady always greets people while holding dumpling skins. Not only the relationship between diners and shopkeepers, but also small shops and snacks have been integrated into the lives of people on the continent. When many people have been away from home for a long time, when they meet fellow villagers, they always talk about the restaurant next to the station and dried soup, as if when they say so, the fragrance wafts up to their noses.
Author: Jiang Wenhua
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