Chapter 3 three

On the twenty-eighth day of the twelfth lunar month in 1942, Deng Zhiguang entered the Hornet's Wharf. This day is the big set.Shandong dialect is called "Huazi Street", and beggars come to the market to collect new year's goods, and vendors of all sizes are not allowed to refuse.This area belonged to the "Eastern Road" in the Qing Dynasty and was a poor area in Shandong.Mafengwu is located in the southeast of Dezhou Station on Jinpu Road, more than fifty miles away from the nearest county seat and railway station.There is no river, no boats.Before the Anti-Japanese War, not only were there no electric lights, but even kerosene lamps with glass covers were only available in the homes of big landlords and squires.There is hardly one such landlord in a hundred miles.The only market for the exchange of goods was the bazaar.Farmers sent home-produced grain, chickens and ducks, and hand-woven baskets and baskets to the market, and exchanged them for matches, sea salt, German needles, and western colors.To hire a daughter-in-law, you need to buy chemical combs, mirrors from Suzhou, duck egg powder from "Yuezhonggui" in Tianjin, and pig pancreas from Hardmen in Beijing.Mafengwu is the official road connecting the north and the south. Businessmen who go south and north cannot reach the train, and they all rely on people to carry horses.You must pass through this place on the dry road.On both sides of the north and south streets in the village, there are inevitably several mules and horse shops and small restaurants.There is a pharmacy named "Dashengtang", and a plaque outside the door reads: "Self-made raw and cooked medicinal materials, Jilin wild mountain ginseng, yellow-haired antler".His medicinal materials are actually cheap goods sold by merchants, and there is no ginseng antler.A shaving shop has a front that reads: "Take ears in the morning sun, and shave your head under the lamp."It is true that the morning sun picks the ear, but the head is shaved under the lamp and the whole is false.When the sun goes down, all households close their doors and never do business under the lights.

After the Japanese army occupied the place, the market stopped for several months.But the life of the villagers cannot be separated from it, and the Japanese also want to maintain a peaceful scene of a "kingly land", and the puppet military and government agencies have come; luxury food is also a must, so the market reopened.In order to maintain the market transactions, the Japanese army also set several rules. Although the traitor troops and fake clerks cannot do without extortion, they have not yet reached the point of robbing and robbing.The common people have to live, and the stalls are set up under the enemy's bayonet, so this episode still has to be rushed.They are not so noble, and would rather starve to death than go to the enemy's stronghold to do business.

The village is long from north to south and narrow from east to west. Deng Zhiguang came from the south and entered the livestock market.In a wheat field, some pegs were nailed, some ropes were pulled, and some horses, cows, mules and donkeys were tied.Some moved the animal's head to look at the teeth, and some pulled the reins to look at the legs and feet. Some brokers on the sidelines ran around and talked, and bargained with people holding hands with their saddlebags on their arms.After passing the livestock market is the home goods market, where picks, hoees, plows, bamboo, stalks, wood and iron are sold.Further inside is the grocery market.This is the fun.The needle sellers used the needles as darts, grabbed a handful of them and threw them with a raised hand, and nailed them to the wooden board.The knife sellers used kitchen knives as steel guillotines, pressed a bundle of iron wires to the ground, and chopped the wires to pieces.Those who sell wooden combs use wooden combs as saws, and use them to saw wooden sticks, causing sawdust to fly everywhere.Ai, who sells porcelain basins, knocks the porcelain basins like copper pans, and uses them to play music.These people also sang while performing, and the German steel needle seller sang:

The head shaker who defeated Huang Sansan, Suppress Xiao Li Guang's Hundred Steps Piercing Yang. Hei Jingde swung his steel whip to compete, After playing it for three days and two hours! ... ... ... The wooden comb seller sang: Comb the queen mother's cloud bun, Conditioned Yang Guifei's eight-treasure head. Third sister Wang straightened the green silk in front of the kiln, Mu Guiying combed her hair immediately, Zhaojun combed a hemp willow, Sun Erniang combed Yasha's hair. ... ... ... Delivering goods during the performance, collecting money during the singing, and doing business are like incidental tricks, and the performance and singing are the merits.

But their business is not booming, because there is no cotton thread market in this episode.Selling thread and cloth is the monopoly of women, but women dare not show their faces under the noses of devils and traitors.Without women, the city would not be able to operate, and the wooden combs and steel needles would have fewer customers. Of course, there is not a single woman in this episode.Before the Japanese army came here, the simple customs of the Chinese agricultural society were still maintained here.As soon as the Japanese army and the traitor agencies arrived, the vices of the colonial society followed.There are a few technical institutes in the city, and after the mopping up, and during the New Year's Eve, when it is estimated that there are some ill-gotten gains in the pockets of the big and small traitors, they will put on two ox carts, take a few girls on them, and come to set up shop. .They didn't live long. For ten days or eight days, when the money in their wallets was almost gone, the traitors would put on bullock carts and go back to the city.Therefore, there is no fixed store location, and I rent two rooms temporarily, with wheat straw on the ground, and I just do business.Good people refused to rent their houses, and most of them rented thatched huts in the vegetable garden.There was a girl who fell in love with a traitor leader, and if they had sex, they would keep her for half a month and twenty days.At that time, she would live in a barracks or yamen in a stately manner and work as Mrs. Yazhai for a few days.

When Deng Zhiguang came to Jishang, there was such a "red girl" walking over ostentatiously.She wore an emerald green collared soft satin padded jacket, and purple satin padded trousers with leggings. Her feet were narrow and small, and she wore a pair of red silk embroidered bow shoes.He was about twenty-four or five years old, with heavy make-up on his long round face, a long braid, pink root, red braid tip, and silver pendant feet on the tip of the braid.This kind of attire was rare in the city and hard to find in the countryside at that time.Country people have this head and feet, but not this kind of makeup; city people have this kind of makeup, but not this kind of head and feet.

As soon as she entered the grocery store, there was a commotion.The large and small pseudo-officials scattered in front of the stall all gathered around her at once. "Hey, Miss San? What a handsome outfit!" "Well wrapped feet!" She entertained left and right, laughed and scolded, shaved this person's head with her hand, kicked that person's foot with her foot, and swaggered past under a group of people.The farmers and peddlers on both sides were stunned, some blushed with embarrassment, some cursed in anger, some whispered, and some loudly reprimanded.Deng Zhiguang was also distracted, thinking: "There is such a shameless woman in the world!" At this time, a slap was placed on the shoulder, and someone asked in the ear: "Men, are you dumbfounded?"

Deng Zhiguang caught his attention, and recognized this man in a sheepskin jacket, copper-rimmed glasses, a green felt hat, and a little donkey as Mr. Liu. On the way here, Deng Zhiguang was quite sure of completing this reconnaissance mission.At the set, this confidence began to decline.Such a big village, such a chaotic place, where can people get it?You can't just go to Song Mingtong for a solution as soon as you come.Liu Siye's slap lifted his confidence again. Fourth Master Liu smiled mysteriously and asked, "Men, are you here for the market or for the goods during the New Year's Eve?"

Deng Zhiguang said: "This is not a place to talk." Fourth Master Liu said: "I have my own place to talk, come with me!"