Prose in a hurry

It is a custom in our hometown to catch up with the meeting. After the new year, any day is a good day to get up. Every year, there will be a general meeting on the fifteenth day of the first month, the second day of February, the fifteenth day of February and the third day of March, and there will be a wheat meeting until the wheat is yellow.

Generally, there will be a big show after the meeting, at least one, and more can be invited to three or four. The duration of the meeting is usually three days, but there are also five days. The first day is called a meeting, the middle day is called a meeting and the last day is called a meeting. There are the most people in the meeting. Anyone who has relatives and friends in the village will visit relatives and friends on this day. In the early 1990s, people in rural areas were not well off. Most of the villagers who hurried to the meeting were going to weigh several strings of fried dough sticks strung with green wicker at the meeting, or sell several bags of steamed bread at the booth selling fried dumplings for relatives. It's different now. The things to be delivered at the meeting are boxes of fruits, dairy products, drinks, tobacco and alcohol. The transportation for meetings is different from the past. Rack cars, steam wagons and bicycles used to be commonly used by rural people have now been replaced by motorcycles, electric cars, vans and cars. I'll catch up with the meeting. People are all smiles, always talking and laughing all the way.

Those who rush to the meeting are called hurried meetings when they come to the meeting. It is indeed appropriate to say that this is a hasty meeting. However, villagers in Shiliba Village, Fiona Fang used the hurried meeting to get together, visit relatives and friends, buy goods and watch plays. If you don't meet at ordinary times, take this opportunity to meet; Familiar with talking about farming and talking about home; Strangers meet more, say hello more, become familiar with each other from birth, and know more people. Therefore, this time is the busiest day in the country.

In spring and March, bloom is warm in spring, and the weather is neither too cold nor too hot. At this time, there is no important farm work in the countryside. Therefore, men, women and children have to leave home to catch the meeting. At this time, the fields are covered with green wheat seedlings, dotted with dazzling rape flowers and pink peach blossoms, and the breeze is mixed with a touch of grass and sweet flowers. On the winding country road, the villagers who rushed to the meeting gathered into an endless stream of people and walked back to the village in a bustling way.

Catch up with the village where the meeting is held to sing big plays, and the stage is usually located in a wider place in the village. Most of the invited troupes sang well in neighboring counties, and most of the performances were traditional plays loved by the villagers, such as "Lifting the sedan chair", "Playing the Golden Branch" and "Qin Xianglian" in Mulan. In the theater, the day is the wife of the old woman and the girl; Most of them are men over middle age at night. Watching a play is very tiring. Everyone stood and watched, and every opera fan had a long neck. People who watch the drama in this way are enthusiastic and interested, and watch it day after day. Since karaoke machines, trampolines and bungee jumping machines were moved to the venue, the noise and crowds of young people and student dolls in front of the stage were less, and it was much quieter.

There are more people rushing to the meeting and more people selling things. The venue is as big as clothing, food, shelter and transportation, as small as sewing and button decoration supplies. Snacks were still sold everywhere at the meeting, and many rural mass sellers also moved all kinds of goods to the meeting, and the streets were all theirs. In previous meetings, I only saw people selling fried dough sticks, sesame cakes, fried dumplings and meatball soup. When I was a child, I was looking forward to meeting each other. I just asked my parents to give me 20 cents to buy a bowl of hot Chili oil meatball soup. There is no meatball soup pot in the meeting now. Who wants greasy soup?

Most of the things sold at the meeting have centralized booths. In the ready-to-wear cloth area that girls and daughters-in-law love to go to, rows of clothes racks are arranged vertically, and all kinds of clothes are hung on them; The cloth stand is made up of various colors, which is dazzling and can be selected at will. The stall owners are self-employed.

Most men go to the livestock trading area. The most sought-after livestock traded here are cows. A cow with a calf may sell for tens of thousands of dollars. When buyers take a fancy to a cow, they often invite several familiar people as consultants. Several people around the cow, look left and right, look at the coat color, look at the mouth, take the cow for a walk and look at the legs and feet, and then judge, praise or criticize. At this time, the seller is not in a hurry, let it do what it wants, just let a circle of cigarettes, one sentence in the east and one sentence in the west. Until the last buyer said, "Brother. Implement a price! " Only then did the seller let go, generously offered a price, and the two sides bargained again. When the price is not too bad, from both sides of the heart, this transaction. Sometimes, in order to sell a good price, the seller does not reduce the price, and it takes several times for the buyer to spend less money to buy a satisfactory cow. Of course, those who eat by mouth will come in handy.

Most people go to the theater at night. That night, after singing the drama, the villagers shouted the corner that satisfied them for a while, and shouted two more paragraphs. The corner was also hard to sell and sang well, so that the exchange of singing on the stage ended very late. There is an old saying that "the first play is difficult to open, and the last play is difficult to be evil."

At the end of the play, the villagers dispersed slowly with satisfaction. They walked in the dim night, commenting on the drama that had just dispersed, or shouting loudly like the corner people in the drama, and leisurely returned to their villages and homes.

In the days that followed, the topic of rural villagers was mostly related to catching up with the meeting until the next meeting resumed.